THIS Jesuit appointed to investigate the advancement of Josephite Founder Mother Mary MacKillop as Australia's first saint . . . See story page 5.
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The Australian Catholic bishops are unhappy with Prime Minister Hawke's reply to their concerns about sections of the Citizenship Amendment Bill with regard to the oath of allegiance, artificial insemination and embryo implantation issues. Archbishop Rush president of the Australian Bishops' Conference has complained that the proposal of a pledge of allegiance as an alternative to the traditional oath put God to a secondary or subsidiary position. Mr Hawke replied to Archbishop Rush saying the draft legislation did not intend to place more importance on one form or the other, and that both would have equal effect. "The choice of which form of pledge to take will be entirely up to the applicant for grant of citizenship," Mr Hawke said in his letter. Archbishop Rush made a further submission to the Prime Minister why, if more importance is not placed on one form or the other, the placing of reference to Almighty God first had been changed in the new Bill. Regarding artificial insemination and embryo implantation. Archbishop Rush asked whether the Australian Citizenship Bill was an appropriate instrument to resolve such issues or influence their resolution.
A new Majellan president
At the Majellan annual general meeting last Sunday Doreen Gibson of Bassendean became central committee president. She is pictured making a presentation to the outgoing president Leeola Doubleview, Loughnan of watched by other retiring central
committee members: (seated) Biddy Townsend of Wembley (Secretary) and (standing) Jan Cassidy of Rossmoyne, Annette Nicolson of Armadale and Pam Smith of Woodlands. Not pictured was Lois Smith of Gosnells, former secretary of the committee.
Mr Hawke told the Australian bishops the citizenship legislation did not seek to influence or pre-empt discussion on the validity of such procedures. "Nonetheless we believe whatever Niew one takes of the morality of such procedures, the status of children who have been, and may in the future he horn in this way, needs to be resolved. and their rights protected
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Archbishop Rush under Australian law." Mr Hawke replied. Archbishop Rush replied: "I have read what you say with respect to the provisions of the Bill that confer rights of citizenship on persons born by AID or INT procedures. "It seems to me to be inevitable the legislature, by conferring rights specifically on these people, implies
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approval of the procedures regardless of the continuing debate on the moral, ethical and social issues involved. "I am still concerned about the provision of that Act which created the new marital status of de facto sixmse, you yourself used the fact that earlier legislation conferred rights on de facto
• Coat page 11. On Tuesday, The Record received the following advice from NC News head office -We do not know if we will be sending a story on the Yallop book In God's Name. "It is scheduled to be published on Thursday June 1 4 in England. Our Rome bureau chief informs us the b ook's thesis is highly questionable at best, and at least one person who aided in the research is sorry his name is associated with One English newspaper, The Observtr which planned to serialise it is having Our second thoughts decision to forward stories will depend heavily on whether the book itself becomes an object of public controversy
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Cambodia is still his "mother country" says a missionary bishop who was expelled from there in 1975 and who now operates from his native France to look after Camobian refugees around the world. VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul Bishop Yves Ramousses, one II has urged the mass media to join the Church in fighting pornography and crititime bishop of Pnom Penh, from cised them for "continual attacks perpe1963 to 1975, is today a bishop trated against every system of values." without a diocese because the Speaking to Italian Catholic cinema Cambodian priest who was operators, the pontiff said the entertainquickly recruited to fill his shoes ment business should promote morality. The "spreading phenomenon of pornois today one of the unsung graphy" should worry everyone "concerned martyres of the Pol Pot with promoting human dignity. persecution. As Khmer Rouge forces encircled Pnom Bishop Penh, Ramousse summoned a Cambodian priest O PTOMETRISTS home from Paris and Phone 444 3543 1 75 Scarborough Beach Road him consecrated bishop just days before Bishop Ramousse pointed all foreigners were out the suppression of the R F 0S \A, A 0 A Opttnn,tri,t expelled from Church in 1975 ended a 300 year presaice of the Paris Cambodia. Mission in Foreign The new bisfiop only 38,
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There were only five native Cambodian priests and they are all dead. Seven other priests from the bishops' Paris Foreign Mission society were exiled. Bishop Ramousse said with t he elimination of all priests r eligious and the d estruction of Church buildings, the Catholic Church of Cambodia today is only a "Church of the heart". A fine Gothic cathedral built by French missionaries was demolished. Today the area has been replaced by Subiaeo assistant priest shops but the name cannot die. One shop carries the Father Joseph Walsh will "Cathedral return to Ireland on a two name R estaurant." year posting to work on
One time head of Pnom Penh diocese exiled Bishop Ramousse (centre) and fellow Paris Foreign Missionary, Father Robert Venet, (left) also exiled from Cambodia after 30 years service discuss the local settlement of Cambodian refugees with Catholic Migrant Centre co-ordinator, Guido Vogels. number of people who died under the Pol Pot regime. H e is prepared to give credibility to the figure of 1.5 million having died, even though other observers put the number at twice that figure. Bishop Ramousse now cares for the 200.000 Cambodians scattered in 20 countries including Australia He has recently spent three months in the camps of Thailand where another 2 50,000 refugees are camped, while across the border a further 500,000 are caught in the Vietnamese army squeeze. "We can comfort them. give them moral support.
They need bread hut above all they need friendship," said the bishop. explaining that he went out to all, Buddhist and Christian alike. "They welcome us wonderfully because we know their language. We have shared their fate. We have had the same experience as themselves." In Perth. Bishop Ramousse met some of the 350 Cambodians who have settled here and among whom there are just two Catholic families and another two under religious instruction. Bishop Ramousse said althoug he lives today in Paris far from Cambodia, it is still his country.
"It is my mother country A native country is where you are born. The mother country is where you involve yourself the most, where y ou gi e the best of yourself." he said.
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and Highgate before he was so many priests serving in appointed to the cathedral the archdiocese of Perth. for two years followed by • See Colleen further two year appointHoward's story programmes connected ments at Leederville, Noron Irish priests with All Hallows College tham and Subiaco. Father Walsh page 10 Dublin. Archbishop Foley said Anitimiumnimimiumnimminiumimultimmilimm ilinumminy Father Walsh, who leaves that the release of Father 4zthis Sunday, said he would Walsh following a request The Daughters of Charity be involved in the summer from All Hallows was an NEED YOUR HELP vacation pastoral placeacknowledgement of the ment of seminary students part that seminary had and would also take part in played in the education of vocation promotion. URGENTLY NEEDED Originally from Kiltimagh E Clothing, clean, wearable, house -hold —= County Mayo, Father RECORD nick-nacks goods ornaments, Walsh's appointment is a CLASSIFIEDS jewellery, etc. return to the seminary surs. $4 cash for roundings where he spent six years training before his 5 34 William Street, Highgate 28 words ordination in 1976. Post or deliver For Truck to call -- Phone 328 4403 Arriving in Australia later Country goods marked donation (no phone ads) that year he spent short f ree on rail to Keyvdale Rid Termonal periods at Osborne Park ralliminimmunituminimminnmsmimmitimmimminimilm
Change since council Intolerance had changed to tolerance in the 25 years since the announcement of the Second Vatican Council, Archbishop Foley said at an ecumenical service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. He was speaking at Wesley church before a congregation that included the On the night of Pentecost heads and repre- Sunday Archbishop Foley sentatives of the also attended along with the local Christian Uniting Church moderator Or Michael Owen and Anglican churches.
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He said a period of indifference had given way to a joint journey towards warm co-operation. Now there are people of all churches, of like mind and of like effort, who are contributing to the search for unity he said. "If we look at the missionaries," he said "It is clear they can see categories in Church life which are dispensible and others which are essential. Working together in Christian love we can overcome the divisions which now keep us apart
Assistant Bishop Brian Kyme, a special church unity service in St Michael's Anglican church, Mount Pleasant. Archbishop Foley read the gospel and gave the final blessing for the service. In his address Dr Owen drew on Jesus' prayer for unity and called on the c ongregation that packed the church to leave behind all individual differences. It is in our power, by resolving these differences in mutual love and goodwill, to advance the day when our F ather in heaven will grant t o us the unity Jesus prayed would embrace all His people That the oneness with the F ather will embrace all His f lock. We must continue praying t o our Father together, to look down on our efforts to r esolve the earthy afflictions.
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Japanese A major survey from the Japanese Prime Minister's office in 1969 reported 88 per cent of women who had an abortion answered that it is "bad". Dr Nathanson, one time abortionist and the author of the book Aborting America :isked "If the abdominal wall of the pregnant woman was transparent what kind of abortion laws would we have?" Virtually no publicity is given to the adverse results of abortions, either physical or psychological. Physically, the most impor tant finding relates to the danger to a future pregnancy. Sister outlined the results of studies performed in Melbourne and reported in the Medical Journal Australia in 1979. Quoting from that journal. sister reported therapeutic termination performed dur ing the first trimester was associated with a statistically significant increase in the incidence of second trimester abortion (miscarriage) and of premature labour in the next pregnancy.
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The late Fulton Sheen once purportedly observed that if in a race one is being repeatedly kicked in the behind it can only indicate that one is out in front. There seems to be little option to treating just as irreverently the bizarre newspaper antics to which West Australian readers have been subjected by their monoply newspaper stable this week. If Catholics choked in their breakfast flakes trying to work out what had been happening to the papacy while they were asleep, pity the bewilderment of the other 75% of the population who do not normally have bleeding hearts for Catholic problems. Surpassing the obvious change that has come over The West Australian since the local newspaper version of the Gulf War hotted up, the lead story across two pages adroitly managed to disguise that it was not in fact delivering a news story but a beat -up promotion for a book to be released four days hence. Neatly screened nearby was the information that unbelievably heavy serves of the book were due in subsequent editions. The Daily News too would get its share of the promotional cake. With unusually furrowed brow and some heavy breathing on behalf of author Yallop's credentials a long editorial in The West Australian nervously pleaded that it was doing only what other reputable papers would do and begged the Vatican to come clean now that it had been found out — an impossibility, it was good enough to add. But there's more to a picture than the state's only morning daily. Only a night -owl would have caught a fleeting ABC news reference to the book. The three local television channels pointedly ignored what WA Newspapers had built into a major world event. Beyond the Nullarbor, Adelaide and Melboume readers covered by the Herald and Weekly Time group were getting similarly heavy serves. Sydney with no HWT connections apparently was getting little mileage from the book. 'Rubbish' shouted the opposition Murdoch paper in Adelaide and the national Australian has maintained stony silence It is not therefore unwarranted cynicism to believe that readers of a certain newspaper chain were being snowed as a result of a costly deal made between Jonathon Cape publishers over a so-called best seller which it was revealed on Tuesday would be looking for $30 a copy. The experience of daily newspapers buying into sensational book promotion in the guise of news is common enough overseas but strange to Australian eyes so it is not unwarranted cynicism to see that the latest effort has anything to do with the decline in circulation of a certain chain of newspapers here and in Melbourne and a sub -continental giveaway newspaper war being waged over Perth's front fences. The contrived importance given locally to Yallop's book comes a little too soon after Colleen McCullough's feigned disowning of the televised Thombirds, after her publishers had cold-bloodedly turned into a best seller a novel universally panned for its style, if not its story. But publishing interests know there's money in them Catholic hills. The Western world is free, — too free by some people's standards, -- and if publishers want to risk their cash on books about the Vatican there is little point in Catholics getting into a huff. Some Catholics haven't read too closely what the Vatican Council said on the free flow of information. But it is selling Catholic intelligence a bit short if newspapers think that Catholics are not only good fuel for increasing sales but likely to dissolve in the trembles as Yallop like some latter day Clark Kent zooms in over St Peter's to solve the murder and no doubt have John Paul II autograph the book's first copy as he leaves by the main door. Local Masons need not be lumbered by any links with their disreputable Propaganda Due (P2) Masons who appear to be Yallop suspects. If indeed John Paul I did die from their possibly thousands of avenues it would only substantiate the bitter suspicion with which the papacy condemned the secret Masonic and other societies trying to topple the Church 150 years ago and which was scornfully dismissed by the anti-Catholic and bigoted Masonic press of those days. What's the point in protesting that Cardinal Cody was done to death in the Chicago papers last year long before Yallop, that the Vatican Bank has done more than creaking other world defaulters and voluntarily paid what was not its legal due, Yallop notwithstanding. Copies of Yallop's book were hurriedly dropped into Sydney and Melbourne Catholic newspapers this week, presumably to "refute" the charge. The sparring publishing empires can have a field day deciding on Yallop's thesis. The Vatican is hardly going to join the fray with its super-sensational riposte. What the excited, panting, bug-eyed investigative journalist will not understand is that dead popes, from whatever cause, are not our concern. The living are too important. But to say that requires faith, not a typewriter. Bulgarian bullets in a Turkish hand ought to have proved that.
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Sometimes I go to Church on Sundays, and when I get home by JOHN BONGIORNO a regular writer for the Ballarat later I cannot, for the life of me, diocesan paper, Light. remember what the sermon was all about. Mostly, I blame the k ids. Once I said to a preacher I met in the street, striving to be chatty, and wishing to NEW YORK ( NC) — sor of word and worutter words of encour"Good homilies are ship at the Catholic agement, as priests tell not pressure-cooked. Theological Union in me they are few and They're Crock-Pot- Chicago. f ar between, these ted," Precious Blood Ingredients for preparing a days, I greeted him: Father Fred Baumer good homily, he said, "That was a fine sert old priests of the include studying the Gospel mon last Sunday, Denver Archdiocese of the day, noting key images Father!" used in it, restating the story gathered in Keystone in one's own words, and "Oh!" his face lit up. for their annual con- reading commentaries on it. "Good_ You liked it, eh? vention. Which sermon was that? I But, he said, using the preach so many, I forget which one you mean." -Oh, your last one. On Sunday, you know. It was unforgettable" "But what was my subject, my son?" "Sorry." I felt "I can't sheepish. remember, Father!" M y mind went back instantly to Bruce Marshall's priest — in 'All Glorious Within" I think who as he rode his bike to preach somewhere, wrestling mentally with his forthcoming sermon, consoled himself with the thought that "when we think of all the sermons which are preached throughout the world every Sunday, and then cogitate upon what l ittle good they do, why should anyone worry too much about preaching the perfect sermon?"
"The parish community needs to keep insisting on good homilies and let pastors take the time to prepare them feeling without guilty," said the priest, who is assistant profes-
Father Baumer also said that priests alone cannot make good homilies. Cathol-
k's in the pews have a responsibility to be good listeners, he said. He also questioned the expectations Catholics may have for the homily. A weekly homily cannot bear the weight of adult faith education, he said. "It is not the primary time to teach one how to be a good Catholic or how to form one's conscience. It is a celebration of God, not a history lesson, not a moral lesson, and not a theology lesson." he said. He described homilies as "an attempt to celebrate how God is present to us today from the word written a long time ago." Those who read the Gospel to the congregation at Ntam
also need to do their job well in order to make the homily effective, according to Father Baumer. lithe Gospel is read in such a way that people "understand it and experience it and are caught up in it," the homily can lx' meaningful, he said. But if the Gospel has not been proclaimed well, half the homily is taken up in retelling the story, he said. "I always tell lectors to imagine a situation in which a person has said, 'I need to ' hear God's word and unless I hear it from you, I'm walking out of this church,' and then read to that person," said Father Baumer. "They need to read to that mind, that hungry listener." he said.
confessor — a gentle little priest whom you would never guess could be interested in boxing — in a ringside seat at my fights. While I didn't go to the extremes of some of the Filipino boxers, who used to make the Sign of the Cross before every round, I gained something from that priest's simple wave and smile, as I waited for the gong. Somehow I felt the Lord was on side! And now, its bowls. Lately I had to go on my knees, during a game, to measure a close "shot". After I had completed my job under the watchful eye of my opposing "third", and announced that the point was ours, I shoved
the tape in my pocket, and blessed myself as I resumed the perpendicular. Lord, my assorted atheist, agnostic, Protestant and Catholic play -mates gaped! To tell you the truth, I gaped myself when I realised what I had done — instinctively, and automatically. Then I laughed off my embarrassment: "Force of habit, chaps!" But I was telling you about this recent Sabbath incident. It made me writhe at the knees, I can tell you, and forget all about prayers, love of neighbour, sermons, the lot. A three-year -old, watched admiringly by his adoring and doting grandmother,
was having the time of his young life with our brandnew hymn books I think the dear little brat -- patently an embyronic John McEnroe — was playing "aeroplanes". Our lovely, just -acquired, booklets were certainly "taking off', and executing emergency "crash-landings" in t he most breath-taking manner. I stared, disbelieving, at the antics of the little vandal. It took me all my selfcontrol to rivet myself to my pew, and forbear to go to the rescue of the "aircraft", and deliver simultaneously, a timely and admonitory slap over the little kisser
analogy of the popular Crock-Pot brand slow cooker, the key to developing a good homily is the "incubation time" a priest gives for those ingredients to be drawn together.
Cheeky Some of you would have seen me sounding off, a little while back, about cheeky, undisciplined children whom I encountered, and added years to my life, and sent me bald, when I was in the food business. Well, I witnessed another incident at Church the other day. Yes. I go to Church a lot in my old age. I'm getting religious. It seems to help me at bowls, too! Even as it appeared to help at my footie. Looking back, all my life my religion has got mixed up with my sport. When I was a mere whipper -snapper in apple catchers, my Dad and I used to barrack for a team in the Ballarat League, Golden Point, alias the "Rice-Eaters". Every Saturday Dad used to take me to the Eastern Oval, and perch me on the brick wall, surmounted with iron rails, which ran along the front of the old grandstand.
He'd go away then to back the Pointees, and I'd stay at my post for the duration. At the end of the game my hands would be frozen, and my backside numb, but I considered it a small price to pay if the Rice-Eaters won. Of course, if we lost it was a different kettle of fish. I'd repair to Confession immediately. Later on when I played the game myself, I recall that I seemed to soar higher for marks, and kick longer, if I had just been to the sacraments, or had been saying my prayers! Then when I was a boyboxer, I was always consoled by the sights of my
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Advancing nun's cause Rome: An Australian Jesuit, Father Paul Gardiner has taken over research for what is called the Historical Disquisition required for the Cause of Mother Mary MacKillop, who may well become the first Australian-born saint. She is already Australia's first Servant of God, the designation given to those officially approved as candidates for sainthood. The Historical Disquisition will be an accurately and fully researched account of Mother Mary's entire life, studied from every possible angle for presentation to the examiners of her Cause in the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, in Rome. Mother Mary MacKillop, with the late Father J.E. Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (RSJ), in South Australia in 1866. Father Gardiner has taken over research into her life from Monsignor Aldo Rebeschini, who was secretary to the late Australian Cardinal James Robert Knox, and who has since been recalled to the Melbourne Archdiocese. Mons ignor R ebeschini researched Mother Mary MacKillop's life for more than seven years. His method and material were highly praised by Monsignor F. Veraga, of the historical section of the Congregation for the Causes of the which is Saints, handling the Mary The jacket of Father MacKillop Cause. W i l l i am Modystack's book on Mother Mary M acK i l l op published by Rigby in 1982 and selling for $19.95.
Prague talks PRAGUE — A Vatican delegation headed by Archbishop Luigi Poggi, has had talks with Vladimir Janku, the Minister for Religious Affairs. Christian circles in Prague comment the two sides discussed mainly the issue of eight vacant bishoprics and the problem of state interference with seminary training. The only result of the talks, apparently, is that both sides agreed to have further talks in future. Keston College report
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Grasping the chance Father Gardiner spoke to the pope about Mary MacKillop and his work for her Cause; and he presented him with a Mary MacKillop bookmark bearing the prayer for her canonistion.
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He is familiarising himself with %bat has already been done and hopes to complete his task in the time allotted him.
In February, Father Gardiner, concelebrated Mass with Pope John Paul in his private chapel.
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Father Gardiner has been released by the Society of other from Jesus assignments for two years.
Her Cause is one of the first to require a detailed Historical Disquisition. This has meant a Cause which the Sisters of St Joseph thought was virtually ready for presentation in 1973 still has a long way to go.
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SIR, During his pontificate Pope Pius XII declared: 'The time f or doubting Fatima has now passed. It is now time for action." The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen who had a great love for and devotion to Mary predicted that Russia will be converted and peace would come to the world when as many Catholics as there are communists take to praying the Rosary every day as Our Lady herself had asked us at Fatima to do. For the past 100 years every pope has praised the Rosary. Pope John Paul's zealous devotion to the Mother of God is well known and when he saw that there was no intention with a Marian character this year in the General Intentions of the Apostolate of Prayer he desired: . . "that the name of the Blessed Virgin should
Sir — While Reverend Van Leen's allegations (The Record April 19) on the Rajneesh sect are difficult to refute in this letter, they are patently based on fear and suspicion rather than an attempt to understand, perhaps with a degree of humility, the appeal of the Rajneesh teachings to former Christians and those who presumably are equally at liberty to study and follow Christian teachings. Reverend Van Leen seems unaware that Rajneesh's comments on the basic difference between western and eastern religions are in tune with the views of most scholars of comparative religion. Ironically he seems strongly unaware that many of Rajneesh's comments are reminiscent of those off leading protestant
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The Beazley Committee report fails as a complete statement on education: it is mainly concerned with the mental development of education in the areas of literacy and numeracy but only makes passing reference to ethical, spiritual and moral aspects of education; and strangely, in sport minded Australia, nothing is said about physical development. Thus the report falls short of a basic English definition of education as contnhuting to the spiritual, moral, mental and physcal well being of the community.
Writings of Pope Pius XII be introduced in the -General" Intention for the month of June, joining to the consecration of families to t he Heart of Jesus the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary"
Consecrated Along with local bishops the pope has also recently consecrated the world (including Russia) to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as she so earnestly desired at Fatima as a condition for the conversion of Russia and world peace The laity are also required
Allegations all 'fear' from MARAGARET KER, Yangebup
Beazley fails in spiritual values
reformers. This is particularly true as regards the Rajneesh emphasis on priority of concern for one's spiritual progress over good works per se.
By co-incidence I turned from reading this article to Thomas Merton's autobiographical Elected Silence to read the following: "It was right of course that my interior life should have been concerned first of all with my own salvation; it must be that way. It is no profit for a man to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul, and anyway, one who is losing his own soul is not going to be able to do much to save the souls of others." It is sad that Reverend Van Leen is not likely to be able to attain the degree of understanding of other religious traditions which Thomas Merton subsequently attained.
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to play a part by daily offering at least five decades of the R osary to Mary's Immaculate Heart, going to Confession and receiving Holy Communion at Mass on the first Saturday for five consecutive months and consecrating ourselves and families our to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A sure and saving sign of our consecration to Mary is by wearing the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the oldest Catholic Marian devotion in t he world, which she displayed at Fatima together with her Rosary as the means by which she will save the world The wearing of the Brown Scapular is also a guarantee of our eternal salvation given by Our Lady to those who die clothed in it. This is conditional that the Scapular be always worn round the neck and on the observance by the wearer of t he virtue of chastity according to his or her state in life.
Veteran correspondent PAUL DONNELLY reports that after a successful operation he is on his feet again. In the interim he took a look at the Beazley report.
Although spiritual and moral values, grouped as ethical principles, are mentioned in Reconundnatkm 3 of the report, it is almost as an afterthought; and neither "ethics" or "ethical" occurs in the index. Reaxnrnenciatkm 3 states, 'That curriculum revision and teacher devekrrnalt be undertaken to ensure that all subject areas include emphasis on 'life skills' including ethical principles." Again there is in Reoottunendation 10: "Schools should consider the inclusion of units on moral education, religious studies and peace studies." Both convey the moral area of education is a minor not a major factor in education but it is imperative to foster it in the young ft)r the good of society, their (Mn good, their stability in life, and directly as affecting their employment prospects.
Employer attitudes Thus in a WA Education Report of 1978 available to the Beazley Committee on "Employers' Attitude to School Leavers" it is stated, "Employers rated as important a sense of responsi)ility, respect for authority, loyalty to an employer, punctuality, diligence, initiative and ability to work without supervi 51011." This profile of an ideal empkiyee has something in common with a recital of the Seven Cardinal Virtues. The Beazley reporters are not unaware of such ()pinions on moral issuedbut shave than for "future consideration" in a single paragraph headed "Moral Education and Ethics" which acknowledges that "a number of submissions to the committee argued strongly for emphasis on values and ethics and for the formal introduction of moral education." "Religious Studies" also gets single paragraph treatment. The 1977 established Nott Committee is mentioned hut no acaxint is given of the religious studies syllabuses which have been developed for primary and sexxxxiary schools which are now being teaching tested in a number of State and non(ovemment schools. The studies tell children about religion as a part of life, and of death, and that religion is held to he important amongst the world's peoples. But no particular catec:hetical teaching enters. Thus children would be told the Ten Commandments are accepted in cornnxxi by Jews, Christians and Moslems as a basic code of relations between man and God, and man and man.
Man's belief in a supernatural being wuukl be discussed a s well as the need for codes ofbehaviour between people; but it would not be in such a way as to influence children towards Jew, Gentile or Moslem practice. The existence and substance of the Non Committee religious studies work is not widely known. They are important. Their adoption needs support. The Beazley Report could have given than both support and recognition. Regrettably it has ignored them. This contrasts with the many pages, paragraphs and recommendations about literacy and numeracy. In teacher training and selection of teachers there is no reference or requirement relating to viritual and moral qualities or backgrxxxxl of teachers. If they are not sought in selection they are not readily passed on in teaching, and SUCCCSSIVe generations (merging from school into aiultlxxxl (merge lacking spiritual, moral and ethical guidelines. This trend has developed progressively in State education during the whole of the present century. It is now in flualcin g private sch(x)lcducation in Western Australia as the predomin:Italy lay st affs of private schools are trained alongside state sdxxil teachers in the same training colleges and university faculties. When in Para 2.4 the report rather slickly charges "the family" with major responsbility is instinctive since it is arguably not derived (rixn education, past, present and in the immediate future of the Beazley era. The rclx)rt does txwever offer hope that religiously minded parents in the axnmunity may exert their influence by the proposals of the section on "Gomrnunity Participation in Schools".
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Appropriate prelude from FATHER JIM O'BRIEN, Como Sir — J.F. Harding's letter (The Record, June 13) is an appropriate prelude to the National Day of Prayer on June 17 sponsored by Amnesty International for torture victims. Mr Harding prays for the release of Father Brian Gore and his companions, but asks us to open our eyes wider. He rightly draws attention to the massive weight of violation of human freedom and human dignity by the regimes of atheistic communism. There is a tendency to protest about the evil of right wing dictatorship perhaps because there seems to be some likelihood of success. In the case of communist dominated countries there seems to be little likelihood of success. And yet we should still hope and pray.
The naked evil of totalitarianism SIR — Two articles in 'The Record' (May 25) gave chilling testimony to the naked evil of t ota l i tar i an communism and the threat it poses to mankind. In one article, Pope John Paul ll reminded an audience in St Peter's Square that today's martyrs are those suffering and dying for their faith under totalitarian regimes. The other reported the barbarous torture inflicted by the Soviet authorities upon one
A 'chilling' testimony from Mrs MAUREEN PORTER, Melville Heights
of their own soldiers because he was a Christian. It is hard to comprehend the evil of ideology that fills men so full of hatred for God and religion that they will torture people to death simply because of their Christian beliefs.
Although we in Australia are not, so far, threatened physically by communism, the danger for us lies in becoming complacent and ignoring the sufferings of our fellow men in the communist gulags. One example just north of us is the Coadjutor Archbishop of Saigon,
Archbishop Thuan, who has been imprisoned by the communist regime in Vietnam since 1975 and is now being 'groomed' Mindszenty style for a show trial. A petition is being circulated calling for the cessation of persecution.
Something lacking • From PETER BERTOL4 Bremer Bay SIR — Bishop Gerry's ACR report and the decline in the SA Charities Appeal should ask why Catholics are so lacking in down-to-earth charity. Could it be a propensity for the credit society has us in its grip to the exclusion of the good works we should be about? I have no doubt that if Catholics want to make a real impression on world poverty the first requirement is for us to pull in our horns and stop borrowing money.
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Charismatics a 'mission' VATICAN CITY (N) — The mission of Catholic charismatic groups is based on their participation in local churches, Pope John Paul II told a group of charismatic renewal leaders. Speaking to 300 participants in the fifth international conference of leaders of the Cathol ic charismatic renewal, Pope John Paul said he interpreted their meeting in Rome and their choice of sacramental themes as "a decision to return to the sources." "The Church's mission is to proclaim Christ to the world. And you share effectively in this mission insofar as your groups and communities are rooted in the local churches, in your diocese and parishes," the pope said. 'The Church herself as a sacramental reality communicates the grace of the sacraments through the ministry of priests in the local churches," he added. "It is at the sacramental heart of the Church, and at
the sacramental heart of your local churches, that your life as baptised and confirmed Christians can be ceaselessly renewed," he said. The concentration on the sacraments, he said, was o f great significance because "all your spiritual strivings must be directed to a personal encounter of each individual with the Lord, in the community of the Church." Openness to the Holy Spirit, the pope told the group, is "your strength and your special treasure, and you are striving to e xercise it in different ways. But this gift from God is also a fragile treasure and one which you must take special care of." "It is for this reason that your international meeting at the centre of the Church, a t a time so strongly marked by the jubilee of the redemption, can be of decisive importance for the whole Catholic charismatic renewal," the pope said.
Appeal to miners SANTIAGO: The Chilean bishops conference has urged seven Chilean copper miners to end a hunger strike. In a letter to the seven miners, who are protesting their sacking last year by the State Copper Company, the bishops appealed for an end to the fast, saying it endangered the lives of the miners. The bishops promised in the letter that they were doing all they could to help the protesters.
Appropriate symbol NAIROBI, (NC) To Africans, the meal is an important part of family tradition, so "The Eucharist and the Christian Family" is an appropriate theme for the 43rd International Eucharistic Congress, according to Father John Mutiso-Mbinda, secretary of eastern African Catholic bishops' conferences. The congress is scheduled for August 1118, 1985, in Nairobi. "A meal is perhaps the most basic and most ancient symbol of friendship, love and unity." Father MutisoMbinda said. "Food and drink taken in common are obvious signs that life is shared." In Africa, eating together is "a sign of being accepted to share life and equality," he said. A visitor is always invited to share a meal, and to refuse an invitation is an insult, he said. For births, weddings, initiations and thanksgiving rites, Africans conduct feasts. "Friends, neighbours and relatives come together for the common act of sharing and the sense of communion is symbolised by the guests eating from the same dish," said Father Mutiso-Mbinda, who has taught pastoral anthropology courses. The International Eucharistic Congress is a worldwide
'Meal' theme for Nairobi
assembly organised by the Catholic Church which meets every four to five years to praise God in the eucharist, renew spiritual lives and receive blessings and graces through active panicpation in eucharistic celebrations. From an anthropologist's point of view, "every meal becomes a meeting point of all aspects of life," Father Mutiso-Mbinda said.
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Push for natural planning NEW YORK (NC) — Missouri's bishops are urging Catholics to consider the merits of natural family planning. "We believe with natural family planning, all couples have an alternative to artificial birth control and sterilisation. It's a means to a deeper, richer union with each other and the Lord," the bishops said in their statement, "Serving Life: Natural Family Planning in Modern Times".
The bishops present three main arguments to support the Church's teaching which accepts natural family planning as a morally permissible method of contraception. "Interference with the body's metabolic processes. the blockage or severance of bodily organs or any artificial means that are harmful to the body are logically wrong," the bishops said. Natural family planning promotes couple involvement, mutual co-operation, communication and combined responsiblity, the bishops said. Other forms of contraception. as well as sterilisation, do not encourage a couple to accept each other in all their strengths and weaknesses, they added. In addition, new advances in scientific research have led to the development of natural methods of family planning which are at least as effective as other contraceptive methods, said the bishops. "We are aware of stresses on families in society today," said the bishops. "Financial concern and the choice of both husband and wife to seek employment outside the home contribute to the trend toward fewer children. There are, no doubt, many couples who desire to have larger families if circumstances permit it.
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MIWt OF THE OP! !IT Preaching. People agree it makes a difference. But why do they care about the homily? Two writers this week look into the homily from two different perspectives. Father Robert Sherry talks about the hopes and dreams a priest brings to the homily. And Dolores Leckey talks about some things the laity hope for in a homily. Mrs Leckey is executive director of the US bishop's Laity Secretariat. To prepare for her article, she spoke with a number of lay people. What they want in a homily, all agreed, are words that address their real lives.
In his book, -Giving Good Homilies, - Jay Cormier, director of communications for the Washington archdiocese, suggests that people respond to what they hear -when they see something in it for themselves." A homily involving -a form of storytelling" can trigger listeners' own personal stories perhaps offering a fresh insight to their experience.
Various things can happen to people on Sunday morning while a priest or deacon preaches. There is always the possibility that something the homilist says will turn the attention of listeners inward to focus for a moment on themselves, on fresh possibilities for their own Christian lives. In this case the homily furthers self-awareness and self-understanding. But the homily may also turn the attention of listeners outward — toward the true potential of the world at large. What happens in this case? Listeners gain a sense that something must be done to enhance the way people live together in society; that life's value deserves to be protected and promoted. It may happen during a homily that listeners hear something entirely new, something they had never heard before. In this case, the new information may enlighten listeners; it may stimulate their thinking. But just as likely, listeners find they have been reminded of something they already knew but hadn't thought about for a while. For the homily is a process of communication; one task of the communicator is to present old things in new ways. It sometimes happens that a chuckle or a smile ripples through a congregation after a homilist makes one of his points. Perhaps the homilist has just described a common situation found in people's homes — one involving parents and children; one involving relationships with friends — and many of those in the congregation see themselves in that situation. In this case the homilist has pulled at one of the unifying threads among the people. But it may also happen that people hear in rather different ways what the homilist says. A fter the Mass ends, people who talk the homily over together may wonder if they heard the same homily. What has happened is that they adapted the homilist's words to their own situation in life, to their own special and unique needs. It might seem that during a homily the one who preaches is active, while those who listen are passive. But how passive are they really? Communication is a two-way street. Some listeners are much more actively involved in the communication process that is taking place than may meet the eye. What happens within and among people during the homily?
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If preaching makes the connections between Scripture and the work and family lives of a community of believers, homily is the experienced as God's word, Dolores Leckey writes. And if a homilist draws on the world's great storehouses of art and literature to make truth come alive, people will welcome it.
Father Sherry is executive director of the US bishop's Committee on Vocations. Readers will enjoy the way he lets them in on a priest's private thoughts as he prepares a homily. Katharine Bird tells the stories of three homilists. Two of them are homilists she had heard — each quite different in his approach, but each quite effective too. The third is St John Chrysostom from fourth-century Antioch, the patron of those who preach. Ms Bird is associate editor of the Know Your Faith series. Father John Castelot looks into the value placed on preaching among the first Christians. And he tells why the goals of preaching are not accomplished by magic.
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There was a priest who had the habit of going into his church during the week, before his next Sunday homily. He would spend a half hour or so there, sitting first in one place, then in another and yet another. As he did so he would say to himself: "Here Mrs Smith sits, here Mr Jones, here young Adams, here Susan." The story of that particular Anglican priest is told in a book by Father Norman Pittenger, The Theology of All Ministry. The author, also an Anglican priest, writes that as the priest "sat in these places, with these people in mind, he would ask himself what was the concrete situation, what were the deep needs, the urgent desires, the several different problems, which would be present in the minds and hearts of each of those persons. He would ask himself how he could best proclaim God's saving, healing and helping concern to
Preaching to ponder each one of them, and hov. he could help them grow in faith and in loyal discipleship to the One proclaimed." priest's this Clearly approach was a challenge both to him and to those who assembled for worship. Perhaps word the "empathy" describes what he wanted. He hoped to understand the people who would be there on Sunday. This required his effort. But
it also required effort from the people in allowing him to know them, to understand what their lives really are like. Would they do that? I asked a number of lay women and men whether preaching is important to them and why. Their willingness to think carefully about these questions highlights the seriousness of the homily in their Christian lives. There was unanimous agreement among the peo-
ple I spoke with that if preaching makes the connections between Scripture and the work and family lives or a particular community of believers, then the homily is experienced as God's word spoken to them, personally. They wanted to be addressed personally. The people I spoke with also were more than willing to ponder something substantive. And if a homilist draws on the world's great
storehouses of art or literature to make a truth come alive, these people welcome it. It seems people want comfort and solace when the word of God is preached. But they also want to be called to deeper, truer Christian life. This won't displease the priest I've already introduced. For in his desire to speak personally to the people in his congregation. he
How cheap are words? By Father John Castelot
Words are cheap. Or are they? The story of a time when tension developed among two groups of people in the early Church helps to illustrate how important words were considered then. However, in the case I refer to it wasn't just words, but God's word that became the question. The word is "sharper than any twoedged sword. It penetrates and divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow: it judges the reflections and thoughts
of the heard" ( Hebrews 4). The story involved some Greek-speaking members of the Jerusalem community of Christians. It seems that some Greek -speaking members felt that when the Church's funds for the needy were distributed, their wid-
Homily hits home Late in the fourth century AD, citizens in the Middle East city of Antioch, already burdened by their taxes, heard the news that yet another tax was being levied on them. Outraged, the people rioted. They ran through the city streets and pulled down the statues of the royal family in the central square. To the bishop of Antioch fell the thankless task of quieting the people and
By Katharine Bird preventing worse actions, which might bring down around all their heads the wrath of the powerful emperor. St John Chrysostom was equal to the task. In a series of homilies, he found a way to calm his people and console them in their misery. Eventually in his Easter homily, he was able to given them the happy news that the emperor was willing to grant them clemency. St John, whose surname "Chrysostom" means "golden-mouthed," has come down in history as the patron of those who preach.
The stories about him indicate that this doctor of the Church had a gift for establishing rapport with his congregation. A man of passionate feelings, he related Scripture to the lives of his people in order to get them to reform their lives. Jay Cormier, director of communications in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC, has written a book titled "Giving Good Homilies." In it he suggests that people respond to what they hear "when they see something in it for themselves." A homily, Cormier thinks, can work its way inside
those who hear it. The homily that involves "a form of storytelling" can trigger the listeners' own stories, reminding them of something that happened in their own lives and perhaps offering fresh insight to their personal experience. As reflected on Cormier's comments, two homilists — quite different in their approaches — came to mind. Each has had an impact on me, though in different ways. And they remind me that homilists are not all alike. I think there is no simple recipe or mould for a good homily.
ows were short-changed. The group complained to the Twelve about this problem. It was then that seven men were named to help serve the needy. For the Twelve said: "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables." Appointment of the seven men would allow the Twelve "to concentrate on prayer and the ministry of the word." For the Twelve, it appears, preaching took precedence (Acts 6). Another story helps to illustrate the importance of preaching God's word. It is Luke's story of the encounter some disciples had with the risen Lord along the road to Emmaus. The disciples — crushed because of the Crucifixion — did not recognise the Lord. "Then He said to them. `What little sense you have. How slow you are to believe all that the prophets have announced.' "Beginning then with Moses and all the prophets, He interpreted from them
every passage of Scripture which referred to Him" (Luke 24). Later at supper, the risen Lord "took bread and began to distribute it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognised Him." Later. when the disciples recalled their encounter on the road to Emmaus, they exclaimed: "Were not our hearts burning inside us as He talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?" When they got back to Jerusalem they told others "what happened on the road and how they had come to know Him in the breaking of the bread" A pattern is found in this account; First the Lord spoke with the disciples and they heard His word; then they ate together. a meal in which the disciples recognised Him. The pattern is clear: word and sacrament. the obvious implication is this: For a full appreciation of the sacrament, the Lord's Supper, faith must be awakened by preaching the word.
also pondered what people need in order to grow in faith. He hoped to present God's prophetic word, which is sometimes hard and piercing, even while — mysteriously — it stirs up joy. A homily I still remember was preached on the gospel story of the rich man who dined on the choicest foods while the poor man Lazarus lingered hungrily at the gate of the wealthy home. wait-
By Dolores Leckey ing for scraps of food. It would have been easy for the middle-class and well-meaning Catholics gathered that day to feel good because they were not like the insensitive rich man. After all, no poor people were hanging about our doorways, either at home or at church. The homilist, however, drew our attention to the current statistics on hunger in our part of the world, particularly hunger among the very young. He even suggested action on behalf of the hungry children across the river, five miles away. One felt that some core of inner responsibility had been touched that day. Some people — andIcount myself among them — not only need preaching that will make them sensitive to the little ones of the world. We need preaching that helps us to join together — to form into a community — in order to respond better to the poor and those who live on the margins of society.
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The late-night TV programme concludes; the names roll by of the director, the producers, the writers, cameraperson, editors, researchers, reports, makeup persons. Some 18 well-heeled sponsors paid for this production. A tired viewer wonders to himself: How can he compete next Sunday morning, proclaiming the good news from his worn pulpit with its static-filled public address system? fie recalls the wisdom of the Second Vatican Council: The primary role of the priest is to preach the Gospel. And he reaches for a missalette in order to take an early first glance at next Sunday's scripture readings.
but it is already 48 hours past the point in the week at which, only a month ago, he had resolved to take his early first glance.
"This week Fit really take time to prepare," he vows, even while remembering what a colleague told him recently. It concerned a well-known writer of homilies who took 60 to 80 hours to prepare a single homily. "Impossible," the priest mutters, "unless that's all he had to do." The priest's musing continued. "How do I distinguish between what my parishioners need and what they want?" he wonders "What if some think Christanity should be an electric
ing methods tell me to preach in imaginative images and poetic phrases. I was trained to offer answers and solutions; now I must preach without being preachy. "What is my basic approach? Should every homily say that God is love or that He is not yet discouraged with His people?Iwant to share my vision, to feel blanket rather than the cross what I feel. it is? "But who is God? for some, "How can I be concrete God is the distant supreme without becoming embar- being. For others He is the rassingly specific? How do I very personal and intimate sound really involved with- Jesus. Others see God as out sounding fanatic? tender love. How do I lead "And what about me per- such diverse people in a sonally?Iwas trained in cold unified prayer?" As the priest mulled things and abstract philosophical terms, while the new preach- over, the voice of one of his
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professors came back to him. "To conclude a scripture passage by saying, 'This is the word of the Lord. is only half true," the profess( )r had protested. "The other half of the truth," said the professor. in the lives of the people in their needs and traditir. If the word is not linked u ith their concerns it is only half the word. Because the vo was made flesh — our fles; "And I, the homilist, n challenged to make obvious," the priest thought of himself. "And I must do it without ignoring the mystery. I can't explain the Trinity — even to the people of this scientific age.
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Special correspondent for The Record, Colleen Howard has been visiting relatives in Ireland and friends in Singapore, among them Father Alban Mitchell, formerly of La Salle College, Midland. On this page, The Record publishes the result of her inquiries about Irish priests coming to Australia, and her impressions of the Franciscan fraternity in Singapore...
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DROGHEDA (Ireland) — Father Tom Cooney is a charming man and relatively youthful for the position he holds as Provincial of the Augustinians in Ireland, whose centre is in Ballyboden, Dublin. Interviewing him while he was visiting the Augustinans in Drogheda, I asked him his views why so few Irish priests are coming to Australia compared with numbers we used to have. Father Cooney said the Augustinians were initially centred in Cairns and are now in Sydney and Melbourne, rather than West- Father Tom Cooney, Irish superior ern Australia. This body of priests and SINGAPORE: One brothers became an indewonders in sometimes pendant province in 1956. Australia what misUntil the 1970's, priests I RELAND'S ugustinian were sent out to Eastern sionaries actually "do" Australia but at that point on these far away misit was felt local priests sion posts. should be in a position to I was fortunate service their own laity. The Australian Province is enough to have this now thinking of sending revealed to me when out missionaries to South I enjoyed the beautiful Korea. hospitality of the FranTraditional sources of fraternity here ciscan supply of young Irish prirecently. ests from which Australian bishops used to draw, were O stensibly my inten. . . All Hallows in Dublin, St tion was to see how Patrick's in Carlow, St Father Alban Mitchell Kiernan's in Kilkenny, St was faring following John's in Waterford and St Peter's in Wexford. his transfer from La A t different times they Salle College, Midland. sent priests to Australia at the request of Australian bishops. These young men would have then gone to become diocesan priests in Australia. However Australia is now no longer considered a missionary country and it is felt there are more urgent requirements for priests in underdeveloped and neardeveloped countries than Australia. Australia by now would be considered in a position to provide its own priests — that it should now be self-sufficient. R egarding vocations, Father Cooney feels Ireland is now experiencing only a slight drop based on a realistic level. The great number of vocaServing among the Franciscan fraternity in Singapore are Father Alban Mitchell (left) tions in the late 1940's, formerly of Midland's La Salle College, and Brother George Boggs, formerly of Inverell, 1950's and 1960's was NSW the above the norm and lower number they have Family support as regards now is due to an expected educational possibilities, they were among fellow levelling out in the 1980's. parents began to have compatriots and not alone the priesthood is also perhaps not quite as strong. The greater abundance of higher aspirations for their in an alien land. vocations in the 'forties, children. Before that, it Today the missionary cry Mothers may tend now to 'fifties and 'sixties could be was basically a desire to is not as strong and migra- suggest their children attributed to the fact that "obtain a secure, steady tion has dropped; with the "wait awhile ... and see". Father Cooney is however for the first time in Irish job; a pensionable liveli- resultant effect there is there will be no optimistic history, the people were hood." now not the same need to further decrease — there becoming better educated, The cultural milieu in Ire- "follow one's people". more affluent and more will continue to be suffiland in the 'forties, 'fifties C ommenting as to aware than those in the cient vocations, and sees cultural and 'sixties was whether he felt the young 'twenties and 'thirties. the years ahead as full of and missionary oriented. of today differed from the hope. Ireland only achieved indeThere has also now been more vocationally minded Being curious as to All pendence from Britain in previous generations, Hallows views on the sub1921, this then being fol- a drop in emigration. While emigration was Father Cooney feels they ject, I contacted Mons lowed by the economic high from 1845 (the potato are as generous as ever Boland, pastor -in-residepression in the 'thirties. Only after that were peo- famine) to 1960, there today but perhaps not as dence from the US at All prepared to make a life- Hallows in Dublin. ple able to have their child- were Irish priests who were Mons Boland said the prepared to follow their long commitment and ren educated. At this stage openings for people, principally to Amer- opted for say a lay mission- number of candidates young men and women ica because of its proximity ary situation which would going into the priesthood to Ireland and thus a pop- involve a short number of has diminished substanwere very limited. tially; this reflected general Free secondary education ular country for the Irish to years. was introduced only in migrate to, but also to He said the youth of today phenomena in the Western Australia. 1967. had broader horizons, World Under those conditions greater liberality. With the advent of better • Cont page 12
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I found him to be as ebullient as ever albeit perspiring with the humidity but smiling nevertheless. The friary itself is set in green grounds and one side actually butts onto a strip of Jungle, still remaining in spite of encroaching suburbia. A line of paw paw trees — germinated from seeds barely seven months ago and obviously thriving in their tropical habitat — were already bearing fruit. Huge trees, coconut and travellers* palms, banana trees with enormous leaves and yellow hands of bananas hanging down, looked attractive and exotic. A squirrel hopped from branch to branch and I saw flowers and vegetation I had never seen before. Church extensions are under way and it seems opportune because added to the existing 800 parishioners, the Franciscans are expecting an addition of 4,500 to swell this number from an anticipated 130,000 people to be housed in the new high-rise flats containing 42,000 units, due to be completed soon.
Population The Catholic population of Singapore is 3.7 per cent; this in itself offers a great missionary challenge. To introduce me to the novices, Father Alban took me into their "pad" (leisure/ activity room) through a glass door with Snoopy painted on — complete in a Friar's habit! The room had atmosphere and was furnished for study and leisure. Typewriters, hooks, refrigerator, chess set, tape deck and guitar on scatter cushions. It looked great. The five young Singapo-
rean novices were a lively bunch, happy, full of fun, yet treated their Superiors with a mixture of deference, esteem and comaradie that was a pleasure to see. It made me feel . . . "whatever is happening here, is right for them." Their course of study for the priest and brotherhood comprises lectures in Franciscanism, religious life, scripture and English; theology studies are carried out at the Singapore Seminary The aim of the Franciscans in Singapore is to serve the Catholic laity and to lay the foundations for the Singaporean Franciscan Province one day. Perhaps these young men I had the pleasure of meeting will form the nucleus of that enterprise.
Devotion I felt the energy, devotion and joy this group exuded, it augured well for the Franciscan presence in Singapore. There are four priests at the friary: Father Robert Matthews, ex-parish priest from Midland, guardian and parish priest; Father Alban Mitchell, novice master, director of postulants, novices and professed students. Father Fulgence Gross. retired American friar previously in China for many years; and Father Rupert Dawson who is involved in parish work and Secular Franciscan Order. There are also Brother George Boggs of Inverell NSW vocations director. t hree novices, Brothers Timothy Leo, John Paul Tan and Lionel Goh, and two professed students, Brothers Michael Goh and Laurence Tan — being the first two men to be professed in Singapore. Brother George's work is as fascinating as the man himself. A wide beaming smile and a spontaneously happy nature hide the fact this man's whole life is one of serious and active concern for other people. In recognition of his great contribution to the "rejects of society", the drug addicts, prisoners prior and subsequent to release from Changi gaol, homosexuals and those classed as a "waste of time" by other social welfare persons.
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If you didn't know to begin with it wouldn't take you long to realise t hat El izabeth Moir loves dolls. The tiny doll pinned to the shoulder of her soft, cream blouse may not alert you, but the collection of little faces peering from all sorts of places in her Nedlands lounge room would certainly let you in on her well-known 'secret.' 'doll are There cushions' on the seats and dolls on the mantlepiece. A dancing doll rises gracefully from the desk while a less agile friend peers over the edge of her beautifully upholstered box. You must never put the lid on tightly or she would suffocate, whispers Elizabeth. And in the antique, glassfronted cupboard in the corner there are even more dolls . . . old dolls and new dolls, tall dolls and short dolls, fat dolls and thin and most of them dolls are made by Elizabeth
It is a self-taught skill that has blossomed most beautifully in the last two years but the seeds were sown four years ago when she went to Melbourne for a two-week course with Australia's most famous doll artist, Mirka Mora. For Elizabeth Moir it was the beginning of a passion that grows even stronger. It is 13 years since she married and moved to Perth from Melbourne and before the dolls took over her days she had tried her hand at countless crafts . . macrame, pottery, batik, to name just a few. "I'm a much happier person since I started doll making," she smiles. She believes everyone has a skill; it is just a matter of experimenting until you find it. A fascination with fabric and costumes, especially those from the Victorian period, laid the foundation for her fancies.
OTN.0 4.114 Even as a child she had made dolls clothes and as an adult she found joy and expression in embroidery, costume-making and settling down for a good read with a Dictionary of Costume on her lap. It was Mirka Mora who gave her the confidence to come back to Perth and experiment until she found her own direction. The path, when she found it was wide and long. These days Elizabeth teaches doll-making. She has private classes in her home on three afternoons a week; has taught at the University Summer School and Tresilian Community Centre and next term is committed to three Satur-
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• From page 1. spouses to support and justify the creation of the new marital status and the prohibition of discrimination against de factos on the basis of marital status. "In discussions with Archbishop Francis Carroll on the provisions in C1.4 of the Sex Discrimination Bill. "It is my view that until there is a consensus on the moral, ethical and social issues involved in AID and INT and like procedures, the procedures should at least be discouraged by Government if not prohibited. "I believe all people have moral responsibility !Or the welfare of their biological off-spring. "If one accepts that view ( and much of our law is based on it) it would seem to be wrong to permit medical practitioners to produce from stocks of human sperms and ova, embryri for which one or both of the biological parents has no responsibility whatever," the Archbishop said.
A regular feature by tQCSILIY% LUSS days for a course at Mount Lawley College and one night a week for 10 weeks courses at Applecross and Como Technical Colleges. For all the people who say they are no good with their hands, Elizabeth suggests that doll-making may be the answer. "It involves so many different skills," she said. "There is drawing, painting, modelling, sewing, embroidery and constant variety. I find everyone has competence in one or two of these areas. 'The extraordinary thing," she adds, "is very often the first doll my students make is a minature of themselves. "I suppose their own face is the one they know best." No two dolls are ever the same, she says, and all have their own unique personality. -No, I have never made one with a personality I didn't like," she laughs, in fact I find it hard to give them away. "Even if someone has commissioned a doll I keep it for a few weeks before passing it over. If I've started on another one by then it makes it all a little easier. "My favourite doll is usually the last one I've completed, but the good thing about it is there is always
something new and exciting on which to move.There's a touch of Victorian about most of the dolls and their maker. It speaks loudly and beautifully in her home from the mellowed sheen of old furniture to the sharp white delicacy of antimacassars spreading their lace over the backs of the chairs.
You don't have to look far to find a doyley; Elizabeth loves them. "And I love washing them too,- she laughs, "I wish I could say so much for the shirts." The cushions thrown casually along the sofa are more than just mere cushions . . . once they were exquisite lace tea-cosys, they still are of course but they are plumped and placed to keep your back, not the tea-pot warm. They languish lazily on the couch waiting to be admired. There's a touch of Victorian about most of the dolls and their maker. With three young children and, house to run and a hobby to chase she is far too
busy. The diary opens to pour forth a stream of appointments. 'While I know I could be like Mirka Mora and devote my life to doll-making, I know I have to keep my hobby in its place,- says Elizabeth. She works often at night, but never late because children don't want a tired mum the next morning. The dining table offers its expanse for the lengths of fabric and lace that will adorn the next doll. It is here she will decide what sort of a doll is to be made, and with what. "If it is a fabric doll then I have to sketch it and stitch t he body," she said. "I started out making rag dolls but don't like that medium as much now.Another method involves the use of Fimo, a polyester moulding material which is used to make head, hands and legs for soft, fabric body dolls. Sometimes these are filled with lavender. She has experimented with china dolls but because the face is supplied for painting she feels a little cheated. "I like to make the whole doll, from beginning to end, then I feel it is all my own work," she said. The five Victorian Costume dolls she has produced for the Perth Private School of Needlework exhibition in July are certainly all her own
work. (The exhibition will be held from July 12-15 at the South Perth Civic Centre.) The dolls stand about 30cm tall and comprise a fabric mould secured with a liquid plaster base. Such a humble beginning for such a beauty. The costumes are authentic down to the last touch of lace, the last perfect pleat and the last plumped ruffle. The costumes of bride, promenade, tennis, daywear and ballgown took many months of work. They spread their skirts comfortably in the old-world atmosphere of their maker's home. The superb fabrics that fall from tiny waists spell the success of Elizabeth's constant search for materials to work with.
, ;" ,P'40M11 When she travels overseas or interstate she haunts the antique shops for scraps of lace to decorate a slender throat or cover a tiny bosom. Old warehouses can be an Aladdin's cave and her eyes shine brightly in the reflected sheen of silks and satins. Her love of Victorian colours her life. She doesn't know where it comes from. Admiration for the elaborate detail of their clothes and
crafts; a feel for the suggested romance of that time. She has always loved antique dolls. 'The ones I could never afford, especially as a child,- she smiles. She has made a few dolls for her daugther but eightyear -old Josephine has different tastes. "She's not into dolls," she said, "and my two boys are creative in their own unique way — they use my beads and sequins to make fishing lures." She still has her own childhood dolls and is adamant that she would never buy a plastic doll. But then, when you are Elizabeth Moir you don't have to. The best part about dollmaking, she says, is where she nears the end and can think, "I'm glad I've got here. "It's the finishing touches that I love. All the little details add so much." She points out her dolls are not toys and she calls them decorator dolls. They are to look at and admire. They offer beauty, not practicality. They are not an art form.
holder . . I don't see why everything should have to be used for something,- she said But there is a practical side to this talented lady. For the last three years she has joined with a friend to organise two craft fairs a year. Called the Victorian Rose Craft Fairs they offer a trip back in time, says Elizabeth. One is held for Mother's Day and the other just before Christmas.
They have proved to an outstanding success with 16 artists and craftspeople offering their work for sale at the last fair. Prices ranged from $1 for a hand-made card to $900 f or a hand-crafted pine dresser. "It was an outstanding success," said Elizabeth, "and even when everything is sold orders can still be taken."
She tells the story of the beautiful Queen Elizabeth I doll, made of pure silk and silk organza — made to hang on the wall as a unique collage, made purely to give joy as a thing of beauty.
The talents of the artists decorate her own home — from the fragile wisp of a birds nest on the hearth to the nut and spice posies on the mantel.
"Someone saw it and suggested I put a slit in the back and make it into a hankle
The walls cheerfully receive her other love — embroidered pictures.
Give the kid a banana From page 4.
As the celebrant launched into his homily I bit my tongue to prevent myself from singing out in a stagewhisper. "Hey, madam! Do you mind! Those are new hymn books, and cost a small fortune! 'They're not toys for the entertainment of your little monkey!•' As the words from the pulpit passed over my head. I visualisd the probable eventuality: "Pooh!" grandma would retort. "Fiddlesticks! The little mite won't do any harm." "But,- I would say, "One of the pages is coming out now - look!" "Never mind," the old girl would come back. "It's keeping him quiet, isn't it? And I tell you, if his father were here he'd punch your nose — church or no church! And if the little darling is a monkey, you're a big ape, so there." "But," I'd say, "I'm Jack Bongiorno." "I don't care if you're Jack Dempsey." Defeated I'd have one parting shot. "Aaaar, give the monkey a banana!" All this and more I ruminated on right through the sermon. Is it any wonder I often can't remember what the Sunday sermon was all about?
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• From page 6 But obviously those religious minded parents who send their children to private schools can exert little influence on State school education, and its dominant effect on our communities. The spiritual inadequacy of the Beazley report is regrettable since it earns deserved praise for its attempt to link more closely the components of education which have developed largely independently in the post war years. These coniptxtents are pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, university, technical and further education colleges. It is recalled that since 1950 a whole system of State High Schools has been planned, built and staffed under former EducationDirectorDe Robertson and the University and College system expanded and created. This a stocktaking as carried out by the Beazley Committee was needed and has been accomplished. Its claim to be pupil centered must however, be qualified by its spiritual neglect. Its proposals for pastorality are not quite in the full sense of the 23rd Psalm. The concept is one of attempting to treat, help and understand }tilting people as individuals but not to the extent of spiritual (outselling. Inevitably the report is affected by the non-discrimination trend and frowns on educating "males to be breadwinners and girls to be homemakers" (6.89). In 6.90, "Stereotyping of subiec.ts as for girls or for boys would be eliminated including sport and recreation studies." But in 6.95 a crack in the genderlessness cult shows up: "Some teaching may need to be conducted in single sex gmups in order to increase girls' chances of receiving a fair share of attention and to remove from the classroom the occasional harassing behaviour of boys." Well; fancy that.
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a cent from anyone and that the vast majority of the cases he handles do not even share his Christian beliefs. But then his face lights up with that smile of his and you think: "So this is what a vocation is all about". . For my part. I firmly believe Brother George has the sort of stuff saints are made of The Religious there don't seem to take much time off to spend on themselves, but perhaps, through my being in Singapore we went to have a swim at a Malaysian beach, Desaru, 60 miles from the city. For me, it was a fascinating day of discovery in a very different land. We crossed over the Singapore/Malaysia causeway and having lunched in a streetside native restaurant on somewhat unknown but delicious and inexpensive food, we eventually found the beach. The architecture of the tourist complex nearby was Eastern and most unusual in design and form. The sea water was warm — only two degrees from the Equator. Some delightful Malaysian women endeavoured to conduct a conversation with me, spurred on by their curiosity of "the stranger". Although we spoke no common language, somehow women can always manage to get by. Time to go and what an exciting trip it was. We passed hectares of oil palm plantations with parasitical ferns clinging on to their trunks. Hillsides of deep green palms and rubber trees with their 'jungle greens' mottled coloured trunks. Monkeys scuttling around trees and near the road way and then a series of native Malaysian road-side stalls right next to the jungle. Enormous hands of bananas hung in profusion from the stall awnings everywhere. Fascinating delicacies I could only guess at hung in
packets from the canvas ceilings. We then moved off into the thick of Malaysian evening traffic, with Brother George showing a dexterity at the wheel, zipping in and out of the fastest moving traffic I'd seen, that left me amazed. I said farewell to this beautiful fraternty with reluctance. A band of selfless men, each giving of himself to his fullest capacity. Their bond of mutual respect, community rapport, f riendship, and obvious happiness and contentment reflected in their life-style was, rather unique. They were so "full' in a spiritually hungry and yearning world. Men who despite leaving their own country, family and friends and often tolerating disadvantages, discomforts in alien cultures and climatic conditions, nevertheless experienced and emanated such harmony and joy - - "simply in doing God's work." • From page 10 However Ireland still had a higher number of vocations than any other Western World country. In Queensland this year, out of their four dioceses, there are only five candidates for the priesthood. Generally speaking in many parts of the world, there are fewer men offering themselves. However the decline seems to have levelled off. Mons Boland also mentioned the higher level of a few years ago was perhaps abnormally high; this view coincided with that of Father Cooney. Vocations are however, running at a very high rate in some newly evangilised countries such as Africa and Eastern European nations, notably those behind the Iron Curtain such as Yogoslavia and Poland. Because there is a shortage of priests in the home V//
diocese in Ireland, the tendency seems to be to service the needs at home first, rather than abroad. In the past, when the level was high, many were going out of a surplus situation but there is now only a trickle available for abroad, in comparison to what there was before. The aim of the Church, Mons Boland said, is to supply its vocational needs from the local church; in other words, they can be independent. Faith nevertheless always has a missionary dimension and churches will always be in existance, even though that concept is less visable now. Mons Boland said All Hallows College in Dublin, has approximately 1100 priests still living and working overseas in English-speaking countries. Even in today's numbers, he said, that is still a considerable number of people.
The late Sister Dolores Horne who died on May 22 had been a member of the Sisters of Mercy for 59 years. Born in Midland, her family moved to Kalgoorlie from where she entered the order at Coolgardie and spent many years teaching in the Goldfields and later in the metropolitan area where she was community superior on many occasions. Her career was noted for the deep spirituality which she communicated to her many pupils. She died at the Convent of Mercy, Victoria Square. May she rest in peace.
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Where are they? I could be shot down in flames for saying so, but it seems that the Charismatic movement has either faded from existence or taken a back seat among the Church movements in society. Some might sayIam mak-
While Iraq and Iran are firing deadly missiles at each other the young people St Denis' church, Roberts Street, Joondanna are praying for peace on Sunday June 17 at 7 pm. A special youth liturgy will be held and the celebrant is Father John Jegorow.
ing the comment in ignorance and in fact the Charismatic movement is alive and well — but I have not seen too much evidence of it of late. Twenty years ago prayer groups were springing
up all over the place, and many looked on "as the Charismatics" did "strange" things like pray spontaneously in their own words or in tongues and sing catchy tunes to the accompaniement of strings and tambourines. Some concluded that it was all just a question of one's personality. The Charismatic way was not everyone's cup of tea.
Gala Ball Young Christian workers present the Y CW Gala Ball, gourmet supper inclusive and bar service provided at the Morely Civic Centre on Saturday, July 7.
L eft: Choice coordinators Margaret and Terry Fennessy flank K erry Lynch were among the guest speakers at Flame 84 A ntioch held at Aquinas College recently. These three spoke in the segment about sexuality. The next Choice weekend is set f or July 27 and bookings should be made by ringing 3 86 6494 or 328 9878.
Starting 7.30 pm it will be an evening to remember. single $14. S tudents U E $12. Phone 328 9667 for tickets. Dress: Semi formal.
As the years rolled on, official the even Church grew a little comfortable more with open displays of e motionalism. Bishops and priests were clapped, cheered and even hugged. Homilists and guest speakers would be interrupted with burst of song and acclamation. Today the pope has made that an everyday occurrence for the tourist at his weekly audiences or on his frequent papal trips.
Yet while this obvious display of the Holy Spirit may have abated, I believe the power of His presence continues. The spirit's works may not be accompanied with the fanfare of trumpets or a thousand converts answering the call of a single homily, as on the first Pentecost day. For the most part His works are evident in the quiet persistence of a mother and wife who doesn't give up on her family; His grace is seen in the missionary priest who goes to gaol in the struggle for freedom for his parishioners and friends; His gifts of compassion and tenderness are evident in the care that doctors and nurses show to the sick and the dying and each Christian can still experience the power of His presence in a moment of silent prayer. A prayer that we can make new again this Pentecost 1984, "0 come Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your faithful and renew the hearts of the earth."
An Australian Medical Association report says suicide among young people has increased markedly over the past 20 years ". .. The number of young adolescents who die in so-called accidents or suicide is a sad reflection on the sort of stresses they are under,' the report notes. This is the first in a three-part series, prepared by the Catholic Leader in Brisbane, which looks at the problem. Anne Ryan, 23, of YCW writes here about the stresses that face young people. Believe in yourselves, It is filled with first time and making first impressions. given outrageous value, and Tell my friends and me for No one has all the answers. love yourselves, accept e xperiences, greater Society should be glad to each year school leavers the matter, you do not have I certainly do not. One the person that you are independence, uncertainty in receive new arrivals, instead worry over their performance, to drink too much at parties realisation I have come to is and like that person. the future, serious decisions, a criteria has been created competing with one another to forget insecurities and be that we do not believe in the Easy words, but so relationships, love, rejection, that excludes so many young for the highest rungs of the vivacious because it is all right irreplaceable value of each difficult to live out. beginning a different people. ladder. Vacancy for the posito be shy and nervous about person. Being young is most relationship with parents, The first achievement of a Then getting a job — in a people not liking you. We do not tell people often tion as full-time worker exciting and terrifying choosing a direction in life. young person must be a high time of 25 per cent Convince a friend, who enough that they are unique with the Catholic Parish time. Youth is a period of initiation TAE score. That has been unemployment among young dieted excessively (until she — not just a little different, Youth Movement.
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people — is the next lost her job and all zest for expectation. Too many life) because her bo)friend people still say, if you try hard thought she was looking fat. enough there are jobs to be that she is valuable and had. worthwhile just as she is. Tell that to nine young We are part of a have society people that I know of, who and young people feel that took their lives last year pressure in a particular way.
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but fundamentally different and worth more than any possession or status. If we really believed that, we would be moved, fired, determined never to allow another young person to set their course on self-destruct.
Why is loneliness the greatest pain in our society?
The position is for a term of two years with an option of a third year. The successful applicant will be working with parish youth groups in the northern region of the Perth Metropolitan area. The full-timer works mainly with the leaders team of each group, facilitating leadership training and spiritual formation of the group, supplying resources and co-ordinating communication between groups and between groups and the movement.
Applications dose July were Time and again we are told, Imagine the radical change because they 9 and the position starts unemployed. the future is ours, you can it would mean in our Own Monday, September 3. If you are a tertiary student, have anything you want — lives if we believed that of 1984. assessment is everything take it. ourselves. because you know you are Then confronted with a To know a God of Anyone interested in competing for limited reality that denies the having, unconditional love we must applying should include employment opportunities. what is left? experience a reflection of that In their application — Students take "uppers" to Our society does not acclaim love from the people in our 0 a resume of themstay awake all night so they being happy with who you are. lives and in the fabric of selves and pass exams. Nor does it affirm initiatives society we are part of. Then "downers" so their that are not mainstream. That love is the ony way to ii)any information bodies can rest. It recognises position and wholeness and holiness. with regard to involveCompetition seems to be the possesions, but denies the ment in youth groups or only rule today and is not only most important resource — similar organisations. for jobs. the person. Wear the right clothes, drive I need to be loved Your letter should be the right car, be popular, I need to love marked Confidential outgoing, slim, tall and I need to be accepted for Take a fresh look at and addressed to- — CPY stunningly attractive and you who I am. yourself! Book now for Review Team, PO Box will want for nothing. Why is it so difficult to find? a Choice weekend in 194, North Perth, WA All of us laugh at the models Why are so many people 1984. July 27-29. Con- 6006. Any queries and stereotypes advertising isolated and separated? tact Marg and Terry should be directed to the portrays, but doesn't Why is loneliness becoming Fennessy 386 6494 or Catholic Parish Youth advertising reflect the values the greatest pain in our Catholic Youth Centre Office, phone: 328 8136. of society? 328 9878. society?
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'Why is loneliness becoming the greatest pain in our society.'
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WHAT YOU SAY Dear Captain Bob, How are you? I'm fine but a bit croaky. Sorry I haven't written for a while but I've enclosed a picture, picture to colour and a puzzle. Hope you like them. Here are a few jokes: A boy complaining about a stomach ache asked his mother why. The mother replied, "That's because it's empty. You'll be gright once you've had some lunch." The same evening his father was complaining about a headache. The boy said, -You'd be alright if you had something in it! A woman asked her husband to go to the store and fetch some long grain rice. He returned with spagghetti! Frances Hall Morley
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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
Letter I read with great astonishment your "review" of Julian May's "Saga of the Exiles" in your section "A look at books" (Record 10/9). I had to convince myself that it was a review and not an advertisement. I was stunned to see the use of such terms as "superb", "extraordinary epic of the imagination", "stunning", "most vivid imaginative epic" and "rivals the Foundation Trilogy and the Lord of the Rings". I began to wonder whether your reviewer had read any of the books mentioned. I know that most of these statements are taken from the dust-cover but 1 must protest.
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As much as I admire Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy it in Avalonian Quest, by Glastonbury's origin as a However, he writes clearly interest. Tourists pour in to politics, culture and literature Since the 1950's he has been no way is comparable to the Ashe, sacred place? Ashe now and presents his likely theory: visit its ruined Abbey and to of England. He re-examines its deeply concerned with the G eoffrey extraordinary work of Tolpublished by Fontana, presents the results of his that a huge ritual maze (its drink in the Christian and best-known legends — those early history and mythology of kien, a work 12 years in the $6.95. Reviewed by fieldwork and offers fresh remains are still traceable) Arthurian legends. Thousands ofjoseph of Arimathea and the Britain, above all with the writing. And then to lump to relating far-off once encircled the Tor and assemble annually for church- Grail. and King Arthur's burial. legends the to clues R oslyn Ross. them together when I con- What lives. he Ashe was born in where Geoffrey Glastonbury, sponsored pilgrimages, but Glastonbury's that here alone in Britain, of background evidence is there that sider that "The Saga of the Glastonbury was a great pagan mythology. perhaps, a great pagan many others come for London and educated in He was co-founder and Exiles" compares poorly to sanctuary before Christianity? It's a good book for the sanctuary comparable to mystical reasons, seeing England and Canada. He is a secretary of the Camelot Asimov'scvork much less rival- That is the question which historian, although a little dry Avebury or Stonehenge Glastonbury as a focus of full-time professional writer Research Committee which ing Tolkein's. These state- Geoffrey Ashe sets out to for my taste. Ashe's style, became a great Christian one. spiritual power. and lecturer, and has planned excavated Cadbury Castle. the ments are advertising trivia and taken part in television reputed site of Camelot. He Ashe looks at the real and fact, doesn't full of while Glastonbury, this town in answer in his book Avalonian rather than serious state- Quest. exactly transport one back Somerset, has over the surprising importance of documentaries and travelled is editor and part-author of ments. I congratulate The into the ancient mists of time. decades attracted increasing Glastonbury in the reliOon, widely, especially in America_ The Quest for Arthur's Britain. Record for including a review of books but to so praise a series that I painfully plodded through is doing no service to and social conventions recognition that the natural is This book is an attempt to redistribution of power and your readers. I apologise for remove certain aspects of the socially defined. develop a language of political resources within society is the strength of my criticism distributional system from economy which is called a called 'claiming.' The theory but I felt compelled to make Political philosophers and public discussion and assign theory of claims, via an of claims developed by a statement when the subeconomic economists, them to the realm of the exploration of the situation of Professors Peattie and Rein is stance of your review was so historians, and sociologists. 'natural.' For example, women. then compared to Marxist and far from my experience. LISA PEATY* AND MARTINI**. especially those concerned women's situation in claiming neo-classical approaches to with the social structure, as in the world of work is limited It aims to develop a distributional questions. P.D. Green, Leederrille. well as everyone interested in by the social convention they framework in which the women's studies, should find they have a special role to play Since 195-, when Geoffrey distribution of economic The book is aimed at the this an interesting and in maintaining the family, but Ashe first published King resources — within the student or professional and ‘` C thought provoking study. this is not seen as a social the the topic of women was within new family, Avalon, Arthur's convention but as in the Lisa Peattie and Martin Rein t discoveries and thinking have employment structure, and in chosen for its convenience as nature of women. The most are Professors in the led to a renewed interest in the transfer and service a way of exploring theory. EDITOR'S NOTE: enduring achievment of the Department of Urban Studies Glastonbury — England's systems of the State — can be Women are used to illustrate t< • `‘ the of Planning new claims being made by and claiming of as a single system. process understood the Why is it a ancient Avalon. that undertaking is given No i:CCk women in work, the family, Massachusetts Institute of all books are personally source of such continued This system by which different because they especially show and the State may be the Technology. What was social groups effect a the way in which intellectual reviewed on our Look at fascination?
Women's Claims: A Study In Political Economy, by Lisa Peattie and Martin Rein, published by Oxford University Press, $14.90 (paperback), $37.50 (hardcover).
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Books page. Many are, and these include a by-line. 'Reviewed by ...'. As you are well aware, reading is a matter of personal taste and obviously any review reflects the reviewer's personal tastes ... your feelings about Tolkien would not necessarily be shared by all others. The story on The Adversary was compiled from comments made by a number of critics and in fact, does little more, than give a brief description of the story-line. At no stage did we say that The Saga 'rivalled' the Foundation Trilogy, the Lensman series and The Lord of the Rings ... we said it had been c ompared to these three volumes, a very different matter.
new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new title. American Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, by Robert D. Schulzinger, published by Oxford University Press, $21.99. This unique survey combines narrative and analysis, explains how and why policy is made, compares the cc aduct of American diplomacy to that of other powers, and intersperes historiographical interpretations with a chronological study of events. It includes a thorough bibliography of works on American diplomacy. The Twentieth-Century World, an international history, by William IL Keylor, published by Oxford University Press, $21.99. Professor Keylor compares America's foreign policy in Europe and Russia to that in Latin America and the Third World. His analysis is clear, objective, and factual on controversial issues, and he is able to show the influence of economics on international relations. The narrative starts in 1914 and includes current material on the nuclear question.
The books were hailed by many critics, whether those critics were right is beside the point ... when it comes to books it is very much a case of 'to each their own'. What we are trying to do on our books page is to keep people up-to-date with as much as A Dry White Season, by possible in the ever-changing Andre Brink, published by Flamingo, $8.95. publishing world. We hope An ordinary South African you find more to your taste teacher is outraged by the in the future. death at the hands of the
police of a black man who was his friend. The question of police brutality in South Africa is never far from the front of today's papers. A Dry White Season is a compelling novel, written from an insider's point of view. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav, published by Flamingo, $8.95. Gary Zukav's absorbing guide to the mind-stretching mysteries of the new physics points out striking parallels with modern psychology and eastern mysticism. The One Minute Manager, by Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson, published by Fontana, $4.95. This revolutionary little book demonstrates the quickest way to increase productivity, job satisfaction, profits and personal prosperity, just by being a One Minute Manager. It is based on three simple techniques, written in clear and concise language. The Black Tide, by Hammond Hines, publishedby Fontana, $5.95. Writing about the sea is always a special occasion, especially when the writer is Hammond Innes.
Orwell, by Raymond Williams, published by flamingo, $5.95. Raymond Williams' Orwell is an outstanding example of the changes that have taken place in literary studies in recent years, changes that Williams himself has done a great deal to bring about. For this edition of a book originally published in Fontana Modern Masters, he has written an essay which, in this actual year of Orwell's vision. reassesses the society which Orwell foresaw in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Sharpe's Sword, by Bernard Cornwell, published by Fontana, $4.95. Richard Sharpe enters a new world of political and military intrigue. But this time his enemy is the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Out Of A Dream, by Diana Anthony, published by Fontana, $4.95. An enchanting, compelling love story, from the author of Once a Lover. Loyalty bound Emma to the man whose love had once been her reason for living — but she could not forget Josh, the man who had come to her out of a dream . . .
Liverpool Daisy, by Helen Forrester, published by Fontana, $4.95. Helen Forrester is the author of the bestselling non-fiction series — Twopence to Cross the Mersey, Liverpool Miss, By the Waters of Liverpool. This is her first novel — trying to struggle through the Depression. Daisy finds a iob that can support her family. Liverpool Daisy learns to fight competition, laugh with her customers, weep in private. She becomes the toast of the neighbourhood — until the day she hears her husband is coming home from the sea.
unique cookbook produced for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). It presents a moutwatering variety of traditional and modern recipes with superb photographs of antique dining ware and elegant dining settings that complement the gourmet atmosphere of the book.
The Shroud, by John Coyne, published by Fontana, $4.95. The new horror novel by the author of The Searing and more recently, Hobgoblin, enters yet another horrifying dimension in The Shroud.
Australian Industrial Relations: Case Studies, by June M. Hearn, W.A. Howard, published by MacMillan Australia, $12.95. This book of case studies in industrial relations is designed to fill the void in management education. The cases encompass awards, agreements, claims, the impact of technology, plant. level industrial relations, multi-unionism and in-company industrial relations structures etc. This is a vital new book for all those concerned with this most important area of the Australian economy.
Cork, Fork And Ladle, The best of Australian, European and Asian recipes from Australia, published by SunPapermac, $14.95. Now available for the first time in paperback is Cork, Fork And Ladle — a truly
The Birth of Solidarity, The Gdansk Negotiations 1980, translated and introduced by A. Kemp-Welch, published by MacMillan Iondon, $18.95. This book makes the full text negotiations of between the Polish govern-
ment and strikers at the Gdansk Shipyard in 1980 available in English for the first time. These talks were unique in history — they created independent trade unions and the right to strike, concessions unheard of and at odds with a communist system. In addition there are notes taken from the private negotiations behind the scenes. Altogether this is a permanent record of these historic meetings. The Moral Philosophers. an introduction to ethics, by Richard Norman, published by Oxford University Press, $12.40 (paperback), $37.50 (hardcover). A critical examination of the theories of some of the major moral philosophers of the past, moving towards some concluding suggestions about the content of an acceptable ethical theory. The author redraws the traditional boundaries of the topic so as to include not only Plato and Aristotle, Hume, Kant. and Mill, but also Hegelian ethics, and the contributions of Marx and Freud to our understanding of the nature and limits of morality. An excellent introduction for students of ethics.
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What's on MAYLANDS JUBILEE Queen of Martyrs church Maylands is 60 years old and the diamond jubilee will be celebrated during the week June 1724 with special daily celebrations culminating with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Foley at 10 am on Sunday, June 17. Weekday Masses will concentrate on the themes of Baptism, Reconciliation, Anointing, Renewal of Marriage Vows, Eucharist, Confirmation. Couples who were married in the church are invited to renew their vows at the ceremony on Wednesday, June 20 at 7.30 pm.
An idea put forward at an Aquinas College meeting of parents on religious education will produce a benefit for Catholic missionary work. Music for Missions, a classical concert by local artists will be presented at Aquinas College Hall on Friday, June 22, Adults $10, students and pensioners $5. Presenting a programme that spans Bach, Schubert, Weber, Faure, Chopin, and Brahms will be pianists Pauline Belviso and Su Lloyd, soprano Elisa Wilson and clarinetist Steven Borbely. Tickets are available from the college or at the door.
ARCHBISHOPS UNDER R ADIO SCRUTINY At 8 am on 6WF on Sunday June 17, Encounter looks at Perth's Archbishop Peter Carnley (Anglican) and William Foley (Catholic) in a portrait by Anthony Howes. We follow the two prelates as they go about their administrative, pastoral and priestly work as Bishops in the Church of God. Archbishop Foley is the first Australian born Catholic Archbishop of Perth, and Archbishop Cainley is the youngest Anglican Archbishop in this counrty.
MARIAN CENACLE The Marian Movement of Priests monthly cenacle will be held on June 21 at 3.30 pm at Bassendean Presbytery. The Marian Movement of Priests lay associates monthly Cenacle will be held at Little Sisters of Carmel 2 Fraser St, Swanboume on Friday June 15 at 10.30 am. Enquiries: Bob Wright 447 6223 or Yolanda Nardizzi 447 8885.
YCW BALL The YCW will hold a gala ball on Saturday, July 7 at the Morley Civic Centre from 7.30 pm to 12.30 am. Music will be 50-50 by Capri. Individuals, couples or parties, young or old are invited. Tickets $14 single, $12 for unemployed, pensioners or students include supper and are available from the YCW office 30 Claverton Street, phone 328 9667.
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While most other people being concretely put into by DOM FRANCIS were spending the long action that day. B YRNE OSB weekend in various recreaOne of the Oblates I spoke tional activities or resting with told me of the need number of Oblates, famiby the ocean, a band of he felt to 'find his feet' in lies and friends were going dedication Benedictine the simplicity of work and to make the journey up on Oblates headed for New prayer. The pressure of life the Saturday. Norcia. and work in the city was But God looked down The sun shone as immacburdensome and weighed with pity and withdrew the ulate as on any day of down the spirit of Man. overcast skies and grey summer and it glinted clouds and sent the blazing majestically off the ripe sunshine. black olives .. . It made all the difference The within olive grove, At Kensington on the eve come together and have He said he could 'breathe distance of the walking of Pentecost a programme f ormed a clear picture As I approached the scene again' among the olive of hive monastery, was a of Christian initiation con- which says God Loves of intensive activity, I saw trees, among men, women activity from mid-morning cluded with Archbishop Me," she said. smoke swirling erratically and children committed to on the Saturday until late Foley presenting the new According to Caroline into the crisp, clean air ... Christ. It was a day in afternoon. Catholics with special mis- Fouche of Langford her Father Anthony's aide-de- which his faith gained Mums, dads and enthusision crosses and urging image of the Church had camp, the reliable and strength. swarmed astic children them to go out to spread been very poor. "It was a What I found surprising — hard-working Dom Joseph around and onto the lines the Good News to place other people went to, at least initially — was the preparing the Argus was of trees which date back to whoever they meet. to be told how to live their large number of teenagers barbecue table and fire. early pioneering period the At the Easter vigil, one lives by some thundering He kept repeating: 'It's a and youngsters (and Maria when the monks, under was baptised and four oth- priest. Byrne's baby!) who turned great day, just great ...' their misSalvado, began ers received into the "Sometimes I came away The monastery's Blue up. Norcia. sion at New Church and confirmed in from the classes very conThey scaled the gnarled Van, which hauled seats to the second Kensington pro- fused because the teachthe grove, seemed some- timber and rose to great gramme to be conducted ings conflicted with my what out of place against heights in search of the by Father Frank O'Dea built up beliefs of the the lush green of the mea- bigger, more ripe olives. SSS. Four of the five are Church. Oblate Master Father Some hadn't picked dows and trees peppered married to Catholics. "It was nothing like what A nthony Lovis had the olives before, nor had been with black olives. "Changing your religion is I'd imagined — in fact it arduous task of organising I mingled with many of to New Norcia, so it was like changing the engine in was far more liberal and I the Olive-Picking Day and the Oblates and the atmos- a doubly joyful experience you car," said Bert Gill, found what I had been it meant, among other phere was one of sheer for them. now retired after being nurturing against the things, several trips in a Their presence added that bliss to be out of the hectic farmer, soldier, railway Church was unfounded four-whel drive to and from run of the city and into the 'fullness' and 'completeworker. and priests weren't living in the monastery picking up freshness of the country ness' to the whole project. "It wasn't an easy deci- the dad( ages and running supplies and transporting and its simplicity. sion to make and it takes the Church like authoritarthe olives to the red-brick At midday, Father time to get used to new ians. olive-crushing plant. Anthony and I led the ideas. "I also felt some anger It had been raining very I knew most of the faces, Divine Office with eve"In the army, the officers because I was losing my heavily and consistently ryone gathered round the yet I knew them better for roared at you to do things, excuse to be able to say to having myself mingled during that week and it table and fire. but no one forced me into was, no doubt, a source of myself 'I told you so' and St Benedict himself would with them in one of the this. worry to him in view of the have been proud as his most scenic spots of New be able to pull out," she "My sponsor was very f act that such a large motto 'Ora et Labora' was Norcia. said. encouraging and very helpActually, I did try my hand ful in giving me further at knocking down the e xplanations about the olives with a 15 foot stick, teachings. but alas, I could only count "I feel happier now I have six on the 'carpet' (the faith in the Lord Jesus." sacking used around the Ian Hollick of Claremont base of the trees for easier said his entry into the picking). Church had given him a In the afternoon Father freedom of enlightenment David Barry who had had in Christ's teachings. close contact with the Sandra Meek of AppleOblates over the years, cross, a mother and houseDom Benedict Mudd, Dom wife, said that in a world Bruno Knopp visited the of confusion and frustraolive grove and spoke infortion and lack of old fashimally with many of those oned morality and security present. she was relieved to be a The Oblates were confessing Christian and to enthralled with the day ... belong to genuine people and wouldn't mind repeat"about who I can care and ing the experience in the service ecumenical on Pentecost ABOVE: At the Mount Pleasant who care about me." future. "Over the years the pieces Sunday Archbishop Foley is pictured with St Benedict's parishioners Well done, all ye merry of my life have slowly Norm Thomas and Leo Westaway, Picture by BILL HUXLEY Oblates ...!
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ABC DISCUSSES ABORIGINES Father Hilton Deakin a Melbourne anthropologist who has specialised in Aboriginal studies speaks on 6WN at 9.45 am on Saturday, June 16. While working on his doctorate he spent three years living in remote Aboriginal communities — and his Aborigines' Mass, which had its world premiere at the Eucharist Congress of '73, has been sought throughout the Third World. He tutors at two of Melbourne's universities, and is Lecturer in Anthropology at Yarra Theological Union. We hear of his insights on the priestly life — and on the issue of Evangelism amongst indigenous people.
Olive picking day at the monastery
Pentecost programme at Kensington parish Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster
BULLS BROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday, June 24 at 2pm. For further information and bus reservations please contact P. Galea on 349 7135 or L. Martinz 328 4631.
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