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The Tutzing sisters renew their vows at New Norcia in service with historic links to Salvado era. See story and tures page 2

The dangers and trauma for children whose parents are alcoholics. See part two of ROS ROSS' in depth look at this important social problem, pages 4 and 5.

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Pope John Paul II

SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic) (NC): Pope John Paul II told Latin American Catholics that the Church must work for social justice, then spelled out rules for that work which preclude using violence and class conflicts. During on outdoor Mass at a Santo Domingo racetrack attended by an estimated 100,000 people, the pope said Catholics must never resort to violence, must not consider the poor as a "class in struggle" and must not help bind societies to programs of atheism or "practical materialism."

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ROME (NC): Pope John Paul ll'strip to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico was to help launch a nine-year evanglisation program aimed at developing the faith among Latin Americans. T he bishops inaugurated a "novena of years" leading up to the 1992 a nniversary of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World and the subsequent a val of Christianity.

Standing next to a group of Latin American bishops, Pope John Paul listed the conditions he said must be followed in working toward the "social liberation of the multitudes of needy."

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Those conditions include: • fidelity to the Gospel. "which prohibits recourse to methods of hate and violence." • a preferential option for the poor which is not "exclusive or excluding, but which opens itself to those who want to leave sin and convert in their hearts." • a view in which the poor are not seen "as a class in struggle, or as a church separated from the communion and obedience to the pastors designated by Christ."

NURSES PAYING TRIBUTE

In front of a congregation of nearly loop in St Mary's Cathedral last week, nursing sisters light some of the 500 candles that were a feature of the call to remembrance for patients who had died during the year in the care of the Palliative Care Service. The Uniting Church moderator, Dr Owen preached the homily during a service attended by Archbishop Foley and Anglican Assistant Bishop, Brian Kyme. Father John Ryan chaplain to Royal Perth Hospital was master of ceremonies.

• A campaign of social transformation which avoids bringing man "under systems that deprive him of his freedom and subject him to programs of atheism, or of practical materialism, which deny him his interior and transcendental richness." The pope added man's true liberation is liberation from sin and from "social evil that rests in his heart." "These are some basic points of reference the Church cannot forget in its pmmotional and evangelical action," the pope said.

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Pakistan has new seminary ISLAMABAD (Pakistan): A new Catholic minor seminary has opened in Pakistan, officially an Islamic state where Catholics are less than 1 percent of the population. Pakistan is 98 percent Moslem. There are 480,000 Catholics in the 84-million population. A major seminary is located in Karachi, and has a current enrolment of five students. Most Catholics are former Hindus of the untouchable caste.

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NEW NORCIA: The only original Benedictine missionary sister still resident in New Norcia and a direct link to the Salvado ere last Sunday renewed her vows and was integrated into the Tutzing (Germany) Benedictine congregation. Sister Veronica Willaway whose family ancestors worked with Bishop Salvado in the Victoria Plains mission in the last century and three other sisters who came from Manila in 1982, this week by ANTHONY JAMES became the first Tutzing order curator for the Benedictine Community foundation in Perth archdiocese. Four Benedictine sisToday the graves of some convent and went hack to ters at Kalumburu will of these sisters are to be Spain. also be integrated into found in the local cemetary. Some went to Kalumburu, Federal Government decithe same German conthen a New Norcia depengregation of some sions in the 1970s caused dency and now in the diothe Benedictines to close 1300 sisters in six the two New Norcia Aborig- cese of Broome. continents, as will 13 inal institutions in 1975. In 1982 three sisters from The majority of the Sisters Manila helped found a proof the former WA foundation now living in at New Norcia closed their bationary community in Spain.

New Norcia. Sister Veronica Willaway had joined the local Benedictine sisters in 1958. Currently the New Norcia sisters help with religious education at Salvado College and supervise residents at St Gertrude's. They hope to e xtend their work with Aboriginal people in the Perth area and will continue also at Kalumburu.

The move marks the end of the local Benedictine Missionary Sisters of New Norcia canonically instituted by Abbot Catalan OSB, third abbot of New Norcia. in 1935. During World War I and the 1920s, a group of predominantly Spanish women became Benedictine Oblates caring for the needs of Aboriginal girls in WA. For 40 years they administered St Joseph's Aboriginal Girls' Institution, helped care for the sacristy of the historic Abbey Church and operated the laundry which catered for the monastery, St Gertrude's and St Ildephonsus' Colleges, St Mary's Aboriginal Boys' Institution and their own St Joseph's Institution.

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The new Benedictine (Tutzing) community at New Norcia after last Sunday's ceremony of commitment. With them are representatives from the Philippines who received the sisters' vows.

Women celebrate

NEW YORK: Celebrations in the American Episcopalian (Anglican) Church mark 10 years since 11 women were ordained to the priesthood. All Churches report tensions as women take more responsibility in the various ministries, and the Episcopalians are no exception. One of the women made the statement that "fighting the battle of non-acceptance is an everyday fact." The report seems, how-

MANILA (NC): Cardinal Jaime L. Sin plans to pay a part sentimental part historical visit to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of a government -sponsored agency. Cardinal Sin, whose father was Chinese, said he was going "in a spirit of friendship and dialogue." He said he hoped the visit would help build closer relations between the Chinese and Filipino peoples. It will be the first visit by an Asian cardinal to

mainland China. Cardinal Sin's trip will be followed by less than a month by the visit to China of a delegation of Asian bishops. The cardinal's trip includes a visit to his father's birthplace. He was invited to the country by the Chinese Peoples Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. This will be Cardinal Sin's second visit to China. He first went there as a seven-year old to visit relatives in Hsiamen. A group of Asian Catholic bishops will visit China to study development projects and to meet with Chinese Catholic and Protestant leaders.

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Definite medical criteria needed If his reasoning, his reassurance, his caring has no effect and the patient still requests an abortion, Dr Jefferson reminds her 60,000 abortions were performed in Australia last year on the medical criteria the life of the mother was in serious danger either from mental or physical stress. Abortion is illegal without these criteria. "Either we have a very poor sort of woman in this c ountry or someone is lying. I just know people are lying and I cannot be part of it." He cannot give a referral for abortion. Dr Jefferson has no option but to tell them with all honesty he does not know where to send them and he has no desire to find out. "I know people are murdered. "I know youths are obtaining drugs but I do not know how or from where. "I care for both of you here. "If only one of you remains do please come back because you know I care. "I am here to help you in the future to learn about love, commitment, sharing and caring." The doctor hopes the seed has been planted. "I haven't seen any harvest y et. "Maybe someone else will in the future." he says.

Doctor f eels sad When his patient leaves the surgery without a satisfactory response to her request for abortion Dr Jefferson admits to feeling sad. "I am reminded of the rich young man in the scriptures. "What must I do to get into the kingdom of God?' Christ's answer required too much of him and he went away sad. "Christ too must have been sad," Dr Jefferson said. "Perhaps the temptation for doctors — for anyone today is to suppose Christ would say to the rich young man in today's world: 'We'll create a new branch of Christianity. As you're a super rich young man we'll create a new super rich type of Christianity. We'll accommodate you so that we don't upset your lifestyle.' • "Jesus didn't say that; Jesus knew the way was through sacrifice, caring, through love and commitment," he said.

Compassion must show Joanne Bowen reports on a talk Dr Duncan Jefferson prepared for Pregnancy Help annual conference

When a pregnant woman presents herself at a doctor's surgery, the doctor then has two patients to care for — not simply the one person sitting before him.

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Dr Jefferson's message to his listeners was impressive and reassuring because of its simplicity. Because of his Christian convictions and his belief in the sanctity of life in the womb, he could play no part in abortion. "I tell my patients doctors are expected to respect human life at all stages of existence. "My job is to attend to that mother and her baby through pregnancy so that when her baby is born, we have a healthy mother and a healthy baby with the maximum potential for a healthy life." In unfolding the role of the doctor who is faced with a distraught woman with a pregnancy she does not want, he showed great compassion and sensitivity along with his firm stand. His personal philosophy, his belief in the importance of loving and caring, guides the doctor through the steps

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Doctor's duty which he takes Co lead his troubled patient to a responsible decision. "Unfortunately the majority who come to me don't want their babies. "I sometimes feel like the doctor at the collapse of the stock exchange with investors lined up ready to jump. "Most will jump. "The reason they are in my surgery is because of what has happened in previous months — in previous years. "What has brought that patient to this decision, we cannot judge. "We simply know they are in need," he said. "I hope through Pregnancy Help and my part in it, people will realise there is an alternative to abortion. "We love them.

"We care and v%c %%Ant what is hest for them. "The path is not easy. "We don't like pain but through pain we learn so much." Dr Jefferson suggests doctors — indeed people generally — arc replacing God with Science. "We live in a comfortable push-button world. "When we're too hot or too cold we press the button of an air conditioner. "We press the TV button to be entertained "We drive air conditioned cars on sealed highways. "Scientific man has made our life a very comfortable one. "We don't need God. • Cont page 6

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UK priests rally to council The Church of the LONDON (NC): This year the National Council of Priests brought together the clergy of England and Wales, more effectively than at any other time since Vatican II. The theme of the conference was The Priest Today.

Organisers were apprehensive at the start of the conference. The preliminary surveys seemed to describe the priests as demoralised and low on hope. The conference itself showed a much greater confidence among the priests In large measure, they based this confidence on a

conviction of sharing the Priesthood of Christ with their people. It was in sharing their burdens and responsibilities that they were optimistic of overcoming problems of isolation, loneliness and division. Tensions were recorded between younger and older clergy, between those trained before and those trained after the Council. For all that, the conference was rated a success. It was reported that a Ministry to Priests program had been successful in several dioceses and should he more widely used. There was the very familiar call for a special study of the spirituality of the priest in today's world.

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Record Although the radio and television services get a lot of their spoken information from what has already appeared in print, the print media try not to get involved in the happenings of the electronic media. Although many people have deserted serious print, the producers of print claim a certain superior advantage. The words are there in black and white. They can be read and re-read. They can be challenged. They can be quoted back at the editor or author. Not so with the new form of electronic communication called 'current affairs'. Readers of print get false impressions from their reading. How much does a television viewer absorb of the current affair words and pictures dumped on a sleepy brain during 'prime-time' — the time when we have nothing better to do...? The new electronic gospel of current affairs has many adherents. Conversations inevitably include reference to "what I saw on television". Apply this media gospel theory to another gospel phenomenon, the Reverend Ted Noffs of Kings Cross Wayside Chapel fame, who earlier this year got an extensive uncritical airing on ABC and last Sunday night yet another remarkable exposure on that other alternative popular gospel, 60 Minutes. Sydney is after all a nation of three million people so it is hardly surprising that among its curiosities is a oneman church ministry that is rather successful. In today's kaleidoscopic world there are dozens of budding evangelists aspiring to the same spectacular fame and spiritual success. Ted Noffs is already well known in Sydney so what makes his story curious is the decision to serve him up to the rest of Australia as a typical anti-hero Aussie battler who is really giving the stodgy mainline denominations a run for their money at the sanctuary gates. Journalists who could hardly define a dogma, let alone a heresy, positively revelled in Ted's boast that he is a thrice -heretic and that he will minister to anyone, Jew Gentile 'Protestant Catholic, as long as they will sing Waltzing Matilda alongside a blackboy stump. The stirring Aussie soul is supposed to imagine they are watching a replay of the Eureka Stockade as the archheretic stands his ground against his accusers. It escapes notice that his one-time Methodist Church does not exist any more and that there are more worthwhile ugly heresies blighting life today than Ted Noff's antics You can laugh about heresy when it doesn't matter any more, and Ted Noffs has his own sense of humour. So the cameras roll on as Ted hugs the world in an avalanche of well polished phrases, as he frowns at the stuffy clergy who reportedly "refused" to perform baptisms or marriages for total strangers, as he pats the family now showing a tiny tear during the bushland baptism, as he grasps re-assuringly the hand of the couple whose marriage problems have been so easily put right with God. Is this heresy? Hardly, would say the critics cheering for the under -dog. Heresy? Hardly say the Aussie hearts that reckon God lives where the eucalypts wave in the blue canopy. Ted Noffs is the most successful self-made heretic yet. He is doing nothing illegal by the law of the land. He is not breaking the laws of a church he has so clearly abandoned. He is hardly insincere. It would be rough justice to question the sincerity of the people who approach him. Who are the heretics, then? The fair -go Australian who has put religion somewhere between beer, warm pies and Paul Hogan. There's room for Ted Noffs in this big brown land that doesn't like to have to talk too seriously about things of the spirit. "Australia is basically a Christian country," droned the anonymous commentator soothingly in last Sunday night's program. That gives a Warm Inner Feeling to everyone whether they have read the gospel or not and who find parts of it hilariously unreal and out of touch with today. Perhaps the churches had Ted Noffs coming to them. The infant baptisims, the contrived weddings, the obligatory funeral service, were coming off the assembly line with such monotony that someone had to get upset when finally a clergyman put a basic question such as Why? before people he had never seen before. Ted Noffs is the answer to the final quandary of the Me generation: Is there a do-it-yoursaelf sacramental ritual that is all things to all men? It would hardly be prudent to advertise the fact too widely but the Catholic Church always provided for doit-yourself baptisms if it was absolutely necessary and do-it-yourself weddings if the official Church could not be there. What the Church insisted was that people ask themselves the right questions before they took the step. It would be a foolish church that fell for the television line that Christians ought to be upset over Ted Noffs. Since the introduction of special marriage celebrants the wedding scene is finally sorting itself out. Non-church rituals are being urged as a solution to the funeral and grieving dilemma now facing the churchless. The sacraments are but the signs of a deeper Christian reality. When a church's sacraments have lost their appeal and significance it can only be a summons to go back to the beginning and ask the real questions about Christian life and commitment. Ted Noffs has simply discovered the obvious: that it is terribly easy to print sacramental currency. The real question is whether such notes have any real lasting value.

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Worked The trauma and damage of an alcoholic parent can for their justice • From page 1 But he added his message should not be understood as a "brake" on Church people and institutions which work with the poor. Instead, he said, it should be seen as "confirmation and inspiration." The pope linked his dramatic call for Latin American bishops to "create a new dawn for the Church" with their responsibility to defend the region's estimated 100 million poor. But while he repeatedly emphasised the Church's responsibility to be an effective social force, the pope was careful to define the limits of that force. In the urgently needed pastoral work, he said, there are rules which must be followed. To more than 500,000 people in Puerto Rico, the pope stressed the laity "must exercise its mission to close contact with priests and bishops." Speaking later to priests, nuns and seminarians at a university in San Juan, the pope told them never to use the excuse of a "greater pastoral efficiency" to ignore the directions of their bishops. The pope told the bishops to avoid the "seduction of ideologies" and social models which "omit or contradict" the faith. But the pope's cautionary remarks about violence and political ideologies did not eclipse his strong call for the Church to lead the fight for social justice — through emphasis of the moral and social dimensions of the gospel. In fact, newspapers in the Dominican Republic reported the pope's October 11 homily as an endorsement of the Church's commitment to the poor. Most of them quoted the text of the pope's sermon calling for the Church to "offer its generous support to the work of social liberation of the multitudes of needy." The pope skipped over the line when he read his talk. but a Vatican Press spokesman said it should still be considered a valid part of the speech.

Children parents' 'defence' schemes

As "dependent" and "caretaker" build their personal and family defences so the children follow suit, finding their own ways of coping according to their personalities and their place in the family hierarchy. Studies of the children of alcoholic families prove time and again their defence systems fall into four classic roles, leading them to clearly foreseeable future stress. The children all need help. Stopping the drinking is not enough, says Jan. "Obviously as soon as the parent stops drinking it is better, but it is also an anticlimax," she said. "Everyone has been saying for so long, 'If only he/she would stop drinking, everything would be alright,' that when the drinking does stop and everything is not alright t hey become even more confused. "In some families the drinker stops and nothing else changes. That is what we call a 'dry drunk' and some say it IS worse than the real thing.

The Record reporter, Ros R oss continues her in-depth look at the trauma and damage an alcoholic parent can inflict on children and how it can be passed from generation to generation

E E "It is our job to rebuild the family and for that reason it is important to have an understanding of the role structure that builds up in the families of alcoholics. "Very often ground rules in this 'war' have been established before the first child even arrives. 'The eldest child in these families is what we usually call the hero or heroine, the second child provides a shift in focus and of course holds no position of authority like the firstborn and becomes a scapegoat, while the third child can often become the most tragic of all, the lost child', who has no role to play and so tends to withdraw.

EDO 'Many families also have a 'mascot.' 'This one is the clown, the cute one who falls off his or her chair when mum and dad start to fight and so makes people laugh." she said. 'These roles are played in normal families of course but in a drinking family the roles becomes more rigid. "It is these rigid responses the children take into adulthood and that is not healthy. "Often the children of an addicted parent can reach the age of 40 with great success and then be hit by

The first part of this special feature last week looked at the fear, shame and anger felt by children in an alcoholic parent situation and figures which show just as children who are bashed, bash their children, the children of alcoholics grow up to use alcohol for the wrong reasons.

Jan Battley an emotional crisis of enormous proportions. "Our aim is to help them now, to make it easier later on and so they won't have to go through life with an emotional 'crunch' at the end." Understanding this rigid role-playing is a vital factor in providing understanding and realisitic perceptions for the children of an alcoholic parent.

In her recently released book, Behind the Bedroom Door, Alcoholism The Family Disease, Liz Byrski talks in detail about these roles and the following is comprised of excerpts from her book. More than any other of the roles in an alcoholic family that of the 'family hero' is most often determined by birth order. Almost invariably the hero is the eldest child and from

the moment he or she enters the world the family situation is changed. From a straight one to one situation the hero's arrival makes the family into that infinitely complicated configuration — a triangle. The hero grows up learning to please, learning that by being good he or she can win praise, make parents happy and make things nice.

Scriptures can be a comfort The scriptures can he a comfort for those women resisting urgings to seek abortions, Dr Duncan Jefferson told the Pregnancy Help meeting. "I draw comfort from the story of the rich young man in scripture. "Not because of the fact there was one young man who seemed to have lost himself. "But because all through the centuries there have

Doctor at Pregnancy Help been people who have heard the message and have made the decision to change," he said. Dr Jefferson sees the need for all of us to be able to change our lifestyle whenever this is necessary throughout life. This is one of the points he makes when talking with a troubled patient. An unplanned pregnancy does demand change espe-

cially for the unmarried. Change is necessary when there is a course of study to be completed or a career to be interrupted. But this will probably not be the last time that there is a need to change a lifestyle. "I try to challenge them with these questions: Are you not adaptable? Can you not change the course of your life if something

happens? Will you not be able to cope with a new direction in your life in the future? Must you see yourself following through three years at WAIT, Teachers' College. an apprenticeship? Then what? Find a job? That takes an enormous amount of coping and changing. How will you do that? "Isuggest in the future they are going to demand of themselves that they be able

to change to accept difficult situations. "Unemployment, illness, new jobs, different direction, new lifestyle, marriage, parenthood will all demand change." He reminds his patients of the hundreds of couples unable to have babies. He pleads with them eventually. "There are plenty of people who want your baby if you do not." With those who are wavering he uses the Nielsen slides.

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iThe eldest child in these families is what we usually call the hero or heroine, the second child provides a shift in focus and of course holds no position of authority like the firstborn and becomes a scapegoat, while the third child can often become the most tragic of all, the 'lost child' who has no role to play and so tends to withdraw."

Figures show the children of alcoholics also use alcohol for the wrong reasons. The child develops an instintive knowledge of the game of 'happy families and is aware of his or her key role in that game The hero is aware of the ability to create a pleasant situation so subconsciously f eels responsible for the existence of an unpleasant one. Already this child has learned the important facts of life — the family's rules for how to good get clearer as the child gets older.

ODD No-one really tells, the child just learns — •to keep negative feelings to himself (they are sure to make someone angry) to express a lot of positive feelings (they can win you approval) oto give people what they want (you can control the situation that way and get r ewarded) edon't talk to outsiders about what happens in the family (no-one would like you if they knew the truth) Snot to talk about dad's drinking, even to other family members (well that's just something we don't talk about) Every role has a purpose for the family — the hero's purpose is to bring it self-

worth, to prove to the world this is an okay family. It is an awesome burden to bear. Heroism may manifest itself in academic achievements, sporting or artistic success but if the child has no particular talents it may simply be expressed in compulsive caring for the family. But while the hero appears saintly, he is spiritually bereft for his values are built on false foundations, and his spiritual potential has never matured. Equally the hero can be a heroine and the eldest daughter of the family — with all the female caring tendencies, plays her role to perfection. Tracey is a heroine. At eleven -years-old, an only child, she is accepting responsibility for her mother's drinking. Her belief is built on the fact that if she is good everything will be allright. Everything is not all right — has she not been good enough? She is bargaining with God, offering him her goodness in return for her mother's sobriety; she will face constant disillusionment in the value of her goodness. Tracey is a sick and disturbed child. If her mother stopped drinking, Tracey would still be sick and disturbed. Tracey has the family disease from which no member of the alcoholic family is immune. Family heroes are the care-

takers of the future, sometimes they are potential alcoholics. THE SCAPEGOAT — with the triangular relationship firmly established by the t ime the second child arrives, the truth is, there is often nowhere for this child to go. Where does he fit? In terms of goodies and baddies the 'caretaker' and the 'hero,' being the goodies are busying themselves at t he task of successfully controlling the baddie — the dependent. But to the second child there appears to be no baddie, for although he may recognise the drinking as a problem, both 'caretaker' and 'hero' have made a first class lob of denying this. They have made excuses, smoothed over his destructive behaviour and protected him. From the 'hero's' example he can see being good and successful brings attention which he equates with love. But he cannot keep pace with the 'hero,' who, because of his age and his unique position, can always go one better. Since his goodness has no novelty value, they have seen it all before, the second child may resort to misbehaviour to get the attention he craves. Craig, 13, is a 'scapegoat.' He is surly and insolent, rebelling in all sorts of ways at home and at school. He won't wash, goes to bed in his clothes and reacts

with anger and violence when his demands are not met. He is always in trouble and his school progress is poor. He is suspected of being responsible for vandalism at school. Craig provides his father with a great deal of relief, guilt -ridden and frightened, he can turn his attention to his son's disruptive behaviour.

EDEI Craig takes the focus away from his father's drinking. The 'scapegoat' also offers the 'caretaker' added opportunities for caretaking. Despite his bad behaviour, she loves him and is sorry for him so she caretakes him — slipping him extra pocket money, letting him off too lightly when the 'dependent' is absent. The 'scapegoat' is the first outward sign of the unhealthy family system and despite the seemingly sullen and unco-operative exterior, if his true situation is recognised, he is easier to help. The nature of his behaviour means he is likely to come into contact with some form of counselling. Whether it is a guidance officer, educational psychologist, pastoral care officer, or probation officer, if the attuned counsellor can identify the 'scapegoat' he has a great chance.

Coin clue in shroud ROME (NC): Computers have found that two coins of Pontius Pilate's day were placed upon the eyes in the Holy Shroud of Turin. The impressions are clearly shown by a special technique of "numeric elaboration used over a three-year period," claims Professor Robert Haralik who presented his work to a Florence meeting of the Fourth International Con-

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Unlike the 'hero' he has much to gain from stepping Out of his character for it is bringing no reward. THE LOST CHILD — perhaps the saddest child of all is the lost child. It is clear to see how the second child easily falls into the role of 'scapegoat,' but individual temperament can r everse the roles of the second and third children. 'Scapegoat' and lost child' have much in common a lthough their behaviour indicates they are worlds apart. Both are outside that exclusive triangle and both find their own means of coping with their sense of rejection. The 'lost child' handles his exclusion by cutting himself off. The 'lost child's' withdrawal compounds his situation. He causes no trouble, so he is easily overlooked and often described as 'being so good we don't even know he is around.'

His need for companionship and affection does not show and he is assumed to be content in his own little world. He spends his time alone in solitary pastimes, sometimes in the company of imaginary friends or animal companions which become more real to him than his troubled family. A toy or pet may become invested with a human personality becoming his friend and confidant.

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Look at an idea Renowned local radio producer Tony Evans is resurrecting interesting history of the Chesterton-Belloc era in the Radio Helicon program on the Distributists at 8pm on 6WN on Monday October, 29. In September 1926, just 58 years ago, in a hall in the Strand, London, the Distributist League called once the maddest, merriest political party in all England, formally c ame into existence. It quickly attracted a large membership, appealing especially to writers, artists, journalists and those disillusioned by Fabian socialism and Tory Conservatism. The Distributists advocated a more even distribution of private property, legislation t o l imit monopolies, and support for the small businessman and craftsman. G.K. Chesterton was their president, and the ex -Liberal MP and bellicose radical, Hilaire Belloc, their chief propagandist. Eric Gill and T.S. Eliot were members for a time, and their sole representative in Parliament was the distinguished lz :fryer, Sir Henry Slesser. T hey argued that only when the people owned property and the means of production could they be free, and realise the dignity of the human personality. W ith the death of G.K. Chesterton in 1936 and the onset of the war, the Distributists disbanded.

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A need to show compassion

SAMARKAND (Uzbekistan USSR) The longawaited Olympiad of scientific atheism specially for schoolchildren took place recently, according to a report in Pravda Vostoka (The Truth of the East).

• From page 3 "Is it any wonder we look for a tidy solution to the unwanted pregnancy that is going to disturb our comfort?" he asked. He believes the medical profession has succeeded in deluding itself by shrouding the abortion procedure in sterile language that avoids contemplating the real issue and confronting the actual person. "Medicine has created a beautiful barrier of words and diseases to replace man. "Doctors tend to treat the disease and often forget about the human being who is diseased. "The cancer patient is very afraid and unsure of what is happening. "Life has been turned upside down. "The cancer experts do a' wonderful job dealing with the cancer. "They reduce the tumor by attacking the cell mass with radiation and chemotherapy. "So it is with abortion. "The foetus is attacked. "The procedure is sterile. 'They get gowned up. masked, check anaesthetic records and 'get rid of cells in uterine cavity' or 'a gestation of six weeks', 'do a curette' a 'termination'. "There is no involvement with people." he said. Doctor Jefferson is convinced if doctors were to become more involved on a person to person basis it would become more a matter for conscience.

First Secretary of the Namangansky town committee in Uzbekistan, B. STEPANOV, said the event was the culmination of recent atheist work which had seen a sense of adventure being worked into the basic teaching of the secular ideology. Libraries and enterprises, schools and young people's cutture houses have all been host to exhibitions and stands on the theme of "Religion — the opium of the people". Advice has been available on these occasions for believers at a cubicle where "one hundred words of advice" have been freely given. Older children approaching school-leaving age are shown special films featuring some of the new "rituals" in the Soviet Army so that these 17-year olds know what to expect when they are conscripted. The enrolment ceremony into the Army is one of the "festive" occasions which has been significantly brightened up to appeal to people's emotions. In the same newspaper, 0. ISMAlLOV, the secretary of t he Uzbekistan Komsomol (Communist youth movement), reported on the work being done among the older children of his organisation with the aim of developing more atheist specialists. There is a shortage of such activists, and a competition has been held to find the best young atheists in the region. A special "agitation train" has visited all the country's districts holding "question and answer" evenings and film-shows on topics concerning atheism. Lectures touched the wider issue of how religion, and especially Islam, is being used by imperialists in their psychological war against socialism and the Soviet Union generally. Extra attention is being paid to Muslims and a paper has been given to the Komsomol Central Committee on "Islam and the contemporary ideological struggle" and "Questions of atheist propaganda among the Islamic youth". Details are given by the many regular atheist publications, which include a monthly bulletin issued by the Central Committee of lectures from various academic institutes. Excursions are also provided for young activists such as a recent one was for 360 Komsomol members to Leningrad where they visited the exposition of the Museum of Religion and Atheism in the former Kazan Cathedral on the city's main street, the Nevsky Prospekt. Keston Report

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Should we join communists too? from PADDY McNAMEE, Armadale SIR: It was surprising to note the prominence given

to Lionel Bowen's call to The Record (October 4)toCatholics to join the ALP because, as reported, there was

Speaking out about spirit from Mrs Gail Davis, Morley SIR: Congratulations to Father G. Beyer of Karrinyup. (The Record September 27) for speaking out on the lack of community spirit. It is a subject which has been mentioned a number of times by members of the Christian Life Group to which I belong. We would agree with father on all the points which he raised. However, we believe people commenting on the footy, weather, etc is OK as some would not feel confident enough to discuss the homily.

What is most disappointing is to see so many of the congregation leaving before the priest has even left the altar. Talking outside the church may not be part of going to Mass but it is part of building up the community spirit and this is what many people do not understand. Perhaps each one of us needs to overcome our shyness, apathy, reserve or whatever it is, that holds us back from approaching others or even just smiling at them. If we make this effort then eventually we may become one family as Christ intended.

almost a total absence of Christian influence. Might we expect a further call some time to join the Communist Party or say the Mafia, since there is also almost a total absence of Christian influence in both these organisations? Surely no Catholic with a semblance of conscience could join a party whose declared policy supports abortion on demand. Measured against the daily massacre of the unborn together with the pornographic plague of the media and video market, Lionel Bowen's policy of remaining with the party to change things, appears to have met with lamentable success. I think it might be more advisable to put before readers of The Record the example of Pius XII, who at the termination of World War II excommunicated all Catholics who continued as members of the Communist Party and thus saved Europe from the complete scourge of that phenomenon.

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Encouraged to seek light from GREG BROPHY, Swanbourne Sir: John Dallimore's letter (The Record October 18) is an encouragement to seek light on an unchallenged statement by Patrick D'Cruz in The Record in March this year when he said "...Christ being a socialist Himself.. ..", in the context of social comment. Would Mr D'Cruz like to explain how Christ is a socialist? With both an election and the Feast of Christ the K ing close upon us many readers, voters and believers would surely be interested in the solution of this paradox.

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LONDON (NC): Bishop David Konstant is the representative of the English bishops on the Catholic Institute of International Relations. He has written to the British Foreign Office to urge the Government to mediate between the South African authorities and six political leaders who took refuge in the British Consulate in Durban. These six leaders had boycotted the recent elections among coloured people. The Bishop understood Britain's reluctance to interfere in the internal affairs of another country, but the institute felt apartheid was now an issue attracting world-wide attention. 0 0 0

OTTAWA (NC). Pope John Paul condemned abortion as an "unspeakable crime , using some of the strongest language of his 12 -day tour of Canada. -Life from conception onward must be defended from all that attacks IC the pope said in a talk to a crowd of elderly, young and handicapped people in Vancouver's domed stadium, B.C. Place. -This unspeakable crime against human life which rejects and kills life at the beginning sets the stage for despising, negating and eliminating the life of adults, and for attacking the life of society,- he said

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MANAGUA: Ex-priests and ex-Religious are helping the Sandinista government form a "popular church" in Nicaragua in opposition to the Catholic bishops, says Bishop Pablo Antonia Vega, president of the Nicaraguan Bishops' Conference. Many of the ex-priests and exReligious are directly or indirectly paid by the government. Bishop Vega said former priests and Religious are "passing themselves off as priests and Religious and are protected by the government, helping to form the socalled 'popular church'. Most are Nicaraguans or come from western European countries, he said. But he did not know how many there are in Nicaragua because "they come and go, staying about six months." Bishop Vega said that currently there are three ex-priests in the territory of Juigalpa, which he heads but he has only one priest for the 4250-square-mile-area and its 110,000 population. About 90 percent of Nicaragua's 2.8 million are Catholic. "The government has denied my priest permission to visit some of the small rural areas but has allowed the ex-priests to go."

SANTIAGO: Three Chilean bishops, including the Archbishop of Concepcion, Chile's secondlargest city, cancelled Te Deum services celebrating independence from Spain in protest at government repression. Archbishop Jose Manuel Santos of Concepcion was quoted in a Chilean newspaper as saying the services would be "a false symbol of harmony that doesn't exist." The Archbishop and the bishops of Copiapos and Linares NEW YORK: Archbishop instead offered euchaDaniel E Pilarczyk of Cincinnati has requested ristic services without the topic of declining sending the traditional Mass attendance be put personal invitations to on the agenda of the government officials. November meeting of the

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However, the traditional thanksgiving celebrations marking Chile's break from Spain in 1810 took place in 20 other cities in the country. and government officials took their traditional seats. The break in tradition by the three bishops reflected what military and Church officials called their worst relations in the 11-year rule of General Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Marxist President Salvador Allende in September, 1973. One day earlier, Pinochet renewed the state of emergency in the country for another 90 days, restricting freedom of speech and assembly. He also extended for six more months the presiden tial power to exile people without charge or court hearings.

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National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archbishop Pilarczyk suggested changing attitudes might be the reason for his archdiocese's declining Mass attendance, which parish headcounts have shown for the past 15 to 20 years. He said in the past, Catholics thought it was a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sunday. "There is no longer that attitude," he told the pastoral council, a consultative body of representatives from his archdiocese. "More and more people regard themselves as plod Catholics even if they don't go to Mass every Sunday," the archbishop said.

Bishop Vega said the effort to create a "popular church" is part of the Sandinista government's plan to create parallel pro-government structures to basic national institutions such as the Church and labour unions in an effort to stifle criticism. "The ideology is clearly Marxist-Leninist," he said. "There is no freedom of expression." Many Catholics are able to discern between Christianity and the church which gets its approval from the Sandinistas, the bishop said.

CH:0 "A majority of the people are not guerillas, but they don't like the Sandinistas," he said. The Church is in a delicate position because it initially supported the Sandinistas who came to power in 1979 after overthrowing the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, Bishop Vega said. Now the hierarchy sees human and political rights being violated by a government trying to impose an ideology, he said. "Many who yelled at Somoza are now yelling at the Sandinistas." "Before there were two jails in my area; now there are five or six," the bishop said.

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican has denied as "absurd and without any foundation" allegations in a book by two British authors that Pope John Paul II received weekly information reports from the Central Intelligence Agency. The book, The Year of Armageddon, by Gordon Thomas and Max M organ-Witts, alleges the CIA's R ome station furnished the pope every Friday with a summary of intelligence material on the world situation. The book claims that relations between the pope and the CIA became very close in a joint effort to avoid a nuclear holocaust

Thomas said the contacts continued despite efforts by the Vatican secretary of state to stop them because he w as upset the CIA failed to prevent the 1 981 assassination a ttempt against the pope. The allegation that every Friday the pope receives a report from the Rome CIA office, with classified information, reports, photographs, etc., is absurd and without any foundation,'" Vatican press spokesman Father Pierfranco Pastore said.

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Is there a key to unlocking human potential? Sometimes other people can be the catalyst that helps individuals discover their own potential, Katharine Bird discovers in an interview with Father Edward Braxton. Father Robert Sherry says that dreams are an important first step when it comes to developing one's potential. But other crucial steps include finding a mentor to talk with, and making plans to pursue a particular vocation. Dr Theodore Hengesbach tells the interesting stories of some people he has assisted on the college level in the development of their personal potential. Father John Castelot asks readers to imagine the psalmist looking up into the skies in awe of the mighty God who created this world. As the psalmist gazes out into the vastness of space, he does not marvel at humanity's insignificance. Instead he is stunned to realise how important human life is.

View humanity f rom the Big Dipper and points beyond Photos of the Earth taken from space reveal a luminous little sphere as cold and lonely as the moon. Viewed from space, our world which used to seem so enormous and whose problems still seem almost overwhelming — suddenly looks tiny and insignificant. Many centuries ago a man gazing out into space gave voice to these thoughts: "When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place. what is man that you should he mindful of him or the son of man that you should care for him?" (Psalm 8:4-S) But — and this is the surprising point — it was not humanity's insignificance that stunned the

and power. People are cocreators. And God is eternally active and creative. A sign of this is found in the ongoing development and growth — the ongoing creation — of each human person. No person is a finished, static product. like a car rolling off an assembly line. The only change the car will undergo is deterioration — and depreciation. A human being. on the other hand, from the moment of birth, never stops growing physically. intellectually, emotionally. spiritually. In short, each person is a bundle of possibilities. Those possibilities become actualities when people exercise their free will — when they make choices. In fact, every single choice a person makes, no matter how apparently unimportant, is creative — or destructive. Like a hammer blow on metal, every choice moulds our characters and personalities; it creates us. We are, with God's help, "captains of our souls." Of course, there are circumstances in life over which people have no control. It is one's reaction to those circumstances that can be controlled. Obviously, too, we often feel unequal to the task of our ongoing development. Only God creates effortlessly. For God's human cocreators, it is a challenge, frequently a difficult one.

By Father John {Castelot i ancient writer as he boked into the stars. What struck him was quite the opposite: humanity's enormous importance. Of no other creature was it said, as it is said of man and woman: "In the divine image he created them" (Genesis 1:27). A sense of wonder at humanity's value swept over the psalmist. "You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honour. You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet; all sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea and whatever swims the paths of the seas" (Psalm 8:6-9). Now, to be made in God's image and likeness means that humanity is given a share in God's creative love

Strength comes from the realisation that people are co-creators, working with God. No one was ever more conscious of his weakness than St. Paul. Yet, he wrote: "I willingly boast of my

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weakness, that the power of Christ may rest upon me...for when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:9,10). Yet Paul goes on to say, "In him is the source of my strength. I have strength for everything" (Philippians 4:13).

Finding real fulfilment in adventure Greg Barton raced for the gold in the solo kayak event in the 1984 summer Olympics. I found his story especially moving. Barton was born with club feet and even after 12 operations this condition could not be fully corrected. So he turned his attention from sports which required leg and foot coordination to one that demanded upper body strength — kayaking. Although Barton missed the gold, he is a model of how to turn defeat in one area into an asset in another. As a teacher and adviser of adults returning to complete their university degrees, I meet individuals who set great goals for themselves and who often achieve great results. Some start with real handicaps, having to turn around an earlier history of failure, academic probation and even dismissal from the university 10 or 20 years ago. They go on to perform in acceptable, even outstanding ways. Then there are people like Lynn Thompson and Harry Spigle, both recent retirees. Thompson came to see me two years ago about taking a painting course. He felt this would be a good way to fill his time.

It soon became clear that Spigle had been taking he had earned many college university courses sporadicredits in the past and that cally since 1938. His final he was close to completing course toward a bachelor's his bachelor's degree. So degree was one in poetry instead of just a course in which, he told me, "opened painting, he enrolled in a up a whole new part of my variety of courses. Within a life." year and a half he finished It provided him with the his degree. At the 1983 skills, practice and encourgraduation, he led the pro- agement to put his personal cession of students into the experiences as a World War hall. H soldier into poetic form.

At 66 Spigle became a published poet. In the university's fine arts magazine featuring the best student work, three of his poems are prominently presented.

By Theodore Hengesbach Both Thompson and Spigle discovered a potential they didn't know was there.I also know a woman, a university graduate. who was willing to begin all over to obtain a graduate degree in business. To fulfill the mathematics requirement. she took a course in algebra. After three attempts over a twoyear period involving heavy weekly homework assignments, she gained the requisite B. She is an example of some-

one who can learn skills in a completely new area Christian life reveals a similar pattern. Faith calls Christians to achieve one's full potential. The life and words of Jesus invite Christians to expand their horizons. His words encourage people to live in new, undreamed of ways. The New Testament offers a perspective on life's meaning — on life's enrichment and fulfilment. Think of the Rich Young Man in the Gospel. According to the scripture

account, the Rich Young Man was a good man, searching to become better. When Jesus told him that he should sell all that he had in order to be perfect, the rich man turned away. He departed in a sad state. But his sadness does not indicate he did something wrong by departing. Rather, the Rich Young Man's sadness resulted from his inability to research in a new and different way for fulfilment — to move beyond the potential he had alreadi achieved.

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During the games of the 23rd Olympiad in Los Angeles, record after record was broken as the athletes proved themselves swifter, stronger and more enduring than those who had broken marks before them. It makes one wonder if there is any limit to human potential.

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new beginning in life, they tend to be hopeful and apprehensive at the same time. It's no wonder. For at the beginning point, who can see the end result? Perhaps this is why a man and woman get nervous on their wedding day. Each partner's destiny is about to become intertwined with the destiny of a spouse, the destinies of children they eventually hope to have, the destinies of new relatives and friends. Years later the couple may look back on their lives and realize how much they have grown and changed. Undoubtedly they will find that the course their personal development took was strongly influenced by life together — what they learned from each other, what they suffered together, what they achieved together. It is similar with other points in life when people make a new beginning: the first day in college, the first day in a new neighbourhood, the first day in a new job, the first day m a new parish. In each case, a person is stimulated by the new situation and, perhaps, jittery over the roles that new people — teachers, coworkers, neighbours, parishioners -- will play in his or her life. Will these new people foster or frustrate one's personal development. Your potential as a human being doesn't mature in a vacuum. Instead, fulfilment unfolds in the midst of real lifile.Other people help to draw out your hidden potential. • Unanticipated developments point towards aptitudes and talents you never thought could be yours. Many adults could testify that they discovered new dimensions of their personal potential when they were 35 or older. All this points to one reason why the Church places such importance on the community dimensions of its life. People are always searching for fulfilment. And they contribute to each other's fulfilment in important ways. The members of the Christian community are people who in many ways can foster the potential within each other's lives. The sacrament of confirmation focuses in a special way on the value and the potential of each person's life. When youths are prepared for confirmation today, they often are asked to undertake a project in which they serve the needs of other people. In this way, the Church says in effect to its young people: "You have gifts and talents for serving others that you have, as yet, barely imagined. With God's Spirit, your potential is truly astounding."

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Grasping the meaning that life offers During a recent trip to Africa, Father Edward Braxton visited an ancient tribe, the Masai, at their village outside Nairobi Kenya. The priest, director of campus ministry at the University of Chicago, shared bread and beans utith the tribespeople in their mud huts. Then, Father Braxton said, a 14-yearold took him by the band and led him off to see his goat herd. The young man told thepriest, in the English be learnedat a Christian school, that be didn't intend to cut his ear lobes as his tribe traditionally did. Asked why, the youth replied, "Because Iknow only Masai do this." He added, "I see that if! stay here all I will do is be a herdsman. But there is a world much bigger than the Masai." Wow that I can read and write I want to go to secondary school."be told thepriest. "ButIknowIcannot do it by myself We are fast friends now. Will you help me?" Father Braxton says he looked at the earnest youth in his red smock and heads and thought bow 'incredible he is. given his circumstances." The theologian said he also realised that be had a unique opfxfrrtunity to help this teenager And, uith more education and perhaps college, "there wouldn't be any stopping him."

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By Katharine Bird Father Braxton indicated that for such a youth the road to a sterling future lies in education. Hou'ever. developing hislx)tentialshouldn't mean losing his identity as a black, the priest stressed. "Real education is haringyour being expanded to grasp the meaning of life and your potential and the contribution you can make to your community," Father Braxton elaborated. Father Braxton, a black priest of the Chicago archdiocese, told of a young Puerto Rican he met and lib° after eighth grade dropped out of school and started urn-king in a grocery store to help his parents make ends meet. " Isaw he desired to know more, soIencouraged him to go to high school" and get a part-time job, Father Braxton sail. Then, ahem the boy uas tempted to settle for a "quasi-managerial job in a drug store. 1 argued with him to slay in school. to keep developing his mind" After a while, the iyiung man took an interest in the legal problems that some Puerto Rican people urre experiencing. He began asking legal questions, Father

Unleashing potential During the games of the 23rd Olympiad in Los Angeles, record after record was broken as the athletes proved themselves swifter, higher, stronger. It makes you wonder: Is there any limit to human potential? How is human potential discovered and unleashed? Christians believe that each person is gifted with a personal vocation — a special and unique calling. The talent is usually hidden within a person to be discovered like a treasure.

By Father R obert Sherry The rub is that it is hidden. For some people it might have been covered over by years of hearing someone say: "You'll never amount to anything" or "You can't do that." Others never had a sense of achievement. Perhaps no one offered them any recognition. And it could be that a person had no sense of personal responsibility, little chance for advance-

Is there a limit to what humans can achieve ment or personal growth — important factors that help us unleash our potential. One tertiary student was wondering what she would do after graduation. After 16 years of schooling she didn't have much sense of who she was or where she was headed. It happened that she picked up a magazine and spotted two multiple-choice questions that started her thinking. The first asked: What is the most effective way to discover human potential — by scientific testing; trial and error; reading books; a special program; or through the assistance of a mentor, coach or guidance counselor? The second asked about the best way to unlock human potential. Is it by exercise or through prayer and meditation? What about drugs, mind control or self-discipline) The young woman realised she never had thought about all this. Yet when she reflected on some others in her graduating class, she rea-

lised they had definite plans for what they would do after they received their diplomas. It seemed as though they had found a way to discover and unleash their potential. In "Seasons of Man's Life," Daniel Levinson says a person between the ages of 18 and 30 has four tasks to perform. — Dreaming comes first. We create tomorrows by what we dream today. — Second, it is vital to form a relationship with someone who is helpful as a guide — someone to talk with at times. — Third is discovering

an occupation — choosing from among your dreams. — Fourth is forming close, supportive relationships. Perseverance and commitment are among other factors that help to unlock a person's potential. I think. A writer once said: "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he starts to blame somebody else." And Goethe, the 19th-century author of "Faust", said: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." God gave us great potential, for we are created in his likeness. Moreover, we have the tools to discover and unleash our potential. That doesn't mean God will stop us from falling. Rather God always picks us up.

Braxton said. Gradually the young man recognised that he had a continuing interest in legal matters and decided to go to law school. Wow he is a lauyer doing wonderful things for his people," Father Braxton said. In his view, that young man 'Came up from the bottom by getting a tremendous grasp on his potential" and bow that potential related to his people's needs. The man now credits the priest for his encouragement all down the line. But, Father Braxton says, "he puts too much on me.Iwas just a catalyst to beip him pursue what was in him." Human potential, Father Braxton reiterated, is the "capacity a person has to gm-on' and improl 'e. to recognise gifts and talents and to deirlop them to the fullest."

DECJE The crucial next step. he thinks. is "to read the signs of the time." This means looking at the world to see what is needed and then connecting those needs with one's particular gifts. Father Braxton saidbeis confine-eel that "most blimans hair far more potential than they are aware of" Often an unusual circumstance triggers people into (ZwelletleSS of some special He told of a _young Nigerian WOMall who during a political upbeat a! in her country, saw her family uas in a precarious position. possibly facing death. At first, unable to get reliable information about her family, Father Braxton said, the girl simply 'disintegrated " Them helped by conversations with her friends and iiith him. the student calmed chain marshalled her inner resource's and den elopes'! a systematic plan. She located and then approached the appropriate agencies to get information about tibat uvis happening to her family. In doing so, "she tapped human potential she didn't know she had." Father Braxton said.

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The usual situation is photofor still graphers to become movie cameramen if they feel that way inclined. In the early days of WA television, for example, a number of the cameramen were former newspaper photographers who had virtually to teach themselves how to use the movie gear. But David Baster's transition was in the opposite direction. He was a movie who cameraman became a still photographer. His gradually-increasing interest in photography was spurred along after he bought a camera while on holiday in Singapore. S till studying social science at WAIT, he applied successfully for a post as a video operator at Channel Seven in 1973. He became a fully-fledged movie cameraman, but five years after his start in television he resumed still photography as a hobby and found gradually that his hobby gave him more scope for creativity than his job did. So in 1980 he decided to start out on his own as a still photographer. He used his Bayswater home as his business premises and he is going to keep it that way because he believes operating at home allows a more personal approach to the business. He employs no staff and his wife attends to the book-keeping side of the operation. David's first engagement was a wedding in the Assembly of God church in Morley.

David John Baster, a wedding and portrait photographer, was born in Perth on November 7, 1954. He started his education at the Como primary school, went on to Wesley College and studied social science at WAIT for more than a year before becoming a cameraman at Channel Seven. He won three merit

awards in the 1984 exhibition of the Institute of Australian Photography, bringing the total to the number required to qualify as an Associate of the Institute and use the letters AIAP after his name. When he was working at Channel Seven David met an Irish girl from Cork, Mary Elizabeth Falvey, a f ellow-employee, and

married her. The couple now have two daughters, Siobhan (2) and Bernice (eight months). The family are members of the DianeIla parish where David is taking instructions to become a Catholic. He works from his Bayswater home studio and Mary Elizabeth looks after the book-keeping side of the business.

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operative because they know that if they are going to pay good money they want a good photograph. He is quite happy to photograph babies of up to six months but after that age he pulls down the shutter, as it were, until they reach about 2' 2 years because in that 12-month age interval his little subjects generally find it impossible to sit still. VU.i4 Ce,tft Weddings require a lot of °NttOnli#4'' work. David Baster In addition to actually He numbers the ArchdiHis movie experience has designers are doing with taking the photographs ocesan Development Fund and alumiamong his clients. they call for abilities such helped him in the compo- tubular steel a structures; roofing nium he but pictures, his of sition David says lighting is one as posing the parties corof a nun rectly, getting on well with says that movie and still studio protrait of the most important faclife of prayer those involved and arrang- photography are poles projecting the tors in portraiture because that religious lead; and a apart. He got the job in a rather it has such an impact on ing events strictly to time. In TV he was concerned sylvan shot of a girl in a roundabout way. For his wedding pictures the colour rendition and the in working with the forest reading a book on a only A friend of the bride's actual photograph. he uses backgrounds such stump. sister had seen some of his In his experience outside as the home, the church, camera. In WA only two photoIn still photography he is a parkland or city building work and recommended portraiture is now more earned merit graphers additional with aced f reception. the and popular than studio poses him. setting, He has a selection of details such as lighting, awards and in the whole of The pictures turned out because people are "into" assocameras for different types arranging, development, Australia only nine well and the client was the natural, casual look. correct ciateships were granted. and processing work. coare Most subjects of the started pleased. This David's next objective is colour printing. David believes third- to achieve the Institute's dimension photography Master of Photography will be the next great leap status. "Photography is not just forward in still work. job and a means of supa There are now cameras capable of doing the work porting my family to me," and places where the film David says, "it is somecan be processed, but for thing I love doing. "The public is always the time being at least both influenced by general being are out of the price range or advertising photographs of the average person. and I enjoy doing pleasing Holographics, another 3D pictures that have some form, is also a coming sort of meaning. thing. "My wife enjoys the busFor the past three years iness as much as I do, and David has submitted picI couldn't carry it on withtures for the annual merit out her. award exhibition of the "I am one of the few Institute of Australian Phophotographers who protography, a professional duce and display religious national organisation pictures. involved in helping and "They have to have meaneducating photographers ing and religious signifiand generally advancing cance, such as the nun photography. praying, or priests with In the 1984 exhibition he children showing God's obtained three full merits, work through people dedwhich represents a very icated to God. high standard of work. "I like to think such picWith merits previously tures of mine have some gained, it qualified him to influence in bringing peobecome an Associate of ple back to religion. the Institute (AIAP). "If they did I would be His 1984 merit-gaining very pleased because I photographs were an archi- would have achieved my David Baster's prizewinning picture of a nun at prayer. tectural shot showing what goal.," he says.

word-of-mouth process on which he still relies to get business, and it is quite brisk. Weddings and portraits are still his main revenue producers but he has expanded into commercial avenues such as photographing interior decor, architectural features and general brochure work.

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IQCSILYN LOSS While Angela Rossen may not have been born with a paintbrush in her mouth it's more than likely that she cut her teeth on one. As number six in a family of nine children, Angela became part of brush -wielding a brood that flourished under the encouragement of their architect parents. With such a home environment, stimulated by the addition of a goodly dose of talent, it's not surprising that 25 -year old Angela has just held her first solo exhibition, with a sell-out of all but three paintings. Even more exciting is the news that she has been offered a scholarship which will take her on an art tour of Europe and subsequent post -graduate studies in New York. She leaves in January but in the meantime is painting and planning in a little house which she has rented in a leafy Claremont Street.

4NWPM" Good fortune smiles on this slim and serious young woman, who found her temporary haven at a meagre rent which even a young artist can afford. With the remains of her exhibition decorating the freshly-painted white walls of the loungeroom, Angela has used her artist's touch t o set up home for the moment. There's a sense of order and an eye for the visual in the huge plaited basket of fruit and vegetables on the kitchen counter one suspects that not much in her life is left to chance. Angela was born on Vancouver Island, Canada but grew up in Perth. It was, she says, particularly her mother's enthusiasm that made music, dance, craft and drawing part of family life. She fondly remembers how the older children would often line up the younger ones for various 'art classes.'

But her love of art didn't stop her declaring as a sixyear -old, that when she grew up she wanted to be a cleaner. went through lots of phases of things I wanted to do," she laughed," but I think I always knew inside that it would be something artistic." "It was fantastic being part of such a large family There was always someone to do something with and always one special friend. Painting and drawing were part of everyday life and there was always lots of art supplies... we didn't have television for much of my early life so we making always were things." It was rich soil and bred not only an artist, but an architect, an art specialist with the education department and a flautist,. . to name just a few. says Encouragement, Angela, is the important thing. "I'm sure it made all the difference to us as children that mother encouraged us as much as she did. I've done a lot of teaching with kids, especially gifted children and I've seen the effects of encouragement." Educated at Loreto Nedlands and then Loreto Claremont, Angela went on to complete a fine arts degree at the Western Australian Institute of Technology where she specialised in painting. She graduated in 1981 and has since worked mostly in watercolour. Art, she says, is something that grows more exciting all the time. "The more I could see of it the more I knew what an exciting world it was to explore," she said. "I go into my studio sometimes and just feel that something wonderful can happen." But there are times too, like all artists, when she finds herself in a creative wilderness. The answer is to go and do other things. "I like sewing, I don't know if I'm good at it but I like it. I make most of my own clothes," she said. Like most artists she has relied on part-time work to get by in the past and has spent time teaching and working as a nursing assistant. The latter, she says, was important in that it brought

children, her mother and father were architects.

Love of painting from her artisti parents her in touch with another side of life. It is all too easy, she adds, to lock yourself away in the studio and live in a world of your own, but it has been great to be able to just paint as I have done over the past year. That privacy is one of the things she most enjoys about painting but she sees herself as a social being as well and much of her painting is done late at night. "I often start after 10pm because no-one is likely to visit me after that," she said, "but I would have to say paint first and socialise second. "I work on into the morning but always make sure that I get eight hours sleep out of every twenty four." Her recent exhibition involved a great deal of work and solitude The exhibition was titled Rottnest in Winter and that is exacly what it was for Angela.. . a winter alone on Rottnest. She remembers it as a most marvellous time of privacy and thought. "It was a chance to walk, a chance to think," she said. "I've always loved Rottnest, I've been there every year but this was very different. "It's usually a place of sisters, sun and tan oil but this was a personal adventure, a looking inwards and I am sure it helped me creatively."

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As a tribute to her Rottnest adventure Angela wrote the following summary for her exhibition brochure: "If one takes a simple word or even one's own name and repeats it over and over again, it slowly disengages itself from any meaning or association and assumes an altogether abstract dimension. "So it is with the visual, whether an object or an entire scene. A period of contemplation is sometimes followed by a moment of the most profound insight. "This can also happen spontaneously and when one least expects it. A piece

of sea grass, for example. was for me an endless source of inspiration. When that magic had transformed it so that its mysterious colours, textures and shape suddenly revealed themselves as if for the first time. "During this enchanted winter by the beach I have trudged happily home each day with my pockets bulging with bits of seaweed, shells, even handfuls of sand... and my book full of sketches_ What is really the prize for the day is that moment of seeing. The bits are a reminder. Then I set to on a painting which hopes to

communicate that amazing joy and excitement. "Looking and seeing are as infectious as laughter. There is a momentum which can snatch up the imagination and hurry it along at a breathless pace. Music, painting, poetry and dance are all the expression of that exhilaration, or else one would be writing in dust. "Painting in this way is a wonderful journey in which I feel I am taking the first tentative steps." While on Rottnest she also learned to play the flute. "It was the post portable music I could find," she laughed, "although I did toy with the idea of taking a piano." "More than anything it was so relaxing, it made me feel confident and a lot less ' precious'. "Life with any creative process includes the possibility of humbugging yourself . .. it is so easy to muck yourself up with too much criticism." It was the birds which caught her eye on that wintery Rottnest and she painted them one after another. She chased the r ing-necked pheasants around the golf course, hunted out the peacocks at

the Army Barracks and fed the seagulls. The one thing she didn't paint was quokkas. "In fact I didn't even draw them, I don't really know why, I just liked the birds so much more," she said. In artistic terms Angela Rossen is very young but already she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the 1984 Western Australian Week Invitation Art Award Exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Gallery and the Western Australian Arts Council 'Landscapes in Watercolour' show which toured the North -West. She has won the 1982 Fremantle Arts Centre 10th Anniversary Watercolour Award and the 1983 Bunbury Purchase Award and is represented in the collections of the Western Ausof Institute tralian Technology, the Bunbury City Council and Hampton Senior High School. She has also been involved i n a number of country workshops with the Arts Council and jumps at the chance to 'go bush.' "All they have to do is ask and I'm off," she said. "I love it, the Western Australian landscape is so varied. In the North is red dust and spaces,

we have the wildflowers and down South the forests. She had a taste of the red dust recently when she travelled to Meekatharra to paint a mine for the front cover of a company's annual report. "It's a difficult landscape to love but once you do it is a love that never leaves you." It is almost impossible, she says, to earn a living as an artist but she paints because she can't possibly imagine doing anything else. "I have to learn much of the time at my own expense and it may take me 10, 20 or even 30 years ... but then you know there is no limit to learning anyway. "I have been lucky, like many young artists, to have had the support of the Fremantle Arts Centre. They do a great job in encouraging young people like myself." She is looking forward to her study tour with infectious enthusiasm and says she can hardly wait to leave. "I have things to see, I have so much to learn," she said. "I grew up in Perth so artistically I am book educated I am familiar with art but mainly reproductions. I recently visited all the big public collections around Australia and was captivated by seeing so much of the real thing. -You can see the process just by looking at the painting whereas reproduction r educes all to a common image. "More than anything I want to be involved with people who are painting seriously and New York is the art centre of the world."

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Brother Duffy, who has been a Christian Brother for 60 years, taught the class in sub-leaving at the Terrace and later at Aquinas He and another class teacher, Brother P.A. Kean ( 70 years a Christian Brother), were guests-of honour at the function. Guests of Honour Rev Bros P.A. Kean and J.B. Duffy MBE during the Golden Jubilee Mass.

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by BOB BOYLE ented positive proof of the validity of his thesis. "I am certainly proud of your success in various spheres of life in dynamic Western Australia," he said. "But most of all I am delighted to observe in you the spiritual and moral values a Catholic college aims to inculcate as a priority in all its graduates." Later in his speech, he said: "Without the aid of today's electronic devices aimed at implementing education, with no video clips to magnetise teenagers and no computer banks to supply instant data, this reunion class of 1934 I am now addressing has reached goals in professional life with an education based on the quientessential ingredient of comfortable teacher pupil relations which, somehow, today seem to be replaced by the heartless mass production techniques of the electronic age." Brother Duffy said that the aim of the teachers of the class had been to make the pupils substantial men of Christian faith and leaders in social and public life. "Tonight's gathering," he added, "shows we were not working in vain."

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Forum Role of women in the Church In 1976 Pope Paul VI spoke encouraging words at the national congress of the Italian Women's Centre. 'The whole Church follows with interest and trepidation the various women's movements... In Christianity, in fact, more than in any other religion, woman has had from the very beginning a special status of dignity and the New Testament bears witness to many important aspects of it. It is clearly evident that woman is given a place in the living and operating structure of Christianity. Like the Church of the origins, so also the Church of today cannot but be on the side of woman." Indeed, the Vatican is considering seriously the questions of the role of women in the worship community. However despite this, many people see the role of women in the Church in terms of r eligious sisters only. Elezabeth LovattDolan's article ' Women Together in the Church- looks at the common role of religious and laity — here is an excerpt: The first thing which has become clear to me is how little we know about each other, and how much we need to learn about each other if we are to contribute effectively, as women, to building the Kingdom of God on earth, and if we are to participate fully in the evangelising mission of the Church. "Many of our attitudes towards each other today would appear to have little to do with a vision of the Church that emphasises the co-responsibility of ALL the People of God, and much to do with outdated attitudes and misplaced expectations. The knowledge and expectations that many religious have of lay women can be based on erroneous and irrational assumptions. 'This comes across

when they express astonishment at lay women interested in theology; in the way that religious assume that a woman with a husband or child cannot feel lonely or unfulfilled; in the lack of confidence in the ability of lay women (particularly those from deprived backgrounds) to be the agents of their own development and advancement. "Similarly, most lay women know little or nothing about women religious. Often "sisters" are seen in terms of their role or functions rather than as persons. They are perceived as having no worries about the future, no sick children, as having food, shelter and clothing forever. "So where can we find the truth on which we should base our expectations? The equality of all members of the human family was revealed by Christ. It is not only a matter of a fundamental equality between women and men, but also between women and women. It is an acceptance that there are many parts in the one body (1 Cor 1 2.20). All of us have the same vocation to serve God and one another, but the living out of this vocation depends on our own gifts and charisms. "Each of us, r eligious or lay woman is called to witness her commitment, her faith, hope and love in Christ — through commitment to her community. "Are we, as Church, as people of God, as r eligious and as lay women, in the lead in the struggle for justice and liberation? Does our witness support the struggle for justice and liberation? Does our witness support the status quo or are we trying to have it both ways? Have we the courage and the faith, hope, and love to be the Church relevant, or are we content to be the Church irrelevant?" (Article reprinted from TYCS Newsletter. Put together by Monica Butler (276 3237) with thanks to Sister Pauline O'Connor (Servite College — St John of God nun). Lyn Dundon TYCS Office 328 4071).

Hearing and heeding God GO The Lord said GO and I said who me? and he said yes you; and I said but I'm not ready yet and there are friends coming You know there's no-one to take my place and he said you're stalling. Again the Lord said GO

and I said but I don't want to and I said listen I'm not that kind of person I just don't get involved and what will the neighbours think? and he said I'm waiting. Yet a third time the Lord said GO and I said do I have to

and he said do you love me and I said I'm scared people are going to talk about me, and cut me up into little pieces; and he said where do you think I'll be? and the Lord said GO and I sighed, here I am, send me.

Stand and be heard When I read the article on the front page The of R ecord in which the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Bowen, spoke of the situation which we saw existing in the Australian Labor Party and politics in general, it set me thinking. He saw very many Catholics wanting change in the ALP, but refusing to be part of the structure which could bring about c hange. Mr Bowen told how Catholics should be more involved in politics, should stand up and be counted and make the Christian voice heard,

By Damian Hart, YCS Fulltimer otherwise the people in power will be nonChristian and there will be little Christian influence in party policy. This reminded me of the need for youth, e specially Christian youth to be involved in the things that affect youth. The Catholic Youth Council Conference being held in January 1985 for International Year of Youth, will take this issue up a nd look at how Catholic youth can aff ect the Church and society. This is a great step forward for if we, as youth do not foster a spirit of questioning

and participation in the things that affect us, such situations as the one described by Mr Bowen will continue to exist. It is heartening to see on this Youth Page over the weeks, how the different youth movements are encouraging this sense of participation; to see how the YCW is involved in the unemployment issue. The article made me stop and think not iust about participating in politics. but about how I participate as a Christian in everything I do. Mr Bowen reminded me of the need that I see for

youth, especially Christian youth to be involved in those structures, those groups which affect us. I firmly believe that young people have something to offer. That statement is nothing new. It's been heard before.

As a fulltime worker for the Young Christian Student Movement I am constantly faced with question: Do I really believe that it? Do I really believe that people as young as 15 can totally organize a meet ing or a camp.

I'm lucky I suppose, because although I'm challenged to constantly believe youth can do things, I am also in a position to actually see youth doing it. It's heartening to see ordinary school students on a Commonwealth Education Committee or involved in the production of the )cial Justice Statement on youth, "It's a Rocky Road". For youth to have input on those levels is tremendous. not because it gives students dignity. or importance, but those committees gain immeasurably from having the opinions of young people.

C3 E Only when we ourselves let young people show what they can do, will young people learn. I don't just mean inviting them to be part of a Parish Council, or Parents' and Friends' groups for schools, but to accept them as being normal members with something to give to that Council. Of course, young people don't know all the answers and have a lot to learn from more knowledgeable people. When adults and youth alike can both learn and help each other to reach a common goal in a spirit of quality then we can start to truly live the values of love and equality that Christ lived. To us. the challenge is even greater. We have to believe in ourselves and other young people. follow Christ's example, and be participators, not spectators in life.

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hildren's Story Hour Solomon seemed to have everything a young man could wish for. He grew up in the royal palace. He was the favourite son of his father, King David. He was handsome. Solomon's father gave the youth everything he wanted. Then, shortly before D avid's death, S olomon became king. The young king ruled the whole Kingdom of Israel. He married the beautiful daughter of the pharoah of Egypt. The couple lived happily together in Jerusalem. Solomon ordered a luxurious palace built for himself and his wife. He also began building a wall around the city. S olomon's most famous project, however, was a great new temple to the Lord. night O ne as Solomon slept, he dreamed that the Lord was speaking to him. In his dream God said, "Solomon, what would you like me to give you?"

Solomon answered, "Lord, you were very good to my father, King David. You continue to show your love for him by allowing me to sit on his throne. You have been good to me as well. You have made me king of your people." Solomon paused a moment. He was a mazed at the thought of how good God had been to him. He wondered what he would ask God for now. "Lord," Solomon continued, "I am still young. There is one thing I very much need and want if I am to rule your people well . Give me an understanding heart so I can judge your people and know what is right and what is wrong." The Lord was happy with Solomon's r equest. "Because you have asked for an understanding heart and not for a long life or riches or power over your enemies, I will give you your wish. I give you a

heart more wise and understanding than anyone's. There never has been nor will there be anyone equal to you in wisdom and understanding." Solomon sighed in his sleep. He was delighted that God gave him what he asked for. But God had more to say to Solomon. "In addition to an u nderstanding heart," the Lord continued, "I give you also what you did not ask for. All your life you will have wealth and honour, more than any other king. If you obey me and my commands, as your father, David, did, I will give you a long life." Solomon woke up suddenly. He realised he had been dreaming. But he knew the dream was true. He was sure God really spoke to him in his dream. K ing Solomon became famous all over Israel and all over the world because he was so understanding and wise.

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Technology in 1954, in art. Ferrier has worked in advertising. both here and overseas, designing costumes for television and pantomime, and is currently teaching at Randwick Technical College.

BIRTHDAY Happy birthday to Shane Murphy, Mount Lawley; V. Katanning; McDonald. Lynda McKenzie. Girrawheen; Cheryl Ong, Tuart Hill;Jim O'Callaghan, Woodlands; Kathryn Spriggins, Bunbury; Gary Whyte. Etallidu; Andrea Mason, West Perth; Jack Thompson. Wattleup; Bevan Hall, Morley, Marguerite Lane, Collie; Lisa Mokrzycki, Girrawheen; Sharleen Gaby, Beechboro; Sonia Anderton, Karrinyup; Edward Bugajewski, Kelmscott; Catherine Duce. Boyanup; Robin Evans, Northam; Anthony Field, Craigie; Susan Harvey, Mogumber; Brett Handyside, Saudi Arabia; Daniel Johnston, Marmion.

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The strength of the weaker sex The Weaker Vessel, For many of these women, Woman's lot in seven- the soldiering life was only teenth century Eng- ended by the all too obvious Antonia evidence of their feminity — by land, Fraser, published by pregnancy.. Weidenfeld & Nicol$29.95. But if men were prepared to son, R eviewed by Roslyn tolerate women in war, they would not countenance the R oss. Antonia Fraser's latest greatest terror of them all, 'the volume is a fascinating chron- learned woman.' The prevailicle of what life was like in ing opinion, according to the 17th century writer Hannah the seventeenth century. It is not feminist literature in Woolley found that a woman the sense that it projects an was 'learned., enough if she

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of judgement, Mary Ward was quick to see that women in religious orders could not carry out their proper part in this apostolate, if they were not correctly prepared for it. It was Mary Ward who said; 'in time women will come to dity was not only prized, but ture through the ducking the life stories of particular shire in June 1675; the labour do much.' In reading Antonia in the absence of contracep- stool and hung as witches; as women the courageous con- lasted an agonising five days, Fraser's book it becomes tives, inevitable; as was the often as not for no greater sin tribution made in a time when with four midwives in perpetthan that of being an old women were doubly handi- ual attendance, including a obvious that women have rate of infant mortality. always done much, despite Women, in that strata of woman with no family left to capped by their sex. While the 'man midwife' who half-way the enormous and harsh con- society where the law could protect her and no place in restrictions put upon them by through the proceedings promen were great, the restric- nounced the baby dead. But, straints put upon them by be applied, were first the society. property of their fathers, and If the churches reinforced a tions put upon them by nature a benevolent neighbour prosociety. In fact, in 17th century then of their husbands, and a belief in the inherent evil of were even greater. Maternal cured the services of yet terms, the religious life for measure of their worth was women they also subse- mortality was high, childbirth another midwife who successwomen had enormous bound up inextricaly with the quently provided a vehicle for dominated the life of most fully delivered a living child. appeal...it offered a refuge, prospects of the eventual female expression. The Quak- females from highest to low- (little Ralph Frekc was to ers, especially, taught the est, so that in this period the survive another 17th century safe (relatively speaking) inheritance of family riches. from the rule of husband, While life expectancy for equality of women, (within midwife could come to be peril a few months later when father or brother; freedom most was 35, any woman 17th Century reason), encour- called the true 'priestess of a careless nurse broke his leg. Mary Ward and hid him in bed to conceal from the cruel toll of constant surviving to old age faced the aged their education and humanity.' 'anti-male' view, far from it, can distinguish her Husband's study of ads- added danger of being taken allowed them to 'speak out'. This section makes agonising hildbearing (a c but it is feminist literature in bed from another.' women suggests that for a witch. In a 1648 treatise, Women were very active in reading. Certainly. there were the sense that it heightens For a man, education was a tocratic died before 50 John Stearne explained witch- the Quaker movement and many skilled midwives, whose cent 45 per awareness of women and their prized experience. For a of those in craft as a woman's game on were allowed, and often services were actively sought, quarter one and as yet, overlooked contribu- woman, it was frowned upon but there were many more and the unique the ground that females are encouraged. to preach. childbirth) as 'the drug called learning'. tions. almost unlim- more 'revengeful' than man The noted Quaker, Margaret who were worse than incomof stimulation Lady Antonia has managed to How could a woman be 'modeducation. For any because of Satan's 'prevaling Fell, in her defence of female petent and many mothers and retain objectivity and that in est' if she knew too much? ited preaching, Womens Speaking, infants died, or were mutihungry to learn it with Eve.' woman all, education itself makes the book even Above haven. With such an attitude it was made the telling point that lated or otherwise injured as a became increased a woman's vocabumore readable. world outside there not surprising that many men were trying to limit the a result. More than anything, it paints lary, and one thing a 17th In the thing as a Family women, gnarled and withered power of Almighty God, by Horror stories of women and such no was a picture, not only of life in century man could not abide judicial div- by age, found themselves the contending that it existed their babies being literally the and the seventeenth century but was a talking woman, whether Court, pulled apart, with fearful of a split target of superstition and fear. only in the male sex. spoils the of ision of women and their often the speech came salty and Child brides were They were prosecuted as Antonia Fraser, in brilliant damage to both parties, marriage. profane from the fishwives of untapped potential. uncommon, and fecun- scolds, found worthy of tor- style, demonstrates through abounded. There were plenty Lady Antonia Fraser "Our sex is not much valued Billingsgate or gentle and hardly of other tales of the protrudin our age," Cary Verney, a saintly from Quaker women ing limbs of infants being cut the fact, pretending he was lady of the Restoration Court, testifiers, 'prattlers for Christ.' off because they were holding teething.) lamented. The playwright One of those who fought It is of such stories that this up the process of birth. Aphra Benn concurred. The valiantly for the right of Mrs Elizabeth Freke, a diarist book is made and which serve 17th century's female model, women to learn was the who wrote from 1671 to to bring the 17th century she said was "that dull slave Catholic nun, Mary Ward. rienced pastor and kindly and competent 1714, her literacy being due vividly alive, in a way that can call'd a Wife." Among her The disappearance of the Tommy Sefton-Waters, a man. He could weld a to the solicitude of her father. only make us see the present fellow rebels, Fraser reports, convents at the time of the junior minister or Metho- storm-roof on a tin Oyes a chilling description of century with new and clearer dist probationer in charge chapel, extract teeth or she-authors, she- Reformation had deprived were her son in Wilt- eyes. of his first parish. Spoon- discuss hermeneutics. the birth of preachers, even she-soldiers, English girls not only of conLetters t i a bill is his For 40 years he preached, guide and menas well as stubborn widows, venient local places of learn&iun • tor and the letters deal visited and advised, bapunruly prostitutes and acid- ing, but also of a pool of minister ico with a range of different tised, married and comwomen teachers in the shape tongued ladies of the court. pastoral problems. The mitted to the hereafter — amassed a of the huge nuns themselves. Lady Antonia soundness and wisdom always accompanied by Language Maid Plane, by fronts the key questions: what file while researching the It is perhaps only right that of his letters will be an his wife Sally, who had Anthony Burgess, published the dictatorship of the proletbook and dubs her hardest the Church should be so invaluable help both to died a few years before ariat really meant in practice, b task as whittling the names involved, albeit indirectly, in the troubled and to those I met him. He had talked, y flamingo, $5.95. who care. laughed and listened in Here we have a novelist and whether the Revolution down to a mere 550 women, the fight for women's educasome of the most outlan- taking over the rarified fields was, in the hands of Stalin, most of whom, in one way or tion when one considers that Tommy's initial view of dish and unlikely places of phonetics and semantics accomplished — or betrayed. another, refused to play the the lot of women in the his parish and the reality on earth. His little house from the specialists in an For the general reader, as well seventeenth century can be game. that it hides are revealed in Horning became a make the whole as the student in history. Curiously, she says, it was the traced in part to church teachwith compassion and place of pilgrimage for me attempt to as exciting language of subject women soldiers of the time ing of women as the 'daughinsight. This book not every year until he died. God Bless You — Spoonand absorbing as it can be. As The Woman DestrQred, by only warrants a first read, who seemed to have aroused ters of Eve and therefore It was in the year that he one might expect from the bill, Letters to a young Beauvoir. pubthe least disapproval in their subject to moral weakness... minister, by Frank Top- it demands a second. died that he introduced author who invented a whole Simone de amingo, by fl $595. lished male masters. The Calvinist hence the need to constrain ping, published by Wil- It has been compiled by me to Spoonbill, or language in The Clockwork The Woman Destroyed conLady Ann Cunningham was a and control them. rather, the Reverend $4.95. WalCollins, liam Frank Topping, who was Orange, the study is scholarly sists of three long short stories formidable warrior for Sco- Mary Ward's obsession with R eviewed by Roslyn born into a Catholic fam- ter Spoonbill. ily but later became a "Spoonbill had been and wide-ranging, and yet on the theme of women's tland, riding at the head of a women's education (educa- Ross. This delightful little Methodist Minister. He is dead for a good number informed with an exuberant vulnerability: in the first, to troop of horses with a case of tion is still the main concern will brighten up a well-known television of years, so naturally I did enthusiasm. volume the process of ageing; in the pistols attached to her saddle of the Loreto Sisters, the order day and evoke personality and author in not meet him face to face, The Russian Revobalon, second, to loneliness; and, in and daggers at her girdle. Jan founded in the name of Mary your thoughts of a picture- England and came into but the curious thing was 917-1932, by Sheila Fitxpa- the third, to the growing 1 Ingelby, who is said to have Ward and officially known as postcard village England possession of the letters that Tommy Seftontridk, published by Oxford indifference of a loved one. It fought at Marston Moor in the the Institute of the Blessed and a simplicity of faith after meeting the Reve- Waters had never met is a particularly feminist book. Unitwrsity Press, $9.99. cavalry, and being wounded, Virgin Mary) had as its ulti- that we seem to have left rend Thomas Sefton- him face to face either, facing escaped on horseback to her mate objective the reconver- far behind. Waters during a boating despite the fact that for From the Civil War to the being about women lives, and de their in crises end of Stalin's first Five-Year home, was probably a York- sion of her native England to It comprises the corres- holiday in Norfolk. three years Spoonbill had Walter He says: "Tommy Sef- been Tommy's personal Plan Fitzpatrick's account is Beauvoir's strong, icy writing shire yeoman's daughter, she Catholicism, but as a woman pondence of of remarkable independence S poonbill, an expe- ton-Waters was a jolly, tutor." clear and objective. It con- makes it a work of art. says.

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Queens Park have an easy victory Queen's Park demonstrated their all-round ability in winning the men's A grade tennis final defeating Lynwood eight sets to two. The match was all over when Queen's Park won the first six sets and Lynwood was not in the match at any stage. The Queen's Park team consisted of Ron Smith, Peter Quain, Kevin Quain and Brian Quain.

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The women's A grade was a complete contrast. The final result was undecided until after the last two sets had been played. Lynwood won the match defeating Queen's Park five sets 67 games to five sets 62 games. The match was a fitting final highlighted by long base line rallies. Neither team was able to gain the ascendancy.

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REALESK recorded a very easy win at Toodyay on Wednesday and looks as though he could have a bright future. Realesk has a good winning percentage for trainer Len Morton and he should be able to win more races in the near future and work his way through the classes. MOON WALKER looks a promising stayer judging on his fast finishing victory in the Hi-Ace Graduation at the opening meeting of Ascot on Saturday. After being near last on the corner Moon Walker powered home to grab victory in the last few strides. Moonwalker should be able to carry on from here and win more staying races in the coming weeks. MONAK resumed racing on Saturday and showed his class with a first up win. Monak has always been a galloper with ability andd raced in very good form last time in, he looks as though this campaign he will play a part in the big races over the summer carnival.

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The Lynwood team comprised Kerry Messer, Sharon Gordon, Cathy Veza and Pauline Payne. The men's B grade was an even tussle until after the singles when Applecross gained the ascendance and went on to win quite comfortably over Attadale seven sets to three. The Applecross team consisted of Denis Rose, Brian Dawson, Frank Hackett and Paul Raven. The women's B grade final was a titanic struggle with Applecross just falling over the line by one game. The final result was Applecross six sets 57 games to Attadale six sets 56 games. As was the case in the women's A grade the match was characterised by long base line rallies with neither team able to dictate terms at any stage. The Applecross team consisted of Ann-Maree Rose, Manse Barrett, Donna Hackett and Elizabeth Sharpe. Queen Quest Five girls have entered the Miss WACLTA quest this year. The judging will be held on Sunday October 28 and the winner will be announced at the annual dinner dance to be held at the Hellenic Centre, Parker Road, Northbridge on Saturday November 3. The winner of the quest will represent Western Australia at the national carnival in Brisbane at Christmas. The prize consists of return airfares to Brisbane plus hotel accommodation for seven days.

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The five quest entrants are: Heather-Jean Gomes, (21) Representing the Willetton Club; completed TAE at lona; occupation — executive management trainee; hobbies — music, reading, cooking and dancing, netball and tennis. Heidi Hendricks,(21) Representing the Queen's Park Club; completed TAE St Brigids, Lesmurdie; occupation — home economics teacher; hobbies — tennis, basketball, squash, pottery, piano and clothes design. Denise Farrell, (18) Representing Greenwood; completed TAE Sacred Heart Sorrento; occupation — receptionist; hobbies — waterskiing, travel, basketball and tennis. Leanne Negus, (25) Representing Queen's Park; completed TAE Mercedes; occupation — medical technologist; hobbies — tennis, squash, aerobics. Hillary O'Neill, (18) Representing Applecross; completed TAE Santa Maria; trainee teacher at Claremont Teachers College; hobbies — tennis, swimming, reading and cooking

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Perth team for big game The St Mary's, Leederville, senior basketball team has won its way through to compete in Australian schools' championship, in Brisbane in December. In term one, St Mary's senior basketball tram won the ACC basketball competition undefeated. During term two, the Western Australian Basketball Federation decided to run a tournament involving the champion teams from the private sector, the Catholic schools, the country schools and the government metropolitan schools in a State School Girls' Championship. These play-offs were held during the long weekend of September 29 and 30. St Mary's defeated Willetton in a close encounter in the semi-finals and so went through to the finals against Churchlands Senior High School. The team surpassed all expectations, to win a hard fought match against an experienced side. St Mary's can thank their win to dedication, enthusiasm and some strenuous weeks of training. They now have the opportunity to compete in the Australian Schools' basketball championships to be held over December 5 to 8 in Brisbane. Let's hope that dreams may be fulfilled with the support and encouragement of the community at large.

The St Mary's Leederville senior basketball team. BACK ROW: L. Crawley, I. Maguire, P. Prosser, S. McGregor Shaw, E. Nocciolino. FRONT ROW: L Hart, D. Miotti, A. Mazzulo, M. Ricciardi, L Rossi.