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CHICAGO: Two Illinois priests, a permanent deacon and several other Catholic pilgrims from Illinois continue to be held hostage in the Middle East hi-jack drama involving a TWA jetliner commandeered by Shi-ite Moslem extremists. A third Illinois priest, who had been
leading the group on a Holy Land pilgrimage, and about two dozen parishioners were among those released by the hi-jackers In the initial days of the crisis. Nine years ago in September 1976 a Catholic bishop was also held hostage and helped talk hi-jackers of his flight Into letting their hostages go. "We ended in Paris, freed after 32 hours," Bishop O'Rourke said this week. "I hope your fellows fare as well as we did," he said.
CANBERRA: The taxation White Paper for this week's summit shows single income families are carrying a heavier tax burden than double income families, says the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission. 'The document shows (page 61) they are carrying a tax burden of as much as $2 billion more than if they were taxed on the basis of income splthing," says the Commission. This is anomalous and at variance with vertical equity — whereby the financially better off should have a greater share of the tax burden. "Work done in the home for the young, the old and the disabled should be recognised as of irreplaceable value to the whole community.
C100 "Homemaking is an essential activity which ha.s no inexpensive substitute. "It reduces the need for additional community services such as child minding, nursing, and domiciliary care. "It is best an overhead of considerable net value to public finance and society. "There appears to be no recognition of this fact in the White Paper's treatment of families." ~Va..
Brother Robert Callen (right) chairman of the religious vocations council urged Majellans to give positive support to vocations at their annual general meeting last Sunday. He is pictured with central committee members Doreen Gibson, Marie Newbold, Kathy Kora and Maureen Palfrey.
Majellans warned about big drops in vocations The blunt reality facing families of the future as religious vocations dropped was put to the annual meeting of Majellan groups last Sunday by Brother Robert Callen, chair-
man of the Religious Vocations Council. Citing 1985 in which two have entered training for the priesthood, two into women's orders and one into brothers as the situation facing the 45
orders in Perth archdiocese (54 in WA) Brother Callen asked the Majellan members what sort of a future Church would their children know.
brother or sister, a hospital that had no religious nursing sister and a parish only because it had a priest for Sunday Mass, he asked.
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S Federal Treasurer Paul Keating The Commission is not happy with proposals for family compensation. "The White Paper cannot reassure families, especially larger ones, that the 12.5 per cent consumption tax would only raise their costs by 6.5 per cent. "Dependant Spouse Rebate and Family Allowances ought to be indexed according to the cost of living adfustments. "This has not been the practice in the past and there is little recognition in the White Paper to indicate that such compensation will be forthcoming in the future. "Indexation is necessary to assure families that compensation will continue based on the cost of living adjustments," the Commission said.
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SYDNEY: Australia's overseas aid could drop to its lowest level in 20 years as a result of the May economic statement. The aid vote has now suffered two devastating cuts this year, firstly the 20% devaluation in the Australian dollar and now the cuts in the May mini-budget. "This reduction in aid comes in the wake of the devastating drought in Africa which has left seven million people facing starvation in Ethiopia alone," said Australian Council for Overseas Aid director Russell Rollason.
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He helped establish the Austellarian group for KSC widows and has also worked on the KSC state welfare committee as well as being a member of the executive of Fremantle KSC No 2 branch.
Our aid at lowest calOrders l for bigger levels assist.
"Aid in 1985/86 will fall to 0.43% of gross national product, the lowest level it has been at in the past twenty years. This year it was 0.49% of GNP, against the ALP Platform commitment to achieve 0.5% by 1985 and 0.7% by 1988."
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S YDNEY: The major superiors of Australian r eligious orders have called on the Hawke government to meet the needs and legitimate aspirations of Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islanders for land titles and self determination. Following a resolution passed at the May 28 conference the president of the National Council of Religious, Sister Elizabeth Murphy RSJ, has written to the Prime Minister asking for the national responsibility in this matter to be discharged before 1988. Their request to the Prime Minister was as
Mr Keating announced a cut of $23.9 million from the forward estimates for aid in 1985/86. The cut will mean a decrease in real terms of more than 3%. "It is appalling to see the Government parading its decision to cut aid to the poor of the Third World as being a sign of toughness. "If the Australian people are living beyond their means, why cut help to the poor overseas?
follows: Aware that the Australian legal system does not yet recognise the title of all Aboriginal a nd Torres Strait Islander communities to their traditional lands w hich remain unalienated by the Crown, and concerned for the needs of the descendants of the original inhabitants of our continent who have lost not only land but also much of their culture, dignity and destiny through dispossession, we ask your government, in co-operation with the States, to meet the needs and legitimate aspirations of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders for security of community title over their lands and self -management and self-determination of their communities. We ask that this national responsibility be discharged before 1988.
"Unless the situation in developing countries change, they will not be able to buy the Australian exports industry is so keen to sell them."
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From page 1 What answers would they give their children who asked what are nuns, priests and brothers and what is religious life? One answer could be to say that we have good lay people to take over from them, that we can get on without them Brother Callen said.
He said families had three basic questions to ask themselves about religious vocations: Do we really want them? Where will they come from? How can I help? "God will never desert His Church," Brother Callen said. "He continues to call men and women. The Church must respond.
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When the Church (you) want them, vocations will really come.He said vocations came from ordinary, not extraordinary, families. He called on Majellan families to give positive support to their children's interest in a religious vocation and not to belittle the idea or place obstacles and distractions in their way. He asked the groups to pray for vocations and to raise the consciousness of religious vocations in their families.
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EEO "I want to build a good Church for you and with you — a community of faith in which our young people will feel comfortable and be at home and truly belong. Archbishop Faulkner was installed by Archbishop Rush of Brisbane. president of the Australian Bishops' Conference. Archbishop Foley of Perth attended the ceremony along with Bishops of Darwin, Ballarat, Port Pine and the Military Vicariate. Archbishop Faulkner said the Adelaide diocese of which he was appointed coadjutor archbishop with right of succession 18 months ago he found a "good church, a Ltving community of faith."
DEICI Archbishop Faulkner. 58, is a native of Adelaide where he served as priest for 17 years before being appointed bishop of Townsville in 1967. Wednesday's ceremony was the end of Archbishop Gleeson's 14 years as archbishop, preceded by 14 years as auxiliary bishop. Last year, a heart attack caused permanent damage to the 65 year old archbishop and he submitted his resignation in February.
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BOWRA & 0 DEA Archbishop James Gleeson installed Archbishop Leonard Faulkner as Archbishop of Adelaide in St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Adelaide, on Wednesday, July 19. Archbishop Gleeson is now Archbishop Emeritus of Adelaide. Archbishop Gleeson, left, and Archbishop Faulkner are pictured here before vesting for the ceremony.
Do not harm unemployed SYDNEY: Sporting boycotts, unlike trade boycott or policy of disinvestment does not run the risk of harming the unemployed. Mr Chris Sidoti, national secretary of the Commission said the commission agrees with the condemnation, by the Commonwealth Government and others, of sporting contacts with South Africa. "The many courageous South Africans, both white and black, who are working to change the inhuman system of apartheid, see the sporting boycott as one of the most effective ways the outside world has of empress-
Prayers for rain An urgent plea from a country parish has highlighted the need for prayers for rain. The Bencubbin parish council through Father Nino Vinciguerra has told Archbishop Foley of the near-despair of many fanners in the area. As a result, the archbishop told more than 100 priests on Tuesday to have prayers for rain offered in all parishes. The gathering of priests, a convocation day, at the Reelemptorist Retreat Howse is the second event in a ministry of priests program that will continue at the annual retreat
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ing its disappmval of South Africa's racist laws," he said. He quoted the South African Bishops' 1981 statewish to ment: "We encourage all attempts to bring about real change in South Africa by non-violent means. Sports boycotts are an effective means of applying pressure for change." He said the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace: • praises the decision of Tom Carroll, Cherie Horan and other surfers to forgo large monetary rewards and significant sporting possibilities by deciding not to surf in South Africa and praises other sporting people and sports authorities who have made the same decision;
• asks the rebel Australian cricketers to reflect the large sums of money they have allegedly been offered to play in South Africa are derived from an economy based on exploitation of our fellow men and women; • urges the Australian Rugby Union controllers to reject any suggestion of a tour of South Africa, to express to their New Zealand counterparts their disapproval of the proposed All Blacks tour and to consider. in the light of the Gleneagles Agreement, what their own relationship will be with the New Zealand Rugby Union, if the tour goes ahead. "The Commission urges the Australian Rugby Union to withdraw"
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It is of no consolation to the 329 dead or their relatives that massive airport security will be the order of the day around the world. It is of scant consolation to the living that airports will be safe because passengers will be treated with all the care of caged animals. Little wonder then that the week has been preoccupied with endless accounts of how airport officials intend to be thorough about their jobs. We have little choice. We pay them to look after us. We want value for money. As the toll of massacres and woundings by endless bombings, large and small, mounts and becomes a blur, it is worth stating that not one cause has gained one iota of recognition or support as a result of the action. Quite the contrary has occurred. As of now two men are believed to be circulating with the knowledge that they — and more the heinousness if no other accomplices are involved -- were responsible for sending 329 innocents to their death and narrowly missed downing another aircraft. War criminals were pursued for less. Some phantom person carries the satisfaction of killing a random family innocently transiting Frankfurt airport; some twisted maniacs are beyond caring who suffers in random destruction of hotels; somewhere a paranoid military commander and jet pilot live with the memory of a plane load of people they blasted into oblivion. The list goes on and, sadly, the elusive people responsible rarely seem to surface. The individuals responsible in whatever way deserve any manner of contempt and their causes, invented or real, can take the consequences of what the world thinks as a result of these outrages, because a much deeper issue is a stake. These people are at war. It is a war that may have been declared unilaterally and whose precise aims may be unclear to the enemy. To grace these actions with the name of terrorism is part of the bluff. Terror is not an action, it is the condition brought about by war.
DCIE Pre -meditated violence in other words war - - intends to strike ten-or into the enemy. It advances moral considerations far beyond individual acts of violence, or murder committed through passion or revenge. After the horror of two major wars and the threat of a third, many believe it obscene even to discuss the morality of war, even though a dozen wars show no sign of abating right under our yen/ eyes each night on and off the screen. Others apply a selective process that discusses the morality of war on a sliding scale of horror where a Nagasaki or Hiroshima outranks a Dresden which in turn outranks the thousands of small hamlets and villages in which the uncounted innocent have died. Invoking the morality of war makes it no easier for a soldier to die just because he wears a uniform or carries a weapon but it at least establishes a point from which to consider the rights of the innocent bystanders no matter how much or how often those rights are violated. The murder of the innocent is a crime. The innocent have no choice in where they stand. The death of one or of many makes no difference. The moral rights of the innocent in a war, of course, are only as valid as the value a nation or a globe will place on the rights of the innocent in peace-time. The peace-time concentration camps and the gulags cry to heaven and Amnesty International's work increases, not decreases. In spite of the rhetoric the innocent die cheaply in too many circumstances, the unborn, the victims of drunken driving, the end-products of the drug chain, the world's starving who are nobody's problem. The villians who now use the airways or other public avenues to kill have merely found a defenceless populace without the will to say what are the rights to life. Like a cunning army they strike at the defenceless points. There is a case for saying that mankind has climbed out of the morass of indifference to the weak and has developed a daily tolerance which is the only way forward if the billions beginning to populate this earth are going to live in any daily peace. If there are a few who have opted to read that scenario in their own perverted way they are at war with the rest of us. Alive or dead they are the enemy of mankind not merely their shadowy enemies and should be told so.
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Fatima HAVE YOUR Finding now a an ideal part of c ourt drama from PATRICIA HALLIGAN Mandurah
ROME: The "third secret" of Fatima has now become part of an Italian courtroom drama involving an alleged plot to kill Pope John Paul II. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk convicted of trying to kill the pope in 1981, drew attention to the controversy in late May when he testified that the shooting of the pope was "tied to the third secret of the Madonna of Fatima." Agc,a, on trial on conspiracy charges stemming from the assassination attempt, did not say how the "secret" was related to the attempt, but asked the Vatican to reveal the document.
EEO The Vatican has not commented on A gca's request and is not expected to publish the information. The longstanding policy of Church authorities is that the "secret" adds nothing to the revealed faith, making its publication unnecessary. Among the Churchmen who have seen the document and agree with the policy are the pope and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In a 1982 visit to Fatima, Pope John Paul did not mention the "secret" in any of his public talks. Instead, he stressed the "whole message of Fatima" which he said is "a call to conversion and repentance, as in the Gospel."
El[1] "The Holy Father judges that it adds nothing to what a Christian should know about revelation," Cardinal Ratzinger said in a book, "Report on the Faith," published in May. 'The entire content of Marian apparitions approved by the Church only confirm the urgency of penance, conversion, forgiveness and fasting," said Cardinal Ratzinger, who said he has read the "third secret". The children said Mary revealed this message to them during six apparitions between May 13 and October 13, 1917. Two of the children died within three years of the apparitions. The third is Lucia dos Santos, now a 78year-old Carmelite nun. As an adult, she wrote a three-part account of the apparitions for Church officials. The first part
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concerned a vision of hell. The second dealt with the conversion of the peoples of Russia through devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The third part is the unpublished portion referred to as the "third secret" of Fatima. Many people have speculated that the portion remains unpublished because it is a prophecy of catastrophic events. Cardinal Ratzinger denies this is the reason for the decision. "If until now this decision has not been made, it is not because the popes wanted to hide something terrible," the cardinal said. "Publishing the 'third secret' could also mean exposing its contents to the danger of sensationalistic usage," he added. Agc,a, in the actual trial, has said the Soviet Union hired him to kill the pope, but in court he has not tied that allegation to the Fatima secret. The papal assassination attempt and the first Fatima apparition, 64 years apart, are linked by their common date, May 13. Pope John Paul, during his visit to Fatima, called the dates a "mysterious coincidence" but did not tie it to any motives behind the assassination attempt. He called the coincidence further evidence of the importance of Mary in God's plan and said he came to thank her for the recovery of his health. "I seemed to recognise in the coincidence of the dates a special call to come to this place. And so today I am here. I have come in order to thank Divine Providence in this place which the Mother of God seems to have chosen in a particular way," the pope said.
SIR. The pope's visit is for me the embodiment of an ideal discovered when I first heard the beautiful text of Our Lord's words. -Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church-. Like many hearing it for the first time I was privileged to grast the importance of the continuity of a faith which is so important for a creative life. For me as a teenage convert 30 years ago from strict methodism to Catholicism it was this agelessness that enabled me to accept the good with the bad. The groundwork had been done by a working knowledge of the Bible (except for that text') sound moral principles based on it, fear of God, love of Jesus and fellowship with other Christians. For these I shall be eternally grateful To help us continue with this agelessness in our times — something that 'soften lost on so many cradle Catholics and potential converts --- we have a truly great pope and I will be proud to greet him with this gritty Yorkshire working-class expression "Ow doo sithee durn't muck abort," meaning "G'day, glad to see you don't waffle" ft's this very decisiveness this world needs and John Paul II is giving it to us.
Major problems facing parents today are inadequate family finance and diminished employment prospects for their maturing children. No action is as yet reported by our catholic parents in these vital areas of families. This contrasts with the call of the Australian Catholic Welfare Commission that Catholics who are represented in all strata of society come together with common objectives in their Christian commitment especially in relief of unemployment. Family finance and youth unemployment are more closely linked in such commitment than is commonly realised. The biggest employers of people in Australia are our wholesalers and retailers and families. As major consumers of goods and users of services they interact to foster the growth of suppliers and services. nigh -universal The shoppers supermarket trolley was given its f olden dickey seat for toddlers and a lower deck for a papoose. While the Federal Budget IS being planned it is therefore timely to make representations to Federal parliamentarians in the interests of families and the young adult in the 15-19-25 year old bracket Proposals to increase the ambit of sales tax is obviously not in the interests of families and therefore to be resisted. A suggestion to raise the threshold of taxation from the present $4595 to $6595 should not take precedence
Real needs of poorer family from JOHN C. VESZELY, Nollamara SIR The real need of low income families is not to be given $9 a week to offset the planned consurrption tax Their real need is to be totally free from the effect of such a vicious way of extracting money from those who cannot afford any such impost. who pay no income tax as they have no taxable income! It verges on the criminal, for a government to contemplate such a tax, when it plans to reduce the taxes of the really wealthy, who like government ministers earn in the vicinity of just under or over $100,000 pa. If a pensioner's stove, freezer or refrigerator breaks down, instead of paying the repairman $150 the unfortunate will have to contribute another $18.75 to the treasury for the repair. ft is hardly conceivable, that if the tax will be introduced, inflation will not increase by the same amount. A consumption tax would be the first nail in the coffin already prepared for taxpayers and those who are too poor to pay income taxes.
The priests CHICAGO (NC): The anticipated shortage of priests was no reason "to press the alarm button", Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee said, but he urged looking ahead for creative ways to meet the needs of parishioners without sacrificing the traditional role of ordained ministry. The archdiocese had 606 diocesan priests — 486 of them active. If the present pattern continues, by the turn of the century the Milwaukee archdiocese would have only half that number.
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over the obvious and much discussed need for recognition of the needs and importance of the hornekeeprng mother by at least raising tax threshold preferentially to single income families This should be done in the form of a direct payment to home keeping wives of double the present threshold i.e. $9190 p.a. or $76.59 a month Such a provision would induce not a few workforce mothers to vacate their jobs, t hus providing more job opportunities for teenagers. Family Allowances The failure of the Family Allowances provision to maintain real value is undoubtedly a major cause of want and family hardship
El CI Failure to index it up relative to average wages has caused many mothers to seek work outside the home to supplement family finances. The rise of the part-time working wife is a feature of a big rise in numbers of wives in the workforce of recent years two or more women doing the work Much would otherwise be a wholetime job for a young person in the 1525 year age bracket for the working wife, in general, seeks employment in the lower grade work entry positions, most notably in government employment, when career women are in a minor Curtin in 1941 initiated Child Endowment at a level of 1 2 per cent on the basic wage for three child families, and Margaret Guihfoyle restored it to that level in 1976 in combining it with tax rebates for dependents — the name
being changed to Family Allowance paid on a monthly basis. Since 1976 the value relative to average wages has fallen to 5 per cent for a three child family though the total annual cost is now el 5 Nilo() A restoration to at least 10 per cent of average wages would increase monthly payments by $45.60 for one child, $110.70 for two,
$18870 for three, $26670 for four and $359.80 for five children Such justifiable increases would alleviate much of the want and hardship at present over tax welfare agencies, and many supplementary earning mothers would be able to leave the workforce, qurting their lobs in favour of at present unemployed, and thus reducing Social Service payments
Budget spending; in 1983/ Single Parent Families The cost of restoring the real 84 only 2.65 per cent. R estoration of value is value of Family Allowances to double their present figures is obviously justified. obviously another $1.5 bil- Youth Unemployment It is now widely recognised lion. What is of concern in this a nd officially stated that Social Service area is that the teenagers (15-19 years) and number of single parent young adults (20-25 years) f amilies has more than have lost job prospects and trebled since the passing of positions to workforce wives the Murphy Family Law Act many of whom are parttimers two women meeting in 1974. Along with the increase the demands of one working their cost to Treasury has also place trebled to reach a present near $1.5 billion and no Cox and Box arrangepresent ceiling can be seen in growth and cost of the spill off ment explains in part the of this Murphy's 'What can r emarkable fact that the actual increase in numbers of go wrong, will go wrong.These families at present married women in the worknumbering only 10 per cent force since 1966 now of all Australian families are exceeds the total number of costing as much as the total Australian unemployed by 1 44,000. allowances for all families. In general the part time and Nevertheless Family Allowances are losing ground in income supplementing workFederal budgets. In 1976/77 ing wives tend to occupy they rated 4.2 per cent of the lower grade and less demanding work positions which, before the era of nondiscrimination, gave young persons entry into gainful occupation. This generalisation applies words of Jesus on the subject especially to Australian public of love — "rf you love me, service sectors where, from keep my commandments" 1 971 onwards, married One of these commandwomen were allowed to ments reads 'Thou shalt not retain permanancy. bear false witness against thy Cont page 12 neighbour"
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R eader confused frorn PA TRICK W GILL. Claremont SIR lam at a loss to understand George Purbrick's (The Record, June 20) differentiation between an organisational Church" and an "institutional Church". Several dictionaries which I consulted indicated that "institutional" means organised or organisational, if you like. The missionary and teaching nature of the Church, with Christ's unending support, were instituted in the words of Jesus in the final verses of St Matthew's Gospel as read on Trinity Sunday. As a layman, I did not question Father Boff's Catholic faith. It was, of course, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Cardinal Ratzinger, which questioned some of his theses in his book Church: Charism and Power They found his views "unsustainable and even dangerous for the doctrine of faith" and asked him to maintain a "respectful silence" on these matters for one year.
In view of this decision, I indicated my surprise at the support of his fellow Franciscan, Cardinal Arns, who stated the decision was "against the fundamental rights of Father Boff". Richard Rutrauskas castigates me for not considering the gospel message as a whole — a difficult enough t ask for even the most learned theologian, never mind a layman!
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El At the same time he selectively chooses a few lines from a Vatican ll Decree on Ecumenism, yet does not have an overall view of the previous 20 Councils of the Church and does not accept the magisterium of the Church in regard to the theses proposed by Father Boff. Mr Rutrauskas provides us with a two word synopsis of the gospel, "loving unity", and suggests those who do not accept his simplistic analysis of the Word of the Infinite God, are guilty of "narrow-minded bigotry". I would remind him of the
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People urged 'be creative' -We don't want in all of this to lose our sacramental (ordained) ministry," Archbishop Weakland told the group. -That's part of our tradition." But the role of the clergy will have to be redefined in the new mix of parish personnel. It will not work to double the workload of priests, he said. Members of ther laity would have to assume more responsibility, the archbishop said, noting much pro-
gress had already been made in that area. Some parishes maybe without the service of a full-time resident priest, he said. Some would have to share facilities and services and the number of scheduled Masses may he reduced.
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Despite the uncertainty of their numbers in the future and the increased workloads facing them, the priests exhibited good morale in the two-day meeting. according to the archbishop. "There's a realism about the future but no fear," he said Already in Milwaukee archdiocese parishes share programs, and clustering, in which the same priest or pastoral staff is assigned to two or more parishes.
LONDON: Cardinal Basil Hume of Westminster, believes married men may have to be ordained in some places because of a shortage of priests. "Since we affwm the centrality of the Eucharist we must consider, and urgently, how best to call forth from the community sufficient candidates for the priesthood," he said.
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Remarkable memory of Highgate parishioner
Guessing his age could be mistake
R ABAT, MOROCCO (NC) — Archbishop Hubert Michon of Rabat. Catholic primate of Morocco, said the Church enjoys "the best of relations" with King Hassan II's Islamic state partly because "we have no Moroccan priests and no Moroccan Catholics." The 58 -year -old French born archbishop, who is a physician, said in an interNational with view Catholic News Service the Church's cordial relations with Morocco was also partly due to his decision "never to try to convert a Moslem to the Catholic faith." Asked whether that policy was in line with the teaching of the Church, he said that "the Vatican understands our problem. It is not asking us for anything impossible." A rchbishop Michon said King Hassan had recently written to Pope John Paul II, formally recognising the Catholic Church in Morocco.
If you had to estimate his age when you first meet him you'd think Highgate parishioner Fred Peirl was perhaps in his early seventies. Talk to him for a while and his clear memory, only occasional use of glasses to read fine print and generally "with-itpersonality projection would cause you to revise your age guesstimate to late sixties.
Fear of new indon laws JAKARTA, (NC) — Indonesian Catholics say they fear a new law governing organisations such as the country's Catholic bishops' conference could be used to stifle opposition to government policies. The statute allows the government, on the Indonesian Supreme Court's recommendation, to ban or "freeze" a "mass organisation" it considers a national threat. The law, passed in May, also requires organisations to accept as their basic ideology Pancasila, the state philosophy requiring belief in "One Almighty God." Moslem groups have persuaded the government to guarantee Pancasila will not become a state religion. Along with the bishops' conference, the law covers Moslem, Protestant, Hindu and Buddhist bodies. Mass organisations are defined as all associations voluntarily formed by Indonesians or foreigners in the country and based on mutual activity, profession, function, religion or belief. Government organisations, the Boy Scouts, the civil servant corps and commercial or industrial firms are exempt.
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The revision would be supported by your inspection of his well-kept Hyde Street house, not far from the park of the same name, with its beautiful gardens featuring splendid roses at back and front which he maintains solely by his own labour.
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Both your guesses about the age of this stocky and sprightly veteran of two World Wars would be way wide of the mark. On St Patrick's Day this year he turned 95. "You wrote up my cousin, Ernie Corbett, a while ago in The Record," was his greeting. "He's younger than me, you know." He is, too. Young Ernie is only 93 Fred lives on his own and looks after himself very well. His only concession to the advance of the years is to eat the fare provided by Meals-onWheels and to welcome the occasional look-see visit of a Silver Chain nurse. Frederick Patrick Peirl was born in a little thatched cottage in Hay Street near the Grosvenor Hotel's present site on March 17, 1890. He was baptised in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, now St Mary's Cathedral. His father, Edward, was the sergeant of police at Cossack where young Fred started school under h eadmistress, Miss Rouse at the early age of four. He made a distinguished entry into the field of learning by winning in his first year a prize for handwriting. It was a book entitled Sascha the Serf, he recalls with matter-of-fact clarity.
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By BOB BOYLE He also has sad memories of that little Cossack school In its playground his 10year -old sister Laura stepped on a rusty nail and shortly afterwards died of tetanus, then called lockjaw. Cossack, then the port of Roebourne, was a thriving but small centre in those 1890s days.
I ] El In addition to the houses and the police station, there were the Dalgety's store, the Customs office, the post office and two hotels built cheek-by-jowl. Sailing ships from England called at fairly unpredictable intervals bringing many of the needs of the townsfolk, who got precious little from the south of the state. Fred has vivid memories of the day the great cyclone of 1898 hit Roebourne. Two big windjammers
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tied up at the jetty were smashed to pieces. Cossack then had two steam tugs, the Beagle and the Croydon. The cyclone thrust the Beagle way up into the mangroves and pushed the Croydon through the goods sheds on the waterfront. In 1898, Sgt Edward Peirl came down from the north to open the Leeder-
ville police station when the plaster on its walls, son Fred recalls, was hardly dry. Fred, the youngest of 10 children and now at 95 the family's only survivor. went to the Leederville State school and then to St Brigid's in West Perth.
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Father Edward died of a heart ailment on All Souls' Day in 1900, and in 1901 the family moved to a Mt Lawley house in Raglan Road. Fred has been a Highgate parishioner since. After the move to Mt Lawley he attended St Patrick's Boys' School,
then located in Irwin Street near the present fire station, before transferring to CBC Terrace where Brother Nunan was principal. He left school in 1904 to take a job as the sole messenger boy of the Legislative Assembly, in those days on a Hay Street site now occupied by the R and I Bank near the Town Hall. The fire station was through the arches under the Town Hall before its move to Irwin Street and Fred used to admire the fine fire horses, which were all greys. Cont page 10
In return, the archbishop said, "we recognize that our first duty is to recognize that Morocco is a Moslem country." He said the Church has paid no taxes since 1983, under an agreement with the government. The state makes no contribution to the maintenance of Church buildings, schools and hospitals. The staffs and student bodies of the dozen Catholic schools are Moslem and there is no Catholic instruction on the curriculum, he said The Catholic Church in Morocco "is an international Church, composed of expatriates and various visiting tourists or students or workers," the archbishop said. "They are mostly people in transit, and the flock is getting smaller and smaller year by year." He estimated there are about 65,000 Catholics in Morocco's approximately 22.9 million population. There are two dioceses, 63 priests, about 360 nuns and eight monks.
—Calls to mourn victims of — Africa's racial disturbances CAPE TOWN (NC) — The Southern African Catholic bishops have called on Catholics to mourn and pray for the people killed and injured in the latest wave of racial unrest in South African townships. "We must not underestimate the seriousness, in the eyes of God, of what has been done and continues to be done by those who uphold apartheid in whatever form," the bishops of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland said in a recent statement. The bishops set June 16 for the commemoration, the same day the South African Council of Churches chose as a day of prayer for the downfall of the South African government. The Catholic Church is not a member of the council.
The bishops said everyone in South Africa is affected by the official system of racial segregation. They said they felt "compelled to declare such policies and actions call down the anger of God." Despite repeated warnings issued by us and by others about the evils of apartheid and its catastrophic consequences for our country," the bishops said, "there are those who still appear unaware of the consequences of their actions, their policies or their silent complicity." The bishops said "years of oppression, suffering and frustration on the one side and years of implementing a policy of racial prejudice and apartheid propaganda on the other, have plunged us into the worst crisis our country has ever experienced."
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NAIROBI: The president of the Kenyan Bishops' Conference has attacked advocates of liberation theology, calling them "misguided elements" in the Church. Bishop Raphael Ndingi Mwana a Nzeki of Nakuru stressed that it is the laity who should come out in defence of justice in society. GENEVA, (NC) — Swiss l___Jvoters have defeated a constitutional proposed amendment to limit abortions and ban some contraceptives. Sixty-nine percent of the voters were against the amendment, which had been backed by the Swiss bishops' conference lt was defeated in 19 Swiss states and supported in seven According to Swiss law, a constitutional amendment must receive a majority of votes and be supported in a majority of states. Swiss right -to-lifers said about 95 percent of approximately 15,000 abortions annually in their country are performed for non-medical reasons. Those who opposed the amendment said it would have led to an increase in illegal abortions.
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riMOSCOW Earlier this l_lyear, Ukrainian Catholic Yosyp Terelya, founder of the Action Group for the Defence of Believers and the Church, was arrested. Terelya, who had been in hiding since late last year, was charged with "antiSoviet agitation and propaganda-. Father Hryhon/ Budzynsky, secretary of the Action Group. was arrested last October and subsequently confined in a psychiatric hospital for six weeks. Father Buctzynsky is 80 years old. The chairman of the Action Kobryn, Group, Vasyl arrested last December, was sentenced on 22 March to three years' ordinary regime labour camp for dissemination of knowingly false concoctions defaming the Soviet state and social system — Keston College report.
BUDAPEST: Two seminarians in Hungary who went to Mass when off duty during their compulsory 18-month military service have been punished with five days' solitary confinement. Hungarian soldiers are forbidden to visit churches, but normally the a uthorities turn a blind eye in the case of seminarists.
Big drop in the U.S.
NEW YORK (NC) — The number of US Catholics fell by more than 100,000 in the past year, according to the 1985 Official Catholic Directory.
Commentators say the drop is
due to more accurate estimates being made in parishes. 947,668 The baptisms recorded in 1984 were down 27,349 from the previous year. The number of converts, declined 91,750, 3,596 from 1984. It was not the first time,
though, that there has been a slight one-year decrease in number of Catholics. Between 1978 and 1979 the Catholic population decreased from 49.8 million to 49.6 million before resuming an upward trend. ElEl While the numbers of priests and nuns have declined during 1985, the number of nuns decreased at twice the rate as priests. There are 115,386 nuns in the US, a decrease of 2,641 from the previous year, or a two per cent decline. The number of priests has dropped by 574, now numbering 57,317, a one per cent drop.
Ugandan detention KAMPALA (NC) — Cardinal Emmanuel K. Nsubuga of Kampala has asked President Milton Obote to abolish laws which allow authorities to detain people without trial for indefinite periods, according to a newspaper report. The cardinal said the detention laws "served no useful purpose," and were instead being used to deter the East African country's development. The 70-year-old churchman, who has consistently spoken against human rights violations in Uganda said innocent people were being held under the laws.
In a pastoral letter titled "Celebrating Our Ancestor in Faith, the bishops expressed concern about illicit sex, abuse of public off ice, the state of c ivilian -military r elations, and a continuing degree of mistrust among Christian denominations.
Prague searches.. PRAGUE: Recently seven Catholics were detained in Czechoslovakia while their flats were raided by the Security officials searching for samizdat. They were charged for "obstructing state supervision of the Church." The police confiscated a quantity of home-made books, typewriters and duplicators, paper, stencils and large amounts of money.
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Accused of aiding rebels
KAMPALA (Uganda) (NC) — A dispute over charges that some Catholic parishes in Uganda have aided rebels has kept tension high between the country's hierarchy and the army chief of staff, Brigadier Smith Open Acak who said he would not apologise for saying Catholic parishes sided rebels. The army chief said when he made the assertion there w sas concrete evidence some Catholic parishes were involved in subversive activ-
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}KAMPALA (NC) — Uganda's Christian is c ommunity marred by immorality, opportunism and self-aggrandisement, despite the country's 100year Christian history, the country's bishops have said.
The bishops also noted divisions within the Ugandan population are feeding the desire for revenge and that "a dark cloud is thus cast over the possibility of true reconciliation."
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PATHWAYS OF THE SPIRIT By Father John Castelot
The first f ollowers were individual The very first Christians were like one another in many ways. Yet, in spite of all that unified them, Jesus' followers remained individuals: old and young, single and married, fairly well-todo and poor, good and not so good.
Does awareness of who the church's people are — and of the ways in which they differ from one another — make a difference? Parishioners are not only different from one another in their needs. They are also different in their talents — their abilities to serve the community's needs, Monica Clark observes. Father Joseph Kenna points out that single persons are often the majority in a parish. Single persons are a source of richness for parishes, he thinks. The diversity among members of the early church is discussedby Father John Castelot As the church's first members expandedinto places like Antioch in Syria, or Greece, a rich mix ofpeople developed within local Christian communities, he writes.
Barnahas, apparently single and financially independent, "sold a farm that he owned and made a donation of the money, laying it at the apostles feet" (Acts 4:3Ananias "likewise sold a piece of property. With the connivance of his wife he put aside a part of the proceeds for himself; the rest he took and laid at the feet of the apostles (Acts 5:1-2). Though different from each other, there was a certain homogeneity among members of the earliest Christian community. But gradually the church reached out to embrace many different kinds of people. The first break came with the conversion of Jews who had lived outside of Palestine, spoke Greek, were quite at home in Greek culture and entertained somewhat liberal views about Judaism. Their entrance into the community caused friction: They were outsiders.
Doubts of conscience 'There has always been room for trouble our peace everyone in the
W hen the widows in this group later complained that they were being neglected in favour of the native Jewish-Christian widows, a group of their own men were selected to take part in distributing the common fund.
"I'd quit if it wasn't for my family. What will they do if I can't find another job? And I'll lose my retirement benefits." The words flowed with anguish from a middle-aged father of five, a participant in a conference on peace. For 20 years he had worked at a nuclear weapons facility. Now he was experiencing doubts of conscience about that job, wondering whether he should leave it and whether he could leave it without jeopardizing his family's stability. During a conference break several in the audience gathered to discuss the man's dilemma. Interestingly, their conversation moved beyond whether he was conscience-bound to resign to another question: What was the responsibility of the Christian community to support him if he did resign?
Could parishioners find the man another job, given the area's higher than average unemployment rate? If the man r emained unemployed for an extended period of time, should and would parishioners alter their lifetyles so that he and his family could survive?
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By Monica Clark Would parish support extend beyond providing adequate food and shelter and include health care, educational opportunities and social and recreational amenities? What about the emotional toll on both the receivers and givers of aid? Such questions don't confront most of us too often. We recall the commitments made by parishes to sponsor refugees at the end of the Vietnam War as an example of the community extending itself beyond ordinary works of charity. But what about support for someone here at home. perhaps someone whose conscience differs from our own?
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I'm reminded of the Scripture read at Mass the Sunday after Easter. The community held goods in common, distributing to each whatever was needed. Are we called to do the same? Perhaps the way of doing so changes, but the underlying value seems constant. A Christian community is called to be a body of men and women so filled with love that whatever they have is shared. That is hard to do. Sometimes it means making changes that are not easy or comfortable. I think of a neighbour family where two teenage daughters awed to share a bedroom so that a Guatemalan couple could stay in their home. AndI think of a colleague who lent his car indefinitely to a friend who needed to make daily visits to a son dying of AIDS. Things are not easy either for the person who places trust in the promises of others. Will the
community renege on its support? Will the family reconsider its decision to share house and home, concluding things have become too invasive? Will the bus commuter who shares his car decide that he's becoming too worn down by the hassles of mass transit? What then? Will others in the community be ready and
willing to pick up the burden for a while? Most people may never confront such dramatic calls to sacrifice. But these examples are a good way for us to reflect on our own reality. Community means not leaving someone abandoned, whether they are physically ill, emotionally
distressed, materially deprived or just in need of a quiet listener or a supportive hug. In each of our communities, gifts for service abound. Some people offer concrete financial aid, others emotional support. What is important is that the love flourishes and continues to grow.
church...' As a result, new personalities emerged, notably Stephen. His outspoken views so enraged some of Jerusalem's people that they stoned him to death. His martyrdom. however, had providential results.
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Single people in our community By \ Father Joseph Kenna As I paged through a photo album published for the centennial of a rural parish I had served in, I was struck by the fact that so many people there were single. Widows, widowers, lots of young adults, divorced men and women, some parishioners who chose never to marry: Single people were almost 1 majority. The statistical fact is that more than 40 per cent of adults over 18 arc single. Yet in parishes many singles say they feel like exceptions. Not long ago, a bright young computer technician asked my advice. "Father," he said. "I work 40 hours a week. I go home to an apartment by myself I cook my own food. I am a solo at the movies. And I've got to admit I'm pretty happy. Why is it the loneliest time of my week is when I go to Mass on Sunday? It seems like everything is geared to mum, dad and the kids. Where do I fit in?" Can we clear up some misconceptions about single adults? Here are a few typical attitudes one hears. along with my response to them:
1. "Why all this talk about singles? Shouldn't our parish be supporting family life?" Everybody belongs to a family, though some persons don't have a family living with them. Family life is important to single people. Being single and being. married are not in competi-
tion. Thc problem comes when parishes focus on married persons in such a way that single people seem to become invisible. 2. "Responding to single Adults means adding new programs to an already burdened parish staff." Being sensitive to single people does not necessarily entail a lot of programming.
It is an inaccurate stereotype to think of single people as hurting or needing more than others. They are a valuable and generally untapped resource for a parish community.
3. "There is something wrong with a person who is not married." This is the most difficult misconception to deal with because it is the spoken and may he the most felt. Single persons are sensitive to the silence of a community that constantly affirms other vocations. Like all prejudices, this one cannot be dismissed easily. Maybe the best remedy is to constantly remind ourselves that Jesus !AILS single.
4. "I have nothing in common with single people. Why should I care?" We can rejoice that the Catholic community embraces the rainbow of human experience since everyone gains from the richness of diverse experiences of life. Most persons have a single person in the family. My mother is a widow. Now in her late 70s, she drives her car wherever she wishes, exercises regularly at the local community college and is on a continual round of pinochle parties. She is near family members, but I believe that a real rock of her mental and spiritual strengths is the parish. It has a club for mature adults (she doesn't consider herself
"old") which takes bus trips all over the state. The parish leadership has a real sensitivity toward older singles. She has a feeling of being loved and needed in the parish. This helps her deal with the loneliness of losing her husband of more than 50 years. She doesn't add a lot to the ecumenical dialogue program with a local Lutheran church. but her presence at the meetings is important. There are no "typical" single people. But the young computer technician and my mother have something important in common: Thes. are single Catholics with special needs and special gifts for the whole commtinity.
Education Brief Not long ago Father Joseph Kenna participated in a Sunday Mass in a community where he wasn't well known. Standing in the congregation "felt a little funny," he said. "I was alone while all the others were with their families."
Christians like him fled the scene and brought the Good News with them. An especially influential group went to the provincial capital. Antioch in Syria, where they evangelized not only Jews but gentiles. The church was on the brink of becoming cosmopolitan and more diverse. From Antioch, Paul set out on his mission ventures. establishing communities as far west as Greece. The average community then was not unlike a modern parish, although considerably smaller. Sometimes diversity of status among the people caused problems, as at Corinth, where affluent members snubbed their less fortunate brothers and sisters in the act of celebrating the Lord's Supper.
The experience gave Father Kenna a new understanding of what it feels like to be different from others in a parish. It can lead to a feeling of alienation, he suggested. To counter that feeling, Father Kenna thinks it is imperative that everyone present a welcoming attitude in church. This is especially so if people are standing alone or appear different from most others in the church. Sometimes all it takes is a friendly smile or moving closer to a person standing alone, Father Kenna indicated. Speaking of the diversity among the people of a parish — differences in race, age, expectations, talents, attitudes — Father Kenna said: "I like diversity in the
Catholic Church — don't see me echoed all around the room. Diversity is a challenge to my own ideas and feelings and attitudes."' -The church building is the family room of the people of God," the priest stressed. "it's not a place people 'permit' you to come. You should feel as comfortable in church as in your own home' Another group that can feel ignored in parishes are young adults, Father Kenna said. And making the transition from campus churches to home parishes can pose problems for young adults. At home "young adults tend to identify being Catholic with being middle-aged and older,Father Kenna observed. "And they will leave a
parish if they receive non-verbal and verbal clues saying "you don't belong here"." Father Kenna told a story to bring home a final point. A priest said Mass one day to a packed crowd on university campus and noticed that a woman in the front pew was crying. After the Mass, priest the approached her, asking if he could help her. The woman replied by explaining that she was a visitor and was happy to see youths taking leadership roles in church. Her own parish was much older, she added. And seeing so many Catholic youths here "I see there's a future for the church" after all.
"Effective ministries for the different kinds of singles are among the most crucial problems American parishes face in the 1980s. And a disproportionate number of the young singles in America are Catholics: While 41 per cent of Protestants under age 30 have not yet married, 57 per cent of Catholics under age 30 have not yet married." (Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life, second report, 1985.) "So many hues would be needed to paint an accurate picture of the parish, so many shapes and dimensions to sculpt it. It is affected by everything around it — by the local area in which it is rooted, by all the ways people differ from one another; their race and nationality; their age, sex and education; their attitudes and experiences." (From "The Parish: A People, a Mission, a Structure," 1982 statement by the U.S. bishops' AdHoc Committee on the Parish.) -Single Catholics -Making Them Feel at Home," by Trudelle Thomas. There are some practical steps parishioners can take to keep single Catholfeeling from ics excluded by parish life, writes Ms Thomas, a single woman in Cincinnati, Ohio. "Be energetic in inviting singles into the church," she suggests. For examples, watch the language used in church communications — references which can cause single persons to feel excluded; invite single persons to take on leadership roles in the parish; offer single persons to connect with others in the church, one to one as well as in groups; make sure that the real needs of single adults addressed. are Update, (Catholic 1984. St June Anthony Messenger, 1615 Republic St, Cincinatti, Ohio, 45210, 25-99 copies, 20 cents each.)
Paul lost no time correcting that situation. But, while he insisted on the equality and unity of the Christians, he did not try to destroy people's individuality. As a result, a rich mix of people developed, from Lydia, the take-charge businesswoman at Philippi, to Onesimus, the runaway slave from Collossae. In the second generation. when communities had become even more complex. the author of Titus gave detailed directions for the care of different people in the church: old people, young people, husbands, wives, slaves, masters. There has always been room for everyone in the church. One with each other in Christ. Christians remain individuals, each with his or her own distinctiveness and dignity.
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Liz Roberts meets her share of "The problem with kids today," is a cry too often heard. Family therapist, Liz Roberts would say the "problem with kids" is that all too often parents can't or won't acknowledge the real problem — the structure of the family. It is Liz's job to help them find and face that problem in a bid to help the angry youngsters who are at odds with themselves, their families and the world at large.
Liz Roberts doesn't believe in 'problem children,' but she has certainly met her fair share of children with problems. This Canadian trained family therapist has been working in Perth for the past five years, lecturing in the School of Social Work at WAIT and increasingly, acting as a consultant for welfare and community service groups. She tries to answer the angry cry for help that comes from youngsters who are at odds with themselves, their families and the world at large.
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It is a strident cry, she says, and one that never comes without reason. The children who go 'off the rails' are often the pawns in a family game. She has never yet seen a child in crisis, where, when the family structure is examined, it hasn't all made sense. These children are certainly disturbed, she adds, but not in the way that most people imagine. Their behaviour represents an 'acting out of a real problem which often lies deeply buried within the family relationship. Treading the emotional minefield that protects the problem from the public can be no easy task, she says, as even the child who is hogging the emotional limelight may be uncooperative when it comes to communication. ifs like the family has been through the Vietnam War
and the last thing you do is betray a mate,- she said. Clinical observation has highlighted ;he importance of the family relationships on the 'presenting" member. In her book Conjoint Family therapy, Virginia Satir says -Studies showed that families with a delinquent member respond in similar ways to the individual treatment of this member. It was found that: • other family members interfered with, tried to become part of, or sabotaged the individual treatment of the 'sick' member, as though the family had a stake in his srckness. • the hospitalized or incarcerated patient often got worse or regressed after a visit from family members, as though family interaction had a direct bearing on his symptoms. • other family members got worse as the patient got
better, as though sickness in one of the family members were essential to the family's way of operating' Such studies have led the way for the development of family therapy, because, just as it has been found that the only way to effectively treat an alcoholic is to treat the whole family, so it has been realised that family therapy, oriented to the family as a whole is the most effective way of dealing with any person in
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When one person in a family has pain which shows up in symptoms, all family members are feeling this pain in some way. It is the kind of pain that puts 13 year -olds into psychiatrist wards and cripples families to such an extent that they
can lose the ability to function normally. Family therapy can provide a crutch for the family and teach it to walk again. The therapists aim to establish a positive relationship with family members but without moralising or accusation which might otherwise induce anxiety, shame or guilt. For the therapist the goal is to radically reshuffle the relational forces operating in these families, to free the families from the crippling grip and enable individual members and the family as a whole to operate in a new and healthier manner. Family therapy has been used in Britain and the United States since the 1940's but has become increasingly utilised in recent years. Liz Roberts has trained extensively in the field since completing a Masters in
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boy and young Peirl was brother Edward, named jobless until he secured after their father, to a job an apprenticeship to the as an ore picker at the priting trade with R.W. Whimwell copper mine at Davis in Roe Street. Whim Creek. When he had done his Returning tired from his time, as the saying is, the wanderlust bit him and he strenuous work one day, returned to the north. he was about to slump This time it was with his wearily onto his bed when
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a warning shout from his brother stopped him. A big tiger snake was coiled on the blankets ready to strike at his descending bottom. In the middle of a dark night the startled brothers were awakened by a snuffling apparition that suddenly filled the tent entrance.
at Sherlock station where they got a leg of lamb from the manager and cooked it in the coals of their camp f ire. The next day they were delighted to find in the middle of the road a fresh cabbage, which must have fallen off a supply wagon. They boiled it in a billy to supplement the lamb and ODD pressed on to Roebourne, It turned out to be a which they reached about camel attracted to their noon on the Sunday. sleeping quarters by the Two hours later Fred bucket of water they had was told he had a job drawn for use in the morn- unloading sleepers from ing. the steamer Gorgon at the Word reached them late Point Samson jetty. on a Friday afternoon that It was the first of a if they could make number of duties to come. Roebourne by the Sunday These included driving they stood a chance of the team, drawn by a getting jobs with the Har- horse named Captain and bour and Lights Depart- carrying about 12 pasment. sengers in its seats down They promptly gave the middle, on the 10-mile notice, packed a few journey between stores, filled their water Roebourne and Cossack bag and set out on the 80- that took about hours. mile vvalk to Roebourne. Another task was being They spent the first night assistant caretaker of the
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stores on the Point Samson jetty. The caretaker was Joe Gardiner, later Labor MLA for the area. Fred returned to Perth to become first a carriage cleaner and later a porter with the WAGR before enlisting in the First AIF in 1915. He went to the Middle East with the eighth reinforcements of the 28th Battalion and arrived in Egypt just as the earlier members of the battalion were returning from the Gallipoli campaign. ODD During his WAGR sojourn he had learnt firstaid and been a member of the ambulance team. In Egypt he was transferred to the 51st Battalion to train stretcherbearers. Their desert camp was not far from the Suez Canal in which they used to swim while the passengers on passing liners
cheered them as they tossed down to them lollies and packets of cigarettes. The battalion was in fierce action as soon as it went to France Fred won't talk about the horrors he experienced in battles such as those of Pozieres and Villers-Brettoneux. Wounded and shellshocked, he was invalided home before the war finished and he could not get out of uniform quickly enough. On applying for his old WAGR position, he was subjected to a medical examination which he failed and was therefore refused railway employment. His repeated efforts failed to turn up any sort of job, so he re-joined the army and was accepted on a lower medical classification as a clerk at the Base Hospital at Fremantle where he met some of
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Family Therapy at the University of Toronto. She has prepared numerous papers on the method and has worked with two research teams with Drs SelviniPalazzolli and Prata at Nuovo Centro Per Lo Studio Della Famiglia, Milan, Italy These teams research and work exclusively with patients with infantile psychosis, schizophrenia, autism and anorexia nervosa
While family therapy is relatively new in Perth she sees it as an important step in helping these 'lost and angry children. She works with young people aged between 12 and 18 and is often called in by such organisations as Crisis Care, the Department of Community Welfare and Mental Health. All familles play games, she says, but the high incidence of broken families leads to much more complex games.
"Parents are wonderful at using children for their own ends, '" she says. These more become ends involved with divorce and often, incredibly confusing with remarriage. Take S. for instance. (Her biggest problem seemed to be that no-one wanted to). "I was called in," said La. -because she had run away and was distraught. She presented as angry but sullen and wasn't in the mood to talk. Her loyalty was still to her family." When S. did decide to go home, Liz accompanied her. There they found the family assembled, mother, father, brothers (and their wives). "And everyone is acting as if nothing has happened." said Liz. "despite the fact this kid had left suicide notes the week before." "It seems the parents retired from parenting when the older children left home and that meant the 17year -old son and 14-year -
old daughter began to fight even more. -The level of upset in the family system, whether it has a base of deception, provocation or economic problems, is always proportionate to the level of acting out," she added "In a case like this it IS necessary to get mum to act like mum, dad to act like dad and the kids to act like kids again instead of everyone swapping roles."
A t the point where Liz decided to prick the family safety bubble by saying that as everything seemed alright then perhaps Ft was time to go, S. reacted violently by throwing the coffee table across the room. "I knew everything was most certainly not alright" Liz said, "but everyone else was pretending so hard. something had to give... 'Then when S. ran from the room it was her sisters-inlaw who got up to follow
until I made a point of querying just who the mother was. When the parents finally went out to talk to her the older brothers started on the 17-year old. "It seems he had been doing his fair share of 'acting out,' in drinking and stealing cars but his actions were never labelled as a problem." The task, she says, is to guide the family into doing their own therapy The 17-year old was expressing a need for adventure and freedom and his brothers ultimately offered to take him on a wilderness camp to show him all about survival and freedom "Meanwhile I went in to see how the parents were getting on and discovered the talk' had revealed a case of sibling incest." Liz said -The parents were saying they didn't know how to deal with it and that it should be kept secret but I believe the more we refuse to sanction secrets then the
remarkable memory his old unit mates who were patients. He told two of them of how employment was hard to get outside, and the three enrolled for night school accountancy classes at the Fremantle Tech from which they ultimately graduated. One of the mates was Harry May, later the Labor MLA for Collie, and the other was Atf Chapman who became treasurer of the City of Perth.
Army life paled once more and after he had taken his discharge he worked successively for just about all the big stores in Perth as a counter hand until the onset of the Depression. This left him unemployed for nine months save for a period wielding a pick and shovel on sewerage projects.
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At the end of a lengthy interview, the inspector asked him if he were offered a job when 'could he start. -Straight away," was the prompt reply — and sti aight away it was as an assistant -auditor in what was then the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Office. On the outbreak of World War II he promptly enlisted to go overseas with the AIF, but he was toed he was too old. However, he served throughout the war in various army roles in Australia and on discharge went back to his Commonwealth job. . 'There he stayed till he retired through ill-health in 1947. Fred's first wife, Nora died in 1924 leaving a daughter and two sons.
He finally managed to get employment with On his second discharge McKay Massey-Harris at from the army, the only Maylands building farm job that Fred could get machinery, but he knew was as a labourer at the this was a waste of the Karrakatta Cemetery. accountancy qualificaIt was hardly the work for tions he had and he made a war veteran with grisly up his mind — in sheer memories and he stuck it desperation — to call on a for only three months. Commonwealth Public So it was back to the Service inspector to see if army for the third time, there were any openings. The inspector was not now as a Garrison The distraught father Artillery gunner assigned encouraging, but to Fred's a to send the three had received to clerical duties at Forrest surprise he as boarders to the later children days few a Feller Barracks in North Frean Toodyay Convent and put for in call oil those to all him mantle where asking up with an unsatisfactory interview, tanks stand today immimmommonnommomismommumimmummummaismoo
succession of housekeepers for years. He married again, this time a widow with three sons of her own. He was saddened again six years ago when his second wife, Edith, died suddenly almost on the eve of the couple's departure on a cruise to Asia.
more the family grows. "It was important for that family, not only to get to the heart of the problem but to bring it out in the open and deal with it. If they had buried it away it would just have lain there and eaten away at them all," she said. "Children learn what they live and they act out what they see. If they see confusion and guilt then that is what they learn. If they don't see joy then they will never know how to feel it or express it. "Patterns are laid down in all families and in the case of S. I later discovered even the older brothers had always fought violently. -You can be sure wherever there is acute disturbance in the kids there will also be unresolved issues in mum and dad. These can go back to their relationship with their own parents. its not uncommon in families for a parent to refuse to accept the spouse of a Son or daughter. " This is incredibly divisive and may never be expressed in a verbal way so it is hard to pinpoint. Someone once said to me that the most powerful things in a family are never what is said verbally — it is what is expressed in other ways. People have subtle ways of torturing each other and children are highly receptive to such vibes"
tion, and often about the most basic issues. "In many of these difficult situations there is one parent who wants to be top dog and since everyone has wants and everyone is setting out to get those wants met it doesn't take long for the situation to get out of hand Behaviour reflects more than a million words, she says, and a couple who show each other respect and love bring the greatest joy to a family. "Honourable actions beget honourable actions," she adds. While she believes parents play a pivotal role in such cases she stresses the point that she believes they do the best they can with the perceived options that they possess. "After all," she said, so much that is done comes f rom the subconscious level It's difficult because parents often don't realise
the implications of their own actions." But this is the point of family therapy, which maintains relationships have to be explored and understood so new family management mechanisms can be developed. While violently rebellious behaviour never comes out of a vacuum, she says, noone is talking about blame. We are interested in solutions. "I firmly believe parents want the best for their kids but often they are frightened of being blamed by the therapist," she said. "Once they overcome that fear things can only get better. Often fresh eyes, a fresh spirit and a bit of positivity can take families a long way. "It's a matter of understanding why the problem developed in the first place so something can be done about It and people can make sure it won't happen again "she said.
.,474 'NUO Take the case of V. At 14 she is going berserk, sexually active, drinking and failing at school Her story goes back as far as her grandparents with suggestions of incest divorce and family conflict. Everything was couched in half messages, Liz said, to the point where no-one was probably sure what was true or what was not true any more The problem with people who set out to deceive, either themselves or others, is that over the years facts become fantasy and vice versa "In this case, the parents. under the guise of benevolence, had managed to make sure their daughter remained incompetent well into her 30's." 1..12 said. "Parents can be very good at buying their children off and making out that they are only trying to help them. The child grows up with no sense of 'I can do ' The daughter became locked in a web of indebtedness where she always owed something, and something she would never be able to pay back."
A book on Fred Peirl would reveal he refused The sticky strands of halfthe approach to stand as truth wove the web even a Labor candidate for the tighter. and while it would Mt Hawthorn seat after serve to half -strangle the World War I; that he was daughter it would come caretaker for years of the close to 'killing' the innoold Shaftesbury Theatre cent V. for she was to and His Majesty's Theainherit the terrible emotre; that he worked on the tional tangle that stretched between her mother, her turnstiles at the Ascot, grandparents and hersel` Belmont and Goodwood The games weave a frightenracecourses; that he saw ing web around unresolved to a workmate crushed family issues . . money, vehitwo between death expectations, emotional cles at Roebourne; that debts. A child can and often sports he played included does inherit unresolved cricket, football, lacrosse issues, not only from its and hockey — but it would parents but from its grandtake a book to tell the story parents as well. of these events and many "So many kids are set up to be spies." said Liz. 'They others in his full life. mmusommigismimige are taught to get informa-
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WEDDINGS
Mr and Mrs Antonino Algeri pictured last Saturday at Our Lady of Fatima church Palmyra after their wedding during nuptial Mass celebratedby Father Michael Delahunty. The groom is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Car-
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logero Algeri of Attadale and the bride Giuseppina Lo Presti is the second daughter of Mr and Mrs Claude Lo Presti of East Fremantle. A ttending the groom were Giuseppe Algeri, Frank Lo Presti and Joe Algeri The bride's attendants were Maria Lo Presti, Rose and Sabina Algeri
R OME (NC) — Cooperation between the Vatican and the World Council of Churches has been hindered by cfifferences in operating methods, WCC and Vatican officials say. "Soon after Vatican It there were a lot of attempts at cooperation." said the Reverend Jacques Blanc, WCC official. Since then, the two have learned that "it's much easier to cooperate on the local than on the interna tional level," he said. He said that the WCC is "a fellowship of churches" at • the international level. The church group can make a statement without committing all of its members, he said. In the Catholic Church, Mr Blanc said, "if an international statement is involved, the pope is involved." Monsignor Basil Meeking. an official at the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Chrisitian Unity, agreed. He said the differences in style and structure between the WCC and Catholic Church are among the reasons the church has never joined the WCC. "There is a tendency of the WCC to make specific statements about specific issues," Monsignor Meeking said. "The Catholic Church style is to point out principles of moral and ethical concern, without the Vatican making specific applications of them.
The recent West Australian Government Report, -Youth Employment and Unemployment in Western Australia"' states categorically that teenager loss of Australian jobs, some 50,000 in 1981, to mature women accounts for 55 per cent of youth unemployment round that year Without such competition Australian youth unemployment in 1981 would have been no greater than the average of about 10 per cent all age unemployment (p59 of the Report) Western Australia, on an comparison, interstate emerges as the worst discriminator against youth of all Australian States with a 50 per cent loss of teenage
employment between 1971 and 1981 in the public sector of government employment To underline the seriousness of our own State's teenagers, as a high growth state of young people, we have in past years recorded a very high birth rate and a major influx of children born out of State or overseas.
ODE The peak birth year was 1971 and —add 15 years — this peak is just about to emerge as job or tertiary education seekers at the times of the next State and Federal elections. Though Governments are now aware of its young persons' problems it is manifest that they are not at grips with the need for arresting the competition between
work force mothers and their Australian sons, and especially daughters. who suffer most in competition with mature women. The Susan Ryan ''Antidiscrimination Act.' the creation of numerous government feminist jobs for women and, in Western Australia, a policy of favouring part time public servants and teachers all put the wind behind the tide that floods against the young Our Catholic Welfare Commission's call for Christians to use their mediating influence for the relief of injustice to the unemployed should be heard and acted on by catholic parents on behalf of the young and their own children especially. The rising generation is their special charge as well as Australia's most important asset.
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Youth Forum Australian-made resources for the Christian youth scene are scant. Although I believe we h ave experience and expertise, there are few books, magazines, films a nd videos produced locally. We rely heavily on Britain and America — or at best on the eastern states. Last week I previewed the latest video on youth issues called Beyond the Cake Stall. It is a visual presentation of the 1985 social justice statement "It's a R ocky Road — young people in Australia. One of the best features o f this one-hour tape is its Australian character and production -- not American: made by the Catholic A V centre in Sydney. The video is probably
International Youth Year 'W.; another example of an International Youth Year initiative. Beyond the cake stall was filmed in January during the Sydney based convention Prophets of Hope — a youth convention coinciding with the W A International Youth Y ear conference.
Questions of values "Is Keating's White Paper good news to the poor?" Any real Christian response to the release of the Treasurer's proposals must address the question of how much it encapsulates the Gospel values as proclaimed by Jesus. These values — a concern for the poor and the oppressed: the low income earner such as pensioners; the unemployed. th eindependent tertiary student — must be reflected by progressive taxation laws.
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Perhaps that explains why no young Western Australians appear. Young Western Australians will identify with the issues raised and many will feel an affinity with the film because groups like Antioch and the Y oung Christian Workers f eature prominently. The focus is unemployment with the issues of nuclear war and relationships inter -woven as well. The video presents a sampling of young people's views. S tefan Gigacz the f ormer YCW president says in the film "If I have a job with a newspaper and I print adverts for a m assage parlour — I have a job and am acceptable. "If I'm unemployed and do volunteer community work — that is not called work". Claire Pirola and other initiators of Antioch appear in the film. Visually its main drawback is the lack of variety. It is a series of interviews with young people. Which is also its strength. I'm sure our audio visual resource centre in Nedlands will soon have a copy. Ring Ann Carr on 386 7166 if you're intert ested.
Farewell to two TYCS chaplains The Tertiary Young Christian Students recently farewelled Sister Adriane Dyt and Father Jim O'Brien. Both have been involved in the movement as chaplains and through their time and support, the TYCS has continued to grow and develop. Mass was held at the Como Parish Centre, prepared by review groups within TYCS. Different groups were asked to prepare the singing, the homily, the readings, a reflection after communion and gifts for Father Jim and Sister Adriane.
E Taxation must reflect tustice through redistribution from the wealth creating centres of Australia to it's margins — to those who have served our society, the elderly and those who hope to. the young. W e should be creating a chance for the young to contribute to society. We should be organising business to employ fewer juniors; to make it possible for young people to study without need to call upon their parents' income — if there is any available. We should avoid hitting them with a consumption tax from which they will have to suffer more than anyone else.
flED The tax has a regressive nature which is a death knell to International Youth Year for all young Australians. The Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission has advocated income tax splitting for larger singleincome families. One of the major problems with this position is it seems to have avoided the fundamental Gospel value in purport of justice for the family unit. MARQUE R4YMO,N7,)
A real sign of the Spirit working was the fact people from TYCS and WAIT — Tertiary Christian Student movement) were unified in wanting to come together to wish Father Jim and Sister Adriane well. Father Jim was a friend to TYCS long before his service to us as a chaplain in 1982-83.
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Last week Ian Conroy was seen at the Cardijn Centre practicing tango and waltz with Louise Biattchini. This week he has taken his tuxedo and bow-tie out of moth balls and checking out the fit with the help of Louise Bianchini, Eyvonne Smith and Kevin Yven, for the YCW ball on July 13 at Claremont Showgrounds, Silver Jubilee Pavilion.
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ATTENTION: higher secondary school students, students attending TAFE, WACAE, Murdoch University, WAIT and UWA, — the Tertiary Young Christian Students announces that in line with the continuing recession of a financial and student nature brought on by the terrible consequences for all LIEs" (Low Income Earners) such as a 12.5 per cent consumption tax a:— NO FRILLS; NO NAME BRAND; NO EXPENSE OUTLAYED; LOW BUDGET; HOME BRAND; GENERIC LABEL BLUE LABEL BLACK AND WHITE LABEL BLACK AND GOLD; DANCE social type situation. •Nim
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Sister Adriane Dyt who left WA last week is pictured here (second on right) being farewelled by tertiary students (left to right) Jenny Brown, Sean Hosie, Alyssa Balbi, Shelly Watt, Peter Fruzynshi, (Sister Dyt) and Fiona Ritchie.
Only those dressed in the appropriate colours and/or style will be allowed into the North Perth Town Hall — 22 View Street on Saturday July 6 at 8 pm. for four hours entertainment from a turntable technician, after the meagre sum of Four Australian Dollars (at the present market rate) has changed hands. Yours sincerely in student budgeting to the e xtremes, Paul Keating (alias Marque Raymond). Please ring 328 4071 or 271 6525 for further details. We know nothing about unleaded petrol.
He helped nurture the WAIT Tertiary YCS from it's inception in 1981, and helped foster growth and understanding of TYCS and the Catholic Society on campus ( Tertiary Christian Student Movement). throughout his years as chaplain to WAIT.
Father Jim O'Brien, now in Peru, former Chaplain to the Tertiary Young Christian S tudents movement.
Her many a discerning comments have helped at meetings and in liaison with other Church bodies. Her work on the Perth TYCS "prayer kit" is the fulfillment of many group members' wishes, and provides us with a good means for deepening our faith, reflection and prayer life. We hope the national TYCS and Melbourne TYCS will be able to continue Sister Adriane's association with the movement, and enable her to continue her good work. MARQUE RAYMOND
He has been a strong supporter and successful advocate for the Perth TYCS helping us obtain the support of the archdiocese in our efforts to obtain first one, then two fulltime workers for the Perth office, and a new chaplain to the TYCS for 1984-85, Sister Adriane Dyt, FMM. Father Jim will leave the Como parish to work in the mountains near Lima, in Peru. South America, He will have to contend with Spanish as a new language and a larger flock of 22.000 parishioners. Sister Adriane Dr leaves us to loin her congregation in Melbourne. Sister Adriane's hope. faith, and insight into the life of the movement have been invaluable for the Perth TN-CS.
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Record Kids Club I41kS. I 4 4 kis 14 Heine, published by Fontana, $3.50. This German writer and illustrator has already had a number of books translated in several languages. This is his second book published in Picture Lions — his first, Friends, was an enormous success. The Most Wonderful Egg in The World is the story of an argument between three hens. To solve it, their king promises whichever one lays the most wonderful egg
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Ella At The Wells, by Lorna mu published by Pan Books, $3.95. When Ella Sordy — a foundling from the back streets of a mining village — stepped out on the stage for the very first time, she had nothing in common with the prima ballerina of the Sadlers Wells, except her childhood dreams of becoming a dancer. But Veronica Weston herself is in the audience and decides, there and then, to become 'fairy godmother* to t he naturally-gifted girl. With the help of her husband, the flamboyant Sebastian Scott, she changes Ella's life completely.
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Jokes What is a ghost's favourite bird? A scare crow. Have you beard the joke about the roof? It's over your head. Why have elephants got wrinkled ankles? Because they tie their sneakers too tightly. When should you feed elephant milk to a baby?
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grandmother donated the land for the first church. There Mary began to write. She loved to write. She had a vivid imagination. She tried to write about her experiences of life and about what she saw in the world around her. She tried to write what she believed most deeply. Mary wrote short stories and novels. They were filled with ideas about life drawn from her Catholic faith. She was a born storyteller. And she worked very hard to write well. She studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. Her writings began to be known and appre-
ciated. She became known as Flannery O'Connor rather than Mary. A famous author invited her to spend time as a guest of his family. She accepted the invitation. She wrote some of her best works there. During her stay she began her days with Mass every morning at a church four miles away. Then she began to feel pains in her bones. Her father had died of a bone disease. She feared she had the same incurable illness. She was right. She spent months in the hospital. Finally she was able to return to her own home. She faced her pain
bravely. She continued to write. She became better and better known for her stories. Beside her typewriter she kept a Bible, a Sunday Missal and a breviary. She read and prayed from them frequently. She even prayed while she wrote. Her faith deepened as she struggled with the disease she knew would eventually kill her. Flannery O'Connor used her imagination and her creative skills as a writer to share with the world a vision of faith and hope. Even after she had to use crutches to get around she continued to write stories that helped people believe in God's love in a world filled with pain and evil. Flannery O'Connor received many awards as a writer. She was invited to teach others the art of writing. She was a writer who believed Christ was present everywhere in the world, even in the midst of suffering.
Pearl's Place. by Bob Graham. published by Fontana, $3.50. Bob Graham is an Australian illustrator and this is his third book in Picture lions. The first two, Pete And Roland and Jenny's Baby Brother are already firm favourites. All his life Arthur has lived in a neat town flat. One day he makes a new friend, Pearl, who invites him to tea To his amazement, she lives in a house with a garden — a whole new world with endless possibilities for Arthur.
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The 1985 reprint of Professor O'Farrell's quite monumental 1977 history of the Australian Catholic Church is itself a point in history. His extensive bibliography reveals that there is a veritable industry only of recent origin now writing on Austr-alia's Catholic past. However, for those who thought it mandatory to have on their shelves the solemn-l(x)king hut historically uneven work of Cardinal Moran as their source of knowledge, Professor O'Farrell will have few competitors for a long time to come in writing a such detailed comprehensive history of the Australian Church coming up also to its bicentenary in a decade or so. The author himself notes the recent passion for historical writing that finds hundreds of parishes, societies and orders digging feverishly in search of their past. He wonders if this in itself is not a symptom of Catholic Australian history, the church of the ambivalent present trying to find a sense of security in its past. We ought to be grateful for the author's decision that the cheapest way to make his work available to the widest audience was to do a straight re-print of the 1977 plates, even though it pre-
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A sketch showing old St Mary's in Sydney. vented any revision of the text. the Notwithstanding, author finds only three facts requiring correction, One of them being the well-worn story that John Wren bought the Raheen residence for Archbishop Mannix. The Melbourne archdiocese bought it in other circumstances, says O'Farrell. However. the reprint does give an opportunity to add two chapters bringing the work right up to the gates of 1985 and this last assessment of the Church becomes even more fascinating than the preceding 400 pages. Writing in a captivating historical present, the book scans the performance of the bishops, clergy- and laity over the last ten years or so. The verdict that the Church of the 1980's is in a state of "suspended animation" will at least provoke readers to find another description to describe their optimistic or pessimistic view of the present scene.
Superficial critics who rump on this last chapter as some sort of ieremiad or spiritual castigation of the Church without any link to the previous 180 years show little respect for history- or what it can teach us. The bishops of the last decade or so are said to have little of the flair of the past. Australia's Catholicism, and O'Farrell's writing of it, has
spectacular leadership by bishops also has its pitfalls, not least the resurgence of bigotry out of which Australia has only very recently passed. This history is very much about the Eastern seaboard church and West Australian readers won't find it easy to keep tag on places and ecclesiastical names that arc very familiar around Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia's past is confronted by its present to be written around six or so legendary bishops of Sydney, Melbourne and to some extent Brisbane. because this was how the Church operated. Those who want a re-play of the epic posturing of Australia's 19th and early 20th century bishops Will learn from O'Farrell that
As the visit of Ireland's president served to recall Australian civic and church history. unlike the present ethnic mix, is Irish and O'Farrell tells it all, warts and all. It is a paradox that the Australian Church which grew up so close to its Irish ancestry and input has prompted few Irish pens, if
any, to try like O'Farrell to come to a frank assessment on what took place in that Irish Australian Church. Lastly, O'Farrell's book is about the laity — the heroic. saintly, self-sacrificing, long suffering and often despised Catholics who also had their moments of faithlessness, lapsing from church practice, opposition to Catholic schooling meanness with their money and criticism of their priests and bishops. Church history is not for weak stomachs that believe all happens in heaven. The Australian Church had its eyes on heaven but its decisions were made very definitely on earth and at times the hellish adversary WAS deemed to be there as well. Anyone who dares to pontificate about the present crises in Australian Catholicism without reading with deep humility these battlescarred pages is a real cuckoo, distinctive in voice but very much out of place in the nest.
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Hitch-Hiker's Guide To Europe is packed with information and sensible advice for all travellers — not just hitch-hikers — who want to t ravel around Europe cheaply. Sections include how to travel, what to see, where to eat and sleep, and all information, in this tenth edition. has been fully revised for 1985-86. One of the hook's special features are the many tips and comments printed from the hundreds of letters sent to the author every year by t ravellers from all over Europe.
ew titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles Apples. A Guide to the identification of international varieties, by John Bultitude, published by MacMillan, $32.95. Anyone interested in growing or eating apples may want to identify a specific variety. This book has been compiled and written specifically for this purpose by one of the world's foremost authorities on apples. The book describes and identifies 252 varieties of apples grown all over the world.
Some Desperate Glory, Diary of a Young Officer, 1917, by Edward Campion Vaughan, published by Papermac, $9.95. Intensely honest and revealing, the diaries vividly capture the spirit of the officers and men at the Front. The diaries grow in horror and disillusionment as Vaughan's company is drawn into the carnage of Pa.s,schendaele, from which, of his original "happy little hand" of 90 men, only 15 survive. Patterns Of Fashion, Volume 3, 1560-1620, by Janet Arnold, published by MacMillan London. $20. The long-awaited new title in Janet Arnold's unique series on the cut and con-
struction of costume through the ages. This book covers the entire Shakespearean period and will be particularly useful for theatre designers and students of costume. With over 300 photographs and 80 detailed drawings, no student can afford to be without it. One Hundred Years of Journalism, Social Aspects Of The Press, edited by Cyril Bainbridge, published by MacMillan, $16.95. This book marks the centenary of the Institute of Journalists. Cyril Bainbridge places the history of the Institute in the context of the development of newspapers and broadcasting over the past century. Distinguished contributors discuss the role of the Press in modern society from the viewpoint of their particular sphere of activity. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, Volumes 1 and 2, by Rudiger, joppien and Bernard Smith, published by Oxford University Press, $150. The first comprehensive study of the art associated with Captain James Cook's three voyages to the Pacific. These two magnificent
volumes contain an introduction to the material followed by a complete fully illustrated catalogue of the known original drawings and paintings. You and Your Baby Pius You and Your Toddler, by J.W. Staines and Marjory Mitchell, published by Oxford University Press, $10.99. Now shrink-wrapped together at a very special price, these books are the ideal guide for parents who really care about the healthy progress of their child. The 300 Best Hotels In The World. by Rene Leder, published by MacMillan London, $14.95. The most idiosyncratic hotel guide in the world, this completely updated new edition is essential reading for all discerning travellers. The author, through personal experience and extensive research, lovingly describes the very best of them. There are over 35 new hotels included ( and a corresponding number of sometimes famous casualties!). Some new and exotic locations, such as Korea, the Maldives and Macau, have also found their way into this authoritative guide which
will, no doubt, excite greater interest than ever before. Paint Your Own Masterpiece, edited by Mark Churchill, published by Papermac. $14.95. Copying the works of the great masters is a long established and invaluable part of any artist's training. You can recreate 30 famous paintings by artists ranging from Botticelli to Hockney with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. With useful advice on techniques and materials, this stimulating book allows any aspiring painter to learn the secrets of the great masters. The Burke Foundation, by Anthony McCandless, published by MacMillan London, $18.95. A novel of intrigue and suspense, the story revolves around a young man who becomes mystified by his father's untimely death. The surrounding facts seem incongruous and thus a great search begins to establish whether or not his father is still alive — unravelling the mystery produces some startling facts! It is a story of power, about good and evil and the shadowy land between.
The Serpent's Circle, by Patrick Harpur. published by MacMillan London, $19.95. In the 13th century Pope Innocent III ordered the extermination of the notorious heretic sect, the Cathars. But three members of the sect escaped and to this day no one knows what became of them. What would happen if for seven long centuries the Cathars had waited not only to seek their revenge hut also to gain control of the Church and reinstate their beliefs? Intrigue and suspense mount when a papal visit becomes imminent. Exploration of these medieval mysteries result in a contemporary novel of immense power and compulsion. Friends in High Places, A ustralian-American relations diplomatic since 1945, by Glen St J. Barclay, published by Oxford University Press,
$25. Since 1945 the security relationship between Australia and the U.S. has been of vital importance to Australian diplomats and politicians. This controversial new study draws on a mass of documentation in Australia and the U.S. to depict its
complex evolution. Australia's involvement in Korea. the Suez Crisis, confrontation with Indonesia and the Vietnam trauma are interpreted in this analysis of the issues and personalities involved. Women's Rights At Work. Campaigns and Policy in Britain and the United States. by Elizabeth Meehan, published by MacMillan. $14.95. This title examines the origins and implementation of equal pay and equal opportunity policies for working women in Britain and the United States. Elizabeth Meehan traces the recent history of demands for intervention among feminists in both countries and reveals the different patterns and timings of demands for reform. The Origins Of Modern Feminism. Women in Britain, France and the t fed States 1780-1860. by Jane Rendall, published by MacMillan, $11.95. This comparative study analyses the emergence of feminist movements and their differing characters in Britain, France and the United States. Jane Rendall examines the social. economic and cultural factors
which affected women's status in society. and led some women to act, individually and collectively, to seek to change it. Victorian Lore Poetry. An Anthology. published by Papermac. $&95. This anthology has been carefully compiled to reflect both the rich sensibility of Victorian poets, the together with the many facets of love itself. Of course the three great poets of this era, Arnold, Browning and Tennyson are well represented. and an unusual selection from lesser known poets enhances the book. Julia Clemente Book of Rose Arrangements. by Julia Clements. published by Oxford University Press, $24.99. No flower offers more interesting material for the arranger than the rose. Clements gives hints and advice on how to care for cut roses. prepare for exhibition and competitive work. Working Dogs. by Eduyirdand Audrey Hart. published by Oxford University Press, $9.99. With 40 colour photographs of all types of dogs in action, this is a book for all dog lovers.
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Twelve men's teams have nominated for the winter tennis pennant season which begins on Saturday July 6. The competition has been divided into three divisions of four teams each. Each team will play two rounds of home and away matches and the top two teams in each grade will play off in the final. Entries for the women's pennants were very disappointing with only two teams nominating for the A division and one team nominating for the B division. As a result there will be no women's pennants this year. This will be the first time ever a winter competition has had to be cancelled. With the carnival being played in Perth this Christmas, selection of a women's team will now be difficult. The selectors were intending to use the results of matches played in this pennant as a guide to player form. It is now proposed a round robin tournament be arranged for the women pnor to the annual championships to enable them to get the necessary match practice. It will probably be played on two
WHAT'S ON consecutive Saturday afternoons in August. The dates and conditions for entry will be finalised shortly and club secretaries advised. QUEEN QUEST Clubs are currently seeking young ladies between 1827 years to represent them in the annual queen quest. Entrants must be Catholics but need not be tennis players. The winner of the quest will represent Westem Australia in the national quest to be held in Perth this Christmas and the prizes include accommodation at the Westos Hotel over the carnival period and a trip. The key attribute is personality as the queen will be hostess to all our eastern states visitors over the carnival period. Any young women interested in knowing more about the quest should contact their club secretary or if you are not a club member contact the quest organiser, Jenny Pearce, on 447 4950. MEETING The next meeting of the association will be held at the home of Peter and Kerry Messer, 70 Coniston Way, Ferndale on Tuesday July 2 beginning at 7.45 pm.
CHANCE... RACE ONE: New Range 1. Sea Chariot 2, Tanjo Fern 3. RACE TWO: Rita Magita 1. Rebel Robbie 2, Candy Dancer 3, RACE THREE: Frankie Francis 1, Montreal Chief 2, Egyptian Dancer 3. RACE FOUR: Sekondi 1, Arthur Daley 2, Milton Wares 3, RACE FIVE: Starport Lass 1, Hangover Cloud 2, Star Quiz 3.
RACE SIX: Dangerous Adios 1, Nero Wolfe 2, Belinda Mist 3, RACE SEVEN: Hartley's Folly 1, Mellow Port 2, Gillie's Jewel 3. RACE EIGHT: Classy Cloak 1, Dashing Belinda 2, Joelena Myth 3. RACE NINE: Black Anchor 1, Special Vale 2, Col Presto 3. RACE TEN: Tessie's Hope 1, Flintstone 2, Balcatta Boy 3.
SINGERS NEEDED Earthen Vessels, a group of Christians dedicated to spreading the Word of God through music leans towards the folk music idiom, but are lovers of all forms of God's music. They sing and play at the Parish of Our Lady Help of Christians in East Victoria Park, as part of the 6.30 pm Saturday Mass. To help build a local music group and then help other parishes with similar needs, the youth of Our Lady Help of Christians parish are invited to join in singing or playing at the Saturday evening Mass. FRANCISCANS PROFESSED Brother Damian Ferrie, OFM, of Melbourne who recently spent six months in Perth at the Midland Friary and subject of Record article: "Why Give up so much for God" (Christmas issue), made his solemn profession as a Franciscan, with Brother James Cunneen from Auckland, New Zealand, at Box Hill, Victoria, recently. More than 500 friends, relations and 40 brother Friars, filled the church and subsequently celebrated in the adjacent hall. Brother Cunneen's family and friends came from New Zealand to take part in this special event. Among the Friars, was Brother Kevin Sheehan, OFM, now into his fifth year of study with the Franciscans in Victoria. Brother Sheehan is an ex -La Salle student and comes from Glen Forrest. He was leaving the next day for eight months pastoral service at Aitape, Papua New Guinea, as part of his training COLLEEN HOWARD ATTADALE WORKSHOP At Attadale parish on Sunday July 7 from 1-5 pm. Sister Kerry VVillerson will lead a workshop on the theme Liturgy is Belonging. Three other key speakers will cover the areas of Ministry, Music, Liturgy of the Word and the Eucharist. If you are a reader, commentator, musician, or serving in any other parish ministry; if you enjoy special Liturgies; or if you are an interested Parishioner - then this workshop IS for you! For any general inquiries, phone Pat and Leonie Reid 330 1305. CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE The annual Mass and communion of the Catholic Women's League will take place at St Mary's Cathedral, at 10 am Sunday, (today). The State conference will be held at the Cathedral Parish Centre, 450 Hay Street, Perth. 1984 PILGRIMAGE On Sunday June 30, a video film afternoon at Dianella Parish Centre, 356 Grand Promenade, Dianella at 2.30 pm will show films taken during the 1984 Pilgrimage of Faith and will revive many wonderful memories for last year's group. All are most welcome. Please bring a
MIRRABOOKA HEALING Six parishes were represented on the Mirrabooka healing weekend with participants from North Beach, Lesmurdie, Gingin-Chittering, Queen's Park, Girrawheen and Mirrabooka. The next healing weekend is planned for October.' November in Bullsbrook. Details are available from Vera Kay, Crest Hill Rd, Bindoon 095-761083. For information about the parish healing weekend please contact Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre, 29 Recreation Rd, Kalamunda or phone 293 2214 any time. Father Geoff Aldous, parish priest at Mirrabooka, commenting on the healing weekend held in his parish, said 'The Weekend brought great joy to those who participated. ' Though the numbers were not large, I'm sure many blessings will flow through those people into the parish and indeed throughout many parishes in the Archdiocese. Through a series of presentations based on prayer, saints, scripture and personal experiences of the team, the participants on the healing weekend are encouraged to identify inner hurts they are carrying and which, often unknown to them, affect their relationships with their family and other people close to them. Max Whitehurst of Girrawheen, who attended with his wife Annette, said, 'This weekend has been a tremendous revelation in my life. "I can now look forward with great joy and confidence knowing that Our Lord Jesus Christ is alongside me all the way, through my fellow parishioners."
LEEDERVILLE PRAYER MEET The Leederville Friday night prayer meeting will start a program on June 28 for people new to the charismatic renewal. Called the Life in the Spirit seminar, it is a seven week course which introduces the dynamic of God's Spirit working in people's daily lives. At the same time, a video series based on Dr James Dobson's Focus on the Family will be held for those people not attending the seminar. The new programs follow a successful Pentecost and healing Mass held at St Joseph's church, Subiaco and the subsequent follow-up program on healing which finished Last week.
CLERGY DIRECTORY The 1985 Directory of Australian Catholic Clergy published by the National Council of Priests is now available. In three major sections with entries by diocese, religious order and alphabetically, the 1985 directory contains more than 2000 alterations. Produced by MediaCom Associates the cost per issue remains the same as in 1982 —$12.50 per copy from MediaCom Associations Inc., 6 Sheffield St., Malvern, S.A. 5061.
IRISH SINGERS Ceoltoin Maghlocha, a group of singers, muscicians, dancers and storytellers from the West of Ireland wilt perform at the Octagon Theatre on Saturday, August 10. Ceoltoiri Maghlocha, which means musicians of Moylough, a village in North East Galway, consists of 35 performers, and was formed six years ago with the an of preserving and promoting the traditions of Irish music, song, dance and storytelling. A Taste of Ireland is a glimpse at different aspects of Irish life, some of which have disappeared, others still very much alive in Ireland today. Tickets may be booked through Paddy Costello 381 4427. The visit of Ceoltoin Maghlocha is sponsored by the Irish Club of WA. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of the Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday June 30 at 2 pm. For further information and bus reservations please contact P. Galea on 349 7135 or L. Martini 328 4631.
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INDIAN UTURGY TELEVISION MASS The Mass celebrated with special Indian accompaniments by Father Bede Griffiths during his recent Perth visit will be shown on Channel Two at 11am on Sunday, July 7. A television studio was specially fitted out for the special liturgy in which a local congregation took part.
The Majellan logo was prominent on the cake at Morley Majellans 15th birthday party: (from left) Central committee president Doreen Gibson, current president 1VIelita Hutchinson holding the cake and Jenny O'Meara who launched the originalparish group.
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