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SAST R "F R E L. Schools are confronted with the problems of catering for children who attend from disastrous home circumstances, according to the chairman of the Inquiry into Education in Western Australia, Mr
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Kim Beazley. Mr Beazley has used the term "children in disaster" to describe t he plight of some school children. He said disaster could arise from poverty and various compounding a nd aggravating difficulties. There was evidence same children suffered from sexual abuse and assault at home. Mr Beazlev was outlining some of his personal observations. He said there was impressive evidence of schools in some places in Western Australia and elsewhere working to make big gains in achieving mutual understanding between teachers and parents and prestige and relevance of school to children. Mr Beazley said in the course of the inquiry he had encountered children who suffered from: • poverty • alcoholic parents • lack of encouragement at home because the
KIM SEAMY discusses the plight of children whose home circumstances put them at a severe disadvantage in education (reprinted from Education News).
parents did not understand education. • homes totally devoid of reading matter and intellectual stimulus • being sent to school unfed and generally malnourished • indifference of parents t o whether children attended school or not • a home environment not conducive to study • language difficulty • unfamiliarity with the dominant culture • lack of any real prospect of employment. There were Aboriginal children who suffered all 10 of these factors of
disadvantage, and in addition some children (not in this case Aboriginal) who suffered from sexual abuse and assault at home. There had been evidence to the inquiry of children telling teachers and lecturers of sexual abuse at home. The children did not take official action because they feared reprisals. Trachoma, deafness from respiratory infection a nd brain damaged caused by pre-natal alcoholic intake of the mother could be additional problems, affecting especially
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Aboriginal children. In all parts of Australia there had been a sharp decline in Aboriginal school attendance which might be the result of: • increased mobility of the Aboriginal population now some owned buses. trucks and cars • an idelogical opposition to schools as instruments of "Europeanisation• disappointment that education had not led to employment and inducement once offered • humiliation implicit in inability to handle an insufficiently relevant form of education.
Only hours before his trial was about to begin this week Father Brian Gore rejected a claim by the Philippines Ambassador to Australia that he was meddling in the internal politics of another country. On a radio interview with the ABC on Wednesday he said the government had asked priests to look after the people and this is what he was doing. He said the Philippines government can't have its cake and eat it. A sked about the Canberra embassy claim he had been asked to leave, Father Gore said to walk out would be an admission of his guilt. It would be the easy way out and he was not going to desert his fellow workers, he said. Father Gore said that reported warnings to the foreign media to cease interviewing him on the case showed how sensitive the government was to the criticism -- principally because they knew that film can't lie.
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A wide-ranging survey of parents and other Interested parties is the next step in the process of relocating John XXIII College from its four Claremont campuses to a new site in Mount Claremont. T he board is making this move a fter receiving an offer from Pennant Holdings to come up with a n acceptable proposal for the design and construction of the new school. If accepted the Perth-based property and construction group will take possession of the four sites for re-development. T welve groups, including one overseas developer, had tendered f or the chance to develop the Claremont sites. Depending on the views of parents and others the board believes a new John XXIII College estimated to cost $10 million can be built by November next year. A problem yet to be resolved is t he current objection of the Nedland City council to re-zoning the future site from its present public-use status to school use. The council says it is prepared only to re-zone 22ha and not the full 35ha of the site, part of which is a tip and which the council wants retained.
R OME -- The Vatican and Italy last Saturday signed a revised concordat that reduces some of the Church's privileges in Italy and declares Church and State to be "independent and sovereign." The new treaty removes Catholicism as the State religion, makes Catholic religious instruction in State schools optional and gives civil authorities the authority to r eview Church marriage annulments. Many areas covered by the previous treaty are omitted in the revised concordat, with responsibility left to the Italian bishops' conference to work out agreements with State authorities. The new concordat also drops the reference to "the sacred character of the eternal city" of Rome. Instead, it notes the "particular s ignificance of Rome for Catholicism." The revisions reduce the concordat from 45 articles to 14. The treaty replaces the concordat signed by the Vatican and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1929. The new, shorter version is the result of 15 years of difficult negotiations, and reflects changes in the way Italy and the Church view religious freedom. Pope John Paul II noted
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At a session to brief heads of churches on Christian work in television and radio, (from right) Rev Wes Hartley, part-time media consultant explains some of the programmes to Archbishop Foley, Archbishop Carnley (Anglican) and Rev Dr Michael Owen (Uniting Church).
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Western Australian church leaders were told recently of the initiative taken by the Christian Television Association of which the Catholic Church is a member in producing material that is being used elsewhere in Australia. Through the co-operation of Channel Seven making its studio and outside broadcast equipment available, Anglican Television of Sydney was invited in 1 983 to Perth to make a total of 16 programmes in the series Sing Me A Rainbow - a popular religious programme for children which is shown in Western Australia and in the eastern states. / A second initiative last year was the use of the WA 4 facilities to produce three special half hour commentaries to accompany thesocial justice statement Changing Australia released jointly by the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Churches and the Australian Council of Churches. Once again these have been shown locally and in a wide range of eastern states programmes. • Cont page 12
Bourke fund for English course Friends of noted Catholic educationist , the late Monsignor James Bourke AM, are invited to contribute to a fund which has been set up tocommemorate his work as a teacher. The Monsignor James Bourke Memorial Fund will be used f or the benefit of s tudents of English. Monsignor Bourke, who died suddenly in May at the age of 63. was a part-time lecturer with the Department of English from 1951 to 1968 before his appointment as first Federal Director of Catholic Education in Canberra. In addition to his distinguished career in Catholic education at State and Federal level, during the 17 years of his 'secondary' career of lecturing in English, he was closely involved with the Department's many other activities and with U niversi ty l i fe generally Born in Kalgoorlie, Monsignor Bourke was educated at Christian Brothers College, Fremantle, and at Corpus Christi College in VVerribee, Victoria. Donations to the Monsignor James Bourke Memorial Fund can be sent to TheManager,Accounting Services, University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6009.
Dean to lead Oberammagau pilgrimage The Dean of Merredin Father Trevor Callaghan has accepted the invitation to travel with the WA group on pilgrimage this year to the 350th anniversary presentation of the Oberammagau Passion Play. The six week Paramount Travel programme has the Oberammagau visit half way through an extensive tour of six countries touching many famous shrines and famous tourist centres. The Italian section starts the day after departing from Perth on July 15 and will include four days in Rome, five days in the area of Assisi and Florence, followed by a segment in Salzburg before viewing the Passion Play on July 30. The journey will continue down the R hine to Amsterdam and Paris before moving to a two day stay in Lourdes followed by a visit to Ars and thence to London before returning to Perth on August 25. A brochure outlining the tour in detail including the $5650 basic price is available from Paramount Travel, Allendale Square. phone 325 2144.
Group tour visits play The Oberammagau Passion Play is the result of a vow taken after the Black Death had ravaged southern Germany in 1632. The tiny village in the Bavarian Alps tried in vain to ward off the encroaching plague and the survivors turned to God. A fter their vow to present every tenth year a Passion Play no more deaths occurred. The basic text of the play is a copy of the Augsburg Passion Play written nearly a century earlier. Subsequent plays were presented in 1644, through to 1674. Then in 1680 the presentation was shifted to each calendar decade where it has remained since except for special presentations such as the one occurring in 1984.
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A government grant of $90,604 for the coming year will enable St Francis Xavier parish to widen the r ange of services already being offered by up to 70 parish volunteers working o ut of the parish centre. To obtain the grant f rom the Community E mployment Programme the efforts of the Armadale volunteers in many organisations were valued at o ver $22,000 annually. A donat ion of $10,000from the archdiocese completed the one-third equity a local c ommunity has to supply to obtain such a government grant.
The Catholic workers at Armadale believe if their efforts in the coming year are successful, they will be in a position to ask for on-going support from other government and c ommunity funding agencies. The current grant will provide five full time workers at the centre adjacent to the St Francis X avier parish church as well as improvements to t he centre and its equipment. In addition to office equipment the centre will be acquiring implements
for gardening, sewing, carpentry and other small repairs. A van and trailer will also be bought. These tools indicate the sort of calls being made on the centre by people who are on marginal incomes but who cannot afford the professional cost of coping with repairs and other needs. Transport is one of the frequent requests to the centre, especially transport to hospitals, medical centres and other specialist services. Armadale has a number of elderly people whose families are no longer close-by to give assistance in covering the distance from the outlying centres
N AIROBI, (NC) — Zambian Archbishop Emmanual Milingo has accused African bishops of deserting him when his faith healing ministry was f acing severe scrunity. The archbishop, who c laims to be a faith healer, said Africans must recognise their dignity and quit joining p eople from other parts of the world who considered whatever came from Africa a s being of l ittle importance.-
One of the new paid e mployees will be a trained social worker who will be able to deal more directly with marriage breakdown problems and other family matters that until now, have had to be referred from St Francis Xavier to other agencies. The presence of full time staff is going to increase rather than decrease the work of the volunteers because the administrative staff will be able to identify the needs before the volunteers go out. In many cases the first need of a family is for food and this is often arranged by the St Vincent de Paul Society.
At St Francis Xavier centre Armadale this week it was business as usual during building operations for volunteer workers Rosemary Kopsandy, Jean Chong and Joe George.
Jesuit expert on land rights A Jesuit lawyer with extensive experience in Aboriginal questions has been invited to Perth next week to help local Catholics look at the issues in the Seaman Inquiry Land Rights Discussion paper.
The discussion paper is available from the Government Printer or 17 Emerald Terrace. West Perth. Reverend Brennan who is currently studying at the Jesuit Theological College. Parkville in Melbourne was employed by the Queensland bishops when Aboriginal land rights became an issue at the time of the Commonwealth Games.
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"My problem." he said, "arose from the les; held by many clerics that whatever comes from Africa is primitive and has to be purified before being believed and accepted. The problem is that in these purification judgments. Africa itself is not asked the reason why she sticks to her 1.alues." Missionaries and the Zambian Church never recognised "the spirit of Lord" had come to an African. he said. By accepting European colonialism, he said, Africa "has enslaved herself without nov. t r
Research Since then he has been used as a research officer by the Queensland bishops and is considered to take a moderate line in Aboriginal discussions. During his stay Reverend Brennan will meet Aborigines and other key persons
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Wednesday February 29: Meeting with Aboriginal groups and persons. Thursday March I: One day workshop for the Inter Church Committee. Friday March 2: Kalgoorlie: Meeting sponsored h\ Parish Pastoral Council at 8.15 pm. Saturday March 3: Kalgoorlie: Meeting with Aboriginal communities. Sunday March 4: Meeting at Nyungah Catholic Life Centre at 5.00 pm. Monday March 5: Public Meeting: Cathedral Hall at 7.30 pm. Tuesday March 6: Clerg \ Meeting: 9.30 am-I2.30 pm. Seminar: 4.00 pm-8.00 pm. Wednesday March 7: Meeting of Heads of Churches 9.30-11.00 am (He depai:for Melbourne)
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Rehecord A s this issue of The Record goes to press and before most will have read its contents the Brian Gore case will have reached its climax and the verdict will likely be known. R ecently his hopes for a fair trial have been sanguine to the point of openly accepting that a negative verdict by the court can mean the death sentence or long imprisonment. For all its horrific implication let it be noted that the last thing a nervous Philippines government is going to do is let a gaoled priest be a thorn in their side, let alone execute him. Instead, the Immigration Department which neatly passed the buck on his deportation last year will be quickly co -arced to get rid of him and any others following his path. It has been Father Gore's point all along that deportation is all too easy a solution, that when he is gone the sort of district justice his companions or their families will get leaves little to the imagination. The Gore case may have escalated somewhat because he had popular support from a wide range of Australian friends and politicians. The real reason for his prominence is that too many people are tiring of the Philippines' smokescreen being handed out to the world over incidents such as the still unexplained A quino killing last year. Ostensibly, Gore attracted the attention of Mr Hayden and Australian politicians because he is an Australian citizen and his elementary rights even in a f oreign country deserve this country's support. It is a rather polite way of saying that a lot of questions are being asked in Australian government circles about our involvement with near neighbours when things like this occur. Brian Gore has nature on his side too. He is a man with a big heart and a big body and he is not phased by the tough conditions of life of the men and women whom he has made his friends. It is worth reflecting that not very far back in Australian history the Protestant climate would not have been much interested in the plight of a Roman priest in the back blocks of Asia. In fact they might have said he deserved his troubles. Which, of course, is a point of view to which even a modern day observer is entitled depending on their point of view. The support that this and other Catholic papers have given Father Gore is not merely cheering for a home grown hero. There are questions that have to be asked about his case and Father Gore would be the first to demand that those questions be asked. Father Gore has not meddled in politics but unfortunately he has run foul of a system where politics claims it is entitled to meddle in the law. The comfortably protected Australian ought to value the ease with which he can call on his local police and judiciary to give him protection and justice by no more than a phone call . Father Gore is part of a generation of priests in every missionary order who have had the same experience. The Columbans in South America as well as the Philippines have found themselves rubbing shoulders with more than poverty -- with the questions that spring from such an experience. It is no tourist path that takes them into thousands of homes where work, food and money are precarious commodities but where meaning has to be given to human existence and where generations of the poor have been numbed into not asking why this should be. To the priest who has to tramp the streets it is the question that will not go away. It is the edge of life where God's plan and reality are at odds; it is the edge where religion meets politics and it is the edge a lot of people prefer not to see. A Sri Lankan priest said last year that his wish for his Colombo parish would be to run a bus every Sunday to take his parishioners to the other side of town they never see and never want to see. The Gore case is not about the fact that both Moscow and Peking are only too interested in what their henchmen can do to destabilise the Philippines nor about the massive Muslim support that will come if ever the time is ripe for a push from that quarter. But it is about the whitewashing that goes on in the name of those causes when local feudal barons and their thugs can control the countryside because elementary justice for the poor does not fit in with their view of the world. Gore has given his fellow Australians a few questions to ponder and it will do them no harm to evaluate some of the consequences. His embarassment will give joy to the hardliners who say that Australia should stop giving its money away and pursue the selfish goal of ensuring our own comfort until we have a few scraps to throw from the table to the several hundred million people who surround us. Others will find it suddenly convenient to put strings and conditions on our aid — precisely the style of aid that is supposed to be abhorrent when it is practised by the super-powers of both West and East. Gore is both lucky and unlucky. Lucky because he has been able to attract world wide attention to the people he came to love in Christ's name. He is unlucky because no matter how much the martyr and hero, he is not the local priest and his mission is not complete until it is a Filipino priest who can dare risk his life to do and say the things that Father Gore is doing. Gore has simply opened up the questions to which many more than he will have to find the answers.
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Lessons Doing work others of in our history Peoplewhoareamateur genealogists and who expect archivists to do most of their work for them with not even providing the cost of a p ostage stamp are the bane of Church a rchivists l ike B rother Ansell of Toowoomba and Fa-
The many lessons that can be learned from the past may not be always palatable, but as long as people are able to think objectively they will be able to learn from history. This is the opinion of a Christian Brother, Brother Leo Ansell w ho has been in charge of the archives of the diocese of Toowoomba for the past seven years and who i s the founder of the C hurch Archivists Association. "If history is not there for them to think about they will not thank us at all" he said in Perth recently when questioned about the benefit of archives. Brother Ansell had to set up the Toowoomba archives when a new bishop's house was built. He says Australia is still a very young country. Archives, or the keeping of public records began with the pagan religions and the Christian Church became the preserver of records in the Dark and Middle Ages. Many public records today began with the collection of what was needed from the churches he said.
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Priority "But under the missionary conditions in Australia, the setting up of a well managed archive had a low priority in all the churches until the last 20 or fewer years. He said starting his archive meant facing a vault and a pile of bulging cartons. Sorting out this material meant having a policy of disposal but not necessarily one of destruction. "You can't keep all the paper coming for example into a bishop's office. An American has said the quantity is infinite and that it increases weekly. There has to be a policy of disposing of things. He suggests putting things aside for a while and then coming back to them for review. He has less faith in tape recordings and micro-films. "Many people do not realise tapes and microfilms have a limited life unless they are stored properly. "I prefer to keep the written word or copies of
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Perth church archivist Father Frank Bourke CM shows his Toowoomba opposite number Brother Leo Ansell some of the rich local history preserved in back issues of The Record.
that and micro-films as a last resort."
would not be human if we didn't.
Brother Ansell admits t here is a temptation to keep only material which puts the subject in a favourable light.
"But history should be written with all its warts. "The paiating of people is unre. iistic and has never appealed to me.
"It is almost impossible to be strictly impartial. We all have a bias and we
"On the other hand no reputable historian will w rite about scandal just
for scandal's sake," he says. "No archivist would let in someone with clapping ears and darting eyes just to look for grist for his mill. To preserve its good name, an archive should demand to see the product of the research before it is published."
Fewer cardinals now VATICAN CITY: The number of cardinals eligible to vote at a papal election is now down to 103 out of a possible total of 120 and there is speculation whether the pope will fill the vacancies. There are 129 cardinals but 26 of these are over the age of 80 when their voting privilege ceases.
Unless the pope names cardinals soon, the number will be further reduced during 1984, when seven other cardinals turn 80 Several important Sees traditionally headed by cardinals are lacking a cardinal at the helm.
ther Frank Bourke CM who is in charge of the Perth archdiocesan archive. F ather Bourke believesone of the problems is to make people understand t he principle on which archive material has been built up. "The archivist never k nows what a historian is going to ask in SO years time. " An archive is a haphazard collection of chance resources, some of which should h ave been kept and o thers destroyed by d esign or chance. W hat you have left h as no reference to t he heart rending needs of undergraduates writing university theses. " We are not employed for that. We are employed for preserving what we consider to be the most t ypical documents illustrating the difficult decisions taken b y the administration." Father Bourke says many researchers in archives become prisoners of the archive b y judging only the thickness of the file a nd not realising o ther information may exist elsewhere. A think file, he says, means a lot of material was gathered for legal protection, to c ounter the arguments of the opposition. "The Church is not a life of disputes but a life of growth. "If all a historian gives is a history of disputes he cannot e xplain how a building was put up or how a religious order c ame and starved in o rder to teach children. "When everything is going well nobody writes any letters. No news is good news. If y ou want the full truth you seek other sources. Father Bourke says the statistics about how a generation of C atholics had their children baptised, brought to confession and communion are lifeless until you have a historian of wisdom and imagination who can bring all this to life. Brother Ansell says the need of a modern day Church archive is t o have people in positions of authority in schools and parishes and dioceses to have an awareness of the importance of t heir day to day happenings. H e recommends their keeping a file to c ollect material which is forwarded to the archives at the end of each year.
Sister Gabriel was one of a family of Kimberley missionaries The recent death of Sister Gabriel Greene at the St John of God Hospital Subiaco, has brought to a close an era spanning more than half a centry in which five sisters from one County Clare family served with distinction a s nuns in WA's remote Kimberley.
The present century was still very young with memories of the r ecent Boer War stil l fresh in peoples minds. Robert Peary had mounted still another expedition to try and reach the North Pole, something he was not to achieve for another two years. On Trinity Sunday, May 26, 1 907, an expedition of another kind was boldly setting forth. A group of nine religious of the sisters of St John of God boarded the steamer BULLARA at Fremantle for its routine trip north with an extra call this run at Beaglf Bay in the remote North Kimberley of Western Australia. The sisters had all volunteered for t his distant mission among the Abc.riginal people in response to a persistent appeal by Bishop Matthew Gibney of Perth. The group was under the leadership of Mother Antonio O'Brien, already an intrepid pioneer of the St John of God sisters nursing mission in the Kalgoorlie/ Coolgardie/ Goldfields. Despite her failing health she set out for this unknown mission with little encouragement from any quarter save from the good bishop himself. Of special interest to us in the context of this short account of the Kimberley Mission was the third senior member of the little band, Sister Bernardine Greene. With the recent death of Sister Gabriel Greene at the St John of God Hospital in Subiaco, an illustrious chapter has closed with the involvement of the Greene sisters in this faraway mission. Sister Gabriel Greene, then a professed sister of St John of God and a trained nurse, arrived in the Kimberley in 1916 just after shipping from Ireland aboard a submarine chaser. She was the fifth member of the family to volunteer for this mission having been preceded by Sister Bernadine in the pioneer group, Sister Matthew, Sister Gertrude and Sister
peoples readily responded in accepting the Good News as well as improving their quality of life as a result of the instruction and example of the good sisters. The first pre-school kindergarten in the Kimberley was opened by the sisters in Broome in mid 1924. Sister Gabriel Greene upon her arrival undertook general nursing as a staff member of the Broome District Hospital. With the hospital matron who was the only other qualified staff member, she nursed from 1916 until 1935. Then, as now, the area was no less subject to cyclones, all of which were endured and it was only the most eventful happenings found their way into the chronicles of the sisters. One such was the occasion when the mission lugger NAMBAN was blown 100 miles off course during the short trip between Broome and Beagle Bay. Throughout the unexpected squall one of the sisters with two local girls were lashed to the mast for their own safety. Thirty luggers were lost that night. A t the request of the Minister for
Health through Bishop Raible the sisters undertook the staffing and operation of the Derby Leprosarium. Sisters Gertrude and Brigid Greene volunteered for this work of mercy w hile a third volunteer, Sister Alphonsus Daly went south to undergo a special course in tropical medicine to better equip her for the task ahead. The sisters had earlier offered to undertake this work but their offer was only taken up in 1937. With the advent of the World War II all women were ordered to be evacuated from the Derby area but the sisters were determined not to abandon their Aboriginal charges in the leprosarium. Despite the risks and vicissitudes they presevered even to the extent of having to take to the bush and live Aboriginal fashion. Broome, despite its growing importance as a pearling centre, did not have a resident priest in 1907. Nevertheless, the sisters, aware of the multinational and multicultural character of Broome, resolved to establish a school there.
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from H. N. WATNEY, Perth SIR — In your issue February 9 Father Gore on page three is up to his neck in politics but on page seven priests are told to keep out of politics. A /Il want to know is where in the New Testament do C olumban missionaries receive their mandate to (quote the superior of the missionaries in NSW) combat repression etc?."
Masons' aims from A.I CLUNE, Midland SIR — The late Dr Rumble MSC said Freemasonry has a belief in a Supreme Being but not in the Christian belief that Christ is God. It offers a new religion, in opposition to Christianity. Father Thurston SJ once pointed out on the European Continent Freemasonry has been violently anti-Catholic. The average Mason is not aware of this, only the inner circle, the select few. Dr Rumble pointed out there are many excellent individual masons but the system is unjust because p reference is given to Masons not on their personal qualifications but because they are Masons. He said Catholics who become Freemasons will be used. Freemasonry is for wordly advancement mainly so Catholics should check their motives before joining up.
from MRS. MARJ DELANE, Koorda, Malellans SIR — I was astounded to read (The Record February 9 ) that the Franciscan R etreat House is to be auctioned on March 8. Possibly as stated, the decline in retreats has brought this about, and the centre at North Perth admirably caters for these r equirements. The following statement t hat "after exhaustive investigations, could find no alternate Catholic use for the building" did rather puzzle our group. In 1981 our group were concerned there was a lack of hostel type accommodation for Catholic girls in the city, perhaps more for country girls, but not much offering for young men either. Contacting the Diocesan Pastoral Council regarding the matter, and acting on t heir suggestion for us to make a survey, we printed many questionnaires and forwarded them to country Majellan groups and individ-
ual people throughout the state, requesting their return to the DPC Office in the city. Follow up then from DPC stated many organisations are involved with youth welfare, but there appeared to be a lack of co-ordination between any central authority, even within the Church. Rather a shame, as resources are few enough, without any duplication of them, wasting time and energy as well as finance these days. It would be interesting to hear readers' views on this very important matter, as so many young people are looking for work, and if there is a shortage of suitable accommodation, they will end up being "homeless" too. L et us prevent this happening. Jesus People and others are doing a great job catering for the "homeless youth", but that is the wrong end of the line. Cannot we do something at the right end, and offer them something concrete We already have a building
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which seems suitable, why cannot we make use of it? Many young students leaving school need a settling period to learn about the city, while adjusting to the change in their lives and a caring environment is required. When they are older and more responsible they can cope with "flatting" which is a popular medium. Private accommodation has not been so readily available as it used to be as an extra income for many families, with so many women now working. Is there an answer to this problem? Can anyone or any organisation help to really get stuck into it and find out what the real situation is? See — Judge - Act, were the words of YCW Leaders Groups thirty years ago, they apply to all activities in all walks of life. Let us hope that they will bring forth good results for our youth Koorda Majellan Group will be most interested in hear ing from anyone, as no doubt will be DPC, Youth A ffairs Council or Centre care, as long as we can get our act together.
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SIR — A very curious public apology in the West Australian by the Association of Parenthood and Childhood Education, was for using the term anti abortion counselling, in regard to Pregnancy Help, and concluded that it was not intended to suggest Pregnancy Help counselling was unprofessional or biased. The question in my mind i s why the need for an apology, and for what reasons does Pregnancy Help object to the term anti abortion counselling.
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Has doubts on apology from MRS MARGARET HUKI/V, Trigg SIR — I am wondering what is behind an apology to Pregnancy Help published in The West Australian by the Childhood and Parenthood Education Association. The group apologises for inaccurately describing Pregnancy Help as "anti abortion counselling" and then goes on to affirm there was no suggestion Pregnancy Help counselling is unprofessional or biased. With funding of such an organisation such as Pregnancy Help by the Catholic Church, the question arises what was the objection of Pregnancy Help which led to such an apology. If my assumptions are correct, services such as Pregnancy Help must of necessity be against abortion, and positively counsel women and girls in this regard. Allied with this the life of
the unborn child must be protected as of the utmost importance in any counselling situation This means positive advice to pregnant women in trying to convince them to keep their unborn child
Counselling Any attempt at relative counselling, would mean Pregnancy Help is adopting a merely humanistic approach, and for mine this would be against a positive pro-Life position and approach to the abortion question. My concern is, in the light of the public notice, people like myself who support the concept of Pregnancy Help, are wondering just what criteria Pregnancy Help are using in their counselling of women who are confronted with abortion. Is it relative or positive?
SIR — In an otherwise excel lent editorial (The Record January 27) valuable l ight was shed on the v ocations crisis by the curious statement "The Church got into the marriage business for the same r eason kings, emperors, governments got into the same business" Presumably therefore Holy Matrimony is not a source ,ind means of sanctifying grace or sacrament which God the Son instituted as an aid to the salvation of our souls from hell How the Church "got into" the sacrament of Holy Orders must be mystifying indeed We revered the sacraments because Jesus instituted them Himself EDITOR'S NOTE: The -Church -, not Christ, became involved in marriage in the era of Constantine when the approval of Church as well as civil authority became a necessary condition for a marriage to be publicly recognised. The grace of the sacrament originates from Christ Himself, and only per medium of the Church, and precisely because two people baptisedin Christ are committed to a life-long union. The approval of the Church ranks second to the consent of the partners in this regard Marriage is the only sacrament in which the sacrament occurs because of the consenting recipients. The editorial made no reference to the sacrament of orders or the imputation made by the correspondent.
Single parent disagrees with story from Ms THERESE O'MALLEY, North Innaloo SIR — I am a Catholic supporting mother and I feel I must draw attention to Father Jegorow's article on divorce, The Record, February 10, at which I am appalled.
Categorising sin, sinners from P 1 CUMMUSKEY, Melville Sir — It was a little depressing reading through the report of the Vatican's International Theological Commission on the Sacrament of Penance (Record February 2nd) and finding sin categorised into the tidy compartments of mortal and venial, grave and non -grave or simply "ordinary" (for which the alternative would s urely have to be "extraordinary"). Then there are commandments of "grave" obligation and in the opposite corner those of "light" obligation (dear God!). While the revival of that age-old term
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"perfect contrition" spreads dismay among those of us for whom the attainment of p erfection in anything seems rather unlikely. Why must there be so much emphasis on the outward sign" of this Sacrament of forgiveness and so little regard for the "inward grace" accompanying. More is made of the mechanics of the Sacrament than the need to throw ourselves on the mercy of God. But that seems to be the way of things: the theologians draw up the rules and man and God are expected to play the game according to them.
Firstly I would like to point out that people do not just cold-bloodedly divorce without much emotional pain and anguish. Above all they agonise about the effects upon their children. From my personal experience, I did just that. After five years of being a battered wife I left home for my safety and that of my son and daughter. We have lived as a happy family of three for 71 2 / years now and my two children are very well adjusted, emotionally, socially, spiritually and academically. I consider our family to be "intact". I take exception to being told by Father Jegorow to "think long and hard" about a situation of which he could n ot have any real knowledge. Father Jegorow contradicts himself when he quotes what teenagers feel, yet admits he "felt restrained in asking questions of" these teenagers. Father Jegorow speaks of these children as though they are underprivileged and emotionally stunted. I wonder does he know the University of Canberra conducted a survey in 1983
Anguish pain in divorce which showed children of single parent fami lies tended to be not as materialistic as other children and more able to cope with changes in their lives and generally more realistic. I know I cannot replace my children's father, but I can encourage them to have loving relationships with my father, brothers, friends and neighbours. I must point out children of single parent families do have problems being accepted as "normal" in Church circles because of the stigma surrounding their single/divorced parent. I am very angry at the reference to two-parent families being considered as "intact"! How are the children of single parent families to feel when they read this priest's uneducated views?
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Briefs: 1-1BOGOTA —Father Alfredo Robles 0Iarte, rector of the University of St Bonaventure in Medellin, Colombia, has died from wounds suffered in an October 5 shooting The Franciscan priest was gravely wounded by an unknown assailant in his university office After surgery, he was transferred to a hospital in Bogota, Colombia He died in the Franciscan monastery in Bogota
E lBONN — The West German bishops' L.Jconference has welcomed the verdict of the West German constitutional court that in a census people can legitimately be asked their religious affiliation. Among other things this means that in future the Church can rely on statistical data from the census to help it plan its pastoral work In Germany the state needs to know which religion people belong to because the Churches are funded through a Church tax. This is levied as a supplement to income tax, collected by the state and handed over to the Churches
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0 BONN Fear of commitment on the part of rootless people is the reason why people live together without getting married, says Archbishop Dyba of Fulda, West Germany. The children of such households were exposed to insecurity and would end up in a home, he said Archbishop, Dyba suggested that the damage done by depriving children of family life was much worse than the damage to the environment by the acid rain that is killing off Germany's forests.
Emphasis should be on conciliation OTTAWA (NC) — Instead of enacting laws making divorce easier, the Canadian government should emphasise reconciliation procedures to help couples stay together, according to Bishop John Sherlock of London, Ontario, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. His suggestion came as the Canadian government was planning amendments to the Divorce A ct which would speed the divorce process by moving away from the "adversary system" in which one party, in a court proceeding, must prove wrongdoing, such as adultery or cruelty, by the other. An uncontested divorce under current law can be granted only after three years of separation. - Speedier divorce procedures will do little in the long run to eliminate the suffering coming from the present adversarial approach, ' " Bishop Sherlock said.
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KNOW YO FA How does the Bible connect with life as people live it today? A woman who is a pastoral minister at one of Washington, D.C.'s homes for the elderly and the chronically ill has some insights about this. Her work is physically demanding, sometimes emotionally draining. Each morning her pattern is the same. She rises early. She opens her Bible and reads scripture passages for the day slowly, thoughtfully. Then she tries to envision her day ahead. "Where willIencounter situations like those Ihave just read about? How will Irespond in those situations?" she asks herself. For this woman, Scripture provides challenge and comfort. She needs both for her work with people who often have
lost almost everything health, independence, family, friends. One morning she came to the gospel story in which Jesus feeds so many people with just five loaves and two fish. On one level the story spoke eloquently of Jesus" compassion for hungry people. But it also made her think about other hungers she encounters: loneliness, anxiety and fear among residents of the home where she works. The "food" she provides them takes many forms: talking with an elderly man who never has visitors; helping a blind w oman buy clothing; bringing the Eucharist to the bedridden; acting as an advocate for a person treated unjustly.
The older man was accompanied by several associates as he began a drive through the city that day. It would take him to a meeting that the man well knew was not simply one more event on his already overfilled agenda. Meanwhile a young man waited. Dressed in blue jeans and a sweater, his jogging shoes unlaced, one might not have suspected he had become a figure on the world stage. When the older man and his party arrived at the large building, they first greeted some others. Then they walked along the corridors toward the room where the meeting they all had on their minds was to take place. T he older man's manner grew serious. No one could know his exact thoughts. Perhaps he worried over how the meeting would go. Perhaps his thoughts lept backward two and a half years to a day he might have preferred to forget, if he could
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Then the party arrived at the meeting place. The younger man rose and greeted the older man. Most of what they would say to each other would be unheard by the others who waited outside the r oom. But the younger man was heard to say, "First of all, I want to ask your forgiveness." The younger man's name was Memet Ali Agca. The older man's name was Pope John Paul II. Their meeting place was Agca's prison cell in Rome's Rebibbia prison. He had been convicted of shooting the pope in May 1981 — an action t hat nearly took the pope's life and that necessitated a long period of recovery for him. After the meeting the pope told a reporter "I have spoken to a brother who has my complete trust. What was said is a secret that will remain between him and me." One of those who wit -
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nessed the meeting said that the pope and Agca had spoken in very low voices, in an "almost confessional tone." A brother? Forgiveness? My own thought about the pope's visit to Agca was plain, simple: This visit must come directly from the heart of Christianity as the pope views it. This is what it means for him to be a person of the Bible, to live by the Gospel. And I think the pope himself sees it this way, for he has written much a bout mercy and f orgiveness. Once the pope wrote: 'The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that of people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy and in fact tends to exclude from life and t o remove from the human heart the very idea of mercy." He wrote those words in his second encyclical, completed in 1980, long before the attempt on his life in St. Peter's Square The topic of the entire encyclical was mercy.
" The Old Testament: God's Word to His People," by Father James Black. This book provides some clues on reading the Bible intelligently. The author, an educator, points out that the Bible comes from a culture different from our own. Though "we can't go back physically in time to those days," he writes, it is helpful if we "can imagine doing so." The more peopleimmerse themselves in the time and culture of the biblical world, the more they understand the biblical writers and their c oncerns.
Now in his visit to Agca, he was putting those words into action. The encyclical had become much more than words. In his action, the Gospel, too, was much more than words. It was more than information worth studying. In the pope's action, the Gospel was seen as a way of viewing life — a way of living. According to the pope's o wn thinking in his encyclical, his encounter with Agca was a recognition of the young man's
dignity. Mercy — as Christ presented it in the biblical parable of the prodigal son — is about love, the pope wrote. This is the kind of love that "is able to reach down to every prodigal son, to every human misery, and above all to every form of moral misery, to sin. When this happens the person who is the object of mercy does not feel humiliated, but rather found again and 'restored to value.Mercy, the pope said, is not merely "looking,
however penetratingly and compassionately, at moral, physical or material evil."Rather, mercy is truly seen "when it restores to value, promotes and draws good from all the forms of evil existing in the world and in man." Seen in this way, mercy is "the fundamental content" of the message o f Christ. Mercy, he suggested, is the driving force in Christ's mission. As the church moves toward the year 2000, t he message about mercy is especially important, the pope said. This, he explained, is a "difficult, critical phase of the history of the Church and of the world." Peoplle need to see now that mercy is "more powerful than evil"
This is your life The Bible is not just a cold recital of facts from the past. It is about how God deals with humanity, with His people. It is about you — and me. It is our story. Perhaps that is why the Bible has for centuries been the basic source of prayer for Christian people. Even prayers that are not formally biblical are inspired by the Bible. Think how every Mass is studded with explicit and implicit citations from the Old and New Testaments. Anyone who really prays the Mass will imbibe a spirituality that is scriptural. If the object of prayer is to know God, to experience Him, then one of the best means of praying is to reflect in a very personal way on what He revealed about Himself in the history of his people. Their faithfulness is my faithfulness; their infidelity mine also. Their cries for forgiveness are mine; their response to his kindness is mine also. By reflecting on their story, which is also God's story, I learn more and more about Him and about myself. It is not just t hat I come up with additional information
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listen to Jesus as He speaks to us; watch Jesus as, in His actions, , He mirrors the compassionate and healing ways of His Father. Gradually we realise that we are getting to know Jesus as a brother and a friend. We can relate to Him. And here is another point to consider: In reading the Gospels, we r ead what already are from this reading. I grow prayers, or the result of as a person. prayerful reflection. I read and reflect. I react These are not mere and respond. It all sets eyewitness accounts of up a dialogue between what Jesus said and did. me and God: That is what They are the results of prayer is all about. devout contemplation on Of course, God revealed Christ. Himself most clearly in In the Gospels we disJesus. This was the cover what Jesus meant purpose of the incarnato the very early Christion: to enable us to "see" tians. This is how they God: 'Whoever has seen saw Him as an answer Me has seen the Father to their questions, their (John 14:9) p roblems, thei r While we cannot see aspirations. God directly, we can see So in reading the Gosa man of flesh and blood pels we enter into the life like ourselves. If this man of Jesus — and into the also is God, then in lives of all those good seeing Him we see God people who sincerely i n a way we can believed that in encoununderstand. tering Him they encounThis is why reading the tered God. Thei r Gospels is such a marvecontemplation becomes lous means of maintainours. Their reflections ing contact with God. For spark further reflections in the Gospels we can — on our part.
Lee J. Cobb, as travelling salesman Willy Loman, comforts George Segal as his son in the CBS dramatisation of Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' from the early 1970's. The son asking his father for forgiveness is reminiscent of the parable of the prodigal son or more recently the visit of Pope John Paul II to the cell of his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca.
R eligious educators agree that Christians are hungry for the Bible. Theologian Lawrence Cunningham says that Bible courses are the most popular of the religious education classes at Florida State University where he teaches. -The Bible is central to our religious vision, - he says. -We feed off it. No matter how often you go back youalways find something new"
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Digging deeper into scripture Once, in a class of adults, the teacher asked, "If you were imprisoned without any books or other possessions, what biblical passages would you rely on? What could y ou cal l up from memory?" Not much, I was chagrined to find. Only a few verses came immediately to mind: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son." "In the beginning was the word." Most of what came to mind were words in hymns I knew. Often these were drawn from Scripture, so I was not as poor as I feared. But that wise teacher's question stayed with me. I began to study Scripture, formal ly and informally. What I found is that the bible is a virtual library of books and contains many literary forms: songs and stories, history and biography, law and letters. I studied its authors — some known, some anonymous — and
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t he societies in which they wrote. As a parent. I want MN/ children to become educated in a variety of ways. I want them to be familiar with the great language a nd thoughts of our English-speaking tradition. They need technical training and skills. They need to read newspapers, visit museums, listen to good music, see serious films. Without exposure to these areas they will enter adulthood handicapped The same is true of religion. I encourage my children to study Cathol-
icism. I introduce them t o the Bible, including differing translations, s tudy guides and commentaries. But study, while important, is not enough. Scripture nourishes both intellect and spirit; it is a primary source for prayer. Think of the book of Psalms. It has inspired women and men of faith for many centuries. P salms are hymns which express every human emotion imaginable: joy, fear, grief, hope, r age, despair, trust, r epentance, praise. No wonder the gospel writers record Jesus voicing these very prayers. When I am too tired or distracted to pray, when my spirit feels shrivelled and dry, or when God seems far away, I pray the Psalms — prayers s haped and shared among believers before me. Another way to pray is to reflect, over a period of time, on a brief passage from the Bible Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Luthheran pastor and martyr who directed an underground seminary
in Germany in the 1930s, asked his students to do this one hour each day. They were to spend a week on a single verse of Scripture. At first the young men protested, but B onhoeffer insisted. Soon the seminarians came to value his advice. Actually, it works-- and more and more people are trying it. I recall praying for a week with part of the seventh verse of Psalm 95: "You shall know this power today if you will listen to his voice." How packed with meaning those words are! The first word, "you" suggests God's personal, parental love for each individual. The psalmist
Pope John PaulIf put words into action when he visited the prison cell of Mehmet Ali Agca, the man convicted of trying to kill him. This event helps David Gibson illustrate what it means to be a person of the Bible — a person of mercy. Gibson, editor of the Know Your Faith series, looks into the pope's own writing about what mercy means and why it is imp-ortant on the eve of the 21st century. Katharine Bird interviews four religious educators for her article this week. They verify that, indeed, contemporary Christians are more than slightly interested in these books known as the Bible. -We feed off the Bible, - says Lawrence Cunningham, a Florida professor. Ms Bird is associate editor of the Know Your Faith series. A point came in her life, writes Patricia Davis, when she decided she wanted to know the Bible better. She found out that there is more than one way to know the Bible. Ms Davis is a freelance writer who has contributed to this series on a number of occasions. Father John Castelot points out that the Bible isn't a -cold recital of facts. - Instead, it tells how God deals with people. -It is about you and me — it is our story, - the scholar writes.
Coming to the Bible cold can be like "picking up Shakespeare a nd falling asleep over it," Father John Castelot commented. With some background in Elizabethan history and language and poetry, people "fall in love with Shakespeare." It's the same with the Bible. W hen people discover how to read the Bible, said Father Castelot, it's "literally like a closed book has been opened up: All of a sudden it is understandable and beautiful." Father Castelot was talking about the growing interest today in the Bible. "I could be out every night in the week" teaching about the Bible, Father Castelot said. The priest t eaches at St. John's Seminary in Plymouth. Michigan, conducts numerous adult seminars on Scripture in Michigan parishes and is a regular Faith Today writer. Other religious educators agree that Christians are hungry for the Bible. Theologian Lawrence Cunningham says that courses on the Bible are the most popular of all religious education offerings at Florida State University at Tallahassee. where he teaches. A sked why this is so. C unningham commented: "The Bible is central to our religious vision — we feed off it. No matter how often you go back, you always find s omething new." He pointed out that biblical stories have been told "Sunday after Sunday, by millions of people, for thousands of years" and
Learn to read the Bible well still the depth of the Bible is not exhausted. No definitive commentary has ever been written. Theologian Anthony Tambasco speculated that the Bible intrigues people because it is "the foundation of Christian faith. Everything builds on it." The biblical scholar teaches at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. and conducts religious education seminars for adults in the Washington area as well. People may find the Bible confusing at first because the biblical writers "didn't write like us," he said. They came from a different time and
By Katharine Bird culture and their manner of expression is unfamiliar. "It's not the kind of writing people are used to reading," he added. In helping people discover the Bible's riches,
is addressing me, not "people" or "everyone." I reflected on what it means to be in a relationship with another and recalled God's presence in my life. Each succeeding word — know, power, listen, voice — is filled with meaning. And there are hundreds of sentences in the Bible which can be prayed this way. So yes, I would say, that library of books known as Scripture is well worth knowing "about." But there's is more to it than that. There are ways of k nowing Scripture by which it becomes part of you — not just part of your intellect, but part of your spirit.
Tambasco said his main concern is to demonstrate that the "faith experience of the first Christians is the same kind of experience we have today." Tambasco sometimes illustrates what he means by turning to the accounts of the birth of Jesus — the infancy narratives. Events are very compressed in t hese accounts, he observed. The biblical account gives us sort of the "end product" of Mary's faith, Tambasco said. And people might not realise what Mary must have gone through. Like Christians today, he asserted. M ary wrestled with
things. Confronted with the mystery of her pregnancy, she struggled with her trust in God: she had to make decisions about how to respond. She might have asked: "Is this from God? What is God asking of me?" Next Tambasco asks students to consider how God might be speaking to them. If they draw a blank, he urges them to look for situations in their own lives where they may have sensed that God is caring for them or offering himself to them. Cunningham had a similar thought. He feels there is a sense in which we don't just read the Bible. It reads us. "It speaks to our situation." Franciscan Father Stephen Hartdegan. director of the U.S. Center for the Catholic Biblical Apostolate, speaks of the Bible as a mirror of our lives. He sometimes encourages people to reflect on a particular passage to see if it has any relation to their current life. The result often is vital, he said. People discover that "what was said and done long ago can become relevant to them in 20th century American life."
" The Bible must never be used to close minds and hearts, but to open them." (Bishop Roger Mahony of Stockton, Caliifornia. 1983) "God's word sometimes calms us down. When we are agitated by fear, torn apart by grief, wracked by guilt, God reassures us of his constant care. God heals our wounds and creates a new future for us." (Bishop Roger Mahony of Stockton Calif)
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How some Catholics persecute Catholics The trial in the Philippines of Father Brian Gore and his companions and the deportation from Chi le of Father Brian McMahon, give a new and ironic twist to the ageold problem of the p ersecut ion of Christians. Formerly, it was pagans who tortured and k illed those who believed in Christ. Now, especially in the Philippines and Latin America, which claim to be Catholic, it is Catholics who persecute their fellows. And, strange as it may seem, the basic r eason for the new type of persecution is t he same as that which motivated it in pagan times: The victim is asked to deny his God.
A rchbishop Oscar Romero . . . Peruvian s choolgirls applauded his assassination. . . .
J ohn Edward Loughlin is general m anager, senior wool valuer and senior auctioneer of the WA Woolgrowers' Voluntary Co-operative - known as Wavcop and pronounced Wavco. Born at Subiaco on June 25, 1944, he was educated at the Brigidine Convent and the Marist College, Subiaco. He started work as a junior clerk with Wavcop at the beginning of 1961 and has been with the organisation ever since except for a period share-farming at Beacon from 1965-69. For three years he was assistant to the w ool manager of Wavcop, became wool manager in 1973 and was appointed to his present position in 1975. He is a member of the Rural and Allied Industries Wool Committee. He plays with the Fremantle Tennis Club, was a foundation member of the Wanneroo Districts Rostrum Club and is still an enthusiastic Rostrum man. John and his wife Susan (nee Burness) — a girl from Tweed Heads in NSW who he met when she was midwifery nursing in WA -- are parishioners of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Hilton. They have a daughter and two sons ranging in age from eight to two years.
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That may seem a strange and even fanciful thing to say. After all, the charge a gainst Brian Gore is murder and subversion. Brian McMahon was accused of mixing in politics a nd inciting people to rebellion. The truth of the matter is that they were simply being
by Columban FATHER TOM O'BRIEN Father Tom O'Brien has been a Columban missioner for 37 years. His last posting was Peru where he served for 10 years. He is a former associate editor of The Far East magazine.
faithful to Christ and to His Gospel. They were trying to help the poor and oppressed of those countries to defend themselves from the violence and abuse of the rich and powerful They stood up for justice and for God. They were faithful to the Lord who, in Matthew's Gospel, clearly identified Himself with the poor and afflicted. He gave us clear criteria on which our Christian belief and practice will be judged when we come before him on Judgment Day Strangely enough He does not mention fidelity to religious practices or the purity of belief — even though these are obviously important. The burden of our guilt or the claim we have to glory rest totally on our treatment of our neighbour The reason is clear if we reflect on what He really said. I was hungry — I was thirsty — I was naked I was in prison In short, the poor and the hungry and those in anyway afflicted are Christ's. We meet Him in them.
If we reject them we reject Him If we oppress them we oppress Him If we starve them, we starve Him If we stand by in silence and do not protest the sin t hat so deforms them, we crucify Him anew Fidelity to the Gospel in the Philippines and Latin America leads to inevitable conflict with the civil authorities who are, except in a few c ases, themselves Catholics Obviously such conflict points to a basic difference in how the faith is understood and practised It may be helpful to look at the reasons given by the
'It may be difficult for us to understand that Catholic girls could see virtue in the brutal killing of an old man simply because he defended the poor...'
Father Brian Gore under hourse arrest. Catholic persecutors for the attitude and actions they take. Let me speak of Peru where I lived and worked. The rich and powerful and the military own the wealth and govern the country. They are not evil men c onsciously doing evil things. They go to Mass and Communion on Sunday If you ask them about their faith they will say they are good Catholics. All they are trying to do is defend the faith from politicised priests and sisters and laity, and the fatherland f rom communist subversion.
It really is a state of war, and brutal things happen in war People get killed That is regrettable Torture is sometimes used, but only because there is no o ther way to root out subversives They do not, of course, say they are defending their own interests and their position of power and privilege because they are no man's fool Perhaps the mentality of such people can best be conveyed by an incident that t ook place in Lima when Archbishop Oscar Romero w as murdered in El Salvador
School holidays John Loughlin's leaning toward things agricultural — inherited f rom his Irish immigrant parents who were forced off their WA farm by the Depression — was nurtured by school holiday visits to the Jennacubbine property of Vernon and Norr ie Anderson. His particular interest during these bucolic sojourns — despite the fact that before the first of them he cannot remember even having seen a sheep — was the raising of the a nimals that have traditionally carried A ustralia on their backs, and the disposal of their wool. It is small wonder, then, that on leaving school he started what has turned out to be an
The Record, February 24 — March 1, 1984
Vacations at Jennacubbine and an Irish agricultural interests
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE enduring career in the wool industry. A lthough a "city slicker'', he was a member of what was then called the Junior Farmers' Movement. He virtually started with Wavcop at its launching. His first job was as a junior clerk, but before long he had the benefit of working under such knowledgeable wool men as Noel Stokes and John Hounan. In the 1960s when he
joined it, the wool trade was a big employer of people Brokers displayed thousands of bales on vast areas of floor while buyers moved slowly round closely inspecting the wool and selecting the lots for which they would bid at auction. Bales had to be arranged into lots, some had to be opened for sampling and then pinned up again, then they had to be moved to another destination and later a small army of men
was engaged in cleaning up Everything had to be done by hand because the forklift had not yet made its appearance. Labour-intensive though it was, the method of displaying and selling wool that had applied for generations was strictly adhered to. But changes, many born of science, began to creep in during the 1970s. The introduction of objective measurement and of accurate assessment of clean-yield fibre diameter and vegetable content, for example
Now only a small sample is necessary for each lot put up for sale and appraisal. Each bale is core-sampled and tested by the Australian VVool Testing Authority. And further changes are just around the corner. R esearch into what is known as sale by description
is being carried out by the Australian Wool Corporation, the CSIRO. the Testing Authority and other industry bodies. It incorporates the present tests but provides further measurements such as the length of fibre, the textile strength and the colour of the wool. The concept is to do away entirely with the current necessity to physically inspect the wool John believes a major advance occurring about a decade after he entered the industry was the introduction, by what was then the Australian Wool Commission, of the reserve price scheme. This alleviates for the growers the major drops in price to which they were periodically a-prey. The Australian Wool Corporation, as the body is now known, sets a floor price and if prices drop to that level the corporation buys the wool.
,vos o‘cNe Av° A ustralian priests, Father Brian Gore 1-1 in the Philippines and Father Brian McMahon in Chile have been charged with playing leading roles in dissension against local politics .. . By contrast, priests in Central America have joined with Governments, often to the detriment of their flock.
Pope John Paul speaking in front of a Sandininsta poster in Managua last March . . . A few days after the murder I met a Sacred Heart Sister, who taught in one of the big Catholic girls' colleges on the wealthy side of town She told me when the news of the slaying came over the radio the girls applauded They rejoiced because the "Red" archbishop had got what was coming to him It may be difficult for us to understand such a thing could happen — that Catholic girls could see virtue in the brutal killing of an old man simply because he defended the poor and preached love and brotherhood and justice for all
His real crime, of course, was that the powerful felt threatened Yet the fact remains they welcomed the killing as good news and did not see any contradiction between such a cquiescence and their Catholic faith. One is reminded of Saul, the zealous persecutor of the early Christians, who watched the stoning of Stephen and minded the clothes of those who did the deed. How are we to judge the merits of claims and counter claims? We have nothing in our practical experience in this
'Fidelity to the GospelinthePhilippines and Latin A merica leads to inevitable conflict with the civil authorities ... who are ... themselves Catholics.' country on which to base our judgment I suggest we should look behind the accused' to the local Church whose servant he is Missionaries and the laity
Priests are under fire in Central America with whom they work do so at the direction and under the guidance of the local bishops. In Peru, we had a clear pastoral plan which had been drawn up by the national assembly of Peruvian bishops. The same is true of the Philippines and Chile. The Cardinal Archbishop of Chile wrote a pastoral letter to be read in all the churches, defending Brian McMahon. When it was read in the wealthier parishes many congregations walked out saying they did not come to church to listen to politics, but to the Gospel.
In the Philippines, Cardinal Jaime Sin and Brian Gore's bishop, Bishop Fortich, have defended him It is reasonable to assume the bishops are neither politically motivated nor subversive, nor are they perverting Catholic faith. We should not be surprised by persecution. Christ warned his Disciples to expect it. He said the day would come when those who killed them would believe they were doing a service to God. For our part, who live in f reedom and peace, what should be our response, if any?
MANAGUA, (NICARAGUA) — Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, president of the Nicaraguan Bishops Conference, has criticised priests active in the country's Sandinista government and has warned the Church is ready to apply sanctions if they do not leave their positions. The priests "are more in love with the political ministry than with the priestly ministry," he said. By an agreement in 1 981 between four office -holding priests and the Nicaraguan Bishops Conference the priests agreed not to publicly exercise their ministry while holding office and pledged that they "will not invoke or use their conditions as priests to help justify state or party fun'ctions and actions.The accord covers Maryknoll Father Miguel D'Escoto, foreign minister; Father Ernesto Cardenal, cultural minister; Jesuit Father Fernando Cardenal, director of the Sandinista Youth Movement; and Father Edgar Parrales, ambassador to the Organisation of American States. Jesuit Father Alvaro Arguello, is a member of the Council of State, a legislative advisory body. He was not covered in the agreement because he was elected by the Nicaraguan clergy to represent them in the council. Since then, Church officials have said that he should also resign. Several priests took positions in the government after rebels led by the Sandinista Liberation Front ousted the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979. The priests defended their decisions on the grounds qualified lay people were lacking During his one-day visit to Nicaragua last March, Pope John Paul urged obedience to the bishops, who had asked the priests holding government posts to resign. The pope's words resulted in a shouting match with government supporters.
on a sheep property background led to a leaning toward The scheme, which has been a success for more than a decade, is entirely f inanced by growers through a compulsory levy on their gross proceeds that they pay to the Market Support Fund. The reserve price is reviewed at the end of each wool-selling season
A t May 6 this year, the stocks held by the corporation throughout Australia amounted to 986.538 bales The Market Support Fund has returned to growers the levies that they paid in the 1 974-75 and 1975-76 seasons. "With the application of technology and science since the early 1970s, John says, "there has been a significant drop in the manpower required to service the industry. "Wavcop staff, for example, has dropped by two-thirds since then."
He sees the probability of a further drop in labour need in the centralised and integrated sales at Fremantle only, doing away with the Albany sales. Sales at Fremantle only at two-weekly intervals would give growers the chance to have their wool sold more quickly than is now the case. He envisages all sorts of developments in the industry, including the possibility of selling wool by computer on a national basis. He feels computer selling would obviate the necessity for the buyer to value the wool at the store, go back to his office to put in the limits of his bids, and then attend the auction. The day might well come when the buyer — sitting in his office in London, Melbourne or Tokyo — can make his bids at a sale being held in Fremantle by punching a keyboard on his desk. Though alive to the possi-
bilities of the future, John has not forgotten episodes of his past in the industry. His debut in auctioneering is a case in point, He was told only half -anhour before the sale that he was to sell the lots listed on the last three pages of the catalogue. "It was probably just as well that I was shoved in off the deep end," he laughs. "If I'd had been told days before I wouldn't have been able to sleep through worrying about the prospect."
At that time bids were made in pence per pound and they came in quarters, halves and three-quarters of a penny. Normally the pace of a sale is hectic and the auctioneer needs a keen ear and a sharp eye.
Although he developed these attributes with experience. John had none of them on that memorable day when he was pitched into the auctioneer's role.
slithered across the floor in the full view of all present. Many cars in those days carried crank handles, and this was the weapon used to dispatch the reptile.
However, the buyers — as always — had sympathy for the tyro and let him down as easily as they could. They realised," he says, "that somebody had to do the job, and to be able to do it properly he had to make a beginning." A nother memory embedded in the fair-haired executive's mind concerns t he day of the official opening of Wavcop's present premises in Cockburn Road, South Fremantle. The ceremony was performed by the then Minister for Agriculture, Mr (now Sir) Crawford Nalder. The smooth-running of proceedings on that hot summer day in 1963 was subjected to some interruption as an enormous dugite
Wavcrop has an operation at Albany, and John makes r egular visits to that centre. He also does a lot of travelling to various parts of the state to meet farmers face-to-face, and three of Wavcop's staff are continually on the road doing the same thing. Perhaps because of his close contact with farmers and their drought worries, he becomes annoyed when he hears radio and TV announcers prattle on about what a beautiful fine day the state has enjoyed while the man of the land in some cases, who is so vital to the WA economy, is screaming out for rain.
John Loughlin
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WACLTA Mixed Pennant, the 'A' Grade will use a variation on the usual format. The teams will consist of two women's and four men's instead of the usual two women's and two men's. The lower grades, however, will continue to play t wo women's and two men's. If this new idea works well, possibly all grades will use this system next season. Pennant organiser, Jack E astcott, recommended the change to give the top w omen's stronger competition. Under the new conditions the women will play one woman's doubles and t wo mixed doubles, and t he men three men's doubles and one mixed doubles. T he competition gets under way on March 17. Pignatelli Anniversary Entries close on March • From page 16 T ashla had box 1 when taking out the Victorian final after leading all the way. At h er previous run she was f ourth in her heat at Olympic Park when kept wide throughout from box 8. By Waverley Supreme from Q ual ity Jade, Tashla is prepared by Carl Haas junior. His father Carl, senior, is a bookmaker and his mother P at has been a prominent greyhound trainer for many years. Local bitch Supreme Carmen has the advantage of c oveted box 1 and her knowledge of the Cannington track. She was a certainty beaten in the WA final last S aturday night won by outsider Darville's Pride. After trailing Aulfee to the home turn Supreme Carmen w as about to go to the lead w hen attacked by Ashley Supreme. Though hampered all the way in the straight she had just got clear when overtaken in the last stride. If the interference had not c aused her to lose her momentum she undoubtedly w ould have won. Only 26 months old Supreme Carmen lacks the experience and maturity of her interstate
7. Entry forms will be a vailable through the clubs shortly. About 70 people attended a very enjoyable day held at the club's courts last Sunday. K evin Lloyd presented a Pignatelli — This is Your Life 'segment' much t o the enjoyment of all t hose present whose m emories could recall the many amusing incidents it related to. Later Mr Lloyd, along w ith Jim Mclinden was h onoured with l ife membership. The club was delighted t hat so many past members were present. American ex -members, Dick and Betty Taylor, coincided their proposed visit to Perth to be here i n t ime for the celebrations. T ennis identity, Arthur M arshal l , was also present. The Pignatelli Club, the biggest in the association, looks poised for a nother successful season.
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There are not many parents ready to say "no" to their children. Many seem to be at their beck and call. This is especially so when it comes to ferrying children to andfrom various after school sporting activities. Very few are 'mean' enough to say, "if you can't get there yourself, you don't go". Instead, busy parents go to no end of trouble and inconvenience to transport youngsters to weekday training and weekend matches. The family car has replaced public transport, the bicycle and kids' legs. Iwas reminded of this whenInoticed a businessman friend out of his territory, obviously taking a detour on his way home from work to collect children from swimming training. It leads me to ask, "Are parents as keen to take their children to Mass and catechism class as they are to get them to the oval or pool?" The answer seems to be "no" with faith training running a very poor second to swimming, tennis, footy, ballet, music lessons and the A twilight drive around \ the suburbs would show
C ANBERRA: A report to the Federal Government outlined four The Catholic Bishops of Australia have chosen Youth as the has options for a postheme for the 1984 Social Justice Statement, Mr Paul Bullen, sible future inacting national secretary of the Catholic Commission for Justice come-support sysand Peace, announced today. tem for youths.
that youngsters at our sporting facilities far outnumber those in our parish halls receiving faith instruction. What's. more, at the playing field one often finds dedicated parents urging their young 'star' on to bigger and better feats. Introducing the 'hard edge' of competition is alltoo often the decision of parents who push their children into becoming winners. I f this same degree of encouragement and dedication were displayed by parents in our schools andparish halls, I'm sure there would be many more enthusiastic young Christians in our churches. The same parents who enthuse on the sidelines often shrink from lead-
ing their children infaith and demanding a certain standard of religious practice. Parents are obviously keen to maintain young healthy bodies — what about healthy young hearts and minds' — pointing the car in the direction of the church on Sunday doesn't seem too much to ask after a week of to-ing and froing our potential champions. Ife often overlook that Jesus as a strapping young teenager probably loved sport and enjoyed a game with friends. I'm sure His mother and father had to ensure that He spent as much time studying His Jewish law and religious practices as Ile did kicking a ball around.
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The options concentrate on ways to promote greater consistency and equity in the i ncome support on March 22 and 23 and structure. are part of the Federal They will be considered Government's review of by a conference of Com- youth programmes and monwealth, State and policies. Territory Youth Ministers Prepared by the Depart- The current system offers ment of Education's office t o young people, a comof youth affairs, the four plex of 37 different payoptions canvassed are: ments which have caused • Increased consistency intense debate on whether between current allowan- t hey are equitable and ces such as the SAS (secon- have a disincentive effect dary allowance scheme), because of means tests on t he T.E.A.S. (tertiary some and whether the SEATTLE (NC) — Organisers and participants in a game which had university e ducation assistance G overnment's Budget s tudents "assassinating" one another were surprised by public reaction to scheme) and unemploy- priorities could stand a ment benefits. m ajor change in the the game and have postponed play as a response to the complaints. • The introduction of an system. age-related education and More than 100 students Eric Schwan, a student out complaints. He hoped sity, said Jesuit Father allowance, includ- The report said that the training at Jesuit-run Seattle Univer- body officer who organised the game would involve a Andy Thon, assistant vice SAS and number of students going merging ing sity paid $5 to enter the game, said it had been lot of students and help president for student life. directly from school to T.E.A.S. others on said he was an universiget to know Father Thon As local them Killing at two used "KAOS" — higher education had some of Integration • surprised by the reaction Organised Sport. They ties, Pacific Lutheran campus. in the past five declined payments, security social were given a T-shirt, squirt University and the Univer- Cash prizes were to be since the game had been allowances, years. family as such student who two weeks Washington, withto the for awarded organised victims. sity of gun and assigned re .sszs "killed" the most partici- w ithout "major compants and to the student plaints" from students or who stayed "alive" the faculty members. He said longest. The squirt guns people were "jumping to were not allowed to be used conclusions" about stuin private dorm rooms, dents running around classrooms, the cafeterias killing each other. CANBERRA: The Fed- Mr Macphee said last of Labour market research or library. eral Opposition has month's unemployment which had suggested that Calls complaining about called for a survey of figures. released last week, it encourage the Arbitra- the game began two weeks teenag- tion Commission to inquire after the game was orgaemployer attitudes to showed that 100,000 ers aged 15 to 19 years were into the determination of nised, when a local news- S YDNEY: Junior for reasons study the unemployed and looking youth wages. paper ran a picture and wage rates were prich i ghyou th for their first job. "The ACTU supports a story about KAOS on its ing young people out unemployment. of the labour market, "By the Government's further increase in junior front page. The Opposition spokes- own admission, there could w age rates relative to Most of the callers ques- the Leader of the Fedman on employment and be as many as 130,000 adults, but the Government tioned the appropriateness eral Opposition, Mr industrial relations. Mr Ian additional teenagers in the has the duty to initiate this of "playing at murder" at Peacock, said recently. Macphee, has also pro- hidden unemployed cate- inquiry regardless of the a Catholic-Christian univerC ampaigning for the posed an Arbitration Com- gory, making close to a wishes of the ACTU and to Richmond by-election in mission inquiry into quarter of a million over- oppose the ACTU if and northern NSW, Mr Pearelativities between youth all," he said. when necessary in the cock said the Opposition and adult wages to deterbe a interests of more jobs for A nyone interested in believed an investigation mine guidelines for setting "There will never better time than now for the our young people," he said. attending the Choice wee- of junior wage rates was junior wage rates. G In a statement released in overnment to demon- An up-to-date survey of kend in April should take needed and that this could Canberra yesterday, he said strate that its professed employer attitudes was note of the number for be done by the Arbitration that a survey was necessary concern for Australia's essential to help young Terry and Margaret Fennes- Commission. The leader of the National of employer attitudes to young people is genuine." people overcome the com- sy...it is 386 6494. An incorrect number was Party, Mr Sinclair, called young people to see why Mr Macphee said that the petitive disadvantage they employers were reluctant Government had not acted appeared to have in the job given to us for printing last for an inquiry into junior wage -rates. week). on a report by the Bureau market. to hire them. T he Commission is consulting with numerous youth groups and organisations to obtain their views of the concerns and hopes of young p eople in Australia today. The Social Justice Statement will be prepared for release in early September, 1984 and as in the past, will form a focus for discussion and reflection by members of the Church on Social Justice Sunday. This is a Sunday in the year when significant issues of social concern are raised within the Church. In choosing the theme of Youth, Mr Bullen said the Commission hoped t o provide a document which raised issues concerning young people and provided a springboard for discussion and activity on the part of
young people in 1985 International Youth Year. International Youth Year has the three t hemes: participation, development and peace. The Commission hopes to consult with as many young people and adults as possible in preparing
the Social Justice Statement and it has sent out a number of questionnaires asking young people: I. (a) What concerns do you have as a young person? List the three most important ones. (b) Are there any
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One must have suspected what teach me to pray like you be in year 9 when I go back to school. remember how much He of us asked Him to teach they would do to Him." do — like Jesus did?" My high school is Kelmsliked to go off and pray us to pray. That day He cott Senior High School. ou has e got to he in the club Please print clearl and don't alone. The night before taught us to pray. "Our I enjoy most sports.I would if yni ••ant to enter our com- forget sour date of birth and a He chose His 12 apostles, Father..." like either a girl or boy from petitions and ••in some of the stamp so vve can send :tour Jesus spent the whole "But did Jesus always go membership form to anywhere around my age. super prizes. night up on a mountain off into the mountains or Joseph's Other Red Sock, unexpected way! 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A look at books The Soviet 1 nion Today. An Interpretive Guide, edited hy James Cracraft. Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science — 1.niversity of Chicago Press (Chicago, Ill, 1983). 348 pp. 59.95. Reviewed by James C O'Neill, A ( News Service. This is a hook designed to help the general reader go behind the headlines and take a closer look at what life is like in the Soviet ('nion. It is made up of 26 essays written by specialists in Soviet affairs. The essays were first published as separate pieces in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The articles, most of which were by scholars associated with the Russian Research Centre at Harvard, are not heavy, academic research pieces. The writers are wellinformed and their observations are current enough to include the early months of the late Soviet premier. }Uri ndropov. By and large it is a readable and informative volume.
Closer look at Soviets To make it easier for the reader, the editor groups the essays under eight topic headings: history, politics, the armedforces, the physical context (geography and environment), science and technology, culture, and society (ethnicity, religion and women). A lthough the writers are informed — Cracraft says all of them have "lived in the USSR for varying periods of time" — and their articles clearly written, the book as a whole seems smaller than its parts. Many of the individual articles are excellent. The power of the Communist Partyappointed Writers' Union to dictate style, hero-prototspes and other literary elements as discussed in the chapter on "New Trends in Literature" comes to mind. The chapter on agriculture is an eye-opener. Especially intriguing is a point made by several authors that the Soviet leadership is under great pressure to provide more and better consumer goods for a population with a growing income and more sophisticated tastes, but to do so means a cutback in military spending and armaments. There is also an interesting article on Russian nuclear war attitudes that is, in the end, inconclusive.
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The Moon In The Water, by Pamela Belle, Pan, $6.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. This has to be the longest school essay ever written and it comes as no surprise to learn that the author is a teacher. The blurb on back and front covers is rich in praise: "Masterly . . . a vivid tapestry of a family saga, richly crowded with flesh and blood people' Rosemary Sutcliff. " An impressive first novel, it should gain for Pamela Belle an enthusiastic following." E.V. Thompson. "A gifted storyteller . . . who can conjure up a period of history so that we can smell, hear and see it." Sarah Harrisson, author of The Flowers Of The Field. All I can say is 'hogwash', it's not a bad storyline but there seems little talent buried there. In true essay style we get lots of big words, plenty of adjectives, prose which r anges from formal to stilted and cliches by the t on . . . Eyes 'shine',
mouths are 'small and bright,' bodies are 'small and wiry', people are 'shaken by passion and longing,' and words are 'hissed.' (In fact it's a bit like spending the day in the reptile park.) Oh, dear me, I don't think there is a cliche that she has missed. The eyes especially have it, obviously a fetish on the author's part. They are 'shining and fervent,' 'shadowy,"puzzled', 'searching,' coldr they were obviously into eye to eye confrontation in the 17th century. The characters are cardboard cut-out, propped in place to decorate the story, which isn't a had yarn as I said. In fact it would make an awfully good television miniseries (funny that). No doubt the lady may find fame in that quarter because I doubt that she has the ability to do it as a good writer. But it is early days, and it is her first book, there is always
room for improvement. My pessimism springs from the fact that talent may be well and truly buried when writers try t oo hard to write but usually it manages to surface from time to time, just a gleam, a hint of something special . . . and that's a hint I could not find in all 530 pages. I suppose you could call it well researched Mills and Boon and if your tastes lie in that direction you may well enjoy it. It's p robably a bit long though for most M & B readers. A key to the stilted style may well be found in the fact that Pamela Belle apparently first dreamt of writing the book when she was 12, and that's exactly what it reads like, a book written by a clever child. But what is impressive in a 12 year old is sadly inadequate for someone in her 20's. I think too many childish dreams got in the way when she actually sat
down to complete it. For those who want the story we have Thomazine (she's a bit of a bore and a terrible prude) who is orphaned at the age of 10 and goes to live with her family of cousins. One of them, Francis, t akes her fancy and although betrothed to another cousin, Dominic, she plans to marry Francis. That is until Francis is caught up in the English Civil War (along with everyone else) and finally thought to be dead. Thomazine is then pushed into 'black and loveless wedlock' with Dominic who is made out to be a real 'baddie' but whoI thought was rather misused. She never forgives him for being drunk and overenthusiastic (surprise, surprise) on their wedding night even though he tries awfully hard to make up for it later . . . anyway, so it goes. The worst of it is I think this book is the first of a trilogy.
Tracing the taproots The Practice Of brief excerpts from Father Rahner's writings over the Faith, by Father past two decades, loosely Karl Rahner. Cross- arranged by the editors road (New York, under the headings of "Love" and 1983). 316 pp., "Faith," "Hope." $19.50. Reviewed Now approaching his 80th b y Wi l l iam P. birthday, Father Rahner Loewe NC News has won, by his efforts to trace the taproots of ChrisService. tian belief deep in our
Subtitled A Handbook of common human existence, Contemporary Spirituality, a secure place among the this volume comprises 65 fathers of the Church in our century. T he heart of Father Rahner's vision is simplicity, an analysis of our being human as a thirst and a drive, beyond any particular intellectual or moral years he was an English accomplishment, toward master at Stowe. the incomprehensible mysThe author of poems, tery which supports and books about hunting and guides all our efforts and other sports and even which alone can finally detective stories, his first satisfy us. real success was The In Christ we find that this S word in the Stone God of mystery has come ( 1939), a brilliantly im- to meet us, offering divine aginative retelling of King love and pledging our Arthur's early life. He ultimate fulfilment. Chriscontinued the story in The tian faith, then, centres on Hitch in the Wood (1940) the single three-fold mysand The Ill-made Knight tery of grace, incarnation (1941). In 1958, he wrote and Trinity. what was believed to be In Father Rahner this the final volume of his A rthurian saga, The single-minded vision draws Candle in the Wind, and nourishment from a thopublished it together with roughly Catholic sensibilrevised versions of the ity, and so the present earlier books as The Once volume ranges over such and Future King. He died traditional topics as indulgences, purgatory, confesin 1964. sion, and devotion to Mary A fter T.H. White's and to the Sacred Heart. death, a further manusBut if he cherishes the cript, concluding the riches of tradition, he story, was discovered refuses to ossify them. His among his papers at the writing evinces enormous University of Texas. This pastoral concern and pais The Book of Merlyn. tience.
The Book of Merlyn
The Book Of Merlyn, The Long Lost final volume of the classic Arthurian epic, The Once And Future King. Published by Flamingo.
T he Book Of Merlyn the final volume of that classic tale, is a must for everyone who loved The Once and Future King The aged King Arthur. alone and dissillusioned on the eve of his last battle, is visited by his childhood tutor, Merlyn. Through the magician's powers, he is reunited with his old animal friends and undergoes two final t ransformations. From the worlds of the ant and the geese he learns his last lessons on the nature of man and of war. before returning to face his own fate, comforted
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by the knowledge that man will endure. The original manuscript of The Book of Merlyn is in the T.H. White Collection, Humanities Research Centre, the University of Texas at Austin. The Book of Merlyn, written by T.H. White during World War II, was intended to be the concluding book of a planned five-book volume entitled The Once and Future King. While The Once and Future King was indeed finally published in 1958, The Book of Mer1vn was not included. This is the first time it has ever fully appeared in print. Terence Hanbury White was born in 1906 in India, where his father was a member of the Indian Civil Service, and educated at Cheltenham and C ambridge. For many
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Embodied In Love: Sacramental Greeley was right. It has simply taken others in the as "Embodied in Love" makes clear, married people church 10 years to catch up. first become intimate with God in being intimate with S pirituality And Sexual Intimacy, by "Embodied in Love" is an important contribution one another. Charles Gallagher, George Maloney, to a still nascent understanding of a marital spirituality. To paraphrase Father Greeley. those who complain Mary Rousseau and Paul Wilczak, It is important if for no other reason that it discusses that there is too much sex going on out there are as the proposition that "a good sex life" is wrong as they can he. On the contrary, in most marriages Crossroad (New York, 1983). 164 pp. iontelligently f vital importance to a Christian marriage. Not only there isn't nearly enough sex going on (at least not of $9.95. Reviewed by Mitch Finley. NC that, but: "Marriage sets the norm for all of Catholic the kind that is deeply loving and passionate). There spiritual life: "and: "For Catholics, genital sex is a is a real ascetisism, a discipline, demanded of married News Service.
sacrament, an instrument of grace. not an obstacle A decade ago, when Father Andrew Greeley published to it, which kicks dust in the face of that time-honoured his book Sexual Intimacy, voices from certain sectors but insulting idea that celibacy is superior to marriage. The authors discuss in some detail the implications of the Catholic community cried out in indignation. How dare he suggest that erotic love is central to the of all this for the Church at large. Ministries ought to he concerned with an increase in the experience of relationship and spirituality of a married couple. A s happens with some frequency, however, Father intimacy and sexual pleasure among married _folk. For,
Christians who would give shared sexual pleasure the place demanded of it by an authentic married spirituality. The theology of the Trinity which the authors take as their starting point is not helpful. We simply do not have a terminology for discussing this mystery that makes the slightest bit of sense to MQS1 people at this point in history.
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PREGNANCY HELP SEMINAR Pregnancy Help is holding a seminar in Safety Bay at St Joseph's Convent from Friday March 30 to Sunday April 1 The seminar is open to anyone who is interested in Pregnancy Help work. For inquiries please phone Esther Doust (095)276209.
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On Sunday evening, February 26, there will be an ecumenical service in the St Thomas More College Chapel at 7.30 pm to make the commencement of the academic year in theology. The Catholic Pastoral Institute, the Anglican Institute of Theology, and the Theological Hall of the Uniting Church will be represented. A rchbishop Foley will preach the occasional address, and the Anglican Archbishop, the Most Reverend Peter Carnley, the Moderator of the Uniting Church, the Reverend Doctor Michael Owen, will participate in the service. All are welcome. Further information is available from Father Bill Uren, SJ at St Thomas More College. (Phone 386 6420).
Ths Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions will be holding their provincial chapter at the Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth, from March 11-18. The opening mass will be celebrated by Archbishop Foley at Sacred Heart Church, Highgate, on Sunday, March 11 at 4.00p.m.
BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday February 26 at 2pm. F or further information and bus reservations please contact P Galea on 349 7135 or L Martinz on 328 4631.
STELLA MAR IS NEW MEMBERS The Fremantle Stella Mans Centre is conducting a new members evening on Sunday. February 26. Voluntary helpers are needed for all sections of the centre in its weekly programme of hospitality toward the crews of visiting ships. Local Catholics are invited to join in this local effort of the world-wide Apostleship of the Sea. R ecent additions and renovation of the Fremantle Stella Mans make it a suitable venue for families as well as individual Catholics. New members will be welcome after 7.00pm and may stay for the social evening which begins at 8.00prn. Note the date Sunday evening, February 26.
Prelude to chapter
A s a prelude to their Provincial Chapter to be held at the Redemptorist Monastery Retreat House f rom March 11-18, the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions recently engaged in a 10-day province-wide seminar with the theme Justice and Mission. A s well as the 10 communities in Western Australia, all members of the three communities in Melbourne participated in the seminar, together with r epresentatives from Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. In response to the invitation of their Superior
The opening Eucharist G eneral , Sister Marie Benedicte, "to go beyond will be celebrated by Archthe narrow limits of your bishop Foley at Sacred c ommunity, of your pro- Heart Church, Highgate, vince, in order to see the on Sunday March 11, at immense horizons that 4pm. open out before you; to hear the call of our world, at the dawn of the 21st Invitation century," the sisters engaged in consideration of A warm invitation is topics such as urbanisation, youth, oppression and extended to all relatives, human rights, unemploy- friends, and past pupils to ment and technology, be present at the Eucharist, Aboriginal issues and land and to join in asking God's blessing on the deliberanghts, and women. Discernment of the more tions during the chapter specific areas of need will week, which will be of be continued during the ecclesial and congregational significance. Provincial Chapter.
LAITY TRAINING COURSE The Maranatha Institute, (under the sponsorship of the WA Major Superior's Conference and with diocesan approval), t rains people to become parish assistants. The 1984 training programme in Pastoral Care begins Tuesday March 6 at 9.30am at 52 Ruislip St, Leederville. Classes are held Tuesdays and Fridays from March-November. A diploma in pastoral ministry is awarded on the completion of the study programme plus 12 months supervised field wor.k. You are invited to make further enquiries by contacting: Sister Mary Berry RSM (Tel 4445750) or Sister Assumpta SJA (Tel 293 2646).
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NSW dog tip to win by guest writer BOB HARDIE Impressive form in his home state and a sound trial under lights at Cannington last Saturday night has seen New South Wales dog Kongwak installed an odds-on favourite for the $20,000 ArnottHarper National Distance Championship Final here on Saturday night. A market framed interstate and locally has Kongwak favourite at 5/4 on ahead of Victorian Tashla and South Australia's Princess Baden both at 4 1. Owned and trained by Colin Wade of Dubbo the NSW dog is beautifully bred being by W averley Supreme from prolific producer of winners Daisy Bates. Swift Talent also from Daisy Bates and Kongwak were finalists for the 1983 NSW Greyhound of the Year Award. Having won both his heats and the final in NSW, plus his trial run of 44.11 sec. on Saturday night, coupled with a suitable draw from the final in box 2 makes Kongwak the
one to beat despite the strong opposition. Interstate writers say K ongwak is not a brilliant trial performer and goes better in races. A moderate beginner, who rails tightly, he is noted for his strong finishing burst. T he dog has won at 37 of his 72 race starts and has been a winner at nine of his 10 latest runs. Princess Baden has good form and has won at her last eight runs. Her owner-trainer Brian Carter is happy with her draw in box 3. He said on Saturday night that she tends to go a little wide on the first turn so box 3 would suit her. V ictorian Tashla would probably be the worst off of the main fancies having to start from box 7. She is reputed to be very smart when behind the lure. Though a good beginner she will have to work hard from the outside of the field. • Cont page 12
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R ACE 1: Gold Velocity 1, Astbury Rose 2, Trojan's Girl 3. R ACE 2: Man of Mickila I. Swanky Street 2. Dark Crystal 3. R ACE 3: Hangover Cloud 1, News Item 2, Fire Water 3. R ACE 4: Ocean Blast 1, Gillie's Jewel 2, Sal's Super Son 3. R ACE 5: Candid Star I. Wild Earl 2, Dynamite Duke 3.
RACE 6: Kongwak (NSW) 1, Supreme Carmen (WA) 2, Princess Baden (SA) 3. R ACE 7: Terrific Force I. Birthday Crown 2, River Diamond 3. R ACE 8: Soft Vader I. Up the Woods 2, Sparkle's Choice 3. R ACE 9: Noble Shane I. Chinese Chief 2, Towards the Dawn 3. R ACE 10: Kellie's Crown I. Family Leader 2, Special Vale 3.
ROD'S ON Race Talk with Rod Evans
A t St Gerard's church Mirrabooka last Sunday, Joseph Michael Burke entered the Church by baptism administered by Monsignor Michael Keating. The premier Mr Brian Burke is pictured holding their fifth child Mary while placing a hand on Joseph Michael held by his wife Sue. At left are the godparents Derek Flynn and Genevieve Ftrachan and the premier's brother Frankie Burke. 16
The Record, February 24 — March 1, 1984
T HANKS MY FRIEND looked extremely unlucky when a fast finishing second to Mimosa at Ascot on Saturday. This filly was unsuited by t he handicapping conditions and will be much harder to beat under set weights such as in the Sunspeed Stakes. CONZINC made an impressive debut when finishing third to stablemate Top Operator. This well bred galloper will improve with racing and should be another winner for the powerful Connell O'Malley combination. BEAU LYRIC showed she has come back as good as ever when a fast finishing second to Jevson in the 6KY Quality Cup. This mare is a top class horse and will win races this campaign. M ACAMI should win more races judging on his easy win at Ascot on Wednesday. Very heavily supported, this horse won comfortably and he is one to follow in the future.