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HIS 1/1/ • Two former Midland priests have played a prominent role in the profession of three young Singaporeans who plan to become Franciscan friars. Story and pic page 2.

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• Bishop Bede of Heather, Blacktown, Sydney has made some radical suggestions about Australia's industrial disputes. See story p 3. $ 4.11-"feripsk

• The glare of world attention remains on Africa's starving millions as drought and famine reach horrific proportions . . . but Australian Catholic Relief cautions Africa is not the only world crisis point for famine. See story and pictures page 5.

• Record reporter, ROSSLYN ROSS continues her series of interviews with new appointees to the Catholic Education Commission. This week she relates the story of the parent representative, Teri Conway. See story and picture, page 4.

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SIGN!FICANT FOR US ALL The significant characteristic to distinguish the Catholic education system from others was it should educate students as total persons — spiritually, as well as intellectually, emotionally and socially— Father Gerard Holohan, director of religious education said in St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday. "Many other philosophies of education emphasise intellectual, emotional and social maturity. "But they fail to recognise and seek to promote spiritual maturity as well," he said at the annual teachers' Mass to open the scholastic year.

"A major reason for we Catholics seeking our own education system is we wish our young people to mature to a greater degree than would be possible under other education systems that address only some of their needs as persons. "It is a truism the success or failure of our Catholic education system depends principally on our teachers. "Ultimately, it is not buildings, administrative structures, members of school or f inance boards that are our principal resources. "All of these are secondary to our teachers.

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Archbishop Foley is considered to be progressing satisfactorily to enable him to leave Royal Perth Hospital this Friday, a fortnight after his heart operation for a triple bypass. A convalescence of some six weeks is anticipated and visiting is restricted for the present Messages for the archbishop may be left at the Catholic Church Office, Victoria Square, phone 325 9177 during office hours.

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Christian values and ideas of many in our society. "These form the hidden curriculum within many of the resources and curricula of our secular education authorities. 'We would be undermining the personal maturity and development of our secondary

students if we passed on unwittingly • the rationalistic values that underlie mathematics and the sciences; • blatantly materialistic values embodied in economics; • secular humanist values that are part of social studies; • subjective relativism that intrudes into literature and the arts: • subjective relativism that intrudes into literature and the arts; • Cent page 2

Next Sunday, March 24 is the annual fete of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough. This week Sister Benedict was busy telling residents Mr and Mrs Frank Hunt about the auction and other a ttractions.

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The new Diocesan Pastoral Council at their first meeting last Saturday endorsed the views of the WA bishops supporting Aboriginal land rights as outlined in their statement of 1983. During its full day meeting at the Redemptorist Retreat House the DPC noted the bishops' statement was developed from scripture and principles of social justice spelt out in council, papal and other documents. The council believes the Aborigine's response to current legislation is of utmost importance and people should hear and understand what the Aborigines are saying. Support was given to the current campaign of prayer and fasting and those supporting and opposing land rights were urged to pray on the basis that God's will and not each person's be done. Frank Campbell is the new chairman of the DPC, with Peter Fleay vice-chairman and Jane Murphy reappointed secretary. E xecutive members are Lesley McNee, Steven Cavil] and Peter Sharkey. Bishop Healy impressed on councillors their role of sharing responsibility as servants of the Church. At the level of policy-making, results might not always be obvious, he said.

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The first meeting important to keep It WA conclusions as practical as possible to facilitate action In describing the Archhi shop's ultimate responsibility, Bishop Healy urged the diocese to be considerate in the demands made upon the archbishop. Several sub-committees were established, including Building Christian Communities (convenor Father Barry Whitely), Youth ( David Emery), Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (Laura Meyers), No Priests — What Now? (Father Owen Ryan), and Alcohol (Brother Anthony Daily). During the year full-day meetings of the council will be held on May II, July 27, October 5, and December 7. Sub-committee meetings will be convened by the group leaders between these dates to continue discussions initiated last Saturday. Report by PETER ANTHONY

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There was a strong Midland influence at the profession of three young Singaporeans into the Franciscans in St Mary of the Angels Church. The three postulants are (from left) Timothy Leo Hee, Lionel Goh, and John Paul Tan, pictured at the ceremony. See story below.

Midland priests at profession SINGAPORE: Two former Midland Franciscans played a part in the ceremony of first profession of three local Franciscans. Father Robert Matthews, former assistant priest and former parish priest of Midland and now guardian of the Singapore Franciscan community received the vows of John Paul Tan, Timothy Leo Hee and Lionel Goh in St Mary of The Angels church. Father Alban Mitchell, formerly of Midland, is novice master for the three men who became postulants in 1963 after their national service. Three postulants from Thailand and Malaysia will join the Singapore community later. The Singapore community is part of the Australian Franciscan province.

Appeal to the Press S YDNEY: Archdtocesan Press Officer, Mr Alan McElwain, recently appealed for the secular media to give higher pnority, as a matter of policy, to religious news. Mr McElwain was addressing the Mass celebrated for 200 Journalists on the Feast of St Francis de Sales. '1Nhile we are always grateful for what we do get, religious information as such receives a pretty poor show. We are all right of course, if we can r ing in an occasional racehorse or two, or the countryside rumbles with reports of supernatural goings-on, but for the most we lag. 'What we need from the media, I think, is a higher priority, as a matter of policy, for religious news.

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• lack of respect for the moment of human as conception reflected in human biology. "To pass on these attitudes would be to undermine the ideals of Jesus Christ and the absolute values and moral principles He proclaimed." Father Holohan told the teachers they would avoid such dangers by deepening their faith and understanding of religious and moral principles. "You will preserve and pass on to your students the Gospel of Jesus Christ for their daily living. "It is by living the principles of this Gospel that our pupils will mature and develop as total persons."

ADELAIDE: State Catholic welfare organisations have written to the Prime Minister Mr Hawke calling for a taxation system better geared to the increasing cost of raising children. Spokesman for a conference held by the organisations last week, Mr Joe O'Neill, said it was important single-parent and twoparent situations were examined Special Service at the forthcoming tax summit. Mr O'Neill quoted figures from the Insti- no concerted, influential issue." "This is the kind of structute of Family Studies lobby at work_ "Catholic welfare organisa- tural justice we must to support the confer- tions will become more become increasingly ence's combined involved in lobbying on this involved in. stand.

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Bishop in radical A new context striker plan "We need a new context, and perhaps some new machinery, to handle our industrial conflicts" according to Bishop Heath. "The forces of reconciliation in our society seem sometimes like tools designed to repair a vehicle now outdated rather than the contemporary model.

"Persons known normally to be humane, tolerant and courteous come across in our media instead as intransigent, arrogant and ruthless. "Across society we tend to be split by our attitudes to current disputes. "The disputes of this summer have certainly left behind a crop of anger and division in the community where I happen to work. "Industrial disputation lacks a human face.

"Words used in the present context of industrial disputation often have about them the ring of battle threats, provocations, challenges. "Disputes easily reach a point where no one can withdraw without loss of face. "It becomes a case of winners and losers, and the bodies involved cannot afford to appear as losers.

"Is a better way possible? "ft would have to begin from a serse of moral responsibility towards the community, and a recognition that the burden of that responsibility may for a time outweigh the claims, or even the rights, of individuals and groups within a community."

Italian medical Bill ROME (NC) — A member of the Italian Parliament has proposed legislation to allow doctors to withold life-sustaining treatment from terminally ill patients unless such treatment were specifically requested. The proposal for what its supporters describe as "passive" euthanasia 1,4,-as introduced by Representative

Scheme is no 'dream' SYDNEY: The dream of a NSW minister of seeing all NSW pupils out of private schools unless they are there on religious grounds has been described as a nightmare to the parents of the 25 per cent of NSW children in non-government schools. "The remarks of Mr Rod Cavalier, NSW Minister f or Education, will do nothing to calm those parents already worried and upset by the failure of the government to announce the level of basic grants" said Mr Stephen Mcion, secretary of the NSW Parents' Council. "The minister's dream flies in the face of the Federal Government's guidelines to the Schools Commission." The guideline said 'The G overnment acknowledges parents may choose, for educational, r eligious, cultural or other reasons, a nongovernment schooling for their children'.

Loris Fortuna, a Socialist, and has received the backing of several other Socialist legislators. The proposal would exempt doctors from prescribing "vital sustenance therapy" to any terminally ill patient. The proposal defines such therapy as medical techniques or equipment that

Pope's retreat interrupted for meeting VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II interrupted his annual Lenten retreat to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for talks on world peace and the situation of Catholics in the Soviet Union. 'The meeting took place in MN Paul N

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SYDNEY: Bishop Bede Heather of Sydney's Outer Western Region has called for the establishment of an independent office of public interest to play a part in the resolving of industrial disputes. "Although that should be the role of governments, governments now find themselves aligned in most disputes, locked into the struggle not to be the loser," he said at the opening of Sienna Youth Crisis Centre,

E For any improved arrangements for handling indu.strial differences there must be room for people to act humanely and to retain their respectability: space for anger to dissipate, opportunity to retreat honorably from stated positions, the recognition that in a society like ourselves we share responsibility for one another, and the assumption until otherwise proved that we each try to do so fairly and unselfishly.

NSW and Enugu, Nigeria had some scriptural advice to cool industrial disputes. St Paul, who wrote so many words both stern and beautiful, offers in his letter to the Ephesians some maxims that could be usefully remembered in industrial disputes: "Never have grudges against others, or lose your temper, or raise your voice to anybody, or call each other names or allow a ny sort of spitefulness. "Be friends with one another, and kind, forgiving each other as readily as God f orgave you in Christ." (Ephesians 4:3132.) As the final words show, he was driven to such views by strong motives of faith. They could certainly do much to promote peace in our society if they could be

Bishop Heather "A strike, consequently, can be the last AMR' that makes the difference between a life that is manawl.* le and tolerable. and one that is not" Saying that he neither supported or condemned parties in recent disputes, the bishop said "as a layman in the field, I do sometimes marvel that the orders of industrial courts are so easily ignored."

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Moves for tolerance MELBOURNE: A move to make Christians and Jews more tolerant of each other was launched in Melbourne last week. A Council of Christians and Jews was established in a ceremony at Temple Beth Israel St lilda, attended by Catholic Archbishop Francis Little and Anglican Archbishop, David Penman. Believed to be the only council of its kind in Australia, it will seek to educate Christians and Jews to appreciate each others' beliefs and practices, and work together, and also to combat any intolerance in the Australian community.

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Record About the only consistent truth in the flood of prose and television chat that pours forth on the emergence of an Andropov, a Chemenko, or most recently a Gorbachev is that Russia-watchers, heavy sounding commentators and news hounds know about as much of what is happening in the Kremlin as they do about the last race at the Eastern Outer Mongolian Turf Club. Just in case weeks of pondering about Gorbachev was wrong, Eastern States papers had to play news of the succession cautiously while West Australians trailing a couple of hours could be told the hardly surprising news that Gorbachev was indeed the victor. The vacuum was never so noticeable as when media which pride themselves on being able to investigate every rubbish bin from Buckingham Palace to the Pentagon had to fall back on revelations such as Mrs Gorbachev having better dress sense than the rest of the politbureau wives and that Mrs Thatcher thought she could actually talk to the man. No doubt Russians were simultaneously receiving millions of words telling them precisely not much more of why, when, and how things turned out to be the way they are, thus confirming the hypnotic state of 20th century urbankind which believes that if words are pouring out of the news sources something must be being communicated. The alternative is silence but humans are now uncomfortable when television radio or newspapers go on strike. Yet we fight back with those interesting little gadgets that can shut out the sound of the commercials. Someone should invent the politically astute little gadget that would produce silence when nothing of truth or value is being said, when reporters simply don't know. The passivity of the Western world to Russian manipulation of truth and rockhard silence on what is really going on must be one of the most successful bluffs of the past 68 years. The only other winners have been George Orwell's publishers. Days after Chemenko died there wouldn't be a person inside or outside Russia who yet knows at what precise hour he died or any of the circumstances that are usually that surround the death of the famous. The Russians were indeed told that the murderers of Father Popieluszko had been sentenced. They were not told they were members of the Polish secret service. Russians are better off without that sort of information. And so the litany of duplicity, deception and doublethink goes back through decades of mass murdering, political graft and economic banditry until it must be well nigh past the possibility ever to know what has happened. The deliberate and calculated decision to manipulate the simplest truth is a feature of Russian communism that is strangely avoided in an analysis of Russia. By a new process of self-imposed guilt it has become unfashionable to make any moral judgement of the Russian version of communism as long as there are moral faults at home. In fact Russia probably benefits from a modem reading of the scriptural advice not to notice others' splinters when there is a plank in one's eye. The Catholic Church has thus been shunted into a corner as one suffering from eye trouble because in the 1930s hey-days of the world's cossetted offspring indulging in sweet-talking if not downright treachery in communism's favour the Church thundered not against the tyranny of which the Western world knew and was told nothing, but at the instrinsic evil of the system. Catholics have paid their price in death and prison in the subjugated countries of Eastern Europe. Some, even amongst academic Catholics, said the suffering was what those churches deserved. A new gospel could find accommodation with a manipulated state. There never was much chance of a real Catholic presence in Russia, save in the Ukraine, because of the entrenched position of the Orthodox Church. It is interesting that, whatever their reasons, the Chinese have opted for the strategy of a "patriotic" church as have some of Russia's satellites. In Russia the regime would never take such a risk. For the Russian state was the first to build into its structure a basic human lie: that anyone who gives in to the temptation to have a faith in God has to be purged of his indiscretion. Atheism, not just the hopeless agnosticism that saps Western society today, would be a state decree, an imposed rule of faith that God never was and never will be. In the end this becomes the lie that underpins every other lie. Godlessness produces its own evil, whether in East or West. That Gorbachev is committed inexorably to this path is the only truth that the Western media forgot to mention. Or couldn't they find out. . . .

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For Teri Conway, the opportunity to act as parent representative on the Catholic Education Commission has come as a welcome surprise. Nominated by a f riend, she gladly accepted the position when offered and is looking forward to making a contribution as a 'self-educated person.' "Self-educated in the sense I finished only three years at secondary school and have been learning ever since from books, from people, and from the jobs I have done," she said. Born in London during the war, Teri emigrated to Perth with her family when she was 10. Educated at St Joseph's, Queen's Park and St Brig. id's, Lesmurdie she was the eldest of five children. She left school after the death of her father and worked in a variety of clerical jobs before moving to Melbourne where she met and married her husband, Brian. They returned to Perth in

1966. The mother of three children, Paula, 16, Mathew, 14, and Josephine, 9, Teri says her 'education' has continued since the day she left school. "I continued with night school even when I was working," she said, "and my mother was the sort of person who was always interested in things and who encouraged me to use my mind." She is currently completing a Diploma of Art Course at Fremantle Technical College. To some degree her life has been a moveable feast with three years in Carnarvon, 12 months on the Gold Coast in Queensland and three years in Medina before the family finally settled at North Fremantle. During those years Teri did a variety of jobs from time to time . . . from jill-of-alltrades in a factory office to photgrapher in Carnarvon and helping her husband in his pharmacy business. The three years in Carnar-

Her surprise appointment is welcome ' We only returned to Perth because we were faced with the problems of secondary schooling and wanted the children to go to John XXIII." She sees her role on the commission as a representative of less than formal education. "I've been educated by life and I suppose that will give me a somewhat different perspective," she said. "I am a prolific reader — fact, fiction, history, religious books. A great proportion of my information comes from reading and then I like to discuss the books with other people who have also read them as it is a good way to ferment ideas. "I see myself as a person who has come from the body of parents but I don't necessarily see myself as for the parents. "I am not a professional but my role will be to offer a service to the commission, using whatever skills I have from the past.

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Record reporter ROSLYN ROSS continues her two-part series in the new appointees to the Catholic Education Commission in an interview with Teri Conway, the parent representative.

' 'It's a service I suppose that I am offering for the good of the Church." She has no educational bandwagons, she says, because that wouldn't be fair She does however have decided views on very many things "If I didn't have opinions then I would have nothing to offer," she said "I see Catholic education as varied and mixed The world is a pretty dangerous place these days because a lot of the old values have

been thrown into the air and society is in a state of change "Catholic education offers, at least to my children, a framework which is consistent with home. "I suppose I feel there is a selfish element in that we can even afford to send them to such a school for a start — it is a privilege and one they will have to see and accept responsibility for 'The most important thing for me is that children find the right way to act and to that end, the person is more

To some degree her life has been a movable feast with three years in Carnarvon, 12 months on the Gold Coast in Queensland and three years in Medina before the family finally settled at North Fremantle. During those years Teri did a variety of jobs from time to time . . . from jill-of-all-trades in a factory office to photographer in Carnarvon and helping her husband in his pharmacy business.

important than the rules. "I don't want school to be just a place they go to in order to find out how to get a job. Obviously that is a part of it but I would like to see education aimed at developing the person as a whole and forming their minds. 'When I was first asked to consider going on the commission I felt very uncomfortable because I saw myself as just a parent but then I came to realise that my role was very important. 'We can break the rules because we don't know them in the first place. 'The fact that I am not a professional gives me a f reedom others may not have. "For some people on the commission it may be important to wear many hats I have only one hat to wear and that is as me.

von were very special, she says. -We loved it. It gave us a lot . . . you get so involved in country towns," she said. It was during her time in Carnarvon she took up photography to do some promotional work for the local council. Family commitments took them to Queensland for a year as Brian's parents had settled on the Gold Coast but in 1975 they returned to Western Australia for the birth of their third, 'surprise' child. It was a wonderful surprise for us," said Teri. "We had always found it so hard to have children and we never expected to get the third. We are really aware of how lucky we are." After three years living at East Fremantle the Conways moved to Medina where Brian had bought a pharmacy. -We had a lot of doubts about going," Teri said, 'but it was great. There was a fabulous parish and a great little school.

Teri Conway, new appointee to the Catholic Education Commission is pictured with her husband, Brian, and children Josephine, Matthew and Paula.

Other countries also in crisis "The response by Australian Catholics to the sufferings of their brothers and sisters in Africa has been nothing short of magnificent," according to Bishop John Gerry, Chairman of Australian Catholice Relief. "It has literally meant life rather than death for an untold number of people, and will provide hope for the future for thousands more. Bishop Gerry was speaking at the launching of Project Compassion, the Australian Church's annual Lenten CampaignHowever, Bishop Gerry also sounded a warning note: "Ethiopia has been the focus of attention in Africa," he said. "But at least 25 other African countries are also in dire straits. "And, of course, on the world scene, there are parts of Asia and Utin America where conditions are almost as bad."

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000 Bishop Gerry singled out north eastern Brazil as another badly hit area. "In September last year, Brazil's Catholic Bishops said almost 28 million people there were threatened with starvation as a result of a five-war drought and ill considered development policies." "In Asia. Bangladesh is probably the most seriously affected country, with 100 million people living in an area the size of Victoria. "Eight out of every 10 people are estimated to be chronically undernourished, and half of these live from hand to mouth in absolute poverty. "Australian Catholics, through ACR, have been able to help in these areas in the past year, said Bishop Gerry, and without this help, things would certainty be worse. "But the problems are deepseated. "Droughts arc only the trigger that launches famine. The real causes are man made. "There is good agricultural land even in the poorest countries, land that is fertile, well-watered, productive. "The problem is that the poor don't have access to this land. nor to the crops it produces:' -That's why the emphasis in ACR's work is on justice. and on helping people to change the things that are oppressing them and making them poor" the bishop said.

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'Waiting' is perhaps the most common image of the third world, In Kobbo. this Ehtiopian peasant farmer waits for food to be given out.

Education is something that we tend to simpiy take for granted. yet in developing countries it's a rare luxury. In third world countries only three children out of ten get the chance to reach Grade 4. The others must remain at home, either because they must earn to support the family, or because no school is near enough to attend. Project Compassion is working right now on projects that will provide education where it is needed most.

Such as Kampuchea, where war has left a population with few teachers and little equipment. Thousands of new teachers had to be trained and centre's for technical and agricultural instruction opened, often with only meagre facilities. Already, much progress has been made but there remains much more still to be done. If you'd like to help develop this most precious resource, give what you can to Project Compassion.

000 Question: Who could be poorer than a landless farm worker in Bangladesh? Answer: His wife. According to the International Labour Organisation. women, who make up 50% of the world's population, do nearly 70% of the world's work, but earn only 10% of the world's income. There are few places in the world where this contrast is more straitly evident than in Bangladesh. In this predominantly Muslim and male dominated country, the majority of women are double oppressed: first because they are poor, and then because they are women. ACR has in the past provided finance for women's development in Bangladesh. and the Nijerakori program, designed and ()prated by women themselves has been remarkably successful in enabling women to play a more prominent role in Bangladesh society.

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The knock on the door came at three o'clock in the morning, Peter and Z odwa Mabaso were asleep in their home in Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Both were arrested and held in solitary confinement in the nearby Protea police post. No charges have been laid, but both Peter and Zodwa, as leaders in the Catholic Marriage Encounter movement had become increasingly outspoken in their criticism of South Africa's migrant labour laws, which result in the break-up of many black families. They have been adopted a s prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International. Peter and Zodwa are in gaol for protesting against a system which forces South African men to live far from their f amilies if they are to get work. It is a direct consequence of the policy of apartheid - what the South African Government calls "separate development." Eighteen out of the 21 million blacks living in South Africa are required to live in specially designated areas called "bantustans" or "homelands." These areas make up only 13 per cent of the total land area, but are supposed to support more than 60 per cent of the population. Even if the areas were

Lutheran dialogue Church supports the in India African

MADRAS: India (NC) — In a first-ever joint statement, a Catholic-Lutheran dialogue group In an interview in in India has sharply condemned the caste Rome with National system that still has a significant impact on social standing and social relations in the Catholic News Service, Bishop Pavao country. of Mostar'We confess that as Christians we have miserably failed Zanic not only to eradicate this evil, but allowed it to deform the Duvno also said he very face of the Church," the group said. didn't believed the soThe group's statement called on the (lurch to work called apparitions of particularly for the poor and the oppressed. . .people who are in need of liberation from all forms of bondage." It also the Madonna in Medstressed that "a spirituality of constant renewal, both of the jugorje, Yugoslavia, community and of the individual" is essential for overcoming were real.

struggle against racism Reprinted from ACR News developed and the land good, this would be difficult. But the bantustans are undeveloped and the land is mostly poor. So the men have to go to the cities in search of work. They live in single-sex barracks which are overcrowded and underserviced. In one case, in Cape Town, a prison built in 1886 for 320 white prisoners now holds 1100 black contract workers, while outside Johannesburg, mammoth hostels to house 60,000 workers in 24 single-sex blocks have been built. Meanwhile, back in the "homelands," the wives a nd children remain behind, trying to live off the money sent home by their husbands and

fathers. Inevitably, husbands and wives grow apart, f amilies break up, children grow up not knowing their father. The extent of this problem is enormous. One in evey three African workers is a migrant from the "homelands." And the number is likely to increase. The South African Government is continuing to move black families from the homes they have lived in for generations, and often from good land, to the bantustans. Such removals are common — almost two million blacks have been moved since 1960 — most of them against their will. ACR's involvement in South Africa has not been very extensive to date.

Dangers in cults VATICAN CITY (NC) — Religious cults are r egarded by some Vatican officials as "generators of atheism" because they might confuse and disillusion Christians they try to convert, according to a Vatican official. "They propagandise among Christians and sow a certain confusion among them

especially among those who are not wellgrounded in their faith," said Father Franc Rode, under-secretary of the Secretariat for Non-Believers. Father Rode said cults, like religions, can have intellectual, ethical, sacramental and mystical elements.

ROME (NC): A Yugoslavian bishop has repeated here his earlier charges that reported Marian apparitions are dividing his diocese, and the situation could turn into a "religious war" among the faithful.

Early in 1984, however a request was received f rom Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, on behalf of the South African Justice and Peace Commission for funds to enable a film to be made on resettlement. A grant of $20,000 was made by ACR and the film is due for release soon. It will be shown in South Africa and in other countries, and will help to bring to the attention of the world the suffering caused by the relocation and the resettlement policy and the opposition of the Church to this policy. The decision is one with which the pope would agree. Addressing the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid in July last year, he strongly criticised the "forced displacement of vast numbers of people in South Africa." H e went on to say, "Every form of discrimination based on race, whether occasional or systematically practised, and whether it is aimed at individuals or whole racial groups, is absolutely unacceptable."

social evils. The dialogue members weed that "the nature of the Church should he defined in terms of its mission to the world." In the Indian context, they said, this calls for the Church "to shed its preoccupation with itself, its institutions and its rights." Instead, they said, the Church should focus on serving people in need of liberation, "especially from dehumanising poverty, from exploitation of the weaker. .and from the m anipulation of the political process by a few for their own selfish ends." The dialogue participants said that despite efforts to abolish the caste system in India, it still affects "all spheres of life in the society at large." The system, which creates a complex hierarchy of superior and inferior social groups. "segregates man from man, divides community from community and is against the kingdom of God," the group said.

He said behind them were "the charismatics of the whole world." The bishop also said the alleged visions by six young people, which began in 1981, have been exploited by local Franciscan priests who want to assert "the authority of the Madonna" in a longstanding dispute with him over parish control.

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Archbishop faces a drink-drive charge NEW YORK (NC): Archbishop Roach, of St Paul Minnesota, whose drink -driving charge was reported internationally expressed his embarrassment to his archdiocesan assembly and referred to his love for the Church. To the archdiocesan assembly, which gave him a standing ovation when he concluded, the archbishop said "I acted very imprudently and was guilty of serious bad judgment. "I am embarrassed about it," he added, "embarrassed

of course for myself but even more so for my family, for my f riends, for you, and the people of this archdiocese, the Church love very deeply. "I ask your prayers and I pledge myself in a renewed way to serve you." He told the assembly, "I want you to be able to look straight into my eyes, and I want to look straight into your eyes. And I want you to know that I love you and I love this Church. 'These past few years I have found myself speaking and

preaching frequently about how deeply God is present to us, not only in our strengths but in our weakness and our flawedness." he continued "Now I have a chance to prove that. I love this church and I love to serve it. I feel unimpaired in that service. but I need your prayers and I need your support."' The chancery reported receiving numerous phone calls and letters of support for the archbishop

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Worries about fate Support for of Bibles the motion from KEVIN CLARKE, Nollamara SIR, I support Roger Ryan (The Record March 7) and would have seconded his motion at the meeting. Land rights for Aborigines and every other member of our community should be on the same conditions and regulations. I would be disturbed if any group had sole rights to any area particularly if access to and from the sea was denied to our defence forces. Let us pray that Divine Justice will prevail for all people. Let land unite, and not divide our community. Scissors, Saws, Secateurs, Shears, Sharpened and Sot

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SIR: I fervently hope the fate of the 10,000 Bibles sent to the USSR by the United Bible Society, will be different to that of the shipment arranged by the American Reformed Church for distribution in Rumania.

Over a number of years people in the USA were asking for Bibles to be sent there. Finally the Rumanian Government agreed to sanction the shipment of 20,000. Their destination was the Hungarian adherents of the Reformed Church in Transylvania which number about one million souls. The Bibles never reached their destination. There is proof however, that they

finished up at a paper pulping and recycling plant in Braila. Letters have arrived from Transylvania containing fragments of toilet tissue paper, their wrappers with production numbers on them and on the paper, many biblical names, references, verses, proverbs and psalms can be identified.

from Clare Ahern RSJ, South Perth Sir, I understand spirituality as a way of life, as reaching into the past and having deep roots and as r esulting from personal experience with the supernatural. It is not just confined to ritual on a Sunday. It influences every aspect of a person's behaviour. Vinumminm

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Experts were able even to identify the type and printing date of the Bibles used in the process. Wrappings of the tissue papers, carry the identifications of the plants of production. References identify the

paper as being 'Type II HIR11E IGIENICA", that is: Toilet paper of Type II. It came from the factory: "BRISTRITA PRUNDULUI BIRGAULUI," county BRAILA. A roll of tissue has now been

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gathered in the West and continuous fragments of Bible particles appear right through the roll indicating that large quantities of Bibles were used for that batch, of which the roll is one part only.

Traditional Aboriginal spirituality was a way of life. It was sunk in the mysteries of the Dreamtime when the Supreme Being roamed the world and created it, making it fit to live in. It laid down the rules of behaviour for e veryday relationships with people, creatures and creation. It gave the Aborigines a set of guidelines like the Commandments given to Moses, so that they could live in harmony with ech other and communicate with their God. Like Christians, Aborigines had a monotheistic vision of God. Early anthro-

Bishop warns of war

The bishop said claims of miraculous cures attributed to the vision.s have not been documented. Some people who should have sought further medical treatment died after being told they were healed. Bishop Zanic said he felt the "division" in his diocese, in which "good people ask how the bishop cannot believe in this and Teak with a sense of unfriendliness, hatred and disdain."

"It's a difficult situation. and I think it will end with a religious war" of "disorder and hatred between the faithful," he said. He did not know the cause of the initial apparitions, which began on a hillside near the western Yugoslavian village and later moved to the parish church. A commission appointed by the bishop to study the claim of visions is expected to make its report this month. Among possible explanations of the vision reports. Bishop Zanic said, were the psychological shock of one of the "seers" over the recent death of her mother, a misinterpretation of natural phenomena, or deception by the Franciscan priests.

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Protests on prostitution MANILA, Philippines (NC) — Thousands of nuns and women colstudents lege marched in Manila's entertainment district recently to protest prostitution and lewd shows. The march coincided with a police and immigration department of the foreignowned bars and nightclubs in the Ermita district of Manila, which is also known as the "Tourist Belt." Many of the marchers carried posters with the image of the Virgin Mary. Others waved banners reading "Prostitution Destroys Body and Soul; Have Fear" and "Unite and Fight Exploitation." Police cleared the

The report. issued by the bishops' Department for Christian Citizenship, also suggests a number of immediate changes in the administration of Britain's immigration laws — particularly restoring the right to British citizenship of anyone born in Britain. That right was eliminated by the 1981 Nationality Act.

Report urges a change The report also criticises current immigration legislation, saying that it reflects racial bias. The report recommendations reflect a statement made by the bishops in 1979 when the Nationality Act was being considered in Parliament. The statement

increase rites. Certain places on the land were significant in their mythologies because it was there they had experienced the sense of the S upernatural so they visited these sacred sites, their shrines, as Christians would go on pilgrimage to churches or holy places. Like Christians t hey prayed at these shrines for a continuance of life, for rain or an increase of the various species and they performed rituals. But the first white Australians did not know and they laughed and said the Aborigines were going on walkabout.

icons, their sacred images, called tjurungaas or bullroarers as Christinas might have crucifixes or statues to cultivate a reverent atmosphere or to help recall significant events in the history of Christianity.

was endorsed by the British Council of Churches and by the bishops of the Church of England. Although restrictions were placed on aliens entering Britain from 1905 onwards. the inhabitants of British colonies were free to enter Britain without any control until the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act. Between 1955 and the passing of this Act there were nearly 500,000 immigrants from the West Indies. India and Pakistan. Between 1962 and 1967. 250.000 immigrants. primarily from India, reached Britain.

And as the ministers in Christian Churches have

vestments so had the fully initiated Aboriginal men and women. They did not have the raw materials to make cloth but they painted or decorated their bodies with sacred symbols and they removed these designs after the ritual. • Cont page 12

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way for the 10,000 marchers, who later watched the ceremonial burning of pornographic magazines. Manila Mayor Ramon B agatsing, who led the magazine burning, said: "We are willing to give up all the taxes from the bars and restaurants in Ermita for the sake of morality."

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LONDON (NC) — The bishops of England and Wales have called for a major review of Britain's immigration and nationality laws and fairer treatment for Asian immigrants.

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It was reportedly the first public protest in the Tourist Belt which Is known as a favourite spot for foreigners who patronise the bars and restaurants many of whose proprietors are Australians Americans, a nd a lthough a few are British and Japanese. Bikini-clad dancers peeped through glass doors and bar hostesses lined the sidethe as walks protestors prayed and sang hymns between the rows of Ermita district establishements. One hostess said: "They are asking us to give up our jobs. Do they want us to steal Instead?" A dancer looking at the demonstration through a glass door told a reporter: "No a I'm c omment. Catholic."

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St Paul lived "a simple lifestyle," writes Father John Castelot. But, the writer asks, "simple as opposed to what?" Simplicity is not necessarily opposed to a complicated lifestyle, for "it's hard to imagine a more complicated life than Paul's." says Father Castelot. Father Castelot indicates that a simple lifestyle means taking a certain attitude towards life. It means finding a way to live that leaves you free to focus outward — on the value and the needs of others. Cindy Liebhart interviews David Suley, director of International Liaison. The former lay missionary explains that simplicity can take a variety of forms in the lives of different individuals and groups. Sometimes living in a a simple way means choosing between two worthwhile endeavors. It can mean learning that everything doesn't depend on oneself — learning to count on the talents and contributions of others. Father Robert Sherry uses an imaginary parish council meeting as a forum in which parishioners make suggestions on how to lead a simpler life during Lent. Their suggestions indicate that the words "simple lifestyle" mean different things to different people, Father Sherry observes. Father David Monahan interviews Art and Marianne Mertens, an Oklahoma couple who have chosen to live on very little as their way of leading a simple life. "God calls some people to be poor in fact," Mertens tells Father Monahan.

What happened to the simple life "Sometimes I feel as if I'm no longer in control of my own life," a friend admitted to me somewhat anxiously a few weeks ago. "I mean, television c ommercials and magazines flood us with images of these successful men and w omen who hold demanding full-time jobs, shuttle children to ballet lessons and football practice, have immaculate homes that look like a page out of a decora-

tor's manual, throw parties regularly, do volunteer work at the local nursing home, fix their own cars, read a book a week, work out at the health club. . . "What happened to the simple life?" It is true that many TV programs and commercials create the impression that an active, productive life is characterised by fierce self-reliance and incessant activity. Often in the media, "being more" as a per-

son seems to be equated with having more and doing more. David Suley knows well the difficulty in trying to achieve — and maintain — a simple way of life. Suley

By Cindy Liebhart is executive director of International Liaison, a Catholic organisation that places lay people on assignment in local and foreign missions. A husband and father of two children, he faces responsibilities

typical of many — driving children to games and music lessons, c ommuting daily to the city, going to outof-town speaking e ngagements at least one week a month as well as many weekends a year, meeting house payments, insurance premiums, grocery bills. For Suley, a key obstacle to simplicity is "the feeling that I have to do everything myself." With his work-related travel, long hours at t he office and the work he brought home every night, Suley realised some years ago that he had no time left for himself or for his family. Simplifying his life r equired Suley and his wife to reflect on their priorities and examine their needs — "what we wanted to be and to become as individuals and as a family" — and then to make choices and changes to their living patterns where necessary.

To spend more time with his wife and family, Suley has even h ad to forgo some time-consuming and worthwhile communcommitments, ity refuse invitations on occasion for social engagements and ask others for help or advice. "We are not called to be the saviour of the world or the parish or the neighbourhood. We already have one Saviour." Suley said. "We are called to do the best we can with t he limitations of time, talents and gifts t hat we have!"

This requires the ability to recognise how valuable the talents of others are — to realise t hat everything doesn't depend on one person, Suley suggested. Nevertheless, he and his wife have tried to find ways of blending the time they spend

together with service t o friends and the larger community. An important dimension of simplicity is the ability to make time for yourself. "I have to love myself, to t ake time out for myself, or else I'll simply burn out and be no good to myself or anyone else," Suley said. With a little creativity, he transformed his daily drive to work into an enriching, peaceful time. Sometimes he listens to scripture readings, music or personal development tapes. Other times he enjoys the drive in silence. He has also made daily Mass" the most important appointment of the day." Suley suggested that simplicity of life does not necessarily imply poverty or austerity, but it does involve the ability to live on what you need. What real needs are — and the shape of simplicity in one's own life — must be

determined by individuals or cpuples t hemselves, not by images projected in the media or by what others call a need. Simplicity might mean that several couples planning an evening together would eliminate costly restaurant bills and baby sitters by dining in one of the couple's homes.

But simplicity might also mean that a couple experiencing stress in their marriage caused by life's hectic pace would take a two-week vacation alone. Suley said. Simplicity, Suley says. means "not getting so much that it suffocates you, not getting so much that you have to work and work and work just to maintain it" at the expense o f your own wellbeing, your relationships with others and God.

That others may simply live By Patricia Davis

Art and Marianne Mertens built their home in a semi-rural area. They bought five acres at $720 an acre and spent the next two years collecting building materials. Mertens bought salvage rights to materials in three houses that were being demolished. In the four years it took to build the house Mertens did 90 per cent of the work. Total cost: less than $4000. 8

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Art and Marianne M ertens sat down with me in their comfortable living room for a late-afternoon interview. Outside, the wind blew. Inside, the wood stove kept us toasty warm. The split-level room was graced by a piano at one end. An antique table held coffee and cake.

But what about that sign built into the large picture window? "Your Bankcard Welcome Here," it read — a clue that this house was different. Different it is, tust as the Mertens are different. They agreed before marriage that theirs would be the simple life. A banner in the family room reads: "Live simply that others may simply live." Mertens works for Neighbour for Neighbour, an emergency service organisation for the poor. He picks up used furniture contributed by others, repairs it and distributes it. For his services he is paid $727 monthly. An additional $320 comes from social security benefits for the two elder children who lost their mother by death when they were tiny.

Mrs Mertens occasionally does adoption interviews for a social-services agency. "Since July I've made a grand total of $400." she said. With an average income of $1100 a month, Art and Marianne must cover expenses for the family whose four children range in age from seven to 16. During the school year. $400 a month goes for tuition to the Catholic schools their children attend. The Mertens built their home on a semi-rural five acres of land. They spent two years collecting building materials. "I bought salvage rights on three houses." Reinforcement for the foundation came from bars cut at local dumps and straightened by Mertens. The window with the Bankcard sign

came from a shop that was don't buy things new if at being demolished. all possible." Concessions to The construction lasted this policy include socks and four years. "I did more than underwear. 90 per cent of the work," -We have old vehicles that Mertens said. Art keeps together with spit Finally the family had a and glue," she added. The solid eight-room house. "I 1975 Dodge and a 1972 van hoped to build it for less waved goodbye to 100,000 than $5000," Mertens said. miles long ago. "It cost less than $4000." Wood for the stoves comes How did this couple get from pallets an electric into this frame of mind? company gives Mertens in -When studying the Bible order to dispose of them. I became very aware of "Buy in quantity and when references Jesus made to the prices are low." is Mrs poor and the emphasis He Mertens' description of how put on being poor." Mertens the family obtains its food. said. "I think God calls some -We have two big freezers, people to be poor in fact. more than 50 feet of freezer "We cannot see spending space," she said And their thousands on frivolities 70-square -foot garden sup- when so many people don't plements the Mertens' table. have necessities." he added. -We get virtually all clothes A fringe benefit for Mrs from Neighbour to Neigh- Mertens: "I sleep a lot better bour.- Mrs Merten said. "We knowing we live this way."

The way to spend time, resources, energy: That is what a simple lifestyle is about, said Patricia Davis. The simple lifestyle grows out of a perspective — one that "recognises God is the creator and ultimate owner of all," she said. It means recognising that "all people are equally valuable and entitled to a life of human dignity." "As children of one creator, we are obliged to be aware of others and share. We have no unlimited right to accumulate things while others are dying," Ms Davis commented. She is a nurse who holds a master's degree in theology and currently works as an addictions counsellor. Experience "teaches me that less is more," she observed. For her there's a danger in accumulating things thoughtlessly: "Possessions can begin to possess you. It's so easy to accumulate more than you can care for." And possessions can give people a "sense of selfsufficency, to think, 'I deserve all these possessions. I don't need others or God," she said. For Ms Davis, living simply doesn't necessarily mean embracing a life of poverty. Most people need some security and possessions to "make us happy and comfortable," she said. Instead, it's adopting a certain attitude or approach toward life; making practical decisions in light of the values of Jesus. Living simply "encourages me to community life," Ms Davis said. For instance, having only one car in a family "calls on family members to co-operate, to negotiate who goes where when," tile mother of three now -adult children explained. -This draws us toward intimacy and community" and it "reinforces the truth that we are dependent on each other. We learn to share." Ms Davis told of attending a meeting connected with her work as an addictions counsellor. There a former drug addict sooke about how he developed a whole new slant on his life. The young man explained how annoyed he was after a long and low period in his life to find that after paying his rent, making his car payment and buying food, he had only $23 left. But as he brooded, it occurred to him that he wasn't sleeping in an alley anymore, he had a car, his bills were paid and he "still had $23." Then he realised that he "had what he needed," Ms Davis said.

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St Paul teas in prison. This time at Ephesus. When Paul's converts in Philippi heard the news they were quite upset. They knew that conditions in Romanprisons were deplorable. In order to save the empire money, prisoners uere given barely a subsistence diet. Paul's follourrs knew be must be uncomfortable, hungry and lonely. So, hurriedly, Paul's followers prepared relief packages and sent a messenger to deliver them to their beloved aprntle. Paul wrote a thank you note, which is included in the New Testament Letter to the Philippians. In it be poured out his thanks for their concern, hut he assured them that they ?ratty didn't have to go to all that trouble. He urote: have learned lx)w to cope with every circumstance — bow to eat well or go hookgry, to be well provided

for or do without" (Philippians 4:12-13). Paul uvrr the uorid like a loose cloak. He did not let the world smother him. He could enjoy it or put up with it. He could savour a gourmet meal or be content with a hurried snack. He lived what we uvuldcall "a simple lifest4e." A simple life as opposed to what ? Not as opposed to complicated It wouldhe hard to imagine a more compllcated life than Paul's. But his life was complicated by people and concern for them, not by concern for things. Not that he just sat back and let people take care of him. On the contrary, Paulinsisted on supporting himself by plying his trade as a tentmaker. Paul's simple lifestyle left him supremely freefor others. He measured his worth in terms ofpeople, not of things. For a human being to be measured by things is dehumanising. Something seems wrong when one thinks more highly of having three cars than of pmmoting families that are loving or serving. .4 simple lifestyle reminds Christians not to let possessions or status blot out human values. A simple lifestyle allows people to be human themsehes, not slaves to a twisted twilue system.

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Former lay missionary David Suley, now director of International Liaison, says maintaining a simple life style means "not getting so much that it suffocates you, not getting so much that you have to work and work and work just to maintain it- at the expense of your own well-being, your relationship with others and God. (NC sketch by Ed Harvey March 11, 1985)

ome simplicit community style By Father Robert Sherry

Let's sit in on a monthly meeting of the St Anthony of Padua parish council. Though the parish and its meeting are imaginary. you will see that members' discussion is true to If e. For six months parish council members have mulled over a question posed by the pastor Father Michael Sholl How can our parishioners lead a simpler life during Lent? The pastor had asked council members to draw up a list of suggestions, based on their own experiences. He wants to publish the list in the parish bulletin and to talk about it in his homily the first Sunday of Lent.

L DE Marilyn Farrell, liturgy coordinator, speaks first. "Ipersonally believe that the Bible says all we need to hear about living a simple life. I suggest we compile several quotations from Scripture for the people to pray over during Lent. One for each of the 40 days."

Ms Farrell adds that her favourite quotations are: "Tell those who are rich in this world's goods not to be proud, and not to rely on so uncertain a thing as wealth" (1 Timothy 6:17). "Happy are you who are poor" ( Luke 6:20). The council president. Jim Lawrence, speaks next. He suggests that parishioners could learn something about simplicity of living by participating in group discussions. He explains: "I was particularly impressed when the bishops said the highest priority ought to be placed on fulfilling the basic needs of the poor. Again I was impressed

"We could start with a modest supper of lentil soup and prayer," she says. "Then we could show films about the starving people in Ethiopia and other countries. People might be encouraged to make their personal suggestions about simple living". Joe Sepovich, director of social services, suggests that each year the parish sponsor the training. transportation and

changed me for life." The director of the parish opportunity shop, Betty Franklin, suggests that during Lent each parishioner practise "living a simple life." One way she offers is: "Abstain from or, better yet, don't serve that extra dish of food at dinner. We can all get by on a lot less." The chairman of the committee. finance speaks McCoy, George now. "I've been waiting to say this for years. Before we can sponsor anyone or anything, something else must start first. We must begin to give much more in this

n the uman Situation when they said that meeting the needs of the poor and increasing their participation in society should be a priority when investing wealth, talent and human energy." Sister Alice Martino is parish coordinator of religious education. She thinks people "learn by seeing and doing." She suggests having parish family evenings during Lent,

the ministry of several volunteer missioners from the parish who would serve in New Guinea or the Pacific. In Sepovich's view, the missionaries would return with "personal stories of their experience of people who are obliged to live a simple life. We could all learn from them." He adcLs that he was a missionary years ago and "the experience

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parish. It is learning by doing. It will remind people each week to live a simple life and to help others. I've been tithing for seven years and the Lord has blessed me for it." Six of the 12 members of the parish council have now given their suggestions. What ideas on the simple life would you offer if you were next to speak?

"The Gospels bear witness to Christ and to the fidelity with which He fulfilled the mission for which He was consecrated by the Spirit. It was a mission of e vangelisation and human redemption which led Him to live among His people, sharing their lot, but illuminating and directing it, preaching and witnessing to the Gospel of conversion to the Kingdom of God. (From Religious Life and Human Promotion, published in 1981 by the Vatican's Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes.) Jesus' "startling proposal of the Beatitudes introduced a radical change of perspective in evaluating temporal reality and human and social relations which He wished to be centred on a justice -sanctity animated by the new law of love. (From Religious Life and Human Promotion, published in 1981 by the Vatican's Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes.) "Yes, the preference for the poor is a Christian preference it is a preference that expresses the concern of Christ, who came to proclaim a message

of salvation to the poor, for the poor are indeed loved by God. - (Pope John Paul II address in the Philippines in 1981.) Re-treat Your Family to Lent, by Sister Sandra DeGidio, OSM. Suggestions for keeping a Lenten journal, for providing Lenten support to family members and for a renewed understanding of fasting and almsgiving are discussed in this four-page publication. Lent is "a time to get back to the basics of Christian living," the writer says. It is easy to get so caught up in the business of e veryday life that "we fail to notice how we may have grown away from one another, away from the Christian community and consequently away from God," Sister DiGidio states. She suggests that Christians think about fasting from some TV viewing, from impatience or from drugs, including alcohol; that they think about almsgiving in terms of sharing personal energy,

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HAVE YOUR SAY

Information was precise The Christian religion is Sir rooted in the call to assist Frank Brennan SJ gave t he needy and the clear and precise informaoppressed wherever they tion about the forthcoming be found. land rights legislation. The Church has consist • Eligible Aborigines ently spoken out for those will be able to claim unalin want. Pope John Paul located crown land, which supported the legitimate amounts to 40 per cent of c laims of indigenous peoWA. Any claim must be ples when he visited Candecided by a Government ada and Equador last year. Tribunal. Now is the time for Chris• 96 per cent of that 40 tians to discern in prayer per cent is desert, in which t heir position on this no-one but the desert Aborigines is interested. • Of the remaining four per cent, not desert, an unknown amount will be designated "land with agricultural potential". This land will be unavailable for claim. Until the Bill is tabled, the amount of arable unallocated land Sir, It was heartening whatever — which makes traditional family atmoswhich will be available for and a welcome to read so much more slippery, phere. Roslyn Ross' feaclaim is unknown, but it is (The Record, February 28) the slope to hell(— so aptly ture article in the same certain to be less than four the realistic and timely described by the little edition makes distressing per cent of the 40 per cent. words of our Premier re Negro boy as "the place reading. E ligible Aborigines are t he "development of an where God ain't — and R eform and/or mainteadults who are members a ggression about the t hat's what burns you nance of good standards of an Aboriginal Corporavalues of Christianity that up.") must come from the top of tion — a group of seven were under attack " It would seem that there whatever group is under or more adults — who We will eagerly watch, to is no one more authoratc onsideration, be it family, fulfil one of three requiresee if these discerning itive, or with more respon- church (clerical and lay) or ments: w ords of our state's sibility, than the Premier, state. 1 ) that they have traleader, be immediately who can do more than has I invite all Christians to ditional links with the land implemented, or. whether been done to date, to stop pray that the Premier will being claimed; t hey become Nugatory the flow of this pernicious use his power and cour2) that they have lived through inaction. evil as evident in the hor- age to be active in cornon the land for a long time, For we are judged not so rendous titles being batting this abhorrent evil . 3) that they claim the much on what we say, as approved by the GovernMay I say, "Go to it. Mr land on the basis of need. what we do. ment. Premier, Fide: Defensor, With regard to mission The first step in confrontParents today, need all and may God's blessing lands, there are three posing the immorality so rife, the empathy and assist- from Mary Immaculate, sibilities: a nd increasing, today, ance possible, to encour- and our prayers, go with 1) if the mission is paid would be to stem the tide age the numinous in their you for the land, then it is not of hideous porn — literary, children and to rear them Our Lady Help of Chrisavailable for claim; pictorial or of any type in a loving, harmonious, tians please pray for us. 2) if the land was granted t o the mission for the purposes of ministering to the Aborigines, this situation will be regarded as similar to a trusteeship situation, and the trustee period will be deemed to be over, and the land will be available for claim; 3) if the land was granted t o the mission for any heart can stand in a holy The land was central to other purpose even if such From page 7 place. Aboriginal spirituality. The purpose included minisThey would have underyoungest child was intro tering to the Aborigines, But central to Aboriginal stood what Paul (Romans duced to the mystery and then the land will not be spirituality was the con8:22) meant, when he sacredness dweling in it available for claim. cept of land. The land was spoke of creation groanThese details give some understood as Mother. It ing. They saw their task as He was taught to be rev idea of the complexity of was fertile and generous. helping creation to conerent, silent and gentle t he Bil l . However, it It was like a living bible, tinue giving birth. To destowards it. Even today to should be noted that only a permanent record of the troy and violate the earth watch the tenderness of a one third of the Aborigines Dreamtime and the sancwas not part of their phiyoung child as he looks at of WA. will be eligible to tuary of the Supernatural. losophy. They groaned a seed, the colours in the make a claim. Thus the Bill The Aborigines were and suffered when they sky or new tracks on the does not meet the legiti- adherents of creation saw it happening. eart. mate aspirations for land t heology. They realised of two thirds of the Abo- the earth had to be cheriginal population and rised, nurtured and mainfrom K MELLET, Florear there is no provision for tained for others. It was pleasing to see the photograph (The Record, compensation for these They could have sung the F ebruary 28) of the Premier unveiling the plaque and people. Canticle of the Sun with announcing a government grant to the new Eagles Nest There are many Catholics St Francis. They knew that Catholic Youth Centre. and Christians of other Mother Earth unfolded It was indeed very worthy of note to read of Mr. Burke's denominations who blessings day by day and comments with regard to Christian morals and the believe that the Aboriginal that the flowers and fruits way in which they are being undermined. people have claims on our showed forth the glory os For some time this issue has been close to the hearts society because of their the Supreme Being. They of those of us who are now regarded as the Moral dispossession. understood that Brother Minority!! They want a just system Sun and Sister Moon also With this public statement of his beliefs, let us hope of land tenure for all Aus- c ontained the creative Mr. Burke and his government will follow it up with tralians including Abori- presence of the Supreme practical initiatives in the fight against pornography. gines, and if their claims Being. for land cannot be met, Like Daniel (3:57-88) then compensation is due they saw the mountains Something to buy? to them. and hills, rivers and seas Something to sell? Only in this way can the as praising the Supreme Use Aboriginal people obtain Being and like the psalRECORD the land base they need to mist in psalm 23 they gain security and ensure knew that only a man with CLASSIFIEDS their dignity and destiny. clean hands and a pure

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sue. s Oremier's words were heartening

Everything from king-size fridges to Kitchen Knick-Knacks will be auctioned at the Glendalough fete next Sunday.

PAT KENNY, Spirituality the way Your host at the of life to Aborigine SAVOY PLAZA wishes you luck in

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Fund raising gets hard Charitable organisations in WA, like their counterparts in the eastern states are finding fund-raising an increasingly difficult task said Mr Geoff Smith — auctioneer for the Little Sisters. There had been a significant downturn in cash donations in the past few years. Donations of used clothing and other merchandise previously given to welfare groups had dropped dramatically he said. This was largely due to the advent of 'home garage sales', and free 'for sale' advertising in newspapers, and swap meets. The Little Sisters of the Poor, Glendalough are affected no less than others, he said.

Auctions at the annual Glendalough Fete have raised more than $14,000 since 1979 said Mr Smith. "It would be a shame if they were to be discontinued. "Without continuing donations, this will be the case." Mr Smith appealed for donations for the auction on March 24. Just about anything is saleable he said — furniture, floor coverings, electrical appliances, pictures and frames, jewellery crockery. memorabillia and tools.

The following suppliers and contractors wish the Little Sisters success in their fund raising ventures for 1985 and their rebuilding program.

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The sacrament of the anointing of the sick is a regular feature at the Little Sisters of the Poor Home at Glendalough and last week Father Stephen Lennon OSB was pictured giving the sacrament to Oliver Kelleher.

P & 0 cruise A big The annual raffle will be drawn at the fete at 4 pm. The prize this year will be a 12 day South Pacific Cruise for two on the Oriana. It includes air travel by TAA, Perth to Sydney and return.

fete day

March 24 is Fete Day at Glendalough. It is fete time again at Glendalough. People from all parts of the metropolitan area will be there again to snap up the bargains, and be entertained between noon and 5pm. Regular features such as cakes, white elephant and plant stalls, afternoon teas, bingo, giant auction and wheels will provide plenty for the adults. For the children, there will be lucky dips and a merry-go-round. The WA Police pipe band will provide entertainment for all. All funds raised at the f ete are channelled directly to the Home for the Aged.

Resident ministers to resident: Benedictine Father Stephen Lennon annoints another resident of the Glendalough Homes, Mrs Salgado, during a Mass at the home.

During her recent visit to WA, Mother General, Mother Marie-Antoinette De La Trinite spoke of the need to upgrade sections of the Glendalough Home. She hoped the single women's and married couples hostels could receive a top priority. She congratulated members of the fete committee on their fund raising and the contribution those funds had made to the upgrading of the Home. She hoped they could continue the wonderful work.

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Obituary

Bishop warns of war

PRAYER ST JUDE 0 Holy St Jude Apostle and Claremont parish lost a Martyr great in virtue and stalwart with the death rich in miracles. Near Kins- this week of Vincent man of Jesus Christ, FaithWednesday. No Phone minimum U. 28 words. Closes am Whitely who was 82 and ful Intercessor of all who has lived in the area for invoke your special patron over 40 years. THANKS DEATH in time of need. To you BUILDING Originally from Fremantle have cause from the depth TRADES 0 Holy St Jude apostle WHITELY: On March of my heart and humbly he started early in his life to 11th at Sir Charles and martyr, great in virtue PAINTING quality work and rich in miracles, near Gairdner Hospital, Vin- beg you to whom God has have an active involvement at the right price. John kinsman of Jesus Christ, cent Whitely of 57 Loftus given such great power to in the life of the church as Freakley. Phone 361 4349. faithful intercessor of all Street, Nedlands, beloved come to my assistance. altar server at St Patrick's Help me now in my present including Fremantle gaol who invoke your special husband of Edna (decd), From page 7 and urgent need and grant Electrical Contractor 5 patronage in time of need, loved father of Barry (Fr and also the St Patrick's my earnest petition. In B. Whitely, Spearwood), J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, to you I have cause from He had decided the vision return I promise to make church choir. Rivervale. 30 yrs expe- the depths of my heart and R eg (Bro. R. Whitely, grimage from which he Music and entertainment reports were false when he your name known and rience, expert, efficient, humbly beg you to whom Clontarf), Lynn (decd) and retired but re-emerged when were his life-blood and he learned some of the Madonreliable. Ring 362 4646, God has given such great of Michael, Sandy and cause you to be invoked. later became a foundation he said no one else would Say three Our Fathers, na's alleged messages supafter hours 385 9660. power to come to my assist- Zac. Hail Marys and Glorias St member of the restructured take up the cause. The result ported the priests in a ance. Help me now in my His Funeral took place in PROPERTY Improve- present and urgent need the Catholic Lawn Ceme- Jude pray for all who St Mary's cathederal male was that hardly a home in dispute over parish control ments Service all types of and grant my earnest peti- tery, Karrakatta, on Thurs- honour and invoke your choir under Father Lynch, the parish did not know with the bishop. w indows and doors tion. In return, I promise day 14th March, 1985, aid. Publication must be t wo of his sons following in Vicent Whitely, his stories, "I'm sure this is not the promised. This novena installed: walls and ceilings to make your name known following Requiem Mass and his infectious love of his footsteps as boy sopraMadonna, because the removed; wooden pergo- and cause you to be in St Thomas Church, never fails. With grateful nos. life. Of his four sons, one is Madonna would in this way las; general repairs. Phone invoked. Say three Our Claremont. Our thanks to thanks. Y.M.L. t oday a parish priest, In Claremont parish he destroy the foundations of 341 2946. Fr. J.J. O'Dwyer and those Fathers, Hail Marys and another a Christian Brother become a mainstay of the the Church," Bishop Zanic Glorias, St Jude pray for parishioners of St Tho- 0 holy St Jude, apostle and a third died as a ColumE LECTRICAL: For all all who honour and invoke mas's, Claremont, who and martyr, great in virtue parish finance committe but said. t ypes of electrical work your aid. Publication must made it possible for Dad and rich in miracles, near his major love was the ban missionary priest in He did not know whether phone 335 2277. be promised. This Novena to continue to live at home. kinsman of Jesus Christ, Fatima statue house pil- Chile. May he rest in peace. the young people "see somenever fails. Thanks For Bowra & O'Dea Funeral faithful intercessor of all thing, are hallucinating or STEELWORK: All types who invoke you as special Directors 3287299 favours granted. P Hanraare acting," when he desof steel gates and balusC ASEY Francis James: patron in time of need, to han. cribed the visions as a "coltrades, mig welding and arc Nell wishes to sincerely you I have recourse from lective hallucination" in a welding. Phone 335 2277. Most Sacred Heart of thank one and all relatives the depths of my heart and Jesus may your name be to the Vatican last report whom to you beg BRICKLAYER available, praised and glorified and friends for their attend- humbly autumn, he was using the all types of work, South of throughout the world now ance at Mass and funeral, God has given such great River preferred. No job too and forever, Amen. (Say for all messages of sym- power to come to my assistexpression of a psychiatrist small, free quotes, ring nine times a day for nine pathy and act of kindness ance. Help me now in my who had studied the events. 339 6053. c onsecutive days and in her sad and sudden loss present and urgent need "But behind these apparipromise publication). o f her dear husband and grant my earnest petitions are the charismatics of AccommoDATioN Thanks for favours Frank. May God bless you tion. In return I promise the whole world," he said. t o make your name known A VAILABLE granted. P. Hanrahan. all. "These charismatics arc very be to you cause and Most Sacred Heart of O'CONNOR H.W. (Bill): much inclined to miracles. Holiday House in Wembley Jesus may your name he Marie, Brian and Pauline invoked. Say three Our extraordinary revelations, overlooking Lake Monger, praised and glorified wish to thank all friends Fathers, Hail Marys and 5 mins from city, sleeps up throughout the world now and relatives for attending Glorias, St Jude pray for direct contact with God. to six, linen, crokery, etc, and with the Holy Spirit, with the forever. Amen. their late father's Requiem all who honour and invoke fully furnished, long or Thanks for favour. Maria. Mass and funeral and for your aid. Thanks F.S. Madonna. And so when they short term. 450 5301. the many kind expressions Most Sacred Heart of hear from another corner of Novena to the Holy Spirit of sympathy. A special Jesus may your name be the world that there are - Holy Spirit, you who thanks to Father Rector praised and glorified these apparitions. they rush solve all problems, light all and the community of the t hroughout the world now PERSONAL roads so that I can attain Redemptorist Monestery. and forever. Say this to defend them." Bishop Zanic said he my goal. You gave me the prayer nine times for nine Catholic lady 40's wishes divine gift to forgive and thought lithe study commisIN MEMORIAM consecutive days. Thank to hear from gent for out- forget all evil against me you. T.S. sion questioned the authenings, music, photography and that in all instance of CLARKE Su7anna Mary: St Augustine's Prayer to ticity of the visions, "there in caring sharing atmos- my life you are with me. I March 3 1984. In sad and the Holy Spirit: Breathe will be a reaction of disobephere, professional or bus- want in this short prayer to loving memory of my into me. Holy Spirit, that dience by those who are iness preferred. Reply thank you for all things as beloved wife Susan. Sadly my mind may turn to what fanatics." "Catholic Lady" this I confirm once again that missed by all of us. May is holy. Move me. Holy office. The bishop said despite his I never want to be separated she rest in peace. what do may Spirit, that I Single lady 32 Filipino from you ever, in spite of misgivings, he was willing to is holy. Stir me. Holy THANKS living Cebu City. Philip- all material illusions. I wish change his mind about the Spirit, that I may love pines, uni . graduate, social to be with you in eternal Petition to the Sacred what is holy. Strengthen alleged visions if the facts worker, very sincere. glory. Thank you for your Wound: 0 Sweet and gen- me. Holy Spirit, that I may warrant a change. Catholic wishes pew pal. mercy towards me and tle Jesus, who didst so preserve what is holy. Pro"I can err. ral a man who view friendship marriage. mine. This prayer must he meekly suffer that cruel tect me, Holy Spirit, that is not perfect. I'm ready to Phone 3395620 Pictured after their wedding are Mr and Mrs Tevor said for three days after pain from the wound I may never lose what is which the favour will be inflicted by the cross on holy -- your holy friend- Harding who were married during nuptial Mass try to accept these appariSITUATION granted. The prayer must your Sacred Shoulder. I ship and your strengthen- celebrated in Infant Jesus church Morley by Father tions if the Madonna gives V ACANT a sign," he said. be published immediately. desire to honour that hid- ing presence. Amen. In Bishop Zanic said contrary AFTER HOURS RECEP- Norah K. den suffering of Thine: it deep gratitude this prayer Francis Moylan ODC. The groom is from Sydney and the bride, Suzanne to the instructions of YugosTIONIST is little honoured because is published. Monica. Funeral Director requires Novena to the Holy Spirit it is so little known, but I ,Quadrio is the third child of Sam and Thelma Quadri() lavian bishops last year, married couple. Duties — Holy spirit, you who o ffer the love which Novena to the Holy Spirit !of Morley. pilgrimages to the site were after hours telephone and solve all problems, light all throughout all ages the — Holy spirit, you who still being organised and attain that I can roads so reception. Air conditioned angels have worshipped solve all problems, light all promoted by local Francisme the You gave 2 bedroom, carpeted. my goal. Thy wound. I unit my love roads so that I can attain can priests. unfurnished modern flat, divine gift to forgive and to theirs and I desire to my goal. You gave me the It was this "group of Franrent free. Small salary, suit forget all evil against me bear in silence whatever divine gift to forgive and young couple wanting to and that in all instance of hidden sufferings You may forget all evil against me The Legion of Mary will invited to attend and take ciscans who were disobesave. Apply "Funeral my life you are with me. send me in memory of that and that in all instance of hold the annual Acies part by leading the proces- dient to the bishop and to Directors" Record Office. I want in this short prayer sacred pain Thou didst my life you are with me. ceremony on March 24 in sion in making the prom- their provincial who Fremantle ise. East t o thank you for all things endure in carrying. Thy I want in this short prayer t he 26 John Street. Perth. defended Medjugorje. for as I confirm once again Cross. Amen. Amen. (Say to thank you for all things Church of the Immaculate R efreshments will be Canning available in the hall after- the most part." that I never want to be t hree Hail Marys in as I confirm once again C onception, FOR SALE After the Church hierarchy Preston wards. ever. and you separated from Highway honour of the Sacred Pews for sale: I 2 matching in spite of all material Wound. This never fails. that I never want to be Point Road. To assist Legionaries was formally established in jarrah pews, 3.3m long, illusions. I wish to be with Publication must be prom- separated from you ever. The ceremonies com- north of the river a bus will what is now Yugoslavia in e xcellent condition S200 y ou in eternal glory. ised). Our Lord said to St in spite of all material mence at 2.45 pm. The leave from St Thomas 1881, the Holy See removed illusions. I wish to be with each phone 2951261. Thank you for your mercy Bernard: The pressure of you in eternal glory. Vexillum will be carried in Church at 2.00 pm sharp some parishes from the t owards me and mine. This the heavy cross on my Thank you for your mercy procession and placed in and stopping at Cottesloe REAL ESTATE prayer control of Franciscans, who up pick St to McNeil to in prior must be said for lacerated shoulder pro- towards me and mine. This position at 2.40 pm W ANTED three days after which the duced a dreadful wound prayer must be said for t o the Opening Legion those waiting and make had maintained the faith in another short stop at St the region for centuries. The which was in fact the most three days after which the Prayers. Triggs to Mullaloo, Carine favour will be granted. Anns Church North Fre- Some Franciscans, supauxiliary be published and must active prayer All of my torments. agonising favour will be granted. The t o Heathridge. Buying, arriving at East ported by the local popumantle, to expected J.A. are immediately. members enerate that Sacred V prayer must be published selling, renting in these attend and all spiritual Fremantle at 2.30 pm. A lace, resisted the change. Wound and be assured immediately. M .Mc. TIIANKS popular areas? Please conand acting spir- return trip will be made The dispute over parish tact Helen Larsen. West Novena to the Holy Spirit that all petitions pres- Novena to the Holy Spirit directors directors are cordially after the ceremonies. itual control reached a climax Coast Real Estate Holy spirit, you who solve ented, by its merits, thou Holy spirit, you who solve name known and cause just before the reported 447 7799 (AH 448 5374) all problems, light all shall obtain. M.B. all light problems. all T HANKS you to be invoked. Say visions began, Bishop Zanic for professional, honest roads so that I can attain roads so that I can attain three Hail Marys and Glo- said. Thanks to apostle Our Lady, St Jude service. Holy St 0 my goal, you gave me the my goal, you gave me the ria, St Jude pray for all divine gift to forgive and Jude, and Padre Pio for divine gift to forgive and and martyr great in virtue He confirmed that two who invoke your aid. Pubprayers answered. near THANKS M.S. miracles, rich in and forget all evil against me priests. forget all evil against me Father Ivan Prusina Jesus Christ. lications must be promNovena to the Sacred and that in all instances of and that in all instances of kinsman of and Father Ivica Vego, were ised. This prayer never Heart Most Sacred Heart my life you are with me. Novena to The Sacred my life you are with me. faithful intercessor of all expelled from the Francisof Jesus. May your name I want in this short prayer Heart. Most Sacred Heart I want in this short prayer who invoke you, special fails. Thanks. MMc. can order in 1982 for refneed, time of in the patron. he praised and glorified to thank you for all things of Jesus, may your name to thank you for all things throughout the world now as I confirm once again be praised and glorified as I confirm once again t o you I have recourse Deepest gratitude to the using to relinquish control and forever. Amen. that I never want to he throughout the world, now that I never want to be from the depths of my Infant Jesus of Prague for of their parishes. Thanks to the Sacred separated from you ever. and forever. Amen. (Say separated from you ever. heart and humbly beg you answering my novena to Bishop Zanic said the deciHeart for prayers ans- in spite of all material nine times a day for nine in spite of all material to whom God has given secure urgent employment sion to expel them was wered. illusions. I wish to be with c onsecutive days and illusions. I wish to be with such great power to come for my son. May Our made by Pope John Paul H. (Say nine times for nine y ou in eternal glory. promise publication). you in eternal glory. to my assistance. Help me Blessed Saviour and his who had consulted with him c onsecutive days and Thank you for your mercy Thanks to the Sacred Thank you for your mercy now in my present and Mother Mary bring him and Franciscan officials promise publication.) towards me and mine. Heart of Jesus for prayers t owards me and mine. urgent need and grant my back to the Catholic faith. about the expulsion. return In petition. earnest Charmaine. Ivy answered. Liz. Frank S. Ellen. I promise to make your 12 The Record, 14 — 20 March, 1985

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Youth Forum

Whenever we are gathered Jesus promised that wherever two or three were gathered in His name, He would be in their midst. Angie Curtis of Lesmurdie believes that this promise is still fulfilled today. R ecently at the Lesmurdie second Antioch weekend, Angie was among 12 young people to present talks on a range of topics about faith and living in the Christian community. The Antioch movement began in Lesmurdie in August 1984. Father Dunlea, the Bennisons, McAllisters and Rodrigues's have been among those adults offering weekly support to the group. Left: Some of the sixty young people who took part in the second parish Antioch weekend. Below, left to right: At the Lesmurdie Antioch weekend, Michael McAlister, Tina Fernandes, Angie Curtis and Father Dunlea, OMI.

Wrong way. By Anne Ryan

We could be going about International Youth Year the wrong way. Our approach is backwards. Instead of asking people to listen to young women and men we should be asking young women and men to go to those we want to listen to us and tell them what it is to be a young person today, what we intend to do about peace, participation and development and our ideas about how they can help. Why should people who have never listened before suddenly decide to seek out young people and ask them what they think? They may because it is lyy, so this is the perfect opportunity to get our house in order, work out our plan and put it into action. How do we go about it?

First, it may he a good idea for young people to stop and think about IYY and the three themes of 1985 — Peace, Participation and Development. Peace has a special significance for Christians because we are called to be peacemakers. We must be "makers of peace" in our family, school, workp;ace, neightlourhood, parish, our country and our world. It is not enough to keep the peace because we have to be active in building a peaceful world — we have to be peace-MAKERS. Participation is about control of one's own life; of taking or being given responsibility for one's own destiny. How many decisions that affect our lives are made by others? How often do we participate in the decisionmaking processes in our society? How often do we make the effort to be allowed to take part in the decisions that are made in our family, our school, workplace and community? Do we take up our responsibility and become involved

YCS survey

A survey by the Young Workers Christian movement in Adelaide has revealed 71 per cent support for a procommunity posed based service. The results of the survey will be used by the YCW in a bid to establish a parish-based employment service in the western suburbs long-term offering employment prospects and badly needed emotional support for lob seekers. The survey was compiled from a doorknock

of some 2000 homes in the southern suburbs conducted from March to June 1983. The results were processed by computer and incorporated in the YCW Unemployment Action 83/84 Report, released recently. A surprising outcome of the survey was 25 per c ent support for the idea of financing job schemes creation through a one per cent voluntary wage levy.

to create greater opportunities for shared decisionmaking? Development is enabling people to freely choose the course of their life. There is no true freedom to make choices if people arc living in situations of injustice. We live in a world where the majority of people live in conditions that deny their dignity as daughters and sons of God; where they are not free to be fully human. Are we asking questions about the daily situations we are faced with, where the true gifts and talents of people are abused or not brought to their full potential? Are we doing something to change those situations? That is the crunch — — Are we doing something? Don't say, "there's nothing I can do." There is plenty to do and the greatest fact is that there is no-one else but you who can do it. What better time to start or keep going than in IYY. Here are some action suggestions: • Don't do anything on your own. Get a couple of friends together and talk about WY. Suggest to your youth group that the group plans something for IVY. • Find out more information about WY. • Has your school formed an IVY committee? If they haven't — there's an action. • Is your parish planning to acknowledge WY? Find out! If the parish hasn't thought about IVY, start making suggestions and get in contact with people in the.: parish who would like to get involved with an IVY parish action. • Local government authorities will be establishing iyy committees in 1985. Find out what you can about your local committee.

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According to a recent survey thirty per cent ofyoung Catholics prefer to describe the Church as a community and rate the images of institution andhierarchy as least important. I n the surrey many difficulties and criticisms with the Church, were aimed at the clergy. A common complaint was that 'Sermons were boring. difficult to understand and too long". Young people found that "Some liturgies were tiresome and irrelemnt". The most negative influence they felt, was the Church's "cold rigid institutional nature and the double standard of both clergy and laity". Other phrases used about the Church and

the hierarchy were "insensitive, unapproachable, and too distant". These were the findings of the Catholic Youth Council inpreparation for the International Youth Year Connference. One hundred and sixty responses ulere received to an enquiry paper. The young people who responded, upre between the ages of 15 and 25 years. The three broad areas of the enquiry, centred on faith, church, and society. The lapsed and unintklIved C.atholic youth were not represented in the survey. The majority of r esponses came from parish youth group members. Bearing this in mind it is worth examining bow

young people see the Church. Among the things some young people found difficult to accept were, unmarried priests, and the exclusion of women from the ordained ministry and altar serring. Criticism is always bard to take, and some would even go so far, to say it should never be voiced It's bard to take when its levelled at .yourself or at the community you love and belong to. Often the relationship of the Church is formed for _youth by the relationship a young person has with a priest. Those attending state schools have limited chance of a meeting if the faith is lapsed at home. Boys have a better chance if serving at the altar from an early age. With only one third of the parishes sbouing interest in the young — few will meet a priest till perhaps their marriage preparation. And then it is often in fear and trepidation. Young people expect at least three things of their priest. Firstly that be be friendl.)''': this invokrs a willingness on the part of thepriest to reach out to the

young. If a priest passes this hurdle the young also expect him to be 'in touch" with the uvrid and especially the young person's world. 77xit's not all, the third requirement is that the priest he "approachable"; that young people are able to find him a good listener. In the survey the positive aspects seen in the Church were that it was less pompous, more human, less institutionalised and more alive. Young people welcomed the friendship and encouragement offered by some clergy. To me the broad picture painted by the survey is one of hope, and as the recent state-wide convention proclaimed "together we hope, together we build".

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° hildren's Story Hour Francis had everything he wanted. His family w as rich. His father owned a big company that bought and sold expensive cloth. Francis had a lot of fun when he was young. He went to parties and liked to play the flute and to dance. He had fancy clothes, the best foods and plenty of money. His father wanted Francis to become a partner in his cloth business. But Francis dreamed of becoming a famous knight, riding a white horse, doing brave deeds. So one day Francis put on his heavy armour and mounted his horse. Carrying his spear in his right hand he rode off to fight the enemy.

Along the way he met another knight who was so poor that he had no armour, just a broken spear. His clothes were more like rags. His horse was thin and weak. Francis fell so sorry for the sad knight that he gave him his own shield and sword and his fancy clothes. A fterward Francis began to think seriously about how he was living. He made a pilgrimage to Rome. There he s aw people in the streets begging for money, food, clothes. Francis' heart was touched. He gave them all his money. Then he exchanged his clothes with one poor beggar. One day he found a leper a man with a

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a place to live, for food to eat and clothes to wear. Francis and his brothers and sisters lived in huts and caves or in simple houses. They owned nothing. They begged every day for their food and a place to stay. They cared for sick and poor people. They prayed. They preached t o the people about Jesus Christ. People called them Franciscans.

People who knew Francis began to think that he was very much like Jesus. The church recognises him as a saint. His feast day is celebrated every October 4.

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I s tteal. Jesus, these. Many hundreds of before he died, ate a last years ago. tribes held spring meal with his friends and festivals in honour of the told them: "Do this in death of winter, the return memory of me. Christians of sunny weather, tbe feel that Jesus, by his death growth of new plants and andrising again, leads them the birth of baby animals. The goddess of the Spring to a new life. In the Euchwas called Ostaru, and our arist, they celebrate his word Easter is based on this death and rising for them. name. .4notber urdfor Passoter is Pasch. Some languages Life is full of changing take their word for Easter seasons, comings and from this. In France Easter goings, ups and downs. is Paggue in Italy it is Sometimes the world feels Pasqua. Our English urard cold and sad Sometimes it "Easter" is even older than feels warm and happy. For 1'e

Easter is the season of joy Cbristians, who remember everything thatJesus didfor them, celebrate together the most important feast in the Church's _year. "He is risen: he is not here - People pray and sing jo_yfully to celebrate the new life of Easter On Easter Sunday, we gii,e gifts of Easter eggs as a sign of new life. This continues a very old custom datingfar back to the times before Jesus came. The ancient Egyptians and Persians ate coloured eggs during their festivals to welcome the spring. Eggs uvre often red, the colour of fire and of blood a colour of life and joy. For Christians the egg has another meaning too. The baby bird with its new life comes from the egg; Jesus came from the tomb on the first Easter day. Before Easter, Christians remember that Jesus chose to suffer and to die for them. Each year the Hebrew people ate a special meal to honour God who had rescued them from slavery. The story of how Moses led the Hebrew people to their new,pmmisedlandLs in this book. The meal when they

terrible skin disease. No one would come near him. Francis hugged the man and took care of him. Francis began to believe that people meet Christ especially in the poor. Francis read the Gospels and saw that Jesus lived a very simple life. He saw that Jesus was always with people no one else cared about — the poor and sick, lepers, sinners. So Francis went back home to Assisi. He told his father he would not become a cloth merchant. Francis moved out of his father's mansion. He began to live a very simple and poor life. Like the town beggars he begged each day for

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From The Easter Book, stories, songs, traditions, things to do and make, by Moira Eastman and Wendy Poussard, published by Dove Communications, $4.95.

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1 4 4 Its. 1 4 4 ks. 1 4 4 Its. I 4 4 its I 4 4 Its. I 4 4 Its. I 4 The Spooksters Handbook by Peter Eldin, published by Fontana, $3.50. Another devilishly disgusting book by the author of The Trickster's Handbook and the Whizzlcid.s Handbook No 3. This book goes even further as one bite from the deceptive pages turns unsuspecting darlings into fiendish little horrors. They learn how to drive people bats with such charming things as the severed finger of the Mongolian monster or the nerve-twanging sound of Count Dracula's footsteps.

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The Midnight Folk and Box Of Delights, by John Masefield, published by Fontana, $3.95 each. The Midnight Fox and The Box Of Delights are two thrilling fantasy adventure stories. In the first, Kay Harker is bent on discovering the long-lost Harker treasure, and with the help of the Midnight Folk makes nightly investigations into the mystery. In the second. his adventures begin one snowy midnight when he is given the magic Box of

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Delights which takes him into times past. It is up to its rightful owner. Would you Rather, by John Burningbam, published by Fontana, $3.95. "Would you rather be made to eat slug dumplings or drink snail slush . . . or would you like to ride a bull into a supermarket?" Life is full of the most amazing choices — and the best thing about being young is that there is no limit to the number of wild, outrageous possibilities you can conjure

Alpaca, by Rosemary Billam, published by Fontana, $3.50.

Alpaca rabbit is old and worn, and the stitches of his mouth have come undone so he can't even smile When his little girl Ellen gets new toys for her birthday he feels very left out. But the children decide to play nurses, and so Alpaca feels completely cheerful again. I sn't it Wonderful Creation and God's Care for the world: Here is Jesus,

I am writing to you because I want to and because I have a drawing of a horse I didn't know what to do with it. So I thought I should write for once and send the picture to you. I hope you like it. Can you please do something with it. Well goodbye for now. I've got to feed the horses. Jennifer Bateman.

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Q: What four-letter word reads the same forwards. back to fron and upside down? A: Noon. Q: What can always tell the time, even when it has its hands in front of its face? A: A clock Q: What do you do when you are in a room with four walls, no windows or door and one table? A. Bangyour bead against the 14 VIII to make it sore. saw the table in half — two bah'es make a whole. walk through the bole and escape. Q: Where does Thursday come before Wednesday? A: In the dictionary. Q: Why is a sewing machine like the letter S? A: It makes needles needless. Q: What word will make you sick if you take away the first letter? A: Music. Q: If two is company and three's a crowd, what's four and five? A: Nine. Q: What happens when you throw a black rope in the Red Sea? A: ft gets wet. Q: What's the best system of book-keeping? A: Don't lend them.

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Priestland Right and Wrong, by Gerald Priestland, published by Fontana, $5.95. The power to choose is an essential part of our heritage as human beings; every day we have to make decisions that affect our own lives and those of others. But how do we choose? What is 'right' or 'wrong'? Gerald Priestland, who believes that without a God morality is meaningless, looks at the choices we have to make, the questions we must ask, and shows how we can triumph over the outside forces that seem to dominate us. This book will bring hope and courage to all thsoe who want to live their lives 'right.' Founded firmly on Christian belief, it examines why we do what we do — in our families, with our money, at work. An impressive thought' provoking and readable examination of modern morality by one of the great Christian thinkers of our generation.

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Australia 1942: End O f Innocence, by Brian McKinlay, published by William Collins, $24.95. R eviewed by Roslyn R oss. "When the Second World War began on 3 September 1939, there was no unfounded optimism in Australia. Australians had experienced one world war, and they now knew what to expect. The year 1942 was to he a watershed year in the nation's history, after which nothing would be the same again." So begins this glossy, coffee-table volume which slices wide the year of 1942 in a bid to show us the forces that were at work Brian

Rhin talk Words Of Life From Exodus, by Frances Hogan,

published by William Collins,. Reviewed by Father T.P. Boland. Frances Hogan is an Irish lay missionary who has made a speciality of introducing the Scriptures to lay people. She makes no pretence of originality of research, though she is obviously well read in the appropriate authors. Her talent is for absorbing the best and making it plain to the inexpert in clear language. She uses her specialised knowledge with an admirable economy and telling effect. An introduction explains the importance of Exodus in the Old Testament, the formative experience of the Covenant People. It makes clear as well, its typological significance for the understanding of the New Testament. The main part of the book is devoted to continuous commentary on the text, but there are some helpful chapters on key concepts, such as Covenant and Tabernacle. Frances Hogan's book may well be the ideal base for a parish study group.

McKinlay is an author and historian. He graduated in history and education from La Trobe University, Victoria and is now a college lecturer. Australia was vulnerable to attack by the Japanese after the unexpected bombing of much of the US Navy in 1942, and the fall of Hong Kong and then Singapore. The nation was mobilized hastily, with civilian involvement at all levels. Petrol, tea, and food rationing began, beer production was cut by a third, entertainments were curtailed. While the streamers were dropped by troops on the departing boats in 1942 appeals went out for worn-out rubber articles which could be recycled for Military use.

'Appeals went out • • • As the crisis deepened there was an almost universal desire for public involvement. Rationing affected everyone. When a serviceman went home on leave he was given ration coupons to take with him. When a person died, their ration coupons had to be handed to the undertaker, who had to deliver them to the rationing body. Children in schools were given drill in what to do should an air raid take place. They were urged to carry ear-plugs to guard against a blast and a cork or rubber to bite on to save their teeth from shattering under the impact of such a blast

The newspapers carried advertisements for making your windows splinter proof, for installing black-out blinds and the advertising agencies picked up the message of war with air-raid wardens warned of the dangers of body odour by the .makers of Lifebuoy Soap. I suspect that even if the

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dedicated air warden had scrubbed himself thoroughly with Lifebuoy just minutes before an air-raid warning he would soon be heartily ponging again (as would everyone else in the shelter) with a sweat of fear. A public anxious for information about how to resist a possible Japanese invasion sought advice from books with titles such as, "Guerrilla Paths to Freedom." How useful they were, thankfully. Australians never had to find out. The books, from a series published by Angus & Robertson, were designed for use by civilian force. Brian McKinlay has put together a valuable tapestry of a time when many Aus-

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tralians could only wait and watch a world at war. It will appeal not only to those who remember but to anyone interested in the history and development of this country. His book takes us back to this extraordinary year when it all started happening. He has a delightfully readable writing style and has come us with a splendid concept for presenting recent history with immediacy and lively interest. There's a fascinating melange of memorabilia to highlight the narration and show how Australia went to war and life changed for everyone. Adding to his vivid recreation of 1942, McKinlay has included little vignettes

collected from Australians who remembered how it was for them — the petrol and food rationing, austerity. clothes, back yard shelters, and those Yanks - the well turned-out boys from Hollywood land who 'invaded' the whole country and were so lavish with their money. nylons and attention to the local OrLs. And there are brief portraits of leading influential figures, such as Curtin and Roosevelt, and Generals Blarney, McCarthur and Tojo. Australia 1942 — The End of Innocence is compelling reading for all Australians who weren't around at the time. For those who were. it's an unforgettable nostalgia trip.

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Family Bible Readings, by Andrew Knowles, pubFontana, lished by $11.95. This book is intended for parents who are not fully familiar with the Bible but want — and want their children — to know it better. Family Bible Readings consists of a short wellchosen Bible reading for each day of the year — a brief passage of lively explanation — a prayer. Family Bibles Readings is cleverly put together to interest both adults and children from five years upwards. Andrew Knowles was born in London in 1946 and educated at Dulwich College. He studied history and theology at St Catharine's College Cambridge before training for the priesthood of the

Church of England at St John's College Nottingham. A fter ordination in served he 1 971, churches in Leicester, Cambridge and Woking, and was made the first Vicar of the newly created parish of Goldsworth Park in Surrey in 1981. Andrew Knowles has written several books on biblical subjects, as well as the text of the Fount Children's Bible, and a number of scripts for television. He and his wife, Diane, have two young children, Hannah and Matthew.

There's One Born Every Minute, by Penny Vincenzi, published by ‘1411liam Collins, $14.95. There's One Born Every minute is Penny Vincenzi's wryly humorous — and often hilarious — account of life after birth and how to survive it. It's a book which covers those aspects of childrearing which evey parent will recognise, but which are never to be found in any childcare manual. Why, for example, does a piping treble always sing out "Are we there yet?" the moment your car leaves the drive? How do you react when you find the most intimate details of your family life chronicled in your school-age child's New Book on parents' evening? Just what is it that transforms parents from Quiet Reasoners to Quick Belters, literally at a stroke? The answers to these questions, and more, are to be found in There's One Born Every Minute, which reveals the secret of surviving parenthood from pregnancy to puberty. It's highly entertaining reading for all parents and every parent-tobe,

new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles new titles, new titles The fifth Penguin Book Of The Times Cmssworris, edited by Edmnd Akenbead, published by Penguin, $3-95. The London Times crossword puzzles are regarded as amongst the most teasing crosswords ever constructed. We Hate Humans. by David Robins, published by Penguin, $4-95. Tackling the Thatcherite 1980's with its alienation, unemployment and crime, this is a penetrating, provocative look at the disillusionment of British youth and their creation of a chilling sub-culture that explodes in the guise of soccer violence. Here, area by area, the football hooligans present their case. Pictures, Moving Memoirs of a Hollywood

Prince, by Budd Scbulberg, published by Penguin, $12.95. A portrait of Hollywood in the 1920's through this, the first part of Budd Schulberg's marvellous autobiography. Rich in anecdote and atmosphere. Moving Pictures documents the emergence of perhaps the most revolutionary industry of the century. Alice In Puzzle-Land, by Raymond M. Smullyan, published by Penguin, $6.95. Playfully based on Lewis Carroll's Mice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, Raymond Smullyan's 88 puzzles are a wonderful tribute to the original literary mindbender. Good Talk, The extraordinary lives of ten ordi-

nary Australian women, edited by Rhonda Wilson, published by Penguin, $12.95. This is a collection of extraordinarily evocative life stories of ten women in the Port/South Melbourne areas. They were interviewed by four people employed under the Time and Tide Commonwealth Employment Project as part of an oral history project to document stories that might otherwise be lost. Rhonda Wilson has proved herself to he an exceptional interviewer, drawing ten women to reminisce about their lives with great honesty, good humour and pathos Children Without Childhood, by Marie Winn, published by Penguin, $7.95. The author of the landmark study of television and child-

ren. The Plug-in Drug, looks at the causes behind the disappearance of childhood innocence and the avenues for its restoration. The Loser, by George Konrad,publishedby King Penguin, $7.95. In the garden of a Hungarian lunatic asylum, an intellectual reflects on his life before and after his country's bitter trnsformation to a Communist state. A densely wrought tale of stunning power. Fools Of Fortune, by William Theyor, published by King Penguin, $5.95. Beautifully written and brilliantly acclaimed, this is the haunting new masterpiecee from a fine storyteller. The violence and sorrow of Irish history is shown through the telling of one dark day of horrific revenge.

The Purple Decades, by Tom Wolfe, published by Penguin, $12.95. A retrospective collection of 21 essays and extracts from the man in the white suit Who has chronicled the whole mad circus of American sub-cultures from 1964 to 1981. The Traveller's Thee, hy Patrick Leigh Fermor, published by Penguin, $8.95. In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor embarked on a personal odyssey to the Caribbean islands. His vivid recollections form a superb portrait of an intriguing region. Thieves' World edited by Robert Asprin, published by Penguin, $5.95. Robert Asprin invited a number of top SF and fantasy writers to join him in creating a unique collaborative

novel. The result is a truly exciting sequence of interlinking flights of the imagination in which every SF and Fantasy fan will revel. Bluesang, by Sydney J. Van Scyoc, published by Penguin, $4.95. Keva and Danior. two young people estranged from their own folk find their lives inextricably linked through a mystic power they both possess. Bluesong follows Darkchild in Van Scyoc's acclaimed fantasy saga, The Sunstone Trilogy. The Avenging Angel. by Rex Burns, published by Penguin, $4.95. It seemed like a casual murder, except that the killer left a sort of signature — the drawing of an angel clutched in the victims hand. And before he could

say "homicide". Detective Gabe Wager found himself embroiled in a fearsome Holy War. The Penguin Classic Crime Omnibus, edited by Julian Symons, published by Penguin, $9.95. A crime anthology with a difference, selected by the greatest British expert on the genre, Julian Symons. MI the masters are here, but Symons represents them by their less familiar stories. Even the most passionate addict of crime and detective fiction will find something new here. Dictionary of History. published by Faber and Faber. $2.50. A pocket guide to the people and events of world history. An easy reference pocket guide for home or school.

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WHAT'S ON NEWMAN SOCIETY 1985 College Farewell The Newman Society is holding a cocktail party on Saturday, March 23 in the Junior Common Room at St Thomas Moore College following Mass in the chapel at 7.15 pm. Members and friends will farewell Father Bill Uren SJ, the retiring rector of St Thomas Moore College, who leaves Perth in April to be visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington, US. DISCUSSION GROUPS On the last Thursday of each month the NEWMAN SOCIETY DISCUSSION GROUP will be held at 8pm in the Senior Common Room of St Thomas Moore College. Father W. Uren SJ will lead the first of these on Thursday, March 28 on the topic "in-vitro fertilisation - further considerations". SCRIPTURE GROUP The NEWMAN SCRIPTURE GROUP meets at 8pm on the second Thursday of each month in the study of their chaplain, Father James Dynon, at St Thomas More College. Beginning today. THE YOUNG NEWMANITES This group is held on the first Monday of each month at 7.30pm in Father Dynon's study at St Thomas More College. The next date is Monday April 1, and the discussion will be about "Galileo". All interested people are warmly welcome to come to these groups, and further information may be obtained from Father J. Dynon 3868712.

LESMURDIE PARISH CHRISTIAN MUSICAL Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Lesmurdie, will be presenting a widely acclaimed Christian musical "Kids Praise", an explosion of happiness on March 22, 23, 29, 30 at 7.30prn in St Brigids gym, Catherine Place, Lesmurdie. Tickets $5 per family, $1.50 per single. Bookings can be made on 2917356, 2917057, 2917743. The musical is built around the book of Psalms (Psatty-Norm Curtis) and the way Christian songs should be sung in praise of God. Psatty teaches the kids to praise God in song and commissions them to teach these to their parents, friends and the whole world. It includes songs such as - Amen Praise the Lord; The Wa-Wa Song; If I were a Butterfly; Jesus Name Above All Names, and many more. The cast includes 35 young aspiring actors aged 6-15. Voices have been prepared by Mrs Mary McGinnis, Psatty, six accomplished musicians, led by Mrs Shirley Spencer, who have been rehearsing very hard for the last seven months, to give a very professional Christian family entertainment. Jesus People will be providing the sound and lighting. We hope to see you there and please pray that this musical will bring people closer to Our Lord Jesus Christ. NORTHAM EX -STUDENTS E x -students of Northam Convent School will assemble at St Joseph's Hall, Northam on Sunday May 5 for a Walk down Memory Lane. Interested persons should contact Doreen Bullen 096-221722 or Eileen Tucker on 092-776065.

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, Karrinyup. 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, Karrinyup will hold a bush dance on Friday, March 15 featuring the Mucky

Duck Bush Band from 7 pm. Tickets are $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.

A healing weekend Twenty-five participants took part in the GinginChittering Parish Healing Weekend held at Keaney College. represented Parishes included Gingin-Chittering, New Norcia, Belmont, Cottesioe, Lesmurdie and Mirrabooka. The group was led through a series of exercises by Vera Kay of Bindoon, and Peter and Veronica Dymond of Kalamunda. Each exercise began with prayer, dedication to a saint, reflection on scripture and a short talk on various topics preparing people for spiritual healing, and concluded

with sharing in small groups. At the end of the weekend, one of the men said he had nearly packed his bags and left on Saturday but he was very glad he had persevered and worked through to experience healing. Liz Collins, who had baby Samuel with her, said "It was a terrific weekend just being with the Body of Christ." Helen Corn,/ of Bindoon summed up many people's opinions: "A truly beautiful experience. Hard work, but well worth the effort." Information about the Parish Healing Weekend is

The local Schoenstatt movement is about to receive from Brazil a specially carved attar which is one of some 100 replicas of the original at the Vallendar Rhine shrine in Germany. The attar will be installed in the Schoenstatt chapel at Riverton which will be partially remodelled to resemble the world-wide shrines to Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen of Schoenstatt whose picture is already in the chapel.

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The altar is being donated by some 40 local Schoenstatt family and mothers' groups in honour of the centenary year of the birth of Father Joseph Kentenich who founded the Schoenstet movement in 1914 and who died in 1968. There are 40,000 Schoenstatt families in many countries today. To help prepare for the centenary celebrations in Germany and in worldwide centres, the local group was visited last week by Father Guenther Boll, a member of the general council of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Germany.

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UNIVERSITY SUNDAY On University Sunday, April 28, Mass will be celebrated in St Thomas More College chapel at 4.45pm and will be followed by a buffet tea in the Junior Common Room. University Sunday ceremonies begin in Winthrop Hall at 7.30pm. Newman Society members and friends will be able to meet the new rector of St Thomas More College, Father Patrick Bishop SJ.

RACE ONE: Express Hope 1. Ango Satan 2. White Foot La&s 3. RACE TWO: Golda Vale 1. Speedy Express 2. Monaro Gem 3. RACE THREE: Blue Anchor 1. Mythical Fire 2. Mistletoe Rose 3. RACE FOUR: Pether Road 1. King Rocky 2. Boltarna 3. RACE FIVE: Black Anchor I. Icy Trella 2. Colleen Monaco.

available from the Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre, 293 2214.

Pictured at the Riverton Schoenstatt Wayside Shrine are leader Gary Sudran and Matthew Frazer, Marie Louise O'Connor, Ryan Frazer and Marie Clare O'Connor

He has special charge of the English-speaking communities, some of whom he visited in South Africa enroute to Australia.