The Record Newspaper 02 March 1984

Number 2379

PERTH, WA: MARCH 2 — MARCH 8, 1984 A DDRESS. 26 John Street, Perth, WA, 6000 PO Box 50, Aberdeen Street, Perth, WA, 6000

• A school in Papua New Guinea . . . see feature on Dame Rachel Cleland p 10-11 • Moral issues in A boriginal land rights, p 2

Papal letter on suffering:

• Ethiopian priest lectures on North African famine, p 3 • Marriage is still important. p 4 • US Anglicans follow P erth trend to Catholic priesthood, p

Campaign recruits • First WA Servite sister, p 4

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Archbishop Foley said his commissioning of over 100 Protect Compassion representatives from 6 7 parishes showed his confidence in the ability of p arish promotors to co operate with their priests in an important part of the Church's work

E ach of the representatives received the Australian Catholic Relief kit which includes ideas and materials for special Lenten liturgies and education programmes Preaching at the cathedral Mass was Ethiopian C apuchin priest Father Stephanos Tedla lsee p age three) who has been invited to Australia t o mark 20 years of Australian Catholic Relief and to acknowledge the gifts sent from Australia to help the famine victims in his country

r VATICAN CITY (NC) — Human suffering brings people closer to God by opening them to grace, and in that way completes the work of Christ's redemptive acts. Pope John Paul II said in a 13,000-word document called "On The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering". The pope said suffering, while undoubtedly linked to evil, has a saving power understood in C hrist's passion.

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E fforts to relie‘e human suffering are an essential cultural element and individual human compassion has no equal in dealing with the sufferings of another. the

pope said. The letter touched on a frequent theme of Pope John Paul's pontificate: that while suffering is always a trial, it also calls people to perseverance and reveals human dignity. The letter also showed papal concern over the threat of nuclear war. That threat, he said, is linked to the "collective meaning" of suffering. The last two world wars, the pope said, brought a "harvest of death" and immense human suffering. "The second half of our century, in its turn, brings with it -- as though in proportion to the mistakes and transgressions of our contemporary civilisation such a horrible threat of nuclear war we cannot think of this period except in terms The principal Mass in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday included a commissioning of parish representatives who will promote the Project Compassion appeal. Above Noel Carlin of Rockingham is pictured receiving his parish materials from Archbishop Foley.

of an incomparable accuinulation of sufferings, even to the possible self-destruction of humanity." he said. • Cont page 12

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Society's 150th anniversary SYDNEY: A St Vincent de Paul 150th anniversary seminar h as recommended members recruit widely, especially among youth and that there should be regular formation programmes for new members. Conferences are urged to look carefully at

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Archbishop Foley told the students from many denominations their study of theology had to be matched by the way the theology was reflected in their daily life and witness to the world.

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CHICAGO (NC) — Eighty communities and 30 to 50 priests will be affected by a proposed redistribution of priests and a "clustering" arrangement of parishes in the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin. Under the new plan, communities will be "clustered" in relation to a priest, but the laity will assume a more active role in continuing normal parish activities, services and liturgies, Bishop Hammes said.

No churches will be closed, but 16 parishes will be required "to relinquish regular weekend liturgies and some other obvious services. Many more will need to consolidate efforts and share programmes." "While the number of priests go down, our Catholic population remains constant and in many areas shows a marked increase. This means that the energies and health of our priests is being stretched often to the breaking point." Today 45 pastors now serve more than one parish. "Is this a crisis for us? Most everyone would agree that it is," the bishop said. "However, let us not forget that the best definition of the word and its awesome reality is that a crisis is a 'turning point'. Together we will become our own agents of change."

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to study the recommendations and let their views be known to regional councils so that these can refer the feelings of the society to a National Council meeting in Sydney on May 4.

Archbishop appointed ur LUSAKA — Bishop Mungandu, of Livingstone, Z ambia, has been appointed Archbishop of Lusaka in succession to the controversial Archbishop ?Ailing°, who two years ago was summoned to Rome on account of his activities as a healer. Archbishop PAilingo resigned his See in August 1983, and was appointed special delegate of the papal commission for migrants.

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Ethiopian priest's lecture in Perth on North African crisis The giving of emergency relief to poor countries is not as important as overcoming the need for relief according to an E thiopian priest who is visiting many parts of Western Australia this week to spread the message of Australian Catholic Relief. -In some cases the mere giving of food to people can be an invitation to become even poorer," said Father Stephanos Tedla, a Capuchin from Asmara. -Merely handing over food is not a good thing. It has to be used for development purposes. F ather Tedla ga‘e an example of how food can be made to work for a wider good.

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This was Father Tedla's reaction when asked how much relief would be needed to overcome the drought and famine wracking Ethiopia for the past 10 years. Feeding the hungry people is not enough he says. There must be programmes of reafforestation and soil conservation to counteract the ecological imbalance contributing to the famine. Father Tedla admits there is a problem in telling people what are the real issues of development when they only read the headlines about famine disaster. "People are in need, hut the people have to understand why. The root causes have to be understood and it is the weakness of humanity today that they look only at the headlines. Father Tedla was a social worker before he studied for the priesthood and he studied the co-operatives and credit unions in Canada before being asked to take up his Caritas work.

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Father Stephanos Tedla OFM is a member of the largest Capuchin province in Africa and is full of praise for the initiative taken by Ethiopian youth in their own affairs and those of the Church. He is one of 480 Catholic priests serving a Catholic population of 500.000 out of a total population of 38 million, most of whom are Orthodox He said there was a good flow of vocations to the priesthood and the religious life. Youth also forming their own Catholic associations where they discuss their secular problems as well as gathering for Church activity.

He says he is concerned with this problem not just as a priest but in terms of social justice. "If there is a surplus you have to share it with those in need," he says of the world which today has an imbalance of resources. "When news of a food

catastrophe is heard it has to take on two aspects: first the immediate relief of the hunger but then an immediate discussion of rehabilitation. "It is not enough to give food. The Chinese proverb says: give a man a fish and he eats today. Teach him to

fish and he eats forever. Father Tedla has first hand e xperience of the drought conditions in Ethiopia which this year threaten to affect more than 5 million people. As a co-ordinator of Caritas, a Catholic agency working through many African countries he can see the possibilities for development if these countries are helped to help themselves.

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ABOVE and BELOW: The scene in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday as parish representatives approached Archbishop Foley to receive Project Compassion materials.

Father Tedla was invited to Australia for the 20th anniversary of Australian Catholic Relief which last year sent more than $120,000 in relief to Ethiopia and which has built up close connections with the country in the 10 years of hardship. "But you do not have to share only what you have. You have to share even yourself. Father Tedla says it is because he is a priest in touch with the daily hardships of his people that he feels no frustration in appealing for Justice in coming to their aid On the part of the donor countries there is a need for a continuity of supplies and assurance. On the part of the receivers there is a need to use the food as a means of preventing drought by reafforestation, t erracing and any other means that will prevent drought in the future.

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Praying best for "pray-ers Ask the so-called average Australian what he thinks is the high point of parliamentary broadcasting and he will no doubt refer to the Lord's Prayer that opens each day's proceedings. Before they switch to another station the public are likely at least to hear the Speaker ask God's blessings on the proceedings and pray that its deliberations will be to His honour and glory. Unfortunately, matters then descend to a level where prayer, let alone God, would be embarassed. In fact, parliamentary time is devoted now not to the issues of the day but endless recrimination about personalities and their doubtful acquaintances. What makes prayer an uncomfortable accompaniment to these proceedings is that concern over the existence of the rotten apples runs secondary to making sure that the apples are not in one's own political basket. Therefore to compel a motley group of politicians of whom many do not conceal that they have little faith or none raises the question whether prayer ordered from the top helps the soul or hinders it. This is something of the problem that faces the United States senate this week as it tackles the issue of prayer being currently banned from the state schools of America. The ban received its final boost in 1964 when the Supreme Court ruled that any prayer, however innocent, was a violation of the separation of church and state. Such a separation came about not because pioneer Americans were irreligious but because they were over religious about their own religious independence. Also, the secularists who were shaping the constitution were glad to have such allies. It had to wait for the present age to see a professional atheist in the person of Madeleine O'Hehir launch her campaign for the strict letter of the law banning even a school prayer Reportedly, even her son got tired of his mother's extreme stance but the courts did her work for her. It is therefore a strange turn of history that finds the fundamentalist religious groups who might conceivably be quick to fight for such a separation of church and state now being part of the vocal protest to the U.S. Congress on the prayer issue. But even those who pray are not of one mind on what the re-introduction of prayer to the classroom would precisely mean. As in so many such issues the Catholic Church is out in the cold because such manoeverings in past centuries had such an isolation well in mind. Catholic schools in the United States went the way of Australian history with the difference that the schools are today without any government aid and barely a glimmer of tax rebate relief in sight. The Australian state school skated along thin ice claiming that Bible, and not doctrinal, instruction would ensure enough religion remaining alive while keeping Roman and other religious militants at bay. Today, without the help of Supreme Court ban on prayer, the Australian state school room is fast becoming a religious, if not spiritual, desert. Specialist denominational teachers have largely given up visiting as an impossible task and only the future will tell if the promised departmental substitute will come to fruition. One thing is certain, that any course in religion education is not going to teach children how to pray because prayer is about faith and faith can be taught only from one sympathetic person to another. A s the unapologetic teachers of the Australian Teachers Federation keep up their attacks on religious schools there will be little need to outlaw prayer in the state schools when seemingly so few parents or teachers seem to notice. The problem confronts at least the 30,000 local Catholics in state schools starting yet another school year. Their religous destiny hinges on what they learn about prayer but is that prayer the prayer of the classroom? More importantly, are the privileged Catholics who at great expense are being allowed to pray in their classroom going to be any the richer for the experience? 0 Lord, we pray

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M acDonald recently made her first profession as a Servite Sister before Sister Nevisa during Mass celebrated in St Denis c hurch by Father Liam Mackle OSM. Sister Barbara is t he eldest of six children of Martin and Mary MacDonald of Greenwood who came to Australia from Burma

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Peter Shooter (pictured far left in the photograph) author of the accompanying article on facing page discusses YCW plans with delegates Phil Huezenroder, of Adelaide, Gemma Wooltorton, the Perth president. Fran Carboon, of Melbourne, and Jo Duffy, of Adelaide.

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Marriage is still 'important'

ADELAIDE — Marriage is still very important to many people.

MELBOURNE: Three former WA teachers celebrated recently their jubilee in the Christian Brothers. Diamond jubilarian Brother M.S. Quilligan (right) well known in Western Australia, was at various times superior of the community and principal of the school in St George's Terrace, Perth, CBC Fremantle, CBC Kalgoorlie (twice) and Boys' Town Bindoon. He is also a well known teacher at St Patrick's School (Wellington Street) CBC Leederville and Aquinas College. Golden lubilarians Brother K.S. Crough

Brothers in celebration (centre) was principal in Kalgoorlie and taught at CBC St George's Terrace. and Brother R.G. Hewat (left) spent six years as superior at Tardun. Brother Quilligan visited WA during the Christmas holidays and spent some time with the brothers during the vacation.

Mr Brian Moylan, secretary of the Christian Life Movement, said this. He was commenting on a recent front-page story in the Advertiser: "Not when, but if a girl marries — and does it matter any more?" "I have been married for 17 years," Mr Moylan said. "If you ask me the question 'Would you rather lose a job, a home or a marriage?' I would have to say: 'A job or a home.' "Young people I know — those who would have been born in the 60s — say they are living in a world of insecurity. "There is uncertainty in many aspects of their lives. "They are looking for the security, the commitment, the permanent relationship that marriage offers. "So there are many young people to whom marriage does matter. "They are looking to it for the security and commitment that society generally does not give to them. "The Church is directing a lot of its resources towards programmes on marriage and family life. "These programmes prepare young couples for marriage. "They give support and guidance to ordinary families without special problems. "They also give more intensive guidance and counselling to families with special difficulties. "In addition there are several separate organisations within the Church — like my own Christian Life Movement, for example — which try to enrich and encourage families and family life.

"DO NOT TRAMPLE ON OUR RIGHT TO LIVE!" - - "DO NOT TRICK US ANYMORE!" These were the cries of members of the South Korean YCW who had been repeatedly sacked from their jobs because of their membership of the movement. On August 8, 1982 nine women workers were unjustly sacked from the Taechang Textile Factory because they were YCW members. A fterwards, everytime they found work they were again sacked because their names had been circulated on a blacklist. Out of frustration they began a fast in July, 1983, demanding reinstatement. A t that time the Catholic diocese of Jeonju organised prayer meetings in various parishes and did what they could but to no avail. The company, along with the government simply sneered at these people of goodwill and repeatedly made false promises. Kim, one of the sacked workers, was hired by the A sia Swami Company (a Japanese company), in the In Free Export Zone but was sacked after only 21 days of work because her name had been found on the blacklist She went to the In branch of the Ministry of Labour to report her unjust dismissal. She saw there a blacklist containing the names of Y CW members on the desk of the labour inspector. She demanded to see the list but was refused on the grounds that it was secret and not open to outsiders. Though working conditions are inhuman, these workers, along with their fellow workers are struggling to realise the true meaning of work based on the Gospel. Nevertheless companies and the government are using the blacklist as a club to beat workers down. However these workers have not given up. Demanding secure employment, they again began a fast in the branch office of the Ministry of Labour, on December 6. They are standing firm and calling out to all people of conscience. They have appealed to all YCW movements around the world for their solidarity. In support of these workers the YCW of Perth will be informing its members of the situation of their brothers and sisters in South Koreasminomomommommice.

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all applications under the programme. Father Parker and Father Lossing described themselves as already Catholic in their faith before they sought to reunite with Rome. "In the Anglo-Catholic movement of the Episcopal Church, the thrust has always been toward reunion w ith Rome. That's the underlying thing,- said Father Lossing.

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M ELBOURNE: A local priest is to make his fourth public fast from March 18 to 25 as part of an international Fast for Life. Father Eugene Ahern has a long involvement in direct action for the protection of human life. He said the aim of those who share in this fast is to lead those who believe unborn children aretheirbrothers and sisters to become active in the campaign to protect them. "Such a great an evil as the wanton destruction of human life in abortion, the appropriate response is to do penance and pray for so great a wrong to be righted." he said. "The gospels recount that Jesus taught great evil could only be overcome by prayer and much penance. Those who participate fully in the fast will abstain from all food and all liquids except water for seven days. Others may choose to participate in the fast in a partial way by fasting for a lesser period or by engaging in only a partial fast, abstaining perhaps only from solid foods.

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Rome's environment and communist politicians have a victory ROME(NC) — A group of environmentalists and politicians has won its battle against a "tent city" proposed t o accommodate 35,000 youths during a Holy Year celebration in Rome on April 11-15. The plan had been a pproved in December by local government author-

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ities and Rome's communist mayor. The council said it would now seek alternative housing in the city's religious houses. Environmentalists argued the campground would ruin the 135-acre Pineta Sacchetti Park, a pine-covered hill near the Vatican. Politicians unhappy

about the way approval had been given also asked the park not be used as a campground. Opponents of the campground argued the area was one of the few botanical zones in the city, while organisers said the tent city was planned for a well-worn field in the park that was

used only by a few stray sheep. More than 50,000 young people from around the world a re expected to arrive for five days of prayer and activities, including two meetings with Pope John Paul II. The campground w as designed to accommodate twothirds of the youths,

who otherwise would have a difficult time arranging housing. Rome Mayor Ugo Vetere, commenting after the pontifical council's decision, called the criticisms o f the p l an "absurd." "It is unclear what could be the objective of a campaign conducted in such an

apocalyptic tone," Vetere said. "In any c ase, Rome will r emain a city of peace and brotherhood and will have e ven more active r elations with the Vatican." Vetere, a communist, offered to host o ne youth in his home, and urged others to do the same.

HAVE YOUR SAY Burke on abortion from AILEEN POLI, Darlington SIR — How disappointing is the so called stand of Mr Burke on abortion He is in effect implying that he thinks it is alright for babies who cannot yet exist outside the womb to be slaughtered. Technically an abortion is only an abortion before three months, therefore these little ones are the most vulnerable. He is only defending the ones who have a chance anyway.

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or families struggle with the decisions facing them t hroughout their pregnancies. They are available to assist in any way possible, e.g. emotionally, materially, etc. and will continue to offer help in the first few months of the child's life if needed. Should a woman choose t o have an abortion, the doors of Pregnancy Help must still be open to her, offering care and compassion. We, the board of management of Pregnancy Help, believe this work is vital in our community today and seek the full support of the C atholic community in carrying it out. We reaffirm the statement on abortion by the Australian Episcopal Conference, June 13 1980. We will never rest content with the Church's effort in this whole field until every pregnant woman — married or single — can readily obtain all the professional and practical assistance and all the human companionship and encouragement, which she needs to help her have her baby.'

School burden MRS MARGARET WILLIAMS Churches

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Congratulates the deacons from TED ARCHER, Gosnells SIR — MayIthrough your columns warmly congratulate the recently ordained Deacons of the Sunbury diocese. It is comforting indeed to realise that the far sighted planning of Bishop McKeon and his successor is bearing fruit. Because it is obvious that the need for vocations to the priesthood is not being fulfilled then both priests and laity need to be edu-

cated to accept that a wider range of duties can be performed by acolytes, and that ultimately some of them may choose to recieve further training for ordination as deacons (or even the priesthood). With respect we need to act now to fulfil an obvious need rather then await the "just over the horizon" inevitable crisis when there will be a dire shortage of those who can celebrate the central part of our worship.

Problems highlighted from PATRICK D'CRUZ, Bateman SIR — The article "How some Catholics persecute Catholics" (The Record February 24) highlights the problem of socialism versus capitalism; a problem not really explored in the article. Every true Christian must, in thought and action, be a socialist because Christ Himself was a socialist who had hard words for the rich

social classes and sympathy for the poor. Somehow, Catholics of a privileged and economically powerful social class separated themselves from their poorer brothers and cruelly maintained this status quo. Now, brought into a political context for social equality, the battlelines are drawn. The poor majority wi ll triumph.

He's 'negative' from THERESA BURTON, Doubleview SIR — I am disappointed at the negative approach Father Jegorow has portrayed in his article (The Record February 10). Divorce is a very real issue which faces society today and it is a devastating experience for both parents and children of all ages.

Nevertheless, as the supporting mother of three beautiful boys I firmly believe that with a positive attitude and the help of caring individuals I can give my children every opportunity to grow up academically, emotionally, socially and spiritually healthy, alongside their friends whose families appear to be intact.

Unless the Catholic laity and clergy support the masses in this social revolution for social justice, they will find themselves on the losing side. To confuse socialism with communism is to misread the purpose of events in these countries. Father Gore is onside with the oppressed poor. He needs our support against the rigid hold of a Catholic capitalist class.

Commission on Education SIR -- • Mr Beazley rightly acknowledges (The Record February 24) the sincere attempts schools make to assist these unfortunate children and their parents, but institutions whose main function is to educate must necessarily be limited in time and expertise to handle the many difficult situations now facing them. Clearly the burden must be shared by the whole community Your readers may be interested to know Churches' Commission on Education is attempting to assist in the provision of pastoral care in government high schools by the appointment of school chaplains.

A vailable These persons are available as counsellors to the entire school community, but endeavour to provide a specifically Christian presence in the school A t present four appointments have been made.. Mrs Heather Gare, Willetton Senior High School; Mrs Marion Easton, Central Midlands SHS (Moora); Brother Michael Horsley. Sunbury SHS and Newton Moore SHS,. and the ReverandPeter Adamson, Kelms cott SHS. A n appeal has been launched recently to raise funds for the appointment of a full-time chaplain at Hamilton Hill SHS, where the principal, Mr Frank Usher, concerned for the needs of his 1200 students, has given his whole-hearted support to the project. Tax-deductible donations m ay be made to the Churches' Commission on Education, 317 Begot Road, Subiaco, 6008.

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V ATICAN CITY (INC) -- Because Catholic schools serve m an and society while encouraging faith, they should be promoted and defended by the faithful, Pope John Paul said d uring a talk to 10,000 Italian school children and teachers to celebrate the feast o f St Thomas Aquinas. The pope said the survival of Catholic schools is tied to the survival of the Church. "The school is an essential instrument for the spreading and deepening of faith, for the expansion of Christianity and the reign of God." the pope said. "For this reason, the school is for the Church a reason for life. The Church can't live without teaching, without making use of the method of the schools." Teaching in this sense, he said, goes beyond constructing a simple humanism. "Certainly, it is involved with bringing man to his fullness, but also and above all with making him a 'child of God.— he said. The school thus has an evangelical and a cultural role, he said. "The Catholic school must never lose this view of its dual dimension. As a church reality, it gives witness of Christ to the world. As a legitimate part of civil society, it -nust be exemplary in its service of man, culture and the common good, without privileges, but also conscious of its full rights," the pope said. The double role of the Catholic school requires "a profound collaboration between lay Catholics and religious institutions." he said. "This reality of the Catholic schools also signifies something else: that all the people of God, not only the bishops and the pastors of souls, but all its religious and lay components. according to the powers of each. should share responsibility for the promotion and — if necessary — the defence of the Catholic school," the pope said.

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microphone -holder, mitre -bearer, and crozier -bearer — the people who get close to the pope — are given to seminarians shorter than the pope. The reason for this small is beautiful policy, say seminarians who have participated in these ceremonies, is to prevent the audience's view of the pope, and the pope's of his audience, being obstructed by a crowd of heads. Seminarians taller than the pope are given jobs unlikely to block the view, such a s carrying the cross and the candles during the procession.

VATICAN CITY — Nine priests have 1,--lbeen ordained bishops by the pope at a ceremony in St Peter's at which 19 cardinals celebrated Mass with the Holy Father. Among the nine deacons-assistant were men from the pontifical English and Scots colleges. The Bishops of Europe, Africa and Asia who were being ordained were. Monsignori Domenico Pecili, 61, Eugenio Benin', 49, and Paolo Romeo, 45. Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti (Italy); Jean Schotte, 44 (Belgium); Paul Kim Teang-Ryeol, 56, (Korea); Polycarp Pengo, 52, (Tanzania); Nicolas Okoh, 51, (Benin); Ernest Kombo, 52, ( Congo-Brazzaville); and John Kochuparampil, 44, (India). 0 0

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t o Pope John Paul is a great advantage in the Vatican, seminarians have found. Only those shorter than the pope's 1.8m are chosen to serve by his side during religious services in St Peter's. Seminarians are lined up according to height and the roles of book -bearer,

clerical garb — either a black cassock or a dark suit with a clerical collar — from January 23, when a nationwide ban on casual wear came into effect The ban forms part of the new Code of Canon Law promulgated in November The Italian bishops decided on the ban some time ago, but it has only just been approved by the Vatican. Priests who do not comply with the order f ace suspension a divinis, banning them from carrying out religious functions There have, however, been some r umblings of discontent about the new r ule. One priest, Rome -based Father Giovanni German, said "It is a piece of paper that many of my colleagues will try to ignore"

NEW DELHI — The 5000-strong national Science Congress has c alled upon the Indian Government to include a natural family planning programme in its population control policy. The Congress support f or natural family planning was based on a r eport by Dr Ajoy K. G hosh on research carried out in Calcutta with the help of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. U sing a modified Billings Method and a training programme based on l ocal "educators" who instructed couples in their own languages, 100 per cent success rate (no p regnancies) was obtained among the 497 couples who took part.

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PRAGUE - - Police questioned many of the 25,000 people who went on pilgrimage to the Slovak national shrine at Sastin in Czechoslovakia. They mingled with pilgrims at the Mass celebrated by Bishop Gabris, administrator of Trnava. Even 15 -year -old boys and girls were asked who had organised the pilgrimage, and what they thought they were doing when they were praying or

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Jesuit dies in work camp PEKING — Jesuit Father Francis Chu S hu-teh, who had

been sentenced to 30 years in a Chinese labour camp in 1955, has died in a work c amp in Heifei, 248 m i les west of S hanghai, at the age of 70. Father Chu Shu-teh was sentenced to an additional 12 years in prison during a secret trial in June 1983. He had been declared a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty International, an independent agency monitoring human rights, especially those of people imprisoned because of their beliefs.

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The complex reality A dopted as a child, Philippa Palfrey for years harbours the comfortable fantasy that her biological parents were wealthy aristocrats. But when she obtains a copy of her birth certificate at the age of 18, her world turns upside down. The young woman discovers that her father died in prison; her mother is about to be released from prison after serving time for killing a child. These discoveries occur in the novel titled Innocent Blood, by British author, P.D. James. Just as I finished the absorbing novel, I coincidentally had an interview with theologian Anthony Tambasco. We were discussing how the Church c ommunity tries to build on an individual's personal life. Tambasco, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, told about using the Gospel of Mark to lead students toward a better understanding of how Scripture and their personal histories relate. A major theme in Mark's Gospel is the slowness of the disciples at recognising Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus repeatedly warns people not to tell anyone what He has done to help them. Only after Jesus' death and resurrection do the disciples recognise what kind of Messiah .Jesus is. Explaining why Mark hammers this home, Tambasco said he thinks Mark wants people to make a connection between the disciples and themselves — to enter into their own process of discovery. Mark pushes readers to see that by dealing with events in their own lives, they can come to discover who Jesus is and what He means. Thinking this over, I was reminded again of Innocent Blood. The unsettling events in Ms Palfrey's life was a stark reminder that the personal events Mark urged people to deal with can be hard to handle, even overwhelming. the novel's final chapter takes place after evening services in a chapel. Ms Palfrey's comments then indicate that she somehow has come to terms with events — including an encounter with her biological mother — that led to a crucial turning point for her. R eflecting on her life, I began to realise just how much is sometimes implied when we speak of the Church as a compassionate and supportive community that can contribute to our individual lives. For Ms Palfrey. an individual quest had become all-consuming and highly charged. On a less dramatic scale than that found in the novel, perhaps, most people have consuming individual or personal concerns. How does the community dimension of church life help here? "Being with other people" in the Church can be very helpful, Tambasco suggested. Listening to the readings or homilies during a liturgy, or sharing experiences with other Christians in small parish or family groups, helps people develop insights into their own experiences. Think about what the Bible is, he proposed. "Ultimately it deals with every kind of situation." Furthermore, particular biblical texts speak to people in different ways at different stages in their lives. He noted that the Bible was developed in a communit setting, to be read and shared with others. "The faith experience builds on what we are as human beings," the professor observed. He drew a parallel between the way we grow as human beings and as believers. People learn what it is to be human by their association with others, not in isolation from each other.

"I was no prophet nor have I belonged to a company of prophets," Amos exclaims in the Old Testament account of how God called him. "I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. The Lord took me from following the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.—(Amos 7:14-15) In effect, God called A mos whi le the prophet-to-be was at w ork. Interestingly enough, Amos was ready to hear what God would say. S omething similar h appened with the prophet Isaiah. He was an aristocrat. What's 8

By Father John Castelot more, he was deeply involved in state affairs. Still he must have been sensitive to God's presence. He was ready when the shattering experience that changed his life came — when he saw "the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple." (Isaiah 6) The prophet Jeremiah, too, was a busy man. He

Individuality and community. Striking a balance between the two has been a favourite theme in the writings and life of Catherine de Hueck Doherty. Personal solitude and life as part of a community are not opposed; they complement each other, she says.

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In Christian life, an individual or personal spirituality is important. But it is incomplete, the bishops indicated, without the spirituality of the Christian community that worships together. The bishops' message came on the 20th anniversary of Vatican Council Ifs Constitution on the Liturgy. The anniversary, they said, offered an opportunity not only to commemorate a past and significant event, "but also to evaluate its effect and to foster its continued importance for the future of the church. One theme repeated over and over in the bishop's message concerns the value and the role of the community in Christian life. The bishops state: • Much progress has been made over the past generation to help people develop a sense of communal prayer. • Today's liturgy is a growing sign and instrument of community — people at one with each other and with God. • The personal prayer of individual Christians is important; it "ensures that they will come to the liturgy with the proper dispositions." • Personal prayer, however, does not displace the liturgy nor is it a substitute for it." • -The way the Church prays and worships should be the way individual Christians pray and worship. In that sense the liturgy is normative for Christian spirituality." • The renewal of the Mass has set out "a rite that is simple and uncluttered, a rite which underscores the unity and bond of the assembly." • One means by which Christ is manifested in worship is "through the community itself gathered in prayer and song." God makes "close and intimate contact with each human life," said the bishops. -The generation after the council" is challenged to reafirm this.lt also is challenged "to stress the importance of prayer and especially liturgical prayer as the principal means by which God interacts with His people."

has even been called "a m yst ic in the marketplace." Jesus was presumably a carpenter or an artison of some sort before His public ministry began. This meant working long hours with relatively primitive tools and equipment. And when His public ministry began it was not the beginning of a period of leisure, but one of intense activity. In fact, Jesus' ceaseless activity gave His family cause for grave concern, and we learn that it was difficult for Him to withdraw from the crowds. Yet, in the midst of His activity, we read that on one occasion, "rising early" in the morning, "He went off to a lonely

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place in the desert; there He was absorbed in prayer."(Luke 2:35) The Gospel of Luke is punctuated with references t o Jesus' prayer in the midst of unremitting toil. It would be hard to imagine anyone busier than St Paul. Yet prayer was the very fabric of his life — and a hard life it was. Some scholars estimate conservatively that Paul walked about 1,200 miles over difficult terrain to preach the good news. Paul founded and instructed many new communities of Christians. It was demanding, timeconsuming work. And all the while Paul insisted on supportng himself by manual labour. Once he wrote: "You must recal1 . . .how we worked day and night all the time we preached God's good tidings to you in order not to improve on you

in any way." (I Thessalonians 2:9). Still, even a casual reading of Paul's letters reveals the extent to which prayer was a force in his work. At times his prayer even reached mystical heights, as we read in the 12th chapter of the second letter to t he Corinthians: "I know a man in Christ who, 14 years ago, was snatched up to the third heaven...to hear words which cannot be uttered, words which no man may speak." Though Paul doesn't say so, the man he knew was surely himself. What was true of the prophets, of Jesus and Paul, has been true of Christians in every age. A great many of the e xtraordinarily holy persons of history were e xtraordinarily busy people who maintained a consciousness of God's presence in their lives.

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The Baronessofi By Mary adonna House Kenny If the life of Catherine de Hueck Doherty were presented as a movie no one would believe it. Born into a wealthy Russian rural family in 1900, she was married to a Russian baron at 15. She served actively in World War I as a nurse, only to be forced to flee Russia during the 1917 revolution.

Just how important is the community dimension of Christian life that one hears so much about today? -Christian life and worship presuppose community -- a willingness to learn from others and to be open to others,- the US bishops said in a recent message they issued on the liturgy.

The prophetic pace Amos was a shepherd, putting in long, toilsome hours. He really was a busy man.

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Woven together in the Christian vision of things are contrasting — but not opposing — aspects of life: the accent on individual needs and goals; the accent on life with others — the community dimension. How do these elements enhance one another? For Catherine de Hueck Doherty, it is only in the community that Christians achieve their greatest potential as individuals. Yet she believes, the individual must spend time alone. The story of this modem woman of prayer is told by Mary Kenny. Mrs Kenny, with her husband Dr James Kenny, writes a weekly syndicated column on family life. David Gibson finds that the need to balance the individual and community dimensions of life may crop up in a person's life at work or at home. When things get too unbalanced in this area, stress can develop in a person's life at work or at home. When things get too unbalanced in this area, stress can develop in a person's life, says Gibson. He is editor of the Know Your Faith series. Katharine Bird writes about the importance of events that occur in one's personal, individual history. She observes that the community encourages and assist the individual in coming to terms with his or her personal history and destiny. Ms Bird is associate editor of the Know Your Faith series. Father John Castelot's topic is the busy pace of Christian life. How is prayer possible in such a context? he asks. Yet, he notes, the Old Testament prophets, St Paul and Jesus Himself were very busy people.

The young woman settled in Canada. There she went from poverty to financial success by the age of 30. She had joined a lecture circuit bringing culture and entertainment to rural America. Her lecture topic: herself, the Russian baroness, and her native land. Actually, when she joined the circuit she was so poor she had nothing a ppropriate to wear. She made a gown from a black velvet funeral shroud. Despite — or because of — her early experiences, she was a woman of prayer. At the height of her financial success, she describes the voice of God "laughing and saying, 'You can't escape Mc, Catherine, you can't." She tried to ignore it but couldn't. She responded by selling what she owned and moving into Toronto's slums. She planned to lead an obscure life, praying and serving the poor. But the lone mission she envisioned was not to last. Others came to join her. Their work e xpanded into the first Friendship House, a shopfront apostolate to the poor in Toronto during the Depression. Mrs Doherty went to New York City at the invitation of Jesuit Father John LaFarge. There she established a Friendship House in Harlam and spoke of racial justice — not a popular topic in some quarters, she recalls. O ther Friendship Houses were opened in cities like Chicago and Portland, Ore. It is not surprising that poverty became a theme in her writing. For her life was strongly influenced by an ongoing concern for social justice. In her books one finds much on the meaning of spiritual poverty and detachment. In 1947 after many years in social action, Mrs Doherty left the United States for Cornbermere, a Canadian village in central Ontario. As before, others c ame to join her. Madonna House was founded. M rs Doherty is a w oman who speaks sincerely and simply, going directly to the heart of things. One gets the sense she would dress the same, speak the same, whether meeting a prince or a pauper. She often has written of life's contrasts. And she knows her subject well.

• A wealthy woman, she embraced poverty. • A social activist, she s truggled with the need f or si lence and contemplation. A t Madonna House. the members form a community. They serve the many families and individuals who arrive there for spiritual direction, or on retreat, or to spend some quiet time away from hectic schedules. The community carries out charitable services to the poor, as well. Mrs Doherty finds that forming a community is like forming a family. In both cases people try to create bonds of love. To do so people must accept each other as they are, she believes. "You must develop the ability t o see the positive in each other.. to see each o ther's talents and t o. . .be glad about them." But problems and difficulties are part of family life too. They can

be viewed as causes of despair or as opportunities to grow, she believes. How to find the link between community life and personal solitude

has been a favourite topic for Mrs Doherty. From her Russian heritage, she introduced to America what is known as the "poustinia" — a little hermitage to go to for reflection. Many Madonna House visitors spend some time in the little cabins set apart as "poustinias" there. But what of those who a re necessari ly

immersed in the demands of the world and may never get to a Madonna House with its opportunities for solitude? In one of her observations — offered in her disarmingly simple and direct way — Mrs Doherty points to the moments of silence every person experiences, while getting dressed, or lingering over a cup of coffee, or jogging along a quiet road. Such moments, she writes, can be used by the Christian. And used they must be. For the person needs the order and tranquility that can grow out of these quiet times. Concrete and practical, Mrs Doherty speaks, not in theory, but from the experience of more than 80 years at trying t o balance the ingredients of Christian life.

The necessary dilemma

For several months, a new project in his office had consumed much of the man's attention. It was a project carried forward by the efforts of a team. The man's role in the project was challenging to him. This man felt exhilarated by the project. It involved him in something fresh. Best of all, it allowed him to work with others in ways he f ound personally rewarding. A t the same time, many of the man's older tasks in the office still

By David Gibson demanded his attention. Not that he truly objected. For he placed considerable value on those tasks too; he believed he had grown as a person because of them. This man's agenda for most workweeks included several duties that he performed individually — on his own, you might say. The only fly in the ointment was that, as the new team project demanded more and more time, it began

to conflict with the man's individual tasks. Little by little, he began to experience this conflict as a problem. As the days rolled by, the p roblem became a source of stress to him. Readers undoubtedly will recognise this man's dilemma: How can he balance the team work he values with the individual work he also values? Is there room for both in his life at work? The man's challenge is a perplexing, but common, side of life in many jobs. Actually, the perfect balance between individual life and life with others is hard to come by for anyone. Most people know what it is like to feel somewhat "unbalanced" about this in some area of life. At times, people may even begin to doubt that this balance is important. • Since society appears to reward individual and independentaccomplishments, the value of pursuits carried out with others can be lost sight of at times. • Or, the value of individuality may drift out of sight in situations where community pursuits alone are valued. Exhilaration can turn

to exasperation when people sense that the balance they require between community and individuality is missing. Think of the parent who e xclaims after several days of unending activity with children: "I never have time even to sit down and think." Catherine de Hueck Doherty found that the balance between the busy pace of life with others and quiet time alone — however brief — is a key factor to reckon with in the Christian life. Her discussion about this took shape in the image of a bridge. It is a real bridge spanning the short distance from an island where Mrs Doherty has lived in the Madawaska River near Comber mere, Ontario, to the community of Christians at Madonna H ouse, which she founded. For her, community life and individual life are not opposed. In fact, she wrote, only in community can a person "attain to the full measure of individuality and personality. That is part o f the mystery of community. But she found a mvs-

tery in the quiet life on her island too. Whenever she crossed over the bridge to life alone on her island, Mrs Doherty said she sensed an important task awaited her that could not be accomplished on the mainland. In all of this she saw a basic pattern of life for Christians. And, she suggested, without this pattern people begin to e xperience stress in various ways: • Without community, where one experiences what others are really like, one may become fearful of those who are " other", who are different. • Without some solitude, one may begin to feel confused and diffused as a person. The movement back and forth from individual life to life with others actually may be a basic rhythm in all of life at work, at home, wherever. Mrs Doherty would argue that the rhythm is a good one for Christians to ponder. For her, time alone enriches the time spent with others; and time with others enriches the time spent alone.

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Site's Mary nurnbaviran "Anyone who has spent time in New Guinea is never the same again ... it leaves its mark." Dame Rachel Cleland is talking about her 'home', the land she grew to love in the 27 years she lived there, and which still holds a special place in her heart. "I'm a New Guinea Dame you know," she says with pride, "not an Australian one." I t is five years since she returned to Perth to live but she has returned to New Guinea three times.

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But her adopted homeland has been especially real to her in the last six months ... ever since she heard about the catastrophic flood which devastated Morobe Province and the provincial city of Lae. She launched an appeal which was to prove invaluable in raising much needed funds, clothing and household goods for the people in the area. The appeal was only a small one, it was all she could manage. But the money has been sent and hopefully well spent and there are still bundles of clothes in her spare bedroom which will be on their way before long. The map of New Guinea was soon spread on the lounge room floor as we talked and Dame Rachel was down on her knees s howing the area of devastation.

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In the immediate crisis, bridges were washed away, power and supplies were disrupted and about 2000 people in Lae were left homeless. It was soon established that floods had affected an area with a radius of 100 kilometres round Lae Thousands of people had seen t heir homes and their livestock swept away in muddy torrents. But the true magnitude of the disaster, says Dame Rachel, can only be appreciated by people who know the area. "It's not just the immediate damage," she said, "it's the long-term effects. "Most of the people are subsistence farmers and not only their gardens and animals have been washed away, the topsoil is gone too. It will be a very long time before they are all selfsufficient again.

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'The region outside Lae, the Markham Valley is totally m ountainous . . . up to 10,000 feet. It always rains in New Guinea, but this time it rained for weeks and the rivers came hurtling down a t such a speed they changed course and swept away everything in their path. "Now 13,000 people are living in tents and it doesn't t ake long in hot, wet conditions for tents to rot and leak. "Five main bridges were also destroyed and you're looking at around a million dollars to replace each one of them. "In effect Lae is cut off from its interior. "I worry because I know the New Guinea tempera-

In 1964 Dame Rachel Cleland was pictured on a visit to a village with Pamela Mugabe, wife of the now president of Zimbabwe. ment. When things are just too appalling they don't cope. it's just too much. They are wonderful in the immediate crisis but it just doesn't last." Her contact in the area is Father Gi, a French-Canadian Catholic priest who wrote recently to express his gratitude for the results of the appeal. Through her efforts $3,000 has so far been sent to Father Gi. It has provided much-needed relief for the homeless. Many people have sheltered at Lae Uni-

versity since the disaster, sometimes up to 1,000 a night. There has never been a disaster of this magnitude in New Guinea, she says, and the worst of it is that Rabaul is now living under the threat of a volcanic eruption. "They have more than enough to cope with," Dame Rachel said. The New Guinea people have supported our appeals in the past, she said, it seems only right that we

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It is a long way from Government House at Konedobu on the outskirts of E Port Moresby to Peppermint Grove . . . but they make miles of fond memories f or Dame Rachel Cleland, widow of Sir Donald Cleland, former Administrator of Papua New Guniea. As administrator, Sir Donald was the former territory's Number One man (numbawan in pidgin) and he and Dame Rachel became true friends (wantok— one tatk) of the tribesmen and villagers. In Motu, the lingua franca of Papua, Dame Rachel would be known as Sinebada (great white lady).

Artefacts collection Dame Rachel's Peppermint Grove home is decorated with mementoes of her time in New Guinea.

Dame Rachel is pictured in the New Guinea highlands in 1953 . . . shortly after her arrival in Papua—New Guinea. should come to their aid when it is needed Born in Perth, Dame Rachel went to New Guinea in 1951 with her husband, Sir Donald Cleland, who was appointed assistant a dministrator. He was acting administrator for 18 months before being sworn in in 1953 and continued to serve as administrator until his retirement in 1967. "I had not realised just what war did," she said. "Moresby was half destroyed and many of the other towns were razed. The debris that a war leaves is unbel ievable and at one stage there were a million m en posted around Moresby.'' It wasn't long though before New Guinea found a place in her heart and she began to organise the local w omen to have the war scrap cleared away. She had been there three months when the country t ouched a sensitive chord in her soul .. "I went out to a village to one of the local women's clubs," she said. "The old village had been destroyed and the new one was built out of scraps of army iron. "It was awful to look at but the people were so charming and unhurried. I was captivated. " It was a love affair that was to steadily grow over the years that Sir Donald was Administrator. Sadly he died just a few weeks before Independence. He was given a State f uneral and says Dame

Rachel, more people probably turned out for that than they had for the Queen's visit She has recently completed a book on those New Guinea years titled, Pathways to Independence, Official and Family Life, 1951-75. Despite being very involved in other activities since her return to Perth, completing the book was a labour of love. Much of it was written as she lay propped up on her bed. It was, she says, the most comfortable way to write with her pad balancing on a firm piece of hardboard. Laboriously hand-writing throughout an entire day or more she was carried on by a fascination with her subject.

New Guinea, she feels, is much misunderstood. Any country that is governed by another must have time to find its own way once that rule is lifted. "When I went back to February last year and stepped out of the plane, I felt immediately at home," she said. "I had been in Asia the year before and was appalled at the inefficiencies in India. It took me days to complete a bank transaction. "But when I went into a bank in Moresby, everything was completed in a matter of minutes. "There were no white faces there, the New Guinea

people were doing it al l themselves. "We need to look at the good points, it's too easy to see only the bad things," she said. She accepts the fighting in the highlands has become nasty but says Australia is partly to blame because it i nterfered in the legal system of the country. "In the late 50's to early 60's it was all just wiped out. Australians had this idea everything had to be done their way," she said. One thing New Guinea taught her was "people are people". It was one of many lessons f rom a country she knew she was fated to live in . . . learning to love it was perhaps the surprise. "My husband had been in New Guinea during the war and had developed such a strong bond with the place I just knew it would be my fate to go back," she said. S he became total ly involved. Dame Rachel was president of the Girl Guide A ssociation of Papau and New Guinea from 1952-66, president of the Red Cross for the same period and a member of the New Guinea branch of the Australian Pre-School Association. She remembers fondly the many missionaries they came to know during those years. "I have respect for all. But the Catholic missionaries brought a quality many of the others did not have," she said. "Most gave the people love,

but the priests and nuns had a gaiety that was special. "The Sisters were really wonderful ... they had a warm, happy attitude to life. -You would go to a mission and a child would run up and fling his arms around the k nees of a nun — I never saw that anywhere else." Always active Dame Rachel is working on a second book and this one tells about t he time in New Guinea from her own perspective. A s she sorts through a crowded cupboard looking for old photos the memories come tumbling out. There are hundreds of pictures and even more slides but the latter don't wear well in the tropics and she fears they may be all but ruined. As the official family they met many notable people. There are photos taken with t he Mountbattens, who became good friends. The task of researching this second book has been made a little easier because she cleverly photocopied all letters written to her family during those years. The task of reading through the letters is fascinating if a little discomforting at times ... "It's a little bit like someone else looking in," she said. But despite the changes of the years, at 78, the chin is still strongly set and the determined glint in her eyes is as bright as ever ... one suspects the remarkable woman she is reading about is still very much alive.

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RECORD CLASSIFIED OBITUARY A DVERTISEMENTS The late Brother John Mann Minimum $4. 28 words. Closes am Wednesday. No Phone adverts. The large crowd which packed St Mary's church THANKS DEATH BUILDING Leederville on Tuesday TRADES Novena to St Jude. 0 Holy KEENAN: Passed away revealed the impact the late P AINTING quality work St Jude, apostle and mar- suddenly on February 24th, Brother John Mann had at the right price. John tyr, great in virtue and rich 1984, Margaret Mary of 71 made on many friends Freakley. Phone 361 4349. in miracles, near kinsman Mount Street, Perth, be- especially during his illness. of Jesus Christ, faithful loved wife of Jim. May His funeral took place intercessor of all who Perpetual light shine upon from the parish church of Electrical Contractor 5 invoke you, special patron her. Her funeral took place his youth when he attended J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, in time of need, to you I at the Catholic Lawn St Mary's School before Rivervale. 30 yrs expehave recourse from the Cemetery, Karrakatta, on c ontinuing at Mary's rience, expert, efficient, February Mount and Trinity College. reliable. Ring 362 4646, depths of my heart and Tuesday, 28th humbly beg you whom God after Requiem Mass cele- He joined the Christian after hours 385 9660. has given such great power brated in St Mary's Cathed- Brothers in 1949 making his PROPERTY Improve- to come to my assistance. ral Perth. Bowra & O'Dea final profession in 1960 and ments Service all types of Help me now in my present F uneral Directors returining for his first WA appointment at Highgate w indows and doors and urgent need and grant 328 7299. in 1961 followed by Leederinstalled: walls and ceilings my earnest petition. In removed; wooden pergo- return I promise to make MANN: Brother John. Our ville and Perth schools the las; general repairs. Phone your name known and Sympathy to Betta and following years. cause you to be invoked. Clarrie and family. May he A year in Geraldton was 341 2946. Say three Our Fathers, Hail rest in peace. Maureen followed by four years at Trinity and he was into his Marys and Glorias; St Jude Walsh and family. Post or deliver pray for all who honour and second year as superior of (no phone ads) invoke your aid. Publicathe Leederville community THANKS R ECORD tion must be promised. This in 1974 when he was told novena has never been 0 holy St Jude apostle and he had only a short time to CLASSIFIEDS known to fail. My request martyr, great in virtue and live. rich in miracles, near The remission of his AccommonA ION has been granted. N.S. kinsman of Jesus Chist, condition suprised eveA VAILABLE Most Sacred Heart of faithful intercessor of all ryone and he stayed on to Jesus, Infant Jesus, Our R ent a .Jim Hassell Blessed Mother and St who invoke your special he headmaster of the school furnished home high Jude, for hearing my pray- patronage in time of need, until moving back to High- Brother Mann had a annual Christ the King to you, I have cause from gate in 1978 and Bedford reputation as a sportsman festival in Supreme Court above Lake Monger, S7 ers, please continue to help the depth of my heart and in 1982. and as a coach in football Gardens and a regular a day with food, vegies me. C.O. Sunday visit to Mass with humbly beg you to whom He went to Rome for the and swimming. etc, 3 mins Perth for one Most Sacred Heart of God has given such great tertian programme and His musical talents were the inmates of Fremantle or two weeks. Ring (09) Jesus, may your name be power to come to my returned to his final posting given to a wide range of Prison. p raised and glorified assistance. Help me now in at Aquinas College. occasions including the May he rest in peace. 4505301 or write Hassell throughout the world, now my present and urgent H omes, 5 la Lake and forever, amen. Grateful need, and grant my earnest Monger Drive, Wemb- t hanks for prayers ans- petition. In return Ipromise With Christ's sacrifice, enter the kingdom of God, ley. For charity. At least wered, even though late. to make your name known Ivy. and cause you to be insuffering "entered into a giving suffering a "creative S20 from each booking voked. Say three Our completely new dimension character." to parish. Car S6 a day. May the Sacred Heart of Fathers, Hail Marys and and a new order: it has been "Suffering has a special Jesus be praised, adored, Unbelievable isn't it. glorified throughout the Glorias, St Jude prayer for linked to love." the pope value in the eyes of the all who honour and invoke added. Church. It is something Do a great act of charity. world forever. Say six times y our aid and promise a day for nine days. Promgood, before which the Give someone who is ill publication. This novena ised publication. M. Church bows down in reverBy sharing in the sufferings or has a disease a Jason never fails. ence with all the depth of her of Christ, he said, people Winter book with his diet Novena to St Jude. 0 holy Most Sacred Heart of faith in the redemption," the share in the redemption and cure and a Guardian St Jude, apostle and mar- Jesus, may your name be • From page 1 tyr, great in virtue and rich p raised and glorified pope said. become mature enough to Angel brochure, all for in miracles, near kinsman Not all suffering, the pope S4.99 at 406 William of Jesus Christ, faithful throughout the world, now and forever, amen. (Say said, can be understood as S treet or phone intercessor of all who nine times a day for nine the consequence or punish328 9192. Nothing will invoke your special patron consecutive days and prom- ment for the faults of individcure all but it can get you in time of need, to you I ise publication). uals or society. well and give hope and have cause from the depth Most Sacred Heart of Jesus But he added suffering of my heart and humbly beg longer life. As all profits may your name be praised • prom page 2 discuss these questions be divorced from the cannot go to charity, the poor you to whom God has given and glorified throughout He said it is the moral openly. background of human sinful such great power to come the world now and forever, and pensioners need not aspect that ought to be to my assistance. Help me amen. (Say nine times a day history. At the basis of Then he would try to set send any money, just ask now in my present and for nine consecutive days human suffering, he said. examined and discussed down the limits within for the book as above. urgent need, and grant my and promise publication. "there is a complex involveb y members of the which the Church might Send your addresses earnest petition. In return Thanks for favour granted. ment with sin." Church and then to see make a contribution to now or you will miss out I promise to make your Most Sacred Heart of The passion of Christ, he their relationship to the the discussion. name known and cause you Jesus, may your name be on these great books. is the key to an individto be invoked. Say 3 Our praised and glorified said, question of land tenure He said it was the role understanding of why ual's Fathers, Hail Marys, Glo- throughout the world now SITUATIONS by the Aboriginal people. of the Church to speak he suffers. rias, St Jude. Pray for all and forever. (Say nine times V ACANT He said he hoped to look from a moral point of who honour and invoke a day for nine consecutive Christ's death on the cross at some of the questions view rather than be seen "definite to C aretaker required: your aid, publication must days and promise publica- brought an end r aised in the Seaman as a political power Cleaner — Handyman — be promised. Repeat on tion). With thanks for suffering," or the loss of Caretaker. Responsible, nine consecutive days. favour received, AFC. eternal life, the pope said. Discussion Paper and to broker. single/ married, self-moti- From personal experience vated, nature lover. 2 this novena never fails. bedroom cottage, salary. Thanks M.G. also thanks negotiable, suit active t o the Sacred Heart of healthy pensioner or retired Jesus, Our Lady of Perpetperson(s). References re- ual Help, the Infant Jesus quired. Apply Box "Super- of Prague, St Joseph and intendent" this office. St Anthony of Padova. For the help in my urgent need Pictured at a recent Centrecare MarWanted — person who I hope to get full recovery, riage Preparation Course could give 4 hrs per week soon. as part of a team providing a support system for needy Grateful thanks to Saint Right: Max Sherwood and Louise families. Contact Marie on Jude for prayers answered. Carruthers of Maylands who will be 3496959 Mon-Fri 9-4 pm. Frances. married at Our Lady of Victories

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Church, Wembley on March 24. Below: Thelma Bevis and Frank Giglia who are to be married on March 17 at Holy Family Church, Kalamunda.

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Former Anglicans *From page 5 Father Lossing said he was among Episcopal priests who viewed a "weakening" of moral and doctrinal positions in the US Episcopal Church as diminishing its "Catholic identity." He cited acceptance of abortion, artificial contraception and the ordination of women as departures from Catholic belief. Father Parker said the s pecial US programme involves more than simply t he exception which lets married Episcopal priests to become Catholic priests without requiring them to follow the Catholic discipline of clerical celibacy. Some celibate Episcopal priests have also applied, he said, and one is ordained and working in a "Catholic parish of Anglican identity" in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio parish and a similar one in Las Vegas, have been established under another aspect of the programme which allows for such parishes to handle groups of Episcopalians who reunite with Rome. Those parishes are allowed to retain in their liturgy distinctive elements of the spiritual. liturgical and prayer traditions of the Anglican Church. Father Parker said the pastors of those two churches arc the only two of the 12 former Episcopal priests who have received parish assignments so far. The Vatican requires a separate permission for those ordained under the programme to become pastors. But Father Parker said it is only a matter of the individual talents and situations of those who have been ordained so far, rather than a question of policy, that has prevented more from being assigned to parishes. On of the recently ordained former Episcopal priests is a tenured professor at a medical college in Georgia. A second is vice president of Providence College. a Dominican college in Rhode Island. A third, after he had left ministry in the Episcopal Church and while he was awaiting Vatican approval to be ordained in the Catholic Church, was assigned t o direct the youth programme and summer camp of the Diocese of Savannah, and he was asked to continue in that assignment after he was ordained. Father Parker attributed the predominance of special ministries in large part to the fact that during their waiting period most of the priests in the programme had to have jobs that would support themselves and their families. In addition, he said, some of the bishops who have accepted candidates under t he programme made a conscious decision to seek only the dispensation for ordination first, planning to ask permission to give them a pastorate only at a later date. The priest predicted that over a period of time more of the priests ordained under the programme would be given parish assignments.

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Last week Archbishop William Foley made an official visit to the Catholic Youth Centre, the archdiocesan youth headquarters. Archbishop Foley celebrated the Eucharist and in his homily urged the workers of the Centre to come to know Christ, to stay close to Him and make Him known to others.

The Youth Centre staff pictured with Archbishop William Foley — (left to right) Frank Loss (YCS) Scott Vance (Antioch) Julie Della Franca (CPY) Kerry L ynch (Antioch) Julia Pickering (CPY) Ann Harris (TYCS) Barbara Willcock (CPY) Dorothy Arbuckle (Chaplaincy Assistant) Marjorie Downie (Chaplaincy A ssistant) Miranda Lawrence (Chaplaincy Assistant) Colin Caunce (Youth Centre Handyman) Jim Miolin (Catholic Social Apostolate) Jo Tufilli (Young Christian Workers) Lynette Dunden (TYCS) Father John Jegorow (Youth Chaplain) Tom O'Reagan (YCW) Damian Hart (YCS) Christina Kadmos (YCS) Gemma Wooltorton (YCW) Jenny Miolin (Catholic Social Apostolate) Vi Williams, (Secretary, Catholic Social Apostolate).

-Why so few? This is a question that Brother Graham Rossi- communal prayer expe- at home. They should be causes much pain and ter, C.F.C., B.Sc. (Hons.), rience to engage them able to feel that the parish anxiety to adult Catholics Dip.Ed., M.Ed. (Syd), at seriously; perhaps they feel is a friendly place where the for whom the Mass has present engaged on a it is not worthwhile; per- clergy and adults care for always been an important Ph.D. project in Educa- haps it does not make them and are interested in part of their life. tion at Macquarie Univer- adequate connections with having them there — Parents may be perplexed; sity, NSW, asked, "Why the way they see God acting whether or not they are regular Mass attenders. they may wonder, 'Am I are young Catholics not in their lives. responsible? What should going to Mass." This is The situation is not im- Unfortunately, this welI have done to prevent this the first of a four-part proved if the celebrant coming 'at-home' atmosfrom happening?' article reprinted from complains from the pulpit phere is not always Others may look else- "The Australasian Ca- to those inside the church encountered. where to find a cause or to tholic Record" of Janu- about the insensitivity of If a parish is to take young those outside. people seriously, then it lay blame — 'Young people ary, 1984. are not being formed Why are so many Perhaps the parish should must look much more properly in the faith in young Catholics not make a more welcoming widely to their personal Catholic schools!' Still g oing to Mass on and accepting gesture to the social and recreational others see the deficiencies young people who congre- needs and not just at the one Sundays? in parish life, particularly gate outside the church. At issue — Mass attendance. in the celebration of liturgy the local church to help least they have come to If young people are ever and preaching, as the main young people. church, even if they have to feel comfortable celebrating the parish Eucharist, causes of the problem. In particular, the consid- not quite made it inside. Others may ascribe the eration of some areas of Perhaps after Mass a then they must have some change to a general secular- difficulty may alert us to c offee shop could be prior sense of association During lunch the Archbishop was able to meet and speak with all the workers isation in the Australian what can be done to make opened where the young and shared friendship in the at the Centre. Pictured above: Archbishop Foley signing the visitors' book as culture. the celebration of Eucharist people can be made to feel parish community. Ann Harris and Barbara Willcock look on. There is no simple expla- an experience that is more nation. Why any particular joyful, meaningful, prayeryoung Catholic, or adult ful and valuable in the lives one another to take Lent Unfortunately Chrisof purple drapes over Catholic for that matter, of Christians. If we can do seriously. tians have few symbolic s tatues; others redoes not attend Mass is a anything in this direction, l,ent begins as the reminders of the season member the clapping very complex question that the young Catholics will not priest sprinkles ashes on of Lent. These days Lent clackers that replaced involves a whole range of be the only ones to benefit! our foreheads. He may seems to come and go the jingling bells for the factors, some of them very However, we may find use various words, inw ith little or no six weeks of Lent. personal. While it is possi- that the best way of making cluding, "turn away recognition. A s an altar server I ble to list a number of the the Sunday Mass a more from sin and believe the While the commercial remember looking forfactors, it will not be important experience for good news". w orld is noisy and ward to the "bell ringing possible to determine which Catholics will be to put a A ccording to Jesus, demonstrative with feast - at the Easter of them has had the decisive lot of work into the life of penance should be a Santa and Easter bunGloria. Just as vivid are the parish outside the actual influence. regular part of our life. nies, it is silent in memories of primary Some of the factors we Mass times. We do penance to proclaiming the season school teachers redirectmay be able to do some- T HE PLACE OF make up for our sins, to ing my pennies from the of penance. thing about; others are YOUNG PEOPLE IN re-align our lives within tuck shop to the mission After all it wouldn't do beyond our influence. The T HE LIFE OF THE God's law and to help box. much for the monthly main concern of this article PARISH build a better world. In the past Catholics profit balance, if busiwill be to look at some of It is not uncommon to find another, they also serve I am interested to hear ness houses were to seemed to have a greater Happy Christmas, the things that have an a small crowd of young H appy Easter and as a reminder of the w hat young people sense of solidarity as encourage participation influence on the attitudes people outside the parish Happy Birthday, are s eason or event think about Lent. I in Lenten denial. Just they stood out at Friday of young Catholics to the church on Sunday evenings celebrated. evening wonder if groups will imagine parties by a fast food regreetings. familiar celebration of Mass. t alking, laughing and Greetings can give us discuss the meaning and company saying, "If fraining from the meat Lent" is one I've "Happy To narrow the focus even enjoying each other's coma feeling that we are f are or from food you're hungry, make it purpose of Lent so as to never heard and possifurther, the article will pany — while Mass is being members take the something todoing help a altogether. Lenten sacrifice." why 'and will, bly never concentrate not so much on celebrated inside. They are gether — a sense of The Lenten greeting is season seriously. After Some would say that ask. I', you may should what can be done to change there but cannot bring solidarity. For the Jews all, the onus is on each not as important as the Church in recent the attitudes of young themselves to go inside. F or a start, even one to make Lent '84 a its 'Yom Kippur', for looking again at the years has also played Catholics, but rather on The Mass, or at least the though greetings are an realistic reawakening for Moslems its a 28 day fast down Lent and its meaning and purpose of what we, the adult Catholic way it is celebrated in their e xpression of well ourselves and others. called 'Ramadan' and observance. Lent; not nearly as community, can change in e xperience, does not seem wishes and hope for — HAPPY LENT for Christians its Lent. important as helping Some lament the end ourselves and in the life of to be a powerful enough

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"Mark." the Roman law- very often. He prayed there welcome to come in here." DEAR CAPTAIN BOB, Our family went to lots of yer called out to his friend with the rest of the people. "The next area is called My name is Matthew and e xciting places besides the in Jerusalem. "Where are He preached there often. the Court of the Women," I'm very sorry I haven't two I've just mentioned. We you going in such a hurry?" The temple still means a lot Sarah said. "That's where written to you for a long had a great holiday. Johnny: How old do you w e "I'm going to the temple," to us." make our time. P.S. I have written some think the teacher is? Mark answered. "Why "What exactly is done contributions." I go to Mount Hawthorn jokes for you at the bottom. Bobby: Very old. He told there?" Lucius continued. "And the next area behind Primary School and I am don't you come along?" Q. What should you do us that he used to teach "How often do you go?" The Roman lawyer, whose that is the Court of Israel," in year seven. In this school with a dog who is eating a Shakespeare. name was Lucius, was "Often we go as a group Mark explained. "There the year I have become a t o pray at least once a people gather to burn student councillor and dictionary? curious. He decided to go day,"Mark began to ex- incense to honour God. Captain of a school faction. A. Take the words right "Doctor. Doctor. I've just with Mark. He wondered swallowed a sheep!" plain. "Sometimes we go They pray together as the I will be in the school out of his mouth. what the temple was like. Q. Why did the dog run "How do you feel?" twice. We pray together the incense burns." football team well. as This was in the time of the ancient in circles? "Very ba-a-a-ad." prayers of our I have a good teacher very early Christians, people. We call them "Beyond that is the Court called Mr Moore who is A. He was a watchdog and people in a society of psalms." of the Priests," Suzanna needed winding. "Doctor. doctor, I keep friendly to us. Judaism. The conversation By Q. When is it proper to thinking there is two of then Mark and Lucius told Lucius. "The altar of between Mark and Lucius drink your milk from a me." had come into the temple sacrifice is there. Each MATHEW MONISSE tells us something about the saucer? "One at a time please." area. Sara and Suzanna met morning and evening the daily life of the early them priests offer sacrifices. They A. When you are a cat. there. Christians. Q. Why are cats such Father: You've been fight"Hello, Lucius," Sarah offer animals like lambs to DEAR CAPTAIN BOB, "You told me before that said with a smile. "We are G od. They also offer I'm sorry I haven't written gossips? ing again, Jim, and lost a for a long time but I have A. They always carry tails tooth! you and your friends who happy you are coming with cereal." believe in Jesus pray a lot Mark." Next the three of "The temple," Sarah said, been helping Mum with the with them. Jim: No, I haven't, Dad Q. What did the dog do It's in my pocket. in your homes," Lucius said them went on to describe "is a house of worship and baby. to Mark as they walked to Lucius what the temple of God. We go there to pray We had a great Christmas at the flea circus? holiday. A. He stole the show. through the narrow city was like and what was done to God." What insect goes "Toot, streets. "Why do you go to there. "I'm sorry I can't join you One Sunday last month Q. What weather do mice toot?" the temple then?" A hornet. "This is called the Court inside the temple," Lucius we went for a picnic to most dislike? A. When it rains cats and Mark responded that of the Gentiles," Suzanna said sadly. "But please pray Bibra Lake and then on Saturday two weeks ago dogs. What table do we cook "Jesus went to the temple t old Lucius. "You are for me to your God." our whole family went to and eat? see the cricket. It was a SHERYL LYONS A vegetable CLOVERDALE great match. What goes up and down at A Whisper In The Night, Piggy in the Middle, by Sandra is torn between the same time? by Joan Aiken, published Jan Needle, published by conflicting loyalties and A hill. by Fontana, $3.95. Fontana, $3.95. ideals. Here is an excellent collecBenny Bakes a Cake, by All you need to make a musical instrument tion of thirteen horror, Eve Rice, published by s uspense and fantasy bottles and water. Choose three or more are Fontana, $3.50. stories. Benny is helping Mama bottles of the same size and type, such as milk Some surprise and shock, Y ou has e got to he in the club bake his birthday cake — bottles. some are strangely creepy, if you ss ant to enter our comLeave one bottle he sifts and stirs and pours empty, half fill another and petitions and vsin some of the all are horribly spineand scrapes, all the time completely fill the last one. If you have more super prizes. chilling. keeping a watchful eye on than three bottles, fill each, except one, with To join simpls send the comRalph their big and bouncy varying water levels. MEN pleted coupon here to The It is written 4 R ecord kid's Club. PO Hos dog. But when the cake is Leah wirvatlitt Line up the bottles with the empty one on fro 50. ,therdeen Street. Perth. ready and Ralph is left the left, followed by the one with the least 6000. alone with it — oh what a etOots,Itteettam Areisitte iteMork*t ttrittl disaster! 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BIRTHDAY Happy birthday to Julie Arundel, Dudinin; Anna Antonio, Davie's Park: Peter Bell, Kojonup; Aaron Clarke. Gooseberry Hill; Darryl Crews. Hamersley; John Devereux, Huntingdale; Kimball Kirkman, Woodlands; Kieran Multally, South Guildford: Rosemary McManus, Newman; Audrey Santa Mafis, Bayswater; Peter Tesoriero, A ttadale; Paul Wilson, Beckenham; Leann Hatch, Gosnells; Clive White, Langford.

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A look at books

Beauty for all ages

Slipstream, by Roger with information about the McDonald, published by climate and type of soil Fontana, $4.95. r equired for optimum An absorbing, fascinating growth. The perfect book story of the price of fame, to complement its companset against the background ion volumes — Climbers T he Joan Col lins of business, politics and and Trailers and Ornamenflying. tal Conifers — as the third Beauty Book, published by MacMillan, R oger McDonald now of the Sun Garden Series. lives in Canberra and his The Hasp Factory, by lain $10.95. first novel, 1915, won Banks, published by Mac- This is not a new book but numerous prizes and has Millan, $16.95. it is the first time it has been been shown as a television A novel of extraordinary available in paperback. series throughout Australia originality, imagination Even for those who don't in 1982 on the ABC. and comic ferocity. Set in follow television's terrible The First Aid Manual the remote Scottish wilder- mini-series in which Miss (The Authorised Manual ness in a small village it is Collins stars, the lady of The Australian Red the story of a very uncon- herself is still well known Cross Society), published ventional 16 year old whose for her ability to look brother escapes from the suitably stunning despite by Fontana, $9.95. The First Aid Manual psychiatric hospital — an her 50 or so years on this covers all aspects of first event which explodes with earth. aid, from the basic princi- violent and bizarre conse- I've no idea what she looks ples of giving life-saving quences:The Wasp Factory like in the flesh, despite (cameras e mergency mouth-to- is a work of horrifying what they say can be very kind) but on the mouth ventilation and compulsion. external chest compression, Mortal Matters. by Pene- screen and in photography t o the more supportive lope Gillian, published by Joan Collins certainly looks a good 10 years younger techniques of dealing with MacMillan, $17.95. fractures or treating mul- In her first novel since than she is. The image palls tiple injuries. All informa- Sunday, Bloody Sunday only when she tries to dress tion is presented in a most five years ago, Penny like a 20 year old (which she straightforward way with Gilliatt brings all her seems to do most of the step-by-step illustrations. intelligence, wit, charm and time) and then hackneyed old phrases like 'mutton Rattle For The Franklin, perception to Mortal Mat- dressed up as lamb,' seem ters. It is the story of an 80 by Roger Green, published year old lady looking back awfully applicable. by Fontana, $8.95. I have come to believe that Battle For The Franklin on her life as it progresses beauty secrets rarely work. with the century. A novel portrays the struggle, the Mature women with beauintrigues, deals, pressure, that is a pure pleasure to tiful skin or thick glossy bitterness and constant read. hair were born that way. wresting for supremacy. The Calvi Affair. Death There's no doubt that Through interviews with of a Banker, by Larry lifestyle affects the way we R oger Green, the protag- Gur win, published by look but for all of us who onists convey the human MacMillan. $19.95. fall into the mediocre factors that determine A compulsive real-life whether nature is destroyed thriller of financial intfigue category, we're not likely to change the way we look or allowed to survive. on a monstrous scale dramatically no matter whose beauty hints, tips or tricks we follow. Miss Collins admits that while she pays attention to Promises, by Catherine centred around the myste- the upkeep of her health Joan Collins with her daughters Tara and Katyana Gaskin, published by Fon- rious death of Roberto and looks, it is not to the detriment of her enjoyment tana, 55.95. Calvi in London, 1982. For Catherine Gaskin Treated by the press as a of life which includes eating fans, author of Family `Vatican scandal' it involved well, drinking wine, staying Affairs, comes the promise the Vatican Bank, political of something very special. intrigue, blackmail and Promises - an unforget- espionage, right-wing dicAn Apology For The their unborn children. What Thomasma fails to women the liberty to abort table story of tragedy and tators and death squads in Value Of Human Life, Thomasma's conclusions do is to distinguish between their unborn children is triumph, a woman's prom- Latin America, murder and ise and the price she paid suicide -- the list goes on. b y David C. Tho- is, I believe, the result of actions whose purpose is quite flawed. It is really not to keep it. In The Calvi Affair Larry masma. Cathol ic the confusion that charac- precisely to kill innocent argued for, but is rather The Cavendish Face, by Gurwin has welded the Health Association (St. terises much of the book. human beings (intrinsically asserted, and is dependent Jane Barry, published by elements together into a Louis, Mo., 1983) This confusion can be immoral actions: of. "Gau- upon the author's claim Fontana, $5.95. compelling narrative of the $ 18. Reviewed by illustrated by looking at dium et Spes," n.27) and that lack of public consenNot everyone in the family rise and fall of Italy's largest some key claims he makes. actions whose purpose is sus over the status of the William E. May. NC He claims, first of all, that precisely to protect and unborn requires had the Cavendish Face. To private banking group. acceptance News Service. in some instances (e.g., in preserve human life, even of their nonpersonal status. Christie, it was the only I rish Traditional Food, by Thomasma's book is well war and presumably in though it be foreseen that This is like arguing that the legacy she had from her Theodora Fitzgibbon, intended. Its stated purpose every act resulting in an an innocent person's life failure of a society to beloved mother — and the published by MacMillan, is to stimulate its readers abortion), "we must act may be taken (e.g., removal recognise the personhood only tie she had with Felix, $24.95. to reflect critically on the immorally." In other of a cancerous uterus with of certain races requires her black-sheep cousin and This authoritative and life-destroying tendencies w ords, he thinks that subsequen death to the acquiescence to slavery. the hero of her dreams. entertaining book does o f our culture and to immoral activity is at times unborn child). For Felix had those tell- honour to the long and (May is associate profesencourage them to reded- morally necessary. His Despite his good inten- sor of moral theology at tale features too. It brought honoured tradition of Irish icate themselves to the position here stems from tions, his final argument The Catholic University him exotic women — but cooking with recipes from of Christie was the only mansion and farm dwelling, up late, sunbathing and "dignity and value of his belief that every action that we are morally re- America. His most recent smoking. even that If human life". Moreover, the woman he would ever love. from the sixteenth to the doesn't win the argument author himself clearly holds leading to the death of a quired to accept as public book is "Sex, Marriage and The Fontana Biographical twentieth century. human being is immoral. policy one that grants Chastity" for genetic I don't know that human life is intrinsiCompanion to Modern cally worthwhile, and in the Thought, published by The Book Of The Thames, what does. by Alan Jenkins, photo- But the lady is above all central chapters of the book Fontana, $19.95. Nearly 2000 entries pro- graphs by Derry Brabbs, reasonable. She says that seeks to marshal evidence vided by over 300 distin- published by MacMillan, while some of us are born from our religious, philohealthier than others and sophical and political Maybe a second spring, by Edward she was widowed, she turned her eyes guished contributors -- $29.95. some are born better look- heritages to support the Fischer. Crossroad (New York, 1983). toward celebration is This a of brilliantly clear and concise a life of service. critical summaries combine England's greatest river -- ing than others, most of us credibility of his belief in 200 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Father It was 1926 before the first Columban potential the have to be the inherent value of human Charles Dollen. NC News Service. with fascinating, scholarly the Thames. Steeped in Sisters arrived in China. They didn't detail to provide an unsur- history, immortalised in art, healthier and more attrac- life. concentrate on the big cities, but worked Is there really something mysterious Despite its good intenpassed guide to the lives and integral part of many local tive than we are. out in the provinces in towns whose about China, or is it simply a Westerner's The important thing she tions, however. Thomasworks of the major figures customs and life-block of dream that it should be mysterious? Any names never appear in the Western press. a once thriving economy, says is to be intelligent ma's book is quite confused of the twentieth century. The nuns survived the warlords, the number of books have been published without obsessive being Thames inextriand the an and is confusing and in the this Trees And Shrubs, by Japanese invasion and the horrors of winter unravel to help us distant that Julie Grace, published by cable part of the English healthful without being end it's quite inimical, in land, China. World War II. Only the communists fanatical. my judgement. to the value way of life. MacMillan, $18.95. finally had the power to exile these hardPoliticians, historians economists and of human There are chapters on life, in particular This is an invaluable Texas: A self Portrait, by working women. The nuns then turned pictorial and descriptive Jon Holmes, published by lifestyle, body care and t o the value of unborn have all had their say. Now Ed Fischer their activities to Chinese people living e xercise, diet, skin care. human life. For Tho- tells us about that land from the beyond the communist wall and to other guide to almost 600 flow- MacMillan, $85. ering trees and shrubs. Each A celebration of the Texas makeup, hair, hands, nails, masma, who frankly ac- viewpoint of the man in the street. He sections of the Far East. specimen is illustrated at way of life from the misty teeth, clothes, pregnancy, knowledges that abortion details the 50 years that the Columban While this book will appeal most to flowering time to give an past to the skyscraping beauty care for children. In is immoral, nonetheless Sisters have spent working in China and people who know the Columban Sisters, accurate representation of present, from the Alamo to essence it' a very sensible concludes, however reluc- for the Chinese. the story is one of universal mission how the plant will look in Willie Nelson concerts. It book, simply written and tantly. that respect for the Mother Mary Patrick, a co-foundress appeal, Fischer makes their lives and the home garden. In addi- is rip-roaring volume with well laid out with lots of unquestioned value of of the Columban Sisters, began her work their motivation an open and fascintting tion, there are notes for the unique style, art and photos of the lovely Joan. human freedom and dignity during World War I. She had an story. Parish libraries should find tois each plant on use and people that make Texas It's a book for all ages ... morally requires us to aristocratic background and her a very popular title. as useful for teenagers as accept as public policy the husband had been the governor of the characteristics, together very special. (Father Dollen is the book review it is for the mature woman. liberty of women to abort Windward Isles in the Caribbean. When editor of The Priest magazine).

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01111* NEWMAN SOCIETY 1984 PLANS During 1984 the Newman Society will be holding regular talks and discussion groups. These will begin soon. The YOUNG NEWMANITES GROUP meets monthly at 7.30 pm in the study of the Newman Society's Chaplain, Father J. Dynon SJ, at St Thomas More College. The first 1984 meeting is on Monday, March 5. Topics discussed by the Young Newmanites include: the meaning of marriage, science and faith, education and scriptural interpretation. Mr Joe Marts is the group leader, and interested newcomers are invited to contact Father Dynon (386 6420). The NEWMAN TALKS ON CURRENT A FFAIRS will take place in the senior common room at St Thomas More College at 8 pm on the last Thursday of each month. The topic of heroin addiction to be introduced by Dr Pat Cranley will be the first in this series, and is scheduled for Thursday, March 29. Any person interested will be welcome to community essential awareness. The NEWMAN SOCIETY SCRIPTURE GROUP will meet during 1984 on the second Thursday of each month, and continue with the discussion of D.E.

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Nineham's edition of St Merles Gospel. The first of these this year will be at 8 pm in the senior common room of St Thomas More College on Thursday April 12 UNIVERSITY SUNDAY for 1984 is on April 15 which is Palm Sunday. Blessing of the palms is at 4.15 pm in St Thomas More Chapel, with Mass beginning at 4.30 pm. A light tea will follow in the junior common room after which the University Sunday address is given in Winthrop Hall. Cost per person is $4. PREGNANCY HELP SEMINAR Pregnancy Help is holding a seminar in Safety Bay at St Joseph's Convent from Friday March 30 to Sunday April The seminar is open to anyone who is interested in Pregnancy Help work. For inquiries please phone Esther Doust (095)276209.

1110111111111100 WORLD DAY OF PRAYER The theme for this year's World Day of Prayer to be held throughout the world is Living Water from Christ, Our Hope. Christian women throughout Western Australia have been invited to attend Churches to take part in the programme, prepared by the Women of Sweden, on March 2. World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations have requested particulars re involvement of all Catholic women in Australia and elsewhere. They have requested to know how many parishes were responsible for hosting 1984 W.D. of P. Service and how many Catholic women gave the address on this day. Answers to these questions can be phoned-in to 3642925, or be mailed t o Pat Hackett, 125 Ardross At, A pplecross, WA 6153, before March 10.

Father Alban's move to Singapore La Salle College, Midland, has lost Father A lban Mitchell, OFM, their chaplain, teacher f rom the Midland Friary, who has been transferred to Singapore. Father Alban formerly from Queensland has been in Western Australia for six years. It has been his role to establish the Franciscan teaching presence so that other Franciscan teachers at their school "Padua" in Kedron, Brisbane, may be encouraged to see this as an alternative. The Friars have only one high school in Australia. Brother Robert's appointment here is a sign others will follow. A t La Sal le, Father Alban made a significant contribution to the development of the Catholic ethos. His private interest in astronomy led f ather to give a telescope to the college and this will be supplemented by further e quipment as the astronomy course is developed. The inclusion of an observation deck to the new St Francis of Assisi Science wing, was of particular satisfaction to Father Alban. Father Alban's new appointment will entail helping to train the Singaporean Franciscan students for the priesthood and brotherhood. COLLEEN HOWARD:

The 9th National Conference of the Guild of St Stephen for Altar Servers and Acolytes is to be held at St Patrick's College, Ballarat, Victoria, from Sunday May 13 to Friday May 18. The fee for the live-in is $100 all inclusive. Discussion on the theme 'Speak Lord! Your Servant is listening!' will be dealt with in three streams: under 16; older servers and acolytes; and those who have attended previous conferences and more mature participants. They will cover liturgical history, development and practice. R egistrations will be received until March 30 Application or inquiries should be addressed to Father John Murphy, GPO Box 5447cc, Melbourne, 3001. Telephone (03) 419 3877.

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Change of pace for a teacher You may say being teacher -in-charge of a pre-school is a far cry from the thrilling competition of being one of Western Australia's state rowers. But to Tracey O 'Shannessy, it's just as exciting development team spirit and coordination among the five-year -olds as it is out there on the water. St Anthony's pre-school Greenmount is certainly some place to 'get away from it all'. Set on four hectares of a semi-native block amid the Greenmount parish complex, the pre-school is ideal for children to develop naturally in a learning environment without the hustle and bustle of an over -stressed society. The vastness of their area outside is extended indide also in the huge but inviting preschool room. This ensures under-cover protection if the weather dictates, and provides ample area for children to have their mid-day relaxation period during their full day at the pre-school. O wing to the close proximity of the Salvatorian fathers, the children benefit from an informal rapport with the priests from time to time. The Record, March 2 — March 8, 1984

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MONASTERY MASS Mass broadcast on 6WN at 5 pm on Sunday March 11 is a youth Mass from the Redemptorist Church, North Perth. The monastery ministers to a wide congregation in this inner suburb of Perth, containing as it does, a retreat house used by many of the Christian denominations all the year round. This service is a youth Mass held every Sunday. The celebrant, Father John Hill is responsible for ministry to young people. The special intention of the Mass is for the Commonwealth of Nations Sunday, which is held throughout the nations of the Commonwealth.

Talk with Rod Evans

THANKS MY FRIEND proved herself to be WA's top 2 yo when she looked slightly unlucky in finishing second to Movie Maker in the rich Sunspeed Stakes. Thanks My Friend was blocked for a run in the straight but still beat the locals comfortably. This classy filly will win more races. NAVARONE showed signs of better things to come with his fast finishing victory at Ascot on Saturday. This widely travelled galloper now has the impressive record of 26 starts for 15 wins, three seconds and a third. Gallopers with high winning percentages such as this are punters' friends and should be followed. CHANGE OF FLIGHT surprised everybody with her fast finishing 3rd to After Dawn in the Sheila Gwynne Quality Stakes. Going into this race Change of Flight had recorded only one win, at Geraldton. Starting at long odds she finished only 3 , 4 length from causing a huge boil-over. This filly is obviously improving and she could be one to follow.

Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster

DOGS' CHANCE R ACE ONE: I Legatee. 2 System Six. 3 Gold Velocity. R ACE TWO: I Miss Troublety. 2 Yes I Will. 3 Special Vale. R ACE THREE: I Fire Water. 2 Aulfee. 3 Sal's Super Son. R ACE FOUR: 1 Spalding Lass. 2 Remo Princess. 3 Frankie Francis. R ACE FIVE: 1 Chinese Chief, 2 Ocean Blast. 3 Flying General.

RACE SIX. I Mull(' wa's Idol. 2 Candid Stal 3 Tidi Level. R ACE SEVEN: 1 Dat ville's Pride. 2 Temlock's Star. 3 Ondine Three. R ACE EIGHT: I Repeat Design. 2 Twilight Town. 3 Kema K han. R ACE NINE: I Hot Risk. 2 Brindle Avon. 3 News Item. R ACE TEN: I Colonial Style. 2 Family Leader. 3 Shahbanou.