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LOOKING AT NEW THEOLOGY Liberation theology... p riests in politics or the Church taking an increasing political role in oppressed and poverty-stricken countries.. . is one of the most controversial issues in the modern Church. See stories pages 2, 4 and 5.
MOTHER'S DENIAL A Melbourne mother in the IVF programme caused a furore last weekend when newspapers said she claimed Archbishop Little called her an adulteress and her child would be shunned by the Church. She has since denied the newspaper reports in further interviews and TV coverage...see page 3.
VATICAN CITY (NC): A major Vatican statement ordered by Pope John Paul II says branches of liberation theology which use "concepts uncritically borrowed from Marxist ideology" are incompatible with Catholicism. Issued last week as Brazilian theologian Father Leonardo Boff was to explain his views to the Vatican, the document criticised the theory of class struggle and other theories which put liberation from material poverty above liberation from sin. The first instalment of the doctunent is printed on pages 4 and 5. The currents of liberation theology using concepts Marxist reduce theology to a political programme, the document said. By applying the doctrine of class struggle they often regard Church authorities as part of the oppres.sor class, added the document. The liberation theology text was issued by the Vatican Congretation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Church agency responsible for monitoring theological orthodoxy. The document is titled, "Instruction on Certain Aspects of the 'Theology of Liberation." Its purpose is to draw attention to the "risks of deviation, damaging to the Faith and to Christian living, brought about by certain forms of liberation theology which use, in an insufficiently critical manner, concepts borrowed from various currents of Marxist thought." The text was approved by Pope John Paul II, "who ordered its publication."
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At Sacred Heart church, Highgate last Sunday a Mass to honour the 117 Tonkin martyrs of Vietnam opened with a ceremony in which Vietnamese children placed the traditional burning incense sticks in front of a special shrine to the martyrs set up in the sanctuary. See page 16
Guardsmen sentenced SANS SALVADOR: A criminal court judge in El Salvador has sentenced f ive former National Guardsmen to the maximum 30 years in prison for the murder of four American Churchwomen in 1980. The five were found guilty last month, but have been awaiting sentence. The judge described the trial as "triumph for justice".
Critical look at theology ROME (NC) — The Church is taking a critical look at liberation theology because the ideas behind it try to raise social theories to the level of theology, said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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He said the basic criticism is not that liberation theology uses aspects of Marxism for its socio-economic analysis nor the social commitment of its exponents. The problem was it elevated to theology that which in reality should be a social ethic or a social theory, even if naturally these coincide with fundamental postulates of the Gospel, he said. Making theology of social theories was dangerous because it could lead to theocracy and to a level of certainty not proper to social and economic theories, the cardinal said. "I can't deduce from the Gospel of Mark or from the Letter to the Galatians what I should do in South America. This is simply a foolishness," he said.
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tioned specifically Peruvian Father Gustavo Gutierrez, author of several books on liberation theology and a theology professor at the Catholic University of Lima, Peru. Last April 27, the Peruvian bishops said they were studying the words of Father Gutierrez but were not .yet ready to issue a public evaluation of his thought. Peruvian church sources have said the bishops were studying the works of Father Gutierrez at the request of the Vatican. • Cont page 16
Too soon for talks PEKING: In an interview in a Peking daily paper, Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan of the Chinese Patriotic Church has said that it is too soon to have any dialogue between the Vatican and China. He said there is not the slightest sign of any change in the Vatican's policies in relation to China.
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Liberation theology gains its strengths in the poorer, Third World countries, particularly where there is great poverty and oppression.
Historical look at 'liberation theology' Liberation theology sprang up in Latin America in the 1960s as a theological reflection on the material poverty of people and the need to provide concrete aid to the poor as part of the evangelisation process. Since then its influence has spread to other Third World regions. An uncritical use of Marxist concepts to analyse social situations is unacceptable in a Christian theology because all of Marxism is tied to its atheistic and m aterialistic philosophy, said the Vatican document. It said theologians are obliged to submit any method of analysing social
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reality to a theological critique to determine its suitability for Catholic use. "This preliminary critical study is missing from more than one 'theology of liberation," said the document.
R egarding Marxism, "a preliminary critique is all the more necessary since the thought of Marx is such a global vision of reality that
all data received from observation and analysis are brought together in a philosophical and ideological structure," it added. -This is the case with 'class struggle.' This expression remains pregnant with the interpretation that Marx gave it, so it cannot be taken as the equivalent of 'severe social conflict,- it said. The Marxist concewpt of class struggle means use of violence as this struggle is
For many liberation theologians "participation in the class struggle is presented as a requirement of charity itself. The desire to love everyone here and now, despite his class, and to go meet him with the nonviolent means of dialogue and persuasion is denounced as counterproductive and opposed to love," the document said. "Every affirmation of faith or of theology is subordinated to a political criteria, which in turn depends on class struggle, the driving force of history," it said. • Cont page 11
Vatican decries text... • From page 1 The document said there is a valid theology of liberation which reflects on the biblical theme of freedom in light of humanity's spiritual slavery caused by sin and the consequences of this in the social order. It also strongly reaffirmed Church social teachings on the need to overcome injustice caused by the vast gap between rich and poor in
Third World countries and the economic imbalances between the developed and underdeveloped countries. The document did not name any theologian and did not issue a general condemnation of all liberation theolInstead it defined what aspects of some branches of liberation theology are incompatible with Catholicism.
A leading liberation theologian whose thought incorporates aspects of Marxism, Brazilian Frenciscan Father Leonardo Boff, was scheduled to discuss his writings this week with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the doctrinal congregation. In April the Peruvian bishops said they were formally studying the works of Peruvian Father Gustavo Gutierrez, another leading
libera tion theologian. At the time of the publication of the Vatican document the bishops had not yet issued a public judgment on the content of Father Gutierrez' writings. Both theologians have said that they draw on Marxist social analysis to help them understand the causes of poverty, but that Marxism does not influence their theological reflections.
Sequel to Melbourne furore MELBOURNE: In a series of television, radio and Press interviews, Mrs Margaret Brookes has denied weekend newspaper reports that the Church snubbed her IVF son's baptism or that Archbishop Little said the child would be considered as adopted.
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In a series on answers to Derryn Hinch on 3AW Melbourne Mrs Brookes: • said the word 'adoption' came up in passing in a conversation with Archbishop Little last December; • denied there had been the slightest hesitation about the child's forthcoming baptism. • denied any Church official had called her actions adulterous. Mrs Brookes is the mother
The directly willed destruction of embryonic and foetal human life at whatever stage of its development is objectively seriously sinful and this is the firm belief of the Catholic Church, Father William Uren said this week It is not traditional Catholic view to make the embryo inviolable only after individuation and implantation said the rector of St Thomas More College who has taken a special interest in the invitro fertilisation question. Father Uren was commenting on remarks by the Anglican archbishop of Perth Dr Carnley who made a distinction between fertilisation and conception to a meeting of general practitioners. Father Uren said Catholic opinion objects to non-therapeutic embryo experimentation which destroys human embryos. It also has reservations about freezing and thawing embryos which at present "seem to significantly jeopardise the continuing existence of a very large proportion of such embryos. He said the distinction between fertilisation and conception has a long history in Christian moral literature. It was operative in the Middle Ages debate on the status of the "unformed and the formed foetus." The debate continued into the modern era in terms of the "unesouled and the ensouled foetus."
DE El As recently as November 18, 1974, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in its declaration on abortion adverted to the distinction, but did not attempt to resolve Dr Caniley's question: "When does Individual human life begin? "It did, however, reaffirm the traditional Catholic teaching on the inviolability of human life from fertilisation. "I presume, too, it was in terms of this distinction between fertilisation and conception that the recent recommendation of the Warnock Report in the United Kingdom was framed when It submitted that experimentation on human embryos should be allowed until the fourteenth day after fertilisation. "The discussion on surplus embryos in the Waller (Victoria) and Demack (Queensland) reports has made reference to the same type of distinction. "I would find it difficult to agree with the claim reported of Dr Carnley that this information Dad not been recognised in the Australian debate and had been overlooked in the recent professional literature.
of the world's first baby to be born from a frozen embryo procedure. Last Sunday, newspapers around Australia reported that at a church opening, Archbishop Little had said the birth would be recognised as an adoption. Archbishop Little has written to the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney saying no Church authority has the
right to make this designation of a parent. Mrs Brookes said on the radio she spoke to Archbishop Little last December, the day after she had been implanted with the embryo. She said she asked him "if I get pregnant, would I be able to have the baby baptised? He just laughed and s aid: 'Of course! Definitely'."
Speaking further with the a rchbishop about IVF babies, she asked if such babies would be received into the Church since the Church did not agree with the conception. She said the archbishop's reply was: 'The same as any adopted baby is received into the Church. Anybody is accepted into the Church.' Derryn Hinch: "That's where the adoption line Mrs c omes from?" Brookes: "That's exactly right" Mrs Brookes further denied she was accused of adultery. • Cont page 12
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Malta problems are continuing VALLE1TA: Eight Maltese Catholic secondary schools which refused to comply with new licensing conditions will be barred from reopening next month. The government had set a July 31 deadline for the schools to answer in writing whether they would operate their facilities under the licensing rules, which forbid private schools to charge tuition, and places other conditions on their operation. There are 60 private schools on Malta, most of them Catholic. A government spokesman said most had complied with the regulations.
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MELBOURNE: Archbishop Little has called a news story in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph ( Church snubs embryo baby) misleading and the paper's editorial on the subject "Offensive". The archdiocese of Melbourne is taking the matter to the Press Council of Australia following repeated denials by Mrs Brookes that she inferred any of the remarks attributed to her about the Church and the baptism of her frozen embryo baby. The Sunday Telegraph story was reprinted in many Sunday newspapers including the Sunday Times in Perth. In his letter to the Sunday Telegraph Archbishop Little said: "The Catholic Church rejoices in the birth of any child. She rejoices particularly when that child is presented for baptism. "It is not the function
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OTTAWA: Cardinal Emmett Carter, Archbishop of Toronto, shares the pope's misgivings about the media presentation of the tour of Canada which began this week. "The strength of the pope's personality may reinforce a false and exaggerated view of the papacy," he says. 'The hype promotes the notion of the pope as a kind of super-bishop, between us and God, with other bishops little more than branch managers. That is bad theology." The cardinal clears the pope of any responsibility for encouraging bad theology, saying the pope sees the papacy as a servant of the bishops, not a substitute for their authority.
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It was radio, ironically, that revealed last Saturday how The West Australian missed a section of the market because of yet another industrial dispute about which it is careful never to report in its pages. Famished readers need not have cried their hearts out judging by the abysmal performance turned in by that edition when it came to Catholic reporting. Only the Sunday Times the following day could reach the depths. Earlier in the week Anglican Archbishop Cernley drew page one headlines for his supposedly new distinction on embryos. A doctor's response and a promise of Catholic comment got page three and a purring editorial got page six. Father Uren was dumped on page 31...! This could have been because some myopic journalist hunting for the "furor" over Archbishop Cernley's remarks found, as far as Father Uren's remarks were concerned that it did not exist. Father Uren got a bit of hearing after the fifth paragraph. The next day The Sunday Times went into its now habitual performance of swallowing hook and all any story that is farmed out of its Sydney stable. An equally myopic Eastern States source sobbed in print at the -despair" of the in vitro parents over the child's baptism, specifically welcomed by Archbishop Little 10 months ago at the first hint of a child and specifically invited by the priest the day she appeared at Mass after the August 1 7 birth, a baptism, note, that is to take place shortly. On evidence in an item on page three of this issue shows, in a report from verbatitm text of a radio interview in Melbourne last Monday morning, the Sunday Times story is a farrago of lies, insult and innuendo. If Archbishop Little used the word 'adoption' it was 10 months ago in an entirely different context. If any priest made an observation on 'adultery' it was at Mrs Brookes' own discussion of her ovum donation to another person. If there was the slightest difficulty over the baptism it has not surfaced either on the part of Archbishop Little 10 months ago or her caring parish priest Mrs Brookes now claims repeatedly in press, radio and television interviews that her remarks are "misconstrued." Readers faced with the conflicting versions can reach only one of two conclusions. One is that Australia has been served up an atrocious load of malicious reporting. Watch if the Sunday Times prints next week Mrs Brookes' denials! The alternative is the reporting mistake is innocent and that Mrs Brookes is a naive prattler who has insulted the patience that on her admission Archbishop Little and other priests have extended to her over a long period. It would seem that details of the proper advice given by the archbishop and others to Mrs Brookes was well known in in-vitro circles in Melbourne. It is little consolation to bewildered Catholics around Australia to hear that she is regretful of what has happened and that 'mud will stick', if she has contributed to this lampooning onslaught by journalists on any Catholic attitude to in-vitro procedures. Mrs Brookes' alleged criticisms of the Church are devoured by media which have foisted on to the public such a sentimental and coy gloss that not the slightest whiff of dispproval may be voiced about any aspect of in-vitro procedures, its sometimes questionable participants, or its obsessively secretive practitioners. Here in Perth, of course, Archbishop Camley was neither prattling nor conversing to the press which found his remarks so interesting and encouraging judging by The West Australian editorial. If, as Father Uren points out, the archbishop:s distinction between notions of fertilisation and conception is as old as the history of any discussion of the subject and would hardly be news to his medical audience, where does the attraction for his view lie? In a reported moral hiccup of moral apprehension the archbishop hinted he would not want any frivolous discarding of the un-implanted embryos on which he nevertheless has conferred a conveniently disposable status. He I 3 doubt has his own view of the runaway medical technologist? ability to carefully sidestep any frown on its frivolity. Unfortunately, the incipient life human life does not carry his convenient labels designating when it is one thing or another in the chain of life. Regrettably the Archbishop's remarks will be a joy to the ears of the abortion-bent humanism that now controls our society. Disapprove he may of some practices, but his remarks are the green light from a churchman to the morning-after abortants and yet-to-be-devised procedures that will be able to eliminate human life conveniently before it is old enough to be noticed, 14 days old in fact. The dilemma surrounding such observations by Archbishop Camley and earlier remarks this year by Bishop Michael Challen approving abortion in so-called threatening situations to a mother's life, beg the question of what authority they carry to their fellow Anglicans. The Catholic Church has an authority to make sure that we are dealing not with specious distinctions by individual bishops but about drawing the line on human life in terms of faith. If Anglicans are now so confused or ineffective in their attitude to the sanctity of human life it is a sad sellout. Archbishop Carnley's attempt to find a way through the maze may be laudable but even in ecumenical times it has to be said that, coming from the leader of a denomination which talks often but teaches little in moral matters his remarks are as worthy the newspaper in which they appeared.
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Strong signs of the Imes 1. The stronger and almost irresistible aspiration that people have for liberation constitutes one of the principal signs of the times which the Church has to examine and interpret in the light of the Gospel. This major phenomenon of our time is universally w idespread, though it takes on different forms and exists in different degrees according to the p articular people involved. It is, above all, among those people who bear the burdens of misery and in the heart of the disinherited classes that this a spiration expresses itself with the greatest f orce. 2. This yearning shows the authentic, if obscure, perception of the dignity o f the human person, created "in the image and likeness of God" (Gen 1:26-27), ridiculed and scorned in the midst of a variety of different' oppressions: cultural, political, racial, social and economic, often in conjunction with one another. 3. In revealing to them their vocation as children of God, the Gospel has elicited in the hearts of mankind a demand and a positive will for a peaceful and just fraternal life in which everyone will find respect and the conditions for spiritual as well as material development. This requirement is no doubt at the very basis of the aspiration we are talking about here. 4. Consequently mankind will no longer passively submit to crushing poverty with its effects of death, disease and decline. He resents this misery as an intolerable violation of his native dignity. Many factors, and among them certainly the leaven of the Gospel, have contributed to an awakening of the conthe sciousness of oppressed. 5. It is widely known, even in still illiterate sections of the world, that, thanks to the amazing advances in science and technology, mankind, still growing in numbers, is capable of assuring each human being the minimum of goods required by his dignity as a person. 6. The scandal of the inequality shocking between the rich and poor — whether between rich and poor countries, or between social classes in a single nation — is no longer tolerated. • Cont page 16
A detailed look at the Vatican document instructing
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of freedom and a force for liberation. In recent years, this essential truth has become the object of reflection for theologians, with a new kind of attention which is itself full of promise. Liberation is first and foremost liberation from the radical slavery of sin. Its end and its goal is the freedom of the children of God. which is the gift of grace. As a logical consequence, it calls for freedom from many different kinds of slavery in the cultural, economic, social and political spheres, all of which derive ultimately from sin, and so often prevent people from living in a manner befitting their dignity. To discern clearly what is fundamental to this issue and what is a by-product of it, is an indispensable condition for any theological reflection on liberation. Faced with the urgency of certain problems, some are tempr iLiberation theology sprang up in Latin America in ted to emphasize, unilaterally, the I—Ithe 1960s as a theological reflection on the liberation from servitude of an material poverty of the people and the need to provide concrete aid to the poor as part of the evangelisation earthly and temporal kind. process. Since then its influence has spread to other They do so in such a way that Third World regions. The Vatican document says it they seem to put liberation from is an uncritical use of Marxist concepts to analyse sin in second place, and so fail to social situations and unacceptable in a Christian give it the primary importance it theology.. . is due. Thus, their very presentation of the problems is confused and ambiguous. Others, in an effoct to 1. The yearning for justice and fa the effective captive of ideologies Mich hide or pervert its meaning, recognition of the dignity of every human being needs. and which pr000se to people stniggling for their liberation learn more precisely like every deep aspiration. to be clarified and guided. goals which are contrary to the true purpose of human what are the causes of life. 2. In effect, a discernment process is necessary which the slavery which they They propose ways of action whichITO the systematic into account both the theoretical and the practical takes want to end, make use recourse to violence, contrary to any ethic which is manifestations of this aspiration of different concepts respectful of persons For there are many political and sooal movements without sufficient critwhich present themselves as authentic spokesmen for 4. The itirlripietation of the signs of the times in the ical caution. the aspirations of the poor. and claim to be al*, though light of the Gospel requires, then, that we examine the
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It is difficult, and perhaps impossible, to purify these borrowed concepts of an inspiration ideological which is incompatible with Christian faith and the ethical requirements which flow from it.
The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith does not intend to deal here with the vast theme of Christian freedom and liberation ir‘ its own right. This it intends to do in a subsequent document which will detail in a positive fashionn the great richness of this theme for the doctrine and life of the Church.
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The present Instruction has a much more limited and precise purpose: to draw the attention of pastors, theologians, and all the faithful to the deviations, and risks of deviation, damaging to the faith and to Christian living, that are brought about by certain forms of liberation theology which use, in an insufficiently critical manner, concepts borrowed from various currents of Marxist thought.
meaning of this deep yeaming of people for justice, but also that NV study with critical discernment the theoretical and practical expressions which this aspiration has taken on.
This warning should in no way be interpreted as a disavowal of all those who want to respond generously and with an authentic evangelical spirit to the "preferential option for the poor". It should not at all serve as an excuse for those who maintain an attitude of neutrality and indifference in the face of the tragic and pressing problems of human misery and injustice. It is, on the contrary, dic-
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1. Taken by itself, the desire for liberation finds a strong and fraternal echo in the heart and spirit of Christians.
2. Thus, in accord with this aspiration, the theological and pastoral movement known as "Liberation Theology" was born, first in the countries of Latin America which are marked by the religious and cultural heritage of Christianity, and then in other countries of the third world, as well as in certain circles in the industrialised countries. 3. The expression, -Theology of Liberation", refers first of all to a special concern for the poor and the victims of oppression, which in turn begets a commitment to justice. Starting with this approach, we can distinguish several, often contradictory ways of understanding the Christian meaning of poverty and the type of commitment to justice which it requires.
As with all movements of ideas, the "theologies of liberation" present diverse theological positions. Their doctrinal frontiers are badly defined. 4. The aspiration for liberation, as the term itself suggests, repeats a theme which is fundamental to the Old and New Testaments. In itself, the expression "theology of liberation" is a thoroughly valid term: it designates a theological reflection centered on the biblical theme of liberation and freedom, and on the urgency of its practical realisation. The meeting, then, of the aspiration for liberation and the theologies of liberation is not one of mere chance. The significance of this encounter between the two can be understood only in light of the specific message of Revelation, authentically interpreted by the Magisterium of the Church.
tated by the certitude that the serious ideological deviations which it points out tend inevitably to betray the cause of the poor. More than ever, it is important numerous Christians, whose faith is clear and who are committed to live the Christian life in its fullness. become involved in the struggle for justice, freedom and human dignity because of their love for their disinherited, oppressed and persecuted brothers and sisters. More than ever, the Church intends to condemn abuses, injustices and attacks against freedom, wherever they occur and whoever commits them. She intends to struggle, by her own means, for the defense and advancement of the rights of mankind, especially of the poor. ,
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Father Boff said in a recent interview that "Marxism does not enter properly into the aspect of theology but in the analytical aspect of society" when used by liberation theologians.
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Marxism is useful to some liberation theologians because it helps them explain what produces material poverty, he said.
"The theologians of liberation want to know why poverty exists, not just study poverty as a social fact," he added.
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"The Vatican is condemning a nightmare which does not, in fact, exist," said Nicholas Lash a Cambridge University professor and a member of the editorial board of the international theological review. "Concilium," which defended liberation theology in a June statement. He said the Vatican wrongly assumes the views on social justice and the Church held
by some Latin American theologians would "entail the total subversion of Christianity" if carried to their extreme. "These theologians have not taken their views to such an extreme," he said. Nevertheless, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith "has done the job for them and made up a system which does not exist," Lash said. The Vatican document, titles "instruction on certain aspects of the 'theology of liberation,— said those branches of liberation theology which use "concepts uncritically borrowed from Marxist ideology" are incompatible with Catholicism.
"In this sense for a liberation theologian Marx aids in seeing social sin and in this sense I think Marx is useful to the higher cause of theology," said Father Boff. But Father Boff claims liberation theology neither denies the divinity of Christ nor surrenders to the world view of Marxism. "Liberation theologians do not in any way deny the divine nature of Christ, nor the redeeming value of His death, nor the Mass as a form of the actualisation of the Lord's sacrifice and of His eucharistic presence." However, according to Father Boff, liberation theologians are concerned to confront "lived reality". But yet this should not be interpreted as denial or rejection. he stressed, being merely a question of emphasis. Father Boff said "those theologians who use certain elements of the Marxist tradition (notably Gramsci and Althusser) do so in analysing situations lived by people." Marxism in itself is not the attraction, he went on; instead, it is a question of the degree to which Marx may be useful in certain contexts.
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Telephone booths all vandalised... When I think about Ireland, I become excited and the words want to flow out like water of the natural spring, right outside that little whitewashed thatched cottage at Oughdara, Lisdoonvarna. At this delightful Irish lady's cottage, she merely has to put her cup into the bucket wherein the spring water flows, to drink God's water exactly as He intended. It was my first taste of pure, unadulterated, non-flouridated, non-polluted water. Of course I'm digressing, but I must tell you about this true Irish cottage....no, my lady hostess didn't have poteen ('tis Irish liquor homely brewed!) but she did have goats milk and her tiny cottage was about as cute a postage-card image as you could get. Friend of a cousin she was, and my image of her was complete when she called to her goats and donkey to come. They came, muzzled her hand and she was as I remember her — a touch of true Ireland, there with a background of a green field, tiny hills and overgrown vegetation covering a very ancient Augustinian monastery, reduced to rubble by t he ruthless conqueror Cromwell
ELIE It was Ireland in a nutshell She gave me a memento I shall treasure always, a tiny white pot around 60 years old, the same age as herself, coloured with little shamrocks on it. But that is Ireland, and the Irish. For the Christians it is a "Christian" country, the
...but their shrines untouched by fl . Reconfs Dartington correspondent, COLLEEN HOWARD who recently visited Ireland
straight to the heart simpatico accord as the Angelus at noon and 6pm summons everyone to stop and pray for a few brief minutes. Of the statues to the Virgin and Jesus in the towns, the sacred wells of St Brigid wherefrom she had drunk, inviting all to come and pray, even though they may be on private property. The intensity of the Irish as they discuss politics, so near to their heart. The pro's and con's of the Fianna Fail and the Fine Gael parties, the main political parties in Ireland. So many priests in the
streets as against our so few. The pure devotion to their Catholicism which was refreshing to see in an age where "nothing really matters any more1 could go on and never run dry; like the spring at Oughdarra And yet — would I have ever done real justice to these beautiful people? Physically, they ae not a conventionally beautiful race, but with the all embracing warmth of their personalities, their fiery temperaments when their sacred issues are touched, and the depth of their feelings and characters, they, in my eyes, are more than "something special"
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They are unique. The magic of Ireland is also summed up in the words. .Caed Mille Faulte. . . those magical Gaelic words which mean "a hundred thousand welcomes". It was brought home to me when I arrived at Dublin airport. It's not that sort of an airport where you feel lost and alone. Funnily enough, even there it is a cosier sort with interested folk just so eager to make you feel at home. I was confused initially at which level to take a bus. To my aid came a delightful Irishman, in his mid fifties I would say. He really couldn't do enough. My flight from Australia had taken 28 hours and I had come alone, urged on by a "discovery where my roots began" passion. He was horrified when he heard I had booked at guest house room in a street known for its bag snatching. This delightful representative of the C.I.E. (Irish transport system), manoeuvred, organised and cajoled a driver to take me to the very door of my guest house, spurred on by his concern for my welfare.
EEO The other passengers in the bus, never voiced concern to the driver selected with the entrusted task of delivering me personally to my guest house, so my bags weren't snatched — that they were half an hour late! Oh you wonderful Irish!, They, including in particular my lovely little C.I.E. representative, bore out the true meaning of "Caed Mille Faulte". Incidentally, I was walking up Dublin's main street and there he was as the driver of a filled bus. He spotted me and called: "How are you?" "Just terrific!" I called back and once more he made me feel rather special; like a million dollars. After all, the traffic was piled up around and about, but the folks didn't seem to give a damn about schedules set back because of a friendly rejoinder. And how could I possibly tell you about the emerald green patch-work quilt countryside, stunningly accentuated by fields of the rape seed, brilliantly yellow in contrast, if I didn't mention the Irish? Yes I could, but no I wouldn't because countryside without people is nothing. And how could I tell you
Roadside shrines . . . on private property but anyone can worship there about their relaxed lifestyle.. that they are one of the few or maybe the only, country in the western world which is up to date yet where you can relish a people with time to listen, to enjoy your company and your words, time to laugh and play. Where else is there? And yet they go to work and till the land and produce. ..but they make time to live.
EEE We don't. The sheer joy of being on an Irish farm where the scenery is just as you imagine Ireland to be, green lush squares, delineated by hedgerows, cottages dotting the hillsides, fresh faced with children deeply coloured hair (often red), fair skin, pink cheeks and laughing natures. There is the fun of visiting Guiness's brewery and watching a video while you quaff quantities of stout (not to mention Murphy's stout in Cork), of the charming attention you invariably receive from the warm Irish people, of their ability to laugh with their special sense of humour. And what about the memorials, the statues to their fallen Great with epitaphs and sentiments only the truly Irish born or descended therefrom could appreciate the depth of. Could I describe to you the lilt and change of the accents as they vary from county to county? Would you feel the warmth of their embrace which they give you although you are neither kith nor kin — but they love you just the same?
Their warmth and hospitality is something you won't find anywhere else. The smell of their Irish soda bread fresh from the oven, their taste of the bacon/cabbage and potatoes — topped up with an Irish coffee and home-made apple pie at their noon main meal. The Gaelic of the street signs intrigued me. A dead language, but rather fascinating like their castles around the countryside.
Limerick, home of the O'Briens and castle of Inchquin (head of the clan) O'Brien, a Lord in the English Parliament. Monohan, home of the McGuinness and myself a descendant of both, found this interesting. A semi -ruined castle where my husband's grandfather had worked A Fairy Fort near their old homestead three dots and Fairy Forts are intriguing. Farmers never till the land over a Fairy (ringed) Fort, it was thereupon the ancient Irish had built their Crannogs. But above everything else, one thing left me amazed. In the street where I was domiciled while in Dublin, a notorious street for bag snatchers, who incidentally snatched bags but never mugged, I saw on either side of the street two welfare housing estates. They said it was a pretty tough area for vandals. . . don't leave your car there, I was told. But it was incongruous and mind searching. Because in the quadrangles at the front of the flats, which were devoid of sandpits, grass, swings, or indeed anything I could see for the young folk to play on, were t wo, approximately 10ft glass cases, on daises. One encased the Virgin on one side of the street and the Sacred Heart on the other. I never once saw the glass cases shattered.
How can you describe somewhere that is more than a mere country? How can you give to others the aura of a people who are intense and so sincere, passionate but not Latin, loving, caring, believing and truly living. I saw mothers in Dublin, many with old prams piled high with small children and usually pregnant How reassuring I thought in a civilised country to see that women still bear and want children. And their children found to be invariably well cared for, obviously loved and very happy. Even those of the itinerants — their gypsies. Large numbers of children the Irish have and that alone is a rather different trend to we westerners.
EEO Personally, I found it refreshing! They aren't slackers either, they have 85 per cent home ownership and the average size of their home is about t he same as ours, 14 squares. They are a proud race and tend to rather "do their own thing", refusing to be pushed around by other peoples. That was nice too. In a word, they are thoroughly independent and nobody tells them what to do.
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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup
Briefs: ELUANDA
(Angola): An Angolan rebel group called UNITA has kidnapped 14 Catholic missionaries during an attack on their mission in the city of Kiola. The missing include two priests from Portugal and Colombia, eight nuns from Mexico, including one who is 84, three nuns from Spain and one from Angola. A number of Catholic missionaries have been abducted by anti-government guerillas in the southern African nation. E 0
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Poland's Catholic bishops have pleaded for a relaxation of political repression. The plea came the day after notionwide voting which was hailed by Polish authorities as a major victory over Solidarity, the illegal trade union movement. The bishops said they were worried that -a number of new arrests for political reasons" would bring "new tensions-. -Curing that situation requires creating a new political climate that would remove the sources of tensions and repressions," they said in a statement issued after a bishops' meeting.
Christianity v f oreign' in India
Must bring the people together VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Church must promote justice by bringing people together, rather than by taking sides in class struggle, the pope said in a message to southern African bishops. A Vatican official said the pope was talking about liberation theology, even though he did not use the term in the message. "The solidarity of the Church with the poor, with the victims of unjust laws or unjust social and economic structures goes without saying," the pope said in a note to the bishops who were attending a regional meeting. "But the forms in which this solidarity is realised cannot be dictated by an analysis based on class distinctions and class struggle. "The Church's task is to call all men and women to conversion and reconciliation, without opposing groups, without being 'against' anyone," the pope said. "Every form of ministry and service in the Church must be an expression of the love that is at the heart of Jesus." Although the pope did not specifically mention liberation theology, which applies theories of class struggle to the Gospel, a Vatican official familiar with the issue said "that's exactly what he's talking about."
BOMBAY: Catholicism is a longestablished tradition in the Diocese of Karwar, India, but "unfortunately in India Christianity has taken a foreign look," says Bishop William Leonard D'Mello of Karwar, pointing to his own Ang,loPortuguese name as evidence. Bishop D'Mello said he is introducing more Indian cultural forms into worship and encourages young Indians to use Indian names. But the goal of a Christianity rooted in Indian culture has not been achieved. He said he meets resistance because the names and cultural forms have been intertwined with Hinduism, from which Catholics wish to remain separated. The bishop argued "Indian culture is one thing and Hinduism is another thing," and the cultural forms can be used without compromising the Catholic faith. Bishop D'Mello said he also has to defend his position against militant Hindus who contend India should be exclusively for Hindus.
Marriage divorces decline ROME (NC) — The number of marriages and divorces are on the decline in Italy, according to Italy's National Statistical Institute. Figures indicated 10,000 fewer marriages In 1983 than in 1982. The decline occurred entirely in Church weddings, which dropped f rom to 268,675 258,029. In 1983, approximately 13,000 Henan couples or divorced were obtained annulments pointing to a 5 percent decline in annulments.
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"In one village I was building a chapel, and they came in and built a temple across from it," he said. "Now they have put up loudspeakers and blast out Hindu hymns when we have services." "In other places, when we have bought land for chapels, they have encouraged people to poach on it." Government officials at all leveLs often show tolerance for such actions, he added. Bishop D'Mello in 1977 became the first bishop of the new Karwar Diocese, Bishop D'Mello's family became Catholic in the days of Portuguese rule, when converts commonly took Portuguese last names. His first and middle names reflect later British influence. He was visiting the United States to address the international convention in Chicago of Miles Jesu, a secular institute promoting lay sanctification and witnessing, and to raise funds for his diocese.
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KNOW Y OUR F AITH
Recently a number of Catholics in one parish contributed funds to help a young woman who urgently needed special medical care. She lacked any medical insurance to cover the expense involved.
PATHWAYS OF THE SPIRIT
Dignity is hard to define ...
A number of families each contributed a modest amount to the fund. But, together, their action had real impact:
Dignity is that hard-to-define quality behaviour, and find support idea it's a short step to thinkthey fall on their face." ing that an individual's digthat makes human beings unique. The when In the process family nity is likewise tied somehow recognition of human dignity is basic members learn important to financial worth. to action that promotes justice in the lessons about their own Hengesbach suggested that • It showed the young woman human value and that of families might look for ways world. that the community cared about her. others. to counter that notion —
• It helped the young woman meet her expenses.
But "dignity" is also one of they feel their freedom is For instance, in many subtle such as sharing jobs at home. those terms that gets bandied threatened or compromised ways, society gets across the He explained that a parent In a small way, the community about without much effort to Often people will say someaffirmed the human and God-giving pin down exactly what is thing like, "the job is undig- Idea that paid uork is more who works full time says a valuable than nonpaid or lot about the dignity of those meant, theologian Theodore nified," dignity of the young woman. or "I feel volunteer uork. From that who u)ork mostly at borne by Hengesbach indicated He is programmed into place" in a faculty member of Indiana expressing their dissatisfacThat is the kind of action University in South Bend. tion. frequently undertaken by adults who Indiana A t the same time, as religious IS it possible to talk about want to put their faith into action. educators Evelyn and James But when adults do something like a dignified machine?" To get lZhitehead observe, it is impora handle on the meaning of this, do they let their children in on human dignity, tant to keep in mind that Hengesbach it? or do the adults simply write out suggested it might help too sk dignity doesn't come from what people do hut from a check without saying anything. that question. what they are. Hengesbacb noted bow people often talk of "dignified In their 1982 book, "ChrisChildren learn much through the designs" and even of "'digni- tian Life Patterns," the Whiteactions of their parents. If children fied functions." But, he con- heads say: "the real basis of were told about their parents' action cluded there really "is no such one's worth lies beyond one's in a way that reflected real respect, thing as a dginifiedmachine." accomplishments, even The thought of a dingified beyond good uvrrIzs." compassion and consideration for machine is jarring Hengesbthe young woman, what might they ach theorised because dignity The White/reads suggest that, for Christians, "ultimate4, it learn? has to do with freedom and is God's loir that grounds "machines are programmed human dignity and the to do the same thing over and mature sense of self-worth." • First, they could learn why the over again." A computer, parents would do this: It is the kind which can perform many And God's love is a gift; it is freely given. of thing Jesus would do, an action marvellous tasks, "has no dignity because it simply Christians who appreciate that puts faith into practice. works by rote," the theolo- their own dignity usually gian said. It can only operate have a lot of hope as tiv11, within the confines of what Hengesbach commented. For • Second, they could hear that it has been programmed to their orientation is toward the parents are concerned about the do. the future. They recognise human dignity of all the members of that the future can be differtheir community. The boundaries of ent from the past, that the the parents' concerns and possibility for change does exist. compassion are not restricted to
helping out generously and enthusiastically on the homefront. Simple actions of courtesy in the home also convey some important lessons about human dignity and utx) bas it. Sometimes families make it a house rule that everyone knocks before entering a closed room. It is one uriy some families choose to demonstrate respect for each other's personal dignity. Belief in human dignity needs to be demonstrated in action. For children learn much about human dignity through observation.
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Justice at home?
Is the home a place for justice?
The answer to that question may seem simple at first.
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Yet I think it is a difficult question. Let me explain why. Consider two situations. A distraught father came to me after the most recent in a series of terrible arguments with his 17-year-old daughter. "She wants to leave home," he said. "And sometimes, considering the fact that she does nothing but criticise her mother and me, I wish she would leave." Then he asked: 'What do
we owe her? When can her mother and I say that we've done for her all that parents are supposed to do?" In another situation a husband and wife came to ask what they could do about the problems in their marriage. 'We promised to be true in good times and in bad," said the wife. "Well, the bad times are here. Now we want to see what we can do to keep our promises, to work things out." In each situation, the indi-
Questions of what we owe
viduals were talking about what they owed each other, either because of blood relationships or because of promises They were talking about justice. Granted, on hearing the distraught father's lament, I was most interested in bringing healing to a troubled family. That was what the father wanted too, once he calmed down. But the question he raised is real. What do parents owe children? What do children owe parents? Is it even proper to talk about "(win" in a family situation, where members love one another and are concerned about one another? Since questions of what we owe one another are one way of talking about tustice, we can ask what it means to talk about justice in the home.
parents owed their children. Today that is no longer so. A recent conversation involving two Catholic parents — neighbours — may help to illustrate the point I am making. One father said that he owed it to his son to provide him an education through college. After that, the father indicated, the son was on his own. The other parent saw it differently. Once children reach working age, "I don't owe them anything," he said. Two very different views, each one put forward as just. Justice between spouses ought to be somewhat clearer, because married couples actually have a contract. They make promises to each other; they say what it is they are promising — to love and honour each other as husband and wife all the days of their life; and
I think the question is challenging because the social changes we have experienced in the past generation have had a great effect on family relations.
they do this publicly, before witnesses. Justice involves honouring that contract. Not to honour it could be unjust. But what does it mean to be a wife today? Or a husband? What are the roles, the expectations? Justice in family relationships is an approach to living together: it has to be working out over and over again. In the process of working out justice at home, we keep asking outsclves what the others in the family mean to us, what they truly want and need, what their own special talents are. We keep trying to treat the others as persons — not objects — and hoping they treat us the same. That much is clear. Over the centuries the Church has supported justice in and for the family. It talked of respect, support, education and health care, security for young and old. In doing so, the Church's message was related to the world's various nations and cultures. Today, sociologists in some nations say that society doesn't know what to do about the family. And the Church is hard pressed to build on cultural foundations when those foundations are weak. We need to re-establish a sense of family justice.
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woman's worth, value or dignity.
In their recent pastoral letter on war and peace, the US bishops urged Catholics to perform voluntary penance for peace by eating less food and by abstaining from meat on Fridays. At the same time, the bishops wrote, this voluntary penance "should be accompanied by works of charity and service towards our neighbors." The bishops' idea could serve parents who wish to talk at home with their children about justice and peace. For if families eat a lighter than usual meal together, and feel a little bit hungry afterward, even young children will want to talk about it. It could become an opportunity for families to discuss the many hungers of the human family: the hunger for peace, the hunger to have one's dignity recognised and affirmed, the hunger for greater unity among humankind. 8 The Record, September 13 — 19, 1984
Unlike machines, he added, human beings "have something to aim for" and goals to pursue.
Asked how people develop a sense of human dignity, Hengesbacb replied without hesitation that one purpose of family life is "to help people Human beings, on the other realise their own dignity and harui, are dignified becuase worth." they are free to choose and to change and to develop over He called the family a a lifetime. hothouse where people can Furthermore, Hengesbacb test their envirornent."Family continued, people deeply life, in his view, is where resent beingput in situations, people "express their hopes such as a dead-endjob, where and try out different kinds of
There was a time when what it meant to be a parent, or child, or a husband or wife appeared to be clear. And part of the clarity was found in an established pattern of expectations: It was fairly clear what children owed their parents and what
Putting power in action It was one thing for the first Christians to be ernpowered by the Spirit to carry the good news to the ends of the earth. I t was quite another toput that power into practical action. It meant carrying the Gospel into alien territory. For the mission implied action for the conversion of the gentiles, an implication not entirely congenial to a group of devoutJews. It took a vision to convince Peter to carry the message to the Roman centurion, Cornelius. Even then, Cornelius bad to justify himself before the brethren in Jerusalem.
Anotherperhaps more subtle revolution in this regard occurred with the selection of seven Greek-speaking Jewish men to be leaders in the Christian community. The ostensible reason was the unfair distribution of funds. The native Hebrewspeaking widows were being well cared for while the Greek-speaking widows were neglected The apostles, seeing the needfor beg) with administrative affairs, made a suggestion. They invited the Greek-speaking contingent topick seven representatives to look after their interests. (Acts 6) Beneath this surface prob-
lem may have been a deeper issue: tension between the native Jewish Christians and those who bad lived in an "alien place," a Greek cultural millieu, who spoke Greek and were suspected of entertaining rather liberal ideas. This suspicion turned out to be not illfounded Stephen, one of the seven, engaged in debate with some members of a local synagogue who "pmved no match for the wisdom and spirit with which he poke." Frustrated they arraigned Stephen before the Sanhedrin. From here on, Stephen's situation is carefully paral-
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leled with that ofJesus. Stephen Is tried before the same tribunal and false witnesses are called in to charge: 'This man never stops making statements against the holy place and the law." Stephen's spirited defence
them to sentence him to death: "Look," Stephen explained. 7 see an opening in the sky and the son of man standing at God's right hand." Stephen dies with an adaptation of Jesus' own dying words on his lips: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, "and "Lord do not bold this sin against them." But, as the Spirit would have It, Stephen's martyrdom sparked a persecution of the local Church which caused many Christians to scatter abroad and thus to spread the good news "throughout the country. side ofJudea andSamaria."
For social justice A while ago, during a dinner with colleagues, the topic of social justice came up. Several people spoke of their experiences and the kinds of tensions that arise when families engage in social justice issues. We agreed it is one thing to act individually and accept the consequences of one's decisions; it is quite another matter to make decisions that affect the entire family, especially when small children are involved. One couple's story illustrates this point well. The husband spoke during our dinner of the painful decision that he and his wife had made recently to withhold part of their taxes. They took this drastic step, he explained, to protest what they perceived as a wasteful and dangerous arms buildup. The couple felt that the arms buildup deprived the poor and disadvantaged of services needed to improve the quality of their lives. The tension the couple experienced arose from the realisation that their action could lead to certain consequences — which they were prepared to suffer. However, the couple was uncertain about their right to impose the consequences of their decision on their three young children — who also might suffer if the government decided to prosecute the couple
Another person spoke of how often his social justice pursuits caused him to be away from his family. He shared his anxiety over whether he was being intust to his own wife and children when he was away attacking the roots of injustice elsewhere. There were no easy answers that evening. Some even questioned the wisdom of the strategies used by others in working for justice. All agreed, however, that the demands of social justice pose unique challenges to families. This summer my wife will travel to Appalachia in West Virginia to spend a week with other volunteers assisting residents of that economically depressed area Her work, taking advantage of her own interests and training, will be the elderly. The decision for my wife to go to Appalachia was a family one: She andI discussed the pros and cons. Though our daughters are too young to fully appreciate the significance of the decision, they too are affected by it. They will be without their mother for that week. In our case, the sacrifice appears small and rewards great. My wife and I want our daughters to be sensitive to the sufferings of others and of our Christian responsibility to help others.
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Realised childhood ambition John Charles Edgar, partner in the architectural firm of Edgar and Wade and State deputychairman of the Knights of the Southern Cross, is a member of the Royal Australian Institute of A rchitects, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was born at Subiaco on May 11, 1943, and educated at the Wagin convent and CBC Terrace before studying architecture at the Perth Technical College. To save the money necessary to start his tertiary education, he worked as a laboratory technician in the chemistry department of the University of WA for two years. He finished his architectural studies in 1969. He later travelled extensively and worked as an architect in Canada and England before returning to Perth in 1980 with his Canadian wife Margo (need Wade) to start his present Claremont practice. John and Margo, who live in Cottesloe, have two daughters and a son ranging in age from mine to five. John is president of the Star of the Sea parish council at Catesloe.
From early childhood, John Edgar's great to a mbition was become an architect. Why, he could not say. Neither of his parents nor any members of his immediate family were interested in the profession, but perhaps the answer could lie in the fact that his paternal great-grandfather was an Australian who practised architecture in Hawaii. This connection was not in his mind as a student at CBC Terrace under the headmasterships of Brothers QuiIligan, Collopy and Collopy from 1951-60 where he was an army cadet under officer, a prefect, twice dux of his class and a member of the school's football, athletics and tennis teams. His desire to enter the architectural profession was probably discussed rarely, if at all, with classmates who included Kevin Horgan and later Claremont footballer and present TV commentator John Rogers. Finance to embark on tertiary studies was not available to John when he left CBC Terrace, so to save the necessary money he joined the workforce as a laboratory technician in the chemistry department of the University of WA. The two years he spent there among Bell jars, beakers and Bunsen burners did nothing to lead him into a science career but rather sharpened his architectural ambitions. Having saved the necessary cash, he transferred from one hall of learning to another and started architecture in 1963 at the Perth Technical College where he completed his studies in 1969. He did not, however, make an immediate entry into the practice of the profession. His sister Ann, had just come back from a lengthy sojourn overseas. Her letter while she was away and her tales of foreign climes on her return had aroused in him a desire to travel which he gratified in 1970 by touring in the United States and then landing a job in Victoria, Vancouver Island, on Canada's west coast. After two years there he married the boss's daughter, Margo Wade, and in 1973 the couple set off for England where Margo had studied ballet and later danced as a ballerina. The two years in their Hampstead home was to prove a happy time. It saw the birth of their first
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE c hild, Jennifer. Margo's knowledge of London and the friends she had made in her dancing years were valuable aids to the boy from Perth. John was fascinated by London and the United Kingdom, which they toured extensively. -There is so much to do and see in London," he says. "Some idea of its size and population can be gathered from the existence there of eight morning newspapers for instance. "England and the British Isles generally are an architect's paradise, largely in terms of the historical old buildings including cathedrals and castles. "History surrounds you everywhere, even in your social activities. As an example, the pub we used to patronise was the favourite drinking spot of Charles Dickens. "and there is the beauty of the soft English landscape which is particularly appealing to architects who, by virtue of their profession, have a well-developed eye for scenery. "There are differences between living there and here, of course. For instance, our Hampstead home had a bath but no shower. "Being a fellow who has three or four showers a day in Australia, I never got quite used to the idea of having to substitute baths for showers." One of John's engagements was to be project architect for the re-development of the Maidenhead town centre close to Windsor Castle. The occupation and its surroundings fitted perfectly into his professional, aesthetic and historical interests. He and Margo returned to Canada via Australia in mid1975. John noted differences between the construction of dwellings in Australia and on Vancouver Island. There instead of the brickwork used so extensively in WA, buildings up to three storeys high were nearly timber -framed always because the west coast of Canada is so rich in lumber. Trees such as cedars, Douglas firs and pines combined with the mountains to present scenery of superb beauty. And there was the snow.
The first time that he saw it falling was when, clad only in a pair of shorts, he was playing ball in a park with some friends. "It was such a novelty to me that I carried on like an ecstatic little kid," he recalls. Working conditions in Canada, he observes, differ from those obtained here. The fierce competition in the professional field resulted in the work tempo being greater than it was here. However, if a business promised to deliver something to you on the day it was requested you certainly got it on the same day, and sometimes within the hour. Alas, he laments, such is not the case here. Architecture in certain fields, such as in the construction of office blocks and shopping centres, was now international and the same in Britain, Canada, the United States and Australia. He had found little difficulty in obtaining employment because the Perth Technical College's qualifications were recognised throughout the British Commonwealth. The Edgars made the decision to move to Perth to live in 1980, but only after some disagreement between the couple. The heat, dust and flies encoutered in her short experience of Australia and the stark aridity of the countryside compared to the beauty of Vancouver Island dismayed Margo and remained a bugbear with her for a while even after they had settled here. But time has healed. Now engaged in a number of community activities and with a wide circle of friends, she happily agrees with John that Perth — with its comparative lack of crime and racial violence and the State's great potential — is the ideal place in which to bring up a family. John, practising at 60 Bay View Terrace in Claremont, and father-in-law John Wade practising on Vancouver Island but registered to practice also in Australia, are partners in the business of Edgar and Wade Architects. One of the recently-completed buildings of which John Edgar was the architect is the Archbishop Goody Frail Aged Hostel in East Perth.
Paulian Solo Parents offer and Divorce separation divide and separate people, not their from just partners, but all too often from their friends and family. Classed as 'single,' 'solo,' 'lone,' they bear a burden far greater than merely being alone, as often as not, with children to rear. For the Catholic who finds him or herself alone' it 'going marriage because the has broken down, the winds can blow even colder on the fringes of society. They are set apart in a community that caters for couples, and themselves f ind feeling uncomfortable Church their in because of a sense of failure in their faith.
'-"NtiPnik"" It is at times like these more than ever they need support and friendship from people who understand. Since the Paulian Solo Parents' Association was formed in Perth four years ago, that support and friendship has been only a phone call away. Many have made that call in the past few years, and many more are doing so all the time. ft is a sad reflection of the times that our numbers are growing, says president, Laurie Sutherland. This is one club where dwindling membership can be seen as a heartening sign and where the happiest days are when members leave because they no longer have a need for such support. The association has maintained a fairly low profile as much as anything because it sees itself as an available service and not an organisation that pressures people to join. There are 180 people on the books and as well as a busy social calendar general meetings are held every with months three committee meetings from time to time. "We are a self-help organisation," Laurie said. "Often by a mistaken sense of shame or failure, solo parents become isolated from the Church and the community at a critical time in life when the loving power of Christ has such a healing effect.
"Our group is special because it has a faith element. 'We believe those of us who have been married have in common the experience of re -adjusting to single life, integrating the sense of personal loss and coping with parenting alone, socialising and overcoming loneliness. mutual offer "We through assistance
A regular feature by 20%11:,1% 1 UCSS friendship — I wouldn't like to think of it as a solution to problems,- he said. "In effect the group provides an extended family situation for people whose faith is strong, especially at a time when it is hard to be strong. -We do try to help each other to analyse what went wrong and to share our feelings. "Some, of course, remain disillusioned with marriage. 'We all have to go through a stage of 'why me?' I can look back, and think I have a healthier understanding of marriage and a deeper understanding of faith that I had then.-
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Married for eight years, Laurie's marriage broke up in 1980 and he has two children, aged 8 and 6 living in Canberra. At 34, he has learned a lot about himself the hard way. It is something he has been able to share with other members. With an age range of mid 20's to 60's, the group has a membership of around 75 percent women. Prayer, says Laurie, can be a good way of working through the 'why me?' stage. "Once they work through that, they can begin to get their lives on the road again," he said. "I've noticed it is the Christians and Catholics who have been able to work through their feelings more easily." "Our basic aim is to help each other to establish caring relationships with similar in people circumstances so that we can grow personally and establish our family stability. "We try to provide an extended family to facilitate the social, emotional and spiritual development of our members and provide an opportunity for adults to relax together in friendship." A quick scan of the group's social calendar shows members on the run with film nights, family day with hike and picnic, coffee night, family day with visit to
Fremantle, wine and cheese night, home mass and coffee night, afternoon tea and dancing. The Paulian association has meant many things to many people, but each member has found a new beginning in its ranks. Every person has a story and the sharing of those stories is emotionally therapeutic and widens the and perspective understanding of all who hear it. For 'Jane,' one of the f ounding members, it offered a chance to meet and mix with men again. ht a lso allowed her newly f ound spiritual bud to blossom. "I was at a stage where I wasn't so much 'anti-men' as determined to exclude them from my life. joined the "I had Mother's Supporting Association some years before and was president of that. "I was fairly bitter toward men by the time I joined the Paulians and when Father Reg Ahearn asked me to go on a weekend three years ago I thought, Just this one and then out! "But I realised the group was much healthier for me than the supporting mothers because I did need to mix with and relate to men."
Divorced for six years, 'Jane' has two children aged 12 and 10. She had met her husband at 14 and from the time her mother died when she was 16, became increasingly dependent on him. "I was very young when I got married and I don't think it ever really worked. My husband told me later he had never realty wanted to get married, that he felt pressured, but I didn't want to believe him at the time. 'When we separated, I found it hard to be alone but after six years I have gotten used to it. I've even revelled in it, the freedom of it although there can be a selfish element."
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Catering for the Marriage outcasts in society Paulians is my total social activity. We seem to have something on once a week these days."
Educated at Catholic schools, 'Janes" family were non -practising Catholics and her faith had never been an important part of her life. "Not until after I had separated,'" she said. "I went to church one day and that was it. I just knew I had to change certain things in my life and the Church helped me to put my life back on the rails." "For three years I stayed right away from men and believed because of my e xperience, it was not possible to have a whole and loving relationship. "Through the Church, and my involvement with the Paulians, I have found such relationships are possible.
"I have found it is such a joy to be involved in a loving and giving relationship "It was important for me to mix with men, instead of cutting myself off as I had been doing
"I think it is very healing to realise men are in the same situation . it gave me a wider perspective and helped me to see how the other person feels "I met a girl through the group who had been in a similar situation. It was important to have someone who understood. There's a
lot of talking which gets rid of the bitterness. "In the Catholic Church, divorce is not acceptable and that can be hard to come to terms with; in the Paulians we are accepted and respected. "Apart from parish work, in which I am very involved, the
"We were under financial pressure and it showed in our lack of social life.
'While I still feel there's a One of the newer chance we may get back members, "Mary", joined the -together, I know I am association in February and growing through the is now on the committee. experience She had been married for "For a while the Paulians 14 years when her marriage was my only social life and broke up and has been on still is to a degree, but I am her own for eight months, changing and doing more caring for her children, aged with my time. 1 3, 10 and 6. "I've always had a strong "I heard about the group faith and for me, it was through a relative and got in especially good to be in the touch with the monastery," company of people who she said. understood what I was "Before I joined the going through, and who Paulians, I was doing could relate to it with nothing outside the home. In Christian faith. fact, now I am doing more "My husband left me than I ever did when my because he said he had husband was here. fallen in love with someone "I think the initial shock and else hurt had begun to wear off "It was totally unexpected when I first went, but it "I had no idea there was provided important contact wrong although anything with people in the same now I look back on it I can position. Lack of social didn't just we see contact had been the communicate at all. hardest part but we had been living a fairly quiet life anway.
"I still love him. Your f eelings might change
We had a counsellor who was guest speaker at our last meeting and he said we had to be determined to lead happy lives regardless. That's what I want to do.
but not temporarily permanently. "I want to do as much as possible to try to save my marriage. "It's a pity to waste all those years on one mistake. "It has been important to mix with people through the Paulians because it opened my eyes to the fact others suffer — although they may suffer in a different way. "I am glad I took the step. I have made a good friend there and she and I go out together
' We had a counsellor who was guest speaker at our last meeting and he said we had to be determined to lead happy lives regardless. That's what I want to do." The Paulian Solo Parents' Association has recently embarked on a programme of Redemptonst missions, held on Saturday mornings, to educate and inform the families of divorced people It has proved an invaluable service in helping people to understand Church law, especially those who are in the position of having rewithout married annullment Anyone interested in the association should ring Laurie Sutherland on 385 8533, Shirley Taplin on 443 3627 or Father Reg Ahearn on 328 6600
Executive members of the Paulian Solo Parents' Association discuss some problems over a “cuppa" during one of the association's regular social get-togethers. They are (from left) the president, Laurie Sutherland, committee member Grecian Posbna, chaplain, Father Reg Ahearn and committeeman, Tony Robson. •
History of new theology • From page 2 In applying class struggle to the Church, these branches of liberation theology question whether "the participation of Christians who belong to opposing classes a t the same Eucharistic table still makes sense," it added. "There is a denunciation of members of the hierarchy and the magisterium as objective representatives of the ruling class which has to be opposed. Theologically, this position means ministers take their origin from the people who therefore designate ministers of their own choice in accord with the needs of their historic revolutionary mission," the document said. It critised these branches of liberation theology for engaging in a "political re-reading of the Scriptures." "A major importance is given to the Exodus event inasmuch as it is a liberation from political servitude," it said of the flight of the Jews from their slavery in Egypt
EEE "The mistake is not in bringing attention to a political dimension of the readings of Scripture, but in making this one dimension the pricnipal or exclusive component." the dcoument said. In its document, the Vatican sympathised with the desire of liberation theologians to seek solutions to social problems. It said this desire had led to a positive liberation theology. 'The expression 'theology of liberation" is a thoroughly valid term: it designates a reflection theological centred on the biblical theme of liberation and freedom, and on the urgency of its practical realisation," it said. The document added, however, this has not led to a unified body of thought and that Vatican was criticising only certain liberation theologies which used "concepts uncritically borrowed from Marxist ideology," it said. "As with all movements of ideas, the 'theologies of liberation' present diverse theological positions. Their doctrinal frontiers are badly defined," the document said. It asked theologians to r emain faithful to the Church's teaching authority and warned Marxism so far had produced totalitarian governments. "Millions of our contemporaries legitimately yearn to recover those basic freedoms of which they were deprived by totalitarian and atheistic regimes which came to power by violent and revolutionary means, precisely in the name of the liberation of the people," it said. -Those who, perhaps inadvertently, make themselves accomplices of similar enslavements betray the very poor they mean to help," the document said.
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September Newman Society Mass and luncheon, St Thomas More College Crawley. Archbishop Wednesday. No phone adverts. Foley. Confirmation, Lockridge. Bishop Healy. BUILDING _DEATHS THANKS A boriginal Sunday Mass, Embleton. TRADES Archbishop Foley. PAINTING quality work Most Sacred Heart of Jesus BYRNE Kevin Patrick. Retreat, September 16-21. Clergy may your name be praised Peacefully at home on at the right price. John Archbishop Foley. and glorified throughout 1984, 5th September Freakley. Phone 361 4349. the world now and forever Kevin, very dearly loved 21 Provincial Bishops' meeting. Archbishop amen. Thanks to the Sacred and affectionate husband Foley, Bishop Healy. Electrical Contractor 5 Heart Jesus, Mary help of Adrienne, devoted and 22-22 National Meeting of Diocesan Ecumenism J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, Christians and St Jude for of very dearly loved father of Rivervale. 30 yrs expe- favours granted ATP. Committees, in Adelaide. Archbishop Kevin, Michael, Maria, rience, expert, efficient, Foley. JosePaul, Peter, John, to reliable. Ring 362 4646, My very grateful thanks 22 Confirmation, Kellerberrin. Bishop Healy. the Sacred Heart, St Jude, phine and Patrick. after. hours 385 9660. Divine Infant Jesus of Father-in-law of Michael 23 Confirmation, Gosnells. Archbishop Foley. PROPERTY Improve- Prague for many favours Fitzgerald and grandConfirmation, Goomalling. Bishop Healy. Matthew. of father ments Service all types of granted, M G Chan. Civic Reception, Subiaco City Council. w indows and doors Grateful thanks to the Most Dearly loved cousin of Sr 26 Archbishop Foley. installed: walls and ceilings Sacred of Jesus, to Our Breda Byrne, I.B.V.M. removed; wooden pergo- Blessed Mother Mary and Loreto Convent MarryatConfirmation, Toodyay. Bishop Healy. las; general repairs. Phone t o St Jude for prayers ville, Sth. Australia. 29 Diocesan Pastoral Council. Archbishop Loved brother of Eileen, 341 2946. answered. Veronica & Mona, (decd) Vesty, Foley, Bishop Healy. Confirmation, Corrigin. Bishop Healy. Sheila, Kathleen and BrenELECTRICAL: For all Michael. types of electrical work Most Sacred Heart of Jesus dan, (deed). 30 Annual Pilgrimage Mass, New Norcia. may your name be praised phone 335 2277. Archbishop Foley. and glorified throughout BYRNE Kevin Patrick. Confirmation, Bruce Rock. Bishop Healy. STEELWORK: All types the world now and forever In loving memory of Confirmation, Kuhn. Bishop Healy. of steel gates and balus- amen. Grateful thanks life trades, mig welding and arc Jesus, Mary, Joseph for welding. Phone 335 2277. favours granted etc.
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Kevin passed from this 5th September. Love and blessings to Adrienne and family. From Greg and Muriel Hill and families. Rest in peace.
In Vitro mother's denial *From page 3 "I was discussing my IVF attempt with a priest because I have been discussing this matter with my own priest throughout my pregnancy. They have been very supportive of me. "When I said at one stage of the IVF programme, I had donated an ovum to another person, he said the Church would not look too favourably on that. "He did say it would be a form of adultery. We were just discussing the problem. There was no malice meant or anything at the time." Mrs Brooks said. Pressed further whether a Church official had equated the egg donor programme as being a form of adultery she continued: "Because it
is coming from someone else; the sex act is not there, but your part is still going somewhere else. "He was a priest, if you class that as official. "I was not offended and I didn't get upset by it. "We were just discussing that particular IVF attempt at that particular time. Mrs Brooks described as "just rubbish" the inference their joy turned to despair when they came to have the baby baptised or that the Church begrudgingly agreed. "The first place we took our baby after coming home from hospital was to Mass on Sunday and my priest said: when are you bringing him up to be baptised? "When I read the newspaper headlines I was amazed." "The baby is going to be baptised within the next f ew weeks," Mrs Brooks said. • •-•-• •-•••••Pir••-• ••••10 •
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Booking details: Jim Hassell at SI.50 a God has given such great ing), Agnes (Cunningham), In 1951 he was appointed Phone Colin & Kath Mitchell. packet or 100 tea bags for power to come to my assist- Bernard, John (Father head of the Commonwealth 6 Turramurra Way. Greenwood. WA. 6021 .094484624 $2.90. Ring 450 5301 or ance. Help me in my pres- Lyons). Office of Education, known as write Central Beekeepers ent and urgent petition. In Commonwealth Departreturn I promise to make WRINGE Mary: The fam- the 406 William Street, Perth. Your name known and ily of Mary Wringe extend ment of Education and students to enrol at St IldeSay Hallowed be His cause you to be invoked. their sincere thanks and Science. phonsus College, New Norcia Name every minute of every Say three Our Fathers, Hail appreciation to the priests, He retired in 1968 due to on the opening day in 1913. His day. Marys and Glorias. Publi- religious, Ocean Star, St failing signt suffering a long long and distinguished record cation must be promised. St John's, relatives and friends period of deteriorating health earned him the admiration and Pray for Kevin Byrne. Jude, pray for us and all for their attendance at her until his death. respect of the Marist Brothers, Here is one who lived as who invoke your aid Amen. requiem and for the prayers Kevin was one of the first and an association with them Christ did. He who thought This novena has never been and many expressions of which lasted throughout his of self the least, who knew known to fail. Any requests sympathy. life. his God and loved him. have been granted, publicaHe was president of St IldeTHANKS Now rewarded with ever- tion promised. Thanks also IN MEMORIAM phonsus Old Boys Association. lasting peace. Jim Hassell. to the Most Sacred Heart Grateful thanks to St The Benedictines also had a Ask Jim for a Guardian of Jesus. Marie. Jude, Little Flower and special place in his heart. KYNASTON Wiliam: LovAngel free booklet. My most grateful thanks to ing memories of Will, dearly Sacred Heart for prayers having been taught music by the Infant Jesus of Prague, loved husband of Bess, answered. M.E. Dom Moreno OSB when he Many Help of Christians, ACCOMMODATION and St Jude Tadews, patron loving father of Bill, Betty Grateful thanks to the was at New Norcia. OFFERS YOU and Peg (dec). Rest in V ACANT of impossible cases. He was a president of the Sacret Heart Our Lady Peace. A PRACTICAL METHOD FOR and St Jude, Mary. Spe- Newman Society of which he C atholic/Christian guy O Holy St Jude, apostle THE DAY BY DAY LIVING OUT and Martyn, great in virtue ANTONIO (Norm): In cial intentions to continue was a foundation member. wanted to share house with OF YOUR CHRISTIAN LIFE. At his funeral Mass in St 2 Catholic males, early 30's, and rich in miracles, near memory of our dear hus- to pray. The next .weekend will be held: Mary's Cathedral, Monsignor easy to get along with. kinsman of Jesus Christ, band, father and Pop, left James Nestor director of Close to bus route/ beach. faithful intercessor of all us one year ago. Always in St Joseph's Convent $30 p.w. own room, plus who invoke you, special our thoughts and prayers. PERSONAL Catholic Education made ref27 Penguin Rd, Safety Bay need, to patron in time of 0 him eternal rest Grant shared costs, etc. Phone 385 erence to Kevin's public and September 28-30 you I have recourse from Lord and may perpetual Sincere Gent 52, sober 8533. family life, outlining his deep the depths of my heart, and light shine on him. Your habits int homelife, music, For all enquiries and application forms contact. humbly beg you, to whom loving wife Al and family. seeks genuine friendship, devotion to Our Lady. 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Govt grants announced The Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Senator Susan R yan, has announced a range of allocations included in the 198485 Budget for youth affairs programmes. National youth organisations will receive $960,000 in Commonwealth grants to services, their e xtend particularly to disadvantaged young people. The grants are offered under the Programme of Assistance to Youth Organisations which the broaden helps participation of young people Final figures for youth appeal 84 doorknock have been tallied. Sergeant Tony Jenkins one of the appeal in organisational decisionorganisers points out to Mrs Miranda Lawrence some of the areas where the Police and Citizen youth clubs making and to improve the collected and found a generous response. Recent adverse publicity about fund raising groups had a dampening national infrastructure in the effect on some of the public, according to Russell Neilson who is looking on. youth field.
The amount is an increase of Exchange Programme in almost 18 per cent over last 1984-85. was programme year's PAY° budget allocation The which the Government sees as introduced in 1980-81 to recognition of the valuable promote friendship and understanding role played by youth mutual organisations in providing between Australia and countries of the Asia-Pacific services to young people. region. The following Catholic It provides opportunities for groups were among the expertise-related exchanges recipients. addressing priority needs in Tertiary Young Christian the youth sector. Students, 3,500; Young Funds also will be available Students of in 1984-85 to assist national Christian Australia, 10,000; Young n on -government Christian Workers 15,000. organisations increase their for involvement in international allocation The through affairs International activities youth youth in In the youth area is participation $ 260,000 which will exchanges, study tours, include continuation of training programmes and the International Youth conferences. In addition, $73,000 has been allocated for the Australian-Greek Presidential Awards Scheme for 1984-85.
Funding up for International Youth Year The Government has increased by $300,000 to $2.3 million funding for International Youth Year activities in 1985. This was announced recently by the Minis-
ter for Education and Youth Affairs, Senator Susan Ryan. The additional sum is provided for national and State-level activities. Up to $250,000 on a
dollar -for -dollar matching basis, will be offered to State and Territory Governments for IYY co-ordination and projects which are consistent with the agreed Aus-
tralian objectives for International Youth Year. Another $50,000 has been allocated to national organisation for IYY projects. These grants are addi-
tional to the funds a vailable through the Programme of Assistance to Youth Organisations. • Girl Guides Association of Australia ( $10,000) for assist -
"Because of its importance and because all other forms of catechesis are oriented in some way to it, the catechesis of adults must have high priority at all levels of the Church. The success of programs for children and youth depends to a significant extent upon the words, attitudes, and actions of the adult community, especially parents, family and guardians." U.S. National Catechetical Directory
ance with the cost of an Australian youth forum, a national conference to be conducted and attended by under 25-year-old Guides to discuss issues of mutual Inter0 est in IYY. • YMCA ($6,000) for the examination and e xtension of YMCA work with disadvantaged young people. • YWCA ($4,000) to c onduct a women's action research project to train 15 young women to work with other young women to help with concerns of health, sexuality, law, education and employment.
• 'adolescence' is increasingly an long streatch, with lots of hazards;
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• young people are excessively dependent on their own age group, their peers, for companionship and clues to negotiate the sensitive areas of their lives; • young people are particularly vulnerable to media and other commercial exploitation in the turning of their needs and hopes into markets of manipulation; • many young people are presented with an image of success and denied
Training An allocation of $85,000 has been made for youthworker training during 1984-85. This will allow investigation of the provision of in-service and other forms of training for youth workers employed in a range of organisations including many which are funded by Commonwealth, State and local government. It is expected that appropriate co-ordinating machinery will be developed across the country linking t raining facilities and resources with the people who need acons to them. The Government has also allocated $150.000 to facilitate training for the development of employment opportunities outside the conventional workforce. The funds will be used to mount pilot training programmes to test the value and acceptability of various options which already have been identified through a research consultative exercise.
the means of achieving it; • being young is a time of turbulence and testing, of fragile hopes and intense feelings, a biological change which feeds emotional uncertainty; • to be noticed and heard is critical; to be accepted and belong is indispensable; and being responsible will come, as the fruit of good growth and relationships; • while the 'Er feeling — alienation — is not the universal experience, it is of growing significance across a wide spectrum of youth affairs.
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Record Kids Club hildren's Story Hour Jeremiah was a shy tense situation in the man. He did not enjoy temple. They rushed being in the public from the palace to the eye. But God called temple. They set up him to be a prophet, to their court at the New speak out against evil Gate of the temple. and injustice. priests The and Jeremiah obeyed the prophets accusedJereLord, but found being miah before the prina prophet very diffi- ces and all the people. "This man deserves cult. One day he was in the the death penalty," temple praying. As he they argued. "He has prayed, Jeremiah felt spoken against this the Lord telling him to city, which is the city speak. of the Lord. He has "Stand up in the tem- spoken against this ple," the Lord toldJere- temple which is the miah. "Speak to all the Lord's house." people who came here Jeremiah defended to pray. Tell them wha- himself. "It was the tever I command you Lord," he claimed, to say. Don't omit any- "who sent me to speak thing I tell you to say. against this temple Maybe they will listen and city. Reform your and turn away from lives. Listen to the their evil ways." voice of the Lord your Jeremiah knew that God. Then no harm no one would be will come against our happy with what God holy temple and city." wanted him to say. He The princes stared would have preferred angrily at the priests going home quietly. and prophets. They But the Lord's call was glared back. Jeremiah clear. So Jeremiah continued speaking. stood up where eve- "As for me," he told ryone could see and them all, "I am in your hear him. hands. Do with me "This is the word of what you think is just The priests and prophets accused Jeremiah before the princes and all the people. "Tins man deserves the death penalty," they the Lord," he shouted. and fair. But know this argued "He has spoken against this city, which is the city of the Lord He has spoken against this temple which is the Lord's house." "If you disobey me, for sure, that if you kill your God, and refuse me, you will be guilty to live according to my of killing an innocent law,I will destroy this man. It was the Lord temple. Your city will who sent me to speak become like a desert." these things to you, to anyone but also classroom. real by The substance." of Mill, by David are typical of those developed mills. By the 1830's, American The priests and other warn you to change Macaulay, published throughout New England mills were being built who appreciates fine work." Guardian. ". . we should welcome prophets were very your ways." by William Collins, during the nineteenth primarily of stone and brick Growing Point. Macaulay's upset by Jeremiah's The princes and all century. The most noticeable and by the 1860's they had "An excellent and highly David $14.95. differences between the first reached and in some (72.SeS original guide to the way in meticulously illustrated book words. To them it was the people said to the By the end of the eighteenth American textile mills and surpassed the scale of their which medieval churches which offers detailed a terrible thing to priests and prophets, century and through much of their British counterparts British antecedents, In both were built." The Times suggestions as to how the against speak God's "This man does not the nineteenth, Great Britain were in size and building countries, Romans about went communities Educational Supplement. was the undisputed centre of and God's temple holy deserve to be put to material. British mills had dependent on the mills had constructing their buildings the textile industry. However, PYRAMID Jerusalem. city, death. He spoke to us always been built primarily of been growing up around . . ." Junior Bookshelf information about all aspects When Jeremiah fin- In the name of the stone and brick and were them. And although they "Nothing quite compares of textile technology was with David Macaulay's blend UNDERGROUND ished speaking all that Lord our God." often four or more stories rarely achieved the density of gradually leaving Britain, of history and architecture." ". . . a magnificent account in God ordered him to high. The earliest American the british mill towns, those either in the hands of spies or The Economist. words and drawings of the tell the people, the textile mills, built around the of New England often in the heads of skilled turn of the nineteenth reflected in both architectural "Mr Macaulay's fine line support systems below priests and prophets BIRTHDAY emigrants. This knowledge century, were made of wood style and arrangement, the drawings are spacious enough ground level in a big city . . ." grabbed him. They turned up in many parts of the School Bookshop News. and usually contained only industrial images of the cities to convey the sheer vastness shouted out, "You Happy birthday to Deanne world where it was welcomed Walsh, Lesmurdie; Megan two floors, an attic and a and towns where it had all of the undertakings they "This is a first-class book, must die for what you and developed. describe." The Guardian. basement. They looked more begun. ideal for children discovering just said." The people Wiley, Hillarys; Christopher McKenna, Girrawheen; The mills around which this like churches than seats of CITY: towns and cities, or for crowded around Jere- Joanne Alilovic, Kardinya; book is focused are imaginary, industry. A Story of Roman Planning students requiring a basic miah and the priests. Susan Conway, Thornlie; Berbut their planning, As the textile industry grew and Construction understanding of urban "Why do you say in nice Lane, Collie; Matthew construction and operation in the United States so did the "It's a beautiful book, a book fabric." The Planner. the name of the Lord McDonough, Karrinyup; that this temple will Simone O'Connor, Nedlands; be destroyed?" the pri- Concetta Pirone, North Perth; ests challenged Jere- Tom Sargeant, City Beach; miah. "Why do you say Anthony Cox, Balga; Angela Cardill, Beckenham; Raena this holy city will Chown, Esperance; Shawn become like a desert." Esplenaub, Thornlie; Stephen The princes and Kelly, South Kurnminin; Kevin leaders of the people Naisbitt, Lake Grace; Adrian were informed of the Andrews, Bridgetown.
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Church v. divorce
Marriage, Divorce and Nullity by Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Ph.L., S. TL., D.C.L., Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, published by Dove, 1984, $7.95. Reviewed by Father Brian O'Loughlin, J.C.L. (Licentiate in Canon Law).
Aussie movies Australian Movies to the The World, International Success of Australian Films since 1970, by David White, published by Fontana, $12.95. At the end of the 1960s Australia had virtually no film industry. By 1983 its movies were being shown throughout the cinema-going world, from mainstream theatres in America to art houses in Europe. In a rapid transformation, a country which had previously been best known for its kangaroos and koalas produced something new and surprising: to quote Time magazine, "the world's most vital cinema, extravagantly creative, fiercely indigenous". Australian Movies to the World looks at how this transformation came about and how those movies broke into the international market. And, through interviews with Australian and overseas directors, producers. actors, distribution executives and critics, it tells the story of the people who made it all possible. David White is a writer based in Sydney. He worked as a newspaper journalist for 13 years, including stints as a correspondent in Papua New Guinea and as a news executive. He became Federal Publicity Officer of the Australian Labor Party in 1971 and, after Labor's election to national office in 1972, Media Secretary to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the divorce rate in Western Australia is rising at the rate of 12 per cent per year. Ample confirmation, if any was needed, that marriage in today's society is under pressure. Few families have not felt t he impact of marriage breakdown and divorce. The only long term solution is to be found in increasing the capacity for stable interpersonal relationships of which marriage is a primary and permanent expression, through deep and thorough marriage preparation — by example in the home, positive encouragement in the school and pervasive respect in the community. While the Church has consistently taught and countless couples have faithfully witnessed to Marriage as a sign of the union of Christ and the Church, indissolubility and Christian marriage have always been synonymous. Yet the Church has not failed to declare certain attempts at marriage to be no marriage at all. Any Catholic worth the name knows that he or she is to marry their partner before the Church's minister and two witnesses as the necessary minimum. For a Catholic to marry in another Church without any reference to the Catholic Church is to attempt a marriage the Catholic Church does not recognise. But the Catholic Church respects the right of non-Catholics to marry among themselves according to their own standards — even if that be other than in a church, i.e. Registry Office or civil celebrant. The Church's regulation naturally applies only to Catholics. Children are one of the traditional goods of mar-
riage along with fidelity and permanency and since the Vatican Council II and particularly the revised Code of Canon Law, the good of the partners, the exclusion of any one or all of these goods invalidates Christian Marriage. Non-consummation of the marriage or an intention for only contraceptive intercourse, violates the good of children. A continuous lifestyle of infidelity before and during marriage, so that the obligation of fidelity was not assumed at the time of marriage, violates the good of fidelity. The acceptance of the divorce mentality, particularly if divorce has been
fered the trauma of marriage breakdown. But there is a marked difference between divorce — the civil dissolution of marriage that one or both of the partners no longer wants — and annulment — the declaration by the Church that no true and valid Christian marriage existed right from the start, even if legitimate children were born from the union. Obviously, the Church still teaches as she always has that valid, consummated Christian marriage is indissoluble by God's design and Christ's command and chapter one of Bishop Robinson's very readable book traces expertly but straight-for-
Wespect for marriage with understanding' experienced in the parents marriage so that at the time of marriage one or both partners accept future divorce an acceptable obtion violates indissolubility. Finally marriage entered into for reasons other than a mutual gift of themselves such as escape from an unhappy home, are violations of the good of the spouses (cf Canon 1055 par. 1.). The process whereby these exclusions are established is the Church's annulment procedure. In the past, few annulments were ever obtained because of the long and costly procedure. Now the process is handled locally and so there is every likelihood that the Church's nullity procedure will be of more interest to those in the community who have suf-
wardly the biblical foundations for this teaching. Chapter two examines internal forces, those within the couple or even the individual that lead to the breakdown of marriage. Here we find that those, like Bishop Robinson, who have worked in the Church's marriage tribunals know the fundamental pre-requisite of solid, in-depth preparation for marriage. In the Archdiocese of Perth, the need for marriage preparation was first discerned over 30 years ago by Father Joe Russell and those working with him. Chapter three examines external forces in marriage breakdown, the nuclear family, acceptance of divorce, non-commitment and 'hippy lifestyles etc. Chapter four addresses the heart-
break of marriage breakdown. the couple who sought happiness together have failed hopes and Bishop Robinson sensitively compares separation and divorce with death, the physical death of a loved one to the death of a marriage. The heartbreak grief and sense of loss are real and pervasive in both instances and his outline on learning to live again after a marriage breakdown and the coping with loneliness which many seek to remedy by a second marriage. The Church has always maintained that some weddings are not marriages, and that the crucial moment which brings a marriage into being is the act of consent, the exchange of the wedding vows. Any approach to the tribunal will seek to determine how ready the partners were for the lifelong commitment of marriage at the time of the exchange of consent. Thanks to Bishop Robinson's chapter seven many of the most often asked ques-
tions about tribunals are carefully and succinctly answered and many who are only now coming to know of the task and purpose of the tribunal could well peruse this chapter and then go on to read the book_ The Church in Australia is indebted to Bishop Robinson for his excellent little book. In a field easily Oven to technicalities and even niceties of law, Bishop Robinson has combined respect for marriage with understanding for those who found themselves in marriages with which they could no longer cope. Another abstract work was unnecessary, instead we have a work that is balanced, readable and above all has simplicity as its key. Marriage, Divorce and Nullity will help priests understand recent the developments in tribunal work and the grounds for annulment that are now
accepted in the revise Code of Canon Law and which have developed in jurisprudence. The book will help those who feel less Catholic through having petitioned or been party to a civil divorce. Above all, if the book can reach those have who Catholics divorced and then remarried and who have well founded reasons for saying that their first marriage should never have taken place, Marriage. Divorce and Nullity may give them the strength to approach the tribunal and determination to present their case so that a present or proposed marriage may witness to the marriage between Christ and His Church in a way that an attempted marriage could never. Marriage. Divorce and Nullity is available from PellegAinfs.
new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new title. ataries Brascb, Collected brings us more startling conPoems, edited by Alan Rod- clusions about the real simdick, published by Oxford ilarities and differences University Press, $30. between the sexes.
Zealand politics? This book Locke came to the concluprovides the general reader sions he did, and why his and the student of New Zea- views on the fundamental land politics with an insight question of human underinto the workings of this small standing, have so profoundly Bach, by Denis Arnold, and relatively democratic influenced generations of philosophers and natural published by Oxford Uni- society. scientists. versity Press, $22.50 (hardcover), $3.95 (paperback). Recollections of Wittgen-
are 'sources close to the Prime Minister'? The authors show that Britain has developed one of the most secretive administrative systems in the demoChiefly remembered as a cratic world. This is a patron, poet and man of letcontroversial account of how ters, Charles Bra.sch thought that hidden world of news of himself primarily as a poet. manipulation and political This volume brings together persuasion operates. Readers his published work together Johann Sebastian Bach, one stein, edited by Rush Rbees, Sources Close To The will never see or hear the with the best of the poems of the greatest composers of published by Oxford Uni- Prime Minister, by Michael news in quite the same way remaining in manuscript and the Western European musi- versity Press, $10.99. CockerelL Peter Hennessy again. shows Brasch to be a major cal tradition, was relatively Ludwig Wittgenstein's works and David Walker, pubNew Zealand poet. little known until his rediscov- argue his status as one of the lished by MacMillan Lonery in the nineteenth century. greatest philosophers ever. In don, $19.95. The Batsford EncyclopeMen & Women, How Dif- Arnold uses recent research this book five people who A fascinating study of the dia of Embroidery Techferent Are They? by John and discoveries to reveal knew him well give their reporting of political news in niques, by Gay Swift, Nicholson, published by something of how this great recollections of a fascinating Britain. The public only has publishedby Won:limierOxford University Press, composer's mind worked. and often baffling man. the media to rely on for the AO, Press, $35. $699. stories of the political deci- This major reference work If you believe that men are Democracy and Power in Locke, byJohn Dunn, pub- sions and policies that govern brings together all the main more powerful, less romantic, New Zealand, A Study of lished by Oxford University our lives. In turn the media styles, techniques and terms and more intelligent than New Zealand Politics, by Press, $22.50 (hardcover) only has the politicians them- ofhand and machine embroidwomen, think again! In this Richard Mulgan, published $3.95 (paperback). selves and their spokesmen, ery. The practical instructions revised and expanded edition by Word Univrsity Press, In restoring Locke's theory of led by the Prime Minister's are accompanied by clear, of his popular and successful $12.99. knowledge to its proper con- press secretary. But who are explanatory line drawings and book A Question of Sex, he How democratic are New text the author explains how these people, who and what nearly 300 photographs.
Pilgrims, Prophets and Priests, Asian Religions and Philosophies, by Lesley Avon, published by Oxford University Press, $8.99.
stances in which the Marbles were acquired, revised to reflect the most recent developments in the campaign for their return to Greece.
This is the first volume in the series designed for students of Asian History or Asian Studies from middle to upper secondary level. Pilgrims, Prophets and Priests provides a clear and concise introduction to the main religions and philosophies practised in Asia today.
Liberals Face the future. Essays on Australian Liberalism, edited by George Brandu.s, Tom Harley, Don Markwell, published by Oxford University Press, $14.99. This controversial and thought -provoking collection of essays sheds new light on the problems facing the LibLord Elgin and the Mareral Party in Australia today. bles, by William St. Clair, Leading figures inside and published by Oxford Unioutside the party discuss versity Press, $12.50. issues such as federalism, Ever since the sculptures employment, welfare and from the Parthenon arrived in income security and the libEngland at the beginning of eral approach to change. An the last century, they have essential critique of the party caused controversy. This is an for everyone interestd in the authorative historical account whole philosophy of Liberalof the extraordinary circum- ism in Australia.
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WHAT'S ON MARIAN CENACLE The Marian Movement of Priests monthly cenacle will be held on September 20 at 3.30 pm at Bassendean Presbytery. The Marian Movement of Priests lay associates monthly Cenacle will be held at Little Sisters of Carmel 2 Fraser St, Swanbourne on Friday September 21 10.30 am. Enquiries: Bob Wright 447 6223 or Yolanda Nardizzi 447 8885. BULLSBROOK DEVOTION Celebrate Our Lady's Birthday at her grotto in Bullsbrook on Sunday September 16 at 11am Mass, Lunch break, rosary procession and Benediction. For further enquiries phone P. Galea 349 7135.
Critical look at theology The problem is affirmations "derived from theolog"It is not a case of con- ical speculation and the demning the person of Gut- mixture of the Bible, Chrisierrez, but of the issue: How tology, sociology and econare political beliefs, Chris- omy," he added. tian theology and the act of Cardinal Ratzinger said faith mutually related." said Church authorities do not Cardinal Ratzinger. have an official position on Father Gutierrez has often liberation theology. He said said he incorporates aspects his criticisms were "only of Marxist social analysis in part of the process of formhis works but that as a ing an opinion." theologian he does not take The comments on liberapartisan political stands. tion theology were conCardinal Ratzinger said his tained in an 11-page criticism of liberation theol- question and answer format ogy "is not so much the fact interview in which Cardinal that its exponents are Ratzinger described the socially committed and the work of the doctrinal conproblem is not so much that gregation. in Marxism there are eleHe said the congregation's ments for a social and eco- role was to critically aid nomic analysis which can be theologians in the developcritically utilised, under ment of their thoughts. determined conditions, in Cardinal Ratzinger desthe social process." cribed that role as positive. • From page 2
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LEGION MARY FREMANTLE CURIA All auxiliary members of the Legion of Mary are cordially invited to attend the annual retreat day conducted by the Legion and held in the Convent of De Vialiar, Marchant St Hilton on Sunday September 23 1984, 10am to 4pm. Bring your own lunch, spiritual reading note books, or tape recorder. (Teas will be provided). Father lan Falconer SJ is the retreat master. As the Legion provides this opportunity for a spiritual exercise for all its members, silence will be observed throughout the day. Mass, Benediction, and Reconcilliation Legionaries this is your special one day retreat, organised by Curia. R emember we will all benefit according to our effort and interest. We can only gain as much as we are prepared to expend. So please come prepared in every way to give the day to God, to Jesus through Mary.
CHAR ISMATIC CONFERENCE The leaders group of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of WA is assessing the need to hold its annual conference. Since 1978, a Catholic Charismatic Conference has been held each January at the Perth Concert Hall. The group is reassessing the value of such conferences and, according to a spokesman, is looking at several possibilities. "All I can say at this stage is that we will not be holding a conference in January 1985 of the type and style previously held," he said.
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NEWMAN SOCIETY 60TH BIRTHDAY On Sunday September 16 the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Newman Society will be celebrated at Newman Sunday Mass at 10.30am in the St Thomas More College Chapel.
VACANCY IN CPYM A vacancy exists for the position of full-time worker with the Catholic Parish Youth Movement. The position is that of central coordinator for the movement and is for a term of two years with an option of a third year. The position involves co-ordinating the activities of the movement, facilitating leadership training and spiritual formation of movement leaders, working closely with the regional fulltimers to be aware of status of group and enhance communication between groups and the movement, chairing the Review team which plans and evaluates the direction and strategies for development, liaising with other appropriate youth bodies, e.g. Catholic Youth Council. Applications close September 28 and the position starts Ocltober 8, 1984. Anyone interested in applying should include in their application --i) a resume of themselves and ii) any information with regard to involvement in youth groups or similar organisations. Your letter should be marked Confidential and addressed to CPY. Review Team, PO Box 194, North Perth, 6006. Any queries should be directed to the Catholic Parish Youth Office, phone 328 3136.
A s Monsignor Keating ( centre) celebrated the Mass for the Vietnamese Martyrs last Sunday in Sacred Heart church Highgate his words in English were translated by Deacon Francis Ly (right) who is to be ordained priest on December 1. With Monsignor Keating is Father John Cullen. The 117 martyrs of Tonkin are part of over 300,000 Catholics who died for the faith in Vietnam between 1832 and 1884. Between 1900 and 1950 various popes have beatified different groups. Sunday' ceremony was part of a festival that opened with afternoon games for children and concluded with a concert and festive supper. Principals of schools attended by Vietnamese children were part of the congregation. Sister Patricia Byrne of Our Lady of the Mission works full time among the Vietnamese migrants. A Mass in Vietnamese is celebrated each Sunday at Highgate at 5.30 pm.
SVDP STATE CONCRESS The St Vincent de Paul State Congress takes place October 12-14. Both at Holy Spirit parish centre City Beach. Archibshop Foley and Premier Burke will attend the official opening on Friday night. A large delegation of Malaysian members and two from India will attend the conference. Those who can billet the visitors are asked to contact Ozanam House. CWL CARD PARTY The Annual Catholic Women's League Card Party with proceeds to the Seminary Bursary, will take place at Highgate Hall on Thursday September 20. Play commences at 11.30 am. Light lunch served at 1 pm. Play resumes 1.30 pm to 3 pm. Players requested to bring their own cards. Please come along and give support to this long-time project of the league.
Strong signs of the times.
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the victims of malnutrition.
On one hand, people have attained an unheard of abundance which is given to waste, while on the other hand so many live in such poverty deprived of the basic necessities, that one is hardly able even to count
7.The lack of equity and of a sense of solidarity in international transactions works to the advantage of the industrialised nations so that the gulf between the rich and the poor is ever widening.
Hence derives the feeling of frustration among third world countries, and the accusation of exploitation and economic brought colonialism against the industralised nations. 8. The memory of crimes of a certain type of colonialism and of its
effects often aggravates these injuries and w ounds. 9. The apostolic See, in accord with the Second Vatican Council and together with the Episcopal Conferences, has not ceased to denounce the scandal involved in the
gigantic arms race which, in addition to the threat which it poses to squanders peace, amounts of money so large that even a fraction of it would be sufficient to respond to the needs of those people who want for the basic essentials of life.