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RELIEF AID IS ON THE The Churches of Australia have already committed $3 million in aid to help relieve the tragic situation in Ethiopia. This aid has been made possible by the support given to the Combined Churches African Drought Appeal (which is remaining open throughout A ustralia and donations can be channelled through any of the Churches). Food aid has also been given through the church agencies by the Australian Government. The destination of this aid has been checked by the churches and much of it is being used in Wollo province of Ethiopia, so dramatically featured on TV this week. The 3,500 tonnes of wheat given by the Australian Government through Australian Catholic Relief is being transported into the towns of Korem, Alamatta and Kobbo. The cost of this operation alone is $180,000.

Bought trucks The Australian Council of Churches has just spent $480,000 in the purchase of trucks to aid transportation. Food and medical supplies are the two priorities in this unparalleled emergency. lithe people involved do not get food immediately, an increasing number of people will die and those who survive will suffer mental and physical debilitation for the rest of their lives. Ethiopia is the poorest country in Africa and the fourth poorest in the world. It has only just emerged from the equivalent of a Pictured are some of the 180 people of all ages taking part in the first combined medieval feudal society. celebration by prayer groups in the parishes of Kalamunda, Lesmurdie and Maida Vale. It has not the resources Antioch groups also attended the Mass celebrated by priests from the three parishes of even some Third World countries to meet in Holy Family church, Kalamunda and which included a talk by Father Rodney Williams the crisis. who recently was in Rome. (See page 3)

Pope John Paul II in a special Vatican announcement has approved celebration of the Mass in the Old rite. See story page 3.

Charismatics hold celebration

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111 Charistmatics celebrate with combined prayer peeps. See story page 3

The !bird and Reel part et Record report ROSLYN ROSS story about the traiima for the children of alcoholics. See pages 10 sad 11.

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Food aid already distributed eart transplant

Baboon justifiable as a last resort

The transplanting of a baboon heart into a small child in California last week is probably justifiable as a last resort, Father William Uren SJ said this week. On the other hand, it was an extraordinary medical procedure and therefore not obligatory even though it could be defended in charity.

in some quarters that this transplant operation was something of an experiment since the child might still have only limited life expectency. He said unless the success rate for this particular operation improved dramatically, then the team should go back to the drawing boards of their research rather than persist for the sake of experimentation.

Father Uren who is chairman of the interim bioethics of the archdiocese noted objections raised

Canberra 'relief on the way'

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Food aid sent by the Australian Government through Australian Catholic Relief is being distributed to drought victims in the worst hit areas of Ethiopia. In a phone call on Friday night to Australian Catholic Relief, Father Stefanos Tedla, secretary general of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, said some of the 3400 tonnes of wheat sent from Australia had already been delivered to Korem and Alamatta. "The major difficulty we are having," he said, "is transporting the grain from the port of Assab to the distribution centres. "Fortunately," he added, "we have experienced and trustworthy staff in strategic locations along the main roads in the Wollo province. "Once the food reaches them it is quickly shared out."

The worst drought in modern history has devastated 24 African countries. In its wake, 20 million now face starvation. Tens of thousands have already died. In the words of Fr. Stephanos Tedla, Ethiopian priest and secretary of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat: "What can I say to you? The suffering of my people has touched you in Australia, so far away - think how it is for us here, watching our people suffering, dying. "Can you imagine 140,000 people all hungry, starving, waiting patiently for food? "They walk in through the dust to the relief areas - sometimes the women and children will spend days, weeks, at the camps. Many sleep in the open - it is very cold high in the mountains, there are few blankets. "The men walk in from their villages, pick up their food rations - never enough - and trudge home to try and work their farms. The crops will not grow - the animals are dead or dying. "But the wonderful thing is that my people never give up hope. Always they wait for rain, work their farms as well as they can, and hope. "They hope for a better future. Even as they die."

E arly warning Father Stefanos said. "the early warning system of the Government's relief and rehabilitation commission alerted us to expect a 'graver situation' after November, but we have reached that point already."

"We need to be able to rely on a steady flow of supplies of food probably right throughout 1985 and help with transport. "Unles.s we get this help in Wollo we are finished," he said. Australian Catholic Relief has allocated more than a million dollars to aid drought victims in 13 African countries. The money was donated by Catholics from all parts of Australia in the past three months as part of the Combined Churches African Drought Appeal. The largest single grant, of $162,000, went to Ethiopia, where Father Tedla, who visited Australia in February, says the 1984 crops have been a total failure throughout the country because of Australian Catholic Relief the shortage of rain. 154 Elizabeth St., Sydney, No sign of improvement is NSW 2000 visible and the situation Id like to help and enclose I beyond November 1984 a donation for the people I could become even graver. of Africa. Civil war in Ethiopia has cut off two provinces from most sources of Government relief supplies. ACR has been able to secure access to these areas and has allocated $80,000 to the province of Eritrea and $50,000 to the neighbouring province of Tigray. Other countries in the Postcode Horn of Africa also received Donations over $2 are tax deductible assistance through the 111 ACR33/ appeal. *161tialoo, 111111111MINNIIIMINIMIIII We gratefully acknowledge support to the appeal by the Commonwealth Banking Corporation through its Travel Service. In the Sudan, $60,000 went

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to the Catholic agency, Sudanaid, which has reported an alarming increase in refugees flooding over the border from Ethiopia. In Somalia. south of Ethiopia, $20,000 %WS allocated to a well-digging program. In West Africa. well-digging was also seen to he a priority, and a total of $100,000 was carmarkeed for programs in the Gambia. Benin, Togo and the Central African Republic. Zimbabwe and Zambia also received grants for agricultural programs involving well-digging and the provision of agricultural inputs. Requests from Zaire, one of the biggest of the African countries and from Lesotho. one of the smallest, have focussed on assistance in the purchase of seeds and fertilisers. In Zaire, where more than a million people are affected by the drought, ACR's grant of $50,000 meets only 2% of the estimated need. Kenya and Tanzania have requested assistance in purchasing relief food supplies and transporting them to the worst affected areas. Medicines also form a major part of the Kenyan request.

Aid is on the way • From page 1 There arc few roads and transport is a major logistic problem and costly in African terms. For example the only way in which the transportation of 3000 tonnes of food from the port of A.ssab to Makelc is by air — the cost of which is 81.4 million. The head of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, Father Stefanos Tedla, in a phone call last week to Mr Michael Whitely, National Director of Australian Catholic Relief, confirmed the worst reports of the situation. He stated 30,000 people had come into Makele in search of food in one week. Eighteen to 20 of these were dying every day.

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We hear a lot about the call to holiness, but the problem is becoming holy, Father Rodney Williams told a combined celebration of local prayer groups at Kalamunda last week. Father Williams was commenting on the retreat he had attended in Rome the previous week with nearly 7000 priests. The retreat was the idea of Redemptorist, Father Tom Forrest who wanted the gathering of priests and some 150 bishops to emphasise God is calling everyone to holiness.

A t the Kalamunda gathering Father Rodney Williams uses a triple candlestick to give the last blessing during Mass conclebrated by the priests of the three parishes.

Teachers of the faith VATICAN CITY: A retreat gathering of 7000 priests in St Peter's was told by Pope John Paul to become teachers of the faith in each individual they served, particularly through the use of penance and spiritual direction. 'The care of the community," said the pope, "does not dispense from committed attention for individuals. according to their spiritual needs and the specific vocation of each one of them." He told the priests to educate the faithful to a "sense of the Church." He said this sense is shown in "love for the doctrine of the Church, respect for pastors, in docility and obedience to their directives, in openness of mind and heart toward all the members of the Church, including other movements and ecclesiastical associations. But the pope cautioned those making the charismatic sponsored retreat "to avoid the danger of radicalising one's own experience as if it were the only one or the most beautiful one" and told them to be open to all aspects of the Church. The pope spoke during the homily of a Mass, celebrated in St Peter's Basilica, which began with a procession of 6000 priests crossing St Peter's Square. During the Offertory procession, clergy from different parts of the world presented the pope with several gifts, including gold coins which they said were "to represent the spirit of poverty and detachment from material possessions in the life of the priest." Many of the priests attending the retreat were aided by a $1 million donation from a Dutch businessman who is active in charismatic renewal. • Continued page 4 ***********************************

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Father Williams said -The call to holiness is from God to me, above all not to be a doer of things, not to rush around madly but to be something, to be holy. "God sent that message to me and to every other priest and bishop to pass on when he got home. -Everywhere people are waiting for the message they are to be a holy people day by day. -The first thing we must do is decide to be holy. We cannot leave it all to the Lord." Father Williams said after hearing the call to holiness, priests at the r etreat spontaneously knelt before each other, asking forgiveness for their unholiness. He said a memorable event was the hour of silence spent before the Blessed Sacrament on the altar of St Peter's. "Here was the heart of the Church, the witness we are a praying Church, a people who want to be with the Lord," he said. Afterwards the throng of priests surged down the aisle of St Peter's and out into the square singing the song of praise, Lauda Jerusalem. Father Williams urged his listeners to have an attitude of praise in everything they did during the day.

Hong Kong links HONG KONG: Bishop John Baptist Wu, of Hong Kong, was invited to the Chinese National Day ceremonies in Peking at the beginning of the month. Because he was committed elsewhere, his Vicar General represented him, but another invitation will very likely be made in near future. This is more of the exacting diplomacy that will precede the return of Chinese sovereignty to Hong Kong in 1997. The Church, like the academics, the business people and citizens generally are all aware that decisions now are critical for the future.

Go ahead for the old rite

VATICAN CITY: By a new Vat-

ican decree, bishops may permit a celebration of a Tridentine rite Mass in certain chapels or oratories but not in parish churches except for extraordinary circumstances. The permission will not be available to priests or people who have any doubts about the legitimacy and correctness of the 1970 Missal of Pope Paul VI that governs the present celebration of Mass. This will rule out followers of the St Pius X Fraternity, formerly governed by Archbishop Lefebvre who was suspended by Rome in 1976 but who continued to ordain priests. That movement, containing some 120 priests, 50 seminarians and 250 nuns, rejects the liturgical changes authorised by the pope after the Second Vatican Council. The new Vatican per mission requires also that the Mass be celebrated ( in Latin ) only according to the 1962 missal issued under Pope John XXIII and with no interpolation of former texts. The so-called Tridentine Mass dates from the liturgy introduced in 1570 following the ecumenical council held at Trento in Northern Italy.

EEO Four years ago, Pope John Paul surveyed bishops on what was happening in their dioceses regarding Tridentine celebrations. The new decree is designed to accommodate some of the difficulties still occurring. The only concessions allowed in recent years were to aged priests who found it difficult to shift from the former to the new rite. The other concession was to bishops of England and Wales who in 1971 petitioned through the late Cardinal Heenan because of the strong historical attachment of English and Welsh Catholics to the old rite In spite of press reports, the issue is not that of language. The new rite of the Mass

Blacks make claim N EW YORK: Black bishops in the US have issued a pastoral claiming their race is a hantheir to dicap a dvancement in the Church. What we have seen and heard is a pastoral letter issued by the 10 black bishops of the United States. It was released in early September but it is becomming known only quietly. It calls racism a major hindrance to black growth in the Church and a handicap to the black e vangelisation. Just the same it does not use the terminology of other days and speak of t he American - White Church".

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Parishes excluded can be celebrated at any time in Latin and missals in the vernacular all carry the Latin text. The latest Vatican permission had been sent to heads of national hierarchies, but the Vatican released the text publicly after an Italian neNx paper printed the story.

It is to be a Universal Church in which the black Catholics are not to wait passively for directives. Their search must be for "initiative and creativity."

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Record Ethiopia: No Word Ethiopia needs no more words from a world with grain surpluses boosted by incestuous economics until no one who really needs the food can afford it. Ethiopia needs no cold comfort from affluent lounge room debaters who philosophise about the poor liking to live and die that way. Ethiopia needs no empty sympathy from the protesters with their carefully painted slogans for their spontaneous street protests but for whom bread runs a sad second to power. Ethiopia needs more than heart wrenching sympathy from television screens which are too busy telling the world that it is not like. Ethiopia need not apologise for intruding on a nation endlessly consumed with its popularity in elections that talk about everything except the world's starving poor whose purchase of our grain is the key to our recovery. Ethiopia needs prayer but let us be careful of the words we address to God on their behalf.

Confessing!) RC's Admidst the millions of words travelling this week between Griffiths and Dublin will there be a single mention of Robert Trimbole's religion? In the billion words of the Donald McKay investigation is Trimbole's baptism a key piece of evidence? Not likely says the average person until they took up page one of The West Australian last Saturday revealing the Dublin arrest of "Australia's most wanted criminal". There in bold type in the third line of the five column introduction the story said: "...Trimbole (53), a Roman Catholic,." Now this was written, said the by-line, by journalist John Silvester in Melbourne but even apart from daylight saving differences you have to be up extra early in WA to know just what John Silvester did write. Those who got the early country edition would have read: "...Trimbole (53), a devout Roman Catholic,. ..". Now, who decided on a re -make of page one that deprived metropolitan readers of the word "devout" but not the words "Roman Catholic"? Had the journalist tracked down Trimbole's vital baptismal certificate in Calabria? Had the parish priest of Griffith or Westport in Ireland thrown cold water on the story by saying that Trimbole did not attend to his devotions? Were these the frantic leads being flushed out by international investigators? At risk was a positively brilliant observation: Trimbole, said the sentence, "...may be prepared to confess". That's where the Catholic bit was essential. Tnmbole would be confessing. Catholics confess these sort of things But the opportunity for a Graham Greene or Moms West best-seller evaporated quickly. Trimbole would not be confessing to a priest who would then agonise during the months ahead as the accused's lawyers stonewalled. Trimbole would be confessing only "to authorities before he dies." Worse still, it was only the police who believe he would confess. Was it a Catholic policeman perhaps? Is confession to authorities better than no confession at all? Do they give absolution? ( As usual, The Sunday Independent limped in with the note that Trimbole was "a 53 year old Roman Catholic", not to be confused apparently with a 23- or 83-year old of the same species!) The appearance of such pretentious tripe on such a serious matter would be of some consolation if it signalled a return to the bad old days when Catholics deserved to have their noses flattened by superior sounding Protestants and humanists. There is something to be said for persecution toning up the spiritual spine. But do Catholics really matter that much any more? Perhaps it is the last salute to the denominations going down the secular plug-hole that Catholics were the last to add colour to dashing crime reports. (Our numbers are still high in prisons, our Catholic chaplains report.) However, do not try soliciting Catholics in any advertisements published in the papers. We do not want that sort of discrimination going on, do we? Is it time for religious affirmative action? Should Catholics get free advertising like this? One does not wish thugs or villains on the Anglican or Uniting Churches but are their miscreants deserting the old faith when they are caught? What is worrying the silly journalists is that Trimbole is dying of cancer. That means coming to terms with a conscience. Perhaps Trimbole is luckier than the rest. Perhaps in the midst of the horrendous world of drugs there is a chance he will come face to face with reality, with God. Attorney General Gareth Evans is hopeful Trimbole will get a fair trial in spite of the media. Catholics have never been too sure, especially those who finished up in the Circus Maximus in Rome and in every century's persecution since then. The fair dinkum Trial takes place without lawyers. It will need more than Trimbole's confession to absolve the thousands of other affluent Australians who are party to this financial filth, degradation and corruption. The question the newspapers could put to Roman Catholic Trimbole and his co-operators is the real question of the confessional: Are they sorry? The sin is that many are not, even the drug ridden victims.

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Voluntary work began It is not the quality of the house in which one makes one's home but the quality of the relationship within the home that is important for happiness. When Norma Geddes married engineer John Keogh in NSW in 1957, like most brides, she had her dreams of the home in which she would like to live. Norma Keogh has lived in 17 homes around Australia and overseas in the 27 years since her marriage. It has been a whole learning experience. Posted to WA after eight years in Camden NSW, Norma found herself alone with a new baby a nd a five-year -old daughter in a strange city.

111 John meanwhile took the first convoy of trucks into Tom Price and for 22 months he worked there and at Dampier while Norma remained in Perth. Separated ;from her husband for all that time ( except for short visits) she realised very clearly what was to be their top priority. "No matter where, in no m atter what, we w anted to be together," she says. With other wives, Norma and children moved to D ampier in 1966 before the first home w as completed there. "We were like a whole flock of war brides" she said.

E She lived in a construction hut until their home, one of the first t o be completed in Dampier, was ready. "We grew up with the town. It waS a growing experience. John was president of the committee which built the first Catholic Church in Dampier. "We made our own entertainment. Everyone w orked together to r aise funds for the church. It was great fun", she says. Obviously the memories are happy in spite of the frustrations. "It was such a different life. The arrival of David Jones catalogue caused excitement. "A new frock would be purchased only to find everyone else wearing the same one." • Cont. page 11

With all her four children at school in Brisbane in 1975 Norma Keogh felt she had something to offer others. She felt the desire to encourage positive attitudes in married women in similar situations to those she herself had experienced. "I have always felt very blessed with the love of my husband and family. I wanted to do something in appreciation." Pregnancy Help had started in Brisbane in 1973 and was running a second course for volunteers at the time Norma arrived in 1976. "I realised from my own experience how such a group could benefit the community — so I trained as a counsellor, having had no previous experience in this field." Norma became very involved in the work. When the Keogh family transferred back to WA in 1980, there was not yet a full time coordinator for Pregnancy Help. Cony Schoenmakers was appointed to this position and Norma became a willing helper.

Seeing Pregnancy Help is a service established Eby the archdiocese of Perth as a pledge to help any woman in distress over preganancy. JOANE BOWEN here talks with one of the women behind the phone and how a counsellor's own life influences the help and compassion shown to a caller.

She now works at least one full day per week in the office in addition to her telephone rosters at night and on weekends at home. She continues to find true reward in this work.

LIEJLJ It ha.s been a great learning e xperience for her self awareness, learning to listen and knowing and using the vast resources available in the community. Dealing with teenagers has helped her understand her own growing family. Pregnancy Help demands commitment she says. "Without the support and involvement of my husband and family this would not be possible." Norma is involved in the schools program run by Pregnancy Help. "Girls need to be proud of their feminity. "They need to see their sexuality as a treasure to be guarded — something that will bring true happiness only with discipline in their sexual lives, trust and commitment. "If we can enhance a girl's feelings about herself and her aspirations about marriage and married love it will be worthwhile. "We have credibility, I think, because we come from Pregnancy Help. "We have seen the heartache of pre-marital sex and they know this" she says. Norma has seen much heartache over the years. Her compassion for the young girl who is pregnant and the sharing of the sor-

row and disappointment of the parents is real. There are girls with no one to care for them. Their family is no longer intact. They are alone. So often their boyfriends have deserted them also at the prospect of pregnancy. "I have been blessed. "I came from a loving home. "So did John. "I grew up knowing the confidence of being loved. After working with Pregnancy Help,Irealise so many of these young people have been deprived of what we take for granted" she said. "Parents often feel threa-

tened when faced with a daughter's pregnancy. "This is understandable. "They have reared their own children and don't relish the thought of starting afresh.

[1] LI "But they come around and support their daughters and their sons. "There are countless examples of the strength of these parents who bring the whole family around, often, to support their child. "So often a crisis like this will bind the whole family in a way that had not existed before.

Teachers of the faith • From page 3 The conferences, which mostly dealt with the theme of holiness, were delivered in seven languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, English and Spanish. Prior to the retreat, Redemptorist, Father Thomas Forrest said the event was being held to spark "a trend for holiness among priests."'

-The trend for the Hula-Hoop, the Rubik's Cube, blue jeans and the Lady Di look can sweep the world," said Father Forrest.

'What we need now on a far higher level is a trend among priests back to the image of holiness.'" The image, said Father Forrest, comes not from "pious posturing, but the real thing: a real life of prayer, a real hatred of sin and all the harm it causes and a real laying down of our lives for the poor and needy, coupled with the crucifixion of being brother to the annoyingly sinful." After the retreat, the priests in attendance signed a letter to the pope in which they promised to "seek holiness with all our energy and make it the first goal of our lives." The retreat was held in Vatican City in an effort to gain greater acceptance from the "official Church" for charismatic renewal, a spokesman for the charismatic renewal office said.

A South American Indian digging potatoes in Brazil, where Mrs Keogh lived for a time. "It seems to sort out priorities. "There is love for each other and caring in an attempt to protect them as much as possible from the hurt. "There are many problems to overcome — not lust those of parents and their daughter — or their son. It is the life of the baby created. "What is going to be best for the baby — a new life must be safeguarded and cared for in the best possible way," she said.

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become involved in some w ay in each new community. In Dampier, it was church fund-raising, with bingo nights and a ball in the "Starlight Room" — a cement slab at the seven mile railway peg — in the open. She was in CWA and CWL. In Brisbane, Norma was a home tutor for migrant women for three years, "a very rewarding experience as you watch the women unfolding and settling into their new country". In Perth, she enjoyed visiting a nursing home two days a week. Over a few years she became very fond of the

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He cited the successful human heart transplantations at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney where 10 years ago the team tried the procedure unsuccessfully and then went back to research until) They achieved their present success. Father Uren said medical teams had to take the attitudes of people also into consideraton.

The transplant of a baboon's heart might be of concern to people with a religiously fundamentalist-creationist point of view but acceptable to a person with a religiousevolutionist attitude. Principles that could be applied to this latest operation included: • The obligation only to use

ordinary means to save human life; • The availability of other resources, such as a human heart • Some respect for animal species, if for example, they were endangered. • Experimentation should be responsible, with a genuine hope of future success.

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Jesuits in struggle Order encouraged to work oned liberation theology only once, when he praised with the document issued September 3 by the Vatican poor Congregation for the Doc-

RIO DE JANIERO: Jesuits in Latin America were encouraged by their superior to work with the poor and help them in the struggle for justice. Superior General Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach told Latin American Jesuit superiors that the work unavoidably often involves politics "in a certain sense." But he warned members of the order to avoid joining a "class struggle" or employing an abstract spirituality in their efforts. "You may rest assured that no one will be obliged to leave the society for the sole reason that he is working with the poor," said Father Kolvenbach in two October meetings with Jesuit provincials in Latin America. Father Kolvenhach told the Jesuits to live the evangelical poverty of Christ means to "combat that poverty which is a non-value and which the struggle for justice has to overcome." Jesuits must avoid "two unacceptable extremes** in their work for the poor — "namely to throw oneself into the class struggle or take refuge in a disincamate

spirituality of poverty," he added. Father Kolvenbach asked Jesuits "to live fully the Eucharistic paradox" of living a Gospel poverty while fighting to help the poor overcome their material poverty. "But it is possible someone might forget the two dimensions of his mission, which are — no doubt about it — incompatible, or at the very least very difficult to integrate in the political reality of this world," he said.

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trine of the Faith. The document strongly encouraged Church work for social justice but said Catholic theologians should not uncritically incorporate Marxist concepts such as CUSS struggle in their analysis of society. The Vatican document "fully confirms" the policies of the Jesuits, Father Kolvenbach said. The superior praised the work of the order in Latin America.

CHANGE FOR MANLY

Dr Grove Johnson (right), retiring president of St Patrick's College Manly will become national director of the Pontifical Mission A id Societies. He succeeds Monsignor Douglas Stewart (left), originally from Townsville diocese who has held the position for the past 11 years. They are pictured with Bishop Bede Heather of

Sydney, chairman of the bishops' committee for missions. Dr Johnson, 60, was in Perth recently to preach the Perth clergy retreats. Following his ordination in Rome in 1946 he returned to his Rockhampton diocese. He was appointed head of the Manly Seminary in 1979.

HAVE YOUR SAY

Labor opposes our very basics from HL. WELLS, Nedlands Sir:I would like to voice my disgust and abhorrence at the Deputy Prime Minister, Lionel Bowen's call for Catholics to support the Labor Party.

Although Lionel Bowen may well be a Catholic, how can he expect others of a similar religion to join a which political party opposes the basic principles of the Catholic faith?

Jesus' will

from DENISE O'CONNELL Manjimup McDonagh (The Record, October 11) says Pat SIR: to God used the pagan king Cyrus and Mao Tse Tung theories. false of bring good out Judas was used to carry out God's will that Jesus be betrayed into the hands of His persecutors. Judas received a warning from God Himself. God's will was done, but Judas failed to profit from the exercise. We are also warned by the Church in Jesus' name Truth that unless we identify with Him who is the Way, exercise. the by profit and Life, we will also fail to The Father will say to us: "I do not know you.

Experience in Africa from ROY HOPHINS, Greenwood Dean John Lisle (The Record October 11) Like SIR: my African experience also began in South Africa where I was hounded because I was too white —

a "rooi nek." Now in the safety of distance I can try to live out Christ's command to love my fellow man. As a long time resident of Rhodesia now Zimbabwe I have some knowledge of South Africa. There are government schools for Africans and the average wage for black South Africans is higher than that for most if not all black African countries. Poverty in South Africa contrasts sharply with the riches there. Poverty grows worse the further north one goes. Hunger is no better for the fact that there is noone for miles that is well fed, as is the case in central Africa. We need to walk and talk with all South Africans as Jesus in his life on earth spent time with tax collectors and Pharisees preaching love, tolerance and self reliance, so should we. It is no joy that the poor will always be with us but we must not let them come between us and loving God.

Issues such as abortion on demand, anti-state aid organised crime, legahsed prostitution, homosexuality, and full marital status granted in defacto relationships have gained the support of the Labor Party. The support of legislation dealing with the above can only be seen as contributing towards the totaldestruction of the family unit, which is of prime importance to the Catholic way of life. Regardless of the fact Lionel Bowen purports to be a Catholic, it must be noted both the Leader of the party (Hawke) and the former Leader and now Foreign A ffairs Minister (Hayden) have declared themselves athiests. On looking at legislation which has been proposedby the Labor Party it becomes obvious Bowen's Catholic beliefs are overshadowed, or rather ignored, by his colleagues ministerial whose beliefs are quite different. I was a member of the Australian Labor Party until 1956. This change of political allegiance was due to the fact the party's beliefs began to conflict with my even stronger religious beliefs. Now, at the age of eightytwo, I have come to the conclusion an allegiance to the Labor Party can only be seen as a total rejection of the Catholic faith.

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Good analysis from TA CLUNE, Midland SIR, Congratulations to J.W. Dallimore (The Record, October 18) on his brilliant analysis of deputy prime minister Lionel Bowen's call for Catholics to be more involved in politics. If Lionel Bowen is sincere in his advice to Catholics to be active on moral issues, let him resign his portfolio in the government. What a wonderful example it would be; Example preaches louder than precept.

Endorse remarks from MISS N REILLY, Perth

SIR: I heartily endorse the comments of J.VV. Dallimore (The Record, October 18) on the views of Mr Lionel Bowen. I listened to the Lusher and Martyr parliamentary debates and as a member of Right to Life, I was shocked at the attitude of Catholic members of the Labor Party. I wondered what kind of Catholics these men were; if anyone is to stand up and be counted, it is surely them.

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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup Baptism ruled invalid NEW YORK: — The Archdiocese of Miami has ruled the baptism six months ago of a seven-year-old Jewish boy invalid because the child was not told he was joining the Catholic Church in being baptised, and had no instruction. Robert Roffman, son of a Jewish father and a mother described as a " non -practicing Catholic," was circumcised in accordance with J ewish law, and his mother had agreed before and during the marriage he would be brought up in the Jewish f aith. A fter a civil divorce three years before, his mother, took him to a local Catholic Church for baptism. The priest who baptised the boy was unaware she had told the child "baptism would place a shield" over him so he w ould not "go to hell." The priest also did not k now the boy, who considers himself Jewish, had not been told baptism w as a sacrament of initiation into the Catholic Church. The priest was unaware the boy had not been from NC NEWS instructed in the Catholic f aith.

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Four beatified by John Paul V ATICAN CITY: The pope recently beatified two Italian priests, a Spanish mother of seven children and a Belgian Passionist brother. Beatification is a step on the way to sainthood. The newly beatified are: Father Federico Albert, born in 1820 in Turin, Italy. As a parish priest he was active in founding orphanages and educational institutes. He also founded the Vincentian Sisters of Mary Immaculate in 1846. He died in 1876. Father Clemente Marchiso, born in 1833 in Racconigi, Italy. He founded the Daughters of St Joseph in 1875 and died in 1903. Rafaela Ybarra de Villalonga, born in 1843 in Bilbao, Spain. She married at the age of 18. Besides bringing up her own seven children, she cared for the five children of her sister and the six children of her eldest son when they all became orphaned. She also founded centres to aid needy women. Passionist Brother Isidoro de Loor, born in 1881. He left his Belgian farm home at 26 years of age and entered the Passionists. He suffered from cancer and died in 1916.

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LONDON (NC): The latest Tablet, Britain's Catholic weekly, reviews two books on the subject of life after death. Both of them announce the conviction that we humans will survive death.

We have within us an element of immortality, an ability to stand away from ourselves and comment on our own personal lives. These are not books of Christian theology, Neither author thinks the Christians have any worthwhile contributions to make. The books are interesting as they are presented in review. The authors are students from other disciplines who, in their own way, reinforce the credibility of traditional doctrine. Between them they condemn modern materialistic appraisals of human beings. They insist on the spiritual quality in all of us. They look to all unexplained phenomena: astral bodies, apparitions, out-of the-body and near-death experiences. 0 El

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VATICAN CITY (NC) — A major problem in understanding liberation theology is it is often presented in "simplified and simplistic formulas" through newspaper articles, leaflets and homilies, said a page one article in L'Osservatore Romano. The article says liberation theology can generally be divided into three branches — radical, moderate and pacifist — but no clear line of demarcation exists. The article was written by Father Gian Battista Mondin, dean of the philosophy department at Rome's Pontifical Urban University, and the author of a book about liberation theology. The radical branch incorporates Marxist concepts in its effort to seek a political revolution and sees the Christian message of liberation as fundamentally poleconomic and itical. material rather than spiritual, he said. The moderate branch rejects recourse to Marxist concepts and sociopolitical issues within the light of the Christian message of liberation. he said. The pacifist pranch uses Marxist concepts to analyse society but advocates nonviolent solutions instead of affirming the need for class struggle and the violence this produces, he said. The radical branch is revolutionary in its political positions and also "in its theological methodology and in its content of the Christian faith." he said. • Cont. page 10

r7LONDON. Twelve thousand inquirers wrote to the Catholic Enquiry Centre in London last year. The newspaper advertisements cost some 6A28,000. The story is paralleled by that of the Enquiry Centre in Australia. Here and in Australia some courageous decisions have been made as to papers and magazines where the advertisements are to appear. 'Where to advertise?" and "How to head up the advertisements?" These are missionary decisions. Lately, the "best-selling ad" in Britain has been "Once a Catholic?" aimed at those who for a variety of reasons have dropped from the practice of the faith. This course recommends four steps: "Prayer, going to Mass, getting to know other Catholics and Confession." Then the reinstruction begins.

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Vatican in a decree on terms WASHINGTON (NC) — In assigning pastors to parishes, US bishops can adopt sixyear renewable terms as the only alternative to indefinite terms of office, says a new Vatican-approved policy for the United States. Dioceses which up to now have had different limited-term policies in force will be required to change them to conform with the new nationwide policy. Pope John Paul II rejected the wishes of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. which had asked permission to leave the length of limited terms of office for pastors up to each diocesan bishop. rather than to set a single uniform plan for the whole country. "Individual diocesan bishops may appoint pastors to a six-year term of office." says the decree.

"The possibility of renewing this term is left to the discretion of the diocesan bishop," it adds. "The primary provision of Canon 522 (of the Church's Code of Canon law ) that pastors may be appointed for an indefinite period of time remains in force." it says. When the new Code of Canon Law went into effect in November 1983, it set indefinite terms for pastors as the norm but allowed bishops' conferences to establish fixed terms by decree, subject to approval by the Holy See.

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What distinguishes human beings from other creatures of this world? Some experts answer that question by focusing on human speech. The manner, the extent and the complexity of human communication — speech — is different, they say. Speech opens almost endless possibilities for life together, for communities. Other experts focus on the human person's ability to think and reflect. The human being can take a mental step back from his or her life in order to ponder it, assess it. Still others focus on human sharing, or the capacity to make decisions, or the ability to plan the future. To the eyes of faith, humanity's distinguishing abilities reflect the soul or spirit — the mystery of the human person. Human beings possess many abilities. For example, every person is gifted by God with a life that can expand and grow, a life that can mature. People can become more than they already are. As they grow and mature, they change — and so do others who are part of their lives. Does that mean personal change is always welcomed by all concerned since it is part of the process of maturing? No. Change sometimes is welcomed with open arms. But other times it proves disconcerting. For personal change is accompanied by a certain risk: the risk that as people who are close to each other grow and change, they will somehow grow apart. The challenge is to grow together, to change in such ways that each person's spirit expands without closing out the other. Friends, parents and children, spouses, co-workers — all may have to face the question at some point: How can we change and mature together? Can we contribute to each other's growth? The Christian vision suggests that people grow best when they not only grow together, but grow through each other. People have the ability to nourish each other's growth, according to this way of thinking. But to do so, they need to call upon the unique gifts they possess as human beings. 8

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Change enters people's lives whether they are ready or not. The changes people experience may make them feel like rejoicing. But change also can leave them frustrated and confused. Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke tells about friends of his, a young couple with children, who are alert to the difficulties faced by families who try to maintain close and continuing relationships in today's "me-first" social setting. It is a challenge for the Church too. Joe Michael Feist interviews the director of the National Institute for the Family, Father Donald Conroy. Many threads of social change influence the family, Father Conroy indicates. A family needs to be aware of the social changes that influence it and to take steps to make good family life a reality. David Gibson writes about the highly personal ways change often enters a person's life — that is, through other people who are changing. He tells the story of a parent who experienced a disruptive change in a child. The parent who told the story was making a plea for support from others, Gibson feels. In his article on Scripture, Father John Castelot shows how the early Christian Church in Antioch adapted to change.

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My oldest daughter ager would take a long time to the computers, space ships, medical technology or now gets up almost as to return. early as I do weekday As the father told his story, genetic research that is changmornings. But her rea- he obviously was not just ing society's landscape. But son is not the same as passing on information to one kind of change that virmine. I rise early others who might later benefit tually everyone experiences because I face an hour from it somehow. His story close up is the kind that by bus to the office. My was more like a quest for influences their relationships; daughter rises early understanding and support. it enters the scene in a perbecause it takes her 30 He was struggling to grasp a sonal way. minutes — or more? — changed relationship with his As change occurs, it can t o do her hair for child that had him confused open up new possibilities for and apprehensive. school! people. This can make life

Then people may experience I bis amounts to a change in People rejoice when changes more interesting. But change a special need for support a child who just a few months bring them happiness. But also can introduce the elefrom others. ago hoped to break the world they may need others who ment of struggle into one's I bis process can produce a record for sleeping-in late and listen well and try to underlife. good result, of course. Some still make it to school on time. stand when they tell how This kind of change, however change brought them pain, or Because of changes in one- people think that in all their — this large concern over left them floundering for self or in others, life has to struggles to come to terms be digested again and again, with change, God's Spirit is appearance — is somewhat answers. predictable in a child's devel- Often when the word comprehended from new inviting them deeper and opment. This kind of change "change" enters a discussion perspectives. That can be deeper into their life's meanrequires only minor adjust- people tend to turn attention difficult. It may take time. ing and potential.

mcnts on the part of others, along with a dash of patience. But this kind of change does not pass unnoticed. Change. It is part of everyone's life. Workstyles, homelife, education, health care, social values: Change is experienced in all these areas. Perhaps the most common was change enters a person's life, however, is through other for accepting gentiles any had to ease the Church people. through a painful period of other way. We all grow older; so do The fact that Barnabas was transition. If he could simply others close to us. People's rather pleased by what he saw have insisted on holding to the interests develop, aptitudes at Antioch did not change old ways or if he could have expand. needs are reshaped, their minds. This division of told them to forget the old and mistakes are made. No one's with several shades accept the new, his task would opinion, how to learn to have "We life is a finished product. of opinion in between, made have been relatively easy. make our houses homes When a person changes, "What is happening to the the situation at Antioch an But Matthew respected traagain," Father Conroy said. however, there are hound to Church?" "Ibis is not the uneasy one. dition too much for that. He "There are ways to spend be repercussions for others. same church I used to know!" Matters really came to a head had to blend the old and the time together. They key is One parent's story illustrates These remarks have a modern after the fall of Jerusalem. The new into a fresh synthesis. planning. Families have to this. ring. But they are almost as staunch Jewish-Christians had Some biblical scholars sugmake a positive decision to A father was telling a group old as the Church itself, as the maintained close ties with the gest that he left us a sort of of adult friends about a period following account illustrates. mother Church. But with self-portrait in the remark that work on being family." Father Conroy suggested in his teen-ager's life. The Matthew was a leading Jerusalem levelled to the "every scribe who is learned that an evening regularly be teen-ager's interests, along member of a community ground by the Romans, in the reign of God is like the set aside for the family to with her attitude toward which was the product of a church members in Antioch head of a household who can schoolwork, had become a long and stormy development. were frantic, cut off from all bring from his storeroom both spend time together discusssource of great concern to her Christianity was brought to support, rootless. the new and the old" ing a theme, an event or even parents, who felt they were Antioch in Syria in the 30s by Meanwhile, gentiles were ( Matthew 13:52). "Quality future. the family's witnessing a big, unwelcome Greek -speaking Jews who entering the community at already- had a time" is needed, he feels, for change in her. increasing The Church in believed their new faith also Antioch Mark. But of that Gospel. the health and welfare of the When the parents realised should be shared with people numbers, people who didn't new situathat a felt Matthew family as a whole and for marijuana and alcohol were who did not practice the know or cherish the I.aw of another Gospel. for called tion Moses, dietary laws, and all the each member individually. now playing a role in their Jewish religion. He used most of Mark's mateThe family can be a stablis- child's life, they were stunned. When the mother Church at other cherished customs of rial but expanded it. ing force in a world of They attributed it to some- Jerusalem heard about this, the Jewish-Christians. compli- Imagine! A new Gospel! change, Father Conroy said. thing in their child that they Barnahas was sent to Antioch The situation was The Christian community- is cated all the more because situation. In the out and to a check understand to "Families should be atten- did not traditionally had a living, vital organism. It has change in society that made Jerusalem the Christians did Jews tive to change. but not afraid not like the idea of gentiles regarded gentiles as sinners. e xperienced development drugs readily available. of it," said Father Conroy. "If Ultimately this situtation was entering the Church without The Jewish-Christians were and growth right from the change is recognised for approached through counsel- embracing Judaism first. After afraid that morality would be beginning. But of course. what it is. and if we know ling. But the level of trust and all, they argued. Jesus had destroyed, with their assem- there is God himself -who our values, we'll be able to understanding that previously been a devout Jew; the law of blies turning into wild orgies. cannot change and who is cope with it in a construc- had existed in the relationship Moses was the law of God — This was the situation Mat- never shadowed over" (James of the parents and their teen- there was just no justification thew faced about 85 A.D. He 1:1' ). tive way."

What makes a home more than a pitstop? By Joe Michael Fiest High above the farms and small towns like the one where I grew up, test pilots and machine pushed each other to the limits of endurance. Some of my earliest memories are of sonic booms. thundering explosions of sound that shook houses. put birds to flight and caused little children to gaze anxiously heavenward. With the breaking of the sound barrier came talk of space travel, satellites and breakthroughs in computer

technology. There was even a new interest in robots. I didn't like it. Just as I was becoming accustomed to my world, it was changing. Fortunately I grew out of my early refection of change. Fortunate, that is, because the era of change shows no sign of fading. Families and individuals must cope with a great deal of change. But how? "Change in itself is ambiguous. It's good and bad," believes Father Donald B. Conroy. director of the National Institute for the Family. "trndue amounts of change in a family's development can upset the equilibrium," the priest added. Father Conroy talked about threads of change affecting families and society. Computers are making an impact, as is mobility — the movement of families from one

geographical region to a - nother. Changing roles of women and families with two parents working outside the home are also signs of change. There are benefits in all these areas, but possible pitfalls too, Father Conroy indicated. Computers, for example, are finding a larger place in homes. "Almost total saturation is expected by the end of the century," said Father Conroy. The information explosion linked to computer technology is "only paralleled by the invention of the alphabet and the book," he added. "Those also were times of upheaval for the family." Computer networks could enable more and more people to work at home and this may benefit the family. Father Conroy suggested. But if people work at home,

lack of contact with colleagues may have harmful effects. Obviously, the full impact of changes the computer age will usher in have yet to be felt. The changing role of women in society, represented most notably by the number of women working outside the home, also has pronounced effects on family life, Father Conroy noted. One benefit, he said, is that some women report a greater sense of self-worth as a result of their careers. In their cases, this may translate to improved relationships among family members, he added. But as more and more outside activities take members away from the home there is a danger that the home will become little more than "a place of refueling.- said Father Conroy.

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The family Flair st work to cope with changes in society By Father David O'Rourke Sunday afternoons are a special time for me. I save them for my greatest luxury — visiting friends. One Sunday recently was no exception.Ispent it with friends I have known since before they were married. In some ways they are a tn.._

ditional family. But within that traditional context we can see changes that are altering the shape of family life. As I arrived at the home of Phil and Alice, their 3-year -old started chasing his older sister around the house with a makebelieve tomahawk while Alice, who was changing the baby on the living room floor, tried to restore order. Phil, who is a good cook, was in the kitchen already at work on dinner. The tomahawker took a flying leap over the baby in hot pursuit of his sister. "A bit of change from the calm life of the laboratory, "Isaid, referring to Alice's former work. Phil and Alice _

were practicing physicians when I first met them. "Change!" said Mice, as she tried to wrestle her budding gymnast into a clean diaper. "The only thing that hasn't changed in my life is having at least one kid who always seems to need a change." An hour later we sat down to what would prove a very enjoyable dinner. My friends, with the skill of miracle workers, got the two older children to take part in a blessing before dinner. In many ways we had a very traditional Sunday afternoon. But, as I noted, Phil and Alice typify a pattern of changes that are common today.

Alice completed her education and began her own career before marrying. Then the young couple had to shift from two salaries to one when their children began to arrive. Phil shares in the child-rearing and household responsibilities. But then there are other changes that are less obvious and perhaps even more important. How can we characterise them? Experts in family studies sum them up in one word — "individualism." They say that the family, which once saw itself as a functioning unit, now prefers to see itself as a gathering of individuals.

A century ago the family was a necessary social and economic unit. That has changed. Now it is becoming an arrangement of convenience for its individual members. It provides a source of affection for as long as the family members believe they need one; it also coordinates the access by family members to the services society provides. But once these needs are met,

according to experts, family members see themselves at liberty to go their own ways and do their own thing. But according to Church teaching the Christian family is different. It is more than the sum of its members. If the family is regarded only as a group of individuals, an invisible but essential reality about the family is overlooked.

What this overlooks is the fact that the family is a genuine religious unit, a part of the body of Christ. It is a group united not just by common consent but by real, sacramental bonds. As I see it. this is the principal challenge facing the Church today: How do we help the family to see that it is more than just a gathering of individuals?

How do we, in our local communities, help the family define itself in concrete terms? We live in a society of individuals. So how do we make our beliefs in the importance of relationships real? My friends Phil and Alice have decided to take this challenge seriously. They give prime tittle to family events and they weave their faith thmught the events of each day. They believe that their dining room table is an important religious centre, just as the parish church is. This is also the view of the Church. But making this view a real part of life today can be an uphill struggle.

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Questions about the ABC rule Questioned before a senate estimates committee about the reasons behind the ABC's proposal to treat homosexual relations in the same way as heterosexual ones, Mr Whitehead revealed the ABC had been acting on legal advice internal to the ABC. According to the advice the ABC's decision in favour of homosexual "ties" was based on legal precedent and existing practice in public corporations_ However, when called on to identify precedents, Mr Whitehead could not. Nor, according to people present at the time, did he receive any help in giving a clearer answer from the ABC executives who accompanied him. In response to a question from Senator Brian Harradine (Id, Tas ), Mr Whitehead pointed out the ABC had an Equal Opportunity Unit charged with ensuring equal opportunity legislation was carried into effect within the ABC. He also said it was from this unit the measures on homosexual partners had emanated. Mr Whitehe-ad said as he understo(xl it, non-discriminatory legislation was in force on both the Federal and State levels and that this had provided the frame work in which the ABC had made its decision. But then Senator Harradine asked: "Are you basing the decision on homosexuality on affirmative action as a requirement by law? What law?" Mr Whitehead: "I do not have the detail with me, but I was given legal advice it was soundly based." Senator Harradine: "What laws?" Mr Whitehead: "I believe it is in the antidiscrimination law there should be no discrimination against any members of the staff of a statutory body. "We are talking about fair-

GARY SCARRABELOTTI Catholic Weekly, Sydney ness to employees." Senator Harradine: "What discrimination laws?" Mr Whitehead: "I cannot give you details of it; I do not have them on hand." Senator Harradine asked whether, by its decision, the Board of the ABC, had told the world that, in its view, the homosexual! relationship should be treated in the same way as marriage. Mr Whitehead replied that the ABC Board's view was that there should be no action discriminatory against its staff in terms of entitlements. Senator Harradine pointed out, however, the board's decision did not relate to staff, but to the homosexual partners of staff. The senator went on to say he was not debating a- moral point with Mr Whitehead, but raising a legal issue. While there are laws which seek to protect people, including homosexuals, from discrimination where access to employment is concerned, Senator Hamadine said that there are also, contrary to Mr Whitehead's advice, no laws which permit the treatment of homosexual partners as if they were legal spouses. Senator Harradine pointed out there was nothing in either the Marriage Act, the Family Law Act, or the Regulations under the Marriage Act, which would allow of the ABC's decision. Mr Whitehead said these Acts had not specifically been consulted but that his advice was the decision was in conformity with precedents. "I am just telling you the advice I was given," Mr Whitehead said. Senator Harradine claimed the ABC's decision was a "deeply antisocial" one. He claimed that the ABC Board, which was a nonelected body, had taken upon itself the role of legislative pace-setter.

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"The theologians of the radical branch negate the classical distinction between the two orders: natural and supernatural. For them the only order is the historical one" giving rise to the use of Marxist concepts such as class struggle, he said. According to these theologians "the Church cannot condemn the class struggle because this is the only strategy which can tear down the oppressive bourgeoisie systems and build the basis of a more just political system," he said. The moderate branch criticises the errors of Marxism

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but adds liberation is a historical process and spiritual salvation. "The moderate branch regards as indispensible theology take into account the Church's teaching authority whether it be in doctrinal points or in those involving economic and political questions," he said. The pacifist branch "does not disdain recourse to socio-political analysis professed by the Marxists" but differs with the radical branch "in refuting recourse to class struggle and violence," said Father Battista Mondin. "their road to realising justice in society is non-violence."

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niThe third and final part of a special feature by Roslyn Ross dealing with the trauma and damage an alcoholic parent can do unwittingly to their children. The first parts looked at the f ear, shame and anger felt by the children and had figures to show just as children who are bashed, bash their children, the children of alcoholics grow up to use alcohol for the wrong reasons...

The children of alcoholics fall into a series of broad categories. The eldest is generally termed the hero, or heroine, the second provides a shift in focus and becomes the scapegoat, while the third child can often become the most tragic of all, the lost child... Social workers strive to rebuild the family, and for that reason it is important to have an understanding of the role structures. This lonely world provides the 'lost child with some protection until he comes into contact with the outside world at school. There he finds himself in uncomfortable contact with children who have learned how to cope with everyday life. They react naturally and their feelings, whether good or bad, are genuinely expressed and they have learned to cope with such expressions from others. For the 'lost child,' this is an alien environment. He might as well be a lone extra -terrestrial dumped on a strange planet. Utter confusion leads him into embarrassing mistakes and he is unable to cope in the playground jungle so he retreats further, continuing

The roles children adopt as a defence

his solitary life, always on the edge of things The 'lost child's' lot is one of low expectancy, good and bad requirements are already met, little is expected from him

eP•WAPIP'' He is left with low selfworth His negative feelings are repressed and his need for attention unsatisfied so he

will seek other means of perhaps gratification, through minor illnesses, bedwetting or overeating.

Once outside the home his imaginary world is poor protection. He does not know the basic rules of interaction, he is illequipped to enter an intimate relationship, he is unable to compete. In every area, he has failed to develop his potential and so cut off many options. Never having learned the

skills needed for a normal life his relationships collapse around him. He may make disastrous attempts at marriage. Eventually he seeks solace in material things. Expensive, often exclusive possessions are the substitutes for lack of companionship. Often aicohol will be discovered to fill that lonely gap. Lucy is a 'lost child: At the age of 11 she gets on with what she has to do, without creating problems, without demanding praise. She spends a lot of time in her bedroom where she talks to her imaginary friend who is closer, and more real to her than the children with whom she mixes at school. When the tension mounts at home, when the atmosphere is charged with emotion, when the tears are flowing and the insults flying. Lucy can be found calm, distant and totally out of touch.

ct.,ft eNWPW''' She has pulled down the shutters and even though she may be present in the room she is just rocking quietly backwards and forwards carrying on a murmured conversation with her ever present, but unseen companion. Or she may be quietly singing a song in her own bedroom. Lucy's life has a sinister unreality, the result of her parents inability to cope with the truth. In this whole tortured family, Lucy's chances of recovery are lowest because she has never learned the fundamentals of human relationships and interaction. The die has been cast, and even if her father stops drinking. Lucy will still be locked in her own world built on loneliness and confusion. She must be taken back to step one in the lessons of coping with life. She must be helped out into the real world and be encouraged to develop her potential and increase her self-worth. Stopping the drinking is not enough. THE MASCOT — the child who enters the alcoholic

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Quality is important • From page 4 To buy shoes for the children, they used to draw their feet on a piece of paper and post it to Perth in the hope of getting something suitable. State Ships and road transport brought the food. T he was highway unsealed. Rain could cut the roads for six to eight weeks at a time. Airfreight would increase t he cost which was already high. Being a cyclone area, every housewife kept a good supply of nonperishable food. Norma experienced at first hand how young couples raising children away from families needed support. A caesarian birth, Dampier's first, brought her third child into the family. Her son Patrick was the first male Keogh for 35 years.

There was much joy but also problems after the birth. T here was no infant health clinic and limited medical care. Her friends were a great help. Two years later, alone now in Melbourne when John was commuting to P araburdoo, Norma had Genevieve and a second caesarian and complications.

El= There were again no relatives and no friends either. T hree years in Brazil followed when John travelled 120 kilometres to and from work each day. Then the family moved to Brisbane in 1975 where they lived for five years. Here all their children were at school.

R ECORD A dvertising Telephone 328 1388 family when it is already in an advanced state of illness finds himself in a frightening situation. Each member of the family is fully occupied with his own survival and while the 'lost child' experiences confusion in the face of his family situation the 'mascot's' confusion is even greater. He is part of a system which is incomprehensible to him. No-one will explain it to him — worse still, because he is the youngest and must be protected, his family will knowingly feed him false information in order to mislead him. This child senses trouble which he does not understand. He is acutely aware of the tension in faces and voices, of the closed doors hiding tears and arguments, the whispered conversations, the highly charged atmosphere. But all the people he trusts keep telling him everything is fine — don't worry kid, this is a terrific family. But somehow he knows it is a lie. Who can he trust? He grows nervous, uneasy, tense, always watching and listening, trying to keep out of trouble, trying to discover what is going on. Slowly he learns the value of distraction in controlling a situation. When he is only tiny he is able to halt an argument by

dropping his food, break the tension by knocking over his orange juice, staunch the screaming by falling and appearing to hurt himself. It doesn't take long for 'the mascot' to learn the art of manipulation and so find himself in the role of tension breaker. Being helpless and irresponsible, requiring nurturing and protection is his defence and it is manifested in various ways. A 'mascot' with a sense of fun learns to act the part of court jester but the 'mascots' smile hides an aching heart and is worn by many on the psychiatrist's couch. He is two people and may even be diagnosed as a schizoid — a terrified child masked by an amusing extrovert. He is frightened of everything, including his own seeming-craziness, he may grasp at mood-altering drugs, or attempt suicide. Irritating, hyperactive, immature, showing off, precocious, constantly fooling, together with an image of fragility are the symptoms of this illness. They are his sick reactions to a sick relationship. Eight -year -old Tim is the youngest child in an alcoholic family and he is 'the mascot.' He has a constant supply of jokes acquired from his many acquaintances. He has few real friends. He is lots of fun and can always be relied upon to

cheer up the most gloomy atmosphere, but he's also terribly irritating. He never stops telking and interefering, he is always on the go, wanting something done, wanting something explained, wanting to tell a joke. Rolling about on the floor in a wild tumble with the dog, crashing into furniture, standing on his head with his dirty feet on the new wallpaper.

"Because of its importance and because all other forms of catechesis are oriented in some way to it, the catechesis of adults must have high priority at all levels of the C hurch. The success of programs for children and youth depends to a significant extent upon the words, attitudes, and actions of the adult community, especially parents, family and guardians." U.S. National Catechetical Directory

Each mealtime, the food misses his mouth, or seems to hurl itself from his plate onto the floor. He is popular at school, but always in some sort of minor trouble, for talking, or dropping the books, playing jokes and most of all not concentrating. The children of an alcoholic family display the symptoms of alcoholism: COMPULSION drives the 'hero' and the 'scapegoat' in opposite directions: DENIAL and DELUSION create new worlds for the 'lost child' and the 'mascot.' If a whole family catches measles, medication and treatment for one will not heal the others. The same is true of alcoholism, but while the same anti-biotics may heal the measles of each member, with the 'family disease' each one requires a unique form of treatment. Even if the alcoholic stops drinking his family will still be sick.

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R.J. Andre Home on 25th October. when they moved to Ravens- He was one of the first acolytes • National Vice President Loving wife of Albert thorpe, where he was to be instituted in the diocese Phillips, retired Laurie Electrical Contractor 5 Grateful thanks to the most Edward (dec'd). Only sister Regional Director of EducaJ.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, sacred heart of Jesus may of Sr. Mary Anastasia employed as an inspector with and he was dedicated to taking tion. Rivervale. 30 yrs expe- His name be praised and R.S.M., Jack, Jim, Dave, the Lands and Surveys Depart- communion to the sick each week. rience, expert, efficient, glorified throughout the Harry and Syd (all dec'd). ment. • Barney Vanpraag, retired reliable. Ring 362 4646, world now and forever Treasured mother of Eileen The Cooper home in Ravens- "A quiet, unassuming, uncommanager of Commercial after hours 385 9660. Finance. thanks St Jude and Mother (dec'd), Marjorie, John and thorpe immediately became a plicated man who achieved Gwen, and fond mother-in- "real home" to the Lake Grace much in his quiet way — a man He received a papal blessing • John Scott, an engineer Mary. Please continue to PROPERTY Improvelaw of Tom, Joan and Joe. parish priest travelling from of great strength of character in the last days of his life. with Maunsell and Partners. ments Service all types of help. R.A. H. Loving Grandmother of 240 kilometres away, to the with a deep faith and a great • Dale Henshaw, a district w indows and doors His funeral Mass was five. 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Youth Forum Young people who have been on camps at the Youth Formation Centre, "Eagle's Nest', Gidgigannup, will be happy to see the progress being made on extensions to the main house and the new buildings. When completed the campsite will be able to accommodate 50 people with the facility of an extra chalet, the large meeting room (pictured) and small group discussion rooms. A caretaker's cottage is also almost complete.

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Young people are not who attend them are compea homogeneous group. tition-orientated. The majorThey can be distin- ity of students at tertiary guished in terms of their institutions are perceived as age, whether they are valuing their education particularly disadvan- merely as a ticket to a job and taged, and what they do a high wage. Students at school often have with their time. Because youth is a similar concerns. Working for period of dramatic phys- the HSC is so competitive. But ical and emotional for what? Many feel there is change, groups of little prospect of work. young people of different ages are easily distinguished: 15 year olds are very different from 21 year olds. Some groups of young people are quite different from others because Australia's domesthey are particularly dis- tic satellite could be advantaged in our used to extend the society: those of Aborig- distribution of teachand resourinal and certain ethnic ing material ces, and the lining of disthe backgrounds, tertiary compuses for abled, the unemployed, teaching purposes, the those who live in iso- Commonwealth Minand ister for Education and areas, lated see others in which way the in confusion Young people experience women. Youth Affairs, Senator them. Sometimes they are treated as adults, sometimes as children: Young people are involved in Susan Ryan, said recently. a range of activities. Most are

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There are 2.6 million young people in Australia beween the ages of 15 and 24(17 per cent of the population). 70 per cent of 1 5 and 16 year olds are in full-time education, 25 per cent of 17 and 18 year olds are in full-time education, 9 per cent are in part-time education or training, including apprentices, 5 per cent are studying in tertiary institutions, 19 per cent are looking for work but cannot find it, 40 per cent have full-time work, 4 per cent have part-time work, 17 per cent are first generation migrants, 12 per cent receive unemployment benefits, 2 per cent receive single parents benefits, 1 per cent are separated or divorced, 4 per cent head households with dependants,

12 year olds: full price at theatres, full fares on some 17 year olds: driving licences elsewhere in Austritha either at school or working. 18 year olds: eligible to vote; eligible for full unemployment transport. training for work or looking ()oung marry to able contracts; legal enter to able 15 year olds: education no longer compulsory (except benefit; for work. imemen and men) without parental consent; able to buy Tasmania). Society is structured for /6 year olds: eligible for unemployment benefits but at alcohol and drink in pubs. who are working. It is people reduced rate; eligi7rlefor intialidand disabledpersons benefits 19 year olds: no longer eligible for secondary students' not for the retired or for at full rates; family alloutinces cut out, except for fun-time allouvinces. people at school or for the dependent students; age of consent for _young women (no 21 year olds: former legal age of adulthoo4 still has social unemployed. I think it's for age for _young men); _young women able to marry with significance. the in-betweens. at parental consent; education no longer compulsory in 25 year olds: eligible for full tertiary allowance if living home. Tasmania; driving licences in South Australia.

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Paid work plays a very important role in the lives of young people. Young workers face many situations in their working lives: new means of creaif God of voice the to listen I 1 Ski Workshops studies. and The Prophets of Hope sonal conviction that they arc include topics such as: Ideas they are to be 'living words' tivity, friendship, money and Chrstian Convention for the Church of today; New Young Adults will be held at • To celebrate the unifying for Youth Groups, Meditation, of God. Such time is prayer- freedom are opened up. this at emerge also problems a needs body the As time. Puppetry, Unemployment, being young a aspects of the University of N.S.W. from Music, Peace and Nuclear proper diet, so each of us stage. Some of these problems Christian in Australia today; January 14-18, 1985. Already, many people from • To educate in, and Disarmament — to name a needs a balance of 'good, are common to working peothroughout the country have explore, aspects of faith few. These workshops and nourishing' prayer; silence, ple in general. Others more registered for this exciting within the context of theme: studies will be led by talented the prayer of listening, as well specifically affect young and experienced people. as ways to make the daily workers as apprentices and event. The Convention is Prophets of Hope: aimed at people 16 years of • To highlight the impor- Guest leaders include Father actions of our contemporary trainees. Of the young people age and over — and especially tance of prayer and to provide Michael Fallon, Sister Eliza- lives ones that awaken us to in training most are in tertiary those people who are working opportunities for individual beth Cain, Images Drama the on-going communion education. Company, Brother Kevin Tres- with the Divine Mystery. This The majority of students on and community prayer. with young people. tin, Doctor Kath O'Connor, workshop explores the mar- Australian campuses today are young together gather To • The Convention aims are as people to share their stories Father Michael Whelan, riage of heaven and earth that white, middle class and from follows: touches everything we do and cities. • To welcome and assist in a relaxed and positive social Michael Elphick and more. Due to the economic situaFather from Edward Hays environment; each delegate in feeling part of the Convention commun- • To provide a catalyst for Kansas City, USA will be the Music, liturgy, prayer and tion with its high unetnployongoing growth at the per- keynote speaker at the Con- social happenings will all play ment, male students are being ity; vention and Father Edward an important part in the over- drawn into more practically • To give delegates a sense sonal and local level. oriented courses such as of involvement in the Conven- The Convention hopes to will also lead a workshop all spirit of Convention accounting and engineering availare forms titled "Pray Ways". by Father All aims providing Registration fulfil these tion and an experience of Church that is relevant, pos- opportunities with the overall Edward explains this work- able from the Convention etc and away from more 'airy Office: 1222 Anzac Parade, fairy' courses such as arts. program for small-group shar- shop as follows: itive, motivating and real: • To Ore delegates a real ing and prayer, learning expe- "Prophets to the 21st Cen- Malabar, NSW, 2036; Phone The values of the education institutions and the people sense of solidarity and per- riences by way of workshops tury need 'prophetic time' to 09-6615397.

Speaking at the national conference of the Australian Council for Educational Administration in Canberra, she said the Government had a vital interest in applications of the satellite to education which were cost effective and served national objectives for education. There were possible uses well beyond the enhancement of current School of the Air services; for example, to distance education at all levels. The satellite system could be used to improve education services for the disadvantaged, including migrants, Aborigines and students in remote areas. CommonThe wealth Tertiary Education Commission had been asked to report on alternative means of increasing enrolments and participatertiary in tion education including the wider use of technologies and more intensive use of resources available to institutions and the need to provide adequately for the disadvantaged

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What you have to say Barak and Deborah took up positions at the top of Mt Tabor and along the slopes. Deborah gave orders to Barak to prepare to attack. Each morning Deborah left her house early. She went out and sat under a palm tree between Ramah and Bethel. People called it Deborah's tree.

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Each morning hundreds of men and women from all over Israel came to Deborah's tree. They came to have her settle the army of Sisera at the over Sisera. The Lord marches Sisera and his army tried to their arguments and fights. Kishon Rivenwith us." Deborah gave orders escape by running away. Deborah was judge of all "! will go only if you go with for Barak to prepare to attack. Barak and his Israelite army Israel. me," Barak answered. "If you Just then a tremendous rain- easily won the battle. The She was a woman of strong do not go with me, Deborah, storm came up. It was a power of Sisera was broken cloudburst. Water poured for good. The people of Israel character. Her wisdom was I will not go." admired by everyone. People "I will certainly go with you," down the slopes of the moun- were again free of foreign believed God inspired her to Deborah replied. She got up tain. Streams filled with rush- oppression. make such wise judgements. and went home to get ready ing water. The streams Deborah was overjoyed. She emptied into the Kishon believed God was with his They took her decisions as for the march. The river filled with people. She believed God River. God's will for them. Barak recruited 10.000 men. water, turning the dry helped them to victory. At the time of Deborah an He marched with his army to riverbed into mud. Barak and the whole army enemy king was hurting the Mt Tabor. Deborah marched In the rainstorm Barak led his praised Deborah as their poeple of Israel. The king's with them. They took up army down the hill. The leader. But Deborah sang name was Sisera. He was a positions at the top of the enemy army stood behind the praises to God. Canaanite. For many years he mountain and along the 900 chariots. Sisera ordered I will sing my song to the oppressed Israel. Deborah slopes. his army to attack the IsraeLord, decided it was time to do Their enemy, led by Siscra, lites as they charged down the something about Sisera. My hymn to the Lord, the gathered at the foot of Mt hillside. of Israel. God Tabor in the dried-up bed of One day as she sat under her But the chariot wheels palm tree, Deborah had some- the Tishon River. Sisera com- became stuck in the mud. The The earth quaked and the one call Barak to her. "Barak," manded 900 iron chariots and horses could not pull the heavens were shaken she told him, "this is what the a large army. chariots. There was confu- While the clouds sent down showers. Lord commands. March with "Barak," Deborah said after sion. an army of 10,000 men to Mt surveying the situation, "today The rushing floodwaters of The Lord has brought freeTahoe. There you will meet the Lord will give us victory the river swept soldiers away. dom to Israel.

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approx. $6.95. Memed's Turkey, and no Adana. He held a variety of won the best novel of the year Reviewed by Roslyn doubt the real one too, is a jobs, working in the local rice prize in Turkey and its hero land of extremes — great and cotton fields, and in a has since become a living R oss.

9 11911AIlli 1 Covering the period from the a better understanding of the 'Memed is the stuff of which corruption and great nobility, factory. As champion of land- legend among the peasants of beginning to the 1970's, the relations between fertility, heroes are made,' says the great kindness and great less peasants, he was hounded Anatolia_ It has been transauthor gives a general outline mortality, and development, Times and I can't help but cruelty. Ince Memed is the out of every job. Yet he man- lated into eight languages. of the stages of growth of and to aid in the design of agree, This volume from Turkish Robin Hood who aged to save enough money Kemal has been nominated Hungarian literature with policies and programmes that Yashar Kemal, now consi- fights for right amidst much to buy a typewriter and set for the Nobel Prize in literbrief descriptions of the major will better serve human weldered the greatest living Tur- wrong and who gives the himself up as a public letter ature several times and was on intellectual mvoements, a fare. Essential reading for author, kish is powerfully people something to believe writer in the small town of the shortlist in 1982. That critical survey of all the major economists, planners and polin. Kadirli. Later he went to same year, he won France's moving. authors, and short sketches of icy makers, bankers and busThe only son of a poor Istanbul and became a jounal- prestigious Del Duca Literary One feels the sting of the the minor ones, together with inessmen, journalists, and widow, brought up in servi- ist In 1952 he published a Award for his overall output thistle and tastes the tartness some indication of their more development professionals of tude to the lord of five small book of short stories and in of ten novels. of hot milk and butter soup significant works. He includes all kinds. villages in the Taurus high- 1955 came his first novel. Yashar Kemal lives with his morning, the chill of in drunk detailed studies of major maslands of Anatolia, he decides Memel, My Hawk. This book wife in Istanbul. the slash of the whip and the terpieces, and some biograto fight against the cruelties The French, by Theodore Memed, My Hawk, pangs of hunger that battle phies of feudal oppression. Zeldin, published by Fla- by Yashar Kemal, pub- with the pain of poverty in the Memed is no sophisticated mingo, $10.95. lished by Flamingo, hearts of the Turkish people. The New Alchemists, Silrebel. We learn little of what icon talky and the Microe- Theodore Zeldin's is a new he thinks but see only what emotion and one that lectronics Revolution, by kind of guide to the French. Serpent's Tooth, by he does and what it means to needs to be held in Dirk Hanson, published by Not concerned with their the oppressed people around Roger Milliss, published check if the author is to Oxford University Press, institutions but with the by Penguin, $9.95. him. project his story. In French people themselves, he $29.50. He is motivated by basic Reviewed by Roslyn Roger Milliss's case, the This important and exciting explains why the individual is desire — first to punish the Ross. guilt he obviously feels not so very much like the book gives human meaning It seems to me that hated Agha and to deliver over his dead parents is and historical dimension to facade which the French presa master that blinkers. from his hands the girl he Roger Milliss is a ent to the world — and which the latest microelectronic wishes to marry. First youthful mighty troubled man. He jumps from space feats of American science and foreigners have mistakenly to space, memory to rebel, then bandit hero, he Not that is necessarily come to accept. Relating the engineering. A compelling memory, leaving himself The Only Problem, by Any attempt to outline the becomes ultimately, larger a bad motivation for a emotionally exhausted saga of eccentric geniuses, attitudes of a multitude of Muriel than life. In Memed, My Hawk Spark, pub- plot is bound to fail. Miss and the reader merely scientific luck and quirks of French men and women of all lished Yashar Kemal has created a by Spark has G.P. woven Puta neatly confused. One suspects fate that made men rich; of the classes and ages, he throws nam's Sons (New complicated tapestry of passionate saga that has the that the clarity of his mad scramble for wealth and new light on their family York, NY, 1984) events and people. She has a force of a true epic and one memory and intensity of power among scientists, bus- relationships and love affairs, $14.95. Reviewed by deftly sardonic way of depict- which mirrors the real lot of feeling are further their food and fashion, art and inessmen and politicians trymany people in a land most disordered by an obvious Patricia ing her B. Hoffman. characters. Of a pering to new entertainment, education, art control of us know little about. need to write for and entertainment, education Can a novel dealing with ennial student she remarks: technologies, 'everyone out there.' Yashar Kemal was born in "not that he was, in fact, an and religion, politics and terrorism, marital unhappiHe does have a wealth 1922 in a small in village intellectual, really; he was ness, and the interpretation of industry. of memories to offer but Southern Anatolia, the desRolling Stone Rock only educated." For the traveller, the busi- the Bible be entertaining and it is a pity he had not cendant of landowners on his Abnanac, The Chronicles of nessman or student, The amusing? If the author is But below the bubbling and plumbed the inner father's side and bandits on his Rock Music, published by amusing R OGER MILLISS surface story of her French is an invaluable con- Muriel Spark, the answer is peace of his own soul mother's. He had a very hard MacMillan, $14.95. before trying to put them tribution to better under- yet. Her dry and witty style are a number of profoundly upbringing and when he was This is the ultimate reference in presentable order for glitters in her short novel, The disturbing questions. The standing of french people. only five years old, saw his for every rock fan — the first book read can on be two the rest of us. Only Problem. father shot dead in a mosque. day-by-day chronology of rock A Serpent's Tooth was "The problem" of the title is levels, and the serious reader After this incident he deve- book. One does, music! Now available for the Helping Children Cope King Lear's name for an stated explicitly and restated will find much to interest and loped a stutter which he however, need either first time in this country it V47tb Separation and Loss. ungrateful child and this many times throughout the stimulate. The less serious wil overcame a few years later by great talent or great autobiographical novel features detailed coverage of ClaudiaJeu ett. published by be highly entertained by the book. It is that of suffering. (so the blurb says) tries the singing of folk ballads, and self-discipline to write everything and everyone that Oxford University Press, One of the characters ponders author's wit and style. to unravel the tangled in time became a master shaped rock music from its $19.99. of well in the "...he could not face the fact Miss Spark's crisply written this rich tradition whose circumstances and the strands of love and beginnings in 1954 to the end Children experience the books may not be to evethat a benevolent Creator ... estrangement between influence can be felt in the intensity of personal of 1983, weekly charts of No. pain of loss in a variety of could condone the unspeak- ryone's taste, but for those a son and his father haunting quality of his writing. emotion revealed in 1 singles in Britain and Amer- situations — death of a loved able suffering of the world.." who want a novel that is Born in Katoomba, ica, reviews of each year's one, divorce, the loss of considerably more than a When he was nine. Kemal Serpent's Tooth is great The speaker is Harvey New South Wales, in album trends, a most exten- friends and contacts after a enough to decided time-passer, successfully 1934, Roger Milliss The Only Probto learn to read and Gotham, a very rich man who has sive list of birthdates and move or separation due to been an author and has hidden himself in a remote lem is highly recommended. write. He had to walk daily to disguise any of the deaths of rock performers and illness. Jewett has developed former and reveals no f reelance scriptwriter for French village to write a And it will surely send the a distant village to do so and over 2(X) photographs. radio, TV and film since the simple techniques des- monograph on the Book of reader back to the Bible to re- eventually went for three traces of the latter. 1970. Guilt is a powerful years to a secondary school at cribed here during years of Job, a subject he has brooded read Job. Russell-Clarke's work with hundreds of griev- on for Peter years. It is, to him, a Sister Mary was born ing not common in closer to the people. Come And Get It Cookbook ing children and their families. great poem and the "pivotal Bridget Therese Lalor those days she was that enclosure was not published by MacMillan, book of the Bible." In 1922. Flashes of her permitted to leave her an essential of Car$19.95. Harvey's scholarly retreat Landof Sweet Surprises, by childhood show sorOrder and enter the mel. In 1973 she took Peter Russell-Clarke uses all Ernest Nister, published by and peace do not last long. His row in the visitation Carmel at Parkes, New three months leave to his talents as storyteller, artist estranged wife, Effie, is Collins, $7.95. of death, the vitality South Wales in her position. consider 1955. and cook extraordinaire to accused of being a ringleader The first "revolving of a large family, the With the much more The ever generous present lots of good healthy of a terrorist group and is pictures" book was published faith of Christian paracceptable name of Sisters of Charity tucker. The recipes are simple wanted by the police. He is in 1892 by Ernest Nister of ents, brothers and sisSister Mary of the helped her, and she with the emphasis on the best suspected of complicity, and London. This reproduction is ters. Incarnation, was given permission she Mother Nature has to offer in this brings mobs of friends. adapted from one of Nister's An elder found sister to herself attempt the new life at home the way of meat, seafood, dairy acquaintances, police, and, of books of changing pictures, joined the Sisters of in Carmel for 19 In the Archdiocese of produce and fruit and vegetcourse, the press to his hidefeatures and delicate Charity. She had two years. Melbourne. Others ables. The ideal of a balanced out. illustrations and delightful aunts, one her father's O f these she says came to join her in the diet, a view of food that is When Effie is hunted as the verses. sister, the other her "...living I learned, house of prayer. supported by sporting identimurderer of a Paris policemother's, in the same and learning I loved Quickly houses were ties such as Robert Flower, man, Harvey is forced to meet Congregation. Those and loving I underopened in other States Robert de Castella, Max William Wordsworth, The with reporters, and his meetwere the days. It is not stood better both God and in New Zeland. By Walker, Geoff Hunt and Ray Borders of Vision, byJona- ing with them is one of the surprising that she and man." May 1983 there were Ruffles. Much more than a thon Wordsworth, Univer- funnier episodes in the novel The Inner Road, an decided to join them. A perceptive Super2 5 Little Sisters of Our cookbook it is full of the life sity Lecturer in Romantic As he is bombarded with autobiography, Despite the fact that by Sisior Studies, encouraged Oxford Utwiersity, Lady her to of Mt Carmel. and bubble of Peter Russellrude questions about his ter Mary Lalor, LSC, on profession she was write a spiritual diary, Each extract taken Clarke as represented by the published by Oxford Uni- wealth, his private life, his Reviewed by Father known as Sister St whence much of this its own value will sl anecdotes and cartoons that versity Press, $31. connection with the gang. he T.P. Boland in the Cyril, she spent 16 book. In this diary she the reader to a deeper enliven every page. Phillip "... an extraordinarily infor- replies: "But Iam delighted to Catholic Leader. happy years teaching noted the "locations-, spiritual understandAdams sums up the book this mative b(x)k. long meditated get down at last to the subject in the Sisters of Charthe sense of St John of It is not often you ing of texts and facets way: '...It's as if Toulouse and passionately felt, a feast of of this conference; what was ity. Yet all through the Cross, that played r ead the autobioof the Christian life lautrec (whom Peter closely original readings and arresting the answer to Job's question' those years the name graphy foundress. of a large part in her a Enquiries may be resembles) ... had gone to perceptions, provocative, Job's question was why does of Carmel kept recurvaried life. This one is Australian; directed to The Little work in the kitchen doing sometimes provoking, but God cause me to suffer when ring and with it the It is interesting; it is a She became conSisters of Our Lady of Coquille St Jacques instead of informed always by a steady I've done nothing to deserve Idea. of journey vinced spiritual that the prayer Mt Carmel, PO Box lithographs.' Come And Get It critical sanity. In short, a major it. "What the newspapers With the speed and life she had come to significance for our 115, Hawker, South is the book of Peter's ABC TV work ..." make of this exegesis is hilargenerous understandlove should be lived Church. Australia 5434. — Times Literary Supplement ious. series.

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A big day at La Salle

The La Salle College Fair wasn't a dramatic happening, inasmuch as nobody drowned in the dunking machine and no one was lost during their moon walk, but it sure was a lot of fun! About 3000 people wandered around munching hot dogs, ice-cream, fairy f loss and you -name -it, while those with an international appetite ate a variety of national dishes from

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(DOGS' CHANCE...} RACE ONE: New Ternlock 1, Rita Magita 2, Leica's Image 3. RACE TWO: Eximious 1, Formula Balance 2, Spangaloa 3. RACE THREE: Billy Overflow 1, Hartley's Folly 2, Ripper's Pick 3. RACE FOUR: Lady Ternlock 1, I.otsadots 2, Flying General 3. RACE FIVE: Egyptian Prince 1, White Foot Lass 2. Bandaid 3.

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The Trinity College pipes and drums entertain fairgoers at the La Salle College international fete. f ace painting provided another artistic outlet for LA Salle students! Wide diversities of stalls were available. For those, however, who simply liked to watch and listen, there was the 'Polonia' Polish folk dance

group, who, with dazzling c ostumes, entertained with folk dances and the Trinity College Pipes and Drums gave delightful renditions of Scottish and Irish airs, to an appreciative audience. COLEEN HOWARD

RACE EIGHT: Luck A Daisy 1, Sandilock 2, DYnaPaz 3. 'RACE NINE: Sekondi 1, Miss Babe 2, Minder 3.

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ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL REUNION Students' who were at St Michael's Convent, Bassendean, during the 50's era, are invited to a school reunion, Friday, November 30, 1984, at 7.30 pm in the parish hall, Hamilton St, Bassendean. Ladies bring a plate, men a bottle of drink. Also any old school photos of interest. For further information contact Dale Wellington 447 7873; Tess Henson 409 8108; or Michael Beck 401 2946.

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UNFAITHFULLY YOURS proved his trial form good with a very impressive first up win in the Horrie Miller Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Previously unbeaten in trials Unfaithfully Yours looked as if he would suffer his first defeat when SPECIAL WONDER joined him in the straight, but his courage and determination came through and he fought on to win well. This Picture Show colt is still very green and he will improve with racing and is definitely a galloper to follow over the summer carnival. IMPORTUNE showed he is definitely WA's best prospect in the .oncoming 3yo classics with his gutsy win in Saturday's 1800m quality race. Despite a large weight disadvantage Importune still proved too strong for his rivals. Ted Hickling, master trainer of stayers once again has a strong hand in the derbies and should be right among the big prize money once more this carnival. POWER SKI looks ready to win in town judging on her very easy win at York on Wednesday. She finally broke her maiden status when she drew away to win by five lengths. Frank Maynard should soon turn her into another city winner. JUNGLE LIGHT resumed from a let up at Northam, Thursday and this promising gelding showed he is set for a successful campaign with an effortless win. Jungle Light showed great promise when last in training when he met some very strong opposition and equipped himself admirably. Follow this horse, he should prove a good money-spinner for punters.

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continental to satay sticks and downright hot curry! The Mass held at the beginning of the fair was well attended and once again complemented the international flavour of the fair itself. Prayers of the Faithful were read in Italian, Burmese, Polish, Yogoslav, Spanish and English. The Mass was concelebrated by Father Brian Morrison of 6KY's Community Care Program, and Father Kazimierz of Green mount. Father Brian also officially opened the fair in conjunction with the rousing music of the Trinity College Concert Band. The day was filled with activities which offered something for everyone. Art, by well known Western Australian artists, and pottery works, were on display. Teacher, Mr Guy Harrison, illustrated his dexterity a t the potter's wheel, rapidly turning out many interesting items, whilst

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Father Gore talking to a group at the Applecross Christian breakfast (picture and story by BILL HUXLEY— Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Church parishioners of Applecross heard first hand of the situation in the Philippines when Father Brian Gore addressed last month's ecumenical Christian break'fast. Describing a news picure that portrayed Presient Marcos and his wife gainst a stained glass hurch window Father ore said that closer inspec 'on showed the window scene as a camel trying to et through the eye of a eedle.

The challenge to the rich to share their wealth with the poor is like the gospel parable he said. "The rich are professed Christians but their exploitation and degradation of their poorer countrymen makes Christianity a dirty word" he said. "We preach the good news to the poor. It is bad news for the rich. We talk about brothers and sisters and sharing and back comes the comment: You must be communist. "The rich will have to surrender some of their

power, some of their riches to enable the poor to have education and sufficient to eat. Are these the words of evil revolution or of Christian progress? Father Gore said that people in Australia and other countries had to convey to the Philippines their repugnance at the oppression and denial of human rights to poorer people. "Christians must be prepared to take up the cause of the poor, they must be the voice of the voiceless" he said.

Moving to retirement Monsignor Dan Downey of Busselton who this week moves to his retirement villa at Ocean Star Village Bunbury was honoured last Sunday at a family celebration of the 50th anniversary of his ordination in Propaganda College Rome on December 22, 1934 He is pictured with three of his sisters who joined some other 50 relatives

(from left) Mrs Marge Prendiville, Mrs Alice Antonio, both of Dianella, Mrs Josephine Murray of Karrinyup. Three other surviving sisters of an original family of eleven Downey children who were unable to be at the Dianella celebration are Mrs Anne Williams of Kalamunda, Mrs Mary Carter of Geraldton, and Mrs Kath Keefe of Applecross. efiliniImmiiiammumossir

LAW LECTURE A public lecture by a renowned scholar of canon law will be a feature of the national conference of the Canon Law Society to be held in Perth this month. Father Ladislaus Orsy SJ will speak at St Thomas More College on Wednesday. November 21 at 8pm. On Wednesday November 14 priests will be addressed by Father Frank Harman of Melbourne and Bishop Geoffrey Robinson of Sydney. ST GREGORY OBLATES The Oblate chapter St Gregory will meet at Holy Trinity Abbey, New Norcia on Sunday November 11 commencing with Mass at 11am and finishing at 3.30pm. The December meeting and Christmas gathering will be held at the Redemptorist retreat house at 2pm on Sunday, December 16. Participants are asked to bring a plate.