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THE POPE IN NEW GUINEA
her during the Easter Vigil in St Mary's Cathedral. Partly obscured is Angela Mahardy of Victoria Park who with her husband Tom was Rosemary's sponsor for the baptism and the confirmation which followed.
Pope John Paul begins his New Guinea visit next week. The R ecord has previewed some of the things he will experience pages 4 and 5.
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Sister Scholastica, is a Benedictine sister at Kalumburu Mission in the diocese of Broome — where she has worked for 25 years.
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WASHINGTON -Pope John Paul and President Reagan are expected to meet in Alaska at the beginning of May. Mr Reagan is scheduled to stop there on May 1, when his plane makes a fuelling call on its way to Washington following the visit to China.
The mission, the most isolated settlement in WA., has been her constant love where she has laboured instructing young girls in cooking and home economics But time has taken its toll in this humid and hot environment and Sister -Scholie" has had some difficulty
in getting around. Nowadays she enjoys the mobility of a three-wheeler 250 cc motor trike. Says Sister Scholastica "'Now I can get out to those — and watch places I have not seen for years . her way in anyone who gets for out
The pope's programme includes a brief May 2 visit to Anchorage, when his plane also makes a fuel stop before taking him on his journey to Seoul.
Mr Ron Camp, a part-time minister for the Assembly of God Church, was high on praise and thanks after an accident while landing at Kalumburu Mission recently. His twin-engine Comanche was landing at the Kimberley Catholic Mission in a remote part of the diocese of Broome when it devloped undercarriage trouble and landed wheels-up. Mr Camp who works for the Electrol Department was on business at the mission for the recent referendum Said Ron: "Praise the Lord ----- He gave me a safe way down.-
Even on a short -stopover" there is much the two men could discuss The pope will be keen to hear Mr Reagan's reactions and views on China and might seek clues for a possible thaw in relations between the communist authorities and the Vatican, as well as between East and West He will be specially interested in the views of a president who has recently swung to religious pronouncements
A BOVE: Speedway rider in the making? Sister Scholastica has taken up tearing round the Kimberley landscape on this motor-trike. RIGHT: Down to earth flying pastor of the Assembly of God Church, Mr Ron Camp escaped unhurt.
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Father Pat Ahern who continues as Catholic Missions director to the end of the year is the new parish priest of Hamersley following Father Barry Whitely, who has transferred to Spcarwood.
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Accountability On the question of accountability for funds recieved, Father Williams said some of the recommendations were excessive and the Catholic commission did not want new and onerous accoun-
tability recommendations to be introduced without further discussions. On the issue of new private schools being opened he said he would be concerned if new and restrictive guidelines were introduced while discussions were in progress. "We are concerned that the right of parents to
choice in schooling is not lost. "We are not convinced by the argument that government systems must cost more to fund than non-goverment systems. The loading of the community standard for government schools appear to have been done without solid data to support such a move. • Cont page 12
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Missionaries look to appeal donations Parish Appeals for the Propagation of the Faith will begin in Perth Archdiocese on Sunday April 29th.
Each parish will be notified of appeal date in due course.
Father Pat Ahern, Director of the Perth Missions Office said regular generous support for Catholic Missions around the world was an integral part of the life of every parish in the archdiocese. This support meant regular prayers and Masses should be offered for Catholic Missions as well as giving generous financial support. During 1983, people of the archdiocese contributed over $305,000 to the missions.
This money had now been distributed to needy missions through the International Secretariate in Rome. It is important for people to have faith in the system which distributes financial help according to a priority of world wide mission needs. Father Ahern advised very strongly against the idea of people choosing their own mission projects. This would mean more deserving missions in less known arms of the world receive less support. Father Ahern praised the generosity of the people who have contributed so well to Catholic Missions over the years. He was confident this generosity would continue during the 1984 Mission Appeal period. This year people will be able to make contributions to the Missions by credit card. This system will be explained further by the priest making the parish appeal. LAY MISSIONARII • Twelve Western Australian lay missionaries are currently serving in various parts of the world. They are in such widespread countries as Pakistan, Chile. Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Nauru and within Australia. Father Ahern said he received many requests for information concerning the lay missionary apostolate. He said usually prospective lay missionaries were required to be interviewed and assessed locally before further arrangements are made. This is because a two or three year commitment is the minimum requirement and possible difficulties needed to be discussed before a person is referred to a lay missionary organisation. It has therefore been decided to hold a lay missionary information afternoon at the Parish Centre Franklin Street, Leederville on Saturday, May 19th from 2pm to 5pm. Anyone interested in lay missionary work is invited to attend.
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"I guess because we are experiencing the same different encounters we have much to share. "I have found it is difficult to relate in letters what I experience here now. "I guess it's unique and has to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Sometimes I have tried to rationlise situations and attitudes but find that to accept and revel in the differences are best. "My teaching I find particularly challenging, a sure test of one's personal resourcefulness and adaptation. "The school has limited facilities and no 'mod cons' hut all seem adequate for their present needs. "I am stimulated by the challenges and responsibilities which have to he taken in hand. "We're operating on the pulse of necessity. "My students are well behaved, dignified and natural in their responses. "Very natural at times, it
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launch appeal Betty and Greg Lupton of City Beach have just completed two years as lay missionary teachers in Kiribati and they are now teaching in Nauru. Betty and Greg said they are both extremely glad that they went to Kiribati. It A-as a wonderful experience and they gained more than they gave. Camilla Darwin of Roleystone writes from Vunapope Mission in New Guinea where she is teaching: "I am deeply touched by all that surrounds me and that includes the people, the environment, situations, attitudes and so on. "It's certainly different and each moment full. I'm finding it so worthwhile and challenging. "These people by their very nature offer so much insight into certain truths in living. "One can learn so much from them and I'm sure expatriates can reciprocate. Isn't this what mission is all about? "There are some lovely expatriate missionaries and volunteers here.
R ECIFE, (Brazil) (NC) — Archbishop Helder Camara of Olinda-Recife, Brazil, the well-known churchman said he would not slow down as a defender of the poor in the Third World. The archbishop turned 75 on February 7 and, as requested by Church law, sent a letter of resignation to Pope John Paul II At a celebration in Recife, Archbishop Camara said he would continue to speak out for the world's poor. I don't plan to slow down," he said, announcing plans to travel to Italy, Canada and the United States as part of a campaign to get renegotiations of Third World debt payments to North America and European banks. The conditions for the repayment of loans, which often force governments to divert resources from social programmes, "are oppressing people who are already poor, and grinding them down even further," the archbishop said. A s head of a very poor archdiocese in northeast Brazil and as an international speaker on behalf of social justice, A rchbishop Camara had been nominated numerous times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
doesn't take much effort on my part to generate laughter, from the simplest jokes. "I teach English, Social Science, Expressive Arts and Religious Studies. "I've organised myself into a fairly good routine. "Each class has 40 students, so thank goodness, in certain respects, they aren't energetic Aussies.
L earning fast "Particularly interesting are Religious Studies and Social Science — the latter being one of instruction through inquiry. I'm learning fast and grasp at any threads of information offered by my youngsters. "When I can manage it I will travel around to the areas I'm hearing so much of — village life, cultural attitudes. "Being in such a small, yet varied developing country must keep one on the pulse of all that is happening. "It is an exciting time to witness change for the better or worse, and so it is with Religious Studies.
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The cannon no longer bark on Anzac Day. When men were fresh back from a war they could not forget, cannon could roar with meaning the tribute words could not express for the comrades left behind. In other times cannon sound too warlike a tribute to peace. The Romans solved the issue with peace temples whose doors could be quickly shut when the neighbouring doors of the temple for war were thrown open. As Australia moved up last week to its annual reflection on war, the calm was rocked as headlines boomed: "It's a fight, say WA teachers"; "We're fighting for our lives" said State School Teachers Union president John Negus. Just whom he was fighting was not made clear but the sort of weapons he wanted to use were obvious as the union demanded a total moratorium on any increased funding for non-government schools. If points are awarded for laying out the enemy, the teachers union obviously has gone for a tactical blow at the private schools' windpipe. What the battle is about a reader of The West Australian on Wednesday April 18 would have been hard put to find out. A selective headline: "Non-govt schools get backing over funds" provided some kind of target into which a nameless "special correspondent" could pour his fire. "Attack" said the opening paragraph and in the following 46cm story some 27cm were devoted to what two dissenters of the 12-member Schools Commission thought of the latest Commonwealth funding proposals. In fact, so furious was the "attack" that it was nearly half way into the story before the reader was told what apparently was being attacked. Government schools were recommended an increase of at least 9.4 per cent in real terms for four years and about 4 per cent for private schools, although this could rise to between 5.9 per cent and 6.7 per cent if private school enrolments continue to rise. Out on the western front of the story Mr Negus was printed in full attack for 16cm until Monsignor Nestor, who had given a reporter a lengthy interview, was given one paragraph and the State Education Minister Mr Pearce who welcomed the 12 categories was also given the one -paragraph booby prize. The fact that important stories now have to be parcelled up in a minimum of space is not the newspapers' fault. They are told by customers at the newstands that this is how they like their news. But in terms of starting the fight before war has been declared The West Australian must have reached into the dark old days when it was one of the foremost opponents of funding to private schools. That there is opposition to government funding to private schools should surprise no-one. What is more important is to identify the peculiar totalitarian philosphies that manage to ride on the back of education until more enlighted forces wake up to where they are being carried Bigotry in the first century of the colony was predictable. The main protagonists for private schools were Catholics and they were pests. If a state school system could proceed along a sturdy Bible and Christian fundamentalist base with home -spun morality thrown in, who in their right mind would want to fund another system? Catholics did, let it be noted. The secularists rubbed their hands. If there were vocal churchmen opposing private schools who were they to object in an era when modern humanists believed they had invented education. Secularists would win! The first fifty years of this century should be painted by now as an interesting commentary on the alleged Australian virtue of fair -go. Religious sisters and brothers, so many of them Irish, slaved physically along with their impoverished pupils to barely exist alongside state schools that appeared to want for nothing from the public purse. Nobody asked why. The Catholic claim for a fair -go was never denied. It was easier for politicians and other vested interests to hide behind legislation that prevented them helping. The handful of Protestant schools didn't need help anyway, it seems. Politics, however, re-writes history when the art of the possible is very desirable. In the political crunch. Menzies knew what he wanted and so did Whitlam vis-a-vis state aid It comes as a bit of a jolt to the new generation of young parents who blithely enrol their children at Catholic or any private school and who are blithely ignorant of the struggle to establish them, that state aid is a political decision. One can therefore excuse the hyperbole of Mr Negus offering the gratuitous advice to the Hawke government that it was elected by the "parents of children who go to government schools". In other words, history has not changed that much and the familiar philosophies opposed to freedom of education are alive and well in new vested interests. Tight times and recessions are convenient props to push any issue these days but pious bleating that in more prosperous times no objection would be raised to private school funding are phony. Mr Van Davy, one of the dissenting commissioners, doesn't pretend to hide his views on what should happen to private education. New czars ride at the head of new cossacks across the schoolroom steppes. Catholic schools know that it is a political fight to win their rights. They are prepared still to pay substantially for their children's education. They don't want to pay for another war with vested sections of the public service. If arithmetic cannot reveal why parents make choices in education one at least would expect reason to supply an answer.
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Pope's New Guinea visit a step back in time Pope John Paul II begins his historic visit to Papua New Guinea in two weeks when he arrives at the capital, Port Moresby at 5pm (local time) on May 7. It will be the closest the pope has come to Australia since his installation in 1978, although he has visited here previously as a cardinal. Scores of Australians, including the former Bishop of Bunbury, Bishop McKeon, are
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travelling to this former colony now-new Pacific island nation, to see the pope and follow his tour. It will be one the most colourful yet of all of John Paul's overseas visits. Here Barbara Mead of The Leader, Brisbane, and Neil Smith, of The Record staff in Perth who spent nearly four years in Papua New Guinea on local newspapers, give a taste of some of the colour
and spectacle that will inevitably be associated with John Paul's visit. The New Guinea people have literally stepped from the Stone Age to the Space Age in one generation. In the main they are subsistence farmers and fishermen, living a feudal-tribal life and ancient culture, pushed into a Twentieth Century world of intematonal politics and all that entails.
John Paul to see primitive culture in his Pacific tour by NEIL SMITH
Every Papuan and New Guinean loves a Sing Sing . . the Pidgin term for party. celebration or just a "big show." On alternate years, they have in the highland regions the Mt Hagen or Goroka Shows. . theoretically an agricultural and horticultural show just like the Perth Royal Show in September-October. However, any resemblance to the Perth Royal is purely co-incidental. Mostly they are a seething mass of 100.0(X) or more tribesmen and women, covered with thick grey mud or pig fat, rainbow hued Bird of Paradise plumes adorning their hair, mother of pearl and armshell neckpieces and ca.ssowary spikes through their noses and ears. . all singing and dancing in a cacophony of sound and sights unparallelled anywhere in the world. Wealthy Europeans, Asians and Americans flock to the year's chosen town for three days contributing a sizable amount of the national economy in tourist dollars. Tribesmen can walk hundreds of kilometres. . over high snow-capped mountain ranges, through the raging torrents of flooded rivers and deep gorges and ravines, just to get there and take part . . some taking weeks, or even more than a month. This then will be among the sights to greet John Paul when he attends a special Mass in Mt Hagen on May 8.
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The pope's itinerary This is the detailed itinerary of the pope's Papua New Guinea visit: MONDAY, MAY 7, 5pm: Arrive Port Moresby, civic reception and open air Mass at the Hubert Murray Stadium with 30 concelebrants and a congregation of up to 70,000. The Mass theme will be the Christian vocation. Six hundered dancers from the neighbouring Bereina diocese will take part. The diocese will celebrate its centenary next year. TUESDAY, MAY 8: The pope will leave by plane at 7.45am for Mt Hagen, arriving at 9am for Mass in the showgrounds, at 9.30am. The pope, speaking Pidgin, will be assisted by at least five bishops of the
Papua New Guinea Highlands. He will be driven in a Popemobile through the crowd, estimated up to 750,000. He will arrive back in Port Moresby at 1pm and have one-and-half hours to rest. At 3.30pm he will bless the sick at St Joseph's Church, Boroko and speak individually to the 50 to 100 people to be blessed. They will be chosen by the bishops of Papua New Guinea On Tuesday evening the pope will dine with the Papua New Guinea bishops at the apostolic Nunciature and leave for the Solomon Islands on WEDNESDAY. MAY 9 at 8.15am.
There will be the rugged Chimhu people, who with more than 2.5 million are the biggest of the tribalethnic groups and which have their traditional home in the Chimbu Valley around the Mt Hagen region; the Kukukuku people, whose average height is only a halfinch too tall for them to be classified pygmies and among the most feared warrior tribes. The coastal Keremas, New Britainers, New Irelanders, Bukas . who as recently as 10 years ago had a cargo cult belief in a Hitlerstyle master -race, right down to baby farms.
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national disaster with what promises to be a volcanic holocaust at Rabaul and a major refugee problem of people fleeing across the border from neighbouring Indonesian-controlled Irian Jaya. Yet the people in the main have a simple, child-like attitude to life . . an appealing naivette . . that loves partying and celebration (sing sing in Pidgin). 'Long bilong Papa, na bilong Son . . . na bilong Spiritu Sancti,. Amen.' With these Pidgin words, Pope John Paul will begin the Mass he will offer with his people of Papua New Guinea. He has been coached to a command of Pidgin in three brief lessons by a young Papua New Guinea priest, Father Gabriel Pinda, MSC, who is studying in Rome. The pope already has offered Mass in Pidgin in his private chapel at the Vatican with Father Pinda assisting. The congregation was the "Pidgin-speaking clergy community' of Rome — five priests from Papua New Guinea and about 10 missionary priests. Father Gabriel told me of his fears, his joy and his pride during his "close encounters" with the pope: "At first I could not believe it — to teach the pope, that is something you would not dream of. "Nervous? Oh! My word. Yes. I was a little bit nervous — well more than a little bit. Very nervous. But he is so warm, so wonderful. "I had translated the text of the Mass into Pidgin and when I went to the Vatican I found our lessons were to be in a little office in the rooms of His Holiness. "I knocked and there I was Alone in a little room with the pope. "At first I didn't know what to do but he brought me in with him and first he said we would pray together. "You cannot stay nervous of a man — even the pope . . especially the pope — when you have prayed together. "Then we sat down together and he talked with me — in English — about my country. "He told me he had been to Papua New Guinea before and he had liked it very much. He said it was a beautiful country. ( Pope John Paul visited Papua New Guinea in 1973 as Cardinal VVojtyla after attending the Eucharistic Congress in Melbourne.) "He looked at the translated text and asked me to explain to him a couple of phrases. 'Then he said: "Yes. I see It is an easy language. It is very beautiful." "And he went through the whole Mass in Pidgin.
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SYDNEY — Religious newspapers were of immense and incompatible value to the Church and society. Edward Archbishop Clancy, of Sydney has said.
Yet another language for the pope Special report by BARBARA MEAD who spoke by telephone to Father Gabriel Pinda, MSC, in Rome.
Speaking at the Australian Religious Press Association (ARPA) annual convention in Sydney, Archbishop Clancy said we lived in a world that seemed moving be to further and further from God. "The balance has to be set right as far as possible by the religious newspaper," he said. The shortcomings of the secular Press emphasised the value and role of the religious newspaper. It was an irreplaceable means of communication between the bishop and people — and among the people themselves. Archbishop Clancy spoke of the expectations of readers of religious newspapers. When these expectations were not met, it could trigger a downward spiral leading to reductions in quality
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the country's excepional multiplicity of languages. Papua New Guinea boasts some 750 distinct, indigenous languages as well as English and Pidgin. "The pope's command and use of Pidgin will do more than anything I could imagine to promote the language," the pope's Pidgin tutor. Farther Gabriel Pinda said. The pope will have several opportunities to hear Papua New Guineans singing —
and see them dancing during his brief tour. Six hundred indigenous dancers from dioceses bordering Port Moresby will entertain the pope dring his visit. They will be accommodated in temporary long houses constructed for them in Moresby. There are no accurate estimates yet available of numbers of visitors expected from neighbouring countries, including Australia.
Chair bound main marries LONDON — Wheelchair -bound Mr Stephen Rigby finally married Mrs Ilona Eradhun in a Catholic Church. The couple had at first been refused permission for the marriage by the Nottingham diocesan Tribunal on the grounds Mr Rigby, paralysed below the waist, would not be able fully to consummate the marriage. Bishop James McGuinness allowed the wedding after new medical evidence raised doubts over the original decision. Father John Mack, parish priest of St Hugh's church, Borrowash, Derbyshire, took the service in which the couple bound themselves to a Catholic marriage.
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Three nights a week, four Good Shepherd nuns walk the notorious streets of St Kilda's "red light" district in Melbourne — befriending prostitutes, runaways, drug addicts, alcoholics. The nuns — Sisters Anne Dalton, 40, Mary Carroll, 45, Noelene White, 39, Gendrie Klein-Bretler, 28 — have made their home in the heart of the district, known as Melbourne's Kings Cross. For two years, Good Shepherd nuns have driven to St Kilda once a week and walked through the night. Their commitment to the "truly poor, truly lost" led them to live in their midst. Their home is an old, two-storey' terrace. house in Robe Street, rented from St Kilda parish two months ago. Slowly the sisters are winning the acceptance and trust — even the protection — of the street kids. They are known — and welcomed — by the keepers of late night cafes and bars. These places will be their "bolt holes" in case of need — a need that has not yet arisen. The sisters do not feel threatened by the violence and degradation of the neighbourhood. But they are aware of the nightly violence — it happens all around them. And they are aware of the drug passers. "The people we know as passers — we don't believe they are the big dealers hut just street connections — regard us with deep suspicion," Sister Anne said. "It is not hard to work with the kids. They are so lonely. "They are slow to trust — the girls more so than the boys. But when you do earn their trust it is good and wholehearted. "It overwhelms me. The trust they gave is simple and complete when they can come to believe that someone really does care about them as human beings. I don't know where it comes from, hut it is very beautiful.
A 10 yo. runaway "These kids from 14 to 20, although I know one little 10-year-old boy who was on the street — are runaways, from home or from institutions. "They are nearly all on drugs. And they are nearly all prostitutes — boys and girls — to pay' for their drugs. —they are caught in a vicious web of violence. They are the children who cannot cope with life at home. They run away and they gravitate to places like Kings Crass or St Kilda. "They are homeless, non-belonging, drifting, lonely and hurting. "They take drugs to still the pain. They get into this without knowing sthy or what's in front of them. Soon they can't see anything in life without drugs. "There are terrible dangers for them — not only from drugs, hut from prostitution. "I don't know what their earnings from prostitution would be, hut there is no shortage of customers. Cars drive along our street all night every night, cruising in search of pick-ups. At 3 o'clock in the morning the traffic is like a busy shopping centre. "If they're getting the dole — and none of them has a job — it doesn't last long. "They turn to prostitution to earn money for drugs. "Then they take more drugs to ease the pain of prostitution. "Their self-image is totally had. They have no love of themselves and yet, in a really beautiful way, they care deeply for each other. -Violence is always here — although the police unit called Delta has had some success these past few months and the violence seems to have lessened a little. "We have no connection with the police, although one of us attends police courts four mornings a week. "Sometimes kids will come up to us in the street and say 'I'm up in court in the morning.' We can say, 'Right. We'll be there.' It seems to help them." Sister Anne said.
Nuns who walk violent streets from BARBARA MEAD in Brisbane Reprinted from the Catholic Leader
"If we were known to he working with the police we would lose their acceptance, their trust. "The only time I have ever forced an issue was with a 10-year-old boy. I could not possibly leave him in the streets. "It is a long, slow trek, trying to win the trust of these people, especially since it is a passing, changing, drifting population. "But already a couple have come to us and said 'Look. This is getting me down I've got to get out of this.' "We always suggest they come hack to our house the next day — that way they do something concrete themselves to start the process. "We sit and talk out the possibilities. I sually the first thing is to try to get them re-located outside this area. "We try to help them find work, hut that is extremely difficult. If it's at all possible for them to have family support we help there, too. "We don't preach to them. They know we are nuns. "We wear ordinary skirts and blouses in the streets. But we also wear — and they are kept highly visible — the Crass and the emblem of our Order. "Some call us 'Sister'. Some call us by our given names. Most times, if there is conversation about Faith or religion. they start it. "People don't think kids like these would pray — hut they do. "Just recently, one boy said to me: 'I don't say formal prayers any more. I like to pray from my heart.' The sisters all have years of solid experience in dealing with grim social situations. And they regard such experience as essential for anyone hoping to help street kids. They have worked in women's prisons, through police courts and with State youth correction centres and institutions. Sometimes they take their "work" home with them.
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"We don't have a spare bedroom, but if a kid needs a bed for the night. we make up a bed in the lounge room. Probably they feel more comfortable in such an obviously temporary arrangement anyway," Sister Anne said. "Some of them live in boarding houses, some find shelter in refuges — most camp where they can. Melbourne nights are cold but many of these kids sleep in the open. "If one of them — usually in some sort of emergency — wants to come home with us that's fine. No fuss. "You know, when people talk about Australian youth you get this vision of fine, strong, healthy sun-tanned kids, sporting, full of life. "Our kids have a grey look to them. "I don't think they get much to eat — and then it's junk food. They're not all on hard drugs, but any drug saps their vitality. "And then there's the prostitution ... "They look out for each other. They always know if someone is missing from the streets. They'll say 'Haven't seen so-and-so. Do you know if they're all right?' "Or sometimes, they'll tell us about one of their friends they see as having particular problems, needing help, and ask us to talk with him or her. "They really do care. The Sisters do not feel threatened "It is not difficult to love them — they are such lost people. They want a place in the world where they can by the violence and degradationhe cared for and be caring people themselves. ...But they are aware...it happens "It is more difficult for us with the people who pass all around them. drugs. But even there, we try to see them as lost people. They are very suspicious of us. They keep a distance. These kids have no love of them"But we get them when we see them — we have selves, andyet, in a really beautiful to remember they, too, need a way back. way, they care deeply for eachI "We have to see them always every bit as much poor, other. lost human beings as the kids to whom they pass their drugs. "It is a very hard area for us, but it helps to remember the story of Zacheus. He was a bit of a wheeler-dealer himself but he Lord reached out to him.
Nuns walking St Kilda's streets . . . . Sister Anne Dalton and Sister Gendrie Klein-Bretler passing a greasy spoon cafe. Nk c have to reach out to these drug pushers: Father Ernie Smith, parish priest of St Kilda, is supportive of the sisters' work. "Father Frnie has done a lot with the street people in the two years he has been there,- Sister Anne said "He has organised a daily meal in the parish for the poor, the alcoholics, the prostitutes. "It is good to have him working in the same area, understanding what we are trying to do. "We see our work here as a great challenge — this is the kind of work we wanted to do when we entered our Order. And while it is demanding it is rewarding — I feel 10 years younger since I came to St Kilda. "We get away from here once a week — go bush and have a picnic. Go out of the area — try to get some fresh air. "We need that. We also have to adapt our prayer life to peculiar demands of our duties here. "It's a bit hard getting used to a night life three nights a week and keeping day hours the rest of the week. It still seems strange to sit down to breakfast in the afternoon. But they are minor matters. "We have to live on a strict budget but our Order supports us. It is costly work, but it is our apostolate. "Some people find it strange that nuns should live in such an area, should walk the streets with prostitutes and drug addicts. "But when we explain why we are here they understand and they approve. "We know there is danger in the streets but the very people we are here to help are also looking out for us. We know we have their protection. "People see our Crosses, they recognise us as nuns and that gives us a sort of passport through the streets. "I can honestly say I have never once felt afraid in the streets at night. "We have a great sense of the presence of God. "When we walk those streets we know we are not alone. "We know we arc doing His work, in His presence. "We are in His care."
Treasure{ of the Church V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Men and women Religious are "a special treasure of the Church," who Christ loves with a "spousal character", said Pope John Paul II in his first major document on R eligious since becoming pope in October 1978. The pope highlighted the personal nature of God's call to Religious, the meeting of the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and the role of Religious in the Church. The 11,000-word document, called an apostolic e xhortation, is titled "Redemptionis Donum," Latin for "the gift of Redemption."
Personal There are 1.5 million Religious in the Catholic Church. The document is a "spiritual meditation," said A rchbishop Augustin Mayer, a Benedictine and the secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, at the press conference. "The call to the way of the evangelical counsels springs from the interior encounter with the love of Christ, which is a redeeming love," the papal document said. "In the structure of a vocation, the encounter with this love becomes something specifically personal," it said.
Sister Gendrie Klein-Bretler . . . "People see our Crosses — they're our passport through the streets."
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WARSAW — Australians have been asked to pray for Poland. . . and to send petitions to the Polish leader, General Jaruzelski protesting at his war on the Cross. The plea says the petitions are important . . that the whole matter is ideological and not just a matter of r emoving the Crosses from Polish schools.
A bishop in Poland making the plea asked not to be named, for fear of r eprisals — as Polish Catholics fight the "war on the Cross." "The authorities persecute those who speak against their actions — particularly they persecute parents," he said. The Polish Government had ordered the removal of crucifixes from all school classrooms.
The bishop said, "I have just come from a conference of bishops — the Church is investigating the destruction overnight of 40 Crosses in a cemetery at Kromolow, on the outskirts of Zawiercie," he told me. 'This is not a coincidence — we believe Government people were responsible. "It takes a great deal of courage for our people to defend the Cross.-
The bishop told me of a mayor of a small village and seven of his villagers who confronted eight Government officials over the removal of Crosses from their village school. "They put their very lives on the line in defence of the Cross," he said. "Teachers are asking students to remove the crosses. 'When this does not happen, when
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NEW YORK (NC) — Pope John Paul ll once told the Rev William Lazareth, a visiting Lutheran official, that although unity in faith is now impossible, interfaith progress can be made through an "ecumenism of love", Dr Lazareth said. ity Lutheran Church in He addressed a one- New York, Dr Lazareth was director of the World Counday conference at the cil of Churches' Faith and Christian Brothers' Order Commission, which Manhattan College has Catholic members celebrating the 500th although the Catholic anniversary of Martin Church does not belong to the WCC itself. Luther's birth. Before recently being As director, Dr Lazareth named pastor of Holy Trin- said, he met the pope every six months to report developments in theological dialogue. In his remakrs to the conference, Dr Lazareth described one meeting with the pope: "His Holiness has a disconcerting habit of closing his eyes when you're talking to him," the pastor said. "I wasn't sure whether he was praying for me or sleeping because of me." But when the report was finished, John Paul made clear he had been listening very carefully, Dr Lazareth said.
Atheist claims sex empire
Dr Lazareth said that the Lutheran AugsburgConfession of 1530 appealed not to individual conscience but to a council of bishops and by proper interpretation can be seen as a Catholic as well as an evangelical statement. A Lutheran participant asked Dr Lazareth if later Lutheran statements,particularly the 1580 Formula of Concord calling the pope the Antichrist, did not create greater difficulties. Dr Lazareth responded that NEW YORK (NC) — Atheist the Augsburg Confession Command Madalyn Murray O'Hair says should be ranked highest in Larry Flynt, publisher of the authority for Lutherans. sex magazine Hustler, has The pope noted the scriptu- Then he queries his listengiven her control of his ral command to "speak the ers: "What Lutheran here multimillion dollar business truth in love" and cited an thinks Pope John Paul II is empire. "ecumenism of love" as a the Antichrist?" No one ans"He gave me the power to way forward when doctri- wered. transfer all the assets of the nal agreement seems imposAsked about studies indientire Hustler publishing sible, the pastor said. cating that Luther suffered empire, which has been Moreover, Pope John Paul from a neurotic personality. v alued at approximately also acknowledged that he Dr Lazareth said that it was himself as pope was a princi- possible for God to speak $300 million, to the Amerpal obstacle to the dialogue, through a "crazy German", ican Atheist Centre," Mrs the Lutheran pastor added. but that ultimately Luther's O'Hair said. In other comments, Dr alleged personality probFlynt who is serving a 15- Lazareth said that Luther's lems are aS irrelevant as the month sentence for contempt protest was directed at persex lives of the pertinent of court had professed to be versions in late medieval popes. the that a born-again Christian after Catholicism Instead, by concentrating a 1978 attempt to murder Catholic Church today has on doctrinal foundations. said He repudiated. itself him left him paralysed from that the "works righteous- the Lutheran-Catholic diathe waist down. ness" that Luther opposed logue achieved the progress Flynt's brother, Jimmy is found today among what climaxed by the release of a claimed his brother was he called "Protestant hucks- common declaration on jusunable to manage his resour- ters" on television who tell tification, he said. salvation Also speaking at the conces and charges the atheist people that group is trying to take over depends on their own deci- ference was Father John F sions rather than on the Hotchkin, director of the the Flynt empire. National Conference of action of Christ. Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Father Hotchkin surveyed the changing treatment of BELGRADE — Father Joseph Kranovac, a theologian Luther by Catholic schoin Yugoslavia, was sentenced to a month in gaol and a lars. five-year suspended sentence for having a conference on "For centuries, Catholic atheism critical of Yugoslavian authorities. scholars held a totally negaFather Kranovac, an expert on the Old Testament, was tive view of Luther, on sentenced by a court in Lubiane, Yugoslavia. which all agreed," he said. "Now, there is a more just The conviction resulted from Father Kranovac's and complex view, and beliefs which promote communists and comments atheists Catholic scholars energetire-emphasise the importance of the individual. cally argue about him."
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KNOW YOUR F AITH In a great wilderness of steel and glass stood a stone house of prayer. Partly it resembled a large tomb. Its three huge doors stood open day and night. A holy woman, a prophetess, stood at the entrance for 40 days beckoning everyone to enter. She said there was room for everyone: young and old, healthy and sick, liberal and conservative, doubter and believer, rich and poor, powerful and insignificant. Every nationality and race. An attractive, dignified woman, she was not exactly young but her voice was clear and her eye was steady. She told passersby that the Holy One invited them to enter. Some came very eagerly on the first day with a sense of familiarity. Others came more cautiously and sat in the back near the door. Still others entered out of curiosity, eyed the unfamiliar surroundings and departed. Some entered out of bored routine and obligation. Some young people entered sullenly, forced by their elders.
By Father Edward Braxton Most people passed by altogether. To them the holy woman was just a derelict whose eyes were red from cheap wine. Others had joyful memories of past time but now no longer felt welcome. Many remained throughout the six weeks. Others returned frequently. They listened to instruction from the prophetess: "Love God with your whole being and love all men and women as you love others. If you wish to find yourself you must first lose yourself in service to others." From time to time the people shared a simple meal of bread and wine, the cup of salvation and the bread of life. They all praised God and greeted one another with signs of peace. Those who left each day went forth to love and serve the Lord. Now when the six weeks were nearly over, the prophetess asked the people to watch and pray for three days and nights. Then, she said, the Holy One would reveal His glory through His son. Some stayed gladly and praised God. Many declined, saying they had "too much to do, what with the holidays and company coming and all." The prophetess was grieved to see so many go. Only a remnant remained. More and more the surroundings took on the appearance of a freshly hewn tomb. Now was the hour of shadows. But for those who stayed it was a time of grace. The first day was Thursday. They
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Looking at the other side of death
mended one another's clothes and annointed each other with oil. The day ended with a joyful celebration, with bread and wine and song and annointing each other's feet. After that they all knelt in silent vigil till the morn. Friday was ominous somehow. There was no denying it now. They were in a tomb. The prophetess began to question them: "Would you ever hand your neighbour over to enemies? "Would you let others take the blame for your misdeeds? 'Would you ever be unfaithful to your spouse? "Have you hired workers and paid them unjustly?" As they stood in stunned silence, a quiet breeze blew through the structure as before a spring storm. The windows and then the great doors blew shut. The people sat in silence expressing sorrow for their sins. In midafternoon a massive cross appeared in their midst. On the cross was a person in the final agony of crucifixion. Some said it was a man; others that it was a woman or a child. For a moment each saw himself or herself Then the prophetess demanded they realty look. At once they saw it was Jesus Christ, the Son of the Most High. They were over-, whelmed. The dying man sighed, "Oh God I'm bleeding." The people prayed. Again He sighed, "Oh God I'm dying." And the people prayed. Finally He gave up His spirit saying, "Oh God I'm dead." The prophetess said, "Behold the lamb of God. He was despised and rejected. a man of sorrows acquainted with grief With His wounds we are healed." A fierce storm raged. Thunder and lightning rocked the building. The
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earth quaked. Torrents of rain fell as if to baptise the whole world. Then the storm passed. The great tomb was in darkness. Before the watchers was the shrouded body of Jesus. It was night. As the golden sun rose on Sunday morning, birds sang. the grass and trees were a rich green and fragrant lilies bloomed everywhere. The holy woman came forth holding a lighted candle. People asked about the Lord. 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?" she asked. They heard Him speak: "As I have told you, if you go down into the tomb with Me in death, you shall also rise with Me to the glory of eternal life." Each person went forth in peace carrying a lighted candle anxious to tell everyone what they had seen and heard. But they ran into a crowd of people pressing at the doors of Easter Sunday Mass. Most never had visited the place during the 40 days of preparation. But they were dressed in fine spring clothes. A man who had dwelled there for six weeks mounted the pulpit. He wanted so much to speak about the Lord Jesus who lived, died, was buried and was raised up again. He could barely find words. He said, "Worthy is the lamb that was slain and has redeemed us to God. He ,shall reign forever and ever." me newcomers never said a word, as if they hadn't heard. Not a few left early to get a head start out of the parking area. One muttered under his breath, "You go out of your way to go to church on Easter Sunday and you don't even get a decent sermon." With that the eyes of the prophetess filled with tears. For she was the Church.
Life in the world of Jesus had a constant companion — death. It is hard for people today, with a long life expectancy, excellent medical care and a basic belief that hostile forces can be subdued, to grasp what it was like to live in that ancient world. In that time, when enemies conquered, they slaughtered; when police arrested, they executed In the Holy Land death was daily, public and visible. The discussion in the Gospels of Christ's crucifixion would have raised images as concrete and painful as a Lebanese family's discussion of the effects of war today. It is no wonder then that the Gospels make such a thing of the resurrection. Their description of the empty tomb was a way of saying that the worst that can happen in this life has been overcome.
machines sustaining life in a comatose family member were turned off. Sometimes families sustain themselves in these difficult moments with the thought that the person is already gone before the machines are turned off. I think of Jeff, who had been an extraordinarily vital man. I could understand the comment of the people around his hospital bed: "That's not Jeff. Jeff is already gone." I spent a good part of the night by Jeffs beside. As I sat there I thought of the comments about Jeff being gone. I could understand what the people meant, all right. But it was equally clear to me that Jeff was still alive.
To hammer in that message of liberation from the worst that life can offer, the early Christian writers added another image. They spoke of slavery, which was greatly feared by them. They equated slavery with death. But, they added, in the resurrection of Christ humanity was set free from the slavery of death. In those days, unemployment, crop failure and business losses could mean indebtedness. Indebtedness, in turn, could mean being sold into slavery. As a result, the image of death as a kind of slavery was strong. Today the notion of resurrection may have lost some of its impact, since the reality of death has been softened, at least in some of the more developed nations. I know it is common to criticise the way death is handled today. I don't want to do that here. There are realities too harsh to handle readily. I think we can be forgiven for seeking some comfort at the times when comfort is needed most. But there is a difference between denying death's reality (which we probably do not do), and softening death to the point where we end up in a state of limbo about it. Actually, Christian faith in the resurrection from the dead calls for a recognition of the sad fact of death for what it is. On a number of occasions I have been at the hospital with families when the
Jeff was in a coma, kept alive by machines. He was very near death. But he was still alive. His vital spirit was trapped in a body drastically diminished by his injuries. But the hand of death had not yet touched him. Sometimes when someone dies, it may look to outsiders as though the family members are trying to soften death's blow. Probably the members are only trying to cope with death's sting. Christians believe that the passage to eternal life is as real as it is sorrowful: It is the passage of dying. And, as was true in the days of Jesus, the impact of death — its reality — drives home the true significance of the resurrection. The worst that can happen in this life has been overcome.
"Our human world is permeated by resurrection. Our human world is transformed by reconciliation. (Pope John Paul II. 1982 Easter message.) "Let us celebrate today the reconciliation. The mystery of the resurrection remains in the heart of. . , the multitudes; of nations, languages, races, cultures and religions." (Pope John PaulII 1982 Easter message.) "From the beginning a struggle is raging between life and death. The battle between good and evil is unfolding in the world. Today the balance rises to one side." (Pope John Paul II 1982 Easter message.) "During Lent and Holy Week we recall the events relating to the Passion of Jesus. There is no greater opportunity for Christians to delve into the heart of their faith. (Archbishop Peter Gerety of Newark, N.J., in a 1982 paschal letter.) "Leading Our Children to God," by William Brinkmann and William Ditewig. Amy was suffering from unexplained headaches and the possibility of allergies came up, leading the young girl to ask one morning: "Did Jesus have allergies?" This led parent and child into a discussion of whether Jesus was really a man, even to the extent of being "completely vulnerable to pain and illness," the authors write in this little book. Parents and religious education teachers, the authors offer suggestions for teaching faith at home. They observe that "Our relationship with God must be a living a growing one; otherwise, like any neglected relationship it will wither and die." The authors draw from the Bible, the documents of Vatican CouncilII, the National Catechetical Directory for Catholics of the United States and their own family life. (Ave Maria Press. Notre Dame, Ind, 46556. 1984. ($4.95.) The Record, April 26 — May 2, 1984
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Chequered career for French Army veteran who took on
Jean-Pol Sillon, painter and decorator and member of the Nollamara parish, was born at Nancy in France on February 7, 1944. He was educated in various parts of France, completed his apprenticeship as a painter and attended a school near Paris where he was trained as a tiler. In this trade he worked at Belle fort, served in the French Army for 18 months mainly in the Toul, Lille and Champagne areas and on discharge worked for two years at Montbeliard, where the Peugeot car is manufactured, as a painter and tiler. For 31/2 years when he was a young tradesman he lived in Nice in the Oncle Paul centre conducted by a philanthropic organisation and run by Jean Frecon, who had been manager o f all the Dom Bosco schools in Franch. Jean-Pol, toured North Africa, returned to France to marry Claire Vessyer and they spent their honeymoon in Africa. They migrated to Melbourne in 1972 and came to Perth in 1975. Their daughter Caroline — who was born in Melbourne — goes to school at Our Lady of Lourdes at NoIlamara.
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Jean Frecon, who ran the Oncle Paul centre in Nice, was a remarkable man who used the profits arising from his business acumen to aid destitute young people. Jean-Pol Sillon tells of how Frecon, who had been manager of all the Dom Bosco schools in France, bought and sold land till he had made enough money to buy a big house at Cimiez in an exclusive area of Nice. This was the Oncle Paul centre. Its boarders included some stable people like Jean-Pol accommodated to have a steadying influence on the other occupants who included in their ranks a number of youngsters in the grip of drugs and alcohol. It was found after a time that the house at Cimiez was too big for its inhabitants to be properly managed, so Frecon sold it and bought a number of smaller houses. Some of the former habitues of the Cimiez establishment were disconcerted on returning to it to find that it had been converted into a police academy. In the smaller houses into which the Oncle Paul centre had been broken up, Jean-Pol had as a colleague an inspiring worker -priest, Father Bruno Dubouloz It was his idea to send the stable -elders" to different places in their spare time to learn what they could of various current activities. In this way they could talk intelligently of these things as a means of guiding the young drug and alcohol victims to a better life-style. In this way Jean-Pol took short spells off from earning a living as a painter to go to Paris to see how the news media operated, and for a minor study of trade union operations in Nice. In 1968 Jean-Pol left France for a working holiday in North Africa. Algeria had achieved independence from France only five years before, and included among the people he met there were a number of young political activists who had fled France to dodge arrest. Apart from a few civil servants on exchange duty, these interesting characters were about the only French left in Algeria. He crossed the Sahara Desert in an army truck convoy from Algeria to Mali. This was the only form of travel per mated for a number of reasons — there were no roads, it was an atomic testing region and under strict army control. There was an outbreak of meningitis in Mali and because of it the return convoy was permitted to go no further into Algeria than the desert town of Adraar. There, no arrangements had been made f or the convoy travellers who were dumped and left to their own devices. Jean-Pol and his companions were pitied by a group of school teachers who permitted them to doss down on the floor of their spartan accommodation where they were stuck until the ban was lifted about three weeks later. In this time Jean-Pol had made friends with the senior -ranking teacher. One day this man had an argument with the judge who was in charge of the district and the officer of the law promptly threw him into gaol for having the temerity to answer back. Jean-Pol asked the police if he could visit the hoosegow to see his friend, and they did a swift bit of buck -passing by telling him to ring the judge. That worthy barked over the phone at the astonished Jean-Pol that he would share his chum's incarceration if he did not cease his attempts to run the internal affairs of a sovereign country. All-in-all, Jean- Pol was pretty glad to be able to catch the next available convoy out of Adraar. He found most Algerians warm and friendly, but proud of their history and with a nationalistic fervour about making their newly-won independence work. Somewhere in that summary lay the probable reason for the hanging judge's telephone outburst.
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE There was no work to be had in Mali or Niger, but in Dahomy Jean-Pol got a seasonal job as a freezer hand in a French. owned fish -processing factory whose output of crayfish and prawns was exported to France He wanted to go to Biafra, then in the throes of civil war, but he was dissuaded from this intention by the tales of the aircraft pilots with whom he came in social contact They used to fly stealthily across the border by night with their loads of arms and ammunition, take off from hairy fields in the dark and scuttle back to Dahomi "If you're a white man there you're dead," they used to say, -because all white men are regarded as mercenaries So he gave Biafra the go-by and went to Togo, where a friendly priest showed him round a lot of the country However, he went down with some form of tropical sickness and decided it was time to return to La Belle France
The air fare was far too expensive and all he could afford was space in the cheapest section of a ship. Conditions were not salubrious to say the least, and his illness worsened to such an extent that the captain ordered that he be up-graded one class lest he die. The new accommodation was little better, but he managed to survive to Marseilles. Again his quarters were the Oncle Paul centre in Nice from which he worked for two years until he went to Menton near the border with Italy to marry Claire Vessyer, whom he had met five years earlier. After a time they took the decision to migrate to this country, and they were pleased at the speed with which the Australian Embassy in Parts made the necessary arrangements. They arrived in Melbourne on June 26, 1972 — and their problems began Jean-Pol spent weeks looking for work under the handicap of having no English until he met a Belgian who put his name in a shop window This led to his employment by a Scot, whose English — he now recognises — was as incomprehensible as his own. The Caledonian stern and wild ran out of patience after a week and fired him. He applied successfully for a job advertised in The Age by a hulking former South Melbourne footballer who put him to work with a Greek.
Language difficulties, too, drove this migrant to the point of apoplexy and he quit the job after a week, but in the 21 2 / years Jean-Pol remained with the ex footballer contractor his English was improved by night study and day-to-day experience. In this time Claire, who had been trained in France as a window-dresser, had got a job as such with Coles The couple decided to go back to France. but thought that they had better have a look at some of the rest of Australia first. Claire had left Coles to go windowdressing with another employer and the company agreed to her request for a transfer to the Perth branch, so they landed here in 1975. Jean-Pol undertook a painting contractor's course at the Leederville Technical College In the first year his English was not good enough for him to be able to cope satisfactorily with the book-keeping section of the studies, but he did well enough in the other subjects. In the second year, because of the special night school work he had done, his English had improved enough for him to be able to pass book-keeping and get his certificate. Now he is successfully running his own business with the tribulations of learning a strange language, customs and work methods behind him and a determination to make this land his permanent home.
Find a hobby if hubby joins the army. . . So your husband wants to join the Army Reserve. If you f ollow Margaret R ichards' advice you'll find yourself a hobby quick smart. Margaret should know — her husband Clem has been in the reserve for 30 years and is now a lieutenant colonel. The reserve may constitute a 'hidden army' in some respects but Margaret still sees herself as an 'army wife'. As such she has learned her husband's hobby is more a part-time career, fitted in between family and teaching responsibilities. He is now principal of St Mark's, Bedford but even that workload has not cooled his ardour for the army. -It's much more than a hobby," says Margaret. "The men that stay in become really committed and wives have to be a part of the dream or they feel left out. The difficulty is there is really no role for the wife to play, it's very much a backup."
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Clem Richards would be the first to admit he has had a marvellous back-up in Margaret who has kept the home fires burning and raised their seven children with such success that none of them want to leave home The Army Reserve takes her husband away every Tuesday night, from 7pm
to whenever; one weekend a month and a two-week camp every year. It is these demands that have made the Army Wives' Group of Western Australia such a necessity. The group is the only one in the country which combines reserve and full-time army wives. Margaret joined 12 years ago and
filled the role of secretary for nine years. "It is very much a support group," she said. "We offer wives the chance to make friends and talk with others who have the same difficulties. It's not easy coming to terms with the fact that there is a big part of your husband's life that you can't share.
God's work among youthBRISBANE The pope could be asked to consider the introduction of married clergy and also the culture -based differences between indigenous married and the Catholic rite, says Father Nicholas de Groot, of the Divine Word Seminary at Marburg, south-east Queensland. F ather de Groot was attached to Bomona Seminary, Papua New Guinea, for six years and has retained close links with the Church in Papua New Guinea. "The question of a married preisthood should be seen in the light of the country's traditions and culture," Father de Groot said. "There is, a present, at least tacit approval for the married diaconate. "Many people — from parishioners to priests — believe the Church in Papua New Guinea needs indigenous married priests. "In tribal culture, a man Is not considered a .'man of wisdom' until he is married and sired a child. "Often an indigenous priest can be a nonentity among his own p eople ,because he remains single and celibate.
lean-Pol Sillon French Army veteran
"He is accorded some credit because the people recognise the value of the wisdom from his priestly training, but it is foreign to the culture," he said
Plea from Brisbane "There are many fine men in Papua New Guinea who have become deacons and devoted their lives to the Church. They w ould gladly go on to the priesthood, but they have married. "They do everything a priest should do — certainly they are all a priest should be to their people — except hear Confessions and offer the Mass. "Indigenous, unmarried, celibate priests lose their relatedness to their communities. "It is not at all a matter of Western sexuality but of the social and community culture. Traditionally, a man without a wife is without any standing. • Corn' page 12
Women and girls are rare in the vocal line ups at the "sing sings" but this lass from the Central Western Highlands was in good voice at a recent Hagen show with this duo of drummers,
ing sing' for pope
• From page 4 But there will also be on show the work of Catholic missions. .the small band of dedicated people who along with non-Catholic, government and Australian expatriates are transforming what has been one of the world's last frontiers into a thrning. Niable nation to take its place in world affairs. Less than 20 years ago.
John Paul learns another language
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"I could not believe how quickly he understood. He was not just saying the words — he really understood. "My people will love him even more when they hear him — he speaks our language so beautifully. "He sounds like one of our wonderful old mission priests. "He speaks Pidgin with
such melody, such feeling, such understanding —it is iust beautiful." Father Pinda said he had been helped in the translation of the Mass by another Papua New Guinea priest who also is studying in Rome — Father Michael Igo. "We also have translated the homily for His Holiness," Father Pinda said. Father Pinda, 36, is from West New Britain. He was
ordained in 1976. He has been studying Church history at the Gregorian for three semesters and is accustomed to living among some of the greatest minds of the Church. he is "But the pope different. He is so warm, so friendly, so brilliant," he told me. Father Pinda himself is — like most of the people of Papua New Guinea —
highly talented in languages. He speaks excellent — though accented — English, Italian, and "some German I picked up in a few weeks" as well as Pidgin and his own indigenous tongue. "I picked up Pidgin in the villages when I was about seven years old — the pope learned it quicker than I did," he told me. "Our first lesson lasted
only 40 minutes and already I was amazed at his understanding. "I explained to him just a few phrases and he said, 'Oh! I understand it. This language is very beautiful. I like the short sentences.' "It is amazing to me that, with all else he must do, he has found the time to learn our language already_ "And yet he is never hurried — always calm and
warm "We had three lessons altogether — each one for 40 minutes We might have more, but I am not sure. "And I must tell you about our Mass together . . . "After the lessons he was ready to offer the Mass in Pidgin in his private chapel. "I was there - right beside him — but there was no need. He was perfect -- the Mass was perfect.
that seven children have made the most of. Then there is floristry a skill picked up in recent years which often sees her
arranging flowers in the church on Sunday morning. As with many things in her life, her joy comes from 'doing her own thing'
Papua New Guinea had not produced one lawyer, one doctor or an airline pilot. Tradesmen were few and it was common for 20-yearolds to be just starting their high school education. Language barriers meant some tribal people could not talk to neighbouring ‘illagers on the next hillside. There were more than '00 separate ethnic groups. with their own separate languages. Now the former colony is taking its place. able to argue its case in world affairs taking on the mig,hty to their fishing rights against incursions from US and Japanese. and to reach bilateral border agreements with Indonesia. It is a country with one foot in the past . . possessing an ancient are and culture unlike any other . . and t he other firmly in the future, where with no trains and few roads, the most common form of transport is the aeroplane.
you'll need it says Margaret.
wife passes on -It's not uncommon to see men forced out of the army because of the resentment of their wives. "It can make such a difference if you have someone to call on when your husband is away; to get together on the weekends when the men are not around and just to have someone who understands." While some may see such demands as too much of a sacrifice, Margaret feels it is one worth making. The reserve, she says, is a vital service to the country. While the demands of children often kept her too busy to notice the hours her husband spent away it also meant she could avoid the boot-blacking and uniform ironing that goes hand in hand with the word army. -These days he cleans his own boots and irons his uniforms," she said, "and he does a much better job. I could never get his uniform as smooth as he does."
The reserve does attract a certain kind of man, says Margaret and once he is hooked you are not likely to get him back easily. "I think it appeals to a man who is looking for a hobby with a deeper meaning," she said. "Most are very, very dedicated." She admits it 'frightens the life out of her' to think that in five years or so her husband will have to retire from the reserve. "I don't know what he'll do," she said, "but he is a very adaptable man, interested in a lot of things so I'm sure he'll think of something." The Army Wives' Group meets once a month at the Karrakatta Army Barracks. Sometimes there is a guest speaker or demonstration but more often than not it's a good chance for a grizzle and a laugh. For many women married to professional army men, this group is the only constant in a life spent constantly on the move. It is a pity, says Margaret,
many wives fail to reach out and take advantage of such a group. "Being able to talk to someone who knows what it is like can make all the difference," she says. For Margaret Richards, all the difference has been made through her own dedication to a life of her own. As a member of St Thomas's parish, Claremont she spent many years on the St Thomas's P & F. "I loved that," Margaret said, "it was so rewarding because I loved the children. With her own getting bigger all the time and now aged from 14 to 23 years she took every opportunity to cuddle the littlies. "There seemed so many kids whose mums were too busy to get to school and who would ask me to come and see what they had done." Fund-raising was also important in the years from 1970 to 1980 and it was also the time of the Darwin refugees, then the Timo-
rese and Vietnamese. Margaret became especially involved with Vietnamese refugees and spent time helping with English. "My brother had been in Vietnam, it was wonderful to be able to help and they were so grateful and sweet," she said. As a member of St Vincent de Paul she was also involved in finding housing for the refugees and helping to get them settled. While she is no longer a member of the P & F, her St Vincent de Paul involvement continues. "It's so important," she says again, "for women to have their own interests. If you get heartily involved in something yourself then you don't mind so much what your husand is doing. A couple of mornings a week she helps out at a local playschool, it's a chance to spend time with Reading and dressmaking take up the rest of her time and the latter is something
Margaret Richards an army wife
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Trust in God Works at Rabaul • From page 3 "Perhaps not so much on the mission as out bush or rather 'cleared rain forest' or 'plantation area' where I am teaching Religious Education, with a team of other missionaries — lay and religious — from Vunar)ope. "This takes us a fair distance out, to older people who have little opportunity of instruction otherwise. "It seems they could represent in attitudes what very many do, a dedication to Christian values, yet a fear also of traditional beliefs. The payback system is very real here. "They live in real fear of revenge, magic and superstition. "I hope I can only do what
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He would wish, to bring God's message appropriately within their own experiences. "I must have trust in Him — He's working in His own way. YOU are most probably eager to know of the situation here with regard to our Stage 2 alert with the volcano at nearby Rabaul. "I think I've been through the worst of it initially when I first arrived. It was climaxing to a crisis point then, with much coverage nationally and internationally. However, what will he, will be and its a matter of coming to terms with this fact. "The situation at Vunapope, in the event of an
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eruption, is considered safe. "So, there's no need for an in the West to worry! "The people of Rabaul are not living in blissful ignorance either, as reports have otherwise indicated. "We have a small team of very experienced volcanologists and I have faith in their competence. The greatest danger, however, lies in the possibility the local people who have evacuated the danger zones might start to drift hack there now there is quite a lull in seismic activity. "I was quite amused to hear, though, the bishop is living in what is regarded the dangerous 'purple' zone. "Quite fitting he thinks. and is, needless to say, quite unperturbed," she says.
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a particular person, "and at the same time it took on a spousal character: It became of a love of choice. The love embraces the whole person, soul and body, whether man or woman," it added. "Evangelical chastity," it said, "helps us to transform in our interior life everything that has its source in the lust of the f lesh; evangelical poverty, everything that finds its source in the lust of the eyes; and evangelical obedience, enables us to transform in a radical way that which in the human heart arises from the pride of life."
Vows The three vows assist individuals in overcoming moral weaknesses and offer "the possibility of being reborn each day to a more profound good hidden in the human soul," it said. "This good is manifested under the action of grace, towards which the practice of poverty, chastity and obedience renders the human sould particularly sensitive." The pope also spoke of the growth in relationship between God and the Religious individual w hich comes through Religious life. "This intimate and profound knowledge of Christ is actuated and grows deeper day by day through the life of personal, community and liturgical prayer proper to each of your Religious families," he said.
Consecration The pope cited the documents of the Second Vatican Council and Paul
VI on Religious life and called Religious consecration a "fuller expression of baptismal consecration." "The Church thinks of you, above all, as persons who are consecrated. Consecration determines your place in the vast community of the Church, the people of God," he said. "At the same time this consecration introduces into the universal mission of this people a special source of spiritual and supernatural energy: a particular style of life, witness and apostolate, in fidelity to the mission of your institute and to its identity and spiritual heritage," he added.
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which says an eight or twelve category makes better provision for differential funding on a needs basis. "The recognition of the special needs of low resource schools and their proposed receipt of a higher proportion of Commonwealth funds will be 'applauded by all fair minded Australians" Monsignor Nestor said. The Schools Commission says its funding proposals have to be read in conjunc-
from page one Contrary to some claims the report ensures that stare schools are maintained at the highest possible standard, Monsignor Nestor said. -The steady increase of proposed Commonwealth general recurrent grants for schools government through to 1988, ranging from 9.4 per cent to 9.9 per cent is significant and will be appreciated by the whole community.
Married NC priest question By R ay Owen, of the Catholic Leader, Brisbane. 0 From page 11 When you realise further that there are 700 distinct languages spoken throughout Papua New Guinea it becomes almost essential to have indigenous priests able to communiGate with people in their own tongue -This is impossible for foreign priests, like myself Even the pope with his wonderful gift for t ongues could not hope to communicate with all the people of Papua New Guinea -Certainly, we can learn Pidgin but even then one often needs an interpreter in the villages "Many of the elderly people c annot speak Pidgin — but they c annot be neglected This is where indigenous priests are so vital to Papua New Guinea. At the seminary it is possible f or a teacher to have a class of 40 students, each speaking a different language -The people believe the Church also should look again at the question of the mechanics of marriage in Papua New Guinea. -Marriage there is not so much between two people as between two tribes. It is a lengthy process — often the couple will, with their elders' complete sanction, live together f or several years before they are finally regarded as married — usually only after the birth of their first child. ' 'A person may experience several such relationships before the couple and their tribes decide the match is a good one and should become permanent. "This, of course, does not accord with Catholic practice. "But it has to be said that where couples are hurried into marriage by the Church, the divorce rate is very high. Where they marry under their own culture, divorce is practically unknown. -Both questions are matters of inculturation. "Any priest or Religious who has worked in Papua New Guinea will tell you of the wonderful faith of the people. -Many of them feel it is essential for these and other less urgent matters to be dealt with to allow the Papua New Guinea Church to develop within its own culture instead of forcing it into a Western mould,- Father de Groot said.
Catholic Education Commission chairman, Monsignor Nestor. He said other media claims the non-government sector is faring better than it should are "erroneous and mischievow."' "The percentage increase in recurrent grants to private schools over the corresponding period ranges from 3 per cent to 5.4 per cent" he said. The Schools Commission recommendation that the present three categories be replaced by twelve is endorsed by the WA-CEC
tion with other bodies such
as state governments and school communities keeping up their contributions to non-government schools. "This is a continuing challenge for Catholic schools in which the private contributions are so often already stretched to the limit" said Monsignor Nestor. He said the WA-CEC supports the principle of accountability for taxpayers' funds disbursed to Catholic schools and that already there are consultations with the Schools Commission developing further guidelines for accountability.
C anberra ... from page two "The National Catholic Education Commission has already indicated to the Schools Commission that it believes non-government schools will have to maintain their private cash input if resource standards are to improve significantly. "We have pointed Out as well that Catholic communities will not be able to replace the loss of contributed services with cash. "The acceptance of any new funding arrangements for non-government schools will rely, in part, on agreement being reached by all parties
concerned — the school communities, the Commonwealth Government and State Governments. "We are disappointed that all members of the Schools Commission were not able to assent to the report. "Catholic commissions and all other non-governauthorities, ment together with many organisations and individuals associated with government schools have worked hard to achieve a consensus. "It is a great pity that these efforts could not be reflected in a unanimous report from the Schools Commission." Father Williams said.
C ATHOLIC TENNIS NEWS B Grade Dianella Open Account Dianella A Grade team Queens Park 2 defeated chalked up their first win of Queens Park 1 7-59 to 5-38 the season when they beat Attadale defeated St Bene11-71 to 1-44 Attadale 6-4. Attadale had diets 2 an early lead of a few Dianella defeated War8-67 to 4-58 games. however Dianella wick Bye finished a little strong to St Benedicts 1 take out the tie. In the other Notices match undefeated Queens At the last Executive MeetPark 2 overwhelmed Como ing of the WACLTA, it was 10-2. Queens Park I had the confirmed that Perth would be host for the National bye. Carnival in December 1985. B Grade Originally the carnival was Queens Park 1 and Queens due to be held here in 1986, Park 2 fought out a close however at the Annual match, the No 2 team com- Conference last December ing out on top 7-5. Top the delegates decided the team Dianella scored a costs here would be artifigood win after a hard fight cially inflated because of the from Warwick, the final America's Cup which is due score 8-4 in Dianella's to be conducted at that favour. Attadale had a most time. convincing win over St Both the president, Peter Benedicts 11-12. St Bene- Messer. and secretary. dicts 1 had the bye. Louise Hackett, have indicated that they will not Results stand for re-election this year. The incoming execuA Grade Queens Park 2 deafeated tives will have the task of 10-60 to 2-18 running the carnival. Vice Como Dianella deafeated Atta- president, Greg Pearce, has dale 6-48 to 4-45 agreed to be carnival organQueens Park 1 Bye iser.
Youth Forum
In talking together many young people find they share a fear of the future.
The promise and fulfilment of youth
Are young people in their late teens and early 20's optimistic or pessimistic about the future? I do not have any hard-and-fast data on the matter, just several impressions based on contacts with 10 groups of undergraduates where I teach. In
young people goes underground, only to surface in language signals that suggest technology, space, and destructiveness. He points out how young people talk being about b ombed , smashed, wasted, wired, wiped out, blown away. Other telling expressions include split (as in a tom), far out, crashing, pad (as in launching pad) etc. According to Scott
general, these young people are more pessimistic than had I expected. In addition to the data of a spiralling suicide rate among the young, there is the evidence of their response to questions I ask them at each semester's start of a marriage c ourse — questions about the possibilities of happiness in marriage. Their guesstimates about the percentage of marriages Hope, this is the they are familiar lexicon of space, with that are happy t echnology, desusually range at 50 truction, death. It per cent or below. is a lexicon that In each group there betrays anxiety is always a cluster about connectedof students who ness in the future, put the number at about the indeed, 10 or 20 per cent. future of the race. My own view is that if there is no In the face of these signs of hopelesshope for marriage, what posness, then the human tures hope can of race is in a bad we suggest to way. people, young Scott Hope, has especially to young pointed out how adults? I am sure the fear of the there is a "moxie" future kind of hope among
rooted in one's self-confidence or ego strength. For reasons not appropriately explained here, I must ultimately reject this sort of hope as illusory and ephemeral. Instead I opt for Christian hope based in Jesus of the resurrection and centred in His presence in the midst the of beloved community. This is the hope I propose to the youth I meet. Let
own Thomas' words, we see that he had no hope in continuing His presence. Jesus had appeared to the community of disciples and r ekindled their hope. But since Thomas was absent from the beloved community, he could not share in resurrection hope. The writer of the f ourth Gospel apparently is trying t o suggest that
'Young people talk about being bombed, smashed, wiped out, blown away...' me explain the contours of this hope as found well illustrated in John's account of Jesus' r esurrection appearance to Thomas. To Thomas, Jesus' life project was hopeless. It had ended in death. Thomas' hopes about Jesus were dashed. As an individual, Thomas might have had an abiding affection for the memory of Jesus, but from
resurrection hope comes only from the community e xperiencing Jesus in its midst. This is finally where Thomas encounters Jesus in a painfully tangible way: precisely in the midst of the believing community. Indeed, almost all the New Testament resurrection accounts depict Jesus' presence to the community rather than to individuals. Christian
hope is based on Jesus' promise that where two or three are gathered in His name, He will be present in their midst. The beloved community is the sign of Jesus' promise to human persons. What do these contours of Christian hope mean for young adults, specifically those I encounter in my classes? Basically, young people hunger for a hopefilled and promiseladen community, Such a community is one of effective care. Young people seem to understand the hope that comes from connectedness to a network of caring persons. A Christian community is one such network. Secondly, young peopie need the hope that comes from knowing that the future is promised to them. The promise is not one of no pain, no suffering, no death. What is promised is the c onstancy of God's care; God's promise is never in vain. Jesus Himself is the sign of the perdurance of God's care; and promise, and the beloved community that makes that sign tangible. Tangible signs of God's
By Michael Warren Christian hope promise are what must not hesitate youth needs so desto tell them. "You perately. They represent a promneed the hand ise to many, God's reached out in simpromise to many pie friendship. you have not yet They need a commet. You could passionate ear and very well be God's people who take goodness to pertime to suffer sons yet unborn." some things In the proper context through with such a message them. Such tangiprovokes awe and ble evidence of reverence. MN/ care encourages point is that to perthem to face the sons of Easter faith future in a hopethe proper context filled way. of hope is the Thirdly, young people beloved communneed the hope that ity alive in effeccomes from realistive, life-giving ing that they are a faith in Jesus. That promise to many is the community and an important that shouts in word dimension of and deed, "Come, God's promise to Lord Jesus, many. Young peocome!" pie need to be reminded that there are persons who will expeSchool uniforms rience the reality of books equipment God's promise only through them, wanted in through their inter R ECORD vention. There are persons who can CLASSIFIEDS come to full human life only $4 cash for through the effec28 words tive love the young people will Post or deliver embody. Those (no phone ads) who would call young people to The Record, April 26 — May 2, 1984 13
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"Woman, why are you crying?" the man asked "If you took Him away," Mary begged, "please tell me where you have put Him." "Mary," the man said affectionately in a tone of voice that Mary recognised at once. "Rabboni" Mary shouted with joy. She ran to Jesus and embraced Him.
Tears streamed down the woman's face. She leaned against the side of the stone tomb in the garden. On Friday evening she had helped place Jesus' bruised body inside the tomb. Images of those terrible moments two days before were painfully fresh. Her name was Mary, the same name as that of Jesus' mother. She could still see the pain on Jesus' face as He hung on the cross. She remembered how she wanted to reach out to ease His pain, but there was nothing she could do. She sobbed. Her memory drifted back to happier days. Mary remembered the first time she met Jesus. It was in Galilee, near the lakeshore. She lived in Magdala, a town beside the Sea of Galilee. Jesus was living in nearby Capernaum. Mary heard Jesus teaching by the lakeside. She got to know Him better in the home of her friend Salome, the mother of James and John, two of Jesus' first followers. She decided to support Jesus in His mission of preaching. She and Salome and a few other women went with Jesus and His disciples as they travelled from town to town in Galilee. Mary thought of the beautiful day when Jesus touched her and cured her. She never forgot that. She knew then how she loved Him. From then on she lived to help Jesus, and to be with Him wherever He went. Suddenly her mind jumped back from those happy memories to the cold realities of the tomb. Mary wiped away some tears. She bent over and looked
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at the tomb. She was amazed to see two angels in dazzling white robes. They were seated at both ends of the stone slab on which Jesus' body had been placed. `Woman," they asked, "why are you crying?" "Someone has taken my Lord away," she answered. "And I don't know where they have put Him." Mary began sobbing again. She turned away from the tomb and saw someone standing nearby. She thought it was the gardener. "Woman, why are you crying?" the man asked. "If you took Him away," Mary begged, "please tell me where you have put Him." The man said just one word„ with a tone of voicc that Mary recognised at once. "Mary," Jesus said affectionately. "Rabboni," Mary shouted with joy. That means "teacher." She ran to Jesus and embraced Him. Her sad tears turned to tears of excitement and joy. Jesus was alive. Jesus was delighted to see Mary. "Don't cling to Me," Jesus said to her. "Run back and tell the others that I am returning to My Father, to My God and your God." Mary ran back to the friends and followers of Jesus. She was so excited. She told them what had happened. "Jesus is alive," she reported. "I saw Him. He spoke to me. I touched Him. He's alive."
to legless ghosts who fly by night. Learn to interpret the howls of the haunted. the clanking of chains, t he banging of doors and the creaking of floorboards. But if things that go b ump in the night frighten you, don't read this horrifying book on your own. But then, how do you know you're alone? You're never alone with a Spook. Your one night tour is
guided by the O'Gool family whose business is haunting. Each night t hey set out on their haunting missions and t hen, before bed, over a hot cup of Ogre-tine, each member tells his own goodnight story. Colin Hawkins, author of Witches and Vampires, is an artist of comic genius. His illustrations are superb. His books have been translated into five languages.
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"How David A'atson coped with such a radical turn in his life is now revealed with extraordicourage and nary honesty. Moments of doubt and fear intersperse a growing faith in God's healing. The stark reality of death and the question of suffering demand to be faced as never before. Faith is tested to the limit, priorities turned upside down, but through it all a new reliance on God emerges together with the firm conviction that the best is yet to be.Epilogue to Fear No Evil — A Personal Struggle with Cancer, by David Watson. January 198-t. Any struggle with cancer and death is likely to have unexpected twists and turns. A sudden burst of joy when dark clouds that threaten a raging storm give way to sunshine and springtime hopefulness. Or just the reverse when our faith and
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hope are plunged into that ugly pit of depression. When I sent the manuscript of my book to the publishers I was feeling remarkably fit, apart from the puzzling backache that had bothered me for three or four months. 'How well you look!' everyone said to
me. And I felt it. My waist was trim, my appetite good — I felt thoroughly alive! Abruptly everything changed. With the enjoyment of bring back at work again, especially with my team, I threw my new energies into all that I could. At a Diocesan Service of Renewal in Southwark Cathedral (which seats 800) an estimated crowd of 2000 turned up. Autumn 1983 was a time when God seemed to be working with unusual power. Then my body protested against all this activity by the most severe attack of asthma I have had for many years. In the past, such attacks had been controlled quickly by a certain course of steroids. I took this again, but my asthma continued unchecked, giving me broken nights and much discomfort. One side-effect was a thoroughly unpleasant development of thrush in my mouth during our Irish tour. Still my asthma got worse. So I was given the highest dose of steroids I have ever had, which again aggravated the thrush. So with the generosity of some close friends and with the encour agement of many (including Anne) I flew over to California for special prayer at John Wimber's church, since I felt I was losing the battle. I was there for only eight days, and they were marvellous in their love, concern and prayer support. Each di different teams of Christian experienced in the healing ministry, prayed for me, for periods ranging from two to five hours a day. Yet, for whatever reason, everything seemed to get worse. The asthma persisted, so that I slept badly each night: my
David Watson died on Saturday, February 18, 1984. It was only after a routine visit to his doctor that he discovered that he had cancer, and it was with this knowledge that David Watson embarked on the second part of his autobiography to
follow his previous, widely acclaimed volume, You are My God. Fear No Evil is to be published in Australia in June 1984. The enclosed epilogue from the book stands testimony to the courage and spirit that was David Watson.
Converted at Cambridge underJohn Collins. followed up' by David Sheppard. David Watson discovered in his first two curacies a deepening commitment to evangelism and a new experience of the Holy Spirit. Then be found himself in York with an almost empty church. Prayer and fasting led to conversions and growth. transforming the church into a pioneer renowned woridulde. The story of David's spiritual pilgrimage. the growth of his marriage, and the transformation of the Church make enthralling reading. But this testimony. is never triumpbalistic — The Christian gospel is not about superstars. It is rather about God's extraordinary grace in spite of very ordinary human faults andfailing ...Ibare tried to write honestly. in nty life, my marriage and the Church. about the pains andjoys we have experienced. No human frailty need be a hindrance to God's infinite grace.' •
legs, ankles and feet blew up like balloons; my abdomen grew at an astonishing rate untilIlooked like a pregnant woman in about her seventh month! My arms and shoulders withered into mere skin and bones, and instead of returning from California bursting with new health (as I had expected), I looked more dead than alive. Drastic changes had to be
made. Virtually all speaking engagements for the future were cancelled immediately, including major events in California, Norway. Sweden and Vancouver — which had been carefully planned for anything up to two years previously. My team would have to be disbanded by the end of April at the latest. I was now literally fighting for my life. 'God hasn't done anything for David' people are now beginning to say. 'We've prayed and prayed. and nothing has happened at all'. Medically speaking, that seems to be true. I am a fairly typical cancer patient with secondaries in the liver. Temporary remissions may occur, but then everything may suddenly 'explode'. At the moment there is still some uncertainty as to which symptoms are due to
the steroids, having been on these for almost two months (I took my last one, I hope, this morning and the asthma is better). But there is no doubt that my liver has considerably enlarged due to sudden activity of the cancer cells.
However God has been far from inactive in my life. At about lam on Advent Sunday morning, I had a bad asthmatic attack In my helplessness. I cried out to God to speak to me. I'm not very good at listening to God, but between 1-3am God spoke to me so powerfully and painfully that I have never felt so broken before him ( and still do).
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He showed me that all my preaching. writing and other ministry was absolutely nothing compared to my love-relationship with him. In fact, my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation. God also showed nie that any 'love' for him meant nothing unless I was truly able to love from my heart my brother or sister in Christ. As the Lord put various names into my mind I began to write letters to about 12 people asking for forgiveness for hurting them, for still being inwardly angry against them — or whatever. It was the most painful pruning and purging I can remember in my entire
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Christian life. But fruitful! Already some replies to my letters have reduced me to tears. Whatever else is happening to me physically. God is working deeply in my life. His challenge to me can be summed up in 3 words: 'Seek my face'. I am not now clinging to physical life ( though I still believe that God can heal and wants to heal); but I am clinging to the Lord. I am ready to go and to be with Christ for ever. That would he literally heaven. But I'm equally ready to stay, if that is what God wants. 'Father, not my will but yours be done.' In that position of security I have experienced once again his perfect love, a love that casts out all fear. DAVID WATSON
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Midland college carries on grand tradition of founder in impoverished France
La Salle has a celebration
La Salle College recently honoured order founder St John Baptist de la Salle 1900, and celebrated 30 years of La Salle presence in the Midland area. The brothers also have a renewed involvement in WA with Brother Leo posted to work with Aboriginals at Balgo Hills, continuing the Order's tradition of working among disadvantaged. A concelebrated Mass, said by Father Cormac Nagle of Sydney, Father Provincial of the Order of Friars Minor, assisted by other priests of the region, marked the achievement of this committed Frenchman.
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St Brigid's church, Midland, was filled to capacity by 700 La Salle students and parents.
teach the impoverished slum children and introduce them to a Christian education. This gave the boys the chance of gaining knowledge otherwise impossible during their life and times.
Teams At La Salle College, the House teams of La Salle, Benildus, Mutien and Solomon carry the names of four of these French pioneers in education.
John Baptist de la Salle adopted a class method of teaching and taught in the vernacular, using disused buildings as schools. Declared Patron of Teachers in 1950 for his progressive approach to teacher education, he was founder of the De La Salle Brothers as we know them today, thus establishing what has become the largest teaching order in the world. — story COLLEEN HOWARD: — photo by B WARCHOMIJ
In April 1719 in Rouen, France, John Baptist de la Salle died at the age of 68 years.
Simon Garbellini playing the guitar for the La Salle Mass.
Born in April, 1651, of a wealthy French family and well educated, John decided with other committed young noblemen to
What's on
TIME OUT TOGETHER A weekend for parents and children with an intellectual physical handicap will be held at Wollaston Conference Centre, Mt Claremont from Friday June 15 at 7.15pm to Sunday June 17 at 3.00pm. $25.00 per person (covers accommodation and meals). The weekend is designed to enable parents to have some free time together and to enjoy the friendship of other parents. Concurrently there will be a camp for those children who will need care while their parents enjoy a weekend off at Doubleview Primary School Camp
Centre, cost $15.00 per head. Send a pplications to: Sister Maureen McCarthy, Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped Persons, 364 Can -bridge Street, Wembley 6014. Telephone 387 7478. AR MADALE FAR EWELL Father F.G. Beyer, who has been the parish priest at St Francis Xavier Parish, Armadale for the last 10 years is to leave the parish to go to Karnnyup. All present and past parishioners are invited to a farewell Mass in the church in South West Highway at 6.30pm on Saturday, May 25.
Light refreshments will follow, during which a presentation will be made. Anyone wishing to subscribe to the presentation should should contact Sister Francis at the Parish Centre, Third R oad or telephone 399 6822, or the president of the parish council 399 3458. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday April 29 at 2pm. For further information and bus reservations please contact P. Galea 349 7135 or L. Martins 328 4631.
Melanie Franklin, a Year 8 student, at the La Salle Mass.
HAVE YOUR SAY
Concern at lack of real leadership Some 'idiot' questions from GEORGE M PURBRICK, Belmont.
from G F PRICE, Doubleview SIR — I express my concern and sadness at the lack of support and leadership being given by the Church generally and the hierarchy specifically to the campaign against government legislation which proposes to completely eliminate the moral standards of our community. I refer to the pornographic, abortion, homosexual and other such legislation currently being promoted by the government of the day.
Silence By the Church's deadly silence on these very important matters it will be assumed by the amoral proponents of the legislation the Church condones such legislature. This is no time for compromising. It is time every Christian, including the leaders, stood up to be counted. Unless action is taken now we will soon experience the complete breaking down of the family unit and the horrible moral holocaust that will follow. I cannot understand how any Catholic politician can
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rationalise his or her support for such legislation. Yet we and have a Premier members of all parties all too willing to render their supPort. It is their conscience or party politics which decides their vote on moral issues. Such issues should be beyond party politics. In my opinion your paper has been conspicuous by its lack of vigorous opposition to the various legislation and its failure to direct its readers in an appropriate manner.
SIR — If everyone seeking peace through disarmament are "useful idiots" (J.F. Harding, The Record, April 12) responding to the ploys of Marx and Lenin, does that include Isaiah and Micah who both prophesied that after the coming of the oracle of Yahweh (Jesus) his followers will hammer their swords into ploughshares, their spears into sickles Nation will not lift sword against nation. There will be no more training for war? Does it include Jesus who chose to die on the cross rather than be the sword bearing Messiah the Jews wanted? and who said "Blessed are the peacemakers" and "love your enemies and pray for those
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who persecute you" and "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword." Does it include St Francis of Assisi who turned back from war and dedicated his life to peace, the "idiot" who walked unarmed into the headquarters of the Moorish Sultan during the war between the Christians and infidels to preach Christianity? Does it include Our Lady of Fatima who told us to pray and do penance for the conversion of Russia and omitted to tell us to prepare for a material war? If it does, I pray I never attain the wisdom of Mr Harding. Becoming an idiot is not easy, but prayer and reflection do help.
Dissappointed Editor's note: in feature Editors get their share of anonymous good advice which generally finishes on the floor.
On this occasion, it was felt the advice of this anonymous writer would cheer up the sturdy correspondents to Today's Mail
L'Ll ` to Am's anonymous writer does not know how lucky so 04 cv,v1: ..:PfCatholic Press can be he The was this week co' marvelously effective in On Tuesday morning, just eight hours before bringing a knowledge of going to press for our last issue no less than the Church to the world f ive correspondents phoned to have their letters and a knowl• • of the withdrawn from publication!
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from M PETERSON SIR — It was disappointing to say the least that your World of Women column (The Record April 12-18) should interview a person who has consistently held views incompatible with Catholic teaching when there must be so many • Catholic women who could be presented to readers of The Record.
Dot Gooderick is, of course. entitled to her views but it fails me why your paper should promote her. Her views on abortion have been well known for years and at the Mid-decade Conference of Women she supported lowering the age of consent to 14 years for girls. It is about time the Catholic media woke up to itself.