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"Talk of elections and a white backlash drowns out calls for rational non-partisan resolution of issues of justice" says the Jesuit lawyer who is an adviser to the Queensland Catholic bishop on Aboriginal issues. The seeds of Federal-State conflict continue to germinate and once again Aborigines are the meat in the sandwich says Reverend Frank Brennan SJ in a comment on the release of the Seaman report on Aboriginal land rights and subsequent statements by State and Federal governments. Mr Brennan was invited to Perth earlier this year to help Catholics clarify their views while submissions were being made to the Seaman Inquiry. He is due to return to Perth next month It is now 10 years since Mr Justice Woodward presented his final report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission to the Commonwealth Government. That report, which contained draft legislation, was presented to the Governor-General in May 1974. The first [and Rights Bill was presented to Parliament in October, 1975.

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Following the change in government, the Bill was redrafted andpresented again to Parliament in June 1976. The legislation did not come into effect until December 1976. So there was a time gap of two years between the publication of the first draft Bill

A special in-depth EJlook at the affect of alcoholic parents on their children and families. See the start of R OSLYN ROSS' feature pages 4 and 5.

The Saint Vincent de Paul national congress held at the parish centre. City Beach looks at important issues of the Church and the poor. See pages 2 and 3.

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Long battle and the final Bill passed by Parliament. Despite this, the Australian Mining Industry Council was of the view that there was "undue haste" in the making of decisions translating the Royal Commission's findings into legislative provisions. Now, consider the time scale confronting Aboriginals in Western Australia. The report of the Aboriginal Land Inquiry constituted by Mr Paul Seaman, QC, was released to the public on Thursday, September 27. Having had the report for 10 days prior to its release, the Western Australian Government released a general statement on Aboriginal land claims and a statement of principles along with the Seaman report. The Western Australian

Premier Brian Burke ...at centre of land rights controversy.

Government had already decided Aborigines would have "no veto of mining or exploration" even though Mr Seaman had "no doubt that from an Aboriginal viewpoint an aspiration to control mining and oil activity on Aboriginal land is reasonable." Mr Seaman's "assessment is that there is no compelling economic reason why, in the interest of the broader community, Aboriginal communities should not be afforded control over mining or petroleum activity on Aboriginal land." Mr Seaman's views accord with Mr Justic Woodward's statement 10 years ago: "1 believe that to deny the Aborigines the right to prevent mining on their land is to deny the reality of their land rights. • Colt page 4

Everyone alert to needs of the poor St Vincent de Paul members who are perceiving the causes of poverty should pin-point the needs and problems and animate the parish and diocesan community to seek solutions, Monsignor Michael Keating told a national congress of the St Vincent de Paul Society last weekend. Noting that some people think the Catholic Church which had its roots in the working classes is becoming middle class Mons Keating continued: "It is surely one of the responsibilities of the SVDP to remind the Church in the parishes and diocese who are the poor and what their needs are. "The Christian community has generally been characterised more by acts of charity than by actions on behalf of justice such as eliminating causes of poverty, eradicating discrimination and working for just distribution of the world's goods." Mons Keating was delivering the keynote address to 350 national and international delegates at City Beach parish centre where Archbishop Foley and Premier Brian Burke also addressed the second such national congress to be held in Perth. "Work for justice derives from hope, the notion human beings can change," Mons Keating said. "A key element of the gospel call to work for justice is it be done in love. Justice demands the oppressor be loved no less than the oppressed. "Poverty is the most obvious injustice in a material sense. Perhaps the spiritual poverty which besets our nation is far "How easy it is to miss the true richness of the poor and the poverty of the rich? "The Church in Australia should be a source of hope for the poor. A growing hardness of heart in this country is accompanied by self justifying judgement of others he said.

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A strong international contingent from Malaysia and India attended last weekend's national congress of the St Vincent de Pual Society. Pictured discussing the local bin program are (from left) Rene Martinus vice presidentof the national council of Malaysia, Willie Smith, president of the central council of Bangalore South India; Eric Ellem, Australian national president; Fred Preshaw, WA president; and Father Philip, spiritual adviser in Malacca-Johore diocese.

Majellans dovetail with SVDP

Referring to the fact that in Majellans had a part to play his former parish of Mirrabooka and now at Highgate alongside the SVDP, Majellan he was in close contact with president Mrs Doreen Gibson told migrant people he told the the national congress. SVDP members they were Just as the SVDP was in the called to be a witness of business of helping human needs goodness and true charity to so Majellans helped people physmany refugees. 'We still find significant ically by inviting women to come prejudice evidence of ethnic and share the company of other prejudice which is a virulent women, Mrs Gibson said. poison attacking the life of She said a Majellan meeting what they did. They preour country and peoples. was a possible activity ferred to be asked what they "Some politicians seem to play on these feelings of towards which SVDP were trying to be as Chrismembers could direct some tian women, wives and mothprejudice." He said even some people of their women contacts ers. who attended church and who felt lonely or unable to Majellan groups are strucwere committed to God in cope with life's problems. tured simply. There is no Majellan groups had been other ways could be ethnienrolment, no membership started by the late Eileen cally prejudiced. subscription and fund-rais"The SVDP with its close Honner in Subiaco parish 26 intentionally ing is contact with the needy years ago on the simple excluded. should strongly counteract belief there was great potenprejudice among its own tial for good if those who Meetings are arranged by members if it surfaces, and were women, wives and local committees and often also in the wider parish mothers could be brought use guest speakers as an community," Mons Keating together. attraction to boost attendwere often asked said. ance and discussion. . Matellans .

People in need want not only bread, or physical help, they need the warmth of human love, Archbishop Foley said during Mass at the Holy Spirit church to open the SVDP national congress. Doctors say that some patients come not because of illness but because of a need to talk to someone, to be re-assured. "A lot of people who knock on presbytery and other doors are looking not for a few dollars but to be respected as someone with dignity. "When we give, we give ourselves first and then a material gift. "SVDP members meet the needy as one person to another, each loved by the Lord, one giving

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"We seem to have no qualms deciding which of the poor are deserving, who are shiftless and in distinguishing the deadbeats from those who can't help themselves we see an increasing evidence of racism and prejudice in some quarters. He asked if Australia had bought lock stock and barrel a value system which equates success and happiness with possessions.

A Scarborough project for homeless youth had been a success because the SVDP had informed themselves and consulted other groups about the best way to use their resources. Miss Cheryl Carmody told the national congress that models similar to Bailly H ouse Scarborough, a medium term community based program for males 17-25 years could be established in other city and country regional areas. Miss Carmody, a Youthcare worker, said Bailly House was successful also because of the good standard of its furnishings and because it was a local initiative and not dependent on government funding. S he said government funding would cover only the upgrading of existing services and that the needs of homeless youth particularly in country regions is expected to continue. She told the congress that no single factor

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Youth project example of good plannin • the inability of under 18-year olds to legally enter into leasing arrangements • societal pressures, prejudices discriminating against young people obtaining private rental housing • and the lack of recognition of the independent rights of young people.

Miss Cheryl Carmody of Youthcare. can be discovered to explain the surge of youth homelessness since the 1970s. "Changes and stress in f amily structures, though a significant f actor are only one factor that contribute to the situation where thousands of young A ustralians are without a home," she said. Other factors are: • lack of adequate and

effective community services to support f amilies in crises • unemployment • low level of income security benefits and the denial of access to benefits for those under 16 years of age • the lack of public housing stock and Housing Commission policy, which effectively denies young people access

She said that first efforts homeless youth were emergency accommodation giving food and shelter. Today there was short, medium or long term a ccommodation, in refuges, hostels, hatfway and community houses with counselling information in health, employment and other follow-up work with clients. Volunteers of the SVDP could be of assistance

to Centrecare in the training of home visitors the director Mrs Beatrice McFarlane told the congress. S he said Centrecare c ame across people who suffer from loneliness, who are housebound and unable to get out and about and who need regular visits from a person who will not get tired of the task. "It is almost worse visiting a few times and then failing to do so because the person being visited thinks there must be something wrong with them and this makes the last state worse than the first." Centrecare was able to off er to the SVDP in return its financial counselling service which w ould assist people in a financial mess.

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The need love a gift and the other returning a gift of another kind. "When you give to another you receive back into your own lives something in return for giving yourself Archbishop Foley said the very existence of the SVDP conferences

was a reminder to others in the parishes, and an example and call to greater love. "Every follower of Christ is called to be a great lover. "Our society has to find again a respect for the individual and a desire to support one another in love.

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Priest's warning on stage play The play "Mass Appeal- being promoted in parishes may appeal to certain of the masses but does nothing to explain the generation gap nor eucharistic theology according to a priest who has seen the play. F ather Brian O'Loughlin of Nedlands who saw the play in Ottawa where it generated great controversy says the advertising flyer distributed to the parishes is offensive and the suggestion of a parish subsidy reprehensible. To cloak references to the practice of homosexual acts by a student in the seminary as "a struggle against the hierarchy of the Church for greater independ-

ence- says more about th ,-. playright than it does about the Church! This is a play with no appeal for the mass of Catholic faithful, he says. It presents the clergy with an opportunity to be wary of every approach made to parishes; I hope Catholic schools will not be t aken in. "The Church is, like her members, always in need of curing her warts, but such a provocative play aims not at curing the warts but tolerating them and, no doubt, encouraging their spread," he said.

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The trauma and damage of an alcoholic parent can be

Record Cameras choke on the smoke in the sportsmen's bar At long last there is a real down-to-earth issue to worry the masses. It has nothing to do with corruption in high places, budget broadsides or even elections. It's the issue closest to the Aussie heart: grog, fags, sport and television. The proposed ban on alcohol advertising for sport already has powerful media and sporting personalities calling for the blood of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. Tobacco adverts were banned from the living room but managed to keep looking through the window. Alcohol fumes are able to penetrate even stronger barriers. The argument against eating honey vigorously at table is that it finishes up sticking to everything in sight. The alcohol advertising debate may finally wake ordinary people up to the influences that have wrapped themselves around 20th century life. It will be a pity if the argument which is far from over will be no more than a late night fuming in the smoke filled bar of the sportsman's club over whether Australians are big enough and reasonable enough to look after themselves in these sort of matters. There are much deeper issues awaiting resolution. Scratch an alcohol or tobacco advertisement and watch the government treasuries wince. The major part of a bottle of alcohol or a packet of cigarettes is now revenue of one kind or another, piled on to breaking point at every budget. If people drink and smoke less, where will the lost revenue come from? Government spending is now dependent on addictions to drinking and smoking that produce hefty revenue. Are we being so heavily taxed in these commodities for the good of our health or because governments are hooked on their own addiction to tax? Scratch an alcohol or cigarette ad and hear the murmurs of disapproval around the board rooms of the nation's top financial empires. The brewing and tobacco companies are key stocks in the portfolios of national and multi-national investment in activities that have little to do with a drink and a smoke. What happened to the days when Kalgoorlie and Cue sported a brewery, let alone a pub, on every second corner? Why are the last remaining brewery and distillery monopolies the target for on-going takeover struggles by companies flush with funds? Scratch an alcohol or other consumer advertisement and listen for the outburst from the chambers of commerce and industry. Consumer confidence is the proposed cure for the recession. Shame on the timid people who have their savings locked away in interest free accounts. Jobs depend on advertisements enticing those dollars out into the market -place. Scratch an advertisement and watch the glow on the television tube grow more and more faint. Stations do not slot Monsignor O'Flaherty against Brideshead this Sunday night, or switch from talk -back to sweet music, because we want it that way. The reason will turn up on the company balance sheet next June or when videos finally close the TV stations. The ABC costs a mint to run and most boast they never watch it. They curse the advertisements interrupting the Victorian VFL on the rest. Do we want want a string of mints to finance the electronic media and newspapers so that we have an advert free environment? Increase the national debt perhaps?

Scratch an advertisement at a sporting event and get a sermon on the need for a healthy and fit nation. Australia would have possibly the cleanest air, the most unused grassed parks and glistening beaches in the world but we need millions of dollars to achieve sporting health. The governments are under enormous pressure to provide more and more. The alternative is for private enterprise to add the cost to consumer goods and make us pay that way. Scratch an advertisement and get into the debate on human freedom and over-regulation. Which is the chicken and the egg in real life? The alcohol and tobacco advert or the endless movie cliche where every scene opens with a trip to the cocktail cabinet or the lighting of a cigarette? If the ABT proposal is not funny to a lot of people dependent on the link between alcohol, sport and broadcasting it will at least have the good effect of confronting ordinary citizens with the endless chain, that web of dependent factors that control our daily lives and performance. At issue are some deep seated values. Our Lord asked us why we worry so much about what we eat, drink and wear, as though God wasn't really looking after us. In 1984 would He ask us why we worry so much about fast foods which kill us, soap powders all made by the same company, clothes that would be lost without their fashion labels, chocolates, cars etc. He might ask us is why the status symbol amongst the rising generation is a weekend lost in a mountain of cans and bottles? The answer would interest but not solve the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal's predicament. Is the answer to turn off the tap or the electricity? Or are there a few more questions to ask?

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festive season is EThe approaching, and many

There is one kind of 'hangover' that doesn't go away until the next time.

think of it as a time for good cheer ... in some cases too much 'good cheer.' Now is a good time to think of the dangers of alcoholism and avoid making Christmas

It's the worst kind of alcoholic 'hangover', the dark cloud of shame, despair, and emotional confusion that 'hangs over' the children of alcoholics. When a child sees daddy (usually thought to be so strong and capable), come home in a taxi and have to be carried inside by his wife and children, the response is fear. When a child dreads school friends visiting because mummy is usually 'not feeling well' and the house will be a mess, the response is shame. And when a promised outing is canbecause celled mummy or daddy is feeling too tired and needs to 'sleep it off instead,' the response is anger.... The fear, shame and anger felt by children in such situations can threaten to overwhelm them. A t best, it merely serves to distort their perception of themselves and the world.

The whole f amily suffers 'Just as children who are bashed, bash their children, the children of alcoholics use alcohol for the wrong reasons.'

But it is a poor 'best' because such distorted perceptions can scar children for life and wreak havoc in their adult years. It is because of this threat that Holyoake, Western Australia's Alcohol and AddicInstitute has tions formulated a program to aid the children of alcoholics. Even if the alcoholic will not seek treatment, the family can be helped, they say. In many cases, the alcoholic eventually follows. The program has been running for more than five years but until the beginning of this year it was conducted on a wholly voluntary basis. Sheer weight of numbers revealed a need to develop

a quality program and for that reason, Jan Battley was employed on a full-time basis in February as the coordinator of the young people's scheme. A trained social worker, Jan had been involved with the program on a part-time basis before her appointment. Her job is to continue to develop the education and awareness program for children of addicted parents. The dream of extending the program to children whose parents are not associated with Holyoake is dependent on funds, says Jan. For the moment her attention is turned to the 'high risk children,' with studies show-

The fear, shame and anger felt by children in such can situations threaten to overthem. whelm

ing 25-50 per cent of child ren of alcoholics are likely to become alcoholics or marry an alcoholic 'We believe there may be some chemical pre-disposition to addiction," says Jan, "but we also believe environmental factors are important

ODD -Just as children who are bashed in many cases grow up to bash their children, so the children of alcoholic parents are more likely to use alcohol for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way. ' While many of these children are presently emotionally and physically revolted by alcohol, even the smell of it, we find it is not necessarily an attitude lasting into adult years." The scheme caters for around 50 children at the present time, aged from eight to 18 years. The 10 week course involving two hours a week incorporates films, videos and counselling sessions. "More than anything I try to make it fun," Jan said. "It

Back-lash warning... • From page 1 "I find it quite impossible to inspect developments on Groote Eylandt on the Gove Peninsula or proposed works on uranium deposits in Arnhem Land and to say such developments without consent can be consistent with traditional land rights for Aborigines." The Australian Mining Industry Council was of the view the mining aspects of Mr Justice Woodward's reccommendations "should

have warranted wide parliamentary and public examination long before any attempt was made to enact the enabling legislation" (two years later).

ODD Yet the Western Australian Government made its policy decisions about land rights even before release of the Seaman report. The Inter-Church Committee for Aboriginal Affairs in

Western Australia, representing the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Churches and the Church of Christ, has said the Western Australian Government is pursuing "repugnant" land rights policies. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth Government, which also has constitutional power to legislation with respect to Aborigines has committed itself to "Aboriginal control in relation to mining on Aboriginal land."

is fun with learning and I find that is the best way to get the message across. 'They work in peer groups of six or seven with a leader. Most of our leaders are volunteers_ We work with any medium to get the children to express their feelings. Letting all those emotions out is a very important part of the process. ' We try to teach them about alcoholism and how and why the family works. We also try to develop self understanding and understanding of the alcoholic parent. "The feedback from the children is generally good and I think it is possible to give a very good understanding. 'There are a lot of problems that spring from drinking. 'We try to isolate the drinking — we say there are two fathers and they can find a part to love. "It is very important they find some part of the parent that is lovable. "It is not a subject they can talk about at school — they are too ashamed. If the alcoholic parent is the mother, the problem is even worse. 'We try to say it is not a moral issue, it is an illness. -Our job is to broaden their understanding so they can have perspective; to help correct distorted perceptions. "More than anything it is important they talk, and they all do in one way or another. "If they can't find the words for what they are feeling they may choose to draw it ... we can learn a lot and so can the child from a picture of what mum is like when she is drinking and what she is like when she is not." From where she sits, says Jan Battley, addiction is a growing problem.

Studies have shown just under 10 percent of children in Western Australia are affected by parental alcoholism, and this figure does not include children of families in which alcohol is abused i.e. heavy consumption and or early stage dependency Identifying these children in need is a difficult problem with ignorance and prejudice two of the main barriers. 'There are still so many myths about alcoholism,Jan said. 'The stigma is great because alcoholism is still associated with the stereotype derelict 'wino' image. -We see the other side. We know that many, many people have an alcohol dependency or are on the verge of a dependency and are far removed from this image.

ODD "At least they are far r emoved at present. We know too the sooner the problem is identified the faster something can be done about it and the damage can be diminished. 'We say as soon as drinking starts to interefere with work, emotions, friends or family relationships, it is time to check it out. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away it just makes things worse. The response from children, says Jan, is always the same. 'They want the parent to stop. It scares them,- she said. 'What frightens them is the inconsistency — they worry a great deal and often feel emotionally neglected because all the focus of attention is on the drinker.

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These are the reactions of distressed children, to two sick parents, a sick relationship and an unhealthy nature. -They finish on a destructive merry-go round." to important is It remember, she says, the reactions of such children are not those of a healthy child to a sick parent. They are the reactions of a distressed child to two sick parents, a sick relationship and an unhealthy atmosphere. The routes of the children are mapped by the introduction of chemical dependency into the family, and each child according to his or her

personality traits and birth order, plays a specific and identifiable role. The family of an alcoholic is a sick family, if it is to be r estored to health each member must learn to understand his or her own part in the sickness and face the destructive role he or she has been playing. Each must learn new coping skills to create an atmosphere in which chemical dependency cannot survive. The "caretaker," more even than the alcoholic,

affects the children by over • functioning. Father is either sober or drunk Drunk he may be Mr Nasty or Mr Nice Guy, but they know either means trouble. The drinking itself does not upset them so much as the consequences of that drinking. The fights and arguments, the tears, the verbal or physical violence which become an integral part of the life of the "dependent" and "caretaker" are the

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children's cause for concern. As the "caretaker" becomes increasingly disfunctional, her behaviour towards them becomes erratic.

EEO Often she is too involved with her problems to listen to theirs and she appears unconcerned by the things which matter to them. At other times she is positively smothering in her concern and affection as she attempts to compensate for the drinker's behaviour. Sometimes the alcoholic is hypercritical, at other times over -indulgent, but always it is to the "caretaker" they must look to test the mood. It is she who has the power to ignite or diffuse.

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from WVC. Thomas, Medina SIR: The highlight of the New Norcia festival was the thought provoking homily of Archbishop Foley touching on the hurt of Aborigines and Vietnamese refugees. The Archbishop's timely words ring home today when viewed in the light of the extent of prejudice and scorn, and even contempt, that is tragically evident in our white Australian society against the Aborigines because of their native mentality, customs, manner of living and their colour of skin. If we are to enjoy the peace we so earnestly desire and pray for, then a positive step in that direction would be to take to heart the words of Archbishop Foley when he urges us to be "the ointment that brings peace" and "do what we can to make the world a better place to live in harmony." It is no accident of birth the Aborigines are born black for that is how God chose to make them (who can say that God has ever made a mistake?) and in the sight of God is not everyone and everything that He has created good and beautiful?! Who then are we to condemn the Aborigines and the coloured people of the world for what they are or appear to be? Would we not be as they are if the tables were reversed and we who pride ourselves on the colour of our skin (which after all is only skin-deep) were born black, and they white?!

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SIR: The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Bowen's call The Record October 4 for catholics to participate in politics is welcome. However, in the light of records of the federal parliament one is entitled to question whether the sentiments he expressed on page 1 were guided more by the last few paragraphs on page 11 as reported in your paper, and he was only politiking for more votes from Catholics for his party. Federal parliamentary records show that (1) Mr Stephen Lusher, the Member for Hume proposed an amendment to the Health Act which would have prevented the public funding of abortions — surely a Catholic (if not 'Christian') policy. Messrs Bowen, Keating and Hurford all Catholic members of Mr Bowen's party voted against the amendment. (2) The former Member for Swan, Mr John Martyr, proposed an amendment to the Human Right's Bill to extend legal protection to the unborn child — surely a most fundamental Catholic attitude and entirely in line with the pope's teaching. This amendment was opposed by Mr Bowen but supported by Messrs Keating and Hurford, no doubt bringing down on them the ire of their "humanist" colleagues. ( 3) Mr Bowen was a member of a Joint Select Committee of both houses of Parliament into the Family Law Act.

He signed the main report which supported the essential anti-Christian thrust of the Act. He gave no support to the totally dissenting report of Mr Martyr which not only presented a Christian view of the permanence of marriage but did so in a proper legal form. While I have tried to influence, albeit not always successfully, governments

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Social Justic booklet critic from TREVOR BOARDMAN, Frmantle. SIR: After page 20, the 1984 combined Churches Social Justice booklet entitled, It's a Rocky Road, degenerates into the same, tired old emotionally manipulative communist propaganda which riddled the 1983 work, Changing Australia. The statement ignores/or glosses over most of the real and horrendous problems and difficulties undergone by many young Australians today. Suffice it to say they are basically the result of Australia's increasing slide into atheism; occultism; hedonistic licentiousness, corruption, amorality, perversion and wanton depravity; 'self -ism"; and materialistic-idolatrous (per television etc) rejection of God Himself:- much of which was subtly and implicitly encouraged by Changing Australia. The Modernist strain of "social justice theology," out of mindless and anti-Supernatural deference to the agnosticism of its liberalProtestant/Marxist overlords, is not permitted to present social and psychological problems in such a way that their underlying

"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 ( stechetical Directory

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through political activity, the publicity given Mr Bowen's call to support his party when public record shows lack of support to basic Catholic principles and, given the history of that party over the past few decades one is entitled to question whether one would ever be able to remove the influence of "— the intelligentsia -- secular humanists, they call them."

Communist ropaganda moral and spiritual causes shall be implicitly and readily obvious to the average Christian reader. Rather, under the specious cover of little quasi-Religious treatises, they must be presented politically, with the "suggestion" that they result from the lack of such communistic euphemisms as "industrial democracy" ( P39).

And it goes without saying young Christians should r eflect on: "How many young people in China are at school" (P38). Rocky Road is but crass political exploitation of the economic, socio-psychological and spiritual difficulties of Australian youth dressed up in pseudo-religious terms to suit the audience to which it addresses itself, naturally.

Its implicit likening of the Mother of God to Mary, 14, single mother -to-be, could possibly be a sacreligious decoy to draw fire away from its underlying politics. If most objections centre on that, it will appear at least in "Catholic circles," that even its most conservative critics can find little else wrong with it.

Unemployment a key from PAUL DONNELLY, Claremont SIR: Unemployment is one of the two major rocks ahead for modern youth on its road through life: the other is lack of spiritual guidelines. The "Rocky Road", ecunemical paper fails to mention the major factor in youth unemployment today is the pre-emption of youth type work by the rise of married women in the workforce which has developed since 1960 to such degree that in 1980 the increase alone of workforce wives was about double the number of unemployed in that year. At the present time it is the young people born about 1965 who experience a restricted tertiary entry and a 20 per cent unemployment situation. Both of these will get worse by the end of the decade because our Western Australian births increased by 50 per cent between 1965 and 1971 and stayed at 25 per cent above 1965 for the years which have ensued. For the whole of Australia the rise in births 1965-71 was 25 per cent; but they then fell back again to the 1965 level. Difficult, therefore, as is the youth problems of the whole of Australia, those of Western Australia are greater. The lack of spiritual guidelines relates to failure to teach the Ten Commandments in schools and to emphasise the need for their observance. God has been replaced by evolution; and His Sunday is

Some rocks on the road little observed. Honesty is no longer impressed on the young. Pornography shapes their social outlook under the acceptance of the humanist thesis that erotica is good for social relations. Catholic parents pursue a policy of more government money for Catholic schools though this is a manifestly disproved panacea for the social ills which affect equally all Australian children wherever educated.

Young people should heed the advice of Federal Deputy Prime Minister, Lionel Bowen and get into politics so that they can speak for themselves in areas and interests where Catholic parents fail them. To the spiritual recommendations of -The Rocky Road" culd be added recourse to the Mother of God in the terms of St John c 19 v.27, "Mother behold Thy son". The omission arises perhaps from being over-ecunemical.

Sir: The installation of the new acolytes by Archbishop Foley during Mass concelebrated by a large number of priests with the organ and choir adding to the solemnity of the occasion will live long in the memories of those present and in particular in the minds of the new acolytes for whom it climaxed a training program consisting of three evenings of lectures and a week -end retreat at Clontarf. In a Cathedral packed with their relatives and friends, His Grace instituted 170 new members into the acolytate.

DEE This very large group brought the total number of acolytes within the archdiocese to over 700, an impressive figure indeed and an encouraging sign of the growing commitment of the laity to the service of the Church. The training program was directed very capably by Father Cunningham who was assisted during the lecture evenings by Fathers O 'Brien and Houlahan and very significantly indeed by Messrs George Collopy and Gerry Pilkington. Two very experienced acolytes provided a much appreciated input at the conclusion of the final lecture evening.

flEE The main contributor at the Clontarf week -end was Father Dynan SJ., whose easy conversational style made the essentially philosophical nature of his talks easily comprehensible by all present and was a highlight of the entire program. On behalf of the 170 new acolytes I express our thanks to the parish priests who invited us to join the acolytate and our deep appreciation to Archbishop Foley, and to Father Cunningham and his fellow priests for the wonderful spiritual experience which they provided for us. May we all, with God's help, be found worthy of the confidence placed in us.

His awesome responsibilities from MRS MARGARET O'HAGAN, Applecross

time for him to leave the Labor Party.

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abortion-on When demand becomes party policy, then surely it is too late to speak up for the unborn, from within the party.

SIR: Mr Bowen bears an awsome responsibility as a Catholic political leader. I believe there are many sincere Christians who vote for the ALP because he is the Deputy Prime Minister. However, I would like to respectfully suggest to Mr Bowen that perhaps it is

I wholeheartedly agree we should not be sitting on the sidelines as spectators — however, being a member and supporter of a political party which has formed policy to deny the most basic

of all humang rights — the right to life — to the most defenceless in our society, may be tantamount to giving grave scandal. I wonder, would Mr Bowen have encouraged people in the past, to join the Nazi party in order to "form policy the right way"? Perhaps we should be exhorted rather to fervently and urgently pray for an inspired leader to form a truly Christian political party.

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VATICAN CITY — Pointing to the example of US bishops, a Vatican official said the Catholic Church should stay within the law in its support for illegal aliens' human rights. The Vatican released a strongly worded letter sympathetic to the plight of illegal aliens. The letter, written in the pope's name by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, president of the commission, described illegal aliens as the "underclass" of refugees and the victimse of a "new slave traffic." Father Tessarolo said the letter emphasised local churches "have to try all ways and means to help illegal aliens." Churches, he added, have to try to convince the State to help illegal particularly aliens, through changes in immigration laws. But he said the pope's message, which called on Christians to bring their "zeal, generosity, and Christian charity" to efforts to aid illegal alien, does not advocate civil disobedience. The US bishops have declined to suppsrt sa ncNary as a mom of helping illegal aliens, despite the fact that many US churches and some monasteries are offering it in defiance of US law. Father Tessarolo said supporting sanctuary leads to anarchy because It encourages citizens to disregard the law. However, he pointed out despite the refusal of the US bishops to support sanctuary, the US Church still "has done more than

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the Church in any other country" to legally help unlawful aliens. More than 150 parishes and congregations across the US have offered sanctuary to illegal aliens. Some 50,000 people have participated in the sanctuary movement and several hundred Central Americans have sought refuge through their network of churches.

Protestant difference HONG KONG: A senior Chinese official has told a delegation of visiting Anglican and Methodist Churchmen that religious practice in Hong Kong will be allowed to continue without interference after the return to Chinese rule in 1997. However, Mr Ji Pengfei went on to equate religious freedom in Hong Kong with existing freedom in China. There a "Patriotic Catholic Association" has been established, divorced from ties with Rome.

Reagan Briefs: gives tribute WASHINGTON: President Reagan paid tribute to deceased Ukrainian Cardinal Josyf Slipyj as a "symbol of the strength of God and the humam spirit." Cardinal Slipyj, the spiritual leader of the world's 4.4 million Ukrainian Catholics, died last month in Rome. "When we remember Cardinal Slipyj's 18 years in Soviet prison camps, when we reflect that he was condemned to the Gulag because he refused to betray his Church, we see the power and strength of the human spirit brought clearly into focus," President Reagan said in a statement.

VATICAN CITY (NC) — Latin America and Southeast Asia are adding new priests, but not fast enough to check the fall in total numbers resulting from declines in North America and Europe, Vatican figures show. Between 1973 and 1982, the ranks of Latin American and Southeast Asian priests increased by a combined 2,638, according to the last figures released. More adjustments may be on the horizon, the figures indicate. The number of new seminarians is on the rise, and more permanent deacons are being added to rolls. Southeast Asia provided the largest number of new priests, 1,966, between 1973 and 1982, the period covered by the figures. That brought the number of priests in the region to 25,407. Latin American vocations increased by 672 during the same period, bringing the number to 12,619. dramatic most The decrease in priestly ranks showed up in figures for Europe, where the numbers shrank to 239,137 in 1982, from 260,423 in 1973. North America experienced a similar decline. although the numbers were smaller, according to the Vatican. There were 72,729 priests in North America in 1973. By 1982, there were 70,324. The Vatican statistics also show a steady increase in the number of major seminarians from 1975 through 1982. Most of the increase was seminarians studying for the diocesan priesthood. In 1972 there were 63,795 men studying for the priesthood in major seminaries. By 1982, there were 73,001.

nThe Maltese Minister of Education, "'Carmelo Mifsud-Bonnici, has revealed that the Government plans to open new schools for students who attended the eight Catholic secondary schools which have now been refused a licence to operate. The schools were closed after the Government demanded that the Church should cease to charge fees in all its schools. The Church has refused, and parents are determined that their children should continue to go to Catholic schools. I

MANILA (NC): Catholic Relief Services has initiated a $3 million emergency program to aid 480,000 typhoon victims in the Philippines, the New York-based relief agency announced. Two weeks of up to 230 km per hour winds, heavy rains and severe flooding beginning on September 2 left up to 1360 people dead, 187,000 homeless and 1.2 million others affected, CRS said. CRS was directing aid to the most severely hit areas of Surigao, Bohol, Butuan, Cebu, Maasin, Nueva Segovia and Lingayen-Dagupan. 0 0 0

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for peace Jesus sent messengers ahead of Him when, in Luke's Gospel, He set out on His fateful journey to Jerusalem. Presumably they were to alert the villagers to His arrival and to secure accommodations for the night. One town along the way was a Samaritan town. When the people learned that Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, they would not let Him in. There was bitterness between Jews and Samaritans. Jews on their way to Jerusalem stood for everything the Samaritans hated.

By Father John Castelot The situation compares to one in our own day: Tourists trying to cross the border from Jordan to Israel can have a very difficult time of it. Arabs and Israelis feel about each other today much the way Samaritans and Jews did in the time of Jesus. At any rate, stung by the rebuff, James and John asked Jesus: "Lord, would You not have us call down fire from heaven to destroy them?" What was Jesus' reaction to this violent suggestion? "He turned to them only to r eprimand them" (Luke 9:51-58). If there is one time a man will fight, it is when his life is threatened. Yet when Jesus was about to be dragged off to death. He offered no resist -

"We define violence as the overt expression of physical force, with or without a weapon, against self or other; compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt or killed; or actually hurting or killing." ("Television Awareness Training," edited by Ben Logan. Abingdon Press, 1979.)

ance. He even forbade his followers to use violence in His defence. -When the companions of Jesus saw what was going to happen they said, 'Lord, shall we use the sword?"' In Matthew's account of the incident, Jesus says: "Put back your sword where it belongs. Those who use the sword are sooner or later destroyed by it" (Matthew 26:52). Later, Pilate asks Jesus if He is a king. A nd Jesus replies, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My subjects would be fighting to save it" (John 18:36). The clear implication, I believe, is that authentic subjects of Jesus' kingdom do not resort to violence. Jesus was practising what He preached. The Beatitudes spell out basic attitudes which, by contrast, have to do with violence: 'Blest are they who show mercy: mercy shall be theirs . . . Blest too are the peacemakers . Blest are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of slander against you because of Me" (Matthew 5:7,9,11). This theme of positive gentleness and kindness recurs frequently throughout the Sermon on the Mount. For instance: "You have heard the commandment, 'You shall love your countryman but hate your enemy.' My command to you is love your enemies, pray for your persecutors. This will prove that you are children of your heavenly Father, for His sun rises on the bad and on the good" (Matthew 5:43-45, 48). Jesus turned accepted value systems on their heads. In situations which normally called for violence, He urged gentleness, non-resiist8nce. Crazy? Impractical? So impractical that people who took Him seriously changed the whole course of human history. Violence breeds violence. Love brings peace. The great Cardinal Suhard of Paris once said: -The world will belong to those who love it."

Does violence on television beget violence in real life? That is the question psychologists, social scientists, educators and parents have puzzled over ever since television entered the mainstream of American life. In fact, many studies seem to confirm the suspicion that excessive viewing of TV violence may increase the likelihood of aggressive behaviour.

A steady diet of TV violence can distort our image of life But for many experts, the most disturbing consequences of TV violence — physical and psychological violence — are the subtle ways it can mar the human spirit. A steady diet of televised violence, they contend, can Create distorted attitudes about the world and cause greater distrust of others. Television stories "appear to take place against a backdrop of the real world," said Larry Gross. The viewer is offered "a continuous stream of 'facts' and impressions about the ways of the word" and of human nature. Given the content of many programs, adults who are heavy viewers "are more

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likely to reflect interpersonal mistrust," believing that most people just look out for themselves and cannot be trusted. Not only do such people "overestimate their chances of encountering violence," but also they tend to obtain "dogs, guns and locks for purposes of protection in greater proportions" than do people who rarely watch those programs, Gross said. John Miller, media resources consultant for the office of evangelisation and catechesis of the Diocese of Paterson, NJ, said television often conveys the message

that violence is "the easiest, quickest way to deal with problems." As a result, people who encounter problems in personal relationships sometimes turn to what they've seen on television, expecting to solve problems quickly and superficially. Another effect, according to Miller, is "desensitisation". People who witness countless examples of violence every day on television can become "more tolerant of pain and suffering, thinking 'that's the way it is and there's nothing I can do about it"

It is almost a cliche to say we live in the midst of a violent society. And violence comes in many forms: emotional violence, physical violence, the violence of international war and the violence in homes. But what effect does violence have on people? Is there anything the Christian community can do to help people deal with the violence they encounter? Joe Michael Feist tells of a new kind of help for families who have endured a tragic death through murder, suicide or accident. We Are Remembered, a program in the Sister Elizabeth Thoman, editor of the ecumenical journal Media and Values, believes violence on television can create "a suspicion that somebody's out to get me.," This attitude, she said, "breaks down one's trust level towards strangers" and toward people who are different from oneself. How, then, can a sense of hope and trust, a spirit of love for friend and stranger alike that is basic to the Christian message, be restored? One way parishes can attempt to alleviate fear and distrust, Sister Thoman said, Is to crest support communities which bring people Into contact with others in a safe environment. This can take the form of recreational programs for the elderly, day care for neighbourhood children, food pantries for the poor or participation in a refugee resettlement program.

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"By providing these kinds of services, a parish builds a community of people who can trust one another, even when they come from different backgrounds," Sister Thoman said "In this way, people will begin to feel much less threatened by the world in which they live and be better able to cope and reach out to others." Similarly, Miller said, when fear, distrustfulness or lack of hope are encountered in others, "we are called to witness and respond in the way we can." Some are able to dolt within family, he said — becoming more sensitive to the ways people treat each other at home. Finally, Sister Thomas suggests that parishes or groups of individuals can establish educational programs on the influences of television. When people come to television with some understanding of how violence is used to advance a show's action, they're more likely to say, "Oh, that's just the way the script is written" — not necessarily the way things really are.

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Diocese of Pittsburgh, has two aims, Feist says: To help families live with loss and to prepare members of the Church to relate to the survivors. Is there a connection between TV violence and violence in real life? Cindy Uebhart poses that question in an interview with Humility Sister Elizabeth Thoman. Sister Thoman suggests that what most concerns experts is the subtle way violence mars the human spirit. Katharine Bird interviews pastoral associate Laura Meagher about educating youths to cope with violence.

Family members grieve after funeral services for their husband and father, a bank official who was ambushed and killed. "People need to remember loved ones who died violently," says Father Albert J. Leonard, Father Leonard and others formed a group to minister to families of people who have died tragically, either through murder, suicide or accident.

What happens when millions of viewers become witnesses via TV news reports to the violent and deadly results of a battle fought in war that very day? What happens when a violent attack on the life of a pope or president is seen on television? What happens when violence strikes close to home? • One possibility: People grow numb as they witness episode after episode of violence. They begin to accept violence as the normal, uncontrollable course of the world. • Another possibility: People grow more and more fearful, retreating from a world they regard as too violent. • Yet another possibility: People grow in the desire to build up their world, to heal its wounds, to make it more just and loving. One suburban parent tells the story of the day he arrived home from work to find one of his children terribly agitated. It was the day in 1981 when President Reagan was shot in Washington. An afternoon TV program the child was watching had been interrupted with a vivid report of the shooting. This child's father did not work near the scene of the shooting. All the child understood, however, was that her father was in Washington where a terrible shooting had occurred. The child wondered if her father would be safe. She was not content until he arrived safely home. Via television, the child had become virtually a firsthand, and frightened, witness of a shooting. Teachers andparents who caution children against taking rides from strangers or walking alone on darkened streets can experience a sense of discomfort in this role. They want to teach children about risks that exist in society. Still they worry that children will begin to regard the world as an evil and violent place. Will the goodness of the world as a place wher God acts recede from the children's gaze? Will the child grow to think of himself more as a powerless victim that as a potential healer? What can be done about this? Violence is a factor in the human equation. It is present in society in many forms. Andit can take a toll. For example, it has been reported that youths tend to lose hope in the future when they think about the violent risks of nuclear war. Violence can obstruct hope. What kind of vision do people need in light of the violence they are exposed to?

The survivors

On the evening of October 15, 1982, Janet Ennis' three teenage children left their suburban home for a pizza. William Ennis, 18, his sister R obin, 17, and brother Brian, 15 never returned. They were killed instantly in a car crash.

Stunned as she was by the tragedy, Mrs Ennis remembers how inadequate was the response from so many others. In such a situation, she said, a lot of people are afraid and don't know what to say or how to act. Instead of moving closer to the survivor, they move away. Mark Dressel was president of the youth group at Sacred Heart parish. He was "a real good kid, an all-American boy" said a friend, Father Albert J. Leonard, assistant pastor of the parish. Last January, halfway through his first year at university, Mark Dressel was killed in an car accident. He was 18. "One of the things that impressed me was the hundreds and hudreds of cards the family received," recalled Father Leonard. "All of them said the same thing — 'Words can't express, words cannot describe...' And I thought that is just wrong. "Is Christianity silenced by tragedy?" Father Leonard asked. "If it is we've met our match. If not, we have something to say." Last April, Father Leonard, Mrs Ennis and others

decided it was time for the Church to become involved in a ministry to families of people who died tragically, either through murder, suicide or accident. The program they launched is called We Are Remembered and its purpose goes to the heart of the Christian response to violence. The program has two main objectives. The first is to remember the dead while helping families cope and live with the loss The second is to help educate people — priests and laity — on how to relate to survivors. "People need to remember loved ones who died violently," Father Leonard said.

"We relegate them to nothingness if we don't remember them." Mrs Ennis agreed To parents, brothers and sisters and other family members, she said, the deceased person, though gone, remains very real. The need to remember their personalities, their contributions, their good and bad points, Is great, she added. A major problem. she continued, is that people seem to be paralysed by tragedy. "Many people have no idea what to say," explained Mrs Ennis "They're frightened because they don't know what to say and because they feel vulnerable, that it might

happen to them. They're so afraid that they just stay away. Then you lose your friends as well as your loved one." Asked what friends can do in such C2SCS, Mrs Ennis said "the main thing is to be there" with the survivors. "What I remember (about the death of my children) is who was there, who said I love you, who said I'll pray for you," said Mrs Ennis. Father Leonard said there is a need "to move in closer to the survivor, do a lot of listening, be supportive and try to help them express themselves." What should be avoided, the priest emphasised, are

pious sayings designed to justify what has happened "It was God's will" or "He's in a better place" or "You're fortunate you have other children" fall into this category. In the C2SC of murder of assault, another factor faces the Christian victim or survivor — forgiveness While acknowledging the healing power of forgiveness, Father Leonard said frankly that "some people are never going to forgive." Those people must be cared for as well, he added. "That should not be our only goal — to make victims forgive," said Father Leonard. "It's simplistic to think that if you forgive, then you're back on the road to recovery. It's much more complex than that. Survivors must know that all

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hope is not gone, that they can laugh again and live again." Both Father Leonard and Mrs Ennis stressed that the thrust of their ministry is spiritual. "Jesus Christ was an innocent victim," said the priest. "We can speak to such situations because we know redemption was that accomplished in the midst of tragedy."

What to tell the children Two years ago pastoral associate Laura Meagher took 40 students on retreat. There, during a discussion, a 15-year-old girl brought up her suicide attempt. She

By Katharine Bird explained haltingly, that she did it because the boy she cared for didn't return her feelings.

In helping tbe group attempted suicide was in respond delicately to the tears. At this point, an older girt Ms Meagher asked a boy turned to her and sas'd: tyou ever think of suicide question: "How many of l you have seriously consi- again, please call me,Icare dered suicide or know some- what happens to you," Ms Meagher reported one wbo has?" That sort of 'Personal 7 was stunned," she said. "They all raised their touch" is vital in sbouing teens there are alternatites bands." Soon the discussion turned to suicide, that someone to what might lead teenag- does care, Ms Meagher said ers to take such a poten- For many 15-year-olds 'don 't believe life goes on" tially final step. They mentioned many reasons when problems arise. Ms Meagher is in charge of including: lack of friends; feeling unable to live up to sacrament preparation proparental expectations: feel- grams. Asked to define vioing torn between divorcing lence, she explained it is -anything that kills the parents. Many teens indicated they felt worthless or spirit." This includes physical violence hut alsopsychic that no one loved them. By now, the girl who violence. - - -

Many youths talk about the psychic pressure they feel from moving about in a large, impersonal environment, she added If their schools and parishes are huge, students can worry that they "may fall through the cracks of the system" The parish puts a high priority on confronting dif: ferent kinds of violence in its high school program, especially in social justice courses. Ms Meagher explained why: -We want our students to develop a Christian perspective and response to violence." I n describing bow a program might treat violence, the pastoral minister mentioned a unit on the Chris-

tian ac.ridtiew. The unit deals from a Christian perspective with what currently is in the news headlines. One year the headlines were full of the Midrib,East crisis. So refugees from that region were invited to talk about their experiences with the students. Violence in the abstract doesnY have much meaning for students, Ms Meagher remarked. They need to be able to "attach names and faces to violence, to see it's people wbo hurt. When violence is viewed this way, stvdents get interested in trying to do something about it, the pastoral associate commented

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Margaret Brady's oven is on more than it is off, but the results are rarely edible. That however is choice not chance, because Margaret is a talented artist who works in the medium of bread dough, producing what she calls her 'pastry people.'

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Margaret's pastry peoproved ple have increasingly popular in Perth, ever since she began making them about four years ago. These delightful figures are hung all over her kitchen, in various stages of dress, and are currently cluttering up her dining room in the nicest possible way, in readiness for the Victorian Rose Fair on November 22-23.

Pastry people have taken over Margaret's life.

The fair will be held in Aldersgate Hall, corner of Princess R oad and Viewway, Nedlands and will be open on the Thursday, November 22 from 12 pm to 9 pm and Friday, November 23 from 10 am to 5 pm.

An art with its place in history... Considering the centuries people have been baking and forming bread in countless ways, it is perhaps surprising the medium of 'bread dough' as an art form has taken so long to emerge. While bread has always been baked in shapes...especially f or ceremonies and ritual occasions, the first chronicled acknowledgement of bread dough used as baker's clay as a sculptural material appeared in an exhibition presented by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen's Council in 1965. Despite a rich and varied history of shaped breads, biscuits, cakes and sweets in most cultures, it has been mainly the Ecuadorians and Mexicans who have evidenced pieces made to be permanent and inedible. Ecuadorian bread dolls have becometourist items and

in Mexico one finds delicate jewellery made into flowers and fashioned into brooches. One of the most innovative projects with bread dougli by a sculptor is a bronze fountain in San Francisco installed in 1970. Sculptor Ruth Asawa, was always interested in keeping small hands busy, as the mother of six children. Through a series professional experiences she evolved the idea of casting a breaddough model in bronze using the same procedure known for centuries as 'lost wax casting'. She discovered bread dough would burn out in much the same way as wax and the mould could be filled with bronze. It was a tremendous project, involving 636 kilos of flour and salt and while in this form it was obviously more than a 'kitchen craft' it indicates the potential of bread dough moulding.

If Tom Callaghan's aunt had not been sent to WA as a nun nearly 70 years ago, he would probably still be living in Ireland. He had qualified in business administration as a result of three year's nightschool study, he was happy in his job with the leather and grindery firm of Gallagher and Sons, and his employer's family treated him as one of themselves — among other things sustaining his interest in music by successfully encouraging him to take piano lessons.

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But back to the nun. In 1915 Tom's mother's Ligouri sister, Sister (Menagh), arrived at Bunbury from Ireland with 14 other young Sisters of Mercy. Over the years that followed her family made unavailing attempts to have her sent back to Ireland to spend a holiday with them. So about 1948 Tom's grandfather and three of his aunts came to WA to visit her. They fell in love with Perth and decided to stay here. Their enthusiasm for the place was quickly communicated back to Ireland.

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!ROSS Fate has a way of catching up with people and Margaret Brady is no exception. She discarded plans to become an art teacher in her youth and trained instead as a nurse. But the artist in her continued to dabble throughout the years of raising children and began to truly blossom when she discovered bread dough. "I'd been working with papier mache before the dough and found it took too long," she said. "I came across a recipe for what is called 'baker's clay' in a magazine — and that was

eNWPM" "Basically it is a mixture of flour, salt and water. 'The first thing I made was a mouse but before long I had things all over the house. "I went into making the 'pastry people* because I found there was so much more scope in the figures, in the costumes and expressions. "I quickly realised they can only be made flat and that

is why all my pieces are made to hang on the wall." she said. Blessed with a good imagination and a great love of period costume, Margaret was soon turning out troops of the tiny figures and when threatened with the prospect of being crowded out of house and home, decided to try and sell them. "I took them into a shop at Sublaco," she said. "I was so frightened about it. I couldn't believe anyone would accept them." But accept them they did, and with enthusiasm. Margaret still sells through one shop but most of her 'people' are made to order now and sold privately or through the Rose Fair and the Rheumatism and Arthritis Fundraising Fair. While it now brings a moderate income, the most important thing, she says, is that it is still something she enjoys doing. The process takes three days overall to produce one figure and she finds it difficult to produce more that eight figures in a batch ... that's how many will fit into the oven anyway. "ft might take three-quar-

ters of an hour to make, three hours to bake and one hour to paint and then varnish," she said. The long baking time makes it very much a winter hobby, she adds. "Of course if someone specifically wants something done I try to do it but otherwise I take a break during the hot weather."

'•NUOPII , " While the budget has been organised to accommodate the high use of power, not to mention huge amounts of f lour and salt, Margaret maintains bread dough art is still a very economical hobby. "I'd probably get six figures out of 125 grams of flour,she said. "But the best thing is that it is a kitchen craft. I can make the dough at the kitchen sink and model it, pop it in the oven and then paint it at the kitchen table. ''You don't need any special equipment as you do for clay, and anyway, clay is incredibly messy. You can also do other things while you are waiting for the pieces to cook.

He's here Today's People

A regular feature By BOB BOYLE The result was that the reluctant Tom — he had been quite content with his occupation and lifestyle in Belfast — his parents, four brothers and a sister arrived in the Golden West as migrants in 1952. For quite a long time Tom had a "told-you-so" attitude because he couldn't get a Ob. Finally he landed one as the assistant -accountant with Phillips Industries on the condition that he gain his accountancy qualifications as soon as possible. This he did through four

years at night school after which he was admitted as an Associate of the Australian Society of Accountants and a Certified Practising Accountant (AASA and CPA). He was to spend 17 years with Phillips before a period of 10 years as chief accountant of Cullity Timbers. In 1979 he took up his present position as secretary of the Royal Aero Club of WA. He pointed out the organisation was founded in 1929, has about 1250 members of whom approx-

Thomas (Toni) Gerard Callaghan, secretary of the Royal Aero Club of WA, was born in Belfast on July 17, 1929, and educated there by the De La Salle brothers. He migrated to Perth in 1952 and, by dint of four imately 25 percent are women. It owns 13 aircraft and has available another 11 owned by members who leave them with the club for general utilisation. Its main objectives are to teach people to fly and to conduct charter operations. It encourages young people to join its Junior Flying Club and offers them instruction at reduced rates. Adults pay S70 an hour and have to have a minimum of 33 hours flying time before they can gain a restricted licence.

half-baked her art Her equipment consists of a sharp knife, a rolling pin and a sate stick for forming eyes, mouths and for curling hair. Colour comes from a child's watercolour paintbox and creativity comes from the individual. "I work on about eight parts flour to three parts cooking salt and about eight fluid ounces of water to get the consistency of plasticine," she said. "If it's too dry you can't work the dough and if it is too wet it won't keep its shape. "You can tell by denting it with your finger and if it doesn't hold the mark it is too wet, if it cracks it is too dry." Each figure is made on a piece of foil so it can be easily removed from the baking tray. "I put the pieces in at 180°C for half an hour, turn to 150°C for half an hour and then to 100°C and leave for an hour and a half. if it starts to go too brown then I turn the oven down even more,- she said.

v$1 „, "You can tell if the pieces are ready because when you knock them on the back it makes a sharp tapping noise. I usually paint them the next day." Anyone can make something, says Margaret, and the only limit is your imagination. Her preference is for dolls and she says the challenge comes in deciding how they will be made and discovering the end result is often very different.

"They certainly develop t heir own personalities, some more so than others," she said. "If I don't like their personalities then I don't finish them," she said. As she looks over her kitchen collection of pastry people she points out those which bear resemblances to her now grown children. "I think anyone who works with figures in an artistic way finds that family appearances creep in," she said. "I find I make more girls than boys — everyone wants girls and they are pretty to dress. I also like to make everything in pairs, things should be in pairs. She estimates close to 1000 pastry people have come smiling from her oven and admits while she has had her favourites, even they have ultimately left the nest as people have prevailed upon her to sell them. The merry crowd adorning her kitchen wail covers a wide range — farmers, lovers, choir boys, peasants and ladies and gentlemen arrayed in all their finery. There are people made to hang in the kitchen, dressed in farming gear and carrying fruit and vegetables; exquisitely dressed gentry in intricately detailed period costume for the living room wall and lots of pink and pretty people for bedroom walls. Prices for the pastry people range from $5 to $20 per piece, all dependent on the amount of work that has gone into them. "Obviously it takes a lot more time to complete a figure dressed in period costume and of course the bigger it is the longer it takes," she said.

Like most artists, her work is 'something she has to do.' She can give it up for a while but there is always the urge to create. As one idea is exhausted, there is always another to move on to. "I go through phases," she said. "At one time it was Hansel and Gretel and then I used to make witches. I started out making ugly witches but I found that people like pretty witches." Her own background is the f arm fields of Norfolk in England and while she has done a group of Australian pioneers, most of her people have a touch of old England about them.

Much of the craft is trial and error, she says. Especially when it comes to painting while watching television amd mistakenly dipping her brush into her coffee instead of the paint, she adds with a smile. "You soon find out that you can't use old dough because it blows up in the oven. There are plenty of disasters but you get used to it and of course you get better as you go on ... there are times when the pieces go in one shape and come out another." But after four years there are fewer of those 'disasters. f or Margaret Brady and many more successes. She has come a long way from the first mouse she made, one of the few pieces that has stayed by her side. These days her pastry people are so popular they don't spend much time hanging around in her kitchen .. . but then that always leaves room for others .

Working long and hard to prepare a selection of figures for the forthcoming Victorian Rose Fair.

because of aunt years of night-school study daring his 17 years with Phillips Industries, gained his accountancy qualifications (AASA, CPA). In 1955 he married a Scottish girl. Patricia Mary Barron. Their only child is daughter Susan

Marie (Mrs Banano), now nearly 26 years of age and living in Sydney. Tom and Patricia are staunch members of the Willetton-Bateman parish. Both are active on the parish social committee which is currently raising

funds to build a new church in Pine Tree Gully Road, Willetton, which parish priest Father Richard Doyle hopes to have completed by the end of 1985. Toni worked for Unity Timbers for 10 years before joining the Royal

Aero Club as secretary in 1979. He was State treasurer of the St Vincent de Paul Society for about 13 years, State president for five years from 1971 and then the society's chairman for overseas relief for three years.

Pilots can qualify as young as 16, but they cannot take passengers until they are 17. The club has its own maintenance section and a total staff of 23. Most of its aircraft fleet is composed of Cessna 152s and 172s, but it has four more sophisticated Mooney four -seaters which are noted for their reliability and eff icency. One highlight of the year is the September dawn patrol in which between 65 and 70 aircraft were scheduled to participate in 1984

to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Another is the annual longdistance race which in 1985 will be to Alice Springs. There are a number of social events enjoyed by members, some of whom are still flying at ages of between 70 and 80 after having passed regular medical examinations. Because of Perth's excellent weather conditions, the club's annual flying hours are among the highest of any in Australia. In his busy Jandakot office, Torn related that he had

joined the Cathedral conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society soon after his arrival in WA in 1953 and within a short space of time was made conference treasurer.

With the completion of the maximum five years for which the post can be held, he was the society's chairman for overseas relief for three years.

As the result of an approach from the late Ned Murray, he became State treasurer of the society and remained in that office for 1 3 years until he was elected State president in 1971.

Tom was closely connected with Camillus House and the late Bill Schocker. Once a month for 20 years he spent Saturday night there, helping Bill to conduct the place, and on the Sunday morning he cooked breakfast for the occupants. "Only on the very odd occasion," he reflected, "did we have any trouble.

'There were a few 'regulars,' often with drink problems, but most of the fellows who came in were men temporarily down on their luck trying to do their best." Soon after his arrival Tom noticed differences between here and Ireland that affected the practice of his religion. There attendance at daily Mass had been part of the way of life, but for one thing here, getting to it was frequently beset by transport problems. Therefore he looked for something to fill the gap that he felt was developing in his religion — and found it in the St Vincent de Paul Society. "It was as though Christ Himself was the person being helped," he continued. "Carrying out the Church's exhortation to help one's neighbour gives the socie-

ty's members the discipline to build their own lives so they become closer to the Lord and closer to other people in the work they are doing, such as visiting homes and hospitals where they make direct contact with human beings more often than not in distressed circumstances." Tom and Patricia worship at the hall in Pine Tree Gully Road, Willetton, where the new church will be.

at 8 pm every Friday in the Pine Tree Gully Road hall — which is known as the John Paul Centre — cabarets, car rallies, bottle collections, lamington drives and egg carton re-cycling. Tom says several recentlyoccurring factors brought about a change in the Callaghans' lifestyle. It started with a weekend renewal at Willetton followed by their participation in a nine-week faith-renewal course. They took part in a weekly prayer cell meeting and are now continuing to do so. 'The weekend renewal," They are members of the he said, "woke us up to the social committee whose task it is to raise funds for fact we should be getting out the new church as part of more to meet other people. "It was a weekend of being the Willetton-Bateman parhonest with ourselves and ish. The committee's object is trying to become aware of to use the funds they are our responsibilities as Chrisraising in income-producing tians instead of being coninvestments which they can tent merely to go to church employ as security to borrow once a week. the money necessary to "We have also joined the build the church. Lay Carmelites which meet The very active committee twice a month and this has is setting about its task with brought us closer to the love a will. of God — particularly as we Operations they are con- participate together in the ducting to raise the neces- organisation's activities "he sary include a bingo evening said.

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RECORD CLASSIFIED OBITUARY A DVERTISEMENTS The late Jim Hassell

of which he gained the freehold in 1949.

F ather I Abramo

He believed strongly in the power of advertising and his familiar blue and silver signs Perth's first post-war Italian he perched on hundreds of community chaplain Father An acute mind, a high stories in groups. His sense of trees throughout the country Peter Abramo, died in Italy at areas of the state. the end of last month. He was intelligence and an unshake- humour took the heat out of addresses at several busy life. He lived otherwise his 75. able faith were characterisBUILDING DEATHS tics of the late Jim Hassell Jim Hassell loved to the end until purchasing three blocks Originally from Sicily he TRADES when land was released on a joined the Oblates of Mary Grateful Thanks to the SMITH: Passed away said a close friend and the Toodyay area where he commanding hill alongside Immaculate in 1927 and was P AINTING quality work S acred Heart of Jesus, grandhis where up and grew peacefully on October 12, relative, Les Wood, this at the right price. John Mother Mary, St Jude, father was a pioneer builder of Lake Monger. There he built ordained priest in 1933. Two 1984, James Henry, of 7 week. Freakley. Phone 361 4349. Padre Pio for prayers ansmany local landmarks and his first house — which other brothers became Oblate Knight Street Wembley wered and favours received. Downs. Loved husband of He had had not only an where his father was a builder recently he donated to Arch- priests and a third a FrancisElectrical Contractor 5 Thank you. Dorothy. bishop Foley — later building can. Nell and family, Beryl, impregnable faith in God but as well. J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, a duplex, living in one with his Graham, Jimmy and also in the Church against Rivervale. 30 yrs expe- Our grateful thanks to Kevin, Dudley, Stephanie, which he would never tolerate Jim was the youngest of ten wife Alice and renting the other He was a missionary in South Africa until 1949 when he came educahis after and Infant Jesus of Prague and children rience, expert, efficient, Maryan and Phil, Jenny, criticism in any way. properties to tourists. t o WA caring for Italian reliable. Ring 362 4646, our Blessed Mother Mary Joanne, Sharon, Penny He believed strongly in the tion by the Sisters of Mercy for answering our prayers. Michelle and Tania and the after. hours 385 9660. clerk in the Wherever he lived, St Mary's migrants especially in Perth, principle that if nothing good started work as a L.W. Conroy. Bradley, Lindsay could be said of a person then Toodyay newspaper office Cathedral was his Sunday Fremantle, Carilla and Karalittle ones PROPERTY Improve- Thanks to the Most Sacred until coming to Perth and home, often walking from gullen as well as giving misbetter nothing. ments Service all types of Heart of Jesus and Our and Andrea. took place at funeral His setting himself up as a signw- Cambridge Street in the early sions elsewhere. w indows and doors Lady of Fatima for prayers Ceme- He had an endless energy for riter and decorater. days to attend Mass in the city. Returning to Italy he installed: walls and ceilings answered. Publication, as the Catholic Lawn tery, Karrakatta on Wed- living, never seeming to waste removed; wooden pergo- promised. Mary. he went into the It was the final scene of his preached missions with his Eventually although a cona second and October after funeral Mass before burial in brother Sebastianao OMI for las; general repairs. Phone Grateful and heartfelt nesday 17th Requiem Mass celebrated stant worker he combined this business of selling and repair- K arakatta cemetery. 341 2946. thanks Most Sacred Heart in the Holy Spirit Church, with a sense of humour that ing stoves, collecting them in ten years and then went to the of Jesus, through the inter- City Beach. United States as an assistant sidecar. his motorcycle widow endless fund of by his an He is survived produced ELECTRICAL: For all cession of St Jude for Eventually he expanded into Alice who was his lifelong priest in an Oblate parish in t ypes of electrical work favours and blessings Bowra and O'Dea Funeral stories. Directors 328 7299. a method in his story first in premises near support in his faith and his New York, returning to Italy He had hardware phone 335 2277. granted. Thank you so earlier this year. telling. With a prodigious Royal Perth Hospital and later business ventures.

Minimum $4, 28 words. Closes am Wednesday. No phone adverts.

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much, especially to St Jude B YRNE Kevin P. Mrs STEELWORK: All type5, for being such a good friend Adrienne Byrne and family: memory he would recall his at the Queen Street property May he rest in peace. May he rest in peace. of steel gates and balus- in my time of need. G.D. K evin, Michael, Maria, trades, mig welding and arc Grateful thanks to Most John, Peter, Paul, Josewelding. Phone 335 2277. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our phine, Patrick, very sinBlessed Lady, St Joseph, St cerely THANK all those ACCOMMODATION Jude and St Martin de kind relatives and friends A VAILABLE Porres for favours granted. who attended the vigil prayreunion at De Vialar ColBURMESE ers, Requiem Mass and G. VISITOR lege, Marchant Road, Hilbeloved husburial of their Thanks to the Most Sacred Holiday home, sleep up to "The Scarlet and the herty and Mrs Lombardo ton on Saturday October six, fully furnished, linen Heart of Jesus, Our Blessed band and father, Kevin. had been his calling Father Peter Anthony of Black", on TVW7 this and, if 20 1-5 pm. Please bring and crockery, $200 per Mother, St Joseph, St Jude, Our deepest appreciation a different one, they might Burma will celebrate Mass is the 8.35pm, at Sunday Si, to Father J. Dynon, St Anthony, Padre Pio for week. Apply 450 5301. a plate. wife. at Our Lady Of Mercy, 63 helping our family to immi- Monsignor P. McCran, story of real-life Monsig- have been husband and Mass will be celebrated at constantly fears O'Flaherty GirraAvenue, H udson ACCOMMODATION grate from India. We were Fathers R Hynes, E Rog- nor Hugh O'Flaherty, a for her safety because on vvheen on Sunday October 5 pm. rejected twice and were ers, P Holmes, Cam Vatican priest who, under V ACANT Contact 271 0761 or 271 almost any night, Mrs Lom2 1 at 9.30 am and at getting discouraged hut Fathers R Ahern and J Hill, from the death threat of 2007 for further informabardo would be hiding Allied Nice home offered by Faith, Trust, and confi- CSSR Fathers Placid, AnsSacred Heart Church, tion. thousands saved Gestapo, car, Paul, Matthew, Basil, through all dence got us active lady pensioner to soldiers or refugees in her Mary Street, Highgate on Catholic woman or student, these difficult times. Thanks Anthony, OSB, who con- of prisoners-of-war from apartment, only two blocks S unday October 28 at GIRRAWHEEN own room plus use of facil- to all our dear loved ones celebrated the Requiem the German forces occup- from Gestapo headquarters. 9.00 am. FETE ities $30 pw, close to trans- and friends, who prayed for Mass. To Monsignor J ying Rome toward the Despite the fact that some A fter Holy Mass at each Our Lady of Mercy Fete port, shops, city, beach. For this special intention. Jen- Nestor for concelebrating of his people are captured church, there will be a get will be held on Sunday further information write nifer Kenny and children. and delivering the moving end of World War II. Gregory Peck plays the and tortured and that Ger- together at the parish hall. October 21 between Thanking Our Lady of homily. "Nice Home" this office. Please bring your own Good Counsel, St Jude, St To the Marist Brothers, monsignor, Christopher man snipers ring the Vatican 10.30 am and 3 pm at Anthony for prayers ans- Christian Brothers, Presen- Plummer is Colonel Herbert with orders to kill him on everything. Contact 272 Hudson Oval, Hudson SITUATIONS tation Sisters, Benedictine K appler, who was Gestapo sight. O'Flaherty still man- 1379 for further informawered. M.O. B. A venue, Girrawheen, to W ANTED Sacred Heart of Jesus many Monks, Benedictine Sisters chief of Rome at the time, ages, with many different tion. help faise funds to build a and to the many represento get out into the new church. UPHOLSTERER, for rec- thanks for many prayers tatives of religious orders and John Gielgud wears the disguises, ALBANY continue his work answered. and city Published as Pius XII. of Pope fi•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•••• robes overing and repairing work, who attended. To Sister R E -UNION When the Germans take with his group. lounge, kitchen chairs etc. promised. M.N. RECORD Paula, Mercedes, Mr Joe You have been so wonderWhen Rome is finally libPhone 341 3995. over Rome in 1943, an LASSIFIEDS C and Mrs Norma Atkinson ful to me St Anthony, many St Joseph's-Ave Maria Argus for the music and athletic Irish priest, Monsig- erated, he has more than close noon many thanks. M.N. 4000 people hidden from the College, Albany, past pupsinging. To all who sent devotes O'Flaherty Hugh nor Wednesday To Jacinta Marto shepherPERSONAL ils are invited to attend a .....-.-..-...-....4 dess of Fatima, thank you floral tributes, cards, letters all the time and energy he can Gestapo in the city. and messages of sympathy. awarded Peck was Gregory at the his work from spare for Raymond. M.N. Catholic girl 24 seeking For the prayers and many Medal of Freedom, the Catholic guy 24-29 non Grateful thanks to the Most masses offered, our heart- Vatican to hiding Allied the States' highest ci United Sacred Heart of Jesus, may POWs from the Nazis. drinker non smoker, good felt thanks. His antagonist is Colonel ilian award, for his portrayal looking, well mannered, His name be praised and Especially do we thank happy natured, decent guy glorified throughout the Very Reverend Father Herbert Kappler, the chief of of Monsignor Hugh O'FlaStar of the Sea School with view for marriage if world now and forever. Superior and the Benedic- the Gestapo in Rome. He herty. Thanks also to St Jude and GEORGE TOWN suitable. Please reply to O'Flaherty of aiding Mother Mary. Please con- tine Community of New suspects "lonely" this office. ii Norcia for their prayers, do little but can escapees, A Catholic school with an enrolment of 220. prep to grade oa-educational tinue to help. A.O.C. 10 and support, friendship pribecause of the it about I n grateful thanks to St MATURE CATHOLIC R ECORD the long sympathy over diplomatic est's Vatican lady would like light house- Jude, St Anthony, Saint years of Kevin's declining CLASSIFIEDS immunity. But when he keeping work, or compan- A nna, Blessed Mother health. 26 John St ion to lady. Please write Mary and the Holy Spirit Mass will be offered for unearths proof of O'Flaheravailable from the beginning of 1985 in any ty's complicity, he orders that "MATURE CATHOLIC", for help now and in the the intentions of all. Perth combination of the following future. R.P. the priest be captured or this office. (off Fitgerald St) NOVENA TO ST JUDE 0 SOMERS Phil: Jean and killed if he is seen outside the Anglo Indian gent single, Holy St Jude, apostle and family would like to express Vatican walls. 50, seeking single Catholic martyr, great in virtue and their sincere thanks to all //OW /A01460591101% In his desperation to stop WAWAW0910W girl 35-45, non-drinker, rich in miracles, near kins- relatives and friends for O'Flaherty's work, he even phone calls, their cards, non-smoker, goodlooking, man of Jesus Christ, faithhappy nature with view to ful intercessor of all who flowers, press notices, per- attempts to have him assasmarriage. Reply Anglo invoke you, special patron sonal expressions of sym- sinated within the Vatican The ability to teach religious education will be a definite School uniforms advantage. Indian, this office. in time of need, to you I pathy, and attendance at itself. books equipment Enquiries and applications to the have recourse from the the Mass and funeral. Your Pope Pius XII is coldly Principal, PO Box 206 George Town Tas 7253. depths of my heart and comforting thoughts and formal in his encounters with wanted in SITUATIONS humbly beg you whom God support were greatly appre- K appler and other German RECORD V ACANT has given such great power ciated. Please accept this as officers. He is aware of O'Fla• • 26 John Street. Perth WA 6000 to come to my assistance. our thanks. • C LASSIFIEDS herty's activities and warns • Casual cleaning lady, Help me now in my present • Correspondence • MEMORIAM I N • The Editor, The Record. PO Box 50 • comhim that they could active, suit pensioner, and urgent need and grant • Aberdeen Street. Perth, 6000 $4 cash for • required for premises of a my earnest petition. In GOERKE Doll: Fond sis- promise the neutrality of the • Advertising • • • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 28 words religious congregation return I promise to make ter of the late Maude and Vatican and, thus, of the • • registered for posting as a newspaper Category "A - (111 • north of the city, about 8- your name known and Mick Travers, aunt of Fran- Church itself. • • • Produced in WA • 10 hours weekly, general cause you to be invoked. ces, Mary, Paul, Muriel, Post or deliver Printed and published weekly by Edward van Heemst, He understands the priest's • • polishand floor cleaning • 26 John Street. Perth Say three Our Fathers, Hail Terry, Maurie, Bernie, reasons, but warns him that (no phone ads) • • ing. Apply in writing with Marys and Glorias; St Jude Nora, Chris, Leo and Des. • Established 1874 • details and experience to pray for all who honour May her soul rest in peace. there is nothing the Church • can do to help him if he is "Cleaning Lady" this office. and invoke your aid. PubMULCAHY Joseph: In lication must be promised. sad and loving memory of caught. Thinking REAL ESTATE? O'Flaherty is aided in his This novena has never been Joseph who passed away W ANTED known to fail. My request October 13, 1974. Dearly mission by a network of We specialise in these WANTED URGENTLY: has been granted. loved and devoted husband some 300 people of all and surrounding areas P.C. classes, from the wealthy and Goods — Furniture, of Lena, dearest father of household utensils, etc., Many thanks to St Jude for Maureen and Ita. Always in influential who can provide • SUBIACO suitable for Auction at • DOUBLEVIEW his assistance with my con- our prayers. Eternal rest money and hiding places, to our ANNUAL FETE, grant unto him 0 Lord. the ordinary people who J. H. Angus & Company • WOODLANDS tinuing problem. T.T. SUNDAY 25TH May he rest in peace. willingly do all they can. 334 Cambridge Street • WEMBLEY NOVEMBER 1984. 4-4 WEMBLEY WA. 6014 Especially helpful to O'Fla• FLOREAT Enquiries to: Sister RECORD herty is a courageous aristoREAL ESTATE AGENTS & CONSULTANTS Martin, Catherine Bi-focal prescription JOHN H ANGUS CLASSIFIEDS AUCTIONEERS Phone for PROPERTY MANAGERS cratic widow. Francesca McAuley Centre, Station glasses, at New Norcia A.A.I.V.. A.R.E.I. & VALUERS confidenttal close noon 387 5244 Licensed Lombardo. A special relaStreet, Wembley. Phone: Pilgrimage. Also brown advice Valuer Member ofREIWA &MLS Wednesday rosary beads. Ph 381 1180. tionship exists between O'Fla381 9222.

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Youth Forum A man looked around him in a city street and saw a little girl poorly dressed, shivering, and near starving. He was angry with and God, demanded: "Why don't You do something about this?" But God did not answer.

Gathered by the poolside at Eagle's Nest are (left to right) Joe Tuff (YCW), Tony Dolin (Catholic Youth Geraldton), Father Hugh O'Sullivan (YCW National chaplain), Gemma Woo/torton (YCW), Colin Caunce (gardener), Frank Loss (YCS), Paul Newton (CPY), Barbara Willcock) (CPY), Anne Harris (TYCS), Julia Pickering (CPY) and in front Lynette Dunden (TYCS) and Damian Hart (YCS).

A small discussion group on retreat. (Left to right) Mad Downee (Youth Chaplain's Secretary), Father John Hill (Redemptoris-t), Many Cameron (Sunbury YCS), Tony Dolin (Geraldton CPY) and Paul Newton (Perth CPY).

Youth workers gather on retreat The 1984 fulltimers' retreat, held at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup, drew workers from Geraldton, Perth, Bunbury and Albany. A t present there are approximately 25 people working full time in the area of Youth Ministry (lay and religious) of which 19 were on the retreat. The retreat gave participants a chance to reflect upon their faith and how it has or has not developed over the past 12 months. This was followed by a look at the experience of our ministry over the past year and then

New face at CPY Monday, October 8 saw the end of an era for one of CPY's long standing youth workers. Julia Pickering, one of our more celebrated workers, has just finished her two year contract ful!timing with Catholic Parish Youth.

the relationship between our faith and work. The highlight for many of us was the Eucharist on the Thursday night with the theme of 'Celebration', which was followed by a party. The party carried on the spirit of the Eucharist, which illustrated to us that the celebration of the Christ's love for us in every second of our lives. Paul Newton C.P.Y. Fulitimer 328 8136

The man went on, and saw a wretched old man in the gutter. Again he cried out: "Why don't You do something." But God was silent. In the middle of the night God spoke to the man. He said gently, "I have already done something about these things. I made YOU, with eyes to see, ears to hear and strong hands to help."

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ships and Sexuality and 26 There will be four study Mr Linsday Gafelective work sessions. sessions; Youth in the Gosfney, youth The cost of the five-day pel; Mission and Justice; worker, in the Youth involvement in the Convention will be $135 full youth ministry in Australian Church; Relation- board and lodging. Registrathe Catholic Parish of Corinda: said "Youth today By the way, my name is Paul without hope is Newton and over the past four like steam withweeks I have been working The Minister for Eduside by side with Julia, "learn- out an engine — a cation and Youth ing the ropes". My past expe- lot of hot air." Affairs, Senator Ryan, rience with Youth Ministry spans from my involvement with the Trinity College YCS group in Years 11 and 12, and since leaving school as an assistant with the Year 12's at that school.

"Hope is an atomic force in young people if it is harnessed." All it needs is aim and purpose. The convention is for youth. Just as the older generation cannot transmit experience to natures secret experience youth, that is My other arrangement for man's creainvolves three years committivity. likewise the youth Redemptorist the to ment cannot transmit their agoYouth Ministry team. nies to the experienced, Hopefully my past expe- that's nature's secret arranrience puts me in good stead gement for the survival of for the mammoth task ahead. mankind. But hope is the Just so long as I remember I energy for the young and the have Christ Jesus on my side fulfilment of the ages. That I believe I can be there for is why we have called the some of the needs of our convention the Prophets Of youth. Hope Convention, Over PAUL NEWTON 1000 young people from all CPY FULLTIMER states of Australia will be attending." 328 8136

The number of stu- absolute number recorded dents taking foreign during the period. French and German still languages at matricution has to be completed by lation level continued represented over 50 per cent November 30, 1984. to rise in 1983, accord- of the total number of matricContact the Eastern Region ing to data released by ulation language students in Catholic Youth Ministry the Commonwealth Australian schools. Both of Sydney on 02-6615397. Department of Educa- these languages, how-ever, tion and Youth Affairs. continued to decline in 1983,

New system will aid student housing

registering the low-est ohsoThis increase in in numbers represented an lut e figures since 1978. The numbers for Latin still increase of 5.9 per cent over 1982. However, language stu- continued to decline, but dents, as a proportion of total represented 1.6 per cent of all numbers sitting for end of those studying languages to secondary school ex amin a - matriculation. Those studying tion s declined slightly to 15.6 Ancient Greek in 1983, has responded to comalthough still comparatively Cent. per ments by representaThe figures covered matric- small in absolute terms, tives of student ulation-level studies in all increased by 20 per cent on residential colleges Australian States and Territo- 1982 figures. over the reallocation of There were substantial ries for twenty-eight lantheir $10 million sub- "These arrangements take no increases in the nurnberspresguages for the period 1978 to the students' backaccount of sidy to a more broadly 1983- They show an increase enting for Asian languages. based accommodation ground or financial situation from 14,397 in 1978 to The most significant increases and emergency fund. nor do they do anything for the 16,849 in 1983— the highest were in Chinese — 65.6 per Senator Ryan said the new 94 per cent of students who cent, Vietnamese — 33.9 per system would help more needy do not live in residential colcent and Indonesian — 20.7 students to secure accommo- leges," Senator Ryan said. per cent. The numbers studydation. It would also help to "In fact many students who ing Japanese remained fairly provide emergency assistance at present require assistance constant. where a student's continued are excluded from benefits Participation in other lanunder the existing system." study was in jeopardy. Meeting with some 60,000 guages continued to increase would help The new system Senator Ryan said the existolder teenagers and young between 1982 and 1983. The ing system helped only those all needy students both in adults in Canada, the pope highest numbers. after French students who could find a place student residences and in Senator Susan Ryan delivered a long message on and German, were again in a campus-based student private accommodation. AssistThere was the need for faith to give recorded in It residence. They represented ance was expected to go "The Government believes meaning to life and the cour- also a marked rise in the that these new arrangements have who students mainly to only six per cent of students numbers studying Modern provide a more equitable dis- age to face its problems. to live away from home. in higher education. tribution of available funds," The youths, gathered in Greek — 25 per cent for the Montreal's Olympic stadium, 1982-83 period. and an 81 per Senator Ryan said. She said that at present the used the form of choreo- cent increase from 1978 to main focus of assistance was graphy developed for half- 1983. in universities while colleges time entertainment on footof advanced education which ball fields to stage for the pope Course Awards would be for Masters coursework have a higher concentration of a dramatic mime of the strugstudents in universities. A further 30 Advanced Education Awards would lowr income students receive gle between good and evil. only a minor share of the Hundreds of white-clad Take time off to go to Masters degree students in colleges of a ssistance available. She women and black-clad men advanced education. review and reflect Senator Ryan said that the statistics of awards added that, as growth in enrol- surged back and forth, until on your life. Book for postgraduate study in universities also reflected ments over the coming trien- good triumphed as the now for the next the high quality of applicants for these awards. In nium was to be focussed women formed a white dove Choice weekend. 1984 more than 85 per cent of winners of these which nearly filled the playing mainly in the advanced educaOctober 26 to 28. awards had previously held Masters or Honours I tion sector, it was important field. They held that formaMargaret Contact ualifications. q and Terry Fennessy, In this year's Budget the Government allocated to ensure students in that tion, kneeling nearly motion386 6494. about $18.5 million to postgraduate awards — an sector have access to assist- less, throughout the pope's 45-minute speech. ance on an equitable basis. increase of $1 million over the 1984 allocation.

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New post-graduate awards the Federal Government would make available 900 new awards for full-time postgraduate students in Australia's higher education institutions next year, the Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Senator Susan Ryan, has announced. Most of the awards would be for postgraduate research in universities. This emphasises the Government's firm commitment to basic research in Australia's universities,' Senator Ryan said. The Minister said that of the 900 awards, 725 R esearch Awards would be for postgraduate research students in universities while the 145

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Ezekiel was feeling down. He was an exile in a foreign land. He was far away from his home and from God's temple. His wife had died not long before. One day he decided to take a walk and strolled out of the city of Babylon where he was living. Ezekiel walked out to a large, flat plain. Bright red and yellow flowers were everywhere in the green grass. But his mind and heart were full of sad things. Ezekiel remembered the happy days in Jerusalem. Ezekiel was a priest and loved the prayers and songs, the processions and music in the temple. All that was gone now. His people were now sad exiles in Babylon. The temple had been destroyed. Then Ezekiel noticed some bones scattered over the plains. They were the bones of some men and women killed in a battle. The sight of the dry, white bones made Ezekiel feel even more sad. He felt death all around him. Suddenly Ezekiel's Ezekiel spoke to the dry bones in the Lord's name and immediately they began to come together forming imagination came skeletons. Bodies and skin soon covered the skeletons. alive. The whole plain He turned and quickly walked back to the city. His heart was full of joy. Ezekiel was eager to tell everyone seemed covered with there was reason to hope. The Lord could turn their sorrow to joy, their despair to hope. dry white bones. He

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The bodies looked like a great army standing on the plain. Ezekiel was full of wonder at what he was seeing. The Lord explained: "These bones are My people, Israel. They have been saying to one another here in Babylon, 'Our hope is lost. We are cut off from our land, from our temple, even from our God. We are dead.— That was exactly what Ezekiel had been thinking. The Lord told Ezekiel to go back to the city with a message for the people. "Tell them this in My name," said the Lord. "0 My people, I will bring you from death to life. I will put My spirit in you so you may live.Iwill lead you back to your land. Then you will know I am the Lord." Then there was silence. Ezekiel came back to himself The vision of the dry bones disappeared. He looked around and saw the flat green plain covered with flowers.

heard a voice speaking to him. The Lord said, "Son of man, can these bones come to life?" "Lord God," Ezekiel answered, "only You know that." —Then speak to the dry bones," the Lord told him. "Say to the bones, "Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. The Lord says to you, 1will give you My spirit so you can come to life.— Ezekiel did as the Lord asked. He spoke to the dry bones in God's name. Right away he heard a rattling noise. It was the rattling of bones coming together. The bones joined together to form skeletons. As Ezekiel watched in amazement, bodies and skin covered the skeletons. But they were not alive. There was no spirit in them. The Lord spoke again to Ezekiel. "Son of man, pray in these words. 'From the four winds come, 0 Spirit, and breathe new life into these dead bodies so they may come to life." Ezekiel prayed to the spirit just as the Lord told him to. He saw the bodies come alive as the spirit filled them.

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Annulment guide

Christian Families In The Real World, by Annulment: Your divorced-remarried the Catholic to seek reconciliaMitch and Kathy Fin- Chance To Remarry tion with the Church and ley, The Thomas More Within The Catholic Chu rch, by Joseph P emphasises the (very real) Press (Chicago, Zwack. Harper and likelihood of success that will 1984), $9.95. make the effort worthwhile Reviewed by Ruth Ann Row (New York, But in doing so, he at time 1983), $5.95. journalist in the Catholic the person to, something that object to this book as an attack Hanky. goes overboard to the point Reviewed by Jerry press, in the past decade or would take the mystery out of on the sanctity of marriage, an of suggesting that every Family columnists Mitch Filteau. soIhave been asked by dozens the Church's annulment effort to show people how to

Your chance to remarry: dispelling the myths

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and Kathy Finley have outbroken marriage could and if you are a Catholic in a of people whether they (or procedures and help them "get out of' a commitment done themselves in this little should be declared null. This broken marriage...if you more often a divorced relative gain the hope and courage to they have made. guide to family spirituality. view — in essence, that every Cavalcade. by Guersdoline would like to "get right" with or friend) have any chance of take that first step of bringing That, I think, misses the marriage which breaks up Butler, published by Fontana, In it they present ways to the Church but have never getting an annulment. Usually their case to a priest. point. The Church does not must have been invalid from $5.95. Reviewed by Roslyn help families draw closer to tried for an annulment within five minutes of ques- As Zwack says of the millions accept annulment cases the start — was popularised Ross the Lord. These are not far- because you thought it was tioning I have uncovered at of American Catholics who before a civil divorce has been 'Fast moving and entertainin the 19-'0s by Monsignor out suggestions that leave ' hopeless"...Josep h Zwack's least one or two areas, and are divorced, "a large number finalised. The people this ing, ' says The Times of this Stephen Kelleher, a New York the reader disturbed by his "Annulment" may be just the often more, which, if pursued, of these people, feeling there book is aimed at are already canon lawyer from whose book. WellIguess y*ou could own shortcomings. Rather hook for you. could very likely turn up solid is no place in the Church for "out of' the commitment in writings Zwack quotes freely. say that, but for my part. they are ideas with a gentle, A plain-langua ge guide to the grounds for declaring the them, simply join the ranks of a very real, and almost always but it is a view roundly Cavalcade doesn't live up to persuasive quality. grounds and procedures for marriage null. But to my the 'fallen-away Catholics'. irretrievable, way. If in this rejected by the mainstream of evectations. The Finleys give a wealth obtaining an annulment in the frequent amazement — and The purpose of this book is situation of brokenness the Catholic theologians and With such a richly emotive of insight into family prayer, Catholic Church, it is a long here is the whole point — to show exactly how a large Church's law can serve as an church lawyers. background as the theatre reaching out, parenting, overdue book that dispels rarely does the person asking percentage of these divorced instrument of healing and If we're all OK and whatever behind it, it still fell sadly marriage, sexuality and pro- many popular myths — start- about an annulment have the Catholics can have their orig- reconciliation for the individ- we do can get an ecclesiastical short on atmosphere. claiming the Good News. ing with the myth that you are barest notion that any of these inal marriages set aside by the uals involved, then it ought to stamp of approval, then It's a quick and easy react Parents will appreciate the out of the Church if you get factors might be legitimate Church. If they have remar- do so. Church law evaporates into however, something that grounds for receiving one. good-natured "we're all in a civil divorce. ried, this means they can One thing troubles me about morality and the urn; disturb the brain cells laissez-faire Why such a hook? From my In such cases I have often become practicing Catholics "Annulment" the same boat" approach. and prevents an institution ceases to challenge oterrnuc.b. such as in the appraisal of personal experience I can say wished there was a book such again." unqualified endorsement. us to live according to Christ. Its the tale of Alice May who children as both gifts and a why. Just because I am a as Zwack's that I could refer Some will almost certainly Zwack laudably encourages Having registered my deep met her father only once — form of the cross. "The disagreement on this point, I but that meeting changed her parent who struggles to must say that "annulment" is life, for Raruio0 Charicote keep an open mind about his the only book out in print that left his daughter the one other or her teenager's taste in meets a real need of millions be loved — the shabby, dilapmusic and clothing, strives of alienated Catholics who are idated Albion Theatre. to love in ways that cannot divorced and remarried and in Alice's tbeatre begins to be measured." the Finleys need of reconciliation with flourish (even if the book say. Yet, on another level, the Church. To many who doesn't) but her fatber's they write, "Our children goes on to make com- information. have lived for years in unjus- influential family has other insufficiently appreciated, are sent to help facilitate our parisons between Theodore Zeldin is a Fel- unloved. They are quite tified despair it offers real plans — a court case follows growth as human beings." France and the United low of St Anthony's College, right. Foreigners undoubt- grounds for hope and much which sees Alice win not only Throughout this little States, obviously the Oxford. His two-volume edly love France as a place, needed encouragement to the .4Ibion, but also the Chart bcx)k, which can easily be word is America not history, France 1848-1945 as a beautiful country, but take action — and until a cote estates." read in an evening, they link Australia, obviously it ( 1973: 1977) received inter- they do not on the whole better book comes along, I Gwendoline Butler was a Catholic theology of past is a typographical error national acclaim, and he has like the French as a people. would recommend it to prac- born and raised in London. and present with family life but one would have been awarded the Wolfson This is particularly true of tically anyone in a second After leaving Oxford Univertoday. They contrast the thought, such a glaring Prize. He figures on the the English-speaking world. marriage who wants to set sity she moved to Scotland with her husband and conconsumer society of televimistake, would be eas- Magazine Litteraire's list of Why is it that the French things straight with the centrated on writing, winsion, cars and luxuries with ily detected. Church hut is afraid to try. the hundred most important mystify or irritate so many ning several awards for her the belief that we are in (Filteau, a staff reporter for thinkers in the world people, and make such a No doubt only Australians The French, crime novels. I suspect her by God's hands. not our own. would be quick to note the today...hmm, obviously he superficial impression on NC News Service frequently knowledge of the theatrical They speak of achieving Theodore Zeldin, the rest? Theodore Zeldin writes in the Catholic press impossibility our country spends too much time thinkworld is not great — she bad family community, prayerful published by Fla- receiving 10 ofmillion ing when meant he is to attempts be to provide some about Church law and its immibest stick to crime novels in solitude and dedication to effects on (atholic life.) minga, $10.95. grants even though we are proof-reading. answers. future. others. Rev iewed immigrants by (includreally Rosall This is a comprehensive One of the most provocaing the Aborigines who got volume which contains such tive chapters is on the rela- lyn Ross. tionship of families to parTheodore Zeldin is here earlier) in such a young chapters as Why it is hard ishes. In it they write that reputed to be an expert nation and when the popu- to meet an average French lation is even now, only person; How to love them; Unless parishes see families on the French. His around 15 million. How to compete and negoas basic elements of the book is certainly enterMoments With God Prayers and Readings For Women, by Church and reach out to taining and informaAnyway, the point of all this tiate with them; How to Georgette Butcher, published by Fontana, $4.50. them as families. not individ- tive, but what is that if there is one such appreciate their taste; How Georgette Butcher, editor of The Christian Bookseller, was uals, parishes will be simply concerns me is the error, might there not be to understand what they are for many years the manager of London's leading branch "sacramental service sta- error in Chapter 26 others? With that in mind I trying to say; How to symof the ScriptureI7nion. which states that recommend the book whole- pathise with them and in tions." Here, in a collection of prayers and readings specially France and Australia heartedly, it is a wealth of conclusion; What it means Chapters five and six are designed for umen, she shows how God can guide and have one thing in com- information but perhaps the to be French. particularly well done in help us through the changing pattern of each day with its mon, the introduction reader should be circumsoffering an explanation of moments of uvrie, rest, hope and hurt. Each page reflects French people often feel of 10 million immi- pect about the absolute that they are misunderstood male and female spiritualty a radiant confidence in God's goodness; this is a book uiyich grants. The passage accuracy of some of that by foreigners, that they are and Christian parenting. is very much in touch with the real uk)riif

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WHAT'S ON In just three years Esperance nSw has the biggest number of Christian Life groups outside the metropolitan area with two other country groups to its credit and a fifth town group and another country group in the offing. When Jim Miolin of the Catholic Social Apostolate visited Esperance in October 1981 to talk on parish development he mentioned Christian Life groups as an afterthought. VVithin a week the first group formed under Lorraine Thomas and by June the following year a second group had formed under Sister Maura. Visits by Sister Maura and other members to Grass Patch, 76 kilometres to the north, planted the CLG seed there and in September this year a group of five members formed under Margaret Dwyer's leadership, with help from Father Pat R ooney. Jenny Miolin of Per-th travelled from Perth to help establish Esperance's third group under Jo Pope in June 1983 and earlier this year Jim Miolin visited Esperance again to discuss the formation of a men's group and a further mixed group. The men's group, the first in WA and Esperance's fourth, was established a week later. Esperance town groups meet regularly for Mass and a luncheon to follow and members of country groups are invited. At Condingup, 70 km east of Esperance, a meeting was held at Joan Barber's home last November and a group has formed under the leadership of Dianne Chapman. Three Esperance groups travelled to I -- t the Condingup group at Kath and Phil Carmody's home in April. Additionally, Lorraine Thomas and Jo Pope have travelled to the first four meetings of Condingup and Grass Patch groups to give support. Father Aloysius and an Esperance group have travelled 110 km eastward to explain CLG to 10 interested people at the Munglingup home of Karen and Bob Cummins. Six Esperance members attended last year's CLG camp at North Beach and a further 10 attended the 1984 camp. In addition, Lorraine Thomas attended the CSA jubilee gathering last year. CLG groups are usually 8-10 members sharing their life experiences in the light of the gospel, along with a gospel reading or social enquiry.

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NEWMAN SOCIETY GROUP DISCUSSION The final group discussion for the year will be held on Thursday October 25 at St Thomas More senior common room (above dining room Kings Park end) at 8pm. All interested persons are invited to hear Mr Tony Curtis of the Catholic Education Commission and Brother Simon Keane, Aquinas College religious co-ordinator discuss "Catholic Education with an emphasis on the recently re-structured religious education program". YOUTH MEETINGS A Catholic young adult group for ages 18-25 is held at Queen of Apostles church, Riverton, every Sunday 8.15 9.30pm after the 7prn Mass. Everyone's welcome. For further information phone 457 2424.

r Lorraine Thomas, Jim Miolin and John Smith discuss Christian Life groups.

Marilyn Guest of Grass Patch, Jan Plowman, of Esperance and Diane Chapman of Condingup.

CARLISLE DANCE The Holy Name parish Carlisle will hold a Gala Christmas Dance on Saturday, November 10 at the Queens Park Recreation Centre. Tickets adults $5, children $2. Light refreshments on sale or BYO. Tickets and table reservations Kevin Maguire 361 4828, Gerry Cardozo 277 1571. NORBERTINE ANNIVERSARY The Norbertine Canons will celebrate the 850th anniversary of the death of their founder St Norbert of Xanten with solemn pontifical Mass in St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday, October 30 at 8pm. On Saturday November 3 at the Queens Park Recreation Centre there will be a buffet dinner dance commencing at 7.30pm to commemorate the event. Tickets $12.50. Tables of 10 or individuals welcome. Phone 350 5433 or 451 5586.

VACANCIES IN SCHOOL Holy Name school, Carlisle, has vacancies in years 1 to 7 for the 1985 school year. Interested parents should contact the principal, Miss M Brough at the school, Lion Walk, Carlisle, 6101. LEEDERVILLE CWL The Catholic VVomen's League, Leederville will hold a card party, Beetle aftemoon with a Bring and Buy Table in St Mary's parish centre, Franklin Street, Leederville on October 22 at 1 pm; $1.00 admission. BINDOON PICNIC The annual priests' picnic at Keaney College, Bindoon will be held on Monday, October 22 at 10 am. Tennis will be followed by a barbecue lunch; all priests are most welcome; please bring your own tennis gear with you. Inquiries: Father M. Gatt (095) 761180 or (095) 761040.

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Christian Life Group members (from left) Wendy Plunkett, of Grass Patch, Ena Phillips, of Esperance, and Kathryn Johnstone, of Condingup.

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Margaret Dwyer and Jo Pope.