University colleges are not for the idle rich says veteran Jesuit, Father Con Finn, who returned to Perth to look at the St Thomas More College, of which he was founding rector. See this page.
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At the opening of the St Thomas More College Murphy wing on Sunday the founding rector Father Con Finn SJ (right) claimed to be the "Oldest Old Boy" of the college. He was able to check his story with other pioneers of 30 years ago: (from left) foundation student Kevin Bartlett, Mrs Mollie McVittie who with her late husband Mac set up the domestic facilities and Pat Kirby who was one of the first five , students to take up residence in 1955. Also present on Sunday
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e —The vision of Catholic educational philosophy goes well beyond the secularist vision; it is concerned not only with the freedom to be but with the freedom to become." This was said by Bishop Healy last Sunday when he blessed and opened the 15 room residential block at St Thomas More College, named the Murphy wing because it was constructed by the $200,000 bequest of the late Stanislaus Murphy.
Pointing out that St Thomas More College is a Catholic college and not rust a series of dormitories for Catholics attending tertiary institutions, Bishops Healy said that university education in Australia was secularist and that St Thomas More would have considered this to be inadequate. "He would have approved studies in the humanities, in the social and human life
sciences hut he would not have appri wed of the limited education they reflect. He would have been attuned to the broader heritage of Catholic education which recognises human inadequacy and places greater emphasis on human gifts. Bishop Healy said Catholic philosophy of education represents a genuine alternative educational vision for any student wanting to accept it. Its basic differnce is the understanding of the human person as a unique individual created in the image and likeness of God. It recognises at every level the Os each individual has received and which reflect the attributes of the creator. The secular philosophy does not seek to promote the spiritual dimension of the human person. Bishop Healy said that .
when the I -niversity of WA granted land for the establishment of St Thomas More College there was no doubt of the hope that the Christian colleges would complement the secular vision of the university. Bishop Healy paid tribute to the Jesuit order which had provided the rectors and other staff for the college over its 30 years. He also noted the presence of Archbishop Go( Ay who as auxilliary bishop was chairman of the appeal committee which visited parishes raising funds to establish the college. Father Put Bishop SJ. the college rector said it was a rare occasion to open the wing in the 450th anniversary year of St Thomas Mores death and even rarer to open it debt free. "Thank God for Stanislaus Murphy". he commented.
was another pioneer student Brian Singleton. The notion of a Catholic University College was a foundation hope of the Newman Society under Dr MacMahon at its inauguration in 1924. The university granted a 5-acre site in 1933. Archbishop Prendiville launched a diocesan appeal in 1953 in all parishes and with the help of a donation of $27,000 from a legacy to Monsignor Moss the first section of the college and its chapel opened in 1955, under the planning of Father P. O'Mara. From an initial enrolment of 40 the college now takes 180 students; women were admitted in 1974 and now hold 84 places, 46 per cent of the enrolment. Over 30 years some 1760 students have resided at the college, more than half from WA country areas.
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from Fr. W. UREN SJ, Sir, I write in response to a number of criticisms voiced in the letters of Mrs M. Cadd, Mr A. Mitter (The Record, April 18) and Mrs M. Mackay (The Record, April 11). In the first instance, Mrs Cadd asks why the Response of the Diocesan Bioethics Committee to the Interim Report of the WA In Vitro Ethics Committee has not been made public. This document, as its title would indicate, was directed primarily to the members of the WA Committee. It was submitted to that Committee on December 13th, 1984, acknowledged by the Executive Secretary on January 30th, and considered by the Committee at its first meeting for 1985 on February 18, The Diocesan Committee did not think it appropriate to make its submission public until the WA Committee had an opportunity to consider its Response and make appropriate comments. Hence the delay in publication
DEE This same protocol. I might remark, was observed by all but one of the 54 other submissions received by the WA Committee. Only the R ight to Life Association thought it acceptable to make its submission public before the WA Committee had the opportunity to consider it at a full meeting. It also thought it acceptable. without any consultion with the Diocesan Committee, to issue a public critique of the Committee's hitherto unpublished Response. Such behaviour we found disappointing, but not altogether unpredictable! Subsequent to the meeting of the WA Committee on February 18th, the Response was prepared for publication. At a meeting of all priests of the archdiocese called to meet Father V. Dwyer in Chairman the March, informed the priests of the availability of the Response.
EEE Since that date it has been sent to all the bishops of Australia, all Catholic secondary schools and hospitals in Perth, and to many priests, doctors and parliamentarians. A second printing is in preparation and will soon be available from the L.J. Goody Bioethics Centre at a cost of two dollars. Secondly, Mrs Cadd endeavours to substantiate her allegations of heterodoxy against Fr. Walter Black, M.S.C. by citing a section of the encyclical "Humanae Vitae", and implying that Fr. Black is in breach of this. Again she does not cite Fr. Black's remarks, so I can only presume she is alluding to his references to artificial contraception in his address on Wednesday. March 6, on the Morality of Conflict Situations. Fr. Black used as one of a
Father Bill Uren SJ, director of the L.J. Goody Bio-ethics Centre has supplied this detailed response to moral questions raised by correspondence some of which was published in The Record.
series of examples of these conflicts a case and a solution proposed by the French Episcopal Conference in paragraph 16 of their pastoral commentary on the Encyclical
dence indicates that about 40 per cent of naturally conceived embryos fail to implant and that a further 20 per cent abort spontaneously before or after the woman's next expected period
In composing this commentary and proposing this solution the French bishops availed themselves of the services of Fr. Gustave Martelet, S.J., who is widely acknowledged as assisting Pope Paul VI to write the Encyclical. Not surprisingly, this commentary was praised by the pope himself
Further, in some women, namely those who invariably miscarry after natural conception, there is a 100 per cent loss rate The Church has never taught that this high rate of embryo loss incurred in natural conception is a bar to attempting to conceive and bear achild
One would have thought, therefore, that Fr. Black was in exalted company in citing this case and its solution as an example. Like the French Bishops, he drew careful distinctions between the objective disorder of contraception and the varying degrees of subjective culpability incurred by those who may have had recourse to it
Instead. the Church justifies these natural losses by recourse to the principle of -double effect" The losses are certainly not "directly intended" (in the precise theological sense of the term), but are side-effects of the attempts to establish a pregnancy
If this is the case Mrs Cadd is referring to, I find it incredible that he could be inter-
The diocesan Bioethics Committee believes that the same principles can be extended to justify IVF in the "simple case", ie., between husband
loss in absolute numbers is miniscule compared to those lost in natural conception Fourthly, Mr Mitter cites the 1956 statement of Pope Pius XII, and claims that this settles the matter of IVF for Catholics. I must point out, however, that in this and similar statements of Pius XII in 1949, 1951 and 1958, apart from the first reference cited by Mr Miner (le "in vitro fecundation"), all other references using the word "fecundation" (including the other two cited by Mr Miner) refer clearly to artificial insemination and not to IVF These statements may have relevance to IVF, but it has to be argued, not presumed. Nor is the "in vitro fecunda tion" reference really rele vitro Since in vant fecundation in 1956 involved no intention or prospect of embryo transfer, what Pius XII referred to by the phrase amounted to destructive experimentation on embry onic life, and again not to what IVF and ET in the "simple case" involve today Further, in respect of Mr Mitter's remarks concerning artificiality, if he were to consult the 1949 statement of Pius XII on artificial insem 'nation, he would find that the Pope approved the use of certain forms of artificially assisted insemination I do NOT use this citation to justify the present practice of IVF. Like the 1956 statement it concerns artificial insemi-
'40% of naturally conceived embryos fail to implant' preted as contravening the strictures of -Humanae Vitae-. The only other instance in which, again quite perversely, Fr. Black might have been interpreted as in any sense condoning contraception as the lesser of two evils was where, in response to a questioner, he said that, if an agent is firmly resolved on a career of promiscuity, then contraception is preferable to pregnancy and subsequent abortion. But only a perverse interpretation would construe this as denying that contraception was a moral disorder, albeit a lesser one than abortion.
and wife, with only a very limited number of embryos fertilized, and all viable embryos transferred to the maternal uterus
Thirdly, Mrs Cadd, Mr Mitter and Mrs Mackay all comment on the high rate of embryo loss in IVF. Mrs Cadd and Mr Mitter cite a figure of 96 per cent, a figure that I suspect can only be justified if one includes all the very early experimental
However, on the other hand, it should be remembered that IVF clinicians are treating couples who are suffering a pathology of the generative
attempts. I vvould think a 7-10 per cent live birth rate was a realistic figure at present, granted the higher pregnancy rates obtained through implanting two or possibly three embryos. It is important to put alongside these figures, however, the also very significant rate of embryo loss incurred subsequent to natural conception. Reputable scientific evi-
It does not accept the present practice of embryo freezing, nor does it condone in any way the directly intentional destruction of embryos, whether in non-therapeutic experimentation or in any other form of destructive procedure. The Committee is aware that in the "simple case" the embryo loss rate is presently significantly higher than that incurred in natural conception.
faculty. The women are generally older, and they have generally had no previous pregnancy. A higher loss rate would have been expected, even if they had been able to conceive naturally. Further, the loss rate is decreasing steadily, albeit slowly, and treatment presently being undertaken to promote implantation rates gives hope of reducing the loss rate in the not too distant future to that which obtains in natural conception. And, of course, the embryo
nation, and has only the limited teaching authority of a papal allocution. But I do use it to point out that the mere fact that a means to facilitate fertilization is artificial does not merely for that reason render it morally unacceptable. Further, of course, as the Response points out, the Church accepts quite readily many forms of highly artificial surgical and medical intervention in all areas of medithat including cine, concerned with the generative faculty Fifthly, Mr Mitter cites paragraph 12 of "Humanae Vitae" concerning the inseparability of the two meanings of the act of conjugal intercourse: the unitive meaning and the procreative meaning. IVF is, at least in the "simple case", also a conjugal act. It also has a unitive meaning and a procreative meaning. The love of husband and wife expresses itself in their willingness to undergo the hazards of IVF in order that their love may find further expression in a child. But it is certainly not an act of conjugal intercourse, or at least not in the sense obvious in the context of the Encyclical. Why then does Mr Miner assume that the strictures of the Encyclical directed to the
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Priest shortage a major problem The announcement of a new parish in the Ocean Reef area will be good news to the people in that area but it is bad news to an archdiocese faced with a shortage of priests to staff parishes, says Father Bryan Rosling, director of St Charles' Vocational residence.
Pope urges young to front line
1985 international youth year, the pope focused particularly on young people in this year's vocation message. He also made a particular plea for special attention to -vocations to the consecrated life. -
He said the gospel mesVatican City: Pope John sage of Christ's love for Paul 11 has urged young each person -cannot but fill people to -put yourselves in you with amazement - and the front line- as priests, is a call which -provokes you to love. religious missionaries. In his message for the 22nd World Day of Prayer For Vocations on April 28 the pope says his world travels have made him sharply aware of the "sad disproportion - between the billions who have not heard the gospel and the few answering the call to preach it. He asked young people, " 'will you remain indifferent, hearing the cry which rises from humanity?" Noting that the united nations has proclaimed
Donning an RAAF chaplain's uniform this week took him back 27 years to the beginning of his journey to the priesthood, Father Michael Gat of Chittering-Gingin parish said this week.
Although he has been ministering to the RAM' base at Pearce since talcing over the parish nine months ago Father Gatt received his official chaplaincy appointment only this week. As a young lad leaving secondary school in Malta. Michael Gatt joined the RAF which then stationed a large Mediterranean unit on Malta. He became an armourer but after two and a half years he decided that fitting weapons and ammunition to aircraft was not what he wanted
- Young men, young women, Christ is calling you, - he said "Perhaps you think these calls concern others and cannot be addressed to you personally?" he asked. He told youths that "the divine redeemer wants many of you, more numerous than you may think - to serve as "priests, deacons. religious, sisters, consecrated laity, missionaries who heroically, before humanity, witness to Christ dead and risen. -
"Last week's Record pinpointed Bishop Healy's frustration in being unable to stretch t he archdiocesan clergy resource beyond its elastic limit" said Father Rosling in a message for Good Shepherd Sunday in which special reference is made to vocations. "We are struggling to man the 103 parishes of the archdiocese much less supply another priest for the growing outer suburbs typified by Ocean Reef. "A growing Catholic population and a decreasing number of clergy combine to give bishops a headache but far worse indicate the inability of the local Church to supply the spiritual and sacramental leadership that is being st night by the people. "By and large this is a world-wide trend hut West Australians are now becoming aware of the problem in their own backyard. "Over the past 15 years or so Catholics would appear to have indicated that vocations to the priesthood are unimportant. The test of a community's attitude to the priesthood surely must be the encouragement it gives to its ytning men to enter the priesthood. This has always happened in the past and the hundreds of priests who have served WA have come from ordinary families with such a comiction. not only in In-
land but in the suburbs and country towns of WA. "The Church has a right to expect parishes that need priests to supply them. The priesthood is not an optional extra to out faith. "It is an essential part of the life of the Church. In fact, the church cannot exist
- Iwo years ago Pope John Paul said: 'The shortage of vocations to the priesthood is the most urgent and fundamental issue of the contemporary Church'. "The Catholic bishops of Western Australia have given the promotion of vocations their top priority. Any
man even remotely thinking of the priestho(xl has only to make himself known to any bishop and immediate advice and direction will be made available to him. -1-he vocational residence at Guildford and information days such as that planned for May S are part of the vocation strategy initiated in Perth. "A man thinking of the priesthood is required to have only average intelligence and a spirit of commitment as the fundamental qualities on which a bishop C211ti and builds the
hood for tomorrow's church. "Men who are prepared to give serious consideration to the priesthood — without any further commitment — are more than welcome to attend the May 5 information day or contact me at St Charles'. "Recently the pope declared: 'We must continue to proclaim and to preach vocation. The Lord of the harvest is ready to listen. God will not abandon His Church. But the bishops must send kirth the call of the heart and do so perseveringly
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Common faith Vatican City (NC) — Pope John Paul II has expressed hope that by stressing a common Catholic faith his May visit to the Netherlands will help overcome the sharp divisions in the Dutch church. "I know that there are many tensions in your church." the pope said in a pre-trip message to the
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such as Pearce base can play in the community.
Noting that Anzac Day and the world day of vocations occur this year in the same week Father Gatt emphasised the role a defence establishment
Not only is the base chapel the focus for the local district Catholic community. many other base facilities are also made available to the public.
Netherlands released by the Vatican. "But I am confident that the grace of God and the great spiritual riches you have will permit us to overcome the differences," he added. Archbishop Adrianus Simonis of Utrecht, Netherlands, has said the visit will be a challenge for a pope because of the sharp divisions among Dutch Catholics which have developed since the end of the second Vatican council. Dutch
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become polarised into "conservatives" who follow traditional church teachings and "progressives" who question centralised papal authority and oppose many key church teachings, the archbishop said. A recent Dutch surveN showed that 27' per cent approve of the papal trip. 27 per cent disapprove and 43 per cent said the trip would have no meaning for them. The survey listed 24 per cent as saying the papal trip would strengthen the faith and foster church unity
a call. I want more young men to consider sharing the priesthood with me and my brother priests. Please write to me, Archbishop William Foley St Mary's Cathedral Perth WA. 6000 The Record, 25 April — 1 May, 19E:5
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Record The jostling for the correct stance and attitude that surrounds the current European 40th anniversary of the 1945 armistice and which embroils big political names like Reagan, or Thatcher as well as curtailed tourists like Archbishop Runcie hints how much importance attaches to the living rather than the dead. Time of course does not stand still and eyesight definitely takes a shift with the passage of time. Those who fought on many sides, those who survived the unsurvivable in the death camps all have a view that is torn between wiping a memory but never losing sight of what happened. The deep seated human instinct that yearns to keep alive the memory of the dead struggles against the harsh truth that the dead, especially the innocent, can never be restored to this life. Thus the monuments, the speeches, the parades, the review of the past, the uncovering of facts that were unknown or which were preferred not to be known at the time and not about the dead but what the living think of the dead. And what the living think about the dead is the riddle of all ages. It is respectably cloaked in the ritual of the peacetime cemetery but provokes a remarkable range of human emotion at the sight of war graves. To rail at the pointlessness of death, especially of the young who are likely to be first available foolhardy fodder of war, presumes that there was a very decided purpose in being alive, even though that purpose is declared to be little more than life itself. If it is a peacetime dilemma facing the human spirit whether death is the more welcome alternative to a lifetime of lingering suffering, it is a double wrench as the war -wounded come home to wonder if their dead comrades were not better off. As long as someone else carries the burden of their care, their memory can be absolved until they drift into oblivion. As the years lengthen between Anzac Cove, Tobruk, Kokoda and Saigon the same issues are at work in the Anzac Day remembrance that became Australia's soul day rather than the November 11 armistice. As the last of the Gallipoli veterans disappear, the third and fourth generation descendants read the chronicles with pride, with disbelief, with anger that is pointless because those who could carry the blame are too beyond reach. Time runs out too on a war whose associates, if not participants are the world's hottest tourist commodity out of Tokyo or Frankfurt. Yet to raise a Nazi skelton in the cupboard, to flush out the last surviving war criminal seems to demand attention as work undone from an era when half the present population was never born. So new and intense agonising about war breaks out in a generation that never experienced it. A vicarious debate on the morality of weaponry, defence and retaliation breaks out in a period of peace. Perhaps the war is not over. The fleting film clips of 50 years ago could never report the war, but the endless television coverage of Lebanon, of civil wars in South America and Africa, the unreportable savagery of Afghanistan are saying that the war is not over. Then about what are we arguing? The question might well turn not to the theory of war but to the roots of violence in human life and the frontiers of violence now being braoched in modern society. The mobs charging down any street nightly on television in whatever country and on whatever errand are a sum of individuals very angry and very determined to be violent, not only to property, but as South Africa is sadly revealing to their own people who incur their wrath. Self defence is the quickest human emotion and re-action but it means violence and probably uncontrolled violence at that. How much time is there for the finely reasoned argument to do only as much harm to the enemy as is needed to keep him at bay. It is a simmering argument well away from the battlefield because the seeds of suburban violence are around us in Australia. Individuals are not safe on the streets. The public will draw its own conclusions about the latest political thugs. Does human patience run thin? There will be enough salutary advice given to the nation on Anzac Day about war. The men who fought them were violent. They had to be. Whether it was their making or not, their lives were under attack. They were determined to retaliate fiercely, irrationally, wantonly. Why do the so-called peaceful people of today claim they would act any differently? Violence is personal long before it becomes a national issue.
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Colleges 'no haven' University colleges are not havens for the idle rich, the St Thomas More founding rector Father Con Finn Si told the gathering at the opening of the college's Murphy wing last Sunday. tie said it was a fairly common notion when the college was launched thirty years ago and it still lurks in the minds of people today. A university college was far from being an expensive and unnecessary addition to a university. "lbe vast majority of the students here support themselves on Commonwealth living allowances which depend on a family means test and which are not given by governments to the idle rich.
I.ather Finn dipped into Cardinal Newman's Idea of A University to describe colleges as necessary complements to universities. i (Tsity education is not just learning or instruction for a profession in life hut a liberal enlargement of the mind, Newman said. -What Newman is saying is that life is larger and more important than livelihood," said Father Finn. -Newman goes so far as to say if you pinned him down to which of these two extremes you would prefer: a university which provides lectures only or a group of colleges providing no lectures but simply tutorials and living in common, he would prefer the second. The strength of the colleges Father Finn said was not only in the facilities provided hut that students would find others with whom to build lifelong friendships. It was also important to have so many faculties conversing daily over meals or social moments. All this helps develop a round of character and promote a broad education, not your narrow minded specialist. This college is helping to produce that broad liberal education which Newman maintained should he the task of a university. Students came from every part of the state and from overseas and from different school backgrounds with the difference that the is college unashamedly Christian. "The students have as their model one who was the king's good servant but God's sen-ant first. They live in a home from home and in a Christian environment. All this for the idle rich? Not at all!"
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Iris Rossen, principal of the architectural firm of Iris Rossen and Associates, is a parishioner of Holy Rosary at Nedlands and noted for her church, school and aged homes architecture. She was born of British parents in Greece and completed her education at the University of Cape Town in South Africa from which she graduated as a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction. She arrived in WA in 1962 and has been practising on her own account for the past 15 years after having worked in Rhodesia, Canada and the United States. In 1982 she was the first WA architect to win the annual national competition known as the NSW Housing Design Awards and she is the recipient of a number of commendations from professional societies. She has designed churches for non-Catholic denominations in addition to Catholic churches and she has done considerable government school work as well as designing Catholic schools, parish centres and homes for the aged.
"My involvement in and enthusiasm for church architecture stems basically from my faith and the belief that spiritual values are a necessary and important part of the quality of Australian life." Thus Iris Rossen comments on the motivation for a career that has elevated her to a distinguished niche in ecclesiatical designing. Historically, she continues, these values have formed the framework of our civilisation and, in the built environment, have found expression in the creation of magnificent plaworship of ces enriched with the best craftsmanship and art of the day. But this creativity, she laments, has fallen sadly behind other achievements in our country. Thus many Australian churches have been stereotyped copies of historical buildings which did not relate to current needs. With few exceptions, new churches were at best experimental and often replaced the grace of their predecessors with the barrenness of industrial buildings Against this regrettable background. Iris says, in 1967 she became involved with the design of St Denis, an exciting new Catholic church at Joondanna -This was a wonderful time to be building," she continues, "because a great spiritual and liturgical renewal was sweeping through the Church. "Changes of attitude requiring a re -statement of old forms of worship were taking place. "Architecturally, this gave a new direction and the opportunity to think from scratch and do something better than before. "At St Denis, under the direction of an exceptional priest, we took these opportunities to the full. "New ideas were explored and developed, including a baptismal font with running water, new-style confessionals and — above all — the right kind of space for today's worship," she said. She designed the internal spaces and liturgical furnishing as well as co-ordinating the art work. Iris accepted an invitation to loin the Catholic Liturgical Commission with reference
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she tries to make the buildings serve their purpose better than before, to enhance what is good and prune away the irrelevant. One of her new churches is Our Lady of Fatima at Palmyra Here she derived great pleasure from working with the well-informed parish priest, Father James Dowling, a native of Ireland where she considers the architects to be the most progressive in modern church architecture. Iris designed the convent chapel and day-care centre for the Benedictine nuns at Girrawheen A thought in her mind was that many of today's nuns — professionals in their fields that they are — go out into the world to perform their daily tasks. So she designed into the Girrawheen ambience the prayerful atmosphere of the old convents. Her objective in designing the Carmelite convent at Gelorup near Bunbury was to achieve the cloistered and enclosed tradition of the Carmelites while at the same time expressing their poverty and simplicity
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to art and architecture and found serving on the commission to be a most enriching experience. A questionnaire sent out at the time gave an overall picture of the state of church art and architecture in Perth. She was disappointed to find generally inadequate churches with poor -quality furnishings and hardly any original craft or artwork. She resolved to do her utmost to change this picture and she has continued over the years to work towards this end. In 1972 under the auspices of the Liturgy Commission and the Anglican Church — with interest from other denominations — she was instrumental in organising an exhibition of liturgical art for the Festival of Perth.
Exhibits included works by leading silversmiths, potters, weavers, sculptors and makers of fine furniture. There were 4000 visitors to the exhibition and new channels of communication were opened between craftsmen and churches. The success of the exhibition resulted in Iris being invited to lecture relevant audiences and the lectures led to her involvement in updating and refurbishing churches.
Dal She established good working relationships with local artists and craftsmen, occasionally venturing into the field herself with design of stained glass and tapestries.
Complacency and unwillingness to try new ideas she found to be the main difficulties confronting her efforts. When she launched out professionally on her own in 1970, she realised that to establish a viable practice it was important not to specialise. So apart from Church projects her work has included schools, community centres, aged developments and hostels (one commended by the Institute of Architects), warehouses, showrooms and homes with first prize in 1982 in the NSW Housing Design Awards. Since 1970 she has undertaken more than 50 alterations and additions to existing c hurches in addition to designing new ones. In alterations and additions
This she has accomplished with a building that, in its rural setting, could be taken for an Australian farm house "If you can change an old church to make it more relevant liturgically,- Ins says, "it is very important to keep its character and integrity." An example of how she has achieved this is St Anne's at Belmont, a lovely old building which does not give the impression it is practically all new. A member of the National Trust, Iris found the restoration of St John's Pro-Cathedral in Perth for the State's 150th anniversary to be a challenging project based on considerable research. In this category, too, the controversial renovations and proposed extensions to St Mary's at BusseIton won National Trust approval. At Northam she has pioneered new ground by designing for the government the first module for disadvantaged children within an existing school. Over the years she has carried out substantial research into catering for the needs of the elderly, with
"Architecturally, this gave a new direction and the opportunity to think from scratch and do something better than before."
whom she considers herself * * * * ** * ** * * *** * * * ******* * * * *** * * * privileged to work as she produces practical designs for them that are homely and as ii. Remodel that old bathroom 4‘ far removed from the institu- 4 Add • tional as possible. it * PRESTIGE and Value '0 for the Catholic Homes For * * * to your home Aged she designed the Ser• 4 41 * vite Villa at Joondanna, 4 Marist Lodge at Belmont and * the Ocean Star hostel at * 41 it Bunbury. 4 * One of her current projects is the new parish complex at Girrawheen which includes a church, an amenities block with library and activities area, a presbytery and provision for a future parish hall. She is also designing a new school for Australind and a number of government schools. In conclusion, Iris says: "In my work, I aim to fulfil the needs of the people I serve 'This means listening, evakkiki luating, planning, budgeting and then stretching the imagination to create something special and seeing it through 272 8576 a/h to completion. .4, "I would like to think my buildings have a directness and sense of space which will take people away from the Something to buy? hum-drum and raise their minds to God. Something to sell? "I consider my work is Use making a contribution to the R ECORD quality of life and I hope to CLASSIFIEDS further develop and continue what I am doing," she says.
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Senator Chaney (The Record April 4) started off well the first half of his letter, being more in common with Christian values than any political party. from GEORGE M PURBRICK Belmont Later however he blew it when saying that talk and The philosophy of trying to For that to be true God's first unlateral action are not achieve peace by threat of mistake would have been the enough. Surely talk and inac- mass annihilation is not only creation of the world and His tion are worse. un-Christian, it is atheistic. It second mistake the sending of Australia could not implement publicly asserts that evil can nuclear disarmament unilater- only be overcome by evil. His Son to redeem the world ally or otherwise, because we have no nuclear armament We could however adopt nuclear neutrality as New Zealand and Sweden have done. from ROBERT FRENCH Perth In all probability Senator In itself, it may not be seen as SIR Senator Chaney (The Chaney's letter has done no a practical solution. In terms of Record, April 4) expressed more than tilt at what, in the moral leadership, however, it those aspirations for peace Australian context, are straw would have far reaching conse- common to all men of goodmen quences. Evil, we are told is the will His contribution would have result of good men doing He also spoke of the Liberal been more useful if he could nothing and this is as applica- and National Parties' deterhave told your readers, how ble to corporate to individual mination to "strive unremitin the advancement of its good men. tingly for the maintenance of unremitting determination to The fiction of nuclear deter- peace and freedom" maintain peace and freedom, rence has lost all credibility, He told us what came as no the Liberal Party finds itself depending as it does on first surprise, that "talk and unilat- able to — strike capability and mutually eral action are not enough" assured destruction Stripped He characterised as "tragi- • support the destabilising of all the sesquipedalian buz- cally wrong" those who silliness of the Strategic zwords of defence jargon it believe Australia might be Defence Initiative. means "Before we will let the able to isolate itself from other side destroy the world, world conflict by shedding • support the development we will destroy the world" alliances and military installa- and deployment of the MX For any unfortunate survivors tions missile system it will be of little comfort to A majority of the population The rejection of these poliknow that their plight was would no doubt agree with cies does not require surcaused by friends rather than him and reject such attitudes render to utopian neutralism by enemies. or unilateralism as utopian
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IVF questions From page 2 act of conjugal intercourse and the inseparability of its procreative and unitive meanings, apply also to other conjugal acts? It is arguable that they may, but, once again, it has to be argued for and not merely presumed. Finally, a note on authonties. Monsignor Caffarra is a reputable moral theologian, and a member of a number of international and pontifical theological commissions. But when he speaks as a private theologian or as the head of an institute at one of Rome's ecclesiastical universities, his views have only the teaching authority of the cogency of his arguments. His views obviously should be respected, but in no way of themselves do they constitute official Catholic teaching. Secondly, the joint Committee on Bioethical Issues of the Bishops" Conferences of Scotland, England and Wales consists of 17 members, only 4 of whom are bishops. There are five other clerics, only three doctors, one nurse, one social worker, 2 lawyers, and an academic bookseller. Of itself such a committee would have no teaching authority, unless its recommendations were formally authorized either by the UK bishops severally or by a bishop for his own diocese It is doubtful whether the "clarification" presented on behalf of the Bishops' Conference when the recommendations of the joint Committee were published (which limits in the present practice the very restricted approval the Bishops' Conference had given at their
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November meeting to the "simple case") amounts to such a formal authorization The Victorian Bishops, in responding to the Waller Committee, have also carefully refrained from formally authorizing as official Church t eaching for the Province the views on IVF expressed in their submission
This, of course, is not surprising, granted the absence of an explicit statement on the subject from the Pope or the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the animated discussion that
Robert James Kruger, the Department of Aviation's principal radio technical officer at Perth Airport, was born in Perth on November 20, 1944. He was educated at the Southern Cross primary school, St Anthony's convent at Wanneroo and the Tuart Hill Senior High School before joining the old Department of Civil Aviation in 1961 to start five years' training as a radio technician. A fter graduation his postings included Cocos Island, two spells attached to the Fijian Government at Nadi (pronounced Nandi) Airport, Carnarvon, Kalgoorlie and Perth. In Fiji he met and married Rina Singh and the couple have two sons and two daugters aged from 16 to 12.
As a child on the property at Ghooli near the No 6 pumping station of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, Robert Kruger had some idea of following in his father's footsteps and becoming a farmer: He knew, however, he would first have to get a job to gether the finance necessary to launch himself into the farming business. Fate moved farming out of the possibilities scene when the family shifted from the Ghooli property to Wanneroo, but the necessity to decide on his future career loomed larger as R obert progressed through his schooling.
exists among highly reputable theologians on the moral acceptability of the "simple case".
The main resolution he formed towards the finishing his high school education was he wanted an outside job
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ROME (NC) — The Second Vatican Council was a "revolution in the consciousness of Christianity" and a "rehumanisation of Jews" in the eyes of Christians, said Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, director of international relations of the American Jewish Committee. The Vatican Council statement on Judaism made possible a "New theology in which Jews and Judaism are respected on their own terms, where Judaism is understood to be a source of light and truth to the Jewish people," he said at a Rome Press conference. Rabbi Tanenbaum spoke after attending a meeting between Pope John Paul II and an American Jewish Committee delegation. The meeting commemorated the almost 20 years of improved Catholic-Jewish relations since the Vatican Council adopted its statement on the Jews.
Believers. "Faith is not hurtful to life," the pope said, urging Catholics to reach out to athiests and to the religiously indifferent. "On the contrary, it is vital for fulfillment here on earth and, after death, with Christ." Instead of taking people away from their daily preoccupations, "faith, animated by eschatological hope," helps their daily lives, the pope added. The pope also reiterated his belief faith must influence the scientific world. "Science without conscience can only ruin the soul," the pope said.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II urged Catholics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan be guaranteed religious freedom as he accepted the credentials of Pakistan's new ambassador to the Holy See, Saidullah Khan Dehlavi. "I have often repeated the Catholic Church does not seek special consideration, but only the freedom to exist and to exercise her mission of love and service, in full respect for consciences," the pope said. Catholics form 0.5 per cent of the population of the nation, whose state religion is Islam. E E E
Benedictine nuns told of school aims fl VATICAN CITY (NC) — Catholic schools should seek to form "free consciences" and responsible individuals, Pope John Paul II told Italian Benedictine sisters. "A Catholic sch(x)I must hold as the aim of its educational mission the formation of free consciences," the pope said. He stressed the obligation of Catholic school teachers to form individuals "capable of living their choices responsibly and truthfully." The pope also said that an atmosphere of community should mark Catholic schools in order to "teach children from when they are small to live together with others, and to collaborate with and to respect their neighbours."
It's no news to say that the Unification Church is trying to establish a new image in the United States. These are the Moonies. They have sent 300,000 promotional packages to ministers of various Churches, claiming too many negative things have been said about them Their officials refused to comment on a rumour picked up by one of the Baptist papers that this public relations exercise is costing $10 million. They're obviously aurlIbgialiening on the short memories of the gb
that it presumably would mean Ethiopian willingness to make "safe pasADDIS ARHABA: Ethio- sage" agreements. "I don't know how you pia has agreed to a plan that will allow Catholic would do it without the Relief Services and other rebels," he said. Pezzullo, relief agencies to begin said that CRS as a relief feeding programs in agency "with no political rebel -controlled areas. axe to grind" had felt CRS Director Lawrence frustrated by its inability Pezzullo said CRS did not to deliver aid in rebelyet have details of the controlled areas and had plan, which was recently petitioned the Ethiopian worked out by U.S. gov- government for free pasernment officials, but sage agreements.
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Devotions just for children VILNIUS Lithuania: In Skaudvile, Fr Jonas Kauformerly a neckas member of the Catholic for the Committee Defence of Believers' Rights, preached to children assembled in church after services about confession. Approaching a confessional, he showed t he children how to make confession. The Executive Committee of the local Soviet made it clear that this was consi"organdered a crime ising devotions just for children", though over twenty adults were present at the time. Fr Kauneckas was reported to the Procurator's Office and warned that "it was with such crimes that the priests Svarinskas and Tamkevicius began their Keston activities." College Report.
Murder LA CROSSE, Wis. (NC) — The man charged in the murder of a La Crosse Diocese priest and two of his parish workers was found mentally incompetent to stand trial. Criminal proceedings against Bryan Stanley, 29. were suspended when la Crosse County Circuit Judge Peter Pappas ordered that Stanley be held in the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison for up to 18 months. Stanley is charged with the shooting death of Father John Rossiter. lay minister Ferdinand Roth Sr.. and custodian William Hammes at St Patrick Church in ( )nalasaka, because he objected to women readers at MA
Fate moved f arming out Today's People
A regular feature By BOB BOYLE — not office work. His marks in science subjects had been pretty good and his desire was for this aptitude to be the core of his future career. He could have trained as an instrument maker or an aircraft mechanic, but the field of radio technology with the Department of Civil Aviation seemed to offer the best
prospects. So in 1961 he started at DCA's own training centre in the picturesque building known as The Castle at 86 Guildford Road, Mt Lawley. He had just turned 16. The five year radio technician's course had its first three made-up of about 80 per cent schooling and the rest field work: in the final two
years, field work comprised 60 per cent of the programme. On graduation, his first posting was to Cocos Island. For the healthy 21-year -old, it was the fortuitous opening of a career. He enjoyed everything about Cocos — the work, the sense of unity in the small and isolated community, the weather, the wide variety of sports and the multitudinous activities of the social club. Cocos also turned out to be the pad that launched him into a fascinating segment of his professional experience — and to the nuptial altar. While he was there it came to his notice the department was recruiting radio techni-
cians to serve a two-year secondment with the Government of Fiji at Nadi Airport. Normally, Robert realised, he would be posted to places only within the department's western region which consisted in the main, Western Australia. The Fiji opportunity was too good to be missed and, although he had enjoyed Cocos, he was very happy when his application to Fiji was accepted. On his arrival there, contrasts immediately sprang to his mind. At West Island in Cocos he had worked in a small and entirely-Western community which had little opportunity to mix with the indigenous
Polish attack
Warsaw Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the primate of Poland, has calledrecent Polish press attacks against Pope John PaulIIpart of a "battle against good will and against the teachings of the church." The "bitter observations
Fighting w ords R ome (NC) The head of the world's discalced carmelites in a letter to Pope John Paul II has expressed "disgust" at the "very hard tone and the polemical content" o f a Vatican letter announcing a decision to write a new constitution based on a 16th-century rule. Spanish Father Felipe Sainz De Baranda wrote to the pope after he had received a letter signed by the Vatican secretary of state announcing the decision. The pope had ordered t he Congregation for R eligious and Secular Institutes to draw up c onstitutions for the more than 800 cloistered Carmelite convents. De Sainz Father Baranda also said that the Vatican document had taken sides with a small number within the order who opposed postVatican II efforts. About 80 per cent of the nuns want constitutions based on experimental declarations approved by Pope Paul VI. Some 20 per cent, primarily located in Spain, want a rule based on the 1581 rule of St Teresa of Avila, who founded the Discalced Carmelite nuns. The Vatican has ordered the congregation to base the new constitutions on the 1581 document.
population living on Home Island. The flora and fauna had been limited, and the little coral atoll had been dominated by the giant airstrip. Besides, it was as flat as a pancake with its highest point being only 4 m above sea level. In Fiji everything was so different. There were real mountains, prolific vegetation, the tropical jungles you read about since childhood, sweeping bays girdling the lapping
about the pope" that have The article came during a appeared in Poland's state period of increasing churchpress "Have no regard for the state tensions in Poland, sentiments of love the whole where the government has nation harbors for the holy again warned that it will not father," said Cardinal Glemp. tolerate "politicar sermons "The battle against good will by Catholic priests. and against the teachings of "Sometimes when the the church continues, and spreaders of atheism think the attacks launched by the they have won, when they other side are directed espe- believe they have succeeded cially against the pope," the in making youths grow up cardinal said without the principles of the The weekly magazine of faith, suddenly it happens Poland's ruling communist that in this generation arises party recently described the a great need of faith, which pope as a strident anti-com- begins to transform the munist and accused him of image of society," Cardinal sowing discord among Poles. Glemp said
KAMPALA, (NC) — Uganda's Catholic bishops have condemned human rights violations in their c ountry and expressed c oncern about forced e xile, family breakups a nd social exclusion because of religion and politics. " We are thinking of those who are being held in detention without trial, whole groups of those whose homes have been destroyed, those whose crops have been stolen and those who have been f orced to seek shelter in oher parts of the country a s displaced persons," the bishops said. T heir remarks were included in a pastoral letter in preparation for t he centenary celebrations marking the death of the Uganda Martyrs. The bishops spoke of f amilies broken by recent disturbances in the country, "those whose right to remain in Uganda has been suddenly questi4111. eft. L.
Doctrine study urged VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has said systematic study of Church doctrine is "indispensable" for full-time and volunteer religion teachers. The pope said local churches cannot merely rely on people who are willing to teach but are inadeqately prepared in doctrine. -The formation of catechists is an essential element in the development and the vitality of the Church," "In some places, the Church lives thanks to the work of catechists." Doctrinal formation's a fundamental necessity, because catechesis cannot be limited to teaching a minimum of truth that is learned and
Pacific, broad acres of sugar cane and a fascinating population mix of Indians. Chinese, colourful Fijians and other Pacific islanders. On Cocos, Robert and his colleagues had numbered four. At Nadi Airport he was one of 20, many of them Australians. Fijian nationals were being trained in Australia, and some of them were beginning to come on staff at Nadi. The radio systems were more sophisticated and there was a lot more air traffic than
repeated by memory,- the pope said. instruction Doctrinal received in preparation for baptism, confirmation or Communion is not enough for catechists, the pope said. "A more systematic study is indispensable. Sometimes circumstances have led those responsible for catechesis to use people of good will, but
without an adequate prepa ration. Such solutions are generally deficient," he said. The pope also said the teaching of Church doctrine "has for its objective not a simple knowledge of ttli . truth, but the spreading of the f aith.- All the Church's teachers should have this "missionary spirit," he said.
Ugandan Postponed bishops' concern
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The 1986 World Synod of Bishops on the role of the laity has been postponed until October 1987 because bishops need more time to prepare for it, and
oned after years of residence here of all those are who c hildren orphaned and who do not k now where their parents are." They also spoke of the "thousands of young people who are unemployed and growingly desperate and all the victims of violence." The Ugandan army has been fighting guerillas opposed to the rule of President Milton Obote, elected in 1980 after the f all of former President Idi Amin. Since Obote's election, Cardinal Emmanuel K. Nsubuga of Kampala has been an outspoken critic of the government, especially of the army and its human rights record. T he Uganda Martyrs' centenary, scheduled to begin in November and run through June 1986, is to celebrate the deaths of 3 3 newly converted y oung Christians, who allegedly refused to submit to the homosexual demands of Mwanga the ruler of Buganda.
Hoxha "atheistic idol"
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The late Albanian leader Enver Hoxha ruled for 40 years with a "symematic, tough persecution of religion." said an editorial in 120sservatore Romano, Vatican Newspaper. Vatican Radio described Hoxha as "the only idol in an atheist country." Hoxha, the world's longest-ruling communist leader, died at age 76 on April 11.
there had been at Cocos because Nadi was then a refuelling stop for all flights between Australia and the US. There was a badminton club with its courts in an airport hangar and a staff small-bore rifle club, but water-skiing on Nadi Bay and touring the beautiful islands were major spare-time activities. However, it was not long before Robert developed another powerful interest. A most attractive local girl named Rina Singh was a frequent visitor to the airport as part of her duties in the travel industry. The courtship blossomed and the couple were married at Lautoka, about 20 miles from Nadi. They moved into the government married quarters on the beach side of the airport runway, idyllically located on Nadi Bay. To his regret, Robert realised his days in Fiji were drawing to a close. His specific two-year contract did not have long to run; there was pressure for the localisation of his and similar jobs, and the longer he stayed, the more tenuous would become his employment ties with the depart-
LOsservatorc Romano recalled Albania's 1967 constitutional decision to prohibit all religious acthity. Bishops. men and women Religious and laity were imprisoned, tortured and in some ca.ses executed. At the time. Albania declared itself the "first atheist state in the world." "Some paid with their lives for the secret celebration of the sacrament."
ment in Australia. Back to Australia it had to be — to Perth Airport for a short while, in fact, before transfer to Carnarvon. Again the bells of contrast rang — especially for Rina who had been raised in lush tropical surroundings different to the harsh Gascoyne environment. Two young children circumscribed to some extent the social life of the couple in Carnarvon. Shirley had been born in Nadi in August, 1968, and Alan had made his appearance in Perth shortly before the move north. But the Krugers treasure the Carnarvon friendships they made and remember with pleasure the open-heartedness of the community there where Robert was engaged in some financial activities for the local church under several parish priests. In Fiji he and Rina had been actively involved in Marriage Encounter. They formed a close association with several religious communities, including the Marist nuns, and with the Irish Columban priest, Father Martin Doby, who later moved to Perth.
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riences and principles which helped them to respond to God in faith and love." (Bishop Roger Mahony of Stockton, Calif. 1983)
"God's sacred word was first spoken and treasured by the Jewish people. . . They preserved their family memories of God's goodness to them and their response to him . . . They collected the stories of their ancestors, their laws and customs, their songs of sorrow and praise, their shrewd proverbs and poetic visions of what human life could be like if only people would listen to God." (Bishop R oger Mahony of Stockton, Calif. 1983.)
—The very purpose of the Bible is to help us to know and love God, and to love our neighbours — the two great commandments according to Jesus so that we can worship God together as his family." (Bishop Roger Mahony of Stockton, Calif. 1983) "Indeed the meaning of the Bible as the word of God will never be exhausted . . The more we bring to the Bible, in our life experiences, our spiritual sensitivity, our common sense, our commitment to God and others . . . the more we will get from it." (Bishop Roger Mahony of Stockton, Calif. 1983)
"Neither the apostles nor the early Christians expected those writings (the Scriptures) to be some sort of encyclopedia with answers to every question which might face the church in the future. The Holy Spirit had inspired them to write down the expe-
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lee to the Red Sea, archaeolSome archaeological disogists are at work at biblical coveries, like the Dead Sea sites. In fact, archaeologists Scrolls or part of Solomon's have almost a privileged temple in Jerusalem, have role. They can stop modern made news around the buildings from going up world and excited the imaglong enough to move in and ination of many persons. check the site for signs of But what has been learned treasure. from digs like Tel Dan? They can take mere chunks To the expert, the study of of stone and mortar and the ruins helped piece pottery, or weapons and bits together the culture and of tile, and from that read a organisation of the peaceful whole story of how life was City of Laish when the tribe a hundred generations ago, a of Dan entered. story no one intended to tell. The study of the mound has
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given experts a better grasp of when events occurred. Moreover, archaeologists have gained a deeper understanding of Israelite culture itself. Of course, from the work of archaeologists in the Holy Land we have learned about New Testament times, too. Near Tel Dan is Caesarea Philippi, where Jesus said to Peter: "On this rock, I will build my church." I suppose it's natural when you walk among ruins to
imagine how life was long ago, to picture past events. The image that kept wandering through my mind was the golden calf, that symbol of despair, of a people turning away from God. Even Aaron, Moses' brother, worshipped the calf, centuries betOre KingJeroboam raised it above his people. And then prophets foretold the destruction of the city, and the reduction of its pagan sanctuary and its proud palaces to ruins.
I could feel we were about to discover something i mportant . Moving dirt. Already the landFrom the mouth of the archaeologist, those words take on an enthusiastic, almost scape had musical lilt. What changed. you're moving dirt, the thrill part comes in. Someone takes a piece of -When had been stark and and says, 'You know, I'm the first person to touch this pottery since the pottery dry like a desert Abraham. ' It's a sense of reliving the past." time of was now a sweet Dr James Ross has felt that sensation many times. Ross, a biblical archaeologist grove of poplars scholar, has -moved dirt- on numerous excavations in the and Old Testament and ash, shading us from the burn- Middle East. ing sun of the Ross In a sense, Ross conis typical in that Mediterranean. he is not a full-time tinued, "you can see yourHere it was: a archaeologist. His interself mirrored in ancient huge mound of est in archaeology man. You can see yourgrew out of his biblical earth self in those ( Bible stostudies. A member of the United Church of Christ, he holds a doctoral degree in Old Testament studies. Since 1960 Ross has participated in "digs" at Shechem on the West Bank of the Jordan, at Caesarea, Herod's seaport on the Mediterranean coast and at Tel Jemme. Ross also spent more than three years teaching and doing research at the Albright Institute of Archaeological R esearch in Jerusalem. Most recently, in 1983, he worked at Tel My wife and I felt lucky to el-Hesi, a Bronze Age be in the Holy Land. And this site 40 miles southwv.-as one of the most exciting est of Jerusalem.
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There were ladders along its sides and archaeologists at work. I felt a lump in my throat as our guide said this was the ancient city of Leshem, also called Laish and later on Dan. The Canaanite people of Old Testament times lived here for more than 3000 years. Here, the Bible tells us, King Jeroboam lifted up the golden calf and plunged his people into idolatry.
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moments. We stc-xxl before the ruins of Tel Dan — "tel" means mound — and we felt the thrill of discovery. Here was a city mentioned in Genesis and Judges, in Kings and Joshua, a city older than almost anything we could imagine. Something so incredibly old, yet so new — because Tel Dan has been explored by archaeologists only since 1970. Now, as the guide spoke, the doors and walls and stone road became once again a living city. We could picture how the peaceful settlement of Laish was laid waste by the tribe of Dan. It was well situated, just beside the Dan River, one of the four sources of the River Jordan, in a land where fresh water is coveted. The gate on the southern rim of the mound is the largest ever discovered in Israel. That gives an idea of just how important a city it was. I was impressed by the ruins of Tel Dan and even more impressed by the work of the archaeologists. Everywhere you go in the Holy land, from Ipper Gali-
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ries). Archaeology fills in some of the details. It illuminates. "To be able to understand the way the Bible is the word for us, we have to know something of how it was the word for early people," he said. But Ross said that only a -very few archaeologists set out trying to prove
By Joe Michael Fiest Digs in Israel are held only in the summer, Ross explained. Summer is the dry season and it is impossible to dig during rains. Moreover, most digs rely totally on volunteers who receive college credit for their work. A typical dig is six to seven weeks of demanding labour. "We live in tents with pit toilets and outdoor showers," Ross aid. "We dig from 5 o'clock in the morning until noon. Then we have a big meal and rest until 3.30, then work again until 5.30. At night there are lectures about the history, language and culture of the
people." By carefully digging and sifting through layers of dirt the archaeologist comes across ancient walls, floors, cisterns, Ross noted. The most common find is broken pieces of pottery. "Pottery is the language of archaeology," said Ross. "The way we date (areas) is by different styles of pottery. The dating of Palestinian pottery is very precise," usually to within 25 years.
Sites also yield "a variety that the Bible is literally of objects that show us true" in every historical how people lived. You'll and physical detail. find awls, weaving tools, The stories in the Bible installations like hearths are the way Israel interand ovens. The simple preted its past over cenmeasurements of rooms turies, Ross noted. "The will tell you what they process of passing on that were used for," Ross said. information and the way What motivates a pergenerations retold it is son to travel halfway more important than the around the world to sift truth or falsity of any through dirt under a detail in any story." grueling sun? Ross is driven by curiosity to In the final analysis, said understand how ancient Ross, "the truth of the people lived, but "it's not Bible transcends archaeological research." idle curiosity."
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The most common find in an archaeological dig is broken pieces of pottery, says archaeologist James Ross, of the Episcopal-run Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. "Pottery is the language of archaeology," he says.
St Paul is one of the more unforgettable people met in Scripture. The story of his conversion, in which he is blinded by faith's light, is fascinating. Without a doubt, the discovery of more information about him, more details of the years he spent on the road forming the earliest Christian communities, would be considered a great find. Why? Well, there is a human tendency to be fascinated by the past. By digging into the past, the archaeologist and the historian have unearthed enough treasures to line the halls of many great museums: ancient sculpture, books, coins, maps, furniture,
clothing. When an exhibit on the times of Alexander the Great toured great museums in a number of large cities recently, thousands of people waited patiently in long lines for the opportunity to view it
Perhaps this fascination reflects humanity's need to establish and maintain connections with its roots. Is there a sort of collective hope that important facts about humanity's roots won't be lost, won't be forgotten forever? But again, why? Do we dig into the past with more than the hope that new museum pieces will be found? Are people satisfied by the mere opportunity to -view- their past? Or is there more to it than that? The Christian community takes great interest in its past, its origins. But it does not tend to approach this as a matter of Interest only for museum curators. Take Scripture, for
The human family is fascinated by its ancient history and by the patient work of archaeologists who unearth the remains of past civilisations. But why? Is there more to this than a desire to know "about" the past or to -view- the remains of the past? The work of archaeology casts light not only on the past, but on current needs of the human family, according to James Bells of the University of Notre Dame. He suggests that from the past we discover how important compassion and co-operation are to the human family. George Tombs writes about visiting a dig at Tel Dan in Israel. It was here, he writes, that the Old Testament says King Jeroboam raised the golden calf and plunged his people into idolatry. Joe Michael Feist interviews Protestant biblical scholar James Ross. An archaeologist's daily lot involves grueling work under the hot sun, says Ross. The archaeologist discovers -how ancient people lived. - But, says Ross, the archaeologist also finds that in discovering how the word of God was a word for ancient people, you realise more about why it is a word for people today. Father John Castelot tells the exciting story of a 15-year-old Bedouin boy who made a major archaeological discovery when he stumbled over the Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave by the Dead Sea. The manuscripts a thousand years older than any copy scrolls contained manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible we had previously discovered, Father Castelot says.
The archaeologists' link to the 21st means it and what Century By Katharine Bird
"When I'm on the site that's a thousand example. years old it's like being on a scavenger hunt, seeking the Few Christians approach unknown," said Scripture as a scrapbook that antropolist James Belonly reminds them what things lis. "It appeals to my used to be like. Instead, fancy." Christians look to Scripture as a "My interest as an world to proclaim now, which is archaeologist is in the exactly what they do with it each history of our species," Bellis said. "For Sunday during the Mass. archaeology is the study of past cultures, Scripture represents much more people's ways of life, to Christians than a powerful through their material memory. It is believed to have remains — the garpower to form people now. But bage people left then why do Christians take an behind," he explained. interest in the work of "It's hard to cheat archaeologists? Why are with garbage," Bellis added. "We can learn Christians fascinated by the a lot not evident in opportunity for a fuller view of written records. Everlife among the first followers of ything left behind tells Jesus? us about people's behaviour." In part, of course, because it is Archaeologists are interesting and valuable to know the only persons who about the past for its own sake. can approach the earBut there is more. Christians liest ages of the human saga, the part hope that a view of the past will predating written hisrenew their vision of what tory in 3000 B.C., Scripture can mean now. Bellis continued. Christians sense that by "Anything we call penetrating their past, they will ancient events is curalso be helped to penetrate the rent history" for him. meaning of their lives now. But studying people in any long-gone age Isn't it a sense that our past is convinces Bellis that worth knowing because they were "virtually identical to us" in somehow it is life-giving?
many ways.
"There's a lot of history between Homeric Greece and us, hut we can recognize them as us," he said. Both the ancient Greeks and people today have similar brain size and body shape; both ate domesticated foods — pigs and chickens and fruit; both used metal and wove woollens to make cloth; both had inside fires and lived in permanent communities with relatives. Bettis recalled a book by anthropologist Loren Eisley, "The Firmament of Time" ( Atheneum Press, 1960). Eisley wrote about looking into a Neanderthal grave and
noted that this early human ancestor "laid down their ( dead) in grief, placed stones to guard the head and food for the journey." For Eisley, it was as if the Neanderthals were sending a wordless message from 40,000 years ago. saying: "We too were human; we too suffered; we too believed the grave was not the end; we too. whose faces afright you now, knew human agony and human love." That description stands as a prime example of what can be learned from archaeology for Bettis. "We discover what human nature is," he
said. And that can tell us a lot about ourselves. For archaeology studies have convinced Bettis that "human cooperation and compassion are enormously critical to our survival" as humans. He thinks there is "far more evidence of cooperation than of antagonism" in early human history. This runs counter to some popular beliefs that portray the earliest human ancestors as warlike and brutal. "People forget that the Neanderthal man was about 70 years old, had arthritis and was toothless," Bellis said. Warriors seldom get the time to
develop such characteristics. Belles said that when people discover he's an archaeologist, they almost always react by saying. "Oh. that's what I wanted to be.That's because people see archaeologists through romantic eyes, in the "frame of Indiana Jones movies which appeal to the mythology of archaeology," Bettis said. Such movies portray archaeologists as "soldier of fortune- on the trail of high
bones and pottery and samples of pollen. At the same time. people have a genuine interest in those who preceded them. And, for Bettis. this is because of what we can learn about ourschTs. "If you want to know how we got here today.- Bettis said. it is important to know where we have conic from. He observed that people had "9000 years to get used to living in more or less permanent communities with agriculture- as their adventure. In reality, he said, "most base and only 200 years to archaeologists spend their learn how to get along in lives in dusty basements" gigantic metropolitan cengoing methodically through treS.
The cave that talked back By Father John Castelot It would be hard to think of an archaeological discovery that excited the world more than the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. They were found in caves on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. lbe manner in which the scrolls came to light was
enough to fire the popular imagination. As a result there are several different versions of the event. One thing certain: The discoverer was not a professional archaeologist. It WAS a 15year-old Bedouin boy named Muhammed edh-Dhib ("the wolf'). One of the more likely accounts of his discovery has Muhammed roaming around the bleak area with his flock and becoming understandably annoyed when a skittish goat ran off into a cave. The boy threw a stone into the cave to scare the fugitive out. In the errie stillness he heard the sound of breaking pottery. He called his companion and the two clambered up to investigate.
There they found several ancient earthern jars which seemed to be crammed with scrolls wrapped in age-darkened linen. Sensing their value, they brought the scrolls to a Moslem sheik. Thus began a fascinating cloak-and-dagger affair, with several parties conniving for possession of this extremely valuable material. An intensive search over a decade yielded about 600 manuscripts in 11 caves in various stages of preservation. Central to the area was a ruin known as Qumran. Excavations at Qumran unearthed buildings of a religious community known as Essenes. The buildings had been in use from about 135 B.C. to 31 B.C. and then again from
1 A.D. to 68 A.D. When Roman armies overran the area, the Essenes fled, first carefully storing their precious literature in the caves which served as their living quarters. Apparently they figured on returning. However, the Essenes had not reckoned on the completeness of the Roman victory. Their writings were to remain hidden for almost 19 centuries. The scrolls made a considerable impact. They contained copies of all the books of the Hebrew Bible, except Esther. Before, our earliest Hebrew text of the Old Testament went back only to 982 AD. Here were manuscripts a thousand years older!
Some biblical books known previously only in Greek translation Were now available in their original languages. Aramaic translations of many biblical books increased our knowledge of the language Jesus spoke. Many scrolls contained information intriguing about the life of the community which produced them. This made it possible to reconstruct more fully the thought world of an important group of Jewwho flourished when Christianity was just beginning. The Qumran discoveries, spectacular though they were, are just one instance of the many archaeological finds that have contributed to deeper understanding of the Bible in modern times
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Hostages JOLIET, Ill (NC) — The family of kidnapped Servite Father Lawrence Jenco has begun campaigning to keep public attention on the U.S. hostages in Lebanon and has helped the government gather more information about their fate. The priest's relatives met in Joliet with Carol Weir, wife of the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian minister kidnapped nearly a year ago, and their son John and daughter Sue, and with Peggy Fay and Judy Blouin, sisters of Associated Press bureau chief Terry Anderson, kidnapped March 16. Father Jenco, a Joliet native who is Catholic Relief Services director in Lebanon, was kidnapped Jan. 8 in Beirut. A 12-member delegation of Father Jenco's relatives returned from Washington where they met with government and church officials.
Connie Jackson, 1927.
As her apprenticeship progressed, so did her reading and she consumed a wide selection — travel books, biographies, history. At the age of 16, childhood was relaxing its hold upon her, but in one particular regard, a little too suddenly she thought. She had noticed a few grey locks in her reddish brown thatch. -To be going grey at the age of 16 was a rather sobering thought,- she said. Even more sobering was the thought of what others would think if they knew she still had her dolls. Just a few months later she would pack the last of her childhood away, along with those dolls, which were destined for other hands through the offices of the Methodist Mission. It was in 1 924 that Connie saw a procession of university students and it re-awoke her slumbering des.re to learn. The dream shone even brighter when a friend told her it might be possible to get into university through the -back door - by completing her Junior and Leaving at night school. The determined young Connie was prepared to work all day and study all night to achieve her dream of becoming a schoolteacher. Her parents were delighted and so it was settled Connie Jackson, an elderly 20-year old should in the following year study English, French, History, Mathematics and Art at the Perth Technical College on St George's Terrace, in order to sit for those subjects in the 1925 November University Junior Examinations Classes were held Monday to Friday from sever. to nine o'clock although French classes took up four hours a week. It was a heavy workload and before long Connie had realised it would be a waste of time to go home after work, only to be back in Perth by seven. She headed straight for school at five o'clock and filled in the two spare hours with study in the quiet of an empty classroom. It was a time, says Connie, when the help and support of her parents proved invaluable. "Mother often kept meals hot for me and she was always busy herself," she said. "Her life was routine and her precious time was care-
A dream of study hining brighter "And thus, over burnt crumpets, on a wet autumn day, was born a new chance for women."
fully portioned out. "On Mondays she washed the clothes, and with the copper's residue of boiling water, scrubbed the kitchen floor, its chairs and stools, and its table's deal top.
'Tuesday was ironing and mending day. "On Wednesdays, she gardened. "And on each Thursday the house underwent a thorough dusting and cleaning up. "Friday was shopping day in Perth, where she bought (and carried home) most of our groceries. "Saturday afternoon was always devoted to cooking. "The kitchen was exclu-
"And, if you happened to be awake for them, there were the nocturnal sounds — fascinating 'country' sounds: the clip clop of the milkman's horse, the soft pad of the milkman's feet, the rattle of coins, and the gentle splash of milk pouring into an enamel billy.
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sively mother's and appetising aromas escaped from it to make us anticipate keenly Hot sultana or date scones became an enjoyable ritual with cups of tea, on the front verandah, when the 'blinds were down'" One of her youthful delights, she says, was sleeping on the front verandah on hot summer nights. 'We had four beds which were stored under the house the rest of the year and brought out in summer,- she said. 'There was the sheer physical delight of snuggling under blankets when the night air was crisp, of listening to orchestrations of rain on the corrugated iron roof, and of awakening on sunny mornings when the blinds, pleasingly luminous, were warm against your palms.
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Annie Jackson in a favourite pose, 1928.
'We heard the paper man's horse and a faint thud as the West Australian landed squarely on the front lawn. "And soon after that,there was the whistle of an early train leaving Subiaco station, and its throb as it laboured up the slight rise to West Leederville. "Sunday morning's sounds more different, were subdued. "The church bell's first chimes, from St Joseph's
nearby. Then footsteps and voices on the street, becoming clearer as the faithful crossed the road to our side "It's the 'Cathies', mother would say, her Anglican Wesleyan background touching her voice with wonder. 'Aren't they marvellous, the way they get up and go so early?'." By 1927 Connie was working as a coat hand at Parker's, one of Perth's leading tailoring establishments. She had managed to save a hundred pounds ($200) and also passed her Leaving Examinations with a string of distinctions. She appointed a monitor at the West Leederville school and was to be paid 72 pounds (S144) a year. One of her co-staff members was Miss Beryl Mills, recently returned from Atlantic City, U.S., where as the first ever Miss Australia, she had been a competitor in a beauty contest. The experience and beauty of Beryl Mills was a little offputting, she grinned. But working as a monitor did not allow much time for study, and Connie ruefully admits she took the coward's way out by signing up for subjects where she could attend lectures after school. "I just couldn't summon up enough courage to ask the headmaster for time off to attend lectures," she said. After three years as a monitor, she was awarded a bursary from the University of Western Australia and went on to complete her Diploma of Education. For Connie Jackson it was a memorable experience to be a part of those first founding years of the university.
It was only in 1912 that an Act recommending a university be established actually came into force The Senate then appointed decided "Crawley, a large estate upon the banks of the Swan," was the ideal site for permanent university buildings However, it was generally recognised for the next few years it would be most convenient to carry on the work in temporary premises close to the city and easily accessible to students " The site of these "temporary premises close to the city" was a narrow strip of land between Hay Street and St Georges Terrace, facing Irwin Street The housing was a collection of wooden and iron buildings, arranged about a gravel corridor. But, by the end of the 20s the university began to take shape at Crawley and in 1930 Connie read with pride of the ceremony to dedicate Hackett Buildings. 'We made headlines in the West Australian," she grinned
eN*Onei#!-' She remembers too, the day women's athletics for the University of Western Australia were accidentally born. It was May and rain was drumming on the common room's iron roof. "Dorothy Pearson and I were trying to toast crumpets at the exiguous heat given off by a single barred electric radiator," she said. With talk of the men training for sports day came the suggestion women's sports should be organised as well. And thus, over burnt crumpets, on a wet autumn day, was born a new chance for women. For Connie it meant a physical involvement she hadn't quite banked on. Getting up at five, putting on shorts, sandshoes and a pullover, "manually crushing back revolt in body, mind and soul," and trotting off into the gloom But that was just the beginning and when the time to sprint arrived, Connie says. she always thought at those moments she would die. Die she didn't, and as the weeks passed, it all got easier until she knew she could hold her own in the women's 440 yards (400m) event It was a race she was to win
several times over in her mind, but one she was not to take part in — bedridden as she was with a bad case of mumps.
Connie Miller recently completed the third volume of her autobiography. At the age of 81 she writes, sews, gardens and generally has a good time. Last week we looked at the early years of her life; growing up firstly on an English farm and then on a market garden at Osborne Park. But her dream was to study and with grim determination, after completing a tailoring apprenticeship, she finished her schooling as a part-time student and then went on to University. This week Connie Miller talks about those early years at UWA, when the university has been barely born by the river banks at Crawley.
Arthur, Harold and Connie Jackson, 1918 and is nurse co-ordinator at Princess Margaret Hospital She is also studying for her Masters in English Literature. Jim, 35, is vice-principal at St Brendan's, Hilton Park_ He has one son. It was while her children
mind and to sort it out later I started doing paragraphs for magazines and wrote regularly for Parade and the West Australian." It was when someone said, -just write what you know," and she answered, "I only were at school that Connie know me,- that the book found a new direction for her writing began. Her first book, After many talents . . radio talks. Her first talk was on Esper- Summer Merrily, depicts her ance and the compere was childhood: the second. SeaRay Martin, formerly of 60 son of Learning follows her Minutes fame and now with from the age of 15 to 28 and the third, which has yet to be his own midday show. In those early days of radio, named completes her life says Connie: it was neces- story up until 1983.
Connie Miller was among the first group of students to attend classes in the new Crawley buildings. By March 1930, she says, one or two arts rooms were almost ready for use, "with high, unadorned walls, redolent of new plaster and wet paint, and the floors still gritty from recent sandings." "And because the university's lovely gardens were still a dream of the future, the sun, during early morning lectures, sent its low rays, unimpeded by shrubs and branches, right through the shining glass of windows and doorways directly upon us. "It was in that blinding, bright light she caught an image of herself, reflected in the glass . a young woman with vivid purple hair. "Over a period of 10 years my hair had been turning grey, I hated it. 'Then in the pages of a woman's magazine I read a strong. solution of Condy's Crystals was effective in darkening grey hair. "Everyone in Australia had Condy's Crystals in the kitchen cupboard. "I'd been using it for some months and in the dull light of my bedroom my hair seemed a sort of burnt sienna, but quite passable," she said. The shock of liscovering her violet coloured locks led her to the decision it was time to come to terms with her own mixture of grey and brown. Her friends, she said, had been kind enough not to mention the incident to her. With her graduation came a teaching appointment to a primary school at Beverley. It was not the hoped for secondary school appointment, but in her usual practical style she made the most of it. She was later transferred to Highgate Infants where she numbered Michael Kailis and Joe Berinson (now a member of the Legislative Council) among her fresh-faced students. It was very much a mixed bag, she adds, with a lot of Greeks, Chinese, Egyptian and Jewish children. 'The Jewish mothers were especially keen on education and were always pushing their children for scholarships," she *aid.
"To be going grey at the age of 16 was a rather sobering thought."
In 1941 she was posted to Albany High School but after a time was taken by the urge to move and headed for Melbourne and ultimately, a job in Naval Intelligence. She enjoyed the de-coding work and went on to spend four years in Melbourne. She has fond memories of the beautiful gardens and the long walks. Walking is still one of her favourite pastimes. Another Melbourne memory vignette is of the visit of Prince Phillip to Naval Intelligence . . . "he had such a lovely smile, even behind the beard." Connie said. It was a while she as on a leave visit to Western Australia fate turned her life in a new direction. She met and eventually
daughter Ann Therese joined the family. For Connie, in her late 40s, it was a new direction to life. "I remember my father asking me if I knew what I was getting into," she said. "But we wanted a family and because of Charles' tuberculosis there were problems and it was hard for me to get pregnant. "I can't say I found it all that hard getting up through the night. 'The children have been a joy to me and I'm so proud of them." While her son has never wanted to know about his natural parents, her daughter did become curious when she was 14.
-I could understand how she felt,- Connie said. "I told her what I knew and she thought about it for awhile and then decided she didn't want to know. "I gave them both all the information they had when they were 21 and while Jim still isn't interested, I know Teri now has her name down with Jigsaw. "I know why Teri wants to see her natural mother and it doesn't worry me," she said. "I'm so proud of my two, I would love to meet their natural parents as well. "I also believe nothing can replace the years of love I have given them so I have nothing to fear." Teri, 33, has two children
sary to get to the station to record the talk. Often it was a mad dash ''Now they come to your house to record and it is much easier,- she said Her talks covered a wide variety of subjects, from organising an annual street play for children at Christmas to staying in the country — what is was like in her youth and now the vanishing flowers on the roadside; Albany during the "American invasion" of the war years; books: kerbs too high, people who laugh a lot and the man who cleaned her windows. It was during the 1950s she launched herself on a writing career, which is still going strong. "I did a course in creative writing which has come in very handy," she said. "It taught me to put down everything that was in my
M a.0 Her second book took a long time to complete, she says, but the third one has been written in less than a year, battling failing eyesight in one eye. Her first draft is written by hand in an old children's exercise took and then. she says, she does her two-finger typist trick. Sometimes the first draft may be re-written three or four times. Writing becomes a duty and she tries to work to a regular schedule With the completion of her third book she is still busy writing articles for newspapers and magazines. Her current project involves researching the future of an old shot tower in Melbourne.
married. "a rather nice man from Kalgoorlie," called Charles Carrig Miller. By that stage she had made up her mind marriage was not to be a part of God's plan for her. She had become a Catholic during her time in Melbourne and was content to watch God at work in her life.
But apparently God thought it was time Connie Miller settled down. Three years older than her husband, she walked up the aisle in 1947 and never looked back. Charles Miller was an engineer and had spent time in a tuberculosis sanitorium. The Millers eventually bought land in Applecross and after working for two years Connie was happy to stay at home to care for their adopted son, Jim. Seventeen months later,
Harold. Connie and Arthur Jackson on Harolds wedding day, 1931
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From page 7 present position at the start Robert joined the Knights of of 1984. "In more than two decades the Southern Cross in Carnarvon shortly before he was with the department," he transferred to kalgoorlie, and says, "I have seen tremendin the Goldfields centre he ous advances made in the was to become first the equipment and systems secretary and later the chair- used. man of the local branch "As we were finishing the He was president of the fifth and final year of our Kalgoorlie parish council and training, we were given some served on its liturgy commit- very basic instruction in the tee. new-fangled transistors. There, towards the end of "Most of the radio equip1980, he was made an aco- ment then relied on valves. lyte - an order in which he "Now there is hardly a valve was transferred to his pres- on the scene, and we have ent parish of Floreat Park. moved through transistors The Krugers arrived in Kal- and integrated circuits to goorlie at Easter, 1973, and micro-chips and computers. it soon became a second "Now you can have far more home to them. sophisticated radio systems There their four children with a high degree of relia(Colin and Paul had by then bility. joined the family) started their 'We used to have simpler education and did a lot of their systems, but they were more growing up. labour-intensive. There, also, they received 'What has happened there the joyous news they were is now a vast increase in to serve another two years at facilities using similar manNadi . power to that obtaining it was a great opportunity for before. Rina to spend 1977 and 1978 -On-the-job training is conwith her family and for the tinuous. You are studying all children to broaden their the time as new generations education by living and going of equipment succeed each to school in Fiji. other with a rapidity that is After the two happy years often bewildering. depths of my heart and posting to Fiji, "But my job is challenging humbly beg you whom of the second God has given great power the Krugers moved back to and worthwhile, and the to come to my assistance. K algoorlie and remained variety of tasks and locations Help me now in my present there until the beginning of with which it has presented and urgent need and grant 1981 when Robert was trans- me, make it difficult for me my earnest petition. In ferred to Perth. to realise I have been at it return I promise to make He was promoted to his for more than two decades,"
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(Youth Forum
Youth: potential and problems
The prospects for young people in the present decade are anything but cause for seffcongratulation by the world community.
YCW Frances Spence started work at the YCW office last week as unemployment co-ordinator. Her position is made possible by the Community Employment Programme. Joseph Tufilli YCW full timer completed his two year term and was also married to Marisa Romei at St Joseph's Church Etassendean on Saturday April 20. Greg Smith, Year 12 student at Aquinas College will travel to Launceston this week to take part in the A ustralian finals of the "Lyons youth of the Year" award. Son of Patsy and Bill of Goomalling. Greg is the eldest of four children. Greg is head of the Aquinas boarding house. Winning the state final gave him a prize of a 30 day tour of Australia. If he is successful in Tasmania, Greg will be off to London. Asked how he manages to keep ahead of Joseph Tufilli and Marisa life as a Year Twelve he said, Romei "Study is the main thing on my mind . . . even girls are BUNBURY alasl not a problem Bunbury YCS is planning a leadership camp on May 27, during the holidays at the BusseIton Catholic Youth Camp. Harvey and Waroona have introduced youth liturgies and Brunswick and Pinjarra are in the initial stages of forming youth groups.
Youth, defined by the United Nations as the period between 15 and 2 5 years of age, is a time of life that is full of potential and problems. In many of the major s ocial and ecoproblem nomic a reas of the world — from lack of j obs and educational opportunities to the cruel r ealities of war — youth are not only t he ones who the get o ften worst of it, but are the ones with the ideals, energy, and stake in the future n eeded to help change things for the better. Yet, as ForT homas stenzer points out, very little has been done in the world t o try to understand, let alone do something about, t he problems of youth. Opportunithere ties are which to date have not been fully used t o the world's By a dvantage. declaring 1985 as I nternat ional Youth Year, the U nited Nations has made an important gesture in the right direction — but without a lot of work it will remain little more than that. BUNBURY Our on the spot - correspondent from Bunbury, Ray Power reports that Collie and Busselton have engaged youth workers for 1985 Anne Dorozenco has commenced in Collie, and Gavin Joyce is combining gardening with youth work. These two join Julien Bradford and Ray Power in Bunbury. Murray Cameron continues in Albany and Debbie Dovvson and Damien Hart work in the diocese for YCW and YCS All the workers meet together for a week session of formation in March.
DISCO YCS Three hundred young students enjoyed a YCS organised Disco at South Perth recently. The disc jockey's for the evening were Bernard Hart and Lee Dix. CHANGE The Young Single Adults Weekend that was advertised for May 3-5 has been changed to June 14-16 Those interested please con tact Kevin Bailey on 384 1581
Greg Smith receives his award
Neither miniature adults nor overgrown children, young people are less predictable and often more threatening than other groups. But within youth, we find all the differences and and spedficities of society as a whole: male and female, student and worker, rural and urban, privileged and deprived. N'outh problems. then, are problems of society as a whole experienced by a particular, diverse, but vulnerable generally group. Felt more intensely by the young, perhaps even magnified by the pressures and uncertainties of growing up, these problems arc often raised by youth in ways that offend, or at least, confuse adults. Anxieties are expressed that adults and especially institutions staffed by adults find difficult to "decode" or understand. If phenomena
like drugs. alcoholism, and suicide are hard to grasp. so is the day-to-day reality of simply being young. We know too little about it and there are few excuses for our ignorance. Few countries — developed or developing — collect adequate data on youth migration, unemployment, under-employment, health, or housing. Nor is there much tangible information on "burning youth issues" like runaways, male and female prustitution, alcoholism, functional illiter acy, teenage pregnancy, or suicide. Data are not age coded at national or gregional levels and, therefore, our information at international levels is fragmentary and not comparable from setting to setting. We are not even sure of what we mean by "youth". The UN officially defines youth as those between the ages of 15 and 25. This is often misleading because of more objective social, even biological factors. The work of UNICEF and ILO on child labour for instance, shows clearly that many "children" in the world are subjected to adult work loads — with the same hours and responsibilities — that often have crippling effects on their health and growth. Similar studies of those above 25 who have not, indeed cannot, find steady, gainful employment indicate that adult status may be more elusive than a given birthday. In fact, a "Pepsi generation" imagery of youth, far
from limited to the West or the North, ignores the obvious fact that the vast majority of youth in the world — even taking 15 to 25 as the arbitrary boundaries — are rural and poor and already parents. Youth will have to be defined and studied in the future on the basis of facts. Analysis by "guesstimate," even in the most developed and statistically conscious countries, must he replaced by clear and research. rigorous Moreover, the changing concerns and attitudes of different youth generations in widely differing settings will have to he done by that most demanding and difficult technique of research and policy development: listening. As much as possible. participatory research by youth about youth should be encouraged. Despite increasing attention to youth research and program development. the record is far from consistent. Some international agencies have youth offices, most do not. Most organisations have no substantial mandate or capability to deal with youth as a social phenomenon. Technical assistance in the youth field is often done by those who know much about "training" but little about the young people who are to be trained — or their concerns and aspirations. This, of course, is the familiar starting point of all UN "years" that focus on previously mute, largely overlooked, frequently disenfranchised social categories. But. I would argue, youth is different. We know less
about it and perhaps have done less for it because. unlike children, young people can and have and will actively confront us about our most fundamental values and because, unlike women, many young people are not yet "of age" for full participation in civic and social affairs. The prospects for young people in the present decade are anything but cause for self-congratulation by the world community. E vidence, most of it admittedly fragmentary or impressionistic. suggests that the "kids" are not alright. Youth, like childhood or aging, means time: biographical time experienced in a given social universe, in comparison with the post-war era's hopes for rapid devel-
The majority of youth in the world are rural and poor and already parents. opmen and increased increased distrust or cynchances for peace, the icism among young pro-economic and political plc. Posters, postage crises of the seventies and stamps and celebrations eighties seem to call for will not suffice and will a sudden downturn of not speak alone to the expectations. The cultural hopes and fears of young crises of the sixties have men and women. If forbeen replaced by ecomidable constraints exist nomic insecurity and austo the UN's pursuit of terity and an historically peace and development, unprecedented arms race. concrete steps toward The adult institutions of understanding youth and the world — business, fostering its particupation trade unions, governin solving world problems ments, and international arc within the means and organisations are — the mandates of the UN, rightly or wningly, often its programs, its speciaperceived by the young as lised agencies, and those distant, at times indifferof other concerned instient, or ev en hostile. Youth tutions and individuals. unemployment, that most crippling roadblock on the bridge from childhood to adulthood, has reached unprecedented proportions in many industrial and developing countries. particularly in urban areas. And it has struck without discrimination at the educated and uneducated alike. Structural changes in economies, the microprocessor revolution, the decline of smokestack industries, the continued A serious, long-term cornmass migration of the mittment to fostering young to cities where youth studies at internaopportunities are contional, regional and tracting. not expending. national levels would "send a signal" that the and the uncertainties of intergovernmental system global credit and trade, all wants to listen to the make steady work — sometimes strident, often indeed, a first job — a unsure voice of the immedream to many young men diate future. International and women. To the underco-ordination and co-operemployed, the lack of ation can bring many speability to use one's skills cialities and skills to bear and talents in repetitive. on the extent and nature often unstable service of the youth problem. jobs makes work a daily Partnerships with youth, grind rather than an eleorganised and unorgament of pride. And, to the nised, urban and rural, can chronically unemployed, bring the world's instituthe responses of adult tions into closer, sussociety have seemed slow, tained contact with youth even grudging. at local levels. Moreover, the risks of war have never seemed An increased emphasis more real, more present on providing youth with and more part of daily the civic and social tools existence to the young of to organise themselves to every region of the world. work with children, the To some, even the art of aged, and each other can coping with economic bridge many gaps. Such woes may seem pointless efforts mobilise enormous in a world perceived as energy toward ameliorarushing toward catastion of sonic of the world's trophe. most pressing problems Under these circumstan— like the need for more ces, the initiative of the employment. UN system in commemoBy Thomas R rating International Youth Forstenzer, from Year requires simple. Unicef News direct steps to prevent
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( Record Kids Club MET WIRLI ffT/ Dear Captain Bob, My Christian name has an 'e' on the end of it. I'm glad to be a member of your club. My birthday is coming up. It's on Sunday, 21st April. I have some jokes for you. Knock knock, Who's there? Euroa. Euroa who? Euroa da boat I catcha da fish. Q: How is a goat impolite? A: Because they always butt in. Q: Why don't you play hide and seek with a mountain? A: Because it always peaks. Q: Why is a rodeo horse rich? A: Because it has a million bucks. Q: Why did the baby snake cry? A: Because he lost his rattle. Q: What part of the horse is most important? A: The mane ( main ) part. Q: Why does Batman search for worms? A: So he can feed his Robin. Q: Who swings through the vines? A : Tarzan King of the grapes. Q: Describe a beach using 2 letters? A: S and Y. Q: When is the best time to buy a budgie? A: When it's going 'cheap'. Q: Which detective has bubble baths? A: Sherlock Foams. Charmaine lioi!roak. Roleystone. Dear Captain Bob. I am playing free-ball and learning the piano. I like both of them. I'm sorry I haven't written hack. I hope you enjoyed the Easter Holidays. I did. We went to
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o ° hildren's Story Hour i Thomas was born in an Italian castle, the youngest son of a soldier and his wife. Because his country was at war so much, Thomas' father was a way most of the time. his mother and three older brothers and five sisters raised him. When he was five, his mother sent him to school at the famous nearby Benedictine monastery, Monte Casino. Secretly she dreamed he would become the abbey's abbot or superior. As abbot, he could become famous, powerful and rich. Thomas studied hard. He led to learn. He had a tremendous curiosity about everything. He kept asking his teachers, "Why?" The subject he wondered most about was 14
God. "What is God?" he asked his teachers.
preachers. Their whole work was to learn about God and He kept asking that to teach others about quetion as a teenager God. at the university in Thomas decided to Naples. His teachers become a Dominican. gave him some It meant he would answers. But Thomas never reach his mothknew there had to be er's dream of being a more to know about powerful abbot of a God. rich monastery. were A teacher gave him Dominicans the books of a very poor. His mother was ancient Greek philo- so upset she had Thosopher named Aristo- mas' oldest brother tle. The books excited bring him back home. But Thomas was Thomas. From Aristotle he learned to look determined to be a at everything in a new Dominican. Finally his way. He believed Aris- mother allowed him totle's ideas could to go. He went to help him better under- Cologne and became stand the things he a Dominican. He continued to study about wanted to know. life and about God. Thomas became the Thomas was very friend of a teacher, a big. He stood 6 foot 6. member of a new reli- He was also a quiet gious group called young man. His classDominicans. The mates called him the Dominicans were "dumb ox." Thomas teachers and just smiled and went The Record, 25 April — 1 May, 1985
on studying. Soon he became a teacher and then began to write about his idea of life and God. He became very famous all over Europe. He was one of the smartest men of his time. But he never stopped searching for more knowledge of God and the world. His ideas were new and exciting. He used the works of Aristotle to help explain what God was like. This made many important people angry. They were uncomfortable with Thomas' ideas. They made life difficult for him. But Thomas continued his search to understand life and God until he died. The church calls Thomas A quinas a saint and the patron of students, honouring him every January 28.
Knock. knock. Who's there? .Ann. .Ann who. Another mosquito. Knock, knock. Who's there? Yeta. Yeta who? Yet another mosquito. Knock, knock. Who's there? Egbert. Egbert who? Egbert no chips. Knock, knock. Who's there? Doctor. Doctor who? That's right. Knock, knock. Who's there? Freesia. Freesia who? Fri!esia jolly good fellow. Knock, knock. Who's there? A little old lady. A little old lady who? Where'd you learn to yodel? Knock, knock. Who's there? Sam an' Janet. Sam an' Janet who? Sam an' Janet evening. ( Some enchanted)
The Festival Summer. by Kathleen Gooding. published by Faber and Faber. distributed by Penguin. When Emily's parents are away on concert tours, she usually stays with her favourite person. Matty. who lives in the flat upstairs. But in this summer of new beginnings, her parents decide to send her to her grandparents' Somerset farm — an unfamiliar place, with people she hardly knows. But Reedmoor is not exactly a lonely backwater where nothing happens. Emily makes a friend in Pip Meadows. Together, there are new things to he learned and secrets to be uncovered. By the author of The Rainbow Trail, this is an exciting story which deals sensitively with some of the complexities of changes in life and relationships. Ages 10-14
Ledge Point. It was great fun. We went down to the beach and all. Well Captain Bob I hope 1 can have a nice May Holidays. Can you? I am going to a friend's house up in Merredin. Quentin Green, Wembley Downs. Dear Captain Bob. lhankyou for the book you gave me for winning the colouring contest. I like it very much. I hope you had a happy Easter. I did. I am going on a camp to Kalwiorlie on the 21st with my class year 6 and 7. I am looking forward to it. We are staying at Coolgardie every night. Tracy Green, Wembley Dou•ns. Dear Captain Bob, I was overjoyed when I got the prize for the Palm Sunday Competition. I like the book very much. It is a lovely book ( and nice). Thankyou for choosing my entry. Claire Miguel.
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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
A world that is long gone J.G.Farrell
The Singapore Grip, by J.G. Farrell, published by Flamingo, $11.95. Reviewed by R oslyn Ross. Ibis larrell's last completed novel before his untimely death in a fishing accident in Ireland in 19-9. lie was born in Liverpool but spent much of his time
abroad, including a prolonged visit to the Far East to research the background of this novel. This is Singapore on the eve of the Japanese invasion. It is a little piece of pukka Britain transported to the tropics. A world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants perched on the edge of an awful abyss. Farrell has the ability to combine the humorous with the tragic and to provide people portraits that live long in your memory. His wry and often black humour flowers abundantly in a style that is prone to become complex and 'wordy.' The Singapore Grip stands as a worthy member of the Farrell literary 'family' — his novel Troubles, won the Faber Memorial Prize in 19-i )
Book honoured .tte andJesbutt by Eleanor ApenCe has been placed on the short jitr the Australian Children S Book of the Year A ward. The final judging will take place inJuly. As far as the publishers are an'an' this is the first time a christian novelfor 8-12 year-olds baS reached the short list. If Me andjeshua rec-elirs an auard this year. it :till he thefourth time Eleanor Spence has been honouredby the ChildrenS Book Council. She has won the ChildrenS Book of the Year .4 ward in'ice belitre. The Green Laurel in 196.4 and The October Child in /9"-. In 1983. The Left Overs was highly recommended. .Several of her hooks hart,beenpublished ot 'rwas both in English and other languages. Me andfeshua has just and US by Lion Publishing. been published in the Me andfeshua is the slot", ofJesus told by his cousin Jude. telx) gradually comes to realise that his cousin Jeshua is much more than simply the childofAunt Miriam and l'ncleJosef the carpenter. Eleanor Vence receit xyl a Senior WriterS Fellou shipfor research into the background of the book. This included a trtp to Israel. The publication of her book um also funded by the Literature Board of Australia.
Sympathetic study Option for the Poor — by Donald Dorr published by Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, $11.95. 1984. R eviewed by John Doyle. This study of how Vatican social teaching has developed over the last hundred years is searching and sympathetic. Fr Dorr's purpose gives it unusual coherence. He is trying to see how the slogan, contemporary 'option for the poor', expresses the thrust of Vatican documents during that period. lbe author is more interested in the socio-political background of these documents than in theoretic-al studies on which they relied. To have discussed writers like Taparelli and Sturzo, for instance, would have been a distraction. . as would discussion of such initiatives as Antigonish and Mondrawn. Fr Dorr distinguishes quite sharply between teaching and policy. Policy is frequently tentative: the Church does not want to claim in technical matters a competence that does not belong to it, or to he identified with a particular social order or political form. Its duty is to teach and bear witness to certain basic truths about the human person and certain fundamental human values which society rejects at peril of its life. There is seldom a unique way of implementing teaching or policy. Similarly. prudence often prevented even clear teaching being spelt out right through to its last implication, so that teaching and
policy sometimes seem inconsistent. Leo XIII, for example, feared revolution much as we fear a nuclear holocaust. Public order seemed so vitally necessary to preserve peace that he would recommend only a policy of moral development; yet we have seen 'public order' invoked to claim Church support for intolerable regimes; just as condemnation of totalitarian regimes has been taken to mean approbation of forms of capitalism which make private enterprise anything hut free. I was particularly struck by the way even the most radical statements reject 'class
war'. It is not only individuals who are powerless, but whole nations as well as communities within them. The key notion we have now come to accept is that of all among solidarity members of the one family of man. This term covers well the development of doctrine evidenced in the Church's social statements as in its whole life: 'that they may he one.' Fr Doris conclusion, then. is that the Church has been working consistently to give ordinary men and women more control over their own lives, to give power to the powerless or — more correctly — distribute power more evenly in the common-
The Killing Fields, by Christopher Hudson, published by Pan, $4.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. Just for a change, this is a book written from the film instead of vice-versa. The Killing Fields was named as the film of the year and the book followed fast in its footsteps. based both on the screenplay and Sydney Schanberg's documents. It is the story of Schonberg and his assistant in Cambodia, Dith Fran. Together. from 19731975 they courageously reported on the American bombing campaign in Cambodia. In 1975 Schonberg and his family were airlifted back to America, along with Dith Pran's wife and children.
But Dith Fran himself stayed on with Schonberg until the last minute and was refused a place on the airlift because he didn't have a suitable passport. The Killing Fields is the story of what happened to Dith Fran under Pol Pot's genocidal regime. Schonberg won the Foreign Press Award for his dispatches, but racked by guilt for his friend and colleague, he returned to Cambodia to find him. Dith Pran had meanwhile begun a perilous journey of escape . . . . It is the basis of an ugly story, of murder and repression but Christopher Hudson holds it tightly together in crisp, fast-moving prose.
Robert Lacey describes life today and in the past as experienced by six aristocratic families of Europe: the Grosvenors of England, the Medinaceli of Spain, the Thum von Taxis family of Germany, the Italian Frescobaldi, the Ganays of France, and Prince Franz Josefs family in Liechtenstein. The Tranquilizer Trap, by Joy Melville, published by Fontana. $5.95. A straightforward and realistic account of tranquillizers which puts paid to the many myths concerning them. Essentially a practical book. it contains advice and information about the many alternatives to tranquillizers. Young Children Learning, by Barbara Tizard and Marti Hughes, published by Fontana. $8.95. This book raises the question of how valuable nursery schools are. It shows how, given the right environment. young children are capable of powerful reasoning and that some children who appear inarticulate at school are extremely talkative at home. Rose Elliot's Vegetarian
Mother and Baby Book, published by Fontana. $6.95. This book is the perfect guide to nutrition and pregnancy for vegetarian mums and mums-to-be. Rose Elliot's clear, straightforward style makes this book an easy-to-read guide to the complete wellbeing of the vegetarian mother and child. The Restless Sea, by E. V. Thompson, published by Pan, $5.95. The Cornish coast of 1810 was alive with fishing boats, warships and smugglers. For Nathan Jago, a fish-cellar and boat seemed the ideal investments for his prizefighting winnings. But it wasn't all plain sailing to a wealthy future. For a start there was the wilful young squire's daughter Elinor Heade. And then there was tomboyish Amy. with her passion for the sea and her fierce Cornish pride . . Vita. The Life of Vita Sackville-West, bv Victoria Glendinning. published by Penguin, $8.95. This is the brilliantly acclaimed portrait of one of
this century's most celebrated and intriguing women. Matching the achievement of her earlier biography of Edith Sitwell. Glendinning draws on new sources and previously unpublished material in her study of the complex and passionate woman. All Things To All Men, The False Promise of the Modern American Presidency, publishedby Penguin, $7.95. President by President, crisis by crisis, political commentator Godfrey Hodgson looks at the American Presidency and argues that the most powerful man in the world is surrounded by an ineffectual bureaucracy, hampered by an inadequate power base and overly reliant on a PR mask. Quentin, by Kerry keniban, published by Penguin, $5.95. When Quentin was born in 1975 with Osteogenesis imperfecta — hones which can break on the impact of a sneeze — small hope was held for his survival. Quentin's battle for survival became internationally known through an award-
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documentary, winning and now Quentin's mother Kern', a freelance iournalist, tells his story. Miss Manner's Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour. byfudith Martin,publishedby Penguin. Introducing Miss Manners, t hat celebrated advice columnist, whose guide to good behaviour has brought a decorous smile to the lips of every wellbred American. Now you can learn the rules of unfailing etiquette, from how to behave on a one night stand to eating a pickle with panache. Six Bob A Day Tourist, by Janet Morice, published by Penguin, $7.95. This is the story of a family' struggle for peace during the years 1914-1918-Private 'Thomas Gardner wrote often to his sister. Mabel, during the four years he served with the A.1.F. in Egypt. Gallipoli and France. His sister actively opposed conscription. and through his letters and Mabel's memorabilia, we can glimpse the anguish of World War I and its effect on ordinary people.
reminds us that the Latin phrase from which Leo's 'workingmen's charter' took its name means 'revolution' — res novae! It is for us to decide whether the revolution will be peaceful or violent . . . where there is still a choice. Option for the Poor is the best introduction to Catholic social teaching I have read.
Women in the New Testament
An ugly story
new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new title. The Colour Man. by Ian Moffitt, publishedby Fontana. $6.95. Moffit portrays the dark landscape of the criminal mind and the power of evil in this psychological thriller. In Honour Bound. by Gerald Seymour, published by Fontana, $5.95. All-action adventure in Afghanistan, war -torn beneath the awesome shadows of the monstrous Russian helicopter gunships. Three Women of Liverpool. by Helen Forrester. published by Fontana. $5.95. The extraordinary story of three brave women, each trying in her own way to deal with the brutal tide of destruction brought on by the air raids of the Second World War. Son Of The Revolution, by Kiang Heng andJudith Shapiro, published by Fontana, $8.95. This is the extraordinary story of what it was like to be a young boy growing up in the midst of China's Cultural Revolution. Aristocrats. by Robert Lacey, published by Fontana, $11.95.
ity, be it family, local, national or international. And its social documents have increasingly recognised that the distribution of power and freedom means distribution of wealth. Social, political and economic freedoms are inseparable. t .njust structures have therefore to he changed; and their change has to he radical, root and branch Which
Woman First Among The Faithful, A New Testament Study, by Francis J. Moloney SDB, published by Dove Communications, $8.95. Australian scripture scholar, Dr Francis Moloney SDB has just published a significant study of women in the New Testament. His book, Woman First Among The Faithful, A New Testament Study, argues that the evangelists and Paul in his Epistles are at one
in presenting women as often the first to come to the faith, and that their faith is often used either in contrast tothe littleness of the faith of others, or to show the way to true faith. They are repeatedly presented as the first among the faithful. Dr Moloney's book is one of the first male contributions to contemporary biblical and theological studies of women. Most recent books have been written by women. This f act in itself is an important sign of growth within the Christian Church. Dr Moloney also believes his book will keep before all Christians the necessity to remember and practise the baptismal confession of the earliest Christians: There is neither male nor female! We are all one in Christ Jesus!
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A special role for women In St Patrick's Cathedral Bunbury last Sunday Eva Prout, Lexi Williams and Claire Eddy were commissioned as special ministers of the eucharist. They had been preparing for this role for several months and are now ready to bring communion to the sick and elderly. They will assist the acolytes and deacons who have been doing this for the past six years. Bishop Quinn has given permission for parishes in Bunbury diocese to have both acolytes and special ministers. Acolytes will continue to assist at Mass as well as bring communion to the sick in their homes. Cathedral administrator Father Leon Russell said many priests in the diocese had, for some time, studied how women could play a larger role in the parish community. "We are the first parish in the diocese to have both acolytes and special Ministers," he said. "We have about 12 acolytes who are assisting priests at Mass and bringing Holy Communion to the sick and elderly, but some of them have young families and are limited in the time they have available. We decided to commission special ministers to enlarge the ministry to the sick." The three women have each played an active role in the church community. "I think it's a wonderful idea and people like ourselves have so much time for other people now," said Mrs Prout. "It is a great honour for me as I am a convert to the Catholic faith and this is the culmination of my life as a Catholic." Both Claire Eddy arid Lexi Williams admitted to feeling nervous before the ceremony in a Cathedral packed with family, relatives and friends. "I feel I am called to do this," said Claire Eddy "but I never thought it would actually happen." At the Mass the special ministers gave out communion. Father Russell said: "It was obvious that people of all ages accepted the women as special ministers as they waited in line to receive the host, expressing their approval and belief in these women in this role." Story by Pat Hay.
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Bunbury parish's new special ministers of the eucharist Eva Prout, Clare Eddy and Lexi
WHAT'S ON MORLEY MAJELLANS UNIVERSITY SUNDAY Morley Majellans will cele- University Sunday is celebrate their 15th anniversary brated on this Sunday, April with a special Mass on 28 with Mass at 4.45 pm in Monday May 13 at 7.30pm St Thomas More College in the Infant Jesus church, Chapel. Wellington Road. All past A welcome is extended to and present members and all friends and members of friends of Majellans are the Newman Society to invited. Further information come to Mass and to stay from Aileen Budge, 102 for a light tea in the Junior Valentine Ave, Dianella Common Room of St Tho6062. mas More College.
The matches this week were highlighted by three very tight tussles in the "B" Grade competition which resulted in wins for Pignatelli No. 3, Greenwood and Willetton. Greenwood had to overcome a determined DianeIla team in the last set of the day to record their first win of the season, 7 sets 67 games to5 sets 66 games. The match which was completed in fading light see-sawed all day with five tiebreaker sets being played. Greenwood won three of these sets to take out the match. Pignatelli No. 3 defeated Pignatelli No. 1 — 7 sets 63 games to 5 sets 55 games in what was probably a prelude to the grand final. Neither team had lost a match prior to this week and it is difficult to see any of the other teams replacing them as grand finalists. In the other match Willetton defeated Queens Park 6 sets 60 games to 6 sets 53 games. This win to Willetton now puts them into contention for a berth in the finals. With two rounds remaining any two teams of either Pignatelli No. 2, Queens Park or Willetton can reach the final. Winning the next two matches will assure any one of these teams of a place in the finals. But the road to the finals will not be easy as each team has to play one of the other protagonists in one of their matches. The premiership table is as follows
The ceremony in Winthrop Hall follows at 7.30 pm and the occasional address will PALLOTTINE VISITOR be given by Bishop Barry Father Martin Juritsch of Geraldton. SAC., Rome, born in Yugos- Hickey lavia, arrives this week for the 150th Jubilee Celebration of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines) in Australia. The highlight will be a concelebrated Mass on Sunday May 5 at 9 am on the feast of the Riverton Parish, Our Lady Queen of the Apostles. Parishioners and friends of the Pallottines are cordially invited to attend. Refreshments will be served afterwards in the parish hall. Clergy of the archdiocese of Perth are invited to a Welcome Dinner on Monday May 6 at the Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth and should notify the Pallottines of their acceptance.
Played Wins Losses Drawn Poin Pignatelli 3 4 4 8 Pignatelli 1 5 3 1 1 7 Queens Park 4 2 2 4 Pignatelli 2 4 2 2 4 Willetton 4 2 2 4 Greenwood 4 1 3 2 DianeIla 5 4 1 1 At the end of round one of competition in the "A" Grade no team has been able to establish a clear lead. No team can afford to have a bad day as only two teams get to play in the finals of this competition. Applecross is the only team without any chance. This week Pignatelli 7 sets 55 games defeated DianeIla 3 sets 42 games and Lynwood 10 sets 60 games easily accounted for Applecross 0 sets 26 games. The premiership table is as follows:
Bishop Barry Hickey of Geraldton will give the occasional address at the University Sunday ceremony to be held in Winthrop Hall on Sunday April 28 at 7.30 pm. In his talk, entitled "In
Played Wins Losses Drawn Poin Lynwood 4 3 1 6 Pignatelli 4 3 1 6 Queens Park 4 2 2 4 DianeIla 4 2 2 4 Applecross 4 4 0 Teams in both competitions are evenly balanced which has regularly produced close results. This evenness is a healthy sign for Catholic tennis and we look forward with interest to the results of the corning weeks.
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NEWMAN SOCIETY Monday May 6 The Young Newmanites will meet with Mr Ray Reardon, artist and scholar of Deakin University, Geelong, in Father Dynon's study at St Thomas More College at 7.30 pm.
Thursday. May 9 Newman Society Scripture Group meets to discuss St John's Gospel at 7.30 pm in Father Dynon's study. Father Dynon is the Newman Society chaplain (386 8712) Thursday, May 30 The Newman Society Discussion Group for May will be on the topic. 'The Christian Concept of God". Father Ian Faleoner SJ will address and lead the meeting in the Senior Common Room at 8 pm.
LITURGICAL EMBROIDERY A workshop/seminar in ecclesiastical design and embroidery will be held on Saturday. May 18 from 1 pm until 5 pm at Saint Andrew's Anglican Church, Barker Road, Subtaco. The programme will cover: • the development of liturgical clothing from Jewish, Byzantine, Roman and northern European sources • the development of eucharistic vestments • examples of contemporary vestments, fabrics, techniques, etc. • an introduction to church furnishings, frontals, banners etc. with examples • possibilities for an Australian expression in design. The programme will be presented by Fr Nigel Wright, Fr Wright has designed liturgical garments for the present Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne and lectures on the subject of ecclesiastical design as part of a TAFE course. The cost of the workshop/ seminar will be $10 and anyone interested in attending should ring Fr Tom Sutton on 381 1130 A limit of 20 places has been set for the program. BASSENDEAN MUMS MASS The Bassendean Majellans are having a special Mothers Day Mass for "All Mums" on Thursday May 9 at 1 1 am. Babysitting is available, and after Mass, there will be a light luncheon in the hall'. All are welcome. WANNER00 JUBILEE St Anthony's school Wanneroo is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the blessing of new facilities after Mass celebrated at 11am by Archbishop Goody who was priest in charge of Wanneroo in 1935. The premier Mr Brian Burke will be present at the ceremony.
defence of animism", he will be speaking about the awareness of the presence of God in the world and Handicap Assistance within us and the inevitable Care for IntellectuCatholic search for God which occupies the whole human race ally Handicapped persons even in our secular society. invites mature and caring young adults to be volunteer Supper will be provided in a ssistants at the family the undercroft after the camp in Busselton from service. Members of the Monday to Friday. May 20public are welcome to 24. The holiday is for childattend the service. Dress is ren attending Special informal, although gradu- Schools and their family ates are invited to wear members. Contact Sr Mauacademic gowns and reen on McCarthy hoods, though not caps or 387 7478 or PO Box 152 mortar boards. Wembley.
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NEW YORK — Priests must begin reeducating parents about the importance of encouraging their sons to enter the priesthood, Bishop Francis Mugavero of Brooklyn told a meeting of priests on the vocations crisis. One point that repeatedly emerged during the special day's program of addresses, group discussion and general reflection was the need for priests to project an attractive image for piting men who might he considering ordination. But some priests expressed discomfort with this emphasis and said natural human weaknesses made it unrealistic to expect they could always radiate happiness and sati, faction. Bishop Mugavero, though, placed much of the blame for the vocations crisis on parents and the values of society.
Young men with an inter est in the priesthood arc often discouraged by parents urging them to enter law or some other highpaying profession, he said. c must re-educate them about the bressing that comes to a family when it has a young man ordained to the priesthood." He also called on the priests to work more actively in encouraging potential " There should he no arm-twisting," he said, "hut we've got to he aggressive to counteract some of the values in our society." Bishop Mugavero acknowledged that priests would not necessarily stay so exuberant "that we will do a break' dance everyday." But he said it was important that "our people see a joy in us."
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