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tril3ACK MY SPIRIT LAND SAYS NEW SHOP
Monsignor Barry Hickey of Highgate will be going back to the Church of his youth when he takes up office as the seventh bishop of Geraldton. The appointment by Pope John Paul II announced at the Vatican on Wednesday night will become a reality when Archbishop Foley consecrates him as bishop and installs him as his successor, in St Francis Xavier Cathedral on Tuesday, May 1.
Mons Hickey's links with Geraldton diocese go back to his birth in Leonora and later periods in VViluna and Cue where his father, the late Greg Hickey, a renowned football and cricket player, was the mining registrar.
than 500 More runners took part in La Salle marathon. See page 16.
Two other Hickey children boarded bt Geraldton Catholic schools.
The new Bishop of Geraldton appreciates the fact he will be back in familiar surroundings of his youth. "I have great affection for the outback. It is my 'spirit -land', if you like to put it that way."
He is impressed by the memories of the families who stayed in the mining towns a few years and then moved on, generally meeting the same families at the next stop. "They carried the faith with them. "I recall the bond of f aith, and the way Catholics would meet each other in place after place, because they felt the unity of being together in the one Church." he said.
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As director of Centrecare for 10 years, family life has been one of Mons Hickey's concerns. He hopes to continue that concern in his mission to the new mining centres of the north in Geraldton diocese. "What concerns me is these towns have gained a reputation for being harsh on family life as a place where they have no relatives, no family baby-sitters, no grandparents and no family network.
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"They are good people with extra pressures on their married life and this will be one of my concerns. "Family life is the best way for two people to cope and the best place for children to grow up," he says. "It is a place where faith values are transmitted. "It is a sacred institution that needs all the support we can give." Mons Hickey believes his concern for social issues stirred in the days when he attended CBC Kalgoorlie when a brother praised the virtues of the great saints who had been poor.
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He recalls asking his father if their family was poor and was somewhat disappointed to be told they were not really poor. "In Kalgoorlie at the time, there were drunks on the street, men and women for whom I felt compassion. Aborigines drifted in and out of the towns without much of a future. Even though I understood little of their culture, I felt for them. "When I was first appointed to St Brigid's parish of West Perth, all the inner city problems were there and I felt very much at home in the houses of the poor." Today's poverty, Mons Hickey believes is often the
cause of the credit society where people who earn wages are often spending more than they receive. "But the real poverty is spiritual." he says.
"There is a terrible poverty in values when we pursue luxury and comfort to such an extent people are choosing an individual path rather than.being seen as belonging to other people." His interest in family issues took shape when Father Joe Russell asked him to take an interest in the Catholic Marriage Guid..nce Council and Archbishop Prendiville urged him to take a further step, and study for a degree in social work. Monsignor Hickey
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Born in the diocese Monsignor Hickey was born in Leonora in April 1936. His father was descended from a Victorian Catholic family which moved to the Eastern Goldfields where he met his bride Freda Kruse now of Claremont who was received into the Catholic Church after instruction by the Sisters of St Joseph at Boulder. Barry Hickey's early education was by the Presentation Sisters at Wiluna in a school
that has long since disappeared and later at Cue before the family moved to Kalgoorlie where he spent four years under the Christian Brothers. His seven years at St Charles Seminary were followed by four years at Propaganda College, Rome where he was ordained priest on December 20, 1958. • Cont. page 12
Cause to rejoice in choice " I‘r of bishop
The new bishop of Geraldton is an answer to the prayers of priests and lay people of the diocese, the administrator of the diocese Mons Ted Bryan of Mullewa said this week. "We priests have received great pleasure hearing the choice of Pope John Paul II to appoint Mons Barry Hickey as our bishop. "Ever since the elevation of Bishop Foley to the archdiocese of Perth the whole diocese — priests, religious and lay people have been wondering who the new bishop might be and praying that whoever he is, he will be as acceptable and as good as the former chief pastors of our diocese. "I believe our prayers have been answered. "We see the hand of the Lord working in the appointment. "The bishop-elect was born in Leonora and spent his early years in Cue. "He applied to the archdiocese to be a student for the priesthood and by being sta-
tioned in the archdiocese was able to further his studies and gain his degrees. "Now the wheel of G od's design has turned once more and he will be back in the diocese of his birth where he will be able to enjoy the depth of his priestly experience and expertise. "Bishop-elect Hickey, the priests, religious and laity welcome you home with great joy" Mons Bryan said
The Catholic people of the diocese of Geraldton have cause to rejoice at the appointment of their new bishop, the Most R everand Barry J. Hickey. A s they come to know him better they w ill appreciate the enrichment he brings to their diocese. They have the answer to their prayers. With a fair knowledge of himself and the diocese to which he has been called! can assure the bishop-elect he is well equipped to meet the pastoral needs of his new people. His past has prepared him well for the new pastoral service he has accepted in the Church.
by Archbishop Foley, sixth Bishop of Geraldton 1981-1983 The initial shock in the Doicese of Geraldton will be the distances to be travelled, the heat to be endured and the isolation of its towns and people. The var)Ing life styles one meets as well as the relatively small local communities offer advantages that more than make up for the difficulties to be encountered. His early years spent in the Murchison and thereabouts, together with the personal caring ministry that has been a characteristic of his 25 years of priestly life, will enable the new bishop to quickly come to terms with the challenge. And what of the quality of life of his new people?
Long preparation fora return to his region The return of Monsignor Barry Hickey to the diocese of his youth as its seventh bishop now casts the intervening years he spent in the archdiocese as a preparation for the office he will now assume.
Even his early education at the hands of the Presentation Sisters in Wiluna and the Christian Brothers in Kalgoorlie was significant as these religious will be amongst his cooperators in his work as bishop.
After his ordination in Rome he did his apprenticeship like any priest, as curate in West Perth and Highgate but he was able to encounter some of the problems affecting less fortunate members of the community, especially the Aborigines, and
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develop the strong conviction the Church should be more involved in these areas of need. At the urging of the late Archbishop Prendiville he undertook five years of university study for his BA and Masters in social work so he could give the Church's work in social action a truly professional stamp. Thus equipped he was given the directorship of Catholic Family Welfare in addition to the position with Catholic Marriage Guidance he already held. later the work of Catholic Migration was added to his portfolio which expanded under the umbrella of Centrecare of which he was the first director.
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In time also he was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Social Welfare Commission of WA to co-ordinate the work of social welfare in the state. He became a member of the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission and is currently chairman of that body. He has continued to show an interest in the welfare of the Aboriginal people, the Beverley Hostel Programme and the school for Aboriginal children at Guildford were the result of his work. All the while he found time to be a member of the Senate of Priests and more recently to be parish priest of Highgate. As a member of the Senate
of Priests, he first suggested St Charles' Seminary should become a hostel for young men, interested in the priesthood. He lived at St Charles for the first years of the new experiment, supporting Father Rosling in the work, and giving it the benefit of his counsel. In his 25 years as a priest, he had been involved in many areas of the life and activity of the diocese. In all these areas, he has gained understanding and experience. Together with his broad pastoral concern and his deep feeling for people and their needs, this will stand him in good stead in the challenge before him as bishop of a far flung diocese.
Notwithstanding what one hears about conditions in the mining towns there are excellent examples of loving family life throughout the diocese. Of course there are tensions and a need for continuous growth in married love. There are some very hurt people in his diocese who have sought escape from traumatic experiences back in their suburban homes. I am sure there are few better equipped than he to strengthen Christian marrieds or to prepare the young engaged for their married life together. The day to day contacts in his life as a pastor. backed by the training and experience of his years in Centrecare, Perth, will mean encouragement to priests and people alike in this area of vital concern in the Church and the society of today. At this time Catholics especially are asked to understand the deep seated aspirations of the Aborigines in the cities and country towns. This is true also in Geraldton Diocese. The emerging Aboriginal leaders need to know they will be given respect and encouragement by the Church. Those within the diocese who are close to the Aboriginal people will take strength from their new pastor. His priorities and his experience within the Archdiocese of Perth guarantee them genuine support and leadership. The task of a bishop is to gather together as one the people of a diocese. As well he has to maintain a unity with the wider universal Church. The bishop-elect is a man of the Church. His vision and interest was broadened by his overseas travel and his contact over some years with students from every continent. He has contacts throughout the Australian Church which were developed through his work on the National Catholic Welfare Commission. There is no doubt he will call on this vision and these contacts to enrich his new diocese. They will grow and develop along with Mother Church. Personally I give thanks to Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, and to his Vicar on earth, Pope John Paul II, for this appointment. I assure Bishop-elect Hickey of my prayer and support. He will experience, asIdid, the warm acceptance of priests and people alike in his new diocese.
Outback my spirit land • From page 1 He says the five years university study made him "a little radical on certain issues, but I think I have become a little hit more mature over the years." One of the results of those studies was a feeling parish structures serve the people who are faithful, but offer little outreach to the materially poor, for whom the SVDP and religious orders have to cater. "The structures seem to keep the faithful faithful and give them ideals and values — but not the flexibility that we hope we can achieve. He sees his parish of Highgate as a place where many ethnic groups have built a relationship with their church as with a mother, but where an ethnic group is a minority in a dominant culture this is not so easy. Monsignor Hickey was asked how much he felt the Church should speak out on social issues. "The danger of making a radical statement is that one can become aligned to a particular political party, and the Church gets used, and abused, because of a perceived affiliation with that party. "Our moral position on many issues is clear, and does not necessarily mean we have to have a political position. 'We must continue to state our moral positions and accept there are many political points of view on the issues. We cannot always be unanimous as a community on such sublects." he said. Mons Hickey sees his forthcoming role as bishop as a "terrifying" responsibility. "My reading of the place of bishops is they have to be responsible for teaching the faith, upholding the Church's moral code, and to
be the head of the Church which represents Christ in our midst "It's a terrifying responsibility to be Christ in the world because we are so aware of our imperfections. "But Christ seems to continue to use weak instruments and He does not seem to have changed His policy "One of my hopes is to let the priests of Geraldton know I do care about what they are doing and will take an interest in them. "I hope the people will appreciate their priests and continue to love and support them" he said. Asked about the future. Mons Hickey said: "I have to be an optimist about the Church otherwise I do not believe Christ stilled the storm — but we may he in for a very stormy period. "I think our youth have been through the worst of it over the past 10 years and are coming back to see the Church in a different light. "I think they have been disillusioned about the message of the world about marriage, about sex, about drugs and money — and now they are coming back to appreciate spiritual values. "I am convined vocations to the priesthood and religious life are there, but will come only if the community wants them because vocations are born within the families and nourished there. "If the community does not value vocations they will not come. "The very presence of St Charles' Seminary is a reminder to the whole state vocations are important to us and that we are willing to spend time and personnel on their promotion. • A priestly vision, see page 12.
Highest number for 5 years St Paul's National Seminary for late Vocations at K ensington, (NSW), this y ear has the largest number of new students for the priesthood in five years. The 21 new entrants bring the 1984 total to 47, plus four students in field training. The new students are f rom Wagga Wagga, ( NSW) (2), Bunbury, ( WA) (2), Port Pine, (SA) (2), Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (7), Armidale, (NSW) (1), Honiara, (1), Wewak, (PNG) (1), W ellington, (NZ) (1), Melbourne, (1), Wilcannia-Forbes (NSW) (1), Sydney (1) and Brisbane, (1).
Six priests in parish changes Archbishop Foley has released the first of a number of clergy changes to take place in the next few months. The following take effect on May 13 — FATHER BRIAN HARRIS, parish priest of Spearwood for the past 11 years will take up Our Lady Help of Christians parish East Victoria Park following the resignation of Father Phil Farrelly.
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Two new members are introduced to the five provincial council members who will direct the Christian Brothers in Western and South Australia for the next six years It was announced in Rome yesterday at the order's general chapter Brother G.T Faulkner, deputy provincial superior in the last council becomes provincial superior to succeed Brother L Bowler who is currently attending the chapter in Rome Brother J.C. Carrigg, becomes deputy provincial superior. He was a consultor in the previous administration. Brother K.W. Johns is appointed for a second term as a consultor on the provincial council. New council members are Brother M.C. Flaherty at present superior and principal of St John's School Whyalla; Brother M.P. McAppion who returned this year for his second appointment to Aquinas College after being headmaster at Wakefield Street, Adelaide. He is a former superior at CBC, Geraldton. Earlier in the Rome general chapter an almost unanimous vote re-elected Canadian Brother Gabriel McHugh to his second six year term as general superior. His vicar general is Brother Barnabas Garvan, at present the provincial superior of the order in NSW. Also re-elected to the general council is Brother Regis Hickey who was principal and superior at CBC. Leederville in the 1960's.
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Father Harris, originally from Leederville, studied at Guildford and Manly before his ordination in 1953. His appointment as assistant priest at the Cathedral was followed by periods at Shenton Park. Kalgoorlie, Osborne Park and South Perth. He was appointed parish priest of Armadale in 1967 remaining there for the next six years. FATHER JIM CORCORAN parish priest of Goomalling since 1978 will succeed Father Geoff Beyer as parish priest of Armadale. Father Corcoran. whose brother Tim is parish priest of Kalgoorlie is a native of Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland. and arrived in Australia in 1963 becoming attached to St Mary's Cathedral staff for the next seven years. His four years as assistant priest at Subiaco was followed by four years at Kambalda until his transfer to Goomalling. FATHER MICHAEL BYRNE who has been founding priest of Karrinyup since 1964 transfers to St Paul's parish Mount Lawley vacant after the death of Monsignor Bourke last year. Born in Waterford, Ireland, Father Byrne arrived in Australia in 1946 and was assistant priest at Palmyra, East Fremantle, Cathedral, Shenton Park, Nedlands and South Perth before taking up short temporary appointments at Quariading and North Beach in 1956 and 1957. He was appointed to Norseman parish in October 1958 and six years later became the first parish priest of the newly formed parish of Karrinyup. FATHER GEOFF BEYER of Armadale succeeds Father Michael Byrne at Our Lady of Good Counsel parish Karrinyup. Father Beyer was ordained an Anglican priest in 1963 and in 1968 with his wife and four children was received into the Catholic Church and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood the following year. A science graduate and trained teacher Father Beyer taught at St Louis School until he was appointed parish priest of Armadale in 1974. He has been a member of the senate of priests and is extensively involved in the work of the Marriage Tribunal.
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Effective May 13 A short terrn in Bruce Rock was followed by three years in Southern Cross. A short stay in Mirrabooka in 1972 was followed by his appointment to Hamersley at the beginning of the following year. A Jesuit who had his death sentence in China commuted to expulsion becomes parish priest of Goomalling in succession to Father Jim Corcoran. *Cont page 12
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The news that there have been three resignations of bishops and four appointments or transfers in less than as many years would ordinarily signal a radical shakeup if it were happening in a secular industry. The good news for Catholics is that the re-shuffle in Western Australia is only the result of the new Vatican II provisions for the orderly retirement of bishops and that three of the state's bishops could be around for a couple of decades. God willing and their health permitting. When the air is filled with anticipation of appointing new bishops there are plenty of amateur observers willing to punt their views on a candidate. He would have been a very canny prophet who even three years could have forecast the names of the Church leaders in WA - least of all the bishops themselves would have had a clue. Attributing these processes to the Holy Spirit may sound just a little too glib and convenient way of putting the responsiblity on someone else in case things go wrong. But if the Church does pray hard and long about the part God plays, it also devotes a lot of energy into the process of investigating the qualities of the candidates and their suitablility for the office. If frank comments to the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio reveal that potential bishops have faults like anyone else, it is equally true that a very positive picture builds up of the qualities the potential bishops do possess and that are needed by the Church at this time. So the advisers to the pope take the spiritual punt that indeed these men are the best available in the community to be leaders of Christ's flock. Monsignor Hickey ought to be deemed to have a perfect profile for the Geraldton diocese because of the years he and his mining ancestors spent in WA's lonely outback towns. But his later years were transformed by the development of his professional and pastoral skills in the critical area of social work and its issues Indeed, the same diocese of Geraldton has undergone a similarly traumatic revolution within living memory. If it was once the Murchinson gold, the pastoralists' wool, or the Midland wheat that propped up the state's prosperity, the mountains of iron in the Pilbara have become critical factors in Australia's natural economic future. If Geraldton and Port Hedland were once sleepy ports into which leisurely ships put in as they ambled the coast, they are now swift stopovers in vital national and international air links. Geraldton is a city that now boasts its suburbs and parishes. The Pilbara is a network of towns with populations that either are trying to build up permanence or commute from any point in Australia with speed that makes early Australian transportation an archaelological relic. Suburbs, wherever they are planted, bring with them the urbanization, the consumer economy, the search for activity to occupy surplus times, the paradox that never have people lived so close yet never have people been so distant and cool towards one another. The trail of broken families and abandoned spouses and chidren can cross a desert and Geraldton dioceses cities and towns are no longer immune from the cancer that undermines what was called traditional Christian family life and for which the outback families, especially the miners were famed. Were professional studies and a career in social work all that is required to put right the ills of today's society, then universities should have solved our problems years ago. Were Monsignor Hickey able to have instant answers to moral dilemmas and supply the Christian response to every issue of the times he would be wanted in more prestigious, though not more worthy, dioceses than Geraldton. The paradox of the modem episcopate is, as Bishop Healy recently observed, that never before have bishops been faced with such complex issues through which to lead their flocks. Never have bishops been asked to speak out on an impossible number of topics, never have their remarks been so easily overlooked by a noisy media if it suits the occasion, and never have their words been so easily dismissed if their views don't measure up to what the listener has already decided, generally in a political allegiance that appears to be of more importance than faith. No wonder that the wheels of Vatican II have produced bishops who are calling the people not into a supermarket of causes and issues but back to the roots of the gospel, to the fundamentals of Christian and Catholic faith, to a devotion to the eucharist and a reliance on the grace of Christ in daily life. It is the groundwork of the soul that will give Christians strength and vision to resist and contradict the materialism and licentiousness of the age as ever happened in past ages. Monsignor Hickey has to walk humbly in the footsteps of great outback bishops of the past, and serve people with a history of perseverance in faith and holiness. The Church entrusts his cause to God who makes the impossible seem a light burden and an easy task.
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SYDNEY: The National Catholic Education Commission has told the Commonwealth Schools Commission new government funding proposals will be accepted only if they protect the rights of parents in schooling. Another condition of acceptance would be the resources available to low-resource Catholic schools be improved and the gap be narrowed between those low-resource schools and government schools. At a meeting in Sydney last week the Catholic representatives said the new 12 category scheme was acceptable but that a scheme with even more categories would provide a more equitable distribution of funds. The Catholic group said all students had a right to share in the educational resources of the community and until this happened an unjust situation persisted. The Catholic commission does not endorse the self-supporting category of schools unless some schools freely choose to be in such a category. A funding system based on a target current resource standard would be acceptable provided the standard was common to both government and non-goverment schools and brought about the improvements listed above, the Catholics said.
Bishop Healy blessing the Francis O'Connor Memorial Library and classroom block at Xavier College, East Victoria Park during the weekend.
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Education funding had lagged when the community . . through the States . . . failed their responsiblity, Perth MHR, Mr Kim Beazley said at the opening of Xavier College library and classroom at East Victoria Park in the weekend. Mr Beazley said a catch-up period was necessary. The new Xavier building fulfilled the purposes of the pioneers who founded Catholic education in the area, especially the late Mons Francis O'Connor after whom the new building is named, Mr Beazley said. I l iq
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The statue of Our Lady which stood in front of the former Mercy Convent at East Victoria Park has now been relocated in a grotto built by parents adjacent to the new library building.
He singled out the $ 314,000 given by the Commonwealth, the $ 354,000 granted in 1983 and due to nse by 3 per cent in 1984 as an indication of the government's support of an education system in which the nongovernment schools play a very crucial part. "The government does not support diversity on education simply as a social objective," he said. "It does so because it recognises a parent's right to choose education with a basis in Christian life. "Children who use these classrooms and library will do so in an atmosphere which aims to develop their whole personality. They will carry from this school to the community values which will be caring and construtive. "In a community which is materialist and individualistic, these values will be an important corrective, because the capacity of our society to accommodate selfishness is diminishing and an alternative to that way must be presented."
A fitting day The fi ist of the Annunciation was a fittMg day to honour the amalgamation of Our Lady Help of Christians School and Xavier College, both of whom are patrons of Australia, the principal Mr Peter Hann said at the blessing and opening of classrooms and library. Mr Hann traced the history of the boys' school which the Christian Brother conducted from 1953 to 1978 when it was handed over to a new school board and lay staff. Community meetings to plan the amalgamation began in 1980 and the new amalgamated school opened in 1981, with parishioners helping to remodel the former brothers' residence for staff during the Christmas holidays Mr Hann praised the work of 100 families who operated busy bees, removed hedges and walls to prepare the site for the new building. He also praised the school board chairman, Mr Tom Rushton. who is architect for the new building.
Xavier College principal, Mr Peter Hann delivers his address at the opening.
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The new Francis O'Connor Memorial Library and classroom block at Xavier College, opened in the weekend by the MHR for Perth and Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Bearley.
Church aims to maintain Tribute to nuns system The Church aimed to preserve the Catholic school system and develop it to the greatest extent possible, Bishop Healy said at the Xavier College library opening. He said such development meant opening new schools and making improvements such as he had blessed at East Victoria Park. Noting the buildings were only the first step in a Catholic school Bishop Healy said the development of the ethos of a Catholic school was just as important. School board and teaching staff had a responsibility to achieve this but so did parents, he said. "Parents are responsible in the first place for the development of the faith of their children and in doing this they will contribute to the development of the ethos of the school He said there was a responsibility to develop a religious faith and healthy secular values He thanked the Commonwealth government for the $314,000 it contributed to the project and for the $50,000 contributed by the school as well as the undertaking of a $150,000 loan to finish the project.
Sister Mary Joseph Moylett, one of three sisters who founded Our Lady Help of Christians school and Sister loan Phelan a grade one pupil on opening day 1936 were present at the Xavier College blessing and opening ceremony of extensions last Sunday. Sister Mary Kealy paid tribute to the 41 Sisters of Mercy who taught at the school over the years. Noting two former schools on the site had been amalgamted she said: It is fitting this dais has been erected where a mighty hedge previously divided the two schools, so we are celebrating the breaking down of our local 'Berlin Wall', - - to make one united school from two previous separate entities." She recalled the days when school fees were sixpence a week but non-Catholics paid 2 6 because according to one of the sisters — "they didn't have to put into Father's collection box on Sundays as well." Sister Mary said the amalgamation of the two schools in 1981 after they had existed side-by-side for 26 years had brought many blessings to the new school. At the time numbers were down, educational trends favoured co-education and the pooling of resources and personnel seemed a desirable step.
VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul has canonised the 19th century f oundress of a Religious community and affirmed the dignity of women. The new saint, Paola Frassinetti, was foundress of Sisters of St Dorothy. St Paola led a life that "affirmed the identity and dignity of women, which the Church has always protected and sustained for the moral betterment of society and for the coming of the reign of Christ," the pope said during the homily.
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What does Project Compassion mean tome "As a teacher I find Project Compassion is a g(xxl way for teenagers to face the injustice in our world. "Because Project Compassion is about people, students can identify with those whose lives are affected by injustice. They can learn compassion — learn to suffer with people. "Also it gives them hope. They realise that, at some cost to themselves, they can help to tackle the causes of suffering. In so doing, they find they belong to a long line of people — from the prophets of the Old Testament to the prophets of today — who, filled with God's compassion, are concerned for the rights of the poor:.
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Retiring Father Farrelly Chile's unemployment and inflation exceed 25%. With jobs scarce and food prices high, malnutrition endangers the physical and mental health of the young. The Santiago Diocese has set up communal kitchens where people contribute all they can to a common pool of food. It means not only one good meal a day for poor families but draws important public attention to their plight. The people of Santiago are our brothers and sisters. And they desperately need our support. A section of the crowd of more than 200 who attended Father Farrelly's farewell at East Victoria Park parish.
Farewell to priest The retiring parish priest of East Victoria Park was farewelled recently by a gathering of priests of the zone and parishioners who attended Mass and later a social in the hall. Father Phil Farrelly who came to the parish in 1973 has retired to the St John of God Villa at Subiaco. Father Farrelly has served in the archdiocese of Perth since he arrived from Ireland in September 1939. At the social the president of the parish council Mr John Billing made a presentation to Father Farrelly on behalf of the parish.
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Chapel sign of God's presence As Christians are a sacrament of Christ's presence in the world so a chapel is the sacrament of Christ's presence in a school, Archbishop Foley said at the blessing of the Mazenod College chapel. "It is a sign that you recognise Christ and need Christ to achieve the goals you have set yourselves," he said.
Father John Cranley the college rector who had organised the construction of the Mazenod college chapel thanked the many people who had contributed to the project.
RIGHT: He told the gathering of students and parents that from the chapel the students would carry memories into adult life, of joy, victory, despair, guilt and forgiveness.
He said in a school, so much effort was put into the head and the body, in facilities for study and for boarding. However, the chapel was the heart of a college, he said and now after 19 years Mazenod had such a heart.
But above all there would be the moments of praise they had learnt and given there. He said the chapel was a place for individuals to find quiet with God just as Christians have gone out to find lonely desert places to pray.
"I hope Our Lady's chapel will be a centre of prayer in the school and a constant reminder to every student of God's presence amongst us.-
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AMSTERDAM — A Dutch millionaire has given away all his fortune of $200 million to the poor of the Third World. Catholic tycoon, Mr Piet Derksen, 71, has given his wealth to charities which help poor people in the Third World. He is the owner of a sports and holidy company in Holland. He has paid over his riches to a trust fund specially founded to aid the poor. "My wealth has been like a stone around my neck," said Mr Derksen.
Pop group accused LENINGRAD: The KGB is promoting a rumour members of the music group Trumpet Call are drug-runners using their work with drug addicts and drop-outs as a smoke-screen for drug distribution. Members of the group have had regular contact with the street people of Leningrad, some of whom are drug users, in the form of friendship and evangelism. In the past year they have organised four large meetings (some attended by up to 200 people) for the "lost youth" of Leningrad to discuss their problems and share the Gospel with them. They have received no support or encouragement from their local Baptist Church whose leadership says upright Christians ought not to associate with such "dregs of society". The Christians in Trumpet Call stress it is these very "dregs" who stand in most need of the message of salvation through Christ. Keston College Report
A 'true confession' VATICAN CITY (NC) — A good confession means facing one's sins squarely and looking for the reasons behind them, Pope John Paul II has said during his weekly general audience. "To receive the sacrament of penance worthily," the pope said, "we must take time to become aware of our sins and of the intentions and motives which underlie them." The pope said an examination of conscience "is not merely an exercise of psychological introspection." "Rather, it is a prayerful effort to bring ourselves face to face with the moral law and to stand humbly in the presence of the Lord. "Only in the light of Christ can we clearly perceive our faults. "Only in Christ who offered His life 'for us and for our salvation' do we discover the fullness of God's merciful love for us as sinners.
Face sins "Only in Christ do we find pardon for our sins and the beginning of new life and peace," he said. The pope stressed one must acknowledge one's sins personally. "People are called not to say: 'sin exists,— the pope said, "but to confess, 'I have sinned,' I am in sin."
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One sign is more than 20 Catholic monks have been received for a brief time in Buddist monasteries to share their lives with Buddhist monks, he added. "Last December the bishops of India held a special week-long study session on the relationship between Catholics and Moslems in India. where Mosk-ms arc. in the minority."
Relations There are difficult relations between Catholics and Moslems in areas where the Sharia, Islamic law, is part of the country's legal system, he noted. In these countries, non-Moslem citizens "have a difficult time getting to high social positions," he said. Archbishop Jadot cited three goals of the secretariat. • "The first is to see Catholics living among non-Christians have better objective knowledge of non-Christian religions so people are not working from prejudices or impressions," he said. • —The second is to share in local action and cultural activities as far as possible," he added "One specific goal
tion and culturalisation by teaching people how to read and write." • The third goal "is to work together against moral and cultural problems.- he said. "Pakistan. India. Indonesia andJapan in a few years have moved from a rural to an industrial economy," he said. "Most of the biggest cities in the world are in Asia" These metropolitan areas, with populations from 10 million to 17 million people, have developed human and spiritual problems as a result of industrialisation. Archbishop Jadot said while religions share very different beliefs about God and religious expression, they still have common concerns.
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Healing. It takes many forms. Naturally, there are physical healings of disease and broken bones. But there are other kinds of healing. 1. Healing broken relationships. "Where the relationship means the most, the most difficult situations" are likely to arise. Then healing can become a big need, said Father James Black, academic dean at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tenn. A conflict in a family — between a parent and child, for instance — can cause pain, Father Black observed. Sometimes the people involved experience a sense of helplessness. They may even despair that a relationship can be renewed. In this case, what is needed is a "kind of healing of attitude," Father Black said. In a Liguori Press book titled "How to Forgive Yourself and Others," Father Eamon Tobin spoke of relationships that need healing. Whenever one person hurts another, it becomes a time of decision, he said. "In the face of hurt, the way of the world is to strike back; the way of Christ is to forgive and, if possible, to become reconciled." 2. Healing selfcentredness. Father Black, a scripture scholar, pointed out that the biblical prophets spoke much of transformation, the need for people to "turn toward others and toward the Lord." To heal selfcentredness, he indicated, a person must be willing to turn outward. Doing so "allows the Lord to work through us." 3. Healing anxiety. Everyone will meet up with anxiety sometime, Father Black said. It comes in many forms. There are occasions when a person's anxiety is the "natural tension" caused by work-related problems. Or, there is the anxiety of living with sickness. In such cases, anxiety can get in the way of doing one's job or living one's life. Anxiety and its effects need to be alleviated. But what else creates the need for healing? And what does it mean, in the course of everyday life, to be one who heals?
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The practice of medicine was dismally primitive in the days of Jesus. Some of the bizarre remedies prescribed in ancient texts bring a sad smile to the lips of the modern reader. Moreover, there was a great deal of superstition connected with illness and a woeful lack of knowledge about the causes of disease. There was no organised medical profession as we know it today. Doctors were, in the main, wellintentioned but hampered by ignorance. This situation is reflected by the story in Mark's Gospel about the woman with an uncontrollable flow of blood: "There was a woman in the area who had been afflicted with a heamorrhage for a dozen years. She had received treatment at the hands of doctors of every sort and exhausted her savings in the process, yct she got no relief; on the contrary, she only grew worse."( 5:25-26 ) Diseases which medical science today has identified were simply mystifying then. "Leprosy," for instance, was not our classic Hansen's
By Father John Castelot Disease, but any sort of persistent and communicable skin affliction. The only defence people had was to control its spread by isolating these afflicted from all social contact. This reduced lepers to a pitiable, almost subhumnan condition. As far as society was concerned, they were as good as dead. Another phenomenon of the day were the "professional healers" Many were no better than quacks. The Gospels make crystal clear that Jesus was no runof-the -mill professional healer. Not only did he wield power over diseases of all sorts, but he was interested in the well-being of the whole person. Jesus healed because he cared, because he loved. If Jesus was renowned as a teacher, he was just as widely acclaimed as a healer. People came to him from far and wide to avail themselves of his extraodinary power, as we read in Mark's Gospel: "A great crowd followed hin from Galilee, and an equally great multitude came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, Transjordan and the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon, because they had heard what he had done . . . Because he had cured many,
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all who had afflictions kept pushing toward him." (Mark 3:7-10) The scripture accounts reflect the belief of their writers in the divine sonship of Jesus. Thus the healing passages have it as one purpose to teach others who
Jesus is and what he means for them. But even with that in mind, there can be no doubt that Jesus possessed a remarkable healing power. No matter how severe or apparently hopeless the disease, Jesus cured it. Usually he demanded an expression
of faith on the part of one seeking a cure, of faith in him as the agent of God's power. Repeatedly, after performing a cure, Jesus remarked that the person had been saved by faith. Among other things, Jesus reused that a
cure is almost impossible if the patient lacks confidence in the physician. Jesus' mastery over physical ills was part of his victory over all evil, a victory which will be complete only when his Father's kingdom is defnitively established at the end-time.
A modern healer Sister Angela Murdaugh is a nurse-midwife, who has delivered 800 babies. Healing is "my personal charism," she says. This ministry gives her "a sense of doing something purposeful for people." She entered the Sisters of St Mary because it is an order devoted to health care. Fourteen years ago, Sister Murdaugh became a certified nurse-midwife, because she wanted "hands-on care of patients." Sister Murdaugh is a pioneer in establishing a new kind of maternity care to serve migrant workers in the Rio Grande Valley. The clinics are sponsored by Catholic Charities. Within three years after opening the first clinic, Sister Murdaugh commented, the number of babies born prematurely was cut in half. The rate of infant mortality also dropped. Subsequently the birth centre concept "set a precedent" for people in other migrant communities across the United States. Sister Murdaugh defines birth centres as "a place for women having normal pregnancies" to deliver their babies under the watchful attendance of certified nurse-midwives and nurses. Several physicians serve as consultants.
The idea for the birth centres was "born out of necessity' when she moved to southern Texas in 1972, Sister Murdaugh said. She found that many HispanicAmerican women in the Rio Grande Valley couldn't afford to go to hospitals and "the indigenous midwives were not well-trained," she commented. Typically, Sister Murare daugh's patients between 15 and 42 years of age and "either have large families themselves or come from large families" of six to 10 children. Breadwinners are seasonal farmers or labourers. More than half the population lives below the poverty level, according to Sister Murdaugh. At the clinics, the emphasis is on "keeping people healthy," Sister Murdaugh said. Her staff provides prenatal and postnatal care to mothers and offers educational programmes, such as
teaching expectant mothers about exercise, child birth and good nutrition. Each of the four birth units in the Weslaco birth centre has a living room, efficiency kitchen and bedroom where delivery occurs. The clinics expect to serve 300 families annually, Sister Murdaugh said. One concern of the clinics is to keep costs low. So cooperation between medical personnel and families is encouraged. Families can pay part of their bills working at the centre. In addition, pregnant women are encouraged to bring two companions with them to four classes toward the end of pregnancy. The companions — occasionally A parish in my local community feeds 200 poor and hungry people every day. Once a month — the second Sunday of the month, to be exact — I help out. Someone asked why the parish keeps at this demanding work. I think he was looking for a profound spiritual or theological reason. I thought for a while, but I couldn't come up with anything special or theological. "Because they're hungry," I responded. Images of Jesus healing are found throughout Gospels. the The crippled, the blind, the deaf and some people whose ailments are described in such ancient terms that it is hard to know just what was wrong with them, all are brought to Jesus to be healed. He heals them. The circumstances all are different, the people are different and the illnesses are as varied as the diseases that plague a poor and primitive land. But these people have one thing in common. They are healed. A nother element links these cures in the Gospels: a comment almost lost in the drama of the eye-catching miracle that accompanies most of the cures. It tells us Jesus feels sorry for the
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Because they're hungry By Father David O'Rourke person afflicted Throughout the Gospels, it is said that Jesus acts out of compassion. Events of major importance — a restoration of the dead to life, of sight to the blind, or strength to the crippled, of good conscience to the sinful — come about for the most simple of human reasons: Jesus feels sorry for people. Down through the centuries the Church's theologians have pondered the meaning of these gospel cures. They have noted that, in acts of healing, Jesus fulfills prophecies about the Messiah. They have added that the divinity of Christ is manifested by the power to heal. And theologians have noted that these acts of
centre feel about Sister Murdaugh's work? The nurse-midwife remarked that the people she serves are "very warm but not vocal." She judges their response "by the way they treat me." It is common for people to "return favours" to Sister the like Murdaugh, mechanic who spent hours fixing her car and charging her next to nothing. When she remonstrated about the small fee, she says, he replied quite typically: "You delivered all my daughter's children. For you it's $8." Sister Murdaugh has only one complaint about her work: "There's more than I can handle." healing are both physical and spiritual: Jesus heals the physical infirmity and he forgives sin. In this theologians have seen the total approach in the ministry of Jesus: He addresses Himself to everything that is part of being human. Such explanations are of great value. They are a way of understanding our common life. But beyond all the explanations, there is the simple, human reality of people in need. Jesus responds to these people. The Church is aware of the f undamental needs unmet in the lives of so many of the world's people. We look at human basics like food, shelter, health care, education and the need for security and peace. What does the work of Jesus mean for us on a very human level? it is asked. And how have Christ and his Church related to these human needs in the past? notable most The moments in the life of the Church as healer may well have come about because ordinary human kindness was shown It was shown because someone felt sorry for someone else. Perhaps that may prove to be the best of reasons.
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Just after my wife, Amgeline, and I got married, we made a journey to the Holy Land. When we arrived, Brother Daniel, a Carmelite, led us to the ancient site of Capernaum. There on the shores of the brilliant blue Sea of Galilee, the sick from miles around had came to be healed by Jesus. We said a prayer among the sun-bleached ruins of an ancient synagogue. Then we walked to an eight-sided building archeologists had uncovered. Brother Daniel told us that scholars were sure this was Peter's house A breeze was stirring in the heat made the flowers between the stones smell sweat. We imagined the faith and hope that had brought the sick to Capernaum. Jesus restored them to health and strength. He laid out his hands and comforted them. His love enabled them to become new people and to do what others said was simply impossible. Being in Capernaum had special meaning for Angeline and me, but not because we were gravely ill. Arriving in Galilee after a long pilgrimage on foot, we could see for ourselves the biblical places and scenes we'd heard about all our lives. We had walked from northern France across the snowy Alps and down to Rome, then across Greece, where we finally took a ship to the Holy Land. Each country offered its own challenges, as we slowly followed country roads and hiking trails toward Rome and Jerusalem. In France we trudged through three solid weeks of rain. Our feet were often covered with blisters, which Angeline treated each night. Our ankles became swollen.
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Sister Angela Murdaugh talks with a mother who is preparing to take home her day-old infant. The sister-nurse -midwife and another midwife make a home visit to examine each new mother and child a few days after the birth. Sister Murdaugh has delivered 800 babies in the years she has been serving migrants in the Rio Grande Valley.
of the countryside for the crowds of people in the eternal city, many of them pilgrims like ourselves. Just knowing we had made it to Rome made us happy. But Angeline and I doubted we had the strength to continue. We felt exhausted. We had left the security of home and work. We had been living in a tent for three months. What could we do but pray for strength and talk it out? In the end, confidence in Jesus, in each other and in the importance of our pilgrimage got us going again, toward Jerusalem. When we hiked across Greece, we hardly noticed the heat anymore, because we swam in the Bay of Corintha few times a day. At last we went by sea to the Holy Land. And like the people of Galilee, we went to Capernaum. We pictured how Jesus had walked out of a synagogue in the old town, and come over to Peter's house, how he healed the sick as the sun was setting over the bare hills of Galilee. As we looked at the ruins, Angeline and I began to reflect. Were all the long months of walking, all the exertion and work, worthwhile? After all, we had just gotten married before starting to hike. Why undertake anything so difficult, when we could have been enjoying life back home. But we weren't that different from the Galileans who walked to Peter's house in Capernaum because they'd heard Jesus was here.
Sometimes the going was rough. We were making this pilgrimage as an act of hope, and also as a sign of lifelong commitment to each other. Angeline did the cooking over a portable stove. I did the mending and each night I put up a tent, which I carried in my backpack. Even in June it was cold high in the Swiss Alps as we trudged along glaciers and sometimes throngh snow. But once we had (tossed the Alps on foot, we felt we could tackle any challenge. It was a real pleasure to come down the other side of those giant mountains. But then in Italy in July the problem was heat. It was more than 38 degrees for full weeks. We started walking before sunrise and at midday we tried to find shelter from the burning sun. People were amazed to see us walking in such hot weather. Fortunately it finally cooled off. When we arrived in Rome, it meant leaving the silence and peace
A couple pauses to view the facade of the ancient synagogue at Capernaum. Nearby is an eight-sided building which scholars believe to be the house of St Peter. Being in had special meaning for Angeline and George Tombs. They had hiked on foot from Northern France, to Rome, across Greece and finally to the Holy Land
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Fallen foul of system ZAGREB: Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, preaching in Zagreb Cathedral, has expressed concern for the rights of prisoners who suffer "psychological pressure and physical mistreatment".
The cardinal pointed out Yugoslav prisons hold those who have, through their convictions, fallen foul of "a system which is intolerant of criticism" as well as common criminals. It is the duty of the Church, said Cardinal Kuharic, to speak out for prisoners' rights, to ensure their spiritual needs are satisfied and priests he given access to them. No political system or government, stated the cardinal. has the right to deny prisoners' spiritual needs or to subject them to psychological and physical abuse. It was the duty of the Church to care for the spiritual well-being of prisoners and to defend their rights, he said. The Church had been forced to take up this issue because of "certain facts about which we are hearing".
For many migrant women locking the door behind them as they leave for another long day at work may be an anguished moment. Chances are there will be a number of small children behind that door, left to fend for themselves until evening. Studies throughout Australia have revealed that many newly arrived migrant families, unable to find or afford child care, have been forced to leave their pre-schoolers at home alone while both parents work long and hard to establish a future. In some cases older children are kept home from school to look after younger ones; there is little doubt that in other instances babies are left in the care of five year olds. The safety aspect aside, such inadequate care can, and usually does, have farreaching detrimental effects. While the emotional and psychological trauma for such children is great, in many cases they are also prevented from attending pre-school. In short, there is no-one to take them there and collect them a few hours later. This means young migrant children often begin school with no pre-school experience and a minimal grasp of English because most of their time has been spent at home, alone, or with parents who speak only a native language. Its a disadvantage that may never be overcome for some and which will affect others, in a variety of ways, throughout their school years. A Sydney study revealed
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I he Missionary Oblates Of the Australian Province are working in Java for 13 years. The Island of Java has a population of 91 million. Many developmental projects have been carried out — fish-farming, poultry-farming, road building, land reclamation, clinics and water pumps for villages and nutrition programmes for young mothers and babies. By far the most important project has been and establishment of our Oblate Seminary for local vocations in 1983. We now have 22 students studying to be priests. Only God knows the work accomplished by a good priest during the course of his life. Those who help him through his studies, and share the costs, must also share in all the good he achieves during his priestly life. The cost of setting up a Seminary in the city of Jogjakarta, Java, Indonesia is very high. Land near the National Seminary which our students attend for their lectures, is S80,000 an acre; building. however, is comparatively cheap. Every donation t ill be ackno%ledged. and sill be pill aside for the direct maintenance and education of our Oblate students. The Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate (M.A.M.I.1 is the organisation responsible for raising funds.
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icy at the time was one of assimilation. The assimilation policy influenced the attitudes of people in government and other organisations responsible for planning, delivery of services and allocation of resources Mainstream services were inaccessible and insensitive to the needs of non-English speaking background people who constitute 25 per cent of the population. They assumed this mass of people would assimilate in t he community and all become 'Australian'. Mainstream services failed to cater for the needs of migrant people. The services were not culturally-language relevant, and were r eluctant to change to accommodate needs.
This had dramatic effects in the field of child care. Although a higher proportion of married couples in workforce the were migrants and a higher participation of migrant women were in the workforce, the number of ethnic children using child care services was low, compared to the total population.
About 25 per cent of Australia's population were either born in a non-English speaking country, or are children of parents from non-English speaking countries. Only 0 9 per cent of migrant children attend government sponsored children's services, compared with 3.5 per cent of Australian children overall. It's a problem crying out for a solution. It is a problem of paramount importance to Beth Hewton, of the North Perth Migrant Resources Centre who says WA is up to five years behind the other states in providing adequate migrant childcare services. Miss Newton is the first field officer to be appointed in WA to work solely on migrant problems through the Children Services Programme of the Department of Social Security. The holder of a degree in social and political theory from Murdoch University, Miss Newton has completed a study of migrant populations in several Perth suburbs. She was appointed to the position a year ago and before that was co-ordinator of a neighbourhood centre
at Fremantle for four years A second field officer has since been appointed and is based at Fremantle Covering the north of the city, Miss Hewton has the heaviest concentration of Perth's overseas born migrant population Suburbs like North Perth, Highgate, West Perth, Leederville, Mount Lawiey, Maylands, Morley, Balcatta, Stirling and Osborne Park have
the heaviest concentrations Highgate takes the lead with a population of 60 per cent overseas born. In a bid to assess ethnic child care needs a seminar was held in October at which a steering committee was appointed. That committee has in turn organised another seminar for March 19 which will deal specifically with funding. She sees the overall plan as one in which the ethnic communities will develop services as they see fit and make existing services more suited to their needs. The reasons why migrant children are missing out on child-care services can be identified.
For this reason Miss Newton recently completed a 12 language translation of a pamphlet outlining childcare services available in Perth. The brochure has been printed in Italian, Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Malay, Chinese, Khmer, and Polish It has been distributed through welfare agencies, resource centres and ethnic groups Language and money are the major problems, she says. "Migrants tend to have little knowledge of what is available no matter how long they are here," she said "Newly arrived groups usually have large establishment costs and as often as not they will be sending money home as well. There is usually little to spare for child-care. The most common solution is to leave children in the care of grand-parents and while this is acceptable in many ways it often means that the child starts school without any pre-school experience. "Obviously it doesn't happen in all cases, but for many grandparents caring for the children is tiring enough without having to get them to and from kindergarten for a couple of hours. 'The same thing usually applies to child-minders. If they are looking after a couple of children they are going to be loath to ferry t hem to pre-school and back." But for those migrant families who do put their children into child-care centres there are still problems.
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Children's Services in Western Australia. WHAT IS DAY CARE?: It is the provision of daytime care for young children, up to school age, away from home during the day. WHO NEEDS DAY CARE?: Many children are in need of day care because their parents are working or one parent is ill. Single parents often find it particularly hard to cope alone with a small child/children. Parents also need a break from caring for children. They may need time to keep doctor's appointments, attend meetings, to go shopping or to go to language classes.
M INN.04.,/,`14 FEES: Fees vary between centres. Some centres and homes are in receipt of government subsidy and can offer reduced fees to certain parents on low incomes. TYPES OF DAY CARE DAY CARE CENTRES: These centres can provide group care for children up to school age. They are
generally open from 7.30 am to 5.30 pm Monday to Friday, and take children on a full-time or parttime basis. Centres may vary in: the age of children they cater for, (some only accept children three to five years); the number of children they can accommodate; and their programmes. Some centres are privately owned and others are government subsidised.
OCCASIONAL CARE CENTRES: These provide care for limited periods — often a maximum of 3 hours — for parents whose needs may be irregular and infrequent. They are sometimes located in larger shopping areas FAMILY DAY CARE: Family day care is the care of children in another person's own home. Each group consists of not more than four or five children of various ages, including the care-giver's own pre-school children. Some family care homes can cater for children of parents employed outside typical working hours. Many family care homes will also accept children on a part-time or occasional basis.
for many mothers With an acute shortage of places in Government subsidised child care centres parents may have to travel long distances to ensure affordable care. In one extreme case a migrant mother who was doing a secretarial course at Fremantle had to take her five-year -old from Maylands to Perth by bus, from Perth to Fremantle by train where he was collected by car and driven to a centre at Attadale. While Labor Governments have traditionally been more sympathetic to the issue of child care, establishing more facilities is no easy matter. To set up a government subsidised child care centre, c ommunity groups are required to apply to the federal government for the funds The facility then has to company with a long list of health and building requirements.
Melbourne has at least five Turkish, two Greek and two Italian centres and Adelaide has four or more. The ethno-specific centres provide a bilingual, bi-cultural programme on the basis that a child does not learn its second language properly if it hasn't learned the first. "If they are speaking English all day and Vietnamese for an hour before they go to bed it means the child may not become fluent in its own language," Miss Hewton said. • 'It creates all sorts of problems when they go to school. "With language comes culture and it can make all the difference to a child's development. "In fact, in Sweden the Government has ruled that all children 'to whom some language other than Swedish is a living element of the home environment' are to be entitled to home language practice and home language lessons."
' While the federal government has increased funding for new child services programmes, the task of applying for those funds is no less daunting," she said. "It is a difficult and complex business for even the best educated English-speaking person, let alone a recently arrived non-English speaking migrant.One solution is ethnospecific child care centres, which as the name implies cater for one specific ethnic group. Miss Hewton is keen to see such centres set up in Perth. Western Australia has one ethno-specific facility, the Itala-Australia Child Care Centre but it is a private concern. Sydney, Melbourne and even Adelaide, which is the same size as Perth cater far better for migrant populations in this respect.
This means children from migrant families and children belonging to linguistic minorities in Sweden will be offered home language teaching if the family preserves it language and uses it on an everyday basis together with their children. It is not only during childhood you learn your own language, Miss Newton said. Language is something you go on learning as long
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as you live. Language develops all the time you hear it spoken and all the time you use it yourself. Thus a child's language development is not complete when it starts school. This is what makes it important for migrant children to be given help in practising and developing their home language even after they
have begun to learn English. It is not until you are sure of your home language (native language) that you can start learning another language properly. If you know one language properly it becomes easier to learn another — but if you do not know the first lan-
guage properly, the English you acquire will often by limited and superficial. Language is an essential ingredient of human development, and language also enables people to preserve and develop their culture.
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are available PRE-PRIMARY OR PRE-SCHOOL? Pre-primary: is offered free by the Education Department for all children the year they turn five. Some centres offer places for children the year they turn four if there are vacancies. Children attend four 21 2 / hour sessions per week during school term. Pre-school centres: offer comparable service but centres are administered by parent committees. Fees vary. All children are entitled to a place in a pre-school or pre-primary for the year before they start school.
eNWPW"' BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL CARE These programmes are for the children of working parents and provide care and activities for school aged children from approximately 7.30-9 am and 3.305.30 pm. Times differ at each centre and a small fee is charged. HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES These are programmes for school children during all or part of the school holidays.
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Children take part in organised activities, recreation and outings. Parents are required to pay a small fee and opening times differ at each centre.
FOR HELP AND INFORMATION ABOUT ANY OF THESE SERVICES CONTACT: Beth Newton, Ethnic Children Services Worker North Perth Migrant Resource Centre 66 Angove Street North Perth 6006 Telephone: 328 5890 Libby Diop, Ethnic Children Services Worker Fremantle Migrant Resource Centre 160 High Street Fremantle 6160 Telephone 335 9588 Telephone Interpreter Service 865 Hay Street Perth 6000 Telephone 322 3366
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Born in diocese • From page 1 His first appointment of six years at West Perth was followed by three years as administrator at Highgate after which he commenced studies at the University of WA. A fter completing three years for a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology he spent a further two years gaining Master of Social Work. For the next 10 years he was director of the Centrecare organisation which covered family welfare, marriage guidance, natural family planning, residential care for Aboriginal children, pregnancy help, unemployed youth, migrants and refugees.
Eucharistic Migrant mothers' vision for 1 anguish his priests 1 in Dampier parish until he came south in 1982 to become assistant priest in Rockingham.
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This is what makes it so important for migrant children to be given help in practising their home language, not only at home but in the pre-school and even school environment. Miss Newton sees an urgent need for six ethnospecific centres but finance is the determining factor and her hopes are unlikely to be realised Just yet. There is a chance of two such centres being established in the next financial year. -We think there's a good chance of two," she said, "so at least it is a beginning." "In the meantime, we're hoping to employ bilingual staff at Government subsidised centres which will go at least part way to easing the situation. "We usually get a variety of ethnic groups in the centres but in most cases one group is dominant and the aim will be to choose a relevant language." Towards this end the North
Perth Migrant Resource Centre and the Lady Gowrie Centre at Karawara have applied for funds to train members of the ethnic community. Once trained they would be part of a pool which would be available to all child-care service programmes A couple of centres do have bilingual staff but more are needed, Miss Newton said. -Twenty to 25 per cent of the 80 places at Catherine McAuley are taken by migrants," she added. -And Girrawheen is looking to apply for a 100 per cent funded Vietnamese aide they have something like 13 Vietnamese children in a 53 place centre — that's a lot.Miss Hewton believes childcare centres offer vital communication potential for migrants, which benefit adults and children alike It also benefits the community in easing the strains accompanying a new life in a new land.
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—The centre of my vision has always been and will be the eucharist for there we find the idealism and the meaning of human existence, the whole mystery of the R edemption that Christ came for us and is still there. "We can only be fulfilled by allowing ourselves to be united with Christ in the eucharist. "It is a profound sign of the unity Christ wanted to have with those who follow Him." "The Church has dwelling with it the Holy Spirit and Christ is the centre of the Church and the eucharist must be the focal point of the whole Church. "The eucharist must flourish us and because it uses the symbols of bread and wine it is also a sign Christ wants to nourish the world. "As a church we have to look inwards and nourish ourselves and look outwards and nourish the world. I don't think we do enough of the second" he said. Mons Hickey who has a keen interest in the fostering of vocations at St Charles' Seminary believes priests are needed more than ever before to be the leaders of the local community. "He does not have to do everything, to count all the
money, to do all the readings'The community is the Church and has many ministries and things to do and it needs a leader and the priest is that leader and I think it could ever be different." he said. Mons Hickey said his ideal of a priest is the one who lives his community, who serves his community, and who leads by giving the example first. "You can't lead by telling people what to do. -You lead by doing it yourself "If you want the people to live a moral life you live it yourself if you want people to be generous to others you are generous yourself; if you want people to accept others and be forgiving, you do it first yourself." And Mons Hickey added "Let me say in terms of that, I am not an ideal priest myself"
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The title Monsignor was conferred in 1982 and in the same year he was made parish priest of Highgate, Episcopal Vicar for Social Welfare and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. Last year he was named an archdiocesan consultor. Mons Hickey has been a member of a number of government community and Church committees, including the Institute of Family Studies and the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. He is immediate past-president of the WA Council of Social Service and is currently chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission.
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On the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the death of their Foundress, Nano Nagle, the Presentation Sisters extend an invitation to all Priests, Past Pupils and Friends to attend an open-air Concelebrated Mass at -Iona" Presentation Convent on Thursday, April 26 at noon.
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On Saturday, March 17, 20 TYCS'ers assembled for a workshop to share experiences of their tertiary education and learn about the particular problems that face many students on campus. The discussion also centred on the difficuhy that many face in trying to gain entrance to tertiary institutions. The students in TYCS believe that they are called, beyond simple studying at tertiary Institutions, to take an active involvement in their student life. Presently, many students are working for others by participating in student clubs and societies, the Guild Council, faculty associations and expressing interest and concern for their fellow students. If we don't take responsibility for our education, noone else will!! To be witnesses of Christ on the campus, students see that they must be active in the Institute life and continually reach out to more and more students. Tertiary education, brings with it the positive aspects of a flexible lifestyle, opportunity to take responsibility for our own education, a chance to broaden our outlook and understanding of ourselves and the world around us. However, the myth of the student having a lot of freedom and comfortable lifestyle is not always true. Colin Lockhart, the Education Research Officer from WA Institute of Technology gave some statistics about student incomes saying that in 1979 students' income was made up of 43.5 per cent government finance; 28
Donated At long last the proposed extentions to the Youth Formation Centre Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup are off the drawing boards and out to tender which close on April 16 The first sod will be turned by the end of April.
A time to share and talk On a recent short visit to Perth, Michael Clohessy, of Melbourne met Catholic Parish Youth full time workers Julia Pickering and Julie Della Franca and discussed some of the possibilities for International Youth Year 1985
per cent from employment; 3 per cent loans to be repaid; 17.1 per cent non-repayable loans, from parents, etc. Students were spending 23.2 per cent of their income on housing, 17.1 per cent on food; 24.3 per cent on travel; 25.6 per cent on clothes and entertainment. From 1976 to 1979 the number of students receiving no assistance from the had government risen from 24 per cent to 42 per cent. Also in 1976, 79 per cent had obtained part-time employment while in 1979 only 66 per cent of students had secured part-time employment. This painted a grim picture indicating that students were finding it more difficult to get government grants and parttime employment while paying more for living costs. Who can afford to be educated? Accessibility to higher education is clearly becoming less and less available to the general community. Education is not free!! Many students are either forced to live in poverty or cannot study at all because of financial problems. For students that are able to study it poses huge challenges for us to become active in the campaign for education to be a right for all — not a privilege. TYCS Workshop "Participation in Education" Ann Harris
High hopes are voiced for the International Year of Youth
Two interstate guests at the meeting. Michael Clohessy, executive director of the Australian Youth Affairs Council, and Tony Wisheart, Australian co-ordinator for International Year of Youth, said they found WA free of many of the difficulties that beset the more heavilyy populated Eastern States. There was evidence in WA of co-operation over a wide base. Mr Wilson outlined the work of the Youth Task Force Report which has
been open for public comment. Youth groups and youth movements with an interest in WA should study this very important document and post their considered response My guess is that most replies, unfortunately will come from adults rather than the young people themselves. Mr Wilson said the Government had substantially increased its funding of the voluntary youth sector from $ 110,273 to $173,000. He said Graeme Mabery
Several companies and individuals have firmed up their support by way of fi nancial and material donations. These have r anged from 11 cents given by 11 year old Kinny Kelly to more than $11,000 donated by Mr and Mrs Bond. Some of our supporters are listed and will appear in these pages as building proceeds.
Parish Youth, Young Workers, Christian Young Christian Students and Tertiary Young Christian Students. Each year the full time workers come together on two occasions for a time of reflection, and discussion.
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had been appointed chairman of the State International Youth projects and hopes that as result of the 1985 activities a privately funded Youth foundation would be established. One of the functions of the annual general meeting was to elect a President. This year the 3 nominations are: ( 1) Gordon Cargeeg, Scouts Association of Australia, (WA Branch), ( 2) Stuart Flynn. WAIT Chairperson, YACOM. (3) Professor Brian Hill, Lecturer Murdoch University, Convenor, Youth Task Force.
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field. It is a communications base and will hopefully acknowledge initiative at the local level.
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One will replace Helen Creed who at present chairs the Australian Youth Affairs Council. The interstate visitors spoke mainly of working . . towards International Youth • . Year and their hopes that it . . would engender excite- : ment, rekindle vision and : empower young people not just by giving information but by offering the skills to achieve their goals. Mr Wilson said an umbrella group like Youth Affairs Council needed to show it had something to offer and its values would be judged according to the service that it offered to members and to others. A very obvious service that
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hildren's Story Hour The girl screamed and Jesus wanted her to know groaned. Her mother knelt that His mission was first to besider her, reaching out to the Jews. "Let the children of comfort her. She pulled her the house eat first. It is not daughter to her and held right to take food from the her tight. children and throw it to the Slowly the young girl became pups under the table." calm. "Thank God," her People chuckled. They mother sighed softly. "Flow I doubted that Jesus would help wish my little girl could find this foreign woman. help. She is so beautiful when "Please. Lord," the woman she is calm like other child- begged, "help my daughter. Even the pups under the table Neighbours stood around eat the family leftovers." the mother and child. They But Jesus liked the woman's looked sad. They felt sorry for sense of humour. He was the little girl and for her touched by her concern for mother. her sick child. "Too bad," one woman whis- "Go home now," Jesus told pered to her neighbour. "She's her. "Your daughter is all a very sick girl." right. "I think an evil spirit has her The woman stood up. She in its power," the neighbour thanked Jesus. When she got woman answered. home, she found her little girl A man had a suggestion for asleep in bed. She was no the mother. "A man named longer sick. Jesus is visiting in town. He has healed many people. I know where he is staying. Maybe he would help your girl." The mother sent her daughter home with an older brother. She followed the man to the house where Jesus was staying. Jesus had hoped no one would recognise Him. It was a strange village in the territory of Tyre and Sidon and he wanted to rest for a while. The mother ran into the house where Jesus was staying. The people in the house were Jews, like Jesus. The woman was a foreigner, a Greek. "What is that foreigner doing in our house?" the owner of the house asked his wife. "Surely Jesus will have nothing to do with her since she is a gentile." As soon as the mother saw Jesus, she ran to Him and fell down at His feet. "Sir, please help my little girl," the Greek woman pleaded. "She is very sick. 14
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stressed that Paulines must always opt for the most rapid and far-reaching means of evangelisation. Accordingly, as motion pictures, radio, records and television emerged, he quickly adopted these promising new instruments of social communication for the service of the Gospel. But his enthusiasm for the press, with its own inimitable efficacy, never diminished. While the period from 1914 to 1960 witnessed a remarkable growth in the Pauline Family, there were also immense difficulties to be overcome. Besides two world wars, severe financial problems, difficulties obtaining the necessary Church approvals, and being misunderstood even in some quarters of the Church, a matter of great concern was the precarious health of Father Alberione himself Convinced that it was from the Eucharist that he and the members of his Religious Family would receive the enlightenment needed for their mission, in 1922 he asked a small group of Daughters of St Paul to undertake perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Other Paulines actively engaged in the media apostolate would be sustained not only by their own prayer but by the perennial praise of God offered by these Sisters who came to be known as the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master. Thus by 1924, the Pauline Family had three branches — the Society of St Paul, the Daughters of St Paul and the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master. Though distinct, Father Alberione saw them as a single entity working for a common goal,
This week sees the centenary of the birth of a man who though not well known in Australia, has played an immense role in the Church in this century. Father James Alberione, born on April 4, 1884, in the tiny town of San Lorenzo di Fossano in the north of Italy, is the founder of the five religious congregations and four secular institutes who comprise the Pauline Religious Family. Four of the congreptions he founded have Houses in Australia — the Society of St Paul ( Pauline Fathers and Brothers), the Daughters of St Paul, the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master and the Pastorelle Sisters_ The story of the Pauline Family began on the night of December 31, 1900. James Alberione, then a young seminarian, responded to the plea of Pope Leo XIII to Catholics to pray for the century that was about to begin. With many others he spent the night in prayer in the Cathedral of Alba. Italy. As he prayed in the Cathedral the invitation of Christ, "come to me. all", spoke with special insistence. He felt a deep obligation to do something for the Lord and for the people with whom he would be living in the new century. He recognised the absolute and urgent need to make the Gospel message of God's saving love penetrate among the masses, many of whom were completely isolated from the Church. He felt that the Church itself had become very defensive in the face of many attacks, and that it needed to break out of its defensive shell and launch a new missionary thrust. He came to recognise that the press, the very instrument being used by adversaries to alienate people from the Church. would be an essential instrument in this missionary thrust. The press. and journalism in particular, was becoming an increasingly significant moulder of public opinion. "Whoever Father James Alberione had the press in hand had the world in hand," shortly before his was already a common saying in 1900. ordination in 1907 On August 24, 1914, seven years after he had been ordained a priest, Father Alberione that of proclaiming the Good News through established the Little Worker's Printing the press. To ensiire unity and singleness School. a tiny printing shop in Alba He had of purpose he was anxious for them to be two boys with him. This school was to prove constituted under a single Superior General the embryo of the Society of St Paul and but as approval for this could not be the Pauline Family. The first job attempted obtained, each group was in time erected on the very crude printing equipment was as an autonomous Religious Order. Howthe Catechism of Pius X. Though facing ever, the spiritual and apostolic unity, and enormous difficulties, the project gradually unity of aim, continue. developed. In 1937 a fourth branch was added to Less than a year later Father Alberione the Pauline Family — the Pastorelle Sisters. opened the Workshop for Women in Alba Attuned to the signs of the times Father which was to be the initial cell of the Alberione had for a long time felt that Daughters of St Paul. Among other things women could and should play a more their task was to help diffuse the publicadiversified role in the Church. tions of the Printing School through door In later years Father Alberione also to door canvassing and the setting up of book founded the Queen of Apostles' Sisters to centres. provide vocational guidance for young The years that followed witnessed a people contemplating a religious vocation. remarkable development. Houses of the He completed his Religious Family by Society of St Paul and the Daughters of St creating four secular institutes — for Paul were established throughout Italy and diocesan bishops and priests, for laymen, in 1931 the first Pauline Houses abroad were laywomen, and married couples — to enable opened. Everywhere the apostolate was the them to profess the religious vows and share same — the preparation. production and in and contribute to the spiritual and diffusion of Christian literature. Millions of apostolic life of the Pauline Family. bibles and Christian books were produced On November 26, 1971, just one hour and diffused and numerous magazines and before he died, Father Alberione was visited periodicals established. Many of these by Pope Paul VI who prayed at his bedside continue today. One, the Italian magazine and imparted his absolution. The pope's act 'Famiglia Cristiana' (Christian Family) has expressed the esteem and affection he had a weekly circulation of one and a half million for Father Alberione. During a papal copies and is the lazrgest Catholic periodical audience two years earlier Pope Paul had in the world. paid a memorable tribute to Father AlbeFor a long time Father Alberione focused done which summed up well the man and the activities of his Religious Family his contribution to the Church: exclusively in the area of the press. But reading the signs of the times, he had By Father Michael Goonan SSP.
Alberione: his life and times
James Alberione, his life, his times, his work, by Luigi Rolfo (translated by Aloysius Milella), published by St Paul. Price not available. It is now a little more than enter the minor seminary of 10 years since the death of Bra. He did not excel in Father James Alberione and intelligence but he was five biographies have already known for his serious appliappeared in the Italian lan- cation to all the duties of his guage exploring the life of this seminary life and an uncomexceptional priest, defined by mon maturity. Pope Paul VI as 'a marvel of It was in Alba, in 1901, this century,' whose dream shortly after he was admitted was to 'make the Gosple to the major seminary at Alba penetrate to the core of the that the Lord spoke to young masses.' Aberione. It happened in a In this small volume, Father way that is, and always will be, Luigi Rollo, the author of a quite mysterious for us. But prior carefully documented it was unmistakably clear to biography of Alberione, him. reviews the highlights of his As he wrote many years later, life in rapid sequence with "He felt himself deeply clarity of style and deep filial obliged to prepare himself to love. It is a summing up of the do something for the Lord and 87 years of life of the founder for the men of the new cenof ten Pauline institutes tury in which he would live." He was born at San Lorenzo It was that calling which set di Fossano (Cuneo, Italy) on the seal for his life. April 4, 1884, the fifth son of "He distributed more than Michael Alberione and Teresa 20 million copies of the Bible Rose Allocco, modest farmers, in the world," was the elegy natives of nearby Bra. most frequently repeated and In November 1886. when which would have pleased James was not yet 20 months him more than any other. old, his family moved to a farm in Montecapriolo di Cheraw°. Here, at six years of age. James began attending the local school three kilometres away, a distance that hardly frightened the peasants of that time. all proven walkers. Already in the course of this first year of school, James told his teacher, Rosina Cardona, and his companions that his ideal was to become a priest. It was decided to admit him to First Communion at the age of 81 2 /, something rare in those times. The general rule was to admit only children who were 12. While his brothers were called to do duty on the farm, young James was allowed to
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Father James Alberione
The house where Father Alberione was born on April 4, 1884.
Pope's pamphlets The Australian Catholic Bishops in many splendid ways in Australia. made their adlimina visits to Pope John "The laity deserve honour and gratitude for their commitment in the area of education, for their Paul in two groups last year. involvement in promoting justice and
On both occasions he addressed them. The first time, on July 2, he spoke on the Duties of the Bishops. The second time, on November 11, he spoke of Confidence in the Laity. Both these addresses have now been published, under the title The Pope Speaks to Australia, by the Australian Catholic Truth Society (Melbourne), 50c a copy. The laity in particular will find much that is both consoling and challenging in Pope John Paul's development of the theme "the laity should have an awareness of the greatness of their vocation." Their contribution to the saving mission of Christ, which He shares with his Church, depends on their living the mystery of the Church. For this reason, says Pope John Paul, they must have a sense of being an essential component of the ecclesial community, a sense of living in communion with Christ. The pope finds that "the response of the laity to the challenges placed before them has been expressed
peace and for their long and sustained contribution to charitable and relief work". Pope John Paul says that in the face of all the problems affecting the world, the laity are called to manifest the faith of the pilgrim Church with confidence and joy. "In a thousand and one ways the laity are involved, even to the point of oppression, in the problems that afflict humanity, and in the dramatic search to alleviate the human suffering caused by the evils of the world. And yet they remain a people of strong hope. "By reason of their exposure, the laity are particularly vulnerable to suffering: when individuals and families are disturbed by ideologies opposed to the values of the Gospel; when inroads of drug abuse are made into communities; when social and economic problems cause loneliness, discouragement and alienation; when the effects of sin in the world weigh heavily on human hearts".
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Big gathering at Tambellup
GOLD BROKER looked very impressive when an easy winner of the last race at Ascot on Saturday. Gold Broker now has the impressive record of 20 starts for seven wins and is another good galloper to come out of the powerful Frank Maynard team. This horse should be able to maintain this high winning ayerage. Priests who have served at Tambellup over the past 34 years back at an reunion at St Michael's church: from left: Fathers John Fitzgerald (Pinjarra), John Leech (Leederville), Doug Conlan (Katanning), R ussell Hardiman (Donnybrook), Pat R ooney (Ongerup), Hubert Kelly (Pemberton), Edmund McSweeney (Denmark), Bernie Dwyer (Carey Park), Ian Johnson (Kojonup-Tambellup), Noel FitzSimons (Brunswick), Andrew Pyka (Lake Grace) and Bill Costelloe (Narrogin).
ENTRANCING showed once again that Colin Hayes should be respected whenever he ventures to the west. For the third year in a row he has brought a filly over to capture the WA Champion Fillies Stakes. Entrancing is obviously blessed with plenty of ability and should be hard to beat in future races while she is in WA.
MOSS KINGDOM had the least amount of starts ever as a Perth Cup winner and now he has returned right back to his best with a slashing victory on Saturday. Moss Kingdom is a true champion and will win many more races in the future.
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The twelve concelebrated Mass in St Michael's church where Julian Letter chairman of the community thanked the priests for coming back to the church which had changed much from the days they remembered there. The Sisters of St Joseph who have looked after the district mission for the past 25 years were not forgotten and they carried up the offertory gifts. Priests and visitors were guests of the local Catholics at a social luncheon at the Tambellup Bowling Club.
The La Salle 'run'
c)otot! WHAT'S ON
EMMANUEL MEETING A group of Visually Impaired Persons meet every third Monday of the month at EMMANUEL CENTRE, 25 Windsor St, East Perth for discussion and sharing, with the aims of spiritual and social enrichment. A modified form of Christian Life Group is followed. April 16th 10.30am-1.00pm, including lunch. For transport, contact Debbie or Mrs Barbara Harris on 328 8113. New members welcome.
PEACE MARCH The Justice & Development Committee of Perth Archdiocese invites all Catholics to participate in the Palm Sunday Peace Rally on April 15th. Assemble at 1.00pm in King's Park. March to Supreme Court Gardens under the Christians For Peace banner. A prayer vigil will be held in King's Park at 12.45pm. An ecumenical church service in Wesley Church at 1.00pm is being held for those who support the rally but do not wish to march from King's Park. • More What's on in page 12
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Tambellup parish decided it had not seen enough of the priests who had served over the years — so a reunion was held there for the 12 priests appointed since the parish was opened in 1950.
Race Talk with Rod Evans
DIAMOND TRADER returned to racing on Saturday and looked slightly unlucky when she flew home to finish second to Robyns Joy in the Burges Graduation Stakes. This filly has shown she has ability with one win and three placings from five starts, she should win shortly.
Priests' reunion
The massed start with more than 500 runners taking part
The La Salle College 10 km fun run got away to a flying start with 500 plus entrants. Some "flew", some simply ran, some huffed and puffed and some pushed a pram but in all cases everyone had a lot of fun. The idea of the fun run was to raise money for gym equipment; stage five of the La Salle building programme will incorporate a chapel and gymnasium among other facilities. To this end a major part of the student body took part in keeping with the La Salle tradition of producing community minded students who are prepared to help themselves through raising money from their own endeavours. The run attracted support from a wide section of the Metropolitan area and was strongly supported by the Veteran Fun Run Club. There was even a special prize for the first veteran male and female to finish. Kevin Rennie was the male outright winner with a time of 30 mins 03 seconds. Jacqi Robinson the first female across the line was timed at 37 mins 10 seconds. Other prizes went to: first school team female was La Salle; first school team male was Swan View High; first parent and child T. and L. Horrigan; first veteran female J. Collins; first veteran male J. Maddison; first girl under 13 A. Johnson; first boy under 13 L. Snowden, special awards: oldest male to finish was Arthur Leggett; oldest female to finish was Helen Ball. Money raised totalled $1,100. A ballot for the first fifty to finish resulted in a second win for Kevin Rennie. The prize was a weekend for two at the Peninsula Hotel, Mandureh.