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It is only in recent years that Peter's Pence worldwide collections have been diverted to cover the Vatican's operating deficit. Previously the funds were used at the pope's discretion for papal aid to foreign countries. A Vatican Press release included the following details on finance: • The entire 1985 budget of around S A75 million will be double that of 1984. • 53 per cent of the 1984 budget paid salaries of 1917 lay and clergy Vatican employees and 911 retired employees. The 1985 budget will cover 3471 active and 1483 retired employees. • Vatican City state budget, a separ ate item, showed a surplus in 1984 and a balanced budget is expected in 1985. • Almost 25 per cent of the Vatican deficit is caused by Vatican Radio which generates no income. The 1984 cost )SAS million) would nse to $A7 million in 1985.
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VATICAN CITY: The Vatican predicts a shortfall of $A25 million for 1985 operating expenses, compared with a shortfall of SA 20 million for 1984.
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Southern Cross Homes, a project of the Knights of the Southern Cross, has contracted to buy the Mount St Camillus Nursing Home in Forrestfield from the Order of St Camillus. "We are very happy our goal has been achieved of keeping the home in Church hands," said the local Camillian superior, Father Sean Bredin. He explained the move was necessitated by a shortage of nursing brothers.
Southern Cross Homes chairman Mr 0* Tom Perrott said his group would be maintaining the current philosophy of Mount 1, after internal alterations St Camillus and the and the addition of an ablusame degree of excel- tion block will allow the 36 beds to cater for female lence in the con duct of the home. patients. "This is a mark of respect for past labours which were obviously born of love and devotion-. he said "The management and staff have established a high standard of care based on Christian principles. "It is a credit to all concerned the community holds Mount St Camillus in the highest esteem," Mr Perrott said. The Knights' organisation hopes to take overy by July
Mr Pert,ott said although the Forrestfield nursing home would be an integral part of the Southern Crass Aged Care program the Knights were not giving up on their resolve to acquire a nursing home adjacent to the Thomas Perron Village in Rossmoyne. The village will soon have a total of 39 independent units as well as the 40 bed Joseph Cooke Hostel. Several applications to Canberra have been turned down by Federal government reluctance to approve further nursing home beds in that area. Father Bredin who was actively involved in the construction of Mount St Camillus in 1972 said the resources of the 38 member Anglo-Irish Camillian pro-
The spacious setting of Mt St Camillus Nursing Home opened by the Camillian Order in 1973 and soon about to be administered by the Knights of the Southern Cross Hoes project.
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Camillus Order steps aside from nursing home since were stretched to the limit. Their nursing brothers were urgently needed at their other homes in Hexham in England and Killucan in Ireland. As a result, a lay matron had been appointed at Forrestfield. He said the order still wanted men to train as brothers and priests but in 22 years in Australia only one Australian brother had joined the order. However prospects were good in South America, in Africa where the first priest would be ordained this year, and in the Philippines where two priests were ordained
last year. Father Bredin said the move from Mount St Camillus would allow his local order to "regroup the troops- and provide a community and team approach to their chaplaincy work that now covered St John of God Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Centre and related areas. The order was founded 402 years ago by St Camillus De Lellis who chose the Red Cross as their symbol. Later, seeing the order at work in the battlefield, Henri Dunant was inspired to use the same symbol when he established the international Red Cross movement.
LEFT WA Camillian superior, Father Sean Bredin outside the Forrestfield building that was the order's first residence in WA in 1963 and which opened three years later as their first local nursing home with eight patients.
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Melbourne's Archbishop Little critical of name of new "Catholic" newspaper, See story page 2.
Pope John Paul ll sent a special representative to the Moscow funeral of President Chernenko. See story and new Vatican f eature, round-up page 3.
R ecord reporter, COLLEEN HOWARD, talks to Father Ray Quirk, f ormer missionary and a legend to the natives of the Sepik region of New Guinea. See story, pictures \„pages 4 and 5.
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V ATICAN CITY (NC) -General absolution cannot be a substitute for individual confession because there is no Church provision for a bsolving serious sin through collective absolution, said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. "Whoever affirms that the Church can absolve even serious sins in a collective absolution should demonstrate where this law comes from," he said. "Until now, no one has put f orward and no one can ever put forward a demonstration such a law exists in the Church," he added.
Scot's highlander answers the call to the New Guinea highlands An international call for help by the Sisters of Our lady of the Mission has been heard in Scotland and a nurse and midwife passed through Perth last week to join the Sisters' Papua New Guinea mission. Sister Roseann Hammill of Scotland, a member of the order's English province, will work at Wiliame in the New Guinea Highlands where 12 OLM sisters staff four missions. The sisters went to Papua New Guinea in 1968 with a team of t hree which included Sisters Majella Hogan and Margaret Dorizzi.
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Archbishop Little said his criticism on the Vatican IIDecree on the Laity No 24: "No enterprise must lay calim to the name Catholic if it has not the approval of legitimate acclesiastical authority." He said no comparison could be drawn with the former publication The Catholic Worker to which Archbishop Mannix gave his approval in 1936 because the Decree on the Laity had not been published then. Furthermore. Archbishop little said, ecclesiastical supervision was certainly exercised over the former Catholic Worker. In 1955 on the advice of the chaplain, the paper was censored and its circulation fell from 35,000 to less than 15,000 in under a month.
Sydney Archbishop rules on women SYDNEY: Australian moves by the Anglican Church to allow women to its priesthood may be thwarted by the opposition of Sydney's Anglican archbishop. Three quarters of Anglican dioceses, including the major cities must agree to the move which has already become effective in Anglican churches in New Zealand, Africa, Canada, Hong Kon, US and Brazil. Archbishop Robinson, writing in the Sydney Anglican paper, the Southern Cross says he is bound by the apostolic tradition which he believes includes certain matters relating to the role of women. He said the ordination of women is not what God intended. "This Church will ever obey the commands of Christ, teach His doctrine
Uganda anniversary K AMPALA (NC) — Ugandan Catholics and Protestants are preparing for the 100th anniversary celebrations of the martyrdom of 33 newly converted Christians. The Uganda Martyrs' Centenary celebrations begin November 15 and continue until June 3, 1986, dating from the first beheading to the last martyr's burning at the stake. The theme of the celebrations is "Martyrs as a Model of Christian Commitment." Between November 1885 and June 1886, Mwanga, the ruler of Buganda, had the youths killed, allegedly for refusing to submit to his homosexual demands. Pope Paul VI canonized the 22 Catholic youths in 1964. In 1969, he visited Kampala and consecrated the Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine, nine miles east of the city. Uganda's 5.5 million Catholics constitute about 40 per cent of the total population.
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Pope's initiatives lye hope MOSCOW: Although the Vatican and Soviet Union do not have diplomatic relations, a Vatican delegation attended Chernenko's funeral last week. Pope John Paul II designated Giovanni Battista Marini-Bettolo, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, as his personal representative to the funeral.
Marini-Bettolo is a professor of chemistry at the University of Rome and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.
He was accompanied by Marie-Ange Besson, a member of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission.
In Rome Pope John Paul II retired briefly to pray after being informed of the death of President Chernenko and sent condolences in a telegram to the Soviety Union's vice-president. -Upon learning on the death of the President of the Supreme Soviet, Mr Konstantin Chernenko, who exercised the highest office in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I ask your excellency and your compatriots to accept the expression of my condolences, and I assure you of my particular thought to the memory of the illustrious deceased,- the telegram said. international Some observers see the delegation to Chernenko's funeral. Pope John Paul's telegram to Moscow and the recent papal meeting with Russian Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko as a thawing of world tensions. They say the pope's initiatives point to real hopes of better relations between Moscow and the West, and to better prospects for the disarmament talks. (See Dateline lead, page 7). John Paul interrupted his annual Lenten retreat for the Gromyko talks on world peace and the situation of Catholics in the Soviet Union. No details were released after the meeting, which lasted almost two hours. Mr Gromyko did deny however the issue of a papal visit to the Soviet Union had been r aised.
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Two judges are to preside over the trial in the first criminal court in Rome, the same court that convicted Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca to life imprisonment in 1981 for shooting the pope. The case against the accused is based largely on testimony provided by Agca after he decided to co-operate with investigators. The three Bulgarians worked for their government in Italy at the time of the shooting, in which the pope and two Amerwomen were ican wounded. Among the Bulgarians is Sergei Antonov. former director of Bulgaria's national airline in Rome. He has been under arrest in Italy since November 1982. In addition to Agca and Antonin, only two of the other accused, both Turks, are expected to be present for the trial. They are Omer Bawl. accused of furnshing the gun used in the shooting. and Musar Celebi, accused of plotting the attack with Agca and others.
Plot men for trial Both are being held in a Rome prison_ Two Bulgarian diplomats indicted in the case. Jelio Kok-v Vassilev and Todor Stoyanov Ayv-a7.0v, returned to Bulgaria and have not been extradited to Italy. A Turk, Oral Celik, now believed to have fired a second gun during the attack, is described by Italian justice officals as missing. Bekir Celenk. a Turk accused of helping mastermind the plot, is living in Bulgaria in the custody of the Bulgarian government. His extradition has so far been refused by Bulgaria.
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Scrutinising the inscrutable The suggestion in this column last week that the world hears only as much of Russian leaders as its political apparatus permits appears proven by the pall of Western silence about a figure of the stature of Gorbachev. Catholics have a particular interest in how that country is viewed since apart from Albania and one or two Islamic states, Russia is the only country of note where the Catholic Church is deemed not to exist. Indeed, it has been the Church's prayer that this would change. The Record feels that it is not labouring the point, therefore, to print the opinion of the British independent Catholic weekly The Tablet when it looked at that inscrutable view: It is not possible to forecast in advance how Gorbachev will behave in office, for if it were, his colleagues with their vestedinterests wouldprobably never have promoted him to the supreme position. But in one very important respect. Mikhail Gorbachev is different. He is only 54. So at last a Soviet leader has no association with Stalin's Great Terror. That means that there can be change. In the Soviet system, everything fits together like a rigid multi-dimensional jigsaw. Therefore no great improvement can be made without altering the whole pattern and bringing the past into question. That bound Stalin's successors, for if they had once opened Stalin's tyranny fully to investigation, the truth about those who made their careers during the Terror would have come out and they would have lost all credit. Only Krushchev was an exception to the rule, and his revisionism was very selective. He could not go too far. After him Stalin was partially rehabilitated and continued to rule from the grave. Mr Gorbachev has no Stalinist past to be prisoner of. His style is eloquent. He has impressed western observers with his relaxed confidence and his intelligence. His wife also has a flair and an intelligence that marks her out. He could conceivably make big changes. In Russia that generally comes from the top. It will not happen soon, because one man cannot dislodge a whole state bureaucracy. That was shown by the failure of Andropov. Gorbachev's patron. He will first have to establish his own supporters in key positions. Next to nothing is known about Mr Gorbachev's intentions, but he has suggested in speeches that he puts a high priority on improving the internal situation, which is indeed the key to everything else. If so, it will be important for him to have access to western technology and therefore he will have to seek better relations with the West after the recent ice age. It must be significant that he has already talked of the Americans as -our partners- in the Geneva arms negotiations. However, for him as for every Soviet leader, the security of the regime and of the country will remain the top priority. The Soviet system is not working. There is great need for change but the conventional wisdom says that while everything must change, nothing can be changed. Will Mr Gorbachev rise to the challenge? No one knows, but what was a very dull scene has suddenly become very interesting.
Further to this column last week, the Moscow correspondent for the last 51 years for the London Sunday Times wrote this week: -But we correspondents seldom get the opportunity to witness a leader's style in close-up. On two days last week Pravda mentionedMr Gorbachev in 26 different headlines on stories that said nothing about how he was settling in. We hope, though without much conviction, that Mr Gorbachev will be less inaccessible than some of his predecessors. How I long for the easier relationship many of us had with Mr Kruschev. Irecall buttom-holing Mr Kruschev at an embassy party shortly after de-Stalinisation and saying to him that censorship destroyed the credibility of Moscow dateline, which was certainly neither in his interest nor mine. He sucked his cheeks and toldme to write him a letter. Later he approached me and said: 'I have received your letter, agree with your arguments and have decided to abolish censorship' This was one of his many jokes. -
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Brushes with New Guinea cannibals and headhunters and the rescue of Japanese soldiers abandoned in the jungles seven years after the war finished, are features of mission life remembered by Father Raymond Quirk, OFM. A former Victorian, Father Quirk recounted these tales . . . and many more . . . in a series of interviews for The Record. Leaning forward on my chair, I eagerly listened to every word he said. It had taken me a lot of time and persistence to get this interview and I was relishing every second of it. My interviewee was the well-known, loved and twice honoured Father Raymond Quirk, OFM, AM, MBE, Franciscan Friar, currently residing at the Midland Friary.
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His reputation for being "an interesting man" is legendary. To record all his interesting stories would have required a book, so regretfully I had to settle for less. My mind filled with this gentle raconteur's tales of crocodiles, mosquito-infested swamps, deadly snakes, cargo cult devotees, cannibalism — and indigenes paying the supreme sacrifice in loyalty to their beloved interned missionary. And there you have a glimpse of Papua New Guinea during the war years and after the carnage.
DEE Record reporter, COLEEN HOWARD talks with Fransiscan, Father Ray Quirk, who has served a long and colourful career as a missionary in New Guinea, and as an Army chaplain. . .
Malaria, sulphur drugs, quinine, trekking interminable days through unexplored jungles, up mountains and into valleys, reconnoitering his enormous Vanimo mission territory which stretched 200 to 300 miles inland and 50 miles along the coast. The unexpected discovery of pockets of people untouched by the 20th century and being invited to a cannibal feast, the people dining upon a recent victim in a remote hinterland area. And that in the sixties! The stunning surprise of seeing Japanese servicemen emerging from the swampy jungle (in 1952!) dressed in tattered remnants of their uniform . . . strong and heady listening material! This unassuming, modest and very lovable priest was a veritable fund of rich stories and fascinating adventures, conjuring up images in sharp contrast to most of our suburhban lives. "Father Ray" as he is affectionately known, was born in Victoria in 1920.
Father Quirk giving an injection to a Vanimo village child.
Father Ray Quirk OFM, AM, MBE, as chaplain to the Pacific Islands Regiment early in 1976, in Papua New Guina.
He was raised in Elsternwick with his six brothers, one of whom (Father Bernard Quirk) also became a Franciscan Friar. Ordained in 1943 he was sent to Edgecliff, (NSW) and a year later went to a home for delinquent boys on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. Back to Sydney in 1946, father did a course on tropical medicine. This year involved auxiliary training at hospitals in the areas of obstetrics, orthopaedics, emergency surgery, and
so on combined with university lectures. This knowledge, he said, came in "tremendously handy" for the role he subsequently played after his arrival in Papua New Guinea in 1946, where he was to remain for the next 30 years.
IC= Having arrived at Adape, the Franciscan mission headquarters, in Papua New Guinea, Father Ray along with fellow missionary Father
Martin Schumack, set off for Vanimo, the northernmost mission outpost lying a few miles from the Irian Jaya border, by work boat. 'We arrived in the early evening and were unceremoniously dumped and left," he said, "the crew being anxious to depart before the imminent storm. The captain with his wry sense of humour played the Last Post as the boat disappeared into the sunset!" The two young missionaries stood alone on the beach, not a soul to be seen, and hastily erected a
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tent in the pouring rain. However this blew off during the storm, exposing their bagged grain and six weeks' food supply to the elements which destroyed them. Left with only a few meagre tinned rations, they resorted to living on wild sago and fish bombed out of the sea by the post-war hand grenades they found. Their resourcefulness proving essential to survive, because the anticipated food replenishment supply boat. was holed, and another never came until 26 months later! Busily organising their few meagre possessions with which to reactivate the previously formed Vanimo mission post, they were watched by curious children, peeping at them from the safety of the jungle. "Tell your parents the Catholic missionaries have returned," Fathers Ray and Martin would encourage the children with, and then share their army ration biscuits with them. Gradually they won the confidence of the villagers and with the aid of Pidgin, discovered they'd been offloaded in the wrong place, and the site of the original Vanimo mission was halfway across the bayl
ODD The indigenes offered them accommodation in their homes, which the young priests accepted, while they reconstructed and rebuilt Vanimo mission. Because of the Japanese invasion and American bombing, the people had retreated to the jungle, deserting the coast, but on learning that the Japanese had left, they resettled back on the coastal strips. -Their dwellings were simple but adequate,'" Father said, "with flooring made of sliced palm bark twined with cane." The previous Vanimo mission post had been settled by the Divine Word Missionaries. During the Japanese occupation of Papua New Guinea, Father Michael Clerkin, SVD was hearing Confessions at Vanimo, on the Wednesday prior to Good Friday, when he saw an approaching Japanese patrol. He quickly boxed up sacred vessels and church records, gave them to the villagers to hide, and then resumed hearing Confessions. The Japanese dragged him from the Confessional box, bound him and threw him into a hut, denying him food or water.
Father Quirk with his Vanimo children and Lulu, his dog.
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A native chapel built personally by Father Quirk and some o f the Sepik region villagers. He built many others during his mission days in New Guinea. The people were incensed at such treatment, but were unable to help. The invading patrols had gathered up everything from previous mission stations and sought to find similar things. On being unable to locate anything, they tied up various indigenes to coconut palms and beat them, trying to get them to divulge the whereabouts. Met with stubborn refusal from the villagers, they beheaded some of them and took Father Clerkin on board a destroyer with other missionary prisoners collected en-route . . but not before slaughtering all livestock and destroying everything on the mission post. They were taken to a prisoner -of-war camp on the Irian side. In this camp, one Bishop died along with many missionaries. The second Bishop who had been captured, was taken onto another destroyer with many more missionaries; they were machine-gunned on board and their bodies
thrown into the Bismark Sea. The loyal indigenes however, did not forget their priests and attempted to smuggle food to them whenever possible, leaving it along enforced labour trails. Father Clerkin survived the concentration camp and was repatriated back to America after the war. He subsequently returned to Vanimo to thank the people for their loyalty and love demonstrated during the internment. After Fathers Ray and Martin had been there for a few weeks saying Mass and carrying on with reconstructing mission activities, an indigene villager, Gabriel Pratahe, who'd been observing father's chalice — and confident they were in fact Catholic priests — said: "I have one of those buried where my house used to be. I want you to come and we shall dig it up with the village people.'"
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Conference HAVE YOUR SAY on women's rights V ATICAN CITY (NC) -The Vatican plans to p articipate in a conference to conclude t he UN International Decade for Women, to be h eld July 15-28 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Pontifical Council f or the Laity said despite legislative changes in s everal countries to a cknowledge women's rights, "the conditions of millions of women seems instead to be worse both at the economic level as w ell as regarding the r ecognition of their dignity," the laity council said. The council also called f or greater participation o f women in their own development. " Women cannot be c onsidered only the object of laws in their f avour," the council said. "They must have the o pportunity of participating in their own development as well as that of society." The Vatican also asked t he conference to c onsider "all types of v iolence practised a gainst women in society and in the family."
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from P. BERTOLA, Bremer Bay. SIR, Your excellent editorial "Learning Where Life's Hottest- (The Record March 6) perhaps unintentionally points up the chief defect of modern education. According to this theory, every aspect of life and learning has to be a pleasure and difficulties and pains must be avoided at all costs. When the clever and highly paid education bigwigs recently let the kids off I could hardly believe my eyes and ears! If that's learning, I may as well believe a common dream of mine that I can zoom, fly and float around like a swallow. Through a printing error last week, the following correspondents were not acknowledged in their letters on the following topics: Miss V Hall, Ardross: The words of the Premier. Jenni York, Willetton: Aboriginal land rights. John C Veszely, Nollamara: Bibles to Russia.
from Brian PEACHY, Australian Family Movement Sir, one of the great social tragedies of our time is that approximately 25 per cent of all youth under 21 are unemployed. Some will never know or understand the dignity of work because they were never given a job when they were young. Some will become the alcoholics, drug addicts, muggers and rapists of the next decade. Some will be u nable to successfully marry and form a stable f amily. Yet the biggest employer in WA, — the State Government, has progressively discriminated against youth and given the jobs to middle aged married women. The trend by the State Government away from e mploying youth commenced in 1972 following the formation of the Feminist Movement. It was practised under a Liberal Government because of the pressure
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conclusions while at least one noted religious has told me the question is one of faith and morals. In my day-to-day electorate work I find many concerned Catholics and other Christians baulk at the concept of separate land rights for Aborigines — yet they nonetheless feel that we, as a community, owe something to a group acknowledged as being disadvantaged. That is a view of the whole position that I personally hold. The bishops and other religious leaders, in my view, go too far in interpreting "justice" for Aborigines (which I applaud) as necessarily involving land rights (which I do not).
ODD Surely the unambiguous stand the bishops desire in their search for justice for Aboriginal people can, and should, be achieved through the things we can agree on (a better deal in health, education, employment) rather than things that are a divisive and repugnant. Roger Ryan in his recent letter said he favoured land rights for Aborigines provided those rights don't adversely affect the rights of other Australians. With the best will in the world I can't see that this can be achieved. History shows that division and discord have their roots in one man being given a r ight which another is denied.
from the shrill and persist ant demands of the feminists. The trend has breakneck gathered momentum under the present Government, with the setting up of the Worn ens Advisory Committee, The Womens Information and Referral Service and t he recent appointment of a so called "senior advisor" to the Premier, Ms. Lesly Maher, on $45,000 a year whose job will be, with a staff of seven, to implement the WA Equal Opportunities Act. This Act is designed to simply employ more women.
T he percentage of all S tate Government employees under 21 in 1971 was 21.6 per cent. In 1985 it had dropped to a scandalous 5.4 per cent. Those under 21 employed by the State Government at January 3 1 1985 only 25.5 per cent were males. If the Government had continued to employ people under 21 at the rate of 21.6 per cent of the workforce a further 2367 young people would have been employed in 1985. The jobs of young people u nder 21 but mainly y oung men have been t aken by middle aged women. In the clerical section of the public service (1971 to 1 985) males in the 41-45 age group dropped by 25.3 per cent and females risen by 176 per cent. Males in the 46-50 age group have dropped by 60.5 per cent and females have risen by 242 per cent.
DEE In the professional section of the P/S (1971 to 1 985) males in the 41-45 age group have dropped by 25 per cent, females have r isen by 89 per cent. Males in the 46-50 age group have dropped by 10 per cent and females have risen by 200 per cent. The Labor Party has surrendered a great part of its structure and policy making apparatus to the feminists. The Premier, Mr B urke, irrespective of what he may feel for the feminists' cause, is powerless to stop their expensive demands on his Government. The unnecessary women's organisation that the G overnment has established is costing the taxpayers millions of dollars and has achieved nothing of any value to the community. It is hypocracy on the Government's part to lament about the tragic unemployment of youth and at the same time delib-
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erately implement an employment policy within its own workforce that, contrary to past practice, discards the youth and gives their jobs to middle a ged women, many of whom are taking into the
home a second income We demand that the Government change this policy the give and employment opportunities to the young who are one of the primary assets of the state
A weekend of healing from MRS JO CAMILLERI, GINGIN Sir, I would like to thank anyone who made the Parish Healing Weekend at Bindoon a reality. Our Heavenly Father was so longing for this Our awakening of whole people I started out on the weekend thinking I didn't need healing t wanted it though, and I found the blockage to my wholeness, praise God! It was a challenge, but all worth the pain of discovering the truth. No matter what fear it entailed I can
now feel free and I know the love of the Father and Jesus, my Brother. I will receive the love that is there for my taking given unselfishly, and all the graces I need to be whole just by believing and turning to the Father for help. I have a feeling this is just the start to a greater and more meaningful relationship and the joy that I feel, the expectations can be open to you ,God's people, and all people.
Doubts on bio ethics from Mrs MARIE CADD, Dianella The setting up of a Catholic bio ethics centre at St John of God Hospital should be an event for rejoicing, but after reading the diocesan bio ethics submissions to the Government bio ethics state committee interim report on in-vitro fertilisation, and after hearing theologian Father Walter Black MSC at the recent Catholic health seminar, one is left wondering whether the term Catholic should apply or be appropriate. The submission of the Catholic diocesan bio ethics committee has come out in favour of in vitro fertilisation in the simple case, but in fact as I understand the procedure the simple case does not exist. The committee also agrees with freezing embryos up to two months if there is a chance of implantation in the subsequent cycle. It may be coincidental that Father Black some weeks after this submission has been completed, was the keynote speaker at the Catholic health seminar, reinforcing the WA Catholic
ethics committee's findings, in arguments that run counter to a papal statement, official Vatican pronouncements, and varying bishops' commissions. One does not have to be a genius to understand Pope John Paul's extreme worries over the faithful in general and theologians in particular who interpret official teaching on moral matters — which are not only dangerous but are not Catholic. The Holy Father said as much when he visited Caracas in January. 'Too many theologians." said the pope, "proclaim not the Truth of Christ, but their own theories." (Time Magazine 4/2/ 85)
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Briefs: VATICAN CITY (NC): Visitors to St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican's major tourist attraction, had a fright when snakes were discovered near the tomb of St Peter in the basilica's underground grottoes. The basilica remained open after workmen discovered the harmless creatures, which were less than a metre long. The yellow -orange snakes can grow to be more than a metre and have the Latin name, elaphe quattuorlineata, a harmless species variously identified as rat or chicken snakes or racers. The snakes are characterised by four lines on their backs and live in humid, underground places •
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VATICAN CITY (NC) Health problems in the Third World stem from the 'non-Christian attitude" of governments of some "Christian countries " The head of a newly created Vatican office for pastoral care of health workers, Archbishop Fiorenzo Angeltni cited Argen tina, Chile and Brazil in his criticism "Some of their biggest and most urgent health problems are the consequence of a lack of a moral vision of the rights of the individual and of all mankind," the archbishop said -There's a distinction between the poor and the rich," he said. "Almost all assistance goes to the rich. There's very little for the poor" E
KAMPALA, Uganda ( NC ): Cardina1 Nsubuga of Kampala has denied assertions the Catholic Church in Uganda is aiding antigovernment guerillas and called allegations made by army chief of staff, Brigadier Smith Opon-Acak, absurd.
NEW YORK: Father Pugevicius. executive director of Lithuanian Catholic religious aid said "One can only hope . . . that Gorbachev would take a new look- at the imprisonment of priests in the Soviet Union.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — Visitors to St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican's major tourist attraction, had a fright when five or six snakes were discovered near the tomb of St Peter in the basilica's underground grottoes. Vatican Press spokesman Mons Giulio Nicolini said the crawling creatures which were less than two feet long were "harmless,"
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Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, has said that recent newsprint cutbacks in Poland have hurt the country's Catholic press and represent -a hostile act of repression" against the Church Archbishop Dabrowski said the recent decision to cut newsprint allocations to all publications by 20 per cent allocations to all publications by 20 per cent caused particular problems for Catholic publications. He said the country's Catholic publications are often sold out immediately because of growing demand and circulation limits imposed by the government. while official government publications are c:rculated in great numbers but remain largely unsold.
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at another, artillery was stored at, and fired from, the cathedral in Rubaga and many rebels were found hiding in the buildings of the Catholic and Protestant Martyrs Shrine at Namugongo. However, the cardinal said it would be to unreasonable unarmed expect clergy to turn away heavily armed men who decide to use Church property for military operations. He said the forces that overthrew former President Idi Amin used church facilities and no one tried to turn them away. In his speech. OponAcak said he wondered why it was harmful to
"flush the bandit vermin from places of worship since even the son of God did a similar thing when he flushed money changers from the temple of the Almighty God." Since Obote's election. Cardinal Nsubuga has been an outspoken critic of the government, especially of the army and its human rights record.
ELILI The Ugandan church has often charged atrocities were committed against civilians during the government's crackdown on guerillas and their sympathisers. Last summer, a US State Department official said observers in Kampala estimated 100,000 to 200.000 civilians had been killed by government forces in the last three years.
The editorial noted SoOet opposition to on-site inspection of missile sites also is a stumbling block to successful negotiations and said Pope John Paul II wanted verifiable inspection systems as part of successful arms reduction accords. "On-site inspection, which the Soviet side has always refused considering it interfered in its internal affairs, are substitutable — and probably already have been largely substituted — by sophisticated space and electronic equipment," said the Vatican newspaper.
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What is integrity? It has a lot to do with leading the kind of life where actions are in harmony with principles, says Mercy Sister Prudence Allen. She tells of the Greek philosopher Socrates who made some citizens of ancient Greece irate because he taught students to recognise hypocrisy. Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke writes about hospitality, which he thinks is an important dimension of integrity. His cousin, the most hospitable person Father O'Rourke ever met, helped him understand what integrity is. Katharine Bird interviews theologian Lawrence Cunningham of Florida State University at Tallahasee. Groups as well as individuals can develop integrity, Cunningham tells Ms Bird. Some groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, do not have integrity. Cunningham thinks, even though their principles and actions may be consistent. The reasons why an organisation comes into existence help to determine its potential for integrity. Father John Castelot tells of the Jew, Mordecai, and his niece, Esther. The integrity of each was put to the test. And in each case, fidelity to principles triumphed over fear, integrity over a shameful sort of compromise, Father Castelot says.
1The human quality of hospitality By Father David O'Rourke
Studies of integrity often focus on civic leaders and public virtues like courage. I want to do something quite different. I want to talk at)out integrity. But rather than focus on courage, I want to focus on wholeness — how people bring their lives and principles together. And I want to move the discussion of integrity out of the grand public arena into one much closer to home. Iwant to
talk about an aspect of integrity that may surprise you: hospitality. What could hospitality possibly have to do with integrity? Quite a lot, (think. Integrity has to do with making values the measure of daily life. It shows up in the way we value the people around us. That's the very foundation of hospitality. I want to picture the human quality of hospitality as it is lived. And ( do not need to search for an example, for one comes immediately to mind. I have been thinking about the life of a man
who died recently at the age of 82 — a cousin, an engineer by training and perhaps the most hospitable person I ever met. In common parlance, he died after a rich and full life. But there was no sense of "after" during his life. He was still fully active at the time he was stricken, running his own flourishing business with the unbounded energy that marked his entire life. Examples of his work and professional skill can he found in all corners of New York. I can still see him lookingproudly with the professional's prac-
Double trouble It is in the Old Testament story of Esther that we hear of Mordecai. His is the story of a Jew taken captive by the Babylonians. Mordecai is residing in Susa many decades later. The Persians have defeated Babylon. Overhearing and foiling a plot to assassinate King Ahasuerus, Mordecai is rewarded handsomely. The king decides to host a lavish dinner party for all the notables of the realm. When he and his guests are well in their cups, he sends for Vashti, his queen, to join the assembly so that all may see how beautiful she is. She has the temerity to refuse. As a result, she is summarily deposed — lucky to escape with her life. But she maintains her integrity, her dignity as a human person. At the suggestion of his courtiers, the king holds a countrywide beauty contest, the winner to succeed Vashti as queen. Esther, the orphaned niece of Mordecai, wins. However, on her uncle's advice she keeps her nationality a secret. Enter now the villain Haman. He was appointed to a high government position, something like prime min1,tcr. Insufferably vain, he expected everyone to bow to the ground as he passed through the palace gate. And everyone did — except Mordecai, who had taken a
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strategic position at the gate. His principled refusal on religious grounds to kowtow infuriated Haman. When he learned that the resister was a Jew, Haman used his influence with the king to arrange the extermination of all Jews in the country.
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Horrified, Mordecai sent word to Esther that she owed it to her people to intervene with the king. The poor girl was scared to death. To enter the royal presence unbidden was a capital offence and she might not he as lucky as Vashti had been. Also she would have to reveal her Jewish identity and she would be in double jeopardy. However, her uncle pre-
vailed. At the risk of her life Esther succeeded in trapping Haman in a compromising position, thoroughly discrediting him and his program with the king. This saved her people. Once again, fidelity to principles triumphed over fear. Integrity, faithfulness to one's convictions, is an essential of human dignity. To sacrifice it for security or selfish advantage is to lose part of oneself One ceases to be a whole person and dooms oneself to living as an emotional and moral cripple. It poisons happiness. Jesus Himself was tempted to betray His integrity for immediate advantage. In the gospel drama of His temptation He was offered instant fame and worldwide political dominion if He would abandon His Father's plan. The prospect had to be exciting — temptation of its nature involves a difficult choice — but He chose the harder way. He maintained integrity. And the greatness of this far t ranscended anything he might conceivably have gained by shoddy, self-serving compromise.
tised eye at a difficult job that turned out particularly well; or chuckling as he recalled once how "most of my iobs are duck soup, but that one nearly made me the duck" What stands out for me. however, is his hospitality. And it reached far beyond generosity. For deep down, graciousness and hospitality require that we decide whether people are worth the time and trouble it takes to treat them well.
0= In my cousin's case that decision was made time and again in the concrete. How often I saw tired waiters switch from forced, frozen smiles to the look of real pleasure as he greeted them. Business associates remarked how time spent with him was a pleasure, not a duty. From his children's young friends to his contemporaries, people looked to him as a master in the basic human art of treating people well. He acted as though all people merited considera-
tion and respect. For him, the virtue of hospitality was based on genuine generosity and an attitude of respect and welcome tow-ards others. Integrity often seems to be equated with public courage. But I would like to think that integrity can be part and parcel of the lives of people who have never once had any public responsibility. Think of the family that is especially generous and open to people in need. A family like that is an example of faith in action. Think of the parish community that is especially good at welcoming newcomers and outsiders — indicating the vitality' of its faith. I was lucky enough to know someone who was a master of hospitality because he tied the parts of his life together. He treated people with genuine respect regardless of their rank or success. He loved life and transmitted that appreciation to all of us. He spelled out his faith in very concrete terms. And he made that faith believable.
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Father Eugene Hemrick is a r esearcher, a syndicated columnist — and a resolute jogger. He was asked why people feel so strongly about integrity, why they would f eel so insulted if anyone challenged their integrity. "Integrity is very important," he responded. "My professional reputation leans on it
Psychologists say integrity and dependability are related. Father Hemrick said. In a work situation, it is vital to find colleagues who "are responsible to their discipline" and maintain high standards. Father Hemrick told of a colleague who keeps a sharp eye out for that kind of researcher whose lack of integrity would allow him to "bend research data" in order to obtain a desired result. The Russian writer Aleksander Solzhenitsen talks about going "the final inch," Father Hemrick observed. And this tells us something about integrity. In personal relationships, a person of integrity strives to be the kind of person others have faith in, said Father Hemrick. It means "following through" on responsibilities towards others. But this can be difficult if people lose faith in themselves as can happen from time to time. Integrity somehow reflects a person's self-image — the belief that one is capable of becoming a person others might have faith in. I ntegrity, Father Hemrick suggested, is a somewhat fragile thing. But others can help here — boosting one's sense of self-worth at moments when that sense wanes. Father Hemrick told of training to run in a triathalon and developing serious doubts about his own ability to complete the grueling race. The triathalon combines swimming, biking and running. But his sister encouraged him, saying, "You can do it. You're the iron man in the family." Her words gave him just the boost he needed to compete in the race. Integrity is a quality people a lways work towards, Father Hemrick thinks. There is no point in life when people simply can sit back, deciding they have once and for all fulfilled integrity's demands. A person is bound to encounter demands never met before and to experience needs never felt before. As this occurs, a person will be challenged in new and unexpected ways to act as a person of integrity.
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"We should accept the idea that virtue is not relative at all. It is very definite. It means love, generosity and responsibility, not only for yourself and your family but for other people. (Mons John Tracy Ellis quoting Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of Robert and Ethel Socrates, often called the father of Western philosophy, was vigilant in carrying out his call to challenge others to greater Kennedy, at 1983 personal integrity. But his vigilance infuriated those Athenians who were leading hypocritical lives. They had him arrested baccalaureate and brought to trial on false charges. services at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.)
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Sister Prudence A llen RSM Socrates believed be bad been called by the diety to be a new kind of philosopher. Living some 2,400 years ago in the Greek city of Athens, be challenged others to think about human integrity. Socrates said: "When? God posted me . . . ultb the duty to be a philosopher and to test myself and others, it would be strange if there I would fear either death or anything else and desert my post." This remarkable man, often called the father of philosophy, Western remained faithful to his
mission until his death. Socrates recognised that human actions often reveal a lack of personal integrity. He set about showing bow a person will say one thing and do another, or bold one set of values in mind uhile acting by other values. Plato recorded what his teacher, Socrates, bad to say. "If any of you argues thepoint avid says be does take every care, I question him, and if I think be does not possess virtue hut only says so, I will show that be sets very little value on things most precious." Comparing himself to a gadfly that constantly buzzes around a horse, Socrates challenged others without regard to their social class or political position: 'This I will do for everyone I meet, young or old, ?Wive or foreigner. For this is what God commands me, make no mistake. ••
Where can we look? By Katharine Bird 'The world is full of people who live lives of extraordinary self-giving and heroism, people the world never recognises for their integrity," said theologian Lawrence Cunningham of Florida. As an example, he told of a woman he knows who struggles "with bouts of depression, but she soldiers along," taking care of her family as best she can. -There's not a parish in the country without people like this, people with terrible personal crosses to bear who understand what they're about and proceed despite great hardships," Cunningham said. These unknown Christians "are the great hidden resource of sanctity in the Church." These people show in very practical ways what it means to live with integrity, Cunningham said That's a source of encouragement for others. The word "integrity" can be applied to organisations as well as individuals, Cunningham thinks. -We use the term all the time" in the
secular arena, he commented. 'We say such and such an organisation does not act in a spirit of integrity." He contrasted two organisations: the Ku Klux Klan and Catholic Relief Services. For the theologian, "certain organisations can never have integrity by their very presuppositions. If an organisation is not given to ethical behaviour, it won't have integrity... he asserted. In the Ku Klux Klan, people band together from "frustration, fear, paranoia — qualities on the dark side of the personality," Cunningham suggested. It is quite different for Catholic Relief Services, which "starts with the notion that it's against the spirit of the Gospel for people to starve and live in subhuman conditions. CSR attempts to develop strategies and means to counter that," Cunningham said For the theologian, integrity is a hard word to define: "It's a large word, an umbrella word," he explained. "Integrity means wholeness
When we speak of personal integrity we are speaking about a movement towards unity, oneness or completeness ultbin a person. Socrates was vigilant in carrying out his call to others to challenge greater personal integrity. Rut his vigilance infuriated those Athenians wbo uere leading hypocritical lives. They bad him arrested and brought to trial on three false charges: He was corrupting youth, be was an atheist and be illegally accepted money for bis teaching. The charge of Socrates' so-called "corruption of the youth" came about because be taught young people bow to discoter the. hypocrisy of the leaders in Alberts. His so-called "atheism" came from his belief in the divinity who gave him his mission, rather than the many gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus
Archbishop John O'Connor of New York comforts a dying child at a huge refugee camp in Mekele, Ethiopia, on his recent trip to the Africa. Theologian Lawrence Cunningham, professor of Roman Catholic Studies at Florida State University, says the word "integrity" can be applied to organisations as well as individuals. Catholic Relief Services, racing the clock to head off mass starvation in Africa, is pouring millions of dollars in aid into the droughtstricken regions of Africa. CRS "starts with the notion that it's against the spirit of the Gospel for peopie to starve and live in subhuman conditions," Cunningham says. and harmony, a certain relation between thinking and willing," Cunningham said. Those with integrity have "balance and harmony and wholeness of character." In classical theology, he added, the term applies to individuals "whose intellectual faculties were in control of their animal faculties. They lived according to right reason and grace. 'The term also takes on a
uho were held sacred by Greek society at that time. To the charge that be illegally accepted money for his teaching, Socrates a nswered: "My accusers bad not the effrontery or ability to produce a single witness to testify that I ever exacted or asked for a fee: and Iproduce, I think, the sufficient witness thatIspeak the truth. my poverty." In other words. Socrates believed that his life of simple poverty revealed his personal freedom from greed. His actions were consistent with his t wlues. The rulers of Athens. bowerer, were so determined to rid themselves of Socrates• penetrating questions that they voted to condemn him to death. Then, while Socrates :v s awaiting execution, his disipk CHI° tried to convince him to escape. But Socrates remained true to his ownprinciples. For be held a belief that the state
second meaning, that of persons who are ethical, who have a sense that what they're doing is not dissonant with what their conscience is telling them" Cunningham said Ifs helpful to note that "no one ever has perfect integrity," the theologian continued. "We grow in integrity" or fail to grow as we respond to the choices offered in life. One way for Christians to get a handle on integrity is to look at individual examples in the lives of saints. Cunningham pointed to St. Thomas Aquinas. "St. Thomas had a passion
gave him life, sustenance andeducation, and therefore bad the right to determine when his life should erul To Crito„Socrates said: "We must not do wrong in return or do evil to anyone in the world bou ever ue may be treated by them. Then let it be . . . since in this Way God is leading us." .4nd today, Pope John Paul II has given a philosophical and theological f To metvork for understanding the call of Christians to personal integrity in bis book. 'The Acting Person." He agrees that people must be challenging to bate their actions correspond with higher values. The pope writes: "For us. action rev eals the person and tee look at the person through his action. Action gives us the best insight into the inherent essence of theperson and allows us to understand the person most fully."
for truth and devoted his life to it," Cunningham said. As the late Jesuit Father Karl Rahner said, he's a "towering intellect and yet a man of great humility." For St. Thomas, prayer and study were not two separate compartments of life. St. Thomas "managed to turn a life of study into a life of prayer," the Florida professor said. Dorothy Day is another example. never "She wavered from her vision of solidarity with the poor. Over the long term, she displayed a harmony between a life of action and of prayer," Cunningham noted.
"What can be asked of eash of us, young and old, is that we strive to employ the gift of life in a true and honest manner tht will redound to the well-being of others as well as of ourselves. - (Mons John Tracy Ellis at 1983 baccalaureate services at the University of Southern California Los Angeles.) -The violation of truth and honesty, if allowed to proceed unchallenged, must ultimately undermine the integrity of society itself." (Mons John Tracy Ellis speaking at 1983 baccalaureate service at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.) "Confession Can Change Your Life" by Father David Knight. Did you ever "think about the morning after in the story of the Prodigal Son," after the "the fatted calf is just a pleasant memory?" There's a lot more to the son's leaving -than just an abstract offence against his father. A whole network of relationships with other people had been broken off or altered . . there was reconiling to do," Father Knight writes. -Reconciliation means that relationships are clarified and accepted again. . . to be reconciled with another is to feel you know that person again; you know what to expect of the other, what you can count on. - So this sacrament has the potential to make a big impact on daily living, the writer suggests in tOis 60page paperback. (St
Anthony Mepenger Press, 16151 Republic St, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45210.)
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Michael Carlile, brought up on the land in the fertile agricultural districts of Victoria, was originally to follow in his father's footsteps and become a farmer. His parents bought a hotel at his birth place of Granya then sold both the farm and the hotel to buy another hotel at Wangaratta. Michael, good at mathematics, became increasingly interested in the family's business affairs. As he did, ideas of becoming a farmer gradually faded from his mind. Accountancy seemed to be the logical profession for him, and so it came to pass. As is the case with many Victorians, he had been addicted to Australian Rules football for as long as he could remember. When he moved to Melbourne and got a job with the Taxation Department, his two main part-time activities were studying accountancy and playing football. He joined the Assumption College Kilmore Old Boys Club in the Amateur Association. He was not an alumnus of the college which was conducted by the Marist Brothers, but he was eligible because he had attended another of their schools in Champagnat College at Wangaratta His team-mates included a bevy of players who were to become VFL stars Among them were Peter Cremmins, who died tragically of cancer at the peak of his career, Peter (Crackers) Keenan, Kevin Heath, Laurie Serafini and Denis Munan. Michael ended his playing career when he reached the age of 30, but he continued his association with the club on the administrative side It was experience that was later to stand him in good stead at Subiaco. He had completed his accountancy qualifications some time before transferring to Perth with Arthur Andersen and Co towards the end of 1978. Accountancy, he says, is now much more commercial than when he joined the profession and there is greater competitiveness between accountants. The ethics are starting to change, as is exemplified by the fact that accountants can now advertise, The increasing use of computers is leading to other changes and there is a growing tendency towards specialisation in the profession in areas such as taxfinancial ations, and management consulting, audit, insolvency and others. The small accountant is finding difficulty in servicing a client after the client's business has got to a certain size, but the day of the small accountant is not over. If he gets together with two or three colleagues, the combination is not over. If he gets together with two or three colleagues, the combination can provide a reasonable range of services. The fact thatt there are many small practices in WA is probably due to the independent outlook in this State where everybody wants to be his own boss. Michael says that Arthur Andersen and Co employs only graduates, and they
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Michael Antony Carlile is partner in charge of the Perth office tax division of the intemationl accounArthur firm tancy Andersen and Co and president of the Subiaco Football Club. was born on He November 6, 1943, at Tallangatta in Victoria. started his formal education at Granya on the Murray River and cornpleted it as a boarder at
Champagnat College, conducted by the Marist Brothers, at Wangaratta. He studied accountancy part-time while working for the Taxation Department in Melbourne for 71/2 years before joining Arthur Andersen and Co in that city in 1969. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Associate of the Australian Society of Accountants.
He came to Perth at the end of 1978 and has just been re-elected as president of the Subiaco Football Club for a two-year term,
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Michael and his wife (nee Elizabeth Joy Marsh), parishioners of St Cecilia's at Floreat Park where he is a reader, have two sons and three daughters aged from 16 years to 18 months.
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by UCSIL,/ % AA% I Leaving the lush life on a rubber plantation in Malaysia for the sedate suburbia of Booragoon has proved to be an exciting change for Renee Bennett. "There is so much more to do here," she says, "and so much yet to do." It is five years since this energetic woman arrived in Perth with her husband, in the wake of their four children who had all been educated here. Michael Carlile
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE have had a reasonable grounding in computers before joining the firm. The company is now using micro-computers for a variety of tasks, and within 12 months they will be employed to prepare taxation returns. The stage will soon be reached when each secretary will have a word processor on her desk as well as a typewriter and the terminal will enable her to call up a whole data bank of information. All executive staff members will also have a computer terminal. Data bases are becoming available across Australia. The key in the basic question
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and the computer will present a menu of, say, ten references. You select the one you want and get a printout. Similarly if you want to read what a newspaper, such as The Australian Financial Review, has said about a client you plug in and get the reference. Data retrieval is a difficulty in professional offices because so much information has to be retained and there problems in indexing and storing. The computer, t herefore, will save substantial time and effort. In offices such as his, Michael believes, it will have no short-term effect on staffing levels but will enhance
efficiency and cost saving. In offices with big typing pools, however, there would be a shrinkage in the number of typists needed. About 12 months after he came to Perth, Michael was playing tennis regularly with former Subiaco star footballers Kevin Merifield and Reg Hampson. Kevin, later to be president of the Subiaco Football Club, asked Michael to become involved in the financial side of the club which was in a right mess. Investigation proved that this was something of an under -statement. About July of 1980 Michael started his Herculean task, and he was appointed a club director at the end of that year. Among his first important actions was to set budgets and encourage all concerned to meet them. The success of his efforts is striking. Subiaco is now one of the most financial clubs in the league. It has paid off all its debts and made a profit in the past
three years, largely through living within the right budgets set and clamping down on expenditure wherever possible. Sponsorship has increased from about $45,000 a year to around $200,000. Lack of success on the playing field was among the factors that put Subiaco in a position of bare survival and made attracting sponsors difficult. "You have to show the sponsor the benefits you can provide for him," Michael says. 'These include advertising signs at the oval, logos on the players' jumpers and shorts and entertainment facilities for the sponsor and his guests at home games, f inals interstate and matches." The proof of the sponsorship pudding has been the increase in its size under his presidency, but he gives a great deal of the credit for this to club general manager Michael Flanagan. • Coat page 12
Since then she has become very involved in the Accelerative Learning Society of Australia and is currently honorary secretary. She works as a volunteer secretary for the Association For the Welfare of Children in Hospital; is secretary of the Fremantle Scrabble Club and is teaching German in her spare time. A keen thespian, she is in the forthcoming production of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance to be produced by the Grads Society at the Dolphin Theatre, University of Western Australia on March 27, 28, 29 and 30. Born in Surrey, England, Renee moved to Singapore with her husband Frank shortly after their marriage.
In the 21 years they spent living on the rubber plantation she indulged her love of languages and now speaks Russian, Italian, German, French, Japanese and Malay-Indonesian. She is currently learning Esperanto, the "universal language." "I tried to encourage the European wives to talk Malay with the Malay wives, but not many of them seemed interested," she said. "I learned Japanese purely by chance. 'We began to have so many Japanese tourists coming the company through thought it would be a good idea if the Malay guides learned Japanese so they bought a linguaphone course. "But the Malays are a fairly casual sort of people, and it
Picked up languages in jungle was all a bit too hard so they didn't bother using it "It seemed a pity for it to go to waste, so I taught myself Japanese" It was, says Renee, a very pleasant life but on reflection, a little shallow. "We had everything done for us by the servants, so we had to find things to keep us busy. Singapore was oneand-a-hatf hours away so I used to go there for language lessons and any culture," she said. The hardest part was saying goodbye to the children who were sent off to school sometime after they turned eight. " The three eldest boys went to England to school for a while, but they didn't like it," she said. That was when the decision was made to send them to Perth. Their three sons finished their education at Aquinas College and their daughter at St Brigid's, Lesmurdie. The eldest son, Geoff, 32, is a film director in Sydney and was one of the first chosen to attend the Australian Film and Television School. "He went to WAIT for a while after leaving school and then branched out into drama, films, television, creative writing and editing," Renee said. He has just finished part of a new children's television series called, The Winners. Chris, 29, studied medicine for four years and has now become involved in the field of alternative medicine. Philip, 27, works in the Taxation Department and is a keen musician. "He's the best actor of the lot," Renee said. "He formed a band called The Helicopters and also composes and sings. "He is off to Germany soon and that's the main reason why I started giving German lessons." Lesley Anne, 21, is living in Sydney and works as a secretary at the ABC; when she isn't singing in a band. While Renee loves music and the theatre, she spends
Baroque music as aid to get students to relax and absorb more.
Ancient music aid to te her much of her time reading and studying and has become an enthusiastic advocate of the Learning Accelerative Society. This is an organisation which was founded in Perth in 1983 for the purpose of studying, testing, research ing, teaching and applying the techniques of superlearning suggestopedia in all fields of learning. The membership, which now stands at 180, is drawn from all walks of life and extends to states all part of Australia. It also includes members in the US. Canada and Europe Suggestopedia is a science developed by a Bulgarian psychiatrist, Dr Georgi Lozanov in the 1960s.
Dr Lozanov was disturbed by the fact many of his patients suffered from educationally-related complaints such as poor concentration, anxiety. hypertension, neurosis, low sett-esteem and even suicidal tendencies. Drawing from studies of those gifted with exceptional memories, combined with the latest research on left and right brain functions, Dr Lozanov created an electric, skilfully orchestrated technique. Specially selected music, relaxation training, guided imagery, breathing techniques, and the subtle inculcation of high expectations and positive attitudes creates a pleasant, joyful and relaxed learning environment in which 95 per cent of the latent unused mental capacity can be tapped. "Research has demonstrated," Renee said, "a foreign language, for example, can be learned three to five times faster than by the best conventional methods. "Improved memory, concentration and performance are achieved, resulting in an improved self-image and better health." At the moment there are no trained teachers in Perth although Renee has partial training. "I was very involved with Dr Gassner-Roberts who is the founding president of the ALSA and who came to Perth for the first annual conference last May." she said. "Dr Gassner-Roberts IS using the method with great
success at the University of Adelaide." The basis of suggestopedia is people to a large degree are conditioned to have positive or negative attitudes to learning A positive attitude is far more conducive to success and the method attempts to subtly. de-suggest the barriers to learning. Relaxation is very important in the process, as is music. The beat of the music is important and Baroque music has been found to supply the necessary rhythm. The idea of music as the bridge to inner awareness goes way back to the hidden sources of music itself. A few minutes a day of this Baroque music and listeners in Lozanov's classes began to report expanded awareness, better memory and a whole repertoire of health benefits. They felt refreshed, energised, centred. Tension and stress disappeared. Headaches and pains went and physiological tests showed lowered blood pressure, lowered muscle tension and slower pulse. The ancient schools of music believed music was the bridge linking all things and the importance of synchronised rhythms was a tradition handed down to the Baroque composers. Composers in those eras were trained and made to use these particular numbers and patterns for harmony, counterpoint, rhythm and tempo in their music.
This "Mathematical" music was supposed to affect us by aligning, harmonising and synchronising our minds and bodies to more harmonious patterns. But everything takes time and to be effective, says Renee, a class in the suggestopedia method should take at least three and a half hours. "It might seem a long time but the results speak for themselves," she said. 'The amount of information people are able to absorb and retain is quite impressive and the beauty of it is, they enjoy doing it. "I think that fascinated me to begin with, how interesting and unstressful it all was "I had no plans to be a
teacher myself but when my son said he wanted to learn some German we decided to get a class together. We've got a group of 10 and we have been going for three weeks. I'm thoroughly enjoying it and the students are certainly learning," It's important she says to have a positive atmosphere and her comfortable lounge room has become an instant "classroom," with lots of pictures of Germany, flowers and it's own relaxed charm. "I always start with relaxation and a series of mindtalming and visual exercises," she said.
El A few minutes a day of this Baroque music and listeners in Lozanov's classes began to report expanded awareness, better memory and a whole repertoire of health benefits. They felt refreshed, energised, centred. Tension and stress disappeared. Headaches and pains went and phsyiological tests showed lowered blood pressure, lowered muscle tension and slower pulse. The anicent schools of music believed music was the bridge linking all things and the importance of synchronised rhythms was a tradition handed down to the Baroque composers.
Suggestopeda is reputed to speed up learning as much as 10 or more times and mobilises some of the 90 per cent of the brain's seldom used potential It sets up communications links from body to mind, from conscious to unconscious
and is a holistic way to learn using an involving the whole person Trying something new IS part of everyday life for Renee and the theatre is no exception She first stepped on to the stage at the age of five years,
feeling resentment, she admits, at being cast in a boy's role It was in a play too that she met her husband, also a keen amateur actor "He was Pontius Pilate in the Easter Passion play, and
I was Mrs Pontius Pilate," she smiled "It has been good to share our interest in amateur dramatics although we do have many different interests, she said • Cont page 12
MN.0 ,.#1ft 'We might go for a lovely walk in our minds, by a stream or in a forest and then I suggest that they think back to a pleasant learning experience, perhaps when they were young and learning was f un, before it all got so serious. 'This comes from a time before they have been able to develop negative feelings so it is a positive experience. "The suggestion is it is easy to learn things, it is fun and a joyful experience. There is no homework and no testing although we do revise by repeating work on alternate days. 'We also do a lot in the form of dialogue, skits and plays because the visual is so important to the learning process. 'While we spend the next day revising, I can still give mys tudents a lot of material about five times more than they would have been able to absorb in a conventional lesson." Conventional teaching methods, says Renee, use only the left side, the analytical side of the brain. This leaves out the creative side. 'With suggestopedia we use both sides of the brain so you are not lopsided in your learning,' she said. "As far as the music is concerned, it is sort of a sonic massage. "The 60 beats to the minute tempo brings the body rhythms into the correct and synchronised tempo. 'The students sit back with eyes closed and just listen. "There is no stress, no inhibitions, it is really wonderful."
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Hilton parish lost a highly respected member with the death of Mary Carson at the age of 44. She had been a parishioner for 20 years. Formerly Mary Bosnich she grew up on the transcontinental railway on which her father was a fettler In 1965 she married George Carson at St Jerome's Church Spear wood, living the next 20 years in the Hamilton Hill section of Hilton parish where they raised their five children, Christine, Andrew, Gregory, Elizabeth and Jennifer. She served on the parish pastoral council and Our Lady of Mount Carmel school board. She was also a member of the Majellans, of the White Gum Valley Special School mothers' group, a
Ancient music aid to teacher • From page 11 'We were both brought up Catholics and that has been an important factor in the 33 years we have been married. "We have been able to share background and faith which has made it easier to go our different way when we choose to. 'We don't necessarily talk about what the other is doing but then I think you need space in a marriage." Learning her lines has proved to be the least of her problems, says Renee "My husband said how would I have time, but I just put my lines on tape to music, and play them when I can," she said. "I play them in the car, while I'm in the shower, while I am washing it's going on all the time, and I'm not necessarily listening. I'm just absorbing it without effort -The music relaxes and acts as a trigger for learning "I don't concentrate or try to remember "I've memorised a number of lectures this way. Ifs lust all there when you need it" Her role in the play is that of Lady Hunstanton. a Victorian hostess. "I don't think I'm a very good actress in that I am always me," she said. "But I do
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enunciate well and find the whole thing lots of fun' "It's a terrific play and I think it will appeal to feminists. "It's about a woman wronged by a man who, later in life, as Lord Illingworth is confronted by his son who tries to make his father marry so he can make an honest man of him. "It is a play giving a good understanding of the period . and all that Victorian house party bit. We have some lovely costumes, and it is all wonderful escapism, but stimulating at the same time "It does take a lot of time at present I'm rehearsing three times a week, but I haven't done a play for a while, and I'm really enjoying it, she said.
A lion at taxes • From page 10 Michael Carlde believes that while off -field Subiaco is in good shape on-field it still has a way to go. It now has the right people on the football side to overcome previous deficiencies in leadership and player discipline. He mentions football manager and former East Perth player Trevor Nesbitt who has among his responsibilities the development of juniors in the club's metropolitan and country zones, Haydn Bunton as senior coach, assistant coach, professional physical education expert and former player Wayne Loxley who knows what is required to play league football, and colts coach and former East Perth player Eddie Pitter who has had great success with the development of juniors. Michael believes Subiaco to be a final four prospect in 1 985. "In 1984,- he continues, "we lost five games by 13 points or less. We have got to win the close ones The younger players developed considerably in 1984 and they now know the commitment expected of them. "I am confident about the future. We have come a fair way in 12 months and we still have a fair way to go, but we now have a stable and efficient administration under general manager Michael Flanagan. How we perform on the field, however, is terribly important.Michael says that there is more administrative work in the off-season than during the winter months. It r evolves round activities such as recruiting of players, obtaining sponsors and drives to increase membership. In this last category, in 1985 Subiaco has reduced its membership fee from $50 to $30. Other inducements include family packages entitling members to free admission to the ground for all home games, and discounts for all members on packaged beer and wines. For Michael's sake, it is to be hoped that the graduallystrengthening voice of the Lions willl become a roar in 1 985.
Youth Forum One of the pleasing features of the recent International Youth Year conference was the high incident of creative expression by the delegates. wrote Delegates poems, lyrics and melodies that were more than just good fun. They made a point about life and faith. Dance and drama also f igured prominently. Angela Cox (right) a qualified dance instructor first made a hit on the youth scene two years ago at the annual youth rally with a solo liturgical mime. Angela co-ordinated the liturgical movements for the opening and closing ceremony, the cathedral Eucharist and led an afternoon woriKshop which was attended by 20 participants. Pictured at the conference (left) are Tina Fernandez (Lesmurdie A ntioch), Johneen R oche (Morawa), Gerard Hart (reciemptorist youth team), Stephen Roche (Morawa), and Anne Dorozenko (Collie Young Christian Students). Damian Hart (YCS Bunbury) and Debbie Dawson (YCW Bunbury) the Council strives to extend its thinking and discussion beyond the metropolitan area.
Last weekend 26 Catholic Youth Council members gathered at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup, for the annual vision weekend. Perhaps the phrase from the scriptures, "Old men shall dream dreams and young men shall see visions" could be quoted as the catch cry of the event and its original inspiration. For six years now, individuals from the different youth movements have communicated and coordinated inter-movement activities through the council. The weekend serves as an introduction to new members, and as a time for planning and setting goals. Two important matters arose last Sunday. One has been mentioned before; namely what can and should be done about the thousands of young Catholics in state schools. Council members realised that some initatives are already taking place, but concern was expressed about how movements can best answer this need. A second matter has developed as a result of the January state wide Catholic youth
conference. Council intends that the people involved be given a chance to find their place in the youth scene. The first step of the two and a half day "vision" meeting was that young people shared the story of their life and became friends. The second step was to tell each other what respective movements do; what their aims are; what sort of people they reach and to share personal hopes for the future. Regular readers of this column, may sigh and say, "we've heard all this before" — but for many takingpart in the meeting this was a new experience. The hardest things about youth work is that, the same message needs to be repeated over and over, not because young people are slow to learn, but because we are talking about a changing population. The youth involved today will not be around in a few short years, even months. This is the way it should be. The Church wants to participate in this transition time for young people. While only two country members attended the vision weekend
are organisations such as Antioch, Choice, Focolare, Uni. Catholic Society, Tertiary Christian Stuthe dents and Redemptorist Youth ministry team. Members from all Qne of the developments, has been to these movements parinclude the recently ticipated on the vision started youth activities weekend. The council of Geraldton, now is not a super body that directed by Tony dictates to the individDolan and those led by ual movements or Murray Cameron in organisations; its primAlbany and Ray Power ary function is information and in Bunbury. communication. It breaks down the suspicions and prejudices that can sometimes build walls between youth movements, especially if they choose to rival one another. Thank God WA has had little such rivalry. It is an important spark in broadening the vision of individuals within the different movements. For instance a young person may think that what they have found in their movement is the whole truth and there is nothing else to In 1979 four full experience. timers worked in WA. Young people at Today 12 young peo- times become tunnel] ple work full time in visioned an all they Perth, three in Bun- can see is the worth of bury, one in Gerald- their own activities. ton, and one in I am confident that Albany. There are two the present council sorts of youth organi- will further encourage sations, those with youth activity to disfull-time semi volun- cover how best to tary workers, called serve the youth of our full timers and those state. Anyone with spewithout them. cific concerns or inforIn the first category, mation for the there are movements Catholic Youth Counlike Young Christian cil should direct them Students, Young Chris- in writing to the Secretian Workers, Tertiary tary P.O. Box 194, Young Christian Stu- NORTH PERTH 6006. dents and Catholic Par- Mrs Marj Downie can ish Youth, in the be contacted on second category there 328 9878.
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How much will it all mean... BY KEVIN WONE Kevin Wone is an education officer at the Cairns Office of Education. A former TAFE teacher in Queensland, he works closely with Aboriginal students in the Cairns area.
For many Aboriginal Youth 1985 will be just another year. International Youth Year will, in many remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities slip by virtually unnoticed. Aboriginal young people in cities and urban centres where International Youth Year does get publicity through the various forms of the media, will be asking themselves what NY will do for them as no-one has listened to them much in the past. Aboriginal people generally rank as the most disadvantaged group in Australia. Black Youth tend to be at the bottom of the social pile and at the top of unemployment and welfare statistics. Youth unemployment in Australia tends to be around 25 per cent. In some Aboriginal communities it is around 90 per cent. Retention rates of non-Aboriginal students attending high school to Year 12 is approx-
imately 36 per cent. For Aboriginal students at the same level retention rates are about 10 per cent. Obviously there needs to be some very serious thinking done as to why these types of statistics keep arising year after year. NY, if it is promoting the themes of participation, peace and development must get to youth. Some 40 per cent of Aboriginal and Islander people live in remote areas where there is no television and very often no regular radio broadcasts. Aussat will not reach many remote communities until 1986 after NY. For NY to impact upon Aboriginal Youth, then people, not TV or radio advertisements, must get out to young Aboriginals and involve them in both planning of and participation in IYY activities. This should happen in the urban areas as well. There is a great deal of
frustration felt amongst black youth with the education system and the employment situation. Recent conversations between an Aboriginal Education Officer of the Department of Education in Cairns and an unemployed Aboriginal youth: "Why should I go to school? Those (white) teachers don't really want to teach us black kids. They don't teach anything about murries (Aboriginals or Islanders). and anyway nobody is going to employ us. "They see we have the wrong colour skin and straight away they tell us the job has already been taken." (Sadly this type of negative attitude is often continually re-inforced). For WY to succeed for black youth it must be offering youth the opportunity to voice its dissatisfaction and frustrations and then offer opportunities for them to cotinue participation through follow-up programs. If this follow-up is not carried out then the disenchantment which currently exists can only get worse.
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Rec ;I'd Kids Club Books Young Puffin Crosswords 2, by Mavis Cavendish, published by Puffin, $2.50. this lively sequel to the Y oung Puffin Book of Crossword Puzzles is a carefully planned introduction to different forms of puzzles. The various steps, from putting letters into boxes to form words through to traditional forms of crosswords arc followed sequentially. There are also storypuzzles, code — crackers and other puzzles to ensure hours of fun. Original Ages 6-11 The Calendar Quiz Book by Barbara Gilgallon and Sue Samuels, published by Puffin, $3. 50. All sorts of questions on a variety of topics are presented here to tease any young mind. In this book, the special days of the year provide the framework for the questions — 26 January is the day to test your knowledge of Australia! Original Ages 10-14
When is Easter? The date of Easter changes every year. It is not like Christmas which is always on the 25th of December. Easter Ls always at the time of a full moon. It
Is a festival which dates further back than anyone can remember, to the years when people kept track of time by counting the full moons. We still keep
the Easter feast on the first Sunday after the first full moon that follows the equinox. The equinox is when day and night are of equal length on the 22nd of March. The moon is very important to people who live out of doors. If you have ever camped out, you may have noticed that when the moon is full there is not much need for other light. The fire and the lanterns are just flickers compared with the soft light from the moon. Sometimes I see a moon that is completely whole and round and already I feel sad because I know that tomorrow it will be a little bit lop-
sided. Each night it looks smaller and smaller and after two weeks there is no moon at all. The nights are black as ink and a camp-fire shows up very brightly and casts heavy shadows. But after two nights of complete darkness, the moon can be seen again, a narrow crescent of light which gets larger each night. The old moon shrinks and disappears, but then the new moon appears and grows. From ancient times people have watched the moon. Sometimes they felt afraid of it. Sometimes it comforted them. They saw moon the how affected the movement of the tides. They
What is the end of everything? The letter G. Knock, knock. Who's there? Ivor. Ivor who? Ivor good mind not to tell you. Knock, knock. Who's there? Isabel who? Isabel necessary on a bicycle.
From The Easter Book, stories, songs, traditions, things to do and make, by Moira Eastman and Wendy Poussard, published by Dove Communications, $4.95.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Harold. Harold who? Harold are you:, Knock, knock. Who's there? Hugh. Hugh who? Hugh wanna bet?
Easter is not far away and it's time for you to put your drawing skills into practice and finish the picture (at left). Send your entry into Record Easter Drawing Contest, 26 John St, Perth as soon as you can and we have some lovely books for the best. Don't forget you have to be a member of the Kid's Club to be eligible. Off you go, it's drawing time.
Do You Want To Be My Friend, by Eric Carle, published by Picture Puffin,
$3.95. In this almost wordless picture book, the mouse chooses the biggest, most colourful and unlikely animals to put the question to. At last there is someone who says "yes"! From the author of The Ver Hungry Caterpillar. Reissue Ages 3 + Hallo! How Are You. by Shigeo Watanabe, published by Picture Puffin. $3.50. Another title in the enormously successful series featuring an endearing little bear. Follow him through the book as he asks everyone he meets the same. question. Ages 2-4
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Welcome to our new members: Jennifer O'Neill, of Merredin; Charmain Holyoak, of Roleystone and Jaman Blechynden, of Bridgetown.
Higglety Piglety Pop! or Mere Must Be More To Life. by Maurice Sendak. published by Puffin, $4.95. Jennie, the terrier who has everything, packs her hags and goes out in search of something more . . and finds it! This is a strange and fanciful story, superbly illustrated in black and white. Ages 7 +
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Dinner Ladies Don't Count, by Bernard Ashley. published by Puffin, $2. 75. Two school stories are presented here for the first time in one volume. The title of the txxik belongs to the first story, which unfolds with Jason's had temper and some unexpected repercus skins. In the second story. I.inda tells a lie and is amazed to see how it grows. But there are reassuring solutions to both problems. Ages
Harriet And The Roller Coaster, by Nancy Carlson, published by Picture Puffin, $3.95. "It goes so fast that if you don't hold on you'll fall right out." The roller coaster sounds pretty scary and anticipating the ride gives Harriet had dreams. George thinks it is going to he just gret . Ages -8
thought that perhaps the moon had an effect on the growth of plants, animals and even people. At harvest time the moon seemed very beautiful. People celebrated the changing of the seasons, new life and the growth of their crops by the light of the full harvest moon. The moon dies and rises again and the Easter moon tells us that we belong to a great changing pattern of life.
BIRTHDAY Happy birthday to Simon Rose, Sorrento; Senol Jacobs, Greenwood; Leanne Biglin, Kondinin; Claire Baxter, City Beach; Sharon Boys, Medina; Michael Ferrante, Bentley; Rodney Field, Craigie; Gregory Heslop. GeraldAndrew Hytton, ton; Rockingham; Melissa Kelly, Claremont; Ciaran Keane. Newman; Michelle Daly, Victoria Park; Peter Devine. Floreat Park; Rebecca Lambe, City Beach; Terry Matthews. Mt Helena; Jodee Meredith, Beacon; Andrew McAullay, Duncraig: Douglas McDonald. Katanning: Lindsay McLennan. Subiaco; McCleary, Jacqueline Chenoa Geraldton; O'Rourke, Beckenham; Conchita O'Donnell, Orelia; Gerard Walker, Merredin; Sarah Martin, Nedlands; Gavin Monck Bateman; Lisa Smith. Mandurah; Peta Stoney. East Maylands; Danny Taylor, Wattleup; Anthony Tonks, Rockingham; Lyndal Tuia, Donnybrook; Louise Bencubbin: Whitfield, Simone Wilson, Beckenham; Jarrord Fairfield, Kewdale; Mathew Osborne. Dalkeith; Gayle Farmer. Nollamara; Erica Martin, Lesmurdic; Jodie Bairstow, Lance linnenbank. Swan View; Tara Everest, Goomalling; Catherine White, Palmyra.
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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
The Gospel Passions
A new manual for Passion reading in parts
The Gospel Passions, published by Methuen, $14.95. This book is designed to enhance the liturgical proclamation of the Lord's passion, death and resurrection in Holy Week. Clearly, the options are many, ranging from a simple reading by the deacon or priest, to a highly dramatised version in full costume and involving, perhaps, "chorus" groups of children and young people. It is not
new titles, new titles willeinam, by Wolfram L ou Eschenbach, published by Penguin, $7.95. One of the great epic poems of medieval European literature. Willehalm is the epic tale of the knight. Willehalm and his love for a Saracen girl converted to Christianity. The Annotated Gilbert and .Sulliran:2, edited by Ian Bradley, published by Penguin. $12.95. Six of the best loved Gilbert and Sullivan opera's: "Trial by Jury", "The Sorcerer". "Patience". "Princess Ida", "Ruddigore" and "The Yeoman of the Guard". All the explanations are here, alongside the full libretto texts, providing a fascinating commentary for both new and old Gilbert and Sullivan fans. The Penguin Book Of Canadian Verse. edit2d by Ralph Gustafson. Published by Penguin, $12.95. This new revised edition adds more contemporary poems to the already strong selection of poetry from Canada's past and from the outstanding poets of Canada's modern period. The Good Book Guide To Business, The Good Book Guide and The Economist, published by Penguin. $24.95. An expert. illustrated assessment of the top 600 essential business books, armed with the imprimatur of The Economist. George Steiner, A Reader. by George Steiner, published by Penguin, $12.95. Prolific writer, critic and polemicist, George Steiner stands as one of the great scholars of our time; a controversial thinker whose work is already essential reading for all students of English, American and European literature. Dictionary of Contradictor), Quotations, publishedby Faber andFaber. $8.95. Quotations listed by subject — divided for and against, with each quotation matched by a relevant riposte on the facing page. Now you can have the last word in any argument whatever the subject!
Age. F.-vit Left. by Oriel Gray, published kv Penguin, Oriel Gray's autobiography', set in Sydney in the 1930s and 40s, is both a political biography and a hook about relationships, including her marriage to John Hepworth. Raised by a deeply political Father, she drifted towards the left-wing New Theatres. and was a member of the Communist Party. Exit Left traces her involvement with these organisations. and her gradual disillusionment with the left. Oriel Gray is revealed as a marvellously resilient woman. Numbers, Their history and meaning. by Graham Flegg. published by Penguin, $12.95. Everyday everyone uses numbers — but how many of us understand them. Graham Flegg examines the history of numeracy showing how our ancestors gradually discovered and improved the techniques of making numbers work. Islam In The World, by Malice Ruthren, published by Penguin, $9.95. In one of the first ever comprehensive and accessible works of its kind. Wise Ruthven aSSCSSCS the origins and beliefs of Islam, plus the political impact of its wild fire revival.
right to say that any one made of presentation is more "liturgical" than another. Much will depend on the mood, character and resources of celebrating the community. For example, a simple, meditative reading of St John's Passion on Good Friday has often proved highly effective and deeply moving.
Active participation does not necessarily mean that everybody in the church must have a part, but it does mean that everyone must feel personally involved. Hence in presenting the Passion, in whatever form, thought must be given to the best possible means of fostering this involvement. Good
speakers are essential and they must rehearsed have their parts beforehand, otherwise and ham-acting is an annoyance in the presentation of plays, so it is possible to "over-speak" and 'ham-speak" parts in a dramatic reading. The reader must feel his or her way into the role and produce as nearly as possible
Sometimes in the past we may have been tempted to regard the long reading of the Passion in Holy Week as a penance to be endured. That is not the intention of the liturgy. It is an invitation to more become whole-heartedly united with Christ in his redeeming passion.
Price of poetry
Dictionary Of Food and Drink, published by Faber and Faber, $8.95. A concise pocket guide to foods, wines and other beverages from all over the world. Includes useful information on cooking styles and methods and longer articles on subjects of popular interest such as cheeses, coffees and wines. Outrageous Behaviour. by Morris Lurie. published by Penguin, $8.95. A selection of the best stories of popular Australian writer. Morris Lurie. "Lurie's prose is entertaining and lively ... there is a subtle exactness to the writing. His dialogue is fresh, natural and extremely funny; as is his quirkish imagination." - The
the nuance of meaning and emotion that is intended by the author.
- PETER ACKROYD T.S. Eliot, by Peter A ckroyd, published by Hamish Hamilton ( London), (Distributed by Nelson), $ 2.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. Within his lifetime T.S. Eliot was recognized as undeniably the greatest poet of his generation. Nearly 20 years after his death his reputation, unlike that of many of his contemporaries. remain as high as ever.
How do children really think? Children's Minds, by Margaret Donaldson, published by Flamingo, $5.95. This book was first published in 1978 and has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought. Margaret Donaldson was educated at the University of Edinburgh where she continued as a teacher and where, in 1980, she was appointed Professor of Development Psychology. Her main research interest has always been in the study of human thought and language In this book she shows how thought and language originally depend upon the interpersonal context within which they develop, andhow, given the support of such contexts, children
It is perhaps a fitting tribute to a man who believed that he had paid too high a price to be a poet. that he had suffered too much. Two years before his death, he had told a friend that the best of his poetry had cost him dearly in experience. . but perhaps it is only in the raging fires of deep suffering that greatness is forged. T.S. Eliot was born in St I.ouis, Missouri. on September 26, 1888 but he was to spend most of his adult life living in England. He showed signs of precocious intelligence as soon as the early stage of infancy was passed and his mother Charlotte. WM quick to encourage her son's genius. He was a frail child; he was born with a congenital double hernia which meant that he had to wear a truss for most of his life. A less than healthy Ir.
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child will always be cossetted and a precocious one, even more so. But despite. or perhaps because of. such cossetting, T.S. Eliot Was to grow into a complex and often troubled man. As an adult the face he presented to the outside world Was that of a successful public man — an estalished speaker and important publisher.
or marital problems. It was a disastrous combination and Vivien's emotional and physical fragility was to constantly disrupt their marriage and ultimately to precipitate the also emotionally fragile. Eliot, into a nervous breakdown just a few yeafS after their marriage. The emotional merry-goround was to continue for nearly 20 years before
Behind the mask, however. there was a secret, enigmatic man who was prone to depression. brooding and intense anxiety. He was a suffering and often bewildered individual who was raised to the status of a cultural guru and representative literary authority. a writer who described the impersonality of great poetry while his own work is suffused with his experience and personality. He was a poet who attempted to create order even when in his private life he was invaded by disorder.
Love the key to .peace are already skilled thinkers and language users by the time they comes to school. It is at school, however, where success depends on the development of new modes of thinking. Margaret Donaldson shows what these entail and analyses the difficulties which they present. She claims that we have not fully understood the nature of these difficulties and so have not known how best to help children to deal with them. Valuable reading for all who are in interestedin the development of the human mind and especially for professionals in the areas of child care and education.
His sensitive psyche was to be nearly crippled through a disastrous marriage. It was in 1915 that he met and married ViNien Haigh-Wood, a vivacious, beautiful but over -sensitive young woman. Her diary entries for the year before she met Eliot show her to have been rather nervous, subject to worry and depression but with sudden changes of mood that would release in her an exuberant and unexplained high spirits. These days she would probably be diagnosed as manic depressive and treated accordingly hut psychiatry still had a long way to go in 1915 and the society of the time, unlike today, was not encouraged to seek the help of a counsellor for personal
Vivien's psychotic and paranoid behaviour became so severe that Eliot decided to end the marriage. Then followed nearly 10 years of Eliot being chased by the sad and bewildered Vivien, intent on `getting her husband back.' refusing to believe he had left her of his own free will. She was ultimately committed to a mental asylum where she died in 1947 Even then Elliot was to be dogged by the memory of his 'dead wife,' as feelings of guilt began to well in him. But life was to deal him one kind card. In 1956 he proposed to his secretary of eight years, Valerie 1Fletcher. She was 30 and he was 68 and she was to be his joy and
happiness for the last eight years of his life. With his second marriage, his own erratic emotional health began to stabilise. This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying: neither fame nor literary' achievement had brought him any contentment, and in the end it was human love, the love he had dismissed from his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men, that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation. This is an eminently readable literary biography and a tribute to Peter Ackroyd's detailed research and skilful pen.
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WHAT'S ON Sponsorship forms are available through the Redemptorist Monastery, 190 Vincent St, North Perth. All moneys raised will be donated to Project Compassion, specially ear -marked for Ethiopia. It is hoped many people in the community join in this fast, as a special Lentan Sacrifice, whether it be through sponsorship and or fasting, indeed all are welcome. If it is inconvenient to fast on the weekend or to camp in the Monastery grounds, by all means, tailor your fast to
'Waiting' is perhaps the most common image of the third world, In Kobbo, this Ehtiopian peasant farmer waits for food to be given out. As part of Lent, Monastery Justice and Peace are holding a 30-hour fast for Ethiopia. The fast will be held in the grounds of the Reclemptonst Monastery, from noon Saturday March 30, ending with the 6 pm Mass on Sunday. A tent city will thrive for the duration. Some tents will be provided, however. because numbers are uncertain, it would be wise to bring your own if at all possible. Portable Rent -a-loos are being sought after, and should be available. During the fast there will be speakers from Australian Catholic Relief, films, prayertimes and thought provoking activities. designed to raise awareness of the plight of the Ethiopian people.
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your capacity. Sponsorship forms are available through the Redernptorist Monastery. For further information contact Peter Stewart on 361 4981 or Marcus Boehm (H) 271 2580 or (W) 327 0752. BURMESE COMMUNITY The Burmese community will welcome Father Michael Rego SM ordained last December, in a gathering at St Anne's Hehir St, Belmont at 10.45 am on
BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of the Relevation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday, March 31 at 2pni. For further information and bus reservations please contact P. Galea on 349 7135 or L. Martinz 328 4631. A nnual Feast of the Virgin of the R evelation will take place on Sunday Apnl 14 at 11 am with pilgrimage, prayers and Benediction in the afternoon. WORLD PRAYER DAY Many Catholic women attended Wom en's World Day of Prayer services in Western Australia says CWL president Mrs Molly Indemiaur. Services were held at 141 centres in W A and attended by 7000 in 1984. The 1985 service on the theme Peace Through Prayer and Action was prepared by the women of India. Proceeds of the services were donated to the Bible Society.
LAITY RETREAT A quiet retreat on the theme gift and consisting of meditation, personal reflection and reading and time for individual direction will be conducted from 7 30pm on Friday. April 19 to 4pm on Sunday. April 21 . Further information from Sister Joan Smith, Sisters of Mercy. 7 126 Edward Street. Osborne Par* phone 444 0630.
Sunday. March 31 . Participants should bring a plate and drinks. The Australia Burma Mission Relief Society will hold its annual dance on Sunday. April 7 at the Morley Community Centre from 8pm to lam Contact 272 1379 for booking, $5 each BYO
LEGION ACIES The acies ceremony at which members of the Legion of Mary make the annual renewal of their act of consecration will be held on Sunday. March 24 at the following churches: St Mary's Cathedral, 2.30pm; Immaculate Conception church, East Fremantle, 2.30pm; Our Lady of Lourdes church, Yokine 2 30pm; St Joseph's church Bassendean 2pm All members, active, auxiliary and other interested people are invited to these ceremonies. SCHOENSTATT GIFT A n altar arriving from Brazil was incorrectly described last week as a gift from Brazil when in fact it is being paid for by the local Schoenstatt community
A BOVE: Youth chaplain Father Jegorow who has refused in the past to go on river cruises found some consolation for putting up with the loud noise with Myra Gerzina (left) of Hilton and Sarah Glen of Willagee. BELOW: Aquinas parents' day was popular this year with a big roll-up including (outer circle, from left) Michael Hogan. Bronwyn Hogan, Mrs Ralph, Jenny Ralph, Bradley Ralph, Graham Ralph (with dog), Mr Bowen, Mark Bowen, Mrs Bowen and Stephen Bowen (inner circle) Jenny-Lee Hogan, Mrs Hogan, Mathew Bowen and Mr Hogan nursing Martin.
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