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A former Servite parish priest of Wanneroo was kidnapped in Beirut early on Tuesday as he was heading to work with the Catholic Relief Organisation. Father Lawrence (Marty) Jenco was parish priest of Wanneroo for about 14 months in 1976-77 after which he spent some time working with Sister Bernardine in the Aboriginal apostolate.
El CI 0 CI Father Jenco then moved to India where the helped in a home for disabled people in Madras. Returning to the United States Father Jenco became involved in the work of the Catholic Relief Organisation being posted first to North Yemen and more recently to the refugee camps in Thailand. Press reports say Father Jenco's driver was beaten up but managed to escape. There is no news yet of Father Jenco's fate at the hands of a group called Islamic Jihad (Holy War).
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With less than half of the anticipated rollup actually registered for the Catholic Youth Conference at the end of this month, organisers are asking where are the Catholic youth in Western Australian parishes.
"Parishes which have furnished no delegates say they have no young people. Does that mean the parish is full of geriatrics? "asks YCW member Peter Shooter who is one of the organisers. Aiming originally at an attendance of 500 the committee are disappointed that only 150 delegates and some 50 leaders are lined up for the January 24-28 conference which is timed to co-incide with the International Youth Year. Of the 160 parishes in WA only 51 have nominated youth to attend, - ten Bunbury and five Geraldton diocese parishes, leaving only 36 of Perth's 100 parishes to be represented at the conference. Since the decision taken last February to hold the first ever such conference every parish as far north as Derby was visited by a youth worker looking for delegates. Over 9000km was travelled.
The Diocesan Youth Council believes its member organisations are in touch with some 3000 young Catholics hut that there is an estimated Catholic youth population of 30.000.
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To prepare for the conference 500 questionnaires were sent out to potential delegates in each parish and from the 161 replies the conferon program ence Church, Faith and Society was drawn up. Zone meetings were held in December to study the topics to be presented, but only 70 attended meetings that should have drawn up to Pictured at the last minute paper work for this month's Catholic Youth 250 young people. The registration of less Conference are Damain Hart, Julie Pickering and Lyn Dundon. See also page 2 than half of the potential
by a staff reporter enrolment is going to put severe financial strain on the conference which has to meet costs of lodging the delegates at the various university colleges. Diocesan on' worker Julie Pickering believes some delegates may be hesitant because they cannot get time off work as well as country delegates needing extra travelling time but she is not impressed at excuses made over the $100 fee that covers all accommodation, meals and the conference. "Young people are prepared to pay $200 to be part of a cricket or a soccer club, but when they have to put $100 on the line for their faith, they have to think three or four times about it" she commented. "NIThen we floated the idea of the conference last February we got enthusiasm and support, but now they have been asked to commit themselves, they say: 'It is a fantastic idea but...!". Peter Shooter believes if parishes are genuinely interested in youth attending the conference, their attendance would be subsidised hy the parish.
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From this evolved the meaning "to instruct"
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of the decree is to see unity as a pilgrim moving church towards Christ rather
with the parish priest of what they would like to see happen." The conference is supplying 28 elective workshops developed from ideas given by youth themselves. One of the most popular choices is the elective on vocation showing that youth are looking at how God can direct and take control of their lives, says Julie Pickering one of the organisers. She believes attending the conference will give youth encouragement to reach out to other youth. "It is very easy for a youth group to become isolated. It is nice and easy and comfortable to stay where you are but it costs an effort to reach out to others," she said. "If we are not reaching out to people around us how can we love God if we are not loving people around us?" Peter Shooter said the conference is not reaching only the converted but is looking for new people. Elective workshops will cover many areas of life such as liturgy, prayer, building community and a sense of mission as well as providing formation for adult life and marriage.
than as a return movement to the Catholic Church. Yet today, there are many who would say: ""Ibe will have to join us!" A crucial advance nude by the Church 20 years ago was
to recognise officially that Jesus, in His Spirit, is at work in churches beyond the visible borders of the Catholic Church and that they have a significance and importance in the mystery ot salvation. Yet today many people still retain attitudes formed. for example, when they were
prohibited from attending non-Catholic services of any kind. A third highlight of this historic 20 year old decree is the acknowledgement that divisions among Christians are the result of sin on both sides and there is a need for forgiveness on both sides. Unfortunately, many today would still see Luther and other reformers as baddies. not realising many of them were holy and their perceptions and criticisms of the Catholic Church were valid. A further emphasis in the Church's charter for ecumenism and unity is on constant renewal and reformation because such renewal is essential in order to bring about true unity. 'Ibis proposes a challenge to change, a challenge often resisted in personal living or in the life of a local church community. A significant emphasis in the decree of ecumenism was the place-given to scrip-
ture in the dialogue between the churches. If progress is to be made there has to be further serious study of scripture in our parishes, the pope said. The 1964 decree warns against free and easy agreement in the hope of promoting church unity quickly. True unity cannot be attained by unacceptable compromise. Yet many Catholics are vague about the teachings of the Catholic Church and are ready to accept most points of view on doctrine or morality. In spite of assumptions to the contrary, the 1964 statement on the Church had a
At St Thomas More College Peter Shooter and Julie Pickering go over details of students who will be lodged there for the January 28-31 Catholic Youth Conference.
profound impact on the Catholic Church. Its conditions and questions are still relevant today.
Six priests in moves in Perth and country
ROME : The explulsion of former Nicaraguan Jesuit Father Fernando Cardenal is not a laicisation nor a penal act under canon law said Jesuit general secretary Gerhartz following the terse t wo-line official pronouncement from the order's headquarters. T he decision means Father Cardenal is no longer under Jesuit Church authority and his immediate Church superior is Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, an opponent of Nicaragua's Sandinista government and of Nicaragua priests holding governmentpositions. "As every member of the f aithful he is under the authority of the local bishop," said Father Gerhart/. Under the decision Father Cardenal is still a priest but would need to be incardinated in a diocese before he could practise his public ministry. Incardination is a process by which a local bishop authorises diocesan priests to administer the sacraments in his diocese. Religious order priests are given this authority by their local religious superiors. The Jesuit decision does not change the status of Father Cardenal's priestly ministry. Under a 1981 agreement with the Nicaraguan bishops, he and three other priests agreed to suspend their public priestly ministry while holding government posts.
MOSCOW (NC) After years of harassment by authorities, a 47-year-old Catholic priest has been arrested in the Soviet Union and sent to an unknown detention centre. Father Stuglik
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Clergy changes for priests in six Perth parishes and country areas have been announced. One of the changes has become necessary following the appointment late last year of Father Peter Bianchini to director of missions. Others were because of earlier transfers announced last year. The latest changes are: —
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become assistant priest at St Mary's Cathedral. Ordained in March 1981 Father Parkinson had his first posting at Rockingham parish. REVEREND PAUL FOGARTY, currently a deacon will become assistant priest at Rockingham following his ordination to the priesthood in St Mary's Cathedral at 10 am on Saturday February 16. He was educated at St Pius X school Manning and Aquinas and Trinity Colleges before graduation in physical education from the l•niversity of Wk He taught at Mercedes College for two years followed by a year at Salvado College New Norcia before entering St Francis Xavier Seminary. Adelaide where he has just finished five years training for the priesthood.
At Greenmount last month, FATHER KAZIMIERZ STUGLIK was inducted as parish priest in succession to Father Laurence Murphy who has become chaplain to Sacred Heart College, 4orrento.
Ordained in Poland in 1976 Father StugJik came to Australia in 1978 and spent three and a half years at Esperance before returning to Greenmount. There are four Polish priests among the eight Salvatorians working in Perth and Bunbury dioceses. Assistant priest Father Emil Jarco will he joined by former Bellevue parish priest. Father Liam Talbot who has been serving in Wagin.
He was priest in charge at North Fremantle until his appointment at Kondinin in 1971.
He was attached to St Mark's College Bedford and most recently since 1980 to Santa Maria College, Attadale.
FATHER DANIEL FOLEY. after 10 years at Attadale parish has resigned from that position and has been appointed priest in charge of St Kieran's Osborne Park recently vacated by Father Maurice Toop on three years' loan to Geraldton diocese. Ordained in 1955, Father Foley served in Leedenille,
Subiaco, Kensington and Nedlands before moving to Kambalda in 1971 and Attadale in 1974. FATHER MILTON TIM FOSTER becomes parish priest of Attadale in succession to Father Dan Foley. Ordained in 1962 he served at Leederville, Osborne Park. Northam and Applecross before studying
New chaplain for services SYDNEY : A Sydney parish priest and former naval chaplain for 18 years has been appointed bishop in charge of the Catholics in the Australian armed services. Bishop John Mayne, 56, succeeds Bishop Aloysius Morgan who is 75 and steps down from being
head of the military vicariate. Bishop Mayne, parish priest of Mosman NSW since 1983, gets the nominal title of Miopta but it is presumed he will reside in Canberra as did Bishop Morgan, helping also in Canberra diocesan ceremonies.
INNSBRUCK,(NC) — Tens of thousands of Austrian Catholics are leaving the Church each year rather than pay a state-enforced compulsory church tax, according to diocesan finance directors.
Church officials refer to the tax as a "subscription." The revenue can he used for any Church purpose. The two-year exodus represents one per cent of Austria's nearly 6.4 million Catholics. Church officials generally have been unwilling to press for a change in the law, fearing their
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Exodus after taxes In 1983, more than 33,000 Catholics left the Church to avoid paying the "Kirchensteuer," according to a 1984 pamphlet published by the Austrian Church's Conference of Finance Directors. In 1982, more than 32,000 Catholics left.
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revenues would diminish drastically. After World War II. the Church conducted a survey to discover how many Catholics would pay their Church tax voluntarily, and the answer was 20 per cent.
Austrian law stipulates every Austrian church member above the age of 20 who is not a student or on welfare must pay a one per cent to 1.7 per cent tax on his taxable income. The tax is collected in four
payments each year. A person earning the equivalent of $50,000 per year pays $850.
The system recognises as legitimate religions the Lutheran, Catholic, Orthodox, Calvinist and Mormon churches, as well as Judaism and Islam. Catholics represent approximately 85 per cent of Austria's 7.5 million people. The only way to become exempt from the payments is to officially declare that one is no longer a member of the Church. Even then, hack taxes must be paid in full, or the state will condemn the property of the person who owes
taxes and sell it to meet the payments.
A pamphlet published by the Archdiocese of Salzburg. Austria, reads: "The harsh consequences of a declaration that one is leaving the Church are based on the view a declaration is equivalent to apostasy. that is, to a rejection of the faith." Official Church brochures defend the tax on the basis of Scripture and on the history of the early Church, which they say was supported by "collections." Lay people speak of the tax as something imposed from above, against their will.
FATHER TONY PIUS, currently at St Marys Cathedral, will become priest in charge of Bencubbin in succession to Father Peter Bianchini, who becomes director of missions while residing at Highgate presbytery.
Father Pires was ordained in 1977 and his first appointment was to Mirrabooka parish followed by his appointment to St Mary's Cathedral in 1981. FATHER JOSEPH PARKINSON of Rockingham will
T ASS reported the event. Father Jozef Swidnicki was arrested a few days before Christmas near Novosibirsk in the centre of the country, where he had previously been allowed to conduct his pastoral activity. He was charged with organising an illegal meeting. Father Swidnicki has several times been forced to leave parts of the Soviet Union where he preached, taught and built churches. A fter preparing in secret f or the priesthood in the R epublic of Latvia, for f ive consecutive years F ather Swidnicki was r efused state permission to be ordained. Finally, he was ordained in secret without state permission. A fter working for several years clandestinely as a priest, in 1975 he was recognised by state authorities and given a parish. He was forced to leave after one year, however, by the same authorities.
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Rehecord Parents trying to cope with children during summer holidays may well ask what is different about calling 1985 International Year of Youth. Whether they, youth or society at large will be any wiser twelve months hence remains to be seen. Those who don't know where to start thinking about youth had an excellent opening with the news that juveniles are being flushed out of the city parks on morals charges while out at East Cannington youths have just seen their school go up in a deliberate fire to the tune of $100,000. Just so as not to forget that all youth, if not adults, start off as babies the news also spotlighted the British Government frantically trying to close the door on surrogate motherhood after a couple paid $20,000 for a baby by a woman who scored an even further $28,000 for an exclusive newspaper story. The 28 year old mother of two said she wanted the money for improvements to her home. The message coming through loud and clear is that something is happening around youth but it is difficult to lay responsibility at anyone's feet. If morals or safety are at risk in the park, it is the park's fault. If a school burns down it is the lack of security. If surrogate mothers are on the increase it is the money that gives thebusiness a bad name. It did not take long for the comments to describe Perth's Supreme Court Gardens as the equal of New York's infamous Central Park. There were instant calls for more lighting, more police patrols, more fences, more anything. The melodramatic discovery of wickedness in our midst could not have been more enhanced than by the necessity of the police having literally to handle a diseased 12 year old with plastic gloves before he was placed in authority's care for the next six years. It took the wind out of simultaneous stories when in order to catch three youths operating a house prostitution racket and another enterprising woman running her own hotel call service, the police had t o do no more than look up the classified advertisements in a Sunday newspaper. Now if the same Sunday newspaper can claim that it has the largest readership it can only be inferred that this large readership sees no objection to the columns of advertisements hinting that commercial sex abounds everywhere in the suburbs. That is why blaming the poor old parks is better than blaming newspaper readers who obviously are families who are concerned about the welfare of their children who must grow up unaware that sexual exploitation ever exists. They never learnt it at home! Having spent millions of dollars to create endless parks on which seemingly never a person seems ever to set a foot, we now have to spend further dollars employing police and lighting systems to see that we behave ourselves in them The only sure fall-back alternative is to blame the parents. One endless shift of responsibility can be achieved by blaming the parents, by asking where are the parents of the kids prostituting the parks, fuelling the brothel industry, bashing anyone in sight or burning down schools for kicks. The trouble is that even if parents could be brought to heel for these the troubles they would turn out to be the same helpless, hopeless parents who not long ago were themselves victims of helpless, hopeless parents. The fault in this argument is to imagine that there is some innate goodness revealed in being able to be a parent whereas behavioural studies show that for all their wisdom and intelligence humans have to learn what true parenting is about unlike animals which do it very well by instinct. The fault then lies with the teacher not the student. If a 28 year old mother sees no problem in renting out her womb then who was the teacher in her life? If youths are smart enough to make money out of sex then who tells them that what they do is their own business? If bored youths burn down their schools, who teaches them that government money and insurance payouts grow on trees and not out of the pockets of taxpayers. The Church refuses to be told other than God's truth that in every youth — and that means every one-time youth — there dwells Adam's sin. It requires education, training and formation of conscience and values. Yet Catholic youth in WA have organised a program to cover the widest possible range of skills to survive in today's world and no-one wants to hear. What have we been teaching the youth of today? That it's better to blame the parks, the police and the lack of fire-alarms?
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Priests oppose Nazis BONN — More than one-third of all German priests actively opposed their country's Nazi authorities during World War II, the West German bishops said in a recently published study. The study found that 7155 diocesan priests and 866 priests from various orders "entered into conflict" with the Nazi rulers between 1933 and 1945; 169 died in concentration camps and 418 were deported. The report, titled "Priests Under the Terror of Hitler," was the result of a five-year study by t he West German hishops' Commission w Contemporary History. Cardinal Joseph Hoffner, president of the West German bishops' conference and Archbishop of Cologne, said t hat "German Catholic clergy, with a few exceptions, were united in their opposition to Nazism. "The fact two-thirds of the churchmen may not have been disturbed at that time by Nazis does not show they were in agreement with Hitler," but only that the activities of most of them were never discovered by the authorities, Cardinal Hoffner said. In 1982, Pope John Paul II canonised Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Conventual Franciscan priest who, in 1941, volunteered to die in another man's place at the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland. Pope Pius XII was criticised in the past for remaining silent during the Nazi persecutions.
This year sees the 400th anniversary of the birth of Mary Ward, the founder of the Loreto Sisters. To mark the occasion we begin this week a four-part series which looks at both the history of Mary Ward and her most remarkable story and the Loreto Sisters at work in the world today. When Mary Ward founded her teaching order in Europe so many centuries past she was a woman ahead of her time. In that same spirit are Loreto Sisters today moving out into the world to make their contribution,
Anniversary year for Loreto sisters
In 1985 we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Mary Ward's birth . . . a great time to reflect on her vision and its influence down through the centuries. She fought so hard, for instance, for her belief that "women in time to come will do much." Now at last, we begin to see the recognition of that vision, a r ecognition in which Mary Ward's nuns and the women they have educated, have played a significant part. We can point to the o utstanding women who are Loreto girls, and be theof proud m . . . and rightly so.
A talk given at the past pupils' reunion Mass by SISTER MARGARET HONNER IBVM
But most of us are not outstanding individuals. Nice people, yes, but ordinary And if our Loreto education has given us broad minds and high ideals and a sense of responsibility, then we must sometimes feel our helplessness — in the face of our society, where we belong and which we are part of and yet which we recognise as destructive of families and of human dignity, as materialistic, selfish and prejudiced
We must feel our helplessness in the face of our country and our world. which we love and which is threatened by pollution, exploitation and nuclear war If that helplessness, however, becomes hoplessness, we have lost our faith. We have nothing to give, nowhere to go and we have no bond with Mary Ward, whose hope, in the direst circumstances, did not falter. Where do we look for our hope? There is one place only. We look to the Lord, who is risen, who says "do not be afraid, I have conquered the world"
And what about our part in t he redemption he works, our part in saving the world, healing its ills, reconciling those who are cut off — can we, Mary Ward's women in time to come, do much? Or is that just for the outstanding ones? It couldn't be true, that it's just for the outstanding people! God doesn't create a whole lot of extras. We are the women who can do much. We each have a calling and the gifts to answer that call. What
Bishops critical NAIROBI, (NC) — Kenya's bishops, including Cardinal Maurice Otunga of Nairobi, have criticised a sterilisation program sponsored by two charitable organisations as an "insult to the women and men of Kenya, a violation of human dignity." The Lions of Kenya and the Giants of Nairobi have sponsored tubal ligation operations in three districts of the country. "Apart from the religious and moral objections to such fertility destruction," the bishops said, the "promotional approach"
of the program is objectionable. The bishops called on Kenyans to refrain from "such an unfortunate approach to controlling fertility" and called on the government not to support the program. The Family Planning Association in Kenya has accused the bishops of misleading the public by suggesting the operations destroy women's reproductive organs. Kenya has one of the highest birth rates in the world at 3.4 percent per year. Catholics makes up 19.5 percent of an estimated 17.6 million population.
each of us does is important and it is important that we do it as well, and as lovingly, as we can. Mary Ward had another phrase for what she found truly important. It ordinary was "an manner of life." She learnt its value from the experience of her own life. As a young woman, fired with idealism, Mary Ward would have loved to be a martyr. She had the chance when she was caught and gaoled in England. But, no, said God, and let friends use bribery to set her free — for a more ordinary manner of life. She originally wanted to join the strictest, the most severe, most silent and most secluded religious order she could find, to show her great love of God. Ah no. said God, an ordinary manner of life for you, my girl! We might find it hard to see an ordinary manner of life in her extraordinary travels all over Europe, back and forth across the Alps on foot, in the
hazards of her work in post Reformation England, where almost everything she did was an act of treason, a capital offence, in her innovative schools in so many countries, in her moving in and out of secular and ecclesiastical courts — and prisons. But it was ordinary in its uncertainty, in not knowing clearly, for so long, what God wanted. It was ordinary in its contact with ordinary people and their needs. It was ordinary in that Mary Ward, for all her many gifts of personality and character was lust a woman who depended totally on God. The gifts he gave her, which she offers to us as the women called to do much in a very needy world, are for all of us. Among these gifts or graces which God gave especially to her and to those who shared her vision, she herself highlights these. freedom justice sincerity and joy.
DEE Hers was a deep inner freedom, above all a freedom in her relationship with God, letting the Spirit work in her heart. As St. Paul describes it in today's epistle, it means trusting in God, working and sometimes groaning in our work, but hoping for, believing in the salvation, the redeeming of all creation, struggling in our communication with God but confident that he knows what is in our hearts. This was Mary Ward's freedom. From this came her freedom to live searching for something totally new, freedom to move around war -torn Europe, f reedom to plead her own case at the Vatican, freedom despite prison, ill-health, scandal, disloyalty. freedom even to
Mary Ward, a heroic and holy pioneer was also a superb human being. Her story is one of courage and
counter Reformation. Born in the age of Elizabeth I, she reflects in her high courage, her wit and open embrace of life a remarkable woman, not just for her own time, but for any time.
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CAPE TOWN: To understand the real South Africa, visitors should see not only the tourist attractions but places where most blacks live says Cape Town's new archbishop Stephen Naidoo, who is of Indian descent. He also said companies doing business in South Africa should help black workers improve their living standards. "You will see that apartheid is a term used with very different meanings," 47-year-old Archbishop Naidoo said. "In one section of society it can mean privilege; in another it can mean very real oppression. You're not going to understand unless you visit both places." He said shareholders and staff of companies with operations in South Africa have a responsibility to black workers. They have a "moral obligation to see to it that the companies do not shelter behind apartheid and use apartheid to make money. This, to my mind, would be immoral. "If companies want to invest in South Africa, they must see the country as both a First World and a Third World country, and they must help the Third World part catch up with the more advanced part." He said companies should reinvest some of their profits for the benefit of the black workers, for things like better housing and education_ Black workers, he said, should be trained for promotion rather than having skilled labourers brought in from Europe and America. He also said workers' rights to fair treatment and to unionise should be respected. Apartheid was "totally unacceptable" If it is considered "a necessary basis for negotiating a future settlement for South Africa.' "But if one can say we are preparing to change the system and phase out apartheid so that we start on a completely different basis, then possibilities for the future are much brighter." Archbishop Naidoo said he intends to improve communication among groups that have lived separated from each other. In South Africa, residential separation is enforced among the races which are classified as white, Asian (Indian), Coloured (mixed race) and African
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Vatican newspaper called South African Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu one of the "prophets of peace" in the modern world and said this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner is fighting an apartheid system that "violates the most elemental human rights." "Tutu's (actions) are, radical evangelism and not, as some claim, political extremism," said front-page editorial written by L 'Osservatore Romano vice-director Gian Franco Svidercoschi. "His choice of action is not ideological, but a sign of the Christian faith: That all men, created by the Father in His own image and redeemed by the Son, are equal," the editorial said. The article condemned
Tutu is a 'prophet' of peace South Africa's system of apartheid, or racial segregation, imposed by the white-minority government. Bishop Tutu, it said, "is working for a peaceful change of structures and a mentality that violate the most elemental human rights." He has become "the moral conscience of the entire black community," it said. The editorial noted South Africa's new constitution excludes blacks from parliamentary representation.
There are 22 million South African blacks, representing more than 70 percent of the population, who are not only excluded from political power, but expropriated of even the minimal legal guarantees. "Three and a half million of these blacks are obliged to live in squalid ghettos," the editorial said. That fact "represents a a serious violation of human rights and, at the same time, deeply damages family life and the social structure," it said.
SUPPORT FOR PRIESTLY DEMONSTRATOR NEW YORK — Archbishop John J. O'Connor of New York strongly supported the decision by his auxiliary. Bishop Emerson Moore, to engage in civil disobedience and be arrested as a protest
against apartheid. "It was a carefully made judgment. It was not at all arbitrary or capricious. It said something very symbolic and very effective," Archbishop O'Connor said.
Bishop Moore became the first Catholic bishop in the United States ever to be arrested for civil disobedience when police charged him and four fellow demonstrators with illegally blocking
the entrance to the South African consulate in New York. Archbishop O'Connor also defended the idea of civil disobedience in principle, saying "divine law must always take prece-
dence over any human laws" and that occasions may arise when civil disobedience is seen as "the only way to bring about the revocation or modification" of an "intrinsically immoral law."
Murder, rape in Africa
PRETORIA, (NC) — Africa's South Catholic bishops have accused that country's police of committing atrocities while quelling riots in black townships in a report citing 41 cases of alleged atrocities, including murder and rape. An estimated 150 black South Africans and one white infant have been killed in outbreaks of violence in the townships.
are out to impose our will on them by any means that we find effective," said the archbishop, who i s president of the bishops' conference. The bishops' report said police behaviour in the townships "resembled that of an occupying army." White and black officers were involved in "irregular behaviour," the report said. But it said that "in most cases there seems to have been a preponderance of young white policemen." The report- quoted two girls, ages 15 and 16, who said they were forced into an armoured police van by two white officers, held there overnight and each raped three times. The report also chronicled cases in which policemen were seen drinking liquor and laughing at people who were being beaten or shot.
The troubles began on September 3 in the township of Sharpeville as rent protests over increases. The unrest spread to other townships and reflected a wide range of grievances against the white minority which dominates the nation's political and economic life. "A kind of state of war is developing between the police and the people," said Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban at a Press conference in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. The police "seem to be in a mood which inspires them to say the people are their enemy and we
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M ANAGUA, (NC) — Father Fernando Cardenal says his conscience prevented him from stepping down as Nicaragua's education minister, although the decision resulted in his expulsion from the Jesuits. "Sincerely, I consider before God 1 would commit a grave sin if I abandoned, in the present circumstances, my priestly option for the poor," he said in a 19-page statement released in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. Father Cardenal said that option "takes its concrete form in Nicaragua in my work in the Popular Sandinista Revolution." "I can't conceive of a God that would ask me to give up my commitment to the people," he said. Father Cardenal also equated the Vatican's approach to Nicaragua with the policies of the Reagan administration. The Vatican seeks "to delegitimise the revolutionary process with our resignation" from office, he said, in an apparent reference to three other priests serving in high government posts. He also said the Nicaraguan bishops "wanted us to abandon this revolution."
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Jesuit superior 'most patient' SIR: The Superior General of Jesuits, Father P. Kolvenbach has been most patient with Nicaraguan Minister Father Cardenal SJ before expelling him from t he order. (The Record, December 13) The Vatican has more than once expressed its opinion priests cannot serve two masters, the Church and marxist governments. Father Cardenal is the first one of the possible longish list of offenders. Others will no doubt follow shortly, and not before time. The damage to the Church has been done and is daily undermining it. Communists are eager to align with themselves religious, before they gain complete power. Then of course the purges start. It is significant the same issue of The Record reported the Chinese communists sentenced recently four Jesuits. Repugnant as the charges and sentences are, they indicate communism will not really tolerate deep down the Churches and their faithful servants. Inhuman are the sentences too.
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from JOHN C VESZELY, Nollamara Two of those sentenced are 75 and 80 years old respectively. The 11 and 10 years gaol terms are vicious and the sentenced are not likely to survive them. It is a great pity the Minister of Nicaragua, has not drawn the very significance conseqences from the knowledge, what happens when the comunists gain total control. Over the 60 odd year bloody and murderous communist oppression through their blind followers killed tens of thousands of priests of all religious denominations. Father Popielusko was but the last one. Not reported widely in the Western Press was the death of Father Geza Palfi, 43 a Hungarian Catholic priest in Transylvania. His "crime" was he referred in a sermon to the suffering of his faithful in Rumania, whose minority rights are constantly violated. The Rumanian secret police took him away tortured him and beat him
so severely, the next morning he had to be taken to hospital where he died. The official death certificate falsified the cause of death and stated same as cancer of the liver. The Vatican of course knows about these things. And not least for these reasons it asked priests should not seek office nor from accept same dictatorial communist governments.
Church's primary concern from MRS PATRICIA HILLGAN, MANDURAH SIR: The Church's primary concern is to bring Christ's message to all people, to support people in their daily lives, helping them to help themselves. The traditional family has long been an area of concern; Catholic education has played its part in this.
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Co-ordination need from IAN CROWE Hosanna House SIR: Your issue reporting items from the National Welfare Catholic Commission and the WA Catholic Welfare Commission (The Record December 13) does not indicate the relationship of these bodies and what needs they serve. Although I give some of my interest to the care of the needy my major time and interest is in underlying causes: and I see the need for state and national coordination of work in this
area. I am equally aware nothing is being done here in lobbying coordinating groups which individually and collectively can express views of the sane and moral majority to legistatives for the well being and stability our Australian of community. Instead it is the views of eccentric and amoral minorities which are setting a Gadarene pattern by their own lobbying and by infiltration into administration. and Ministers
governments thus become the tools of such groups, signing where told and legislating to suit. Other counsels can prevail if good men combine to resist evil; but can either of the commissions here discussed be effective in this area. R egretably our Parents' Federation and its Australian Parents' Council which has the means to do such work have their heads buried in the now near sterile sands of State aid: of what they do, nothing is known; or is nothing.
The traditional family with a single average income is now more heavily taxed than ever before and is being attacked from all sides to lower its standards. G overnments' policies divide it and even break it up altogether. Some families are getting poorer by the week. Many believe good marriages are co-incidental and are not worked at. The Australian Family Movement's strenuous effort to get elected should have been a challenge to all Christians. Their policies are good. Politics cannot be separated from everyday living. were workers More needed especially in the country areas. These should have come from the Christian community,
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Pope's talks Extended will soon arrest be a book
ROME (NC) — An Italian court has extended house arrest for Sergei Antonov, a Bulgarian charged with plotting to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. A ntonov, a Rome station chief for Bulgaria's national airline at the time of his arrest in November 1982, was granted house arrest in June because of failing health. He is staying in a Rome apartment under heavy guard. Much of the evidence against Antonov and the other Bulgarian conspiracy suspects detailed in Judge Martella's report concerns verification of testimony given by Agca, the pope's assailant. Italian investigators were particularly impressed with Agca's accurate description of personal habits and other details regarding Antonov and two other Bulgarians named as conspirators, despite their denial of ever having met him. A gca has told Italian investigators that the pope's forgiveness and a guilty conscience led him to detail an alleged c onspiracy behind the shooting. The motives behind Agca's change of heart may be key to the eventual trial of suspected conspirators. The case againt them rests almost entirely on the testimony of the would-be assassin, who began co-operating with investigators after spending one-and-onehalf years in prison.
ELLIOTT & ELLIOTT O PTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS C ontact LENS CONSULTANTS ROME (NC) — A 28-year -old Italian Capuchin friar reportedly kidnapped in Angola in October by anti-Marxist guerillas has not been heard from since. F ather Gabnele Bortolani, disappeared in northeastern Angola after his car was stopped by armed guerillas. Father Bortolani and two catechists were travelling to administer the sacraments in the area.
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has concluded a fivemonth "reading" of the encyclical "Human Vitae" (Of Human Life) and announced the end of a series of talks on married love which he
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began in 1979. The Wednesday general audience talks — the longest series of discourses on a single theme ever made by a pope — would be published in hook form next year, he said. In his audience talk, Pope John Paul said: "I am bringing to a close the catechesis which I began more than four years ago on the theme of human love in the divine plan, or to be more precise, on the redemption of the body and sacramentality of marriage."
Misguided about 'new' theologies NEW DELHI (NC) — Priests and nuns inspired by liberation theology are trying to turn Catholic fishermen on the southwest Indian coast against the Church, said an Indian archbishop. -They openly state marxism alone can save the fishermen and the poor of India,- said Syro-Malankara Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios of Trivandrum in a statement defending the Catholic Church's efforts to improve conditions of fishermen along the Malabar Coast, off the state of Kerala, in extreme southwestern India. Archbishop Gregorios said the Religious formed a fishermen's organisation rivaling the bishops-approved Independent Fishermen's Federation, which was set up by three Catholic priests. "Naturally the Marxist Communist Party and its supporters gave a warm welcome to the rival federation, said the archbishop.
DODD He said the priests and nuns had attacked and spread rumours about the original federation, "trying to create an impression the Church is on the side of the rich and against the poor," "Some of their leaders use the Bible, but give a Marxist interpretation to biblical teachings," the archbishop said. Archbishop Gregorios issued his statement after protests by priests and nuns who want a ban on largescale mechanised fishing during June, July and August The area's small-scale fishermen, who use manually operated fishing gear, want trawler fishing to be permitted only in the deep sea and to be banned during the prawn breeding season at monsoon time. They say in shallow water, the mechanised fishing damages eggs and upsets the delicate coastal ecology. A government commission decided mechanised fishing should not be banned or a considerable amount of marine wealth would be unexploited, since the particular type of prawn would be extinct after seasonal breeding. The bishops consulted an international expert in marine ecology, who agreed with the governments findings.
The aim of the talks, the pope told several thousand people gathered in Raul VI auditorium, was above all "to face the questions raised by the encyclical 'Humanae Vitae.' especially in the area of theology." The 1968 encyclical by Pope Paul VI spelled out Church teaching against artificial birth control, a position still debated by theologians. To answer the theological questions, including those raised by contemporary men and women, it was first necessary to analyse biblical aspects behind the encyclical, the pope said. Later in the series, the pope spoke about what he called the "personalistic aspects" of married love and birth control. This included an appeal to measure human progress not by material goods but with values which correspond to human dignity.
Tass is critical of pope MOSCOW: The Soviet news agency Tass has criticised the recent post-synodal document on reconciliation and penance, written by Pope John Paul II. The Tass report said the document "can only be interpreted as an attempt to block the development of the class struggle, the protest against monopolies and labour demonstrations in which even many Catholics participate."
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ECIC1 Teresa said she had been raised as a Catholic but was not a church-goer. Before the couple took Baby Fae to Loma Linda University Medical Centre two days later, Teresa said an acquaintance of hers who knew something of "the laying on of hands" NiSited with them. "She used oil and placed a cross on the baby's and my forehead." Teresa said. "Then she laid her hands on Fae's chest and stomach area and prayed in the English language and then in ( different ) tongues. and the baby's whole body shook."
"I put m trust in God that night, that he would do whatever was best for her. that he would give me and Fae the strength to carry through all this." Teresa said. After the couple signed the second consent form for thy surgery. Baby Fae was baptised in her hospital room.
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"It is encouraging to know that we can get better at being up close. We Christians live out their Christian vocation in many ways. This week we meet some can learn more pastoral counsellors, people who help others to enhance their lives. satisfying ways to act, more appropDominican Father David K. O'Rourke tells the story of woman he counselled who riate ways to give and receive the gift felt she was losing a sense of full involvement in her own life. Father O'Rourke, a of ourselves that is licensed counsellor, says that his role was not to tell the woman how to solve her probat the core of effeclem, but to help herself — to help her regain control over her life. tive communication." (Drs James Theodore Hengesbach reports that many people seek individual help in the form of and Evelyn Eaton Whiteheadin "Comcounselling from their parishes. Often people are merely trying to make sense of their munity of Faith," lives. They seek help in planning for the future. The pastoral counsellor helps them to Seabury Press, "I enjoy my work — seeing persons freed from the burdens, or explore new possibilities in life and get out of old ruts that bog them down. 1982.) anxieties, or hardships they are carrying," said Holy Name Sister "To listen is to pay attention: Paying Carol Ries. She was talking with me about her vocation, her special Katharine Bird interviews a religious sister who tells about her vocation as a profesattention is a recepsional counsellor. It is her task to help free people from situations that hinder their way of "being Christ to others." Sister Ries is a psychotherapist. tive, but not a pasRuth came to see me for the first time about three years growth as fuller persons. sive attitude. If! Psychotherapists help "individuals reach greater potential by coping ago. We had worked together on several church projects. cannot pay attenHer energy, talents and marvellous sense of humour made with and understanding life situations which are causing conflict," And Father John Castelot's scripture discussion this week is about some of the peotion it will be diffiher an asset in any community project. But we had never cult for me to hear; Sister Ries said. She helps people handle situations that are "hindering ple we meet in the Bible who, long before the age of the science of psychology, about anything personal. talked ifIdo not listen it their personal and spiritual growth." showed they possessed remarkable psychological insight. will be difficult for Then one day she called curved. She thought of buyme to understand Her clients include priests, the other areas too, she leaving." ing new clothes, but didn't with a personal request. She and to respond men and women Religious, finds. "I see an integration "It helps both parents and even want to talk about it and down sounded effectively to you." deacons and their families, of a person psychologically child to see that this is a with the salesperson until depressed. "I was told that (Drs James and and lay persons employed by and spiritually," she normal thing," Sister Ries she lost weight. YOU are also a counsellor and Evelyn Eaton Whitethe archdiocese. explained. said. And she helps them When she got home she I think I could use some head in -CommunSome people go into counBut when someone expe- learn "how to maintain a went to the bedroom and help," she said. ity of Faith," selling because they aren't riences a conflict in one relationship that's healthy lookcd long at herself in the Then she told a story that Seabury Press, satisfied with the way they area, that conflict is likely to for both." three-way mirror. Then she with variations could prob1982.) are relating to others, Sister spill over into other relationsat down, put her head on ably be repeated in many a -The movement Ries said. Other times it's a ships too, even the relationher arms and sobbed for household. DEE through adoles"self-esteem issue. They ship with God, Sister Ries about 10 minutes. During a recent medical cence and into asserted. Conflict can be a :That's when .she called me. her doctor checkup noted a Then there's the man more independent burden which "prevents us substantial weight gain and She looked at me, and with a job. sacked When from this adulthood involves, from seeing God's presence warned, with something less humour showing through Sister Ries happens, works for many of us, and God's beauty," she conthan perfect diplomacy, that, the tears in her eyes, she with the individual on a some renegotiation tinued. "It can stand in the "Just because you're getting said, "I need to know is there number how he of issues: of our earlier relaway of deepening our relaolder now you can't let life after car pooling" perceives the situation and tionships with our tionship with God and can yourself go." Counsellors don't see themhow he it; feels about parents in the direcaffect prayer life and minisselves as magicians. We "Older," she had thought whether he confronted his tion of a greater terial life too." indignantly. "I'm only 43." don't .try to fix what is employer about it or simply sense of adult mutuThat is where she often But then, as she drove broken. We don't say we can left; whether it and accepted ality. - (Drs James comes into the picture for home, she recalled that in change lives. What we can he has experienced a similar and Evelyn Eaton clients — not to eliminate a few short years the childpreviously. situation Whiteheadin "Comall conflict from their lives, ren would be grown and Her aim, she explained, is munity of Faith," but to help them manage it. gone. What really got to her. to "help the individual Seabury Press, though, were his comments they are the way don't like become himself aware of 1982.) "letting yourself go." about about themselves." feeling how and his and behaviour" LIE "Community of She knew something Wa-, seek her out they Often to manage the situation. Faith" by James wrong. Her energy just when someone else, a superThen she tries to help the A common relationship and Evelyn Eaton wasn't there anymore. She pressures a friend, ior or person crisis she deals with is determine the a course Whitehead. Chriswas finding it harder to do them to get some help. "empty nest" distress felt by of action. tians believe comordinary bousehold chores. The clients she sees may be Asked what the rewards of a parent whose child is munity life "is both She seemed to be running a broken "pain from in her home. about Wherto leave profession are, Sister a gift and a most late more often. What she a pain from relationship, in Ries responded: Its a joy to ever possible such a crisis, difficult ambition," did get done brought little over from childhood carried see persons "brings becoming Sister both Ries write the Whitesense of reward. or because of something parent and child in to see "more aware of their own heads. Combining do is help people find their Ruth knew her appearance Sister failure," perceived as a value, what's that happening." they are Often lovable." their talents as own direction and support slipping. Her was husband Ries said. she finds a "lack of communSister Ries said that she went theologian and psythem as they regain control didn't compliment her looks individuthat an She finds into counselling ication." this In the profession because chologist, they say of a situation slipping from the way he used to. She spiritual life, al's community checks she session, was out "drawn the she to a one-totheir book is their grasp. recalled with distress how and family life are closely one relationship aimed an particulars of the situation, intended for use by Ruth is a competent, intelon her straight lines bold the nterrelated. person When i a enhancing another "how person's for the instance, parcompanionship. In the story of the parade of animals before Adam, the writer subtly portrays the need of man for feminine As the animals go groups of people in and productive ligent now all were skirts plaid grows in one area, it affects growth." ent feels about the child the Church "who by in pairs, Adam becomes painfully aware of his loneliness. woman and an affectionate struggle to underwife and mother. But like all resources. Father O'Rourke himself is For some time the elderly woman stand themselves people she needed real goals as community." an accredited counsellor. had been struggling with cancer. and purpose, the kind of The authors discuss • Sometimes Catholic schools have When it became difficult for her to purpose that can mobilise topics vital for comcounsellors who are also able to leave home, the eucharistic ministers her during the day and give munity living. Conprovide some psychological services from her parish took on the task of her a sense of accomplishflict, for instance, is ment and satisfaction at its added. daily. families, They he brought visiting the her to At times, a nagging problem weighs a person professional asked to do counselling on the parish's self and the ability to see and to accentuate the normal and to be end. that counselling the of spent much an and hour But Eucharist or so down like a stone in the shoe. Perhaps a family expected in relationbehalf positive in others. l ike many people, she takes place in parishes isn't done by chatting with her. man feels he is in a rut and is casting about for ships; it usually • A counsellor needs to be knowledgeable about • -Counsellors need to be good listeners and a point where her re,ached or psychologists trained professionally Later, as she lay dying, the euch"indicates that we some new direction in his life. community resources in order to refer people genuinely interested in others. Through warm, working goals began to O'Rourke said. Father retired ministers, counsellors, aristic persons are involved in Some people seek out a counsellor because they elsewhere when an area of need is uncovered open dialogue, a counsellor facilitates and seem thin, evgn hollow. She Instead it's done by staff persons and themselves, arranged to have somesomething we feel need help figuring out answers to the bask that the counsellor is not competent to handle. encourages self-disclosure. But counsellors need would go thrugh the same is significant." But, volunteer pastoral helpers. These one with her around the clock. questions of life: Who am I? What does the future motions that had carried her to be comfortable with disclosing relevant Sometimes counselling sessions turn up a the Whiteheads counsellors perform a valupastoral Dominoccurred incident in That happily through 20 years of hold? i person's about medical nformation need themselves care, for educational as welt counsel, "this able service, Father O'Rourke comican Father David K. O'Rourke's "Myparishioners want individualhelp to develop marriage and parenting. But What pastoral counsellors do is help individuals • Pastoral counsellors are like other professionals opportunities or more intensive counselling. energy can be harmented, by helping parisioners deal to illustrate parish. story He related the their spiritual lives," a parish priest told me relate the Christian message to their own lives. from somewhere inside her • The counsellor is committed to confidentiality. in helping fields. But to professional skills, the nessed; it need not "the coping and survival issues with real came a suspicion that it WaS yet of very informal kind the recently. "It's really the one biggest need My This involves more than spiritual direction. • Pastoral counsellors need a positive sense of pastoral counsellor adds knowledge, understandalways work no longer enough. which come up in normal living." And pastoral counselling that takes place parish is growing so fast. Ican't keep up." It means finding ways to bring the Christian against us." Also ing and commitment to a religious tradition. Ruth and I met weekly for counselling at getting is aimed their in parishes. As a way of easing the pressure on his schedule, tradition to bear on all of life. It means looking discussed is the Together, counsellor and parishioner focus on about four months. During button." panic "finger off the people's counselling is a "Pastoral very I suggested that the priest try meeting with small at an individual's background, present situation need for Christians bringing the life and words of Jesus to bear on our first sessions we tried to Father O'Rourke explained that broad item," said Father O'Rourke, the groups of parishioners to examine the spiritual life. and hopes for the future. to tend to their life planning. A counsellor helps individuals to be put labels on what was going "the chief challenge facing a pastor "spiritual, intellecassociate director of the family life "Small groups are fine," he agreed "But many With the help of a counsellor in a relaxed setting, committed to a vision which sees that life has on in her life. Then we went tual and emotional is to mobilise resources in parishes, office. people really want individual attention." individuals can compare and contrast personal to see what we could do ultimate value and significance. development." Perto help people overcome their natural As this priest made clear to me, individual goals and religious values, and develop practical In his experience as a pastor, he about it. I like to think that pastoral counselling is a way sonal development reticence to help." has seen different kinds of people do pastoral counselling is a growing field of ministry stragegies for growth. How she and her family of realising what Belgian Cardinal Leo Suenens "is neither irreleFor Father O'Rourke, pastoral councounselling in parishes. in parishes. Parishioners feel they need all the pastoral things together is not pulled A counsellor can help a person explore new once wrote: "To hope is not to dream, but to turn vant to nor distractimportant here. What is selling in the broadest sense can be help they can get to make sense of their lives possibilities and gain renewed enthusiasm about • Some parishes have a professiondreams into reality. Happy are those who dream ing from one's life important is the belief our defined "not by who does it but by and to plan for the future. ally trained psychologist on the staff living the Christian life. Just what kind of person with God," they dreams and are ready to pay the price to make work was based on — that doing." what is person Father the But, parishioners. counsel to And this help needs to be tailored to individual performs this ministry? write. (Seabury them come true." much of our life is subject It involves one person talking with O 'Rourke said, this kind of pastoral Press, 815 Second specifications. There are no "quick fixes." • A pastoral counsellor is a mature professional Perhaps the pastoral counsellor serves as a kind to our own human control. another on a short-term or long-term Parishioners seek out a pastoral counsellor for who is sensitive to the needs of adults. 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Counsellors don't see themselves as magicians, Father David K. O'Rourke writes. "We don't try to fix what is broken. We don't say we can change lives. What we can do is help people find their own direction and support them as they regain control of a situation slipping from their grasp."
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MARY WARD A Woman for All Seasons In the year 1624 a Cardinal, travelling with the usual pomp from Rome to Perugia, came face to face on the road with a little band of dusty, weary travellers on foot. Their leader was driving a donkey, but, as the Cardinal afterwards declared, she proceeded 'with so much spirit and such elegance as if she were at the head of a magnificent procession'. This engaging figure was Mary Ward. She was born in that best and worst of times when Elizabeth I had to select daily from her thousand red wigs, and the youthful Shakespeare was trudging his way from leafy Warwickshire to try his fortune with the London players; when every English gentleman must be sufficiently cultivated to sightread a part in the after dinner ballets, but when these same cultivated gentlemen would not be too squeamish to see a martyr for the Faith dragged to Tyburn on a hurdle, there to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Secret Masses and priests' hiding holes were the very stuff of their daily lives for Catholic families such as t hat of Marmaduke and Ursula Ward, Mary's parents whose eldest child she was, being born on January 23, 1 585 at Mulwith, near Ripon in Yorkshire. It was the Catholics of Yorkshire that swelled the numbers of the overcrowded, damp and toadinfested little Ease' in York, as well as the Blockhouses of Hull, and among these martyrs were not lacking members of Mary Ward's own family. Her maternal grandmother, Mrs Wright, whom Mary describes as 'a 2reat prayer', spent fourteen years in such a prison. Her great-great grandfather we see standing for two days with drawn sword before his parish church, 'to defend that none should come in to abolish religion'. Of her father. Mary says 'He would rather have seen me dead than offend God by sin of mine'. Her relative, Lady Grach Babthorpe, was also hauled up before the Earl of Huntingdon and asked how many Masses she had heard. 'So many that I can-
Mary Ward her story
To mark the 400th anniversary since the birth of Mary Ward, The Record this week begins a series of stories on her and her life's work, and the Loreto Order which she founded. When Mary Ward founded her teaching order so many centuries ago she was a woman ahead of her time. In that same spirit, Loreto Sisters today are moving out into the world to make their contribution in education and in parish and mission work. not count them', was the spirited response. There hangs in the house of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Augsburg in Germany a series of fifty very large paintings of the life of Mary Ward. The first picture shows the baby saying her first word, 'Jesus', when she had been in danger of falling, and her mother had cried 'Jesus, bless my child'. Another shows us Mary in the burning house at Mulwith, praying to our Lady on the Feast of the Purification, and telling her that if it were not her feast she would fear the worst, 'but being hers I had no doubt but that she would help us' As indeed happened. Mary Meanwhile, exchanged the parklands of her father's estate of Mulwith for the bleaker farming country of Holderness on the Yorkshire coast. Here she lived for five years with her heroic grandmother, perhaps also with her two uncles, Christopher and John Wright of Gunpowder Plot fame. It was later, when she was living at Osgodby, near Selby, with the Babthorpes, that Mary, aged then about fifteen, first determined to embrace the religious life, as we read in the fragment of her autobiography:
There hangs in the house of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Augsburg in Germany a series of fifty very large paintings of the life of Mary Ward. The first picture shows the baby saying her first word, "Jesus", when she had been in danger of falling, and her mother had cried "Jesus, bless my child." Another shows us Mary in the burning house at Mulwith, praying to our Lady on the Feast of the Purification, and telling her that if it were not her feast she would fear the worst, "but being hers Ihad no doubt but that she would help us." As indeed happened.
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'Betwixt fifteen and sixteen years of my age, so near as I can remember, it pleased Our loving Lord to inspire me with a desire to lead a religious life, in general, for I had no instruction touching any particular Order, nor means to inform myself in that, living in a country infected with heresy. Neither had I the curiosity to ask anyone the difference between them. My loving Lord did so touch my heart with a longing desire to dedicate myself to His Divine service, as that I do not remember since, any one moment in which I had not rather have suffered death than betaken myself to a worldly life.'
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"'WOVic" It was, however, May 1 606 before the opportunity arose for her to cross the seas to the Netherlands. Mary's destination, St Omer, was a little town with a magnificent Gothic cathedral and fine Benedictine abbey. More important to Mary Ward was the fact that here the English Jesuits had a large and flourishing boarding school and seminary
'Before even the horses got to the stables', Mary presented herself, armed with letters of introduction from Father Holtby. By a strange dispensation of Providence she was misdirected to be an out-sister of the Poor Clares, a vocation utterly unsuited to her character, education and religious desires, which she nevertheless accepted as the Will of God for her, and therefore remained there for a whole year. By an even stranger dispensation she was released from this unsuitable way of life. She tells us: 'It was the Feast of St Gregory, my particular advocate. I was on a sudden enkindled with a vehement desire to procure a monastery for the English of this Order; but not being able otherwise to moderate this vehemence and place myself in indifference before speaking or doing anything for that purpose, I retired myself alone, and earnestly entreated our Lord God that nothing that I might do in this business should have other success than that which He willed and which should be the most acceptable to Him, praying our most Blessed Lady and other saints to be witnesses that my desires were no other but to do and have done His Divine Will.'
It was in this foundation, to endow which Mary had to spend a great part of her fortune, that she herself at last obtained her heart's desire of being an enclosed r eligious in the strictest Order she could find. 'I began to feel a great tranquility of mind, often comforted to think that, after an eleven years' withholding and turbation, the rest of my days should be spent in quiet with God alone.' There is the irony of classical tragedy in these words. Mary herself tells us in detail how the quiet came to any early end:
ci,ft4 ,PNWW/"A 'Having passed four or five months in this place and at these exercises, and enjoying great peace of mind and interior consolation, I was sitting at work among the other nuns on the day of St Athanasius, the second of May, about ten o'clock of the forenoon, being employed in making certain cords of St Francis for the use of the religious, and reciting privately, as I was accustomed, to do at each one that I made, the Litanies of our Most Blessed Lady, that whoever should wear that cord might never commit mortal sin, when there hap-
pened to me a thing of such nature that I know not, and never did know, how to explain. It appeared wholly Divine, and came with such force that it annihilated and reduced me to nothing; my strength was extinguished, and there was no other operation in me but that which God caused... The was suffering great, because the violence was so far beyond my powers and the consolation was greater to see that God willed to make use of me in what pleased Him best. Here it was shown to me that I was not to be of the Order of St Clare; some other thing I was to do, what, or what nature I did not see, nor could I guess, only that it was to be a good thing, and what God willed' Her confessor Father Roger Lee, the prototype of so many Jesuit friends of Mary Ward's Institute, 'appeared to disapprove and oppose with a certain severity not usual with him' this disclosure. He urged Mary to a greater fidelity to the Pool Clare Rule. For seven months she endeavoured to obey Father Lee 'and wept to remember' that she 'was not to be in that Order', but, she says, 'I saw more and more that God did not desire this, though I remained entirely ignorant of that
which His Divine Majesty willed from me... On Palm Sunday I made a vow of chastity, with the leave and approval of the above-mentioned Father, and then took leave of these dear friends with much feeling on both sides. '
ci tft eN%041.w% Mary, with invaluable experience of convent life both as an enclosed and as a nonenclosed religious, was now in St Omer in secular dress and passed through the streets to cries of 'runaway nun', 'visionary', 'false prophetess'. She had certainly found the motto of St Omer, 'Signum Sanctae Crucis', most apt in her case, but of all her sufferings, as she testified twenty years after, ignorance of the Will of God was the greatest. In this uncertainty she reflected on the needs of Catholics in England. 'I made a vow', she writes, 'to spend some months in England to do all the little I could for God, and the good of those there, not to be idle in the meantime, and the better prepared for whatever God should call me to.' Once more taking her life in her hands, she crossed the sea to England to the old familiar life of priest -hunts
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and recusancy. In London, 'she went as became her birth in matter and manners', as her friend VVinefrid Wigmore tells us, 'still retaining her first beauty', but extreme beneath the satins and velvets the hair shirt ate into her flesh. She prayed, she fasted: 'no prison did she dread to visit', we are told.
Her life at this period. in London 1609, was yet a third type of experience for Mary Ward As she devoted herself to the sick, to prisoners, to apostates and, in fact, wherever she could help. she saw opening before her wide horizons hitherto undreamt of by women, though even earlier she had 'resented the penuriousness' of those who thought that 'women did not know how to do good except to themselves'. Her next enlightenment, when she was shown for certain that she was not to be a Carmelite, but 'that some other thing was determined for her, must be related in her own words: One morning', she says, 'making my meditation coldly and not at all to my satisfaction, at the end of it I resolved to assist a person t o be accepted in some
convent who much desired to become a nun, but, wanting a portion, could not otherwise enter one; and then going to dress myself according to the fashion of the country and other cirwhilst I cumstances, adorned my head at the mirror, something very super -natural befell me, similar to that already related on the day of St Athanasius, but more singular, and, as it appears to me, with greater impetuosity, if greater there could be. I was abstracted out of my whole being, and it was shown to me with clearness and inexpressible certainty that I was not to be of the Order of St Teresa, but that some other thing was determined for me, without all comparison more to the glory of God than my entrance into that holy religion would be. I did not see what the assured good thing would be, but the glory of God which was to come through it showed itself inexplicably and so abundantly as to fill my soul in such a way that I remained for a good space without feeling or hearing anything but the sound "Glory, glory, glory-. By accident I was then alone, therefore what external changes this and similar things cause I cannot say, but from the internal feeling and bodily disturbance they
It was in this foundation, to endow which Mary had to spend a great part of her fortune, that she herself at last obtained her heart's desire of being an enclosed religious in the strictest Order she could find. "I began to feel a great tranquility of mind, often comforted to think that, after an eleven year's withholding and turbation, the rest of my days should be spent in quiet with God alone." There is the irony of classical tragedy in these words. Mary herself tells us in detail how the quiet came to an early end:
must be remarkable, my knowledge fails as to their continuance, all appears to last but a moment, even at those times when afterwards I made a computation of time, and found it to have been about two hours. On this occassion a good space of time passed before I recovered; but, returned to myself, and finding my heart full of love for this thing, accompanied by such glory that not yet can I comprehend what it was, and seeing for certain that I was not to be of the Order of St Teresa, remembering also the vow that I had made of being of that Order if my confessor should command me, I felt great fear of offending God in these two contraries, or of adhering to one or the other side; to resist that which now had been operated in me I could not. and to have a will in opposition to the vow I ought not. In this conflict, giving myself to prayer. I protested to God, so liberal, that I had not, and would not admit on this occasion, any other will than His, and, as testimony and sign that my mind and will were totally to do His without exception. I put on a hair cloth, which I have forgotten for how long a time I wore, but I believe for some continuance, for I well recollect that through this and other corporal penances, done for this end during the months that I remained in England, I did no little injury to my health, especially being occupied at that time with some fervour in winning and aiding others.'
Ward. His daughter's first exclamation as she looked that them through the window was: 'See, there she is. through whose instructions God will save me' Her suitor she later dismissed with a remarkable portrait still preserved in Munich. It showed on the one side 'her living likeness with a fine perfect exactly eye which resembled hers. From the cheek down to the chest she was pale and emaciated, like a dying person. The upper part on the other side was painted like a death's head, a skull, and from the cheek down to the chest the flesh was quite corrupted and eaten by worms. This likeness of herself she gave him, and it made such an impression upon his mind that he forsook all and entered a religious Order.'
Little is known of Jane Browne and Catherine Smith, but Winefrid Wigmore was Mary Ward's most intimate friend for nearly forty years. She too was highly educated and could speak five languages fluently. Susannah Rookwood was of Coldham Hall, Suffolk, where we can still visit the very house where she and
Mary Ward met safatefully. Her cousin was that Ambrose Rookwood implicated in the Gunpowder Plot and encouraged by his wife t o go undaunted to his death. Afterwards it was Susannah's turn to witness to the Faith, as she kept off prison rats with a stick. The last two of this little group were Mary's cousin and her sister, both called Barbara. Barbara Babthorpe, now aged seventeen, had loved and admired her cousin even since the old days at Osgodby when they used to listen to heroic tales of holy people told by the serving maid, Margaret Garrett, as we see in a c harming picture of the Painted Life series. Of her sister, Barbara Ward, who had a gay sense of humour and who died young in Rome, Mary says she was all 'that could be desired in a sister, in a friend, and in a subject'.
Such were the young women whom we see in the next painting of the series, embarking for St Omer in an absurdly small boat, its sail billowing in the high wind as it rides the usual cauliflower waves. Curiously enough, it is a secular chronicler of the time, one Jean Hendrico, who sums up the very essence of Mary Ward's ideal in 1609 and that same ideal as preserved by her daughters nearly four hundred years later, the ideal of the active apostolate They teach young girls to read, write and sew for the honour of God. Also they have a sort of monastic life.' *Ours must be endowed', said Mary Ward, 'with the zeal of apostles and the recollection of spirit of hermits.' It Was the Ignatian ideal. We must wonder at the strength and charm of the personality of Mary Ward, as well as at the charism granted to her as a Foundress, when we think of the dangers and uncertainty that these young companions of hers shared. They knew only that with Mary Ward they wanted to form a religious community. Church law at that time insisted on new Orders adopting one of the already
Curiously enough, it is a secular chronicler of the time, one Jean Hendrico, who sums up the very essence of Mary Ward's ideal in 1609 and that same ideal as preserved by her daughters nearly four hundred years later, the ideal of the active apostolate: "They teach young girls to read, write and sew for the honour of God. Also they have a sort of monastic life." "Ours must be endowed," said Mary Ward, "with the zeal of apostles and the recollection of spirit of hermits." It was the Ignatian We must wonder at the strength and charm of the personality of Mary Ward, as well as at the charism granted to her as a foundress, when we think of the dangers and uncertainty that these young companions of hers shared. They knew only that with Mary Ward they wanted to form a religious community.
approved Rules. These Rules. however, were, as far as women were concerned. only for enclosed religious. Mary Ward's ideal of secret apostilic work among the persecuted Catholics of England required freedom to come and go, to assume different modes of dress, to live alone among heretics if need be. Only one Rule met their needs -- that of St Ignatius, in whose Constitutions it was expressly laid down that the Jesuit fathers were not to accept the care of an Order of women Yet God had said to Mary 'Take the same of the Society. Father General will never permit it. Go to him' (sic, she always insisted that the words as printed here were the very words she had from God). No matter what pressure was brought to bear on her, nothing could shake Mary from this conviction. Some years later, in a letter to Father John Gerard. she says. -These are the words whose worth cannot be valued, nor the good they contain too dearly bought'. Moreover, if they were to be jesuitesses', as Mary's f ollowers were abusively termed, and if the Jesuits would not accept responsibility for them, it followed
that they must govern themselves, another seeming impossibility until Clement XI, more than a hundred years later, cut the Gordian knot with the words, 'Let women govern women' Thirdly, for religious leading a mobile apostolic life, there could be no question of singing Divine Office in choir. The idea of such a dispensation was utterly novel; we might say therefore unacceptable. There was only the Jesuit precedent and that was for men. Mary Ward was never able to see the point of view of those who thought women incapable of doing great things for God's glory. Witness the following extract from the spirited address which she made to her nuns after the unfortunate remark of the Jesuit minister_ 'When all is done they are but women'. Her answer was
To be continued next week
We could say that it was at that moment that Mary Ward's Institute was born. Although she herself could not see the way, it was from then that the first members began to come to her. They t oo were heroic young women destined to be corner -stones in the great work of foundation, and therefore all signed with the Cross. The first of these was a distant relative of Mary's, a spirited young girl called Mary Poyntz. Her father, Edward Poyntz, described by the Privy Council as 'altogether Jesuited', was walking in the garden with Mary
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Youth year is underway The Minister for Youth Affairs, Mr Wilson, recently launched International Youth Year '85 in WA. Speaking at the Orchard Hotel, Mr Wilson said the State Government had planned a range of programs for young people. These included a $54,000 youth participation grants fund set up jointly with the Federal G overnment from which young people could get grants of up to $3000 to help in starting their own projects.
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Ihave come to question the benefits of the time and money allocated to Catholic primary and secondary education while the immediate post-school generation appears to be relatively neglected.
By Leader Chief This statement from Chapter R eporter RAY OWEN
Making the Church relevant to the young
acknowledged and supported by the employment of suitable staff and adequate training: • A parish youth council or campus committee should be formed, of youth and adults: • Regular consultation should be organised between the parish youth worker and parish council. Similar consultation should occur between those involved in the campus
1, The rationale for aftercare, summarises the findings of a done, and recommendations study by Marist Father Ian as to what could he done. The Minister for Employment and Training, Mr Stick — the "relative neglect" Father Stick, ordained in Dowding, had recently announced the $5 million of the post-school generation 1954, taught for 20 years in Skills West -85 program aimed at industry and — and his conclusion: partly his Order's boarding schools. community employment programs. a questioning of the invest- and is now Chaplain at a The State Youth Bureau would be set up next ment in Catholic education in Catholic teacher training colMarch. the context of this relative lege in Sydney. neglect. He also initiated City Start, these young adults and what conclusions and implicaMr Wilson also announced that a youth research ministry. Father Stick undertook the a project to help country it has to offer for daily living. lions": worker, Miss Anna Carr (23), would be the State • lbere is a need for a variety study, A call to care — Afternational on the Government's representative youth cope with city living by "For many there is real dis- • Post -school youth need youth ministry... of International Youth Year committee. care of the school leaver. as providing them with instruc- enchantment with the Church S( me form Of organised assist• The need for ongoing faith A small group of young demonstrators gathered a means of promoting the life tion and guidance in a whole on account of its seeming ance to make the transition development must be underof the Christian community, range of practical areas inability to relate to them and from school to post-school outside the hotel during the launch to protest about stood as applying to all age to bring together what has When he undertook his their needs." the need to improve youth employment and housing living. groups and should be adebeen said on the subject, by study, he went first to the He quotes extensively from for the unemployed. • Such services will assist in quately supplied as soon as all concerned. what is being documents in which the Catholic Leader reports on promoting a state of maturity possible. Church expresses itself on the features about youth and their and healthy independence. In relationship to the Church. issue. turn, this will encourage these "There is material locked up He says: "The willingness of young adults to be involved in in these documents which the Brisbane Catholic Leader the community, not afraid ot should be put to use," he said. to publish these unpalatable it. facts, as well as to offer feas- • Through this proposed Father Stick concludes: "The The documents of Vatican papal documents, statements ible and positive solutions, is aftercare it could be expected Church documents have told VATICAN CITY by national episcopates and a a genuine sign of honest that such young adults will us what should be done. ( NC) — Pope variety of other relevant and concern for both youth and assume Christian leadership Psychological and sociologiJohn Paul II contemporary Catholic sour- the Church." in the community and so cal research has explained He collates and presents ensure the realisation of a why youth have these needs. ces are quoted. recently urged an 'Ibis is a summary of what these and other comments major goal of Catholic educa- "Youth themselves have told i nternational from a variety of informed tion: men and women of us about their needs. There is say on the issue: they group of youths to ference. "For each of trips to different nations, Teachers are urged to main- people in the Catholic com- service to others sufficient information availahis think of the horror you this must mean noted that the theme ofDay tain contact with their former munity. Other Catholic sour- A range of implications are ble on methods and skills for World 1985, 1. January yourself are also quoted drawn from these conclu- meeting the needs. pupils. "adult example is of ces of past wars and committing irrevocably to become of Peace speech will be prime importance to attract extensively. sions. "What will the local to commit them- builders of peace and "Peace and Youth Go Foryoung people": adult "engage- He says: "The overall serious- These are set against the Church's response be?" And ward Together." selves to peace. brotherhood. ment" with young people is ness of the need for compre- background of a survey of he ends with a comment from The pope also commended "Whatever the obstacles," "To remember the urged "to overcome the age hensive pastoral care of this models for post-school youth a school leaver: on peace presentations past is to commit your- he said, "however long and made by the young people barrier"; children "must be age group is strongly sup- care, both Catholic and non- 'Youth need to know and be selves to the future," arduous the road that during their meeting and educated to transcend the ported by research both in Catholic Christian. shown that they can find the pope said during a stretches before you, you particularly cited the words family and to open their minds Australia and in America" "To ensure the possibility of guidance. assistance and real symposium of Youths must not let anthing deter of those who underscored to ecclesiastical and temporal achieving the conclusions care in the strength and for Peace, sponsored you from reaching across the need for inner peace and communities"... reached-, he offers these power of the Catholic by a Japanese radio the barriers of nation and a respect for all living things. Special care of youth at recommendations: . Church.' network and the Japan race and culture to be unitertiary institutions is urged: • There must be a commit- Father Stick's study is being Catholic Bishops' Con- ted with all your brothers young people. "who are well Father Stick lists some of the ted andd organised approach considered by the Catholic and sisters." The pope told trained in faith and prayer. problems faced by the school to campus and parish-based Justice and Peace Commisthe youth to "go forward to must become more and more leaver, including unemploy- youth ministry; sion as a possible guide to k build an international order "It was said by several of the apostles of youth": if ment, the problem of choice • Parish youth ministry and action. and is also being Post or deliver of peace that rests on the the representatives that young people are to be in a plurality of lifestyles. campus ministry must be looked at by a publisher. (no phone ads) pillars of truth and justice, there can be no peace in the helped, adults must be aware pressure from the media and freedom and love." R ECORD world if we do not first seek of "current problems in from peers, the changing CLASSIFIEDS i Pope John Paul, who has peace within ourselves." the society and possible solu- patterns in family relationspoken to youth about peace pope said. "These are wise tions"; young people should ships and breakdown of family : N on several occasions on his words. We cannot give what be. enabled to take their part life, and the view of relationin the Church's mission. we do not have. ships as linked solely with Father Stick next summa- genital expression of sexualmust be personally 'We Catholic Youth Council reconciled with God and rised the work of major the- ity. 85 with our brothers and sisters orists in the area in support Speaking generally, he my, if we wish to bring recon- of the case for aftercare. "Society gives little help to Against this background, he youth working through these ciliation to the world goes into the topic. Pastoral problems. around us." The pope praised youths ministry as meeting the needs "If their families do not who had resolved to respect of today's youth. provide realistic guidelines Families welcome Discussing "pressing needs", for them, and if the Church all life as God's gift and that resolution should include "a Father Stick says that "given is not relevant for them, then respect for the beauty of the Catholic origins of the they are left in a twilight area. Catholic Youth Council creation and for the envir- group we are discussing, the often confused and thrown on onment in which we live and most pressing need is the their own resources. 85 relevance of the Church to "The Church community breathe." needs to let post-school youth know that they are aware of their problems. Hopefully. this awareness will be transSt Thomas More College VATTCAN CITY (NC) — People can be slaves to both lated into visible and tangible concentration camps and the consumerist mentality, said concern." Tickets 328 7976 Pope John Paul II in a talk to a group of youths during Speaking of his study, he said a visit to the Rome parish of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The that some times the Church a. youths had performed a short play on the theme of peace was "like a mother giving which included quotations ‘fmm exiled Soviet dissident and birth, and then walking away To Christian Brothers. the tuture is not something to face Catholic Youth Council of WA and saying to the child. 'Come = Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn. with dread. but with hope — the same hope Jesus OW on, survive'." t he world. = The pope told the _youth that the "great Russian writer" By bringing Christ into the lives of young people He found, in fact, that while E had described -one of the most tremendous limitations of bring a message of optimism into their lives. there is "a high level of disIf you feel your calling may be as Christian Brother • = freedom." Solzhenitsyn has written us9rks detailing life in enchantment" with the to a Brother you know or contact Brother Robert Ca., E Sovietprison camps, where he usas detainedfor several _wars. Church's at the address below. role among youth. Christian Brothers — a sign of hope. Concentrated camps are -criminal" and violate "the "by contrast there is a strong E. January 24-28 1985 E- natural law, human dignity and the good traditions of belief in a personal God and society," the pope said. t oo hem Road an interest in spiritual matWilson. Western Australia 6107 But he also warned against dangers to morality in the ters".
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Nathan was a brave man, a free man. He prophet. was a Nathan the prophet spoke in God's name. That's what a prophet does. A prophet is someone so close to God that he or she senses what God wants people to know and do. The prophet tells everyone what God wants. King David invited Nathan to be his trusted adviser. The king supported Nathan. He had Nathan live in the royal palace. Nathan could know everything David did. The king often asked the prophet's advice
Nathan looked David in the eye. - You are that man, - the prophet said to the king. He knew what Nathan said was true.
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There was one thing King David did not want his prophet to know. David fell in love with a beautiful young woman named Bathsheba. He decided he wanted to marry her. But Bathsheba was married to a brave soldier named So King David arranged to have ITriah killed in battle. He ordered the commander of the army to see that I'riah was killed. As soon as word came back that I riah was dead, David took Bathsheba as his wife. Nathan found out what King David had done. Nathan knew what the king had done was against God's law. Nathan felt he had to speak up. He had to tell the king that the Lord was not pleased with what he had done to Bathsheba and Uriah. The prophet went to the king and spoke bravely in God's name. He told David this story. -There were two men." Nathan began. -who lived in the same town. One was very rich. The other was very poor. The rich man had many cattle and sheep. The poor man had only one lamb. He loved that lamb and took very good care of it. The lamb was like a daughter to him. "One day a guest visited the rich man. The rich man wanted to have a special meal for his guest. But he did not want to kill any of his many cattle or sheep. So he took the poor man's only lamb to prepare for the meal for his guest." David was angry at the rich man in Nathan's story. "The man who did such a cruel thing must be punished. He must pay back four times as much as he took," David shouted. Nathan looked David in the eye. "You are that man," the
prophet said to his king. Nathan paused for a moment, then went on. "This is what the Lord God of Israel says to you: 'I made you king of Israel. I rescued you from Saul. I gave you everything you could want. Why did you do this evil thing? Why did you take Uriah's wife and then his life? You sinned in secret, but all Israel will see your punishment." Tears came to David's eyes. He knew what Nathan said was true. David said quietly to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." David's heart was heavy with sorrow. He asked God to forgive him. Nathan saw that the king was truly sorry for what he had done. "The Lord forgives you," Nathan assured David. "You will not die like Uriah died. But because of your great sin, much pain and sorrow will come into your life."
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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
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Lord Of The Dance, by Father Andrew M. Greeley, Warner Books. (New York, 1984) $17.50. Reviewed by Katharine Bird. As a novelist, Father Andrew Greeley is appalling. After reading his latest novel I found myself wondering what makes him tick. Why would a priest, a respectable sociologist and researcher, want to write trash? "Lord of the Dance," intended apparently to
appeal to readers who enjoy Sidney Sheldon and his ilk. has all the right ingredients: a vibrant young heroine, Node Farrell, determined to ferret out the mystery that she senses has haunted her family for decades; a grandmother. Brigid. sure she is destined for hell because of her long-time adulterous love affair and other sins; a spy-hero. Daniel, shot down over China and secretly imprisoned there for many years: a priest, Monsignor John Farrell, building a reputation as a 'IX interviewer.
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who lusts alter his brothers wife. Explaining why he writes novels, Father Greeley said in a New York Times Magazine article May 6, "Stories have always been the best way to talk about religion because stories appeal to the emotions and the whole personality and not just to the mind." To me, however, this kind of religious storytelling should involve more than simply presenting Catholic characters ho make pass-
mg references to the sins they are committing. It should mean more than offering up an innocent victim to be sacrificed as the writer does in describing Node's shocking, brutal rape before her INO.riend's horrified eyes. And religious storytelling should mean more than producing a Pollyanna conclusion where characters find the slate neatly wiped clean and the opportunity for a new, better life in the oiling
the good news about this novel is that it shows Father Greeley has progressed considerably as a writer since his even worse first fiction effort. "The Cardinal Sins. "laird of the Dance" has an absorbing story line which keeps the reader's attention throughout. The author's technique of having the Mony told by each character is effective since it provides different points of view for the same events. But as a novelist Father Greeley has other shortcom-
ings which irritate. He can't avoid cliches: "rushing to embrace the lions:" "ponderously dull:" "He was so eager to possess her that he could not think straight:" "Their kisses ignited like tiny fires on a dry prairie." On occasion. he is so
A real need Sharing Communion
'Mystery' story Creating Gifts from the Australian Bush, by Ann Neate, published by Dove C ommunictions, $4.95. This book will help people of all ages to become aware of how natural materials — seedpods, dry grass, bark, household odds and ends — can be used creatively. There are ideas for easy-to-make inexpensive gifts using r eadily available natural materials found in the Aus-
tralian environment. Christmas wreath Miniature C hristmas tree Christmas decorations Gumnut brooch Gumnut necklace Decorated magnet Gumnut people Gumnut animals Mobile Jewellery box Serviette rings Candlestick holder Photograph frame Decorated side combs Coasters Gift cards -Wall hanging Woven bullrushes Decorated flower _ pot.
A tlantis, The Lost Continent Revealed, b y Charles Berlitz, published by MacMillan. From the depths beneath the sea rises a phenomenon far stranger. far more controversial than the Bermuda Triangle. Atlantis: The lost Continent Revealed will revise history as we know it. It will force a reappraisal of the tidy, scientific timetable of our world and uncover a civilization that ended 11,000 years ago, overwhelmed by massive tectonic change. Charles Berlitz has used the most up-to-date evidence from the fields of oceanography, satellite photo-
graphy, geology and seismology, linguistics, anthropology and archaeology. He has explored many Atlantic undenvater sites personall and has sifted and collated studies provided by such objective sources as oil companies. ocean cartographers and space agencies — including remarkable data from Soviet undersea expeditions searching for safe submarine berths in the event of nuclear war. His research has yielded the first authoritative, scientifically clinching analysis of the real Atlantis. Whether Atlantis was the victim of undersea volcanic upheavals, meteors, or the melting of glaciers may not be known with certainty for
years to come, hut the existence of the lAiSt Continent described by Plato can no longer be arbitrarily dismissed. Charles Berlitz was born in New York City. A graduate of Yale University he speaks twenty-five languages with varying degrees of fluency and is listed in People's Almanac as one of the fifteen most eminent linguists in the world. His interest in archaeology and underwater exploration led to his writing The Bermuda Triangle, translated into twentytwo languages with sales of over 10.000.000 copies worldwide. He was awarded the Dag Hammarskjold International Prize for Non-fiction in 19-6
delighted with a phrase he can't resist using it repeatedly, for example. "balloonhead." Monsignor Farrell's oft-repeated contemptuous term for fatuous priests. To sum up what to do about Father Greeley's book: Don't bother.
Sharing Communion, A n appeal to the Churches by inter church families, edited by Ruth Reardon and Melanie Finch, published by William Collins, $6 approx. More than two-thirds of all Roman Catholics who marry in England and Wales marry someone who is not a Roman Catholic. These are what are known as 'interchurch marriages' and this book is the result of a questionnaire on eucharistic sharing which was circulated through the A ssociation of Inter -
church Families in the spring of 1982. There is a pressing plea, in human and theological terms, from couples in interchurch marriages, to be able to receive holy communion in each other's churches. Christian unity is something all pay lip service to. For families where husband and wife, father and mother, are practising members of different Christian denominations, it is both a lived reality and a pressing need. Nowhere is disunity felt more keenly than by couples who are not able to receive communion together because the churches they belong to are divided. Sharing Communion is based on the witness of 90 couples who have t his experience. It speaks with a theology born of their individual journeys in faith; in making a unity of their lives together in marriage.
new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new title Players and Painted Stage. The Theatre of WB. Yeats, by Karen Dorn. Published by Oxford University Press, $42.50. A lively book drawing on contemporary records of stage settings and costumes t o define the relation between stage design, performance and the initiating dramatic form, to show that Yeats' theatrical forms cannot be separated from his poetic language. Beneath Whose Hand. by R.M. with Olaf Ruben, published by MacMillan, $/9.95. A fascinating autobiography of a truly remarkable Australian — in fact, a living legend! He is a grazier, husinesseman, folk hero, raconteur but above all remains the last great bushman. His extraordinarily versatile life has led him into many areas, while he probably became a household name through the distinctive bush clothing still being manufactured. Today Williams is a larger than life character and this hook has
captured all the flavour and colour of an incredible
and vivid account of this dramatic ycar.
career.
The Raquel Welch Total Beauty & Fitness Program, by Raquel Welch, published by MacMillan, $24.95. Raquel's search for the perfect fitness methods resulted in this comprehensive health and beauty book. Derived from yoga and refined by her to meet Western fitness needs, the author demonstrates exercises step-by-step and advises on clothes, make-up and hair care. The results are swift and remarkable and guaranteed to make you look and feel your best. 1918 The Last Act. by Barrie Pitt. published by Papermac, $12.95. A masterly history of the people and events during the last year of the First World War. The author's description of the savage battles along the Western Front, his analysis of the policies of the warring powers, gives a well-balanced
From Curtin To Hawke, by Fred Daly, published by Sun, $8.95. The first updated version of Fred Daly's classic From Curtin to Kerr is now available. It contains two extensive new chapters covering the tumultuous Fraser years from The Dismissal, through to his defeat, Hawke's incredible rise to power, the ALP's stunning electoral victory and Hawke's first 18 months in office. A great insight into our leading political figures is captured by this sharp and witty author. The Price of Power, the Politics behind the Tasmanian Dams Case, by Doug Lowe, published by MacMillan Australia, $24.95. This is the inside story of the politics behind the struggle to save Tasmania's Franklin River region from the ravages of the HydroElectric Commission. It outlines the origins of the Franklin River controversy.
Lowe's efforts to find a compromise solution and finally his removal as Premier of Tasmania by members of his own government. Compelling reading which demonstrates "the price of power". You .111ght As Well Laugh Mate, Australian Humour in Hard Times. by Keith Willey, published hy MacMillan Australia, $24.95. This is the story of Australia's unique humour. Written by the author of The Drovers, it examines the effect of landscape and environment, both on European Australians and on the Aborigines who preceded them, and other peculiarly Australian influences, mateship, war, depression and the social apartheid of men and women. It is a unique study of a neglected subject which is fascinating, sometimes sad and often hilarious. Cricket Quiz Book, by Graham Tarrant, by MacMillan Australia. $8.95. How's your knowledge of cricket? Now you can test
yourself and friends with this comprehensive book which will give you the answers to all your queries. A great little book to settle all those 'friendly' disputes.
personal tragedies of its individual members with the skill and confidence to be expected of a writer in full command of his material.
The First Years At School. by Jennifer M. Glenister, published by Sun. $4.95. Written by an experienced primary school teacher, the book is designed both for State and independent school systems. It answers 101 questions most commonly asked by parents of children beginning primary school, and helps everyone trying to catch up with recent changes to our education system.
A Journey In Ladakh. by Andrew Harvey, published by Flamingo, $6.95. Andrew Harvey travelled to Ladakh and was introduced to an old Tibetan llama He described his friendship with the llama and his gradual understanding of the Buddhist way of life with much humour and humility.
From The Heat Of The Day, One Generation, Genetha. by Roy Heath, published by Flamingo, $5.95. A trilogy of novels of widely acknowledged brilliance about a family living in Georgetown, Guyana. In this beautifully executed trilogy. Roy Heath records the sad incidents of the family's domestic intrigues and the
Days Of Grace, By Brenda Jagger, published by Fontana. $5.95. Brenda Jagger's new saga is storytelling on a grand scale. It has love, ambition and wealth — but most of all it is the story of a woman Obsessed by a dream. The Kremlin Control. by Owen Sela, published by Fontana, $5.95. From the author of Triple Factor comes a thriller of explosive tension, set against the fascinating back-
ground of high Rus.sian politics. Traitor's Blood, by Reginald Hill, published by Fontana. $5.95. A fast-moving contemporary thriller of treachery and family feuds, set in Mexico, England and Italy. Floodgate, by Alistair Maclean, published by Fontana, $4.95. Floodgate literally explodes from the first page in a thrill-a-minute extravaganza of action and suspense. Irish terrorists have flooded Schiphol Airport, their aim to demonstrate the destruction they can cause by blowing up strategically placed dykes and leave the Netherlands open to blackmail. Wore& of Life: Exodus, by Frances Hogan, published by Fount, $6.95. Based on traditional methods of biblical interpretation, Frances Hogan gives new and prayerful insights into Exodus.
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WA priest writes about a retreat in Rome. .
Power of a surging ocean Enthusiasm sums it up for me. Joyous, jubilant enthusiasm for praising the Lord — sometimes in loud and vigorous acclamation; other times, as after communion, softly and gently but still with power like the surging of the ocean. Perhaps it was only to be expected that when 6000 priests (including something like 100 bishops) from all countries of the world gathered in Rome in October for five days to be challenged on the "The Call to Holiness" that their joy in the Lord would be shown enthusiastically. Holiness presupposes joy. -What the Spirit brings is very different: love, joy, peace . . ." (Gal. 5:22) I was delighted that praying in tongues was not only accepted but encouraged and I thought of the scene in Acts 10:46: "They heard them speaking in tongues and proclaiming the greatness of God". As far as I know it has never happened before in the Church's history that so many priests have ever gathered together for that length of time. I recall one vivid moment when I stood near the front of the vast Paul VI hall and looked out over the assembly and I knew I was
by FATHER FRANK O'DEA who attended the priests' charismatic retreat in Rome.
involved in an event of considerable importance for the Church. The event was the dream of Tom Forrest, an American Redemptorist, chairman of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal. It took two years to materialise.
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The pope who had only recently returned from Canada and Calabria and next day was off to San Domingo looked very weary, yet took part in this Mass which lasted two and three quarter hours, excluding the procession from the hall which took another hour and a half. He spoke very warmly to the priests as "dearest brothers,"beginning by e xclaiming "Jesus is Lord, Alleluia" and reminding us that the priestly vocation is essentially a call to holiness. The Holy Spirit has a central role as the rite of ordination asks, "Give to these sons an outpouring of the spirit of holiness." The pope concluded his powerful exhortation with a prayer that "with Mary you may experience the joy of the resurrection of Christ and before all mankind bear witness to the fact that JESUS IS
"Church" not as an institution but as composed of individuals from every nation and from every age present in the mystery of the communion of saints, the whole transformed into a divine force by the power of the Holy Spirit. It was especially during this final Mass that the healthy diversity of the Church was apparent. We sang the folksy renewal songs in many languages, we sang a specially composed Mass, we sang in tongues, we sang the ancient Gregorian melodies viz the Gloria, The Credo, the Salve Regina. A t times my voice choked up with the realisation in this very place those beautiful chants had been sung countless t imes before by an immense diversity of men over women a nd hundreds of years.
LORD. AMEN." Following the homily the r etreatants renewed their priestly promises. The pope asked a series of questions. 'Do you intend to unite yourselves intimately to the Lord Jesus . . . ?' To each question came the resounding Latin reply, 'Volo' (I do). It was 'like the voice of a great crowd, like the roar of a mighty waterfall, like loud peals of thunder. I heard them say, "Praise God! For the Lord, our almighty God is King! Let us rejoice and be glad, let us praise his greatness!" (Rev. 19:57) A s I walked down the steps of St Peter's I experienced a renewed confidence in the Church and in my priesthood. I am sure the experience of the worldwide priests retreat will sustain my faith for many years.
Fellowship of priests from so many countries
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RACE ONE: Little Acorn 1, Alice Will 2, Spangaloa
The retreat came to a marvellous climax with Mass in St Peter's Basilica with the pope presiding. Surely this Mass was unique in the history of the Church. I felt my faith consolidated as I recited the Eucharistic prayer in Latin with the Vicar of Christ and priests from 101 countries. I experienced a solidarity not only with those present but also with all members of the Church stretching right back through every age to Sts Peter and Paul who established the geographical centre of the Church on that spot. The magnificent mosaics, the colossal statues, the many plaques of the popes, the dome, the columns, helped me to be aware that my faith had been handed on to me by an historical Church. I was experiencing
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Some of the Church's finest speakers were enrolled to challenge those men to be holy priests. I felt privileged to be present. We were welcomed to the "Etemal City" by Cardinal Oddi, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy "not for a spectacle but for a conversion . . to be a witness to the world of priests at prayer". Cardinal Suenens, a veteran of Vatican II and one of its principal architects, spoke to us twice. He said holiness is not a matter of climbing great mountains; it is to -be yourself". This brought a round of applause. I was very impressed by Father Cantalamessa, an Italian Franciscan and preacher to the papal household. What a great choice the pope made there! He preached with fire in his voice and his words were reflected in his countenance, whether denouncing sin or expressing love for the sinner. He said to fix an hour for prayer every day and build a barbed wire fence around it so it cannot be stolen. I believe he is coming to Australia in January. Don't miss him. Then there was Bishop D'Souza from India. A gifted and entertaining speaker! He told us of the occasion when he was about to begin Mass and realised there was a fault in the sound system. He said, "I think we have a problem with the microphone". Everyone responded, "And also with you".
One of the highlights of the retreat was the fellowship with priests from so many other countries. I recall a conversation with three priests from Lesotho, a tiny state completely landlocked within the more powerful state of South Africa. Imet a man from India celebrating his silver After recounting a few more such incidents from his life as a bishop, he picked up a guitar and sang very beautifully, 'Without Him I can do nothing". Then he gave a very fine talk on Our Lady. For me one of the great moments of the retreat was the appearance of Mother Teresa who took part in a prayer session called "Act of Entrustment To Mary, Mother of All Priests". As soon as she appeared on the stage area she was greeted with a standing ovation which stopped her in her tracks. I don't know what she was feeling but it seemed
There were 3 Jesuits wearing strange, colourful head gear.
And what a joy it wa to meet other priests from WA, though sad to meet one who had been deliberately run down by a car in Rome.
They were on a mission in Nepal where the funny hats were necessary for admission to government offices. Then there was the English priest whose as though the sight of 6000 applauding priests was overwhelming. For some the presence of one priest is too much! At any rate she braved the barrage of welcome, spoke briefly and recited the last of a series of prayers to Our Lady. On the last day she gave the moming talk, challenging us at length on -What God's 's People Expect Ex ct of Priests". Her repeated request to the pastors was "Give us Jesus"
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from the Third World were helped to attend by the magnificent donation of a million dollars from a Dutch businessman. This man hadbeen healed of a serious illness when his wife prayed over him.
Praise God, he was not too badly hurt About 2000 priests
In gratitude he was using his wealth to promote the gospel.
The world is starved of Jesus, priests must feed the world with Jesus. I felt very proud of an Australian priest, Jack Soulsby SM. In one of the brief reflections he said, -The world has not yet seen what God can do with one man totally open to the Lord." Then he got all 6000 priests to stand and say, "I
am going to be that man" Then he asked each one of us to say the same to four or five priests around US.
There was a good mix of fun and sincerity in this activity. And perhaps that was a key to the whole retreat: a wholesome joy combined with a serious look at the call to be holy. Each day the Eucharist was exposed on the main altar in St Peter's Basilica for an hour of prayer. • Cont. page 12
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