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Father Brian due to return home about July 21 Perth will have to wait for a couple of weeks before it can greet the Australian Western missionary who has attracted world attention. Father Gore plans to rest up in Singapore before returning to WA around July 21.

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Father Gore was home on leave just two years ago. He had an inkling trouble would await him on his return. Just days after reaching his mission a trumped-up military raid on his presbytery started the case which has only now been officially dropped by the of government because insufficient evidence. In my book if we want to talk about the spirit of Christ in the world today Father Gore is a shining and compelling model and we owe him a great deal. If he has achieved anything, he may have started a process which is the beginning of the end of the Marcos government. It is the courage of people like Brian Gore that will see a new government in the Philippines and I notice that this week there are moves by the To make the process look opposition to impeach respectable the charges that regime. were brought to the local Just over 22 months ago I saw a news clipping that aPerth priest has been arrested I phoned and found Father Brian Gore stunned at being accused of possessing hand grenades and subversive literature in his house He said certain groups had been trying for a long time to get him because he was forming the basic Christian communities which would band together and he able to fight for justice. In subsequent weeks he described the appalling conditions of people working under the sugar barons and how the aid coming from overseas was not reaching the people for whom it was intended. It was important that the government keep him quiet and so began the most unbelievably unjust trial that the world has seen for a long time. His opponents resorted to torturing and killing people in order to get them to testify against the Columban priest. They found some way to lay on him the charge of having murdered Mayor Sola in an ambush.

court yet in 19 preliminary hearings not one shred of evidence was produced to substantiate the accusations. The government got into the mess deeper and deeper and the judiciary got caught in trap, perhaps the unwittingly. For these past 22 months I have phoned him once a week and for a tense five weeks I spoke to him every day just to assure him that he was safe and that if he needed the opportunity he

would have access to the overseas media. On one occasion they tried to have him transferred to a gaol on an outer island. 'If they do so, it will he the last you will see of me was the comment•. The transfer would have been the beginning of the end. He would have been liquidated. Fifteen months ago when he was charged over the assassination murder of the mayor; he went to gaol yet again, and after two months he was offered house arrest under military supervision. Realising its hopelessness

the government tried two approaches to win their case: they tried hard to make a deal with him to leave the country — and leave the six lay workers to their fate — and the military scoured the countryside to drum up prosecution witnesses who eventually were totally destroyed in court under defence questioning. That was when the people of Western Australia Senator Tate and the Australian Senate and the Irish government brought world attention to this travesty of justice and human rights.

The seven lay workers charged with Fathers Gore and O'Brien who have also been released. I am still critical of the way the Australian government approached this matter. It had the opportunity of protesting and acting after only six or seven of the preliminary hearings. In this instance that action should have been the imposition of sanctions.

Media campaign 'dishonest' ADELAIDE: A national media campaign being waged against Government aid to independent schools is dishonest, according to the Director of Catholic Education in SA. McDonald John Mr strongly criticised the campaign being waged by the Australian Teachers' Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations. "The innuendoes and misleading information that are being provided to the

Innuendos and misleading public are bringing the total education effort in this country into disrepute," Mr McDonald said. He was addressing the national conference of the National Council of Independent Schools, held in Adelaide last weekend. Mr McDonald said nonGovernment schools repres-

ent 24 per cent of all Australian schools. "Our schools will educate 760,000 students in 1984," Mr McDonald told the conference. "That is 25.3 per cent of the total school-going population. "It is also important to

consider the staff that nonGovernment schools employ. "In 1982 there were 39,295 teachers and 9,600 ancillary staff. "This year our schools will employ more than 40,000 teachers and over 10,000 ancillary staff." He added independent schools are a genuine alternative to the State system of education. • Coat page 2

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Need to defend against threat A DELAIDE: There is a genuine threat to Government funding for i ndependent schools said the chairman of the National Council of Independent Schools, Mr Tom Chapman at the national conference, which was held at North Adelaide.

During the conference it had become evident that the 370 delegates from independent schools across Australia felt a strong c oncern about the future of the country's 2,200 non -Government schools

ADELAIDE: Independent schools will have to defend themselves against the threat to government assistance a speaker told a national conference of independent schools here. Professor Richard Blandy told the conference that independent schools will have to he more activist on a political level. Professor Blandy who is the director of the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University, stressed that he was voicing his own views and not those of any organisation with which he is associated.

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to capture the intellectual and rmoral high ground, to communicate this effectively and to mobilise community and political support. The tnith is that the independent schools have a very attractive case to develop,he said. "This is that effective schooling, independence and smallness go hand in hand. "There is no doubt at all that people want to be associated with, work in, live in and be governed by small. personal vital entities — not large. bureaucratised, mass organisations." Independent sch()ols could harness a groundswell of popular feeling by identibing themselves as small. personal diverse institution,. that care about people .1, real individuals. he added.

VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul has strongly defended religious education, with a young urging all Church members to maintain pupil during one school Catholic schools and asking bishops in Europe of trips abroad. many to stand firm against current "difficult situations."

Pope Paul John described religious as education a fundamental right, even in State schools. He added families should not be forced by government policy to bear a financial burden to send their children to Catholic schools. R eligious instruction, either in State-run or Catholic schools, is a right that "belongs to the concept of religious freedom and the truly

Fundamental right even in State schools democratic state,'" he said. Families with children in public schools, he said, should be guaranteed the faith of t heir children will be

Liberal scheme criticised ADELAIDE: At a national conference of independent schools here, the director of Catholic Education in South Australia described as "pie in the sky" a suggestion by the Liberal Party that State aid to independent schools could be based on an assessment of family income. "They ( the Liberal Party) say there are no wealthy schools or poor schools, but rather wealthy families and poor families," Mr McDonald told the conference. "I dispute this. "You cannot tell me that there are not poor schools which are struggling to

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Media campaign • From page 1 "They give parents a real choice in how their children will be taught," Mr McDonald said. "They could be said to exist for one reason: to integrate general education with the development of a religious faith to

safeguarded, and their children's formation be completed with religious teaching. "A school deserving to be called a school must give space and be open t o the requests of c itizens, with the understanding and collaboration of the interested religions," the pope said. Catholic schools, the pope said, are essential for the full development of young Catholics in individual countries and therefore "must not be obstructed or reduced... "The Church has the right to have its schools, but it also has the duty to have them," the pope said, "because such schools help promote human values and the progress of peoples." Families must have the right, he added, "without any discrimination on part t he of civil authorities" and without "being obstructed by heavy economic burdens" to freely select for schools their children.

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Two New Norcia Aboriginals set good example Two New Norcia Aboriginals who died within a fortnight of each other had links dating back to pioneer Bishop Rosendo Salvado's day. In life, Mr Harold Willaway (74) and Mr Louis (Lou) Drayton (44) lived beside each other on 'the Hill' in the historic township. For most of their lives they worked for the Benedictine community at New Norcia and were keen sportsmen in their day. They were models of the Faith which Bishop Salvado and his band of monks dedicated brought to the district in 1846. In death, Mr Willaway and Mr Drayton were buried on consecutive Fridays in the old cemetery, a few feet from each other. "They were great friends in life and it's hard to believe they are both gone," said Sister Veronica Willaway, a Benedictine nun, this week. "Lou would often refer to Dad as 'uncle' and as a kid growing up here he was always in and out of our house on the Hill. "They were men of wit and humour and they made life pleasant for all. "When Mum died four years ago and Dad was at home Lou would often pop in and see if he needed anything. Lou was like a sone to him." Ironically, they both died outside of New Norcia . .. in the same hospital. Mr Willaway died at the R oyal Perth Hospital a few days after taking ill. A week before he had accompanied a group of Benedictine Oblates on an olive-picking expedition to the scenic olive grove within walking distance of the monastery at New Norcia. He told me then he couldn't remember at time when he wasn't picking or crushing olives. The ripe black olives were glinting on the trees as he said it. Mr Drayton was rushed first by ambulance to Moora Hospital and then to Perth where he was transferred to the intensive care unit. His sudden death shocked the local community.

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For the past few years Mr Drayton had been the mechanic attached to the monastery's farm workshop. He was a noted football player and cricketer. Both Mr Drayton and Mr Willaway went to St M ary's Orphanage School at New Norcia and many of the old monks remember them with affection. "Everyone was very proud of them," said Father Maur Enjuanes OSB this week. Father M aur had been associated with the orphanage for several years. "I knew Lou growing up as a boy and by this stage H arold (Mr Willaway) was busy at many different jobs around the place - fencing, olive-picking, olive-crushing, baking, the flour mill and so on. "They were always polite and courteous and they were a credit to the mission." Both funerals drew large attendances.

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A young Bedford man has become the only Australian in the Little Brothers of Jesus order after taking his VOWS at Guelph, Ontario (Canada) last month.

Alan Heble, the youngest son of the late Mr Dick Heble and Mrs Verdie Heble has been with the community of the Little Brothers for four years. He joined the order in Sydney, then did his novitiate with them at Aubagne. France. At present he is assisting Brother Bernard with a novitiate at the fraternity on the Jesuit farm at Guelph. His mother, brother Terry, and sister Christine, flew from Perth to Canada for the ceremony and stayed at the Guelph community with the brothers. The community of the Little Brothers of Jesus sprang from the life of Charles de Foucauld. It no longer has a fraternity in Australia since the closing of the Sydney community three years ago.

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Father Brian Gore and his Columban associate Father O'Brien are free but more importantly are also the six lay workers. Gaols are not pretty places, still less in Asia, and heroics don't make them any prettier. Obviously there is a block -buster story yet to pour from Father Gore when he gathers his thoughts and reaches a safer shore. He has said that the struggle for the poor Filipinos he befriended over 14 years does not stop with his release. The sudden collapse of the prosecution which only weeks ago was putting on a brave face of pursuing the trial only begs further questions about the murky proceedings to which an embattled judge has been required to give the veneer of a respectable conclusion. The Gore trial became an increasing embarrassment to the Marcos government and no doubt the need to negotiate the country's massive international debts contributed to his pressure to clean up the case at all costs. It is hard to say whether there is much to be gained by looking for villains and conspirators in a climate where even the murder of Aquino can finish up on a legal merry go-around so far.

ElCI El Father Gore's victory is that he achieved a high media profile that is denied to many another victim of injustice in today's world. Unfortunately, the news agencies know that the viewer slumped in a Western armchair can stand only so much of the troubles of a Third World that is out of sight and out of mind. How much good Fathor Gore achieved will depend much on the spectators' dispositions and whether they want to ask the questions to which he has provided some rather blunt answers. Father Gore knows that both inside and outside the Catholic Church the struggle to put over his message is far from over. While the possibility of a life sentence, even execution, fed a degree of sensationalism to the case, Father Gore knew that a swift farewell at the airport was available to him any moment he wanted to capitulate. He decided that his Australian passport to safety was a mockery of freedom if six men stayed behind in gaol because they were his parishioners. If they were in gaol, he would be there with them -- to the end. He was not so safe from the lonely bullet that is cheap in the underworld war that goes on relentlessly as the recent Phillipine elections illustrated. No wonder a Columban commentator said this week he would not like to be selling life insurance for the six men who have to pick up the fragile threads of the lives where the episode may be over but the score far from settled.

E LIE The Columban Society of Father Gore has understandably kept a rather low and somewhat cool profile during the whole campaign. They have to think of the hundreds of priests working in dangerous surroundings where a judicious exercise of diplomacy is their only credential to be allowed to get the local Church on its feet. Father Gore's departure is in a sense what that missionary group preaches, that once the time for the local Church to take over arrives it is time for the missionary to move to new fields. By co-incidence the Columbans did that just last month in Kabankalan parish that has figured much int he Gore story. Columban priests know only too well the price that many of their priests have paid over 60 years, with their lives and many other sufferings, to see the Church grow in many Asian countries. Yet even they were treading only in the footsteps of other great European orders whose men and women paid with their lives the price of Jesus' gospel in the last century. And that becomes the final and hardest question to which Father Gore's experience provides an answer long before the question dare be asked. How far does the gospel lead the individual in search of Christ? From a secular world with little interest in religion the responses may not be re-assuring.

El CI [I] World economists attend endless conferences where harsh statistics point out that the gulf is widening alarmingly between the rich and comfortable nations of this world and the poor who are schackeld with outright poverty, drought and lack of resources to say nothing of harsh and repressive government from within their own borders from those who have gained wealth and power. The man or woman who goes out in the name of the gospel to these frontiers of humanity closer to Australia's door than we dare admit — know that they are a lonely voice pleading for justice in God's name. The only consolation may be that the Church of tomorrow is turning out to be the Church of so many countries where life is most grim at the moment. Father Gore has given an answer to a question: not whether what he did was right or wrong, heroic or foolhardy. The question to each follower of Christ is: what would I have done in similar circumstances. Luckily only God knows my answer. We know Father Gore's.

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from TONY RYAN in The Advocate, Melbourne A MELBOURNE: Melbourne priest who w orked in the Roman curia at the time of Pope John Paul l's death does not believe the pope's sudden death has to be away as e xplained murder. Aldo Monsignor Rebeschini was secretary to the late Cardinal Knox in Rome and had to take a lot of international p hone calls seeking information the morning the pope died. Cardinal K nox got news of the from death pope's C ardinal Confalonieri, the dean of cardinals, who had an apartment a djacent to Cardinal Knox. "Some of the journalists put overseas f rom through me because there weren't enough English-speaking people to handle them thought Church should t he consider electing young and fitter men to the office. Any time anything out of the ordinary and quite happens u nexpected there's a real temptation to speak of scandals and make events to sensational.

Holt " The same happened when Prime here Minister Holt was drowned at Portsea: all of us have heard stories implicating the CIA or Chinese submarines off the coast. Mons Rebeschini, who left Rome only last also is September sceptical about how r eliable was author Yallop's contacts within in Vatican the researching his story. "If Mr Yallop did have access to the innermost sanctums, I'm surprised I didn't know about him before because I lived there for so long. "Certainly I wasn't anything but a very tiny cog in the machine but if he'd tried to contact Cardinal Knox I would have known. "If he'd been going about speaking to at least the English-speaking cardinals I would almost c ertainly have known because we were very friendly and formed a little community. "So I just wonder where he did get his information from and I suspect it was mainly the sort of gossip that I heard at the time shortly after the pope's death. "There was mention of an allegation Pope John Paul I would change the ruling of the Church on contraception. • Cont page 11

Debutantes and their escorts are (from left) Ursula Hynes, Matthew O'Donoghue, Suzanne Moloney and Bernard Hynes. BUNBURY: Youth and the elderly will benefit from a bus to be purchased with the help of funds raised at a YCW debutante ball held at Bunbury on June 23. R ay Power, Bunbury parish youth worker organised the ball with help from Mrs Lil Scantlebury and YCS members who waited on tables and served supper. YCW representatives came from Narrogin, Albany, Manjimup, Perth and Busselton. MC for the evening was Brendon Thomas former member of Catholic Parish Youth. Twelve debutantes, trained by Mrs Mary MacKinnon were pres-

ented to Bishop Quinn. The debutantes were Helen Hynes, Maree Hynes, Carol O'Connor, Maree Maidment, Suzie Cooper, Ursula Hynes, Tania Della Vedova, Jill Colgan, Janine Drummond, Suzanne Maloney, Sharon Barbetti and Paula Gee. Their escorts were Paul Harris, Peter Hill, Paul Rodgers, Wayne Prime, Charlie Collins, Matthew O 'Donoghue, Craig Dehring, Gerard Kermode, Michael Zaknic, Bernie Hynes, David Gammond, and Michael O'Connor. Pictures from South Western Times. Story sent by Mrs Pat Hay, Bunbury

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MANJIMUP: Father Kevin Johnson celebrated 25 years of priesthood on May 9 and a week later left for six months leave in his native Ireland where he will meet some of the 53 priests with whom he was ordained. At a Mass celebrated by Bishop Quinn and 30 priests Father Bernie Dwyer delivered a homily on the perfect priest. Year Seven girls from Kr:rnan College performed a liturgical Sunflower Dance in bright yellow costumes with large red crosses back and front. Father Johnson has been at Manjimup for over five years Picture and Story from W arren -Blackwood Times sent by Mrs S Fontanini, Manjimup.

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Maree Maidment and Wayne Prime, of Bunbury at the debutantes' ball.

"Use of their native language was appreciated by those attending, especially by some of the older women who, despite many years in Australia. speak very little English,said Father Tentori. He came to the Bun bury parish at the invitation Bishop of Quinn to conduct the Italian mission. He has v i s i ted Waroona, Bun bury, Donny brook, Manj imup , B ridgetown and Waroona He worked in a parish in J ohannesburg. South Africa, for four months beforc coming to Australia. "There arc 30,000 Italians in Johannesburg." he said.

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Not too many organisations with 700 members and 400 auxiliaries can operate on two full-time and one parttime staff, he said. No wonder these women are run off their feet handling 35 phone calls each day for welfare assistance, as well as doing the normal office jobs of paying accounts, typing letters and so on. In the last few years we have received some financial assistance from the Federal Government ( S16.(1(X) last

poor not detailed statistics to the Government. Pamphlets handed out at churches in the last few weeks provided a concise summary of the societ charitable works, but more detail is provided in the full annual report. This report has been distributed to many persons including the Archbishop and members of the Federal. State and Local Governments. "It is a requirement of the society rule that all council, conference and special works accounts be audited. I believe this gives ample accountability on the receiving and spending of funds. "Anyone who donates to the St Vincent de Paul Society can rest assured all funds are accounted for. To all our many benefactors, large and small, the society extends its sincere thanks for the trust people have placed in it. "Donations over $2 are allowable taxation deductions." Mr Preshaw said.

A DELAIDE: Father Jeff Foale who has been in charge of South Australian refugee centres will visit Thailand and Geneva on refugee matters before going to the US in September to study. He will take part in a conference in Geneva convened by the UN high commissioner for r efugees between between July 9 and 11 . It will focus on conditions in Africa. Father Foale will then go to California to study a course of creation spirituality at Holy Name College in Oakland. The course gives an overview of world theology and compassion involving social change. Father Foale said the Passionist provincial authorities had suggested that he consider further training. Father Foale hopes to return to Adelaide in late 1985. He expects he will be involved in spiritual work within the Passionist Order although he will still have some involvement with refugee work.

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paid for the insurance bill of $40,000 which covers the many buildings used, most of which house the clothing and goods from which the society derives its working income. "Our insurance payment also includes the workers compensation and voluntary workers cover." N1r Preshaw said

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year) but new conditions imposed by the Government are against the philosophy of the society. "The national council decided earlier this year not to accept further money. "Acceptance of such money would have put the society in a position of having to give specific assistance when instructed by the Government which may be contrary to members' assessment of the situation. "In some cases the Government might ask for more assistance to be given or ask members to explain why they gave as much help as they believed necessary. "After 151 years of experience we are in a better position to judge a family's needs than the Federal Government, which only entered this field a few years ago." he said. Statistical information sought by the Government as a condition of any grant would place an unnecessary burden on members, who want to give charity to the

Overseas study about refugees

SIR: Professor George Smith (The Record June 29) believes the lack of consensus about the embryo question could be helped by the Church giving more doctrinal guidance in the area of faith" The good profesgor has forgotten one small point. the Church's most basic and intractable doctrine of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, God made Man in the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, which provides absolute doctrinal guidance

Shared Whatever the labyrinths of today's legal and emotional convolutions, the Church has always taught that the Incarnation occurred at the Annunciation — that Jesus Christ true God became true Man at His conception, and so shared with all humanity the same moment of life's beginning. Had Mary had her "embryo" aborted, the world would have lost Jesus Christ. Pope John Paul II put it succinctly at the opening of the recent Holy Year, "From conception to resurrection, Jesus Christ is Redeemer." There is no need for

anyone who understands and accepts the fundamental doctrines of Christ's Church to wait for R ichard McCormack or Charles Curran or even Karl R ahner to make up our minds for us about life's beginning. Dr Rahner now knows the answer, and the Church has unequivocally taught the rest of us who have ears to hear.

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Donnelly is incorrect from J M Lenoir, Gosnells SIR: Paul Donnelly (The Record June 14) is incorrect to say the Beazley Report is mainly concerned with literacy and numeracy. The thrust of the report is to present a broader concept of education with substantial emphasis on personal development, life skills, vocational awareness and vocational related courses. Because of the pluralistic nature of our society it is extremely difficult for such a report to be specific and thorough in its consideration of morality and spirituality in that context. Therefore it is up to parents who send their children to

A broader concept government schools to make sure firstly the moral and spiritual formation of their children takes place at home and secondly the school does not at least contradict or impair that formation. On the other hand the private school system is well equipped to complement the task of those parents who wish to give a specific moral and spiritual formation to their children.

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Briefs: riBERLIN: Bishop Moser of Rottenburgi---1Stuttgart called on employers and trade unions to show more readiness to compromise in the dispute over a shorter working week, which led to widespread strikes in Germany. He said with more than two million unemployed, and with new technological developments, work must be shared out afresh. But he did not think the Church as a whole was competent to pronounce on the issues at stake in the current dispute.

r i NEW YORK. An American Jesuit priest says if the laws on pornography were enforced in Los Angeles and Washington, the pornography industry in much of America would collapse. Father Morton Hill, director of a group called Morality in Media, said in an interview public officials in both cities "are responsible for the sex industry spreading out through 50 states like acid rain" by what he sees as their failure to enforce existing laws. Father Hill said a US attorney had indicated in a letter he would not prosecute or enforce the laws "because no jury in Los Angeles would convict."'

[f] nLONDON Catholics in Britain are 1--Jmore religious than other Christian denominations and believe more firmly in a personal God and Jesus as the Son of God, according to a recent opinion poll published in Britain In a poll of 820 people, 14 per cent of whom were Catholics, carried out by the Harris Research Centre for the London Weekend Television programme Credo, 78 per cent of Catholics claimed they were very or fairly religious, compared to 50 per cent of Anglicans and 67 per cent of Nonconformists. Some 58 per cent of those brought up Catholics believed there was a personal God, compared to 35 per cent of Anglicans and 47 per cent of Nonconformists. Likewise, 68 per cent of Catholics were found to believe that Jesus was the Son of God, compared to 58 per cent of Nonconformists and 49 per cent of Anglicans

Russian's rock star 'arrested' MOSCOW: Leningrad Christian rock musician, Valeri Barinov, has been under forced psychiatric confinement in the Leningrad Psychiatric Hospital No. 5 for the past three weeks. His family had not been notified of this circumstance. When his wife demanded to know why she had not been informed Valeri had been transferred to psychiatric hospital, she was told by prison officials they had "forgotten" to advise her. Valeri Barinov, 39, founder and leader of the unofficial Christian rock group Trumpet Call was arrested on March 4 while in the city of Murmansk with fellow Christian musician Sergei Timokhin. Their families only learnt of this a month later, when KGB and militia conducted simultaneous searches of their homes. The Trumpet Call group was formed in 1977 and has, over the years, sought official permission to perform publicly. The group is made up of Orthodox, Baptist and Lutheran Christians.

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GENEVA, (NC) — Pope John Paul 11 gave a strong stamp of approval to ecumenism when he visited the World Council of Churches headquarters in Geneva and called for greater cooperation between the Catholic Church and the WCC, espe- experience great difficially in efforts for culties on the social, ethical or religious peace and justice. "We should meet levels, in living accordtogether more and ing to the dignity of more in all fields their vocation," the where human beings, pope said. "Despite our separations because of the burden the frequent differences and of their environment.

Golf carts for Mass QUEBEC: Priests will use g old carts to give c ommunion to a crowd of one million people expected at an open-air Mass by Pope John Paul II in Toronto in September. About 1000 priests are to assist the pope at the Mass. They will use the golf carts to reach the outside section of the crowd. It will be the first visit by a pope to Canada.

in methods of operation, we often meet on the level of social thought and action and we witness to one and the same vision, based on the same reading of the Gospel," he said. The pope did not say how the Catholic Church and WCC differ on methods of achieving peace and justice. However, in an NC interview earlier this year, Mons Basil Meeking, an official of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. said disagreement over means toward social change has been a sore point between the Vatican and WCC.

Harassment of Barinov and Timokhin escalated after they started evangelising among the drug addicts, dropouts and prostitutes of Leningrad's "sub-culture" ( the exitence of which is officially denied). Barinov can be held "under observation" in psychiatric hospital for up to two months before being tried. His friends fear he will be declared insane, tried in absentia and sentenced to indefinite psychiatric confinement. They also fear he is being given neumleptics. When he was held in psychiatric hospital last year, the doctor in charge of his case told Mrs Barinov that while her husband was not mentally ill, "his views on religion differ so much from those of the average Soviet citizen, he needs psychiatric treatment." According to Soviet law, Tatyana Barinov may not see her husband until after he has been tried. — Keston College report

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Boycott denied DUBLIN: (NC) — Ireland's bishops have denied they boycotted President Reagan's June visit to Ireland, but a spokesman said many bishops had engagements which prevented their attendance at functions for the US president. "There was certainly no collective plan and no collective snub," said Bishop Joseph Cassidy of Clonfert, spokesman for the Irish bishops' conference. Bishop Cassidy said a small number of bishops were invited to functions in their localities involving the president, but most had other engagements. Archbishop Dermot Ryan of Dublin sent a representative to a luncheon attended by ie president, he said.

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LONDON: Daily religious assemblies in schools will no longer' be legally demanded if the British National Association of Head Teachers has its way. At its annual meeting at Brighton, a report calling for changes in the law was carried by a large majority. According to the 1944 Education Act, every school day in county and voluntary schools must begin with a collective act of worship if there is a room large enough to permit it.

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The Head Teachers' Working Party report advocates an assembly of all pupils at least once a week also report The recommends that the phrase descriptive "religious instruction" should be dropped in favour of the term "religious education." Many teachers think such a change would not be merely one of description. It would clearly affect the content of religious syllabuses and perhaps encourage the trend towards the study of comparative religions rather than the concentration on n on -denominational Christianity envisaged in 1944. This, it is thought. would be more in keeping with today's multicultural society.

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St Maximilian Kolbe, the Franciscan priest who volunteered to die at Auschwitz in place of a Polish soldier who had a wife and children, is a source of inspiration to Father Joseph Kenna. He finds that with torture and death today being refined technologies in many countries, Maximilian Kolbe's simple act of selflessness bears the hope that the Spirit of Christ still causes compassion to bloom in people.

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The "communion of saints" is a wonderful image for the bond among all Christians, CunLawrence ningham said. "It reminds us that every Christian is striving to be a 'saint" — a word packed with much more meaning than people sometimes suspect. The communion of saints reminds Christians that they "live in solidarity with a whole Christian tradition, with those who lived before us and those living now," he said in an interview. "It shows we are part of a bond larger than our life in a particular parsih, in a particular town, at a particular time," said Cunningham, a religious studies professor who takes a special interest in saints and their meaning for today. He pointed out that in the early Church "saints were living Christians." The terms "saints" and

"believers" were almost identical in meaning. For St Paul, the "saints" meant "all believers true to the person of Christ," C unningham observed. Jesuit Father Karl Rahner like to say the "saints are people who teach us that Christianity can be lived out in this or that particular way which hadn't been thought of before," the Florida professor commented. He then related the story of Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian peasant. C unningham explained that during the early part of World War II Jagerstatter refused to be inducted into the Ger-

man army because he c onsidered Hitler's cause immoral. He was thrown into gaol. Partly because of his responsibilities as a married man, the whole village was against him, Cunningham said, "and many people tried to change his mind." But Jagerstatter persisted and eventually the police executed him. C unningham r emarked that the term "communion of saints" in the Creed dates back many centuries. He thinks that the words of the Mass can help Christians discover the depth of meaning in the communion of saints. In the Mass Christians "pray for our individual needs, for the needs of the universal Church, and for the needs of the living and the dead," Cunningham explained. These prayers remind us that our Christian ties embrace all followers of Christ, on earth and beyond.

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Have you ever wondered what Jesus would have been like if He had been born of of Italian parents in New York City? Or what effect he would have had if he had been born a woman, a black, a Hispanic? What if he had lived on earth as a married man or as a senior citizen?

Obviously there will no cr be any absolute answer to those ponderings. Still, for me, looking at the saints can provide some clues. Looking at someone who seems saintlike, listening to the person. maybe even touching the person, can provide insight to what Jesus might have been like as a woman, or a black, or a Hispanic. Christians are called to live the "Christ -life" in the particular circumstances in which they find ,hemselves. Each Christian has the potential to be the hands, heart and presence of Christ to others. But because the task is difficult. many get sidetracked. The image of God's love with a human face is seldom seen except in a blurred and confused way in the real world. Mahatma Gandhi is said to "I am thinking back a hundred years to a woman Inever knew, - Father David K. O'Rourke writes. "I see a woman who is for me a symbol of determination. - Grandmother was strong to the point of being tough, ambitious and aggressive for herself and her family, and successful in her ambitions. AndI am left with the impression that she could have faced have remarked that when he broncos and braves with a cool head."

read Scripture he fell in love with Jesus. But he added that he had never met a true Christian. Unlike Gandhi, the Church has met many Christians. Throughout history many people have tried to bring to life St Paul's comment: "I live now not 1 but Christ lives in me." That's a reason why Christians cherish saints, past and present. The saints mirror the image of God's love to us. As we look into the eyes of a saint or recall the memory of a saint from another era, we encounter Christ looking back. These disciples of Jesus, from every century, culture, race, gender and life circumstance, have responded in sometimes amazing ways to work of the Spirit in them. The saints reveal the presence of Christ in what they say, think and do. And from the stories and reports of the saints, we gain inspiration and education in our religious history.

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am thinking back a As I glance backward in hundred years to a womanI time, Isee a woman who is never knew But sbe is an for me a symbol of determiindispensable link in my own nation. human history. To my mother sbe u-as We all come from some- "Mama." nerer anything else. where, every one of us — not To my father, who spoke of justpersonally, but religiously her with awe in his voice, she as well. Our faith has roots sins always "Mrs Woods." And that reach back into the to the others in the human family. For the when they thought that the Church is a communion that smallfry were in bed, she was not only stretches out into the "one of those Byron women." world around us but back in She was strong to the point of being tough, ambitious time as well, and aggressive for herself and her family, and successful in her ambitions.

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She saved and managed and accomplished one of ber goals — a handsome new house with porches and gables. For her, the centre of the house was the large kitchen where she and her sisters gathered to cook, to can foods, to bake and to plan.

We call this communion the "communion of saints." And we're talking about sanctity written in the flesh and realities of human life, not sculpted in plaster.

The kitchen'sprincipal ornament was a large wooden clock. I don't know what it was like. But Ido know that for grandmother the dock represented a departure from a pattern, a luxury in

a world in which extra money was better put into land and iniestmerits. The town where the family tired bad no church. Sunday Mass meant a seven-mile trip. first by foot and then, with better days, by carriage. But grandmother's through efforts the archbishop agreed to permit the founding of a

parish in her toirn. She set about raising the money for the new church. The new church. temporary though it would be, still needed all the appointments that were part of decent worship. Most of all, it needed a tabernacle for the Blessed Sacrament. In those days before frequent Communion became the rule.

an indiriduals piety focused pie luxury, her kitchen clock. suggested that she was much more than it often does She remored the works saintly, both she and all who today on the Body of Christ inside, reneued the exterior knew her would bate thought reserved in the tabernacle and lined it with material the person daft. and exposed for public ado- from her wedding dress. What are saints like? Grand- But somewhere in that cornration on special occasions. mother was determined not ple.x of strength and ambition The search for a tabernacle sweet, aggressive not gentle, was a very realfaith. And she ended where it bad begun, in ambitious not bumble, and was determined to band it her kitchen. For grand- successful in the ways of the down to her children. She had mother sacrificed her princi- uorld. If anyone had ever the missionary's determina-

St Maximilian Kolbe is one such person for me. He is the tion that the faith she had Franciscan priest martyred at received would continue into Auschwitz in May 1941. He the generations to come. volunteered to die in place of a Polish soldier who had a wife As Ifollow the roots of my and two children. faith back a hundred years, It is difficult to say why his this is a woman I meet. She simple act of selflessness was quite determined, a peraffects me so strongly. Perhaps son who might not hare fit because it bears the hope — some images of what a saint in an age in which torture and is like. death are refined technologies in many countries — that the Spirit of Christ still causes compassion to bloom in people.

Sometimes people feel alone — even afraid — as they pursue the Christian life. If their feelings were put into words, they might say something like this: "No one has ever experienced the difficulties, the temptations thatIencounter.Iam lost on a strange, uncharted island." The fact is that millions of quite ordinary human beings have responded to God. Each is just one person in a long line of those in history who have set out on the same path and stumbled bravely ahead in spite of every imaginable obstacle. But on second thought, each of us is not only one or as alone we may sometimes feel. Allfollowers offesus — past andpresent — are one in Christ They are bonded in His life-giving vitality. St Paul put it this :my: "All of you who have been baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Him. There does not

One hundred and three Korean martyrs are among the Church's newest canonised saints. The canonisation of these martyrs from a troubled and divided nation in the Far East took place this spring when Pope John Paul II visited South Korea. The ceremony in Korea marked the first time in modern Church history that a canonisation occurred outside Rome. There are many interesting stories of these Catholics martyred in the 1800s during a time of persecution in Korea. Many — 47 women and 45 men — were lay people, involved in many different occupations. One martyr, Father Andreas Kim, was Korea's first native priest. He was beheaded in 1846. Ten of the martyrs were missionaries. The Record, July 6 — 12, 1984

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Paul expressed that idea movingly: "Everything written before exist among you Jew or Greek, slam or freeman. male or our time utas uPritten for our instruction, that we nught derive female. All are one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3). In another place Paul wrote "Because the loaf of bread is hope from the lessons of patience and tbe words of partake encouragement in the Scriptures. May God the source of all one, we, many though tie are, are one body, for u patience and encouragement, enable you to live in perfect of the same loaf' ( 1 Cor 19:17). This union among Christians is intimate and vital — so much harmony with one another" (Romans 15). so that it can be described as an organic union, the same The author of Hebrews urged Christians to remember their kind that joins the various parts of a body together, all of leaders, "who spoke the word of God to you; consider how which derive vitality from one life principle. In this case the their lives ended and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the lifeprinciple is the risen Christ Himself same yesterday, today andforever" (Ilebreu,s 13). And Christ lives forever. So we are one with all Christians Human beings too are the same yesterday, today andforever. of all times, who were as human, as weak, as sinful as we So there is encouragement to be found in the lives of the are. saints of the past — and not only encouragement, but This is a reason why Scripture offers so many stories about companionship as well. ourfellow travellers, stories which do not gloss over theirfaults For they still are one with us in what we call, for want of and shortcomings but portray them as successful in spite of a better term, the communion of saints. all that — by the grace of God Their victory encourages us.

Or perhaps it is because the action of this saint holds out an ideal of the priesthood in which a minister literally lays down his life for the people ... represented in this case by a family. I find Maximiliam Kolbe tugging at my soul because in a world of hype and broken promises, I can sense God's creative energy bringing value and meaning into the heart of the modern nightmares. I need saints, and Maximilian Kolbe in particular, to help me make sense out of contemporary absurdities.

In South Korea, the pope noted, the church is growing rapidly today. He said that is "the fruit of the heroic witness of the martyrs." The martyrs are ancestors of the Korean people in two ways, said the pope. They are ancestors "according to the flesh, language and culture." But they also are "your f athers and mothers in the faith." And they point to the whole history of the 200-year-old church in Korea — "a community unique in the history of the Church by reason of the fact that it was f ounded entirely by lay people," the pope commented. For the Church, he added, these martyrs are like leaven. The Record, July 6 -

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A Publication about Catholic Education in Western Australia

July 1984

How Catholic schools help Employment prospects in Australia have changed dramatically in the last 10 years. Young people have been hit the worst. In 1974 the unemployment rate for 15-19 year olds in WA was 5.5%. Today it is more than 20%. Ralph Willis.Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, recently said that the employment rate for the population as a whole was "likely to remain around 9.5% for a long time. According to Ann Dick. Coordinator of the NonGovernment Participation and Equity Program (PEP) at the CECWA. widespread. prolonged unemployment produces complex changes in sodety. The average person may now have three or four jobs in a lifetime, not one. There are more men and women working parttime. Working hours continue to shorten. People have to be retrained at an increased rate to meet the demands of new technology. More people are unemployed for longer periods of time. One of the primary goals of the Participation and Equity Program is to help secondary schools to adapt to these changes so they can provide a better. more relevant education for all students:* Ann says.

Ann Dick PEP was introduced by the Commonwealth government this year and operates in both government and non-government schools. The non-government program, administered by the CECWA. has four fulltime professional officers. including Ann Dick. the Coordinator. The other officers are Jane MachinEverill, Carol Henderson and Brendan McKeague. These officers work with school administrators. teachers, students. parents and community members and employers to determine what kinds of changes need to be made in schools and how to make them.

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Youth Unemployment "What we realize. of course, is that we need to help young people gain the skills necessary for them to teach themselves for the rest of their lives." Ann. Learning says doesn't stop at the school gate."

-Many of the present programs don't fulfill the needs of students staying on at school.- she says. -Those of us in the teaching profession need to remember that we teach people, not subjects.

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1 5.19 year olds III 20-24 year olds Based on figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Lifelong Skills Students are being given increased opportunities to study personal money management buy ing on credit, renting and buying houses, legal rights and responsibilities and personal relationships. Career Education Carol Henderson is working with schools to increase the availability of relevant career education. Carol says, **Career education is more important than ever. Young people need good advice on careers and jobs and they need to be encouraged to broaden the range of jobs they think they are interested in. We must help young people prepare for life, not only a particular job. All students who leave Catholic schools should have had an opportunity to think through the differences between work, a career and an avocation." Work Experience Many schools already offer work experience and these programs will be encouraged and extended. Link Courses Link courses between secondary schools and TAFE are becoming increasingly popular because they allow students to learn skills usually not provided at the school. Ann points out that with increased numbers of students staying longer at school courses of study available at Years 1 1 and 1 2 need to be extended

A grand piano presents no problems for seven year-old twins. Julie and Jenny Ng. They perform on one each Saturday at their weekly concert for elderly nuns at the Sisters of Mercy Convent in Perth. Julie and Jenny are pictured here with Sister Phillip who gave piano lessons to hundreds of aspiring young musicians before her retirement a few years ago. Julie and Jenny attend St Benedict's in Ardross. They come to Mercedes College each Saturday for their music lesson with Sister Paula.

School funding

Cooperation not conflict Tony Curtis, Executive Secretary to the Catholic Education Commission of Westem Australia, has come out in strong support of the stand taken by Archbishop Foley in his objection to the media campaign being waged by the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organizations. government schools take funds away At the opening of Lumen Christi from "poor" government schools. College on Sunday. June 17. the Archbishop claimed that the camWealthy schools 'myth' paign against non-government schools was offensive and that it He points out that few Catholic misused statistical information. schools have the resources and He also said that it exerted unfair facilities to match government schand unreasonable pressure on not ools. According to Schools Comonly governments and ministers of mission figures, the gap between education but also on directors Catholic and government schools is general of education and education not being reduced. departments. "In the final analysis, however, we In an interview this week, Tony should not talk about "wealthy" or Curtis, Executive Secretary to the "poor" schools. The real focus CECWA, was very critical of the role should be on parents and their desire of the president of the Australian and ability to provide for their Teachers Federation. Mr Van Davy. children the sort of education they in this campaign against nonwant." Mr Curtis said. government schools. "It seems to me ironic that we "Van Davy has two roles which are don't hear from certain sectors any not compatible:* he said. "On the criticism of the many wealthy parents who choose to send their children to one hand he is a member of the government schools." Schools Commission which is charA disappointing feature of the ged with looking after the interests of campaign. claimed Mr Curtis. is that all Australian schools, government it is taking place at a time when. and non-government." "On the other hand, he is president throughout Australia, working relationships between the education of an organization which is committsectors have been very positive. ed to the abolition of non-govern"In Western Australia the Catholic ment schools and is actively campaigning to that end:* schools system has an excellent Mr Curtis cautioned people not to relationship with both the Education be fooled by the claim that nonDepartment and the Association of government schools are an enorIndependent Schools." mous drain on the public purse. In the interview Mr Curtis express"Each student in a non-government ed the hope that the many instances school actually saves the taxpayer of joint and cooperative activity well over $1000 on average per year." would not be reduced because of the Another myth Mr Curtis sought to current campaign against non-govexplode is that "wealthy" non. ernment schools.

Parents Launch Safety House Campaign Parents concerned about the safety of their children have organized the State Safety House Committee of WA. The Safety House Cornmittee wants to reduce dangers faced by children going to and from school and to create community awareness of these dangers. The Committee has been endorsed by Premier Brian Burke. One of the basic aims of the program is the establishment of safety houses in communities which are clearly identified so that children can go to them if they feel they are in danger. The Safety House Program operates on Government primary school boundaries. For this reason, Catholic school parents who wished to offer their homes as Safety Houses or to serve on a local Safety House Committee would liaise with neighbouring government primary schools.

Parents who are interested in finding out more about this program can contact the principal of their local Catholic school or Chris Gardner at the Office of the CECWA ((09) 381 5444). Chris was involved in the organization of the Safety House program and serves on its Board. Difficulties or suggestions about the program as it relates to Catholic school children can be referred to Chris.

The emblem picturedabove will appear on all Safety Houses. Children will be instructed to go to houses displaying the emblem if they feel they are in danger.

Bishop Jobst Celebrates 25th anniversary

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Catholic education: alive and well in the Kimberley Twenty-five years ago there were four Catholic schools in the Kimberley caring for 275 children with only two trained teachers among the staff. Today there are more than 1 100 young people in 11 schools staffed by more than 100 professional teachers. The strong position of Catholic schools in the Kimberley region reflects the energy and foresight of Bishop John Jobst.- observes Tony Curtis, the CECWA's Assistant Director. Bishop Jobst came to Australia from Germany in 1951 as a member of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, known as Pallottines. - As my job was to train missionaries, my superiors wisely thought I should first have some experience in the missionary life.- the Bishop says with a smile. -So, they sent me to the Kimberley.His experience in this isolated region was a sobering one for the young missionary. When he left the Kimberley two years later he had a great respect for the courage of fellow missionaries and nuns working in what were extremely primitive conditions by Western standards. He had also begun to develop an understanding of Aborigines and to recognize the value education could have for them as well as for the white population. After six years in the Eastem States training missionaries, he was made Bishop of Broome in 1959. When asked his reaction to this appointment. he says he was "appalled because I felt so totally ill-prepared and inadequate for the job.' Luckily for the people of the Kimberley. the Bishop's self-evaluation was passed over.

Tyranny of distance In the 25 years of his episcopacy. Bishop Jobst has devoted time, effort and money into expanding and improving Catholic education in this sprawling diocese of more than 773.000 square kilometres. While he has always been long on effort, he has often been short of funds and resources. He has waged one-man campaigns to encourage Australian teaching orders to participate in the apostolate of teaching in the Kimberley. He has outwitted the tyranny of distance in administering the see by flying his own plane from one isolated settlement to another and from one part of Australia to another. Frustrated by his attempts to get the support he believed was vital to the Church's mission in his diocese. he went to Rome to see Pope John XXIII in 1962. The Bishop believes that Vatican II directly benefitted his diocese in its reawakening of the missionary spirit. Today there are seven religious orders working in Kimberley schools. There are schools established at Broome. Beagle Bay. Lombadina. Wyndham, Derby. Billiluna, Lake Gregory. Kununurra. Turkey Creek and Balgo. Education in the Kimberley has been adapted to meet the special requirements of the area. For instance, traditional notions regarding the structure and function of school buildings had to be cast aside. Early in the piece. Bishop Jobst called in Perth Architect, Bill Fitzhardinge. to analyze soil, humidity, wind and heat conditions in order to design buildings which would work

with the environment rather than against it. As a result, the Catholic school system has established the best architectural standard for school buildings in the region.

Nulungu College The Bishop sees the establishment of Nulungu College in Broome as a most significant achievement because it provides education to young Aboriginal people closer to their home environment. Operated by the Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, Nulungu College caters for 200 boys and girls. One of its principal functions is to prepare its students for jobs which exist in the Kimberley. In the Bishop's view. "the opportunity to work gives people selfrespect and dignity, both important aspects of Catholic education. '

New school preserves Aboriginal culture The school at Balgo Hills in the Kimberley is an example of cooperative effort between the Church and the Aboriginal community. The school at Balgo Mission is again part of the Catholic system in the Kimberley. Once operated by the Sisters of St John of God, it was ceded to government in 1962 when the order had to withdraw from the school. In 1982 community members from this Aboriginal settlement approached Bishop John Jobst of Broome about taking up the operation of the school.

Aboriginal Needs

Aboriginal people saw the Catholic system as capable of meeting some of their special needs. These included community participation in the school, pastoral care of its young people, maintenance of the Aboriginal language and culture and a flexible attitude towards curriculum. Bishop Jobst invited the De La Salle Brothers and the Sisters of Mercy from Victoria. The school was transferred from government operation to Catholic at the beginning of the 1984 school year.

Isolation

Bishop John Jobst Through its schools. the Church is trying to meet the special needs of Aborigines in the diocese. Education based on a Western model often has little relevance to life in the outback. Bishop Jobst readily adm4 that -teachers have had to make up their own curriculum as they've gone along, especially in religious education. We've adapted the liturgy using symbols and rites which have meaning for Aborigines. I think the liturgy has been enriched as a result.As an example of this adaptation. he points to the rite of purification which is based on the cleansing effect of water. In Aboriginal culture. water doesn't have this cleansing association but walking through smoke does. The rite has been adapted to reflect this cultural difference.

The future While Bishop Jobst is pleased with the foundation which has been laid in Catholic education in the Kimberley and is optimistic about its future, he is not complacent. "We have so many more things to do. We need more buildings, better facilities and equipment. We need more classrooms and laboratories. We need more money. time and personnel to provide a more relevant, caring education for our young people.His ambition to have fully-trained Aboriginal teachers in the schools is still unfulfilled although there are four students studying for teaching diplomas through special arrangements with Signadon College in Canberra. The teacher assistant program for Aboriginals has made progress. The bishop feels that the success of the teacher training program is really in the Aboriginal community's court. "They must provide much of the vision and guidance for the parameters of their education if it is to be truly significant."

Balgo is an isolated settlement in an isolated region. It is 3400 km from Perth and 905 km from Broome. The only link with the outside world is provided by the Royal Flying Doctor radio network. There is no television and only restricted radio-telephone contact. The mail from Perth can take more than two

serves as a community liaison officer.

Pre-school

There are 40 children in the government funded pre-school. It is staffed by five Aboriginal teaching assistants and a StJohn of God sister.

Adult education Some of Balgo's families gather on the school site. weeks. During the wet season the roads to the north and east can be closed for up to three months. Br Leo Scollen, Balgo's principal, concedes that administering a school in this kind of isolation can be difficult and at times, frustrating.

Locating and paying for these linguists is one of Br Leo's most trying problems.

Biculturalism

But he also says that the challenge of mediating between two cultures. Aboriginal and nonAboriginal, is an exciting and rewarding one. -The Balgo community wants the school to help it preserve and enrich its own culture. Promoting and preserving Aboriginal language is a significant way to do this. '

Balgo's curriculum is Numeracy. bicultural. typing. book-keeping, cooking, domestic science, carpentryand health are taught because the community believesthese skills will help them cope with many of the administrative demands of mainstream Australian society and to live healthier lives. At the same time the school encourages Aborigines to respect their law and traditions. Community members come into the school to teach traditional art, craft, dancing and hunting.

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The community is particularly keen that its young people learn to read and write their own language. Linguistic field workers must first write down and analyze this language. a sophisticated. long-term task.

There are more than 1 50 boys and girls at primary and secondary levels at Balgo. The staff consists of 8 white teachers. 4 religious and 4 lay. and 6 Aboriginal teaching assistants. One Balgo resident also

The community operates an adult education centre under the direction of two St John of God sisters. Courses in general education and in English and Aboriginal language are available to community members. There is also training for the Aboriginal teaching assistants who work in the school.

School facilities There are serious problems in regard to the school's facilities. There are insufficient classrooms, no laboratory facilities and no tools for teaching manual skills like carpentry. The home economics classrooms consists of one twin-tub and one stove. Some students use boards across their laps for desks. There are five classrooms for the 150 stud. ents. Balgo has applied to the Commonwealth Schools Commission capital funding program for assistance to Aboriginal community schools. Final action on the application is expected within the next few weeks.

Social worker "wins hearts" Whitfords Catholic Primary is one of several Catholic schools employing social workers for the first time this year. Susan O'Brien, a social worker with a degree from the London School of Economics, works with students, staff and parents at Whitfords six hours each week. Many of the youngsters she sees are -referred to her by parents and teachers because their behaviour is causing concern. "Often it is anti-social. aggressive or irritating behaviour which causes concern,- Susan says. "but I have also been asked about shy, withdrawn and even depressed children. Sr Jilyan Dingle, Whitfords Principal, says the current social work program in her school is an experiment. "We are trying out different ideas to see what approach will give us the full benefit of Susan's expertise.' "At first some parents weren't sure that having a social worker at school was a good idea but Susan has won their hearts '

Susan sees some children individually to help them cope with emotions or stressful situations which interfere with their academic progress or interaction with other children, teachers or family members. One important function of social workers in schools is to prevent problems from happening in the first place. To this end Susan conducts group sessions with children to give them opportunities to talk about their concerns in a small, familiar group. Children in these groups can talk about themselves and how they fit into their own families and wider social circles. They can also learn simple c ommunication and listening skills which will be useful to them all their lives. Sr Jilyan points out that one of the principal aims of Catholic schools is to help children have happy. fulfilled lives, now and in the future. -We are thrilled to have Susan with us because we think she can help us achieve this goal"

Susan O'Brien, social worker at Whitfords Primary School. works with small groups of youngsters. Here these Year 5 students are using dolls to role play themselves and other family members.

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In Conference

School Authorities Oppose Union Takeover

Parents help children with writing skills Book Review is written for parents who want some direction in helping their children select appropriate books. In this issue Rosemarie Worrall English teacher at WAIT, reviews two picture books set in Australia.

Year 2 students at Xavier Primary School discuss their writing with student teacher Rosalind Crothers. "Children want to write! They want to write the first day they attend school." So says Professor Donald Graves who developed the conference method of language development based on his research into the writing processes of young children. The conference method can expand the life expectancy of children's enthusiasm about writing beyond the first term of school, according to Denise Hallion, CECWA school consultant. 'Conferencing focuses on the process of writing: Denise says. -That's what sets it apart. Parents can be particularly effective in helping their children learn to write by the conference method because it encourages children to talk about their writing with advisors. a perfect role for parents. The process of the conference method allows children to choose their own topics. It gives them time to analyze and rehearse their thoughts by writing drafts. Children are encouraged to write for themselves but with the possibility of -publication- at the end of the process. Conferences Conferences take place at regular intervals between the young writers and a teacher or other adult advisor, such as a perent or volunteer. Children are also encouraged to talk to one another about their writing. In the conference, the teacher encourages young writers to develop their ideas. The teacher can see where individual children need help. Some may need help in organizing ideas and others in unfettering their imagination. Some many need help in skills areas such as syntax. spelling and punctuation. Skills in context Denise points out that research reveals that retention is higher if language skills are taught within the context of a child's own writing rather than separately in drill exercises. Publishing A child's work may be published when all corrections are made. It may be illustrated with drawings. pictures or other material which extends the meaning of the story. Denise believes the conference method is effective at all levels, including the lower primary level when children haven't yet mastered the mechanics of written language. Lower Primary -Children at the pre-writing stage can still 'write' stories by making squiggles on a page. Then, they can 'read' the story to the teacher. At this stage. it's important that children learn that their marks on paper contain a message. Children soon recognize that print does talk, that letters are formed in a particular way and can be grouped together to form words with specific meaning. Parents Parents can help their children develop positive attitudes toward writing by encouraging them to write or tell stories.

When your children tell stories, ask them questions which will allow them to expand the story. If you have an outing with your children, encourage them to write about it and to make drawings of the event. When your children want to tell you a story or show you something they have written, even if its only squiggles on a page. take time to talk it over. Denise conducts workshops for parents and teachers interested in the conference method. If you are a parent who wants to know more about conferences. contact your local school to find out if any workshops are planned in your community.

Possum Magic, Mem Fox (text) and Julie Vivas (illustrator), Omnibus Books, 1983, 32 pages, $ 9.95. Grandma Poss is a magic-maker whose magic goes haywire in this adventure which begins in the Australian bush. To protect her granddaughter. Hush. from snakes. Grandma Poss makes her invisible. Hush has lots of fun being invisible until she finds out Grandma has forgotten how to reverse the spell. Remembering only that the cure has something to do with -people food.- Grandma and Hush set off on their bicycle to find it. The magic of the story is complemented by the magic of the beautiful pastel watercolour illustrations by Julie Vivas. Touches of humour, curiosity and realism in the drawings make the characters instantly appealing. Possum Magic is definitely a fun book for small children (and their parents). It has also been short-listed for Picture Book of the Year by the Children's Book Council of Australia.

Tin Lizzie and Little Nell, David Cox, Aurora Press, 1982, 30 pages, $ 9.95. Tin Lizzie and Little Nell presents some of the conflict caused by the introduction of the automobile in farming areas in the 1930's. William Winterbottom and his family own a car. Tin Lizzie. Billy Benson and his family own a horse. Little Nell. which pulls a sulky. The story centres on Saturday race day when both farmers take their families into town. They enter a race to prove the merits of each farmer's mode of transport. The story is illustrated in cartoon and comic-strip style using colours which may be too drab to suit the taste of some. However, there is plenty of movement and action in each of these very detailed drawings. The vocabulary in part may be difficult for some children to say or understand. The print is clear and set out for easy reading. Both books have wide appeal but would generally be suitable for children between the ages of 5 and 10.

Teachers Choose to Forfeit Holiday

Pamela Mulcahy (right), a parent whose child attends St Michael's in Bassendean, talks over her child's progress with teacher Y. Karim. Teachers in South West and their families meeting during holidays to study new religious education guidelines.

e ow are some examp es o c ren's writing chosen from Kathy Jones' Year 2 class at Xavier Primary School in East Victoria Park. Once upon a time there was an Easter egg and he rolled down a hill and he came to a door. In the morning he jumped up th steps and knocked on the door.

Twenty-one teachers from 3 Catholic schools in the Southwest gave up part of their term break holiday to study the Religious Education Guidelines adopted last year. The conference was held at the Lazy Crab in Mandurah. There were 9 sessions over the 3 days of the conference. Teachers could bring their families for a 3-day stayover at the Lazy Crab or drive to the conference each day. The 3 schools that sent participants were St Anne's (Harvey). St

Joseph's (Pinjarra ) and St Joseph's ( Waroona). This was the first time schools in the South West had banded together for such discussions. Shane Baker, principal at St Anne's. described it as -highly successful. ' Shane. who was instrumental in organizing the meeting. said that in addition to providing information and understanding about the Guidelines. the conference promoted fellowship and professional rapport among staff from the schools.

WA Catholic school authorities have lodged objections to the federal registration of two unions seeking to cover all school employees in Australia. Other school authorities throughout the country have taken similar action. The two unions seeking registration are the Teachers Association of Australia (TAA) and the Independent Teachers Federation of Australia ITEA). TAA seeks to provide coverage for all personnel in Australia employed in education, including principals, teachers, aides, administrators, cleaners and groundsmen. Presently there is no federal union and no national award system for those employed in education. According to Paul Gair, Industrial Relations Officer for the CECWA. -federal registration of the TAA and the [TEA would not be in the best interests of Catholic education." Mr Gair went on to say that school authorities in this State do not favour the registration of any federal union which would cover both government and non-government employees or which would cover non-government employees separately. Mr Gair said it is generally believed that if the TAA were to be successful in its application its ranks would be filled by government employees currently members of the Australian Teachers Federation (ATE). -In such a union we think the views of these government employees. by far the larger membership. would inevitably swamp those of nongovernment employees:' he said. - We think this could result in Catholic school employees losing sight of the apostolic value of their work.The court hearing to consider this issue began this week in Melbourne.

Justin My Dad is getting a new T.V. set but my Dad doesn't want PHILIPS because he doesn't like PHILIPS so he went to Doug and Barrys but I didn't come. I was at school. We are going to get a National TV. Sean M On Sunday I went to the beach. I was collecting shells and we went to the playground I stepped on glass. My Daddy pulled it out and I thanked him. Then Nanna came We went bact to the beach and Nanna helped us collect more shells . . . Simone M.

Children get new Centre The Pre-Primay Centre in Bunbury moved into new facilities this term. The building was recently converted to meet the special needs of young children. The local Catholic comcontributed munity $70,000 to convert the building. The Centre, a part of the Bunbury Catholic Primary School, caters for approximately 40 children between the ages of 31 2 / and 5.

Facilities The Centre has been designed in accordance with standards established by the CECWA. Facilities include an arts and crafts area with running water and sinks, a home area with kitchen equipment and indoor games area. At the front of the building there is a protected outdoor play area and at the back a playground with special-built outdoor equipment.

Five-year old Damian George adds another brick to his tower at the Catholic Pre-Primary Centre as teacher Janet Brown and fellow-student Josephine Daqui look on admiringly.

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Tony HiIlas has replaced Gary McGrath as Sports Administrator for the Associated Catholic Colleges. The ACC is made up of 24 Catholic secondary schools and conducts inter-school sporting events.

Girls from Newman and Mercedes colleges compete in nine-week netball competitions.

Tony, a native of Queensland, taught physical education in Brisbane for 2 years before coming to Perth. He says he hopes to increase participation in sporting events by increasing the number of events sponsored by the Association.

Sports sponsored by ACC vary from term to term. This term there are 9 week competitions in football, hockey and soccer. More than 1600 boys participate in these weekly games. There are also nineweek competitions in netball, hockey and softball for approximately 1000 girls at the secondary level.

Trinity College

The Music Man has come to Trinity College and his name is Br Gerard Crooks.

Mel Maria wins Tennis Competition Teams at Mel Maria Primary School in Attadale captured Division 1 and Division 3 honours in the RE,I Schools Team Competition conducted by the WA Lawn Tennis Association. Eric McManus, Chairman of the Junior Development Section of the Association, and Brian Cooper, representing the R&IBank, made the award to the two teams before a school assembly in mid-June. The teams coach, Arthur Marshall, congratulated the 11 young women on their hard work and skill

Under Br Crooks' guidance, Trinity is building a significant reputation in music. The impetus for the establishment of a music department came from Br Kelly, who was appointed principal in 1977.

and in continuing Mel Maria's tradition of producing State tennis champions. He also recognized the contribution made by all the students at Mel Maria through their support and encouragement of the teams. Division 1 winners were Tonia Marchesi (captain), Tanya Beale, Kirsty Randall, Sarah Daebritz and Charmian Barton. Division 2 winners were Paige Greers (captain), Susan Harden, Anna Cattalini, Trevalene Neil, Gabriele Vitali and Kim Thomson.

When Br Crooks, himself a graduate of Christian Brothers College in Leederville, came to Trinity in 1979 a fledgling music department had been established by Br Vincent Basile. Br Crooks has expanded that department until it touches the lives of all the 920 boys who attend the College. All boys in years 8, 9 and 10 take Music Appreciation and History. They learn about great composers, the develop-

Computers and Education Chris deSilva continues his series about the role of computers in education. In this issue he argues that for many people fear is the biggest obstacle in becoming computer-comfortable. In some ways understanding the computer is very similar to understanding the telephone. Children at an early age understand the telephone. That is, they know that if they pick up the handset, dial the number of someone they know and wait with the handset to their ear, there is every chance that the person to whom they want to speak will answer. There are other ways of understanding the telephone. There are those who understand how sound waves are turned into electrical signals and back into sound waves by the telephone system. Engineers understand the complex switching mechanism that supports the whole telephone system and connects one telephone to others throughout the world. Others may understand how each individual electronic component of the telephone system works.

Most of us need only to understand the computer the way children understand the telephone. We need to know how to operate it but we don't need to know every detail of its internal operation in order to make it a useful tool. Some of the personal computers now available are no more complicated to operate than a tape recorder. You insert the disc and away you go. The greatest barrier to understanding the computer at any level is fear. People are afraid of the computer because it is new to them and because they are afraid of looking silly if they make a mistake using it. One of the most important objectives of a computer education program is to help students (whether children or adults) to be as comfortable with a computer as they are with a telephone, motor car, food processor or typewriter.

Primary school installs computers Community access is the keystone of the computer program which began six weeks ago at the Infant Jesus School in Morley. More than 100 people from the community are enrolled in a 10 week computer course at the school.

Pictured here are Charles Sharman, a community member enrolled in the class, and his teacher, Jane Humble.

The 550 children attending Infant Jesus have regular weekly access to the 1 1 computers housed in a special room. Children enrolled in the English as a Second Language Program use the word processor, a part of the computer system, in improving their writing skills. In addition to these uses, students attending gifted and talented centres at Embleton and Balga come to Infant Jesus weekly to extend their computer skills. On a more casual basis, students from nearby secondary schools dropin at the computer room during the late afternoon. "Three months ago I didn't know the first thing about computers,' says Infant Jesus Principal John Hollands, -but I was getting so much pressure from parents and teachers that I thought the school should try something.John says that the programs the school is currently running are experimental. He points out that there are many models which schools can adopt — computer assisted instruction, programming skills or computer awareness. -We're just finding our way right now.-

One of Trinity College's bands perform at an outdoor concert.

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Beazley Report

Catholic educators plan for change The changes proposed by the Beazley and McGaw reports have been characterized by most educationalists as evolutionary rather than revolutionary. -While some of the recommendations are simply positive affirmation of current practices, others represent broad changes which would affect our schools profoundly over the next quarter century,- comments David Heath, CECWA School Consultancy Coordinator. While the recommendations have the CECWA's general support and the support of most Catholic school professionals. David points out that there are far-reaching and complex consequences which may result from their implementation. Principals Meet Among the meetings David has helped organize to examine these issues was the Primary Principals' Conference on June 15. Participants at this meeting examined the likely effects some of the

recommendations would have in primary school and class organization. The meeting highlighted the need for a cooperative response at the school level. Effects of Change In meetings such as these, Catholic school personnel are asking many questions about the possible effect of implementing these recommendations. What affect will there be on teacher training, induction and evaluation? How can teachers be prepared to make the necessary changes and to guide their students through the period of change? How will school facilities such as classrooms, specialist rooms, laboratories and workshops be affected? Many of the changes which could occur if the recommendations were accepted will cost money. Where will this money come from? Can the Catholic system bear these costs? Implementation of many of the recommendations may take place in the next school year, particularly those affecting Years 8 and 1 1 .

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ment of different musical instruments and significant movements in the history of music. They develop an aural appreciation of different types of music by listening to it with guidance from their music teacher. All young men in years 1 1 and 12 have singing classes once a week. Instrument classes In addition to these music classes for all students, there are optional music lessons available for those who want to study particular instruments. There are no auditions for these classes. Br Crooks doesn't believe a young man needs to be musically brilliant to play an instrument. -An interest is enough for us to give him a go:. These special instrument classes are taught by a variety of music specialists who come into the school on an ad hoc basis from term to term. There are 3 bands at Trinity, a Senior Concert Band, Junior Concert Band and the Pipes and Drums Band. The high quality and professionalism of these bands is evident by their widespread support among parents and the community. The Pipes and Drums Band, under the direction of Br Basile, performs at numerous functions around the city and State, including the Anzac Day Parade and Christmas Pageant. Enrichment Br Crooks sees music enriching the lives of young people. -Music is an interest they can continue the rest of their lives. It is a way of broadening their horizons and increasing their appreciation of other apsects of life.He also points out that -a basic aim in all Catholic schools is to touch the lives of our students in a personal way. Music is one way of achieving this goal.-Music helps us to see the Creation with more meaning. We can appreciate God in our lives through the beauty of music.At Trinity there may be "rows and rows of the finest virtuosos- like the ones who march in 76 Trombones, but there are also lots of happy young men "who pick a little and talk a little- music.

Saint Mark's Bedford principal gave up a surveying

Clem Richards wears each of his two hats with ability and panache. One piece of figurative headgear proclaims his dominie status as principal of the Bedford campus of St Mark's College and deputy -principal of the whole school complex, which also embraces the old Christian Brothers' High School at Highgate. The other metaphorical chapeau represents his rank of lieutenant -colonel in the Army Reserve and the continuation of a distinguished military career that has brought him the MBE, the Efficiency Decoration (ED) and the Reserve Forces Decoration (RFD). St Mark's has a proud history, proclaims the lively Clem. He tells how it started as a parish school and was built up by the Christian Brothers.

C lement (Clem) Francis Richards, principal of the Bedford campus of St Mark's College, holds a BA degree, an Associateship of Social Science, a Diploma of Educational Administration, and in addition has been awarded an MBE for his military service. Clem was born at Cottesloe on June 23, 1936. He received his education at Cottesloe Presentation Convent and CBC Fremantle before joining the Lands and Surveys Department as a cadet surveyor. He enlisted in the Australian Regular Army and went to the Officer Cadet School at Portsea in Victoria in 1956, but on leave at the end of that year he broke his neck while surfing at North Cottesloe, his ARA career was ended but he rejoined the Army Reserve in which he now holds the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After a period in the wool department of Elder Smiths, he spent 1959-60 at the Claremont Teachers' Training College where he was president of the Students' Council. He started as a primary school teacher but then moved into high srhools in a job course that took him through the Bentley Primary School and the Melville, Kewdale and Newman senior high schools. At the last two he was deputyprincipal. He joined St Mark's at the start of 1983. Clem and his wife Margaret, members of the Claremont parish, have four daughters and three sons aged from 14 to 23.

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Its hall is something of an historical landmark because it was built entirely by parent labour co-ordinated by the Christian Brothers and a father who had a building business. There is a fine community spirit in the school, Clem avers, and the P and F is a vigorous and viable organisation. Its regular meetings attract an average attendance of 300, its Friday night bingo raise about sessions $25,000 a year; and 278 people turned up at the last school busy bee, which is about the normal number for such activities. Many parents are involved in the sporting performances of the campus as coaches, trainers and in other capacities. Their dedication has been rewarded because St Mark's dominates the inter -school sporting field in the area.

Clem and his staff, however, never lose sight of the fact that high on their list of priorities is the mission of inculcating in their pupils the Christian principles and disciplines. An indication of their success in this and other directions can be gleaned from each of the high school grades having a waiting list of 50 to 60 prospective pupils. The school population is close to 600. A new tendency in age of admission to St Mark's is emerging. Boys (it is an all-boys school) used to enter at Year 5, but now Year 8 is the more common entry point. This is probably because Catholic primary schools in the area which used to hold boys only to completion of Year 4 now retain them to the end of Year]. Clem has had a life-long interest in the Army and he was commissioned as a platoon commander in the cadets at CBC Fremantle. On leaving school in 1954 he joined the Citizen Military Forces, as the Reserve was then known, in the heavy anti-aircraft unit at Fremantle Barracks and was commissioned in 1955. He enlisted in the Australian Regular Army and spent

His broken neck failed to daunt teacher Today's People

A regular feature B y BOB BOYLE 1956 at the Officer Cadet School at Portsea in Victoria, but while on leave at the end of that year he broke his neck surfing at North Cottesloe This put an end to his Regular Army career and he spent four painful months in hospital On recovering he resumed with the Reserve and when his heavy A/A unit at Fremantle was disbanded in

1957 he moved to the 3rd Field Regiment at Karrakatta. With this unit he moved up through the ranks to his majority. In 1972 he was appointed a staff officer at 2nd Task Force HQ, and he served from 1975-78 as a staff officer at 5th Military District. For this service he was awarded the MBE. Earlier he had gained the

Efficiency Decoration dnd he has just recieved the Reserve Forces Decoration. During most of 1979 Clem was studying for his colonel's qualifying examination which he passed at the end of the year at the Land Warfare Centre at Canungra in Queensland Near the end of 1980 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and became senior instructor at the tactics wing of 5 Training Group From 1983 he has been commanding officer of the cadet training unit for the Army Reserve. In this area, he says, about 700 or 800 people apply for Army commissions in response to annual advertisements They have to be Al med-

ically and fit psychologically. They are subjected to written and practical tests and interview by a selection board. Finally the field is narrowed down to about 30 and they start their 19 month course each February during which their progress is continually assessed. On average, only about 15 to 18 graduate. "The Australian Army Reserve is a fine hobby," Clem says. "You get a great feeling of satisfaction through doing something for your country. "The Reserve, which consists mainly of operationaltype units, is the backbone of an army that would have to be called into action in case of trouble_

According to the Bedford campus principal, Mr Richards St Mark's College is proud of the reputation it has established in school and local sporting competitions.

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"It is rewarding and interesting and presents plenty of opportunities, but you have to have the backing of your family and be prepared to spend plenty of spare time at it. "For people like myself in command positions, part of almost every day is spent on Army matters." An interesting episode in Clem's Reserve career was the six weeks he spent as a visiting officer in Vietnam early in 1969 during the Tet offensive. He was attached to the 12th Field Regiment of the ARA but served also with various American artillery units. He was involved in plenty

of action during that hot period of the war there One of his last experiences was being under attack at an American fire base

PN)%tOWI , "' He flew out one day and resumed teaching the next day at the start of the school year at the Melville Senior High School with the sound of enemy shot and shell still ringing in his ears It took him several months to re-adjust completely to the school environment Clem and his wife Margaret have travelled extensively overseas in recent

years, which makes one wonder how he found the time with his school and army activities. " The couple are very proud of their seven children Jennifer (23) is working at the Australian Embassy in Paris; Katherine (21) is in her first year of teaching at the Catholic District High School at Carnarvon , Susan (20) is in her third year of nursing training at the Queen Elizabeth ll Centre, Michael (18) has just finished at Trinity College and is still deciding on a career, Phillip (17) has just started teacher training at the Churchlands CAE; Elizabeth (15) is in Year 11 at lona, and Christopher (14) is a Year 10 pupil at Trinity.

Pope John Paul was not murdered • From page 4 "But the same gossip was repeated when the present Holy Father was elected and it was published in newspapers in Italy. "This is not surprising because we know there are a lot of people in the Church who don't agree with this ruling and there has been organised dissent against it. "Every time there's a change in the leadership it's natural enough that they should hope for a change although I don't believe that this could ever come about. "I think Cardinal Luciani had shown shortly before his election what his mind was in this matter. "It was on the occasion of the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, and he was asked to comment. "He was very open to the media and he expressed grave reservations about the test-tube conceptions and on exactly the same b asis as the Church rejects contraception -that it is not in accord with the proper human way of doing things, that is it is not in accord with human dignity. "I don't think many of us are convinced by them, and that would be my

Priest says Yallop wrong reaction to these theories regarding Pope John Paul "Cardinal Luciani had lost a lung at some stage. But his health was reasonable considering his age and he was quite

A rchbishop says no compromise

able to do his normal

work in Venice. "I thought afterwards, listening to him speak, that he always spoke in short phrases and this perhaps was because he didn't have the length of breath that most of us take for granted. "Certainly, we were all terribly shocked by his death but I don't think anybody thought that it was something so very unusual. "If it's true, as Mr Yallop says, that the pope was taking medication for blood pressure or similar problems then this would seem to confirm that his state of health wasn't all that good and a heart attack was a possibility, if not a probability, in the circumstances."

Pride of place in St Mark's College goes to the Brother Edmonds' manual arts centre where Mr John Wright is pictured putting some of his young welders through their instruction.

Pay rises for pope's workers VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Vatican has agreed to give its 1,800 lay workers raises ranging from eight per cent to 20 per cent in the first contract agreement since a previous pact expired in 1980.

Vatican officials said. however, they are concerned about the burden the increases will place on the Vatican treasury. In exchange for the raises the association is dropping its request for a one-time payment to cover cost-or living increases since the end of the workers last regular contract, said association president Mariano Cerullo. "Realistically, its the most we could obtain at this time," he said. He said the increases of between $50 and 12(X) a month represent "the first concrete step toward an overall solution" to the workers' problems. But Cerullo said the association considers the raises provisionary until a readjustment of pay scales is made.

WASHINGTON (NC) — Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington has called for a revival of Benediction and other eucharistic devotions in all churches in his archdiocese. "To think some of our youngsters have been raised without ever hearing of Benediction, much less experiencing it, is shocking," the archbishop wrote in a letter on the feast of Corpus Christi public. The Eucharist "lies at the heart of the Catholic Church," Archbishop Hickey said. He called for more reverent and active participation in Mass and Communion by all Catholics and commended those who attend daily Mass. Calling adoration of the Lord in the Eucharist a source of strength and "courage to confront personal and social evil," he encouraged the practices of exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and nocturnal adoration.

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Novena to St Jude. Oh holy St Jude, apostle and Novena to St Jude. Oh holy martyr, great in virtue and S t Jude, apostle and rich in miracles, near martyr, great in virtue and kinsman of Jesus Christ, rich in miracles, near faithful intercessor of all kinsman of Jesus Christ, who invoke your special in time of need, Minimum $4. 28 words. Closes am Wednesday. No phone adverts. faithful intercessor of all patronagehave cause from who invoke your special to you I heart and my of depth the patronage in time of need, DEATHS ILDING THANKS to you I have cause from humbly beg you to whom TRADES the depth of my heart and God has given such great Novena to St Jude. Oh holy CANNY: Passed away humbly beg you to whom power to come to my PAINTING quality work S t Jude, apostle and peacefully at Sir Charles assistance. Help me now in Gairdner Hospital on June God has given such great my present and urgent at the right price. John martyr, great in virtue and my come to power to Freakley. Phone 361 4349. rich in 25, 1984, Joseph Germain miracles, near assistance. Help me now in need, and grant my earnest kinsman of Jesus Christ, of Christos Nursing Home my present and urgent petition. In returnIpromise Electrical Contractor 5 faithful intercessor of all and formerly of Monmouth to make your name known J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, who invoke your special Street, Mt Lawley, dearly need, and grant my earnest and cause you to be R ivervale. 30 yrs expe- patronage in time of need, beloved husband of Gladys petition. In return I promise invoked. Say three Our known rience, expert, efficient. to you I have cause from Lucy (dec), much loved to make your name Fathers, Hail Marys and reliable. Ring 362 4646, the depth of my heart and father and father in law of and cause you to be Glorias, St Jude pray for all Brian and Janet, Diana and invoked. Say three Our who honour and invoke after hours 385 9660. humbly beg you to whom Keith, Carmel and Brian Fathers, Hail Marys and aid and promise PROPERTY lmproNe- God has given such great and Pam and Murray. Dear- Glorias, St Jude pray for all your This novena ublication. p power to come to my ments Service all types of est Pa Pa of David, Janine, who honour and invoke thanks giving. w indows and doors assistance. Help me now in Paul, Gregory, Leanne, your aid and promise never fails. In installed: walls and ceilings my present and urgent Craig, Dean, Sharyn, publication. This novena Thel. removed: wooden pergo- need, and grant my earnest Michelle (dec), Lechelle, never fails. In thanks giving. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be las: general repairs. Phone petition. In return I promise Simone, Melissa, Ashely, Allison. to make your name known praised and glorified 341 2946. Natalie, Rachel (dec) and and cause you to be Vanessa. Together with MANY THANKS St Jude t hroughout the world. ELECTRICAL: For all invoked. Say three Our Mum. May Perpetual light for prayers answered Today and forever, Amen. Promise publication. Also B.M.S. t ypes of electrical work Fathers, Hail Marys and shine upon him. Glorias, St Jude pray for all St Jude and Our Lady and phone 335 2277. The funeral took place at who honour and invoke the Catholic Lawn ('eme- Thank you to St Jude and St Terese of the Child Jesus. STEELWORK: All types your aid and promise tery, Karrakatta, on 28 t he Sacred Heart for Thanks prayers for of steel gates and balus- publication. This novena June, 1984, after Requiem favours *ranted. RJMH. answered. PF & W. trades, mig welding and arc never fails. In thanks giving. Mass celebrated in the welding. Phone 335 2277. Diane. Church of the Holy Spirit, Prayer to St Jude. Oh holy City Beach. W AN I l..1) S t Jude, Apostle and Bowra & 01)ea Funeral TO RLNT Martyr, great in virtue and Directors, 328 7299. rich in miracles, near We urgently require rental kinsman of Jesus Christ, KORBOSKY (Maria Conproperties in all areas. We faithful intercessor of all stance):- Passed away peace- July offer personalised attention who invoke your special fully on June 23rd, 1984 at 8 At Fremantle Gaol Mass celebrated b% at minimum rates including patronage in time of need. Sir Charles Gairdner HosArchbishop Foley regular inspections and To you I have cause from pital. Maria dearly beloved monthly statements. Confirmation, Fremantle. Archbishop Foley the depth of my heart and wife of the late William of Please contact Dorothy CWL State Conference. Archbishop Foley. humbly beg you to whom 2 Battrass Place, North Beardshaw HAGEN & CO. Innaloo. Aged 97 years. God has given such great I I Confirmation, Armadale. Archbishop Foley. R osewood Ave, Woodpower to come to my Beloved mother of Bill 1 2 Servite Sisters Mass, Mount Lawley. lands, 446 9399. assistance. Help me now in (dec), Mark (RAAF Killed Archbishop Foley. wcommonATIoN my present and urgent in action), Mary (Mrs P 5 Mass, Maida Vale. Archbishop Foley 1 Keane), Nora (Mrs G Medneed, and grant my earnest A VAILABLE petition. In return I promise dings). Teresa & Joan (Mrs Confirmation Leederville. Bishop Healy RENT one of Jim Has- to make your name known K Sharp). Loved grandBlessing of Villa Teren7io chapel, Marangaroo. sell's four furnished and cause you to be mother of sixteen grandArchbishop Foley. children and great-grandhomes at Lake Monger invoked. (Say three Our Mass at Carmelite Monastery Nedland. 16 twenty five. Life mother of Fathers, Hail Marys and (3 mins from Perth) with Archbishop Foley St Jude pray for all member of the Catholic free food, ‘egies for a Glorias, who honour and invoke Womens League. "Darling Lesmurdie. Bishop Healy Confirmation. 18 mere $7 a day each or your aid.) This novena Jesus" took her hand and College Dinner. Archbishop Thomas More St what you can afford: never fails. In gratitude. gently led her home. Foley takes five to eight: car $6 E NB. Her funeral took place at Secondary Principals' Dinner. Archbishop a day. Amazing isn't it? Novena to St Jude. Oh holy the Catholic Cemetery KarTelephone Jim or Pat S t Jude, apostle and rakatta on Tuesday 26th Foley ( 09) 450 5301. Have martyr, great in virtue and June 1984 after Requiem 21 East Victoria Park, induction of Father Harris. M ass celebrated in St transferred one man- rich in miracles, near Dominics Archbishop Foley Church Innaloo. sion to our great leader kinsman of Jesus Christ, Bowra & O'Dea Funeral but it is still for renting faithful intercessor of all Directors 328 7299 w ith the other three till who invoke your special patronage in time of need, early 1985. HELP! FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH! to you I have cause from IN MEMORIAM the depth of my heart and We need help for our STREET APPEAL FOR SALE humbly beg you to whom on Friday July 13 DONELLAN. Sr M TheWill you help millions from God has given such great rese: In loving memory of shake a tin for Please starving? Use their pure tea power to come to my my. dear Sister's seventh by sending SI for packets assistance. Help me now in anniversary, July 7th, 1977 or $2 for 100 teabags to my present and urgent a noble, peaceful, soul Beekeepers, 406 William need, and grant my earnest Sr M Dorothea Mercy Street. Phone Jim petition. In returnIpromise Convent Vic Square. 450 5301. We deliver tea to make your name known Ring us on and cause you to be WELLS. (Mary Cecilia & free. 4403 or 328 4468 328 invoked. Say three Our Vernon Henry). Please pray 77 Sunbird, 4 cyl, v gd cond, Fathers, Hail Marys and for the repose of the souls stereo, sun roof, dark blue Glorias, St Jude pray for all of our parents whose anniand chrome $2800 ono. who honour and invoke versaries occur 17th May Phone 443 3596. your aid and promise and 7th July. Girls bicycle 7 yrs old with publication. This novena t rainer wheels Italian never fails. In thanks giving. PERSONAL imported $65: circus bicycle LDC. 1 ft wheels, solid, $30. Novena to St Jude. Oh holy Ride wantedto Broome by requires 443 3596. S t Jude, apostle and retired gentleman, driving martyr, great in virtue and and expenses shared if Appreciate SITUATIONS rich in miracles, near necessary. , ANTED kinsman of Jesus Christ, general sight-seeing on way. faithful intercessor of all Please contact Advertiser, could suit couple Piano Tuning and repairs who invoke your special phone 364 4131 soon as over 30 years experience, all patronage in time of need, possible. The successful applicant will be required to assist with Year work guaranteed, will pay to you I have cause from Young man wishes to meet 10 dormitory (30 boys), help with games and other activities, top price for your piano. the depth of my heart and girls to 25 years, with a view during out-of-school hours and weekends, do some study Phone F. Jones 367 7503. humbly beg you to whom t o supervision, and depending on qualifications and expertise library, marriage. Phone laundry and maintenance work. Carpenter — Handyman, God has given such great 387 6781. St Mary's is a small boarding school fapprox 90 students) for Catholic renovations -- all types, power to come to my FREE COUNSELLING, boys Years 8-10. a large wheat/sheep farm is an integral part of the aluminium windows, per- assistance. Help me now in support and prayer for all school and its curriculum. 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The Catholic Education Commission of WA invites applications for:

PRINCIPAL XAVIER COLLEGE East Victoria Park

X avier College is an coeducational college catering for boys from Pre-primary to Year 10 and girls from Pre-Primary to Year 7 . Total enrolment is 420 students. The College has recently completed major building and site re-development. Applicants should be practising Catholics, committed to Catholic educational ideals, have requisite administration skills and academic and professional qualifications. Salary and conditions are similar to those offered by the Education Department of WA. Official application forms and/or further information may be obtained from...

The Director Catholic Education Commission of WA 6 Salvado Road, Wembley WA 6014 Phone (091 381 5444 Official application forms must be lodged

by Monday 30 July 1984

TEACHERS REQUIRED P ADBURY for

Catholic Primary School,

which will open for the 1985 school year at the corner of Gibson and Hepburn Avenues, Padbury and

B ATEMAN C atholic Primary School

which will open for the 1985 school year in Marsengo Street. Bateman. Applications are invited for the following positions: (11 PRE-PRIMARY TEACHER (2) Four LOWER PRIMARY (one position will be part-time) (3) PRE-PRIMARY AIDE (4) Part-time SCHOOL SECRETARY R equirements Teaching Staff must have formal teacher training qualifications; a minimum of two years of e xperience; have completed or completing a Diploma of Religious Education. Clerical staff must have experience in the following areas; Bookkeeping, shorthand, typing and reception duties. All staff should be practising Catholics committed to Catholic Educational ideals. Applications: ONLY written applications will be accepted. The application must include a full curriculum vitae: evidence of formal qualifications (copies only); and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of THREE referees — two professional and your parish priest.

PLEASE INDICATE CLEARLY FOR WHICH POSITION IN WHICH SCHOOL YOU ARE APPLYING Applications must be addressed to: The Staffing Officer Catholic Primary School c /- Catholic Education Commission of WA PO Box 254, Subiaco 6008

APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON FRIDAY 13 JULY

LUMEN CHRISTI COLLEGE

Station Street, Gosnells, 6110

PART-TIME MUSIC TEACHER TERM III, 1984 MATHEMATICS CO-ORDINATOR 1985 The Principal invites applications from qualified and experienced teachers committed to Catholic educational philosophy and practict., to share in the development of Lumen Christi College — a Catholic Co-Educational College. The College commenced in 1984 with 128 Year 8 students and will proceed year by year to Year 12. In 1985, 256 students will be enrolled, 128 at each of Year 8 and Year 9. The successful applicants will be invited to participate in the curricular planning and development of the College. An application form and further information are available from: The Principal Lumen Christi College PO Box 223 Gosnells, 6110 Telephone 398-5055

Applications close on Friday, 20th July, 1984

(Youth Forum YCW recently held a night of debate and drama at the Leederville Parish Centre that did more than produce laughs and enable some to excel in their acting skills. The evening was aimed at educating members on some of the issues faced by young workers, namely the everyday situation with the unemployed; the frustrating and endless task of going for job interviews and putting up with the negative attitude of many in the community.

What it means to be out of work •

I'm an unemployed out of life, what you actually teaching graduate and are living for. In society's eyes I'm a bit of a reject. I don't have been for the past see it that way. I have too nine months. I'm 21 much in me just to go years of age and not nowhere. My time hasn't been having a job has been wasted. an interesting expe- I've been learning so much. I've done units in Art and rience. Religious Education. I've been

I nemploymcnt hasn't really able to do things I've always been too awful. It has its said 'I'd find time for.' My advantages — free healthcare week, at the moment, involves ( as long as you're patient), working with kids in crisis, cheap public transport ( like- learning how to meditate, wise... ) and plenty of time! aerobics, going to the CES (of However there's more to it course), checking out the than that. papers. I've been learning to Mostly I find people judge type (sort of.) I write, play me more than I do. They my guitar, listen to music (a either, 'think it's a shame such primary motivating factor), a wonderful person like your- help at various times in YCW self hasn't got work', or they things and read. There's so assume you're not trying hard mtich to get into. Over ChristPictured with Marie Mills, adjudicator of the debate, "Wages are pricing young workers out of employment" are Michelle Mahoney, enough; "why don't you..." I mas I made my own cards. I Jenny Barnard, Carmel Rossi, Warren lane/b , Carl Raccani, Vergil Orton. feel so accountable_ made pots. I'm contemplating Especially to the family who learning silk-screening. Creagot me through three years of tively I'm blooming. I walk tertiary education and still everyday and I'm attempting have me at home, still depend- netball. I keep occupied. ent. To me. money is not a While being unemployed terribly desperate need, but it I've learnt about me. I've does pay the bills and gives learnt about Gtx1 and I've had p U scope to be independent. time to listen and mart to to plan for things like holidays. understand the situations of a car. people in the world with me. The 'dole', (blessing though I've had to live each day; live it may he) is not terribly for the moment, instead of expandable. I'm constantly mapping out the future. I've being blitzed by simple things had to believe in my abilities I didn't budget for. I have to ( try?) and project that to plan haircuts, things like that. prospective employers. Most It's difficult to save, but you importantly I've had to keep do survive. I'm luckier than the belief that God really has people who have to feed and got me in the palm of his hand house themselves with that and has got what he wants in money. My board's minimal. store for me. I have to trust The thing I hate most ( and in and work for that. find most challenging) about I want a job. but I can survive being unemployed is that I being unemployed. If you're don't know where I am. Or unemployed, keep up the who I am. I haven't got a label. good "work". If you're not, As the present employment keep rallying for the cause. prospects kir teachers worsen The word is "Unemployed" I have to be realistic. I may not "Unemployable". Believe never get to teach. Therefore it. I have to figure out what I can JENNY BARNARD do. I'm too old for a lot of Gerry Ravenscroft of Bassendean and Jenny Barnard, of North Double view at centre stage. things...too inexperienced for others, and I know I don't want to vegetate in some fully and with considerafter school parental infuriated by a traffic boring job. I started teaching ation for others. jam in what must he the pick-up service. because I wanted to work StillIam thankful for smallest area in the One school I noticed 1hard for something I believe world. If you parked at the most partIcan gaze pleaded in its newsletter: in. And I do believe in childone end of the street you from my office window "the traffic congestion ren! onto a peacepd, sleepy need either the patience and student movement I've been looking for work suburban road just like of a Buddha or the darafter school in such and Gourmet Supper in areas apart from teaching. ing of a kamikaze pilot it is now. such a street continues Saturday July 7 Some of the work was amaz"Excuse me Brother to get to the other end. to be hazardous: Con7.30 pm ing. I've gone for jobs to plant Paull," says the young cerned parents have MORLEY CIVIC' trees, look after old people pleasant-faced student seen some close shares." CENTRE etc...and checked out the from Year Nine, "SomeBrother K Paull, prinTickets S14 single Kamikaze alternatives — co-operatives? body hasjust backedinto cipal of CBC Leederville Students or a writing career? more study? the Brothers' Escort." puts it this way: unemployed $12 It really makes you evaluate Isaid last week the car "As I write these lines The course is made even Phone 328 9667 what you want out of a job, discourages communi(the editorial of the more frustrating by par• school cation, perhaps another newsletter) ents who triple park, way out of this problem Franklin Street is quiet stop their car, get out and the leafy trees sway is to park the car three and try andfind the son pleasantly in the breeze who is supposed to be blocks away, walk to while the friendly neighwaiting for them. school with one's son or bourhood dog strolls One way out of this daughter, make a visit to .Since leaving Nedlands ibly large volume of across the street. problem is to buy an the school chapel, and I have replaced my paper ends up in school But at 3.30 Franklin arm)' tank andpick your walk quietly back. Is that weekly 'diet' of parish staff pigeon holes. son up in this. Street becomes a modasking the impossible?? bulletins with school newOne "little- schoolprobAnother is to try and be ern day jungle. Cars, At Aquinas come to the sletters. daily bulletins lem that Ihare become students and parents aware of the situation morning mass on Wedand memos. An incredu,ary of is the before and become enmeshed and anddrive andpark carenesday, 8.10am.

GALA BALL

A modern day jungle

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DOORKNOCK SUNDAY AUGUST 19th

The Record, July 6 — 12, 1984

( Record Kids Club Jokes What coat is finished with no buttons and put on wet? A coat of paint. What do we often catch, but never see? A passing remark Do you know the story about the rotten eggs? Too bad Do you know the one about the blunt pencil? No point to it Do you know the story about the butter? Better not tell you, you might spread it. What do you call an astronaut's watch. A luna-tick. What did the envelope say to the stamp? Stick with me, baby, and we'll go places! What is a happy tin can in the United States? A - merry-can.

MEMBERS W elcome to our new members: Peta Jane Tomich of Morley and Lucas Ihlein, of (:ooke Point.

Winners This week's colouring-in winners are Michael Ackoy. of Kalamunda and Lucas Ihlein. of Cooke Point. Books, courtesy of William Collins have been posted out to both of you.

Happy birthday to Benjamin Namnik, York: Leon Naishitt. Corrigin; Christine Sewell, Girrawheen; Simon van Kampen, Kallaroo: Sean Curran. Morley: Michelle Glancy. Dalkeith: Marian Oxper: Paul Luscombe. Dianella: Catherine Hughes, Greenwood: Veronica de Jonge. ieraldton: Peter Bellini. Wanneroo; Shaun Drake, Alfred Cove: Sharon Defontaine, Girrawheen: Carolyn Homes. Hamilton Hill; Melanie Hegney. Lesmurdie: Ludo Rapanaro. Dianella: Ruth Morgan, Samson: James Walker, Kamhalda: Glen Young. Bull Creek.

Jesus was sitting there with the Jewish teachers listening to them as they talked about God's words. He asked them many questions and they were impressed with the answers He gave to their questions.

hildren's Story Hour

What you have to say

Jesus was excited He was lem. Ws parents took it for do in the coming _years. He 12 years old and going to granted that He 'las walk- would become a teacher of to lamington Kinds' in KalJerusalem for the great ing with one of theirfriends God's word. Dear Captain Bob and zance. It was very nice. Dear Captain Bob, feast of Passover. or relatives. so at first they Mary and Joseph were I must close now as I have goorlie. Nurse Kerry, dancThis week we made some relieved to findJesus in the I'm learning Highland It took several days to walk did not missJesus. I hope you are both well. I to go to school. me of picture a a 'Ibis ing. from Nazareth to Jerusa- At the end of the first day temple. But they were Michael Ackay, jungle biscuits there. We ate am. Below I have written a Highland dancing. lem. Jesus enjoyed being of travel Mary and Joseph puzzled and hurt. too. Kalamunda. them and they tasted good. I couple of jokes for you. Ihope love kindy. My teacher is going with His family andfriends discovered that no one had "Son, why have You done Ann Wringe, you like them. away and I'm getting a new as they laughed and talked seen Jesus. None of their this to us?" His mother Kalgoorlie. Q. What do you call a man Dear Captain Bob, letter for your you teacher next week called Miss Thank along the way. He also liked relatives or friends knew asked Him. "We bate been with a shovel? looking for You. We were making me a member of your Jayne. to have some time to Him- where He was. A. Dug ( Doug). Dear Captain Bob, terribly worried" Caroline Wringe, self. Club. Q. What do you call a man Jesus fell their pain and Kalgoorlie. I am four years old and I go During quiet moments My name is Helen Randall without a shovel? disappointment. He had not along the way,Jesus thought and I go to Our lady of Mt A. Douglas (Dug less). Searched wanted to hurt His family. about thefuture. Hefelt God Carmel School. I am eight Q. What do you call a man But He felt so much at home was calling Him to some years old and I am well. How with his head shaved? in the temple and so taken special tvtirk. He hoped to some are you? ( Here are They rushed back to Jeri's1 ou ha‘e got to he in the club Please print clearl and don't A. Shawn (Shorn). up with God's work, that He think and pray about that jokes). alem. For three days they if ot.i v• ant to enter our com- forget sour date of birth and a 1MS surprised they would in the temple at Jerusalem. Q. What do you call a man petitions and vv in some of the stamp so sie can send sour searched through the big knock. Knock, not realise He had stayed in During the feast days in membership form to with no arms, no legs. and in super prizes. city forJesus. Finally on the Who's there? To join sinipls send the com- Membership ssill allou ou to the temple. Jerusalem, Jesus went each the middle of the ocean? third day they foundHim in Lettuce. pleted coupon here to The enter all our competitions. "Why did you have to look day with Mary and Joseph A. Bob. R ecord kid's flub. PO Box the temple. Lettuce who. for Me?" Jesus answered. to the temple. He liked the %%hat are sou uaiting They are the only jokes I can 50. .Therdeen Street. Perth. Let us in. singing, the smell of Jesus was sitting there with "Didn't You know Ihad to for. moment. I hope 6000. at the of think Why did the chicken cross the incense, the beautiful pray- the Jewish teachers. He lis- be in My Father's house?" you like them. ers. There in the temple tened to them as they talked Mary and Joseph did not road? Kathy Dias, Jesus felt very close to God. about God's word. He asked understand what Jesus To see the man laying bricks. Girrawheen. The questions. meant. They did not under- What do you get if you cross He liked to call God "My them many teachers were impressed stand what Jesus meant by Father." some beetles with a rabbit? N ame Dear Captain Bob, When the feast days were with the answersJesus gave calling God "My Father." Bugs Bunny. I liked the story of the VisThey wondered whatJesus over. Mary and Joseph to their questions. A ddress started hack home. So did As Jesus listened, and had talked about with the What do you get if you cross itation very much and I have kangaroo? coloured in the picture. I alltheir relatives and neigh- thought, and prayed. He teachers in the temple. Some- a sheep with a P code hope you like it. bours from Nazareth. But knew better what God how they sensed that it all A woolly jumper. Helen Randall, Last week I went with my Jesus did not go with them. wanted Him to do. He saw had to do with Jesus's A ge Birthdate Hilton. class to see Pirates of Pen- I. He stayed hack in .Terusa- more clearly what He would future.

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The Record, July 6 — 12, 1984

A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.

The Feminist Challenge, the movement for women's liberation in Britain and the United States, by David Bouchier, published by MacMillan London, $12.95. The Feminist Challenge explains the origins of the new movement, traces its subsequent development in Britain and the USA and speculates on the new directions it may take in the 1980's.

Papua New Guinea overcame the variety of their landscape, language and customs to achieve unity throughout communications. Tracing the birth, growth and development of the postal and telecommunications services and rich in detail andincident, this book is written for the reader with a real interest in the affairs and peoples of Papua New Guinea.

Thursday's Children, by Rumer Godden, published by MacMillan London, $17.95. From one of the _great storytellers of our time comes a heart-warming new novel set in the world of ballet. Thursday's Children is a superb evocation of the ideals, aspirations, sacrifices and dedication that is the lot of every dancer.

A History of Tasmania Volume I, by Lloyd Robson, published by Oxford University Press, $50. Lloyd Robson's A History of Tasmania Vol I has won the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers Barbara Rarnsden Award for an outstanding work of quality writing. The book has previously been awarded the 1983 Age Book of the Year for non-fiction. . . a landmark. For the first time it presents a serious and substantial history of Tasmania derived from primary sources,' — The Mercury, Hobart 'Robson's judgements are acute as well as informed. This book exhales the spirit of high scholarship.' — The Age.

A History of the Church of England 1945-80, by Paul A. WeLsby, published by Oxford University Press. $37.50. An absorbing account of the Church of England in the turbulent times since the war — times of canon law reform and the reorganization of city and country parish life, the sensational moral and theological problems of the sixties, and the heart-searching discussions over unity and the ordination of women. Child's Talk, Learning to Use Language, by J.S. Bruner, published by Oxford University Press, $35. Bruner is concerned with the way in which young children acquire the uses of their native language and how, by using language first for limited ends, they finally come to recognize its more powerful, productive uses. A book for those interested in psychology or linguistics. The Frankish Church, by J.M. Wallace-Hardrill, published by Oxford University Press, $87.50. Medievalists and church historians will be interested in this book, the first of its kind in English, which surveys the development of the Frankish Church under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings (c. 500-900 AD) and the special difficulties it encountered. From the Oxford History of the Christian Church series. The Design Of Sailing Yachts, by Pierre Gutelle, published by MacMillan, $39.95. From hydro and aerodynamics to hull shape buoyancy, stability and sail carrying power, every aspect of yacht design is detailed here in two colours. Uniting a Nation, The Postal and Telecommunications Services of Papua New Guinea, by James Sinclair, published by Oxford University Press, $19.99. The dramatic and colourful story of how the peoples of

Out Of The Fiery Furnace, The Impact of Metals on the History of Mankind, by Robert Raymond, $29.95. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the rise of civilization is the discovery, and the mining, of metals. They played a vital role in the rise and fall of empires and the broad historical shifts of power and influence from one part of the world to another. Metals were a critical factor in all mankind's most significant advances. Today we are an utterly metal-dependent society. Our cities, transport, communications, entertainment — every aspect of our daily lives depends upon the copious use of gold, silver, iron and steel, copper, aluminium, lead and a score of other metals. This is the story of man the metalsmith, through all his amazing creations of art to the devasting weapons; Robert Raymond follows this amazing route from the smelting site in the Sinai desert to the Inca mines of Peru, the history of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age and the present role of uranimum. The book follows the 7 part ABC TV series narrated by Michael Charlton. Only Human, Why we are the way we are, by Neill Bell, published by Oxford University Press, $10.95. Animals can do amazing things. • But there's one animal who is more amazing than all the rest — Homo sapiens. Why are humans different from other animals and how did they get that way?

A poetic treasure An Anthology Of Christian Verse, edited by Dom Francis Byrne, OSB, published by Rigby, $12.95. Reviewed by Tony James, curator for the Benedictine community of New Norcia. It is unusual for a spiritual Above all else his poetry book to be a run-away fast evokes a recollection, a verbal seller, but that is precisely image of the unique heritage what is happening with a new that is monasticism lived at collection of ecumenically New Norcia. One reads of flavoured Christian verse. grapevines being tended by: Since the book, An AntholOld BrotherJames ogy Of Christian Verse was scaling the kidder released little more than two pruning weapon of love months ago it has been selling in band. fast. In fact, shops in Perth are having trouble keeping up In 'Winter's Morn', the silent supplies. The book is no monk stands at his lofty cell sooner on the shelf than window watching dawn break across the mission settlement stocks are running low. The editor of this anthology in its context of gums, acacias, is Dom Francis Byrne, OSB, a winding dirt track and galahs. professed monk of New Nor- The images and language cia. For some years Dom describe the harmonious Francis has been a regular, blending of monastic simplicrespected contributor to The ity and accumulated wisdom Record. His articles have within the panoramic splendcovered a wide variety of our, the God-presented starinteresting and topical issues: kness of the Australian hush. they have included a series of Each contributor to this reflections on Benedictine anthology provides a contrastspirituality and heritage; new ing insight, a complementary trends in the spiritual life; and focus inwards, expanding our a discussion of the effects of perception and understandpornography on the commun- ing of life and eternal reality. Iknow my doubts are in moments of faith, or finally. Merle Davis is one such vain. ity at large. one can prefer to savour one ibis week. however, we turn contributor. Merle lived here What conviction and what through this piece of poetry at a time: journey of our strength are conveyed in that the tables on Dom Francis and in the West for some years. dipping at random into this shout. "I know my doubts are collection of poetry. raising her family and working place him before the camera in vain", and in this anthology An Anthology Of Christian well of Christian creativity. rather than behind it. Dom as a teacher-librarian. With first in ecumenical perception and desire. Francis brings to his editorial the support of her family she the reader hears that shout Verse is a W hatever you decide 1 am publishing in this country. It assignment a varied and very eventually decided in recent repeatedly. read in that this collection will can be sure book that A shout is a taken up by people interesting personal history years to join an Anglican ways. One can read it he one that you will return to from many different church backcommunity. contemplative and journalistic background. in one sitting. thus regularly in order to redisHe was born in Drogheda. This decision has enhanced grounds. from lay life and from through sense of its overall cover its unpretentious charm a religious life. Their sense of gaining Ireland. in 1949 and and revitalised her poetic pilgrimage and their sense of harmony and affirmation of and its undiluted affirmation vulnerability. embarked on a career in searching is strong. Darkness the universal Christian expe- of personal resurrection. journalism in his home town An Anthology Of Christian and doubt wrestle daily with rience. at the age of seventeen. He poet, by is available from Angus it poet Verse can read One conviction, light, peace and Presence later worked for the leading allowing each writer to and Robertson shops. Pellegrithus love. At the end we are all Dublin daily, The Irish Indestrengthened. consoled and speak to the inner self in ni's and the New Norcia pendent. covering among resolved once again by means unique and distinctive Museum Bookshop. I n Morning Prayer, Merle other issues the sectarian writes of a world permeated violence in Belfast. In 1971 he came to Australia, by the touch and the presence working initially as a reporter of a supportive all-pervasive for the Melbourne Sun, Two God: years later he left Melbourne to become a lay missionary on a Catholic mission for Aborigines at La Grange, south of Broome. He worked there for nearly three years before returning to Melbourne to study theology at Yarra Theological College with the Pallotines. In February 1979 he entered the Benedictine monastery at New Norcia, where he has now taken solemn VOWS. Dom Francis has long regarded poetry writing as his first love. An Anthology Of Christian Verse includes some 16 pieces of composition by this Benedictine monk. These pieces reveal with clarity, several exhilarating aspects or themes of his verse. Again and again the reader is confronted by the writer's ever present sense of wonder, humility and awe in the presence of the dynamic, supportive and allencompassing eternal reality: Contemplating like the eagle that something bidden from our eye wielding yielding watching tiwiting — for the pounce of God. (contemplating).

Dead can speak

My prayer bangs like the mist The Dead Accuse, picture in all its light and will he brave enough to fi-Akmon the bills. It fuses edited by Arturs Plau- shade, a picture of simple, his example and so help us to with the early comfortable dis, $8. (Available from hard-working country people understand what we ourselves carolling of magpies, A. Plaudis, 29 Euston living through the destruction have never experienced — the muses r ape of a noble Christian Park of their proud nation. A venue, upon the waterfalls song 3114. pos- The letters are all the more culture. Orchards, ofifIlose robins, staying tage 80c). Reviewed impressive because Arturs Above all, I hope a vigorous earthfast, obeying. by John W Doyle, S J, Plaudis has left them to speak local publisher will make The Kalamunda Uniting Church St John Fisher College, fi)r themselves, providing only Dead Accuse the hest-seller it member Pauline Young cap- University of Tasma- a very brief intnxitictkm and should be. Meamhile, this conchision. facsimile edition of 150 copies tures starkly and searingty that nia. ever present Christian tension Over the years I have read Because he w as unable to find is a collectors item. an English publisher (versions 'Lies can only he refuted by of belief-disbelief. many account s of conditk s in In Doubts, she brings before Russia and the countries it has have appeared in Latvian and truth. But since speaking the German), Mr Plaudis has pub- truth in my homeland is too us those darker moments overrun. The Dead Accuse is lished the letters himself, from dangerous kif the living, let which we would prefer to the most moving and the most forget once they are put the t)pescript. I hope others the dead speak in their place.' convincing of them all. behind us: The Dead Accuse is simply extracts from nearly 200 letI n the lonely darkness To ensure a personal remembrance ters written (chiefly by his when sleep eludes me in the prayers of the Carmelite Nuns aged mother) to a Latvian exile you may have your name enrolled in it comes to haunt. and his wife in Australia. This thought, this terror: supposing there is no one The first were written while he was still in Latvia, in 1944. else who keeps the watch with Then there is nothing till May at the Carmel and Shrine of Our lady Queen of Peace. 1956, when news of his escape me. Wagga Wagga but doubts like the dar- reached his parents. His mothYou may also enrol your friends and relatives, living or dekness and fear of night er's last letter was dated ceased. so that they too will be given a perpetual remembrance on their anniversaries. itself pass and we too know March 2, 1970. Three weeks Deta0s And aoc) ,caton forms on -ec,;est such moments of convic- later she was with (rod. tion and renewalas Pauline It would he all too easy to The Superior, Carmelite Monastery, Box 233, Sth Wagga quote hits and pieces to illushere describes: Please send details of 2650 Even before thefirst lyrical trate one theme or another. THE BOOK OF PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE But it wookl he quite wrong to strain to M do so. Only reading the admirfrom a magpie's throat A ddress or the first bright blush ably selected extracts one • a fter another conveys the hints of dawning day.

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160GS' RACE ONE: Sal's Super Son 1, Frankie Francis 2, Lenzy 3. RACE TWO: Oyster Lady 1, Blue Temlock 2, Flash Encanto 3. RACE THREE: Chinese Chief 1, John Michael 2, Gaan the Jet 3. RACE FOUR: Blue Echo 1, Wild Earl 2, Legatee 3. FIVE: Ethel RACE Queen 1, Supreme Carmen 2, Aulfee 3.

RACE SIX: Scootalot 1, Countess Kim 2, Dangerous Adios 3. RACE SEVEN: Stoney's Hope 1, Gillie's Jewel 2, Up the Woods 3. RACE EIGHT: Miss Stephanie 1, Blue Error 2, Silver Birch 3. RACE NINE: Scot's Lover 1, Staroma 2, Rita Magita 3. RACE TEN: Temrose Boy 1, Rubin Maid 2, Billa Koo 3.

The collapse of three parish tennis clubs in the WA Catholic Lawn Tennis Association is causing concern, the association president, Peter Messer said at a recent executive meeting. St Denis' in Joondana, St Dominics in lnnaloo and Our Lady's Assumption in Dianella have folded up. The failure of the Dianella club was a particular disappointment because it had been for many years one of the leading clubs in association activities and was always well represented at pennant competichampionship tions, events and the Queen Quests. The reason for the demise of these clubs seems to have a common factor in that when those responsible for the success of their clubs stood down from office there was nobody prepared to take on the responsibility of running them. A similar situation was experienced with the Warwick club a few seasons ago when the organisers were transferred interstate. The club folded-up in their absence, but fortunately was re-established when they returned. Mr Messer regretted the fact many members who had for many years enjoyed the social and competitive tennis provided by the clubs were not prepared to make any sacrifice to ensure they continued for the sake of the next generation. The loss of the clubs at this time was particularly worrying because the national carnival is due to be held here in December I1985.

[Lace Talk with Rod Evans j ANJINSAN was the talk of the racecourse after his very impressive victory at Wednesday's Belmont meeting. Anjinsan had his first start in Kalgoorlie and won the Gold Rush Handicap before coming to the city and winning so easily. Anjinsan looks to be the best of the Asian Beau progeny and could follow in the footsteps of his illustrious father. This horse will win many more races for owner Yosse Goldberg. ATTICA STATE put up a good performance to win first up at Northam on Thursday. This horse was only having his second start in a race and obviously is blessed with plenty of ability. Attica State should win his way through the classes in this campaign and it will pay to follow him. FISTFUL OF DOLLARS annihilated his rivals at Belmont on Saturday, leading all the way to score a very comfortable win. This was Fistful of Dollars third win from only eight starts and he is the type of galloper who will always give a good sight to his supporters and should furnish into a class galloper later on in his career. IRISH BREW looks to be a staying find for owner Laurie Connell judging on his win over 1650m in the Gilmour Handicap on Saturday. Irish Brew is classically bred to be a stayer being by Whiskey Road out of Fairsandra. Irish Brew's missions are the Derbies later on in the year and he could prove to be hard to beat if he stands up to a tough campaign.

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Beaconsfield window The framework for a spectacular rose window in extensions to Christ the King church Beaconsfield went into place last week. The 200mm thick frame with a diameter of 3.5 metres is in pre-cast concrete for which a complicated mould had to be manufactured. Into the window will go 64 pieces of glass being manufactured currently by stained glass designer Ken Wildy. He is using hand made antique glass which is thicker than ordinary glass and has colours fired into the material which presents a wavy texture of colour. The window theme is Christ in glory with a crown at the centre to illustrate the title of the church Christ the King surrounded by symbols of the four evangelists. The Holy Spirit is placed at the top of the window with the remaining outer segments portraying the seven sacraments. The glass will be installed by Christmas. The huge burden of organisation which that creates would now fall on the association's small executive. Western Australia has a record second to none as far as holding carnivals is concerned. If this high standard was to be maintained the members of the carnival committee organising would need a great deal of support from members not now involved in association activities. Members have until August 15 when the next AGM will be held to consider the situation and then hopefully rally behind those elected with the

YOUTH GROUPS GALA BALL The youth groups from the Monastery in North Perth are excited about their annual gala ball. The ball is on Saturday, July 21, from 8pm to lam at the South Perth Civic Centre. The Blue Brass band has been booked and supper will be provided. Drinks will be on sale — alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Theme for the night is 'the celebrities', with participants dressed as their favourite celebrity. Prizes will be given for the best costumes. Single tickets are $6.00. For any enquiries and tickets please ring: Leonie Banks on 364 9149 or Mike Ranford on 454 5071 (after hours).

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Any past or present member who is able to assist with the organisation of the carnival is asked to contact Mr Messer on 458 5031. A medal tournament day has been arranged for Saturday July 14 at St Joseph's Pignatelli beginning at 1.30pm. The pennants for the recently completed mixed competition will be presented during the afternoon. Entries for the men's and ladies' pennant competitions close on Thursday July 12.

CHURCH HAS A RESPONSIBILITY At the invitation of the Catholic Justice and Development Committee, Father John Fullenbach SVD will speak at the Leederville parish centre on Wednesday July 11 at 7.45pm on The Responsibility of the Church for Society. Father Fullenbach, a Doctor of Theology, is head of the Divine Word Missionaries, Rome, and is currently at the Yarra Theological College lecturing in moral theology. He has wide experience as a missionary in Latin America. For further information: contact Anne Matacz 342 3497

Lecture on responsibility Tertiary Young Christian Students are sponsoring a lecture on "Church responsibility for society, its nature and implications" by theologian, John Fullemback at the Social Science Seminar Room 3 University of WA Tuesday July 10 at 7.30 pm

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FOCOLARE MAR IAPOLIS

A t last year's Redemptorist Ball were (from left) Jonene Roberts, Paul van der May and Leonie Banks.

The Focolare Mariapolis will be held at the Noalimba Centre, Mandala Crescent, Bateman from Wednesday August 29 until Sunday September 2. Participants may attend on a live-in or daily attendance basis. The cost including conference fee,

accommodation and meals is adults $60, students $40, children 3-12 $28. Special rates for familieis. Further information from the Focolare Centres at 12 Jugan Street, Glendalough 6016 Phone A/H 444 0724 and 79 Harbourne Street, Wembley 6014 Phone A/H 381 1852.

CWL STATE CONFERENCE The theme of the Catholic Women's League state conference, to be held at the Cathedral Parish Centre, 450 Hay Street, Perth at 11.30 am on July 8 is reconciliation. Mass will be celebrated at St Mary's Cathedral at 10 am prior to the opening of the conference. Guest speaker is Miss Pat Ryan, from the State Women's Advisory Committee.

LEADER WANTED A house leader is required for a house sharing project run by CentrecareEmmanuel, a self help centre for people with disabilities. The person may be studying or working in a regular job, full or part time. The applicant needs to have a desire to help people live independently. Free board and rent are available to the successful applicant. For further information ring Barbara Harris, 328 8113.