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Student priest talks of his "in-service" training at Highgate pansh, See story pictures page 6
Archbishop Foley stands by his weekend criticism of the campaign against state aid being waged by the Australian Teachers' Federation and the State School Organisations.
Archbishop opens school In a comment this week he said the opening of the Lumen Christi College, Gosnetts where he made his criticism is pre-
cisely an example of co-operation and not of divisiveness. He said the Catholic Education Commission made no claim to
take away money from government schools. "In fact, the latest funding proposals of the Schools' Commission were endorsed by the
Dom Francis Byrne looks at two Benedictines helping to put New Norcia on the seminar "map." See story, picture page 4.
The new Lumen Christi school at Gosnells opened by Archbishop Foley in the weekend.
Gleeson slams RIF ADELAIDE: Archbishop Gleeson has told the
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South Australian government its approach to the destruction of frozen embryos is "not good enough". He said the government was in-human and antilife in allowing hospitals to destroy fertilised embryos. On Monday, the government announced that people participating in in vitro fertilisation programmes were now s.as"s~\iP.W.two.a.s.rf•oa.e•are
required to sign consent forms giving the hospitals sole responsibility for stored embryos under certain conditions. The hospitals would be given total responsibility and the ability to destroy the embryos, after 10 years of storage or if the parents died or terminated their relationship. "Every embryo has the potential for unique human life," said Archbishop Gleeson. It is a unique individual ...,.•.,
from the moment of conception. Therefore it must not be destroyed. "This is a major issue and the South Australian government's approach to it is not good enough." The archbishop said the approval for hospitals to destroy embryos in certain circumstances had not been the result of legislation, but merely Cabinet approval. See British IVF programme horrors, page 4
National Catholic Education Commission even though they gave more to government than to nongovernment schools. "On Sunday I reluctantly raised the issue of state aid because the Lumen Christi College is a context where there has been maximum cobetween operation church and the government. Archbishop Foley listed the examples of co-operation: • The CoResponsibility Building Fund to which every WA Catholic school contributed helped service the $700,000 loan on the college. • Five neighbouring parishes had agreed to contribute a total of $30,000 annually to the project. • The Schools Commission had provided $938,900 to the first stage of the college. • The State government is providing a 7.5 per cent interest subsidy. • The archdiocese of Perth had purchased the land for the college at a cost of $400,000. • Cont page 12
Programme to involve parishes
Talk at top level
The Diocesan Pastoral Council wants an immediate programme to involve all parishes to set up small groups for the building of Christian community to provide better Christian witness and service for the Bicentennial Year 1988. It also wants the groups to express the compassion of Christ to those who need healing and for all existing groups and organisations to commit themselves to some period of prayer spritual reading as a part of all meetings.
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At Mount Barker last weekend Brother Simon Keane (left) of A quinas College explains to a group of parishioners the new catechetical guidelines published by the Catholic Religious Education Office last year.
A Mount Barker parish gathering last weekend to look at the new WA catechetical guidelines became an eye-opening sharing of faith for those taking part.
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"They hoped I would do all the talking but when they found out what the catechetial guidelines were all about and re-examined their own faith they really opened up" said Aquinas College religious co-ordinator Brother Simon Keane.
MADRID: Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, who resigned just over a year ago aArchbishop of Madrid, has criticised the standard of theological education at Spain's four Catholic universities. The Cardinal said the Church needed not just priests and Religious but also wellqualified theologians. He also criticised the mass media for giving the impression Christianity was a phenomenon of the past.
Fifteen parishioners took up the offer of the Mount Barker parish priest Father Hugh Galloway to attend sessions from midday Saturday to Sunday evening.
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aspects of life." Brother Keane said the sharing of the guidelines parishioners with involved showing them how the language of the classroom today differs from the words used in religious education a generation ago. "They kept going back to 'what was I taught?" he said. He said it was an opportunity for parents to see what schools were doing.
The proposal asks for a permanent committee to be formed to develop and direct the programme, with representation from parish councils, priests and religious and material help from adult education organisations.
A t last Saturday's meeting of the diocesan Pastoral Council Archbishop Foley emphasised issues raised at the Australian bishops' meeting ENQUIRY CENTRE. The Catholic Enquiry Centre now in its 20th year is concerned about apparent lack of financial support for its activities Although the Australian bishops had guaranteed limited funds, dioceses would have to develop individual initiatives to help the centre's advertising campaign. LIVING THE GOSPEL- Leaflets distributed to parishes last year are to be evaluated It was suggested to Archbishop Foley that language of the leaflets be simplified and be made more relevant to the issues of today. IN VITRO: A local committee would be formed to investigate and provide Church responses to questions in in vitro fertilisation. CANON LAW: Parishes will be asked to discuss the place of penance in the life of the Church and selection of holy days of obligation before any further decisions are made. A FRICAN DROUGHT: An Australia-wide appeal is to be launched and parishes approached for donations to relieve the African drought. Bishop Healy said the drought is so exceptional a special appeal is needed. It was suggested with the big grain surplus in Australia, the Federal and State governments should be urged to give generously t o the drought victims.
Other denominations would be asked to develop complementary programmes.
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The programme would concentrate on each person's awareness of the Holy Spirit and of Jesus' presence in the Blessed Sacrament in the light of Australia's title "Land of the Holy Spirit."
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This was a recommendation warml, received at last Saturday's meeting of the council to a report submitted by the Building Christian Community committee.
The proposal says the three year run-up to the bicentenary parallels Jesus' three year ministry and that some funding for the proposal could be sought from the government committee.
The Mount Barker parishioners were given a scaled down version of the three day study programme that is being undertaken by Catholic school staffs this year, Keane Brother explained.
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In other reports to the council: PRISONS: Sister Bernardine described the plight of prisoners and the problem of their rehabilitation in today's punitive system. She appealed for more Catholic involvement in dealing with the problems of prisoners.
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Dominican appointed NEW YORK: Dominican Father and controversial theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx, is to join the faculty of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago — the largest Catholic theological school in America — as a lecturer and scholar-in-residence.
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Vacancies for cardinals ROME: The vacancies in the College of Cardinals have grown since Pope John Paul held his February 1983 consistory to install 18 new cardinals. By mid-May the number of cardinals able to vote for a pope had already been reduced by 20. This number will increase to at least 25 if the Pope does not name new cardinals by the end of October. Vacancies for papal electors are created when a cardinal under the age of 80 dies or when a cardinal turns 80. Under rules established by Pope Paul VI, the maximum number of cardinals under 80 is 120. there is no limit on the number of cardinals over 80.
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Adelaide before his ordination in 1965. He served in the parishes of Victoria Park and Nedlands and as well was appointed diocesan chaplain to the YCS in 1969 and director of Christian Social Apostolate in 1972. Father Michael Gatt who has been at Moora since 1982 is originally from Malta where he was ordained in 1968. Arriving in Australia in 1971 he was the local Maltese chaplain for three y ears before becoming chaplain to Hollywood Reim-
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At the meeting with Swiss clergy in Einsiedeln, Father Markus Fischer, a parish priest from German-speaking Switzerland, presented a list of 10 concerns which he said had been elaboPRAGUE: The Czechoslovak legal system rated upon in a recent document has confirmed Catholics cannot work as sent by Swiss clergy to the Vatican. teachers in that country. Among the concerns, said The district court at Banska, Bystrica, has rejected the appeal by Jana Micianova Father Fischer, are laymen -who against her dismissal from her teaching wish to be taken seriously by post after it had become known that she had Rome," the integration of women enrolled her son for catechism classes. The court upheld the verdict of the lower into Church ministries, and court, which originally rejected Mrs Micia- wishes of those who feel Catholic nova's claim for wrongful dismissal. priests should be able to marry. "I have read and I have listened attentively to all the questions and concerns which you set out with frankness. I received STRASBOURG: The European Parliament has adopted them with seriousa resolution defending the need for private schools. ness," said the pope. The resolution was approved on a 118-53 vote by the Parliament, located in Strasbourg, France. "I do not know The resolution says parents have the right to choose whether they correswhatever type of school they want for their children, that pond to the thinking private schools have a right to receive a state subsidy the cares of the and in equal mesure to that given public schools and private majority of clergy in schools have the right to confer the same diploma as public schools. Switzerland, to whom European Parliament resolutions are not binding on I wish to speak."
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Rehecord Clergy and the medicos have to negotiate a similar hazard: the more they excel in their profession the more they finish up using language that ordinary mortals cannot understand. It is also a convenient place to hide. Thus Jesus talks about life and the theologian calls it sanctifying grace Doctors won't be satisfied with the good old pains and aches of yesterday; instead, blame a virus. Death was once the destiny of all; now, like a bus or train, we are in a terminal phase. The present controversy about unborn babies continues to surface and will not go away because the medical technologists have invented a jargon that insulates their actions and their morals from the scrutiny of ordinary humans who believe a baby is a baby. Since the beginning of time men and women have conceived babies; conception seems a simple enough description of this great mystery of life. In the laboratory jargon it has become fertilisation. Clinically it may be accurate but it separates very exclusive parents from the rest of mankind who know they are conceiving a child. The news readers and commentators too have learnt this language well and their impeccable pronunciation of words that would not have been pronounceable, let alone understood a short time ago, add the air of mystery to the latest incident telling how everyone is extremely worried and concerned but very careful not to call a spade a spade or a baby a baby The latest word to gain fashion is the mother who graduates to the level of surrogate. It may officially connote that a woman has become a mother by an artificial or mechanical method but one crafty father this week was reported as saying that how his surrogate became pregnant is nobody's business. It is a pity that the Bible is not invoked to loosen up the conversation a little. Abraham took a substitute mother when his wife Sara was infertile and no doubt it has happened thousands of times in the course of human history when the tribal lineage was at stake. In a blatantly permissive society where sexual escapades are shrugged off on every television screen, it is remarkable how coy people become at the notion of such conduct resulting in a substitute mother. Better to abandon them, say the brave macho males and leave the women to their fate in another new version of the jargon, the sole parent. It is by no means trivialising the serious questions surrounding frozen embryos - - not babies, we are told - - to say that ordinary intelligence is being insulted by the postunngs and clamourings of certain reproductive technologists who say they now want ethical guidelines for the procedures they have irresponsibly let loose upon society with not a hint of remorse or regret for the situation. The word ethic becomes part of the same dazzling vocabulary that can bamboozle the ordinary person looking for values. The Greeks believed in living ethically but the Romans felt more at home using the word morally. The Church traditionally used the word moral because it wanted to talk about what people do in real life and also to attempt to answer if this was what God wanted us to do. Morality is not merely a theory but also a practice. Theologians cut a fine distinction between theory and action by saying that an action may be immoral but the person does not become immoral until their conscience tells them so. The present IVF programme is throwing up a verbal smokescreen, defying anyone to make the slightest critical judgement about any facet of the process. The doctors therefore want to talk about ethics but they don't want people discussing their actions in moral terms. Simple people may be a little closer to the truth. A stock question in television interviews with parents of artifically conceived children is their reaction to criticism — usually from nasty churchmen who have dared comment not about the parents but about the morality of the procedures. Inevitably such parents say they do not believe they have done anything "wrong". In other words they know that the point has arrived where one calls an action either right or wrong. Let it be stated that no Catholic churchman has yet said that an individual couple have done wrong in producing such a baby. But the facts are slowly and distressingly revealing that there is more to the matter than a bouncing baby. If the medical profession and the intending parents say they want governments to supply ethical guidelines in such matters then they are asking for moral guidance and that also includes calling actions right and wrong. If the destruction of the unborn is to be glossed over by phrases such as wastage and termination then the sooner we tell mothers happily attending their pre-natal clinics that they are not having babies but are carrying fertilised embryos the sooner will the hypocrisy of the present debate surface. The unfortunate death of the couple whose children are now under discussion gives them the right of any other deceased to be judged by God alone as to the morality of their intentions. The stunned public need not therefore accept that any parent — with existing children, in this and recent cases — may consign babies, not euphemistic embryos, to laboratory stores; it reaches the blunt unpleasant stage where we are talking not about ethical or unethical actions but about right and wrong. Theologians have used harsher words to describe that simple distinction but let's not confuse the language further.
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Soviet visit ruled out
Efforts of two monks
VATICAN CITY: A visit by Pope John Paul H to the Soviet bloc countries has been discounted by Vatican sources this week. Lithuanian four The bishops made their ad limina visit to Rome on April 22 last year. They invited Pope John Paul to visit Lithuania in 1984 for the 500th anniversary of the death of St ( founder and patron of their Church. But was there ever any realistic hope Pope John Paul would be allowed to is what is now a republic of the Scwiet Union? The Rector of the Lithuanian College in Rome, Mons Ladislaus Tulaba, described a papal visit to the Soviet I •nion as "unthinkable" for the time being. "Moscow", he said, "does not want a repetition of what happened in Poland." The Catholic population of Lithuania is estimated at -75 per cent. It would be 1(X) per cent, say the exiles, if the State bureaucrats and security men from Moscow were sent home. The feast of St Casimir was celebrated on Sunday, March 4, with a Mass in St Peter's. A thousand Lithuanians of the diaspora were present. But the Lithuanian bishops were refused visas. "This was a matter of prudence," said Mons Tulaba "a way of avoiding friction." The last thing the authorities in Vilnius want is to encourage links between Lithuanians at home and abroad. Pope John Paul was equally "prudent" in his homily, alluding only vaguely to the "difficulties" and "trials" of Lithuanian Catholics.
Two Benedictine monks have been working quietly behind the cream-coloured walls of their monastery for the past few months planning an important symposium ... Father David Barry and Father Kevin Long are helping to put the historic township of New Norcia on the 'symposium map'. The Benedictine community's first symposium in May, 1980, was a huge success, attracting laity and religious from many parts. And Father Barry and Father Long are hoping that Symposium No 2 — coming up in August — will appeal to a wide section of people. The sympcsium will commence on Sunday afternoon (August 19) and conclude after lunch on the Friday (24th). Its topic will be a real 'live' issue for many in the Church today. Speakers will address themselves to the question of how a critical understanding of the history of monastic and reli-
Benedictine symposium organiser Fathers David Barry OSB and Kevin Long OSB
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gious life can help us to follow our vocation in the post Vatican II Church. In an age when criticism of religious institutions and the relevance of monastic life are common, the views of leading speakers will be eagerly awaited. —The talks will be down-to-
by DOM FRANCIS B YRNE OSB earth and practical." said Father Long this week "I can assure you that we will endeavour to run this symposium without any pie-in-thesky theology. It has got to speak to the issues of our day and be of help, we hope, to those who come." The leading speaker will be an American Benedictine, Father Joel Rip-
'Horrors' in British IVF studies LONDON: British scientists could soon be growing human embryos specially for research in laboratories, if the majority of the Warnock Committee get their way. The committee was set up by the British Government two years ago to study the ethics of surrogate mothering, test-tube babies, and artificial insemination. A report is due later this month, but it has been already revealed a majority of the committee favour experiments on cmbroyos grown from donated human eggs and sperm. This is in addition to experiments on "spare" embryos not needed by women having test-tube babies.
'Spares' inN experiments Such experiments would require consent of the parents. Donors of eggs and sperm would simply he informed that these could be used in research. England's Cardinal Hume, Archbishop of Westminster, has warned British Catholics
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to be wary of the contents of the report. Mrs Nuala Scarisbrick, honorary administrator of LIFE, the national anti-abortion pregnancy-care movement, described the move developing towards embryos solely for experimentation as "horrific."
Cardinal Hume She said: "The series of leaks about the committee's findings are to soften public opinion into accepting research on embryos.
PARIS: Father Joseph Maillard, a French White Father, was shot and killed by gunmen waiting in ambush while he was distributing food to destitute people in the Mityana Mission, 52 km north-west of Kampala, Uganda. He was 56. Father Maillard joined the White Fathers' novitiate in 1951 and was ordained in 1955. He studied in England before leaving for U ganda.
pinger, of Marmion Abbey, Illinois. Father Rippinger is Director of Religious Education at Marmion Academy. He is also an instructor in theology and American history at Marmion. He is a member of the American Benedictine Academy and has been retreat master for various Benedictine communities. An Australian Benedictine nun who is well known and respected for her and scholarship insights into modern religious life will also be on the platform. She is Sister Marie Gregory Forster, of the Benedictine community, Pennant Hills in Sydney. She holds the position of Novice Mistress and Sub-Prioress. Sister Marie Gregory has written widely on monastic and historical subjects and her articles have appeared in the Australasian Catholic Record, Tjurunga and the Australian Encyclopaedia. She has translated articles for Cistercian Studies and was co-editor of the Pastoral Letters of John Bede Polding OSB, first Archbishop of Sydney and founder of her monastery. An opportunity to share in the monastic liturgy will be integrated into the six -day programme. For further details (and bookings) contact Father Long (tel. 095) 438067 : 438018
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cial help. But they need something more, according to a French bishop.
MELBOURNE: A meeting of 135 leaders of r eligious communities has commended the Australian Government's acceptance of South-East Asian refugees into this country. The meeting also commended the Government's commitment to f amily reunion of refugees. The meeting was the n ational assembly of Major Superiors of the R eligious of Australia. The assembly of leaders included 110 heads of religious orders. It noted with concern the apparent growth in discriminatory attitudes and actions against refugees in Australia. The leaders said refugees have suffered discrimination and oppression in their own countries. It is intolerable that they should be subjected to the same in Australia. T he meeting also decided to write to Philippines President, Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipino Ambassador to Australia, the IIS Ambassador to Australia, asking the trial of Father Brian Gore and his co-defendants be heard quickly and justly. The assembly gave full support to a statement by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands urging the Papua New Guinea Government to grant asylum to everyone seeking it during the current border crisis in that country. The theme of the meeting was "A vision for mission."
"They need friends in Australia," says Bishop Yves Ramousse, who visited Adelaide last week to meet Christian and non-Christian Kampucheans living there. Bishop Ramousse, was Catholic bishop of Phnom Penh until 1975. He now heads the Office for the Promotion of the Apostolate among Kampucheans, founded by the Vatican and based in Paris.
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from EDMUND DOOGUE in Adelaide Among the Kampucheans Bishop Ramousse visited in Adelaide was a woman who is the only survivor of a family of 29. The rest were killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers.
A letter from a refugee This letter was written to Christians everywhere by a Kampuchean woman. She lost her husband and 10 of her 12 children after the Khmer Rouge soldiers forced them to leave Phnom Penh in 1975. Some of the children died while the family was hiding in the jungle. Some died from the work they were made to do %Own forced into Khmer Rouge working trams. Some died from hunger. Her husband was executed. Here is her letter. "Ten of my children are dead. my husband has been killed, but I don't hold that against anyone. "I have no bitterness against anybody. "My husband did not hate the Khmer Rouge and he did not want revenge for the evil they had done. "I am like him. "If I meet the person who killed my husband. I shall not hate him, for I have no hate in my heart. "I accept that I have lost everything. "I am not the only one to suffer — an entire race, an entire country is suffering. But I am sure that one day Kampuchea will find happiness again. "What I want to say to you, my brother and sister Christians of the world, is that with hope you can trust in God, whatever happens. "Your hope will not lead to disappointment. "That is what gives me courage." Bishop Yves Ramousse brought a copy of the letter with him when he visited Perth last week.
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"There are thousands and thousands of cases like that," Bishop Ramousse said. Christians have suffered particularly badly in Kampuchea since 1975, when Pot Pot came to power, the bishop said. Bishop Ramousse, and Father Robert Venet, who
accompanied him on his visit to Adelaide, said when they were expelled from Kampuchea in 1975 they passed a series of long dams. "The first had been built only by women in work camps, the next by children and the next by Buddhist monks," Bishop Ramousse said. For four years those same people had been forced to live in the camps, with intolerable conditions and not enough food. • Corrt page 12
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A student priest reflects on in-service training at Highgate
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As part of my training for the priesthood, I spent the final term of last year in the Highgate parish, living in the presbytery. Such a period in the parish is called a "pastoral semester" it is part of the more flexible six to eight year course which was introduced some three years ago into Adelaide seminary. Each student takes part in two of these pastoral semesters over the six to eight years. This was my first such experience in a parish. The aim of the first placement was to give me experience and observe first-hand the everyday life of a priest. Through involvement in various situations I came to some understanding of the tasks of a priest. I ask myself questions such as: "Am I suited to this life? Is this God's call for me?"
from PETER P1RES, of St Francis Xavier Seminary Adelaide
In the second later placement, I will have progressed further in theological and spiritual training and I will become involved to a greater extent in parish life: instructing parents for the baptism of their children; preparing couples for marriage; giving homilies; counselling and visiting Catholic homes. There were eight students
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Sir, — The theory of evolution has gained widespread currency throughout the world.
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According to it, there was a "primaeval soup" of amino acids (proteins — which, chemically, is what genes are). Some of these eventually came to "bond together" to form the "first living cell" from which all forms of life " 'evolved". Obviously, it would have taken millions of years for living organisms, especially men and women, to have evolved to their present state of variety and complexity. If this theory is true, then it is a law of nature, the biochemical operation of which never at any time required direct, miraculous and supernatural "intervention" on the part of Almighty God.
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views, encouraging new ideas and giving positive criticism where due. I learnt a great deal about priestly life through their example. It was through prayer they found the strength to keep going. I was forced to look at my own prayer life and see whereIstood in my relationship with God. I have a long way to go yet, hut I have a lifetime to do it in! in last year's pastoral placeTheir lives also nude an ment — most in their home impression on me in their dioceses. genuine love and care of people, whether young, old, We got to know the priests rich, poor, happy or with whom we shall he depressed. working in our dioceses, as Experience in the parish, well as familiarising ourwith groups, individuals, selves with the diocese as a families and schools, have whole. helped me to discover what priesthood is all about. I found it is the faith of those around me that continues to challenge and strengthen my own faith. The people of Highgate made me realise I had a deeper faith than I though. I had to answer people's questions from a "personally accepted" faith, which I must admit has been helped by my time at the Seminary. I have le.-rnt so much from these people about myself, and I am grateful for that. I have learnt also about the problems being faced by many of them in their everday lives. Because of the combination of an expanded How would I make Christ's message mean something of news coverage and associated production value to the young, the difficulties, priority in future will be given workers, the unemployed, to double-spaced typewritten or handthe sick and the elderly? printed letters of 150 words or less. Letters My seminary studies have taken on a new purpose must include a name and address, not now, because I can fit them necessarily for publication, and be at The into a context. week Record office by Monday morning the I believe I have something of publication. of value to offer people, the monme widh hope that comes with Christ. ically impossible for orgaNow all I have to do, with those which God estabnisms of entirely different lished in the beginning, if it God's help of course, is help genetic species — even very is true that He does not them to discover Him in similar species of the same "habitually intervene" in the their own lives. "genus" — to be able to. ordinary workings of nature I feel my presence in Highinter -breed and produce in a directly miraculous gate did challenge people to viable (self -reproducing) manner. look more closely at what offspring; which is sometheir faith means to them. thing they would be able to I am sure as more parishes do if they had had common in the future are asked to ancestors, take on the responsibility of They would then be of the helping to train future priNo one can legitimately ests, the diocese as a whole same genetic-type: just as hold, therefore, that there is will benefit as well as the different breeds of the same any discrepancy between students. genetic species (e.g. domesthe Holy Bible (God's Revetic dogs) can successfully About five or six WA parlation) and science (the ishes will be taking students inter -breed. study of His Creation). A horse-donkey cross is a this year between SepBoth show clearly, in their tember and December. mule. However, since mules own respective ways, that are always sterile, that As the years progress, more "all existing things and parishes will experience and proves that horses and donbeings operate within their benefit from this new develkeys cannot have descended natural bounds," according opment in pastoral training. from the same genetic -type; to their created or uncreated i.e. they are two separate I thoroughly enjoyed my abilities; as well as, "You and distinct genetic species. stay at Highgate and really cannot give what you do not These recently-discovered appreciate the friendship, have." (Genetic mutations hospitality and support laws of nature (concerning ALTER: they cannot ADD.) genetics) must have been received. We also had the opportunity to see our families each week, a fringe benefit for those of us away from home most of the seminary year. The family adds a unique support to our lives. With me in Perth were David Byrne who worked at Nedlands parish, and Paul Fogarty was a deacon who stayed at Hammersley. Before the placement we had a four week preparation on counselling, catechetics and homiletics. The benefits of this preparation were soon to be realised. The greatest discovery in this new but exciting adventure was the friendliness of the two priests at Highgate. They treated me as one of the team, respecting my
He has created matter with its material properties, has established the natural laws of physics and chemistry by which the "operational activities" of matter are regulated, and now need only, by His Power and Will, hold in existence the very atoms which constitute all material things. It is scientifically demonstrable that no such law as evolution is now operating in nature, since it is genet-
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Promises of investigation SAN SALVADOR, (NC) — El Salvador's new attorney general, a leading member of the right-wing ARENA p arty, has promised a thorough investigation into t he 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador. "I am not going to hide the in anything investigations under my attorney as c ontrol Jose said general," Francisco Guerrero, 47. Archbishop Romero was gunned down on March 24, 1980, as he celebrated Mass in a San Salvador hospital chapel.
were suspects No arrested in the killings and Church officials have c omplained no serious investigation of the crime ever was launched. Members of El Savador's right-wing political groups h ave been accused of plotting the archbishop's murder. R oberto D'Aubuisson, presidential A RENA's c andidate, "planned and ordered" the slaying. Says one source. Archbishop Romero was a n outspoken critic of human rights violation by El Salvador's government.
inPARIS: The greatest internal political
Briefs: nPEKING Communist China has confirmed its refusal to enter into diplomatic relations with the Holy See A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said "as long as the Holy See maintains its so-called diplomatic relations with Taiwan, does not recognise Chinese sovereignty, and interferes in China's religious affairs, we do not wish to have anything at all to do with the Vatican"
riMANAGUA Tension between Nicarai—iguan bishops and the Sandinista Government is showing few signs of relaxing In a recent homily, Archbishop Obando y Bravo of Managua answered recent criticisms of the Church's outspoken attitude by stating that "the Church will continue to be heard in Nicaragua." He told his congregation that "persecutors of the Church have disappeared, and the Church has survived." The Archbishop went on to dismiss the suggestion Marxism was the only course for Central America. "We Christians must show another way," he said. "That is to follow Christ, whose path is that of truth and liberty." ,11
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He also criticised control of the country's economic and political life by a small wealthy of c lass landholders. Several months after the a ssass i nat i on , ex an D'Aubuisson, intelligence officer, said the archbishop had been duped by the communists. "The archbishop was in good faith when he defended the popular and became m asses identified with them, but he w as used in the communist plans to take over (the g overnment ) ," D'Aubuisson said.
MADRIO• Spanish bishops have challenged their Government's policy over religious education in schools. The Education Committee of the Spanish Bishops' Conference has released a statement reaffirming the fundamental importance of prayer and religious symbols in the school curriculum. "No education authority has the right to proceed unilaterally in this matter to prohibit religious practices, to remove crucifixes, to convert chapels into rooms for other uses, or to shorten the part of the school timetable given over to religious education," the bishops said.
I—Idanger faced by the Soviet system is the growing number of committed Christians in the country, including hundreds of thousands of young people. This is the view of Tatyana Goncheva, a former lecturer at Leningrad University now living in Paris, who was speaking at a reception organised by the German section of Christian Solidarity International. G E
Bulgarian Alarm about returned Mass to prison might try to flee Italy while under house arrest and that his life would be in danger if he were not held tighter under security. Antonov was first arrested in November 1982 when Mehmet Ah Agca, the 25year -old Turk now serving a life term after being convicted of shooting the pope, accused Antonov of complicity in the attack
Agca later said he had been trained by the KGB. Soviet secret police, and the attempt on the pope's life '`Was done by the Bulgarian secret services." The Soviet news agency Tass called the decision "a new provocation" and said the decision "seems to indicate certain circles in Italy and elsewhere desire to exploit the pumped-up Antonov 'case' for their well-defined own propagandistic goals."
R OME: Italy's bishops a re urgently studying w ays of halting the falloff in the number of Italians attending Mass. They have been alarmed by the fact that as few as 15 per cent of Catholics attend Mass in the cities. A rchbishop Mariano Magrassi, of Bari, told t he 23rd Episcopal general C onference a ssembly that, as a whole, only 20 per cent o f the country's 56 million people went to Mass. In large cities the percentage was 15 per c ent.
The development aid to f amily VATICAN CITY (NC) — Government family planning programmes have often promoted sexual misconduct and publicly financed abortion, Pope John Paul II told the chief of the United Nations' population programme. The pope also said aid to developing countries should not be tied to family planning programmes. Contraceptive programmes "have increased sexual permissiveness and promoted irresponsible conduct with grave consequences, especially for the education of youth and the dignity of women," the pope told Rafael M Salas, executive director of the UN Fund for Population Activities. "The very notion of responsible parenthood" has been violated by distributing contraceptives to adolescents"- Pope John Paul said at an audienCe with Salas.
LONDON: About 1000 delegates from Pax Christi sections in 12 countries took part in the movement's international council meeting in Britain.
The pope said such programmes often led "to the practice of sterilisation and abortion, financed by governments and international organisations."
The bishops visited Cardinal Hume. The main theme of this year's international council meeting was North-South Problems, and the effect of the global arms race on hunger and development in the Third World.
He acknowledged "the decision to have and raise children is not always easy and often occasions sacrifice."
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ROME (NC) — The Bulgarian airline official charged with complicity in the 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II has been ordered to return to a Rome prison. Serge Antonov, the 36Rome year-old office chief of a air, Balkan state Bulgarian company, had been from released Rebibbia Rome's last prison and December placed under house arrest because of ill health. But the Court of Cassation upheld a lower court's ruling Antonov should go back to Rebibbia. It accepted the Rome attorney's state arguments Antonov
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"The Church is realistically aware of this," he said. The pope said married couples have the right to make a "free, informed and mutual decision regarding the spacing of births and the size of the family." The decision should be based on prayer and "morally acceptable methods of spacing and limiting births," he said. Church teaching rejects artificial birth control and encourages natural family planning, a method of birth control which depends on determining the time during a month when a woman is most or least likely to become pregnant.
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Many roles in her life Anxiety. Danger. Fear. Sorrow. Lack of understanding: Each of these played a role in the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus. As Pope John Paul II said recently: "Mary had a life like ours. She knew the daily difficulties and trials of human life. She lived in the darkness that faith involves." Often when people think of Mary today, some phrase or description regarding her will spring to mind: Mother of God . . . ever virgin . . . full of grace. . . Morning Star. Even though each phrase holds deep meaning, we sometimes find that the very same words seem almost empty just because they arc so familiar. How can we break through the shell which habits can produce? Perhaps one way would be to return to Scripture to discover in a fresh way what it meant for Mary to live as a woman of faith in her own time.
Hidden For Mary, as for everyone, the future was hidden. She, like the rest of us, had to struggle at times to keep her faith in God and to discover what her mission in life was, even when she didn't understand completley what was happening. Imagine the anxiety Mary must have experienced throughout her pregnancy. Think how she felt as her body began to change in response to the growing infant within her. First she waited in silence for understanding from her fiance, Joseph. For months
Mary "communicated and revealed the love of God to us. It is in this context that you can relate to her, for you are also called to make God visible, to communicate through your own lives the good news of his love." (Poet Catherine de Vinck quoted by Carmelite Father Eamon Carroll in the May 1984 issue of St A nthony Messenger magazine.) God's presence in her life was the source of her strength in the face of frightening change and danger. Her fidelity to the Spirit working in her makes her the perfect disciple and the best 8
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By Sister Christine Allen Mary waited, knowing all the while that her punishment for infidelity to her betrothed, according to Jewish law, could be stoning to death. Worrying about the damage to her reputation and fearful for her life, Mary must have struggled courageously to hold onto faith. Imagine her relief when Joseph, after receiving a message in a dream, decided not to abandon her, but to take her as his wife after all. But even the companionship of a husband couldn't protect Mary from the difficult situations to come. Her faith was to be tested repeatedly. As the biblical stories indicate, her faith grew in the midst of real struggles, dread and danger. Many women today, especially while pregnant worry about reaching the hospital in time for the birth. Think of the dread that must have seized Mary when Joseph had trouble finding a room in Bethlehem when she was about to go into labour. Then, shortly after her baby was born. Mary was forced to flee, to take an arduous journey to Egypt with her husband. She learned firsthand what it was like to be a refugee. Imagine the pain Mary must have experienced
example of human response to God's action among us." (Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, N.Y., in a 1982 pastoral letter on the roles of women.) "It is precisely in this way that Mary is the first model for the contemporary woman. . . as an altogether human woman who was painfully misunderstood by the man she loved; who was confused by her child's b ehaviour, who was not afraid to speak her mind or voice her questions." (Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, N.Y., in a 1982 pastoral letter on the roles of women.)
Contemporary women can find in Mary a fitting model for their 20th-century lives, said Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, N.Y., in an April 1982 pastoral letter on women. Many Catholic feminists today are turning to Mary in their search for a "strong, caring model, a woman faithful to herself and to the church," noted Sister of Mercy Patricia Smith, a teacher of theology.
when she heard that Herod "had all the male children killed who were 2 years old or under" (Matthew 2:16). Compare that to the way one feels at hearing today of an innocent child's murder. Mary's son was a child of promise. But the fulfillment of this promise was revealed to only a few: Elizabeth, the Magi, Simeon and Anna. Most of the time Mary had to hope in the future.
But Mary can't be restricted to women alone, Sister Smith said in an interview. Mary is a "model for all faithful men and women." In his pastoral letter, Bishop Clark said that when Mary's "place in life and continued ministry of the church is recognised and understood, the place of all women in the Church is assured." Women, he said, are "integral co-workers, as necessary to the incarnation of Christ in our world as Mary was to the first incarnation."
Feared Mary must have feared for the life of her son when the 12-year-old was lost for three days and nights. Think of the shock felt now on reading in the newspaper that a child is missing. When Jesus died on a cross. Mary experienced fully what Pope John Paul II calls "the sign of contradiction." She saw her son humiliated, tortured, killed — the son she thought destined "to rule over the house of Jacob forever." Yet Mary remained faithful, while many others ran away. It is easy to forget that the women and men who knew Jesus during his life on earth didn't have the same perspective on him that we do today in light of the Resurrection and Pentecost. Mary, along with Peter, John and the other disciples, lived her faith in the context of uncertainty and confusion. "They did not understand what he meant." Yet it was precisely her capacity to believe in the midst of difficult situations that made Mary — and these others — so great. It is also this that makes them relevant to us today.
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loped a popular course on Mary. Often the Mercy Sister finds that people's "understanding of Mary has a lot to do with their understanding of God." Those who view God as one who calls human beings to co-operate with him in his work in the world are likely to think of Mary in this light too. They look at the Annunciation, for instance, and see a woman co-operate with him in his work in the world are likely to think of Mary in this light too. They look at the Annunciation, for instance, and see a woman co-operating with God in that work, Sister Smith said. She added that Mary keeps us "rooted in history." Because Mary is a woman who bore a son, she keeps
us "from believing in a totally spiritualised Christ" The Scriptures present Mary as "a woman of her time, the wife of a poor working man, the mother of a wandering priest," Sister Smith said. Mary aligns herself most clearly with the poor and the oppressed in her song, "The Magnificat," Sister Smith said. "Mary could hear the cry of the poor and proclaim it so eloquently because she was one of them," Sister Smith wrote. The Magnificat, she suggested, is Mary's public acknowledgement of the call to work for justice. For Mary, doing justice meant "treating all with dignity and respect, because all were made in the image of God," she added.
"It has ever been the task of the Church to let the questions of the day challenge and deepen her understanding," Bishop Clark pointed out in his pastoral letter. In today's world, a proper understanding of Mary's role and that of women might mean taking a fresh look at the way women participate in the Church, he suggested. He called for an ongoing dialogue in his diocese and in the Church to find creative ways for women to participate more fully in the life of the Church. "It is this kind of dialogue between believers and their culture . . . which under the guidance of the Holy Spirit keeps us growing toward the full stature of Christ," he concluded.
Mary had to struggle at times to keep her faith in God and to discover what her mission in life was, even though she didn't understand completely what was happening. It was precisely her capacity to believe in the midst of difficult situations that made Mary so great. Etching by Marvin Hayes, from "God's Images."
The first Christian disciple Imitate Mary. Is that realistic advice? Consider these points: A man cannot imitate her motherhood; a woman cannot imitate her virginal motherhood. No one can imitate her Immaculate Conception, which was a completely free and extraordinary gift from God. What then? In this theological portrait of Mary, Luke highlights her role as the first Christian disciple. She heard the word of God and kept it. That can be imitated. Mary was chosen to be the mother of God's son because she was the "highly favoured daughter" (Luke 1), the object of God's love. It was not because of special merit on her part. Like all Christians, all Mary could contribute was her free acceptance of God's favour. She did that, in spite of the fact that she was "deeply troubled" and did not understand the implications of what was happening to her, or what God had in store for her. Mary's response in Luke's first chapter was that of a model disciple: "I am the servant of the Lord. Let it be done to me as you say." This same theme is repeated in the Visitation scene, when Elizabeth hails Mary with these significant words: "Blest is she who trusted that the Lord's words to her would be fulfilled."
By Father John Castelot Then, still in Luke's first chapter, there is Mary's moving reaction to God's offer of grace: "My being proclaims the greatness of the Lord . . . For he has looked upon his servant in her lowliness. . . God who is mighty has done great things for me, holy is his name." In the episode of the Presentation, an aged man named Simeon foretells the dramatic destiny of her son. And Simeon gives Mary this cryptic warning: "You yourself will be pierced with a sword" (Luke 2) The nature of that sword — one involving choice and
decision — becomes clear in the following story about finding Jesus in the temple, when he was thought lost When Mary chides Jesus for subjecting her and Joseph to such anguish, Jesus replies: "Why did you search for me? Did you know I had to be in my Father's house?" ( Luke 2). Gentle as this rejoinder from Jesus may have been, it expressed clearly the fact that he had his own work to do. His work would mean separation from her — a prospect to twist any mother's heart. What made the sword even sharper was the fact that Mary did not understand, as Luke goes on to say immediately: "But they did not grasp what he said to them." Nevertheless, the account continues, Mary kept trying to understand: "His mother meanwhile kept all these things in memory." This is the model disciple, one who gratefully accepts God's offer — the person who listens to God's word, trusts it, follows it. Once again in his Gospel, Luke reminds readers that here is where Mary's true personal greatness lies. We read of a woman in a crowd who cried out to Jesus, saying "Blest is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!" Rather, Jesus responds, "blest are they who hear the word of God and keep it" (1.uke 11). Mary is a model for disciples. She heard the word of God and kept it,
With everything completed, a group of f our swimmers and one father, the carpool's driver, assembled to leave. They walked across the parking lot. Suddenly, as they approached the car, the father exclaimed: "Where's Amy? We're missing Amy!" His younger child, who had come along f or the ride, had somehow been left behind in the community centre where the swimathon took place. The father's heart dropped to his stomach, and for a moment he panicked inwardly. Now everyone's a ttention was focused on Amy. Where was she? The father told the other children to wait beside the car, then he raced back to the building. As he ran, a million thoughts swirled through his head. All concerned Amy.
By Katharine Bird Both Bishop Clark and Sister Smith regarded Mary as a woman of action and strength. "There is nothing vapid or sentimental about her," said the bishop. "She is a woman with her feet planted firmly on the earth." Mary shows us "what it is to he Christian: to believe in God — to stand firm — to serve others. She heard the word of God and acted on it," said Sister Smith. In response to student requests, Sister Smith dcve-
The swimathon finally ended. The children dressed, then gathered around their coaches, reporting how many lengths of the pool they had swum, how much money they had earned for charity through pledges from parents, teacher and f riends. All attention focused for a few minutes on how well the children had done — and, of course, on the T-shirts and special pins they were to be awarded!
A s he entered the building, he immediately saw the teary-eyed child, who, like her father, couldn't figure out how she could have been left behind.
What do Christians today hold in common with Mary, the mother of the Lord? Often it seems that Mary is very much unlike us. Sister of Mercy Sister Christine Allen presents Mary as one who knows from her own experience what it means to encounter anxiety, fear or lack of understanding. Katharine Bird interviews Sister of Mercy Sister Patricia Smith, asking how Mary is a model for women today. Ms Bird also turns to a pastoral letter by Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, N. V., for some of his comments on Mary and the roles of women today. And Father John Castelot highlights Mary's role as the first disciple.
In some ways, this story resembles the story of Jesus who got left behind in the temple when he was 1 2. Surely Mary and Joseph could not quite imagine how it had happened. The biblical story often is told to help people imagine how Mary must have felt — how any parent would feel — in such a situation. But the resemblance doesn't stop there. It is found also in the fact that everyone's attention now becomes focused on the child. Where is Jesus? Where is Amy? Why? In the Bible, Mary, the Lord's master, tends to fulfill this kind of role: She f ocuses everyone's attention on Jesus. Who is he? Where is he? Why? This dimension of Mary's personality has been taken quite seriously in church history. To be the mother of Jesus says something about the mother, to be sure. But it says something about the son as well. To say that Mary is the Lord's mother is to reaffirm that his human nature is real, that in the incarnation God's Son became a brother to us.
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Convict showed A number of West Australians now wear as a badge of pride the fact they are descended from convicts instead of such lineA regular feature age being the subject of concealment it By BOB BOYLE once was. Among them — and "In fact I think my Bowen had arrived in the with very good reaS wan River Colony in own father, Frank, in 1853 as convict number son — is a wellhis long life of 91 2524. known Catholic idenyears to his death in The repressive cruelty tity at Northam, 1981 never knew his behind his savage sentencformer town clerk Jusg randfather was a ing is unbelievable today. tin Bowen. convict." "As children," he The full story started to recalls, "with my six emerge when Justin brothers and three decided t o do some sisters I used to jok- research into the family Asa 17-year -old, Michael ingly tell our young history. became responsible for his playmates we were In response to one of his six younger brothers and descended from con- inquiries, a letter from the sisters when both their Battye Library in a handparents died on the same victs, but neither they addressed envelope day March 11, 1847 — nor ourselves marked confidential of cholera, a dread and believed it. informed him Michael common accompaniment
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Justin Bowen was born at Northam on September 14, 1933. Educated at the Wongamine State School and the Northam High School, he worked on the family f arm for five years — during which he did six months' national service
with the RAAF — before taking a job with Atkins Carlyle. He became a local government officer with the then Canning Road Board in 1955, started with the Leonora Road Board in 1959, was appointed shire clerk of Yalgoo in
1962, shire clerk of Dumbleyung in 1963 and shire clerk of Northam in 1966. From 1972-82 he was town clerk of Northam. He resigned from local government to become an AMP Society representative at Northam.
of the potato famine then racking Ireland. Food continued to be hard to get and Michael was still looking after the siblings, four of whom had suffered cholera and were recovering, when on April 10, 1851, in King's Count (now County Offaly) he was sentenced to 10 years' transportation for sheep stealing.
August 30 1853. He was one of only 589 Irish convicts sent to WA of a total of more than 9,600 transportees to the colony between 1850 and 1868. Three hundred and three Irish convicts arrived on the Robert Small on August 19, 1853, and the r emaining 286 on the Phoebe Dunbar. Michael and his fellow convicts were imprisoned in the Round House at Fremantle because the prison at the port had not been completed. Historians comment that
the early convicts sent to WA from the arrival of the Scindian on June 1, 1850, up to about 1856 were mostly hard-working, good types of men and a surprising number of them ultimately became leading figure in the colony.
He was imprisoned at Newgate in London before being transported to the Swan River Colony aboard the Phoebe Dunbar which arrived at Fremantle on
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Some of the offences for which they had been shipped in fetters to the wilderness on the other side of the world for inor-
Justin was the inaugural president of the Northam dinately long periods would not even warrant a charge today. If they were now taken to court, a fine at most would be the penalty. The upright, exemplary citizen of WA that Michael Bowen proved to be, places him firmly in the ranks of the better class. With the exception of the Irish Fenians and some others, arrivals after about the mid-1850s tended to be more of the hardened criminal type who comprised the chain gangs often engaged in public
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The light shines brightly through the large warehouse windows where Peter Siney works. The large, bright room looks out over King Street, in the city and recently became home for Classic Stationery and Bookbinders, a company which specialises in book repair and restoration. For Peter Siney, recently out from England and looking for work, meeting Heather Brayshaw was a godsend. The two joined f orces last year, although Heather is the silent partner, and have since attracted a goodly trade, much of it restoration of bibles and religious books. Peter began his bookbinding apprenticeship straight from school and 20 years on loves it as much as ever.
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He and his wife Margaret (nee Carlton) have three sons and a daughter — Michael (27), 26year -old Suzanne (Mrs Farrington), Peter (24) and Simon (21).
"I find the work a real challenge especially when I get an old and beautiful bible through the door." More and more people, he says, are bringing in books that have been in the family for generations. People have become very a ware of their ancestral links and they want to hand these books on to their children, he said. "Bookbinding," he says, "is a dying art." "You can't do raised binding by machine and if you want a leather case for your bible then that has to be done by hand too. "The leather has to be
A regular feature by UOSIL MSS ! sheared down with a paring knife against a block of marble. We also make our own marbled papers as it was taking months to get stocks out from England." The oldest bible to find its way into Peter's hands was dated 1608. -That was a big job," he said. "I had to repair and restore it and with restoration you can't just pull off what is damaged, you have to match up and retain as much of the original as possible or else you reduce the value of the book." His smallest job was restoration of a miniature bible printed in 1896. It was fitted into a matchbox and demanded the ultimate in strong eye and steady hand. Surprisingly, said Peter, there are a great many family bibles in Perth. Most of them are from the period 1850 to 1900 and because such volumes are now unprocurable, they are cherished by the owners
Brass clasps and brass finished, sold leather covers and gold-edged pages are things of the past, he says. "It's hard to find a good bible now," Peter said. " They don't seem to last much more than 12 months before splitting apart. One client brought in a modern leather bible which she had paid $40 for but the gilding on it was very poor. Modern bookbinders just don't do craft anymore." While Peter can mourn the fading of his craft he continues to fight his own fight for the beauty of a wellbound book.
It's not surprising he loves books and has a special interest in poetry. Every poetry book he has bought soon found itself stripped of its cover and lying naked on the bench, ready
to be lovingly draped in the softest of leather or suede. Some were finished with the sheen of richly marbled paper and the gleam of gold lettering . .. all dressed up with somewhere to go. 'When you're in bookbinding for 20 years you don't go short of books," grins Peter. 'The hardest part is finding room for the shelves. My wife complains books are taking over the house." It's his fascination with books that adds the touch of excitement to Peter's job. You never know what you'll find.
9440PI.V"' There was the 1608 bible, printed by hand and one of the first bibles to be printed in English. Previously all bibles had been printed in Latin. There was the History of Western Australia, a set of books printed in 1912 that involved hours of work. Nearly every page was broken and brittle and the paper was so poor, each page had to be individually stuck to rice paper. Two days were spent doing nothing more than sticking broken pages to the rice paper. While some books are beyond saving, Peter is usually prepared to have a try. "If people bring in books that can't be saved then we make them a box to match
way for many parish council and is still a reader and commentator, and was the first chairman of the St Joseph's school board. He is a great-grandson of Irish convict Michael Bowen, later a pioneer and respected citizen of works around the colony. The authorities quickly saw integrity in the 5ft 11 in Michael Bowen and in 1854 he was granted the ticket -of -leave status that gave him a fair degree of freedom despite some irksome limitations.
In the same year he was appointed a special constable, a position of trust manifesting the favourable
the Northam district, who was transported to the Swan River Colony in 1853 with a 10-year sentence for having stolen a sheep as a 17-year-old in "the hungry forties" in Ireland to feed his six parent -less younger brothers and sisters. judgment officialdom had formed of him. In 1859 he married 17year-old Ellen Bourke. She had migrated with her parents from Tipperary and the couple lived initially near Toodyay in a stone cottage which was the birthplace of the older children. The ruins of the little house can still be seen. The Catholic Church, and indeed the State as a whole, owes a special debt to the young Irish women who came to WA about that time.
Family became successful farmers Many of them, after having been orphaned by the potato famine had been taken in by the nuns who taught them needlework, c ooking and other elements of good home-making in addition to instilling in them a devotion of their Catholic faith they carried to their graves. They filled a valuable role as domestics and "nannies in the wealthier WA households before marrying f ormer convicts in the woman-short colony. The State's history is redolent of the courage and perseverance with which they braved the vicissitudes of pioneering outback farms with their husbands and inculcated into their big families the eternal verities enshrined in the Catholic faith.
Michael's numerous letters to the Colonial Secretary bore fruit in 1859 when he was permitted to buy virgin land at Wongamine.
Immediately he set about clearing and developing the new farm in his spare time and with whatever capital he could rake together. First, he built a mud-bat cottage on the farm he called Patricia -- a name it still carries -- and in 1874 completed a nine-room brick house which still stands in good repair. It is now occupied by his great -great grandson, Linton Bowen. Michael and Ellen had
eight children between 1860 and 1874 when Ellen died at 34. She left a daughter. Mary, aged six weeks to be reared with the r est of the family by Michael. He died in his chair on the front verandah of his Wongamine home in 1893 at the age of 63. His eldest son, Patrick, married Ellen Williams of a family still in the Konnongorring area. Patrick and Ellen established a farm at Jennacubbine and of their six sons and a daughter one, Wiliam Francis (Frank), was Justin's father. The Wongamine and Jennacubbine properties are still owned by members of t he Bowen family and members of its various branches are also farming
in areas such as Wongan Hills and Konnongorring. "I am very proud to be descended from a convict such as Michael Bowen," Justin says — a sentiment he expressed on camera in the Channel 9 film Land Looking West. "He stuck it out, established a farm and started a family whose descendants now number hundreds." Justin is still researching t he family history and hopes ultimately, with the help of his brother Jerome, to write and publish a book on the Bowens. Already he has its provisional title in mind — The Bowens of Patricia and Beyond. S ome information has come to light as a result of
a trip to Ireland by his sister Eunice (Mrs Brockhurst) and correspondence he has exchanged with the parish priest in Offaly from where the Bowens came. One snippet is that the original Bowen home was located astride the border of Of-faly and Tipperary with the dining room and kitchen in Tipperary and the remainder in Offaly. Justin and Margaret have continued the Bowen lineage with four children — Michael, a solicitor in Perth; Peter, in local government with the York Shire Council; Simon, an auto-electrician who was the State's top trade apprentice last year; and Suzanne (Mrs. Allen Farrington), who is merchandise manager for Target Stores at lnnaloo
books with his ancient bookbinding art
arrival his talent the binding,- he said. 'The book can then still be kept in the bookshelf on display. -Very often the damage to books is just wear and tear, but many people don't realise even a book left on the shelf and not touched for 50 years will deteriorate. "It will be affected by the acid content of the paper and the leather which causes brown spots on the pages. "If something is not done this will ultimately destroy the book. -The best thing to do is put the book in the sun and dry out the pages — in fact this should be done regularly with books that are not read. "Leather tends to get brittle with age and even marbled edges can ultimately damage the paper. One of the most common forms of damage is where the sewing comes undone and breaks away at the back."
VINN.d R estoration can be an expensive business — most quotes range between $50 and $100. The higher quote is where a good leather cover is needed to replace the worn one. 'We give free quotes and also pick up and deliver," said Peter. "Some of these old bibles are just so heavy, people couldn't get them in here without difficulty. We are quite happy to return the
books free of charge even when people decide they can't afford to have the work done." The hardest job in restoration, he says, is matching t he coloured paper and matching the leather. Peter does all his own dyeing and has taught himself gold finishing. 'There's more chance of destroying the binding while you are finishing than at any other time. You are working with heat and if you make a mistake there is no way of correcting it. " The only thing you can do is re-bind the book." Yes, it has happened, he smiles, but thankfully not too often. Working on such a small scale has involved a great deal of effort in amassing the equipment needed for book restoration. 'We can't go out and buy the things we need," Peter said. 'They don't make them anymore for one thing and it can be very difficult to get secondhand equipment. One of the hardest tasks is matching up type and while they have managed to pick up some old lettering, much of the time Peter is forced to rely upon skill and innovation. There were cheers from both partners when Heather managed to find an old guillotine which makes deckle-edged paper — and sighs of relief when they found a way of making a
hand-press, and invaluable piece of equipment which is unprocurable in Western Australia. "It was a case of beg, borrow or steal," Said Heather, "so eventually we had one made." Heather, an amateur bookbinder and a lover of books has hopes of branching into the area of law books and of establishing a first-class reference library.
There's no shortage of ideas in the business which is steadily moving up to its first anniversary. In the 10 months since t hey began, Peter has moved from part-time to fulltime work. When Peter isn't restoring he does a lot of 'gift work', especially with religious books. "People buy the books they want and then bring them in to us and we put on a new bound leather cover and often make a presentation box. 'They can have initials put onto the book too, in gold lettering, which makes a nice touch. ' What we are doing is making books special again, something to treasure, to k eep for generations to come," he said.
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• From page 1 "We are not against government schools in any sense and that is why we have co-operated with the government planning department in the established of our schools and will continue to co-operate," he said. On the other hand, Archbishop Foley said, the Lumen Christi College was but one venture in one developing area. There were many other developing areas and he urged the Schools' Commission and the Federal
members to press for further capital funds for these developing areas. At Sunday's opening ceremony the archbishop said Christian worship and practice were integral and distinctive characteristics of a Christian community. He said a school had to be constantly aware of its identity and purpose otherwise it would lose its special character and the confidence of parents.
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convictions into practice," Bishop Ramousse said. "We say all men are equal and have the right to live without threats to their freedom, such as the Kampucheans experienced in their own country. "They have a right to freedom and we have a duty towards them."
"Many were killed — first the soldiers of the previous regime, then the bureaucrats, then all those belonging to the professions and then the students," he said. "And their families were killed, too." Bishop Ramousse praised the work done by the Australian Government and • From page 2 LAND RIGHTS: An educachurches in helping refutional progamme on the gees from Kampuchea. But he said that refugees Aboriginal Land Rights quesneed more than the accom- tion will be offered to parmodation they have been ishes along with the availability of speakers to address offered. "They need more than the parishes. Mr John Cahill tables and chairs they are suggested prayers be given when they ask," he requested for the guidance of the Seaman inquiry. said. SECOND HARVEST: Fol"They need friends." Father Venet said in their lowing an original contribuown country, which is a land tion by Archbishop Goody of of sunshine, the Kampu- MOO to this work a further chean people are full of request has been received for $9000 support over laughter. "But in Australia they don't three years with a similar request going to other major laugh," he said. Bishop Ramous.se said one denominations. VIDE() CENSORSHIP: The Kampuchean living in Adelaide manages to do her daily committee had met twice shopping with knowledge of with State Minister Des Dans only fiair words of English. to express their views and Most Kampucheans are concerns and had also made country people with little representations to Federal Bishop parliamentarians and the education, Attorney General about the Ramousse said. They find it difficult to live material entering Australia. in Australia because of the The council resolved to new language, food and send a letter commending the recent action by the customs. They often feel isolated in Premier Mr Burke on the the Australian community banning of X-rated videos because of the language and the restricting of the display of R-rated material. barrier. YOUTH: The committee "They need people to visit wants to deal with the questhem," he said. "But people should visit tion of large numbers of them not out of religious teenagers who are not involved in the daily life of zeal, but out of friendship.' He has come to Australia the Church and who feel to put them in touch with alienated from it. Statistics the daily life of local parish about the number of youth affected would be sought churches. "The presence of Kampu- from Church records and chean refugees gives us the the Australian Bureau of chancc to put our Christian Statistics
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Prophets of Hope Two young people — one in Sydney and one in Brisbane — are organising an Australia-wide convention for young adults — its theme: Prophets of Hope. They are Monica Mchterney, convention director, part-time teacher and volunteer youth worker in Sydney, and Laurie Moynihan, 22, Queensland coordinator, youth worker for the Christian Living Actitities Group. Young adults from other States willjoin them as State coordinators for the convention to be held in Sydney nextJanuary. Keynote speaker will be visiting American Father Edward Hays, author, storyteller and artist who has worked with American Indians and in the Orient. "We will also bare a lot of Australian resources at in workshops and in depth studies." Monica said "We will eviore aspects of secular santity in such areas as justice, spirituality, creatitity, youth ministry and relationships," she said. In Brisbane, Laurie said he would liaise with youth workers and groups throughout the State. "Several _years ago at a similar convention there uas a very strong Queensland contingent and we foutul it a most rewarding time" be said. "Iexpect seteral hundred young adults from Queensland itill attend this cotwention." The convention be held at the lnirersity of Neu. South Wales, Kensington, fromJanuary 14 to 18. -There trill be on-campus accommodation for 600. Live-in, full-board enrolment for the contention will cost $130 and live-out enrolment be $68," Monica said. "Already there is a team of rot:et:Wry helpers :corking touards the contention. "The .S).dttey Eastern Region louth Ministry organised a similar convention for young adults tuvi years ago atul out of that eVerietwe we are taking on this one." she said. "Different programmes UV be offered for three groups — people front 16 to 20 years. 20 to 30 years and a third category be people working with youth, for example, parents and teachers," be said. "One of the best features of this sort of convention Is the ongoing contact with people. "Inow hate close contact and frietuiship with people whomImet at the last Sydney convention. Although some of them live in Brisbane we bad never met until we it en! to the contention together," be said. Queensland, 12" ..Velson Street, Kalinga, 4030, (0") 573219. Sydney Mondays to Fridays (02) 66/ 5397.
Bishops give the C ardijn groups full support! Archbishop Faulkner
Australian The bishops' committee for the laity has stressed its support for the Cardijnbased youth movements. Committee chairman, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner, said there was a wide diversity of approaches in the youth apostolate. "People all over Australia are asking questions," the archbishop said. "We are being asked: What are the essential elements of youth ministry? Which of the many approaches being offered are valid?" Archbishop Faulkner said there were two things to say in reply. The first was that the Australian Church was firmly committed to Cardijn-based formation movements. "These groups use Cardinal Cardijn's review of life method — Gospel reflection, and prayerful personal formation leading to action. The second thing, he said, was that while the Church had this commitment, the bishops' laity committee encouraged a diversity of approach. "We would also like to say how grateful we are for the generosity of so many priest. s, religious and lay people who are serving the young people of our Church and of our country in so many ways." Cardinal Joseph Cardijn
founded the YCW in Bel- among young workers Belgian episcopate and comCardinal Joseph Cardijn gium after an incident early (with some young helpers) mended by Pope Pius XI in in life as a seminarian. as a curate of a suburban 1925. It was officially made was appointed the first interHe found that his old parish near Brussels. After a national organisation in national chaplain of the friends had abandoned the many unsuccessful years, the same year. YCW. Church and no longer saw especially due to Cardijn's The YCW movement soon The Young Christian Stuhim as a friend. He attrib- imprisonment during spread internationally, dents was formed for high uted this change of attitude World War I, the movement with the first international school and college students to their entry, alone and started to spread through congress in Brussels in as an extension of the YCW unprepared, into the work- Belgium between 1921 and 1935. It adopted interna- in 1925. Mgr Cardijn was ing environment. tional statutes in 1957. 1924. also director of the internaCardijn began his work It was recognised by the Cardinal Joseph Cardijn tional YCS.
Belief put to the test "The days ot generous have volunteers gone." So claimed a young youth worker from one of Perth's voluntary youth organisations. I said I did not believe that was true. My belief was put to the test in the very next phone call.
A young married ‘‘ ()man whom I will call "Mary" asked me for help; I asked her permission to share her story through this column. Mary has been married for some 12 years and has three children. Her eldest daughter. Michelle had sus-
tained extensive brain damage when her windpipe was blocked while eating an olive at the age of two. It happened on Good Friday, 1978. Michelle has been totally dependent on other people's care since that day. Some parents may have had to resort to institutional care but fortunately 'Mary' has been able to manage at home. Her attitude is, 71'ou can't love a person just when the going is good. my kids are very precious." For the last six years 'Mary' has cared for Michelle and even though the doctors offer no chance of recovery, recent programmes have offered a glimmer of hope. This glimmer of hope can only made be made real by abundant and generous volunteers. 50 are needed. I am
asking the young people from Balcatta, North Beach and Hamersley to ring me and offer their services. All that is needed is 11 2 / hours per week or per fortnight. It must be regular. I expect to be flooded with responses. For some young people it could Ile a way of saying thank you to God for being preserved from some of life's tragedies and at the same time helping someone who is asked to carry a heavy TOSS. Please ring me or my assist • ant on 328-9878, or ring at night and leave a message on the machine — "Deidrier". Overcome your embar rassmcnt at speaking into a machine; this matter is too impor tant to %wry about such a thing. A name and phone number will do.
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 second in a three-part series, prepared by the Catholic Leader in Brisbane, which looks at the problem. Father Peter Casey writes: The two alarming issues highlighted in the AMA report — the rate of teenage abortions and suicides — reflect the pain and loneliness some young people experience in life. This loneliness often is within the context of their own family.
Pain and loneliness of our young people
Each family has its own story Intra-family communication to tell. Every person in the seems to be so inefficient in Among the significant moves is difficult to allude to them worthlessness will turn to family contributes to that some families that there is no for the person in the adoles- all. numerous kinds of relationstory. No two families are safety for the members who cent years is the growth But along with knowing ships, activities and even identical. Each is unique in do not have the family's nur- towards being their own per- about such developmental attempted suicide in an effort itself and is composed of turing potential. stages, it is important for to experience some sense of son. unique individuals. The focus of the AMA report There is a dialogue with the parents to appreciate the role peer acceptance beloning and Some families appear to be was adolescent health. For family values and traditions. of their own flexibility with worthwhileness. more acquainted with pain parents this is a problem that their sons and daughters. Families who experience and suffering while other confronts them throughout As the AMA report indicates, family conflicts among the Forceful families seem to limp from their children's adolescent many tennagers /adolescents members should urgently one tragedy to another. years. suffer tragedy after tragedy. seek help. It is never helpful to say to The child who is an adoles- There is the forceful inter- Some seem to fall through the Help which is often most families that they should bear cent is not a problem, nor vention of the attractiveness cracks of life in spite of all the beneficial is that which up under their infirmities and should the person ever be of peer group identity outside goodwill and efforts of their includes the family as a group give them no support to carry regarded as one. The problem the family. parents. to evaluate their style of their burdens. is contained in the context of There is the testing of one's Family loneliness is one of communication, family values, Today, in the modern society the total family. capacity to manage on one's the tragedies most families expectations of each other of sophisticated communica- When a child moves into own with the knowledge that suffer. One can be lonely in and their goals as a family. tion technology, there seems adolsecence it is apparent as the ledge on which one is a crowd or even in one's own If there is some dissatisfacto he more loneliness for there are significant signs of standing becomes thinner on family. tion with any or all of these people than ever there was in growth for the individual. the outside of the family, one If loneliness for the teenage then the members need to the past. Such growth of course chal- can also duck back inside for person becomes a sense of decide on what changes are Efficient communication is lenges the family also to grow, protection and security. alienation which produces a necessary, how they will successfully maintained not merely to contain the There are so many dynamic low self-esteem then the per- implement the changes and between space travellers and adolescent member, but to forces at work during the son becomes a potential how they as a family will earth, which brings them back share a broader vision of life years of adolescence leading hazard to him/herself. maintain healthy family func- Father Peter Casey ... 'Families who experience family conflicts ... should urgently seek help'. after a successful mission. with him/her. up to young adulthood that it The person with feelings of tioning.
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Mary was excited. She was going to have a baby. She could hardly believe she was a mother. Her relative, Elizabeth, was pregnant also. Elizabeth was much older than Mary. "She seems like Hannah, the Elizabeth may need someone to be with her and help mother of Samuel," Zechariah her," Mary thought to herself answered. "I'll go and visit her. If I can Mary sang on. "God cares help, I'll stay with her for a about the weak and the poor. God feeds the hungry. But He while." Joseph, Mary's husband, was sends the rich and powerful not excited with Marys plan. away empty." "I'll miss you very much," he Mary stopped dancing and told Mary. "But I'm sure you ended her song, "God never will be a big help to Elizabeth. stops loving us, just as He I wish you wouldn't go, but promised Abraham and our I want you to do what you feel ancestors." Elizabeth and Zechariah is right." "I'll miss you too, but I won't were so happy Mary came to be gone that long, Joseph. visit them. They had a special Elizabeth really needs me to meal for Mary. They talked and be with her now," Mary said. talked until long after dark. Mary stayed with Elizabeth The next morning Mary left Nazareth. She walked along and Zechariah until Elizathe road to Elizabeth's town. beth's baby was born. Then It was a long, steep walk up she went back home to Joseph to wait for the birth of her into the hills of Judea. Finally Mary saw Elizabeth's baby. house. She ran to the door. It was open. So she ran inside. BIRTHDAY She found Elizabeth resting. Happy birthday to Louise Her husband, Zechariah, was Reid, Karrinyup; Nicole Szy. in another room. Morley; Mathew Smith, GirraElizabeth could hardly wheen; Elizabeth McRae, believe her eyes. "Mary" she Derby; Simone Pitts, Ardross; cried out. "Mary, it's so good Peter Quinlan, Floreat Park; to see you" Elizabeth hugged Susan Lawler, Kardinya; Kerry Mary was so happy she began to dance and sing. Elizabeth called her husband, Zechariah, to come greet Mary. Elizabeth and Zechariah Mary and kissed her. "You are Leaf, Bunbury; Mary-Ann Hara great woman Mary," she said. were so happy Mary came to visit them. (NC Sketch by Beryl E. Newman 6-4-84) vey, Mogumber; Sharon Hor"You are great because you ton, Armadale; Catherine Hantrust God's promise to you." cock, Spearwood;; Cameron Elizabeth knew that God Kinsella, Carcoola. promised Mary would have a baby. Her baby was to Ix' How many letters are in the called God's son. abc? Three, the a, the b and the c. Happy What picture can you see on Dear Captain Bob a blank piece of paper? I'm very sorry that I haven't Snow VT'bite in a snow \Iary was so happy she began written to you for a long time storm. to dance and sing. Elizabeth but I have been very busy. I've Why is football played? called her husband to come just been to Perth and it was Just for kicks. and greet Mary. Zechariah great fun. We went to AdvenWhat is red and white and hugged Mary. came in. He ture World and we mostly travels at 100km per hour? The two watched and liswent visiting. A train driver's barn sandtened. Mary sang and danced. wich. "My heart praises God. I am Here are some jokes: If two is company and three full of joy because of God, my Knock Knock is a crowd, what is four and saviour." Marys eyes sparkled Who's there? five? with happiness. Zechariah and Donna Nine. Elizabeth smiled. They begun Donna who? What happened when the Donna ask a stupid questo feel Marys happiness. axe fell on the car? "God who is great, has done tions. There was an axe-e-dent. great things for me," Mary Knock Knock sang as she danced around the Who's there? Q. Why did the phone box? room. "God's love never stops. Dishwasher A. Because it saw the garden The Lord is strong and car- Dishwasher who? fence. Dishwash-a-da-way I used to ing." Q. What is the end of everElizabeth and Zechariah talk before I got me false teeth. ything?
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Dear Avril, Hello! Student Nurse Rogers reporting. Yes, it's me, all installed at the hospital and with three whole days; training uner my (non-existent) belt. Haven't exactly saved any lives yet — haven't exactly seen any patients! Have made some perfectly lovely beds and given blanket baths to a colony of plastic dummy parents, best friend and boyladies ... friend — and in entries in her Emma begins her training secret diary — Emma deswith high hopes. Determined cribes her new world in warm to achieve something for and witty detail ... hard-workherself, she still finds the ing, occasionally exciting and three-year separation from always exhausting — hut family and friends a little there are rewards; AND a frightening. In letters to her student doctor named Luke ...
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looked at one another. "Mary Julianne Green, sounds like one of the great Manjitnup. women of our people," Elizabeth said. To Captain Bob and Nurse Kerry, Sorry for not writing for so long. I hope you liked the two Follow That Dream, by pictures I sent in before. One Mary Hooper, published was the resurrection the other by Pan, $1.95. was the Garden of GethseI clambered onto the bank mane. Below I have written and sat looking out to sea, some jokes for you. pondering on the meaning of Tom: Why did your master life and thinking deep, mean- expell you? ingful thoughts... How could Joe: Because I killed a mosI start again after all the great quito. times we'd had. I wouldn't fit Tom: Where was it sitting? in down here. I'd be an out- Joe: On my master's head. sider; a townie. Well, better Kathy Dias a townie than a country bump- Girrawheen. kin! Her parents' dream of moving to Cornwall is a nightmare blow for Sally. How could she bear to leave London and be stuck away in the country ... with no mates, no music, no decent clothes, no parties and no Ben, just when she was getting somewhere with him.
But the long-awaited visit from her best friend. Joanne, brings some unexpected conflicts and Sally finds her determination to remain apart slowly undermined by the presence of a boy called Danny ...
• A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
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The Sacrament of Repentance and Reconciliation, by Clement Tierney, published by E.J. Dwyer, $8.95. Reviewed by Brother John Hill, Redemptorist. This book is con- more at those with some where yoU aCCusc yourself God ... that is the point which times past pcole had to make public penance and discusses cerned with the theol- training or background in and are then judged. This can I found most helpful. anxiety this clearly in the book. and of fall a lot also feel, can involve I Priests. many too are There theology. ogy of the sacrament of into the trap of focusing on penance rather than the technical references for it to pressure. From my point of view, I'm They forget that it is not just details of what people say. actual celebration of the be otherwise. sure. but can't prove, that The understanding it gives about what the priest does, it The Sacrament of Repent- when people come to confessacrament. So says Cleance and Reconciliation offers sion and are told to say five ment Tierney in his introFather Clement Tierney is a priest of the a great deal of food for 'Our Fathers' that they see it duction.
Archdiocese of Sydney and author of several books thought ... whether in respond- as making up to God. Tiernc-y 'And yet, he adds, 'this is and numerous articles on liturgical and sacremental ing to a penitent, presenting treats this attitude very well. not the whole truth. On the themes. He has participated in a series of a sermon or discussion. one hand it is extremely He says that penance is not ecumenical discussions and joint working groups as It is true that at one stage making up to God but rather difficult for the faithful to confession had a sort of judi- an expression, a sign. that the celebrate this sacrament with an appointee of the Australian Episcopal Conference. For many years he was the Director of One of the activists who cial flavour and the priest did penitent cares enough to give active and conscious particithe Institute of Pastoral liturgy and closely involved devoted herself to the cause play the part of judge and this a token of penance. pation without some theologin preparing for publication, in Australia, the is one point which Tierney ical understanding of the Tierney quotes from the English texts of the Mass and the new rituals. He also takes up but maintains there nature and effects of the instruction of penance and played a large part in translating composing and the is more to it than that. sacrament. On the other hand says 'The Priest imposes a the rites and prayers of the Prayers of Intercession for the Divine Office Tierney also talks about the satisfaction on the penitent, approved for use in Australia, and England Wales, liturgical celebration are mercy of God and the fact that which is not only an expiation themselves a living expression Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland. Dr Tierney is God's forgiveness is total. He of the past but also a help for currently chairman of the Deparment of Dogmatic of theological truths.' also tries to relate the sacra- the renewal of life and a Theology and Church History at the Catholic Ibis very useful volume has ment of confession to the remedy for weakness.' been well researched and is Institute of Sydney. Church and the community in Coming to confession is especially helpful for anyone that the penitence we practise one concrete sign and this is hearing confession. It is how- of the idea of repentance is is about what God does to us. now is a private thing. hut it another. It should take the ever, not a book readily suited invaluable. Many Catholics see It is a gift from God. The ability does have a social context. Battle For The Franklin, by Roger Green, t o the layman hut is aimed confession as a law court to feel sorrow is a gift from He makes the point that in form of prayer, self denial or love and this depends upon published by Fontana, $8.95. R eviewed by what the penitent is confessR oslyn Ross. ing. don't know how much Hobart to Launceston ) about impact the battle for the the decision. As an ignorant I would recommend the Franklin River in Tasmania mainlander I had gained the volume to any young priest had on Western Australia — impression that the Franklin coming out of a seminary but some obviously cared a great was one of the last vestiges of would say that it best serves Thurston House, by replace the son, a bit of a 'bad Kaltenberg. Her mother's famdeal, many cared not at all and untouched wilderness left in someone in a seminary or Danielle Steel, pub- apple.' who was killed off in ily were diplomats and her the rest were either in favour Tasmania . . . not at all, it is maternal grandfather WM a theological institute or collished by William Col- the war. of retaining the natural order but a small, but very beautiful, Portuguese diplomat assigned where book of the sort It's lege. I have done a fair amount lins, $9.95. Reviewed of things because they simply part of a large whole. you could read the first three to the United States for a of post-graduate study and I by Roslyn Ross. believed in 'conservation' or had to read some parts twice. For the Tasmanians the If you are kx)king for a little pages and the last three pages number of years. against moves to stop the dam But it is worth the effort. It beauty of their State goes light reading then this may do of each chapter and not miss American-born. Danielle going ahead because they saw is a book that has a lot to say without saying, as does the the trick. I would advise, a thing. lived in Paris for most of her it as an infringement of State and while it is not hugely necessity to guard that beauty. however, tying it to the coffee The most amazing thing of childhood. At the age of 20 rights. difficult it does take a bit of But the hydro-electricity table when you're not reading all is that the author, Danielle she went to New York and The fact that the Federal Steel, can write such boring work. scheme represented sorely it as it's likely to float away. started working for Supergirls. Government finally stepped in needed jobs to many of those There's not a great deal one prose considering the inter- a before-its-time public relaand stopped the Tasmanian in the 'Apple Isle'. No one can say about books like these esting life she has led. tions firm run by women who Government from flooding could deny them the right to except that they are harmless Danielle Steel is a descend- organised parties for Wall the Franklin was an infringeant of the Lowenbrau beer be angry over the fact that enough. Street brokerage houses and ment of State rights, the 'interfering mainlanders' had Thurston House follows in barons. Her mother is Portu- designed PR campaigns for effects of which will no doubt stuck their noses in where it the 'great' tradition of family guese and her father is Ger- major firms. When the recesbe truly felt in the years to did not concern them. . . af- sagas; heavy on the family and man. Their common language sion hit, the firm went out of Rev. Dr. Clement Tierney, D.D. Come. is French, although they all ter all it was their State, it was light on the saga. business and Danielle 'retired' of the Department of Dogmatic TheologL Chairman languages. their people who were unem- We start with Jeremiah Thur- speak eight to write her first book. Church Histoni at the Catholic Inqitute of Stiiinc. family, father's the Danielle's ployed and their future which ston, 44 and a mining baron was at stake. More than one marrying for the first time. His prominent banking and brew- Now that is the stuff that would comment that 'you lady love is Camille, a capti- ing clan, has always lived in books are made of. What a pity This book is concerned with the theology of the sacrament of can't eat wilderness' . . in vating eighteen-year-old who Munich and the family seat she can't look closer to home penance rather than the actual celebration of the sacrament fact you can't even get to see wants nothing more than a was a moated castle in Bavaria, for ideas. And yet this is not the whole truth. On the one hand it is extremely difficult for the faithful to celebrate this sacrament with it unless you have the strength good time. In 472 pages we active and conscious participation without some theological unand time to hike in — there not only dispense with Jere. derstanding of the nature and effects of the sacrament. On the are no roads; the area, as of other hand the rites and prayers of the liturgical celebration are themselves a living expression of theological truths. Conlast year anyway, was largely sequently throughout this book continuous reference is made to inaccessible. Australian Labour Eco- from gold sequin jackets to the rite of penance to illustrate the theological principles innomics Readings, edited a military coat and a Coco volved. If this did not happen it would simply mean that theolBe that as it may, Roger by BJ. Chapman,J.E. Isaac Chanel outfit and a pair of Roger Green ogy is working in some kind of vacuum and making no contact Green's book will no doubt andJ.R. Niland, published woolly socks. With clear with the great saving realities that people experience in the acby MacMillan Australia, instructions and an attracappeal more to all those who tual celebration of the sacrament. For the rest of us though, our tive colour photo of every (paperback)$39.95 $24.95 thought the Franklin should CONTENTS INCLUDE: garment. feelings for and against, were (hardcover). he saved. • The Mystery of Sin based largely upon ignorance, Here is presented a wide • The Mercy of God and the Sacrament of Penance variety of studies reflecting because just as people in the It covers the battle for this • Conversion and the Sacrament of Penance Eddie Charlton Returns contemthe major issues in • Repentance and the Paschal Mystery to Australia, The Comeastern states know less than wilderness area of South West • Confession and the Sacrament of Penance porary labour economics. plete Book of Snooker, they should about Western Tasmania and talks about the • Penance: A Sacrament of Reconciliation New readings for this edi- published by MacMillan Australia, so all people on the unsuccessful attempt to stop tion include 'National Australia, $14.95. Please order by completing the Order Form below and sending it to Wages Policies' Employmainland know less than they the flooding of Lake Pechter Australia's World MatchDWYER (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD., ment and Unemployment' in the early 1970's. should about Tasmania. P.O. BOX 492, DARLINGHURST. NSW 2010. and 'Wages and the Individ- play snooker champion I visited Tasmania shortly The book records, through Eddie Charlton is a superbly Please send me copses of THE SACRAMENT OF REPENual'. T ANCE AND RECONCILIATION at $8.95 per copy qualified instructor in the after the Federal Government conversations with the partict echniques, tactics and Cheque enclosed E Charge to my account made its move to save the ipants, the way the campaign miah and ultimately, the aging Knit One, by Angela showmanship of snooker. Add $1.50 per copy for postage and Packlng Franklin and was surprised, was organised and what mot- Camille but we manage to run King, published by Paper- The Complete Book Of Name both by the amount of virgin ivated the main 'characters' to through an assortment of mac, $12.95. Snooker is a compilation of Here is a whole variety of Eddie's two previous bestA ddress land that still exists in that become involved and stay other family members to finunusual knits to try this sellers, Winning Snooker State (in fact much of it is with it. ish with a Thurston grandPostcode winter. Some are very easy and Trick Shots and is reAvailable wherever Catholic Books are sold or from the publisher untouched) and by the bitter- Roger Green is a writer and daughtei . . born to his only and others will be quite a issued in one volume by E . J. DWYER PTY. LTD. ness of Tasmanians (from conservationist. daughter in her late 40's to challenge. Patterns range popular demand.
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ACOLYTE TRAINING Acolyte training will take place on Tuesday evenings August 7, 14, 21 in the Murdoch Theatre, University of WA, commencing each evening punctually at 7.30 pm and concluding at 9.45 pm. A ttendance at the training sessions and at the retreat on Saturday and sunday October 6-7 are compulsory. Exemption will be granted only on the prior undertaking by a priest that a condidate will undertake an equal and agreed substitute course that includes material to be presented at the training sessions.
Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster
liDOGS' .CHANCE RACE ONE: Windfire 1, Flash Encanto 2, Tangle Ash 3. RACE TWO: Countess Kim 1, Arthur Daley 2, Happy Satan 3. RACE THREE: Lady Temlock 1, Valiant Tempo 2, Lucky Buzz 3. RACE FOUR: John Michael 1, Dynamite Duke 2, Man of Mickila 3. RACE FIVE: Black Shogun 1, White Foot Lass 2, Noble Shane 3. RACE SIX: Ethel Queen 1, Stoney's Hope 2, Scootalot 3. RACE SEVEN: Up Early 1, Alabama LISS 2, Col Presto 3. RACE EIGHT: Pearlman 1, Staroma 2, Norm's Desire 3. RACE NINE: Shy Point 1, The Suntanner 2, Large Score 3. RACE TEN: Will Scarlet 1, Bin Jo 2, Sekondi
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BASSEN DEAN MAJELLANS Any interested person is invited by Bassendean Majellans to a talk by Mrs Agnes McGlade on the Billings method of natural family planning at the parish hall Hamilton Street, Bassendean at 11 am on Thursday July 5. Mothers and mothers-to-be are welcome at the regular meetings held each first Thursday of the month at 10 am. Babysitting facilities are always available. For further information phone 279 9425. RIVERTON WALKS FOR REFUGEES R iverton parish will have its mind on the plight of refugees at the border of Thailand and Kampuchea with a walkathon on Sunday June 24. About 250 are.expected to take part in the 10 km walk along the Shelley foreshore starting at 11 am at Queen of Apostles church and concluding there with a barbecue. The decision to hold a sponsored walkathon was made after a talk given by Mrs Bernard who spends much of her time at the camps. The Catholic Parish Youth then took up the cause of emergency relief for refugees. ANIVERSARY CELEBRATION WAIT Tertiary Young Christian Students invite past members to celebrate their tenth aniversary party at the David Jones Pavilion corner McCabe and Palmerston St, Mosman Park on Saturday June 30. Tickets at the door $3.00 or by ringing Bernard Hart 330 4630 or Debbie Brown 381 2564.
FRANCISCAN SISTERS AT KENSINGTON Following the April sale of the Franciscan Retreat House at Victoria Park, the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary have moved to 16 Oxford Street, Kensington, phone 367 9307. The community consists of Sister Adriane DYT who works for the Australian Catholic Relief and who is ecclesiastical assistant to the Tertiary Young Christian Students, and Sister Elizabeth Curran who is attached to the Catholic Pastoral Institute adult education programme. PRAYER VIGIL The Osborne Park parish will host a parish vocations prayer vigil on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Friday, June 29. There are two prayer and reflection segments in the day, one at 9.30 to 11 am the other 7.30 to 9 pm. Hope to meet you there. DISCUSSION ON PORN The public is invited to a Newman Society discussion — Pornography and the Law which will be held in the senior common room of St Thomas More College on Thursday, June 28 at 8pm. Speakers will be Miss Kim Rooney, a Perth lawyer who is member of the state advisory committee for publications and Mrs Shirley Landquist a f ormer member of the select review committee. ABOVE.. Mercy College teacher Mr Mark Rhatigan waits his fate in the dunking machine. LEFT: Carlos Centeno, Shane Carvey and Yvette Star try the goldfish tank. See story below.
A41 Farewell - to Mons Keating
Official visit to Medina Race Talk with Rod Evans ROYAL GUN was the most impressive winner of the week, when he romped away from his rivals to score a very impressive five length win at Belmont on Thursday. This Vernon Brockman trained colt was expertly ridden by Max Roney and the combination should be successful again shortly. PRINCE OF PAUPERS returned to racing on Thursday and although he was in a race thought too short for him, he proved too strong for his rivals. This 4 yo gelding is another exciting prospect from the Frank Maynard stable and he will be even harder to beat as the distances of his races increase. CALINGIRI CITY at last added a quality race to his record when he careered away with the Edgar Meares Cup. Calingirl City has been the bridesmaid in many big races but now that he has broken through he should keep on winning staying races especially during winter when many star stayers are off the scene. FISTFUL OF DOLLARS resumed racing on Saturday and put in a very impressive performance to finish fourth after racing on the outside of the leader and then battled on very strongly to finish only 11 2 / lengths from the winner MOURILKO. Fistful of Dollars has always shown ability and should win races in this campaign.
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A visit by Archbishop Foley recently to Medina parish included meetings with the parish and the municipal council and also learning first hand of some of the difficulties experienced by families in the area. At the Sunday morning Mass the archbishop received Mandy Mendes and Joe Lock into the Church and confirmed them. A later social gathering with parishoners was followed by a presbytery lunch with the priests and religious sisters. All members of the Kwinana Council were present for an official welcome to the archbishop in the shire chambers where Mr Frank Baker presented him with a copy of "Kwinana-Third Time Lucky". The afternoon concluded with a meeting of the parish council where different problems in the area including unemployment and the effect of shift work on family life were discussed.
A Mercy College farewell to Monsignor Keating this week meant good news for the people who are helped by Australian Catholic R elief. A cheque for $2,037 raised in Project Compassion was presented to Monsignor Keating for passing on to Australian Catholic Relief. The money was raised principally at a mini-fete held at the end of first term, including entertainments such as a moon-walk, a dunking machine, a Countdown concert, a Last Dime casino, food stalls and raffles. As a result of activity by the college's 506 secondary students, the 1984 Project Compassion total doubled the contribution of last year.
Gourmet Supper Saturday July 7 7.30 pm MORLEY CIVIC CENTRE Tickets $14 single A t the entrance to St Vincents church. Medina, parish priest Father Xavier Barry and Father Glinn Humphries escort Archbishop Foley.
Students or unemployed $12
Phone 328 9667