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riFormer Perth full L—Itime youth worker Linda Baker, now working in Adelaide, gave one of the keynote addresses at the Youth Conference. See story page 2.

Perth diocese raises a record sum for Catholic Missionaries. See Mission director's report page 3.

Ccx The Youth Mass at St Mary's Cathedral was a fitting climax to the International Youth Year conference. See Record reporter COLLEEN HOWARD'S story, pages 4 and 5

Record reporter BOB BOYLE talks to Vaughan Hanly, noted violinist and a leader of the state's orchestral enthusiasts. See story and pictures pa es 6 and 7.

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At St Brigid's chapel Craigie last week the community novice Sister Elsie Tagliaferri took a sheaf of wheat and handed a ribboned ear of grain to each of 50 Sisters of Mercy gathered to launch 16 sisters on their new appointments. Before Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Foley Sister Beverley Stott, congregational superior, told the sisters to reflect on their part in the coming of the Kingdom of God. They were sent, she said, to scatter the seed of God. What happened after that was not their's to fret about, she said. Archbishop Foley told the sisters their spiritual growth was like the small mustard Archbishop Foley pictured with Sisters of Mercy taking up new seed of the gospels growing into a large tree. appointments: Sister Carmel Wringe, principal of the new Catholic Christ had entered their lives at baptism primary school at Padbury; Sister Margaret Tallon, counsellor andparish and religious profession not just for them12 commencing month a worker at Newman; Sister Clare Rafferty selves but for their mission to others. leadership course at Randwick, Sister Kathryn O'Callaghan principal of Lake Gregory Aboriginal school.

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human rights and, in particular, the rights of workers and their families?" asked the pope. The human dignity of the worker is the principle which "should determine the potential of industrial production and of all social, political and economic processes," he said. If this principle is not followed, it means that "one wants to continue with the shocking imbalance of a small percentage of people who enjoy goods while a high percentage lack them, above all in the Third World," he added In the development of productivity, the pope defended "the principle of the priority of work over capital," but added that both are neces-

sary and should work in harmony. Labour and management should respect each other's legitimate interests and aspirations and form agreements which consider the "limit imposed by the economic situation of the country," the pope said. Earlier in Venezuela, Pope John Paul said "the primacy of economic processes over enviable human rights" has for too long caused injustice in the Third World. "Technology can become — and already has become — alienating and manipulatory to the point we must morally reject the presence of a certain technological ideology because it has • Cont page 5

Christian influence VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II told a group of Italian Catholic religion teachers they must be a Christian influence in Italy's public schools even though teaching religion is no longer mandated. Religious instruction became optional under a concordat between the Vatican and Italy, signed last year. Under the new concordat, Catholicism is no longer Italy's state religion. "The authentic communitari an face of the school will depend on you, on your human and Christian personality, on your conscience," the pope said.

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"They become important to us all because we are not really happy at work or we are not where we would most like to be" she told 300 representatives of youth from parishes throughout Western Australia. "We want to escape from it all." "We are so busy getting away from work and home, we don't even see what is happening and its importance. "Young people need to know what is happening t o them and around them, to take control of each day instead of letting the cycle take control of them."

referred to the poverty of isolation affecting new mothers in outer suburbs. There was also the debilitating poverty of feeling powerless, she said. "We must become a person working for change to build a better world, not a person who is just a nothing. "Even though the nothing drives a car and goes to the beach, we

may still not feel we are the person God made us," she said. She told the youth to k)ok at three questions: Who are our neighbours? How are they treated? How do they treat each other? "Christ tells us to love our neighbour as ourselves, but today our neighbours number about four billion. We have got to consider all

the people in the world in our loving action. "We need to deepen our sense of solidarity with all people. "We do not have to agree with all they do, but to have a common mission with all people, to know who we are, the reasons we arc here, and where we are going. She said Vatican It called on the Church to relate to all people

Challenge for Asian Catholics

BANGKOK: The new challenge for Asian Catholics is to create more and better relationships with other religions and cultures, and to use interreligious activities to make peace in the world, said life time Thai missionary Surat Thani. The 72-year-old bishop from southern Thailand said bishops in Asia will have more opportunity to spread peace to people and join hearts with other religious groups and find effective ways for world peace. "We had discussed and decided to use religion for peace and to stop violence.

E She stressed the family, large or small, rich or poor, single or couple is the starting point to discover the various types of relationships in the world. "But we need to go beyond families to see in what sort of cities in what type of country, in what sort of world we live. She told the young Western Australian Catholics to understand the global village in which they lived. "We drive cars made in Japan, watch television programs largely from outside the country and know more about JR in Dallas than what happens in houses two doors away from us. "Americans recently travelled to London for two day shopping excursions at Harrods." Turning to the unemployment and poverty in Australia she asked the youth how much they knew about poverty, homelessness among people under 25.

"One Christmas Day when I was 23 Mr Yuen invited me to help serve meals at the De Paul Centre and I found out more than half of the people there were not old men, but people younger than I. "1 had found out this fact by accident," she said. Linda Baker also

Linda Baker, Catholic youth worker who delivered a keynote address at the conference in Perth.

Inter-church service on land rights

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In inter-church service in St Mary's Cathedral at 2.30 p.m. this Sunday (February 10) will start a 40 days and 40 nights season of prayer and fasting for justice in Aboriginal land rights. Archbishop Foley ment on Land Rights at a and the heads of the time when political and Anglican and Uniting economic considerations Churches who will have dominated the debate. "In this moral vacuum, lead the service supmany of us have become port the fast being confused on the matter. It promoted in the paris the responsiblity of the ishes because of con- Church to involve Church cern that needs of members in prayer so that Aboriginal people will we as individuals can take not be met in WA positive action for justice. legislation being prepared. E DEJ A pamphlet distributed by Concerned Christians for Land Rights has been circulated in parishes of all three denominations in Perth. It quotes recent comments of Reverend Frank Brennan SJ who has followed the legislation question closely in several states. Mr Brennan said: "The Church has a role to play in presenting the moral argu-

"Our responsibility as Christians must be to conarguments the sider rationally and without emotion, and to consider how much we as individuals or as a society should be prepared to concede to the Aboriginal people even if it got to the stage of casting us something. "At the moment this land

is big enough to accommodate the interests of us all without need for the tailoring of aspirations. "It is only our tolerance of those who are different that does not extend as far as it should. • Cont page 5

The 1984 Catholic Charities Fund Advent collection Appeal taken up in archdiocesan churches collected a total of $80,755 that will be soon distributed: Cathedral $3865; North Brach $2850; Cotteslor $2738; Bedford $2498; Nedlands $2386; Scarborough $2452; St Thomas More $2228; Attadale $2098. Fremantle $1960; Doubleview $1959; Eloreat $1873; Manning $1813; Harnersley $ 1728; Northam $1708; Applecros $1640; Kalgoorlie $ 1666; Dianella $1588; Mirrat(x)ka $1501. Wembley $1473; Brentwood-Willetton $1395; Cloverdale $1333; Gosnells $ 1342; Victoria Pk $1172; Riverton $1181; Morley $ 11-1; Osborne Pk $1107; Lesmurdie $1052; Redemptorist Ch $1080; Willagee

$1014. Nth Douhleview $992; Claremont $922; South Pth $964; Arrnadale $93-: Mundaring $885; Ma lands $8-2; ilighgate $840; Greenmount $-80; Joondanna $727; Bassendean $773; Glendalough 8674; Wanneroo $667; Karrinyup $666; Embleton $600; Belmont $613; Melville $621; Kalamunda $557; Spearwood $561; Palmyra $ 580; Mt Lawley $528; Mos-

man $546; East Fremantle $540; Bayswater $550; Midland $521; West Perth $580. Carlisle $477; East Vic Pk $476; Lynwood 1486; Kensington $483; Yokine $490; Queens Park $439; Carilla $420; Kenwick $415; Beverley $409.

Subiaco $380; Shenton Pk $371; Whitfords $328; Rockingham $300; Leederville $340; Kelmscott $322; Rivervale $294; Girrawheen $257; Southern Cross $259; Merredin $230; Bruce Rock $280; Bencubbin $244; Wongan Hills $178; Quairading $104; Kamhalda $134; Gingin $91; Hamilton Hill $100; York $60; Guildford $28; Kondinin $207. Anonymous $2787.

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Sixteen councillors appointed Sixteen new members have been appointed by Archbishop Foley for a four-yearterm on the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Parishes were asked to nominate up to three people who were evaluated by an electoral college of six appointed by the archbishop to proceed according to the new code of canon law. The code asks for a representation of social conditions, professions and various apostolates. From parish nominations t he following were appointed; their current occupation and parish of residence (not representation) is given: Mrs Elda Barone, business partner, Highgate; Mrs Elsa Matthews, Housewife, Mundaring; Mr Richard A nthony, School Principal, Wembley; Mr Peter Sharkey, b arrister, Nedlands; Ms Laura Meyers, tertiary lecturer, Doubleview; Mr Reginald Newman, executive officer, the Knights of the Southern Cross, Applecross; ir orPeter Dymond. consultant

People ignore bishop's warning WOLLONGONG: A warning from Bishop Murray to stay away has not deterred hundreds of people turning up to the Nowra property of Mr William Kamm, known as Little Pebble, who says Mary has spoken to him. Bishop Murray said the prayer meetings were unlawful but it did not prevent more than 1000 people attending a six hour prayer meeting in stiffling heat.

The audience had been swelled by more than 700 people who came after a woman Campsie Georgette Harb also claimed to have approval from heaven for Little Pebble's activities. Kamm claims if insufficient prayers are said, God will allow nuclear war to be unleashed. He also reciprocated by saying Georgette Harb was genuine. A waterhole on the property is described as a sacred spring and people were seen drinking the stagnant water and bottling it to take home.

engineer, Kalamunda; Mrs Jenny Troy, teacher, Hilton Park; Mrs Vera Kay, housewife and pastoral assistant, Gingin-Chittering; Mrs Lesley McNee, housewife and f arming partner, Bencubbin; Mrs Norah Orr, housewife, Norseman. Other appointees are missions director Father Peter Bianchini and Catholic Youth Council members: Lucy Brennan, Steven Cavill, Anne Harris and Barbara Willcock. Members continuing for a

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further two years are:- Mr A nthony Stanbridge, Mr Albert Rooney, Mr Ian Ramsey, Mrs Jane Murphy, Mrs Diedre Lane, Mrs Anne Giannasi, Mr Peter Fleay, Mr David Emery, Mr Francis Campbell, Mr John Cahill, Mrs Monica Bob, Mr Ian Ballantyne, Brothers A nthony Dal ly, Sister M. Bernadine, RSM; Sister M. Assumpta, Father Owen Ryan C.ss R., Father Brian Pitman, 0.Carm. Father Barry Whitely PP., Father Geoff

Aldous PP. Five meetings are held in e ach year but, between times, committees research issues to make recommendations to the full council. Canon Law also spells out that the council has only a consultative vote. It is the Diocesan Bishop alone who has the right to make public matters dealt with by the council. The first of the council's five meetings for 1985 will be held on March 9.

Records g in und A record 1368,000 was contributed to Catholic Missions by the people of Perth Archdiocese during 1984. This was an increase of $63,000 on the preNiOUS year. Catholic primary schools contributed $20,600 to Catholic Missions and Catholic secondary schools contributed $14,700.

These figures were released by retiring missions director, Father Pat Ahern who after a six year term will be handing over to the new director, Father Peter Bianchini. Father Ahern said his six years in the missions office had given him a new vision of the Universal Church. It also helped him to realise the needs of the emerging churches of Africa. Asia. Oceania and Latin America. In recent years knowledge and interest in lay missionwork has increased dramatically. he said. In the past few weeks, two more Perth lay missionaries have been commissioned — Grace Natalotto who will work with the St John of God Sisters in Pakistan and Martin Forsey who will do youth work in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. At present, there are 14 lay missionaries from the Perth archdiocese serving in Papua New Guinea, Pakis*

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tan, Pacific Islands, Chile, Tanzania and in Australia. During 1984 contact has been maintained with areas where Western Australians are serving the mussionary church such as the diocese of Lahore in North Pakistan where St John of God Sisters and lay missionaries from Perth are serving at Bethania Hospital and where two More final year students from the Western Australian Medical School have just spent their summer vacation working at the hospital. Eight medical students have now worked at the hospital over the past four yeam. PALMS lay missionary organisation based in Sydney is appreciative of the help it receives from the Perth Mission Office as an advertising and interviewing point for prospective lay missionaries. Overseas mission visitors to Perth in 1984 included Father Sebastian Ugochukwa from Nigeria and Father Peter Thet Lwin from Burma. Both priests visited parishes and schools on behalf of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies as part of the Perth Missions Office for sponsor-

ing visits of overseas missionaries on behalf of various local communities. Father Ahearn thanked the teachers and pupils of Catholic schools who had responded generously to the Forty Hour Fast in addition to their other mission contributions. He hoped it would be an annual event. Father Ahearn also thanked the office staff members, Mrs Maureen Billing and Miss Irene Poulouse. and part time worker. Mrs Pat Zappa. They were helped by volunteer young students who packaged and despatched materials to schools. "Above all, it is the people of the parishes who have been outstanding in their generosity." Father Ahern said. "The hospitality the mission appeals receive in the parishes shows a genuine spirit of fraternity. "A big contribution to the missionary appeals was made by Columban Father P.J. Kelly who has been transferred to Pakistan after six years in Perth. "A sound tradition of supporting Catholic missions has been developed in Perth archdiocese

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Rehecord Guest Editorial • This column last week inadvertently failed to note that the item The Poor Have The Numbers was by courtesy of the January issue of The Far East Columban missionary magazine Whether papal travelling is due to the Spiritual agenda of the Church's Head to establish a new rapport with the national churches at a critical time or whether the arrival of very convenient airline technology gave the Church a brilliant possibility does not matter much. Practically it means that the papacy has consciously, and probably deliberately, taken on two unfamiliar labels: the pope is now a traveller and a media figure. Popes simply did not travel pastorally to see their constituencies until this present era. Now that he has started, he can hardly stop at this juncture and send his excuses to the wad of further invitations stacked in his letter tray. Australia e.g. had a pope on its soil in 1970 far ahead of other older churches and now wants a second visit. Therefore it is seriously fashionable, if also somewhat predictable, for superior sounding purists in and out of Rome to say that the present pope is away too much and cannot be attending to the mountain of work on his desk which must be farmed to anonymous Vatican manipulators over whom he can't keep a close watch etc. In the next breath it is asserted that the pope has an unbending personal control over appointing bishops to major dioceses, over what topics and what documents are coming out under his name, in fact over everything. As a media figure the pope faces the same hazard as any personality in politics or entertainment: if you are popular, start making plans for retiring before you become unpopular. It takes only a little arithmetic to wonder for how many years ahead the pope can keep up his image. Only pampered Catholics can afford to be as cynical as in both the preceding observations because in the very pragmatic world of news reporting and international stature the pope is holding his own. The reports tend to be brief, to force him to appear to be concerned only with abortion and contraception issues, to imply that he is moving into a particular country to stamp out the latest theological fire. On the other hand, with twenty odd similar events behind them the people of Western Australia were reminded several times in print and on television that he was pounding the trail through South America and they heard, however briefly, that he was heavily into the issue of poverty, injustice and revolution that are the foremost tragedies of those countries. With easily a thousand speeches behind him on these travels the pope has probably put to rest the too-easy demand that the pope "say something". Anyone with the stamina to wade through John Paul's millions of words would have to admit that he as said everything about everything. Familiar traveller and media figure that he is, the pope knows that he moves closer and closer to those for whom what he has to say is not only of nuisance value but is advice to be resisted. The scandalous gulf between rich and poor that savages hundreds of millions of South Americans is being exploited by trendies if they think that banner waving about US imperialism absolves comfortable Western society from declaring its solution to the economic realities behind the starving bellies that get momentary sympathy on television as we digest our hearty meals. What gas-guzzling Australian is asked to confront his contribution to the OPEC oil profits that swirl as loans into poor countries which go to the wall trying merely to pay back the interest? What coffee-sipping, tea-jiggling Australian is asked if his local luxury is part of the get-rich-quick cash crops that have diverted countries like Ethiopia from producing the less fashionable food they so badly need? What are the global implications of an Australian prime minister confronting a food glutted European Economic Community, if we want to get our share of the world's poor clamouring for food. No wonder getting angry about a missile yet to be fired or a cancelled military exercise is easier. The day when Pope John Paul's bag trundles out to Rome's Fiumicino airport with the label "Australia" is drawing closer. The Traveller and Media Personality will have reached here. What do we want him to say? Where do we want him to go? Thanks for the answer, but why?

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Blind to the joy of life "Catholics or not, even those who might hate the idea of God, to concern ourselves with what they dream, what they are sad about, and feel good about. "Vatican II also says we have a role only we can play, to restore the temporal order, to bring about across the world structural changes reflecting Christian values. 'We have got to build the world to be a Christian world." She said there was a contradiction between Christ's values of love, justice, community, compassion and integrity and the world values of exploitation, alienation, powerlessness and competition.

EEC] "It means operating from within the Church with a mission to society, with other people of goodwill outside the Church. "We have to act to bring about God's kingdom even if it means being unpopular. "Change is possible even if it is taken in only small steps. "Many people cannot love their neighbour as themselves because they don't know how to love themselves and they get frustrated when they love their neighbour.

Archbishop Foley receives Archbishop Foley has received the following message from the Vatican to coincide with the Catholic Youth Conference, held in Perth. Your Grace: His holiness Pope John Paul ll was pleased

Julia Pickering, International Youth Year conference

The Cathedral a night to remember It was their Mass and their night! The culminating Mass of the WA Youth Conference for International Youth Year. They came on foot, in cars and in buses, full of exhuberant life, laughing, joyous, and to me — reassuring — that young life is still as it should be and so much fun to see, and be with.

The Cathedral throbbed with excitement, pulsated life and led by the really outstanding music of the musical singing group. The music swelled, fell and rose again, weaving and wending its way between the filled pews, seeking out every small corner and rising to the great height of the cathedral ceiling. The music and singing knitted the fabric of this wonderful Mass together. It made me feel if the old hallowed stones of the "Good people can make Cathedral could have cried mistakes. We are good out echoing that same joy, people and God made us then they would have done and we have to believe so — and with pride — to see the Catholic youth of in that and move forward Western Australia demonfrom that. strating their love, together"Jesus died on the cross ness and God searching. to give us a real chance Each song was chosen speto understand God, to cifically for the youth, by the understand love and youth, and sung with gusto build this world into a yet sensitivity and meaning. Just prior to the comChristian place. 'We have got to take mencement of the Mass, a that seriously, to feel liturgical dance accompangood about it, to act on ied the zesty "Prepare ye the way of the Lord" entrance it. As young people we song. have the best chance of A rchbishop Foley, Bishop doing that," she said. Healy, 27 concelebrants plus altar servers ascended the cathedral steps through an archway of upheld palms. As Mike Glimmer, the masRECORD ter of ceremonies for the CLASSIFIEDS conference stated, the Mass was organised by the Catholic Youth Council for $4 cash for International Youth express 28 words ing togetherness the youth felt at the conference. The unifying theme (and a Post or deliver song written around it the (no phone ads) day before), was Together We Hope and Together We Build and that was what had

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to be informed a large number of young people will gather in the Archdiocese under the auspices of the Catholic Y outh Council of Western Australia, for a five-day conference to examine their lives in the light of the Gospel and the teachings of the Church. He sends his cordial greetings to those taking part in this gathering. At the beginning of the International Youth Year, the pope directed his World Day of Peace Message in a special way to the young people of the world. He encouraged them to be men and women of hope, not fear. He told them in their hands rests the future of human society and the prospects for justice and peace. He urged them to build a world based on love and reconciliation so that every form of hatred and violence might be overcome. His holiness realises today's youth are very much aware of the horrors of war, terrorism and the abuse of human life reported daily in the mass media. These things caltnot be permitted to continue. Ways must be found for humanity to live together in harmony and with respect for each person.

been done throughout the conference "As a youth community", he continued, "this is the first step of our coming out into the greater community of Perth." Father Jegorow. gave the homily, showing delight "at the 300 alive and vibrant Catholic youth" he'd worked with during the conference and how much effort in organisation they had contributed. Benefits to him had been great too — he'd had his hair

gelled, it had been a 'rage'! and he'd acquired a brilliant green curly wig with a Christmas bauble dangling from it — which he appropriately wore after the Mass was over! The homily theme however, was: What is God calling me to do here and now.. . . student, priest, worker or friend?". He advised them to choose their vocation well and give it their best, each work bringing its own dignity. Depicting the Galilian

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scene of Jesus, Fisher-ofmen, there was a brief but well donee mime on the altar steps. It WAS the first time, he said, young people had gathered together from each parish and "it is just the beginning!" Father Jegorow thanked all organisers, participants, parishioners, priests and religious who had made it possible for the young people to attend this conference. "We have looked at ourselves. God and society," he

from PETER TILLEY, Trigg SIR It has been obvious to me and other 'blind freddies' for years now there is a more than usual crisis with many of our youth. (The Record Jan 15). I can only hope more people continue to bite the bullet in this regard. Father Ian Stock of Brisbane, reported in the same issue appears to be doing this rather competently. It will be interesting to see how competently the 'institutionalised' Church moves on his recommendations. I hope the opening remark by Catholic Leader reporter Ray Owen gets a full airing: "I have come to question the benefits of

a message from John Paul But the means for achieving this goal will not be found solely through human ingenuity. Rather the power that brings about true justice and peace comes from God and works within individual hearts; it is a power that produces a radical conversion of attitudes and actions. This is the power of the Gospel, a power that can change the world because it liberates people from the slavery of hatred, revenge and cynicism. The strength of the Gospel rests not in the values of this world, but the fruits of God's Spirit; "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control" (Gal 5:22). It is the Holy Father's fervent hope those assembled at the College of Saint Thomas More will be fortified by the Holy Spirit, and resolve to share the Good News of Jesus Christ wherever their daily activities take them: in the parish, the school, at work, at home, among the sick, the poor and the lonely. He asks our saviour to strengthen each one of them in their undertakings and to enable them to communicate to all those whom they meet the joy of being instruments of God's justice and peace. With deep affection in the Lord, His Holiness assures the young people taking part in the conference that he will remember them in his prayers, and he sends them his Apostolic Blessing.

Cardinal Casaroli who despatched John Paul's message to WA's Catholic Youth

Peter Bestwick graphic designer of the Youth conference logo, "together we hope, together we build" baptisimal promises were made by all. Seventeen youth performed a liturgical mime on the Communion reflection: "I looked up and saw my Lord a-coming" and were joined in mime by the full clergy and congregation. Young Embleton Graphic Designer, Peter Bestwick's fish design was featured on banners, T-shirts and the Mass booklet cover, reiter-

ating the togetherness theme It was the most spontaneously happy, hope-filled. promise-filled Mass I have attended. Jam packed with youth — all bent on togetherness, unity and love of God and malt Dynamic, well-organised. spirited — and I wouldn't have missed it! Much credit should be

given to these young but mature adults, who demonstrated how capable they are of running their own affairs and doing it remarkably well. I feel quite confident these young people are the citizens of tomorrow — then I can rest easier at the direction life will take — and am very proud of them.

HAVE YOUR SAY More than usual crisis facing youth of today the time and money allocated to Catholic primary and secondary education." Parents of my generation (and our own parents more so perhaps) have a tremendous stake in the upbringing of our young. We were harassed into supporting the Catholic school system — before state aid. There used to be a law about it . . remember? We were always told that although we were "the

first educators" of our offspring most of our ideas were over -protective and to leave it to the "experts". As the years went on it appeared to me the "experts" — getting younger and younger — were moving further and f urther away from the ideals for which we all thought we were making the great "sacrifices". Can anyone please tell me whether a serious study has been attempted in the

Season for prayer b egins Sunday "The Church has a special concern for the poorest of the poor and the marginalised of our society. The Aboriginal people have been marginalised in their own

youth Mass

said. He emphasised to the youth God holds them as "precious, special." "The Church loves you — you are the hopefuls of today and tomorrow. For you I am a priest, with you I am a disciple and we love you." The cathedral was then gradually darkened as tapers lit candles for the 1500 present (vast majority was youth), while renewal of

Service for land rights

archdiocese of Perth to try to measure the spiritual effectiveness of our secondary Catholic schools? I have often wondered whether the few brothers and sisters left in our religious orders might not be much more satisfied and feel much more fulfilled if they stopped "bashing their heads" against the wall of the secular education system and dedicated their activities in a

more personal way to visiting families within a voluntarily defined community. Wouldn't it be great for caring parents, seriousminded teenagers and maybe the visitor if a religious (someone whose profession it is to be in close contact with God) was able to be invited by a family to — say come to dinner once a month prepared to discuss controversial matters afterwards.

land." Beth Mowry, convenor of the inter -church group said this week: "In the Old and New Testaments, the people of God are seen praying and fasting in times of great need and in preparation for important decisions and actions. "The great prophets went into the wilderness to pray before they confronted the rulers of their time with the injustices that were being done to their people. "Both Jesus and John the Baptist spent 40 days in the desert before they began their ministries. Forty days and 40 nights is symbolic of a time of spiritual preparation for action which will effect change.The pamphlet. sent to all parishes, includes scripture readings for reflection. prayers of petition suitable for individuals as well as parishes and families and a Vigil Prayer. The Vigil Prayer can be said daily by individuals or groups One idea suggested it be put in a prominent place in the home where it can be read daily. The pamphlet says: "Fasting is a powerful form of prayer. Families and individuals are encouraged to fast in the way that is most appropriate for them: "We can pray that land rights: • provides a just system of land tenure for all Australians. • provides a just system for resolving conflicting claims to limited land resources. • provides a just system for the development of mineral wealth, which guarantees

More help • From page 1 imposed. . . things over people and technology over morality," the pope said in the city trying to industrialise and become less dependent on Venezuelan oil revenue. In Peru, the home of liberation Theology's most famous exponent Father Gutierrez the pope did not refer directly to the theoloRY. The pope warned against directing religious life "toward socio-economic projects which should be alien to you."

that development does not allow the destruction of traditional Aboriginal communities without their consent. • promote the common good, giving all groups acting within the law the right to self-determination. • give legal protection to the spiritual link which Aboriginal communities

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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup

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1 1BHOPAL (NC) — Archbishop Eugene

1-1LONDON: "International relations are 1---imore strained . . . little or no improvement in the economic climate . . materialism hasn't brought Heaven on earth — but there are fresh opportunities for the radical alternative of Christ's Gospel." This was Cardinal Hume challenging the delegates to the Third European Ecumenical Congress. The conference was held in what was almost "a strange place" at Riva del Garda near Trent. It was at the Council of Trent, 400 years ago, that the Church really set about rebuilding the bridges after the Reformation, but these memories of division did not deter the delegates. Cardinal Hume pledged his support to heal the divisions between Catholic and Reformed traditions, as well a to reach out to the Orthodox Churches. E

DACCA (Bangladesh). Dacca University Professor Kamaluddin Ahmed has developed a drug called Histracene, which is proving successful in the treatment of TB. The drug is based on Ghau, a shrub which is common in many parts of Bangladesh. Treatment with Histracene costs 25 times less than treatment with conventional importedd drugs.

L_1D'Souza of Bhopal has assembled a

group of 100 nuns, convent students and seminarians to work in emergency relief camps with victims of the gas leak which killed at least 2000 people. The archbishop's residence was used as a centre for the aid effort. The group spread out from the residence to the government relief camps to comfort and aid gas victims. Archbishop D'Souza also made repeated visits to camps to oversee the group's work. Catholic aid for the disaster also came from the bishops' council of Kerala, in southern India. The council asked the dioceses to collect money for relief work at the Bhopal camps. The bishops' council also authorised a donation of $840 for relief aid. Other church leaders have given their support and condolences for the victims in since the leak. Mother Teresa of Calcutta made an eight -hour tour of relief sites in Bhopal, urging forgiveness and offering condolences to the victims. E LI

Washington Developing nations have cut their birth rates by 11 per cent during the past 15 years, according to a survey carried out by Robert Lapham of the US National Academy of Sciences However, fertility has not declined in Africa, where the world's fastest population growth is experienced

The search Communist regime for Mengale NEW YORK (NC) — Auxiliary Bishop Valero of Brooklyn has agreed to be "the Christian presence" in a search for Nazi w ar criminal Josef Mengele, who is believed to be in Paraguay. Bishop Valero was invited by the International Network of Child'

ren of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the sponsor of the trip. He is director of the diocesan migration and refugee office. Mengele, 73, known as the Angel of Death, is accused of choosing victims the gas for chambers at Auschwitz

HO CHI MINH CITY, (Vietnam) Several Vietnamese bishops opposed to the communist regime's state-sponsored Church recently have been harassed and subjected to exhausting interrogation.

A pastoral letter from Archbishop Kim Dien of Hue, written after the archbishop spent 120 days under interrogation by police in the province of Binh Tri thien said: "AlthoughIam your pastor,I can no longer visit your communities and your parishes to encourage you.

Scots call for 'freeze'

E DINBURGH: (NC) — Scotland's Catholic bishops have called for a freeze on the production, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons. "No one doubts the difficulty of achieving a rapid elimination of nuclear weapons," the bishops said in a message for the new year. But a nuclear freeze "is an interim measure which a natural prudence dictates."

In their statement, the bishops said the apparent inability of the Western and Eastern blocs to reach a freeze, coupled with the deployment of a new generation of nuclear weapons in Europe, prompted their reflection on threats to world peace. The bishops said the continued development of nuclear weapons also prompted them to repeat their 1982 statment that: "If it is immoral to use these weapons, it is also immoral to threaten .40.111.

"But you should know that your bishop is always thinking of all your churches, and the situation of your parishes and communities." The archbishop said his interrogation ended after he signed a statement explaining why he could not support the stat-sp.onsored -Committer for the Solidarity of Patriotic Vietnamese Catholics.-

Western Australia strikes a sweet note for

Vaughan's accord with WA Today's People

A regular feature By BOB BOYLE j For generations the genes of the Hanly family have stirred to the music of the violin. Few, if any, of Vaughan's male antecedents had lessons but they loved the instrument and played it with varying degrees of proficiency. His father, who died when Vaughan was t hree -months -old, was numbered among these enthusiasts. Vaughan himself achieved eminence in the stringed field and his son Brian is now professor of the violin at the University of Wyoming and a member of the Western Arts Trio. Vaughan had his first violin lessons at the Golden Grove convent from Sister Aquin,

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a Mercy nun whose expert teaching was to have a profound effect on his subsequent career. She was his mentor until he won a scholarship to the NSW Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and he kept in touch with ther almost to the time of her recent death at the age of nearly 100. As one of the youngest of the hundreds of students at the conservatorium, he likens his situation to that of suddenly finding himself in a vast ocean instead of the little pond that was his previous habitat. But the sprat proved himself to be no fish out of water. The work load included orchestral playing, chamber music and a lot of theory. He had previously studied the cello, but at the conservatorium he chose the piano as his second instrument. When his initial scholarship expired, he won several more enabling him to continue his studies until he had obtained both his per-

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Bishops are 'harassed' According to press reports from Vietnam, the government has been organising the pro-communist parallel church on local levels since 1983. Archbishop Kim Dien told his interrogators he could not apply the laws or politics of the state when they are in conflict with the interests of God and the Church, Vatican Radio said. Other opponents of the pro-government church subjected to exhausting interro-

gations include Bishop Bui Than, co-adjutor of LongXuyen, and Bishop Huy Mai of Ban Me Thuot. "Numerous seminaries, including those of Xuan Loc and Darning, have been occupied and requisitioned for other uses." Priests ordained after 1975, when the communists came to power, are not recognised by the state and are "re-educated" before being given posts far from their previous dioceses.

NEW YORK (NC) — Joseph Carl Shaw, 29, went to the electric chair saying he had "no bittertoward ness anyone" and thankCatholic ing Church leaders for their stand against capital punishment. Shaw, a Catholic and former altar boy, pleaded guilty in 1977 to murdering two Columbia teenagers. He also received a life sentence for raping and murdering a young woman. Shaw thanked Archbishop Kelly of Louisville; Mons Duffy, vicar general; and the Reverend Kyuzo Miyaishi, a Lutheran minister

violinist led here by musical bent and a conductor. "With superb artistry, he could sing anything from grand opera to the popular

V aughan Hanly — violinist, violin teacher and leader of the WA Symphony Orchestra for 37 y ears -- was born in Sydney on November 15, 1916. He started his education at the Convent of Mercy, Golden Grove, and there b egan violin lessons under the tutelage of Sister Aquin to whom he is indebted for much of his musical expertise and who died recently at an a ge approaching 100.

Whi le the Christian Brothers school at Lewisham, he won a scholarNSW the to ship Conservatorium of Music in Sydney. It was the first of a series which enabled him to continue studies at the conservatorium until he had obtained his performer's and teacher's diplomas. Later, he was playing w ith the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, In 1938 he was an asso-

former's and teacher's diplomas. The present era of financially-assisted education is a far cry from those days when, for the less affluent, the winning of scholarships presented their only access to the study necessary to gain top qualifications.

As if to prove his earlier successes had been no fluke, Vaughan won a postgraduate scholarship for further study at the conservatorium when he was playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 1 938 came an honour that was to prove fateful

ciate artist with Richard the during T auber f amous tenor's tour of Australia, and in 1939 he became leader of the WA e xcept for four years' wartime Army service. A fter the death of his first wife, Vaughan married another talented musician in Rosal ind Mayrhofer. He has a son and a daughter by the first marriage and two sons by the second.

when he was appointed an associate artist to tour Australia with the famous Austrian tenor Richard Tauber. -Tauber," Vaughan recalls, was a great fellow and a consumate musician. "In addition to being one of the outstanding tenors of all time, he was a composer

songs of the time. "His versatility made him to singers what Fritz Kreisler was to violinists," Vaughan says. It was the era when Neville Chamberlain journeyed to Munich to meet Hitler and returned with a piece of paper that he claimed guaranteed "peace in our time." It was the year of the Anschluss when the Nazi hordes marches into Tauber's beloved Austria. It was a worrying time for the tenor who was uncertain about the outcome of his efforts to obtain British citizenship, a goal he was to achieve in 1940 only eight years before his death from cancer at the age of 56. It was a period when Vaughan, too, was given to some serious thought. He had not visited Perth before and the city, in its springtime glory, cast an immediate spell on him. He learnt the position of

Condemned man thanks the Church who counsels prisoners. "I am proud my Church, the Roman Catholic Church. and His Holiness Pope John Paul II, have stood strongly for human life and against the death penalty," Shaw said in the electric chair. Pope John Paul in the past has asked for clemency for inmates sentenced to death but he has not con-

demned capital punishment on moral grounds. The US bishops approved a statement in 1980 arguing that while theoretically the state has the right to impose the death penalty, there is no conclusive evidence capital punishment deters crime or that it serves as just retribution.

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leader of if le vw-,,,ymphony Orchestra would shortly become available and was virtually his for the asking "A couple of years here,he though, "and then I'll be able to go overseas to study He laughed off the suggestion of a Perthite anybody who spent two years in the city would never leave it So in 1939 the young violinist accepted the post as the orchestra's leader.

Ci Adolf Hitler put paid to the overseas study plans, and the charm of the city, given time to work, assured the fulfilment of the Perthite's prophecy. Vaughan was still to be the orchestra's leader on his retirement 37 years later. For the first part of his four years' wartime Army service he was a signaller, but then he was posted to an Army Education unit. In an atmosphere vastly different from the formal teaching methods of the conservatorium, it was a musically educative period for him during which he learnt a lot about the general citzenry's views of music through the troops he lectured. He also learnt to express himself in generally understandable terms because musical jargon had no place

in the lexicon of his audiences In 1946 Vaughan returned to his position as leader of the WA Symphony Orchestra at the start of a period of its improvement through the impact on it of visiting conductors such as Sussking, Goosens, Josef Krips and Sir John Barbirolli Vaughan believes there are two types of conductors The first is one who knows his score thoroughly, has in mind exactly how he wants everyone in the orchestra to play and gets a unified and precise result Then there is the occasional conductor who seems to be able to keep the reins in his hands, but inspires the players to give of the best of their musical ability He is the one under whom orchestras love to play One conductor for whom Vaughan was the leader proceeded smoothly along his way provided all went well

Mons Duffy who ‘-isited Shaw in prison leaned over him in the electric chair and spoke to him seconds before he died. The Louisville archidoc.ese gave Shaw's family financial assistance to visit him and to have his body brought back. Bishop Unterkoefler who had made a plea for clemency, said the Mass of Christian burial.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH "Instead of staying behind locked doors, I'm interested in coming out and getting something done," said Bridget Healy. "Four years ago," she continued, "I was living in a building with no heat and no hot water. People were coming in at night and stealing the pipes from one whole side of the building. We got the tenants together, had meetings in the lobby and began to hope that we could change things." With 10 neighbours and parishioners in New York's South Bronx, Ms Healy formed a group at St Athanasius Parish. Together they planned ways of working to

What is the vocation of the Church's lay people? Since Vatican II a great deal of thought has been given to that question. Suzanne Elsesser tells the story of a group of lay persons who joined together to take some much-needed action in New York's South Bronx. Ms Elsesser is a free-lance writer living in New Jersey. Dolores Leckey describes two lay persons to illustrate the different ways they participate in the Church. One lay man centres his life on Church activities; the second considers his work life and family life his way of participating in the mission of the Church. The Church needs to find ways to nourish both, Mrs Leckey says. She is director of the US bishops' Committee on the Laity. Katharine Bird interviews Bishop James Hoffman of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio, about his six years on the US bishop's Committee for the Laity. The bishop says he believes there is a real need to find ways of supporting lay people whose Christianity is lived out largely in the world of everyday activities. Ms Bird is associate editor of the NC Religious Education Package.

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Mike is a school administrator. His work occasionally requires him to attend community meetings one or two evenings weekly. As a result. Mike guards his time and energy for his family and a pet civic responsibility. His parish participation includes Mass each week with his family. Occasionally they linger for the social hour. Paul defines his lay role in the Church in terms of his Church ministry. Mike says he is coming to see his professional commitment, his family life and his volunteer work in local political campaigns as his ministry. Parish liturgies and adult education offerings are helping Mike to see his life "on the outside" holds something the

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improve living conditions in an area known by many for its acres of abandoned buildings and vicious crime. "We want to be able to say 'this is what is happening in our neighbourhood. This is what needs to be done and this is what we're willing to fight for," added Angel Garcia. He heads the five-year-old People for Change organisation working with local parishes to give people a voice in what happens to them and their neighbourhoods. Waiting for a meeting to start, I chatted briefly with Georgia Hudson who pointed to her sisterin-law, Anna Hudson, sitting across from her bundled in a heavy winter coat and wool cap. "Anna's the one who got me to come. She's the one who knows what's going on," she said. sister-in-law the "Yes," "I'm out laugh. responded with a at meetings so much I'm just never at home. It's fun though. You come over here and people say 'Hi, how are you doing?' and it makes you feel at home." She went on to explain the parish group and People for Change have targeted five neigh-

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bourhood buildings in which to organise and train the tenants to speak for themselves. They'll talk to the groups about such things as heat, plumbing that works, front door locks, pest control and adequate lighting in hallways. The group discussed particular neighbourhood buildings that might need work and which also have people living in them who are interested in working together. Then Olga Rosario raised an additional topic. "Our problem," she pointed out, "is that we're afraid. Before we give training in how to renovate a bulding, we need to train people to overcome their fear." She added: "We're equals, but we don't always see ourselves that way. We can be scared of anyone

Stories of the lai Consider the story of two laymen who live in different parishes. Paul works for a data processing firm. Married and the father of three children, he teaches year seven religion; he ushers at Sunday Mass; he often conducts Saturday morning devotional services. Paul's life centres on the Church.

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Church in the world — ways of supporting Mike and others like him. This is what the US bishops had in mind when they wrote in a 1980 statement on the laity: "In those areas of life in which they are uniquely present and within which they have special competency because of their particular talents, education and experience, (the laity) are an extension of the Church's redeeming presence in the world."

Church values. Twenty years ago the Second Vatican Council called the Church to a new kind of pilgrimage. I remember the excitement of news stories at that time explaining what the council had to say about the laity's role in the world: that "the laity by their vocation seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs." Increasingly since that time, lay women and men have moved into new roles within the Church, partly because of institutional need — fewer clergy and Religious. An equally important reason is the laity's new self-concept. Like Paul, they realise their competencies and gifts can be put to good use within the Church. A real challenge, though, is to develop ways of supporting the laity's role as the

Consider one more story — that of Gail. A single parent of two teenagers, Gail is employed full time as a librarian and serves as a parish reader. A few years ago her parish held a seminar series on "Gifts and Ministry." Over several weeks, lay people identified talents, prayed together and studied the evolving role of the laity in today's Church. In a very real way, Gail reports, the seminar helped her recognise she has a genuine mission, first in the family where she maintains a consciously Christian home — • through prayer; • through the practice of hospitality, • and through the willingness to work through conflict toward forgiveness and reconciliation.

By Suzanne Elesser

A girl who had 12 years of Catholic education left the Church shortly after her high school graduation. She had not given up on religion, she said. In fact, she had joined a little storefront Bible church. When asked why, she answered quite simply: "There I am somebody, a person." People, perhaps especially the young, have a deep yearning for community — for interpersonal sharing. They want others with whom they c an share their thoughts, pray and gain moral support for Christian living. Today more Catholics are becoming aware of how much the vitality of the Church counts on them. Many lay people are participating in small .roups where they can

Father John Castelot e xperience what it means to be a member of the body of Christ. In fact, a number of renewal programs being u sed in parishes are encouraging the formation of small groups in w hich people share insights into the meaning and potential of their Christianity, and in which they pray together. A yearning for community is rooted deep in human nature. And it is thoroughly Christian. Jesus acknowledged it

when he said: "Where two or three are gathered in m y name, there am I in their midst" (Matthew 18:20). T hese words were addressed to all Christians. For the first few c enturies this is how Christians lived — as small groups in which they shared everything, but especially themselves. Their lives were marked by joy, a reflection of t heir love and life t ogether. For them the idea of a Christian as someone who could "go i t alone" would have seemed a contradiction in terms. The unity they enjoyed w as not that of the local drama society or fitness c lub, where people simply come together to a ccomplish a specific task.

"Well, bishop," the president of the parish council said, "you take care of drawing up the mission statement for the parish and we'll implement it." "I said, 'No, you won't really think the mission statement is yours if we proceed that way,replied Bishop James Hoffman Toledo, Ohio. Retelling that story during a recent interview, the bishop said he considered that exchange a "great teaching moment."

we think is higher than us, like a landlord or a lawyer or a iudge." The group nodded its agreement when she said this is what needs to be changed. "Vatican II moved the -Yes, that's what it is. People Church forward" in that are afraid to speak out," someone regard. Bishop Hoffman sugsaid. gested. "It stressed the comAs they rose to leave with plans mon bond of all people" and to meet again in two weeks, the "God let you be born in the midst you and where he wants you to directly in the task of relating des eloped the theology of group paused in prayer. They had of the world In cities or in the stay. - (Pope John Paul II in Swit- Christian values and priorities to lay people's responsibility the mission of complex questions such as those for the Church's mission. opened their meeting with a country, students or apprentices, zerland in 1984 on of business ethics, political choice, When Church leaders want fiances or married, workers per- the laity.) the prayer for the ability to change economic security, quality of life, to consult with lay Cathol0 0 ID haps without work, office workers, things that can be changed, the employers, government workers in "The whole Church faces unprece- cultural development and family ics, it's usually those who are courage to accept what cannot service to the state or in your army, dentedsituations in the contempor- planning." (US bishops 1980 state- active in Church ministry, he and the wisdom to know the farmers, businessmen, industrial- ary world and lay people are at the ment on the laity, "Called and said. cutting edge of these new chal- Gifted") ists. difference.

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Now they praised God, thanking Him for the opportunities that are theirs and the people He has brought to help them. Stepping out into the cold, dark night from the warmth of the rectory, a woman paused to say: "You know, this is my neighbourhood. I moved away for a while, but I'm back now. I'm a fighter and I'm going to fight for our rights here." As she spoke, another woman came down the high stone steps struggling with two heavy plastic shopping bags filled with canned goods. She smiled as she passed on her way to the bus stop. Garcia followed and waited with her for awhile. "She had her money stolen today after she cashed her cheque. So she came to the rectory for some food," he told me later. "I stayed with her because I didn't want anyone to rip her off again while she was waiting for the bus." It was never mentioned outright, but this group was the start of a self-help program like those mentioned by the US Catholic bishops in the first draft of their pastoral letter on the US economy. "Fostering self-help programs . . . is an effective way to attack poverty," the draft of the bishops' letter said.

That is your world, where Godput lenges. It is they who engage

By Katharine Bird And "the number of people involved with Church ministry is miniscule. "The greatest number of lay persons work in society." Bishop Hoffman said. "Their primary foie is to shape institutions by their work there." The Church hasn't yet found sufficient ways of ' supporting them — the Catholic politicians, the corporation executives, the teachers in public institutions, he added. "There needs to be a way these folks can have spiritual nourishment — I'm willing to look at that," he said.

The bishop thinks this could be a two-way street. "My sense is a lot could he gained by the total Church if the voices of the many could be heard," he said. An important lesson was discovering that the bishop's primary concerns are not necessarily those of the laity. "I could come in with an agenda — say, to implement the bishops' pastoral letter on peace in the nuclear age — and I'd have to back up and address what the laity wanted to talk about first," the bishop said. For many lay persons. "marriage and the family arc the heart of the matter," he said.' Once he discovered this, Bishop Hoffman said, the way to proceed often was close at hand. For example. people readily can see war and peace issues affect family life and children — since they affect the very future of the world as well as each family, he said.

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Record reporter, ROSLYN ROSS looks at the works done by the Lockridge

Easy manner wins the day in Lockridge

"What kind of nuns are they?" was the question on many lips when the Sisters of The Infant Jesus set up house in Lockridge four years ago. They were obviously the sort of nuns who did not wear a habit, the sort who would invite you in for a cup of tea as soon as look at you and the sort who would gently nudge themselves into the lives of the people around them. But their easy manner, endless cups of tea and caring conversation won the day and before long they were babysitting the children of the Mormon lady next door (who also collects their mail for them) and knocking on the neverending doors of the flats in Lockridge. The six Sisters form a close-knit group which gathers together each morning and evening for prayers while members go their separate ways during the day. The Sister in charge, Sister Gertrude, teaches at La Salle College; Sister Francis is retired; Sister Fabian works with St Vincent de Paul, Sister Agnes spends much of her time cooking and working in the house, Sister Ita also teaches and Sister Peggy is involved in marriage counselling.

The Sisters Of The Infant Jesus have a brief history in Australia, dating from the 1960's. Following 10 years in Melbourne they moved to Western A ustralia to concentrate on their apostolate to the materially poor. This congregation, which has houses all over the world, from Italy to the Cameroons and California to Peru has just one house in Australia incorporating 10 Sisters. Six of these are based at Lockridge, in Perth and the other four at Lombardine and Beagle Bay. In Australia the Order teaches in primary parish and secondary schools and in Aboriginal Missions. Members are also involved in catechetics in State Schools, caring for the needs of migrants and refugees, adult education, parish visitation and Christian Living weekends. Their apostolate, while concentrating on the "materially poor" is a varied one and a reflection of the Congregation's re-assessment of "community need" following Vatican From small beginnings in France in 1662, when the Congregation's founder, Father Barre, saw a need for schools for children of the poor, the Order has spread around the world on a Mission to witness Jesus Christ by helping others to know and love Him and by striving to alleviate injustices. The Order is little known in Australia so ROSLYN ROSS visited the Sisters Of The Infant Jesus at Lockridge and spoke to Sister Peggy Mur9hy about their work.

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There are also four Sisters working in the north-west at Beagle Bay and Lombardine who re-join the main house once a year for holidays. For Sister Peggy, the move into the Lockridge House came almost as a culture shock after 36 years working in Singapore. While there is much that she misses she is quick to point out that the time was right for her to leave and there was another job to be done. She spent many years as a teacher before training as a marriage counsellor in the new mood engendered by Vatican II 'We were originally a teaching order but after the call to look at ourselves and our work we began to see some evidence of duplication," Sister Peggy said. -The first need was for schools but now our charism is to the materially poor." It is this mission that sees the nuns in Lockridge, teaching, visiting, talking and helping. Local bakeries send excess bread to the House and this, along with other material goods, is distributed to those in need.

OINN.4 4,/ift "We are available in the parish for any needs," Sister Peggy said. "Sister Gertrude runs the choir and the youth club, some of us visit the elderly and those who can't leave home . . we are meeting different needs at a different time." Having retired from teaching some years ago, Sister Peggy now sees counselling as her second apostolate. Trained in the Philippines, she has worked in the area for the past 10 years. "We have a lots of flats and many single parents living here but really I don't think the area is worse than any other," she said. 'The media hasn't done Lockridge any good and because of that people are very quick to move on. "The population is therefore very transient, because as soon as people can move they do. "There is also a varied population mix with the primary school catering for a great variety of Asian and ethnic children. "I find it very different from Asia because the people have different philosophies, but I suppose, from a coun-

selling point of view, there are similarities between people's problems, no matter where they come from. One of the major differences is that it is much harder to get divorced in Singapore than it is here; people just can't afford it. "In Australia, the Social Security allowances mean people can decide to divorce easily.

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"In Singapore they get nothing so they are forced to stay together. "In comparison to Asia, the people here are not poor. "More than anything I think they suffer from mismanagement of money. "All too many of the homes around here will have a TV and a video, even though the people will say they have no money for food or clothes. "In Asia they would be living in a hut with very little sustenance. I suppose to me the poverty here is spiritual rather than material. 'We live in an 'instant' society. It's an age of 'hey

presto' and everything is expected to be fixed. "Too often I think people only see us in the role of service, all they want from us is material help." While the Order was originally founded to be free in the community without the r estrictions of habit or house, it has only been since Vatican II that they have been able to once again free themselves. -The habit has been discarded over the last 10 years," Sister Peggy said. "First it was the veil and then there was a white dress, but finally we thought, "Does it really matter?" "People have a rigid concept of nuns and many find it difficult to accept us without a uniform.

"We were founded as a group to minister to the needy and not founded as a group to be dressed in a uniform or with a need to take vows,- she said. "Anyway, in some Moslem countries the habit could be a n obstacle because it singled us out," she said.

V71 .30 For Sister Peggy, removing the habit was a relief She smiles at the memory of her arrival in Asia and the discomfort of a habit which reached her ankles in the sticky swelter of a Singapore day. "Not only that they were not hygenic," she said. "They were made of such heavy material that we cer-

tainly could not wash them every day. 'We feel we don't need that now I still meet a lot of nuns who wear uniforms but I don't think it should be an issue," she said For Sister Peggy, in her soft, cool floral, looking for all the world like someone's favourite aunt, the emphasis was on practicality. It's a practicality however, that leaves plenty of time for prayer The Order concentrates on being people of prayer as well as action, says Sister Peggy. • 'But we are most personcentred," she added. "There are no bells.'" "We say our office at 6.40am and have Mass at 7.00. I suppose we are up at 5.00 or 530 and have

Concluding the story of the trials and

Once the Parliamentarians were victorious, they were unceasing in their hunt for priests. One of Mary's great trials at this time was that for three months consecutively no priest came to the house. Nor could she receive letters from London or R ome. It was winter weather and two armies were encamped between York and London, but winefrid VVigmore offered to go on foot the two hundred miles to London to fetch the letters Mary was expecting from abroad. Mary seemed to know exactly how Winefrid was faring on her journey. Mary Poyntz tells us: 'When she saw me anxious about VVinefrid, she would say "Do not fear, she will come safe". At other times... "Now she is here", "Now she is there", she would exclaim. "On such a day she will be at home, in time to 'Patience, I must not have bury me", which in fact that happiness, for I know happened. well there will be no means Mary knew that she had, hereafter'. only a few days to live. On On January 23 VVinefrid December 28 she was Wigmore returned with seized with sharp pains and news from London but none deadly cold. 'This is some- from Rome. thing more than ordinary', Even twenty-four hours she said. 'I will go and offer before she died, Mary was myself to our dear Lord in characteristically exhorting the Chapel." She then went her daughters to be merry, to her bed. though they still sobbed On New Year's Day a priest round her. gave her Holy Communion 'Oh, fie, fie! What! Still look but did not think she was sad!' she said. 'Come, let us sufficiently ill for the Last rather sing and praise God Sacraments. As he went joyfully for all his infinite liwiay, Mary murmured: loving kindness!' and she

Mother Mary Ward... her life story

herself sang with them a joyful hymn

'•N‘toWl" In Mary Poyntz's long account of 'that bitter night' she tells how Mary was conscious to the end, her understanding unclouded, her memory perfect. About seven in the morning, she asked for them all to come to her. VVinefrid said, 'We are MI here'. 'I would you were all', Mary answered. She then recommended them to

cherish 'God's vocation' in them. let it be constant, efficacious and loving', she said, stressing the last word. Later she added: 'God will assist you; it is no matter the who, but the what; and when God shall enable me to be in place I will serve you.' Afterwards she embraced each one, 'then seemed to mind us no more', says Mary Poyntz, 'but with eyes and hands gave sign of sweet entire acts'. She kissed the crucifix she held, pronounced the name of Jesus three times; then, without

community of the Sisters of the Infant Jesus and the history of the order

Sisters of The Infant Jesus at Lockridge, (from left) Sisters Gertrude, Peggy, Agnes, Ita, Fabian and Francis, take time out at the end of their day to discuss their work.

time for three-quarters of an hour of private prayer. Mass is said in the lounge which is also the hub of the house. A room for all reasons. " Two women from outside join us for Mass but we are limited because of size," Sister Peggy said. "If more people wanted to join us we would go down to the Church.

The day closes in the same way with the office said at 6pm and time given over for shared prayer

M .chAdit 'PNWPWA, "We have more emphasis on personal responsibility for prayer life and spiritual reading,'" Sister Peggy said. The Sisters do their own

housework and two of them, obviously those with the most talent, take care of the cooking ' Those who can't cook help out,- Sister Peggy smiled. The evenings offer an opportunity for private time — if there are no other commitments. "Sister Gertrude is kept busy because Thursday night she has the youth

group and Wednesday night the Julian Singers," she said But there's no chance of 'all work and no play" making life at Lockridge dull

, '" eNW0411 Some of the Sisters have enrolled for night classes in Chinese cooking and cake decorating at Lockridge High and Sister Peggy has just joined a self-awareness group being run by the local Anglican Church. And after Christmas most years, it is off to the seaside

with the Sisters from the North-West and a chance for the community to gather together. Much of the work, says Sister Peggy, is involved with non-Catholics. Her time in Singapore provided good grounding where the Sisters were called upon to mix with a wide variety of religions "It gave me a much wider vision," she said, "and made me see there were so many facets to the truth." -We're very friendly with the neighbours here and often share a cup of tea. "To me this is the sort of

witnessing that works, rather than reading them a sermon in a bid to convert them" For Sister Peggy there is much work to be done in the area of marriage counselling

It's easier to see couples in Australia, she says The Asians don't like to wash their dirty linen in public and very often the men will stay away. "Communication is a vital factor with people and with God," she said "Many don't

sacrifices of the founder of Loreto Mary Ward died with her life's work shattered, knowing only failure. One of those present at her death was Frances Bedingfield, who had been p rofessed in Rome in Santa Maria Maggiore. Nearly forty years after Mary's death, Frances returned to England and founded the Bar Convent, York, a house given and endowed by Sir Thomas Gascoigne, whose family owned much of the land around Leeds. Here for nearly three hundred years Mary Ward's daugh-

sign or groan, bowed her head and died. 'Jesus' was the last word on Mary's lips as also her first as a baby, and her whole life was enclosed in this word. After a prayer of petition she would add: 'Jesus say Amen'. Of her prayer she herself notes: 'He held my heart', and her tremendous activity was only possible because of the deep reserves of her prayer -life. 'We had not what to buy for her burial, had not Winefrid brought it', says Mary Poyntz. Moreover, it was difficult for Catholics to be buried in those times. 'But', Mary Poyntz continues 'we found out a little churchyard

ters have continued her work of education. Also in Munich the work continued. Thus from the cutdown stock the tree grew again, gradually spreading over and beyond Europe. In 1703 the Rules of the Institute were approved by Clement XI. In 1877 Pius IX confirmed the Institute. Long before this, in 1821, the Irish branch took root and flourished, and later in the century the Canadian branch. Today the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary

where the Minister was honest enough to be bribed.' This was the church of Samuel Hollens at Osbaldwick. Her gravestone is to be seen there to this day, in a place of honour.

So died Mary Ward, 'that woman beyond compare', as Pius XII called her, and yet so little known, although she is possibly the most remarkable Englishwoman of the seventeenth century. Among her friends she numbered cardinals and princes as well as mystics and famous Jesuits; at one time

numbers several thousand members, divided because of the accidents o f history into three Generalates. They extend over the five continents. The Roman Generalate, o f about 3,500 has houses in Europe (mostly Germany), India (including Nepal), and South America, as well as missions in Rhodesia and Korea. One of the houses in Rhodesia is on the campus of the Jesuit college in Chishawasha where the Sisters have a hostel for girls and also

she was imprisoned, at innumerable others the welcome guest of royalty; like some great missionary (as indeed she was), she traversed thousands of miles, mostly on foot, through a Europe infested with warring armies; in days when parents spent money on the education of their sons but not on that of their daughters, Mary Ward was educating hundreds of girls to a high academic standard, with much insistence on Latin. For her remarkable educational achievements alone she should be widely known. Today her influence is to be seen, not only in the houses

teach in the college. The oldest house in England is the Bar Convent, York, f ounded in 1686. The oldest house of the whole Institute is in Augsburg, founded by Mary Poyntz in 1662. All these houses (except one in Rhodesia) are engaged in education. The Irish Generalate, of 1,500 members, runs schools and colleges in the British Isles, Spain, India, Africa, Australia, and Mauritius. In England they are responsible for

of that Institute which is proud to call her Foundress, but in all the schools, hospitals and other apostolic works run by women religious unenclosed. It was Mary Ward who fought and won, at infinite cost to herself, the battle for their freedom to act.

' , eNW411 All this she did without normally good health. Yet she was ever gay and courteous. In her writings she has much to say about both these qualities. 'Be merry and doubt not in our Master',

the Mary Ward College of Education in Nottingham, and provide schools in eight areas in England, Scotland and Wales, for e xample six schools in Manchester. The Canadian Generalate spreads over Canada and parts of the USA. The Sisters lecture in Universities, run many types of schools, and are also engaged in various other apostolic works. They end the Irish branch are known as the Loreto Sisters.

she urged. Her own courage never failed: 'It is not haling me to Rome will kill me, I warrant them'. Even on her death -bed she sang to 'praise God joyfully' and cheer her companions. She would have her daughters 'ever glad and joyful'. The word 'courtesy' occurs again and again in her exhortations: 'The Spirit of God is not ill-mannered but teaches all courteousness'. Such a combination of courtesy and imperturbable gaiety must have been irresistible Indeed, those who met her personally, whether princes or innkeepers, or even those previously prejudiced against her, became

her admirers and friends. Such was her love towards those who had wronged her that people said it was better to be her enemy than her friend. Forgiveness of enemies and devotion to the Will of God are two hall-marks of a Christian. In Mary Wards' life the Will of God was her only compass. She told her companions that they should be 'as it were shut up in it'. In short, in the words of Urban VIII himself, she was 'a woman of great prudence and of extraordinary courage and powers of mind, but, what is much more... a holy and great servant of God'.

communicate before they are married and some never do it at all -I can't judge my work in terms of success. People find it very hard to listen to what someone else is saying because all too often they are concentrating on preparing their defence. "For me the important thing is accepting people as they are, that's what Christ did. "I try to teach people that they are responsible for themselves and their life, that no-one can take away your inner happiness — yours. "Too many people." says Sister Peggy, "get married for the wrong reasons." Her counselling work takes her to Centrecare every Wednesday and she also sees clients at home. One of her recent moves was to set up a group teaching Systematic Training for Effective Parenting through t he Lockridge Primary School.

"N%toPJ, "I was originally asked by the school principal to talk to parents but I got so sick of visiting the flats and finding no-one home that I decided to start the course," she said. "It has been very successful, especially with the women. The men tend to dismiss such things but a lot of the mothers have commented on how valuable they are finding it. 'We talk about relationships and values." The topics discussed are many and varied because Sister Peggy is one person who could 'never stand just going by the book.' Although the Sisters have been in Lockridge only for f our years, already the house at 22 Arbon Way, and its always open door, has become a place of friendship for many. It is that friendship which is slowly reaching out into the community and warming the hurting hearts of many

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Being engaged today is no big deal; in fact in some situations more status is given to de-facto relationships than to a young couple who are committed to each other and preparing for marriage. This may seem to be startling to some but it is indeed true as I found out from Jacqueline Freedman who wrote to me recently. Jacqueline is a trainee teacher and engaged to be married at the end of the year to a sheet-metal worker, David. For some time now they have their name on the waiting list for a State Housing Commission Home at Mirrabooka. Their turn to buy a home came up, but they were knocked hack on two counts; firstly because David exceeded the maximum amount of debt permitted by S.H.C. policy, (he was paying more than $90 in monthly repayments) and secondly because they were not already married or living in a de-facto relationship. They were told that their application would he recon-

sidered in six months time. They quickly rectified the first disqualifying factor by selling the car and buying a cheaper one. Jacqueline is now concerned that they will have to tell a white lie to qualify for the much wanted home. Jacqueline writes; "We are extremely concerned about this issue, not merely for ourselves but for all young couples who would like to get married before living together. So often the morals of young people are questioned and criticized but as far as we are concerned this particular rule can only destroy the moral standards of all people." Jacqueline was commenting on the State Housing Commission rule which insists that a couple be married or living in a defacto relationship before

their application for the purpose of a home is considered. Jacqueline finds this puzzling because she believes that her engagement with David should merit the same status as a de-facto relationship. A man and a woman living together can purchase a State Housing Home providing they can give some proof that their relationship is of some reasonable standing and yet have no legal binding on one another. One can leave the other at will. An engaged couple are in a similar position. Jacqueline was so concerned about this issue that she has written off letters to

the Premier, to Mr Keith Wilson, to the Archbishop and to various other people within her parish and civic community. She claims that the status of engaged people is certainly not the same as that of a single person. Iagree with her andIasked a group of young people at the International youth Conference to do something about it. A few indeed began a petition and hope to make representation to their Member of Parliament. I wonder if there are other engaged couples that have met similar difficulties; if so please write and let me know.

As another year dawns, the Perth Young Christian Worker's movement can look back on a fruitful and challenging 12 months. It was a year in which young workers have again tried to bring the kingdom of God about in their own lives and the lives of those around them. Our annual Diocesan Council at the beginning of the year gave direction to the movement for the coming 12 months. At this time the experience of young people were shared, evaluated and actions planned to respond to the situations that existed. From this we have seen the consolidation and gradual growth of the movement in the Archdiocese of Perth in 1984, while continuing to learn from our efforts and decisions. A major initiative was the formation of a Workers Unemployment Response Committee (WURC), a valuable tool to reach out to the unemployed in the community and to plan responses to the problems of youth unemployment. The movement was also to send seven young people to Canberra, to participate in a national YCW unemployment congress. From the establishment of WURC, a woodwork group was recently initiated It consists of young unemployed learning woodwork. meeting other young people and building personal dignity and confidence

Socially the movement was *ip•t•••*****••••*•iii* alive and well in 1984. with • a major highlight the gala • ball in July. About 400 attended bring- • ing together old and new WV' members. Many friendships were renewed and good times • shared.

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1. Allow 50 minutes from Cardijn Centre. Clayerton Si, North Perth 2. At Midland proceed along GREAT NORTHERN H WAY 3. Turn right at Toodyay Rd and proceed approx 15 kms 4. Turn left at O'Brien Rd; also indicated by a brown 'Walyunga National Park- sign 5 Proceed along O'Brien for 15 Ions approx. Nonce another park sear, on right, find Eagle's Nest entrance 100 ronfii,s on right.

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Jokes Jokes Jokes Why are tallpeople lazy? Because they are longer in bed. * * *

BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Bianca Priest, Maddington; Paul Tierneym, Bindi Bindi; Irene Winge, Kirup; Sarajane Mudge; Bentley; Chris Northam, Bayswater; Christopher McLaughlin, Boulder; Michael Britton, Balga; Kimmaree Van Haeften, Ashfield; Julie Mofflin, Hillman; Hank Sciberras, Ashfield; Karen Jacobs, Greenwood; Kevin Kelly. South Kumminin; Darren Byrne, Gosnells; Elis.sa Jennings, Geraldton.

What goes boo boo splat? Someone crying his eyes out. * * * Why do people laugh up their sleeves? Because that's where their funny bones are. * * * What is a complete waste of time? Telling a bald man hairraising stories. * * * Son to father: "Instead of buying me a birthday present, why don't you give me something you made yourself like money?" * * *

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Tim:"I see you are working in the garden. What are you growing? Tom: "Tired." * * * Why do wine drinkers bate cold weather? Because the wine stompers wear socks when it's cold! * * * What do you call an Eskimo with ten balaclava bats on? You can call him anything because he won't hear you * * * What is an adult? A person who has stopped growing at both ends and started growing in the middle.

"I feel so useless," said Teddy, the big brown bear. "Me, too," agreed Kitty, the colorful calico cat. "I must be very ugly. Sally never holds me or plays with me." "You're not ugly at all," Teddy said, trying to cheer her up. "I think you're the prettiest of us all." "Thanks," Kitty replied The two were silent for a long time. The closet was dark and stuffy. The other dolls sat silently on the five shelves. -These are all my dolls!" Sally said loudly. She switched on the closet light. Kitty woke up with a start. "I've never seen so many dolls!" Sally's new friend said, a little enviously. "Here's my favourite," Sally said. She pulled down a big doll with long yellow hair and a deep blue dress. "Can I hold her?" Sally's friend asked. "Oh, no!" Sally replied. "She only likes me to hold her." Sally turned off the light and closed the door and it

was dark again inside. you can give up one." heard laughter and carols Sally finally agreed. She "Did you hear that, Teddy?" She began to get nervous. looked from one doll to Kitty asked. "I knew she Then she felt eager hands didn't like me. What good another. "Here's one I can tearing off the ribbon and give away," Sally told her pulling the box open. am I if I can't make some mother as she pulled the "Oh Mummy! Look at the boy or girl happy?" The calico cat from the shelf calico cat began to cry. beautiful cat! I love it!" The "Goodbye, Teddy!" Kitty girl held Kitty very close to "Don't cry," Teddy said softly. "Someday you will cried "Goodbye Kitty!" ansher. She danced around the make somebody very happy. wered the big bear. room. "I've never had such You're special." Sally and her mother a pretty doll!" Kitty and Teddy sat on the wrapped Kitty up in a box Kitty felt warm and happy shelf for a long time. The with a big red ribbon, as inside. "Teddy was right. days got shorter and cold Kitty wondered what her This girl likes me. Now at drafts whistled through the new home would be like. last I can make someone On Christmas Eve Kitty closet. happy" "Soon it will be Christmas." Kitty said sadly. "'Then there will be more dolls filling the closet. And I'll be forgotten Please print clean' and don't Membership sill alio% ou to forever." forget sour date of birth and a enter all our competitions. No, you won't," Teddy stamp so ‘ie can send ”it.ir %ell. %hat are ni ‘Naiting membership form to sou. for? reassured her. Just then the light snapped on again. Sally and her mother came in. "The church has asked for a doll for a child who has Name almost none. Why don't you give one of yours?" her A ddress mother asked "No," Sally objected. P code 'These are mine." "But you have so many," Age Birthdate her mother insisted "Surely -4

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BeHoc: man of many parts Hilaire Belloc, by A.N. Wilson, published by Nelson, $ 2 9 . 9 5 . Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. As one who had heard of Hilaire Belloc but had read nothing of the man, nor anything written by the man, this biography by A.N. Wilson was an absorbing surprise. Belloc is fascinating, not just for his genius, but for his 19th century Catholicism . . . a faith that demanded allegiance to the "Church" and all that it represented and obedience to its rules; with few questions asked and no thought of a "personal relationship" with God which is so much a part of faith today.

What the Gospel means today Seasons of Hope

Seasons of Hope, Christian Faith and Social Issues, by Tony Kelly, published by Dove Communications, $ 7-95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. There is something \ for everyone in

Belloc lived from 1870 to 1953 and was feted in his time as a "near genius." His genius today is chiefly appreciated

through his comic verses for children; but he wrote over 150 titles on such varied subjects as theology and economics,

this stimulating collection of essays, all marked by a depth of thought and gentle reasonableness that can only appeal. Tony Kelly lectures in theology at Yarra Theological Union, Box Hill, Victoria. He is a member of the Redemptorist Congregation and was ordained in 1963. Obviously a competent and prolific writer, he is currently working on four books in Systematic Theology, dealing with the Trinity, Grace, Christology and Eschatology. In this collection of essays he covers a

wide variety of subjects in an attempt to decipher what the Gospel means for us in Australia today. In the preface he says he would like to present the series of essays as a kind of Christian "freethinking," and that is certainly how it reads. His sensitive handling of divisive issues like feminism could be copied by many. His approach is always fresh and smacks of simple sincerity. He sees our challenge as the re-shaping whole Christian vision in a way that will be credible and responsible in the particular society which is ours. The "lengths of God," he says, have a strange way of taking us further than we would go. Jesus still lives in solidarity with all amongst us who are poor, estranged, forgotten, oppressed, handicapped. Our heads have to catch up with what our hearts have long known: our faith has to break out into new dimensions of social love.

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as well as serious verse, biographies, novels and satires. Nor was he just a man of letters. He was, by turns, a super-tramp, a Member of Parliament, a religious apologist, a war correspondent and a social prophet. It is interesting that such a complex man should have such a simple approach to his faith, but for Belloc being a Catholic was not a state of mind, it was a state of being. The same man who could adorn his home with pious objects and attend mass regularly could take a cavalier almost uncaring attitude to the conversion to Catholicism of friends and family. His behaviour ranged from the gentlest concern for others to glaring insensitivity. He was a peculiar combination of charm and belligerence. He enjoyed making friends, but he also enjoyed making enemies. In this biography we see Belloc clearly, as a man both more mellow and more tragic than his popular stereotype, who had to live half his life with an irredeemable grief and an embittering sense of failure. Born in France, he was destined to marry an American and become one of the greatest of English eccentrics. Wilson tells his story with sensitivity and humour; from his birth to an English feminist mother and the sickly scion of a famous French painter's family; his early friendships with such eminent Victorians as Cardinal Manning and Benjamin Jowett; his courtship of Elodie Hogan, the Californian girl with whom he fell in Love when he was nineteen, crossing the United States on foot to ask her hand in marriage; his service in the French artillery; his brilliant success as an Oxford Union debater to his early interests in politics and jour-

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A.N.WIISON nalism. This is an excellent biography and the people who pass through its pages are often as interesting and arresting as the redoubtable Belloc. Not only that, his life provides a focus for commentary, not merely on the "Brideshead Revisited" world of English High Life and Catholicism between the wars, but also on the wider and darker themes of European political history; the crisis of capitalism the rise of the Fascists; and the Jewish holocaust. Looking back on the life of Belloc we can see him as the genius he was, but never did this genius flower in quite the way it had promised in his early years. . . for it was a genius and a greatness wholly at variance with the world.

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however it faith, appeared to others, was the rock upon which he built. He was of his very essence a Catholic man who lived upon wine (it was only in the few years before his death that he thought to cut his nightly bottle of wine to a mere half). His ancient prejudices remained with him throughout his life and he could never come to terms with any Belloc

joining a religious order, despite the fact that his beloved grand-daughter Marianne Jebb became a nun and a younger grandchild, Anthony Jebb, became a monk. In so many ways he was a man of his time and by the year of his death, that time had well past. The world had become a smaller place and somehow, without the likes of Belloc, a less tantalising one.

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Catcraft, by Pamela Peake, published by William Collins, $16.95. This book is full of original ideas and designs for all those who like needlecraft and making beautiful toys and especially for those who are cat lovers. There are cats of all kinds and sizes from playful kittens to cuddly tigers, knitted mittens, patchwork quilts, cushions and covers, applique and tapestry, embroidery and crochet. The book provides clear step-by-step instructions, pattern graphs and helpful diagrams. Pamela Peake was born in New Zealand and trained as a zoologist at Victoria University and Glasgow University. She has published several best-selling books on toymaking; Creative Soft Toy Making; How to Make Dinosaurs and Dragons and The Complete Book of Soft Dolls, as well as writing numerous articles for magazines and journals. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout Britain and abroad. Pamela Peake now lives in Kent with her family, where she is a tutor at various local Adult Education Colleges. She also regularly demonstrates and lectures on toymaking for several organisations.

Malcolm Muggeridge. brought down to see Belloc in extreme old age thought him "not a serene man. Although he has written about religion all his life, there seemed to be very little in him." This would certainly be true if by religion is meant pious conversation, or an overt discussion of spirituality. . . spirituality was not a word Belloc would have been familiar with. It was contrary to his nature to be slushily pious, but there was unquestionable growth in his holiness . . . night by night, morning by morning, he staggered in and out of the chapel. His

A story of friendship The Summer of the by Barshinskeys, Diane Pearson, published by MacMillan. R eviewed by Roslyn Ross. When the Barshinskeys walk into the small, sleepy Kentish village and into the lives of the Willoughbys, things are never to be the same again. The first 'summer' of the Barshinskeys marked the beginning of a story that takes the reader from the golden summer of an Eng-

lish countryside at the turn of the century to the dark uncertainties of a Russia in revolution. For Sophie Willoughby, daughter of a Kentish cowman, the first sight of the exotic Barshinskeys was to conjure up images of dreams and far places. With her sister Lillian and brother Edwin she becomes involved with the Barshinskey children, Ivan, Galina and Daisy May . . it is a friendship that will traverse the years and the continent. Diana Pearson paints her

people sparingly in a style which reflects clarity and economy. While this makes her story easily read, it fails to fully develop the potential of such an exciting and colourful family as the Barshinskeys. . . part Russian, party gypsy, part Quaker. The lives of the children become irrevocably intertwined because of that first summer. In the years to come they will wander across a continent at war, in search for each other and for themselves, destined finally

to return to the sleepy fields of Kent. Diane Pearson was born in Surrey and passed much of her life in a country village. It shows in her sensitive handling of the Willoughbys and their village life. She began writing in her teens but it was not until 1967 that her first book The Marigold Field was published. Sarah Whitman followed in 1971 and in 1975 her bestseller Csardas appeared. She now lives in South London with her actor husband and three cats.

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New Servite provincial The Semite community has elected Father Christopher Ross as vicar provincial for Australia, to succeed Father Liam Mackle. Father Ross who came to Australia from Chicago in 1964 was vicar provincial for all but two and a half years until his recent six year appointment to the c ongregation's general council in Rome. He is episcopal vicar for religious in Perth archdiocese. Father Mackie, elected first councillor for the Australian Servites, will live at St Denis' Joondanna and will concentrate on youth work in the Joondanna Tuart Hill area. The second councillor is Brother David Claxton of

Fr. Christopher Ross

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NEAPTIDE proved his country form good in Ow city with a fighting win at Ascot on Saturday. This promising galloper has now won three of his five starts and should win more races for owner, exbookmaker Roy Halliday. Follow Neaptide in the future. SEND OUT looks anothe winner for the powerful Hickling-Hannah combination judging on her fast finishing second to Neaptide over 1200m Saturday. Send Out should continue to improve as the distances increase and play a strong hand in the distance races for 3 yo. fillies in the future. MANTA BOY put up a creditable performance when just beaten by WYNTON LAD in Saturday's welter. After not racing for 21 days, over the 1500m Manta Boy's condition just gave in. Next start it might not.

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the Servite Student community at Parkville, Victoria. A t St Denis' church Father Frank Christie is priest in charge in succession to Father Carlo Marchetti who will reside at Wanneroo and be part time chaplain and member of the religious education team at Servite College. Originally from Dublin, was Christi Father ordained in 1956 and spent 13 years in Zulu land before transferring to the United States where he graduated in psychological counselling. The appointments were made at the three-year chapter held last week at Tuart Hill and attended by the California provincial superior Father Bruce Klikunas whose area includes Australia and Father Nicholas Norusis of Denver. World wide the Servite order is embarking on a study to re-structure the internal life and apostolic ministries of the order in order to achieve growth in community life and apostolic effectiveness. The Tuart Hill chapter prayed specially for former Wanneroo confrere Father Jenco of whom nothing has been heard since his kidnapping in Beirut early in January.

Fr. Peter O'Reilly

Irish priest to take over Father Thomas McNulty of Dundalk, Ireland has been appointed Norbertine prior in WA in succession to Father Peter O'Reilly who has held the position since the Norbertine Fathers came to WA 25 years ago. His appointment is for six years. Father McNulty will also be parish priest of Queens Park in succession to Father William Fitzgerald who will take charge of York parish with responsibility also for Quairading and Cunderdin. Father Stephen Cooney of York will become subprior of the community at Queens Park. Appointments were made at a regional chapter held last week at Queens Park under Abbot Kevin Smith

of Kilnacrott Abbey Ireland from which the Western Australian foundation was made. Father O'Reilly and Father Cooney along with Father Reynolds made up the pioneer group of three who came to WA in 1959. There are now seven priests attached to the WA

priory. Officially called Canons Regular of Premontre but popularly called Norbertines after their founder St Norbert, the Western Australian group took over York parish and set up their first priory at Kerry Downs farm there, later establish-

Fr. Marchetti

Fr. William Fitzgerald ing a priory with the foundation of St Norbert's C ollege and eventually of charge assuming Queens Park parish. They also have charge of Maddington parish. Father McNulty has been prior of Kilnacrott Abbey for the past five years and before that he was parish priest of Kilmarnock, Scotland's oldest parish, for seven years.

WHAT'S ON RETREAT WEEKEND A retreat weekend on Prayer As a Listening Experience will take place at the Reclemptorist Retreat House February 14 to 17. The cost of the retreat is $36. Applications should be made to Sister Joan Smith 7/126 Edward Street, Osborne Park 6017 Phone 444 0630. SPEAR WOOD MOVING The Spearwood presbytery at 8 Edeline Street has been sold and Father Whitely is now living at Unit 8, 16 Edeline Street. The parish phone number 418 1229 remains unchanged. LEEDERVILLE CWL The Catholic Womens' League, Leederville will meet at St Mary's parish centre. Leederville on Monday, February imp at '1.30 pm. ‘

MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly cenacle of the Marian Movement of Priests Lay Associates will be held on Friday. February 15 at the Little Sisters of Carmel, 2 Fraser Street, Swanboume beginning at 10.30 am. Further information from Yolanda Nardizzi 447 8885 or Bob Wrights 447 6223 LAITY TRAINING The 1985 Maranatha training program in pastoral care begins Tuesday, March 5 at 9.30 am at 52 Ruislip St, Leederville. Classes are held Tuesday and Fridays from March-November. A diploma in pastoral ministry is awarded on the completion of the study program plus 12 months supervised field work. You are invited to make further enquiries by contacting: Sister Mary Berry RSM. (Tel 444 5750) or Sister Assumpta SJA. (Tel 293 2646)

The Maranatha Institute, (under the sponsorship of the WA Major Supervisor's Conference and with diocesan approval), trains people to become parish assistants. JULIAN OF NORWICH Encounter on 6WF Sunday February 11 at 8.00 am features one of the best known, best loved of the early English mystics the Lady Julian of Norwich (c.1342 — after 1416). Her book "Revelations of Divine Love" tells of the mystical visions she had during an illness from which she nearly died. Lady Julian was an anchoress, a sort of hermit. and lived during the closing years of the Middle Ages. VACANCY FOR YCW Young Christian Workers' requires a fulltime worker to begin work in June, 1985 The successful applicant will need to have a knowledge and understanding of Cardijn's teachings. Interested persons please reply in writing by February 22 to YCW, PO Box 194, North Perth. 6006.