The Record Newspaper 04 October 1984

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Father Brian Gore addresses the Knights of the Southern Cross on the new Philippines crisis and how he sees the role of the Church. See page 2.

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Lining-up for Mass Bishop's Palace, an historic landmark of Geraldton and the Catholic Church in WA has been demolished and will be replaced with a new cathedral centre. See story, pictures pages 2 and 3. *

A call to all Christians to work together for unity and heal divisions within society was made by Archbishop William Foley at the annual New Norcia Pilgrimage last Sunday. "We must all be instruments of peace in our world today," the Archbishop told the pilgrims who had travelled from many parts of Western Australia. Mary, the Mother of Christ, was our true mother helping us in all the difficulties of life and by her example and concern for others was the model we should all try to follow.

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Young Willetton parishioners speak out on the latest Social Justice document, The Rocky R oad. See story page 3.

At an open-air Mass at which the Archbishop presided, many different nationalities heard the call for unity "within yourselves and in your family and community life".

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"Divisions can grow on prejudice which in turn grows on ignorance. Aborigines from many parts of the Kimberley gathered in Broome for the Broome Diocese's gatherin biennial recently. See story, pictures pages 4 and 5. %111111mommoommimmuni0

The crowd attending Mass at last Sunday's New Norcia festival are banked up in front of the altar set-up on the steps of the Holy Trinity abbey church before setting off on a procession to honour Our Lady of Good Counsel.

"We must never he part of silly conversations based on prejudice of any sort be it religion, colour, language, or origin. "The little comments build up and cause great hurt in people.

Stand and be counte Catholics critical of ... or wanting to influence ... Labor Government policies should come off the sidelines and join the party, according to the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Bowen. There was almost a total absence of Christian influence in the ALP. "The Libor Party, particularly in State Governments, is largely influenced by the intelligentsia — secular humanists, they call them," "There are only a few of us Catholics left with any influence in the party — and too many of those in the ALP are single-issue adherents. "That is a fundamental flaw. You can't win on just one

Catholics should become 'political' The Deputy Prime Minister, Lionel Bowen speaks to BARBARA MEAD, in the Catholic Leader, Brisbane

issue, whether it's abortion, State aid, or anything else. "Catholics — and most other Church people — got out of the Labor Party years ago when they didn't like the ideas coming forward. "They said: 'That's not nice. We don't want any part of that kind of idea. It's not Christian.' "But instead of getting in

and standing up for their Christian principles — for the decent life most ordinary Australians want — they packed up and went home. "You don't win by getting out of the game; you just give the other side an open go. That's just about what we've done. "At hest, we're sitting on

the sidelines screaming. We're bleating that we won't play the game because we don't like the ideas of the other team. "And when they win hands down we pull back a bit further. We just stay home and grumble. "Polities is not a spectator sport, but that's where most Catholics are now — sitting on the sidelines as spectators. "Spectators don't win games. And it's pretty damn hard to win for them when you're as outnumbered as Catholics are in politics in Australia today.

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Deputy Prime Minister, Lionel Bowen

"We can cause great harm by our negative comments. The hurts of today shall pass, but we must be that ointment which brings peace." There was an obligation on the part of each person to help build up the community, he added. He noted the background of priests in the archdiocese represented Spain. Ireland, Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, Sri Lanlca, United Kingdom, US, Italy, Burma, Malta, and one soon to be ordained from Vietnam. "We have all been baptised in Christ and so there are now no more distinctions between races of people ... we arc all one in Christ," he said. Groups in society who felt hurt were the Aborigines, and recent Vietnamese refugees. He urged all present to

by Dom FRANCIS B YRNE OSB "build a bridge of respect and love" towards the Aborigines of Australia which would lead to a peaceful future. "Each one here is a creature of God, made in his image and likeness," the Archbishop added. "Let us do what we can to make the world a better place in which to live in harmony." The pilgrims basked in warm sunshine as the ceremonies got under way outside the historic Abbey Church. Four Aborigines from Kalumburu Mission in the far north of Western Australia travelled down for the pilgrimage, their first ever. Two of them formed part of the offertory procession. Many ethnic groups participated, included a number of Vietnamese children who were taken by bus to New Norcia for the occasion. Mrs Adrienne Byrne, of Nedlands, read the first reading and the second reading was by Mr Tony Jame. the curator of the local museum. • Coat page 4

US view on population NEW YORK: The US did not believe the world is facing a population crisis, Ambassador lames Buckley told the international conference on population. His government would continue to ban the use of its aid funds for family planning programs which promoted abortion and involuntary sterilisation. The US delegate told the conference the Reagan administration rejected the "MaIthusian pessimism" which suggested "humanity was to breed itself into perpetual scarcity and poverty.

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"Ibe crisis in the Philippines is also a crisis within the Catholic Church, Father Brian Gore told a meeting of Knights of the Southern Cross at Armadale last week. "The challenge to the rich Christians to share and be one with their poorer brothers is being very clearly spelt out. "The rebels in the mountains and the Marxists arc fast gaining the confidence, the respect and the support of the Christian population. "Cardinal Sin and the bishops arc worried about the situation. "As parish priests we were put into situations of tremendous poverty which need not he and are due to the rapacity and greed of a few people who will not share or at least give their brother and sister a fair go."

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Father Gore said he and his fellow priests came into conflict even with leaders of the traditional Catholic organisations, whose members were middle class and had the time and leisure to he members. But the majority of people live outside the towns and were being victimised by landowners who were being challenged to share a little of their prosperity with them. "The military man who put me behind bars claimed to be a Catholic. The president. the governors all claim or show some way or another they are Catholics or Christians.

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The historic Bishop's House in Geraldton which has been demolished was s tarted in September 1899 only a year after Bishop Kelly had been appointed the diocese's first bishop. However, he did not take up residence in the house for another 11 years when he returned from Cue which until then he considered to be the most central position in his diocese.

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children die because of the lack of basic medicine. "Faced with that challenge the priests, religious and laity decided if there was going to be good news for the poor, we had to be there with the people who were suffering or demanding. "In many cases the people bringing the good news arc t he Marxists. This is an indictment of Christianity:. Father Gore said this situation now faced missionaries in many countries and it was his task to bring this to the attention of people in Au'. tralia. • Cont page 4

The old garage at the Geraldton Bishop's Palace dated back to the days when Bishop Kelly travelled in vehicles like this.

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"It is not as easy a clear cut distinction as if we had pagan presidents or government leaders opposed to Christians.

00111 "Here we have bona-fide Catholics taking up the cudgels and bringing about the imprisonment of their own priests and lay workers." Father Gore dismissed the reasons for his imprisonment as the death of the mayor or having hand grenades and bullets on his filing cabinet. It was the challenge of being Christian they could not cope with. "The demand of the people is for a reasonably decent way of life for a little bit of justice in the courts. "We had everybody on our side locally and internationally but we could get no where until there was so much pressure the government had to buckle. The little man does not have that pressure or support. "Some of the poor are saying it is not God's will that I die of poverty in a country of plenty, or that

A building which has been the centre of the Geraldton Diocese for 83 years, has gone. The Bishop's Palace, as it has affectionately been known over the years, has been home for seven bishops, and the many priests who have walked its corridors. As the building has witnessed the comings and goings of bishops and priests,

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Father Gore with KSC Armadale branch chairman Joe Bavich. Father Gore thanked the Knights for their help towards the training of his successor in Oregnao parish Father Fernando Reyes.

Father Brian Gore told a meeting of 150 people organised by the Queens Park Knights of the Southern Cross the people of Negros and other areas of the country were continually subjected to indiscriminate killing by authorities. Other ill-treatment was also commonplace. "Poor people have a Godgiven right to seek reasonable living standards. If this right is not met, the Philippines is on a path towards violence and revolution," he said. "The Australian Government presently provides military aid to the Philippines. This does nothing to help the poor. Australians are challenged to try to have Government aid distributed more justly. "Influential people need to be reconciled with the poor. This challenges their living standards and makes justice difficult. Justice is only the bare necessity that needs to he developed through love," he said.

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from Father ROBERT CROSS of the Geraldton diocese who looks at the development proposals for town's new cathedral centre opposite St Francis Xavier in Cathedral Avenue.

This aerial picture shows the commanding position of the new Geraldton Cathedral presbytery, opposite St Francis Xavier Cathedral (bottom left) and Queens Park Theatre (upper left) and the parish primary school (upper right).

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Fears of unknown youth When Father Kevin Davis of Willetton faced the task of commenting last Sunday on the SocialJustice statement on youth "It's a Rocky Road" he decided two of the parish youth might make a better contribution. He discussed the document with young parishioners Glenn Fernandez and Clare Pickering and asked them to speak from their own reactions to the topics raised in this ,'ear's statement. "It's not only a rocky road today, it's a long and winding road to an unknown tomorrow. It's the fear of the unknown that's most terrifying to me, said Glenn Fernandez a 16year-old, Year 11 student at CBC Fremantle where he studied the document in class. He said unemploy- tame of her faith, admitting ment, one of the issues it was the first time she had been put on the spot about cited in the document, its importance. is a threat to secondary Her own faith was built and tertiary students around 15 years of Mass attendance and participalike himself. It made him look to tion. and a notion of God as a King responsible for her practical courses such existence. as law where the comShe said she was bothered petition was high but by the fact many of her which were tickets to school friends had no faith security for raising a in God nor did they practice their faith, but seemed family in the future. and successful in life.

On the question of relationships, another of the that the old building, social justice statement's feeling the burden of its concerns. Glenn admitted 83 years. was unable to that he sought to be indeadequately serve as the of his family pendent residence of bishops and although he depended on priests as well as being his parents' income support the administrative centre and love to keep him in of the largest geographiexistence. cal Catholic diocese in "A parent's domination the world. over their child is abvax, The need for a larger and hard to shake-off. more modern building - My approach to this howwas foreseen by Bishop Cr has been a tendency to O 'Collins who in the my own thing. do Australia-wide an had Palace Bishop's Geraldton The purchas1940s set about "This has naturally always ing land for a future reputation, on the back lawn are Bishop Thomas, the late clashed with my parents' A rchbishop Beovich of Adelaide, Bishop O'Collins of Bishops House. interests hut it's the only Now, 40 years on, the vision Ballarat formerly of Geraldton with the late Archdeacon way I can seek some indeCarnarvon. McKay of of this man is being reapendence." lised with the construcof a competition orgament Insurance Office for He said sporting activity tion of a $750,000 nised by Bishop Foley in around $650,000 and the parish youth group and Cathedral Centre, which 1982. has been demolished to offered him relationships will serve as a bishop's make way for a Governbeyond the school and famThe winner of this comperesidence, priests' resiment office block, which ily. tition was Hobbs, Windence and administrative in its construction reflects He is concerned Australia, ning, Leighton and office for the diocese. the faith of Government is not even a front which since have Partners who The new house will basically in the growth of Geraldrunner in the arms race been in close consultaconsist of a bishop's unit, ton as a regional centre spent IS billion in 1983-84, tion with Bishop Foley, housekeeper's unit, five and gateway to the develthat this money is thus Father Pocock and more resident priests' rooms, oping North West. away from aiding channelled recently Bishop Hickey (which can be used for Situated in the centre of World, that more Third the visitors), three visitors' Geraldton, opposite the The final plans are now money is spent on destroyrooms, utility rooms, comdrawn up and work is Queens Park Theatre ing life than preserving the mon rooms, kitchen and expected to begin on site with a vista across human race. public facilities, dining within a few weeks. The Cathedral Avenue to the He said the constant threat office, the bishop's and contract of $757,000 has famous St Francis Xavier nuclear war was the of administrators' offices been let to the Geraldton Cathedral, the new biggest threat to his existand interview rooms. Building Company, a comCathedral Centre will ence. and made him quesT he building has been pany which has piocompliment the architection the value of his designed with a view to neered the growth of the ture of the Cathedral and achieveeducation the future, when GeraldGeraldton and the North without detracting from ments. ton will probably grow to West, building many of its its architectural beauty. Clare Pickering, a 16-year be the second largest dioceses schools, presbThe architects of the new old, Year 11 student at Santa centre in the state outyterys and churches. building were chosen out Maria discussed the imporside Perth. It is hoped the building will adequately serve our needs now in 1984 and be able to cope with the undoubted growth in the in 1957 and was ordained in Trinity College Former Western Australian Jesuit Father pioneering Geraldton dioAustralian become chapel in 1970. will Steele Peter cese as it grows and provincial superior of his society in January He is a senior lecturer in English at moves optimistically into Melbourne University and this year he has 1985. the 21st century. He has until now been a consultor to the been visiting professor in English at T he old Bishop's Palace was Edmondton, Canada, and been doing outgoing provincial Father Paul Duffy. sold to the State GovernFather Steele, 45, entered the society research at Loyola University, Chicago.

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Record The Social Justice statement being currently promoted in the major Australian churches borrows the Vatican trick of opening its documents with teasing words that hint at what is to come. The casual reader may therefore trip over the expression "Rocky Road" until he discovers that it is the road being travelled by the youth of today. In fact the statement is not about youth but about the conditions that surround youth today. E ven more important is the document's careful disclaimer that it does not deal with a number of other areas affecting youth, such as family or sexuality, but specifically with the issues of social justice that affect youth today. Another potential difficulty is deciding who precisely is the author of the document. A carefully worded explanation lists a number of church agencies and commissions who have been consulted, or who in cautious terms approve and endorse the document. The result is that the document can certainly be pinned to no specific church and the various contributors, including the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, have sufficient room to manoevre when it comes to specific responsibility for any one of the 48 pages in the document. There are two sober conclusions to be drawn from the history of these annual historic statements, once issued in the name of the Australian bishops, later delivered by the Catholic Commission and for the past year tentatively produced by a number of different denominational offices of social concern. The first is that ecumenism is a far more difficult task than being elated after a joint prayer service. In practice, the major traditional Christian churches have very distinct and sometimes conflicting views on how God's world ought to be sorted out. Within the individual churches it is not altogether clear how much unanimity surrounds statements put out by their own bodies.

E EE Secondly, the incessant and somewhat childish clamour for bishops and other church leaders to incessantly 'speak out' on every conceivable social problem is the surest path to irrelevance. It is not certain that bishops and others have the answer to the problems and too often the person clamouring for leadership is demanding: Say something I'll like or approve or I will feel free to take my marbles and play elsewhere. For that reason the Rocky Road is hardly a statement but a gathering of points of view and of perspectives. It would be unfair to claim that the document has even rightly diagnosed the social ills facing youth today, let alone supplied the best solutions. It is unfair and too easy to zero in on a number of specific economic suggestions offered towards the end of the document unless those who take issue with such demands can positively answer the unemployment and economic dilemma that now faces the unemployed youth of this country and are prepared to argue those conclusions at their workplace. Everyone has their individual view of the problems facing youth today but the statement's authors have obviously gone to a lot of trouble to ascertain views of youth and the three issues of unemployment, unstable relationships and nuclear war are clearly preying on young minds. Whether these stated concerns are preying or being fed by the generations prefer no longer to be labelled as youth is a different question.

ÜELI There is abundant jeering and booing from the employed in Australia today over any suggestion that unemployment among youth is their problem. Better to blame the government, the multi-nationals or whoever. The youth of today are crying out in pain at the trail of misery through their parents' lives as they are dissected, divided and shared out like packaged commodities between their separating and re-matched parents. They are crying out in pain at the aimlessness of homes where life is the piling on of more and more layers of affluence because television advertising and consumer philosophy dictates this the path to be followed by trendsetters. If the youth of today are genuinely afraid of the nuclear disaster it is no different than the vocal expressions of that fear voiced by much older people. Because it is a reflection rather than a statement the final document is patchy and somewhat contrived. One wonders whether the reality of God's Word comes home more clearly by a veiled reference to an unmarried adolescent mother or Old Testament prophets being dressed up in modern clothes. Only time will tell if the statement is read widely and discussed by the youth about whom it is written. It is no consolation to realise that the Sunday congregation market places where it is being most promoted are very much Grey Australia. The language of much of the document, its heavy use of Newspeak such as the much abused work "empowerment" and an accompany string of words that are a new social justice dialect above the heads of the average conversationalist are no encouragement to the genuine reader. The greatest social injustice in Australia today may be the generation gap, dressed up in a range of issues and challenges for no other reason that the fact that youth believe adults don't love and care for them any more.

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Hurts D ill pass • From page 1 The gospel was read by Deacon Dom Chris Power O.S.B. After the celebration of the Eucharist the traditional procession through the streets of the town took place led by a young aboriginal schoolboy, Gavin Drayton, of New Norcia. At the conclusion of the procession, Benediction was imparted by Archbishop Foley at the new Marian Shrine which has just been completed. Back at the church, the Blessing and Anointing of the Sick took place while the Rosary was being recited. Several Benedictine monks gave out Holy Communion along with acolytes from Perth and other conceit: hrating priests. One of the highlights of the pilgrimage was the singing during the Eucharist and procession of the Julian Singers from Perth. In the afternoon hundreds of pilgrims visited the colleges and grounds as well as New Norcia's Museum. The Chief Marshall, Sir Keith Hunt, later thanked all who had been associated with the organising of the day "It has been a most cdth mg day." he said.

Pearling centre's biennial assembly

Aboriginal artist, Matthew Gill explains his painting which depicts the snake representing Mary our Mother. An Angel appeared to Mary and told her she was going to have God's Son. Like the four eggs you see Jesus grew inside his mother. Mary fed Jesus inside her. Thorns show us Jesus would suffer. On Christmas Day, Jesus was born for everyone in the world.

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Crisis about Church • From page 2 lie called on people like the Knights to make their views known to the Australian government because it is much easier for politicians to apply pressure, such as Mr Hayden did to President Marcos, if they know it is what the people want. He said they had to get to the root causes why coun• tries are poor. He questioned the giving of military aid to the Philippines when its main use was not to ward off aggressors hut to put down the legitimate demands of the ordinary people. "An American missionary priest said: 'It is probably the taxes of my parents in the US that will buy the bullets that will shoot me down." He said Australia cannot live on in an oasis of peace and prosperity in a world where the gap is widening between rich and poor. "Some of the brethren are worried because the poor are becoming noisy and should he kept in line. "The poor are not going to keep quiet; we cannot tell the poor to wait. "We shouldn't be fright ened; we should be happy. "The people standing with us were not frightened. Their faith was tried and tested and they were not found wanting.

Sister Josephine OSB and Mary Pandilow, of Kalumburu meet with Vera Dan, of Broome, on the girls' lot at the barbecue.

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Last month's Broome diocesan biennial assembly which was characterised by a strong A boriginal representation decided to work t owards the establishment of basic Christian c ommunities and to e xpand activity in the areas of catechetics and lay ministries. T he meetings which originally were simply a gathering of religious sisters have grown to include priests and lay people and this year the 200 plus representatives c ame from Aboriginal c ommunities as far afield as Kalumburu, Lake Gregory and Bililuna and seldom heard -of communities such as Ringers Soak. O ver the three-and-a half -days of the meeting, Columban Father Warren K inney explained the w orking of the basic Christian community. He told the gathering the community is built on t he memory of shared e vents. Delegates decided to go back to their communities to see the theory put into practice in their surroundings. Isolation is one of the difficulties facing small Catholic and Christian communities in what is largely a non-Christian environment. The development of the basic Christian community would be a positive help to these isolated groups. There was a widely felt need for development in catechetics and a catechetical resource centre will now be set up for the diocese. Teachers, especially the A borigines, will be encouraged to contribute audio visual materials for the centre as well as draw on its resources.

Father Kevin McKelson of La Grange whose special Mass text was used during the assembly pictured with Molly Smiler.

characterised by a strong Aboriginal presence...

expand the catechetics During the assembly the participants took part in the simple English Mass d eveloped by Father Kevin McKelson SAC of La Grange and to which are added prayers and songs in Aboriginal language as well as tribal d ance movements to accompany the gospel a nd offfertory processions. The development of ministry was a real concern f or the far flung diocese which has only 11 priests of an average age of 55. A spokesman said religion had to become relevant to the community and not depend solely on the presence of the priest. The development of lay ministries in the eucharist and reading would prepare the communities f or tha day when they might not have a resident priest. W here, such as at Balgo, local people have become ministers of the eucharist the communities had learnt to be more self-sufficient. T he spokesman continued: "Many Aborigines at last month's assembly saw themselves as missionaries going back to their communities with this message: We are all one people of Christ, trying to grow together in one faith." -

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ABOVE: Eighty-three-years-old and 50 years a priest, Father Francis SAC of Beagle Bay and the original Beagle Bay choir entertain the assembly.

RIGHT: Molly Smiler who travelled from La Grange on the Kimberley coast to a ttend the biennial gathering of the people of the Broome

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St Vincent Pallotti was a man of his time. But what he did have, to a marked degree, is something we need today: a sense of connectedness — with God and with those far-reaching developments of his era which have shaped our world. Pallotti wasn't a humanist studying history. He was a saint living out God's will for his life. His life was framed by revolution — he was born in 1795,— he died in 1850 In revolutions like Beirut or Belfast, it's not only water, light and sewerage that gets disconnected. People's lives and their thinking are also disengaged. So, consequently, people are confused about those things which a human being should attend to, confused about what things are worth investing their lives in. This isn't lust the case in war -torn countries. It's also true today of the sophisticated, stable West. People are confused, or worse still, there's no confusion because they've been put to sleep by the mindlessness of much of the media. Palloti's insistent call to young and old is: 'Wake up! Get in touch! What do you stand for? What will people think you stood for when they meet around your coffin? "In what direction is your human spirit going? What kind of person do you want to be in 20, 30, 40 years from now? What is in your heart?" Pallotti wanted people to connect through a spiritual renewal of the heart and by taking up their mission or apostolate together. Before PaHorn's time, the laity were somehow asleep in the light.

Pallotti lived out God's will

EEL by Father PAT JACKSON SAC assistant priest Queen of Apostles Parish, Riverton He saw the vast untapped potential and what could happen if lay people, religious and priests were to work together for the Catholic Apostolate In 1835 he founded the Association of the Catholic Apostolate to do Just that! "Don't be mindless! "Everyone has an apostolate "If you are sick or old you can pray for the mission of the Church You can crochet

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We can't allow our efforts t o follow the Gospel to become fixated at the level of helping people on to buses, tipping our hats, or even giving kind affirming words All that is too easy. You can change the world if you are willing to abandon a backyard mentality and enter the world by starting to pay attention to the wider issues and by networking with people or similar vision. Where did Pallotti get this connectedness? From three sources As a young man he worked with 36 youth groups and sodalities. Youth are a mirror of the social situation. Through the youth Pallotti became award of the explosive situation early — the Young Italy Movement which was largely anti Church and anti-Catholic — and the seeds of an answer were growing in him. Secondly, Pallotti in Rome, was confessor to six mission seminaries and saw the urgent needs of the mission countries.

This is what each one of us is called to excel in. In April 1985, the Australian Pallottines are linking up with a world-wide celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Association of the Catholic Apostolate. A youth pilgrimage is leaving Perth for one month in April, headed for Rome, Europe and England. Celebrations in each state want to capture some of Pallottrs zest and vision. An adult pilgrimage to Rome will be later in the year Details will come later. If you are interested contact Father Eddie Wehrmaker on 457 0994.

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ple going was, thirdly, what Pallotti himself exerpeinced: God as Infinite Love. He wanted to do more, always more. He could never measure up to God's love. If God is Love — pouring Himself out, and if every person is created in the image of God, then every person, and especially Catholics by their lives have a duty to love. That love grows through prayer and through small dynamic groups of committed Christians. Pallotti's challenge to us today is: Everyone an apostle like Jesus and united in love and service in the spirit of the first Christian community.

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Briefs: riWASHINGTON. Two Catholic ethicists, testifying before a White House sub-committee on questions raised by new reproductive tehcnologies, have urged protection for human embryos and for society. Father Donald McCarthy said legislation should prevent the deliberate destruction or freezing of embryos, and experimentation should not be allowed on embryos except for therapeutic reasons. Jesuit Father Richard McCormick said artificial insemination by donor, in-vitro fertilisation, surrogate wombs and embryo freezing would not be ethical because the possible harm to the basic values of society outweighed individual benefit.

1-1 MADRID: Twenty-two men have I—Ibeen ordained priests of the prelature Opus Dei in Spain. From the US, Canada, the Philippines, Spain and several Latin American countries, they gained professional qualifications in fields as diverse as accounting and English literature, as well as a doctorate in an ecclesiastical subject. Although a few members of the personal prelature Opus Dei are ordained, most of its 74,000 members are lay men and women, of all ages and nationalities, who try to sanctify themselves through their everyday professional work and family and social obligations.

D OD n WASHINGTON. A White House decision to send an additional $70 million in military aid for El Salvador has been criticised by a Catholic Church spokesman in San Salvador. -Military aid prolongs the conflict and will continue the pain and suffering of the people,- he said, calling instead for dialogue between the warring factions. O DE

Anglican canon to convert LONDON (NC) Canon John Tinsley, An Anglican priest who has held high church positions, has left the Church of England in a disagreement over proposed rules on allowing the remarriage of divorced persons. He said he will study to become a Catholic priest. The 70-year -old Canon Tinsley has been a member of the General Synod since 1970 and from 1977 to 1982 served on the 12 -member Crown Appointments Commission which nominates the Church of England's bishops. Observers said they were surprised Canon Tinsley made his move before the Church of England's General Synod reached a decision on allowing divorced people to remarry in the church. One set of proposals was withdrawn earlier this year when it aroused strong opposition among diocesan clergy. In addition, 10 of 53 bishops have expressed their disapproval of the proposals. Observers say if the proposals are passed despite the strong opposition in the dioceses, resistance from the clergy is more likely than any large-scale conversions to Catholicism.

SAN FRANCISCO. Archbishop Pio ELaghi, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to the US, told participants at a Mass on the 200th anniversary of the death of Franciscan, Father Juniper° Serra he shared their hope , Father Serra would be declared Blessed this bicentennial year. The Mass, at the Carmel Mission Basilica in California, where Father Serra i s buried, inaugurated the year -long observance of the anniversary of his death. Father Serra, born in 1713, was a missionary to American Indians in Spanish colonies. In his 35 years of work he established 21 missions. 000 LOURENCO MARQUES MozamE l—lbique's Marxist Government is violating human rights at a -great cost in human life,- said Archbishop Jaime Pedro Goncalves. -The major suffering of a large part of our people is caused by the privation of fundamental human rights as a consequence of atheistic and materialistic ideologies,- he said. The increase brings the military aid total for El Salvador to $196 million this year — three times that of last year.

Drug 'slavery' CASTELGANDOLGO, Italy (NC) — Pope John Paul ll characterised drug traffic as an "underground river" which has poisoned the lives of young people and is a main factor in today's "general decadence." He said a worsening drug trade called for severe legislation to stop the trafficking where it begins and to aid its victims. Those caught in the "painful slavery" If drug addiction, the pope said, should not be considered mere delinquents. That false generalisation, he said, was one of the many prejudices facing drug users. The pope also restated his opposition to the use of substitute drugs in the treatment of drug addicts. "The possibility of recovery and redemption from this heavy slavery has been concretely proven, and it is significant this has been done with methods rigorously excluding any concession to legal or illegal substitute drugs," he said.

Victory for French schools LONDON: The three-year "war of the school" in France is over according to the British Catholic weekly, The Universe. Jean Pierre Chevenement, aged 45, the new Minister of Education in President Mitterrand's Socialist Government seems to have satisfied the rival claims of the French State school system and of the private, mostly Catholic, schools. The new compromise ends a long and bitter dispute since M. Mitterand as the Left's candidate in the 1981 presidential elections said that if he won he would bring about a united national education. Former Education Minister, M. Savary's Bill proposed that private schools should not be allowed to start new

A three year battle

classes or enrol new teachers at their own discretion. Private school teachers would become public servants and organisations called etablissements d'interet public would manage State funds for groups of private schools and liaise between them and the State. M. Chevenement's new Bill

does not mention linking the finance of private schools to a change in the status of teachers. In its place there is a simple system for local authorities to contribute to the financing of private schools. Moreover, schools will retain a large degree of autonomy and the State will continue to subsidise.

Bishops hit Parents out at odefyrder Ferraro NEW YORK: A number of US bishops are indirectly and directly attacking the position o f Democratic vicepresidential candidate, Geraldine Gerraro's distinction between her private opposition to abortion and public stand on legislation giving the right to choose. who P oliticians believe abortion destroys human life are bound by "logic and c onscience" to use legislative action to outlaw it, said Archbishop Quinn of San Francisco.

"If an officeholder truly believes human life is being destroyed through abortion — that that life has rights Mst as the mother has rigfits — then logic and conscience would demand that the officeholder make efforts to bring about the repeal of laws favouring abortion, and the enactment of laws protecting unborn human life," he said. The current debate. Archbishop Quinn said, exists because "we have not reached a national consensus on the basic question of whether it is a public issue and therefore to be regulated by law, or whether it is a private issue and therefore subject only to the dictates of personal conscience.

ODE "For those who describe themselves as pro-choice, abortion is a matter of private morality and the state should not control or regulate a woman's choice to have a child," the archbishop said. But the Church teaches that a foetus also has rights, including a right to life. which conflict with a mother's right to bear children. the archbishop said. When the rights of two people conflict, "there is a legitimate place for the state to be involved." "Our formulation of the issue, then, involves the woman, the child and the state, and for us it is an issue of public, not merely private, morality," he said. Further north in California, Bishop Mahoney of Stockton said: Catholic politicians whose private beliefs conflict with their public stances on abortion lack "the integrity sought by the

V ALLETTA (Malta) — Thousands of parents of Malta Catholic schoolchildren paid tuition fees to Catholic schools, despite a government order f orbidding the schools f rom receiving the funds. Earlier this year, Malta's parliament passed l egislation forbidding Catholic and other private schools from charging tuition. The law also established new licensing rules for t he schools. The government in July denied licences to eight C athol ic schools.

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Monks in the third and fourth centuries had a favourite expression: Beware "the noon-day devil." In the heat of the noon desert sun, there was a temptation for monks to "want to snooze."

KNOW YOUR FAITH

PITHWAYS OF THE SLPIlliUT

A deficiency of fun

Some years agoI took four of my nephews from Philadelphia on a tour of New England. As we were driving into Boston, whereIthen was working at a downtown church, my nephew Chris piped up from the back seat of the car: "Uncle Jim, is Boston boring?" I fumbled for words and finally responded: "I don't find it boring, but why do you ask, Chris?" "Well, Philadelphia's boring" he shot back. Chris Young and W.C. Fields may have suffered the same malady, which I doubt was Philadelphia's fault. Psychiatrist Edmund Bergler would call it "fun-deficiency". We've all heard of vitamin deficiencies and iron deti-

Is there a cure

What do you give to the person who has e verything? What does such a person want? Chances are he cannot tell you. Not that he is completely satisfied. His life may even seem quite empty and he may be bored to tears. But why? A man like that entered Jesus' life. He "had many possessions" but he sensed he did not have the most valupossession: able assurance of eternal life.

By Father John Castelot Not only was this man wealthy; he was good, too. When he asked Jesus what he must do to share in life, e verlasting Jesus suggested that he keep the commandments. He was able to respond withhesitation: out "Teacher, I have kept all these since my childhood." He was so sincere that "Jesus looked at him with love" (Mark 10:20-21). He looked at him with keen discernment and realised what really was bothering him. So Jesus made another suggestion: "There is one thing you must do. Go and sell what you have and give to

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ciencies, but I'm sure not too many have heard of fundeficiencies. Fun for Bergler is not "Animal House" revelry, but rather a personalised feeling of well-being or satisfaction produced by investing one's emotional energy in someone or something outside ourselves. Or, to put it in simpler terms, fun is enjoying life. Fun-deficiency is then a lack of balance or deficiency in the poor; you will have treasure in heaven. After that, c ome and follov. me." Mark tells us that "at these words the man's face fell. He went away sad, for he had many posses sions." This often has been interpreted as a call to practice poverty. In a sense it is. But Jesus never demanded that people impoverish t hemselves as a requirement for salvation. His answer went deeper than that. It is a recommendation to surrender to God's care, abandoning self-sufficiency. The man in this story, you see, was not only wealthy; he was smugly selfreliant. Just the way he put his question indicates that: "What must I `do' to share In everlasting life?" He obviously felt there was nothing he could not "do". A fter all, he had unlimited resources. All he wanted to know was how he could use them to satisfy his deepest desire. The answer from Jesus implied quite clearly that it wasn't a question of the man's "doing" anything. People do not earn happiness by their own efforts; they certainly cannot buy it. Jesus was trying to tell the man. Jesus meant that only God satisfies completely. S elf-sufficiency needs to be given up. No possession, capability or talent ever brings the fulfilment for which people yearn. A way to find real relief is proposed in Jesus' final recommendation to the rich man: "Come and follow me."

our experience of pleasure; and to cure it, one must remove the inner obstacles that stand in the way of feeling pleasure. The choice of one's specific brand of fun is highly individual and can include such things as work, art, social involvement, hobbies, sports, reading mystery stories or watching movies. People who arc richly involved on many levels in their lives seem to enjoy life and are rarely bored. A friend named Barney once told mc that he felt so weighted down by the humdrum of his job that it was draining all of his vitality. -You know," he said, "I think this situation is making me boring. It's all I think about and talk about. I'm sure rvemme is getting sick of hearing about it." Often, like Barney, we are confronted with oppressive

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celebrants for Sunday Mass. But it seems to me that if we go with an open mind and heart, prepared to enjoy the simple pleasures of Scripture, the gifts of the Lord's table, the beauty of God's people gathered, the silent moments for talking with God, we can get the whole thing in better balance." God certainly can speak to us and touch us in the most humdrum Sunday assemblies, but if we've let boredom settle over us like a fog, he might not get through. Fun-deficiency can often

be a spiritual deficiency. The spirited person enjoys life and people, and seeks to be involved in her world. Boredom can shut us out of God's world and shut us off from His people and even shut us off from Him. It wasn't too hard to fill up Chris Young's fun-deficiency in an exciting city like Boston. W.C. Fields went to his grave with a fundeficiency. The rest of us still have time to take pleasure in the Lord, in one another and in the world he has made.

Boredom comes in many forms. But there is a type of boredom that has long concerned spiritual writers. This boredom blocks personal growth; it inhibits the celebration of life Paulist Father James Young writes that if people allow boredom to settle into their lives like a fog, God may not be able to get through to them. Boredom has a way of shutting people off from God's world, from His people and even from God, says the writer. Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke tells the story this week of a man, 60 -years-old — a lay missionary who left a successful business career in order to serve the poor of rural America. The writer finds a connection between boredom and a lack of purpose in life. Katharine Bird interviews a missionary priest who thinks that the way to cure boredom is to become actively involved in life. One's relationship with God is not meant to be static, the priest suggests. Boredom, however, can stifle spiritual growth. Father John Castelot searches in Scripture for some ways of curing boredom. He turns to the story of the rich man who asks Jesus what he should do to find happiness. The man's problem, says the writer, may have been less with his money than with his attitude of smug self-reliance, self-sufficiency.

Getting the message

By Father David O'Rourke Back in my college days I had a philosophy teacher who had a way of making us all sit up and pay attention. "You know what's wrong with you people?" he asked one day. "You're all bored. You've got no purpose in life. You r oar around like

you're going somewhere. But deep down you're all bored stiff." A master of public relations he wasn't . But he got to the heart of things. That day he made a connection I never forgot. People who see purpose in life, he suggested, don't live lives of boredom. Boredom is no small matter. Over the centuries, the Church's writers have considered it among the leading spiritual problems. Today p rofessional counsellors often report that boredom brings many a person to seek their help. Several years ago I came across a man working as a lay missionary, a volunteer catechist in rural America. He was about 60 years old and ailing. But his outlook

was exceptionally positive, so upbeat that it commanded attention. Intrigued, I asked how he had come into his work. He told me that in his younger y ears he had decided to become a real master in his profession, a branch of technology. Well-educated, hard' driving and apparently very bright, he moved ahead.

Leader A nd he succeeded. With single-minded attention this man moved to a position of leadership in his industry, and finally was chosen to direct his company. Then six months into his new position, he realised that all they wanted him to do was to maintain the status quo. He went to work every day, but his goals were accomplished, his victories already w on. He had a title. He had a big salary and recognition. But

there was no more challenge and he was bored stiff.

a purpose that went beyond production charts.

The man looked to the start of each day with dread and to its finish with relief. As he described it to me, he was a victim of his own success.

The pain of boredom goes much deeper than dull work and weary days. It goes to the very thread that ties life together into a meaningful whole.

He had accomplished everything he had set out to accomplish. The only thing he didn't have was a purpose in life. At this point he sought help. A counsellor's questions made him start looking at the v alues he was living by. What he came up with proved very startling. "I professed to be a Christian," he said, "but in reality I had become nothing more than a machine with a mind. My goal was the production o f smaller and more powerful electronic parts." His job change brought this to the surface. T his man was fortunate enough to recognise that his lack of real purpose was a spiritual problem. What he needed was not therapy, but

Some people, like this man, have to go through dramatic changes to find goals that actually measure up to life's worth. Others need look no f arther than the people with whom they share the same house. Christian faith holds that ordinary life can have e xtraordinary and eternal meaning. But now and then people lose sight of the obvious. Perhaps what is obvious is too close at hand. Then boredom may enter the scene. And boredom can serve a useful purpose: It can help us see that we just may need to rediscover the meaning and purpose that can be part of even the most ordinary of lives.

How to handle the 'noonday devil'

By \ Father James Young, CSP

life situations which have no real solution. We can't quit our jobs, move to another town or become a different person overnight. Like an infection, the dissatisfaction spreads to all areas of our lives, shutting down our sources of pleasure. The boredom sets in. The solution may lie in examining the sources of stimulation and pleasure available to us. How can we up the fun-level in our lives? How can we strike a better balance? Maybe art classes, iogging or volunteering at the community soup kitchen could provide a way out. This whole process of striking a better balance and developing new sources of pleasure can be very important to us as Christian believers. For I would like to suggest that the bored person may well be a person out of touch with God. Some months ago a friend named Sally told me that she found Sunday Mass boring. "Did it ever occur to you," I gingerly teased back, "that maybe God finds you boring?" "What do you mean?" "Could it be, Salty, that when you get to church you've already checked your imagination at the door, and nothing that could happen during the Eucharist will touch your life. I'm not suggesting that your parish has the best music or the best preaching or the best

Monks in the third and fourth centuries had a favourite expression: Beware "the noon-day devil." In the heat of the noon desert sun, there was a temptation for monks to "want to snooze."

No one has a monopoly on boredom, as BenedicFather tine Thomas Hillenbrand sees it.

During a recent trip, Father Thomas Hillenbrand met a 17-yearold girl and was struck at once by the bored expression on her f ace. Though surrounded by comfort in he home, her explained, the girl's attitude said: "Why should I even get up? The world's not interesting." Father Hillenbrand also found some "terribly bored" people at Fort Totten Indian Reservation in North Dakota. He was pastor of St Michael's church there from 19781982.

We've all heard of vitamin and iron deficiencies, but not too many have heard of fun deficiencies. Fun is enjoying life Fun deficiency, psychiatrist Edmund Bergler says, is a He explained during an interview that many Sioux lack of balance in our experience of Pleasure. To cure it one must remove the inner obstacles that stand in the way of feeling pleasure.

Busy and bored together Frustrated — but amused — is how one couple felt during a recent, long weekend at the ocean. One afternoon they decided to drive, spending a couple of hours away from the sun and the beach exploring the area with their children. As the family drove along, one child sulked. Suddenly she announced: 'This is the most boring family on earth. The surprised parents, who thought their children were thoroughly enjoying this weekend, turned and asked: 'What is it we do that makes us so boring?" And the child responded without hesitation: "Other families don't go for drives like this." That little story illustrates boredom's light side. After all, there is boredom — and then there is boredom. It is interesting to note that there is a type of boredom that spiritual writers take quite

seriously. "The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time," Father Henri J.M. Nouwen wrote in his book titled Making All Things New (Harper and Row). The writer added: 'While running from one event to the next, we wonder in our innermost selves if anything is really happening ...In short, while our lives are full, we feel unfulfilled." It seems there is a type of boredom capable of making people its victims. • Boredom can vandalise your hopes. Then it is difficult to believe there is promise in your future. • Boredom can block your view of what is happening in the present moment. It becomes an obstacle to your experience of the true riches in the people and the events that are part of your life.

Some boredom is perfectly normal. Some boredom is a fleeting thing. But sometimes boredom is a malady, in the opinion of a number of writers. Then boredom becomes a factor in the human equation, strongly influencing how people feel about their lives — and how willing they are to become more fully engaged in their lives. It undoubtedly would be a mistake to think that life should be exhilarating at every moment, keeping the adrenalin running full steam all the time. That's not what spiritual writers suggest. What concerns them is the way boredom becomes an obstacle in recognising the movement of God's Spirit in our midst. Boredom has a way a devaluing life. What do you call boredom? What can be done about boredom?

Indians on the reservation found their lives challenging and worthwhle. But, he also met some, especially unemployed teenagers and young adults, who felt they "had no purpose in life". Often the difference between the two groups, in the Benedictine's view, could be traced at least partly to employment possibilities. The Sioux reservation is in an economically depressed area without enough jobs for all available workers. Father Hillenbrand is convinced there is a direct relationship between satisfying work and finding meaning in life. If people can't find work, he said, it's easy for them to become bored with life.

But boredom isn't a strictly modern phenomenon, the Benedictine observed. He recalled that the desert fathers also "had to fight boredom" in the third and fourth centuries. Beware "the noon-day devil" was one of their favourite expressions, he commented. In the heat of the noon sun, the monks "would want to snooze."

By Katharine Bird Nonetheless, he added, "they always fought boredom with vigour." Sometimes they would redouble their efforts at prayer. Often, however, a favourite antidote for the monks was get busy working, Father Hillenbrand remarked. The Benedictine considers that advice pertinent today. He often advises bored youths "to look for a job." And he tells them that any job — working at a factory or cutting grass — can be "meaningful if you approach it right." He suggested that a person approach a boring job creatively, perhaps by thinking:

"How do I relate to these people?" "Can I bring some cheer to the job?" Asked what he does if he is bored. Father Hillenbrand laughed and said he "gets his mind in gear," not letting it spin aimlessly. He finds that this works for him. "If I get interested in something. really dig in and find a challenge," boredom disappears. But, he added, "I don't find myself bored very often." Some people consider monastic life very repetitive and quiet, Father Hillenbrand admitted. But not him. "I find it tremendously challenging," he said, because of "the whole search for God." He explained: "Each stage of my life, each day is different. So my concept of God will be different too" day by day. In his view, boredom is a "kind of dying, a closing down, which stifles growth" spiritually and otherwise. There is a sense in which bored individuals are "turned in on themselves," not living as fully as they might, he suggested. He considers Christ's example instructive. "Jesus wasn't bored, He was alive," Father Hillenbrand said. And Jesus showed us how to combine prayer and service in a nicely balanced way. Following Christ is a "dynamic process," Father Hillenbrand said. For Christ constantly "is calling us to stay alive and grow by going out of ourselves to others."

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QUOTE: In historical terms, women have come to be called 'people of glass.' You see they are there, but In historical terms women have come to be called 'people of glass'. You can see that they are there but it is look possible to straight through them. There is no denying, t hat up till now, women have largely been a hidden force in the history of the world. Books and official r ecords bear telling witness to the ignorance and dismissal of the female contribution over the centuries.

APPENDIX GRAPH: PERCENTAGES OF FEMALE CLOTHING WORKERS ACCORDING TO AGE

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Such silence from the past makes the job of digging deep a difficult one, but more and more are turning to the task with enthusiasm. One small step toward painting a picture of women in Western Australia's history was taken recently with the publication of a journal by the University of Western Australia. Entitled Women in Western Australian History, it represents the latest issue of Studies in Western Australia History, a periodical produced by the university's history for the benefit of undergraduates and those interested in history. Editor Dr Trish Crawford senior lecturer in History at UWA said the journal was particularly valuable in revealing the richness of material available.

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One of the many pages of graphs which help to illustrate the points in the book about the history of women in Western Australia.

"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 Catechedcal Directory

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The volume reflects the range of work about women's history which is currently underway in WA and which covers subjects from anorexia nervosa to working in the clothing industry. This is the first journal produced on women's history and represents a milestone for all those who are interested in the subject, Dr Crawford said. "What is new in history at the moment is a rethinking of traditional frameworks. The relationship between men and women in Australia has led to Australia being generally viewed as one of the most male chauvinistic countries of the world with its women as the doormats of the Western world." How can this be explained historically? Why, since women were few in the early days, were they not more valued? And why did they not become more powerful? These are some of the questions raised in the eight articles which seek to enhance understanding of the position of women in Australian society. Dr Crawford, who is currently in Oxford, England, doing research on 17th century women says the interest in women's history has specifically developed over the past 10 years. "If you think about it it is crazy that history should ignore half of the human race and that is exactly what has happened,' she said. In a bid to meet the needs of those who want to rediscover that history UWA plans to begin a Masters Course in Women's Studies next year. Murdoch University

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What is new in history at the moment is a rethinking of traditional frameworks. The relationship between men and women in Australia has led to Australia being generally viewed as one of the most male chauvinistic countries of the world with its women as the doormats of the Western world." How can this be explained historically? Why, since women were few in the early days, were they not more valued? And why did they not become more powerful?

already has a course in Women's Studies. "We're very excited about it obviously," Dr Crawford said "but I think it is important to say that we are not talking about a ghetto situation." "The course will naturally be available to men, although I expect the majority of the students wil be women, and 10 out of the 23 lecturers will be men." Meanwhile it is hoped that the journal will stimulate interest.

eS Ead- celt4 eNbtOWIr"' While it will have particularly appeal for academics, Dr Crawford, said it was expected that members of the public who were interested in WA history would also enjoy the book. "I think this material may be of interest to women in the wider community because it is about women in everyday situations, such as the clothing industry or in the tearooms," she said.

"The book's contributors are committed to helping people understand their own present situations in the light of past experience." The contributors include some of WA's leading historians. They are Penelope Hetherington, Phyl Garrick, Wendy Brady, Gail Reekie, Christine Owen, Helen Maddocks, Jocelyn Treasure and Margaret Brown. Historian Penelope Hetherington wrote the book's opening chapter which discusses the history of Australian women and methods of studying, researching and analysing Australian history. History honours student at UWA, Phyl Garrick tackles the subject of, 'People of glass. Women becoming visible in the history of Western Australia.' She writes: "Until recently most of the State's histories have been written from the perspective of men, looking for evidence of the State's progress. "Women, Aborigines — as individuals of a minority race — battling working people,

it's possible to look straight through them.

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about teaching women in nineteenth century Australia and Wendy Brady takes up the case of women workers in the Western Australian hotel and catering industry, 1900-1925. Most of the book was compiled from work carried out by students doing dissertations for their honour degrees and other projects which would not normally leave the grounds of their university. "Students are doing a lot of good work that should be presented to a wide range of people instead of leaving it in university history departments," Dr Crawford said.

Three of the contributions were made by Murdoch University students, who were studying the history of Australian women with Dr Lenore Layman. One of these is Wendy Brady who wrote the article on women workers in the Western Australian hotel and catering industry and who has found new worth

as a woman in her research into the past. Now in her 40's, with two grown-up daughters, she returned to studies about eight years ago, having decided the bank work she did before her marriage had no further appeal. She completed a part-time' BA at Murdoch Unviersity, majoring in History, in 1982 a nd went on to do her Honours Thesis on women in the hotel and catering industry. She is planning to start a Masters degree in Philosophy, studying female emigation to Western Australia. Unaware of the invisibility of women until she began studying, she is now devoted to the cause, and more importantly, enjoying every moment of it. -The history of women has been repressed because men just weren't interested in it," she said. "Women and children have always worked and contributed to society and the economy, but at the turn of the century we could still see that effort ignored and

people talking about a 'family wage'. 'There are just so many myths to be exploded. The most exciting thing is that women have been there all along, we just have to rediscover them. "I do think women's history is relevant for today because we are influenced by our perceived image of ourselves. I chose to look closely at women in the WA workforce because there was so little that had been done on it. "It is always hard doing women's history because of the lack of sources but I guess that just makes it more of a challenge. Even more so because I keep coming across all these wonderful women that I wish I had known "One of these was Cecilia Shelley, a remarkable Irish Catholic woman who was involved in the very beginning of organised labour of women. "She and others like her made an invaluable contribution to improving the conditions of women work-

"Take an organisation like Right to Life. "Good, Christian people working for one of the best possible causes — to protect life. "They have no influence inside the party because there is no-one there to put their case. There are plenty of loud voices for the other side. "So who wins? "Look at the last ALP conference. There weren't too many of us there to speak up for the unborn. "But there were two ladies — good, decent. Christianliving, professional women, mothers themselves, who stood up and spoke a lot of common sense about pregnancy, birth, motherhood. "They were hissed and booed by some, but listened to by a lot of others. And I might add it was the female delegates putting the proabortion side who did the booing. "Most of the men just listened. And what we heard from those two ladies had a lot of impact. "They put the Christian side of the story, and they were heard. They were the voice that Christians need across the political arena. "It's a hit hard for a man to make the same kind of impact on the abortion issue. You just get pro. abortion women standing up and saying 'What would .(iu know.? You're only a man. You don't have to cam. the can.' "It was pure delight for me ing in the hotel and catering industry. " They were prepared to make sacrifices and they did." Cecilia Shelley was 25 years of age when she took up the position of secretary of the Hotel Club Caterers Union; she was to spend 40 years as secretary of the union. One of nine children, the daughter of a brewery worker and labour activist, she came from a working class family with strong commitment to the labour cause. She credited her election to support by women whose cause she had championed against 'ridicule and abuse' by male members at union meetings. 'Ridicule and abuse' were part and parcel for women who chose to protest their conditions. "The press and society showed great disapproval, with the Sunday Times captioning a photograph of young ladies in long skirts and neat hats with the line, 'Amazons on the warpath.' "Such better dressed amazons in such unwarlike poses have yet to be seen. "It was most unfair treatment," said Wendy. "These poor beggars earned a pound a week and had to buy their own uniforms. "Many of them were supporting fathers who had been injured in the war, not to mention brothers and sisters." But emotion was running high and one male letter writer expressed his shock on observing a determined stand made by a group of female demonstrators: "It is impossible for me to associate in my mind the usual refined girl waitress with the militant creature of Saturday night's exhibition

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to listen to those intelligent ladies. No-one could say they didn't know what they were talking about and that it was a lot of rubbish. -That's the sort of involvement in politics Catholics and Christians — any people who want this nation to have Christian moral standards — "The spectacle of these howling dervishes (it would be a misnomer to call them women) was well calculated to make angels weep." " They couldn't win," said Wendy. "Not only were the 'angels weeping' but such demonstrations of protest meant they could not even be classified as women. While the dispute was finally resolved it was at some cost. Although increased wages and reduced hours were agreed to, the women did not get all they had been seeking and the militancy of the women had served to alienate them from parts of the community. In addition to this, some lost their jobs as employers refused to re-employ some workers. Cecilia Shelley continued to work for women throughout the 1920s, but says Wendy, the role played by many women in the industry should not be overlooked. 'Their willingness to withdraw their labour, forego wages during strikes, risk the loss of employment and face public censure and police prosecution demonstrated a strong commitment to the improvement of both their own and their fellow workers' conditions." she said. -The evidence from the 1920s indicates at times they pursued a far more radical approach than the wider labour movement was prepared to support or accept." It is the determination of such women, says Wendy Brady, that builds a past for women today and gives them roots, a pride in themselves and a feeling of selfworth and esteem. Copies of Women in Western Australia History are available from the University Bookshop at UWA for $7.

have got to find again. "What saddens me so much when I look at the very, ver!, thin ranks of Catholics active in politics, and in the labor Party, is that this whole nation is so much weaker through the lack of their influence. "After our Labor conference I had letters from a lot people — mainly Catholics — saying they didn't approve of conference attitudes and decisions. "So they were never going to vote for Labor again. "I wrote back to them all and said: 'Look. I'm prett disappointed. If you don't like the things that are happening in the political arena then get in there and Jo something about it. "It doesn't matter what party is in power. the Catholic Church — the Christian Church — should have more influence in policy determination than there is now. "Getting out. saying you'll never vote Labor again, that doesn't help at all. It just leaves the way clear for influences that aren't Christian. It gives the intellectuals a clear field. "Bishop Edward Kelly, from Toowoomba, has got the right idea. "He wrote to me, too, saying he wanted to see young Catholics who would stand by, and stand up for, their Christian, Catholic faith and ideals, getting into politics. "I say good for him. That's what we need. I can do with some young blood in here pitching on my team. "Catholics thunder against the Government. but that's not good enough. "They have an obligation to help form policy the right way — the Christian way — by joining a political party. "Catholics have got to put, politically, the Catholic point of view. "Something like 25 per cent of this country's people are Catholic. We ought to have a hefty say in what sort of a country we are. "Add the Anglicans. you've got about 50 per cent of the population. And we are not being heard.

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Best thing that's happened "Antioch is about the best thing that's ever happened to me — I'm so glad I'm in it!" These are the words of 15year-old Tricia Coorey, a member of Sydney Antioch. She and hundreds of other Australian, Catholic young people are involved in this new movement in the Church.

By Frances Wilden, in the Catholic Weekly, Sydney.

but those involved have a realistic attitude. "This thing will have many good repercussions in time," added Ken. "We will see Antioch in good Christian marriages, in vocations, in parish life and in professional life." One of the newer developments is the way that young people who have been through Antioch are more disposed to take part in other renewal movements in the Church. "In this sense it is providing a real platform for future Catholic leadership," said Father Shallvey.

For those who have never come all the way across the a different tune to it," said heard of Antioch ( the number country and be with friends. Tricia very philosophically. must be small indeed) this is Most impressive is the devo- What impresses Father Shala new way for youth to grow tion with which these young Ivey about Antioch is the in their love of God and in people approach the Sacra- generosity it draws from other their commitment to the ments. The Eucharist and people. It takes a lot of work Reconciliation are the focus of from a lot of people to run Church. Youth ministering to youth any Antioch Weekend. Antioch in a parish. is the way Antioch works and Weekday Masses are is probably the key to its attended by up to 60 of the A married couple or an adult success. -There are no lec- youth in many parishes. How is a definite must for any tures, nobody is trying to amazing to see kids giving up group. They provide Christian teach you anything — it's just surfing, football training and witness, guidance and accounme with God," said Claire heaps of other activities to go tability. When a Weekend is orgaPirola, one of the initiators of to Mass! requested to Antioch in Australia. Prayer is another important nised families are Critics This is a parish-based spirit- aspect of Antioch. Personal billet five or six kids for the by ual movement for young peo- and group prayer are perhaps weekend, food is made Antioch is not without its ple in years 10 to 12 and what have kept Antioch alive parishioners and a group of critics. It has been charged sometimes a bit older. It for the last three years. As well younger kids — the "God with emotionalism and manipbegins with a weekend expe- as kids praying for each other, Squad" — help out with other ulation by some people. Many rience and has a strong weekly parishioners are asked to pray jobs. "It is wonderful to see have taken time to answer of a parish comfollow up. for the success of a Weekend all sections these accusations but Antiomunity working together to It offers youth an ongoing and for those participating. chians don't seem particularly opp( )rt unity to listen, discuss The concept of parish is sponsor a weekend," Father worried about it. According to and better understand what it central to Antioch. The move- shalhey told me. them rediscovering God in means to be a Catholic today. ment is strictly parish-based. A \ eekend establishes Antiyour life is an emotional Antioch works unashamedly Members come from the same och in a parish. A team of 20 experience. as are a lot of on the influence of peers. parish, the parish priest and to 25 young people present things in life. Today this phrase is charged a married couple or adult the entire Weekend proFather Shallvey says this is with all sorts of negative provide guidance and the gramme. About two months necessarily a criticism. "It not overtones but in Antioch it is youth participate in parish preparation goes into presentridiculous to me that seems used in a positive way. ing a Weekend. activities. sportsmen of all codes are Of course this is not totally This is important because it It begins on Friday night with allowed to be emotional new since our sch(x)Is. organ- encourages family worship a series of talks given by the about their achievements but isations. and clubs work on and it gives young people a team. On Saturday there are young people about their not the same principle. sense of belonging in the more talks, discussions and Faith." Father John Shallvey MSC has family of the Church. recreation in the afternoon. • Antiochians take much of been as,s(wiated with Antioch Youth, in recent years, have Saturday their inspiration from the Acts from the beginning and fully tended to be ignored on the Reconciliation on be the univerof the Apostles. Antioch is supports the methods used. parish level, people view night seems to sal highlight of the Weekend. where Christ's followers were youth as being important in Ten priests from surrounding first called Christians. "It's the Church in future years but parishes help with Reconciliamazing to open up the Acts not at present. "But we are the ation and many find it a very on any page and say. 'Hey Church of today." they all cry. rewarding experience. that's us,' that's what we're "We belong to the Church encountrying to do!" said Claire. opportunity to The now!" Sacraments Christ in the ter A rock and a rose are Anti"This is so needed today," always readily available och's symbols. People can said Father Shallvey."Most of is not people and most find choose to be like a rock which our youth, after leaving our to young part of the important a very is hard, cold and unchanging schools, give up the practice "Often all we hear about or like a rose which lives and of their Faith and opt to live Weekend. youth is the way that they are grows — a thing of beauty and outside the direction of the Discussions, and talks conled astray by their peers. Here a source of ioy. teaching Church. I see Anti- tinue on Sunday. At the end it is refreshing and uplifting och as providing that sense of of the Weekend everyone Antiochians don't claim to be to see youth ministering the belonging and identity as celebrates Mass together and perfect and have all the Good News of Jesus Christ to Catholics that is so often not resolves to give Christ a more answers. "Of course anything each other." provided in our community." central position in their lives. that is human. young and Byron. Teresa and Claire But what do Antiochians Music is an important part of growing is far from perfect," Pirola introduced Antioch think? When asked if Antioch the Antioch movement and said Father Shallvey. into Australia after experienchad changed her life, Mary Weekends and Masses are full Tricia who almost didn't stick selves becoming more and Antiochians gather for prayers "All I know is, in my opinion, ing a weekend in America. Israel smiled, "only 99 per of musical interludes. and a talk given by one of the Antioch is one of the best more involved. it out. They were so impressed by cent." For Claire, Antioch An Antioch Weekend is hard Of course there are some The enthusiasm sparked by group. things happening in the the movement that, on returnmeans a greater awareness of packed and pretty "heavy". who never come back for a Weekend is continued by You may think Antioch is a Church today." And there's ing to Australia. they promptly other people, her family and "It's pretty hard going but it's more hut an overwhelming the strong weekly follow-up. "here today. gone tomorrow" not much else you can add to started their own group. The other Catholics — "my Faith worth it in the end," said number do and find them- Each Sunday night after Mass type thing. And perhaps it is that. first Antioch meeting in Ausfamily" as she puts it. tralia v -as held in the Pirolas' "Until I became involved in front room in 1981. US? Babysit us? Take us on a this other person might not Antioch I thought I was the Since then Antioch has estabhike? Give us a few days be able to put up with unpaid lished itself in more than 40 only 15-year-old Catholic in experience at "work skills" for work as we do. He or she Sydney parishes and groups Australia," said Tricia. might have turned to crime, jobs that do not exist? have sprung up in the Can- The words that come up vandalism, drugs or even suiBig deal. We even hate 'unemberra/Queanbeyan area. again and again are "communcide. No, we are useful offers' espeprice ployed half Perth, Alice Springs, Darwin ity." "sharing" and "belongmembers of society — but cially when they ask for proof. and overseas in New Zealand, ing". "With Christ at the society does not recognise it. centre of everything we do," allows us to go to enter- We need to work together Fiji and the Philippines. The YCW believes that one We have discovered, like As a movement we have a It Claire. adds tainment we would otherwise towards building a new man, But what's all the excitement of the most damaging things others who seek to work with large number of unemployed For some its not instant unable to get into — but a new society that is just and be about? that can be done to people is the unemployed, that this among our ranks. We know There are several very impres- commitment and enthusiasm. to put them into categories strata of society is well hidden. the unemployed and how they what do you think it does to loving where young people sive things about Antioch. The I.aurie Macri started out and label them, e.g. the young. By day they are hiding in their feel. We know the various our pride? Is this unfair of us? are not bitter and angry. kids involved have an extraor- knocking Antioch but went the unemployed, the unions, homes, by night they are agencies that seek to work The YCW teaches us to dinary enthusiasm. They are a along to a few talks and the capitalists, the workers, indistinguishable from the with the unemployed. We review our lives to talk about collection of young people meetings. For him it was a the left wing or right wing. employed. know how few proportionally what is happening to us, to from a multitude of back- gradual involvement. "But one All these "things" are not of the unemployed attend work out what we really think grounds and experience and night I actually gave a talk things at all — they are INDI- For the most part they are these agencies, how many are rationally about this and take they're all terribly excited myself and realised that I VIDUAL PEOPLE each of reserved, suspicious, even attended by one clique of action. It teaches us that we Take time off to about being part of this grow- really did believe all the stuff whom is unique and irreplace- hostile, fear our motives and unemployed friends who are not unemployed — we are review and reflect ing, vital and young pheno- I was saying." able in the world. And so we working on their past expe- frighten all others away. We workers. We ARE working in on your life. Book It seems that for each person have gone out to meet indi- riences. They do not like see situations where three our YCW homes, in our commenon. now for the next "This is a really alive, Antioch has an individual vidual unemployed people. being unemployed and do not paid workers sit in one room munities, in our YCW groups. Choice weekend. dynamic thing." said Ken message. We have tried to make friends want others to know them as while two unemployed are The only thing is we are October 26 to 28. Bailey who just dropped in "It's like having a song with with them, treat them as unemployed, so they hesitate present — playing table tennis unpaid workers. Even in not Contact Margaret from Perth on his way to New a particular rhythm. Fifty people, give them the respect and are reluctant to come in another room. We know being paid we are allowing and Terry Fennessy, Zealand. "And there's such a people can have the same and love that they feel society together as a group of unem- they are good people but what someone else to have our job. 386 6494. ployed. sense of community. I can rhythm but they can all write has denied them. do they think they can do for a fob we might have had. And

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4 4 h%. I 4 4 by Annette Macarthur-Onslow, published by Fontana, $4.95 Uhu, the baby owl, fell out of his nest and everyone was enchanted with this little bird who squealed for food, chirruped for pleasure or anger, and clicked in fear. But no one wanted the responsibility of looking after him. Even Minnie, the 17 year old cat, went on strike. As he grew bigger, Uhu became part of the family and he was always in strife. Stuck in the wastepaper basket, claws caught in the lace curtains so that he had to hang upside down like a bat, confounded by windows, and at constant battle with a goatskin rug, Uhu became both a character and a clown. Sadly, Uhu broke his leg twice. Between the two accidents he had learned to fly and had to be restricted whilst his second break healed. This was too much for him, he panicked, struggled and finally collapsed into a state of apathy, refusing all food. His death makes the book a poignant tale, yet Mc.arthur-Onslow has written a story full of humour, happiness and beauty that will appeal to people of all naxxis. Ass an artist, Annette Macarthur-Onslow excels herself and she won the Book of the Year Award in 1970 for this title.

MOT 'Pm Q.What has many rings but Dear Captain Bob, I heard some good jokes on no fingers? AA telephone. the holidays. Here they are: Q. What is the saddest fruit If pig skins make good shoes, of all? what do banana skins make? A. Blueberries. Good slippers! Q. What are the largest ants "Waiter, waiter, will the in the world? pancakes be long?" A. Elephants. "No, sir, round." Q. First ghost: I see the do you serve crabs?" "Waiter, Phantom Killers are on telly "Sit down sir, we serve anytonight. Second ghost: Yes, I saw it last week and it nearly frightened life into me. Q. What's a vampire's favourite fruit? A. A blood orange. Well, I'm signing off now. Erica Martin, Lesmurdie.

What would you do if you were in a room with four walls, no windows and a table? Bang your head against the wall. That makes it sore (saw). Saw the table in half Tao halves make a ubole, so walk through the hole and escape.

Why have elephants got Dear Captain Bob, wrinkled ankles? Thanks a lot for putting my Because they tie tbeir crossword in two Sundays sneakers too tightly. ago. I was reading a religious magazine and came across this When should you feed little prayer. I thought I would elephant milk to a baby? send it in to you. When the baby is an LORD JESUS CHRIST, elephant. MAY YOUR OWN FORGIVWhy do elephants have ING HEART INSPIRE US TO trunks? KEEP IN CHECK ALL They can't afford suitcases. THOUGHTS OF ILL WILL AND NURSING OF PAST INJURIES. GIVE USA NOBLER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR FELLOW MEN, GREATER CONCERN FOR THEIR SAL- Congratulations to this VATION, AND LESS CON- week's colouring in winner. CERN FOR OUR OWN Rebecca Franklin, of Swan PREJUDICES: SO THAT WE View. A hook, courtesy of MAY ALL ONE DAY COME William Collins has been sent TOGETHER IN YOU, WHO Out to Rebecca. ON THE LIVE AND REIGN FOR EVER LOOSE ROBERT LEESON AND EVER. AMEN. BIRTHDAY I hope you like this prayer as I thought it was very beau- Happy birthday to Melissa tiful and meaningful and it Natta, Kelmscott; Claire really makes people think Miguel, Hope Valley; Jane Measuring cup, spoon, ice Bourke, Donnybrook; Mark Find a warm. dry place to about their sins. Add about 30 or 40 drops Draw all over the tray. cube Humphries, Forrestfield; Geofof food colouring to the soap put the cubes for one or two Kathy Dias, bath wall, sink, winfrey Jalleh. Collie; Kristen whatever you RECIPE: mixture. and stir very well days until the soap paste gets Girrawheen. dows Jamieson. .Scarborough; Karla draw will wipe off. It Pour water into a cup until until all the white is gone and hard (test by pressing with Johansen. Hamilton Hill; Julia your finger). doesn't matter. SOAP it reaches the 1/8 mark. Fill the soap has colour. Campbell, Duncraig; Natasha CRAYONS are made the rest of the cup to the top V‘rith the same spoon, scoop Pop the SOAP CRAYONS Clark, Geraldton; James Cunfrom pure soap. This is with Lux Flakes. out some of the mixture and out of the tray and they're nington. Kardinya; Danny What get if ready you do pour for you use. how you make them. With a spoon, mix the water put it in one of the cube Genie on tbe Loose, by You might want to make a boiling water down a rabbit Rose Meyer, Duncraig; Paul MATERIALS: cube tray. of an ice spaces and soap flakes together, but Robert Leeson, published by Thompson, Wanneroo; Philip few batches in different hole? Lux Flakes, food colounng, keep mixing until you have a Fontana, $3.50 Press the soap down into colours, or split the white A hot cross bunny! Thomas, Esperance; Michael water. thick soapy paste without any the cube until you have filled Alec Bowden has kept a can paste in two before you add What do jelly-babies wear on Talbot, Girrawheen; Daryl big lumps. which used to he the home TOOLS: the cube up to the top; see the colour. I.overy, Cloverdale; Danny their feet? of a friend of his, the Third the illustration. Dyane, Kuhn: Beth Watson. Experiment to get the best Gum boots. Class Genie. One day he rubs Attadale; Jude Webb. Balga; Do one or two more cubes results, then show off to your it, thinking how much he Man: Hey, you're not allowed Naomi Mangano, Doodlakine; with the remaining mixture. friends. misses his friend. And someto fish in that river. Robyn Winthrop, Kardinya; how he lets a new genie out Boy: I'm not fishing. I'm Clarke McNamara. Nedlands: of the can. But Abdul is only teaching my pet worm how Justin McAullay, Duncraig; a trainee genie and the results to swim. Jeremy Phillips, Albany; are pretty devastating. Q.What did the dirt say when Donna Prendergast. ArmaGenie On The Loose has a dale; Sonya Pilkington, Dalit started to rain? lively plot, full of highly imaginRyan, Justin A.If this keeps up my name keith; ative mischief. Scarborough; Karen Kelly, will be mud. Kalamunda; Elizabeth McAQ.How do you make a band tackney, Balga; Gregory MasCleopas and his friend makes you feel so bad?" "Just this morning," t o walk. But the two stand? sam, East Victoria Park; Sharon were sad. They were leav- he asked. Cleopas added, "some invited Him to their A.Take away the chairs. Hale, Kingsley; Rose-Marie ingJerusalem. They were Cleopas and his friend women of our group home. "It's already late," Q. Why did the robber chop off Hill, Brentwood; Richard going back home, to stopped for a moment. went to Jesus' tomb. It Cleopas said. "It's getting the legs of his bed? Irvine, Nollamara; David BerEmmaus. It was only They looked at the was empty. They said dark. Come and stay with A.Because he wanted to lie gin, Coolgardie; Patrick seven miles. But it stranger with sad eyes. they had a vision of us." low for a while. Bacon, Forrestfield; Morena seemed a world away. They didn't recognise angels saying Jesus is Jesus accepted their inviDobrowolski, Collie; Michael . even the it that is Q.What "I feel awful," Cleopas t hat the stranger was alive." tation. He went to their Duffy, Wongan Hills; Sean said. "What are we going Jesus. "Are you the only The stranger listened home and sat down to eat cleverest man overlooks? Sciberras. Ashfield; to do now that Jesus is one in Jerusalem who carefully. He felt their with them. He took their A.His nose. dead?" doesn't know the terrible pain. When they finished bread and said the bless"I don't know," his things that just hap- pouring out their story, ing. He broke the bread friend answered sadly. "I pened there?" Cleopas he spoke up. "You say and gave it to them. gave up everything to asked the stranger. you hoped Jesus would When He broke the Y ou has e got to he in the club to join simph send the cornfollow Jesus. Now He's "What things?" the set Israel free. You bread they recognised if you want to enter our corn- pleted coupon here to The petitions and win some of the Record Kid's Club, PO Box The Hand-Me-Down Kid, gone. I don't know what stranger asked as they believed He was the Mes- him. They saw the super prizes. 50, Aberdeen Street. Perth. by Francine Pascal, pub- to do now." began to walk again siah. But didn't the stranger was really Jesus, 6000. lished by Fontana. $.3-50 The sun was high in the toward Emmaus. prophet tell us the Mes- that He was alive. They Being the youngest in the sky. The road was dusty. "What happened to siah must suffer and die looked at each other in family means An gets every- They were hot and dis- Jesus of Nazareth," Cleo- to set us free?" amazement. Then He was thing second-hand. One day a couraged. They heard pas' friend answered. As they walked, the sun gone. school friend bullies her into footsteps behind them. "Jesus was a prophet. God slowly settled low over They got up at once and "borrowing" her sister's bicy- Soon a stranger was sent Jim. But our chief the Judean hills. Jesus rushed back to Jerusalem Name cle, which gets stolen. Before beside them. He walked priests and rulers sent- t old them story after to tell their other friends Address . .. it is eventually found An has with them. enced Him to death. They story from their Scrip- the good news. They told met a good friend, and begins The stranger sensed crucified Him last Friday tures, stories of Moses them what happened on P code to learn that being small how sad and confused a fternoon. We hoped and all the prophets. the road and how they doesn't mean you have to be the two were. "What are Jesus was the one who At Emmaus, Jesus acted recognised Jesus when Btrthdate Age trodden on. you talking about that would liberate Israel." —J as if He had still further He broke the bread.

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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.

new titles Practice Night in the Drill Hall, by Kevin Ireland, published by Oxford University Press, $12. Ireland is equally at ease when writing a love-poem, an elegy, or a letter to a drinking companion. The Nuice of his poems is distinctive: at once urbane, sharp and compassionate, and has established him as New Zealand's most dangerously witty poet.

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Practical dances for use by all A Time To Dance, 12 practical dances, for the non-dance specialist in education, church and community, by Martin H. Blogg, published by Collins Liturgical, $ 9.95. (Also includes c assette pack of

music for dances in book. Cassette pack is $8.95 and is sold separately.) A collection of 12 practical dances, with clear, concise instructions. The dances express a wide variety of mood, movement and scriptu-

ral/worship ideas for the non-specialist Christian dancer. The dances are for use in public worship, and will also be of use to youth groups, schools (especially 0 and A level dance and RE. course etc. An irrestible book: the

dances are so clearly described that even the nondancer can interpret them ' builds on folk dance patterns ' by worship groups large and small, young and old • by all Christian denominations

September saw another important publishing event for the University of Western A ustralia Press with the launching of a further volume of the Dictionary of Western Australians. Titled The Challenging years 1858-1888, and Volume 4 Part 1 of the series, it is edited by well-known West Australian writer Rica Erickson. It is the third volume she has edited in the mammoth project to provide a biographical r ecord of the people who lived in or visited Western Australia from 1 829, when the State w as first settled, to 1914, the year of the outbreak of World War

Living life to the full ...

'B.S. The Life and IVorit of J.B.S. Haldane, by Ronald Clark, published by Oxford University Press, $10.99. HaIdanc was one of the most brilliant of British scientists — and one of the most controBy Little and By Little, 1980, Dorothy Day versial. Drawing on private The Selected Writing of was called 'the most papers and reminiscences of Dorothy Day, edited, significant, interesting friends (and enemies) Clark with an introduction by and influential person has written 'an excellent R obert Ellsberg, pub- in the history of Amerbiography . . . both just and lished by Dove Com- ican Catholicism and a warm -hearted.' — C.P. Snow munications, $15.95

'non-violent social rad-

In Christ .411 Things Hold R eviewed by Roslyn ical of luminous personality.' Together, by Jock Stein & R oss. Howard Taylor, published When she died in There is no denying by Fontarui, $5.95. she was a remarkable This is a simple exposition woman and her writof Christian faith for the ings have much to enquirer and the committed. offer all those eager to It asserts the truth of the learn of life enriched by Christ who was the Son of spirituality. )911" God, who shared our human- g A s co-founder in ity and who rose from death E WC01 I 1933 with the French — a truth dependent. not on peasant philosopher irrational faith, but on the Peter Maurin of the revelation of the Gospel.

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Capitalist Democracy in Britain, by Ralph Miltband, published by Oxford University Press, $7. Miliband discusses the way in which Parliament, the political parties, the media, the judiciary and the Civil Service have evolved as agents of political integration, and pays considerable attention to the role of the institutions of the labour movement both in the advancement of political demands and in the containment of pressure. The discussion refers to actual political events but is also set within the theoretical debate about the role of the State.

Bedside Tennis, by John Newcome, published by Fontana, $8.95. Newk's tennis book is like no other. Its sharply enjoyable mix of straight talk and humour is drawn from his many eventful years at the heart of the world game. The story tracks busily from street games The Starling. by Chrisin Sydney to strip topher Feare, published by tennis in Calgary, Oxford Unviersity Press, from the operating $39. room of an IndoneFeare traces the developsian faith healer to a ment of the European Starling Davis Cup-tie in Madfrom an arboreal, largely fruit ras made memorable eating ancestor, probably in not so much by the south-east Asia, to the ground1300 temperature as dwelling, omnivorous bird by the death threat that we see today. A book to hanging over the Ausinterest ecologists, etholotralian team. gists and conservationists as In Bedside Tennis well as ornithologists. John Newcombe has many searching obserPoetry of the Passion, Stuvations to make about dies in livelve Centuries of the pressures of the English, by JA. w: Bennett, game today — about formerly Professor Medieagents, sponsors and val and Renaissance Engthe snares that lish, Cambridge University, threaten the careers of published by Oxford Uniunwary teenagers. twrsity Press, $18.75. The mood is lively Bennett studies the Passion throughout, and in English verse from The charged with the Dream of the Rood to David attractive humour of Jones' Anathemata. His survey a man who has gradencompasses the medieval uated comfortably poets and Piers Plowman, the from winning twentyScottish poets, the metaphysfive major titles to lea's, the recusants, the hymdecorating the roof of nodists, and modern novelists his Texas tennis ranch who share with the poets an with the world's largintuitive awareness of the est moustache. centrality.

Catholic Worker Movement, and for almost 50 years editor and publisher of its newpaper, she applied the Gospels to a sweeping radical critique of the economic, social and political system, and addressed the most urgent issues of our time: poverty, labour, justice, civil liberties degree, sum up most extensive and disarmament. Dorothy Day as a per- account of the Catholic Her book opens with son. She may have Worker movement. the words; "Going to only 'done what she The editor, Robert Ellsc onfession is hard. Writ- could' but for most of berg was a member of ing a book is hard us that doing is remar- the Catholic Worker because you are 'giving kable. C ommunity in New yourself away.' But if This volume is a selec- York City from 1975 to you love, you want to tion of her published 1980, the managing give yourself. You work, covering a span editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper from 1976 to 1978. In his introduction he says that what was most extraordinary about Dorothy Day, 'was not what (she) write as you are of over 50 years. While wrote — nor even what impelled to write, most of them come she believed, but the about man and his prob- f rom The Catholic f act that there was lems, his relation to Worker, a number of absolutely no distincGod and his fellows. other magazine articles tion between what she You write about your- are included, as well as believed, what she self because in the long selection from all her wrote, and the manner run all man's problems books. in which she lived. ' are the same, his In essence it provides Under her influence, human needs of suste- a taste that will no some 50 Houses of nance and love...I am doubt have some read- Hospitality and farma journalist, not a bio- ers looking for more. ing communes grew grapher, not a book Dorothy Day wrote a up where the hungry writer. The sustained number of books were (and still are) fed effort of writing, of including Union and the homeless welputting pen to paper so Square to Rome, the comed. She espoused many hours a day account of her conver- for herself a philosophy when there are human sion; House of Hospi- of voluntary poverty beings around who tality, a chronicle of the and lived her life as an need me, when there is early years of the arduous — and joyous sickness, and hunger, Catholic Worker; On — pilgrimage among and sorrow, is a har- Pilgrimage, a journal the truly destitute, the rowingly painful job. I for a single year; The homeless, the sick and feel that I have done Long Loneliness, an unwanted in New nothing well. But I autobiography; The- York, working 'by little have done what I rese, a life of St The- and by little' to restore could." rese of Lisieux and them to dignity and Such words, to a large Loaves and Fishes, her self-respect.

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The others are Bond 1850-1868 and 18501868. The first volume, The Early Settlers, 1829-1850, was edited by Dr Pamela Statham of the UVVA Department of Economics. The Dictionary presents a fascinating overview of the lives and careers of West Australians of the past through brief biographies of their activities and family histories -- where such information is available. Occasionally only a f ew words follow a name because, despite searches through the many sources available, no details could be found. However, after previous volumes were published, the listing of names often brought f urther information f rom descendants or other sources. As a result, the first and third volumes will be revised and enlarged (the second, the official convict list, is as complete as possible) and the series republished.

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The Benedictine pioneers of the Subiaco settlement near Lake Monger got special mention when Archbishop Foley was received formally by the Subiaco City Council last Wednesday night. He is pictured above with a jarrah plaque commemorating his visit watched by deputy town clerk, Mr Laurie Shervington, the mayor, Mr Richard Diggins and councillor Tony Costa who recently made a personal visit to the New Subiaco Benedictine monastery in Arkansas US with which the local council has been in contact and where he planted two trees. Archbishop Foley praised the growth of local councils in which people could see the community working for them. He said we thrive as human beings in the smaller community because people are proud of becoming involved at the local level. He lamented that often the young feel alienated from voting in local elections.

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1 DOGS' cHANCE... Race 1: Kellie's Crown 1, Chelsea's Chief 2, Mr Toe Indoor 3. Race 2: Curly Tale 1, Mad Jack 2, Speedy Lock 3. Race 3: Au!fee 1, Scootalot 2, Hangover Cloud 3. Race 4: Shear Gear 1, Lucky Irish 2, Express Man 3. Race 5: Zappa Fox 1, Boundary Rider 2, Classy Cloak 3.

Race 6: Ballyporeen 1, Astbury Rose, Whitefoot Lass 3. Race 7: Chinese Chief 1, Mister Big Note 2, Ternlock Silk 3. Race 8: Sandilock 1, Up Early 2, Trendy Toewyte 3. Race 9: Black Cannon 1, Pallas Athene 2, Hit It Bally 3. Race 10: Beatem Jack 1, Blue Temlock 2, Exotic Dust 3.

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WHAT'S ON MAJELLAN ANNUAL MASS

PALLIATIVE CARE R EMEMBRANCE

The annual Majellan Mass, co-inciding with the feast of St Gerard Majella will be celebrated in St Joseph's church, Salvado Road, Wembley at 8 pm on Tuesday, October 16. The customary social follows in the parish centre and those coming are asked to bring one plate of supper between four persons. Present and former Majellans are welcome. Subiaco-Wembley Majellans will hold an elderly people's party on Tuesday, October 16 in the parish centre. More than 100 elderly have been invited to a concert entertainment and afternoon tea.

The lighting of up to 250 candles and a period of commemoriative silence in a darkened church will be part of the Palliative Care commemorative service in St Mary's Cathedral on Thursday. October 18 at 7.45 pm. Each candle will represent a person who has died in the service's care during the past year. Archbishop Foley and other church leaders will take part in the service which includes prayers, readings, music by the cathedral choir and is open to the public.

NORTH BEACH SCHOOL FETE This year's fete will be held on Sunday, October 21 at 5 Kitchener Street, North Beach. Attractions are — $1000 Hole In One Constable Senior Competition, McCaughey (the singing policeman). Meyers Puppet Show and so on. Further information 447 3294. ARCHBISHOP GOODY AWARD Several application forms have been collected but so far no firm submissions have been received yet for the inaugural Archbishop Goody Award that may be obtained for any training project associated with the apostolate of the laity. A sum of $5000 is available. Applications for the award close on October 31. Application forms and further details are available from the Diocesan Chancery 21 Victoria Square. Phone 325 4300.

BRUNSWICK DEDICATION Hymns that were favourites of the late Monsignor Charles Cunningham were in a service last Sunday to dedicate 'ndows to the late pastor's memory in he church of the Assumption of Our Lady. Bishop Quinn performed the dedicaion ceremony and Archbishop Goody ave an address. Father John Russell of Bayswater elivered a reading from Malachi. A econd reading was delivered by a ember of Monsignor Cunningham's /16th Association. The ceremony included Benediction of he Blessed Sacrament. The windows feature principally Our dy with other emblems reminiscent of onsignor Cunningham such as a elescope, bee-hive, chaplain's cap and oung children.

FATIMA R EMEMBRANCE A Holy Hour to commemorate the October 13 appearance of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 will be held at Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament church, Corfield Street, Gosnells at 3 pm on Sunday, October 14.

VACANCIES IN YCS The Perth Young Christian Students' Movement is calling for applicants to work full-time for YCS in 1985. The two positions available are open to 1984 students, past students, assistants and those who have been involved in YCS. For more information please contact the YCS office on 328 4071 or write to PO Box 194 North Perth 6006. Applications close on November 5. LAND RIGHTS TALK The Fremantle branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross invites all members, their families and friends to a discussion evening on land rights by a member of the Aboriginal Catholic chaplaincy at 8 pm on Wednesday, October 10 at the Stella Mans Catholic Club, 12 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle. R efreshments hard and soft are available on site. For further information phone 330 3310 after 5.30 pm.

ANTIOCH PILGRIMAGE A pilgrimage to the Holy Land January 4-25 is being organised for all Antiocheans. Cost is $1500. Apply in person at the Cottesloe parish hall on Sunday, October 7 at 4 pm or contact Helen Hegge 384 6438 between 4 to 6 pm every day.

INTERNATIONAL FAIR AT LA SALLE COLLEGE La Salle College will again hold its International Fair at the college in La Salle Ave, Midland, on Sunday. October 14. Father Brian Morrison, formerly of the 6KY Community Care programme will celebrate a special Mass at 10 am and officiate at an opening ceremony at 11 am. Trinity College concert band will be a feature of the opening and during the day, Trinity's pipe band will give demonstrations. Among attractions will be renowned artists displaying their works for sale. They include Cedric Baxter, Madeleine Clear, Don Mazzotti, Sheila Bensort, Pat Spencer, Joanna Cappeli and Despina Maiolo. Other attractions include clay pottery demonstrations, portrait sketching, sheep weight guessing, damper bakings, face painting for children, computer games, dunking machine, pony rides, garden stall, second-hand book stall, recycled clothes, soft toys, sand sock shy, coconut shy, moon walk and merry-goround. International cuisine available will include Italian, Asian, Indian, Malaysian and Yugoslav dishes along with pie stalls, hamburgers, doughnuts, cakes, dried fruits, apple pie, popcorn and fairy floss. Afternoon tea will be served, and there will be bar facilities.

CARDINAL NEWMAN ON TV Cardinal Newman features on ABC TV at 9.25 pm on Thursday October 10, in the Encounters series. It's close to a century since the death of Cardinal John Henry Newman, but his name still lives as vividly as it did during the 89 years of his remarkable life as a theologian and author. He was one of the founders of the Anglican Oxford Movement. He gave his name to schools and made his mark in religious history when, although not a resident of Rome, he was made a Cardinal. He was a man of magnetic personality, regarded by many as a mystic. He not only had great influence as a preacher but was an inspired and powerful poet and vigorous writer of prose. TOODYAY R E-UNION A re-union of past pupils and their families of St Aloysius convent school Toodyay will be held on Sunday October 14. Mass will be celebrated in the parish church at 11 am and will be followed by a barbecue or basket lunch (BYO everything). Further information from Josephine Moore 384 7750 104 Rochdale Road Mount Claremont.