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• Project compassion feature on needs of Third World countries. Pages 2 and 3. • Perth's Little Sisters of the Poor aim to raise $4 million in appeal, page 3. • Little Sisters' fete special feature page 5. • Frank Brennan Si, lawyer and land rights adviser, pages 10 and 11.
Catholic administrators have joined the protest by o ther churches at the expense and administrative cost of re-claiming the Financial Institutions Duty from which they are almost exempt.
This week a delegation of six churches will meet the State Attorney General Mr Berinson to s uggest that exemption be granted to actual receipts and not to the accounts as is presently required. Because the exemption applies to account the WA government c urrently requires each bank account to pay the FID tax and then to embark each quarter on a detailed and time consuming exercise to re-claim all but $20 of the tax that has been paid.
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The Sisters of St John of God working in Pakistan will be thankful to the Catholic parishes of Western Australia when they shortly receive this ambulance for work in the outback areas. In accordance with the Survive programme the funds raised have been spent locally in WA in purchasing and fitting out the vehicle so the donors can see the fruit of their efforts before the vehicle is sent overseas. This week Knights of the Southern Cross who have been helping in the appeal gathered to look over the vehicle from left: Jim Heslop, John Rossi, Bill Tucker, Kim Taggart, Allan Lean, Neville Ward. Laurie Phillips and Max Bowen. Front: Tom Corcoran and Phil Lloyd.
Brian Gore speaks from hospital By FATHER BRIAN MORRISON A fter the tension of the recent weeks, "something had to give, I suppose" Father Brian Gore told me on Tuesday night when 6KY phoned the Columban priest in hospital in Bacolod. "The tension yesterday, the build-up of pressure, the many visitors, this wild scene breaking out in the goal and my shouting at them to stop probably proved too much for my constitition" Father Gore said. A check with the doctor had shown no serious complaint and Father Gore said he was feeling better after a rest in the hospital where a guard is on duty outside his room and another inside the room. F ather Gore collapsed in the courtyard of the gaol while he was going for help for an inmate who had been stabbed in the back during the fracas amongst the prisoners early in the morning. 'It doesn't take much to trigger the prisoners when they are locked up like this" he said, describing how the previous night he had given away some leftover sandwhiches and shouting started between groups in two cells.
At lam he was awakened by the sound of some 30 men fighting in the courtyard and Father Gore said he screamed out as loud as he could to stop. The seriousness of the fight became apparent when one man collapsed at Father Gore's feet after being stabbed in the back. A s a result of the fight gaol authorities have confiscated many home made knives and weapons held by the prisoners. Commenting on his trial, Father Gore said his group was impressed by the way a top Philippines Lawyer was tearing the prosecution case apart. Already the prosecution lawyer has been caught out lying about consulting the court witness. "It shows what we are up against", said Father Gore. The toughest witness is a 27 year old man who is believed to have killed many people in the hills. "He is fighting for his life from the other end of things but our lawyer has put a lot of holes in his story and has been able to show that he has lied on many occasions."'
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Monsignor McCrann, archdiocesan chancellor, said his office was at present absorbing t he administrative costs but other church offices have not taken t he imposition so lightly.
Some churches have said that at least a part time and • in some cases a full time paid clerk has to he put on to handle the tabulating of hundreds of accounts whose transactions and the relevant FID tax already paid have to be researched and t hen forwarded to the government which then has to go through a long procedure to repay the money.
Interest Church administrators say this tax contribution running into thousands of dollars monthly is tied up and cannot gain interest while it is in the hands of the, government, thus adding to the further cost of the exercise • Cont page 12
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Russians printing Bibles MOSCOW: Archbishop Pitirim, head of the Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, said recently that the Russian Orthodox Church has had 70,000 Bibles printed in the USSR this year. From 1956 when Scriptures were published for the first time since 1917, the only time a larger amount was printed by any denomination in one year was in 1 976 when the Russian Orthodox C hurch reportedly printed 100,000 Bibles and 70,000 New Testaments. (1976 was the 100th anniversary of the printing of the Bible in .Russia ) Until now. the Russian Orthodox Church has printed only four editions of the Scriptures These were, in addition to the 1976 e dition, 50.000 Bibles and 25.000 New Testaments in 1956. possibly 30.000 Bibles between 1 968 and 1970 (of which it seems that about 20,000 were probably shared with the Baptists) and 50,000 Bibles and 50.000 New Testaments in 1979
Total Thus, the rather ar e total of 70.000 Bibles printed in 1983 in f act represents nearly a quarter of all the Bibles printed by the Russian Orthodox Church since 1917. In the past it has often been the case that significant quantities of Bibles printed in the Soviet Union have found their way abroad, either to overseas dioceses or as gifts for foreign visitors. The fact that the state has given the Russian Orthodox Church permission to print this number of Bibles is very much in line with its current treatment of official church life. Several small but significant concessions have been made recently to the official church. while repression of any church m ember voicing independent viewsorengaging in any independent (even legal) activity continues to be severe. — Kenton College Report
In a recent interview at the gaol with Mr Jeff Kildea of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace ( CCJR) Father Brian Gore said powerful local forces "have taken on the Catholic Church in Negros.... They want to keep the Church in Negros hostage." Father Gore said, "A case of this magnitude could never go ahead without the top political man in the region saying 'Get rid of them.' It suited him to go after Bishop Fortich by going after us. The big irritant to the empire of these people is the Catholic Church here in Negros. There is no doubt about that." Both Father Gore and Irish Columban Father Niall O'Brien are concerned that despite their innocence they have little chance of being acquitted. In an emotional plea for people to take the case seriously, Father O'Brien said, "We know this is for real . That they are going for the jugular. That they are not going to stop. That they are going to condemn us to death. That they are going to do it and nothing is going t o stop them. They are going to go through with this. They cannot now declare us innocent; ipsofacto our innocence is their guilt."
A letter from Father O'Brien Irish Columban, Father Niall O'Brien, on trial in the Philippines h as released to a Nedlands man, Brian Pringle, a letter he wrote from gaol. In the letter, Father O'Brien relates some of the treatment h e and Father Gore have received, and some of their fears f or their future. He said -Before we moved here to the provincial gaol we were living as guests of the military commander Col Francis Agudon at Philippine Constabulary HO Bacolod. While there surprise surprise who should we meet but the witnesses who are testifying against us and the wife of Indiape (witness no. 1) was doing Col Agudon's laundry'' , "Bolan° is gardener!' and Pancho the star witness arrived one morning (he lives at the gate of the PC compound) to pay back a debt of money he had contracted with Mayo de la Rama the batman
Father Gore said, "We know they are going to find us guilty. All we hope is that in the m eantime there is an awakening.
of Col Agudon -Mayo accompanied Agudon in arresting us and the military claim no interest in the case -Living in the prison with us is a man who was promised release if he could testify against us. He was threatened death if he would not Then he was brought by Agudon and Capt Mendoza (the investigator) to Assistant Fiscal Lindy Oiola's office and there Oiola took his hand and got him to thumb-mark a document 'ridging us -Later when they felt he wasn't going to be a good witness on the stand they left him in prison — since we eventually ended up in the same prison we got to know him although he is in a different c ell. One of the things that has not yet come out Is that I was a personal friend of Mayor Sole and in 20 years never had any fight or difference with him Pancho was my cook — he is the star witness In refusing bail the iudge said Pancho was Father O'Brien's confident.
"The scales are falling f rom the eyes of a lot of people "This case has crossed a lot of boundaries both political and religious." Negro produces sugar cane for export. The minimum wage for sugar w orkers is P22.50 ( SA1 .60) per day. However, not all plantation owners pay the minimum wage prescribed by law. • Cont page 12
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Last year, I visited a woman who had been relocated from a slum area to a new site not far f rom her husband's job. She welcomed me to her new house. "This is an impossible dream come true", she said.
The "impossible dream" was a small neat house of about 35 square metres. There were curtains and flowers in front.
by BISHOP JULIO LABAYEN, Bishop of Infanta, Luzon, who asks "what do people of the Third World want?"
The streets were drained and a wind blew from the sea. Actually, Third World people want a good bit less than you and I in food, housing etc., but they want them just as badly. What else do we want? Justice,I think. I'm not talking about world justice, but justice in our everyday life. We want to he respected, not despised; treated fairly, not cheated; spoken to and dealt with honestly, not tricked or manipulated; allowed freedom to relax and worship as we want, for e xample, and not be regimented. Pope Paul VI summed up this desire for what I have called justice in Octagesima Adveniens: "While scientific and t echnological progress continues to overturn man's surroundings. his patterns of knowledge, work, consumption and relationships, two aspirations persistently make themselves felt in
these new contexts, and they grow stronger to the extent that he becomes better informed and better educated: the aspiration to equality and the aspiration to participation, two forms of man's dignity and freedom" (Octagesima Adveniens, 22). Third World people want equality. Not all at once. But they want to see some of the huge abuse between rice and poor bridged, not just in terms of money but also in education, medical care, treatment before the courts. The sooner, the better. T hey also want participation. They want some real share in making the decisions affecting their lives. They are tired of being evicted from squatter areas
where they have lived and given birth for 30 years because a government thinks their houses are an eyesore. They are tired of accepting whatever salary management care to give at the end of a day.
working Tired, too, of working daylong in the fields to see the real wealth go to the l andowners who do nothing. And so they start their squatter, worker, farmer organisations to battle for a fairer arrangement. When these basic needs are won I think a deep hunger will be revealed in our 'Third World people for a life that
is more neighbourly, cooperative, unselfish and noncompetitive. Remember, most Third World people are still at or only one generation away from the simple life of the village. Sharing, taking care of one another in times of trouble, joint pride in a village mate's success are very much in their blood. I remember talking to a member of the Kalinga mountain people. This is a tribe that has successfully resisted the government's efforts to build dams on their land that would submerge their ancestral fields and villages. "No one goes hungry in this village-, he told me. "We are forbidden to sell rice outside so there is always enough for the sick
$4 mil aim for sisters The Little Sisters' annual fete, to be held next Sunday, is a popular and important part of the drive to raise a massive $4 million-plus to build the new home for the aged at Glendalough.
It will include the ever popular giant auction and the draw of a raffle which offers as first prize a P&O South Pacific cruise for two. Other fund raising is done through a 'buy a brick' scheme, canvassing of businesses and doorknocking by the
Big project for home towards the rehabilfor aged ities itation of returned nuns — an arduous and unfortunatley less profitable exercise in recent times. However, for many years after their arrival in WA the Little Sisters received help from an apparently unlikely source — the Ugly Men's Voluntary Workers Association of WA. Now defunct, the association was in fact an active charitable organisation which directed a major part of its activ-
servicemen during and after World War I. Behind the daunting title were some prominent citizens of the day, including the late P.A. Connolly (winner of the first ugly man competition), Father Tom Crowley (parish priest of Highgate and runner-up in the competition), H. Boan, A. Barrington, D. Dwyer, A.J. Levy, H.W. Mann (MLA), R.K. Buscombe and Bill Bryant.
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and poor. If a man is sick, we farm his fields. If he dies, the village takes care of his children". These communal values are seen most clearly among tribal people, as I said in the first article in this series, but they are just beneath the skins of all of us. Every poor Third World person has this longing for a simpler, more compassionate way of life. Lastly, I think Third World people want a life shared with God. It is certainly true in Asia, which I know best, but I'm sure it's also true in Africa and Latin America. God is most real to poor farmers and fishermen. They have deep faith. It is the deepest form of Biblical faith that may be expressed in the words: "I know You hold me all times in the hollow ofYour Hand". Critics say this faith is often an opiate, encouraging acceptance of injustice, fatalism and apathy. That maybe so at times, but that is not the faith or the life with God the poor want. They want a faith that is free, dignified, challenging, closer to that relationship
Adam, a farmer, had with God whom he met walking in the garden in the twilight. In the concrete, if they know of them, they want Basic Christian Communities where they can worship and live with God asavillage with their own people, celebrating the services, and organising their lives. These desires of the Third World poor have not been arranged according to my own thinking. I have followed the thoughts of Pope Paul VI in his encyclical, Populorum Progressio, where he presents people's needs in a sort of hierarchy: "Conditions that are more human: the passage from misery towards the possession of necessities, victory over social scourges, the growth of knowledge, the acquisition of culture. "Additional conditions that are more human: increased esteem for the dignity of others, the turning toward the spirit of poverty, cooperation for the common good, the will and desire for peace. "Conditions that are still more human: the acknowledgement by man of supreme value, and of God
their source and their finality. "Conditions that, finally and above all, are more human: will of man, and unity in the charity of Christ, Who calls us all to share as sons in the life of the living God, the Father of all men." ( Populorum Progressio, 21) It might be good to end this article by talking of some of the things the Third World poor do not want. Like ordinary people everywhere, they do not want violence. If you read that ordinary poor farmers support an armed revolution then you can be sure that every peaceful means of solution has failed and that they have decided to fight to preserve whatever bit of life and dignity is left. Poor people are interested in ideology or party politics only in so far as they bring closer the secure, free, sharing life they want to live. They want the dream of socialism — and who does not? — but not hatred and warfare. They don't expect or even want charity. They want a fair chance to build their Wes by themselves.
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Two monks celebrate a Silver Jubilee
Record This week The Record departs from usual newspaper practice and prints in full a talk given in Perth two weeks ago by a Jesuit who has made a special study of the Aboriginal land rights question. Newspapers rarely reproduce speeches for the reason that people simply do not read them no matter what they boast about of their reading prowess. In the case of Mr Frank Brennan SJ a good number of potential readers have indicated they would like to study his remarks a little more closely. The sales of The Record will indicate whether this hope is well placed. O thers indulge in the fantasy that material should be printed — for the supposed benefit of others — when it wholeheartedly agrees with their viewpoint but not so when the wind blows from another direction. This clarification is made so that the status of the remarks of Mr Brennan can be appreciated. His is not a 'Catholic' view of the question. But it is the view of a Catholic person who deserves attention because he has devoted much of his professional legal expertise, a s well as his religious dedication, to examining the question in several states of Australia, especially in Queensland where the Catholic bishops retained him as their adviser. To that extent he was a guest of Archbishop Foley who believes it is his duty to help Catholics, in the light of their faith to make an appropriate response to the Seaman enquiry. Although Catholics have been and will continue to be actively involved in service to Aborigines there is not necessarily a 'Catholic' position on specific suggestions that may result from the land rights investigation. Frank Brennan pointed out that it is not the task of the Church to speak for Aborigines. They have the right and duty to speak for themselves. However the Church has the gospel duty to speak in support of those who are having a difficult time getting their legitimate voice heard. In that sense it is a Catholic duty to form a view of a question that unfortunately is fast disappearing beyond the limits of a rational discussion. The politicisation of the discussion adds no lustre to either major political party which have both shown their a deptness at calling snap elections for political opportunism, thereafter claiming that three-week electioneering at the level of soap advertisements gives a mandate to their pre-election promises, half promises and outright lies.
While there is no reason to believe so, the Labor government will be presumptious about the attitude of people if the Seaman Enquiry is used for no more than window dressing for decisions that are already taken in other quarters. The Liberal Party will do no public service if it does not admit that among its supporters are those who have a different view. The discussion is further blurred because no two commentators appear to be talking about the same aspect of the subject at the same time. The electric phrase Land Rights can apparently mean anything from excising vast territories, to purchasing pastoral holdings, to writing open cheques on unknown minerals, through to pegging St George's Terrace as a sacred site. The confusion is not made any easier if Aboriginal land rights is seen as the quick cure for country brawls, debilitating alcoholism, degraded housing and urban alienation — all of which will easily be the lot of white unemployed if the drift in Western society continues. Least of all do the Aborigines need to be loaded with the views of those who see land rights as convenient sticks with which to beat the mining and resource industries from another quarter. Therefore a Catholic could well begin his examination of the subject by accepting that the word justice is open to many interpretations. Those who support land rights — and the term is admittedly vague — may feel they are being just in the best scriptural sense. There is no infallible interpreter of justice and those who for other reasons believe that land rights - equally a vague term -- will not advance Aboriginal status in this country may believe they are also trying to establish a just and peaceful community. Until such diametrically opposed views on such a basic moral matter are somehow reconciled, the apparent benefit of Aborigines of any solution will be weakened. The second area where Catholics ought to help the discussion is that of the sacredness of land. It is some indication of the inroads that secularisation is made on our society that any plea for sacredness has been reduced to a party joke. It is nobody's fault that even those heroic Catholics who worked so hard alongside Aborigines for over a century may have found some difficulty in reconciling sacred as an Aboriginal concept with that which had evolved in a Western Christian mentality. The Catholic religion does not have to apologise for the fact that it preaches salvation in and through the person of Jesus Christ and all sacredness ought eventually to find its truth in Him. On the other hand reverential respect for the strivings of others to find sacredness within their culture is one of the qualities that emerged during the Second Vatican Council. Aboriginal land rights is not only about repaying a debt to the past. It is the discovery of a solution for the future for no better than it is what God our Father expects us to do with the earth He gave us.
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by DOM FRANCIS BYRNE OSB
Two Benedictine monks who celebrated the Silver Jubilee of their monastic profession at New Norcia last Saturday were Abbot Bernard Rooney O SB and Dom Benedict Mudd OSB. A large crowd of parishioners and friends attended a Mass o f Thanksgiving in the Abbey Church. Abbot Bernard was born in S ydney in 1934 and educated at the Christian Brothers College, Lewisham. He went on to study law at Sydney University and later spent five years with the NSW Registrar General's Office.
Brother Manion responds to the jubilee toast proposed by Brother Seaman A t Clontarf last S unday night Brother Casimir M anion cele b rated his 50 y ears as a Christian Brother at Mass celebrated by Father Barry Whitely and later a t a buffet attended by more t han 50 of his confreres. B rother Man ion's first appointment to WA was in
Brother Manion celebrates a 50 1952 at Fremantle followed by p eriods at Kalgoorlie, Highgate, A quinas, St George's Terrace and Trinity. H e served 10
years at Leederville where he played a big part in the Catholic s chools drama movement. He returned to F remantle in
1973, Highgate in 1974 and rejoined Trinity in 1982. He is a former chairmanof the Churches' Commission on Education.
In 1953 he served with the RAAF. Four years later he c ame to Western A ustralia to join t he Benedictine c ommunity at New Norcia. He was ordained priest in 1964 and then did some liturigicaI studies in Rome. He became Abbot in 1974. He is now retired and finds more time to devote to caring for his aboriginal brothers and sisters both in Perth and the country. A talented artist, he has r ecently won prizes at shows within the shire. Dom Benedict Mudd was born in Brisbane in 1931. He was educated at the Primary State School in Killarney, Qld., and later a t the Sacred Heart College in Toowoomba. He took e high seas with the Royal A ustralian Navy where he trained a sa rad i o electrician. He spent seven years with the Navy before entering New Norcia in 1958. D om Benedict has many skills and is talented in carpentry and joinery, photography, letterpress printing and artistic work. F or many years he taught at Salvado College and also worked as librarian there.
Benedictine monks Abbot Bernard Rooney OSB (left) and Dom Benedict Mudd OSB who celebrated their Silver Jubilee of monastic profession at New Norcia last week.
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He is a familiar face to many guests who come to stay at New Norcia or those who are just passing through.
Little Sisters' fete feature rIt is fete time again
at the home for the aged at beautiful Glendalough. People from all over the metropolitan area will be there to get the bargains and be entertained on Sunday March 25 between 12.30 and 5 pm. Patrons will be impressed with the new fete site. All the stalls will be situated in the garden area on the Powis Star southern side of the home. The new nursing home and day care centre forms a beautiful backdrop. The W.A. Police pipe band will give musical entertainment for all. Regular features such as the giant auction, white elephant, handicraft, cakes and plant stalls, afternoon teas, bingo and wheels will provide plenty for the adults For the children there will be lucky dips, pony rides and constant entertainment from Bonzo the clown. All funds raised at the fete are channelled directly to the Homy for the Aged.
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A giant auction In 1979 an auction was heldinconjunction with the fete. Some 80 items were sold and realised in excess of $ 500. Since then the auction has become a regular feature, and has raised, in total, approximately $10,500. Auctioneer Geoff Smith said the number and variety of articles for sale depends largely on the generosity of local people. If past years may be used as a guide, upward of 250 items will go under the hammer at the fete. Items of interest for sale this year include: • An illustrated edition of the works of Robert Burns (1870 period) and other old books. • An 1873 German 20 Mark coin. • Two writing desks. • Three fox furs in asnew condition. • A full length Volkswagon van roof rack
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'Socialist' label is Aborigines big misnomer reluctant from John C VESZELY Nollamara
Because of the combination of an expanded Sir, It is not unexpected that a marxist is an atheist. through strike actions and marxists and apologists of the Christ was not atheist; nor endless disputes arranged by news coverage and associated production from Soviet Union or communism was He or could be a socialist socialist, communists the difficulties, priority in future will be given C. Eileen LALOR, Sorrento from Mrs Ercil WILLIAMS, use the Catholic press in their in today's political sense. He better for the class-struggle to double-spaced typewritten or handrelentless pursuit to subvert was a great supporter of the cause. Armadale. Sir, Whilst sympathising with printed letters of 150 words or less. Letters Sir, Why do the Aborigines believers. downstrodden and the poor For that reason the poor the Parish representatives in south of the Kimberleys seem When Patrick D'Cruz re- but he did not preach, as the should stay poor. Even after must include a name and address, not their drive to raise funds for reluctant to enter a church? minded people: "Christ Him- socialist-communist-marxists r evolutions! There are more necessarily for publication, and be at The the A.C.R., I do not approve Inoticed this first in Pinjarra self was a socialist", had he preach, class hatred or class poor people in the USSR after of this project taking the place Monday Record morning office by week the in 1939 where five children stated his qualification, his struggle. 60 years of "liberation" than of the weekly homily given of publication. and teenagers use to creep affiliation, with the Australian- He preached LOVE. Love thy anywhere else. the priest as an integral part in after Mass started, sat in USSR Society, the readers neighbour, was His motto, not: D'cruz cannot explain why of the Eucharistic celebration the back row and crept out would have been better placed kill the capitalist dog, terrorise people flee the communist I suggest a large placard be before the end of Mass. to evaluate his letter. He did the rich! dictatorships. They do not flee placed in the church porch They reminded me of a dog not do that, albeit unethical Socialists, marxists, commu- the Western countries. Today and maybe a poster inside the who knew he was not allowed perhaps, but no crime in a free nists on the other hand do not there are more than some 13 church for all to see. inside. Did they feel intruders? country. sympathise with the poor. million people waiting to be If this doesn't loosen the from Trevor BOARDMAN, A fter a while they stopped He knows as well as I do, that They USE THEM! The longer r e -settled in capital ist purse strings of those who can Fremantle coming. a socialist is a marxist, that t hey suffer, sometimes countries. a fford it go to the Catholic Ihave lived at Victoria Park, Sir, Patrick D'Cruz (The schools where a good percenKalgoorlie, Leonora, Pinjarra, Record, March 2) says not to tage of the children come from Guildford and Armadale and -confuse socialism with either small families or well these are the only Aborigines communism," presumably to do parents, and even the I have seen at Mass. At because we know how satannon-Catholics attending these Armadale I have not noticed ically evil communism is, schools may be encouraged any at the Catholic primary whereas he asserts that the to give to the poor as they use schools. Why? Divine Son of God "was a the school from Claremont Paul DONNELLY, The Catholic missionaries socialist"; despite the fact that In the Parish where I attend have given years of their lives S ir, "Are the privileged This may be because parents There is an awareness socialist ideology was first Mass, it is a fact that a goodly to them and must be very Catholics who at great ex- look for academic, athletic and amongst educationists for a concocted — purportedly by percentage of Sunday Mass pense pray in their own even social success from spiritual dimension in educa- satanists — not long before disappointed goers, do not receive the When I went to Mass in classrooms any the richer for Catholic schools while their tion and thus a great oppor- the French Revolution of the Encharist. It really saddens Broome recently I was t he experience," asks your children find no joy in religion tunity for the Church in 1 790's. Lenin was apparently fi- and surprises me. amazed to find little had editorial of March 2. associated with the compul- conjunction with those many nanced in 1917 (for invest- They are mostly young changed as far as the Catholic The pope in respect of Italian sions of education. parents of Catholic children ment purposes) by German marrieds, and are entitled to Writings Church was concerned where Catholic schools in the same Perhaps then the millions of in State schools to lead in this bankers Trotsky by American hear the word of God when whites at Mass were still i ssue thinks that Italian dollars which the Church in work. bankers, with some wealthy they make this effort, with children are richer: but there Western Australia is spending outnumbered. In 1905 Lenin wrote. -The Britons contributing as well. their children. The elderly natives especially is doubt that this holds for on new schools is good money Our fortress Catholic school m odern class-conscious Mr D'Cruz seeks to lend One must also consider the appeared to be there because Australian Catholic schools. thrown after bad and we concept does not seem to. be worker . . . contemptuously weight to his thesis by effec30,000 Catholic children they really loved it. It was not There is considerable doubt would better be spending succeeding; thus, as in the casts aside religious prejudi- tively implying that Father a ttending government about the religious practice more modest sums on train- parable of the King's Wedding ces, leaves heaven to the Brian Gore is a socialist. a duty. schools. Candidly I felt they had of our school leavers and their ing and providing the cha- Feast, we need to go out into priests and bourgeois bigots That would be contradictory, somethingIhad lost or never Christian convictions do not plaincy services for State high the high schools and State . . . [and] takes the side of since neither those who really possessed extend to providing vocations schools about which Mrs primary schools in search of socialism, which enlists exploit workers in the Union The southern Aborigines in sufficient numbers for the Margaret Williams speaks in the workers the Church so science in the battle against of Soviet Socialist -Repubhave had their New Norcia work of the Church. her letter. sorely needs. the fog of religion, and frees lics,- nor those who exploit t raining so why the the workers from their belief Filipino cane-cutters, like the difference? in life after death by welding idea of Christian dignity being Do we white Catholics give them together to fight in the instilled within those whom them a feeling they are not present for a better life on t hey oppress in order to wanted in church? earth.underpay. SMIIIIIM111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111=11111111W from Miss V WALL, Ardross The Daughters of Charity H.N. Watney (The Record a-NEED YOUR HELP February 24) could find in St F. Matthew's gospel the mantot their work for the development of the from George PURBRICK, Belmont date "for the Columban t inderonyileged missionaries w combat represSir, Despite the claim of have room to spare, take him Patrick D'Cruz (The Record into your home. If you see URGENTLY NEEDED sion etc:" March 2) Jesus was neither someone too poor to clothe "Happy are those who from FRANCIS HRUBOS, Glen Forrest Clothing, clean, wearable, — house -hold socialist nor capitalist, sure himself give him something hunger and thirst for what is Sir, Patrick D'Cruz (The Record March 2) who is an = s goods - nick-nacks — ornaments, both of those philosophies are from your own wardrobe. right; they shall be satisfied. official of the Australia — USSR Friendship Society jewellery, etc. Happy the merciful; they shall based on materialistic values. Never count the cost and ought to know that in the Philippines it is the communists Deliver rEg never expect anything in have mercy shown them. who are going around and terrorising the countryside. What Jesus expounded was 5 34 William Street, Highgate r eturn. Everything done is Happy the peacemakers; they On behalf of socialism? fraternalism based on spiritual For Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 done purely for love because shall be called Sons of God I would excuse his ignorance on account of his provalues. He did not suggest that Country goods marked donation Happy those who are prosethe one you are helping is your Soviet leanings or if he could convince me he was a the welfare of the poor, the brother or sister. You have a cuted in the cause of right; member of the crew on the manned Soviet satellite, sick, the widowed etc should theirs is the kingdom of common Father in heaven. An had or lived for some time in the Union Soviet where be handed over to the imperaffectionate Father that Jesus heaven." the population is denied the chance to hear the opinion sonal State so that we could In St Matthew 25 the King says we should call Abbe. of the free world without the broadcasting being jammed. pay our taxes and consider we If we share and help each will say.. ". . . Iwas hungry and He stated our Lord Jesus Christ was a socialist. Marx had fulfilled our obligations. other, that affectionate Father you gave me food" etc. was also a socialist but he hated our Lord and all religions. What He did teach was will see that we in turn are Father Gore has been seekThe teaching of our Lord is teaching of love. person to person charity. If you cared for. ing justice through basic Marx's teaching is one of hate, retribution, terror, have more than enough food Even if we see our brother communities with enough oppression etc. Patrick ought to hear about Communist Contact LENS CONSULTANTS and someone up the road has as an enemy (Red commie or land for the poor Filipinos to Manifesto. It used to be freely available to the friends none, share yours with him. true blue Tory?— we are to produce their own food and of the USSR. PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE 321 8151 If you see an orphan, and you extend him that same love. not be forced to grow exporMarx's theories are the guiding principles only not PERTH 154 WILLIAM STREET 321 5304 table products for rich of communists but also of socialists all over the world. COTTESLOE 19 NAPOLEON STREET 384 5605 landowners. Despite many theories irrelevant to modern society FREMANTLE 30 MARKET STREET 335 2602 "The King will answer: In so they are still strictly adhered to. Conservatism at its far as you did this to one of best. I would advise Patrick to keep his misguided ideas from A CLUNE, Midland the least of these brothers of to himself and perhaps brainwash his company Sir, Avarice has been regarded as the vice of old age. mine you did it to me." "friends". But in today's world it is found in all age groups. In Australia, there are continuous strikes for more with good old-fashioned hospitality and more. Greed, strikes are the nation's curse — callous country-style accommodation at most selfish and perverse. 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Finding mandate in gospel
DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup
Belfast has a Priest 'Subversive' Russian trains peace centre held MOSCOW: Soviet railway personnel are turning a blind eye to questionable literature being sold on trains, according to a letter published in the newspaper Inestia last month. "Travelling recently on a train between Oryol and Yelets," writes war veteran A. Gridnev, "I witnessed a puzzling event." It appears a young man b oarded the train and openly displayed "photographs which were questionable both in subject m atter and authenticity, a nd most importantly —
very poorly produced." Gridnev says that not only did the man display these objectionable objects in his carriage, but leaving the "photographs" to be studied by prospective clients, the young man then went into the next carriage t o distribute his "wares" further. Upon his return, writes G ridnev, "those passengers who wished to buy f rom him enquired about prices." T he "travelling salesman" (as Gridnev dubs him) replied only by raising
one or two fingers "meaning one or two roubles". Only now does the reader of lzvestiya draw closer to the revelation of the nature of the "questionable subject matter".
It is not, as one might think, pornography. "...I asked him," writes war veteran Gridnev, "what i s this religious feast 'Presentation of Christ, and where is it celebrated, in what locality?' The travelling salesman...glared at me, snatched
the depiction of the saint from my hands, and hurried off." Clearly the other passengers did not share A. Gridnev's chagrin, which w as to be further aggravated, for, as he writes: "Others came after him, and each one had a goodly a mount of this sort of merchandise." In closing, Gridnev expresses concern that railway personnel seem to turn a bl ind eye at "such commerce". C an it be that they participate in the profits?
A huge $250m pay out The R OME (NC) Vatican plans to pay $ 250 million as part of a settlement in the Banco Ambrosiano case, said Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, a member of the Council of Cardinals advising the Vatican o n f i nanci a l problems. Cardinal Krol is the first church official to be quoted publicly about terms of the settlement. He was interviewed by NC news service in Rome after attending a meeting of the financial advisory council. Cardinal Krol said negotiations involving Italian banking authorities, Vatican officials and officials of A mbrosiano's creditor banks would likely culminate in a meeting to formalise a Vatican decision to pay three instalments to the creditor banks. Corollary of the payment would be a quit claim that no further action would be
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taken against the Vatican hank, said Cardinal Krol. He added the money was likely to be raised by loans and repaid by the Vatican hank out of its future earnings. Previously, Vatican sources had said a Vatican payment would be made for "Goodwill" purposes although the Vatican considers itself to have no legal responsibility in the Ambrosiano case. Cardinal Krol is one of 14 members of the council of cardinals for the study of the organisational and economic problems of the holy See. ROME: New stamps being issued by the Vatican this year include a set commemorating the centenary of the death of the A ugustinian biologist Johann Gregor Mendel. There are also stamps commemorating the fifth centenary of the death of St Casimir, patron of Lithuania; a series commemorating the 1600th anniversary of the death of Pope St Damasus; and a series in honour of cultural and scientific institutions. There will also be issues recalling the journeys of Pope John Paul.
BELFAST, (NC) — In Belfast, a city known for its violence and political tensions, the Irish Council of Churches and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace has opened a peace education resource centre. The president of the commission, Auxiliary Bishop Dermot O 'Mahony of Dublin. Ireland, said at the opening ceremony p eace education has broken down prejudice and removed misunderstanding more effectively than any other means. A year ago the ICC and the Catholic commission launched a peace education programme for children aged 8 to 12 years. It has been implemented in many schools in Ireland and Northern Ireland and has prepared educational materials for
older children and adult discussion groups. The new centre is at the headquarters of the ICC, with which the main Protestant churches are affiliated As well as providing a library, the centre will give information and advice about promoting peace through education. It will also organise seminars and publish a newsletter for distribution
CAPE TOWN — Nearly t hree months after his arrest, the secretary of the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference has been charged under a s ection of the Ciskei internal security Act covering terrorism and the distribution of subversive literature. F ather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was arrested at Fort Hare on October 30 He was remanded in custody.
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What does Project Compassion mean to me? "We've been farming this land since 1939, and although there have been had years,1982 was the worst of the lot. "Not one grain of wheat harvested in the entire district. "Somehow we got through, and of course, we didn't starve.I even managed to have a game of golf most weekends, and a couple of beers. "Then I saw pictures of the drought in Africa, and realised just how lucky we were. They don't have the resources and support to help them through like I did. "It made me think. So I suggested to my mates at the club that we chip in for our fellow farmers in Africa. It the least a bloke can do."
He said the council was "still pushing" for fuller disclosure of Vatican finances and had recommended an independent audit of the Vatican bank as a step in that process. Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank, collapsed in 1982 under had debts totalling 1.2 billion Its president, Roberto Calvi. was later found hanged under a London bridge. A British court was unable to determine whether his death was suicide or murder. Later in 1982. Vatican secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli said the Vatican through an "abuse of trust," had become unwittingly involved by Calvi in the bad debts. The Council of cardinals met February 27 — March 2. A Vatican press release at the conclusion of the meeting said participants had "an ample exchange of opinions" on the Vatican bankambrosiano affair and that "in their own time the competent departments will f urnish adequate information." The Vatican release estimated the deficit from the Vatican's 1984 central administrative operations would be $31 million.
Now in its 15th year, the African drought has been devastatingly cruel. 16 million people in 24 countries face starvation and disease as a result of crop failures in Tanzania, Ghana, Somalia and Ethiopia. Only urgent action can avoid the toll rising. Through Project Compassion, Australian Catholic Relief is assisting church agencies in providing aid to those so much in need. They are our brothers and sisters. And they desperately need our support. MB MIMN MIEli---MBI=I=MIMI
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I hate to say this, but the Jordan River where Jesus was baptised by John looks an awful lot like the Bronx River in New York City. I first saw the Jordan River as I crossed from the country of Jordan into the Israeli -occupied West Bank. The water itself was dark, almost brown in colour. It moved slowly. The river could not have been more than 20 feet wide at the Allenby Bridge where I crossed. On first view, today's reality of the river as a border between an occupied territory and Jordan stunned me. I sat in silence with the rest of my group as our bus was stopped at the r iver. A Jordanian solder entered the bus, gave us a cheerful greeting in English and checked our passports. He could have been a train conductor except for the machine gun h anging from his shoulder. From the bus window I could see a sandbag a nd cement bunker with more automatic w eapons pointed across the river. We crossed into the West Bank. The narrow wooden bridge with no side rails seemed like one of the many small bridges that cross winding streams. I heard the same soft, bumping n oise as the tires moved over the uneven wooden timbers. But the Allenby Bridge has a 12 -inch -wide white line painted sideways across its centre point. The border. And on the other side? Again, a sandbag and cement bunker, inspection by soldiers and machine guns pointed across the river toward the border guards we had just left. Several days later we returned to the Jordan River upstream to visit the place that is, reportedly, the actual site of Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist. Not until t hen, when I actually walked into the water myself, did I reflect on the importance of the area as recorded by all four gospel writers. And whether that spot is the actual site or not is unimportant to the reality that is commemorated there: that God became man and went out to actively teach and serve the people. I always have found the gospel accounts of Jesus and John at the Jordan appealing. I like the image of Jesus a pproaching John, even surprising him perhaps, asking to be baptised, then going off into the unpleasant heat and dirt of the desert for 40 days, where he was tempted. The scene puts Jesus' humanity and divinity in focus for me. He is divine, yet He seeks baptism. He is divine, yet He is tempted. And
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all of that before beginning his ministry among the people. This beginning of Jesus' public involvement in the life of people speaks to our own human attempts to live as he did, to find a way to balance the paradoxes in our individual lives and in the larger world. Now at this spot one
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finds a famous border. The tensions reflected in this border are such that they preoccupy the world's top leaders. It makes a person think. In common with other Christians, I struggle to find ways to cross the borders so easily established in personal life. They serve as dividing lines, pitting self-centered ways against the
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needs of others for love and attention. In common with other Christians, I also struggle with the reality of guns pointing at guns across the many -white lines" throughout the world, and with the opposing viewpoints those borders reflect. And I wonder, what does it take today to be a peacemaker?
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Jesus was not quite what John expected the Messiah to be. Jesus spoke so much of mercy, forgiveness and healing, reserving most hard words for the powerful, especially those who used public office for their own private good. To the ordinary people, most of whom were poor, His voice was one of comfort. the city, too. The crowd is peppered with people from there. The first major character to appear in the story a lmost startles the reader. Is this the way he dresses2 a few people ask. His clothing is unusual. It is said that what he eats is unusual too. But then he has come f rom the desert. the man wears the skin of an animal and a leather belt around his waist. His name is John. He would definitely stand out in any crowd. Does he remind these people of the prophets of long ago? There h aven't been any prophets around this river for a long time, the reader suspects. W hatever, John creates a sense of vague discomfort in the r eader. The people
For Mark, "the story of Jesus must begin with John if it is to be told correctly; how one understands Jesus is linked to how one understands John." (Paul Achtemeier in the book "Invitation to Mark," 1978) "The deepest desire of any man or woman who thinks is to make sense out of life. Many people do not feel that they can do this. ,.It is relevant to talk of Jesus Christ because the people who met him found in their experience of him the clue we all seek." (Father Edmund Flnnd in
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of the social order will make matters worse for the people. Some people are looking for a new, powerful leader who will put an end to what almost seems like slavery to them. This day will prove disppointing for some of the people, who have begun to pin their hopes for the future on John. Others will be surprised, still others will think "I knew it" when the popular desert preacher says he is simply a messenger preparing the way for
someone else; that even baptism will one day supersede this one. John's manner does not escape the crowd's notice. It is as if John thinks he is preparing them for someone of r eal importance: a nother prophet? a king? Now the story's writer introduces a second character. He is a man in the crowd that day. His name is Jesus. John baptises him. But that's not all. When the baptism takes place you get the impression there is something earthshaking about the moment. The reader now suspects, correctly, that this story is really about Jesus. The writer has created a sense that there is more to the events on his first page than meets the eye. There is a sense, too, that something big is at stake.
The story of Jesus has not grown old. In fact, people still are strongly drawn to it. Why? During the weeks of Lent, our series focuses on Jesus. The story begins this week at the Jordan, with John the Baptist. The story of John — a voice crying in the wilderness — holds more meaning than people often suspect. David Gibson writes that the way the events at the Jordan are told in the Gospels indicates to readers that something important is at stake in the story that will unfold on the following pages. The story begins the way good books begin and the reader's interest is captured on the first page. Gibson is editor of the Know Your Faith series. Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke thinks that one message hidden in the story of John the Baptist is that God is a God of surprises. The way God is revealed in Jesus must have surprised John the Baptist. Father O'Rourke is with the Family Life Office in the Diocese of Oakland, California. Suzanne Elsesser tells of her recent visit to the Jordan River. The spot where Jesus was baptised is now a tensionfilled border; the attention of the whole world is focused on it. Ms Elsesser is with the South Bronx Pastoral Center in New York. Father John Castelot offers some fascinating historical insights about John the Baptist. The prophet, he observes, did not escape the attention of Josephus, an ancient historian.
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crowd around him. He is intriguing, to say the least, But is he really that compelling? What makes him so compelling? T here are unanswered questions here: t hings to be known about the people who came out to hear what John had to say — their motives, their expectations; things to be k nown about John himself — his background, the meaning behind his words. You have to read on. A mystery unfolds as the pages of a book are turned. It can't be given away completely on the first page. But the scene can be set. Questions — and a sense of anticipation can be raised. Clues can be hidden on the first page. John was baptising the people in the river. He called it a baptism of repentance. And he was talking with them about their way of life and their hopes for the future. It is well-known that these people live in a nation occupied by a foreign power. As in a such situation, the forces at work among the people are complex, Some people want to overthrow the occupying forces. Some people fear that a disturbance
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(Maybe Lent is a time to look for and listen to a voice that is already speaking to you — speaking in a way you hadn't e xpected.)
The storyI want to tell you about begins with a flourish. The reader's full attention is captured on the story's first page. In fact, it immediately becomes apparent that all the elements of a good book are here — one that will hold a reader's interest. The setting is in the country, near a river. A large crowd is present. The story's writer indicates that everyone i n the surrounding c ountryside knows about what has been happening at the river. Everyone is interested,
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feet below Jerusalem in the lowest spot on earth. The r ugged slope in between is a badlands of eroded peaks and canyon walls.
"I always have found the Gospel accounts of Jesus and John at the Jordan appealing," Suzanne Elsesser writes, "I like the image of Jesus approaching John, even surprising him perhaps, asking to be baptised. The scene puts Jesus' humanity and divinity in focus. He is divine, yet he seeks baptism."
It was in this hostile land, far from the c omforts of the capital, that John the Baptist began his preaching. This is where Jesus began his public ministry after his baptism by John. J ohn obviously caught the imagination of his time. For "all Jerusalem" made the difficlut trek down to the Jordan to see him. Jesus called him the greatest of the prophets. John was a formidable figure, calling people to reform their lives. His graphic preaching of the doom to come either pushed
or scared many people to repent. Y et on one very important point —the k ind of Messiah to e xpect — John must have been surprised. This great reformer — this man, who devoted his entire life to God and who had the privilege of heralding the Messiah —looked at the teaching and ministry of Jesus and did not find what he had t hought he would f ind. John was steeped in the language and traditions of the Old Testament. He looked for God to show himself t hrough Jesus in ways that would fit the pattern of what he expected. But he looked and waited in vain. Where was the vengeance a nd the sword?
"The deepest desire of any man or woman who thinks is to make sense out of life." They sense that life is good and that it holds great potential. "But they can find in it no certain clue as to its purpose." However, the people who met Jesus "found in their experience of Him the clue we all seek. Their main impression of Him was that He made sense of life." With those thoughts, Benedictine Father Edmund Flood introduced a little book he wrote a few years back titled "Jesus and His Contemporaries. Why do you think people continue to tell the story of Jesus? Why does it continue to fascinate? What makes it so compellng? • He had a penetrating message that people could live by. That's part of the reason people continue to turn to Jesus. His message itself attracts. • Millions upon millions of people over the course of 2000 years have felt the impact of Jesus on their faith. There is a desire to get back to the person, to understand this person, who so greatly influenced the world's course. Yet those reasons don't fully explain why people still want to know the story of Jesus. • Interest in the message — what he said — is only part of the explanation. • Interest in the past — in what happened 2000 years ago — also offers only a partial explanation. For Christians, Jesus is more than a message. He is someone, a person. As such, the potential for a relationship with Jesus draws many people to His story. Again, Jesus is not simply someone from the past. To Christians, He is very much in the present. Curiosity about past historical developments does not suffice to explain the interest in Jesus. Perhaps no person can ever be fully known. One is always getting to know the other person, never exhausting all that the other person means. This helps to explain the inexhaustible interest in Jesus. It helps to explain why the Church literally never stops telling the story of Jesus. For people continue to want to know what happened 2000 years ago, what the message was — and what this helps to reveal about the meaning of Jesus today. People continue to want to know how this person named Jesus helps them to discover the purpose in their own lives.
Where was the c leansing fire? Even from his prison cell where King Herod had locked him up. John sent followers to a sk Jesus, "Are you ' he who is to come' or are we to look for a nother?" Jesus was not quite what John expected the Messiah to be. Jesus spoke so much of mercy, forgiveness a nd healing, reserving most hard words to the powerful, especially those who used public office for their own private good. To the ordinary people, most of whom were poor, his voice was one of comfort. A reading of Scripture and the history of the church lets us know that the unexpected — the surprise — is often God's way. We approach God in our own ways and those ways reflect our prejudices, our personal histories, and our limitations. Left to our own devices we would end up creating a God in our image. But we are not left to our own devices. God c omes to us and comes in God's way, not ours. This changes us. W hen I was ordained a priest 20 years ago, I anticipated that my ministry would be the orderly and predictable life of a seminary professor. Yet somehow I was drawn into the lives of a group of s ocial ly and rel i giously marginal people, who attended Mass at our seminary. These people were poor, some of them e mot ional ly distressed and their children often in trouble. I spend as much time in the hospital emergency room, the juvenile hall and the courtroom as I did in the classroom. Y et it was in these unanticipated situations that I felt I began to understand my priesthood. Seeing how much my presence meant to people going through difficult times taught me how important concrete human ties are in the ministry. Ever since then, I have found the action of God more in the voices and needs of the deprived people who have sought my help than in the ministries I have chosen for myself.
John the Baptiser is one of the few characters in the Gospels about whom we have any information from secular history. the Jewish historian, Josephus, writing toward the end of the first century, corroborates what the Gospel says about him up to a certain point. Josphus wrote: "Herod put to death this good man who was exhorting the Jews to live upright lives, in dealing justly with one another and submitting devoutly to God, and to join in baptism." Josephus also said: "When still others joined the crowds around (John), because they were quite enthusiastic in listening to his words, Herod became frightened that such persuasiveness with the people might lead to some uprising; for it seemed that they might go to any length on his advice." Here Josephus parts company with the gospel story. Herod's fear of John's potential political power was behind his arrest and execution, Josephus indicates. The Gospel, of course, says that Herod had John beheaded at the insistence of his wife, Herodias. She was furious at John's condemnation of her marriage. However, the two motives could both apply. Herod may well have feared John's power with the people; Herodias may well have resented his embarrassing accusations. At any rate, it seems clear that John was an immensely popular preacher with a large, loyal following. Their loyalty did not die with his execution. The Gospels indicate, in Luke 11:1 for instance, that during John's lifetime his followers formed a distinct group of disciples with a distinctive prayer life.
By Father John Castelot Jesus was not quite what John expected the Messiah to be. Years later St. Paul encountered a group as far away as Ephesus in Asia Minor (Acts 19:1-7). The brilliant orator, Apollos, who figures so prominently in the life of Paul's Corinthian community, is described originally as knowing "only of John's baptism." And he was a native of Alexandria in Egypt! We get a picture of a tremendously influential preacher in the mould of the Old Testament prophets. There is a famous story in the Old Testament about Elijah being taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. The story caught the popular imagination and in the course of time the belief arose that Elijah would one day return. His return would herald the establishment of God's reign. Apparently John saw himself as preparing the way for the return of Elijah and the establishment of God's reign. The kinds of things he said to the crowds are typical of the uncompromising preaching of the fiery desert prophets of old. Announcing God's coming kingdom would have appealed stronly to certain elements in John's audience. They thought it would mean the defeat of Israel's enemies and the raising of the nation to heights of propserity and supremacy. But many others were turned off by John's rigorous way of life and his call for a radical change of outlook (Matthew 11:18) but Christ had come and that reign had dawned in his person. Accordingly Christians saw John, not as the herald of Elijah, but of Christ. In the process they made John himself an Elijah. figure.
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The Rev Mr Frank Brennan SJ was invited recently to Perth by Archbishop Foley to help Catholics respond to the invitation of the Seaman Inquiry to make known their views on the question of Aboriginal land rights. At the request of many people we print here the full text of an address he gave to a public meeting at the Cathedral Parish Centre on Monday, March 5 Mr Brennan is a qualified lawyer and has made a study of land right legislation in several states. He has been a special adviser on the subject to the Queensland Catholic bishops. He is currently studying with his order in Melbourne. He outlined (a) some general moral principles relevant to the land rights debate; (b) the major recommendations contained in the discussion paper of the Western Australian Aboriginal Land Inquiry particulary with regard to claimable land and the accommodation of mining interests; (c) the powers of the Commonwealth and State Governments; and (d) what he perceived to be the role of the Churches.
As the citizens of a democracy living under the rule of law, and hopefully not merely under the whim of politicians even if they do happen to be elected, we expect that legitimate aspirations of all citizens will be adequately protected by law with provision for compensation if those aspirations are thwarted. This is not to say all legitimate aspirations are so protected. But the more they are, the better will our social order he; and the more equitably they are protected, the more just will that order be. In a multi-cultural society, it would be tyranny for the dominant culture to dictate in its own terms what aspirations were worth protection. Obviously, our system of land tenure is a cornerstone for our legal order. Presumably the issue of land rights for Aborigines is one of justice rather than charity. It is the just claims of Aborigines to land which must he identified and achieved. Those claims may be made on very different basis such as restitution, compensation, or need. For example, where a traditional tribal community has continued to reside on its traditional land discharging its spiritual obligations with regard to that land, and that land has never been occupied by any other persons, that community is entitled to a legal title to that land as RESTITUTION for the confiscation of legal title which occurred at white settlement by operation of the legal fiction that viewed Australia as vacant land which vested in the British crown.
Other people Surely there can he no higher moral claim to land by anyone in Australia than by a traditional Aboriginal community who has lived on that land for many thousands of years without occupancy by other persons. To deny such title would be to complete the dispossession begun 200 years ago or else it would be to deny the rule of law operation with respect of these citizens and their most precious possession. Where an Aboriginal community consists of people who have been moved from their traditional lands to make way for pastoral development or whatever and there is now no question of restoring to them their traditional land because other persons have subsequently got their own moral claims to the land by virtue of occupancy, labour and expenditure, that community is entitled to compensation.
Issue has been clouded In the last decade, any discussion about government action in relation to A borigines has been clouded by consideration of federal-state relations, and in particular by concern for what is erroneously called "state rights". It is high time in this complex area of social planning and responsibility that this concern was put to rest. States do not have rights; neither does the Commonwealth in this context.
Powers of the Commonwealth and State Governments people that the odious policies of oppression and neglect of Aboriginal citizens were to be at an end".
Only people have rights. There has never been any doubt about the power of the states to make laws with respect to Aborigines and their land. Under the Australian Constitution as it was, the Commonwealth Parliament did not have power to make laws with respect to Aborigines.
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One provision was an "enigmatic directive" that Aborigines were not to be counted in reckoning the number of people in the Commonwealth or in any state. Both provisions were amended by the 1967 r eferendum which was carried overwhelmingly. In the words of one of the High Court Justices who determined the Franklin Dam case recently, this amendment of the constitution was "an affirmation of the will of the Australian
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Another judge suggested it had made clear there was a need for acceptable laws and policies "to mitigate t he effects of past barbarism".
These statements are suggestive the creation of a new Commonwealth power in these circumstances carries with it the imposition of Commonwealth responsibilities. So, though the issue of Aboriginal land rights is one of primary concern to the State Parliament, it is an issue which requires attention and perhaps even
legislative action by the Commonwealth Parliament to make up the shortfall in any state measures which fail adequately to protect the rights and aspirations o f Western Australian Aborigines. Such action could not be seen as an interference with state rights but as the protection at a national level of the rights of Western Australian citizens who happen to be Aboriginal. Thus consideration must be given to the recent statements of Mr Holding that any legislation comply with the requirements spelt out in his address to the Parliament on December 8 1983.
The general and moral principles If that community has remained an identifiable group of identifiable land to which no other persons have title, the community is entitled to title as COMPENSATION for what they lost as members of that community. Many, perhaps as many as two-thirds, of this State's Aborigines no longer live on large areas of identifiable Aboriginal land. They no longer live together as tribal communities. And yet they are the ones who have suffered most through dispossession. They are urban dwellers or fringe-dwellers whose descendants are from more than one tribal group as well as from other races besides Aboriginal. They still seem themselves as Aboriginal because they are. Generally for them, land rights cannot he a matter of restitution of tribal land. And for the urban dweller, it cannot take the form of a communal land grant in compensation.
Great needs Rather what is sought is assistance with their great needs in making the transition to an urban existence and all that goes with it in a society which is less than welcoming to those for whom dispossession has meant often not only loss of culture but also lass of family. After all, it is their dispossession on which we have constructed the monolith which is Australian society and its prosperity. While the poorest of the poor always have a claim on the Christian; they also have a claim on society when their condition is historically caused by the very actions which gave the society its wealth and security. Note this is not to argue we must pay reparation for the sins of our forefathers perpetrated on other forefathers. It is to say we have a duty to share the fruits of those sins with those who suffered by them and who continue to suffer. At all times our concern must be to accord justice to all citizens. The plight of the poor dispossessed white man does not excuse us from considering that of the Aboriginal. It is suggestive only of the need for more widespread social change that what is being contemplated with Aboriginal land rights. But that is nothing new to Christians.
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Church attitudes. The Seaman Inquiry is a public inquiry charged with inquiring into the needs, rights, and aspirations of the State's Aborigines to land and the protection of sacred sites. A resolution of the issues requires a clear statement o f the legitimate aspirations of Aborigines and o thers who would be affected by the legal recognition and protection of these aspirations. It may even require consideration of the future c ommon good and of the justice of our whole system of land tenure and access t o valuable mineral resources. Though the churches have a special concern for the
poorest of the poor, they a re not to be seen as spokesmen for the Aboriginal people. H opefully, they can discharge the function of advocate if that is desired b y particular Aboriginal groups and if none others are available to do the task. And of course we must act a s watchdog for the interests of the least advantaged in our society. Pastors concerned for the w elfare of Aboriginal people are only too well a ware of the need for security in land for Aboriginal communities. Pastors and all concerned Christians are only too well a ware of the need for a legal order which is just
and protective of all which c itizens, no matter what their cultural or religious beliefs, regard as precious or sacred. If that need is not met, we will surrender ourselves to mob rule and the pursuit of the holy dollar whatever the cost. I have suggested the major recommendations of the Seaman Discussion Paper can go far to recognising and protecting A boriginal interests and aspirations to land. That can be done with little, if any, cost to anybody. I think a balancing of interests is possible with regard to mining. Our job as Christians must
be to consider the arguments rationally and without emotion, and to c onsider how much we as individuals or as a society should be prepared to c oncede to the Aboriginal people even if it got to the s tage of costing us something. A t the moment this land is big enough to accommodate the interests of us all without need for the tailoring of aspirations. It is only our tolerance of t hose who are different that does not extend as far as it should. Are there some things we count so precious that even t he national interest, growth, and our standard of living ought give way?
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I have no reason to doubt the s tatement by the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia that With mineral production in W estern Australia contributing s ome S3 billion a year to the S tate economy, the mining industry is vital to maintaining our high standard of living". I take them to be referring to our material standard of living r ather than other standards which may not be so high despite our striving and goodwill. In relation to mining there are f our separate issues to consider (a) ownership of minerals; (b) owners' consent to mining: (c) compensation and (d) royalties. O wnership of Minerals The Australian Mining Industry C ouncil has told the Seaman Inquiry: "With very few and minor e xceptions, rights in minerals are not vested in landowners or lessees in Australia. The general approach adopted in this country for more than a century has been that minerals belong to all people through the crown If the Crown did own all minerals, I could not see a s ubstantive case for vesting o wnership of minerals in A boriginal land holders. But what about these few and minor exceptions these people
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who got title to land under some provisions a century ago Surely if there is to be a class of persons (no matter how small that class) who are to own the minerals in their land, that class s hould include traditional Aboriginal communities whose moral claim to the land and all that is in it must be as strong a s that of any other person in the community.
curitt To be just, the law should either abolish the exceptions or include traditional Aboriginal owners among them. Land Owners' consent to mining The Chamber of Mines has said "The Government must retain the overall authority to grant or deny access for exploration and mining in all parts of Western A ustralia". To date the Western Australian Parliament in exercising its law m aking powers has legislated such that "the great majority o f Western Australians have
enjoyed the power of veto over mining in their land". In fact the Australian Mining Industry Council has seen the W A provisions as creating "inappropriate de facto mineral rights attaching to cultivated land" as well as to freehold land in towns and cities. What is called for is an a ccommodation of conflicting interests. G enerally the WA law favours the right of freeholders and private land holders over that o f miners to come without permission for prospecting and mining. I presume most people here would want the power to keep miners off their land when that land is being used for residential purposes or the like. I understand there is now agitation to amend mining laws generally in this State so mining will be possible on cultivated lands without the owners' consent While the law remains as it is, surely Aborigines should have the same rights as others to keep
miners off their cultivated lands or lands which are used for residential or religious purposes. With regard to "traditionally orientated Aboriginal peoplefacing the prospect of mining on their traditional lands, we must accept, as Mr Seaman does, that they are "more deeply a ffected by mining proposals t han members of the broader community- . While prepared to allow initial e xploratory work by miners on A boriginal land which is not cultivated land or land for residential or religious purposes, Mr Seaman says an Aboriginal veto over mine development with provision for a parliamentary veto on the veto "should be faced and accepted".
This would seem to be the appropriate balancing of interests if we remember mining disrupts more than the land of a traditional Aboriginal community; it can disrupt the community itself and its traditional way of
The Western Australian Government has already decided "land rights will be extended to all land reserved for the use and benefit of Aboriginals" in this State. Such reserved lands together with Aboriginal lease lands c omprise about 22m hectares ( 8.66 per cent of the State). These reserved lands, as I understand it, have never been inhabited by any persons other t han the local Aboriginal communties. More than 14m hectares of this l and is situated in Central Australia from about Warburton to Balgo. O ther major areas are in the n orthern Kimberleys and the central north-west. A s in all other states of Australia, these areas are found generally at the extremities of p astoral development — areas which were unwanted leftovers or areas where Aborigines could b e left to themselves without t he disruption of pastoral expansion. T hese lands are usual ly inhabited by traditional tribal communities on their traditional lands or by communities which were herded togethr for their own protection or because they were troublemakers or half-castes. In all cases these lands have always been Aboriginal land. To give title to these lands will not cost anybody anything. It will simply be the matching of legal reality with historial fact. Ownership and control of these l ands will be vested in the c ommunities who have always lived on them. So the issue is not the handing over of new lands but the vesting o f local control and ownership thereby creating security under the law. In other words we are treating these communities as groups of citizens who deserve to have their moral claim and title to the land recognised in law. A nd where is the controversy in that? Even the Liberal Party of this State which has said "We will not grant land rights to Aborigines on racial grounds- has undertaken to maintain its policy o f "granting Aboriginal people use of reserves". If not continued use, why not ownership? After all, even the new National
III life with violation of the land, r eadily available alcohol and single men the occasional one of whom is looking for his version of a good time. Compensation G enerally a miner need only pay compensation for disruption to the land. A farmer or pastoralist with a large holding part of which is being mined is compensation for this because it is the only significant damage he suffers. A s indicated a traditional Aboriginal community may suffer much more. If that suffering is with regard t o what we see as legitimate concerns and aspirations of the community, our legal system will be more just if it protects those aspirations or allows the payment of compensation for any infringement of these aspirations. Here this can be done simply b y allowing an Aboriginal community to negotiate a fee for the commencement of mining. Just as compensation for a lost leg does not replace the leg. so t oo compensation does not replace the now disturbed traditional community life. It only compensates for it. I Cora page 12
Unwanted leftovers in grants provided Party Government of Queensland has legislated to give land rights over the existing reserves in that state (3m hectares, 1.74 per cent of the state). The National Party Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in Queensland made land rights the subject of the first Bill introduced by that new government in relation to Aborigines. Introducing the bill which was p assed on February 2 1984 he said: "(The Bill) will give to the Aboriginal and Islander residents rights of occupation and land management for themselves and their children that are complete and beyond interference except by a special Act of Parliament ... The proposals embodied in this Bill will bring in to the area of Aboriginal land rights a tenure adequate for the long term needs o f people on the Aboriginal reserves in Queensland and also a refreshingly precise and f orthright method of transferring control into the hands of the local p eople .. . (The proposals) give a perpetual title that is absolutely inalienable unless the Parliament f or some reason decides otherwise by a special Act." It must be admitted there are no other persons with claims to these reserve areas. The moral claim of the local people is unassailable. To recognise that claim in law would cost us nothing.
MNN.& ‘,4ft '—‘40V1 7' Pastoral Excisions There is a significant number of Aborigines who still live on the larger pastoral properties in this State. O ften the men work as stockmen while in law these people are like gypsies with no legal title to the land on which they live. Mr Seaman has recommended these people be eligible for some land to be excised from a pastoral lease for their living purposes. The area would be a "reasonable living area" ' 'which would preserve the privacy of the existing dwellings of other people on the pastoral lease, and which did not unreasonably interfere with the pastoral operations". So there is to be an accommodation of everybody's interests in the making of such grants with the result not even the pastoralist would lose out but the Aborigines would gain some legal security o ver the land on which they presently live. One material advantage of this would be the availability of funds from the Aboriginal Development Commission for the construction of improvements on land in which they have an interest Unalienated Crown Land occupied by Aborigines Though no figures are available, Mr Seaman has expressed the view vacant Crown Lands which are not used or set aside for any other purpose should be available f or claim by Aboriginal groups
when there are - existing traditional relationships between living claimants and that land and/or the long association by residence on or use of that land by living claimants". Once again this recommendation must be seen as one that does not place Aboriginal claims above existing claims of other citizens but as one which attempts to recognise Aboriginal c laims only when there are no countervailing claims. So the present cost to the rest o f society would be absolutely nothing though in the future it m ay mean a reduction in the amount of Crown Land available for other purposes But remember, these lands are v acant after 200 years of untrammelled economic expansion. Thus the future cost, if any, should be seen as tolerable and acceptable
,,41t Claims on Basis of Need A ll categories mentioned so f ar deal with existing Aboriginal r elationships to land and the recommendations are aimed at the legal protection and recognition of those relationships without derogations from the rights of other citizens in relation to land. Mr Seaman has also been commissioned to investigate how t he law might satisfy "the r easonable aspirations of A boriginal people to rights in relation to lands" Here the concern is not with A boriginal communities on reserves or on pastoral properties but with displaced and dispossessed Aborigines who live on the fringes or in our towns and cities. Mr Seaman has recommended t hey be able to make claim to unalienated Crown Lands on the b asis of need, once again avoiding any conflict of claims between Aborigines and others but simply seeking to fulfil the n eeds of Aborigines from the surplus which is utilised by nobody. A fter all, no grant would be m ade if an objector could e stablish "detriment to some existing interest in or in relation t o the land, interference with reasonable access to other areas, or detriment to rights or interests in other land in the area." Mr Seaman has specifically recommended all claims to land ought to be met "from Crown Land or by the purchase of land in the open marker. So, even needs claims would be restricted to unwanted Crown Land or private land for sale on the open market. No one will lose their house, b each house, farm, or vacant block. Alienated i.e. owned land will only come into Aboriginal hands if it is purchased for Aaorigines by Aborigines on the open market.
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(Youth Forum Pope's praise VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul 11 praised a group of Catholic college and high-school students for tuning "come out in the open" as people of faith. Speaking to some 500 youths at a Feb. 25 audience in the Vatican's C lementine Hall, the pope said "you are young people who have decided to give witness to your choice for Christ in the midst of your peers, in the school environment — a choice w hich has the courage to come out into the open in its desire to have others participate also in the joy which the friendship of Christ brings to your hearts."
Childhood views can last a lifetime
In a number of parishes, the young children sit together around the altar during Mass. From this vantage point they are able to take great interest in the liturgical a ctivity, particularly if the celebrant communication that is regard for this sacrament This is particularly the case speaks directly to them every now and Brother Graham Rossi- of one way and usually does than they have for the in the primary schools. then, and draws their attention to ter, C.F.C., B.Sc. (Hons.), not allow for feedback; it Eucharist. Often there is very close Dip.Ed., (Syd), at has changed relatively little home-school-parish cothe the way doubt special points in the scripture readings. present M.Ed. No engaged on a in form while there have operat ion in the
liturgy is celebrated will When children have very liturgy is neglected. It they Ph.D. project in Educa- been great changes in have a bearing on whether sacramental preparation tion at Macquarie Univer- pedagogy in most other h appy and engaging have never learned to feel or not the Mass will be very programmes. Even where experiences of the Mass like truly at home in the litur,p,, sity, NSW, asked, "Why forms of communication important in the lives of there may have been no are young Catholics not t his from their earliest and to feel that it is in part and education. Catholics, young and old. regular attendance at Mass years, they are likely to their liturgy, then this does going to Mass." This is We all need to be very There is, therefore, a great by parents, the school/ the third of a four-part develop a deeply ingrained not augur well for their sensitive to the needs of parish programme may be appreciation of communal continued participation article reprinted from people in the parish and we n eed for clergy and the occasion which leads p to arishioners "The work Australasian Caw orship. The rhythm of w hen their attendance must be prepared to change a family back to the Mass. hymns, and the rhythm of becomes voluntary as the\ tholic Record" of Janu- our ways to meet these t ogether ceaselessly on preparing the liturgy. The movement and activity in grow older. A paragraph ary, 1984. Why are so many needs. This applies not only presence of young people This work is followed up t he Eucharist, in a sense, from a recent booklet in the secondary schools, to the Mass but to the other in this work is essential. 'get into their blood'. even though it is much more entitled Growing into Faith young Catholics not sacraments. For example, In some parishes there are has something important g oing to Mass on the periodic anointing of Some of the letters written difficult in the large Sundays? the elderly and the infirm to Catholic newspapers in s econdary schools to Those attending the continual reminders to the to say on this point. children that they have during an Mass has been most Australia suggest that it is develop a sense of Christian "Introducing young audience were participatimportant and appreciated valued by them. They t he faulty teaching of community and to have place people into p their art which has most heritage ing in a three-day meeti n the want to wait till on religion in Catholic schools close ties with a parish. do community not means p otential many for putting different ing of the student assembled for their deathbeds worship. before they that is a cause of the decline Nevertheless, young people things, but they can be Catholics off going to Mass movement of Italian Even though qualify most for the of reception the of in Catholic religious in Catholic secondary summed up or for getting them in general to try by Catholic Action. celebrant's words are the idea that they must be out some other parish. this sacrament. It is a pity practices. This criticism schools usually have very The pope highlighted directed to the adults, here able to find a place for their As some young people put that many dioceses have does point out that the positive experiences of the importance of faith and there something said words and their manner of it: 'The sermon is like been somewhat reluctant religious education could prayerful liturgies. specifically to the children expression. We should help language about life on to celebrate the third rite do more to improve young and hope in a society which is "pervaded by is very much appreciated them to learn prayers. If, another planet -- it doesn't of Reconciliation, as if this people's knowledge of the This is true of liturgies t he poisons of distrust, by both the children and the as children, they have come s eem to have much would discourage Catholics faith. However, it makes the celebrated at school as well adults. Little things can t o a deep sense of r elevance to life as I from going to individual mistake of presuming that as those celebrated on suspicion and fear . . . mean a lot; for example, in p articipation in the experience it. If that's what confession. In fact, the what can be done in the way retreats or religious camps " Without faith,- he one parish on Mothers' Eucharist according to religion is about, then I can reverse is the case; the third of teaching religion in where the communitarian said, "it is impossible to Day, the children are given many forms authorised and get by in life quite well rite often occasions more classrooms can generate the e xperience and adequate cultivate a hope capable flowers from the altar to r ecommended in the without it.' 'You can sense individual confessions at fruits of a different kind of time for preparation can of resisting the delusions take to their mothers at the Directory on Masses with everybody's relief when the a later date. We need to teaching which occurs make the Mass a very predominantly in the home prayerful experience. One o f experience and, end of Mass. Children, we should not sermon is over. At least the recognise the enormous a buse all, the final It could be in our parishes, conclude that they, only a words in the other parts of prayerful potential of the and in the local church. It cannot expect the parish punle of death." whatever the format taken few years later, will find the Mass (scripture readings communal celebration of is in the home and parish Mass to be like those at where young people learn school or at a retreat. i n the eucharistic s tandard parish Mass and prayers) make some reconciliation. St. Paul, said the pope. how to believe, how to pray, However, the parish is the It times is a sign that of celebrations, that the sense.' something it is Of not course in which they defined pagans as -those gradual initiation of c an become deeply always like this. However, the only occasion one and how to worship. The p ossibly failing in who have no hope." children into the parish involved. The argument there is enough widespread country cathedral is always Catholic school can do credibility if it does not do m uch to nurture and something to encourage here is not simply for dissatisfaction to warrant filled to overflowing with reinforce such learning but youth to participate in people is when there is a novelty or improvisation. serious concern about this Here are ways in which lull, aspect of the Mass. We celebration of the third rite i t cannot adequately liturgies where a special substitute it. effort is made to address active and conscious' m ust recognise how of reconciliation. We need serious attention to give to A ustralian Catholic their needs and interests. p articipation can be difficult a task it is for the encouraged and continued, priest to say something that the celebration of such schools are in fact doing This can be very valuable but this needs to be seen as will have meaning for the forms of reconciliation with very worthwhile work in for young people, even if a regular necessity and not wide range of people in the young people, because helping young people learn there is such a 'youth' Mass simply as a concession for congregation. It is a form many of them have even less to participate in the liturgy. say only once a month. certain occasions. The f reedom to assume responsibility for some On January 23rd a group of 27 people left aspects of liturgy, music, the YCS office for a three day leaders camp readings, processions and at the Manjidal scout camp site. so on, is an important form o f apprenticeship to On the first day we had IA as a great experience. We learning the deeper Young people over Choice weekend. In the past a reflection on a passage of single young people, a four years, hundreds of scripture. two talks. One on the role learnt many valuable things married couple, priest and meanings of what is to be the age of 18 will have young West Australians The Choice weekend has religious. of the leader in the commun- and met many interesting done (and what is to be the opportunity of a have attended this weekend been the turning point of The timetable of the ity and one on the role of people from other schools. avoided) when people are lifetime later this seminar and come away young people's lives. For weekend is packed and over a leader in YCS. We disco- Everyone mixed well and celebrating the Eucharist month. richer for it. some it has been a most the years it has been taivered that the basis for a it was a great success. together." It will be a chance to make The format is very simple, dramatic yet enlightening lored appropriately to leader both in the commun- Many thanks go to our One of the other problem new friends and look at it begins with a time of experience. It is a stepping allow for reflection and ity and YCS is basically cooks Helena and Nick areas in the liturgy is the concern for others. K admos, the full-timers, language of the celebrant some of the real issues of reflection and reading on stone in the journey of faith absorption of all the sharing and discussion. Father Joe Parkinson, in the sermon/homily life especially in regard to a set question, a personal and life. assistants, all who gave While this can be the part personal relationships. It sharing by one of the It draws people closer to The next weekend will talks and the students of of the liturgy which helps will be a chance to assess organisers of the weekend, a richer understanding of commence on Friday, April how one belongs to family, followed by discussion in t hemselves, to a more 6 and will take place at a YCS who came along. p eople make vital parish and to God. triads and small groups. responsible and caring metropolitan venue in K athryn Butler and connections between the triad as the name relationship with others North Beach. Bookings can The A melda Preston, (S.T.A. scriptures. The eucharistic All this happens in the suggests is a small group and a real challenge as to be made by ringing Marat a hours of 48 space their elebration and Office c Y.C.S.), C/O Youth of three people who share where they will go in the garet and Terry Fennessy We then had two guests 328 9878. personal lives, it is also the programme known as the their answers. future. on 386 6494. The cost of the from the Department of The segment finishes with The organisers comprise weekend is S25. Youth, Sport and Recreation, who took us through a series of activities to teach us how to work in a group and to put leadership skills February 13 and 14 may have been ordinary nights for some, into action. We also had two guests but for others, 70 committed young people in fact, it was an who talked to us about important occasion that was to change the course of their lives. alcoholism and how the It was the beginning of a 10 week programme on Youth alcoholic affects his family Leadership Formation conducted by the Catholic Parish Youth and friends. Father Joe movement. Parkinson celebrated an The programme aims to build a team of young people to work Inspiring Mass with us. at making youth group an important part of their parish. M aria Stewart gave us a The first night we shared our expectations with each other. very interesting talk on the This revealed that some people weren't sure what roles they types of leaders. Overall we feel the camp could have in their parish and if they had the ability to fulfil a
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responsible role, while others became excited about the role that they could have in their parish. The honesty and openness that was shared revealed their eagerness and willingness to learn more from this programme, and to share this learning and growing with each other. We are looking forward to a really fruitful programme with the help of the Holy Spirit. Julie Della-Franca CPY Full-timer 30 Claverton Street, North Perth.
Among the interesting people that you will meet organising the April weekend are Alex and Vesma Bonavich, Brother Tony Clarke, Kerry Lynch, James Depiazzi and Helen Curtin.
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J okes What is full of holes yet holds water? A sponge. What has more than sixo, keys yet can't open a door? A piano. What comes out of a room without being seen? A noise. What has mans rings but no fingers? A telephone.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by S . Michelle Wiggins, published by Collins $14.95. t his superb hard-cover is yet another version of an old favourite and one well worth having. For more than 100 years both children and grownups have cherished Alice's Adventures in Wonderland detailed, ne‘ei-betoie - falling under the spell of published illustrations its magic and its abundant S. Michelle Wiggins. humorous invention. We see afresh all the Lewis Carroll's master- bizarre and lovable inhabpiece has been translated itants of Wonderland: the into virtually every known White Rabbit and the language and the Cheshire Cat, the hookacreatures she encounters smoking Caterpillar and belong to the entire world. the Mad Hatter, the March And now we see them Hare and the Ugly Duafresh in this beautiful new chess... the drawings are edition with its more than such to delight child and 60 vividly coloured, richly adult alike.
Do you know how to make a bandstand? Take away their chairs. Do you know the joke about the two tonne doughnut? I don't think you'd swallow it.
Winners C ongratulations to our puzzle and colouring in winners. They are Carissa Finlay, of Kewdale; Helen Tuxford, of Bunbury; Anthony lmms, of Lynwood and Heidi Arbuckle, of Nedlands. Beautiful books, courtesy of William Collins have been sent out to all our winners.
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BIRTHDAY Happy birthday to Felicity Mitchell, Rossmoyne; Mark Sykes, Eaton; Danny Taylor, Wattleup; Natalie Whyte, Ballidu; Michael Carvosso, Nedlands; Dennis Stables, Cooloongup; "When you pray, - Jesus said to the people, "go to your room, close your door and pray to your Father Simone Allier, Morley; in private. God will hear your prayer. You don't need to impresss people when you pray." Phillip McInnes, Mukinbudin; Jerry Nyein, Greenwood; Melissa Reilly. Lesmuride; Karen Lyra, Forrestfield; Rebecca Lambe, City Beach; Glenn Meredith, Beacon; Lindsay, McLennan, Subiaco: Gregory Heslop, Sunset Beach. Geraldton; Natasha John, Lynwood; Mathew K olin, Greenwood; Siobhan Keane, Newman; CiaKeane, Newman; 1 ran Patricia Downey, Dwellingup; Carlo Da Costa. People were sitting all over the grassy hillside listening to Jesus. Munster; Peter Devine, Park; David Fuller, "I don't know how to pray," one man thought to himself. "I hope Floreat K ewdale; Julie Collis, Carlisle; Bernadette InJesus tells us what prayer is," thought another. gram, Girrawheen; Prayer isn't just a lot of a father or even like a "Who do you know who about prayer that day. Amanda Towers Corrigin; holy words. God knows mother." prays?" Jesus asked. The people were satisifed. Darren Bond, Sorrento; what you need before you Jesus' friends still try to Patrick Costello, West "The holy men who "It seems that prayer is start telling him." pray the same way today. Leederville. stand on the street corners more wanting what God and pray," THe young "Well, then, how should wants than just what I woman answered. we pray?" a young man want," the lawyer's friend asked impatiently. was thinking. Then Jesus "No," Jesus said. "Don't do what they do. They are "This is how you are to continued with the second Showing off." pray," Jesus told the part of his prayer. 'You has e got to be in the club Please print cleans and don't " What should we do, people. "Pray like this "Give us today our daily if sou %ant to enter our com- forget sour date of birth and a then?" an old fisherman from your hearts and God bread, and forgive us the petitions and sin some of the stamp so sic' can send ”itir membership form to sou. asked. will hear your prayer: wrong we have done as we super prizes. simply send the com- Membership s, ill alio% sou to "Our father in heaven, forgive those who wrong To join coupon "When you want to here to The enter all our competitions. pleted pray," Jesus said, "go to hallowed, be your name, us. Subject us not to the R ecord Kid's Club. PO Box your room. Close your your kingdom come, your trial but deliver us from 50, .Aberdeen Street. Perth, %,% ell. %hat are sou staking for. door and pray to your will be done on earth as the evil one." 6000. Father in private. God it is in heaven." "Jesus wants us to pray will hear your prayer. You Jesus paused for a mo- for what we need, even for don't need to impress ment. He wanted to let the food to eat," a teen-ager people when you pray." people know that prayer said to her friend. "I know some people wasn't just asking God for "He also says to ask God who pray," a mother told things. Prayer began with to forgive us as we forgive Name Jesus as she held her looking to God and not others," her friend ansinfant close to her. "They at oneself. wered. "That's not easy." Address pray long and use a lot of "Jesus calls God, 'our "But he wants us to pray holy words. Is that how Father,"' a lawyer thought t o God for help," she P/code we should pray?" t o himself. "I've never responded. "God will be "No," Jesus answered. heard that before. Jesus with us to protect us." Age Birthdate "Don't imitate them. must feel God loves us like That's what Jesus said I .
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R onald Ridout's Children's Dictionary, published by Granada, $5.95. For those children who have mastered the skill o f reading, Ronald Ridout's dictionary will be an invaluable companion at home or at school. With more than 4,000 definitions, accompanied by 300 illustrations, the children's dictionary will help young readers t o understand new words, spell them correctly and identify living things and objects that they come across for the first time. The illustrations — of plants, animals, vehicles, tools, musical instruments and so on
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A look at books 'The Church has always venerated the divine scriptures just as she venerates the body of the Lord' (Dei Verbum, Vatican II, N.21) and the highest solemnity is accorded to the Gospels. This is especially true during the Liturgy of the Word when the Book of Gospels is carried to the place of proclamation accompanied by incense, light and sung acclamation.
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Special needs Special Education: A Catholic Perspective, by Mary Condon, Catholic Education Office, $3. The first of a projected series of monographs from the National Catholic Education Commission, this book is both a revelation and a challenge: — a revelation because ,%lary Condon introduces her readers to "significant theoretical issues in both secular and religious Special Education- and to the practical advances in the field in recent years. — a challenge because she demonstrates convincing!;' in the words of one theologian that the whole question of the needs of the handicapped is "a question of justice, of christian love and care and a real responsibility that the Church as a whole has not really faced yet alone begun to meet. Mary Condon, a teacher and mother of four, has brought to the writing of this book a sound academic background
and a wealth of practical experience. A graduate in Arts andEducation, Mary Condon was a high school teacher and a teacher of literacy and numeracy to the adult disabled. The birth of her son Michael who is mildly handicapped, brought home to her the special needs, educational and pastoral, of such children, of disabled adults and of their families. Her book makes compelling reading. The first part focusses on the general education of handicapped children. The second deals with the religious education andpastoral care of handicappedpeople. It deserves a wide readership. School administrators, parish authorities, concerned people generally', willfind it positive and stimulating. Persons with handicaps and their families will be encouraged to find their rights, their needs, and their inspirations expressed with such clarity, compassion and conviction.
The binding is especially This superb volume would lavish with 0.144 millboard, There are Gospels for: be treasured in any church. dark green buckram, richly • Sundays and Feasts of Measuring 35cm by 24cm, embossed in gold, green the Lord, and Solemnities and beautifully bound it is stained edges and a satin that may replace Sunday an ideal commemorative ribbon marker. celebrations gift — the volume comes Designed for durability -- • The Easter Triduum, with a presentation book it is printed on fine long- including the full Passion plate. lasting opaque paper and readings in dialogue form Designed for ease of use has sewn binding reinforced • Ritual celebrations: rites each Gospel Reading beg- with headbands: standing of initiation, anointing of ins on a separate page. The in a strong protective the sick, marriage, holy volume is printed in a large, slipcase for storage. orders, ministries, blessings
of persons, rites of dedication of church and altar • Masses for Needs and Occasions, and Votive Masses • Masses for the Dead • Feasts from the General Roman Calendar and from the National Calendars for England, Ireland. Wales, Scotland and Australia
One in an occasional series by local astronomy enthusiast, Jack Williams of East Fremantle. Here, he reviews a book available from your local library and one which describes the galaxies. Galaxies, by T. Ferris, published by Thomas & Hudson, 1980. Reviewed by Jack Williams.
takes his craft for a jaunt around more distant galaxies and groups of galaxies. We see, in vivid colour, spiral and spherical and barred galaxies. irregular galaxies, galaxies that are full of gas and dust and galaxies that have been swept clean, galaxies that have settled down to a relatively stable life, others that are being torn apart by internal explosions or robbed of stars and gas by collisions with other galaxies. Examples of all these catastrophic events are illustrated with real photographs taken at major observatories around the world. Some of the most impressive views were taken at Australian locations.
Staggering, sensational, distant galaxies, such as the incredible are words to be dynamic spiral M83, alive treated with suspicion when with motion like a giant they appear in the publish- multi-coloured catherine ers' blurb on a book cover. w heel, or nearby AnIn the case of this superb dromeda dominated by the book no words can ade- light of old red and yellow quately convey the impact stars with a sprinkle of of the many magnificent full young blue ones. page photographs of very For those with good eyesight (or binoculars) who can see the large and small Magellonic Clouds in our southern sky, the beautiful colour plates on The Heritage of Tasmania, gardener to make a garden published in association lia, is given a searching and pages 32 and 35 of Galaxies published by Mac.lfillan, which will show grace and with the World Wildlife sympathetic account by will be a particularly 524.95. c olour through every Fund as an important step renowned artist and critic rewarding sight. Bu_t perhaps the most beautiful Once again drawing on month of the year. It offers in recognising the need to Elwyn Lynn. photographs in the book The Heritage of Australia an astonishing range of conserve Australia's unique a re two double page comes the architectural plant sizes, seasonal bloom- floral heritage. Dangers spreads of the Eta Carina grazing mining, suitability such for the and as ing and record of the Register of George Segal, by Phyllis Nebula in glorious roseVariety public buildings, private most exacting soil and agricultural developments Tuchman, published by coloured clouds of gas outlined are suggesas are conditions. Over climate homes, national parks, MacMillan, $24.95. interspersed with vivid hot historic sites and areas of 650 plants are illustrated tion for educators, national The fifth title in the white regions There are rat-tail galaxies and accentunatural beauty in Tasmania. and labelled with useful parks and reserves, botanic Modern Masters Series by ated by dark veins of dust. well known Pleiades and and ring galaxies and identification, legislators and gardens that on notes This richly illustrated and Abbeville George Segal In one sense it is unfair to globular clusters like 47 clusters and superclusters photographed volume c haracteristics and cultiva- may provide a beginning brings the work of this fine single out any of the 42 Tucanae and Alpha Cen- of galaxies in a variety of for necessary convervation. e xtends the knowledge tion techniques. sculptor of familiar urban colour photographs in tauri which are quite visible shapes and sizes as numercaptured in the parent work living. These and his more Galaxies. All are beautiful. f rom Perth are also ous as the varieties in and is a fine sister to The Gardens for Small Coun- Judy Cassab, Place, Faces recent bronze monuments In human beings. One gets the addition the book con- featured. Heritage of Victoria. try Houses, by Gertrude and Fantasies, by Elwyn and pastels are also well tains about one hundred Timothy Ferris, author of impression from the book Jekyll and Lawrence Lynn, published by Mac- represented in the well- black and white photo- Galaxies, is not a scientist that there are probably Knitting in Vogue Number Weaver, published by Millan, $100 (trade edition) researched book that is full graphs as well as a few but a well-informed journal- more galaxies in the UniTwo, by Christina Probert, Papermac, 517.95. $495 (deluxe edition, of 100 o f information and e xplanatory diagrams, ist, with an easy style of verse than there have ever published by MacMillan, This book is an inspiration only, hand-bound leather, illustrations. including two very interest- writing. His text is written been people, each galaxy 522.50. for creative gardeners. numbered and signed by ing illustrations of our own as a journey through space with billions of stars. And Following the great suc- Written by the legendary Judy Cassab. Each book galaxy, the Milky Way, in an imaginary vehicle the whole of this immensity cess of Knitting In Vogue Gertrude Jekyll it is an features, for no extra The Etruscans, their showing where our sun fits which travels out of our is expanding outwards at comes this book of more exquisite reflection of the charge, a magnificent history, art and architec- in. galaxy to survey a couple a rate which is beyond our fabulous patterns that have beauty and genius of design original Cassab oilpainting ture, by Maja Sprenger and of dozen "smaller" galaxies comprehension. graced the pages of Vogue in the gardens created for (unframed) officially valued Gilda Bartoloni, published which accompany the A technical conclusion to for the past 60 years. Every small English country at $500.) Chatty by MacMillan, $150. Milky Way and our giant the book (not very technidesign has been re-knitted houses. In its details of For more than 50 years The Etruscans — the c ompanion, the An- cal) tries to make sense of in current yarns and cap- craftsmanship and planting dual Archibald Prize- mysterious, gifted people Galaxies, in fact, starts dromeda Galaxy. This this dynamic immensity. tures the modern colours it is also a practical hand- winning artist Judy Cassab who inhabited Italy before with the Milky Way, using Local Group of galaxies, But as Ferris admits, and textures beautifully. As book for all aspects of has been painting and t he Romans — left a chatty text written around as it is called, occupies a though we have learned a with the first one there is gardening. illustrating people and remarkable legacy of archi- m any photographs of minute portion of space — lot about the Universe a chapter of hints, instrucplaces with a glowing tecture, metalwork, arti- crowded starry fields, dark light from Andromeda recently in the space age, tions and a conversion talent. Her work has ranged facts and paintings. This clouds like the coalsack in only takes two million light there is much more that is Extinct Endangered and chart. Plants of Australia, by J. from superb portraits to splendid book handsomely our Southern Cross, or years to reach us. That n ot known and not Leigh, R. Boden and J. exciting images of Austral- displays their haunting bright nebulae like those makes our neighbourhood understood. Bulbs and Perennials, by Briggs, published by Mac- ian landscape and line paintings, glistening je- in Orion prominent in our very insignificant, com- Galaxies starts with the Julie Grace, published by Millan, 549.95. drawings of great delicacy. wellery and beautiful ceram- summer sky, or the beauti- pared with the twenty Milky Way, the galaxy in Sun Papermac, 518.95. In less than 200 years, 76 It has been stunningly ics. Detailed commentaries ful Rosette, to explain how thousand million light years which our sun and we are Now published as part of Australian plant species are captured in a memorable are included which explain big our galaxy is and how so far observed to the outer located, and extends out to the Sun Garden Series is presumed to have become book designed by award- the background of each it was made and what is reaches of the Universe. the furthest reaches of the Bulbs and Perennials a e xtinct and 203 endan- winning Judy Hungerford; piece to provide a fine happening to the stars we After a glance around the observable universe, the fabulous guide that enables gered. This definitive and and her life, first in war-torn overview of Etruscan his- see, including our sun. local group, with a few r ecently discovered even the most bewildered authoritative books is Hungary and later Austra- tory, religion and society. Open star clusters like the snapshots of course, Ferris Quasars.
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The following is the list of confirmation ceremonies in the archdiocese of Perth during 1984.
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APRIL Bentley (29) MAY Cloverdale (2) Hamersley (6) Lesmurdie (9) JUNE Kelmscott (3) Subiaco (3) Iona Mosman Park (13) South Perth (17) Riverton (17) Merredin (20) Brentwood-Willetton (21) Moora (24) Maylands (24) Como (27) Kensington (28) Doubleview (30) JULY Wanneroo (1) North Doubleview (1) Applecross (4) Willagee (8) Fremantle (8)
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Mr Mery Boucher, checking items for auction at the Sisters' fete to be held next Sunday. See special feature, page 5, news story, page 3.
Kellerberrin (30) Goomalling (30) York-Quairading
Armadale (11) Leederville (15) Kalgoorlie (28) Hilton (29) Kambalda (29) Kenwick (31)
OCTOBER Hilton (4) Guildford (10) Spearwood (14) Bellevue (21) Beaconsfield (21) Rockingham (28) Newman College (31)
AUGUST John XXIII (1) Bedford (2) Attadale (5) Joondanna (5) Belmont (12) Osborne Park (12) Midland (19) Balcatta (19) Manning (23) Highgate (26)
NOVEMBER Mirrabooka (4) East Cannington (4) Wembley Downs (7) Girrawheen (11) Morley (11) Victoria Park (14) Dianella (18) Toodyay (18) Bencubbin (20-23) Southern Cross (25) Melville (25) Bassendean (28)
SEPTEMBER Bayswater (12) Lockridge (16) Hamilton Hill (16) Gosnells (23) Kuhn Bruce Rock
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Mayland's Polish Church Construction of the first WA Polish chapel, in Eighth A venue, Maylands is progressing as scheduled. Foundations were laid on November 83 and the opening ceremony is set down for August 26, the f east of Our Lady of Czestochowa. The Jasna Gora Monastery has a special place in the hearts of Poles who have made concrete their link by a special foundation stone that will not be bricked in but rather displayed inside the completed building. It is a piece of the actual f oundations of the Jasna Gora Monastery in Poland.
Nurses' award On Tuesday members of the St John of God Hospital Subiaco Ladies' Auxiliary made their first donation of funds since the group was formed some six months ago. As a result o f their efforts the opthalmology department will have a slit lamp tonometer.
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The 30 members have raised funds through fetes, quiz nights and other entertainments. M ore members are needed for the auxiliary.
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The polished slab of olive branch (pictured left) presented to La Salle College by Mr H. Taylor, grandfather of one of the students. If features the college crest, a clock, barometer and thermometer. It was taken from a branch of a vintage olive tree on the original Viveash farm, on which the college stands. — Herrain photo
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