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The Lenten message Confess Your Sins was loud and clear at Aquinas College last week as a cross announced the message and priests offered their services as confessors. Six Bunbury priests were on hand at the college to provide each secondary class with their Mass of Reconciliation. A

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More than 1500 calls for assistance, a shortage of counsellors to man a 24 hour phone service and praise for the commitment by family members to the work of Pregancy Help were highlights of the weekend seminar held at Safety Bay.

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Pictured at the Aquinas College cross are Brother Simon Keane, religion co-ordinator and Fathers Andrew Pyka SDS (Lake Grace), Hugh Galloway (Mount Barker), Leon Russell (Bunbury), Doug Conlon (Katanning), Ian Johnson (Kojonup). Father Pat Rooney (Ongerup) missed the photograph. Picture by Hendriks Photographics.

INSIDE TODAY • Vocations Council forms, See page 2. • Sharp clashes at porn meeting. See page 2. • Archbishop Foley opens St Gerard Villa homes for aged at Mirrabooka, See page 3 • Margaret River ceremony to bless the vintage. See page 4 • Courses for Successful Living, See page 4 • Vandals mar Little Sisters' fete at Glendalough. See page 5.

The sacrifice made within a marriage and by family members, when one spouse undertakes voluntary work in the mission of the Church, is something very much appreciated by the Church, Archbishop Foley said at the seminar dinner. Speaking of the commitment required and made by so many in differing ways towards the work of Pregnancy Help, he said: "I want to say on behalf of the Church we appreciate the difficulties you encounter because of your faithfulness and dedication to the message of

A special commitment by so many • Pregnancy help problems on increase with more than 1500 calls for assistance already. • Branches' need for more volunteers. • Need for counsellors to provide 24-hour phone answering. • Donations of ' knitting and knitted goods, sewing and baby furniture. • Quest for accommodation for young girls in need. • Commitment of husbands and children of volunteer helpers.

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the Lord in regard to life and love.". He expressed his gratitude especially to the husbands and also to the children of the counsellors for their understanding and support. He acknowledged also the financial contribution of Friends of Pregnancy Help and also the Board of Management. • Cont page 10

A Vatican re-shuffle

Two black Africans and Dublin's archbishop figure in key Vatican appointments made by Pope John Paul this week. Cardinal Gantin, 62, heads the congregation of bishops and is succeeded by Cardinal Etchegaray of Marseilles, 61, at the Justice and Peace Commission. Archbishop Arinze of Onitsha, Nigeria heads the secretariat for non-Christians and Archbishop Ryan of Dublin heads Evangelisation of Peoples in succession to Cardinal Rossi.

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Mr Burke reacted angrily to the Australian Family Association speaker Mr Brian Peachey, accusing him of presenting his case dishonestly. Mr Peachey said that the former Minister for Administrative Services Mr David Parker had deceived the Premier, the Opposition and the public when the Bill to amend the Indecent Publications Act was introduced in December. He said that the amendments to the Act were unnececsary and now enabled the Government to permit the sale of the most grossly obscene and violent videos Mr Peachey said that the Opposition was hoodwinked and therefore allowed the amendments to be passed on December 5 • Cont page 12

The Religious Vocations Council has been formed by the 46 religious orders represented in the Archdiocese of Perth. It is a combined effort by the 21 men's congregations and the 25 women's congregations to foster vocations to the religious life. There five are members of the executive of the R V C: Robert Brother Callen, (Christian Brothers) and chairperson for three MOSCOW (NC) — Two Franciscan priests from Assisi, Italy, who years, Sister Leone visited US President Reagan on Mayne (Josephite), a peace mission in February Sister Mary Ryan, have failed in their attempt to ( Dominican), and Soviet Communist Party see Father Bob Carden, Konstantin Chernenko. chief (Franciscan), plus a But received a written statethey lay member to be ment from Chernenko offering nominated soon. to work for peace. The council will hold vocations retreats for Chernenko's statement said Catholics and communists young people who would like to know more about should work together for peace vocations and the relidespite their philosophical difgious life. ferences. The council will meet Franciscan Fathers Michele Giura regularly, and will and Gianmaria Polidoro arrived encourage each other in in Moscow hoping to meet their important work of personally with Chernenko. vocations ministry. Instead they met at the Kremlin Anyone who would like with Vasily Kuznetsov, vice touch with the to get in president of the Supreme council can contact Soviet. Brother Bob Callen on

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"We as disciples of the Lord know the value of each person in the sight of God," Archbishop Foley said after he had blessed the St Gerard's Villas at Mirrabooka last Sunday. "Whether young or old, sick, or unborn, each is a special creature of God, created in a gifted way with an individual task to fulfill.

Noting that he was on his first official visit to Mirrabooka parish which he described as vital, varied in age and background yet formed into a community, Archbishop Foley said the blessing of each of the villas showed that the residents had been made part of the parish community. "You are not iust looking after these people, you are inviting them to be part of your community." That the villas stood opposite St Gerard's parish church and school showed that as its ability to serve had grown the parish had reached out to serve every person in love and with great respect, he said. Archbishop Foley praised the co-operation between the parish which had provided the land and the State Housing Commission which had built the units, and hoped that the achievment may be multiplied in other parishes. "It is terrible when a person who has lived and worshipped in community has to move away just because they are old. The ability of these people to contribute may have changed but their contribution is none the less real and they will contribute the wisdom they have gained in their lives.

The 20 St Gerard's villas house seven couples and 13 single persons in buildings of double brick, with separate bedrooms, with some in-built furniture, stove and washing machine provided. A feature of last Sunday's blessing of the St Gerard's Villas at Mirrabooka was a visit by Archbishop Foley to each of the 20 residences which he sprinkled with holy water. Above he is pictured being welcomed by Mena and Laurie (Poss) Watson formerly of Marmion and before which they spent 30 years at N arrogin where Laurie w orked on the railways. Archbishop Foley was asked by residents to bless statues and other personal mementoes.

Co-operation The praise he had heard for the o-operation between the State c Housing Commission, the Catholic Chancery Office and St Gerard's parish was good news Mr Keith Wilson, Minister for Housing said at the opening of the villas. In the absence of Mr Brian Burke, Mr Wilson opened the units which had been built at a cost of $319,000 on land provided by the Mirrabooka parish. The SHC had spent a further $7,500 on landscaping. Mr Wilson said that the money was part of the Commonwealth-SHC agreement for providing housing that was for pensioners with no other income and and for areas where there was an expressed need. • Cant page??

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Riecord The ambiguous public feelings that surround the coming Holy Week possibly arise from the fact that nowhere in the gospel does it say to take a four or five day break in honour of the Resurrection and to throw in two more days for good measure if Anzac Day turns up conveniently. Since no-one in his right senses would knock back a six-day paid break unless it could be turned into a 12day double-rate bonanza, the idea that the much welcomed holidays may also by holy-days is a paradox for the few who care about the problem. The Church of course got into the calendar expression of the gospel in the days when the ordinary person found surviving a difficult enough task, let alone anticipating paid holidays. On the other hand, life was a slower paced, if poorer existence. There was time and a hunger to savour the sights, the sounds, the music, the bells, the smells of incense and the hundred other images that burst forth from a church at prayer. If the distinction between a feast and a festival got blurred, then heaven was considered generous enough to tolerate a few human excesses, after the religious bit was over. But governments, and industrial courts got hold of that calendar and so the Lord's day of Resurrection is by leave of Shops and Factories Act and the few other once-holy days are generously dubbed as public holidays. The Holy Week pilgrim, whether trudging Jerusalem's streets or trying to find Christ in some church haven, is trying to find grace and a redeeming Lord who forgives. It is a yearning of the soul that has to be axpressed in a striving of the body. The fiddly palm fronds that were dealt out to the large Palm Sunday crowds looked a spindly recall of Christ's agonising triumph into Jerusalem. How much better to grab a branch of a tree, any tree in sight, and really walk to find Christ, said the new liturgy. The church processions unfortunately, despite the liturgical renewal are whimperish affairs, if they happen at all. Other processions, it seems, have caught the human wave and the expression of the so-called democratic processes, even for peace, are said to be the new theology of One Dying for Our Sins. The flagons of blessed oil that will touch so many lives with Christ's real sacramental presence seem bereft of attention in a lonely cathedral mid-week to the Crucifixion. At least the Church summons the clergy to make their own pilgrimage to the instruments through which they will be distributing so much of Christ's healing power, in baptism, confirmation and especially to the sick. With tenderness the Church asks those who would be with Christ to sit with Him at a true Lord's Supper on Thursday night. It takes time to shut down the motor, to unwind, to listen to what He really said at that Table. But it is the eve of the feast, the Feast of the Six. Day Break. The bustle has begun. The police blitz will be outranked only by the traffic jam at Mandurah bridge as the most pressing issue of the evening. The Church does not give up that easily. It was admittedly more convenient when Good Friday -- and Anzac Day - were battened down by law and heaven help the person who looked as though they might be enjoying themselves on either day. The cross has to draw the hot, tired and confused crowds by its own strength and not because it has been declared a public holiday. On no other day is a person so helpless, even a Christian believer. Why? asks the idle passer-by looking up at the inscription before hurrying on. Why? asks the disciple who pauses at the foot of the Cross. It is a question that has to be asked with the body. The answer must come back in terms that the body understands. Yes, there is pain, sacrifice and even death. Some of it can be checked by preventative medicine, but not the pain that comes from hate, from rejection, from persecution, from bloody war. Is the sedate and sombre interior of a church building the wrong place in which to grapple with this fact of Jesus' Death? Is it a mystery that can be sensed only in the jostling crowds carrying wooden replicas through crowded marketplaces? But the Passion of the Lord can only be commemorated if one is going to do something about it. In other words, Holy Week is one of those rare times when being a Christian cannot be a spectator activity. Christ said that people who followed Him would become like Him. He would be living in them, in their bones, their bloodstreams, their nerves, because that is where we all live. Why isn't Easter, then, a real physical feast? The fire, the candles dripping wax the water being splashed everywhere and on everyone is a physical celebration. The bonfire ought to beckon the crowds from the miles of darkness around the suburb. The early Church built in its physical faith into that early baptismal Apostles' creed. We believe in the resurrection of the body, shouted Christians to a sceptical world. Some were told to put their words into action and give up their lives as proof of their faith. Let Easter be no abstract philosophising about the place of Christian values, morality or ethics and some weakkneed compromise that any and every hotch-potch of humanism can be labelled christen with a small c. The Church tells Christians to get out on the road to Calvary and taste what death, suffering and sin are all about. Let the people anguish over their sinfulness and the fact that Jesus died, had to die, because each one of us needed it. It was real death for real sins.

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The vintage gets a blessing by KEN WILSON

An annual eucharistic celebration, held at a Margaret River winery on Easter Sunday, has developed a significance akin to the blessing of the fleet ceremony held at Fremantle each year before the start of the cray fishing season. With the apt theme Blessing of the Vintage, the Mass and Blessing was initiated by Margaret River vigneron Denis Horgan following the opening of the Leeuwin Estate Winery in October 1978 He had learnt of a similar ceremony in the Californian wine growing district of the Napa Valley. Margaret River wine maker Denis Horgan stands in front of a Robert Juniper painting which is used on the labels of the Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay wine.

Courses for a successful life An introductory class for a course titled Successful Living will be presented by Father Justin Belitz OFM free of charge at St Columba College dining room on Friday night, May 18 from 8 to 9.30 pm. The introductory lecture will be followed by all day sessions on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20 from 9 am to 5 pm. The Saturday and Sunday classes will be held at the Woolnogh Lecture Theatre, in the Geology Department at the University of Western Australia. Father Justin BeLitz, OFM who is here from the United States to speak at the first national convention of Accelerated and Suggestopedic Learning on May 14, will conduct this workshop as well. The course, called Successful Living is an attempt to help people of all ages and occupations to get more out of life. It defines and describes the success mechanism present in every human being and then demonstrates how this mechanism can be used in the six major areas of life — family, finance, faith, health, social, and intellectual life. The course deals specifically with goals, how to determine what they are and how to plan for them; attitudes, how to keep them posititve; how to overcome fear; how to motivate self and others; and how to use affirmation and visualisation, and so on. The course also deals with the use of the mind, and how complete control of the mind will give the total control of one's life. Meditation is then explained as the means of gaining this control. Students are led through guided meditations for personal experience of this important human activity. Cost of the successful living programme is $50.00. The Friday evening presentation is free.

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BONADVENTURE ACADEMY TOKYO — An academy for the study of the thought of St Bonaventare has been set up in Japan. Part of its aim is to promote a dialogue with Buddhism. Japanese scholars believe that the ideas of the Franciscan saint show many points of convergence with Buddhism. The Japanese Academy of Studies on St Bonaventure was inaugurated at a ceremony at the St Anthony Seminary in Tokyo.

Father Leon Russell of Bun bury will say Mass in the absence of parish priest. Father Glover, who is overseas. People from all denomina tions are welcome to attend. Appropriate implements representative of the wine growers craft and grapes of the district will be featured in the Offertory pmcession. The altar wine is the produce of the Leeuwin Estate vineyard. Last year, 200 people attended the Blessing of the Vintage and many stayed on for the barbecue lunch. Mr Horgan expects an increase in attendance for 1984's celebration with extensions to the winery having recently been finished.

Winery The Leeuwin Estate, which Mr Horgan owns, is an ideal site for such an event. It is the largest winery in the district — the most modern in the southern hemisphere — and has become a focal point for local interstate and overseas visitors. A grassed area in front of the main building, larger than a football field — provides ample room for the ceremony and the tall majestic stand of Karri trees is a magnificient backdrop to a setting distinctly unique to the Margaret River area. Mr Horgan said the ceremony recognised 'God's creation' and was an opportunity for all people to reflect on the 'fruits' provided by Him. And God obviously has blessed the Margaret River district. Its wines are establishing an international reputation which Mr Horgan says has provoked considerable interest from wine buyers in many countries. On a recent trip to America, Mr Horgan turned down offers to buy his total Chardonnay production — every year. The Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay is considered one of Australia's best and retails at 123.00 a bottle. • Cow page 11

Basic — music for liturgy

Many parishes want to sing their liturgy but are not sure where to start. The National Ecumencial Church Music Committee has prepared a list of seven musical settings of the Mass. The list is not meant to be exclusive but is offered as a starting point. The list includes four settings by Australian composers, Michael Dudman, Percy Jones, Colin Smith and Albert Lynch. The list is divided into two sections, those settings which may be used by a congregation without a choir if necessary, and those which do require a choir to assist the congregation. All seven settings are designed t stimulate congregational singing. Further enquiries to Father W. Jordan 33 Howard Street, West Melbourne, 3003. (Tel. 03-328 3474).

Church role for peace in Ireland LONDON (NC) — The churches in Britain and Ireland must help to bring about the change in atmosphere needed if political peace initiatives are to be successful in Northern Ireland, said Cardinal Hume of Westminster on St Patrick's Day. The spreading of the Gospel and its roots are "Political and nationalistic as well as religiuos," said Cardinal Hume. "Humanly speaking, anyone who looks at the problems of Northern Ireland can be forgiven for feeling frustration and near despair," he added. The protestant and Catholic communities are as divided as ever, armed struggle is often presented as the only policy for dealing with opponents and there is a temptation to give up the search for peace. Rather than confrontation and violence, Cardinal Hume suggeted dialogue as the way to solving Northern Irish problems.

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She said, "I am never surprised at what the oldies can do, but I was amazed at what was accomplished by the children. "They were part of the stocking and clearing up of the stalls, and provided the willing feet for so many of the harassed stall holders. "Two little ones were noticed selling items at the white elephant stall with all the aplomb and confidence of their elders." Mr Jack Cochrane who, to use his own words, "has been fund raising for centuries," said the crowd at the fete was the biggest and happiest he had seen. "If I could do business like this every week I wouldn't stay in the painting game." he quipped. The giant auction was again 1big success. In all, 252 items realised more than $3,000. Geoff Smith, the auctioneer who was still able to talk after four and a half hours

of non-stop auctioneering, said: "I'm glad the public knows value. "I was thinking some people will buy anything when a glass vase I'd valued at a few dollars went for $60 The buyer assured me it was Vienna glass and worth every bit of $300!" Geoff said the success of the auction and stalls was dependent on the generosity of people who donated items.

Bonus The Record readers were "certainly to the fore in this respect.A surprise bonus for the Sisters was a gift of a brick and timber pergola from the nursing home builders. It was used immediately to good effect by the women who provided afternoon tea at the fete — Deven tea Paris style.

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The run-up to the fete held great sadness for the organisers, however. Sister Martha, a foundation member of the order on WA, died on March 2 without seeing the nursing home completed In all, she spent 27 years at Glendalough caring for others. Another stalwart, Frank Bryant, former State cricketer and selector, died during the Sheffield Shield final match which he had been on his way to watch. Mother Marcelle says there is a feeling of real excitement throughout the home.

Father Brian McKenna has been appointed parish priest of Wongan-Dalwallinu. Ordained in 1974, Father McKenna served briefly at Claremont before moving to Nedlands for the next three years as assistant priest. In 1978 he was transferred to Kalgoorlie.

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What does Project Compassion mean to me? "Farming is never easy, and there are times when just surviving has seemed impossible. "Any progress we do make is usually followed by more set-backs. "With the support of Project Compassion, at last we have hope. Project Compassion helps us to help ourselves, not through handouts but with practical assistance to improve our farming techniques."

"After 63 years caring for the frail and aged in a building designed many years ago for school boys, the prospect of moving into modern, single level premises is wonderful, she said. "Our benefactors. our Government and fund raising committees gave us the courage to redevelop. "The success of the fete and the enthusiasm of the community gives us confidence that we will succeed in the future," she said

Racism an evil VATICAN CITY (NC) — Racism is an evil that "disfigures our era," Pope John Paul II, has said. The pope said his reference to racism was sparked by the United Nations International Day against racial discrimination. "In a time when public opinion is particularly sensitive to the respect f or and promotion of human rights, the manifold evil of discrimination disfigures our era," The pope said. "ft denies the fundamental equality of all men, proclaimed in various declarations of the United Nations but which above all is rooted in God. "When the relationships between men are not founded on justice and trust, it easy for war and uiolence to erupt" the pope said. "As a result, it is necessary for each person to give up any behavior that reveals in him a tendency to treat in a discriminating and unjust manner those who differ from him according to ethnicity, religious beliefs or sociocultural situations," he said.

It's easy to think that the way to feed the hungry is to simply give food. Unfortunately it's not that simple. Giving food will ease hunger for a while - but it does little to solve the real problem of why people don't have enough food. In the eastern part of Thailand, farming families are struggling to grow enough rice. Part of the problem is that many don't own the buffaloes needed to plough the fields. ACR is helping farmers in six villages to set up buffalo banks. The farmers can then borrow from the bank in a co-operative effort that helps achieve self-sufficiency and builds community spirit. They are our brothers and sisters - and they desperately need our support. IIMINII11111111111MUM=MINIInMI OMMINIMMI1111111= 1111 I I'd like to know more about Project Compassion's

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HAVE YOUR SAY

A call to rise and Doubt on resist attacks Father Gore's motives

From J.W DALLIMORE, Floreat Park

From ELIZABETH ANDERSON, Kalgoorlie SIR — Once again Father Gore is in the headlines; he is worried about his credibility. I thought his calling was to teach God's "Word', — not to worry about what some people think. After all Jesus was put to death as a criminal and a more innocent man never walked this earth. He thought of others not Himself and I guess my writing is being selfish too.

SIR — After reading the morning newspapers I a sk when are we as Catholics going to rise up and do something positive about these continual attacks on the family. Such headlines as -Green lights for parlour prostitution", and "Government, party differ on sex age limit" are matters that should cause every thinking Catholic to be gravely concerned for the future of the society our children and grandchildren will be forced to live in. The infamous Murphy Family Law Bill has already had an horrific impact on family life and with the present Federal Attorney General promising to carry on where Murphy left off, one wonders what will be left of our

Judeo Christian heritage in the future. This obsession with individual rights and freedoms without any conof sideration responsibility for the very basic unit of society "the f amily contrasts strongly with the attitudes towards other groups in the community where one hears so much talk about their collective "rights". The law should not be used to promote social change — social engineering — as it is called, but should be a bulwark to preserve t he moral or ethical standards in the community.

Threat to life's sanctity Recourse From MRS P BERTOL4, Esperance SIR — Isn't it so frightening to find the sanctity of life being deliberately assaulted especially considering we claim to live in a civilised and democratic state? When will society become aware no one has the right to take the life of anyone? Abortion, infanticide and euthanasia not only take away life but innocent lives. I recently attended a Right to Life gathering and discovered yet another dedicated group who foster the dignity of life from the moment of conception. This group is not government funded and is nondenominational. I urge those persons who are concerned with this very public and sensitive issue, to further their knowledge on the right to life by contacting their head office and arranging a 'get together' combined with a R.T.L. guest speaker.

The fact it is sometimes difficult to administer such laws, does not make them wrong, or

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from W V C THOMAS MEDINA SIR, Paul Donnelly is right on when he suggests recourse to prayer, particularly to Our Lady, in order to combat the evil of pornography in the never-ending war against sin by the Church Militant on earth. (The Record, March 29 — April 6) Our Divine Lord once said some evil spirits can only be driven out by prayer and fasting. Pornography is one such evil spirit that no amount of purely human effort without employing the powerful spirital weapons of prayer and penance can overcome. Our Blessed Mother Mary herself gave us the unfailing f ormula of prayer and penance for peace and the spiritual and temporal salva-

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tion of mankind in this century. She also sorrowfully lamented the deluge of impurity of our times, to wit, pornography from which spring the heinous sins of the flesh such as fornication, adultery, rape, brutal sex murders, abortion and homosexuality, all of which we are even now witnessing on an ever mounting scale in our Christian Western civilisation. After Our Lady of Fatima gave the three shepherd children a frightening vision of hell she said more souls go to hell through sins of the flesh than for any other reason and that many are lost because there is no one to pray for theml

Effective The only really effective means of combating pornography is through a campaign of prayer, particularly through Mary's Rosary. I therefore make bold to earnestly appeal to our bishops of Australia to launch a Rosary Crusade of Prayer throughout the nation and to bring back the salutary practice of reciting the powerful prayer to Saint Micheal the Archangel at the close of all Masses. We must act now and not wait for the terrible chastisement of God's Divine Justice referred to by Pope Pius XII as "suffering such as the world has never seen before" to overtake us.

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indeed the acts against them any less sinful. Changing these laws certainly has the proven effect of making such sinful acts respectable, and giving fornicators and adulterers the same status in the community as those living in matrimony is an insult this society could well do without. The silence of official Church leaders and prominent Catholic laymen in public life on these matters is truly deafening.

Concern on homosexuals from MRS MARGARET O'HAGAN, Applecross SIR — I express my very grave concern regarding the recent moves by the State Government to decriminalise homosexual acts. Although we are all sinners, surely we must strive at all times for laws to protect all people. I believe the legalisation of homosexual acts will only lead to a wider acceptance of this tragic perversity and a higher incidence of scandal to the young.

Atheistic! from DENNIS DWYER, Kalamunda Sir, The essence of the all-out attack on community standards by promoters of homosexuality, pornography, abortion and the like is that it is atheistic. A blatant denial of the existence of God and His laws is implicit in their basic principles. Strangely enough the very active promoters of these destructive movements complain that those who object to liberalisation are merely showing religious bias. Of course they are! What better foundation for one's principles can be found then that there exists, against the transience of human life, an eternal and all-perfect being whose law is eternal. We have in our society, right here in Perth, a section of the population who are actively, vehemently and with great financial resources using the mass media effectively to spread their godless and destructive philosophy. We who believe in God's law fail to recognise them for what they are since they come in the guise of 'liberationists' offering us all a fairer and more just society. History will prove the wrong that they are doing but it might also prove us silent accomplices in the evil.

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Satanists' plot against couples from MRS M.L. STEWART, Greenmount

SIR — Most people with whom I come in contact express grave concern at the alarming failure rate of Catholic indeed Christian marriages in general. I would like to alert all readers of The Record to the campaign for the destruction of Christian marriages by a large group of satanists here in Perth. Each member of this evil cult fasts one day per week for this specific end. Now the reason for the failure rate is not so surprising. I suggest that we who are able, should fight this with fast and prayer for each other in the name of our Immaculate Mother as a power for good.

What next? from P BERTOL4, Bremer Bay.

Since the Bill to Decriminalise homosexual acts between adults was made public, I scratch my head and wonder: what will happen next. What sort of 'adults' are these, who blithely talk and ponder whether youngsters be encouraged to risk contracting the dreaded AIDS at 16 or 18 years? Apart from the morals involved, the financial and social costs of the open-go

in sexual matters can be assumed to be so big as to be incalculable. If society really wants an open go, then let the individual pay for his 'fun' and the consequences. But Medicare and supporting allowances etc., are loaded onto the 'non-fun' section of society.! This is the Brave New World. Give aid to the kids! Where are you taking us Mr Burke?

from J.F. HARDING, Dianella SIR — At some parishes last Sunday a pamphlet whimsically called "Catholics for Peace" was distributed. This pamphlet which does not carry any imprimatur is a hotchpotch of quotes taken out of context and used to further the stated ends of forming such a body and encouraging the laity to participate in a "Palm Sunday Peace Rally" It disclaims any communist involvement in "peace" rallies and endeavours to delude people that they would not be reacting to Soviet policy orchestrated by control, however remote, from the Soviets. Lenin referred to people prepared to be duped in such a fashion as "useful idiots" and after nearly four decades of personal involvement endeavouring to counter pro-Marxist strategy I can assure readers of The Record he was not wrong. Genuine peace requires the genuine participation of all parties and must at all times be multi-lateral and verifiable. The possession by all of the major powers of a nuclear capacity has been the major contributory factor in keeping nearly 40 years of tenuous peace. The Soviets are endeavouring in their very accomplished and professional way to manipulate people of goodwill into destroying the existing balance and placing the free world into a position of being intimidated and coerced into acceeding to the Soviets' grand plan of complete global domination.

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Recanted Fort Hare University student Calvin Mosala recanted on a signed statement accusing Father Mkhatshwa of inciting students at the service. Mosala told the court the priest had tried to calm the students. Authorities had maintained the priest had called for the overthrow of the Ciskei government, incited violence and addressed an illegal meeting. The arrest of Father Mkhatshwa, a critic of South Africa's apartheid policy of racial segregation, prompted protests from the Catholic bishops of southern Africa, England and Wales, and the United State. For several months after the arrest, efforts by the bishops to find out where the priest was being held and what he was charged with were unsuccessful.

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For several years while her children grew up, the woman offered loving support and encouragement to her husband as he fought and finally won his battle against alcohol. A period of uneventful, though content, family living followed. But then the woman's husband fell ill, with a debilitating long-term illness. The woman helped her husband through several years before he died. With the support of sympathetic friends and her church's minister, she usually maintained a cheerful front as she arried out her responsibilities as helpmate, nurse antl mother. After her husband's death, ; the woman rebuilt her life. , She rejoiced in her career as ;. a preschool principal. She found happiness in her three ; children, watching them ; establish their own careers, marry and start their own families. As the woman approached 65, she retired. Free of responsibility now, she wanted more leisure for

By Katharine Bird hobbies and travelling But two months later disaster struck. Her daughter, not yet 40 and the mother of two teenagers, was stricken with cancer. Seemingly cured the first time around, a second and more distressing cancer appeared a few months later. Once again, the woman rallied. She packed up her belonging.s and went to live with her daughter and sonin-law, offering to help as long as she was needed. But now the lightness was gone from her voice and tears hid just behind her eyes. For me, the woman in this true story is a modern Job. Like Job, she copes with

suffering without giving up, in spite of the seeming lack of justice in what is happening. As Pope John Paul II notes in his recent apostolic letter on suffering, "The Book of Job poses in an extremely acute way the question of the 'why' of suffering; it also shows that suffering strikes the innocent." In his perceptive letter, the pope addresses two separate groups: the individual who suffers and the encounter with others who suffer. The pope acknowledges that suffering is a great and often impenetrable mystery. An "intangible mystery" often cloaks the person who suffers, he states. Seeing someone suffer "evokes compassion" and respect in the observer. But it also can intimidate us, adds the pope, who is no stranger to personal suffering. Following a 1981 assassination attempt on his life. the pope spent more than a hundred days in the hospital.

Human beings alone know they are suffering and wonder why, the pope argues. And he believes people suffer "in a humanly speaking, still deeper way" if they can't find a satisfactory answer. Perhaps reflecting his own experience, the pope offers some suggestions on how to approach suffering. He stresses that it is not a matter of remaining passive in the face of suffering. But, he adds, coping with suffering is complicated by the fact that people react to it in different ways. The task always begins within the individual, the pope continues, and "it often takes time, even a long

time," to work through to some sort of answer. Sometimes, as St Francis of Assisi and St Ignatius of Loyola discovered, suffering leads to transformation. Individuals see themselves as completely new persons; they discover a new dimension in their lives and vocations. One obstacle individuals may need to overcome is the terrible feeling of uselessness "that is sometimes very strongly rooted in human suffering," the pope observes. The fear of being "a burden to others" can be difficult to shake, he indicates. But, if all else fails, the philosopherpope has a suggestion: Suf-

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The Good Samaritan reveals "what the relationship of each of us must be toward our suffering neighbour." Availability, the pope writes, is the key to being a good neighbour. It means putting one's whole heart into bringing whatever help is needed to another person who suffers. And the Good Samaritan reaps a benefit, the pope thinks.

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All Jerry could do was concentrate on taking his next breath. Even that took such energy he didn't know whether he could push on again. His

wife, ,.Ann, leaning over the hospital bed's metal sidebar, squeezed his hand encouragingly and again told him of her love. He could not return the squeeze. What little strength remained during this ninth round of chemotherapy had to be focused on surviving to the next moment. He was an exhausted fighter in a battle against the villainous cancer raging within him. When he emerged victoriously cancer-free several months later,I asked him how he had endured. He told me that during his illness one image kept recurring to sustain him: The image of Jesus as his coach. At first I was startled. Jesus as a trainer shouting plays from the sidelines? But as Jerry and I talked further, I understood what he meant. "To be a good coach," he reminded me, "it helps to have played in all kinds of circumstances. You need the experience of being bruised, bloody and broken. You need to know how to be a winner even when the score says you've lost." He pointed out that Jesus went through emotional anguish, physical pain, public humilation. "Because He knew how to transform suffering, He is our best teacher," Jerry said. Ihad to agree.Ipictured Jesus alone in Gethsemane, terrified of what lay ahead. His closest friends, those who should have been offering all the support love can give, were asleep. He cried on his agony, "No, not Mel Jesus was in his prime, only three years into His life's work. His friends still needed His direction. His Pope John Paul II draws a connection between the parable of the Good Samaritan and what mother didn't deserve the he calls the "gospel of suffering" The Good Samaritan reveals "what the relationship of each horror of her only son's of us must be toward our suffering neighbour," the pope writes A good neighbour must put one's death. Most important, he whole heart into bringing whatever help is needed to another person who suffers, the pope says. had done nothing wrong. Jerry said he had similar This rendition of "The Good Samaritan" is from a 19th century woodcut by John Everett Millais. thoughts as he struggled

ferers should remember the "irreplaceable service" they may provide to others. To explain what he means, the pope draws a connection between the Parable of the Good Samaritan and what he calls the "gospel of suffering." These are linked.

to understand why at 3he was a cancer victim. He said he had tried to live a Christian life: He attended Mass regularly, prayed daily and participated in parish and diocesan activities. He volunteered his time and talent. He tried to be ethical in his business dealings and was a loving husband and a devoted father to his five children, ages 7 to 16. So why would God let him suffer so much? Jerry said he thought about Jesus' experience on Good Friday. That helped him realise suffering isn't punishment for personal wrongdoing, but is a mysterious human phenomenon which Christians are called to as somehow accept related to the divine. Jerry aLso realised that accepting suffering doesn't guarantee pain will cease. In fact, after Jesus submitted to His father in Gethsemane, suffering greater occurred. A disciple betrayed Him, a judge condemned Him, He was crucified. "That's part of the mystery I don't fully understand," Jerry said. "But knowing Jesus had already travelled to the depths of desolation and pain made Him my cosufferer and that gave me great comfort." Jerry went on to tell me how during chemotherapy he could sense Jesus' presence beside him, coacheng him along with encouragement and love. "I knew that like a good coach He wasn't going to come on and run the game for me," he said. "I had to do that, but I could look to Him for strategies and ways to play: During the painful treatments, Jerry pictured Jesus compassionately saying, "I know what you are going through. I've been there. I've been victorious, you can be too."

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People react to suffering in different ways. But almost always they enter into suffering with a protest, writes Pope John Paul It The pope speaks about the Christian meaning of human suffering in a 1984 apostolic letter. Many of his reflections will strike a chord with his readers. Anyone who suffers wants to know why, the pope observes. Often the question "Why?- is directed to God and to Christ. But then the questioner "cannot help noticing that What is suffering? the one to whom he puts the question is himself suffering How do people come and wishes to answer him from the cross, from the heart of to terms with it? As his own suffering" the Know Your Faith Lenten series It is part of the mystery of suffering that this question continues, these are "Why?- is difficult to answer. the questions we ask. Pope John Paul recognises that many people think of suffering as a form of punishment. But he cautions readers.. "While it is true that suffering has a meaning as Pope John Paul II's 1984 apostolic letter punishment, when it is connected with a fault, it is not true on suffering offers that all suffering is a consequence of a fault and has the insights about how to nature of punishment." understand suffering, The importance of questioning suffering's meaning is writes Katharine Bird, clear when one realises that suffering often raises conflicts associate Editor of the in peoples' relations with God, that its frustrations even lead Know Your Faith series. Those who people to deny God's existence.

suffer want to know why. And they suffer even more if they do not find a satisfactory answer, says the pope.

Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke says that the worst part of suffering for his is the helplessness he feels. He talks about what he learned from a recent heart attack and hospital stay. He is with the Family Life Office.

Monica Clark interviews Jerry who uses a sports image — Jesus as his coach — to describe how faith helped him weather a serious illness. The coach can't take the player's part, Ms Clark says. But the coach can offer encouragement and strategies. Ms Clark is on the staff of the Catholic Voice newspaper.

Father John Castelot observes that it's impossible to understand Jesus apart from the cross and it is equally impossible to be a Christian without experiencing one's own crosses.

The Pope advises those who wonder why suffering occurs that the answer to their question isn't given in the abstract. "Christ does not explain in the abstract the reasons for suffering, but before all else he says: 'Follow me' Come! Take part through your suffering in the work of saving the world, a salvation achieved through my suffering!" Human suffering "has reached its culmination in the passion of Christ. And at the same time it has entered into a completely new dimension and a new order: It has been linked to love," says Pope John Paul. "With the passion of Christ all human suffering has found itself in a new situation." Suffering possesses both supernatural and human meaning. It is supernatural, for "it is rooted in the divine mystery of the redemption of the world" But it is human too. For in suffering, "The person discovers himself, his own humanity, his own dignity, his own mission. Suffering, says the pope, is one of those points in which a person "is in a certain sense 'destined' to go beyond himself, and he is called to this in a mysterious way."

The heart attack On Sunday, November 13, I woke up unusually early in the morning, feeling wide awake but very ill at ease. I checked the clock. It wasn't quite 5.30. But I decided to go out and get the paper, which had just been delivered. Suddenly I found myself doubled over as a chest wrenching pain brought me to the edge of death. In those few moments, as the artery nourishing the back wall of my heart choked off. my own control over my life was slipping imperceptibly from my tightly clenched fists. Ironically, five days earlier I had undergone a complete medical examination, the first in 10 years. "You have the strong pulse of a runner." the doctor said, "and the stamina of a young man." A few months earlier, just after my 50th birthday,I had gone backpacking in the mountains. I was both surprised and pleased to discover how well I handled the mountain trails. But independence and health all seemed very far away as I lay wired and doped in the hospital's coronary care unit. The suffering for me during these days was not really the pain. It was the powerlessness. For me suffering means having the control of my life in someone else's hands. The suffering of Christ and His passion also have more to do with control, and its loss, than with physical pain — or so it seems to me. For many of us it takes something like a heart attack, with its powerlessness, to become aware of just how much control we possess, how much control we find natural in our lives. It is so easy to overlook the lack of control — the powerlessness and the suffering that goes with it — that is

By Father David O'Rourke the lot of so many people in the world. This theme. I think, is what

underlies so much of the Church's social teaching today: How to give to all people the control over life that is their due as human beings. Church social teaching challenges us to come to terms with what the suffering of others really means Control and powerlessness are also the principal spiritual issues that make or break our families and our religious communities.

Twenty years of counselling married couples taught me that the struggle for control can be the major problem for many a troubled family. It proves to be the key issue that has to be clarified when a couple plans a marriage The image of Christ on the cross is a picture that reflects a sinful human race having its way with God. It also is a picture of Christ submitting to this lack of control, this powerlessness.

A worthy cost Here is a forthright statement of the cost of being a Christian. "If anyone wishes to come after me. he must deny his very self, take up his cross, and follow in my steps." ( Mark 8:34) If it is impossible to understand Jesus apart from the cross, it is also impossible to be a Christian without accepting and enduring crosses. And suffering, far from being a sign of God's displeasure, is a sign of his acceptance. That is part of the mystery of suffering. The fact remains: no pain, no gain. And when one stops to think of it, this is true of life on general, not just the Christian life. The first followers of Jesus learned this the hard way. Mary, the first disciple — and the model disciple — was familar with suffering. Not that her life, or anyone else's was an unrelieved succession of disasters. She experienced joy and many moments of happiness. But she also knew and accepted suffering. An aged man named Simeon is met in Luke's Gospel. Simeon warns Mary with these words: "You yourself will be pierced with a sword" (2:49) The nature of that sword becomes clear very soon. It

By Father John Castelot is seen when Mary and Joseph find the boy Jesus in the temple after an anxious search of three days. Jesus responds to Mary's reproachful question with one of His own: "Why did you search for Me? Did you not know that Imust be in My Father's house?" (Luke 2:49) Anyone who has ever lost a child, for a few hours, can appreciate the anxiety which must have pierced Mary. But on a larger scale, Jesus' response to Mary let it be known in no uncertain terms that He had interests which transcended family affairs. This must have hurt Mary: to realise that His work, whatever it was, would mean at least physical separation for an unspecified period. What made it even more difficult was that neither she nor Joseph was able to understand what He was talking about. Understand-

ing would have helped at least a little. And so it was to be all through her life. In the account of the wedding feast at Cana Mary remarks to Jesus that the wine has run out. His reply again implies dissociation of His work fron hers — at least for the time of His public ministry: "Woman, how does this concern of yours involve Me? My hour has not yet come." (John 2:4) The death of Jesus must have twisted Mary's heart agonisingly. Just the kno- • ledge that her son was dying in such disgrace and excruciating pain must have been unbearable. The other disciples also had to learn the lesson of the cross, though they were reluctant to do so. The Gospel of Mark stresses the resistance of the disciples to Jesus' persistent teaching on the cost of discipleship. After each prediction of the passion by Jesus, they simply ignored the implications His suffering had for them. But each time Jesus insisted that they must follow His steps — all the way. (Mark 8:31; 9:30-37; 10:32-45) Like so many disciples after them, they were all too eager to bask in glory. But they were most unwilling to pay the price — the price Jesus Himself paid.

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mother accommodates five girls. Here, housekeeping skills and dressmaking are taught. In addition pre-natal classes, parenting skills are taught and group activities are held for pregnant girls and young mothers at the office in 7 Howard St in the city. A positive education programme has been drawn up for schools. It shows promise for the future. However this programme is very limited because of the need for more volunteers. Catherine Hill, in concluding the report from the Rockingham agency said "Unfortunately the number of problems and unwanted pregnancy in our area seems to be steadily increasing. "But we are confident we will, with God's help, be able to ease the burden in some way for anyone who seeks our help and support," she said.

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When Dot Goodrick talks about the 'fledgling' Western Australian Women's Advisory Council she is quietly confident. As council president she has moved into the 'mother hen' role with ease and murmurs that despite what some may think, the council does have 'teeth' and will show them if and when it is necessary. Just five months on she is delighted with results so far: • a highly successful and infomiative public meeting in November • the opening of a women's information and referral service mid-year • two public forums on children's services held this month The 20-member council has not been idle, but there are many women's organisations which all purport to represent women so why is this one different? No, it's not a case of replication," says Dot Goodrick. "You have to look at the distinction between community based groups and a council specifically set up to represent the community, but Government based. —That means not only are we funded to take up issues and programmes but we have a direct link, not just to the Government, but to the Premier and that's what gives us our teeth. New South Wales was the first state to establish such a council and Victoria the second. The latter was disbanded after several years and after a lapse period was revamped last year. South Australia has never had a women's advisor/ council but it has had a very active consultative body which comes under the control of the director of the Women's Unit. "Certainly the council has a similar role to some other

"Because of its importance and because all other forms of catechesis are oriented in some way to it, the catechesis of adults must have high priority at all levels of the Church. The success of programs for children and youth depends to a significant extent upon the words, attitudes, and actions of the adult community, especially parents, family and guardians." U.S. National Catechetical Director)

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ICSI FLOSS women's organisations but Law School, University of because we have been Western Australia; Janet vested with an authority Pine is a research assistant we have a legitimacy that and Justice of the Peace: the others do not have. We Pat Ryan is the retired can't be ignored or fobbed honorary treasurer of the off!" Christian Television AssoThere seems little chance ciation and is currenty viceof fobbing off any one of chairman of the Catholic the 20 women who make Diocesan Pastoral Council; up the council. , all have R oslyn Shea is a teacher impressive records of pub- and relieving deputy prinlic service and community cipal of the VVhitegum Valinvolvement. ley Special School; Judith Dalphne Baldwin is a Siddins is a final year Wyndham East Kimberley apprentice fitter and first Shire Councillor, Justice of class machinist; Diana Warthe Peace and librarian nock is a radio producer aide; Helen Catalini is and announcer and a film senior social worker, Italo- critic for the Australian Australian Welfare Centre; Broadcasting Commission Betty Connell is a and Joan Winch is coR oeboume Shire Council- ordinator, health educalor and Justice of the tion, Aboriginal Medical Peace; Helen Errington is a Services. part-time worker with Disabled Advocates and Self Help; Queenie Fogarty is a retired schoolteacher and school counsellor; Kath French is a housewife and It is a large and diverse unpaid community worker; body of people, but not R osemary Hannon is unwieldy, says Dot. teacher in charge of St "Much of our work is Mary's Junior Primary done through smaller subSchool, South Bunbury; groups of four or five," she Anne-Marie Heine is a says. teacher and senior vice "I doubt it was ever president of the Teacher's planned to have such a Union; Pauline Huchinson large council but when the is acting superintendent of Government got down to Education; Gillian Kaub is looking at representation, an organiser of the WA because of the size of Shop Assistants' Union; Dr Western Australia, it just Gwen Leavesley, is medi- grew. cal director of the Family —There are four women Planning Association of r epresenting the rural WA; Ruth Moir lives and areas, one from the South works at Chillinup, Borden; West, one from the Pilbara, Liza Newby is semior tutor, one from the Kimberley

and one from a country town, which is Bunbury. "Then we have a migrant r epresentative, handicapped, Aboriginal and they are trade unions specific areas which should have a voice and I think the aim has been to give as wide a representation as possible. "We only come together as a body about once a month." While the Premier gave the final approval to the 20 women appointed to the council, Dot says she has no idea where those recommendations came from in the first place. —Trying to get a reasonably balanced representative committee must be a thankless task," she said. " All I can say is I'm impressed by the calibre they all have a history of hard work and achievement." The positive response from the public, says Dot, is a reflection of the changed attitudes in society.

"The time is right," she said. "When I first became involved with the women's movement in 1972 there was a lot of flak and snide comments but having since then been involved locally, nationally and internationally I feel that things have changed. "I can only judge by the feedback I get and the range of letters and calls that I've had seem to show that women are bringing their problems to us, that there is a belief that we are an agency which will help." And there is no issue too small. following a letter from a concerned young mother the council is now looking at the availability of 'mother's rooms' in shopping centres. "When the woman took the matter up with the centre manager he said, 'why not use the toilets," Dot said. It was not good enough and a Council sub-committee has since raised the issue of consultation with women in the designing of suburban shopping centres. "There are many less obvious needs that are also important and should be looked into," Dot said. "Another woman wrote to us because she had been

refused admission to a theatre because she had a baby in her arms. She was told she wasn't allowed because it might be disruptive if the baby cried. But the ridiculous thing was the theatre was staging a pantomime and of course she had other children with her. "That's something else w e've taken up. There should be adequate facilities for such situations. It's the whole role of getting mothers involved in planning." One of the council's continuing roles is acting as a dvocate on behalf of w omen with individual problems and endorsing submissions to ministers They may seem small steps but they are important ones, says Dot Goodrick. It's now 15 years since women's voices have really begun to be heard and time enough to see some benefits, she says. She has ready praise for all those involved in the birth of the women's movement, despite the excesses and histrionics. "We have to take into account that many of those initially involved in women's liberation were more philosophically purist feminists and while they have been seen in a negative light, they were the catalysts and important as such. —There is a rote for the Gerrnaine Greers. "Someone has to prise open the issue — but because of the way in which it is done and the confrontation of the issue, the general public is offended. "But that's necessary in order to expose things in a dramatic sense. ..because it forces reaction, discussion and re-examination." The media, she says, was quick to fan the controversy and to pin the outspoken in their place with words like 'supergirl,' 'women's lib,' and 'braburner.' But the second time around, at least as far as the Council is concerned, the media has been more than kind, quietly positive in its treatment. A gain. Dot Goodrick, sees it as a reflection of public attitude. The Press has changed because people have changed. Dot Goodrick has certainly changed. She dates her involve-

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St Gerard's school children will be close neighbours of the St Gerard's villa residents so Sister Kerry and her singers entertained last Sunday's gathering.

Church top in human care While government is adept at providing funds for the public benefit it cannot match church and private institutions . in the provision of human care, Mr Terry Burke MIA said at the opening of St Gerard's Villas. At short notice Mr Tem. Burke was

ment in women's issues to her time as a mature age student at university. "University prises open your analytical and critical approach," she said. "It was the beginning of questioning. It was a time too when I started to read feminist literature...names like Simone Beauvoir, and Betty Freidan." It was a slow blossoming; there had been no personal traumas, no discriminatory stumbling blocks to catapult her into a 'feminine awareness.' For Dot, the turning point was attending an inaugural meeting of Women's Electoral Lobby in 1973. "People had told me about it. I was doing sociology and thought it would be interesting to go along, but I had no real expectations," she said.

,gt& Her casual interest soon became real enthusiasm as she found herself caught up in the excitement and concern of intelligent and articulate women. It was a time of consciosness raising and before she knew it, real commitment.

Dot Goodn'cie — a guiding band behind Western Australia's Women's Advisory Council, Her maternal grandmother, she says, may be partly to blame for her commitment to causes. "I think it's something I inherited from her," Dot smiled. "She was a remarkable woman, married late, worked as a nurse in London and lived a very independent life for a Victorian woman. "She eventually settled on the land and raised two was She children. widowed early but was a tenacious woman and led an active life into her eightSuch quiet but unstoppable determination is a hallmark in her granddaughter. While Dot Goodrick recognises the anger that many feminists feel and express she doesn't believe one has to be angry to achieve results. "Anger can be extremely important and a real force if it is channelled to a positive outcome," she said. Neither does she point the finger at men. "You have to distinguish between patriarchy and the power system...looking at

what the system and the occupant of that system is in controlling and directing women. 'The holders of power are certainly men but I don't specifically blame men, they are locked into the system too.

"I have never personally followed a course of 'male blame,' rather I've asked who does make the decisions that affect my life." Dot Goodrick has made many of her own decisions and her background as a social worker, welfare officer, international exchange nurse, theatre sister and district nurse in London echo a wealth of experience. It is such expertise that obviously place her in the front rank when the Government came to decide who should lead the newly formed Council. She did a Bachelor of Arts at UWA in anthropology (psychology, politics, eco-

nomic history), and a Master's Degree in Social Work. She is a member of the WAIT Social Work Advisory Committee, the WAIT Social Science Advisory Committee, an executive committee member of the Citizen's Advice Bureau and is on the executive committee of the Western Australian Council of Social Services, and is the first vice-president. Since 1977, Dot has been a consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. In that capacity she has visited many countries and taken particular interest in women and development programmes in Asia. She won a Churchill Fellowship last year and studied self-help and self sufficiency for single parents in the US. Britain and Sweden. For six years she served on a Federal Government committee called the Women's Welfare Issues Consultative Committee. • Cont page 12

required to fill in for his brother the Premier Mr Brian Burke, member of the district and a St Gerard's parishioner, who had been hospitalised with a suspected kidney complaint. "There is no way in which a government which must act at second hand can replace the first hand input of a church or charitable body which knows and sets out to meet the needs of the community," he said. "That is why your government will support in every way possible the role of church and charitable bodies in the community. "Our West Australian way of life would be infinitely poorer if people succumbed to the temptation to leave it all to government and the quality of care and concern on which Western Australians pride themselves would decrease and wither. "As a government we preserve the individual right to express through charity

one's ethical and personal commitment. As Christians we regard those ethics as Christian ethics but people of many faiths share these views because they are fundamental and part of human nature. Mr Burke said the responsibility for the aged would not diminish as Australia and other countries became older communities. He praised St Gerard's parish for having devoted so much of its resources to educating the young and now had provided accommodation for the aged. He said that the government was glad to co-operate with bodies such as St Gerard's which otherwise could not achieve what is beyond their reach.

Villa opens *From page 3 Because St Gerard's parish had undertaken the management of the project it had been allowed to choose residents for ten of the 20 units. Noting that the Sisters of Mercy at Lesmurdie had already obtained units under the government agreement and St Gerard's was the first parish venture in the archdiocese, Mr Wilson said he hoped other parishes would look at the posibility.

New vintage to get a blessing • From page 4 Last year in New York at a tasting of 58 Australian wines, only three were ranked as world class by the judges Two were Margaret River Chardonnays — Leeuwin Estate and Moss Wood. The other, also a Chardonnay, came from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. "There is no doubt we can

produce premium wines in the Margaret River district," Mr Horgan said. "I think it is indicative of the attitude among local vignerons who aim for quality and that's an on-going assignment for all of us." Mr Horgan said the eucharastic celebration also reflected the spirit of cooperation among the district's vignerons. "It doesn't matter what

particular Christian stream people are in, there is a great attitude towards each other and the district," he said. "As vignerons, we share information, equipment, facilities and generally cooperate for the common good." There are more than 20 wineries in the Margaret River district many of whom will be represented at the Blessing of the Vintage.

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Bronwen Gray of Perth has recently joined the Australian young Christian Students team and now works full time from the Melbourne National YCS Office. One of Bronwen's tasks will be to cement the good work done over the past two years in establishing the YCS movement in Wellington, New Zealand. Together with other YCS representatives Bronwen will visit New Zealand in June to initiate a local YCS movement. Bronwen has joined Andrew Freeman, Tim Tenbensel and Sister Elizabeth Compton (PBVM), who is in her third year as ecclesial assistant, on the National team. Father Gerry Gallagher of the Bendigo diocese has completed his term as Australian YCS Chaplain, but will assist the team in a part-time capacity until his replacement is found. Young Christian Students throughout Australia are preparing for their 10th national conference to be held in Melbourne during the May school holidays. The conference is a special highlight for the YCS movement and takes place every three years. Sister Liz Compton, who is co-ordinating preparations, said; "We aim to follow up the National Survey of Student Concerns which was conducted in 1983 and we want to encourage students to find how their faith can inspire and be a guide in student concerns". The week-long conference beginning May 13 will review the YCS movement in Australia.

1984 Perth YCS Team; (Ito r) Christina Kadmos, Frank Loss, Damthn Hart

The conference fills three roles: (i) it is a review of the Australian YCS movement, (ii) it is the decision making body of the Australian movement and elects a national executive and (iii) it is a training and formation experience for YCS leaders from all areas of Australia.

Token effort Many people are concerned about the faith of young Catholics especially those in State schools. In the past 20 years contact and involvement by priests and catechists in the secondary government schools has declined to nothing. A token effort is still made in some quarters but by and large the Church's

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Jesus told Nicodemus that he needed to change, to grow, to be "born again." Nicodemus felt that Jesus really cared about him and wanted him to be happy.

a ° hildren's Story Hour , My name is Nicodemus. I'm a Member of the Sanhedrin here in Israel, which is something like what you might call a senate. All my life I have believed in God's law. As a Pharisee, I felt the law was the centre of my life.

wouldn't understand, although some others might. But some of my friends felt Jesus didn't keep the law and didn't show our Jewish traditions the proper respect. Still, there was something about the man, the way He I tried to observe the law spoke, the way He acted, well. It was hard sometimes. that made me wonder. He But I believe I have kept seemed to be good. His God's law about as well as teachings were much like the teachings of our great I could. prophets of old. I just had One night I met a man to find out more about Him. named Jesus. That is what I So I went under cover of want to tell you about. darkness to meet Jesus. I'll It was late that night. I never forget how He welwalked quickly through the comed me. He knew what dark streets to the house a chanceIwas taking. He felt where Jesus would be how afraidI was. He listened found. I was careful to stay to my questions. in the shadows. Ididn't want Then He told me very anyone to see me going to honestly that I needed to visit Him. change, to grow, to be "born Some of my friends again". Most of all I felt He

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really cared about me and wanted me to be happy. I left Him that night convinced He was a man of God, a prophet. But I didn't have the courage to be His disciple openly. So I cheered for Him privately and learned all I could from His teachings. Then one day, when the crowd turned against Him for His teachings, the guards were sent out to arrest Jesus. But the guards came hack praising Him. Then the enemies of Jesus got angry and asked the guards why they didn't arrest Jesus. That was too much for me. Igot up all the courageIhad and challenged the angry people: "Since when does our law condemn someone without first hearing him and learning the facts?"

They were furious at me and mocked me as one of Jesus' followers. But I still didn't join His followers. I guess I was just afraid. But I felt badly, especially as opposition to Jesus grew. I cried when I heard they captured Jesus and condemned Him to death. I stood at the hack of the crowd on Calvary watching Him die on the cross. Only then did I find strength to do something for Him publicly. I bought 100 pounds of spices to prepare his body for burial. I helped lay His beaten body in the tomb. Someday I may start a whole new life and become one of His followers openly. But it's hard to change, isn't it?

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Different ways to find God THE CATHOLIC HERITAGE, by Lawrence S. Cunningham. Crossroad (New York, 1963) $14.95. Reviewed by Father Richard F. Costigan. "Martyrs, ask etics, pilgrims, warriors. mystics, theologians, artists, humanists, activists, outsiders and saints." All these, listed like a subtitle on the title page, are the subject of Lawrence Cun-

ningham's very admirable new book. Troubled by the realisation that his students in religion classes at Florida State University lack any background knowledge of Catholic history, he sets out

Diplomacy in today's world THE NEW DIPLOMACY: IN7ERNA770NA1 AFFAIRSIN THE MODERN AG& by Abba Than (Random House, New York. 1983)- $19.95. Revieued by Edward Doherty. Abba Than has been Israeli ambassador to the United States, chief delegate to the United Nations, foreign minister of Israel. and is now a member of the Israeliparliament. He has written a book that is remarkable in a number of u,a_ys. Unlike so many books by former foreign ministers, secretaries of state and national security advisers it is not a personal apologia. I nstead uhat Than has giten us is a comprebensit,e analytical history of the full sweep of international affairs in the post-World WarII era. Nothing is left out: East-West relations, the Middle Fast. the Third World, Western Europe, the role of the United States, and the United Nations. There is even a short chapter on the history of diplomacy, making it a book admirably suitedfor university courses in contemporary worldpolitics. I n fact the literary elegance of the hook's style erhaps reflects the progressive boning of Eban's p own lectures on the same topics. He has been a visitingprofessor at Columbia University. But this is not an ordinary college textbook. It is remarkable for its objectivity; even in the chapter on -The Unending Conflict in the Middle East" it is impossible to infer that the author is an sraeli who was invoked in some of the events I recounted, or to find any trace of nationalist or ethnic bias. The book is distinguished by enviable style and insight, producing quotable observations on almost every page. Some examples: • On the United States and the Cold War: In 1945, 'Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace alone believed that US—Soviet relations were suffering from mutual misunderstanding in which each

exaggerated the threatposed by the other He even maintained that the Soviet Union might have legitimate security interests in Eastern Europe. • On the Soviet Union: 'Soviet statecraft shows great lucidity in the definition of its aims, and tenacity andperseverance in their pursuit. But if one of the purposes of diplomacy is to keep adversaries quiet and complacent, the Soviet leaders reveal great incompetence." Eban has written a classic treatise which should be required reading not just for buckling professional diplomats hut for all those amateurs who. especially in the American service, suddenly find themselves appointed to be ambassadors or nigh officials in the State Department.

to fill in a great deal of this in a very concrete, specific way. He simply tells about a lot of very interesting persons who, in their strikingly different ways, lived out their fidelity to the Gospel in their respective Life-situations, and in such memorable ways as to find a permanent place in the tradition of the Church. Treating in succession each of these kinds of people, he names numerous vivid examples and offers many comparisons to their counterparts in parallel situations today. starting with martyrs and ascetics. It is with pilgrims that Cunningham really warms to his subject, weaving together a rich array of historical data with the poetry of Chaucer. Petrarch and Dante to communicate a vivid sense of the of great involvement numbers of people in the quest of the holy. In the chapter on warriors, Cunningham rejects the moralistic contention of some today that "Christian warrior- is a contradiction in terms, dwelling on some positive human values and spiritual ideals of knighthood and crusade and showing how much of this is to be found not only in Joan of Arc but even in the spirit of Francis of Assisi. Mystics have made profound contributions to the spiritual growth of the Church community, and the author has perceptive pages onJulian of Norwich, Meister Eckhart. and especilly on Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. Theologians, pursuing the path of "fides quaerens intellectum," faith seeking understanding, are the prime articulators of the common faith of the Church. But there are differences among them: Thomas Aquinas and Blaise Pascal, for example, are strikingly distinct in temperament, style and emphasis, yet both earnestly devoted to the Catholic faith. Artists constitute another very interesting chapter, starting with the makers of icons, those visible channels of prayer and adoration, theology in colour. Architects like Abbot Suger of Paris created the "Gothic light" of towering cathedrals. Michelangelo, in essays that Cunningham draws on. spells out some norms for the artist who approaches religious themes. The words humanist should not be equated with secularist, as Cunningham very correctly says in describing persons who have developed a Christian under-

standing of human values. His leading example of a humanist of our time is Pope John Paul II, who teaches a vision of humanity rooted in his profound studies of Catholic theological tradition. Activists, who despite opposition courageously press for the realisation of Christian goals, and outsiders, who though alienated, still stimulate the Church in direct ways, also make contributions to Catholic Christianity. The concluding chapter on saints offers perceptive comments on the challenges experienced by the Catholic Church today. especially in the United States (Jesuit Father C,ostigan is an associate professor of theology at Loyola University of Chicago.)

An experience named Spirit I recall when I first read St Thomas AN EXPERIENCE NAMED SPIRIT, by John Shea. The Thomas More Press It took me a while to understand What (Chicago, 1984) $15.95. Reviewed by the word "habit" meant in the Thomistic system. So too it takes a while to grasp Mons. Charles E. Diviney. Shea means by such code This is a deceptively difficult book. It what Father "spirit," "graciousness," "Abba" words begins with a rabbinical story and it ends with an Irish one. In between it contains and others. Along with such knowledge, the reader a host of other tales — some actual experiences of the author, some from must be ready for a variety of modes of friends and acquaintances and others expression like irony, paradox, sarcasm from the Bible, usually in a paraphrased and convoluted thought patterns. There are some phrases that might form. produce a slight shock only because they Thus, superficially it might appear to are in a book of theology, such as, "the be another collection of pious edifying result is rationalism — the masturbating stories but that couldn't be more wrong. mind? Today one of the ways of "doing There are excerpts from J.D. Salinger, theology" is by telling stories and the James Joyce, Dag Hammarskjoki, W.H. author, Father John Shea, is considered Auden, Kazantzakis, Flannery O'Connor one of the best practitioners of this type and an extraordinay poem by Anne of theologising. Sexton and many others. \that he does with great skill is to use However, despite all the pyrotechnical these stories to disclose some of the most language and phraseology, the question Important truths of Revelation. Better, by remains: Is this book worth all the time use of the commonplace, he sometimes and effort necessary to understand and enlarges our knowledge of such a comprehend it? fundamental doctrine as the IncarnaThe answer to that will depend on the tion. reader and how much he is willing to His way of doing theology is dynamic. Invest in it. I read it thoroughly twice It is interpersonal between both divine and while I found ft easier going than and human persons; it is deductive and either Father David Tracy or Father deeply reflective. Edward Schillebeeckx, fellow theologiThere is a difficulty, however. One of ans, I may have a go at it again. In the the first stumbling blocks to he overcome meantime I sigh nostalgically for a is the need to understand his terminol- return to the clarity of a Frank Sheed and authors like him. ogy-

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ROD'S ON Race Talk with Rod Evans WINGED KEEL was certainly not disgraced in finishing second (11 2 /1en) to top two year old Heaps at Ascot on Saturday. It was Winged Keel's first run for seven weeks and the fitness of Heaps just told over the concluding stages. Winged Keel will soon be another winner for leading trainer George Way. BEYOND THE PALE seems to have struck form judging by his smart second to Polar Cruise in the Renegade Handicap. This horse has now had four starts for two seconds behind some smart horses. He should soon break his maiden status and could go on to better things. MR NIKLELANE'S return to racing on Saturday was highlighted by the enormous amount of money that punters invested on him causing his odds to tumble dramatically. The punters looked slightly unlucky when he was hopelessly blocked for a run in the straight and did well to run fourth. Mr Niklelane is a class galloper with a 50 per cent winning record and it should not be long before he is in the winners' circle again. MAID OF THE WIND showed she has a future as a stayer when she finished on solidly to win Wednesday's distance race at Pinjarra. This Son of the Wind mare may now start to improve and should pick up more races over a staying journey in the near future.

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CATHOLIC SOCIAL CLUB REUNION

The Way of The Cross up the hillside entrance to Keaney College Bindoon will be held on Good Friday at 11 am. Visitors are welcome to stay for the Solemn Celebration of the Lord's Passion and Death at 2 pm.

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The existence of God is the subject of the Newman Society discussion group April 26 (the fourth Thursday) at 8 pm. Father J. Dynon SJ will lead the discussion which will be in the senior common room of St Thomas More College. University Sunday will be celebrated on April 15 at St Thomas More College with the blessing of Palms at 4.15 pm followed by Archbishop Foley celebrating Mass at 4.30 pm. A light tea in the junior common room follows Mass. At 7.30 pm the University Sunday address will be delivered in Winthrop Hall by the Rev Keith Dowding. BURMESE BENEFIT

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Ecumenical Palm Sunday Palm Sunday at Holy R osary Nedlands will take on a realistic note with a Catholic or Anglican priest riding a donkey from the Loreto primary school to the church. in the next street. For the third year in a row the Anglicans and Catholics will take part in this interchurch activity. It began when pastors from respective churches realised they were singing the same hymns and processing in opposite directions to respective celebrations of eucharist. While two separate Eucharists are still celebrated, congregations found the combined Palm Sunday celebration a step toward coming closer together. '

The Burmese Anglican Community is holding a get-together in aid of the victims of the recent fire in Mandalay, at the Australian Asian Association, 275 Stirling Street Perth at 7 pm on Sunday April 15. Please bring a plate and your own drinks.

BASIC VIDEO PRODUCTION An introductory course in video production at Churchlands College, commences at 7.30pm on Tuesday, May 1. The course offers instruction in single camera operation, pre-production and post production activities, and a range of techniques related to. composition, continuity, machine to machine editing, lighting, audio, graphics, and basic screen principles will also be covered. A fee of $12 applies. Applications are invited now, by writing to the Christian Media Forum, c /- Anglican Department of Education, Box W2067, GPO Perth, 6001. For further information phone 325 7455. LITTLE SISTERS THANKSGIVING Mother Marcelle and the Little Sisters of The Poor extend an invitation to all stall holders and helpers at the recent fete to join with them in a thanksgiving Mass followed by a smorgasbord meal on Friday May 4 at 7 pm at Glendalough. SUCCESSFUL LIVING COURSE An introductory class for the Successful Living course will be held at St Columba College on Friday night, May 18 from 8 to 9.30 pm. Registrations will be taken after the presentation on Friday evening, and if space permits, Saturday morning before the beginning of the class at 9 o'clock. For more information contact Dr S. Gassner-Roberts (08) 336 2675, Rene Bennett, 47 Allerton Way, Booragoon, Western Australia 6154, or Beth Mowry, 13 Grand Promendade, telephone 09272 2478.

Pilgrims carry a wooden cross along the Jerusalem street via Dolorosa.

Perth Archdiocese contributed $15,563 to the Holy Places collection made on Good Friday in 1983. Bunbury diocese contributed $3,100, Geraldton $1,037 and Broome $378. Below are details of the total Australian contribution of $246,394. Archdiocese of Adelaide 12,756.00 Brisbane 16,460.05 Canberra-Goulbum (1982) 9,648.18 Canberra-Goulbum (1983) 9,340.00 Hobart 5,216.20 Melbourne 47,412.20 Sydney 53,428.47 Perth 15,563.20 Diocese of Armidale 3,500.00 Bathurst 4,139.16 Lismore 3,500.00 Maitland 8,417.00 Wagga Wagga 4,204.65 VVilcannia Forbes 2,080.00 Wollongong 5,600.00 Ballarat 8,663.85 Sale 5,187.92 Sandhurst 6,143.20 Port Pine 3,374.73 Broome 378.72 Bunbury 3,100.00 Geraldton 1,037.00 Cairns 3,517.75 Rev Stanley Threlfell and Father Justin Bianchini exchange a palm, Rockhampton 5,458.47 specially made by the Anglican community in the form of a cross. Toowoomba 3,461.42 Who willride the donkey this year willbe decided this week. It's between Townsville 3,524.84 Fathers Bianchini, Threlfell and Jegorow. Darwin 1,281.18