Archbishop Foley is making good progress after his heart operation for the insertion of three by-passes last Friday. He was released from intensive care on Monday afternoon and with normal post-operative treatment it is expected that he will leave hospital in a week or so. This will be followed by a six-week period of PERTH, WA: 7 — 13 March, 1985
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PERTH TO GET A BIO ETHICS 4.! CENTRE Greater co-operation with the laity will feature in future decisions of the priests' council. See story and picture page 2.
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Aboriginal land rights legislation is a symbolic solution, and must take into account political realities, says visiting Jesuit. Story and pictures page 3. A Perth medical-missionary team in Pakistan is heaped with honours . . . and continues its work with people going for new terms. Stones and pictures, pages 4 and 4.
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Problems of teenage drinking and drunkenness have shocked many parents and at last the community is beginning to sit up and take notice. From Brisbane we have an in-depth summary of suggestions from Catholic high school principals on some possible solutions. See page 11
A new bio-ethics centre is to be named in honour of Archbishop Goody and its director for the next four years is to be Father William Uren SJ. The L.J. Goody Bio-Ethics Centre will have secretarial and resource rooms provided by the St John of God Hospital, Subiaco.
The major part of its funding will come from private donors providing $25,000 along with $7000 from the archdiocese of Perth, for the initial year's operation. Bishop Healy made the announcement on Tuesday at the opening of the seminar conducted by the Catholic Health Care Association. He said it was largely due to the support of Archbishop Foley, Archbishop Goody, after whom recovering in hospital, the centre the new centre is named. has been established. Noting the new centre would concentrate on bio-ethical problems coming up in the committee which meets St Thomas More College for local situation, Bishop the past eight years, six of monthly. Healy invited inter- them as rector. For the past 18 months it has been studying questions Thirty-one years a Jesuit ested people to suggest to Father Uren and ordained priest in 1968 of in-vitro fertilisation and a he has made a specialty of submission to be made matters he could study shortly to the WA governstudying the relationship of when he leaves in two law to morality, taking an ment enquiry on the subject. months time to honours degree in philoBut Father Uren believes a become a visiting scho- sophy at Melbourne Univer- centre is needed for Catholin ics and concerned Chrisa degree lar at the Kennedy sity, iurispridence at Sydney Unitians to get an informed and Institute of Bio-Ethics versity and from 1973-75 he authoritative opinion enaat Georgetown Uni- studied at Oxford for the bling them to make their At St John of God Hospital this week Bishop Healy and Sister Deidre Brady director of the hospital and versity, Washington Master of Letters. delivering point of view heard in the wider community. his thesis in 1980. secretary of the bio-ethics committee discuss the new bio-ethics centre with its director Father Bill Uren DC. Father Uren already heads Father Uren, originally
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A new co-operation links laity, p ries ts OAc lLocif Co-operation between the priests and the laity will be a priority for the new council of priests which met last Thursday.
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ROME (NC) — Harsh government policies have pushed Romania's small Jesuit community to near-extinction, Jesuit publication. The society's bleak assessment of its chances for survival in the communist nation — which it said were "extremely m eagre" — came even after recent improvements in Romanian-Vatican relations, which included the nomination of a Romanian archbishop. Romania's post-World War ll policy of prohibiting religious communities has left only eight Jesuits in the country. Only one Jesuit priest, who is more than 70 years old, is allowed to engage in pastoral work, the article said. "The Religious are not permitted to live in community, and for several decades now it has been forbidden to receive new c andidates for the society." " All of (the orders's) apostolic work is destroyed."
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Father Pat Ahern (right) is the new chairman of the Council of Priests. He is pictured with other executive members: (from right) Fathers Gerard Holohan (vice chairman) and executive members Father Christopher Ross OSM and Pat Cunningham. Father Brian O'Loughlin (left) is non-voting secretary of the council of two years. Daniel Foley,Joseph Sobb Si, Bryan Rosling. The archbishop has appointed the following to the council: Fathers Simon Carson, Michael Casey, John Orzanski, Placid Spearrit OSB.
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Aboriginal land rights had to be seen within the existing political realities but were still a symbolic solution to give a minority group what they needed, Mr Frank Brennan SJ told a public meeting in Perth last week. 'With all the wrangling going on, we may well have forfeited the one symbolic solution left to us in order to get some national consensus on this issue in four or five states," he told a gathering of 250 people in Mercedes College hall.
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Care for the aged must come from the heart — not from the Government said Mother MarieAntoinette De La Trinite — Mother General of the order of The Little Sisters of the Poor, during her recent visit to WA. "Conditions associated with aged care subsidies tend to weaken rather than by GEOFF SMITH strengthen our financial capacity to man- factors and supporters age our Homes," she and Divine Providence our Homes for the said. "Were it not for the Aged would not exist. "Society the world over generosity of our bene-
appears to be developing the leave-it-to-the-Government attitude and is perhaps more selfish than in the past. "Thankfully, there are still a great number of generous warm-hearted people. "Our Homes for the Aged at Glendalough and Kalgoorlie are testimony a lot of those people are in Western Australia. "It has been extensively enlarged and upgraded since my first visit. However much much more needs to be done. "I see the upgrading of the single women's and the married couples' hostels as protects of urgency. "We would love to be able to do much more for the Aborigines in Kalgoorlie.
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On the other hand land rights legislation had to be within a realistic political spectnim. The political processes were not open to Aborigines because they did not have the 5 1 per cent score needed for political success. Earlier in his talk, Mr Brennan dealt with aspects of WA and Commonwealth Icpsiation and summed up his impression. "On the Federal government's preferred position, the Aborigines have a choice between 15 birds in the hand and 16 in the hush." But the 16 in the bush can only be given if you have 15 in the hand from the state. "The Federal Government will then top it off, and you will get the extra one," he said.
DOD He described the land rights legislation as a cake which may receive some icing from the Federal Governrnent. "We have to ensure it makes it possible for some Aborigines who stand to gain from it, to get on with their life. "There is only one cake Aborigines will need support to see their interests are protected because the cake proposed will simply deliver the leftovers — large leftovers though they may be." Earlier Mr Brennan noted the present land rights legislation did not give to Aborigines land which other people owned. Much of it was marginal and economically impossible. The larger tracts of government land would have to he acquired by a claim, he said Later in reply to a question he said Aborigines could not be told to go home because this is their home.
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Rehce ord There is nothing like winning an argument two hours after the event when the brain has had time to think up the perfect reply that a situation demanded. It is the dilemma that particularly faces members of an organised religion, such as Catholicism, who are likely to be challenged at the most unsuitable time on a matter of doctrine or morals about which they know nothing or regret their failing memory. As long as there is an adversary the questions need an answer and from the moment that Protestantism became the enemy which simply would not go away, Catholic manuals of theology and books of instruction became consumed with the task of meeting every possible attack from the opposition. Answering adversaries questions and arguing with their moral stands became a polished art in the early half of this century. Groups like the Catholic Evidence Guild in London's Hyde Park Corner took positive delight in taking on all comers, and never mind the abuse. Bookshelves groaned with explanations of the Catholic faith, typified by the printed radio replies of the Perth-born Sacred Heart Missionary Father R umble and the re-discovered art recently published by Brisbane's Father Bill O'Shea from his newspaper replies to questions. Simply reading the books or listening to the persuasive rhetoric of the apologetic spruiker got the adrenalin running. There wasn't an opponent who would not wilt under the refutation, that is until it was tried in real life. Leading Catholic Evidence Guild speaker, the Australian theologian Frank Sheed, told how in his latter years the technique of answering objections and explaining positions lost favour even at Spruikers' Corner. A new wave of listeners simply wanted to hear about a faith of which they knew nothing. But there would be very few such listeners bothered to make the effort to find out. With the heat of the argument gone, interest vanished. Amen! might say the late 20th century Defenders of the Faith who rightly say the living of Christian f aith is the first priority and the forthright proclamation of the scriptures the second weapon with which to go out on the mission to the world. The hunger of so many people for any sort of faith, especially in the so-called electronic churches, may well prove that they are right but it is a dangerously exposed flank that believes all is well if the spiritual heart is in the right place. The world of reality does not do us the favour of asking the spiritual questions to which we have the ready answers. Instead, the day to day warts of the Church, or its apparent obstinacy in the face of what is the popular craze are served up as some sort of evidence that the walls of belief are tumbling. Thus although the local journalists do us the favour of not publishing the names of hundreds of drunk drivers who are suspended daily in our courts, an unfortunate American Archbishop's tipsy driving became a world wide news event, including his rather well-received apology to his diocesan council. How do you defend, let alone belong to a Church that harbours a .008 archbishop amongst its 700 million adherents, mused the media. What the Church is discovering is that the refined and carefully worded statements that sit on library shelves are no match for the day to day interest that sparkles from realities ranging from human embryos to land rights to the Church's view of entertainers who are shrewd enough to tap the public's desire to pay for crude entertainment. In the pew the confused Catholic or Christian who thought the answers were so easy until the trickle of problems becomes an avalanche cries out for the Church to 'say something'. Bishops could get physical and spiritual laryngytis if they spoke on every issue on which their opinion is sought. Talking to the modem world requires not only faith and courage. It requires homework to analyse the issue, and professionalism in presenting the truth with which the Church is entrusted. The Church should be proud that there are anonymous donors who want the Church to have such a professional and forthright voice in the very critical and complicated field of medicine and the preservation of life. The already unnoticed work of very busy and highly qualified members of the Catholic Bio-Ethics Committee and now the establishment of a staffed Bio-Ethics Centre is a pledge that the Church intends to be a voice for Christian faith.
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Tanzania in path of drought
Pakistani authorities impressed with way Perth Staff at Bethania hospital in SialPakistan kot, p aid tribute to E ast Fremantle doctor, Michael Hagan when he f inished his three year term a s a lay missionary there r ecently.
Two Western Australian missionaries in Tanzania, Brother Bert McGregor and Tony Connolly have reported on their work to the Catholic Mission's office in Perth. They said: "We are watching the effects of the drought slowly move down Africa. We seem to be surrounded at the moment, with drought in Ethiopia, K enya, Sudan, A ngola, Zaire and M ozambique. "The north of our Tanzania was hit about January. "I am pleased the world has finally reacted, but overall, the death toll is thousands every day. "Most of the kids around Kasita and our area are suffering from the effects of malnutrition but this has been the case since we arrived here. "There have been quite a f ew deaths through the lack of immunity malnutrition causes.
1 = "We think we might just be able to scrape through without mass starvation., "The rains have arrived, even if a month late and all seem to have finished their planting of maize, our main food. "With luck and continual rains I think our area will be relatively safe from the worst effects of the current disaster." the Perth missionaries reported. One of the most depressing things seemed to be the permanent damage many of the children suffered through constant malnutrition. "They are tiny, lacking physical and mental development," Brother McGre-
Dr Michael Hagan pictured at work in the Bethania Hospital, Pakistan where he has just concluded three years with the St John of God Sisters mission team
In an address, staff member Javed Ifran said: "Three years ago God gave us a brother, a friend and a lover of humanity. "He started serving us a nd our people in Bethania Hospital, walking on the footsteps of his only master, Jesus the Christ. He got his inspiration and strength by kneeling down in prayer before Jesus. He believes we should do everything whatever in our power for the patients
Importance in our aid to "If people asked me what was the most important thing I took to Pakistan, I would say it is my faith," said Western Australian nursing sister, June Hughes as she prepared for her second year with the St John of God mission team at Sialkot, Pakistan. "You have to be adaptable and accepting of what's happening around you and have maturity and above all a sense of humour," says the triple certificated nurse who was nursing in South Hedland when her thoughts turned towards working on a mission assignment. At the suggestion of the former Perth Mission Office director, Father Pat Ahern who made the initial contact that brought the St John of God Sisters to Pakistanjune
Nursing in Pakistan is a family affair and all ages pitch in with the bedside duties.
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Hughes is on a two year contract as a lay missionary nurse. Other Australians who have been in the mission team include East Fremantle doctor, Michael Hagan, completing three years, nurse Karen Smith now a St John of God novice, nursing sister Catherine Leslie of South Australia and several WA medical students on final year vacation assignments. Sister June Hughes is quick to explain what the experiences has meant to her personal development. "Every day I am there, I think about why I am in Pakistan. I am evaluating my role there. "I have learned to depend on God and those people who are close to God. "I have come to the conclusion people are the most important commodity on this earth. In Pakistan we can be aware of this because we do not have the distraction of TV, radio, or going out to dinner. "All we have is ourselves." she said. Little things have made her ask if the western world from which she hails does not need a mission too. The churches she attends are packed on Sunday and when she was absent from daily Mass, the Pakistanis wanted to know where she was.
Sister Grace Natalotto of Perth (left) is the latest to join the St John of God mission to Pakistan. She travelled with Sister June Hughes (right) who started her second year. "Where in an Australian hospital do you pray with Moslem relatives around the bedside. Just having time to spend with people is the lesson we can learn." She says her experience with Pakistani families and their attitude to death has put her in touch with her own mortality. "If we tell the relatives we have done all we can for a very sick patient, they will take that patient home to die with their people. "They are very willing to pray with the people who are sick. I have prayed with many Muslims at the bedside and it has been a beautiful experience for me." But there were shocks for the Australians nurse and the Australian woman. The Pakistani nurse functions in a different system where the family relatives look after the patient, cook the food. massage the patient, change the sheets, even lie on the bed with the
sick person. What the Sisters of St John of God and June Hughes are trying to do is convince the local nurses there is more to the profession than merely actministring injections, even simply telling the patient what treatment they are going to administer. In addition to monthly meetings the nurses are introduced to a program based on Christian ideas to develop their self esteem. In a country where there is a waiting list to become a nurse, Australians have to change any ideas they are going there to nurse patients. "In one way we check charts and see directions are being carried out. "But there is a lot to be done in educating the nurses in building up their self-esteem as women — and feeling better in themselves "Our task is to help their hands do the job better.
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Doctor receives a big honour "Believing healing is in t he hand of God. Hagan's life has been an example for all of us, because, by his w ork he always wanted to glorify God and never himself. We can say with certainty he was a living Sacrament of Christ here in our hospital. "Of course, every work is vocation if we do it properly and for the betterment of others. This is precisely what felt, Hagan Dr believed and lived 'Yes Lord I am here to serve you and your people.' -Being a foreigner, Dr
Hagan has served us as if he was one of us. He faced many difficulties with a smiling face, that is why it would be injustice, if we do not appreciate what he has done for us and f or the better name of our hospital.
"Above all we shoud appreciate what he has been doing for us, he is a man of God, man of prayer and man of faith. "That is what we should learn from his life as a doctor, if we want to appreicate him and his work. I
assure you, Dr Hagan although you are leaving us, your memories will last in our hearts, and the days you have spent with us wi l l be remembered forever and ever. "We salute you our friend and brother for what you have been to all of us.
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But she admits she owes a lot to the prayers and she encouragement received from the South Hedland parish where she was a parish councillor and from the East Fremantle parish where her family has lived 30 years. The parish farewelled her so enthusiastically last year. It has also raised money to help her work in Pakistan.
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Three of the dedicated Pakistani nurses from the Bethania Hospital with one of the young patients from the tuberculosis ward. working among poor people, wearing local clothes and — out of respect — abiding by annoying local customs, changed her perspective. Back in Australia for five weeks she said: "I am shocked by how much we have got here in Australia, and how much we take it for granted."
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"If I could get in there and nurse it would be much easier, but I may have to spend a half-hour getting a nurse to do something I could do in five minutes." But June Hughes found an even bigger culture shock in the attitude to women. "Ikit my role as a women and my independece being cut off. "It hurts to see the women of Pakistan not being proud of the fact they are women." She puts this down not to the Koran which preaches equality of women but to the way Islam applies the doctrine in real life. "I'm projecting my own feeings because the village women are probably very haPPy. "If you asked them this sort of question, they probably
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from ROGER RYAN, North Double view SIR! The Record (February 21) advertised at a public meeting last Friday night was for Mr Frank Brennan S.J. to comment on moral issues in the W.A. Aboriginal land rights legislation. At the meeting I was given permission to put the following motion. "We here at tonight's public meeting to discuss moral issues in the W.A legislation pray The Holy Spirit will give us wisdom, so that, the rights and r esponsibilities of all Australians will be pursued in such a manner, that, Land Rights for the Aboriginal Community will be beneficial to Aboriginals, while not adversely effecting the rights of other Australians" After reading the motion, I explained all Australians had a right to peace, justice and human dignity, and indeed every person in the world has those rights. In an audience of priests, nuns, lay people and a number of Aboriginal people I was amazed, but not discouraged, that not one person indicated agreement with the motion. With no seconder to the motion. I could not put the two following questions to all present Do they consider we need to pray to the Holy Spirit for wisdom, to help us make the right decisions and take the right action in respect to land rights for Aboriginals.? Do they consider land rights for Aboriginal communities can be given without due regard for the rights of other Australians, whose rights could be adversely effected? God's command to each one of us is: "To love one another as I have loved you." The practical Christian answer to that command is simply: if your brother is hungry give him food, if your brother is naked clothe him, if your brother (aboriginal or white) is denied his God given right to human dignity, then take action to give him those rights and justice in all his spiritual and temporal needs, without resorting to violence in any form. I am in favour of land rights for Aboriginals providing those rights don't adversely effect the rights of other Australians. Surely a round table conference of government. Aboriginal, mining executives and Church representatives could come to an agreement to allow all parties in this issue to give equality, practicable and aspiring to consensus.
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My prayer is the Holy Spirit will give wisdom to our parliamentarians, — who after all are the only persons who can enact, repeal or alter laws — to pass a Bill reflecting the views of the majority of Western Australians and get our people to live in harmony.
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Liberal policies and the Gospel from Eamon D. Murray, Padbury. Sir, Barry Payne's (The R ecord, February 21 to 27) extolling the possible and actual upward mobility of Catholics to the highest echelons of the Liberal Party prompts me to question the propriety of Catholics associating with Liberalism as a philosophy and as a political movement. Firstly, Liberalism was not the champion of "freedom of religion" but arose historically with the rather different shibboleth "freedom from r eligion" as its catchcry. Not a very good start
having atheism as a pedigree. Secondly, Liberalism preaches the philosophy of individualism which, in practice, involves the glorification of the profit motive and materialistic self-aggrandisement. It is based on "self" rather than "others" and if others do benefit from the practice of Liberalism it is only incidental and a byproduct of the original motive which is selfcentred. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus t eaches that for the action to be pure the motive must be also. Liberalism stresses get-
ting rather than giving, power rather than service
The present Land Rights controversy shows up Liberalism clearly for what it stands. The priority it gives to mining c ompanies' profits and political "oneupmanship" rather than justice for an exploited and marginalised group in Australian society reflects, for me, quite clearly the gulf which exists between Liberalism and Gospel values.
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ROME (NC) — There were wide gaps of belief between Christains and non-Christians, but dialogue would help to close the gaps, according to Francis A rchbishop Annie, pro-president of the Vatican Secretariat f or Non-Christians. "Christians and nonChristians should continue initiatives to share r eligious experiences and to work together" for justice, racial harmony and nation-building. "When this happens in sincerity, trust and r espect are gradually built-up and the climate is better prepared for direct discussion of mutual religious beliefs and practices," the archbishop said. T he archbishop cited practical ways to dialogue increase between Christians and non-Christians. "Seminaries should give the subject a good place in their curriculum," Archbishop Annie said. Christians everywhere had to pay special attention to the non-Christian religions in their midst, he said. Those who opposed dialogue, or regarded it as unnecessary "are to be helped to come out of their entrenched position," he added.
'Trendy' label Briefs: fl cause for some dismay from BERNADETTE KENNEDY, Bindoon SIR: Father Leummen's dismissal (The Record February 28) of land rights as the province of trendies is a cause for disappointment and dismay. O ver recent years. Church documents have made it abundantly clear that we are to respect the culture of indigenous peoples. How can we respect Aboriginal culture if we refuse to acknowledge the centrality tof land in this culture and the consequent need for land if the spiritual, economic and social a spirations of many Aboriginal people are
to be met? As recently as October 1984 and last week Pope John Paul II's addresses to groups of indigenous peoples have clearly supported their right to a land based process of self determination. Are we to conclude from this the pope is a trendy? And what if Record sales do decline? Thank God the editor is still courageous enough to print the "hard sayings" as well as the "cosier" aspects of life for a Christian in twentieth century Western Australia.
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TORONTO (NC): Cardinal Carter of Toronto backed a pro-life organisation's call for mass picketing in a campaign to close down the clinic of Dr Henry Mogenthaler, a controversial abortionist. 'This is a strategically important time to let officials know there is support for applying the law to prevent abortion on demand," the cardinal said in a newsletter. "The closing of the clinic is a necessary first step," he said. Morgenthaler is an outspoken advocate of liberalising Canada's abortion laws. He has been acquitted in recent court cases on charges of operating illegal abortion clinics. He reopened his Toronto clinic after being acquitted in his most recent trial last December. Pro-life supporters condemned a speech by Dr Henry Morgenthaler in which he described God as "the greatest abortionist" because, in the doctor's interpretation, 80 per cent of pregnancies end in miscarriages. Pro-life activists described the speech as "blasphemy" and "kindergarten-style." E EC
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CHICAGO (NC): A religious music publisher involved in a legal battle with the Archdiocese of Chicago since 1976 is not entitled to $3 million in losses and damages awarded it last April, a federal appeals court ruled. The court FEL Publications Ltd is entitled only to $190,400 for admitted violations of its copyrights by parishes in the Chicago Archdiocese and not $2 million in actual damages and Si million in punitive damages for illegal interference in the firm's business, by the late Cardinal Cody. Cardinal Cody ordered all parishes to impound FEL hymnals and cease singing its songs after FEL claimed copyright damages from the diocese.
from BARBARA MEAD of the Brisbane Leader who telephoned Durban
People promoting justice and peace in South Africa could expect to face intimidation and persecution but coloured and white people and rallying to their Church leaders, according to Archbishop Denis Hurley, of Durban. "I suppose there will be quite a vac of intimidation against Church workers now — but this is not new," he told me. Charges against the Archbishop under South Africa's Police Act had been dropped only a few days earlier at an aborted trial.
From his Durban home, Archbishop Hurley told me he was "at once relieved and regretful" the trial had not continued. "There were things I would have liked to have brought out in the open court and I regret this did not happen. "But the fact I was accused, charged, taken to court gives great confidence and encouragement to thousands of South Africans," he said. The charges related to statements Archbishop Hurley made at a media conference concerning
Holiday for pope? VATICAN CITY (NC) . Pope John Paul II, in a joking remark during an audience with Rome parish priests, said he would like a year off for s tudy and meditation after one of the priests proposed the possibility of a year's sabbatical f or Roman pastors. The pope told the 400 p riests: "The parish a lways remains the atmosphere, the community in which the
nV1LNIUS (Lithuania) Soviet authorities have sentenced a Lithuanian priest to three years in prison. Father Jonas-Kastytis Matulionis is the third Lithuanian Catholic priest arrested since 1 983. Although the specific charges are unknown Father Matulionis has in the past received warnings from Soviet authorities for functioning as "a false priest without r egistration papers." Soviet authorities have refused to recognise him as assistant pastor at a church in Kybartai, Lithuania. because he was ordained at an underground seminary. Father Matulionis was detained five times in January 1983 for trying to attend the trial of Father Alfonsas Svarinskas, who was sentenced to seven years in a prison camp and three years of exile for alleged unconstitutional activities. E
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L_IManila says the Philippine government seems to have adopted a policy of "deliberate cruelty and senseless violence" against anti-government protestors. He said he was outraged "the police and the military seem to have lost their sense of balance." Soldiers and police recently used water cannons and clubs and had arrested protest leaders in an attempt to stifle the people's right to dissent, the cardinal said in a speech to businessmen. 'The police and military establishment seem to have hit the panic button and overreacted to manifestations of the people's right to protest," the cardinal said. "I am alarmed," he said. 'The leftists are becoming stronger because of the abuses of those who are in power." E
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Christian life of each Christian is formed and developed." The pope, who frequently visits parishes in Rome on Sundays to c elebrate Mass and meet with various groups, spoke off-thecuff about the inequality of staffing from one parish to another. He said there needed to be more equitable distribution of personnel in the vicariate.
Keep faith links
CITY VATICAN (NC) — Lay people urged to practice their faith in the secular world in a 40-page document issued by the Vatican in preparation for the 1986 world Synod of Bishops which will study the "Vocation and Mission of the Laity in the Church and in the World 20 Years After the Second Vatican Council." The document says many lay people can be "so influenced by secularisation as to refuse, or at least compromise, that fundamental and unrenounceahle link with the faith." It stresses the need for laity to bring their faith to the secular society, particular through "work itself, education, the family, politics, the economy, culture and mass media." It also warns of the "persistent danger of a scientific and technical development" insufficiently rooted in ethics and religion.
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atrocities by South African forces operating in Namibia. Other Church workers, he told me, have been harassed and persecuted — and he expects further persecutions. incident involving me personally. Some years ago my home was bombed. One just goes on living in an atmosphere of confidence and peace," he said. Archbishop Hurley said many people were rallying to the Church in its stand on justice and peace. "Certainly I received enormous support from people here and from overseas — including Australia," he said. Bishop Bill Brennan, of Wawa, vice-president of the Australian Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, flew to South Africa, at the request of Australia's Catholic bishops, to attend the trial. Archbishop Hurley said his Church is working on strong past oral and ecumenical programs to "bring our people together in prayer and apostolic and social commitment."
LIE [I] Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and first black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, told me the dropping of the charges against Archbishop Hurley was "a tremendous victory for Archbishop Hurley personally and for the Catholic Church and, through it, for all other Christian Churches." "The Archbishop was given a standing ovation when he entered his Cathedral to say Mass shortly before the trial. -What he has done has served to rally the Church around its leaders. More — many people are saying the Government doesn't want to take him on because they are frightened about what might come out. "It is an important moral victory that has moved the people of the Church to be more vociferous, more categorical in its witness," he said. "Through such witness as his the Church is saying: We are there — we are sharing in your distress and anguish. "There are 16 people now facing treason charges and this is an awful thing. To be charged with treason in South Africa is like being charged with murder anywhere else — and not being told whom you are accused of killing," he said.
"Their families are suffering — the Church is helping them but there is very little yet we can do for the accused — we do not even know the details of the charges. "You think something like this cannot happen — but it does. The problem for the Government is they have started from an impossible position. And when that happens you get driven from one position to another. "They promise and talk about reform, but they keep on dropping bricks on toes — including their own. It can be very painful," he said. Archbishop Hurley was not particularly concerned about his own safety — "this is not the first
More consensus needed — cardinal ROME — Ecumenical dialogue should define religious differences, and not ignore them in an attempt to reach consensus, Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, head of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, said. He said it was not Churches enough "not to agree might deny the truth the magisterium or the tradition of another teaches, church although abstaining from a positive acceptance or affirmation, leaving the growth of a consensus to the future." "The Catholic faith must be explained with more depth and more exactness," he said, quot-
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Teacher falls to death
VATICAN CITY: A 29-yearold schoolteacher was the latest to choose St Peter's to throw herself to death. In order to reach the point just above the main door where she fell 45m (150ft) to the pavement below she would have had to climb over a 1.8 metre stone balustrade. The huge basilica with its terrace and walkways around the inside and outside of the dome has been the site of many suicides and fatal accidents. Last year a woman jumped to her death from the same terrace and landed in the
ROME (NC) — The missionary C hurch's future was threatened by M arxism, a growing number of religious sects a nd the "moral decadence" of Europe according to Cardinal Konig of Vienna. The first threat to all religions today, Cardinal K onig said, comes from "Marxism under the form of state atheism." He said this kind of Marxism "promotes mistrust of religion in general, and Christianity in particular, principally in Africa, Asia and India." - A new combative element exists in many Marxist states which have t aken direct action a gainst religion, rather than waiting for its slow death, as predicted by Marxist theory," said the c ardinal who has been a k ey figure in the Church's dialogue with communists. He also identified the sects which "blend elements of Christian religion" with a mixture of ideas •
Vatican garden behind the Basilica. Earlier, during the papacy of Pope Paul VI, a young child fell to his death from a walkway around the outside of the dome when he slipped through a safety railing. Following his death, more railings were added and restrictions on children visiting the walkways were tightened. Several years ago, a suicide occurred inside the church, when a man jumped to his death from the walkway around the dome inside the basilica, dying within St Peter's.
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ing from the Vatican II decree on ecumenism. He said clearly defining differences was the "courageous" part of dialogue, and leads to discovery of "the most difficult problems." In reviewing Catholic relations with various churches, Cardinal Willebrands described how ecumenical dialogue led to important joint declarations and to uncovering new problems. He said, the recent ordination of women priests by Anglican churches is a "serious obstacle" to unity. But he added the decision should not be con"a sidered total impediment leading to break in our dialogue." Cardinal Willebrands said: also that relations with Eastern churches had progressed far enough possible forms of reunification should be discussed.
A 1984 conference in Crete focused on the common sacraments of initiation, but was a "serious caution for dialogue" because different practices in the churches prevented agreement, he said.
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"The practice of c ontemplative prayer is especially valuable for advancing harmony and peace in the world. For this prayer rises, b y divine grace, where there is total disarmament of the heart, and unfolds in an experience of love which is the moving force of peace. Contemplation fosters a vision of the human family as united and interdependent in the mystery of God's love for all people." (From the U.S. bishops' 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace). "Far from being a flight from the world, true solitude sends us into the world with a new vision, new motivation, new dynamism, to be Christ's leaven in the world and to incarnate his love in our time, in our place."(Passion1st Father Richard A nthony Cashen writing in the 1984 book Getting It All Together, The Heritage of Thomas Merton. Michael Glazier Inc.). "In order to become truly human you have to live from the heart. We are all concerned with one goal in the spiritual life; to find the heart and to live from the heart." ( Benedictine Brother David Steindl-Rast writing in Getting It All Together, The Heritage of Thomas Merton. Michael Glazier Inc.). "Spiritual life and d evelopment (requires) us to honour and observe a Sabbath rhythm in our life and ministry. The notion of resting in God is embedded in every great religious tradition and clearly in the Christian way." (Dolores L eckey, in a 1983 address). Getting It All Together, The Heritage of Thomas Merton is a book on some main themes in the thinking of one of the bestknown writers on spirituality in this century. A major interest of Father Merton was the quest for silence, solitude. But he didn't see this only as a value for contemplative monks like himself. "Thomas Merton was one of the pioneer contemplatives of our time. He discovered for himself that contemplation has two aspects; that contemplation is not only being up on the mountain, but it is also concerned with bringing the vision of the Presence of God down into daily life," says Benedictine Brother David Steindl-Rast, one writer in this book. 8
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God often speaks in the silence
The sun will soon rest on the horizon. The flood tide of a day's activities is ebbing. A calm enfolds the abbey. The monks silently gather. A young monk reads a few lines from the sayings of the desert fathers:
" Theophilus of holy memory, bishop of A lexandria, journeyed to Scete, and the brethren coming together said to Abbot P ombo: Say a word or two to the bishop, that his soul may be edified in this place. The elder r eplied: If he is not edified by my silence, there is no hope he will be edified by my words." Now the monks file into the church. A hell rings and the ancient service of Compline proceeds. Finally. the lights fade. Two solitary candles shadow the folds of her mantle and caress the stmxith cheeks of the medieval Madonna. The final strokes of the evening Angelus lose themselves in the surrounding hills. Night has come. Creation has given up its activities. It is time for the monk who has entered into
God's established rhythm to be quiet and rest. I cannot say how many times I have been asked: Do you still take a vow of silence? Actually, Trappist monks never took a vow of silence. But we do have rules or agreements on silence in the monastery — valued by a group of persons living together and still seeking the context in which to he at one with themselves and to commune with God. God does indeed speak to
The young woman had spent years mastering the law, months preparing for the bar exam. Now, successful in her pursuit of legal knowledge, she had accepted a position in a thriving law firm in a large city. She lived in a small apartment in the central city because, as she told her family and friends, she wanted to be close to the endless excitement, the colour and the non-stop movement so readily available there. The young lawyer plunged eagerly into her new 'life. As she had promised herself, she took full advantage of the culture, flavour and life of the
city. She tried to squeeze as much as she could out of her professional life and her world outside the office. But after the first few months she knew something had gone wrong in her well-laid plans. And it wasn't her new job responsibilities that worried her.
No, her job wasn't the problem. It was t he hectic, frantic pace, so attractive in the beginning, that now seemed to be suffocating the young woman. And it was the constant noise of
By Father Basil Pennington OCSO
f us through all the events of life, through all the persons we encounter. God is in the mighty wind, the earthquake, the fire — in all. But God's voice is subtle, even though it thunders louder than all the voices of creation. Two could sit in the warm morning sun, listening to the bright morning calls of chickadees, robins and finches. One might hear the city, so unlike the pastoral quiet of her college campus. It didn't take the lawyer long to realise what to do. She began to look for ways to unclutter her life, to simplify and to turn down the noise. Think for a moment about the young lawyer's predicament. Is there a big human need for some quiet time? Is time for reflection of great value for growth? Let's assume that you answered yes to both questions — as did the lawyer. Do you think her problem was then solved? Or was it just recognised? Have you ever felt the need to
only the rich melodies, while the other, who had perhaps sat that morning in the quiet and attuned his inner ear to the divine voice, hears a message of ineffable love: "Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?" ( Matthew 6,26). In the quiet, whether we listen to the creation around us, the city's noises, the words of revelation or the deepest stirrings of our hearts, we begin to perceive a voice too often lost in the static of life. In the quiet spaces, the monk hears God. He also hears someone else. He simplify, to reduce the noise in your life? The difficult part, the lawyer discovered, is finding the elusive way to carve out a portion of each day for a quiet moment. In our day-to-day world, there are children to raise, bosses to please, creditors to pay, noise to tolerate. Whether we live on a farm or in a city, finding time to collect thoughts and call upon inner strengths can be frustrating. Think again about the young lawyer. How could she turn down the noise level in her life? If it's a concern in your life, how could you?
hears himself — his true self Happiness consists in knowing what you want, then knowing you have it or are on the way to getting it. We have to know ourselves to know what we want. Ultimately, it is when we see ourselves reflected back in God's all-loving eyes that we truly know ourselves with our infinite potential for beauty, for life, for truth, for love. In the quiet we come to know ourselves and what we truly want. In the monastery there are silent times: The "great silence" of the night, times of prayer, study, reading. rest. And there are silent places; the cloisters, reading rooms, cell. If you want the ralue of this in your life you will need to find or create places of quiet, to agree on times of quiet. It might be a quiet time in the morning until breakfast, an hour or two in the evening or a few hours on Sunday afternoon when each is left free to read, pray. reflect, write. This is not impossible with children. They can be put to quiet games. And for teenagers. a structure to discover the sounds of silence can be a gift that is perhaps at first not welcomed, hut for which, as for dry wine, a taste develops. The individuality of all children should, of course, he respected. If they cannot enter into the quiet, they should be asked at least to respect the needs of others. Role modelling by parents in t his regard is very important.
David suffered for his sin
One evening King David decided to take a stroll on the roof of his palace and enjoy the cool breeze. The events that took place after that stroll constitute one of the Bible's great stories of sin and conversion. From the roof, David happened to see a beautiful neighbour. C onsumed with desire, he sent for her. 'When she came to him, he had relations with her" (2 Samuel 11,4). Some time later, the woman, whose name was Bathsheba, sent word to David that she was pregnant. This presented a dilemma. For her husband was away, fighting in David's army. It would eventually become obvious that Bathsheba had been unfaithful during his absence. David dispatched a message to his general mandating a furlough for the husband, Uriah, who could stay with Bathsheba while home. Her condition then would not need explanation.
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However, David did not reckon with Uriah's character. Uriah refused to enjoy the comforts of home while his friends were fighting and dying. He insisted on camping at the palace gate with the officers stationed there. David was cornered. He decided on a desperate plan. ITriah was sent hack to the battlefield with a message instructing his commander to put him in the front line where he almost certainly would be killed. And he was. The king now had compounded adultery with murder, but had saved face One man was not fooled by these manoeuvers. That was thc prophet Nathan. He came to David with a little parable. It concerned a man who had only one little lamb, a cherished pct. His rich neighbour had "herds in great numbers." One day the rich man had a visitor and, instead of slaughtering one of his lambs for dinner. "he took the poor man's ewe lamb and made a meal of it." On hearing that, David shouted, "The man who has done this deserves death!" Nathan responded: "You are
the man!" He went on to predict dire punishments for the king. "Then David said to Nathan, 'I have sinned against the Lord.'" Nathan answered: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin; you shall not die" (2 Samuel 12:13). David suffered for his sin.
But he had the strength of character to acknowledge his sinfulness and God responded with forgiveness.
This story is dramatic. But David's need of conversion was not unique. Conversion is necessary for all people in maintaining a right relationship with God
By Father John Castelot
Now the monks file into the church. A bell rings and the ancient service of Compline proceeds. Finally the lights fade. The final strokes of the evening Angelus lose themselves in the surrounding hills. Night has come. It is time for the monk who has entered into God's established rhythm to be quiet and rest.
Work can often be a prayer A police chaplain who worked in a parish and moonlighted as a hospital chaplain told me once that his busy schedule actually helped him keep in touch with God. He explained that his work was his prayer because he brought his mind and hands to the task, but looked to his heart for the reasons.
Last year Idid a lot of travel. I found myself waiting on platforms on some terrific summer evenings. I would think about my day in terms of how well I had related to others and whether I had done anything to build up God's kingdom. On a lot of those days I found myself promising to do better with the next sunrise. In the winter on a bus I wondered if I had done anything. During the day
that had meaning for my fellow passengers. Each person lives 10,080 minutes a week. No more, no less. While most of us tend to be relatively careful money managers, we are probably less careful of time, even though minutes are finite. Once they're spent they cannot be recaptured. That's why I find it important to develop a plan for "spending" time and to
consider ways of "investing" it.
Like many heart-attack patients, I teas put on a regimen of daily ualks. ur4S told, uith the doctor's index finger utagging at my nose, -Now, don't forget, every single day for at least a half-hour Knouing the alternative,I follourd the cardiologist's orders. For the last year I hair spent a half-hour each day on a quiet Ica& along the' trails, through the grasslands and Over the bills whereIlove gbat began as medical necessity has become personal luxury. That peaceful half hour has become a
Is God found only in silence? Must sacred places be silent places.' Are people who Inc with noisefarfrom God? Can the young mother clinging to sunital and sanity just as her screaming children cling to her be religious in the best sense?Ithink so. The story of creation describes bow God brought and its sounds into a silent
mid From the very beginning o,f Jewish history we bear Over and OM" of the practice of making a joyful noise to the Lord. The mother with a screaming childpracticing acrobatics on her knees can well be in touch with the sacred But some relative quiet is certainly a human need We have created a urrrid of Medlar:kW noises louder
and more insistent than we can bear. We hair dereloped the means to amplify sourul to a level we cannot stand. Researchers say the assault is getting to us. Becoming free of those sounds, emit a little while each day, can he restoring. And that human restoration, which makes use of silence, can be Ivry religious.
Is it possible to find time for reflection and prayer in a fast -paced, action life? What chance is there for those of us living in a world of work? Each day we are hit with a barrage of words, pictures, distractions, demands. A way is needed to penetrate that activity to find our inner core — the spirit that makes
Quiet pace is valuable
us unique and that moves us to act.
To do that, it's important to break with some demands of the moment. The first step is planning. Consider leaving a little early for work Drive to your destination without playing the car radio. Park the car and give yourself a few minutes to think, to pray. Are there a few minutes before or after lunch? What about the end of the day, while others rush home? Could this be a time to linger a few minutes in thought? Using such times for prayerful reflection can be habitforming. Once a habit develops it is easier to find time for it. The key to capturing time is an ability to focus. The blaring radios, the hustle of activity all around need to be put aside. Focus on what you are about and where you are realy going. Ask yourself those questions regularly; the answers may begin to surprise you.
By Bob Dylak Find wan to save time, ways that remind you to pray. Just setting the breakfast table before going to bed at night can yield an extra free minute in the morning. different out Check methods of prayer until you find one that appeals to you and helps you develop a perspective. That prayer style is probably right for You. The key is to make the time Then attempt to move closer to God, or pet-ham just allow God to move closer to you
By Father David O 'Rourke treasured time out. It is my time to tune in to the quieter paceInow tvalue so much. Realistic-ally, there is no way I hair time for that walk. A half-hour after all becomes a lot of time out of a busy schedule. Ihave to tisrrk and my work is time-consuming. So I learned to make the time. Time has been only half the problem. Finding relatarty quiet places has been equally difficult. We live in buildings run by machines for our work. are transportedby machines and use machines to prepare our food. They're all great and have freed US from lives of drudgery. But these machines create a constant din — from the hum of the refrigerator or computer to the clatter of trucks and buses. For health. sanity and simple well-being we need a break from it. We need some time away from the amplified and echoed sounds of machineaided living. In my case, the regional parks provide respite from traffic and din. To my surprise. I found many others out on the park trails. Mothers with .youngsters in strollers; senior citizens in jogging suits; office workers on their lunch break. Some move leisurely others go along at a good clip. But all seem to relish the softer sounds of thepark trail
A young critic obviously doesn't appreciate the loud sounds of the tuba during an outdoor US. Air Force band concert in Wethersfield, England Is God only found in silence? The story of creation describes how God brought life and its sounds into a silent void: From the very beginning of Jewish history we hear over and over of the practice of making a joyful noise to the Lord The Record, 7 — 13 March, 1985 9
Challenges in her new school role Leonie Reid, newly appointed to the Catholic Education Commission as a parent representative, is looking forward to the challenge. As a trained English teacher she has both a professional and parental interest in the direction of education. Her decision to apply for a position with the commission arose through involvement with her local parish and school and the thought that she 'might be able to offer something.' The mother of four, Nicola, 18, Gavin, 11, Andrew, 9, and Stephanie, 8, Leonie a nd her husband Pat, a teacher at Servite College, live at Attadale and are members of the St Joseph Pignatelli parish. Born in Perth, Leonie attended Sacred Heart School at Highgate and later Our Lady's College (now Mercedes) in Victoria Square. She trained as a secondary school teacher but a few years out of university was on her way overseas. A proposed around-theworld tour got no further than London where she met and married her husband. After a few years in England the family moved to Perth in 1971. The first year back in Perth saw Leonie working in a bid to get the family properly settled. It was after this that the three younger children were born.
liturgy of word at their own level,- she said. "We have lots of singing and we have found it is a great thing for getting other parents involved. Many of them say no at first but we have found that when we show them how to do it, they love it.Having taught in state schools Leonie said she felt that Catholic schools offered a greater element of compassion and caring. .1 have seen how they cope with children who could be termed 'troublemakers' and would love to think if one of our kids were in that position, they would be treated with such care. -Our daughter Stephanie suffers from epilepsy and although she has since had to transfer to a state school, she started at a Catholic
Her concern for parental involvement in the process of education was heightened by the fact that both she and her husband had been very busy during many of the education years of their first child. "I always felt that she had missed out and and that we had too,- Leonie said. "VVith the other children it became important to me to be involved and as time went on both Pat and I felt we wanted to give back to the school, something of what we had gotten out of It.'' The greatest satisfaction, says Leonie, comes from being involved in both parish and school. For four years she and her husband have co-ordinated a children's liturgy group in the parish and have attempted to keep it linked with the school. "We take them out for the first part of the mass and take them through the
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Recordreporter ROSLYNROSS talks to Leonie Reid, a new appointee to the Catholic Education Commission, and the challenges she faces in the transition from school teaching to education administration. Next week the two part series continues with an interview with Teri Conway.
school and they were wonderful with her. She was accepted for what she was and I think acceptance is the big thing" As to her role on the commission Leonie says she will be feeling her way. "I'm not too sure exactly what is involved yet,- she said
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Mrs Reid with her husband and their children Andrew, 9, Stephanie, 8, and Gavin 11.
She believes that religious education should not Just be a 'subject,' but rather part of the overall atmosphere and tone of Catholic schools "It is important to keep that pastoral care and concern and not to lose it in the chase for academic achievement,she said ' There are far more child ren who will never be great academics or great sports-
men either and we have to take them into account" She believes while it is important to maintain academic standards it should not be the main function of the school " There is so much that schools can do to broaden horizons,- she added It is important, she says, for faith to be kept as a constant thread and for it to have relevance, both in the school and at home -It is because of this I feel it is very important for the family to be involved in the school and for the school to be seen as part of the wider faith community," she said "I have found that peer group pressure is tremendous and it is important to maintain family strength to give them something to hold on to"
Long hours of study paid off for farmer's son Being a farmer's son possibly pre-disposed Grey Roughan towards a career in the great outdoors, but up to the time he got his Leaving Certificate he had no firm idea about what profession he should pursue.
Keen on the great outdoors Grey Edward Roughan was born at Williams on December 2, 1943, went to the Chittering Bullsbrook and Bindoon primary schools and had five years at St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia. T hrough correspondence study while working in the field as an pupil, he articled obtained his land surveyor's licence in 1969. He worked for Russel Taylor to whom he had been articled, studied photogrametry at Champagne-Urbana University in southern Illinois, was employed on property boundary surreys by a Chicago-based company, spent part of 1970-71 travelling through US, Canada, Mexico, Britain and Europe and returned to WA to join Associated Surveys (Aust) Pty Ltd of which he is now a director.
Cousin Michael McMullen was a surveyor and it was in that sphere that an opportunity cropped up for Grey to get a temporary job. He soon found the liked surveying and the open-air existence, so he thought it would be a good idea to become qualified.
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His duties cover fields such as hydrographic surveying for the oil industry and harbour developments, engineering surveys for development projects, photogrametry and land surveying. His three years on the Holy Rosary parish council at Redlands included a 12-month stint as chairman. He is chairman of the Loreto Redlands school advisory board and of the Ned lands -Claremont branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross. His wife Muriel (nee Grant) chairs the Redlands branch of the Majellans. Grey and Muriel have a daughter and three sons — Emma (11), Luke (9), Gordon (7) and Stuart (3). The first three are pupils of Loreto, Redlands.
Easier said than done, he was shortly to discover. There followed years of study by lamplight under canvas after a hard day's work in a series of bush camps while his tented colleagues slept the sleep of the just. It was a Perth Technical College correspondence course with examinations set by the Lind Surveyors' Licensing Board. At length he jumped the final hurdle and got his licence to practise in 1969. But Grey enjoyed the life, the people he met in the course of his work and the work itself.
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barged their way through the scrub in four-wheel drive vehicles, they had to carry all water, fuel, spare parts and food they needed. They also had to know exactly where they were, but that is part of the surveyor's science.
It was in the period preceding the mining boom when great areas of new farming land were being opened-up and there was a pioneering spirit prevalent among those engaged in the task. Their bailiwick on this and other projects stretched from Esperance to Port Hedland, so they saw a lot of the state. Grey and his team-mates
It was before the era of the successful portable refrigerator, so luxuries such as cold tinnies were missing from the bill-of -fare. Occasionally they shot kangaroo for fresh meat. They would camp just where they had finished the day's work and press on by the dawn's early light next day on the same line. It was an open-air life with lots of exercise to keep them
physically fit, but there were difficulties to contend with — among them the weather.
1 1 El El One summer, north-east of Port Hedland, Grey and his mates were working on the edge of the desert. For 30 days the temperature, even at night, dropped very little below 1 00degF. Then on other occasions at the opposite end of the elemental spectrum they would be bogged in heavy rain for days at a time. Now, Grey says, vehicles are more reliable, refrigerators and small gas stoves are more portable and affordable and the technology of surveying using electronic distance measuring equip-
Catholic school prinicpals were among those who said that drinking among high school students in Sydney had reached "alarming proportions. . . "Brisbane Catholic Leader staff writer REX SCAMBARY looked at the situation in Brisbane. He found similar concerns — but also valuable guidance from principals that will help parents.
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A counter to teen drunks Alcohol abuse by secondary school students, the subject of a public statement by a group of 14 Sydney school principals, also continues to be a major concern in many other states.
The statement by the Sydney group, which included four Catholic schools, expressed "grave concern over the increased use and abuse of alcohol by secondary school children" and indicated the problem was being largely ignored by many parents and the staff of liquor sales outlets. Brisbane secondary school principals and representatives or organisations, involved in education programs directed against drug and alcohol abuse, voiced similar opinions. Their consensus view was excessive drinking by under-age teenagers is a continuing problem in many Queensland schools and children from all major socio-economic groups are involved. Brother Vincent Connors, principal of St Joseph's College, Nudgee, in Brisbane, said it was difficult to make blanket statements about the abuse of alcohol by school children, because the problem tended to rain across 26 kilometres of fluctuate from year to ocean. year in both its nature S witching nearer to home, Grey says serving on and dimension.
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work to the The partners brought in radio positioning equipment a nd other apparatus for surveying the sea bottom. It was all done from the surface by the utilisation of sensitive gear. 'That project," Grey says, "helped us to develop technologies we have exported to other parts of the world.
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ment instead of a chain along the ground has made the job much faster. Instead of having to live rough in bush camps, reasonable overnight accommodation is near at hand in many areas — particularly in Pilbara mining towns. Modern equipment has expedited work such as processing of data from the field to produce maps and plans, the computation of volumes for open-pit mines and roadworks, and drafting now done by automation. In fact, the sophistication of apparatus is advancing so
rapidly that it is difficult to keep up with. Grey was Associated Surveys project manager for the survey requirements for the engineering investigation of the seabed for the construction of the pipeline from the Rankin field on the NorthWest Shelf.
For Associated Surveys, which entered into a joint venture with a Dutch company for the job, it was a case of learn as you go
-We have set up another company, Qubit Pty Ltd, in Britain and it operates in the North Sea and other portions of the globe. It sells our techniques and has further developed them. Packaged computer systems for off -shore surveying and navigation are examples of this. Among Qubit's clients is the Royal Navy. "Our work on the NorthWest Shelf has positioned us well to gain work for other oil companies on the Australian coast." More recently Grey has been marketing his company's services in Malaysia, where it is now engaged on a big mapping project for 400 kilometres of railway line. Other areas of marketing activity include Bahrain, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore. It is working on the construction of a causeway from Saudi Arabia to Bah-
the parish council and school board at Nedlands has been an enjoyable experience in getting to know people. It has been a pleasure to work with Father Justin Bianchini and Sister Margaret Finlay of Loreto Nedlands. The year 1984 has been interesting at Loreto Nedlands because the school was about to build a special education unit to accommodate initially eight handicapped children and a teacher in a bid to bring Catholic education to youngsters who had been denied it.
Of the Nedlands-Claremont branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross which he heads, he says. "at the branch level we are identifying needs in the community in areas where we can help, for instance in raising funds for seminarians and a new telephone system for Pregnancy Help. "At the state level, we are trying to get underway a training scheme for unemployed youth to help them gain full-time employment." he said.
about their age. case where a 14-year-old "I don't suggest this applies had been served. generally. hut there have "It might be difficult to tell been examples that have the age of a mature-looking where notice my to come 16-year -old, but I don't the people knew or should believe a person couldn't have known that the child distinguish a 14 -year-old was under 18." he said. from a youth of 18," he said "We can't always blame the Brother Christopher said publican. of course. because of the problems, stemone there are cases where young ming from our affluent scoidenfalse use people will iety, was that students had tities to deceive people ample money to buy alcohol. about their ages." and they were very vulnerBrother Connors said Nudto the mass media able gee College had a policy of advertising of alcohol. keeping students informed He said special educational about the dangers of alcohol programs directed against the of part as a natural the use of alcohol were However, the problem was educational process at the probably not as effective as always present to some college more indirect approaches, It was an integral part of degree in any large seconparticularly anything that a number of courses, particdary school. could build up the quality It manifested itself in the ularly Religious Education. of family life. school, but it was really part physical education and "Anything the school can science. of a wider social problem. do to increase the child's "Australian society, in parsense of belonging and selfticular, has developed an worth is useful," he said. aura around the use of alco"Anything the Church can hol, and children will be do in the parish to encourwhat to attracted naturally The college had also age and support people in they see as something that invited experts on drugs and family life will also have a appears to be socially accepalcohol to speak to the boys. valuable flow-on effect." table and desirable," he said. "The thing I feel most Mr Peter Johnson, presiAlcohol abuse rarely took strongly about is we cannot dent of the Queensland place on school premises, very well be critical of our division of the Australian but outside of the school, young people. when they are Crime Prevention Council, where the children were simply following the lead which has been conducting very much the responsibility given by their elders," he courses for Years 10 to 12 of their parents. said. students in Brisbane ind In the majority of cases, the "The members of the older neighbouring areas to alert children drank without the generation have brought them to the dangers of knowledge of their parents, this problem on themselves drinking and driving, said hut there were also numerand their children. and the alcohol abuse was largely a ous cases where: responsibility lies squarely problem of parents treating • the parents condoned with them." children as adults. what was happening; they Brother Christopher Wade, One of the most common knew about it but felt powprincipal of Marist Brothers comments made by students erless to do anything to stop College, Ashgmve, Brisbane, who had attended the it. said that there was little courses was their view older • the parents suspected doubt that there were children were too set in what was happening, but unscrupulous people in the their ways to benefit. and the to want didn't just they liquor trade who were suppeducation programs should know about it; they were lying liquor to under-age be directed at primary dimly aware but they said, students with impunity school children. "No, it just couldn't be my There would he few school This also has been the viewson or daughter." principals who would not he of the organisers of Drug Brother Connors said assoable to name two or three Arm, the educational prociated with the consumphotels or clubs in their gram of the Drug Awareness tion of alcohol, was the neighbourhoods where and Relief Movement. a readiness of some licensees under-age people could buy community service section and their staffs. to supply liquor. of the Queensland Temperalcohol to young people He said he knew of one ance League. without much concern
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Members of the Catholic Bio-Ethics Committee are: Fr William Uren Si (chairman); Sister Deidre Brady SSJ (secretary); Fr Sean Bredin, regional superior Order of St Camillus; Mr Robert French, barrister; Mrs Margaret Hubery, director of nursing, Royal Perth Hospital; Mons. Michael Keating, vicar general; Mrs Pat Lee, worker with mentally handicapped; Sr Mauthe moment at which the reen McCarthy, Catholic gametes become a human Care for Intellectually HanTrevor Mr person and the human soul dicapped; is infused as a problem that Nicholls, cardio-thoracic has concerned theologians surgeon; Dr Michael Quinsince the beginning of the lan, physician, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital; Mr Bert Christian era. "It needs to be asked if the Streppel, computer consultreatment of an embryo is tant; Professor Kevin the sort of treatment a com- Turner, immunologist, Prinmitted Christian would cess Margaret Hospital; Dr believe to which a fellow Paul Vella, director of medmember of the human race ical services, St John of God is entitled.- tic said.
LandRights From page 3 "Sure there were wrongs committed 200 years ago, but we arc not here to turn back the clock. "All we can do is to seek justice here and now," he said Where there were conflicting interests, they had to be w eighed-up and where there had been labour and capital investment in land. compensation was central to the moral argument. In reply to another questioner he said land rights could not deliver the goods in terms of the needs of
fringe dwellers. "We have got to get past the mentality that setting up a law will transform the lives of those most dispossessed. He said the fringe dwellers were part of a group who lost not only their land but also their culture, and found themselves on the edges of two communities_ They should be given help to make the necessary transition to the modern life, but also to retain whatever traditional base they needed. "The days when governments have got all the answers have gone," Mr Brennan said.
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Opening a great success was The opening of appointment Eagle's Nest was a that only two dioceroaring success. The san and two religious searing temperatures priests were present. did not dissuade the My hope is that it several hundred par- doesn't reflect the attitude ents and young peo- priests' ple (by far in the towards young peomajority) to make the ple. Rather than reflecting a 50 minute journey to G idgegannup. Per- lack of interest, I suspect haps my greatest dis- there was a baptism sche-
As the summer holidays become a dim memory, thousands of young Australians are either looking for a job or thinking seriously about their future working lives. M ost schools even employ a career guidance officer to assist students in choosing their future path in life. But are we orientated too much towards and not c areers enough towards vocations? The worst kind of unemployment is not to be without a job, but to be without a real sense of vocation. Do our schools today promote career and job conscience people but with little meaning in their working lives? If so, it's an echo of the age-old fallacy of separating Sunday worship from Monday's work. It's the failure that our God is a God who calls on Sunday as well as Monday. Many people are realising this truth and accepting the fact that God does His work through the worldly vocation of a parent, public servant, teacher, nurse, garbage man, or entertainer. Holiness is and can be found in the messiness and humdrum of daily living. Not long ago Martin Luther King Ill told a group of council workers in Washington that if his father were alive today he would tell them that their work is a path to God; "If it falls to your lot to be a street cleaner sweep streets as M ichael Angelo carved marble. Sweep streets as Shakespeare wrote plays. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven will say, 'Here lies a great street cleaner who did his job well." British mystery story writer Dorothy Sayers
wrote of a carpenter's vocation, "The very first demand that his religion makes upon is that he should make good tables. Attend church by all means . . . but what use is all of that if in the very centre of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry?" Peter Shaffer, author of a play about Mozart said this about the composer's vocation; "Wolfgang Amadeus was fitted for one supreme existence to be the magic flute at the lips of God." Just as important is the vocation of a busy mother of five, who says; "Most of the time my vocation is lived outside of the doors of the parish church — in my family, my neighbourhood, my part-time job. My world consists of births and deaths, deadlines and anniversaries, children seeking praise or a neighbour needing a listening ear." She added; "I'm not churchy, very although my faith is the keystone of my life. With five children growing up my vocation is titled, 'Mum." Whatever career guidance officers may be telling our young people at school the members of the Young Christian Workers movement are constantly reminding each other that a sense of a vocation from God is very important for a meaningful life. Each of us wherever we are — behind a desk, in front of the stove, on the sports field, in the factory or reading at Mass — has a personal call from our God. Young people can help each other to discover their call at the weekly YCW meeting. Ring 328 9667 for the nearest group to you.
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The extreme temperatures discouraged many older people, priest and lay that would have gladly come. It was delighted to see so many young people attend the opening. Thanks go to Bruno La Castro and Carlo Ciffolilli who spent several wee-
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theory and anxiety, that it Is easy for humans to think of themselves as different — and superior — to the rest of creation. In fact, we differ from other mammals only in consciousness, and it is easy for adults to give children the impression that "animals" are less sensitive, less caring, and more nonchalant in the treatment of their young than "civilised" human beings. But animals do "care" about the welfare of their young. even though this care may be instinctive. And the attitudes of most human
parents to their new-horn bay are largely instinctive, whatever the cultural or sociological fashion. This books shows the lengths to which animals will go to ensure the survival of their kind. They may shed millions of eggs into water of which perhaps two will survive. They may lay their eggs on a food supply so that the newly hatched larvae are supplied with nourishment. They may construct a nest in which their eggs are incubated and in which the young creatures are cared for until ready to leave. Or
they may give birth to a single, live youngster which is carefully nurtured. By shedding light on some of the fascinating and corn• plex ways in which parental care is exercised, whether before or after birth, this book, with its stunning pictures and informative text,' should increase children's respect for animals. The superb photographs from Oxford Scientific Films, and the simple, informative text, will awaken children's interest and increase respect for animals
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The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, The Pool of Fire, The Thipods Thilogy, by John Cbristoper, published by Puffin, $3-50 each. John Christopher's Guardian Award-winning science fiction trilogy is now published for the first time in Puffin. To escape the control of the alien machines, the • Tripods, Will Parker begins his journey, with two companions, to the refuge of the White Mountains. A masterful build-up of the adventure continues in The City of Gold and Lead, where Will must penetrate one of the Tripods' cities — and escape — and reaches its
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climax in The Pool of Fire. Ages 11+.
Hundreds and Hundreds, edited by Peter Dickinson, published by Puffin, S350. Taking the theme 'One Hundred', a variety of wellknown British authors and illustrators bring us an anthology of stories, cartoons, jokes and poems to delight children. A rich and varied collection for holiday reading. Ages 9-12. Sweets From a Stranger And Other Strange Tales, byIVicbolas Fisk, published by Puffin, $3.50. An exciting collection of short science fiction stories to introduce the reader to mysterious other worlds and
characters. Characters like Oddiputs — the imperfect offspring of robots, Questar — the spaceship nicknamed Cutie Pie, Masr8 and the Mindprobe can take you to those other worlds. Nicholas Fisk's other popular titles include Antigrav, Grinrry, A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair. Magnus PowerMouse, by Dick King-Smith, published by Puffin, $.3.50. Madeleine was a simple country mouse, quite unprepared for her sixth newborn being as big as a baby rat. The problems increase Magnus as grows . . . and grows and lives up to his name! Ages 9-11
as a personal representative to other countries and made him a knight. The king finally named Thomas to the most important position in the country as chancellor of England. Thomas was now second only to the king. But then everything changed. King Henry wanted an annulment of his first marriage and hoped to marry Anne Boleyn. He wrote to the pope for permission, but the pope refused. King Henry now named himself head of the church in England. Thomas More refused to accept this. King Henry was very angry. He tried to get Thomas to change his mind and promised him great rewards. But Thomas could not agree with what the king was doing. He resigned his position as chancellor. King Henry tried harder to get Thomas to support him. The king threatened Thoma_s and his family. But Thomas would not give in. So the king had Thomas arrested and put in the famous prison, the Tower of London. For more than a year Thomas' family and friends
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visited him in prison. They tried to persuade him to change his mind and support the king. They reminded him how happy life would be again at home with those he loved. But Thomass refused. He was convinced what the king wanted was wrong. Finally the king was so angry he accused Thomas of betraying the country. Thomas was convicted and condemned to death. Most everyone knew he was not a traitor. Just before Thomas was killed, he turned to the people who were watching. "Idie the king's good servant — but God's first," he said. The Church considers Thomas More a saint. He is remembered each year on his feast day, June 22.
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new titles, new title Ralph Darling, A Governor Maligned, by Brian H. Fletcher, published by Oxford University Press, $35. Ralph Darling governor of New South Wales from 1825-1831 was one of the most important and controversial figures in Australian history- Drawing on hitherto untapped material chronicling Darling's army career and his private life, this is the first full-length biography of a significant administrator in the colony's formative yUal-1 The Oxford Book of War Poetry, edited by Jon .Stallworthy, published by Oxford niters-0y Press, $24.99. Stal!worthy has arranged this selection chronologically by conflict, to produce a history of warfare as seen by eloquent observers and chroniclers of its effects The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Compiled hy Sir PaulHarm:v. published by Oxford Unitersity Press, $1399. This unique guide to Greek and Roman literature and its background is invaluable to readers not only of the Cl2SSiCS hut of English and European Iterature. This book remains available in hard cover. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road. The Search for the lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Centro/ .4sia, by Peter flopiark, published by Oxford University Press, $10.99. Here. told for the first time. is the story of this strange and contentious episode in Central Asian history. W.H. Hudson, A Biography, by Ruth Tornalin, published by Oxford University Press. $10.99. Hudson's brilliant accounts of the bird life in South America won him the admiration of leading naturalists all over the world and in recent years his achievements as a natural historian have won new recognition. Journeys into Britain, by Robin Page, published by (Word Unhersity Press, $7.99. Page gives a fascinating and often amusing view of the rural scene in Britain. and its host of unusual characters. The Old School. by Graham Greene, published by Oxford Unversity Press. $9.99. A collection of essays about the school-days of some of the best writers of our time. providing an entertaining insight into education during and after the First World War The Heirs of Torn Brown, The Fnglish .School Story. bylsabel Quigly. published by Oxford Uniuersity Press. $10.99. Continually counterpointing school life as it really was with its fictional image. Quigly discusses her chosen stories in relation to those themes recurring through the effusion of novels from the 1/440s to 1914. Primary School and Your Child, • by Barry Duyer, published by
Oxford University Press, $4.99. A parents' guide to primary education. As well as providing up-to-date factual information about schooling and learning, the book deals with some of the problems facing parents today and offers practical suggestions Understanding Sexuality, by Derek LlewellynJones, published by Oxford University Press, $999. Ibis new edition presents facts about puberty, adolescence, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception, abortion, homosexuality and sexually transmitted diseases clearly and simply for young people, without value judgenient David Smith. by Karen published by Abbeville Modern Masters. $24.95. Karen Wilkin a specialist in modern painting and sculpture, explores Smith's genius, energy, ambition and premature death in 1965. The book illustrates Smith's rich variety of images and his endless experimenting with new ideas and new materials but certain elements remain constant: a fascination with the figure. a willful ambiguity. and disguised undercurrents of both violence and sensuality. His art is surely some of the most powerful created in this or any age_ JasperJobtis, by Richard Francis.Inchlishcvlby Abbeville Modern Masters, $24.95. Arguably one of the most noteworthy contemporary artists, Jasper Johns' illustrations 30 year career is well documented in this book. The international acclaim gained through his series of paintings depicting flags, targets and numbers has not faded with recent works which combine his continuing fascination with ready made images with an exciting new use of traditional painting. Great Travelling Disasters. by Hugh tickers and Caroline McCullough. published by Paperwrac. $4.95. A crazy collection of the sublime, ridiculous and truly disastrous trips by land, air and sea. This hilarious catalogue is illustrated with 20 cartoons by Bernard Cookson. Indispensable for plane. train or the armchair tr,iyeller' The Price of Power, The Politics Behind the Tasmanian Darns Case. by Doug Lowe. published by Sun, .114.95. Now available in paperback, this detailed study by former Tasmanian Premier Doug Lowe, gives a unique insight into both the politics and the social and economic issues surrounding the Tasmanian dams case. Lowe's account reflects his inside knowledge and personal e xperience of what will surely be remembered as one of the greatest environmental and political battles ever wages in Australia. Author resides in Hobart.
Answering questions Catholics ask variety
Questions Catholics Ask, by Father Bill O'Shea, published by Dove Communications, $ 9.95. Questions Catholics Ask is a selection from Father Bill O'Shea's very popular weekly column in the Catholic* Leader Brisbane. Covering a wide variety of topics from angels to usury, it addresses vital issues which are contemporary, controversial and of real concern. Catholics everywhere will welcome Father O'Shea's comments on such problems as contraception and conscience, pre-marital sex. and recent changes in the Church's liturgical laws and practices. The topics: AngeLs, Bible Problems. Blessed Virgin Mary. Charismatics, Commandments of the Church, Contraception and Conscience, Creation, the Cmcifixion, Devotion to the Saints. The Devil, Difficult Scripture Texts, Freemasonry, Indulgences, Intercommunion, Liturgical Issues, Marriage Concerns. Original Sin, Other Religions. Pre-marital Sex, Purgatory. Reconciliation. Religion and Morality, Resurrection. Sacraments. Sunday Mass and Vi'ork. Bill O'Shea was ordained in 1960 as a priest for the Archdiocese of Brisbane. He studied at the Biblical Institute in Rome, and obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture. Father O'Shea lectured in New Testament at Flatly() Seminary in Brisbane for seven years from 1867 to 1973, and at the University of Queensland in the Department of Studies in Religion. From 1974 to 1977 he was rector of the seminary, and is now serving as parish
priest of Beenleigh in the Brisbane Archdiocese. In launching the book Father O'Shea said: "The rapid and widespread changes that have occurred in the Church in the twenty years since the Second Vatican Council have left many' Catholics suffering from that psychological condition known as 'future shock'. "I believe that much of this could (and should) have been averted if more attention had been paid to the need for educating people to prepare them for the changes that took place. I am thinking particularly about changes in the liturgy and
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especially the way the celebration of Mass in the vernacular replaced the old Latin Mass with almost brutal suddenness. "In one of my 'Question Box' replies. I remarked that previous generations grew up with the idea that the Latin Mass was sacrosanct. People were not sufficiently aware that the Church's liturgy had undergone many developments in the course of its long history and that the standardisation of the celebration of the Eucharist which followed the Council of Trent in the 16th century
represented just one more development in the 2000 year life-span of the Church. "Other new directions initiated by the Second Vatican Council which have caused much heartburn among traditionalist Catholics have been the Council's insistence on the primacy- of conscience and its teaching about the nature of biblical truth. "The nature of biblical truth is perhaps the more sensitive area. The Council broke new ground with its definition of biblical truth as 'the truth which God willed
Culinary corner farms in the country. She was taught from an early age regional and classical French cuisine arid its correct presenta Hors.
In 1952. she and her husband Roger, and their five _young children mined to .4us1ralia. Eight years later she held the first of her traditional French cooking demonstrations. which over twenty _years have become a legend in Melbourne since they brought classical French cuisine to .4ustralia and set a new standard in the preparation of food and elegant entertaining.
The Pleasure Of The Table. The Cooking Artistry of Whine De Stoop, edited by Penny Smith, published by Sun Papermac. $14.95. This is a cookbook for For the 6000 students all seasons. with recipes Whine has taught the which are exquisite. difclasses became an event, ferent, and relatively . the dishes prepared at simple to prepare. each lesson al:curs being %Urine de Stoop was presented at a beautiful born in Belgium. the luncheon. Her recipes _youngest of seventeen are based on those children and was raised handed down through on one of the larget generations of her
French-speaking Belgian family. Some bale been adapted to .4ustra/ian ingredients and others hate betil modified by the influence of the noraelle cuisine. Penny Smith was born in MellNiurne in 1940. Her interrst infooddeveloped at an early age with the appreciation of her mother's cooking. Two years abroad in her Late teens stimulatedPenny's interest further. When married uith her 01171 family ;he' //WS able to increase her practical eNtrerience and she has attended classes here and in Europe. In 1975 she and a friend compiled Cork, Fork and Ladle for the ,National Trust, and in 1983 she smite the successful Salad in Season_ She began teaching cooking some years ago and now runs her own classes at home.
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to be put into the Scriptures for the sake of our salvation'. "This important principle was intended to free people from an over-preoccupation with historical and/or scientific truth which had shackled Catholic biblical study for many generations. The Council's aim was to teach that 'truth' should not be restricted to such a narrow understanding. "To some extent, this sva_s simply an extension of the principles enunciated by Pius XII in an encyclical letter in 1943 that in our interpretation of the Bible we must take account of literary forms' — those forms of expression common and acceptable to the people of the time when the biblical books were written. "The clear implication of these principles is that God's saving truth can be communicated by means other than historical (or literally true) narratives. "It is apparent from the many questions on biblical topics I have received that this way of understanding the Scriptures has stilt not permeated through to the grass roots of Catholicism. Questions about Adam and Eve, the Flood. the Gospel miracles; the biblical accounts of the activity of angels and devils; the resurrection of Jesus and the nature of his risen body.
A healthy look at life Your Lifestyle — Health and Nutrition, by Russell Frank Atkinson, published Doubleday. by $7.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. With the interest in health and fitness at fever pitch in Australia, it's not surprising to see bookstore shelves rapidly fill with volume after volume telling us what we are doing wrong and how we can do it right. One of the latest is this, from Russell Atkinson. it is one of the most easily read and therefore one of the most informative. Your Lifestyle — Health and Nutritiorm is actually a collection of Atkinson's writings from the health publication, Nature and Health. Atkinson, one of Australia's first teachers of Hatha Yoga. was editor of Nature and Health for many years.
The writing are refreshingly diverse, covering such subjects as aroma therapy, coping with stresses, changing your diet and treating sporting injuries. He also gives practical information on a whole range of subjects from acupuncture and herbal teas to those familiar ailments of the 1980's — heart disease, obesity and high blood pressure. Overall Atkinson takes a commonsense -approach to a subject that reduces too many people to a fanatic frenzy. His advice on handling anxiety is especially simple and no doubt effective. The first. thing you need, he says. is a medicine from the physician that knows you best. In fact, one who is very fond of you, warts and all. Namely yourself. Honest analysis, self scrutiny, and a confrontation with those negatives you have hidden away are
good medicine and act like senna on the psyche. "Most anxiety is a dream you are hypnotising yourself with, but a dream to a dreamer is a very present reality. If you dream that a tiger is chasing you, it is your „,tioVrit.
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dream. You can turn around, roar back and turn him into a kitten. Irrational fear, anxiety and phobias are a conditoned response and can only be broken by self
knowledge and the courage to confront the hidden cause and the challenge again and again until they are routed and the nervous reflexes programmed. "The physical, chemical aspects of anxiety tend to cause organic problems and these can be avoided to a large extent by nutritional supplements. The physical effects of fear or an undercurrent of anxiety can deplete the adrenal glands because of the losses of Vitamin C and calcium pantothenate (B5) that can occur. Unused adrenaline and other hormones, if not properly broken down by the liver can he toxic. Consequently, liver herbs such as dandelion, hellonias, barbars- hark and mandrake can assist the detoxifying efficiency of the liver, as can a diet high in raw foods, supplemented with the B group vitamins, and the mineral
sodium sulphate. "Jangled nerves need more calcium, magnesium and potassium, B group vitamins, and choline. Herbs such as valerian, skullcap and passionflower can help to gently calm the nervous system. Some contain them all, including herbs. Though they will not cure the cause if its origin is in your mind, they will help to prevent some of the symptoms and the depletion of organic functions. "Fundamentally, anxiety is a lack of faith, and faith springs from intuitive wisdom and self realisation. That is wily discipline in life style and regular deep meditation can replace fear with faith and anxiety with euphoria." Above all, he says, be kind to yousell This is an excellent book and its simple. nononsense approach makes it invaluable in any home.
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(DOGS' \;HANCE... RACE ONE: Summer Snow 1, Aqua Sheen 2, Darsal Chief 3. RACE TWO: Express Monaro 1, Houdini's Rebel 2, Mr Winnapeg 3. RACE THREE: Belinda Mist 1, Dark Sierra 2, Pether Road 3. RACE FOUR: White Foot Lass 1, Spicy Gem 2, Paddy Adare 3. RACE FIVE: Aulfre 1, Daybreak 2, Billy Overflow 3.
RACE SIX: Dangerous Adios 1, Tidi Level 2, Zute 3. RACE SEVEN: Rost! of Billa 1, Icy Fox 2, Ben Barker 3. RACE EIGHT: Alfred's Choice 1, Gillie's Jewel 2, Gotda's Issue 3. RACE NINE: Colonial Style 1, Weston Bess 2, Asgard Chief 3. RACE TEN: Countess Lyn 1, Black Scandal 2, Penny Sapphire 3.
TENNIS The 1985 mixed pennant season gets under way on Saturday March 16. Twelve teams have nominated for the competition There will be five teams in the "A" grade and seven teams in the "B" grade. Surprisingly only one team nominated for the proposed "Veteran" grade which was disappointing for the organisers as considerable interest had been expressed when the idea was first put forward. The one team which nominated has agreed to play in the "B" grade competition. All clubs are represented in the competitions which should produce some very keen and close encounters. Queens Park who won the "A" grade last year should again prove difficult to beat but they can expect some tough competition, particularly from Lynwood and Pignatelli. The "B" grade looks once again to be a very even competition with probably Dianella the team to beat.
Social Day The medal tournament afternoon held at Trinity tennis courts last week was a very successful day des-
WHAT'S ON KARRINYUP PLAY GROUP A Christian play group will commence at the Karrinyup parish centre which has been improved by the addition of a kitchen and toilet equipped for people in wheel chairs. The centre is located in the northern end of the Parish House at 27 Thomas Way, Karnnyep. The Parish House has also been enlarged and improved. The parish prayer group meets on Wednesdays at 10 am in the parish centre. The Parents and Friends of Our Lady of Good Counsel School, Miles Street, K arrinyup will hold a bush dance on Friday, March 15 featunng the Mucky Duck Bush Band from 7 pm. Tickets are 5 6.00 per family or $3.00 per adult. The annual parish golf day will be held on Sunday, March 24 at the Hamersley Golf Course, followed by a BYO BBQ at the school in Miles Street, Karrinyup. For further information, ring John Reid on 341 2895 or Des de Gruchy on 446 7075. MARIAN MOVEMENT A Cenacle will be held on Friday March 15 at the Little Sisters of Carmel 2 Frazer St, Swanbourne beginning at 10.30 am. Enquiries to Yolanda Nardizzi 447 8885 or Bob Wright 447 6223
BENEDICTINE OBLATES The Oblates of St Benedict, St Gregory's Chapter will be held at the R eciemptonst Retreat House, Vincent St, North Perth at 2pm on Sunday, March 27. JESUIT EX -STUDENTS E x -students of Jesuit schools from Australia and overseas are invited to a Mass and dinner at St Thomas More C ollege, Mounts Bay Rd, Crawley, beginning at 7 pm in the College Chapel, on Friday, March 15. Cost is $14 Please notify college of attendance. Telephone 386 8712.
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Below Some of the Whitfords ' youth group who joined 770 other young people on the CPY river cruise last weekend were John Killgallon, Janelle Flynn, Donna Brennan, Heidi Wernicke, Sarah Timmins, Andrea Nerva, Juliet Mark well. Merryl Nerva, A nthea Bassancli and James Nerva
pite the heat. There were 32 players entered in the competition. Julia Veza won the women's trophy and Kevin Quain won the mens trophy on a count back after he and his nephew Peter Quain finished on equal points. Carnival The national carnival to be held in Perth between this c oming Christmas and New Year will be a very busy period for our association. We are looking for assistance to plan functions and help out during the carnival itself. Anyone who could assist in any capacity is asked to contact the Carnival Organiser — Greg Pearce on 447 4950.
Glendalough Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged Have you a skeleton in your cupboard, furniture, household appliance, tools, memorabilia or anything that could be suitable for auction? We would love it if you could donate it to the Little Sisters for auction on March 24. Please ring 443 3155.
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DIVINE SERVICE Divine Service — 6WN on Sunday, March 10 — will feature the WA combined churches prayer service for the launching of the 40 days of prayer and fasting for justice in land rights. AN ANNUAL WALKATHON Superwalk Australia will hold its second annual walk on Sunday March 31 starting and finishing at McCallum Park, beginning at 10 am, with validation f rom 8.30 am. WA hopes to raise $80,000 from 4000 sponsored walkers. In 1984, 3000 t ook part. Proceeds go to the Spastic Centres of Australia, where 350 children and adults with cerebal palsy are cared for. Money raised in each state stays in that state. Further information from the Spastic Welfare Association 443 0211 .
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• La Salle brothers return to college Former La Salle College staff members, Brother Matthew Heron, 1964-66 and Brother Eric Piggott 1962-64 recently revisited Midland as guests of Mr and Mrs R. Russell. They were accompanied by Brothers Alt and Brian, fellow teachers at the De La Salle College of St Michael's, Henley Beach, South Australia. As Brother Eric is now the Co-ordinator of Industrial Arts at St Michael's La Salle's Technical Centre earned attention and praise. This modem complex was a pipe dream of Brother Eric's in the 1960's when he also advocated the educational advantages of La Salle becoming co-educational. Brother Alf wryly recalled the winter hazards of a to, flooded Blackadder Creek, which greatly delayed student arrival and contrasted these floods with dry summer conditions.
He found the rural aspects of Viveash and Middle Swan greatly altered over the past 20 years and hoped the Swan Valley would be protected from
similar inroads on terms acceptable to the owners of the vineyards who have made the valley such an attractive area.
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