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John Paul II is visiting the EPope A merican countries that spawned South
liberation theology and has made a new plea to the advocates of the Marxist influenced ideas. See story on page 2.
The Australian bishops have flmost detailed statement yet on the made their
problems of pornography and in particular X -rated video movies. This week The Record gives you an in-depth look at their thoughts and submissions. See pages 4 and 5
Extraordinary meeting of bishops
Second synod VATICAN CITY: The second only extraordinary synod of bishops, announced by Pope John Paul last Friday to begin on November 25 will be a study of Vatican II in the light of new needs of the Church. The 14—day gathering of 140 heads of bishops' conferences as well as Eastern patriarchs will conclude on December 8, the day on which the fourth and last session of Vatican II closed 20 years ago. Church unity will be a key topic of the synod said Pope John Paul as he c losed the European Week of Church Unity in St Paul's Basilica where Paul VI held the historic Church unity service on December 4, 1965.
C R CA1.I..S , 00u UT "As people, we are special, and as disciples we are committed to the Lord" was the slogan Archbishop Foley gave 300 Catholic youth at the opening of the four -day Catholic Youth Conference marking the International Youth Year. "It is the same faith in Christ inspiring you and inspiring me and others of my generation- the archbishop said in response to Mark O'Sullivan who said they were the Church of today and the Church of tomorrow. -We are disciples of the Lord together at different ages but the same. We have to found our own worth, to find Christ and to ourselves. "That commitment is something we cannot do without, otherwise we are wasting our lives." Archbishop Foley said.
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Ile illustrated the point by worth, and the unique work referring to two incidents in he could do in life. In another retreat he his own training for the priesthood: a retreat by an recalled the moment when Oblate priest who con- he knelt and prayed: "Lord vinced him of his own I believe in You and am going to live for You for the rest of my life". "All of use who seek to be disciples of the Lord have to go through those two stages somewhere, or at some time in our life."
The synods of bishops which Vatican II introduced are held every three years. The only extraordinary other synod was that of Pope Paul VI in 1969 to achieve co—operation between the Vatican and bishops' conferences.
Archbishop Foley said the time of his youth contrasted with that of youth today because in his time family life was more stable and parish life was very close. "We did things which did not mean much to us and accepted things without much questioning. "I was a strong member of the Church before I made an additional commitment to Christ."
En—route to South America, Pope John Paul doubted there will be another general council in his lifetime. "Much more time has to pass. "The November synod will not be a step backChurch ward from reforms sparked by the council. Some people want more reforms, but they do not see all the progress that already has been made," he said.
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Youth Conference photographer Max Armstrong also excelled in liturgical mime. Pictured at Right Max plays the part of Jesus calling and beckoning His first Apostle played by Marcus Boehm, of the Redemptorist youth group. The Liturgical movement was choeographed by Angela Cox of North Perth.
Today, not everyone experiences stable family life." The discipline of belonging to Christ is not accepted as easily until at least Christ has been found" he said. "Then the Church begins to make sense. We are a community of disciples of the Lord, gifted in various ways for a shared journey through life" he said.
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A Brother elected to the provincial council of the Dominicans Australia/New Zealand province has achieved an historic "first". He is the first Brother elected to a provincial council in the history of any of the Order's provinces. Dominican Fathers and Brothers from all over Australia, together with r epresentatives from N ew Zealand, the S olomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, have a lso reelected Father Nicholas Punch as Prior Provincial of the Province of the Assumption of the Dominican Friars in Australia and New Zealand. Father Nicholas now begins his second term as Provincial, having been elected for the first time in 1981. Before that his appointments included Prior of St Dominic's Priory and parish priest of East Camberwell, Melbourne, Prior of Blackfriars, Adelaide, where he also taught at the school maintained by the priory, and Dean of Mannix College, Monash University, Melbourne. Brother Patrick is the firstcooperator Brother t o be elected to this position in any province. Another first for this chapter is the representation of students from Australia, New Zealand and the Solomons-PNG.
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Item POSTER No. 1. STANDING ROOM ONLY. (Caption). Suited to INFANTS and LOWER PRIMARY classes. Shows Vietnamese refugees in a Hong Kong camp Designed for picture talk activities. TEACHERS' NOTES No. 1. Provide information on housing and space around the world, including the housing problems facing refugees POSTER No. 2. USING YOUR HEAD TO MAKE A LIVING. (Caption). Suited to PRIMARY classes. Illustrates the way heavy labour becomes a means of survival for many of the world's young people. TEACHERS' NOTES No. 2. Provide information on the poverty that forces young children into earning their living and exposes them to exploitation. POSTER No. 3. THE PLAY'S THE THING. (Caption). Suited to LOWER SECONDARY classes. Shows a street theatre performance in India. TEACHERS' NOTES No. 3. Give information on the way street theatre and other nonformal educational methods can instruct people and raise their awareness through entertainment. POSTER No. 4. 'LET US TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR EACH OTHER AND FOR THE FUTURE'. (Caption). Suited to MID SECONDARY classes. Shows Rwandan refugees in Uganda at one of their settlement's wells. TEACHERS' NOTES No. 4. Take up the themes of International Youth Year, (Peace, Participation, Development) and look at the contribution young people can make to their society and the future.
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LIMA — Peru — When Pope John Paul starts his five Pope John Paul II day visit to Peru this Friday (February 1) he will confront blessing crowds the social realities that have spawned the controversial while on tour thoughts of Peru's famous liberation theologian Father Gustavo Gutierrez. For Father Gutierrez, 57, a theology professor at the Catholic University of Peru in Lima since 1960 and a parish priest, a Christian response must start with the concrete realities which physically and spiritually oppressed people. Construction of new classroom facilities at the Liwara Peru's liberation Catholic Primary School in Tuart Road, Greenwood, is Then comes a reflectheologist Father Gultierrez now well underway. tion on what the Bible The building of four additional classrooms, intercona $13 billion foreign debt has has to say about salvanected by a central project area, began in July this year. pawned much of the income tion from spiritual and Funding for the project was provided by the Catholic from the country's natural physical bondage. Church's Archdiocesan Development Fund, an organisation
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He says his attempt to form a theological response to the radical socio-economic and political imbalances in Latin America springs from working and living with the poor of Peru. Peru is a country where per capita annual income is $655, where only 64 per cent of the population between the ages of five and 19 attends school and where
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step down from cabinet office. The Vatican has given the priest 15 days to leave his post with the Sandinista government or leave the priesthood.
resources to foreign financial institutions. Pope John Paul will visit the largest of the many shantytowns which have sprung up around Lima as large numbers of rural people have migrated to the city in search of better economic conditions. These shantytowns often have inadequate public services or health facilities because the government has no funds and no plan for bringing services to them. Gutierrez theology is controversial not so much because of its call for drastic social reforms, but because he leans heavily on sociology and Marxist concepts to describe the root causees of in • Cont page 10
established to provide low cost building finance to parishes in the Archdiocese of Perth Costing $205,000, the building has been designed to provide teaching facilities, a system where the removal of a sound attenuating wall allows for conversion of two single classrooms to a single multi-purpose. area. Liwara's new classrooms will cater for up to 140 children and allow for greater utilisation of existing classroom fecilities. Among its design features are glazing between all four classrooms and the project area, providing teachers with the maximum level of supervision, while concurrently allowing natural light to transfer into classrooms via the project room's central roof light. Designed by architect Michael Broderick, the new building also incorporates covered walkways connecting existing and new classrooms. The Liwara Primary School was opened in the early 1970s and was the first school in Australia to be financed by the Australian Schools Commission. Accommodating almost 500 children, the school features a twin stream teaching system for Years 1-7. Construction work on the project will be completed in time for the beginning of the 1985 school year.
The priest has said that to resign office will be "treason against the people and the poor of this country." A New York Maryknoll spokesman said the priest was held in high
regard there and that the head of the order was in Managua trying to sort Out the conflict between the priest and the Vatican. The spokesman said the order had expressed concern over US policy towards Nicaragua and at the killings and needless destruction carried out by the US backed Contra forces.
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Father Adrian Papworth (left) is the new Salesian parish priest of Victoria Park and Father Michael Keogh the assistant priest. They will be joined later by Perth born Father John Gandini at present in Italy. Father Papworth, originally from Vic-
Australia's bishops have called on Catholics to make Immigration Sunday, February 3, "an occasion for a reawakening and stimulation of Christian concern for God's needy people everywhere." They ask, however, that particular emphasis be placed upon the needs "of thousands upon thousands who tread the world's highways in search of as-ylum economic security and true freedom." Their call comes in an Immigration Sunday statement by Bishop Frances De Campo. of Port Pine, the Bishop Deputy for Migration. "Each migrant or refugee is an individual with personal problems, often seemingly says insurmountable," Bishop Dc Campo. "But nonetheless, each is a person capable of great sacrifices, and above all, one who is in God's designs and in fulfilment of himself. pursues a divinely allotted vocation, the ultimate goal of which is eternal life.
EIDE "Immigration Sunday provides fitting occasion for sincere reflection on such truths." Bishop De Campo pays tribute to the Australian Government's resettlement program: "It is to the credit of the Australian Government that, in a period of world-wide recession, inflation and unemployment, the acceptance of settlers, regugees and family members particularly, is being maintained at levels commensurate with the nation's capacity for satisfactory migrant settlement." He says Australians should also be mindful of the four million settlers of more than 100 racial origins, who, since World War II have come among us as fellow Australians. "In a blending of their deverse cultures, they have enriched greatly our Australian nation," he said. "For these and others who will follow them, let there be a warm welcoming into communal and parochial life."
toria, joined the S alesians in Engand was land ordained in Italy in 1950. Since then he has worked in various
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The Salesian Fathers who take up the parish of Victoria Park this weekend are making their second start in Western Australia. In April 1923 a group of Salesians (one bishop, f our priests and three brothers) arrived in Western Australia to take charge of the Kimberley Mission: they were to replace the Pallotines. Excessive hostility to the German Pallotines during World War I had persuaded Rome not to have them continue in charge after the war. But after four years the Salesians felt the territory should revert to the Pallotines. The Salesians then established themselves at Sunbury in Victoria. Today in Australia there are 130 priests and brothers, working in schools (boarding, co-educational, regional), youth centres, parishes, a Boys' Town, migrant c haplaincies, youth hostels, camps, retreats, in missions Samoa. The Salesian sisters
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in Australia are mainly in primary schools. In Perth the Association of Salesian Co-operators — an organisation of lay people, founded by Don Bosco — has been operating for several years.
ODD There are also many past pupils of the Salesians, mostly among the Indian and Burmese communities. The Salesians get their name from St Francis de Sales after whom John Bosco St named the order he founded in 1859. He founded the Salesian sisters in 1872. Today there are more than 35,000 Sale-
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Rehecord Poor have the numbers! A preferential option for the poor is today being seen as vital to the Church's pastoral role in Latin America and in Third World countries generally. It is, in part, a response to the dire needs, spiritual and temporal, of powerless, impoverished, often desperate masses, and a pledge of all-out service. But there is much more to it. it is rooted in the revelation that Christ died for all, that His Gospel is for all. It links the Old Testament with the New. And Christ's mission is seen as in Luke 4:1822, where Jesus spoke to a text from the prophet Isaiah: "The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for He has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord's year of favour." In His comments, Jesus asserts quite openly that He was the one sent and that this was what He was sent to do. The word "poor" in the scriptures has more meanings than one (and you don't have to be broke to qualify). It covers the meek and spineless, the crushed, the afflicted, the sinner who is poor in spirit and, conscious of the utter weakness of mortals, even more conscious of the greatness of God and humble before Him. The whole theology of liberation is involved, a theology which in no way confines itself to the continent associated with it, Latin America. It is a theology which calls for greater service to those whose needs are the most pressing wherever they are. It just happens Latin America has what politicians call "the numbers." This option for the poor is, basically, a fresh insight into the fact that the poor have the numbers — and that God opts for them.
R otten-nest! If the off shore quokkas were particularly sensitive they could hold it against the Dutchman Vlaming for the unfortunate and incorrect name that he dumped on their home. But like most species in this world they are too busy surviving to be bothered with whatever names one may wish to call the two-legged long-weekend animals that make their seasonal migration westwards. There are a million odd people living in West Australia and a few thousand of them are hell-bent on a certain type of behaviour. The screaming news headlines and zooming television lenses created the impression that something short of World War III had broken out. It followed the news-dreary long weekend habit of trying to make the 99 per cent of the community feel guilty because a few want to rampage on drink or smash themselves insanely to death in their cars. Some of the Rottnest rioters probably even revelled in the media exposure. The rest — police, politicians and the cringing public — furrowed their brows and mumbled the timeless "Someone should do something about this . A difficulty arises because nobody really wants to talk about the disease. It is more popular to dream up fantastic schemes to patrol, check, limit, investigate etc, the crowds at Rottnest, or wherever the rampage will move next. The island police sergeant was being morally daring when he asked why hundreds of juveniles were on the loose without any parental supervision. Why should he have to ask the question? These are the children of Perth's next-door neighbours. Why should not neighbours ask where foot-loose teenagers are going? Moaning on an Australia Day weekend, about drinking carefully overlooks the fact that Australian folklore is littered with some fairly notorious drinking history especially on the goldfields. It all goes wrong when we use polite words to cover the truth. In spite of what the terribly serious reporters said, the mob were not "carried away by drink". They were not happy spirits slightly overwhelmed by the occasion. They had made a deliberate decision to get blind, Rotten drunk and to hell with whomever got in the way. The juveniles embarking on drinking sprees are only aping their adults. They are making a deliberate choice. Fiddling around with the reasons why juveniles are taking to drink stops the rest of us saying bluntly what they are at: They want to make life hell for the rest. That's a sin no matter how old, or how young the offender. Let's start saying so.
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Reasons for the bishops' stand on 'X' movies A mendments made to R egulation 4A of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations since our submissions of May 22 and 24 1984 have prohibited t he importation of publications that, in the opinion of the Attorney General or a person authorised by him -(a) depict bestiality in a manner likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult person; (b) contain detailed and gratuitous depictions of acts of considerable violence or cruelty, or sexual violence against n on -consent ing persons; or (c) promote or incite the misuse of a drug specified in the Fourth S::.hedule to the Regulations (Statutory Rules 1984 No. 102). It is our submission that, in its present form, Regulation 4A is not effective adequately to control the importation of violent, pornographic or otherwise obscene material. A part altogether from objections based on specifically Catholic morality, our reasons for this view are as follows:— (a) The quer;ion whether a publication, a film or a video is a prohibited import is dependent wholly on the opinion of the Attorney-General or an authorised officer t hus excluding any objective examination by the Courts of the decisions of the Minister. (b) The regulation forbids the importation of material that depicts bestiality but only if it is depicted "in a manner likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult person". We find it difficult to envisage a pictorial depiction of bestiality which would not be likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult person and c onsider that the r egulations should totally prohibit importation of material depicting bestiality. If material depicting bestiality that would not be likely to offend a reasonable person does exist, a special e xemption could be given in relation to that material under subregulation 4A (2) rather than permit the material to be imported on a regular basis as though it were part of the ordinary stock in trade of the Australian community.
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A detailed summary of the bishops' submissions to The January submission of the Australian Bishops is the fourth time they have spoken publicly on the matter since last May. On May 22 and 24 1984, the Catholic Bishops of Australia made submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances. On May 23 1984, they issued a press statement on children and videos. On November 29 1984, all seven members of the Central Commission of the Australian Episcopal Conference signed a letter to the Prime Minister expressing briefly their views on the position taken by the government r egarding the legislation of commercial dealings in hard-core pornographic videos. It seems odd to say .he least that flgovernment ministers should seek to accommodate those who wish to proliferate hard-core pornography but not accommodate those who wish to proliferate violence. The former Attorney -General Senator Gareth Evans on October 26 1984, said this: Former Federal Attorney General Senator Evans suffered from the groundswell against porn . . . and how Spooner saw it in the West Australian newspaper.
A guiding The current classification system is of little value. It may even by misleading — unless the public generally is well acquainted with the guidelines used by censors to determine whether a video should be classified as G. PG or M or beyond M. The government has certainly done nothing to publicise what are the guidelines the censors use in attributing classifications. Our impression is that both the gov-
British anti-porn campaigner ary W hitehouse makes a point at a meeting in Perth late last year.
f Last week I related how my daughter joined Midland Antioch, and how it became a family experience. To understand that experience, I told how it was necessary to understand Antioch. In understanding Antioch, you must also listen to the youth who are part of it. I decided to solicit comments from random members on Antioch — what does it mean to them? Their answers were enthusiastic and enlightening.
Midland Antioch "den" mother, Mrs Pat Gatti.
Gus: "Antioch to me is not a social thing. It is friends coming together in a definite way. We have a love bond between us. "The main reason is to learn about God, to talk to Him on a one-to-one basis. It makes it easier to declare that you believe in God and love God. "Because of Antioch I can go out now and tell someone that I am a Catholic, believe in God — and love Him! I am a firmer believer and admit my love for God and His existence." Annie: -Antioch has changed my life inasmuch as it has made me realise my real worth and appreciate all the gifts God has given me, such as being able to make people happy, for example living out your faith as a mature person. "It has made me realise that I can share my gifts with the children I teach, more easily. I
Antioch . . . what it's all about COLLEEN HOWARD continues relating her Antioch family experience.
have disovered Christians of similar mind." Julie (Gatti). "I have become closer to my parents through Antioch because we have something in common. I enjoy talking to them; we share a common bond."
DOD -Nana: -Antioch is the people!
My brothers and sisters. It is the focal point of my spiritual activities. It is the 'high' I get, everytime I attend a Sunday meeting. "Antioch has made me realise
there are other Catholics out there, just the same as me. Young Catholics that through Antioch I have had the opportunity to meet, love and enrich myself with Nathan: "When I first started Antioch it was a weekly urge to get together with people who shared the same faith. I am involved too, because I want people to share themselves in this Christian joy and see if they can open themselves to Antioch. "If you come in on an Antioch weekend, you can really share the intimacy of Antioch. I enjoy the talks and meet a lot of very good friends there
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the federal government and their thoughts on pornography and X-rate video movies "Unless it can be demonstrated, to the satisfaction of a substantial majority of the population the 'pornographers' view of sexuality, as depicted in filmic images, produced tangible social harm, such views should be allowed to take their place in the market place besides other views depicting other life styles, attitudes and values. "Adults should also be free to choose to receive such views providing no harm is caused through their creation or reception". It seems to us to be an odd sort of democracy in which hard-core pornography sold for commercial profit cannot be prohibited unless "it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of a substantial majority of the population that hard-core pornography produces "tangible social harm". We believe films and videos depicting hardcore pornography or gratuitous violence all produce tangible social harm. We believe the evidence for this view in relation to hard-core pornography is at least as strong as the evidence for this view in relation to child pornography, violence and other matters dealt with by prohibition in the Classification of Publications Ordinance.
We do not accept the so-calledprinciples set out in sub-section 34 ( 2) of the ordinance. The first of these so-called principles is that adult persons are entitled to read and view what they wish. That is , in our view, no more than a dogmatic and unreasoned statement of individual belief. Legally there is not, and morally there should not be, any such absolute and unlimited right. One person's rights must
A dogmatic, unreasoned statement always be modulated with other people's equal or greater rights and legitimate interests. A healthy society fosters in the individual
principle? ernment and the Censorship Board have treated the as guidelines though they were internal directions for the benefit of the censors themselves rather that for the information of the public. We believe the guidelines should serve both purposes. We believe the guidelines are out of touch with the standards of reasonable adult Australians.
The authors may well be people whose judgement has been seriously desensitised by constant exposure to the worst kinds of violence and porno-. graphs' depicted in pictorial form. We consider the censorship guidelines for all classifications should be and reviewed brought into line with general community standards. we Certainly the of many believe films are rated M by
Senator Michael Tate . . Pornography has been polluting our communities for far too long.' unsuitable for viewCensorship the ing by minors. quite Board are youth, finding to your own satisfaction what religion really is. "It is self-discovery which in turn brings you closer to God. You take people for what they are and look within them." G eneral comments from members: "The euphoria of Antioch is a result of the Holy Spirit working within people and their peer group. People are inactive about their religion and suddenly they realise there are other people with the same needs as themselves, and want really to be closer to God through each other. "In Antioch you can be yourself without feeling inhibited in any way." From what I've seen — Antioch certainly does have something!
Natham Jarvis and Franciscan Brother Robert Stewart at a Midland Antioch meeting. ''My real friends are those united in faith and I cannot see them during the week as I attend a Government school "And the best thing about Antioch is Brother Robert! He is
Maria- -It is a wonderful experience of spiritual fulfilment. More than a youth group it is the living Spirit. At Antioch you get to know the clergy as friends; they are your friends whom you
can always go to if you need them. I always get something out of an Antioch meeting and have never missed one yet." mainly based on the Christian religion. It is youth preaching to
A very special, intriguing s omething that makes you observe, wonder, and want to reach out and touch it. When you see the effect it has on these teenagers, you have the desire to feel the pulse, trace the artery and see the heart which beats out love, charisma, and unity for all Antiochians — and inevitably influences those it comes in contact with.
sensitivity for others and inhibits in the individual whatever against militates respect for others desensitises and for feelings one's their interests and dignity.
When we read a vivid book or view a vivid film it does not end there and society quite rightly takes into account the potent effect of such material on our attitudes to others and our treatment of them. We suggest the majority of Australians, accept the view that there is some material produced that is so disgusting or corrupting that adult persons should not have a right to read or view it. It is our view that the
and some of the material that is now given an R classification. We consider such material is deleterious to indhisuals and to society.
prohibited category of video material should include all material that under the existing law would be accorded an X classification
Students are endangered Subsection 56 (2) would seem to enable persons to screen X-rated videos to any persons who might be described as members of certain tertiary and library institutes (e.g. students) without being subject to prosecution.
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Bishop takes f amine hand SHINYANGA, Tanzania (NC) — Bishop Castor Sekwa of Shinyanga has launched a food relief program to avoid famine in his drought-sticken western Tanzania diocese. He needs wheat, flour, cooking oil and milk powder. "Consider this program as a priority at the present moment in our apostolate," he said during a ceremony inaugurating the project. -We have reached a time when the first duty is to feed the starving, the hungry, the needy.The program was reported in a story written by Maryknoll Father Joseph G. Healy for All Africa Press Service. Bishop Sekwa said a government official predicted that the Shinyanga area would require over 260,000 tons of cereal foods to meet nutritional needs through 1985. Maryknoll Father Ken Thesing, pastor of Ndoleleji Parish, said he expects "an almost total disaster for food production in Ndoleleji Parish for 1984- because the area has received less than one-fourth the normal rainfall. He said that between March 1 and April 30, usually the rainiest season, 1.9 inches of rain fell, compared to the normal 8 inches. Father Thesing said that beginning in August at the latest, "almost the entire food supply for the approximately 50,000 people of Kishapu district will have to be brought in from the outside." The priest estimated that 50,000 bags of food would be needed each month to meet food needs.
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Wake up, Australia from RAY ELLERY KEWDALE SIR, Having awakened my family to 6WN for probably twenty years or more at 7 am, I am more aware than many people of the changes taking place in the GAYBC In September, the Bulletin published an article claiming the daily "Readings From The Bible" would cease after December 1. Sure enough, not long after the Labor Party victory, the readings were first removed from 7.10 am to 6.55 am then replaced with a series on human rights, which concluded with one Gospel reading from Luke's Gospel. Then, to appease Catholic listeners, a series from Thomas A'Kempis.
ODE We now have a series from the Hindu writings and others to be followed by one more Gospel reading. One cannot help wondering how long it will be before the readings have degenerated to selections from Karl Marx's "Manifesto". Or perhaps they have in mind "Mein Kampf". Christians should note well the opposition to chaplains in state schools by the State Executive of the Labor Party, even though the chaplains were costing the state nothing financially. The year, 1984, may be gone, but the theme may still be with us! Wake up, Christian Australia!
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C o-operation needed for welfare work from PAUL DONNELLY, Claremont
SIR: Your issue reporting items from the National Catholic Welfare 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 coordinating lobbying groups which individually and collectively can express views of the sane and moral majority to legislatives for the well being and stability of our Australian Community.
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The name Rigg is synonymous with the old CBC Terrace and Aquinas College. Before World War I the four Riggs from Wokalup were all at CBC. The brothers were Herbert (Bert — Basil's father), Gus, Godfrey and Mordern. Bert, who was later to lose both legs as a result of World War I injuries, was a good boxer and cross-country runner and the others became well-known sportsmen in the South-West. Since Aquinas College opened in 1 938 there has been only one year in the ensuing 47 without a Rigg on the school roll. The two there now, Eddie and Mathew, are the sons of Coorow farmer Eddie. By the time Basil went to Aquinas in the second term of 1938 he had already played C grade cricket for East Perth (now Perth) and been a member of the CBHS f irst eleven. He had the added advantage of accompanying elder brother Bert and promising young cricketers such as Alan Edwards and Morgan Herbert along to CBC Perth for Sunday afternoon coaching sessions. These sessions were to have an interesting aftermath for Basil when he was serving with the AIF on the Pacific island of Morotai during World War II. He was batting in a cricket side of people he had met for the first time that day when the sergeant captain, with whom he was in the process of building up a useful partnership, came down from the other end between overs. "You've been coached, haven't you?" said the skipper. "Yes," replied Basil, "I was lucky enough to go to a Christian Brothers school in Perth."
"Ah," responded his partner, "then I'll bet I know who coached you." It was a surprising remark from a perfect stranger, and the sceptical Basil asked him to nominate the mentor. "It was Brother Paul Dwyer," the sergeant answered. "He coached me in Melbourne." It was a stamp of excellence impressed by Brother Dwyer, known affectionately to his pupils as Dave, that was to carry several of own lobbying and by infiltration into administration. Ministers and governments thus become the tools of such groups, signing where told and legislating to suit. Other counsels can prevail if good men combine to r esist evil; but can either of the commissions here discussed be effective in this area. Regretably 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.
Basil Augustus Rigg, deputy-principal of the Riverton State School and an acolyte in the Brentwood-Leeming parish, was born in Perth on August 12, 1925. He was educated at St Brigid's School, West Perth, St Patrick's Boys' School, Christian Brothers' High School at Highgate where he was a f oundation pupil, and Aquinas College which he attended in its foundation year of 1938.
Basil is the only Western Australian to have played for his State sides in the years in which they won their first national championships in cricket ( Sheffield Shield) and (Claxton baseball Shield). Charlie Puckett, a WA team-mate on both occasions, was a South Australian. He also played league football for Perth and was a league football umpire.
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE them to prominence in firstclass cricket. But let us turn back the clock to Basil's Aquinas days. He had four years of Darlot Cup cricket, the first at the tender age of 13 under the captaincy of Alan Edwards, and was himself captain of the team for two seasons. He had one score of 115 plus several sixties and seventies. His best bowling performances were 9-32 against Scotch and 8-21 against Guildford. As well, he played football for the first 18 and was the school's senior cadet underofficer when Bernie Prindiville commanded the cadet unit. He joined the AIF straight from school and saw war service in various parts of Australia and the islands. He was discharged from the AIF in November, 1945, and worked for a time with the Department of Labour and National Service before going to the Claremont Teachers' Training College.
In 1946 he played cricket for the WA Colts against Walter Hammond's visiting Englishmen and took 2-49 with his leg-spinners. Basil's performance impressed journalist -artist and former Australian star spin bowler Arthur Mailey to the extent that the Test veteran's story in the paper the next day bore the heading: "Mailey Sees Rigg as Test Possibility." Such, alas, was not to be the case — for a number of reasons.
A colossus named Bradman, who ate spin bowlers for breakfast, was bestriding the Sheffield Shield scene. The left-hand batsman genius Arthur Morris wished spinners could operate simultaneously from both ends, and Sid Barnes was of like mind. Doug Ring had the Test legspinner's berth sewn up, and a young leggie by the name of Richie Benaud was about to start re-writing the record books. Besides, having to bowl uphill into the fierce winds of the WACA meant passably capable batsmen could cart leg-spinners downwind with all the ease of the daring young man on the flying trapeze. However. Basil can mull over many a memory of his first-class cricket career. There was the joy of being a member of the WA side that won the Sheffield Shield in 1947-48 at its first attempt. He has stark recollections, however, of certain aspects of the eastern states tour of that season. On the Sydney Cricket Ground he was bowling to Keith Miller, one of the most powerful hitters the game has seen. Miller straight -drove one of his deliveries and the pill climbed rocket-like for the stratosphere. The bowler and Donaldson, the other NSW batsman, both leaned back to observe the phenomenon of its flight. "It's going out of sight," quoth Basil. "It is, too," responded Donaldson. "How am I supposed to catch that?" wailed the bowler.
"It has gone up so high, replied the sagacious Donaldson, "if I were you, I'd get well out of the way when it comes back to earth." There was no need to accept the well -meant advice The shot had as much length as height and finished nearly on top of the clock on the Ladies' grandstand Miller scored 170-odd and Donaldson got a ton
In the same match, poor old Basil was taking a bit of a hammering from Richie Benaud, too. As a defensive measure, he started to bowl wider and wider outside the off stump. Then the stentorian voice of one of the famous "Hill" characters carried across the ground: "Hey Riggy, they're playing on the other pitch!" After all this, during the post -match drinks, the amiable Miller sidled up to the downcast Basil, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Well bowled, son." Undoubtedly it was — from the NSW viewpoint. Playing against Bradman was an unforgettable experience. In the WACA match between WA and the f amous 1948 Australian touring side on its way to England, Tommy O'Dwyer was bowling to the Don and Basil — noted for his speed across the ground — was fielding just backward of point. Four times off consecutive deliveries the maestro stroked the ball just wide of Basil — two on each side of him. Four times the speedy Basil went in pursuit, arrested the cherry short of the boundary and turned what appeared to be certain fours into twos. But on the fifth occasion
His mother was a top hockey player and admin-
grade hockey; and Redmond played A grade cricket and rugby.
period of players of the calibre of Hughes, Laird, W ood, Charlesworth, Clark, Serjeant and Clements.
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Indira Gandhi paid p e ric in best
istrator for many years and his brothers and sister were prominent in cricket and hockey.
Bert, a former Sheffield Shield cricketer, is chairman of the WACA execWA a and utive r epresentative on the Australian Cricket Board. B ob played A grade cricket and hockey; Marjory captained the Australian women's hockey team; Ewart played A
For about five years, Basil was an advocate for both umpires and players before WANFL. tribunals. For 15 years (chairman for about 10), he has been a selector for State schoolboy football teams and has coached them at carnivals in Canberra and Perth. He was coach of the
State colts' cricket team during the development
Basil was the second president of the Brentwood-Leeming parish council and is vice-president of the Perth Circle of the Catenians.
He and his wife Noreen (nee McGurk) have five sons — Denis (27), John (26), Peter (25), Phillip (24) and Brendan (19).
NEW DELHI (NC) — Indira Gandhi, like India's founding father Mahatma Gandhi, died paying the price for religious freedom, said Archbishop Angelo Fernandes of Delhi. India could easily have been established as a Hindu state rather than a secular state, he said. But Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi, who were not related, died paying the price for the freedom allowed the country's various religious groups living side by side, he said. Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience against the British to win India's independence in 194', was assassinated in January 1948, at the time of religious rioting among Hindus. Muslims and Silas. He had been fasting and praying to end the strife. He added, however, Indira Gandhi's assassins did not represent the view of all
Sikhs. -The terrorists among them got the upper hand. If individual Sikhs were to speak out against what these terrorists did, they would become the next targets." he said. Christians were privileged when India was under British rule. Archbishop Fernandes said. When India gained independence. "the tables could have been turned. But instead the different religious groups quit and shook hands. There is basic sanity and wisdom in India. During the violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination, India's Catholic Church "immediately went into action to help — to reach out to the Sikhs and the Hindus," the archbishop said. "Apart from humanitarian relief, we also went to work on the angle of reconcilliadon," he said.
WASHINGTON (NC) — The White Fathers have c hanged their name to t he Missionaries of A frica, because of the r acial overtones associated with the term the Father, W hite numbers of Africans entering the order, and the decreasing use of the traditional white habit. The order's new title is a shortened form of its legal name, Society of Missionaries of Africa. Its members will use the initials M.Afr. instead of W.F. The order, founded in 1868 in Algiers, has 2500 missionary priests and 300 brothers and lay associates.
A thletes meet the pope VATICAN CITY As he met Italian athletes who participated in the 1984 Olympics Pope John Paul told them sports should produce moral as well as physical development. In the audience with the athletes, the pope praised "respect for the r ules of the game," calling it a virtue in harmony with the Christian spirit. "Sports is not simply an exercise for the muscles, but a school for moral values and for education in courage,•• he said. "Sports can run the risk of degrading men if they are not based on and supported by the human virtues of loyalty and generosity," he said.
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played for WA against Fred chosen words to the youngsthe ball beat him over the COTTESLOE 19 NAPOLEON STREET 384 5605 Brown's English tourists in ter, but he was vastly line. F REMANTLE 30 MARKET STREET 335 2602 the early 1950s, he was amused over drinks after the As he trotted back to his teaching at the Highgate day's play when Basil told fielding position, the grinhim that the offender was primary school. ning Bradman piped up So the headmaster brought one of his own pupils. with: "I wondered how long Basil played about 30 VATICAN CITY (NC) — the pupils to the WACA it was going to take you to Scissors, Saws, Secateurs, Shears, Sharpened Pope John Paul II told a wake up to stop chasing Ground to watch the match. games of football for Perth and Set group of Italian teachers Basil, batting well and before taking up umpiring them." they should remember their about half -way through the and was president of the In the same innings, in "duty" to work for religious thirties, back -cut a ball from Umpires' Association for which he scored a masterly instruction in schools. Alec Bedser that might or four years. 115, the only WA bowler to 4 QUEEN STREET —321 4390 "I want to recall the impormight not have reached the In baseball, he won the cause Bradman the slightest tance of religious instrucboundary. batting average at the Ausconcern — and that was tion in the environment of SimpLocks, Door Closers and Safe Overhauled and Reg English batsman tralian carnival in Adelaide very little — was the fastServiced the school, whether it is a son ran round from fine in 1952 and in the following medium Charlie Puckett. CAR and ALL TYPES OF KEYS CUT. Immediate state school," a or Catholic but third-man to cut it off, year was a member of the Don straight-drove a sizzler Service the pope said at the end of before he could get there an WA side in Perth, coached back along the pitch, Charlie in participants 600 to a talk enthusiastic member of Bas- by Alex Barras, that took off thrust out a leg to stop it. .2111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 a convention of Italian • il's Highgate class leapt the the Claxton Shield for the The ball caught him a Catholic teachers. fence, fielded the ball and first time. stinging blow on the calf and The pope urged the returned it. You might say he has had brought on at attack of teachers to adopt an exemalterno had umpire The sporting well-rounded rCarievtoioiglO\S a cramp. plary style of life because native but to credit the career. Bradman walked down the on the spot "your students look at your batsman with a four. wicket to the writhing Charto desire their in iour" behav Simpson said a few well1 HOUR COLOUR PRINTS lie. 'We're not playing for a learn about life. Enlargements — Super fast — Custom made sheep station, old man," heN == said. 'Why don't you go off?" We're still TOPS Quality with value The bowler took his advice. 4 Convenient locations As the stricken Charlie PERTH: Hay St. Mall (corner National Mutual Arcade) Phone 321 3320 declared "a moral consensus in opposition MIAMI (NC) — The death penalty "is not limped off the ground. Don — PERTH: 100 Barrack St. (Cnr. Murray St. Town Hall side) penalty." death the to necessary to any legitimate goal of the got back to his crease and Phone 325 2663 The 1700-word document called for state" and could undermine "the inherent said smilingly to nearby Morley City Shopping Centre (Opp. Target Checkouts) MORLEY: curb to churches state's worth of human life," said an interreligious members of the fieldsmen: Well, that's got Phone 275 5130 statement signed by Florida's Catholic the use of the death penalty. rid of that problem. — FREMANTLE: New Fremantle Malls Shopping Centre, William St. bishops. Capital punishment "gives official sancPhone 336 2779 In that game. Basil made The document signed by 15 leaders from tion to a climate of violence," the statement 65 and took a wicket. 30 Day accounts to approved Business Houses. said. Christian communities throughout the state A t the time that Basil 11111111111111111111111111111111H1111111H1111111111111111111111111111111111H11111111111111111111111161111111111111111111111111111111F4 i in addition to eight Catholic bishops.
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When it comes to directing retreats for the homeless and the poor our aim is to address people where they are — to be open and hospitable," said Ursu line Sister Elinor Shea. "We provide an oasis, an a tmosphere of peace" for people used to crowded conditions and a hectic pace of life, she added.
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Sister Shea was talking about her work at The Little Portion, a retreat house opened in 1982 during the 800th anniversary of the birth of St Francis of Assisi. It is in an economically depressed area. Sister Shea explained that the retreats are offered without charge to the poor to complement other efforts for the hungry and homeless. "We work most directly with people in the area, as well as those who minister to them," she said. Volunteers cook and clean at The Little Portion so that the guests have time to "experience God's care for them," Sister Shea said. The poor, she commented, "often have a rich deep faith in God and God's providence" that they share with the staff persons. Staff members are volunteers. Asked where the name of the retreat house comes from, Sister Shea explained it refers to a spot in Assisi, Italy. There St Francis heard God calling him to rebuild a chapel. St Francis saw the chapel as "his little portion of heaven on earth," Sister Shea said. Francis' call was "so direct and immediate" the question for him wasn't "whether" he had a vocation but only "how do I follow it," she said. Sister Shea has been an Ursuline Sister for 35 years. For seven years now she has worked as a spiritual director, often training others for roles as spiritual directors. At times she finds herself helping others identify their own vocations. Recently Sister Shea and a Christian brother met with theology students. The students were looking for guidance, wondering "where their lives were going." How does she approach a situation like that? "I'm not there to solve anything," Sister Shea said. "As a person of faith and a representative of a believing community, I'm there to help them express what they are e xperiencing in their lives." For Sister Shea, a vocation is "an invitation into relationship." She describes a vocation as a "thread that goes through life. At certain moments, our horizon shifts and we are invited into a new relationship with God, with ourselves and with others." For most people a vocation is a -sifting and sorting of an inner attraction" to a way of life that gives meaning, Sister Shea explained. In her view, identifying a vocation is a process best done with friends, or family, or a trusted adviser. "A vocation to the Christian life is always experienced in community" -- with others, she pointed out. Sister Shea's view of her own vocation has evolved over the years, she said. At The Little Portion she
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trial society to an information society, Mercy Sister Prudence Allen observes. She adds this offers women Religious a fine opportunity to be of service by h elping people sort through the mass of information to make carefully considered decisions. Sister Allen is a philosophy professor at the University of Concordia in Montral, Quebec, K atharine Bird interviews Ursuline Sister Elinor Shea, a spiritual director at The Little Portion in New York City, The Little Portion offers retreats to the poor and homeless, and to those who minister to them. Her 35 years as a
For I consider it important to help my students find rudders they can use to steer as they attempt to evaluate the enormous mass of information directed their way in a technological society. And as I consider the future of women's religious orders, one of the many questiom I ask is this: How will Sisters become leaders in a highly technological world? Why would a woman choose to enter a religious order today? For many, it is an important to follow a specific kind of consecrated life in a cornmunity of adults. The vows Sisters take — chastity, poverty, obedience — bind them in a special way to Christ and to each other. For Sisters, life in a community is crucial to growth.
Sister have seen several shifts in vocational duties, Sister Shea tells Ms Bird, Sister Shea adds that for her a vocation is an invitation into relationship. Ms Bird is associate editor of the NC religious education package. Father John Castelot says a reason for the founding of religious orders originally w as to recapture the dynamism and witnessing power of the first Christian communities. the idea was that women and men Religious could serve as models for Christian living — and invite all Christians to do likewise, he writes.
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works closely with two Franciscan priests and two lay persons who maintain an affiliation with the Franciscan order. Today, she says, she finds her own role increasingly is "one of collabortion with other members in the Church."
Recently Benedictine Sister Mary Rardin got a letter from year eight pupils, asking "Why would a medical doctor decide to become a Sister." The 31-year-old physician spent years preparing for the medical profession. Recently she began preparing for religious profession as a Benedictine Sister. Her answer to the young people was one she'd given often: "The work can be done anywhere. What matters is what you are as a person." She admits she didn't always think that way. As a university student she was attracted to medicine, "partly for humanitarium reasons, but also for status." When she completed her internship she decided to practise medicine in the army and was happy for a while with the community spirit she discovered working there. Then she talks quietly about "a tug of my heart," the deep need for "seeking God beyond what we do" and the desire for "something else." Slowly it became apparent to her that the community she sought had to
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By Sister Mary Collins, OSB have a deeper source than military life. Sister Rardin speaks confidently now about her decision to take up the Benedictine way of religious life. "God is challenging me in ways I had not expected to care for others and to be cared for by them." And she talks warmly about a Hindu colleague whose small-town medical practise she has joined in her year before beginning the novitiate. "He sees religious life as something to be looking up to, so there's no pressure to be a full-time partner," she says. But she acknowledges that pressures on women , are real. ''Yes, women have many options. The responsibility is on us to make choices."
Sister Chris Kean talks about the long, slow process of making choices too. She graduated from university after studying sociology, psychology and gerontology in the early 1970s. She told herself then she was "too young" to consider religious life — but not too young for a life of service. She spent time as a volunteer teacher and
then moved steadily forward into professional life. At age 30, she too was ready for "more." Sister Kean found the "more" she was looking for in Benedictine Sisters living out Christian discipleship in community. "I saw the struggle and pain of the Sisters during those years. But they were healthy in dealing with it and in helping
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lived as small, close-knit groups. They were able — in fact they were forced — to meet in each other's homes for worship and mutual support. They knew each other, loved each other, saw to each other's spititual and material needs. And they put themselves at the disposal of the group. Thus Paul could remind his converts at Corinth: "To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. The body is one and has many members, but all
each other. I got good models of religious life." At age 33, she's anticipating final profession as a Sister in 1986 or 1987. She talks easily about the pluses of living in a community of women. "It calls me to commitment, to faith and service. It calls me to live what I say. It legitimises my value system." Living together and praying daily with her sisters is important. With a sparkle in her eye, she says, "I don't have the total
love of any one person, but I am loved by 350." Sister Kean believes she can bring the values of c ommunity life to a without society extended families of relatives living close to one another. Right now she's a pastoral associate responsible for ministering to the sick and elderly in hospitals, nursing homes and to some people confined to their own homes. "What I really want, if God wants it, is hospice
work, building a faith community with the dying and their families," she says. These two young woen have confirmed with their lives the truth found in a 1980 report of the Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses to their Sisters: The two gifts Benedictine women have to steward in this period are community contemplative and vision. If the Sister Keans and Sister Rardins who seek
God in religious life today are often older, better educated and professionally more established than the girls who came to convents and monasteries in this last century, they reflect the shift in culture everyone is learning to live with today. These women are living witnesses that religious life for women has a firm future as well as a new face as the US Church moves towards the 21st century.
Christians' lives close-knit. By Father John Castelot the members, many though they are, are one body; and so it is with Christ. If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is
the all honoured, members share his joy." (1 Cor. 12:7, 12, 26-27). This cohesiveness made for a vital experience of Christian living within the group. It also exerted a powerful influence on those outside the group, who could not help noticing the love, the joy and the mutual support that characterised these little communities. It was all so different from the hatred, fragmentation, suspicion and cold individualism which marked their lives as
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modern age of information risk drowning in a sea of data? John Naisbitt posed questions like that in his book best-selling titled "Megatrends," an examination of ways we all are affected of ways we all are affected by the contemporary age of electronic information. Naisbitt pointed to a need he sees today for leaders who can point the way beyond simple to information genuine knowledge. As a university professor and a member of In the context of community a women's religious life. persons challenge each other to keep on developing order, I can relate to spiritually and professionthat. ally.
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What is the role of women R eligious as the world nears the year 2000? Benedictine Sister Mary Collins writes about two Sisters who entered community life at an older age, after finishing their education a nd beginning careers. Benedictine Sister Mary Rardin, a physician, comments that living in a community of Sisters is causing her to grow in ways she had not anticipated, says Sister Collins, who is a founding member of the Holy Wisdom monastery in Wake Forest, NC. In the best-seller, "Megatrends," author John Naisbitt observes the world is changing — from an indus-
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pagans. Eager to shae in the benefits of being Christian, the first Christians made inquiries and !eared about Christ, the heart of the communities. Gradually new groups formed and gradually, too, society was transformed. It was to recapture the first Christians' inner vitality and the power of their witness in the world that religious orders were formed. Their members were trying once again to live the Christian life as it had
been lived for the first few centuries, in the days before Christianity became a legal religion in the Roman Empire. These communities — precisely as communities — were meant to serve as models for Christian living, invitations to all Christians to do likewise. They aimed at making a reality of the Lord has echoed forth from you resoundingly" (1 Thessalonians 1:7-8) In a similar vein Paul wrote of these communities in the second chapter of the letter to the
Philippians: "In everything you do, act without grumbling or aguing; prove yourselves innocent and straightforward, children of God beyond reproach in the midst of a twisted and depraved generation — among whom you shine like stars in the sky while holding forth the word of life." That "word of life" was the living word of their example, their Christian lives. This is a role members orders have in today's world: to serve as models of Christian living.
They pray together. They support and encourage each other. It was in the "Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious life" that Vatican II challenged religious communities to adjust "to the changed conditions of the times." The document urged members of religious orders not only to sharpen their ties with their foundress or founder. hut to adjust to changed conditions in society, serving the needs of people in a particular time and in particular places. Some help for doing this must be found in several contemporary books which try to predict the shape of the future world. An example: Naishitt's"Megatrends." After studying thousands of newspapers. Naisbitt identified a range of new influences transforming our lives. Moreover, Naisbitt thinks a religious revival is linked to this period of transition. at least in North America. And he believes this offers a unique opportunity for lea ership. What is needed, he suggests. is "a clear sense. a clear conception. a clear vision of the road ahead." Just think of the need for that kind of vision in the area of health care of loved ones, they may feel they are equipped with much information. will professionally trained Sisters provide more and more leadership for people caught up in difficult medical situations? Naistlitt's book is about the shift from an industrial to an information based- society. He believes this is as radical a shift for society as the earlier shift from an agricultural to an industrial-based society. Because of dangerous work environments found in many factories at the start of the industrial age, many workers were injured on the lob. Many suffered from the work conditions. So religious orders stepped in, providing medical care for workers and their families. Similarly, when the world enters the 21st century it probably will not be surprising to see Sisters who not only are grounded in a solid religious formation. but are experts in computer technology as well. Naisbitt writes: "We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature."
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Pope in Peru "We can't be with the poor of Latin America without calling upon social analysis using terms like injustice. exploitation, exploiting class and class struggle to explain what is happening. "To use certain notions to explain reality does not mean agreeing with the determined philosophical positions postulated by Marxism," Father Gutierrez has said. Liberation theology has new meanings for many key theological terms. Salvation means a total liberation of man as a spiritual and physical being. Sin is applied not only to violations of personal morality, but also to socioeconomic and political structures which are judged as institutionalising oppres sion and domination. Father Gutierrez has dew loped his views in several books and theological essays. His 1971 book, "A Theology of Liberation," is considered a cornerstone of liberation theology and a key reason for the coinging of the term. However, liberation theology has many branches, including non-Marxist ones. His critics include Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who says Father Gutierrez turns social theories into theology and this constitutes "an abuse" of theology. Cardinal Ratzinger last June, criticised the sociological approach because it "elevates to theology that which in reality should be a social ethic or a social theory, even if naturall these coincide with fundamental postulates of the Gospel-" This is "an abuse" of theology, he added. "I can't deduce from the Gospel of Mark or from the letter to the Galatians what I should do in South America. "This is simply a foolishness," Cardinal Ratzinger said. Father Gutierrez is popular in Peru. The Peruvian bishops have refrained from passing judgment on his works, and many diocesan pastoral programs are based on his ideas. Pope John Paul, who has been publicly non-commital about Father Gutierrez , has been outspoken in calling for radical social reforms in Latin America. He has praised the social action orientation of forms of liberation theology which acknowledge the primacy of spiritual liberation from sin. He has also warned theologians against using Marxist concepts, since this runs the risk of succumbing to an atheistic attitude to man. In September the doctrinal congregation issued a major document, approved by the pope, criticising branches of liberation theology which use "concepts uncritically borrowed from Marxist ideology." It criticised the theory of class struggle and other theories which put liberation of material poverty above liberation from sin.
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R OSS continues her special series of feature stories about the Loreto Sisters to mark the 400th
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This year sees the 400th anniversary of the birth of Mary Ward, the founder of the Loreto Sisters. To mark the occasion we've been publishing this series which looks at 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 not only to education but in parish and mission work as well. Mary Ward, a heroic and holy pioneer was also a superb human being. Her story is one of courage and humour. She was the first to attempt to form a teaching order of nuns free from enclosure and subject to their own Mother General. In effect, it was an order which would have possessed the mobility of the Jesuits, then rapidly becoming the schoolmasters of Europe and the strategists of the 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. Her ideas were too revolutionary for her time and her infant community was suppressed. /t is in the way she accepted this failure, exile and even imprisonment that the true greatness of Mary Ward is revealed.
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Mother Mary Ward... her life story
'Concerning our business here in Pressburg. Our house is now in fitting, I would say in covering, for the top is pulled down, and the beams laid on, but notyet covered, and the rain will not expect until we can have it ended, and the old parts of the house is in accommodating, to make it more fit for our use, but not likely yet to be built anew, for the Archbishop wants money, so in the meantime ordained it should be pulled down and made anew the top, that we might sit dry at home. His Eminence came to Pressburg upon St Peter's day. I saluted him by an Italian brief letter to welcome, to are asked for His sake, and then all other content is give him the good feast, his inferior to that... So adieu, name being Peter. This poor letter brought us six dear Mother. July 6th, 1628: hundred dollars. With these three latest 'Concerning our schools, foundations and those in as I told his Eminence, so Italy, the Low Countries and I cannot tell yourself better England, Mary now had than that we have scholars houses in six countries. She away, for the poor goes to also had powerful friends work in the vineyards, the and holy ones, as Father rich comes unconstantly, so as how many we have we John Gerard, who calls Mary, in a letter to Father cannot tell, for they were Henry Lee, *your best friend here altogether by the ovaand mine', and Fra Dometions; but as he said, so we find by experience, that we nico di Gesu, a councillor of must have patience for the popes and princes, who would tell Mary Ward's nuns first few months. Said he: that they 'must be trampled 'They are very backward on, and have that dependhere and ignorant, so as the ence on Almighty God, like chiefest thing for you needful yet is patience, and as the little crows left by the before they will come to old ones, because not feathered like themselves' . learn", said he, "these better VVinefrid VVigmore says 'He works, you will have exerwould oftentimes tell us we cised with them great must not be so ungrateful patience". as to let her example pass 'His Eminence hath a true without note'. The Jesuit fatherly heart towards us, but not so much means as General writes: They are of singular virtue, integrity and to do what he desires, for industry, and it is incredible he is now a building a College for the Fathers in what fruit they produce in t he Church by perfectly another place in High Hungary. He doth general good. instructing young girls in piety'. His affection for us is most t ender, for we ask him nothing, only give thanks for what we have, which pleaseth his Eminence much, he With so much visible sucnot loving a craving disposition. As he once said to the cess in apostolic work, and with such praise and apprePrepositor, "I am the more careful to help them, and ciation from the Bishops and Princes who personally hold a greater memory of knew Mary as well as the them than I should, because they ask nothing". You will work of her Institute, it would seem impossible that think this hath taught me a lesson not to be too forward her enemies could wreck the whole design. Even as to ask, for indeed it is not early as 1628, however, a needful... We have silent good friends. Yesterday I had private Congregation, held eight dollars sent me, three by order of the Pope, had already decided on the Supchickens, and a little pot of milk from one lady; from pression and had issued another lady one ton of malt orders to the Nuncious of and four hard stones of salt, Flanders and Germany to which here is very dear, so break up the houses. It was not this decree, at as God is very liberal unto us, if we were half as much the time unknown to Mary, with Him, how happy asking that decided her to return once more to Rome to must it be! Beg, dear Mother, we may not be appeal to Urban VIII, but wanting to do the most we difficulties that had suddenly
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1---1Even as early as 1-11628, however, a private Congregation, held by order of the pope, had already decided on the Suppression and has issued orders to the Nuncious of Flanders and Germany to break up the houses.
arisen in Prague and Vienna. Apparently a dying woman, she set out from Munich 'with as great tranquility, joy and magnanimity as if in perfect health', says Winefrid VVigmore, her companion. As we read of these almost superhuman journeys taken on foot across and across Europe, we must never forget that Mary suffered intensely and almost continuously from gallstones. For the last twenty years of her life she could not lie down, but took what rest she could sitting up in a rocking-chair. All the journey from Munich to Rome in 1629 Mary hung between life and death. They asked her once', Winefrid tells us, 'if she thought she should reach Rome alive. She replied that "there was more appearance she should not, than that she should, neither did it import her where she died, in her bed, or under a hedge, so it were in her fidelity to God"
ED ID The upshot of her interview with Urban, who received her kindly, was that Mary was to present herself before yet another Congregation 'to declare what she desired, and her reasons'. It was an extraordinary situation for a woman in the seventeenth century, but Mary faced the Cardinals with the dignity of humility. The words of Cardinal Borgia are significant: he told Urban that 'he held it to be of God, and that he neither could nor durst be against it; nor was his power enough to assist it, such and so powerful were her enemies. Therefore he humbly entreated His Holiness he might deal no more in it.' After presenting her case Mary left Rome imme-
diately. No one who loves Mary Ward can look without a stirring of the heart at the ill-fitting clumsy shoes, still preserved in Alt Otting, in which she tramped from R ome to Munich nearly three and a half centuries ago. Nothing can so vividly testify to her poverty as this, her only pair of shoes, which, VVinefrid tells us, 'did not fit her, as they were for the use of persons of very different stature'. In Munich she received news of dissension and trouble in England and the Netherlands, in spite of the efforts in Ghent of Father John Gerard, who had written strongly to the Munich Institute for all time: The purer you preserve the spirit of your Venerable Mother, and the closer you keep to her footsteps, the nearer you will be to God'. The house in Naples was suppressed, and rumous came from Rome of a Papal Bull being prepared to destroy the Institute and imprison Mary Ward as a heretic. Mary calmly tried to use the intervening time to prepare the different houses and exhort them to unquestioning obedience. 'She spoke of it among them familiarly and pleasantly, and by way of pastime', one of them tells us: 'and seeing that it seemed horrible to them, she represented it in a way all Divine, as very sweet, very just, and very holy, for those who would use it aright. But this grace was not given to all. One of ours, ready to burst with feeling, let slip in her presence the following words: "I could almost take it unkindly at the hand of Almighty God". But Mary took up her words very sharply, saying, "If you thought so, it were impossible to love you, and beware not to let such a thought come into your mind" On
Mother Teresa would be the most famous of today's Loreto order a nother occasion, one among them saying that ''our sufferences were dry sufferences", she replied: "Oh, no! they are pleasant and fruitful", and this was said with such heavenly sweetness and smile, as if she had indeed tasted IC On 7 February 1 630 Mary was arrested by order of the Holy Office 'as a heretic and schismatic'. She listened calmly as the sentence was read out, smiling when they t hreatened force if she would not obey. 'You will not require that trouble', she said. 'It is not fitting in me to make resistance. I will willingly to to whatever prison you desire, the more ignominious the better Suffering without sin is no burden:
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suffer for God, or die and go to Him, are both singular graces and such as I merit not, and one of the two, I trust in the mercy of God, will fall to my happy lot. Meanwhile I will seek (to live), etc., but I would have you both not the least troubled, but beg hard that He Himself would do what Himself would have done.... Mary was soon actually dying, and received the Last Sacraments. She was not, however, 'to pay the rent' just yet. Meanwhile her companions appealed to Pope Urban in person. They told him of the treatment she was receiving, which 'if not death, was a dying life.. They begged him to call her to Rome to speak in her own cause. Urban ordered her immediate release. Her Institute was, nevertheless, dissolved and its two or three hundred members turned adrift in the world, where they lived in almost total destitution. The following words describing Mary after the Suppression show us how she accepted the ruin of her life's work: 'Nor was there seen the least diminution or alteration of this peace when by the Bull she beheld, not only a period put to all her effort for what was dearer to her than life, but the ruin of her labours past, the loss of so many houses which with great toil she had established, and so many souls running the risk of perdition by taking this occasion to turn their backs on God Almighty. What but this confirmity to the Divine Will could have made her, without the slightest disturbance, sadness or least unquiet, see and rise above the total destruction of the
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Mary was soon actually dying, and received the Last Sacraments. Meanwhile companions her appealed to Pope Urban in person. They told him of the treatment she was receiving, which "if not death, was a dying life." They begged him to call her to Rome to speak in her own cause. people, including his own sister-in-law, were visiting her house on the Esquiline he retorted that he was glad to hear it, as these people must 'either be good or will become so, since they frequent that house'. When her enemies tried to have her held in Rome as a prisoner at large. Urban refused their request with the words 'She shall go whither she will and as she will' In 1637 Mary again received Extreme Unction. The Pope's last blessing was brought by Cardinal Onoftio himself, who told her companions that they should bless God for having left Mary with them 'so many years, until she, by her word and example, had made others capable of governing in her absence' . This is strange language from one who had six years before signed the Bull suppressing the Institute. One night in August 1637 Mary suddenly announced to the astonished VVinefrid, who was watching by her sick bed, that she would go to Spa. Winefrid Wigmore In answer to Mary's and Mary Poyntz were sent request that she might bring to Urban to ask his blessing her companions to Rome on the journey. and that they might still live 'It is true., said Urban, 'that, together, Urban's words humanly speaking, the jourwere We are glad that they ney must needs kill her should come, and we will without hope of escape, but take them under our protecshe is a great servant of God. tion'. He will guide her to what is Even so, they were destibest, and We know not what tute and spied on, and in He would do by her. We will danger from the plague and give orders to all our Nunso went who enemies from cios, where she will pass, to far as to intercept Mary's receive her, where she may letters. When the party from stay and rest herself by the Munich arrived, the ...lerusway, when and as long as alems' (as Mary called the she will. For We do esteem enemies who would win for her . . . as a holy and great her the heavenly Jerusalem) servant of God. Go with her, complained to the Pope. obey and serve her, for as 'If her companions live with long as you do this you will Mary Ward as before, will do well.. not the Bull be nullified?' Where should they live? Or Her cousin, Father Conyers where can they live so well?' S.J., said that of all the graces Mary had received was his answer. The Pope sent her his she might count the safety favourite wine, his own of this journey the chiefest. doctor to be in attendance The Thirty Years War was and his carriage for her use. still raging and wild bands When they told Urban that of soldiers ranged over
work of nearly thirty years, both spiritual and temporal, except in a very small number of souls prevented and kept by her great charity and special care?' For a third time Mary set off to walk to Rome. Kneeling before the Pope, she said, 'Holy Father, I neither am, nor ever have been, a heretic'. We believe it, we believe it; he said. We need no other proof; We and the Cardinals are well informed as to yourself and your habits, and your exemplary conduct, We and they all are not only satisfied, but edified, and We know that you have carried on your Institute well. We have nevertheless permitted the trial of your virtues, nor must you think it much to have been proved as you have been, as other Popes, Our predecessors, have done in similar cases, who have exercised the endurance of the servants of God.'
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Europe. On the other hand, Mary, though penniless, was everywhere received like a princess. At Vercelli, f or example, an English prisoner was given his liberty in her honour; at Turin the Duchess of Savoy sent to her lodgings twelve pages laden with sweetmeats, wine and fowls. For the fourth time Mary crossed the Alps in the dead of winter and, in a blinding snowstorm when four of the party lost their lives, was led to safety by a little dog. In fact, conditions were so bad and money so scarce that she had to pass the rest of the winter in Paris. In Spa, f ar from taking the cure herself, she cared for and converted a poor woman who was dying. In May 1639 Mary sailed from the continent for the last time. The night before, we are told, 'she wrote many letters and wept much', an unusual and heart-rending view of Mary Ward. After plague-infested, war ridden Europe, the London of Charles I in 1639 must have seemed a haven of calm, though it was only the calm before the storm of the civil war. Queen Henrietta Maria and her entourage openly practised their religion, and it was this Catholic circle that Mary joined after presenting her letter of introduction from Urban to the Queen. Mary's house soon became much frequented, one of the most frequent guests being the charming a nd distinguished Papal Nuncio, Count Rosetti. He said he had been enjoined by the Pope, Cardinal Barberini and the Pope's sister to do all in his power to assist Mary Ward and her companions.
Soon Mary had in her care several daughters of rich Catholics, and to these she added some poor children, 'so that', says Mary Poyntz, 'notwithstanding the danger of the time she kept a great family'. A message to the father of one of these children, a relative of Mary's, is characteristic: 'My dearest, give your noble cousin a thousand goodnights from me; tell him I was anxious this evening to have had some fine garden flowers or such trifles to have recreated him with, and failing of all such commodities, I offered up to God my poor prayers for his health and happiness. Beg him to be merry. How I shall love his little daugher!.
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schools, on the verge of civil war the royal family removed from London, and Mary with all her household, openly in three lumbering coaches, left for the North It was a strange experience once more, at the end of her broken life, to step into rooms where she had lived as a girl with dreams of life in an enclosed convent They finally settled in Hutton Rudby, below the windy bluff on which is the shrine of Mount Grace, frequented still even in 1642. As Mary looked out over the distant horizon visible from that height, she would have seen in her mind's eye beyond Yorkshire to London. to Munich, to Rome Letters from these distant places, however, could never find their way to this remote spot. Mary therefore determined to move to Hetworth Hall, in the neighbourhood other friends.. Mary was of York which was at this ever the educationalist, time held by the Royalists. three centuries before her In this large house and time in this as in her other property belonging to her ideas. Herself an expert cousins, the Thwings. Mary Latin scholar and mistress of entertained disguised priseveral languages, she was ests, sometimes as many as determined that her company should value books and five at a time. Even during be well educated 'For such the siege of York she would as desire to be of ours, no have been happy to remain talent is so much to be here, trusting in the protecregarded in them as the tion of God, had she not Latin tongue'. This was in been persuaded to come within the city walls. Everdays when women's educaything had to be carried by tion consisted chiefly of learning to ply their needle hand through the city gates and the soldiers were won't and to play a muscial instrument. 'She was won't to to rob everyone entering. say', we read in the old Life, When Mary and her house'she could not find out a hold carried their belongings r eason why knowledge through, however, the soldshould be damageable, but iers stood aide, hat in hand. many that it might be advan- Inside the city they suffered tageous.' And: 'She was a more from lack of air, quiet great enemy of ignorance, and proper food than the and did not love to see bombardment, though a people of little mean spirits'. cannon-ball fell on the roof Before there was any ques- of their house. After six weeks, when the tion of Mary's opening siege was raised, Mary returned to Heworth Hall. Four hundred soldiers had been quartered there; some had been hastily buried in the garden. The trees were cut down, the lead stripped from the roof. The house was almost a wreck. Only two rooms had apparently never been entered; one was the chapel, the other Mary's room. Winefrid's comment on Mary as she beheld this ruin was: 'Her satisfaction was above all
Love, whether of God or her neighbour, was the secret of Mary's power What she suffered when trusted friends betrayed and left her was the price of this love. It was also one of the graces given to her to draw the first members of her Institute. Still they came and refused to be parted from her, even as children, such as Helena Catesby and Elizabeth Rookwood. For three years this London life continued, Mary, dauntless as ever, praying and planning for permission to *have common schools in the great City of London' She was already training young nuns for teachers here. 'Let Kate perfect her Latin with all possible care, without loss of health, also to write Italian. Clara will yet be for this place, she hath no untoward aunts and
Soon Mary had in her care several daughters of rich Catholics, and to these she added some poor children, "so that," says Mary Poyntz, "notwithstanding the danger of the time she kept a great family." A message to the father of one of these children, a relative of Mary's, is characteristic: F-1
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St Jude pray for patron in time of need, to Jude. Judy. been packed in special mine. This prayer must be all who honour and lation is due to be presented invoke you I have recourse from tribute to the priest. said for three days after your aid. Publication must the depths of my heart and to Parliament in its next Novena to the Holy Spirit. Taking part in the liturgy which the favour will be be PERSONAL promised. This Novena humbly beg you whom God Holy Spirit you who solve sitting. Church leaders recgranted. The prayer must never fails. were: Leonie Reid, coThanks for has given such great power all problems, light all roads ognise this is a crucial time ordinator of childrens ENG. GENT 50, seeks be published immediately. favours granted. M.L. to come to my assistance. so that I can attain my goal, solutions pray for to just K ath. liturgy who has been Help me now in my present genuine f/ ship of refined through the land rights legThanks to and urgent need and grant you gave me the divine gift grateful Most Prayer St St Holy Jude, 0 named to the Catholic homely Lady (35 to 50) evil forget all forgive and islation. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, Saint Jude. Sacred Heart of my earnest petition. In to Education Commission; against me. I want in this N.Suburbs. Write to — P. great in virtue and rich in Jesus, Our Lady for prayers -For many Aboriginal return I promise to make short prayer to thank you The Gherardi family, Fern, 2 Morris Rd, Inna- miracles! Near kinsman of answered. A.V.J. groups the way out of depyour name known and for all things as I confirm whose son Mark was the will dependency 2384 rivation and Jesus Christ, faithful inter- Most Sacred Heart of Jesus cause you to be invoked. loo, 6018 or Ph. 342 first to be baptised by once again that I never want be through restored and Sat 1 1-2 pm or Mon 12- cessor of all who invoke may your name be praised Say three Our Fathers, Hail to be separated from you Father Foley in the parish your special patron in time secure occupation of appropand glorified throughout Marys and Glorias; St Jude 1.30 pm only. material and who delivered one of of need. To you I have cause the world now and forver, pray for all who honour ever, in spite of all riate areas of land," said Dr with I wish to be illusions. the readigns; from the depth of my heart Amen. (Say nine times a and invoke your aid. Owen. glory. Thank DEATH The Bower family, Marand humbly beg you to day for nine consecutive Publication must he prom- you in eternal Australians towards Western mercy All whom God has given such days and promise publica- ised. This novena has never you for your garet being the parish me and mine. This prayer are invited to be part of this CASEY (Frank) Of your great power to come to my tion). Thanks for favour been known to fail. My must be said for three days secretary and who read Prayer Service and the 40assistance. Help me now in for the please pray charity request has been granted. after which the favour will the prayers of the faithreceived. Anne. day vigil. repose of the soul of Frank, my present and urgent need L.S. ful; prayer The granted. be Jude Saint to thanks who passed away suddenly and grant my earnest peti- Many Archbishop Carnley stated In grateful thanks to the must be published immeThe Kevin Bogue family. Tuesday January 22, loving tion. In return I promise to for wonderful answer to Infant Jesus of Prague, St diately. Marie. this was a welcome opporIn his homily, Father be he May ovena. N husband of Nell, son of make your name known Jude, Our Lady of the 0 holy St Jude, apostle and tunity for Christians of all Foley stressed the EuchEdmund and Catherine and cause you to be honoured and glorified fore- Immaculate Conception martyr, great in virtue and express to traditions arist bound the parish Casey (deceased), fond invoked. Say three Our ver, Dorothy. and the Most Sacred Heart rich in miracles, near kinstogether their prayerful con- together because it was brother-in-law of Edith Fathers, Hail Marys and of Jesus, for many favours. man of Jesus Christ, faithcern regarding land for Abor- the one body of Christ. (Mrs Lewis) Les and Glorias. St Jude pray for all Most Sacred Heart of Jesus J&S. all who intercessor of ful be praised your name igines in Western Australia. Dorothy, also Winifred, who honour and invoke may Story by PAT 1-?ElD throughout Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, invoke you as special Daisy, Irene (Mrs Dornan), your aid. Publication must and glorified may your name be praised and in time of need, to • From page 4 patron forever, world now and the glorified throughout the world Richard and George (all be promised. This Novena from now and forever, Amen. Prom- you I have recourse in a manner that is (c) The regulation does not deceased). Happy Memo- never fails. Repeat on nine Amen. S. my heart and depths of the Holy Spirit Novena to the ise publication of petitions consecutive days. Thanks likely to cause offence ries. the prohibit — Holy Spirit, you who granted. Many thanks for my humbly beg you to whom Our Lady. Kath. to a reasonable Ault imprtation of material great such has given recovery God from serious indisposolve all problems, light all person. On the basis depicting violence, Thanks to Sacred Heart, roads so that I can attain sition, safe delivery of a grand- power to come to my assistSITUATIONS that a majority of adult Our Lady, St Jude for my goal. You gave me the son, improved health of a ance. Help me now in my cruelty or sexual V ACANT prayers answered. Mary T. divine gift to forgive and daughter and better work present and urgent need Australians answer the violence against nonresults by a son. D.E.J.M. Mature lady to pick up and my earnest petiand grant escr i pt i on d against me forget all evil consenting persons Thanks to Most Sacred Heart care for well-behaved pre My Lady, my queen and and that in all instance of of Jesus, Our Lady Help of tion. In return I promise to adult "reasonable unless the depiction is school girl attending Loreto my mother, in the name of make your name known are with me. my life you Christians and St Joseph for it would persons", wholly gratuitous; that Jesus and for the love of ideally Nedlands. Would and cause you to be want in this short prayer to petitions granted. D.E.J.M. seem proper to prohibit is to say, all this kind suit active pensioner or Jesus pray for me, intercede invoked. Say three Our thank you for all things as the importation of mother of child attending for me and please continue of material may be Most Grateful Thanks to Marys and Hail Father's, I confirm once again that Loreto. Telephone AH to help me. A.O.C. material that is, by imported and lawfully I never want to be separated Sacred Heart of Jesus, our Glorias, St Jude pray for all 335 5885. 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Youth Forum
It was one of the joys The sight of nearly 300 young people singing, laughing, cheering and alive with excitement is one of the joys of being youth chaplain. So often adults point the finger or nod disapprovingly at t he activities of young people. Few adults would have c ause to quarrel with the five day youth activities that took place over the Australia Day long weekend at lona C ollege, Mosman Park.
I was delighted to spend time with young people from every corner of our state at Australia's first state-wide Catholic conference. More than a year of hard work and preparation by young people made it all possible. It was special on many
counts. Special people made the conference happen. Julia Pickering, Lyn Dundon. Damian Hart, Leonie Banks, Anne Harris, Kevin Yuen, Peter Shooter, Gemma Wooltorton, Barbara Willcock, were among the key personalities. It is the first time a conference of such scale together brought members from different distant parts of the state and youth scenes. A mixture of tertiary and secondary students of workers and unemployed; from country areas and the city. All the different Catholic youth movements of WA were represented at the conference. The inter -movement sharing and support has been a long standing tradition in WA and a credit to the work of the youth council. Very special efforts were made to entice the participation of young people from country areas. At the conference I recall
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TERTIARY ORIENTATION I CAMP Two Camps 16 February February 19 RING Corrine McCleod 337 3312 or Marie Radici 341 4453 An introduction to tertiary life, people, structures and fun
At the opening ceremony held at the WA University 380 delegates heard a -Challenge to Youth" given by Archbishop Foley and Mr Julian Grill, representing the Premier.
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seeing name tags with the place names of Esperance, Lake Grace, Albany, Collie, Bunbury, Brunswick, Northam, Narrogin, Mingenew, Morawa, Geralthon, Port Hedland and many other . So often conferences are held in the metropolitan area with little or no participation from t he country areas. This was not the case last weekend with the Catholic Youth Council International Youth Year conference. What most people will fail to realise is this youth conference was entirely arranged and organised by young people, in collaboration with adults. Saying this probably blows my cover with all those who have imagined I have been "so busy" in the past month with all the "added pressure," of the conference.
Young people carried the burden and did it well. It was great to sit back and see it all happen. I made a few quiet groans of disapproval which were only drowned by the eager confident shouts of the organisers. The news columns of this paper in the past two weeks reminded readers of the organisers' failure to reach the initial goal of 500 delegates. To some it may have appeared a disaster. I say the Catholic conference has been the highlight of the last seven years. a tremendous sucwas It cess for the 300 who took part. The effects of the five days of discussion and prayer will be felt by 300,000 and more. Congratulations — I look forward to the net one!
A t the registration desk of Thomas More college, Gerard Hart keeps a watchful eye over the shoulder of Julia Pickering (conference organiser) as Norrelle Bresser, Lisa Godfrey, Roslyn Hegney and John Perrela wait to receive their files. Delegates were accommodated at the university colleges.
Introduction for our uni students
University The is Society Catholic once again making preparations for the now famous annual orientation camp. The aim is to offer first-year students a glimpse of the "joys" and "horrors" of tertiary life.
Most school leavers have little knowledge of all that awaits the prospective tertiary student. Its all a mystery. The orientation camp aims to de-mystify the clouds. The first of two camps begins on Saturday February 16 and the second will
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overlap with the first by commencing on Tuesday February 19. In this way all participants at the two separate camps will have the chance of a brief meeting. The first camp will cater for students from the faculties of art, science. medicine,
Wanted. Those who would strive to make it perfect.
agriculture and engineering. The second will bring together tertiary students from the world of economics, commerce, architecture, physical education, arts and science. The camps will introduce young Catholics from Murdoch and UWA.
Guest speakers will explain many aspects of tertiary lift' including the guild, thc different services and bodies. In addition to the speakers, new students can dispel many fears by talking to "older" students who will be willing to share information about courses and departments. Interested people need not worry about work loads on the camp. A hush dance. quiz night and talent night will provide many laughs Come prepared with your music instrument and favourite party prop. To book ring me on 341 4453 or Corrin( McCleod 337 3312.
Not those who merely dream of. or wish for, a better world. But, those few who would actually dedicate their lives striving to bring peace and justice to the world: to bring love and freedom to the world. So that. with God's grace, the world may become perfect. If you have ever considered becoming a Priest. Brother or Sister. consider it again We need you and. God knows, the world needs you. For further information on vocations as Priest. Brother or Sister, please contact fir-other Robert Callen.
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I4 4 kis 1 4 4 its. Iii Iii. I 4 4 it% I 4 4 kis I 4 4 itS. 1 We Are Best Friends, by Aliki, published by Piccolo, $3.50. 'You can't move away,' Robert told Peter. 'We are best friends.' But Peter moved — and Robert knew he would have no one to play with, no one to fight with, no one to share with, and no fun at all. The he met Will . . . Alga has written several childrens books and illustrated many more. Keep Your Mouth Closed Dear ( 1966) and My Visit To The Dinosaurs are just two of the books that she has both written and illustrated.
children to help them understand energy and energy conservaton. What is energy? — Muscle power — Ways of helping muscle power — Wood — Fossil Fuels — King Coal — Coal gas — Make a steamdriven turbine — Make a galvanoscope — Model a steam engine — Electricity — An electric current — Oil — How oil has changed our lives - Gas — Solar energy — A solar water-heater — A solar still — Energy crops — Ethanol — Oil from plants — Methanol — Methane — Charcoal — Windpower — Windmill and sailboat to make — The tides — Uranium Energy waste watch — and more!
They have been written by an experienced dramatist with an appreciation of the special needs of children and of schools. Cliff Green, one of Australia's most suecesful and versatile writers, trained as a primary teacher. He has since won critical acclaim with his original television dramas Marion and Burn the Butterflies, participated in the 'new wave' of Australian-cinema with screenplays for the films Picnic at Hanging Rock, Break of Day and Summerfield and written for such successful television series as Rush, Power Without Glory and Against the Wind. His first full-length stage play was produced by t he Melbourne Theatre Company. The Sun Is Up, a volume of stories evoking memories of country teaching, has been widely praised, and his Riverboat Bill books are permanent favourites with children.
Plays for Kids, by C. Green, published by Dove Communications, $14.95.
WE ARE BEST FRIENDS
Aliki says about her work, "1 have always felt close to children and books, and feel fortunate that I can direct what creativity I have into both."
There comes a time in any school drama program, no matter how free and selfexpressive, when the need arises for a professionallywritten script. Plays for Kids aims to fill that need. Here are four plays of varying length and scope, for different -sized casts, all written in a breezy, colloquial style, all previously performed.
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History Alive, Introducing children to history around them, by Brian McKinlay, published by Dove Communications, $6.95. We are surrounded by evidence of the past — in our buildings, in books, papers and photographs, in names and in our families. This book is full of ideas to introduce children to the rich heritage of history around them.
History Alive
The camera as time machine — Time lines — Family trees — Surnames and first names — Family maps — Generation charts — Family ceremonies — Interviews Transport — Pictures in the street — Holidays — Gardens, public and private — Clothes — Entertainment — History in print — Recipes from the past — Home-made goods - Buildings and structures — Implements, gadgets and whatsits
— Rubbings — Recycled buildings — Homes and fittings — Special words — Period slang — Place names — Graffiti — A dvertisements — Events - Places to visit — and more!
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It's No Problem, by Nira Harel, illustrated by Ora Eytan, published by Kestrel, $9.95. Fear of a dark stairwell or a large, spotty dog; arguing with Mum and the pleasures and pains of being ill are some of the everyday ups and downs Sam and his friends contend with. and obvious Both unspoken feelings are resolved with humour and insight, aided by lively illustrations in this amusing book. Dear Shrink, by Helen Cresswell, published by Puffin, $3.95. With his parents on a six month botanical trip to the Amazon, thirteen-year-old Oliver, his elder brother and younger sister are left in the care of an elderly housekeeper. Oliver's spontaneous portrayals of adults and situations often leave us smiling, but things begin to go horribly wrong in this nightmarish story. Ages 12+.
( Energy Forever, by E. Honey and G. Tippett, published by Dove Communications, $7.95. We are all consumers of energy. This hook provides background information about both the traditional and the more unusual forms of energy, including the use of water, wind, the sun and the tides. Included are simple, practical activities for
Murdo, by Margo Speight, published by Fontana, $3.50.
These scripts will work equally well in classroom and playground, assembly hall and theatre. They can be used with puppets, in taperecorded 'radio' production. on video-tape or 8 mm film.
When Murdo, Graham's new dragon friend, inadvertently sets fire to the house, Graham decides it's time to run away. They slip on board a ship bound for Canada — and in the strange and eventful journey ahead turn out to be a great help to the Captain.
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gious Sister. For six years the desire grew. When Apes was 18. she left home to become a Sister of Loreto. She knew this order had missions in India. Agnes became Sister Teresa and was sent to a convent in India. Sister Teresa loved being a nun. She loved being a teacher in the Loreto school in Calcutta. The school and convent were large and beautiful. They were in a nice part of the city and had a lovely garden. Sister Teresa moved into the slums of Calcutta. She learned how poor many people in India were. One
day as she was riding a train to another city, she felt God was calling her to do more for C.alcutta's poor people. After thinking about it for a while, she decided to leave the Sisters of loreto to lay plans for her new work. Sister Teresa moved into the slums of Calcutta. She learned how to help sick people. She started her own school for poor children. At first there were just five children. But more and more poor children came to her school. Some girls she had taught at her former school came to help her. They formed a new religious community called the Missionary Sisters of Charity. Sister Teresa came to be known as Mother Teresa.
She and her young Sisters knew many poor people lived and died in the streets of the crowded city. One day Mother Teresa found a dying woman in the street. She picked her up and carried her to a hospital. Mother Teresa decided to open a home for poor and dying street people. She and her Sisters went out and carried dying men and women to their home. More and more young women joined Mother Teresa and her community. They wanted to help her care for the very poorest of the poor. Mother Teresa now is known all over the world. She won the Nobel Peace Prize. Many people call her a living saint.
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Looking at the life of an unloved child
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Thursday's Children, b y Rumer Godden. The Viking Press (New York, 1984), $15.95. R eviewed by Ruth Ann Hanley. It's hard to objective about "Thursday's Children." It has a lilt. Like "The Sound of Music," it leaves one smiling. The story is childcentred. Doone Penny, the sixth child of an Thursday's Children,
came just a mite late, too late to be wanted. And worse than that, he came equipped with a talent that would not sit down and be stilled. O nce again Rumer Godden, a veteran novelist, explores the feelings and complexities of a little -appreciated child. How incredible that this child who put a strain on the house (not enough room) and
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Turn it all Around, by Peter Kearney, published by Dove Communications, $9.95. Turn it all Around gives us 12 new songs by Peter Kearney. His songs tell stories that integrate the scripture experience and our own. They are attractive, easy to learn and invite us to reflection and response in our own lives. Songs such as 'The Man God Chase' and 'The Refugee Carol' challenge us with the unexpected as
Jesus' parables do. In all these songs Kearney stresses the right relationship to God and others that is social justice. To maintain this relationship of love, concern, compassions and response we all need to continually 'turn it all around,' and Peter Kearney's songs help us in our need as Christians for this continual conversion. This collection is also available on cassette. Peter Kearney began writing religious songs in the 1960s, His first published collection Songs of Brotherhood (1966) featured internationally-known favourites such as 'Fill My House' and 'The Beatitudes.' His second collection, Songs Of The Lord's Traveller, was published in 1978. Peter returned to Australia in 1982 after 14 years working in England. Peter teaches music in Mittagong, NSW. He is married and has two children.
the time (not getting up for this one; he'll fall back asleep) had to add another strain. How could he dare to pull the limelight from his lovely and spoiled older sister Crystal and compete with her in her chosen field of ballet. Boys and ballet seems a bit ludicrous to his mother, and even his father, usually in his corner, sees this dancing as sissy,. But despite his parents' denial, when Doone feels within himself the stirring of music and dance, he responds as naturally as a flower to sunlight. E nthusiast ic, unspoiled and of honest temperament, he gathers the help he needs from an assortment of appreciative friends. From a handyman to the grande dame of the concert hall, they are as enthralled by him as the reader will be. There's no point looking for flaws in a story this well-written and engaging. It tugs at the heart, and it's sure to please readers of all ages from grandmother to the youngster in junior high. Ms Hanley is a freelance journalist and author of articles for both the Catholic and secular press.
Women in the U.S. are on the move
Mothers and Such: Views of American women and why they changed: by Maxine L. Margolis, published by University of California Press (Berkeley, Calif., 1 984). 346 pp. America, the roles they have between housework and ical stances based more on played and how they have work outside the home. wishful thinking and uneasi $ 19.95. Reviewed by Mitch Fin- been understood. Ms Margolis A chapter titled, -She Has ness about the current order guides the reader on a fasci- Only Herself to Blame," is a than on close analysis. ley. Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro as his partner in the 1984 presidential election was a milestone in the history of male-female relationships in the United States. More than that, it signalled the arrival of the feminine spirit at the highest levels of political life — and, potentially, the presence of a feminine perspective in the Oval Office. Maxine L Margolis, professor of anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, would say, however, that Ms Ferraro owed her present position not to the rebirth of feminism in the early '70s, not to a couple. of best-selling feminist books, but to social. cultural and economic conditions. "The suggestion that women were suddenly prompted to action by the civil rights movement or by a best-selling book" writes Ms Margolis. "ignores the conditions of millions of women's lives in the late 1950s and 1960s." "More married women than ever before held jobs, but these jobs were usually lowpaying and dead-end. At the same time women continued to bear primary responsibility for child-care and housework Surely these conditions explain the roots of female discontent, discontent that led to the rebirth of feminism and the popularity of books that decried the contemporary version of women's 'proper place." "Mothers and Such" is a clearly written, informative, expertly researched, entertaining look at women in
nating tour of American his- cutting indictment of the "Such reassurances neither tory from a feminine and American tendency to blame seriously consider the major anthropological perspective. women for their own victim- changes that have occurred in Individual chapters describe isation, in everything from women's roles in this country, how women ended upon a rape to the confinement of nor do they seek to explain pedestal as one consequence women to the lower end of them. They are basically conof the Industrial Revolution, the pay scale. servative attempts to obscure how women abandoned the As far as the future is con- what is taking place in Amerpedestal after World War II, cerned, the author is unwil- ican society today..." she and the ways by which keep- ling to offer reassurances: writes. ing house became eventually "The soothing claims that the "Mothers and Such" makes an end in itself family will always be with us, valuable reading for anyone Ms Margolis offers excellent that it really has not changed interested in women's issues, insights into the dynamics of much, and that women will or the influences that are women's presence in the always take primary responsi- shaping American life for the American workforce, male bility for child-care and house- decades to come. attitudes toward "working work because it is in the women" and the relationship nature of things are ideolog-
Parent g2 .4 s problems Your Aging Parents, by John Deedy, published by The Thomas More Press (Chicago, 1984). $7.95. Reviewed by Joseph F. McKenna. An adult cousin called me late one night not long ago, his voice missing its usually hearty, cheery tone. "My mother won't admit it,- he said, "but she (-an't live alone in that neighborhood anymore." He wanted to know who might be able to help his bright, fiercely independent mother find an apartment in a safer area. I was able to direct him to my diocese's Office on Aging, which regularly and very effectively handles such requests. I only wish I could also have offered him an extra copy of John Deedy's excellent new book. Your Aging Parents is a book that couldn't have
been published at a more appropriate time in the United States. The continuing "greying of America" — 25.5 million Americans are 65 or older today — has given greater importance than ever before to senior crime, senior remarriage and nursing home evaluation, among other issues. Further, because four-fifths of older adults have at least one adult child living, and because four-and five-generation families are more common today, the way such issues are handled have a decided effect on more than seniors alone. "The ones who raised them are now the ones who need them — in different ways and varying degrees, of course." writes Deeds', former managing editor of Commonweal magazine and now editor of the Claretian publication, Generations.
"Whatever one might be able to say about the independence of the modern grandparent, for many adult children the dependency roles have been reversed They must now care for those who once cared for them." Although Deeds book is not exhaustive in covering problems facing aging adults, it competently covers a wide range of subjects in a style accessible to the general reader. (One subject covered in great detail, h )wever. is Alzheimer's Disease, the heartbreaking mental robbery which could reach epidemic proportions by the end of the century.) "It does not give all the answers: it does not raise all the questions," Deeds- notes. "Rather, it outlines some problem areas and proposes courses of action, often by the way of case studies."
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s Arriving at the conference headquarter baggage with hand a ladies the and giving (City 4101111 are (left to right) Esma Morrissey John (Midland) Beach ) leremey Atirtie!..i Bartlett Natalia and nt) (Greenmou Perrela (Mingenew)
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(-DOGS' RACE ONE: Nero Wolfe 1, Mr Toe Indoor 2. Small Conquest 3. RACE TWO: Pipe of Dundee 1. Lady Kiwi 2, Peter Scott 3. RACE THREE: Our Petite Biddy 1, Colonial Style 2, Zappa Fox 3. RACE FOUR: Aulfee 1, Boltarna 2, Chinese Chief 3. RACE FIVE: Gold Velocity 1, Tidi Level 2, Lady Ternlock 3.
RACE SIX: Blue Echo 1, Man of Mickila 2, Supreme Carmen 3. RACE SEVEN: Blazenka's Star I. Aqua Sheen 2. She's Adare 3. RACE EIGHT: Ballarat Tiger I. Candy Dancer 2, Spangaloa 3. RACE NINE: Tivessa Pride I. Livand Boy 2, Newtop Pearl 3. RACE TEN: Tessie's Hope I. Petite Flyer 2, Sailor's
Among the delegates at the conference with YCW full time worker Joseph Tufilli are (left to right) Stephanie Nerva (Whitfords) Samantha Richards-Scully (Maida Vale Antioch) and Patricia Downey (Pinjarra)
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Corinne Rowland (secretary of University Catholic Keen to spread the spirit to the youth conference are (left to right) ) Society) Joseph Steinbacher (Pinjarra) and Michael Santivito (Balcatta