Hamersley Parish has a "restyear" in its Christian Initiation program . . . but still managed six converts. See story, pictures page
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A Perth priest has won accolades in Canada for his thesis on canon law. See story page 2.
The shortage of priests is a factor affecting changes that will soon take place in suburban parishes including the creation of a new parish to serve the expanding northern suburbs. Following a consultation with the Council of Priests last Thursday Bishop Healy referred to the serious shortage of priests facing the archdiocese in the immediate years ahead, and urged priests to to be held at St Charles' support the day on May 5. Seminary
BRIAN BURKE W estern Australian Premier, Brian Burke and his wife, Sue will meet Pope John Paul II in private audience in the V atican next month. See page 3.
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Bishop Healy said that on the recommendation of Archbishop Foley he would no longer occupy the position of parish priest.
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Consequently he was resigning as parish priest If Cottesloe to which he was appointed 10 years ago following previous appointments at VVillagee and Kalgoorlie.
B alcatta parishioners rally to help in the financing and construction of a new $200,000 parish centre. Story and ture page 3.
Priests have been invited to apply for the parishes of Cottesloe and also Maida Vale because of developments concerning the Camillian Fathers. of their relinquishBishop Healy acts to help overcome ingBecause of Mount St Camillus Hospital at Forresffield. and shortage in the Perth archdiocese their consolidation of chaFT plaincy work at St John of
Record reporter, ROSLYN ROSS begins her series on successful Perth author, Connie Miller, who has written t wo books. See pages 10 and 11.
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Your education liftout this week — 1-.7-7:71"Praram includes a comprehensive story on the arrangements proceeding for the the new Ocean R eef Catholic college, to be opened next year. Almonmeommimm ilmimm...."
Next Thursday hundreds of former members of the Catholic Girls Movement (CGM) will have a chance to recall the movement's highlights 40 years ago as when leaders (above) assembled at Marian Lodge, Kalamunda to say farewell to the late Father Harold Lalor, dynamic force of the movement who was about to leave for Melbourne to join the Jesuit order. Other pictures and details iI Parish Pump on page V.
God, Subiaco and Queen Elizatwth Centre, the Camillian Fathers will establish a community at Subiaco parish which includes charge of the Princes,s Marpret and King Edward Hospitals. They will continue to serve Shenton Park parish. To the north of Perth ests have been invited to apply for a new parish to be opened in the (kcan Reef arca. With Ocean Reed Drive as its southern boundary, the new parish •i include the rapidly expanding suburbs of Heathridge and Ocean Reef and most of the other development in the greater Joondalup area. Plans are already under way for the opening next year of a Catholic secondary college at the coii rner of Marmion and tio(iges Avenues. Other northern corridor developments include an eventual parish including a two stream parish primary school at the corner of Wooch-ale Avenue and Duffy Terrace serving also thc Kingsley area. For the present. Catholic education officials believe the need for Catholic: schools is greater in the more northern sector of
Bishop Healy Ocean Reef than at Wcxxlvale. Also in the northern suburbs, the establishment of Girrawheen parish at the corner of Patrick Court and Girrawhecn Avenue where a church and presbytery and hall are under constructim means furthcr parish development will have to he plannVd for the new areas to the east. Mirrabooka parish also reports thc need for attention to the developments taking place to the east and north of St Gerard's church. South of the city on Murdoch Drive. a future parish sitV is provided on the property that already contains Corpus Christi secondary college and Yidarra primary school. Development is anticipated in the Janclakot area and a provisional paristi and school site has been pur chased there Thornlie parish already tuus a new site for which , church and two stream prim ary school are being planned.
A 'rest-year' still six converts Accolades for local graduate Father Brian O'Loughlin has returned from a brief visit to Canada where the defence of his thesis gained him a Church doctorate in canon law and a doctor of philosophy degree at Ottawa University. His hour and a half defence of his thesis before a board of five academics culminated four-and-a-half years of study at St Paul University Ottawa and two-and-a-half years preparing his thesis. The 506 page, eight chapter document is titled "Marriage: Covenant and Partnership for the Whole Of Life" looks at the subject from the point of view of scripture, council teaching and the revised code of canon law. Other WA graduates in canon law include Bishop Quinn and Monsignor Keating with doctorates and Father Greg Carroll a licentiate. Father O'Loughlin said it was foresight on the part of Archbishop Goody in a time of clergy shortage to have sent a priest for specialised training in canon law. Father O'Loughlin's mother Mrs Mary Thompson of North Fremantle attended the Ottawa ceremony earlier this month. Father O'Loughlin said many Catholics especially those being called as witnesses in marriage cases, were bewildered by the very existence of marriage tribunals.
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In 1984 an initial response of 30 had resulted in 17 candidates being prepared for that Easter ceremony. Other people had expressed interest so a group of six began training in July and attended along with their sponsors 19 weekly sessions of two hours each at the homes of Carmel and Tony Stefanoff and Roger and Bridgett Johnson. The parish program is supervised by committee members, Jim Sorgiovanni, John Fortune, Christine Nolan and Anne Sorenson. Convert preparation began in the parish more than 10 years ago when the late Bob Swindle, a teacher at Senite College, began preparing people at his home. Hamersley candidates in the 1985 ceremony were Vera Barr, Angie Elastic, Tracy Johnstone, Rhonda Stambulich and Kim Williams.
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Bob Swindle's death last October was a big loss to the parish. But as a fruit of his work, a student teacher and a mother of a pupil at Solite College were in this year's ceremony. Two of the candidates were 18-year-olds and two were married to Catholics. Instruction of the candidates was done verbally by the leader couples who used Brisbane-prepared tapes and material for their preparation.
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DUBLIN: A week after a k ey vote in Ireland's parliament on a Bill to liberalise contraception laws, the Irish bishops issued a pastoral restating Church teaching on sex and family life as the basis for homilies during the four Sundays of Lent.
Hamersley parish of All Saints had decided to have a rest year in 1985 for its Christidh Initiation program, but the Easter Vigil still found one candidate for baptism and five others admitted to the Catholic Church.
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In their letter, the bishops reiterated traditional Church teaching on c ontraception, divorce, premarital and extramarital sex, rape, masturbation and homosexuality. T hey also denounced saying s terilisation, "Catholic hospitals may not provide such operations, and Catholic personnel may not cooperate with them."
A BOVE: Hamersley Christian Initiation leader couple Roger and Bridget Johnson with candidates Angie Hastie, Tracy Johnstone, and Vera Barr. BELOW: Leader Carmel Stefanoff with candidates Kim Williams, Rhonda S tambulich and Roland Hawes.
Wider issues of helping Saint Vincent de Paul members were cautioned about referring to families being assisted as "cases' when Monsignor Nestor addressed the festival meeting at Our Lady of Victories church. He said the expression was not appropriate in a Catholic charitable organisation helping the poor. Helping families needed a wider consideration than just giving food. Members had to look for what generates poverty and helplessness in families.
They should then look for signs of growth in the family and work on them so the needy could take some responsibility for their own improvement. "Members should examine what they themselves can do in order to improve what is at fault in our community," he said. "They should not wait for the world to become a better place, but instead go out and fight indignity and poverty for the benefit of the community."
the O n marriage, bishops said: "There are f ew things in life as breathtakingly beautiful as a couple in love. And so it should be. Love comes from God because God is love. "There is, in modern Western culture, a growing acceptance of the 'living of practice together' without marriage," the bishops said. "These relationships are make-believe situations." The bishops said divorce is contrary to Church teaching and harmful to society. Divorce is unconstitutional in Ireland, but there have been some c alls to remove that ban. The bishops said the introduction of divorce would define all marriages as dissoluble and w ould increase the number of family breakdowns. "May the Irish always support marriage through personal commitment and through positive and legal action," they said. T he bishops also addressed several widely publicised infanticides by teen-age mothers.
Church status is amended ROME (NC) — Italy's Chamber of Deputies officially removed Catholicism as the state religion last month approving by an overwhelming majority an agreement between the Vatican and Italy governing religious affairs. The agreement, or concordat, declares Church and state to be "independent and sovereign." The new concordat, riage annulments. which replaces one It also acknowledges the signed by Pope Pius XI "particular significance of Rome for Catholicism" hut and Benito Mussolini drops the reference to "the in 1929, makes reli- sacred character of the etergious instruction in nal city.state schools optional Under the new treaty the and gives civil author- Church retains the right to perform its pastoral mission, ities the right to the right to oversee dioreview Church mar- ceses, priests and other
New Italian concordat institutions, freedom to establish schools and the right to minister in public institutions and the armed forces. The treaty also protects Church buildings and calls on Church and State to work together to protect Italy's historical and artistic treasures. Priests, deacons and
members of religious orders continue to be exempt from military service, but will be required to perform a civil service instead. The government also will help to maintain church buildings open to the public. Under the financial agreement of the concordat. the Italian government will permit Italian taxpayers to deduct up to the equivalent of approximately 11000 annually from their taxable income for donations made to the Church.
Balcatta opens a parish centre The new parish centre at Balcatta reflects the changes that have taken place in the church in the past 20 years, Bishop Healy told a big audience when he blessed and opened the building last Sunday.
ACR's plea to Australian Government The recent rapid devaluation of the Australian dollar is causing a major drop in the value of aid given by Australians to help people in need overseas. The National Director of Australian Catholic Relief, Michael Whiteley, has indicated the disastrous effects the devaluation is having on programs supported by his organisation. "We sent 100,000 US dollars to Ethiopia in December. "It cost us 115,000 Australian dollars. "Today, the same amount would cost A $145,000". The biggest immediate losers in the situation are the poor of Africa, who are currently receiving assistance to help them recover from the drought which is still ravaging much of the continent, said Mr Whitely. "Our program in Africa for 1985 was
Dollar crash affects aid from DERMOT DORGAN originally planned to cost $2 million. "It will now cost perhaps 25 or 30 per cent more than that — depending on the future movement of the dollar. "I'm sure that our supporters will see the absolute necessity of raising the extra money." Mr Whiteley said he was concerned about information received from Canberra that the Aid Budget for 1985-86 would only be increased by two per cent.
aid in the next budget must rise to $1100 million." "While we have many problems to face in Australia. I am sure all Australians would accept as a relatively wealthy country we have an obligation to at least maintain our overseas aid program at i ts 1984 level," Mr Whitely added.
"We would not have built a parish centre like this 20 years ago" he told more than 600 parishioners who earlier attended a special Mass for the occasion. "It is a new approach following Vatican 11 that shows the role of the laity, that takes into account the different groups in a parish, that recognises the fact we are a people of (incl. It is an approach showing the parish is not just an organisation but an organism alive with the life of the risen Christ. a society providing for this kind of approach." Bishop Healy said. Named Alverna in honour of the mountain retreat where St Francis of Assisi received his stigmata, and in honour of the Franciscan Capuchins who administer the parish. the new- building is built in concrete block and metal deck roof to match the existing church. It provides a hall to seat 4(X) with accompanying kitchen facilities, a large meeting room to accommodate 16 seated people. and two offices and secretary's office for the use of the priests. With most of the 5200,0(X) cost still to be paid. Bishop Healy praised the initiative of the St Lawrence and Mary Immaculate associations for undertaking the repayment of the funds without recourse to parish funds. He said it was up to the people to prove the usefulness of the new building which would allow them to function as a people of God, to provide social life, small gatherings and special works more effectively and more eagerly than before. He quoted the comment of Pope John Paul that where a parish is functioning well. the Church is going well in that area.
"If this is so," Mr Whiteley said, "Australia's credibility will be greatly damaged in the countries of the third world with which we are attempting to build closer links." Mr Whitely said these countries are fully a ware the devaluation of the dollar will bring an immediate major windfall to the e xport industries in Australia, at least 46 per cent of which will go in extra taxation revenue for the government. "If we are to maintain our aid program only at the current level, the allocation for
Caution on drug traffic VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul told Colombian bishops they faced serious pastoral problems, including tensions over land use, drug trafficking and the spread of "ideologies against the faith" Drug traffickers "disturb the life of communities- in indigenous regions and seek to "drag them into the immoral commerce of drugs," the pope said Colombian Bishops have in recent years spoke out against the country's illegal cocaine traffic, which has been estimated to affect up to one-third of Colombia's youth
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MELBOURNE: The natural merits of chastity will be presented to teenage students by a group of Ringwood Christians using a sex education program developed in the US. Pregnancy Action Centre, Ringwood. is pioneering this type of audio-visual sex education in Australia. A ecumenical group runs the centre which already has used the program to counsel individual teenagers and some teenager couples. The centre will make its first school presentation at Mitchum High School in the second term.
The Premier, Mr Brian Burke and Mrs Sue Burke will leave next month for a visit to Europe that will include a private audience with Pope John Paul II. It is the premier's first official visit to Rome and the meeting with the pope was arranged with the help of the Perth Catholic Church Office. As a former pupil of the Marist Brothers when their school was in Subiaco, Mr Burke will include a visit to the Italian city of Subiaco, the birthplace of St Benedict, after whom the Benedictine settlement near Lake Monger (now McAuley Centre) was named in the last century.
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Basically, the program points out that: • contemporary sex education fails to resolve teenagers' sex problems. • Self-control is a viable option. • premature sex activity is hazardous. The program offers a range of p, benefits gained by practising chastit, It lists these important freedoms that accrue as a result. They are: freedom from: pregnancy, the hurry-up wedding, the adoption decision. guilt, sexually-transmitted diseases, cancer of the cervix, hazards of birth control, selfinduced sterility. sexual exploitation, loss of reputation and a damaged future. It shows the trauma behind sexual permissiveness by comparing the US. 1910 divorce rate of 8.8 divorces for every 100 marriages with 50 per cent in 1977. The program also warns that the younger the girl is when she becomcs sexually active, and the more boys she has intercourse with, the more likely she is to suffer cancer of the cervix. Early treatment can leave a girl sterile. Late treatment might well be fatal.
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Record An interesting paradox in an age when secularists sneer at the notion that there are any answers "up there" and theologians maintain that the kingdom of God needs working out "down here" is that Australians are stampeding to find their solutions at the "summit", wherever that is. Any novel idea can be worked to death and if, like the devotees who flocked to the Greek earth-based deity in the person of the Delphic oracle, the hordes find they are getting from the summit no answers or answers they don't particularly like then "heaven" knows where they will search next. The Delphic oracle relied on a mix of credulity and practical compromise. To go near the oracle was at least a sign of faith but to unravel the message and hand it back to the plebs with the best advantage required skills that prove politics is a very old trade indeed. Australia is still chewing the cudd, increasingly tastelessly, after the economic summit. The drug summit so far appears to have come and gone with a bit of huffing and puffing over phone taps. The next mountain to scale is very high and many are going to run out of breath before they reach the peace of a mountain accord on the subject of taxation. Summits suffer from the disadvantage that big sectors of modern day societies have diametrically opposed views on what exactly is wrong with the country. While a truce of sorts operates precariously after the economic summit, very few of the participants would know what they are trying to solve and whether things are in fact any better. The double talk and two-bob-each-way antics at Delphi are still alive and well today. I [ ] CI El The drug summit depended on what questions were carried in the briefcases of those who went to Canberra. That there are some notorious crooks doing well out of the business and some smelly corners in public administration is pretty obvious. But what problem does that prove? Was it a study of the pathetic lag between law and the operations of modern society? It does not deal necessarily with the problem of drugs. The fact which no summit is prepared to discuss is that there are tens of thousands of Australians in every stratum of every suburb who are deliberately and relentlessly embarking on a drugged existence which is independent of whether they have to pursue robbery or prostitution to feed the habit. In the horror of what happens in Kings Cross or St Kilda Road and in the occasional family tragedy that surfaces in other crises, no-one wants to talk about the spiritual bankruptcy that drives human beings youth are human beings, if they are allegedly the main offenders - to this lifestyle. The truth is no closer to detection in the superficially plausible argument that the other half of the country is successfully hooked on aspirin or alcohol, although it will apparently be a long time before there is a summit on the toll of alcohol caused driving accidents and other alcoholic malignancy putting a massive burden on the medical system groaning under an intolerable financial load. Were there a little more breathing space and time to reflect on the drug and similar blights that affect human happiness the forthcoming tax summit might have a little more meaning.
l E El Eli El If the tax experts know there is something obviously wrong with our system, the mobs at the foot of the mountain, much more than the invisible drug offenders, are agreed on one simplistic truth: each person is paying too much tax and the person next door is not paying enough. Tax summiteers have to be practical people. They know there are a limited number of avenues of tax reform and at least Mr Hawke has been honest enough to admit what other politicians might well also confess: no government is going to commit deliberate political suicide. But the taxpayers need to be entertained in the meantime. They could be given some basic lessons in the history of taxation which seems to be as old as any written records, biblical or otherwise. The history could refresh minds on the unilateral method of collecting taxes that have operated, and operate today, in less democratic societies. As society plunges into its own destruction by abortion it would do no harm to re-think the notion whether a "wanted" child becomes a better taxpayer than the "unwanted" we discard at birth and down the poverty track. Perhaps that is why so many of the stories in the Old and New Testament involve taxes, tax payers and tax collectors.
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A big Mass b ra bishop SAN SALVADOR, (NC) — Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador, joined by thousands in commemorating the fifth anniversary of the assassination of his predecessor, Archbishop Oscar Romero, urged the government to investigate the slaying and punish the guilty. During a memorial Mass in San Salvador's cathedral, Archbishop Rivera Damas called the slain clergyman a "martyr" and said "his death must be clarified and those guilty must be punished." An estimated 5000 people were inside the cathedral for the Mass. An estimated 1000 stood outside, listening to the ceremony over louds-
peakers. Archbishop Romero was killed by a single bullet on March 24, 1980, as he celebrated Mass in the chapel of a hospital for cancer patients. After he became head of the San Salvador Archdiocese in 1977, the archbishop was a strong critic of the
g overnment 's human rights record. Some government supporters considered him sympathetic to antigovernment guerillas. A former Salvadoran intelligence official has linked Roberto d'Aubuisson, now head of El Salvador's rightist ARENA Party, to the 1980 assassination.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — A book by South American theologian Father Leonardo Boff is dangerous to doctrine because of its views on Catholic Church structure, dogma, exercise of power and prophetic role, said the V atican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. T he congregation's 10page notification to the
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historic Jesus, the congregation said in the notification. According to the doctrinal congregation, the book also says the one true Church can exist outside the Catholic Church. This is "a profound misinterpretation of the Catholic f aith regarding the Church of God in the world," the congregation said. The congregation also criticised Father Boff for s aying "dogma in its f ormulation has value only for a determined time and in determined circumstances." T he doctrinal body said " dogmatic formulas ••••00.0%Ms0".100\00
remain true and coherent, determined and even u nchangeable though they can be eventually clarified and better understood." The congregation said the views contained in the b ook "Endanger the sound doctrine of the f aith." T he notification was released by the Vatican P ress office. It was signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the doctrinal congregation and said Pope John Paul II had approved the notification in an audience with Cardinal Ratzinger. Father Boff is a well-known e xponent of liberation
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All the anti-American Give opinions accusations on land rights were false
from MRS MARGARET KRASENSTEIN, Dalkeith SIR: While I am pro the Aborigines, as I am pro anyone in socio-cultural crisis. I am anti the land rights campaign on which the Catholic Church has so strongly come out in favour. In an article I recently wrote in the Nedlands Parish publication BEADS. I suggested Catholics should let the Church know how they felt on issues of social justice. Of the parishioners who made comment to me, in all cases there was expressed wonder as to why the Church was reacting in this particular way to the issue. They felt there were many other avenues through which the Church could help the Aborigines which would reflect the expectations of the wider Church.
Comments caused disappointment from PETER BERTOLA, Bremer Bay SIR. Bishop Jobst's comments on Aboriginal land rights or proposed legislation gave me cause to feel deep disappointment and some anger but not at Bishop Jobst or his people. It is clear that the up and coming generation of Church bureaucrats have little or no idea of the faith and zeal which motivates men and women of Bishop Jobst's calibre. The civilisation in which we live and enjoy its better aspects at least has resulted from the work and the sacrifices of the Jobsts and not of the trendy chair warmers.
Accolades for local graduate From page 2 Their black and white view of marriage cannot conceive of any circumstances to invalidate a marriage from its outset, he said. Insights from Vatican II which sees marriage as a partnership community of life and love had not yet filtered through to the average Catholic, he believes. The personalist view of marriage is not new but is written in the second chapter of Genesis and was often noticed by theologians in the past. However, canonists had tended to focus only on the rights and duties of marriage in a physical sense. The Church will continue to teach a valid
Christian marriage is indissoluable but this includes the fact that prerequisites for such marriages are far higher than those set by the secular world even though the Church view is what most people aspire to "Marriage preparation does not start when a couple knock at the presbytery door. It commences at the cradle, in the relationship of a stable Christian family. It is not given in one concentrated dose just before a wedding. "My experience is young people today are yearning for marriage preparation. Priests no longer have to sell the idea. Father O'Loughlin said it would be a w onderful hope if Catholic marriage tribunals could put themselves out of business by having no more cases to deal with.
from G.J. DAN/ELL. Greenwood SIR In recent letters on the Palm Sunday procession, the peace movement participants are criticised as being antiAmerican and as advocating unilateral disarmament. The speakers at the Perth rally, Dr Kieth Suter of the Uniting Church, and Senator elect Jo Vallentine both stressed disarmament must be multi-lateral, and that opposition to bases and ship visits is not anti-American. If there were Soviet bases in Australia or visits by Soviet nuclear warships, they would also be opposed. It was encouraging to see a full house at the ecumenical service for peace in St Georges Cathedral, after which a large number of Catholics joined the protest march, along with other Christian groups. These actions are encouraged by numerous statements of the popes and the Church in recent years. Some of your correspondents have warned of the
SERIES PLAUDED from JAN VALENTINE, Greenwood SIR: I would like to congratulate Roslyn Ross on her article in the Record of March 28, 1985 on Post Natal Depression. I feel it was well researched and factual and I agree full heartedly with her comments. I also read with interest the comments in the Record of April 11, 1985 by a doctor. With professionals with attitudes like these it is no wonder that women with post natal depression are still searching for help.
influence of communists in peace groups. However, when Christians begin to support the peace movement "en masse" the influence of these elements will be reduced to insignificance. If the pursuit of peace is left to communists and rejected by Christians. it will be a sad reflection on the state of Christianity today.
Flying in face of from ALAN MITTER, Como SIR The submission of Diocesan Committee flies in the face of the edict of Pope Pius XII who declared in May 1956 with regard to "experiments in artificial human fecundation (ie. fertilisation) 'in vitro', let it suffice for us to observe they must be rejected as immoral and absolutely illicit . . . "Artificial fecundation exceeds the limits of the right spouses have acquired by the matrimonial contract . . 'The contract in question does not confer on them a right to artificial fecundation, for such a right is not in any way expressed in the right to the natural conjugal act and cannot be deduced from it." (Address to the Second World Congress on fertility and Sterility, May 19, 1956). The Perth Committee states (Par. 27, p19/20), 'The union of sperm and ovum takes place in an artificial medium in a petri dish . . . the mere fact that a process is artificial does not thereby render it morally questionable or unacceptable." The committee flies in the face of Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae (1968) paragraph 12. "the inseparable connection willed by God, and unable to be broken by man on his own initiative,
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theology but the congregation's notification did not mention liberation theology nor did it criticize Father Bon's use of Marxist concepts in his writings. The criticism was limited to the text of "Church: Charism and Power," one of several books by the priest. The book has been described by Father Boff's brother, Servite Father Clovodis Boff, as criticising the institutional Church for being "very authoritarian, and not a c hurch of service, not always evangelical." In its notification, the congregation also took issue
with Father Boff's call for a new model of the C hurch without privileged positions and his c harges that priestly power as exercised today is a "supremacy exercise." It objected to what it said w as his reduction of the sacraments and the Word o f God to a scheme of production and consumption "between priest and laity." The congregation also said Father Boff had reduced the concept of the communion of the faithful to "a mere sociological phenomenon." "The sacraments," the congregation added, "are
not 'symbolic material." Their administration "is not production; their r eception is not consumption," it said. "The sacraments are gifts of God. No one 'produces' them," the congregation said. The doctrinal body acknowledged that abuses of authority exist, but said to interpret the sacraments, the hierarchy, the W ord of God and the life of the Church as production and consumption "in a n effort to offer solutions to real problems, leads instead to the destruction of the authenticity of the sacraments and o f the word of faith."
The congregation also said F ather Boff's book denounces the hierarchy and the institutions of the Church in an effort to emphasise the role of c harism and prophets. The congregation said Father Boff would give members of the hierarchy r oles as co-ordinators in t he Church but would deny them roles of legitimate authority. "There is no doubt all the people of God participate in the prophetic office of Christ," said the congregation. "Christ carries out his prophetic office not only through the hierarchy but also through the laity," it added. But judgement of the authenticity of prophetic d enunciation of the Church, the congregation added, belongs to the hierarchy. T he Vatican previously e xpressed reservations about Father Boff's book in a May 15, 1984 letter to the priest.
John Paul on the dais with Nicaraguan Junta leader Ortega . . . the pope's t our there highlighted Father Boffa's liberation theology philosophies. Father Boff has been supported in the past by highranking Brazi l ian bishops, such as Cardinals Aloisio Lorscheider o f Fortaleza and Paulo A rns of Sao Paulo, and by Franciscan officials.
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Exceeding the limits between the two meanings of the conjugal act: the unitive meaning and the procreative meaning." The committee states (Par. 1 1, p7), -in IVF the procreative dimension is realised independent of the act of intercourse . „" (It should also be noted this action is undertaken "by man on his own initiative".). The committee affirms the inviolability of the human embryo from the moment of fertilisation (Page 16), and yet approximately 96 out of every 100 human lives are known, from Melbourne research, to be lost in the practice of "simple case" IVF. It has a declared success rate of less than four per cent. The committee states (Par. 29, p22). 'We recognise a large number of embryos will fail It thus goes on record as being prepared to expend large numbers of human lives. It should be noted each and
every life conceived in the IVF process is the direct responsibility of those who actively approve and those who actually preside over its creation. Further, the committee is in serious conflict with the Catholic Bishops' Joint Committee on Bioethical Issues of Great Britain. It is also in serious conflict with monsignor Caffarra, a consultor of the Sacred Congregation of the Faith and Director of the Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Pontifical Lateran University. The university has publicised very clearly enunciated and evaluated judgements which adhere faithfully to traditional definitive Church teaching in declaring the IVF process to be illicit. It is imperative all Catholic support for IVF be withdrawn. We stand with Rome and authentic Catholic teaching, or we stand not at all.
from MRS MARIE CADD, Dianella SIR Father Uren SJ defends and justifies the Catholic Health seminar and the Catholic Diocesan Bioethics Committee Submission (The Record April 4) A t the Catholic Health Seminar, statements justifying artificial contraception were put forward contrary to Humanae Vitae and Pope Paul VI's directive where he very clearly teaches. "In truth, if it is sometimes licit to tolerate a lesser evil in order to avoid a greater evil or to promote a greater good, it is not licit, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil so that good may follow therefrom. 'That is, to make into the object of a positive act of the will something which is intrinsically disorder, and hence unworthy of the human person, even when the intention is to safeguard or promote individual, family or social well-being. "Consequently it is an error to think that a conjugal act which is deliberately made infecund and so is intrinsically dishonest could be made honest and right by the ensemble of a fecund conjugal life." In the Catholic diocesan submission, one cannot ignore the fact this is a "public Catholic document" as a referral to Canon 216 will indicate, and a perusal of the title and preface confirms. Therefore as a Catholic one can validly ask why was not the document made public for the edification of both priests and laity alike? Father Uren's reference to paragraphs 18 and 35 of the submission does not alter the fact or content of the submission which accepts "simple case IVF" and freezing of embryos for up to two months. In quoting Carl Wood,
Claim submissions contrary to Vat II Father Uren missed Dr Wood's 1 984 statement in which he was clearly indicated IVF teams do not practice "simple case IVF•' because of the high cost factor and low success rate of less than four per cent. Even in this context, to subject embryos to a 96 per cent destruction rate, is a denial of the inviolability of each and every human life begun at conception. Finally, the Perth Catholic diocesan committee has in accepting and advancing the "simple case of IVF and freezing, positioned itself completely opposite to Monsignor Cafaro. Mons Cafaro is a member of the international Theological Commission, consultor of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and director of the Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Pontifical Lateran University, as well as the joint Bio Ethical Committee appointed by the Bishops of England, Scotland and Wales. In 1984 Mon Cafaro said, "In Vitro Fertilisation is morally illicit, because ethically it placed conditions for a new human person to come into (Osservatore Romano July 30, 1984) The joint Bio Ethics Committee appointed by the Catholic Bishops of England, Scotland and Wales also upheld Catholic teaching when they said, "If it did exist, the simple case would still, for Catholics, have to face the objection that it conflicts with moral inseparability and bodily union with procreation, and of bodily sexual union."
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Among the passengers disgorged at Fremantle in 1951 from the Johan van Oldenbarneveldt on her second post-war migrant -ship voyage from Holland were Bill Lake and his father John. They had left the devastated Netherlands to join Bill's brother Dick in literally carving out a new life in Australia. Dick was cutting timber for Goldfields mines near some place called Duni in the vast hinterland of one-third of the continent. The bemused Dutch father and son were beset by problems from the moment of their arrival in this strange land.
Given travellers cheques for their currency on disembarkation, they were met with refusal to cash them by the shop-keepers on whom they called to buy food and other necessities. And the banks were closed. As they wandered disconsolately round Fremantle, they met by chance a compatriat who had travelled out on the same ship. He had relatives in Fremantle, and through these relatives accommodation was arranged for the night for Bill and John. The next day, having cashed their travellers' cheques, they went to Perth to start the move to Dun. They were told that there were no trains. There was a rail strike on and they would have to go by bus. This same strike, incidentally, was to hold their luggage up at Fremantle for six months. The bus trip turned out to be quite an event. The vehicle stopped at almost every pub and the Dutch pair observed, with some apprehension, their fellow-passengers returning to their seats in a progressively mounting tide of inebriation. You could cycle from one end of Holland to the other in a day, but this trip seemed to be interminable. The bus driver always replied with a grinning "No" when Bill asked if any of the various towns through which they passed was like Dun . He thought he might have struck some resemblance to their destination when they came to Caralee, where just about the only man-made structures in the deserted landscape were the corrugated-iron pub and the small rail siding building. But no, the driver responded, there was no pub at Dun. He was quite right, but he could have added that there was practically nothing else at Duni either. After what seemed like an eternity, they got to the little spot about 90 miles on the Perth side of Kalgoorlie. It consisted of a structure sheltering the staff-changing machine used by train crews and a small hut made of railway sleepers in which dwelt the wood carter. The carter, the sole resident of sequestered Dun, did not bubble with enthusiasm at the arrival of the interlopers. Telling them that they could
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Willem (Bill) Lake, a reader at St Cecilia's at Floreat Park and the Education Department's district guidance officer at Rockingham, was born at Alkmaar in Holland on January 12, 1931. He and his father John migrated to WA in 1951 and joined his brother Dick cutting timber on G oldfields wood lines before the family developed a mixed farm at Northcliffe where they were mainsprings in the building of the Catholic church. Bill worked as a yardman and caretaker at Scotch College while studying for his mature age matriculation and during his first year at the University of WA from which he graduated in 1962 with a BA, majoring in psychology. A fter two years' teaching at the Manjimup Senior High School he j oined the guidance branch of the Education Departent with which he w orked at Bunbury and K algoorlie. Then followed periods with the Mental Health D epartment and the Health Department of the Territory Northern before he re-joined the guidance branch. Bill, a member of the Knights of the Southern Cross in the new Floreat Park branch, and his wife Brenda (nee Fountain) have three daughters and two sons — Maria (21), Danny (19), Annemieke (17), Josephine (16) and Dominic (8).
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE sleep in a nearby tent was about the extent of his hospitality. The tired travellers spent a miserable night of fitful naps on the hard floor, without blankets in the chill September dark. The next day, glad to get rid of them, the carter drove them out to Dick's camp in the bush. Because their baggage was still strike-bound at Fremantle, they had arrived even without essentials such as eating gear and were forced to improvise in this and many other respects. The contract was to provide firewood at three pounds a ton for the Kalgoorlie mines, and Bill learnt the business the hard way. Dawn-to-dark labour seven days a week with axe and cross-cut saw
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raised blisters on his unaccustomed hands in no time, but gradually he got on top of the job as his physical toughness grew. Two years living under canvas out of Duni were spent in this way until Bill and Dick moved to the neighbourhood of Boorabbin, which was 30 miles closer to Kalgoorlie. At their lease about 30 miles north of Boorabbin they cut structural timber, not firewood, for the mines and it was a more profitable business. Here after a time their standard of living went up a notch when they forsook their tented existence to move into a timber-framed hessian hut they had built. It had such luxuries as a fireplace, and they added to their comfort by buying a
Coolgardie cooler. In the summer they used to sleep in the outdoors sometimes, and once Bill was awakened at dead of night by a damp but gentle nuzzling at his face. His nocturnal visitor was a friendly brumby, one of the many wild horses that lived in the surrounding bush. Other inhabitants were donkeys, goats and emus which the brothers enjoyed racing in their truck, at the cost of plenty of staked tyres. Experience taught them more efficient ways of cutting, sorting and stacking their timber. Enhanced expertise enabled them to engage in a certain amount of self-indulgence, such as taking a full hour off for lunch. In summer they ate this meal under the truck for two reasons — the vehicle provided shade and its oily ambience dissuaded the flies. After three years on the Boorabbin lease they had saved enough money to fulfil a long-held ambition. They bought a small holding at Northcliffe in the South-
West, a former Group Settlement farm that had reverted to bush. Bill and Dick worked hard to retrieve the little property from the engulfing wilderness, and they were joined there by their mother and father from Dun. Fresh in the family's minds were the food shortages of war -ravaged Holland and the impossibility of "getting away" in the crowded and oppressed Netherlands. The ideal was to have your own farm, produce your own food and live peacefully away from the madding crowd.
The brothers supplemented their funds by working parttime at the Northcliffe timber mill as they developed the farm. Gradually they built up their livestock and wrought other improvements. There was some social life, too. Everybody went to the regular local "hop", where Bill frequently played the violin in the band. If you couldn't dance you soon learnt to, and everybody had a great time. Jive and rock-and-roll, Bill laments, put an end to these happy occasions. First the older people ceased to come along and then the enthusiastic youngsters found that their numbers alone were insufficient to maintain the functions. "You might say that the dances died on their feet," Bill quips. Pemberton parish priest Father Kelly used to visit Northcliffe to say Mass in the hall, but the real need was for a church there.
The solution to the problem came when Father Kelly, in Pemberton, was presented with two old mill houses. An Italian timber feller transported them to Northcliffe by jinker and a Pemberton builder voluntarily took on the t ask of transforming the former dwellings into a church. Bill worked as his off-sider, other volunteers lent a hand and Northcliffe at last had its own church. The idyllic farming life was fine up to a point, but the increasing cost of necessities and decreasing prices received for products squeezed Bill off the land. He wanted to become a teacher, but his Netherlands educational qualifications were not recognised as being appropriate for him to embark on such a career. He came to the city to study English, mathematics, history and geography at the Perth Technical College for his mature age matriculation.
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Briefs: nROME (NC): Catholics cannot participate in joint Communion with Anglican and Protestant churches because a common faith still is lacking, said Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. -Celebration of the Eucharist represents a tangible confession of the church's faith. It is the most profound and intense expression of faith and church communion," the cardinal said in a speech at an ecumenical centre in Rome. The practice of so-called 'open Communion, which is regarded in some confessions as a 'small step,' represents an exceptionally great step as far as Catholics are concerned,- he said. -Sacraments are sacraments of faith. You cannot have common sacraments if you don't have common faith," he said. But "the longing for joint Communion as the ultimate goal- is a motivating force in the official dialogues between the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, he added. "Even though it is not yet possible for us to celebrate the Holy Eucharist at the same table, our joint prayer is yet possible and necessary.- he said.
riBEUING An official of the People's I—IRepublic of China has told Catholic Bishop John Baptist Cheng-Chung Wu of Hong Kong religious freedom will be respected in Hong Kong after it passes to Chinese communist rule in 1997 Bishop Wu has given the assurance by Ji Pengfei, head of the Council of state for Hong Kong and Macao, during the bishop's one-week visit to China
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Vatican's lay workers get rise VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Vatican has decided to raise the pay of its lay employees about four to 25 per cent under a new 10level scale. The changes make wage scales uniform for the first time among the vatican's four main administrative organisations. But Mariano Cerullo, head of the 1700 member association of Vatican lay employees which has negotiated for higher wages and other reforms, said the Vatican's action was "unilateral" and that it was taken without workers' approval. "They have completely ignored us, as if the association didn't exist. This action has trampled on the dignity of Vatican cunployees," Cerullo said.
Vatican Schools won't combat support evils book SAN FRANCISCO: The controversial book Christ Among Us from which an imprimatur was withdrawn will be published without one and not by the Paulist Press which quit publishing and distributing the text at the Vatican's request. Harper and Row got rights to print the fourth revised edition of the book from the author Anthony J. Wilhelm, a former Paulist priest, now a marriage counsellor and writer. More than 1.6 million copies of Christ Among Us with an imprimatur were sold between 1967 and 1984, making it the most widely used adult catechetical text in the United States. Last April, however, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith asked Archbishop Gerety of Newark, to withdraw his imprimatur from the book, on grounds that it was unsuitable for use as a catechetical text. The Vatican has not revealed its exact objections to the book so far.
R OME: The Catholic school is the best way to "neutralise the eruption of evil" in contemporary society, the pope told some 8000 Catholic schoolteachers, parents and students from the Lazio region, which surrounds Rome. The pope said in addition to its positive aspects, today's world is "full of shadows" and "dangerous negative factors." He cited injustices, violence, ambiguities and "allures of various kinds, from unbridled and publicised sexuality to the spread of drugs."
The pay rises, retrospective t o the beginning of the year, will take effect as soon as employees have been assigned to the new pay categories. said Bishop Jan Schotte, secretary of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission and head of the group that has met with lay employees' representatives in recent months to resolve the labour dispute. Annual base salaries, after deductions, for Vatican lay employees will range from about $6250 to about $10.100. That represents an increase of about four per cent for the lowest pay categories and about 25 per cent for the top.
Belgians expelled... BRUSSELS: Three Belgian missionaries have returned home after the government of Burundi refused to renew their residency permits. Several sisters and two other priests, members of Fidel Donum, an association of diocesan priests who serve the missions, also are being expelled. The superior, Father Gay, citing tension between Church and state in Burundi, reported that the men, whom he said were "expelled," were "not linked with any personal adversity to the state or to a system." He said the priests were involved in strictly pastoral work and that the brother was a mechanic. The most recent expulsions of the missionaries continues a trend begun about 10 years ago. More than 100 missionaries have been forced out of Burundi since 1979. The Missionaries of Africa have worked in Burundi, one of the smallest African states, since 1879. About 55 per cent of Burundi's population is Catholic.
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KNOW YOUR F AITH A college philosophy professor announced on the first day of class that it would be his main goal during the semester to help students leam to think. To think? A few students -maybe most of them — believed thinking was on a par with breathing, something they instinctively knew how to do. Was there a need to devote an entire semester to fine-tuning their thinking
A few students might have quit the course after its first day, except that at the time this was a required class in a Catholic college where philosophy long had been considered an invaluable companion for the person of faith.
The human mind tells us a lot about ourselves. It can function in an isolated way, without much feeling for others. But the mind's-eye can see into another's heart, paving the way to compassion. A person whose mind LS filled with knowledge may become arrogant. But knowledgeable people may be the most humble, knowing they've barely scratched the surface of things.
erpleAng reality known as the human mind John loved to read science-fiction books at home. And he thoroughly enjoyed the c orrespondence course he took in art through a big-city museum; it put his mind and his strong powers of observation to good use, he felt. But John's grades in the local high school were only so so, as was his interest in what went on in the school's classrooms. At times John's parents became concerned about the time he spent alone in his room, reading and drawing. What they regarded as John's tendency to get lost in his own thoughts was a source of some apprehension to them. Like John, Vickie also
had strong powers of observation. From an early age, her parents realised Vickie could remember better than they a complicated route from one point to another. Vickie always recalled the little details of events that happened long ago. And Vickie came to be relied on to find things lost around the house, since if she had ever seen them, she almost always recalled where they were. Vickie's parents took what steps they could to build on her abilities. The special way her mind worked surprised Vickie's parents; but they never 'worried about this. John, by the way, grew up to become an excellent husband, parent and teacher. Perhaps his parents had les.s cause for apprehension than they suspected. The stories of John and Vickie help to illustrate a point. They were youngsters who put their human thinking centre — the mind — to use in special ways. But
while Vickie's parents delighted in her unique memory. John's parents were sometimes perplexed by their son. What do we know at)out this delightful, but perplexing. reality known as the human mind? • The mind, they say, can get boggled, as in: "It boggles the mind!" • The mind is sometimes ii said to lack the proper dimensions, as in: "He's verynarrow minded." • Then, of course, the mind doesn't stay put, as in: "Her mind wanders." • Some minds live in high places called ivory towers, while others, kept idle, are called the devil's workshop. • Some minds are aloof from reality, as in: "It's all in your mind." • Other minds, attentive to life's complex realities, find that what has been thought through may need to he rethought, and that an adventure of the mind can leave a person confused. But lest the human mind get a bum rap, let's consider some more that is known
about it. • The mind is asked to learn from the past and to help people lay plans for the future. • In an age when people say they see little connection between life at wirk and life at home. the mind is called into action to help discover the links that make life whole. • The mind is given hard latiour when it comes to discernment — the need to distinguish good from had or better from worse in a complex world. • Quite amazing, the human mind can ask the big questions that begin with the three-letter word "why": Why do children die? Why is there injustice in the world? • Just as wonderful, the mind can ask "how-: How can marriages grow better? How can people prevent a nuclear holocaust? The human mind tells us a lot about ourselves. I think it points toward the mystery within us. Is it part of our mystery that the mind can he
put to use in such contranways? • The mind can function in an isolated way without regard for other people; it can work without much feeling. But the mind's-eye can see into another's heart. paving the way to compa.ssion. A person whose mind is filled with knowledge may become arrogant. But knowledgeable people may be thc most humble. knowing they've barely scratched the surface of things. There is such a thing as a closed mind, I suppose. Still, that's a mind that could have enriched its owner. opening out onto the world of human interests — and helping to make life more interesting. Finally, the human mind can turn away from faith. refusing that kind of trust in anything or anyone else. But — and this too is part of the mystery of human life — the same mind. touched by CrOd. can discover little by little that the life of faith is able to become an intriguing adven-
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The class proved well-worth its cost. And it was fun at tinies, as the professor guided students into an examination of their own thought processes and their potential to become true inquirers into the human adventure. Still, there was a sense in which the students' suspicions on the hist day of class had been on target. Thinking is a natural element of human living.
What's more, over the course of a lifetime almost anyone can expect to run up against the questions professional philosophers ask, driven by events to inquire about the reasons to live and the meaning of death, the purpose of freedom and the ways to find happiness. It is not surprising that a thoughtful person locked in a prison cell would spend time pondering the meaning of things. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran pastor executed by the Nazis during World War II, was such a person. From the writing done in his cell, the world eventually would be exposed to his quest. In one prison poem, Bonhoeffer asked.. "Who am I . . AmIreally that which other men tell of? Or amIonly whatImyseff know of myself? . . . Who am I? This or the Other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? AmIboth at once?"
Who wouldn't like to answer the question "Who am I?" But do you think the effort to do so, which does not yield a product, which does not have a definite point of conclusion and which raises questions which cannot be answered succinctly, has real value? The human person is always in a process to coming to terms with what he or she is and can be. In an age of outer-space exploration there is an inner space that also represents a "New frontier." Isn't it also in need of exploration?
A t what points do you become a sort of philosopher? What does this mean for you as a Christian?
"The first appealI want to address to you, young men and women of today, is this.. Do not be afraid! Do not be afraid of your own youth and of those deep desires you have for happiness, for truth, for beauty and for lasting love." (Pope John Paul II, 1985 World Day of Peace message) "The concem to know better and to understand modern man and the A philosopher may appear to be someone remote, isolated and lost in a world of ideas. But the word "philosophy" realty signifies something contemporary closer to home. In fact, nearly everyone philosophises in some way or another. world, to solve their puzzle and reveal their mystery, to discern the ferments of good and evil within them, has l ong caused many to reason and obserrv.• the reflect on their plae-e in the Actually. human reason trbat makes numy Orristhe -natural light of reato direct at people urrrld universe they began to philtrim philosophers different son. and faith represent two man and the world osopbtSe. In ancient Greece from other philos(phers? complementary ways of In fact. this is why Today this averrise of reaa questioning gaze. searching for truth. We in the sirth century B.C, Socrates. the ancient Greek For one thing, they attempt son is just as important as It is the gaze of the Pythagorris began to (-till philosopher. um described to develop a complemen- it was in the 1.3th century could say that reason anti historian and himself a -philosopher. hy the Delphic oracle as -the tary relationship between when Thomas Aquirras desfaith are like our trio legs. sociologist, their p(nver to reason and cribed philosophy as the lbe word "philosopher" wisest man alive" SOcrates Using only one leg limits us philosopher and their faith Many other to bopping about on (me derivedfrirm tux) Gret* admitted that he knew rery -handmaid of theology," theologian, tivrrels: "philo" which means losophers restrict themfoot. Using both legs in For at times when per. and psychologist l ove selves simply can we can and -sophia" to what be means rebid) many as harmony 7bere have been sorra!faith is eVerienced and humanist, poet MetinS lliSd0171. St) a ph:lowalk and even run. Sin:. great philosophers in the knou71 by reason. a stniggle in darkness, a John (Pope mystic." St uhen people ser/0)er is a toter rr isdorn. Thomas Aquinas thirty, Christian tradition. Ms AugChristian philosophy of life Paul II in 1984 But toting wist.ltrrn doesn't learn to use their reason ustine. Anselm and 7'bomas believed that since God can gire people tbe stabilitv apostolic remote. someone to be 'nears we have all the .4quinas may be the most mated the urirld. a person and faith in complemen• needed to ketp growing. xhortation on e lated and lost in a urirld of answers to difficult ques- famous. Other Catholic phi/rosier could discover many truths tary urrys, they are "nintimes, the At other • and conciliation re philoideas. lira the urrrd ning" touard God tions. On the contrary. it of human reason can help losoirhers include Hildegard about God by carefully penance) sophy" really signifies somestudying basic principles in us discover a truth that Philosophy has a long, really is the height of of Bingen, Pascal, Jacques "We are in the thing much closer to home. glorious history. As soon as dom to recognise the limitaMarital». Edith Stein and nature. He called this activ- leads into fuller experience of the world's midst everyone nearly fact. In tions ity philosophising through men and uornen began to hunuin porier l'bpeJohn Paul H. of God. fastest total philosophises in some urn' transformation . . or another In times of major .4 philosopher is someone transformation two who asks what life means. things occur.. a what is happiness is. 1111(11 sense of good or what is true. powerlessness or Itost people ponder these breakdown and a questi()ns occasionally. sense of possible or They usually arise when tve breakthrough." &ire some timefree to think (Sister Joan — on a racation when close Chittister, OSB, them on their o f pope," he said with fire in his the same advancing prolonging life sophers take up nature. or to the beauties of 1984 National through extraordinary eye. "And I'm sure the pope concerns as classically road to a career. His interest find a in homes when Educational Catholic would medical means. agree." is elsewhere. trained philosophers. Both quiet moment for reflecssociation A The argument The argument went on for talk about basic questions, tion, when tve are bedridtell stu"I'm a teacher. I moved back and forth. some time. Then both men Weiss explained: "the right dents to philosophise," convention) den from illness, or in Then one man asked departed. shaking hands way to live"; "personal Weiss continued. "I try to church. Catholic thinkers how a decision could with each other and rights"; "whether science is make them reii flect, to op11 ?lye bunuin person is the en1 from St Augustine has the be made among the obviously happy. As for me. the only truth." only anima tixit their minds." This is valuato Jesuit Father Karl c pacity for self-reflection. needs of several I was delighted to have been Armchair philosophers are ble. he thinks. because it Rahner are the I equally sick persons in a silent partner to that rather like "amateur violinists or makes individuals "more That is. bunums are able to I overheard a fascifocus of "Catholic think about their oull a case in music where persons interested available nating conversation critical and more curious philosophical exchange Ii Thinkers in the medical resources between the two workmen. for fun," Weiss added. They about life." to jx)nder values and to between two men by William Clear," make will to were limited. exercise free can enjoy themsehrs %nthsharing a pint after De3,-eloping a philosophical Recently I spoke aith an A . Herr. The work of irnix)rtant choices. out worrying at)out going The debate heated up 84 -year -old philosopher. their day's labours duroutlook makes people "less the 20th century Tbis remarkable aspect of ing a visit to a smalIl into questions as systematil when the younger man Paul Weiss. accepting of things without Jesuit Father John human intelligence makes pub in Ireland several cally as professional philoadamantly insisted that the sufficient thought." Weiss "Everybody is a philoCourtney Murray is sophers. philosophy itx)ssible. Some- years ago. It was choice should not be ba.sed sopher in _I II way," he said. d iscussed, as is that about thinking A man with a passion for times when And philosophy a.s Weiss shortly after the assas- on the fact that one person observed, seated in his living of the 13th century teaching, Weiss says that on life's detirer questions, we sination attempt on has more responsibility than room where every inch of conunderstands it "doesn't St Thomas Aquinas begin to pray to God for Pope John Paul II's others — the pope, for fine itself to a particular field wall space is covered by the first day of class he — thinkers who philosophy guidance. Then life. The men were instance. "I have as much books. or culture or theory. It always tells students that his posed central can make way for faith. debating the morality right to medical care as the opens up the field" and In his view, armchair philocourse is "no good" for questions about encourages people to "deal God and life's with basic questions and meaning. St Teresa look at the broad picture." of Avila "addressed Can philosophy help peoherself particularly ple to lead more virtuous to those whose lated this book into Greek. like trying to understand a friend is a friend when it lives? minds . . . run from Sirach was the heir of a book by reading only the last In a culture which knew suits him, but he will not be "Philosophy can make us one thing to another long wisdom tradition in chapter. It makes little if any nothing of Social Security with you in time of want the good," the philouncontrollably, like sense. Israel going back to or retirement homes, care tress. . . A faithful fnend is sopher said. but choosing to wild horses," the Solomon in the 10th cenfor aging parents was a a sturdy shelter; he who act in accordance with the Sirach wrote: "All wisdom explains. The author tury B.C. His "philosophy" practical necessity. finds one finds a treasure" good is another matter. It comes from the Lord and modern French has the special flavour of "requires tenacity and con"My son, take care of your with him it remains forever" thinker, Gabriel biblical wisdom. trol" and continuing effort. fattier when he is old; grieve beginning of In the area of government: Marcel, was The sages of Israel conWhat philosophy can do "is him not as long as he lives. wisdom is the fear of the "A wise magistrate lends programmed from cerned themselves with point out the limits and the Even if his mind fail, be Lord (1:12). Fear for Sirach stability to his people and early childhood to concrete, practic,a1 matters places" where the goc.xl can considerate with him. . . for meant "reverence" and the govemment of a pruwithdraw into of everyday life- How to be found. But the person has kindness to a father will not dent man is well ordered. . . "worship. '" He did abstractions. Jesus ben Sirach was a succeed in business and to be willing to take the next be forgotten" (3:12-1 4). A wanton king destroys his that until typical Hebrew philosopher. social life; how to maintain Since wisdom was practistep. he said. Friends enrich our lives in people but a city grows "reality . . . forced He was on fire with love for order and harrnony in the cal expertise leading to VVeiss said he has not many ways, but a really through the wisdorn of its his attention back tr wisdom. We meet him in family; what kind of com and success, its possession thought of retiring from good friend is a rare treathe facts of princes" (10:1,3). the Old Testament book pany to keep or to avoid. practice were the secret of teaching. "I'm stimulated by sure. So be careful in chooseveryday life." This that bears his name. Perhaps more than any a meaningful, rewarding This kind of concem for teaching and enjoy having ing one: books includes 20 aspeft Sirach was convinced that other wisdom writer, Sirach life. Thus, in the area of every ct of hu • Ian constudents' questions focus easy-to-read wisdom was the key to "Let your acquaintances was convinced that there family relationships, Sirach duct relfects the Israelites" thinking." he explained chapters. (Thomas success and happiness For be many but one in a thoucould be no true happinesc said: "He stores up riches n3alisation that happiness is I've never heard a foolish More Association, the benefit of others he without a solid relationship who reveres his mother. He sand your confidant. VVhen equivalent to wholeness. question," Weiss com223 W. Erie St., wrote down the results of with God. Trying to under- who honours his father is you gain a friend, first test For the Israelites, no area of mented. "Questions always Chicago, Ill. 60610 his study about 200 B.C. him and be not too ready to human life is exempt from stand humanity iMthout gladdened by children and I
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A DELAIDE: An Adelaide diocesan priest will join Mother Teresa's missionary order but instead of India will have New York as his destination. Father Peter Dunn will join the newly formed congregation of Mother Teresa's Missionary Fathers of Charity who will work with the poor in New South Y ork's Bronx. Father Dunn spent three years with Mother Teresa's order of brothers who tend the sick and dying in Calcutta. On his way back to Australia he spent five weeks with a group of men trying to live Mother Teresa's ideals in New York. The group has since received Vatican approval for their becoming a congregation. Father Dunn who now has to do a novitiate before taking vows said the group would concentrate or street work am'. evangelising.
Perth author of two books, Connie Miller,
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Record reporter ROSLYN ROSS talks with Connie Miller, a doyenne of school of a WA authors and historians who are making a grand name for themselves and the State in worldwide literary circles.
Religious freedom the Key GENEVA: Religious freedom is a key to peace, a Vatican representative has told the UN Commission on Human Rights. Efforts to uphold religious expression and religious liberty "represent a contribution to the formation, however slow and laborious, of an effective peaceful order in the world," said Monsignor Giuseppe Bertello, an official of the Holy See's permanent mission to UN agencies and other international bodies in Geneva. Monsignor Bertello said the Vatican has encouraged the commission's efforts against religious discrimination and for protection of religious minorities.
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There is too much happening in Connie Miller's life for her to want to live in the past — but she certainly enjoys taking a daytrip back from time to time. They are journeys that have borne appetising fruit in the form of two a utobiographical volumes on her life and a third which is nearly ripe for picking. Born in 1904 on a farm amidst the rolling fields of Cheshire, Connie Miller came to Western Australia with her family in 1912. Into her 81 years she has packed time as a student, tailoress, radio decoder, teacher, wife, broadcaster, mother and grandmother . . . not to mention author. With her close cropped hair, trim figure and ready smile she has an enthusiasm for life that has made a gentle mockery of the passing years. Following her husband's death a year ago she has sold her family home at Applecross and moved into a unit at South Perth. It has meant saying goodbye to her beloved garden but she will still have a few pot plants to play with and is kept busy making her own clothes, writing and taking her grandchildren for trips to the museum. For Connie, life has been a pageant of vivid memories, and a pageant she would add, that continues to push onward From her memories of a day in Manchester as a five-year -
Author a multifaceted woman old with fireworks and a troop of horses and elephants to the first time she heard the magic word "Australia"' spoken between her parents. Hers was the heritage of a farming family, of Grandma Yarwood at Newal Green Farm where the "sanded kitchen was always bright. A spacious MOM, it was cosy and warm from the great fireplace where capacious pots and kettles bubbled continuously over the ever burning fire. And the religious gloom of the parlour, with its always-drawn blinds, was exactly right for the massive mahogony Pembroke table and cupboards, for the walnut -framed mantel mirror. and for its lovely old Windsor chairs.'" Her parents had known each other since schooldays and it was in a lane, on the far side of the farm orchard that James Jackson had wooed Annie Yarwood to be his wife. Oldwood Farm, her father's family home, was different again. Where the Yarwoods were Higti church Anglicans, the Jacksons were strict Wesleyan Methodists.
"' , eN*0411 "I became a Catholic in my 30s," Connie said, "but my father always remained a strict methodist in his outlook. "He was a good man, a kind man, very clever with his hands, he could fix anything from prams to pipes, but he had inherited a very rigid code of living." On Sundays, she said, the only book the 10 living Jackson sons and daughters were permitted to read was the Bible. Their boots and shoes must be cleaned on Saturdays, and as much of the Sunday food as possible was prepared on Saturday. The rules were different at Oldwood farm. There was no wandering about and "exploring" for the children. They had to sit quietly on a sofa, while the grown ups talked or sang. But young Connie survived grandma's prickly horsehair sofa to play another day. In 1911 her father set out alone for Australia. He had originally leased
some land at Georgina, 10 miles south of Geralctton on Champion Bay. Geralctton's population was less than 5000 and although about 10 miles from town, Georgina lacked the amenities to which the family was accustomed. Therefore he moved south and bought a small market garden property at Osborne Park, where ancient lakelands had been drained to provide land for agriculture close to Perth. Although in those days shopping facilities in Osborne Park were practically nonexistent, it did have a school and two churches. It was to be more than a year before the family was reunited. In 1912, it was less than a century since English settlers had first arrived in Western Australia. In WA, said Connie, men and women, accustomed to the somewhat gentler elemental forces of the old country, now faced harsh summer suns that could disiccate and burn, and winter rains and winds that could damage crops, destroy livestock and level trees and even houses. "Perth had macadamised roads, fine buildings, a railway service that was already reaching out north, east and south, and a good electric
tram service to several suburbs," she said. "But there were still districts, some less than 12kms (eight miles) from the metropolis, where roads were few and where public transport, and shopping facilities, were limited or non-existent. "Osborne Park was one of these. "Most of its roads were the makeshift 'plank' roads, but a couple of yards in width. "Many were merely sandy tracks cleared through the bush by the frequent passage of horse-drawn vehicles. "Father's property, eight miles from Perth, faced King Edward Road, a plank road some two-and-a-half miles in length, and where, on our arrival in September 1912, there were less than half -adozen dwellings. "There was not a solid house among them. 'They were cottages, or less, built of corrugated iron, hessian, sometimes whitewashed as added protection and as a sun-deflector, or even, a few of them, of flattened-out four-gallon kerosene tins. 'The latter were nothing more than humpies." But in the eyes of a child it was a wonderland, carpeted with "golden daisies" where adult eyes could see only weeds. Home for the Jac..ksons was
enjoys taking her day trips back into the past. . . EEDOEIECEEHIEEEIEDOMEDIOCI EIECIEDDEIEEECIEDEEDEMEDO EiBushfires, floods and snakes were part of everyday life and even the plank roads were few and far between. But for the children, Osborne Park presented a different face. For them it was like living in a huge wild park. -On the way to school we gathered watercress from the creek, climbed trees, learnt about animals and birds and reptiles, and were content,- she said.
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back of the building. "Mother did the washing in a kerosene tin in the shed, using precious tank water, for we were now a far distance from the creek,'' she said. But the greatest drawback of the new dwelling, she added, was the carpet snakes who seemed to regard themselves as having prior ownership rights. When the time came to 41111''' move to West Leederville. the weatherboard cottage which overlooked Lake Monger, must have seemed like a palace. In those days too, yachting was a popular sport on the lake.
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to be a little white house, "a three roomed cottage with walls of whitewashed hessian stretched over a framework of jarrah. It looked across virgin bushland that stopped after some four miles at the edge of the Indian Ocean. The rolling fields and friendly hedges of England had been replaced by bushland with its stra ngely twisted trees and fantastic flowers. "I had never heard of such things before, much less seen them," she said. "Banksias with blue -grey serrated leaves and spiky candles of beige, gold and pastel-pink. "Jarrahs with magnificent sepia-tinted trunks and limbs and shining foliage of dark olive. "And flowering wattles, each leafy branch down-bent with great bushy panicles of golden blossom." There were beehives near the stable, chickens in the back yard and a fox-terrier called Bessie whose chief interest in life was to catch the egg-snatching carpet snakes. It was a community of shared experience, she says. An experience that cut across race, creed and colour 'This unity which was seen in church-goers was symbolic of the unity of every department of life in that
market garden community," she said. 'The Australians, the Chinese, the English, the Germans, and the Italians — all were as one, living close to the earth, working on it and with it, rising before dawn, as my father did, to prepare produce fresh for the markets in Perth.
"Candles and oil lamps lit the nights and when tank water was low, creek water was used for washing clothes and even for bathing. "Man's entire life was governed by the seasons and the elements." For the new settlers in a new district, life required long, hard hours of work. There was no laid-on water,
no electric power, and no public transport apart from the single electric tram running from a point east of the swamplands, to Perth, a few times each day. Bushfires, floods and snakes were part of everyday life and even the plank roads were few and far between. But for the children, Osborne Park presented a different face. For them it was like living in a huge wild park. "On the way to school we gathered watercress from the creek, climbed trees, learnt about animals and birds and reptiles, and were content," she said. A bookworm at an early age, the young Connie Jackson was to find school a challenge and a joy. For many children though school necessitated a long walk.
Some came on horseback and a few lucky ones were driven to school in buggies or sulkies by fathers on the way to Perth. Destruction caused by freak rainfalls forced the sale of the market garden and the family's subsequent move to West Leederville in 1914. The move was preceded by a few interim months in an unpainted three-room hessian shack. 'To mother it must have been the greatest shock she had ever had," Connie said. "It had no cooking stove. "She had to do all the cooking on an open fire outside, the saucepans and iron baking dishes resting on an iron frame father made. "For safety reasons the fireplace was located at the outside of a shed roofed with boughs. which shaded the
The boat house and refreshment kiosk stood at the foot of Monger Street. and during weekends the lake was alive with white sails and cheerful with shouts and happy laughter. But times were hard, and in 1915 when her father lost his job as a driver, the family moved further down Vincent Street to a cheaper, but smaller and much shabbier house. Its saving grace was it was surrounded by a large block of land. "I still remember the mulberry tree and trellis of grapevines," Connie smiled.
He was especially thrilled when years later, Connie was able to return to studies as a mature student and complete her university degree But at the age of 15, she had no such thoughts for the future. "I cried myself to sleep that night," she said. 'Then I consoled myself with the thought I wouldn't have to worry about the algebra PaPer "I was to begin work as soon as the formalities connected with leaving school were complete. "Until that time. I tried to cram all that was left of childhood into the days and weeks that remained. "After school each evening I dressed and re-dressed my dolls. "I made plans to sew new outfits for them, and, when I had to visit town each day, see if I could buy new shoes for the much-loved red-head I'd been given one Sharston Christmas, 10 years back. "She had survived a dunking in Condy's Crystals, a sea journey to Western Australia, and impossible heat in Osborne Park. "But I still worshipped her, despite the thinning hair." She was told she had a very
good chance of becoming Dux of the school but had to forgo any chance of further education ft is a tribute to her pragmatic nature she quickly and happily adapted to her life as an apprentice tailoress despite the fact her first working days were to be a purgatory of unpicking. "I was paid the statutory 7/ 6 (75C) weekty," she said. Her job was to sweep the litter and clippings from the floor each day. It was an unpleasant task when it came to stuff the clippings into vast rubbish bags by hand because she knew some of the men spat on the floor when they thought they were unnoticed. It was her job too to take the staff lunch orders. There were errands to be run, for canvas and cotton and materials. 'We had our own peculiar jargon and ways," she said ' When you were on a rush job you were in a 'drag'." You never tacked anything with black cotton "Baste with black, sure to come back.-
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But it was a time of war and a time of troubles. Just after the 1916 New Year, James Jackson enlisted The family photograph shows a stern-eyed man, trim in his khaki and leather. By the time her father returned three years later. Connie had left much of her childhood behind and while her dream was to become a teacher, times were such, family circumstances forced her to leave school and earn a living. Her father would ultimately find work on the railways, as a packer, then a gardener in King's Park and finally take on the job of head gardener at Lemnos Men's Hospital. But in 1919 work was hard to find and when a tailoring apprenticeship came up for Connie, James Jackson could only accept.
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PRAGUE: The trial of three Catholics who were arrested in December 1983 has begun Bratislava at the Palace of Justice. A lois Gabaj (24), a worker, and students Bronislav Borovsky (19) and Tomas Konc (21) were detained first in Poland and later in Czechoslovakia from December 1983 to August 1984. They were stopped at t he border between Poland and Czechoslovakia where Christian literature, mostly leaflets produced by the Catholic Church in Poland, were f ound on them.
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They were charged with - violating the regulations regarding e xchange of goods with foreign countries", which c an carry a penalty of one to five years' imprisonment. During the interrogations, the young Christians were asked to swear an oath on the cross in order to make them tell the truth. KESTON COLLEGE report
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PROVINCIAL OF THE SERVITE FRIARS invites applications for the position of:
PRINCIPAL of
SERVITE COLLEGE Morgan Street, Tuart Hill, WA The position has become available because of the recent sudden death of Mr J.P. Shanahan who was the College Principal since 1976. It would be expected that the successful applicant would commence duties as soon as possible. Servite College, situated in an inner Perth suburb, is a co-educational secondary school with a total enrolment of approximately 800 students. The school, which also offers special programs for the mildly intellectually handicapped and profoundly deaf students, is noted for its strong emphasis in the area of pastoral care. Applicants should be practising Catholic, committed to Catholic educational ideals, have requisite administrative skills and academic professional qualifications. Salary and conditions are similar to those offered by the Education Department of WA. Official application forms and/or further information can be obtained from:
The Director, Catholic Education Commission of WA, 6 Salvado Road, Wembley, 6014. PHONE: (09) 381 5444. Official application forms to be lodged by MONDAY, 13 May 1985.
ROCKINGHAM I STAR OF THE SEA SCHOOL MIDDLE PRIMARY CLASS TEACHER Applications for the above position are invited from experienced teachers, supportive of the ethos of a Catholic School. Commencing date is July 3rd 1985. Please apply in writing and include a current curriculum vitae, the names of two referees, the name of the parish priest, a statement of teaching qualifications and copies of documents. Closing date is April 30th 1985. Applications to be forwarded to The Principal, P.O. Box 89, Rockingham, 6168.
Youth Forum
Youth letter More groups
Andrew Kama recently submitted his reflections to Father Janusz, Polish Chaplain Andrew is a second year student at Nedlands College of Advanced Education "Blessed are they who have but one friend who lies close to the heart (for a man with a thousand cannot ever love all deeply) Blessed are those who have lost a loved one (many a person dies losing only himself) Blessed is he who appreciates all (for he will have little to regret in later life) Blessed is the person who listens intently to all (for he will become free of ignorance). Blessed is he that follows his heart (for he shall live in contentment) Blessed are you who seek truth (for happiness will seek you) Blessed is he who has been humiliated (for he has become more human) Blessed are they that live for the present, forget the erasable past and light a candle for the future (for they will live and understand reality). And Happy is he who questions life and expects in return, ambiguities (for he will never become misguided)
At the last Choice weekend held at Eagle's Nest three young people came from the Anglican Parish of Mosman Park at the instigation of Father Jonathon Holland James Collins, Sally Page and Phil Cornish (Pictured above) came with the specific intention of finding out, experiencing and establishing the programme in the Anglican tradition. This is the second interchurch sharing on a diocesan level that has taken place between Anglican and Catholic youth in the last six months. The first was the establishment of Antioch, also in St Luke's, Mosman Park. Karen Boni from Esperance wrote to Father Jegorow recently and expressed her delight in taking part in the Catholic Youth COUI10International Youth Year Conference that was held in January. Karen, like many
News from Bunbury has it that there are now eight Young Christian Workers groups in the Diocese of Bunbury and 10 Young Christian Students groups. Debbie Dowson is the YCW fulltimer and Damian Hart, the YCS fulltimer. Plans are ahead for an International Youth Year event - namely a dinner -dance scheduled for September. Over 30 participants took part in a first 1985 YCW Introductory Camp at the BusseIton Catholic Youth Camp. A YCS Camp is planned for the first week of the May holidays. Contact can be made with Debbie or Damian on 097217717. Also in the Bunbury area, Ray Power has plans for a Youth Mission for some of the parishes of the Diocese. Anyone interested in his plans should contact him also on 097-217717.
other country young people who took part is not able to come to the Cardijn centre to look at the conference photographs. A group photo is available in both colour and black and white. Anyone interested in purchasing
an 8 x 10 inches black & white, $3 and colour $8 (plus postage andhandling $1) should write to Conference photos PO BOX 194 NORTH PERTH 6006 or C THE RECORD NEWSPAPER
Full-timer No stranger to
Lynette Dundon from Perth joins Sue Bowrey and Don Wedd at the National Tertiary Young Christian Students Office, Melbourne for the duration of 1985 as national full time worker.
Her decision to work for National TYCS comes after years of increasing involvement and commitment to the movement. Upon finishing high school at St Mary's Leederville, Lyn entered the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) as a social sciences student majoring in welfare practice. At WAIT Lyn came into contact with members of TYCS as a "lonely first year" through her involvement with the Tertiary Christians Students Movement ( TCSM ) group at the WAIT campus. (TCSM is the equivalent to the Newman Scwiety). Being eager and enthusiastic, Lyn went to the first TYCS Team meeting held in Adelaide in May 1981 with other TYCSers. Since then she has attended many more national TYCS meetings. Though In found it diffi cult to understand the Review of Life method early on, she was impressed by the community aspect of TYCS. Lyn became involved in her faculty group — Welfare Practice Students Association taking actions to improve the course. Lyn also found herself getting involved with student politics and was elected to the Guild of Undergraduates ( Student I-nion equivalent). Lyn went to India in the summer holidays of 1982. Lyn was born in Calcutta. India on the 19th March 1964. Attending a TYCS xJal Justice camp in August.
1982. being actively involved in the Nestles boycott, and helping at the De Paul centre soup kitchen has strengthened her commitment to people. Lyn's understanding of her faith and her mission has helped her to make life choices and decisions. Toward the end of her third year at WAIT Lyn did her practical work for her course with Perth TYCS. In 1984 Lyn went on to work fulltime for Perth TYCS with Anne Harris. As National TYCS worker in I 985 Lyn looks forward to the growth of TYCS in the Eastern Seaboard and to "enjoying the hospitality of Melbourne people" (her home base). She encourages people to go to the National Council and the joint conference with TCFA to be held in Perth in January 1986 to "meet, party and celebrate the movement". BY TERESA TJIA.
bishop said, but "felt the need to give a strong, powerful statement of value" which "might not be understood immediately." Copies of the blue book will be sent to bishops' conferences with the proposal that they reproduce it for use with young people. In his statement introducing the blue book, Bishop Cordes cited religiosity increasing among young people and said one proof lay in the increase in ordinations to the priesthood since 1979. A nswering questions from the press, he admitted later that in the same period there has been a decrease in the number of women professing vows in religious communities. He said he did not think that the figures indicated less religiosity among but women young reflected a "stronger tribulation in religious life than in the priesthood after Vatican II " "Religious need more time to clarify their i deals," Bishop Cordes added, predicting that an increase in vocations to religious life will follow.
There is a tertiary_ world better way
Teresa Szunejko is no stranger to the tertiary world, having completed in 1984 a bachelor degree in Politics and English, she declined an offer to continue with an Honours year and instead began fulltime work for the Tertiary Young Christian Students Movement. Teresa is the fourth -nvs fulltimer to be working in Western Australia. The movement is still relatively young in Australia and has the only secretariate that is staffed by fulltimers. Teresa completed her secondary education at St Thomas Aquinas College. Bedford and is the eldest of two children of Mr and Mrs Szunejko of Bedford parish.
Pope's call for peace witness Waving palm and olive branches, an estimated 200,000 youths gathered in St Peter's Square, on Palm Sunday and heard Pope John Paul II urge them to be witnesses for peace. 'What will be the future of man in this electronic world of stupendous discoveries, splendid and yet at the same time threatening?" the Pope asked. Christ is indispensable to the world of the second millenniun, now drawing to a close, the pope said in his Palm Sunday homily. "Shout this to all humanity," he told his enthusiastic
ATICAN CITY (NC): A special edition of Pope John Paul ll's apostolic letter, "To the Youth of the World," has been prepared for distribution to youths worldwide, said Bishop Paul Cordes, vice president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity. The book, with a bright blue plastic cover, was printed in seven languages and supplemented by a series of Scripture selections around which the pope developed his letter, Bishop Cordes said Bishop Cordes said that the letter is to "go into the hands of youths. - He compared the Vatican's intentions for the pope's blue book to the aim Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung had for his "red book" of sayings. Mao's book was widely read and dicserninated throughout China to educate young people during China's cultural revolution of the mid 1960s. Bishop Cordes said the Vatican would like the blue book to have the same kind of widespread distribution and reading that the red book had. The Holy Father was aware of stylistic problems with the letter, the
congregation. And shout it "particularly to all your peers in the context of International Youth Year." The March 31 event was part of the vatican's "Christ our peace" celebration of the U.N. International Youth Year. • We don't want to cross the threshold of the third millennium bringing guns and destruction behind us," the pope said. "Be peace workers," he urged, working for something "much richer than the mere absence of war" and "committed to the building of a truly fraternal society."
She is on a 12 month contract which may be renewed at the end of the year. The work involves meeting students at University campus. and encouraging them to become involved in the TYCS movement. At present. 10 groups exist in Perth and three are based in the parishes of Beaconsfield, Willetton and North Beach. Teresa says that life at University is much quieter than it was, and most students are more interested in their studies than outside involvements. University students seem very keen to get the best job possible. The jump from secondary school to tertiary life can be a giant step for some. Many changes take place. Teresa sees one crucial area for the development of a tertiary student is the difference between the relationship that exists in secondary school between teachers and pupils and even students and students. At the University there is much more of a searching out by the student, and a lot of emphasis is placed on research. The relationship with other students is characterized by the fact that many are of different ages, different sex and different outlooks and beliefs in life. University life can become insular and a little world of its own. Students really don't even have to go to the K. Mart to buy their everyday needs, as the campuses provide a variety of shops and hanks. To some degree this can have an isolating effect. In 1985 Teresa gave up the position of national team representative for the Aus-
tralian TYCS which meant she had to attend three meetings in Melbourne. This position has now been taken over by her sister, Monica. Teresa was first introduced into YCS as a secondary student by a teacher at school who invited her to attend an introductory camp in Year 11.
Commenting on the wider youth scene, Teresa said that it was important that individual movements realize they don't necessarily answer every youngperson's need. She saw that co-operation. which was a hall-mark of the Perth scene was important. In some areas coordination was also necessary. The Catholic Youth Council, she added, is one vehicle for this co-operation and co-ordination. A national conference for tertiary students is planned for January 1986. It will be the first time that the Tertiary Catholic Federation of Australia and the Australian Tertiary Young Christian Students Movement have combined to hold a national conference. The venue is set for Sacred Heart College, Sorrento, and the dates are January 7-12. The decision to hold this Australia wide conference took place in January '85. Further information can he obtained from Veto Ferro, 271 9454, or Helen Hastic on 362 4963.
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People have a vision of the Kingdom. We know at least, that there is a better way of life, When we accept that we are co-creators of this Kingdom: that we are co responsible for bringing it about through our personal, social and political relations, then we are burdened with the cross of responsibility. Looking at the world as it is. in all its baseness, and comparing it to the perfection of the Kingdom of God. is daunting. So much to do, so few to do it, and too little time! Reactions to this realisation are varied. but there are two which are perhaps the most disabling of all — defeatism and physical exhaustion. Although they are at opposite ends of the spectrum of activity, both are the result of extremes of thought which have forgotten the Good News that Christ has brought. Jesus said "Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads. andI will give you rest. For the yoke I will give you is easy. and the loadI will put on you is light." ( Matthew 1 1 — 28-30). He is not speaking in parables here, He is saying that He will lighten our loads literally. The defeatist must remember that Christ has saved the world by His death and resurrection. The zealous, but e xhausted, must remember that we are coresponsible. we are not solely responsible. We have been provided
with a gracious gift from God in the form of recreation. It is no accident that this word means to refresh or create anew by means of relaxation and enjoyment. Jesus Himself knew and experienced the tiredness and frustration of being a human. He did not hesitate to practise the discipline of rest and would often go off to seek a lonely place where He could be recreated through prayer and rest. Accepting our need for rest is an act of humility and the acknowledgement of our own insignificance and need for God. Sometimes it can be an incredible temptation tojust act when we see a need, but the Review of Life method is a trilogy — we are asked to sec, reflect and act. "Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10) could be translated. "be still, and you can know God and hear His quiet message". By this simple discipline of reflection — which incidentally requires a quietness and lack of activity: a resting — we can be renewed by the knowledge that our actions are not merely re-actions. It is a surrender to God, who is then enabled to work in the world, through us towards certain goals. We don't have to do it alone and yet neither does God! LE()NIE EASTMENT PERTH TYCS NEV ',LETTER
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Record Kids Club Books The Faber Book Of Animal Stories, edited by Johnny Morris, published by Faber And Faber, $5.95. A popular anthology of adventurous stories to fascinate and inform any reader interested in the animal kingdom, by such famous authors as Rudyard Kipling, Gerald Durrell and James Herriot, amongst others. Ages
May We Sleep Here Tonight, by Tan Koide, illustrated by Yasuko Koide, published by Faber and Faber, $13.95. In the rising mist at the end of the day, a lighted house looks very welcoming to three mice who have lost their way. They are soon joined by two rabbits and three raccoons who are in a similar predicament. But whose comfortable home have they found their way to? An appealing picture book, with soft colour illustrations and interesting details, which provides an exciting and finally reassuring adventure for small children.
Summer Of The Zeppelin, by Elsie McCutcheon, published by Puffin, $3.95. An engrosing, sensitive story of a young girl and her life in a small Suffolk Village during the First World War. It is a difficult summer for Ellie, as she copes with physical hardship, conflicting loyalties and her own feelings of rejection, against the background of Europe at war. Summer of the Zeppelin WAN runner-up for the Guardian Award 1984. Ages 10+.
Long Neck And Tbunderfoot, by Helen Piers, illustrated by M ichael -Foreman, published by Puffin, $3.50. War and peace in the forest when Long Neck and Thunder Foot, two dinosaurs who both thought they were living by themselves, meet. After much quaking of bony scales and thumping of long tails, the two dinosaurs finally decide that the forest is big enough for both of them. Joint winner of the 1982 Kate Greenaway Medal. Ages 5+.
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Ghost After Ghost, compiled by Aldan Chambers. published by Puffin, $3.50. The best contemporary short story writers for children — Jan Mark, Phillippa Pearce. Joan Aiken and Robert Westall, among others — bring to life (well, almost )ghosts with a variety of personalities. Chilling, but not freezing, this paperback edition has been illustrated by Bert Kitchen.
"You are my own dear son, I am well pleased with you." (Mark 1 : 11)
BIRTHDAY Happy birthday to Rosemary Mason. West Perth; Dane Kelly. Kojonup; Anne Murray. Girrawheen: Clare Pighardo. Woodlands: Glen Talbot, (iirrawheen; Kim Walsh, Claremont; Katherine O'Callaghan Coorow: Jennifer Evans. Northam: Chris Greenwood. South Perth: Melanie Hendricks. Hamilton Hill; Mark Kinsella. Carcoola; Robyn lawrence. Hamersley; David Lawler. Kardinya: Brendan Carlin. Rockingham; Ryan De Jonge, Geraldton; Vince Bellini, Wannersx); Nicole Ballantyne, Maddington; Catherine Bellini, Wanneroo; Joanne Davies, Thornlie: Robyn Brockhurst. Bolgart; I.inda McCormack, Morley; Philip McCormack, Morley; Colleen Carroll. Byford; Charmain Holyoak, Roleystone.
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Isaiah stood in the temple watching the people. It was a time for fasting and penance. Men and women walked back and forth praying. They wore rough clothes made of sackcloth. Some had poured ashes all over their heads and clothes. Isaiah didn't like what he saw. He knew the people were not ready to change their lives. But they thought if they just put on the ashes and sackcloth and fasted everything would be all right. Isaiah became angry. He knew that wasn't what God wanted the people to do. He felt God wanted him to speak out. So he climbed up where people could see and hear him. "Listen to me!" he shouted.
Treeborn's Treasure. by Florence Parry Heide, Drau'ings by Edward Gorey. published by Puffin, $2.50. Money grows on trees — well, on a tree — in Treehorn's garden. This he discovered while sitting underneath the tree, reading one of his comics ( which he had read three times, already). But no-one wants to share in his important discovery. Ages 6-8.
"People stopped. They looked up at Isaiah. "It is that fool. Isaiah," an older man said. "He thinks he's a prophet sent by God," a woman added. "Do you call what you are doing real fasting?" Isaiah asked them all. "Is it just a matter of ashes and rough clothes?" The crowded temple was silent. Everyone was listening to God's prophet. Isaiah spoke now in God's name. "This is the kind of f asting I want: Free those who are chained by injustice. Set the oppressed free. Share your bread with the hungry. Open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear. Don't turn your back on your fellow human beings."
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The people were astonished by Isaiah's words. The prophet was calling them to something much harder than wearing sackcloth and ashes. Some people became angry at Isaiah. Others felt sad. Some were glad to hear Isaiah's strong words. They knew it was God's word they heard in Isaiah's words. "Then my love will shine on you like the morning sun," Isaiah continued, speaking in God's name. "Your wounds will then be healed. I will be with you and protect you. You shall cry for help to the Lord. The Lord will say, 'I am here!' " Isaiah's words brought hope to many in the crowd. They felt less They threatened. sensed how much they needed God's love.
Isaiah spelled out God's promise still more. "If you put an end to all oppression and stop lying; and if you give food to the hungry and reach out to those in need, then my light will rise for you. The darkness that surrounds you will be turned into the brightness of noon. I, the Lord, will always guide you and give you good things. I will make you strong. I, the Lord, have spoken." Isaiah looked at the people for a moment. Then he climbed down. The people moved slowly out of the temple. "I never knew that before," a man said to his wife as they walked home. —To fast and do penance also means to act with justice and love towards everyone."
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So you plan to travel? Great Travelling Disasters, by Hugh Vickers & Caroline McCullough, published by MacMillan ( Papermac), $4.95. R eviewed by Roslyn Ross.
Better to travel hopefully than to arrive . . . so says the blurb on the back of this ticklish little volume. It's the sort of thing you could safely take on the plane with you for a little light reading: its far too funny to be at all rearm It's a unique collection of the sublime, the ridiculous and the truly disastrous, by land, sea and air. The authors have obviously eniiiyed putting the stories together as much as you will enjoy reading them. While travel can he a dangerous thing, bear in mind that it needn't always he so. Remember the travel writer. Dervla Murphy, who survived travelling all over the Himalays on a bicycle and the Andes on a donkey without a single disaster only to be butted in the hack by an infuriated bullock, while taking a dip in the river near her Irish home. The result of which was a broken spine and a plaster cast from the waist upwards. Travel, say the authors, can of course be more dangerous, depending upon where. and more to the point, when you are travelling. like the tourist who was caught in Addis Ababa in the middle of the 1%5 revolution. "Well" she said. "there was this one moment when one
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Woman beware Woman, by Emma Tennant, published by Pica$6. dor, approx. R eviewed by Roslyn R oss. This is a stylish version of the "whodunnit" and will appeal to all who enjoy a challenge. Emma Tennant's complex jigsaw method is perhaps an acquired taste, but then many of
Stylish "whodunnit" the best things are. For who have those gathered in any of her other eight novels, The Colour of Rain, The Time of the Crack, The Last of t he Country House Murders, The Bad Sister, Wild Nights, Alice Fell, H otel de Dream and Queen of Stones, this latest effort will come as a welcome addition to
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found dead in a wood on the southern coast of Ireland where he lives. M uch loved for his charm, wit and knowledge of the world, his death is shrouded in mystery. It is a mystery which reaches out to grasp the other characters; his wife Moura, his son's jilted fiancee, Minnie, and his two sons.
with a stranglehold. Just keeping up with who does what, when, how and why will keep you on your toes. It's a book which will test not only your detective talents but your imagination as well.
The tranquilliser trap and how to escape The Tranquillizer Trap and how to get out of it, by Joy Melville, published by Fontana, $6.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross.
felt a trifle out of place." In fact what happened was this. During bumpy camel rides In a world of "instant in the interior of the country answers" the development she had developed a boil on of the tranquillizer pill in the her bottom, the sort of 1960's was hailed as a breakembarrassing affliction through. made worse by the fact you The "happiness pill," "the can't see it. On checking confidence pill." "mother's into that miserable hotel, little helper," were all names the Only Available in Addis used to describe drugs that Ababa. she made straight for THE TRANQUILLIZER the bathroom, only to find TRAP and how to that the sole mirror was a shaving mirror, placed at a get out of it height suitable for tall EthiJoy Melville opods. How to reach it? Only one way. Taking off all her clothes, she clambered on to the lavatory scat while turn- • ing her posterior toward the mirror, craning her neck to see, like a ballet dancer doing an arabesque. There was a sudden rattle of gunfire outside. She was startled, slipped and fell against the wall, except that . 141111 it turned out to be not a wall, would come into chronic but a blacked-out window. usage throughout the WestShe crashed through and ern world. landed stark naked in the In this hook Joy Melville war-torn mainstreet of the specifically studies the BritEthiopian capital in the ish problem, where such middle of the revolution. A pills are being prescribed to trifle out of place? Quite. 2 1.4 million people a
year. . . but the message is clear to all of us. In Australia as well, for a time the taking of such pills was almost fashionable. Tranquillizers were a restorative: the nearest thing to bottled happiness y.ou could get. They were used to combat stress of any kind — the effects of bereavement, fear of redundancy. marital rows, divorce, pressure at work. financial worries, poor living conditions — everything, in fact. that was the slightest threat to your peace of mind. But luckily the backlash has begun and this book is part of it. It is women who have been especially susceptible to the tranquillizer takeover, and in Britain, of the 21 million people taking sedatives. 14 million are women. The picture would be painted in a similar fashion in this country. There are two reasons for this: women in society are facing great change and all the stresses that entails, and drug com-
panies have encouraged a
stereotype view of women as fraught neurotic and anxious, and most certainly in need of something to "calm her down."
Most doctors are men and it is to men that these stereotyped images of emotionally incompetent women are directed. Studies have shown it is more likely that a man going to his doctor with a panic attack will get some sort of physical checkup. He is less likely to be dismissed with tranquillizers. In this book Joy Mehillk carefully examines why po ple turn to tranquillizers what are the effects and als4 , looks at possible alterna fives. The tranquillizer trap is positive proof that there is no such thing as an "instant answer" and that much of life requires working through pain and fear. For all those who are still taking Valium and Serepax 20 years on. or who cannot sleep without Mogadon the tranquillizer trap is still terribly
real. Joy Melville points out that t ranquillizers do have a place and can prove invaluable in helping people in short-term situations. But the emphasis is on shortterm. Tranquillizers will never solve a problem, they purely provide breathing space until you are ready to meet that problem head-on and you will have to meet that problem eventually. It won't go away. Tranquillizers suppress emotions so the longer you are on them, the
greater the shock ma he when you come off them and the emotions re-surtace. But, she says, it can be done. Jost make sure you do not come off tranquillizers suddenly, especially if you have been on them a long time. The dosage must be hniken down, not cut off suddenly or you may find yourself feeling worse than ever A self-help group can be cry useful in these circumstances. ( Editors Note: Holy( ,ake can provide information on drug withdrawal. )
Christian Mysticism Today, by William Johnston S.J., published by William Collins, $13.95. William Johnston has lived in Japan for many years and has immersed himself in Eastern traditions of prayer and meditation. He has written
several hooks interpreting these traditions tbr Western readers. Having journeyed to the East. Father Johnston now returns enriched to write a study based on the Western mystical tradition. Christian Mysticism Today examines the Old and New Testaments, the Christian mystical tradition, the Eucharist and mystical prayor, and then attempts to explain how these can lead to the resolution of conflicts within men's hearts. It is these conflicts which tear men apart and lead in turn to conflict in the world at large.
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There is nothing vague about Father Johnston's approach. Indeed, in a chapter towards the end of the book he addresses himself specifically to the troubles in Ireland today and seeks to offer a positive approach for people living in that turbulent land.
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The 1945 debutante •roup at the Catholic Ball sponsored by the Catholic
A reunion for girls' movement
Round four of the Catholic Lawn Tennis Association's mixed pennant competition once again produced some exciting and tense games. In the A grade, Lynwood and Dianella played a very hard fought match in which neither team could gain the ascendancy. Although there were no tie-breakers played, three sets were won 7 games to 5 games Lynwood won the match 5 sets 49 games to Dianella 5 sets 45 games. The other match was easily won by Queens Park 10 sets 60 games to Applecross 25 games. In the B grade, Queens Park and Dianella played a cliffhanger. Queens Park won the match 7 sets 56 games to Dianella 5 sets 57 games. There were three tie breaker sets played in this match with Queens Park winning two which clinched the match for them. Pignatelli 2 had to fight hard to overcome a determined Greenwood team. The score being Pignatelli 7 sets 58 games to Greenwood. 5 sets 50 games. In the other match, Pignatelli 1 was 11 was sets 71 games and easily accounted for Willetton 1 set 29 games With one match remaining to complete round one of the A grade competition, no team has been able to establish then iselves as finalists. The premiership table is as follows Played Won Lost Drawn Points Queens Park Pignatelli Lynwood Dianella Applecross
4 3 3 3 3
2 2 2 2
4 4 4 4
2 1 1 1 3
Literally thousands of women are invited to a 40th anniversary reunion of the Catholic Girls' Movement (CGM) to be held at Good Shepherd Convent on Anzac Day, April 25 beginning with Mass at 11 am followed by light lunch. Today's middle aged generation will be recalling the dramatic creation in 1 942 of the movement which had 700 women in its ranks before one year had passed and which numbered over 1000 in its peak days 40 years ago, before being merged into the National Catholic Girls' Movement. The movement's centre was in a St George's Terrace building (now Allendale Square) and included the
ids'
ovement.
Marian Lodge when it was purchased in the 1940s to become the training centre for the CGM. city chapel fore-runner of today's All Saints chapel. A ctivities covered Red Cross, canteen service for the troops at Perth Town Hall, basketball, dancing, shorthand, orchestra, dance band and choir, dressmaking and homecrafts.
The late Father Harold La/or as thousands of CGM members remember him.
The movement was given responsibility for the annual Catholic Ball debutantes who numbered up to eighty a year for several years. Another achievement was the establishment of Marian Lodge as the youth centre that survived until 1975.
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WHAT'S ON MAJELLAN REFLECTION A day of reflection. sponsored by Majellans and open to anyone, will be held at St Mary's parish centre, Franklin Street Leederville on Friday. May 3 from 9.30am to 2 30pm at which Sister Joan Buckham will be guest speaker. Participants should provide lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided. BALCATTA JUBILEE St Lawrence School, Balcatta will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its opening with an open day to be held on Saturday. May 4 from 1.30 to 6pm. Former pupils, teachers, committee and school board members or past associates of the school are invited. Further information from M. Italian° 349 7107.
LIWARA ANNIVERSARY Liwara Catholic Primary School is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a reunion of all past and present pupils, teachers, families and friends on May 10. Mass will be celebrated at 7pm followed by the opening of stage 4, open night and supper. For catering purposes please phone 447 4664, 447 4066, 409 9386: 448 1181 or 447 7036. MAR IAN MOVEMENT A Cenacle will be held on Fnday April 19 at the Little Sisters of Carmel 2 Frazer St, Swanboume beginning at 10.30am. Enquiries to Yolanda Nardizzi 447 8885 or Bob Wright 447 6223.
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In the B grade there are three matches to be played before the finals begin. At this stage the four finalists appear to be Pignatelli 1, 2 and 3 and Queens Park. The premiership table is:
ONE: Arthur Daley 1, King Rocky 2, Weston Bess 3, RACE TWO: Red Inkerman I. Daddy's Monaro 2. Beers and Cheers 3. RACE THREE: Inolved 1, little Acorn 2, Tanjoha RACE
Played Won Lost Drawn Points Pignatelli 1 Pignatelli 3 Queens Park Pignatelli 2 Willetton Dianella Greenwood
4 3 3 4 3 4 3
3 3 2 2 1 —
1 1 2 2 3 3
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7 6 4 4 2 1
CARNIVAL Plans for the carnival to be held in Perth this Christmas are well advanced. The program of events has been finalised and the price of a full carnival ticket has been set at $140. This price covers food, refreshments and entertainment for six functions which include: • welcoming night cabaret at Westos Hotel • square dance at St Joseph's Pignatelli hall • Queen Quest dinner at Merlin Hotel • picnic lunch and tea at Aquinas College • Italian night at Ciceros Restaurant • New Years Eve Ball at Belmont Raceway The tennis is being played at Hensman Park Tennis Club. Although the functions have all been planned we are still seeking help to organise the running of each function ind the tennis. Anyone who can assist us is asked to contact the carnival organiser, Greg Pear,:e on 447 4950.
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RACE FOUR: White Foot Lass 1, Temlock's Silk 2, Aqua Sheen 3. RACE, FIVE: Belinda Mist 1, Man of Mickila 2, Tidi Level 3.
Peter and Gwen Hoyne (above) celebrated recently 25 years of marriage. At right is Gwen's brother acolyte Albert Murphy. ii% The anniversary of their wedding in Immaculate tp Heart church Scarborough was observed with Mass in
the Good Shepherd con- Cecilia Murphy (Hoyne), vent celebrated by Father Josie Ellis (Murphy); also Tim Foster Present at the the couple's children Mass were the bridesmaid Joseph, Gerard, BerJean Murphy, best man nadette, Gemma and niece Robert Hoyne and flower godchild Mary Clare. The couple live now in girl Frances Pyke. Wembley Downs having Taking part in the Mass spent most of their life in the it the wedding Wembley district. were ,
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