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The leader of a community training project The posters, banners, and other silk screened funded by Australian Catholic Relief has material produced by these groups were used in been arrested under South Africa's emer- community education campaigns in several parts of South Africa. gency regulations. The project has the support of the South African
Morice Smithers, 33, was detained soon Bishops' Commission for Justice and Peace. after the South African Government Earlier this year, ACR provided a further declared the State of Emergency on July 21. $25,000 to enable the project to expand and to
increase its training activities. Mr Smithers has a long association with the DEE aft-apartheid movement. He was arrested and Other workers involved in the project have beaten by police for his part in student protests been harassed by the security police and it in 1972. Later, he was employed as a volunteer teacher has been decided to suspend the activities of in Lesotho and as a community worker for the the project for the time being. South African Council of Churches. The project, which was started in 1983 and In 1981 he was arrested on two occasions and received an ACR grant of $5000 in 1984, held for several months without charge or trial. provided workshop facilities and training in silk He was then "banned" for two years, during screening techniques for a wide variety of anti- which time he was effectively under house arrest. apartheid groups including youth organisations, The ban was lifted in 1983 and he immediately trade unions and women's groups. started to organise the silk screening workshop.
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Patrick Lim ordained a priest. Story and tures pages 2 and 3. Fattier Cunningham's first despatches from Nairobi Congress. See pages 2 and 3. R OSLYN ROSS begins a new in-depth feature on open adopbons. See page 10 and 11 .
Presents from Africa: Pope John Paul ll blesses a young woman in Lome, Togo who presented him with a basket of froit. Picture from The Universe.
Work starts on charity home
Work has begun on the charity home being built for the Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped Persons at Glasnevin Court, Waterford. The concrete slab for the foundations was laid two weeks ago and brick work is now under way. There has been a good response from the building industry to appeals for donations but Mr Bert Dolin, chairman of the CCIH committee organising the charity home said this week he hoped more donations would be received. Letters and posters had been sent to parishes throughout the Perth Diocese outlining the charity home project and asking for support from parishioners.
by GEORGE BOYLEN to provide respite, support and crisis care for parents caring for their handicapped children at home. About that time a Federal Government grant of $112,000 assisted with the building of a house in Greenwood to accommodate six mildly ha capped, independent living adults. This house, staffed by qualified social trainers, was a centre for training in living skills as well as a residence.
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Due to a restructuring within the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, several positions have become vacant. Applications are sought from men and women (lay or religious) who are suitably qualified and experienced.
The 42nd Eucharistic Congress . . . the first ever to to held on the African
Primary School Consultant
continent . . . has now finished.
Duties: Provide educational advice to schools and the Catholic Education Commission on a wide range of matters relating to Catholic primary schooling, including curriculum and assessment, school leadership and organization, school-community interaction, and school evaluation and standards.
The congress was held in Nairobi, Kenya, and attracted
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Duties: Provide educational advice to schools and the Catholic Education Commission on a wide range of matters relating to Catholic secondary schooling, including curriculum and assessment, school leadership and organization, school-community interaction, and school evaluation and standards.
from most part of the world. Pope John Paul II also made the con-
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Duties: Develop, organize, maintain, and participate in where necessary, professional development and accreditation programs for principals and teachers in Catholic schools; provide advice to school principals regarding in-school professional development programs and activities; liaise with other school authorities and organizations as appropriate.
visit. Most visitors later heartily congratu-
End of it all Cardinal lated Archbishop tunga, O of Nairobi for his
organisation of the congress.
Consultant on School Management and Staffing Duties: Assist with the selection and review of school principals and teaching staff; assist with the support and development of school boards; assist with the preparation of advice in relation to all aspects of the employment conditions (including industrial relations) of teachers and principals in Catholic schools.
Consultant on School Facilities Duties: Assist with planning the development and construction of new schools; assist with the preparation of advice on capital needs of all Catholic schools and devise plans to meet those needs; assist with the preparation of advice on all aspects of Commonwealth and State capital funding policies and on all aspects of the rationalization of Catholic school facilities.
Assistant Research and Statistics Officer Duties: provide computing services to the Catholic Education Office and related organizations; assist with the collection and analysis of data; assist other officers in the use of HP250 computer system using existing software or developing new software as appropriate (inhouse training will be arranged subsequent to employment).
Senior Executive Officer Duties: Accept responsibility for the provision of each of the following: carrying out secretarial duties for the Catholic Education Commission; general administrative services for the Catholic Education Office; maintenance of all CEO personnel records; management and maintenance of all CEO facilities and equipment; developing and maintaining a comprehensive registry system; overseeing CEO finances and budgets.
R egional Education Officer (Bunbury) Duties: Operate branch office of the CEO; advise and support Catholic schools in the region; facilitate relationships between schools in the Bunbury region and the various sections of the CEO; promote the value and purpose of Catholic schools.
Bishop Quinn, of Bunbury, wearing the special vestments of the congress, gives out c ommunion . . .
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Divisional Secretary Duties: To provide secretarial and administrative support to the relevant division, including handling incoming and outgoing correspondence, dealing with inquiries, making appointments, typing letters and other material, and managing routine administrative matters within the divisional office.
Divisional Clerk Duties: Provide clerical and administrative support; assist with the preparation of reports and publications.
Receptionist Typist (temporary) Duties: Operate switchboard and route all incoming telephone calls; answer inquiries and direct callers and office visitors to the appropriate person or source of information; greet and announce visitors to the office; provide clerical and typing services.
Patrick Lim and former Director of Vocations, Father Bryan Rosling.
Archbishop Foley and Patrick during the ordination.
Clerical Assistant/Typist (one half-time temporary position) Duties: Provide clerical and typing services, including preparing reports, filing documents, operating duplicating and other office equipment.
Registry Clerk Accept responsibility for all aspects of incoming and outgoing mail; assist with the recording and filing system of the office.
Bookkeeper/Clerical Assistant Duties: Provide bookkeeping services such as accounts payable, general ledger, banking, debtors' control, computer input as well as routine clerical tasks.
A PPLICATIONS Further information and application forms are available from. Assistant Director Administration and Finance Catholic Education Office PO Box 254 Subiaco WA 6008 Telephone: (09) 381 5444
CLOSING DATE 18 September 1985 Applicants for all positions should have a commitment to the ideals of Catholic education.
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Patrick outside the Cathedral with Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.
Archbishop Foley ordained Parick Urn to the Priesthood in a service in St Mary's Cathedral last weekend. Patrick was the third priest to be ordained this year for the Perth diocese. Peter Growney was ordained in Ireland for the Perth diocese earlier this year, and Paul Fogarty was ordained in Perth. Patrick is the second youngest in a family of six boys and a girl. He was educated at the Catholic High Chinese School and Our Lady of Lourdes English School before joining the Francis Xavier seminary in Singapore in 1979. Patrick has also worked as an art teacher, freelance photographer, sales repreentative and an interior designer and decorator. He came to Australia at the end of 1980 and entered St Paul's national seminary, Kensington, NSW. He gained pastoral experience in 1984 in Kalgoorlie, Tuart Hill and Mosman Park, and was ordained a deacon at St Kieran's last August.
Commission plans for a 'just peace'
Father PAT CUNNINGHAM in Nairobi
The Catholic Commission for Justice and this week Peace released the text of its 1985 study on peace. The study entitled Work for a Just Peace is a reflection on peacemaking in an armed world.
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Father Stephen Hawe, of Dardanup WA sits among the priests attending the congress.
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It is published by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace as a contribution to dialogue during the forthcoming International Year of Peace. It has been approved by a more than two thirds majority of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Australia as a paper for discussion and reflection throughout the Church. The commission consulted widely in preparation of the document. It invited input from the community in general and also met with experts from government and non-government sectors in its deliberations. The commission also invited response from a broad spectrum of groups involved in the work for peace. A large number of individ-
uals and groups accepted and the invitation responded. The resulting study develops the theme of peacemaking and addresses issues relevant to all members of the Australian community. The issues addressed include: • the ANZUS alliance; • the joint US/Australian facilities; • the mining and export of uranium; • a nuclear free and independent Pacific; • the development of a nucelear free Indian Ocean community; • the role of the Church in the development of peace. Work for a Just Peace presents the commission's position on the arms race and Australia's involvement. The study stresses that peace is not simply freedom from war. There can be no peace v,ithout justice. In it the commission sees the arms race asvpitomising humanity's condition and overshadowing all our best endeavours. It is a problem deeply rooted in the injustices of our world and must he addressed.
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Father Patrick Lim giving Communion at his ordination Mass to Kalgoorlie parishioner, Bronwyn Martin holding baby Thomas.
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Ryan Canadian Government tested public A pastoral makes preparation schools change Round-up of Papal visit stories "Everyone want to have something new — something different to show the Pope." Monsignor Walsh said in Perth.
Pastoral preparation will be strongly emphasised before and during the pope's visit to Australia, according to tour director, Monsignor Brian Walsh. Monignor Walsh said Pope Paul VI had expressed similar wishes before his visit to Australia. The subject was discussed fully with Archbishop (later Cardinal) Knox before Pope Paul's tour. Monsignor Walsh said: "I'm stressing very strongly pastoral preparation making the most mileage out of the papal visit. "I guess Pope Paul VI put this into me first because in an audience Pope Paul said it very firmly. t's no use having a congress without a spiritual I preparation of the people.
"Canada is a perfect example. It's a very similar country to our own in size, population and make up.
Changes claimed to enhance the role of the Commonwealth Schools Commission as the government's primary advisory body on education policy in the school sector, have been announced by Senator Susan Ryan. Administration of the commission's general recurrent and capital programs will be transferred to the Commonwealth Department of Education. Senator Ryan said the first phase of the transfer would begin early in September. 'The heavy administrative workload of the general recurrent and capital programs has increasingly eroded the commission's ability to advise and monitor," Senator Ryan said. "The transfer of these administrative functions will mean a better service for schools, and will also allow the commission to have fuller and more regular consultation with education interest groups. Senator Ryan said the transfer meant once government decisions on general recurrent and capital funding had been made and guidelines drawn up, the department would take over administration in accordance with those guidelines. The commission's special purpose programs, such as the Disadvantaged Schools Program, and the Curriculum Development Centre, would remain wholly within the commission. The commission would
also retain state offices for contact with schools and school systems, and for "shopfront" activities, particularly curriculum development. Administration of the new non-government schools policy would initially remain with the commission and the Language Education Branch of the department would be transferred to the commission, thus boosting its curriculum resources. Senator Ryan said because the commission would continue to give policy advice on recurrent and capital funding, no changes would be made to the Commonwealth Schools Commission Act. To enable the commission to keep in touch with progress in the general recurrent and capital programs, the department would consult with the commission in cases which did not clearly fit existing guidelines. Senator Ryan said any advice to her on such cases would come jointly from the department and the commission. She stressed the changes would provide for new and consultation enhanced arrangements with educational "I want to reassure representatives of schools and school systems they will retain full access to the commission.
The government actually sponsored two Gallup polls, one about six months before and one about three months before the visit. 'Do you know the Pope is coming?' — this sort of thing just to see how many of the population really knew he was coming
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because it is important everybody knows he is coming. And then closer up 'If the pope were to come to your city what would you like to be present at' " Monsignor and so on Walsh said. Unanimously non-Catholics in particular wanted to be present at a Papal Mass.
Monsignor Walsh said he did not think Papal visits were going out of fashion. "I think the more they go on the bigger the crowd, because the man just has an extraordinary charisma from the youngest to the oldest. "For example, what would a teenager today want to go out and see the pope for you would say? "They said that same thing in Paris where people can be anti-clerical, they said the same in England where there is not many Catholics and he went to Cardiff. "I saw him in Belgium and Holland and also in Australia I have been to see the Beatles.
"Congress is just the icing on the cake — but it is really of no great value if there isn't a pastoral preparation. "It is the same with a Papal visit and I'm pressing very hard for a pastoral preparation. "However when you look at the Church of Australia, each diocese is preparing some renewal programs right up until the 1988 bi-centenary. 'They have got them for the Synod — all sorts of things — so it is going to be difficult. For five or six weeks before the pope appears we should have a little program which is national and it is on the life of Pope John Paul II and his teachings and works. "Now I think that would be absolutely great because did you know that as a young man he was a miner?
84-year-old Bishop Gong released by Chinese authorities. .. BEIJING (China) — The 84 year old Bishop Ignatius Gong Pinmei of Shanghai, who was recently released from prison "on parole", had been held in custody for very nearly 30 years. Arrested together with 27 priests and 300 laymen on September 8, 1955, he was detained without trial until March 1960. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges which alleged that, among other things, he had colluded with imperialists and been leader of a counterrevolutionary clique under the cloak of religion. An early picture of Bishop Gong.
Budget reaction The Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission considers the Budget lacks adequate support for families and family life. The failure to index family allowances or the dependent spouse rebate continues the trend towards a loss of horizontal equity for members of intact families. Failure to index family allowances has the same effect as if the government had decided to increase the tax on the family. The commission would like to see family allowances sharply increased to reflect the real costs of rearing children. In the absence of income splitting the dependent spouse rebate remains vital. It could be argued without it, the dependent spouse should be eligible for social security benefits independent of the earning spouse's income. The impact of the Budget is harshest on the single income family and the larger family. Recent studies of the costs of caring for children provide ample evidence of the need to reform the tax system in favour of families with dependents. Many families will incur further losses from the abolition of the remnants of the family tax concessions announced in May. A number of young families will also have their prospects of buying their own home reduced by the cut in the real value of the first home owner scheme.
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He is believed to have spent a long period in solitary confinement after his arrest, and was denied all contact with his family for many years. His real crime was his to determination remain loyal to the Holy See and to
Released: 30 years in gaol oppose the efforts already being made by the Communist authorities during the early 1950s to force the Catholic Chinese Church to sever its link with Rome. He forbade the young people in his diocese to
"Because of its importance and because all other forms of c atechesis are oriented in some was to it. the catechesis of adult, must hase high priorits at all lesels of the Church. The success of programs for children and south depends to a significant vitent upon the words. communit . especialls parent.. a ttitudes, and actions of the adult s trrhencei norrcr,-, f.mils and guardians."
join the groups that the Communists set up to mobilise various sections of the population. The Chinese said Bishop Gong had admitted his crimes and shown repentance. But they may have wanted to avoid the unfavourable publicity which
been have could expected on the 30th anniversary of his arrest in September. Meanwhile, a number of priests, Jesuits and others, remain in prison. Many of them have already served very long sentences, charged with the same sort of offence as Bishop Gong.
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Advice for state organisers. . . State organisers should all have an open ended function — meaning everybody can fit into that venue no matter where, Monsignor Walsh said. Wherever it is, with no limit, if 50,000 want to turn up or 100,000 or 200,000 there is room for them and I would imagine that's what would be a Papal Mass. Then there will be a lot of specialist functions. For example there will be one for youth -- somewhere in the country. There can be only one for children. There will be one for the sick and crippled and there will be one for priests and religious "I don't know why Australia needs a Papal visit,- Monsignor Walsh said in RTS.
Soviet guards' neglect KIEV, Ku..sui. Ukrainian Catholic believer Valeri .tfarcbenko died on October 7 1984 in a Leningradprison haspitalfrom a kidney illness aggravated by mistreatment and ref usal of proper medical attention by the Soviet camp authorities The persecution did not end with Marchenko's death. In his testament he had requested a church ,funeral His body uus returned in a zinc coffin to Kier, where his mother hadmade arran gements with a priest Under pressure from authorities, however, the priest reneged on hisprom ise Another priest began a funeral serrice in a differ ent church in Kiev, but the authorities preirrued him from completing it. After lying in the church for two dajs, the coffin was taken to the cemetery accompanied by fifteen persons, five were close friends and relatives; the others were "unknown". — Keston College Report
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Functions for John Paul -Obviously people invite him to their countries. "He receives an enormous number of invitations from all over the world and then he chooses which one he will go to. -The Australian government and the Australian bishops invited him here — there was no reason attached a nd he accepted for November of 1986. Monsignor Walsh said. The visit would have an enormous effect on every individual in Australia and the Australian community as a whole, regardless of religions, he said. Pope John Paul is a very charismatic figure.
Father John Gandini, SDB, walked into the Salesians' Victoria Park presbytery, looking like an Australian with an accent to match. What's unusual about that you'll say? Plenty! After all, although born in Subiaco and educated by the Marist Brothers, he left for Castelferro, Italy, at the age of 16 and with the space of 24 years, you would expect an Italianised version to return. But not him. Spritely he is. And talks with at times a broad Aussie accent. "How come?", I asked in surprise? Then I learned his mother was a Western Australian and father Italian (Piedmontese). Mr and Mrs Gandini at the ages of 60 and 50 years old respectively, took their two sons John and 13 year old Frank. to Castelferro to work an inherited rural property. Quite a challenge at their mature age from urban Subiaco. After a period of readjustment, the family settled into a very different way of life. His mother today, although not speaking Italian to any extent, has adapted to the Italian way of life, "but is still very much an Australian!", emphasised Father John.
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Father's work is in the oratory and giving religious instruction in state schools He has dual citizenship and it is his third trip back to Western Australia since 1961. Father John is the first and only Perth born Salesian — but is part of the Italian province. Returning for a month in 1980, he came back in 1982 with his mother while he relieved for two months at Wembley.
Father John Gandini Mr Gandini at the age of 84, still farms the property, driving his tractor and tending to his vines, potatoes, maize and wheat. When he finished school, Father John joined the Salesians in 1965 and was ordained in 1976. Since then, apart from a year each in Muzzano and Borgomanero, he has been based at Alessandria 20 km from his family home. The Salesians there look after a parish, an oratory and a professional centre for mechanics.
EC= This enabled her to visit relatives and friends she hadn't seen for 20 years. Following a request from the Australian Provincial, Father arrived here in July on a 12 months stop-over. He is currently relieving at Floreat Park for two months and will then continue to assist his fellow Salesians (newly arrived from Victoria last January), Fathers Papworth and Keogh, with parish activities and needs of the Italian community.
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Geoffrey Arnold Churack, who has been prominent in the Perth motor industry circles for a number of years, was born at Wyalkatchem on September 19, 1938. He received his education at various country State schools and at Aquinas College from 1952-55. At Aquinas, where he gained his Leaving Certificate, he was a prefect, captain of the First XI and the swimming team, vicecaptain of the First XVIII and a member of the athletics and rifle-shooting teams. In nine years at General Motors — Holden, during which he obtained his accountancy qualifications at night school, be became a district sales manager. The first part of Geoff Churack's life was spent in a succession of country towns as his school teacher father John was transferred from place to place. A memorable period for the youngster was when John was headmaster at North Dandalup. In some vacations then Geoff went to the Bushies school at the Pinjarra convent where the parish priest and the Josephite nuns imparted religious instruction as part of the Bushies scheme founded in the 1920s by Father (later Monsignor) J.T. McMahon. There Geoff formed friendships with fellow-pupils who had come from various country districts to avail themselves of the opportunity, largely denied them previously, of learning about their faith. There was a practical side to the Churacks' Catholicity, too, because mother and father and their three sons and three daughters helped to build the church at North Dandalup. They undertook similar labours when John was transferred to Chidlow, and Geoff recalls going out into the bush to bring in the stone of which the church was constructed under the direction of Mundaring parish priest Father Linnane. Geoff boarded at Aquinas College for two years until his parents moved to nearby Manning, when he became a day boy.
ESE They were halcyon days for the lad as he threw himself into just about every form of sport that he could and establish friendships that have stood the test of time.
With Kevin James in 1965, he formed the Holden dealers Kevin James Motors at Cannington. The two men started Lance Gibbons Holden at Gosnells and their interests grew to include a Honda dealership at Melville, the BMW state distributorship and two finance and leasing companies. They had a total staff of about 200. In 1978 most of the businesses were sold but Geoff is now in partnership at Lance Gibbons Holden with Frank Schwarzbach. He is a member of the Institute of Directors and a director of several companies including BusseIton Beach Timeshare Resort. A member of the Knights of the Southern
Cross, he is a director of its finance arm, Commercial Finance Ltd. He is a member of the Australian Family Association and the Right to Life Association, on the Test match committee of the WACA and immediate past president of the Australian Automobile Dealers' Association (WA Division). Geoff and his wife Moira (nee Kingston) belong to the Riverton parish. They have three daughters — Simmone (19) who is studying languages at the University of WA, and Danielle (17) and Emma (13), both attending lona Presentation College. Geoff has worked on sub:-committees of both lona and Aquinas in their fund-raising projects.
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE time to help these young sportsmen. The club toured England in 1979 where six matches were scheduled, the main one being against parent club Incogniti of England that had been founded in 1858. The programme was proceeding as planned and former Wesley College boy Clive Francis flew all the way from Saudi Arabia where he was working to play for the WA side in the big match against the mother club. From the cricket viewpoint,
They were halcyon days for the lad as he threw himseff into just about every form of sport that he could and established friendships that have stood the test of time.
he needn't have bothered_ It was the only game of the whole tour that was washed out by rain. Incogniti has also toured Singapore and Hong Kong. At Aquinas, which Geoff considers to be a great preparation for later life and a credit to the Christian Brothers, one of his closest friends was a slim lad named Herb Elliott. "In addition to his outstanding ability as a runner," Geoff reflects, "he was extremely tough mentally. Really it
should have come as no surprise that he created records and was never beaten over a mile." On leaving school Geoff worked for about six months with Herb in the Elliott store business before joining the sales department of General Motors-Holden as a clerk in mid-1956. In his nine years there he gained his accountancy qualifications through night school study and finished up as a district sales manager.
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Great Southern Catholic and Anglican parishes combine in ecumenism . . .
The hours out of the classroom were occupied by cricket, football, swimming, athletics and rifle shooting. His brothers John and Kevin had kept wickets for the First XI before him and he became the third Churack to stand behind the stumps for Aquinas in succession over a sixyear period. Geoff, who first played WACA A-grade at 16, is vicecaptain of the Incogniti Cricket Club and has been a playing member since 1966. Incogniti was formed in WA in 1927 with the charter to teach young men to play the game as cricketers and gentlemen. The two priests who officiated at the combined service The club still upholds this at All Saints Anglican church Mt Barker, Catholic parish policy and makes an imporpriest Father Doug Conlan (left) with Father David tant contribution to college Wakeford, Anglican priest as they hold their candles. The and high school curriculums. combined service of prayer and hymns was a resounding Incogniti members include success. past state and A-grade crick, Picture by courtesy Western Farmer 46 Grazier. eters who give freely of their
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Today is a far cry from 50 years ago when, if one was a Catholic, it was a "sin" to even enter a "protestant" church. I can still vividly remember as a young teenager, I saw fit to go to a Church of England service with my young mate. I was curious and I wanted to see what they really did. I remember feeling very disappointed, they didn't have a mass, (as an Alter boy in those days I thought a service without a Mass was a waste of time). They also sat down and didn't kneel much for prayers and I thought our choir and hymns were much better. When I told my mother where I had been she gave me a lecture and told me I must go to confession first
ARCIC service for Mt Barker from STAN MENTHA is Mt Barker
thing on the next Sunday morning. I have of course been to numerous Anglican services and weddings since the rules have been changed. R ecently I attended a combined service when two Mt Barker priests, Father Doug Conlan, Catholic parish priest, and Father David
Wakeford, Anglican parish priest, took turns in leading the congregation at the All Saints Anglican church in prayer and hymns. For seven weeks prior to the service, six groups of both faiths got together locally before it culminated in the combined service. It was a local participation in ARCM, (Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission) which operates throughout the world for
the unification of the Anglican and Catholic faiths; now, after 20 years, ARCIC is proving how successful it has become.
The combined service at Mt Barker was successful, about 50 people attending from both faiths. Each held a candle as a symbol of unity of the two faiths and the service finished with both priests standing together.
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E 111 "Never before has there been a gathering of so many important people in post -Vatican II music together in one place at the same time," said the project's producer, Paul Quinlan, who led off the recording session singing his own composition, Sing to God a Brand New Canticle. All the net profits from the musical endeavour will be given to Catholic a gencies and missions working in Africa. Quinlan said he expects the project to gross $10 million. NOTE: The recording will be available at religious bookstores. To order, send cheques payable to The Cry of the Poor Fund Inc., PO Box 26929, Phoenix, Ariz., 85068. MasterCard and Visa are accepted. Minimum donation is 510.
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Vatican has asked that pilgrimages to the Yugoslavian site of reported Marian apparitions be stopped pending completion of a study of the situation by local church authorities. This was the first time the Vatican has spoken publicly about the controversial situation in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia.
A Vatican letter to Italian bishops does not take a position on the validity of the apparitions but discourages pilgrimages so as to avoid confusing people until a Yugoslavian church commission completes its investigation of the case. The apparitions to six young people were purported to have begun in a field outside the city in 1981 and later moved to a small chapel in St James Church in Medjugorje. the after Shortly reported apparitions began, Bishop Pavao Zanic of Mostar-Duvno, the diocese in which Medjugorje is located, appointed an investigating commission.
C] [7] In March 1984, the commission asked for an end to the pilgrimages, saying the authenticity of the apparitions had not been established. The commission repeated the call last October, after pilgrimages continued, saying it found "disciplinary and theological difficulties in the messages of Medjugorje." The commission also said "cases of presumed healings have been publicised, without adopting the scientific documentation about the health of subjects before and after the healing."
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VIENNA. The Austrian wine scandal is the expression of a deep moral crisis, Bishop Stefan Laszlo of Eisenstadt has declared. The bishop, whose diocese was particularly affected by the affair, said what was needed was "an awakening of the consciousness of personal responsibility towards God and man". He welcomed new regulations to preserve the purity of wine, but said this was no substitute for moral renewal. Only when man observed inner moral safeguards would he win bad( trust, said the bishop.
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A crying need for hope An age like ours has a crying need for hope. It is an age marked by despair, darkened by a sinister pall of gloom. Some predictions of doom are supposed to be based on biblical prophecy, a supposition which betrays an abs-ymal ignorance of what biblical prophecy is all about. If anything, the message of the Bible is one of unquenchable hope. This is hope based on the wisdom and goodness of the Creator who so loved the world that He gave His only Son for it - not for its damnation, much less its annihilation. As St Paul says so eloquently in Chapter 9 of Romans: "I consider the sufferings of the present to he as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed
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in us. Indeed, the whole created world eagerlyawaits the revelation of the sons of God. Creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but byHim who once subjected it; yet not without hope, because the world itself will be freed from its slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God." Paul adds: "In hope we were saved. But hope is not hope if its object is seen; how is one to hope for what he sees? And hoping for what we cannot see means awaiting it with patient endurance." Human destiny and that of the universe are bound up together. The survival of His people is a marvel of history. Many times people hadgood reason to think that the end of the world was near. But they refused to give up hope and it was this hope which sustained them over the difficult centuries. It was hope based on the conviction that God, who called them out to nothing and made them His people, had great plans for them. This was true right from the beginning. Early in the biblical story, Abraham was promised a son, who would
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be the first in a long line of progenc-y. Even though Abraham and Sarah were well beyond the age of begettirg, he believed. Paul puts it this way: "Hoping against hope, Abraham believed and so became the father of many nations ... Without growing weak in faith he thought of his own body, which was as good as dead ( for he was nearly 1(X)years-old) and of the dead womb of Sarah. Yet he never questioned or doubted God's promise." ( Romans 4:18). It was from this people that there came eventually the one who is the immediate basis of our hope. Speaking of the hope we have because of Christ's redemptive death and resurrection, Paul says: "This hope does not disappoint, for the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us ... For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him by the death of His Son, it is all the more certain that we who have been reconciled will he saved by Him." (Romans 5:5,10).
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Moral super-power VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II is a "moral super-power" in the view of William Wilson, US ambassador to the Holy See. Wilson cited the pope's example of reconciliation in his post-Christmas visit to Mehmet Ali Agca and his aims to reconcile Chile and Argentina by mediating the Beagle Channel dispute. Although the dispute is unsettled, at Pope John Paul's urging the foreign ministers of the two countries signed a "Declaration of Peace and Friendship" at a Vatican ceremony in Januay. They pledged to bring the territorial dispute to a peaceful conclusion. Several other diplomats also cited the pope's mediation between Chile and Argentina as an example of world-class leadership. It is the kind of leadership that draws flag-decorated limousines with influential figures regularly to papal appointments in Vatican (:ity. At least 16 nations. including Great Britain, the United States. Sweden. Norway and Denmark, which are predominantly Protestant, have established diplomatic relations with the Vatican during the past three years. Pictures of the pope have appeared on the cover of Time magazine nine times since his election in 1978. Pope John Paul has become involved in world affairs to a degree unprecedented in
the modern papacy. Both diplomats stationed at the Vatican and church personnel place the pontiff in the category of world leaders. Carl Hach. first counsellor of the West German Embassy, said the pope's integrity makes him effective in disputes such as between Chile and Argentina. "The pope has a special authority as a man who does not defend his own interests," said Hach. "People respect what the pope says more than they do what a politician says. Even nonCatholics respect his moral authority."
By Sister Mary Anne Walsh A Vatican source, who asked to remain anonymous, agreed. "The problem of the Beagle Channel existed for years." he said. "The two countries turned to the pope as mediator because they felt that he could he just and fair. He was
approached not as a polititian but as one who is respected for his justice, fairness and objectivity." Ralph Griffiths, first secretary of the British Embassy, acknowledged the respect world leaders have for the poly"It is unusual for any leading statesman to come to Italy and not have an audience with the pope," said Griffiths. Such audiences often go beyond mere pleasantries, as accounts of the encounters indicate. For example, following the June 20 audience with South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha. the Vatican released a statement condemning apartheid, the system of racial separation practised by the South African government During the 1982 meeting with Ya.s.ser Arafat, head of the Palestinian liberation organization, the pope said he hoped the solution to the conflict between the PLO .ind Israel wouk1 exclude 'recourse to arms and to violence in any form. and especially to terrorism and revenge.'' The pope spoke with the t wo men despite criticism t hat the meetings would appear to be endorsements of South Africa's apartheid and the PLO's terrorism. Several diplomats said that t he pope's position on human rights has helped' establish him as a world leader because the issue goes beyond traditional Church concerns. "His constant preaching and stress on human rights surpasses all boundaries." said a diplomat at the Vatican who asked to remain anonymous.
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'World listens to thepope' "That was one reason cited in the 1,5 Congress for establishing diplomatic relations with the Holy See. The pope's stress on human rights makes him a universal leader." The diplomat also cited the pope's position as head of one of the 32 states to sign the Helsinki accords on human rights. "Hardly a week passes when the Holy See does not make an intervention on someone's behalf.' • the diplomat said "l'sually the interventitin concerns immigration rights or imprisonment for religious reasons " The diplomat added that the Vatican's nuncios and pro-nuncios to more than 100 countries around the world also help establish the pope's global position "The embassies and the diplomatic relations oil the Holy Sec make the pope a worldwide leader." he said "No patriarch or Buddhist leader has this kind of international importance. He is a point of reference for the whole world." An official at the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace noted a recent example of the pope's high standing among world leaders. "President Reagan invited Archbishop Pio 1.2ghi, pronuncio of the United States, to the western White House to hear the pope's views on Poland." he said. "Very few ambassadors, if any, are invited to the western White House. World leaders listen very much to the pope."
Observers of Pope John Paul differ in their views on why he receives the degree of respect he enjoys in the world. • Griffiths cited the fact that the pope is the leader of 750 million Catholics • A source familiar with the establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and the Holy See cited the pope's popularity, which was boosted by his trip to Poland. He also noted that the drive in Congress for full diplomatic relations with the Vatican began after that trip. "The pope's impact on television during his visit to Poland was phenomenal," • he said. "People were fascinated by him." • Another diplomat said that t he pope's leadership is enhanced by the wide exposure he receives on his papal trips outside Italy. the 24th of which will take place in September when he travels to Canada. "On his trips around the world he touches Catholics and non-Catholics. He meets with leaders of all religions,"
the diplomat said. "In Asia and Africa he met with millions of people who had never seen him or any other pope before. He is worldwide. No pope is as wellknown as this one." Pope John Paul's ability to communicate through diplomatic and religious channels gives him a broad perspec, tive, Griffiths said. "The flow of information to and from Rome is impressive," he said. The British diplomat noted that the pope communicates with national leaders, religious leaders of other faiths, and bishops all around the world. "Church historian Jesuit Father Robert Graham said that in the 19th Century papal statements were unwelcome outside the Catholic world. But in the 20th Century the entire world is open to the voice of the pope. he said, although governments are free to ignore him. The pope's frequent statements "keep certain ideas, for example. disarmament and aid to the poor. at the fore," the historian said. "The pope oils the wheels of government bureaucracy to make it easier for foreign governments to vote for foreign aid to such areas as the drought-stricken Sahel," Father Graham added. A Vatican official told this anecdote as evidence of the pope's effectiveness: "Just the other day, I was looking through a report by Dr Abd-el Rahman !thane, under-secretary general of the United Nations and executive director of UNIDO ( United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and a Muslim," he .said. "Khane was quoting the pope to emphasise the importance of preserving the rights of individuals in development projects. "The pope often is a reference point in international organisation," the Vatican official said. "He's being heard."
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1 ElAdoption is an emotion-charged issue and which personally one touches the lives of many. In fact, with records showing 20,000 adoptees in Western Australia since the 1920's, it goes without saying some 100,000 people are immediately affected, if one only takes into account birth mothers and fathers,
For Eva Gross the opportunity to do the job properly was made more realistic when legislation was passed in Victoria enabling adult adoptees to have greater access to information and legislation which encouraged the setting up of information services in all adoption agencies.
adoptees and adoptive parents. If the extended family is included in the calculation, then the addition of grandparents, both natural and adoptive, and siblings, both natural and adoptive would bring to nearly a quarter of a million people in WA personally touched by adoption. As co-ordinator of the Adoption Research and Counselling Service, Margaret van Keppel is keen to establish a broad view of adoption and a sensitivity to the needs involved. Since the service was set up within the Clinical Unit of the Department of Psychology at UWA in January 1984 it has been kept busy counselling those who have been 'touched' by adoption. "People seem to think of adoption as a single event in history," Margaret said. 'They don't stop to think of the needs of the natural grandparents... of their feelings of loss and perhaps the role they played in the adoption itself. * *Fathers are also ignored and it is only recently that some thought had been given to the rights and the needs of relinquishing fathers." It was in 1983 Margaret and Professor Robin Winkler, a director of the ARCS presented a paper on 'The Adjustment of Relinquishing Mothers in Adoption.' Up until that time, she said, the greatest attention had been focussed on the child and the adopting parents. "Relinquishing mothers were typically young, single
It is not surprising so many intended to protect both people have an opinion, 'one mother and childbut studies way or the other,' on the have shown that the secrecy rights and wrongs of adop- makes it all that much harder for relinquishing tion. In recent years the secrecy mothers to come to terms surrounding adoption has with their loss and for begun to break down and adopted children to come to studies have been made on terms with the fact that to a the emotional 'cost' of tradi- large degree, they are people without a past. tional adoption. But times are changing and The secrecy was originally
'Open' adoption making headway and vulnerable at the time of r elinquishment and had tended to keep the experience to herself," she said. The paper was based on the results of a national study and was part of a new move to break the silence about the effect of adoption on relinquishing mothers. But that new move' was only a beginning. As Margaret van Keppel secs it there are needs to be met with anyone who has been 'touched' by adoption. The main aim of the service is to provide counselling and assistance to members of the extended adoption family... in other words to any person who has been either directly or indirectly affected by an adoption experience. One of the tasks of the service has been to organise support groups for relinquishing mothers, adopted persons (adolescent and adult) and adoptive parents.
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Margaret van Keppel coordinates the only post-adoption service in Australia and sees a great need for Government awareness and support of such schemes. "Adoption is a life-long experience," she said. "Funds are needed for postadoption research and to help people cope with the problems that adoption has brought to their life. 'We counsel a lot of people who don't want to find parents or children.., they just need someone to talk to. 'We also do a lot of work counselling parents who have adopted and who are having problems with the child," she said. "Adoption is one area where people tend to have lots of 'unfinished business' and we need government backing if we are going to do the job properly."
For Eva Gross the opportunity to do the job properly was made more realistic when legislation was passed in Vicoria enabling adult adoptees to have greater access to information and legislation which encouraged the setting up of information services in all adoption agencies. Part of her brief while in Perth was to publicise the fact the Victorian legislation changes may well affect some Western Australians
EDE This legislation applies to anyone who was born in Victoria and adopted in another state; to a parent who placed a child for adoption in Victoria; to any child adopted in Victoria; to adoptive parents who were originally of Victorian origin." The Victorian changes mean adult adoptees can now obtain a copy of their original birth certificate and identifying file information. "It makes the search just that much easier," Eva said. She said it was important anyone who could be affected by the changes contact the relevant agencies to make it known if they do not want direct contact. 'We ae reaching out to people because we are aware of the fear some may feel," she said. "Burt unless they contact us and let us know their wishes then we cannot act." She said a 95 per cent guarantee could be given to those who did not wish direct contact. "But that is only if we know about it," she added. "Don't just sit there... get in touch with us." She said anyone in Western Australia whose Victorian adoption experience was through the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau or the Sisters of St Joseph should contact the Adoption Information
Service. 491 Nicholson Street, North Carlton. Tel. 342 0866 Anyone else should get in touch with the Department of Community Services, Adoption Information Service, 55 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Tel 654 4222. The Department of Community Services will advise if the original agency is still functional and take the r equest if the agency is closed, she said Both say change has come slowly. Greater understanding began to develop in the early to mid 70's but there is still much work to be done. Some of the stories that emerged from the national study of relinquishing mothers were 'horrifying', Margaret said. "And I have seen clients who relinquished four years ago and still faced similar difficulties," Eva added. If a woman relinquishes in WA tomorrow she will get a pen sketch of the family, religion, occupation, nationality, the sort of suburb, house, whether the adoptive parents were from large or small families and what they want for the child.
The natural mother does not sign anything for seven days and then had 30 days to change her mind. From that point no further information can be obtained. Some sensitive adoptive parents will send a photo or a letter," Eva said, "but the mother will only get it if she happens to contact the department or the agency and ask. There has been a major growth in counselling aid and intermediary facilities, she added. "My agency caters for birth mothers, birth fathers, brothers, sisters and grandparents.., we find the adopting family and ask them for non-
the community is urging This week ROSLYN ROSS changes to the law regulat- talks with Margaret van Such Keppel, psychologist and ing adoptions. changes have already been co-ordinator of the Adoptmade in Victoria and are ion Research and expected to ultimately be Counselling service at introduced in WA. At the UWA and social worke same time society is looking Eva Gross, adminisfor new systems of adoption trator of the Catholic which will hopefully meet Welfare Bureau in the emotional needs of all Melbourne. concerned.
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identifying information,- Eva said. Since the early 80's, she said, most voluntary agencies and departments had enabled the birth mother to give a letter and a gift to the adopting parents for the child In the first year, there were likely to be two home visits made by a social worker and resulting information and photographs made available for birth parents.
DELI Moves are now being made to secure yearly information for relinquishing parents, she added While the adopting parents were often fearful about the outcome of such contact, most found that ultimately the advantages outweighed the disadvantages. "In one case where the natural and adopting parents met there was a great deal of fear on both sides, but it was very worthwile for all because they could then relate to each other as real people," Eva sid. 'The adoptive parents feel better prepared and become more comfortable about providing information. Many felt strange about giving informa-
tion to a 'faceless', 'nameless' person.Both Eva Gross and Margaret van Keppel believe preparation for adoption is a vital factor as is counselling for any problems that should arise after the event. 'We need to talk to them about the long-term ramifications and counsel them for the emotional backlash," Eva said. "Both sets of parents need to be realistically prepared for what is happening,- Margaret adect 'The relinquishing mother is often told she will forget about it, but she doesn't. "At the same time the adopting parents must accept that these children are not their natural children and that they do have other 'parents.'
DOE 'The Catch 22 is that no matter how good adoptive parents are, they are adopting because they are infertile and many of them can never come to terms with the basic fact some other person can 'give up' something which they themselves want so much." Recognising the reality of the situation, says Eva, takes
people halfway toward solving the problems. 'We often have the situation of adoptive parents who are hadicapped by problems with a child,- she said. "In one case the boy was withdrawn and difficult. The father said his son was only really happy when he was in the country.
DDE "It was only when we talked to the natural mother about it we discovered the family had a long history of allergies which were exacerbated by city living. 'That was one instance, and there are many others, where contact between natural and adoptive parents was a necessity for the welfare of the child." She said almost all adopted children reached a point of questioning although for some the experience would be more intense than for others. "I think adoptive parents can assure children that their natural parents cared about them . . that they did what they thought was best and did not reject them, but there is no evidence,- she said. "Certainly it can help to have
a letter from your mother that was written at the time she gave you up, but it s even more re-assuring if your adoptive parents can tell you your natural parents ask about you each year. "In one case, an 18 year old boy who had always felt comfortable about being adopted was givent he letter his mother had written when he was born. "He wrote to his natural mother after that and said he had never felt rejected but her letter had been important in that it affirmed everything he had thought." Another important factor is regular "access" to information provides adopted children with access to their past. Children raised within their birth family are told the family history — the exploits of grandparents, aunts, uncles heroes, achievers and black sheep.
ELL They are told who they resemble in looks character and talent. But adoptees have no such structures for establishing self. Their links with the past are broken and this gives them a lack of biological identity.
In a bid to gather material on just this aspect, a study is being carried out by UWA researcher, psychologist, Suzanne Mictford, who is studying the identity of adoptees with the adoption Research and Counselling Service for her master's degree in psychology. The study which is being done in conjunction with Susan Allen who is studying the effects of a reunion on adoptees and their birth parents will involve 1000 adoptees Australia-wide.
DOD It will be the first comprehensive published work on adoptee identity and reunion. Mrs Mictford said the problems adolescents encountered inc oming to terms with their identity was twice as hard for adoptees because they had two sets of parents. Although they loved their adoptive parents some felt they had to find their birth parents so they could work out how they fitted into the "scheme of things." The university research service has just completed a survey of 87 adoptees who decided to find their parents.
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Most of them said they felt better about themselves as people and had a better relationship with their adoptive parents after finding their birth parents. Despite the fact 14 per cent of them thought the reunion was unsatisfactory, all but one said they would do it again in similar circumstances. Child adoption organisations in WA have now banded together to present a united front in the move for change. The series of seminars (the third of which was addressed by Eva Gross in May) have been organised by the WA Committee on Adoption and Alternative Families. The committee represents 19 organisations involved in the academic, professional and practical areas of adoption. The fourth seminar in the series will be held this month at LlWA and will focus on the human rights issue with Dame Roma Mitchell as guest speaker The aim of the seminars has been to create public awareness of the issues.
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Redemptorist campers Five members of the Redemptorist Youth Ministry team travelled 600km on July 5th to run a Search Camp in Kalgoorlie. The Redemptorist Youth Ministry team is a group which consists of about 30 people. They work with support from the Redemptorist Community in North Perth. The team's ministry is to young people and it takes the form of camps and missions. Maria Brolese, Leonie Banks, Mary Newton, Paul Newton and Father John Hill were the members who ran the camp. Initial contact was made with Kalgoorlie early 1984, through Brother Peter Hayes — a past member of the Redemptorist Youth Ministry team. Since then the camp has been on the drawing board. During the weeks leading up to the camp an organising committee was set up in Kalgoorlie to publicise the camp. committee The was headed by Jenny Ricciardello ( a member of the YCW in Kalgoorlie). Part of Jenny's and the committee's publicity consisted of "door knocking". Eventually the weekend attracted 15 young people aged from 17 to 26, along with Father Greg Donavan, Brother Peter Hayes and Father %Ince Glynn.
Kalgoorlie visit by youth team One of the main reasons for the camp was to create some enthusiasm among the young people of Kalgoorlie. For the organisers the number who responded to the invitation was disappointing, but for those who attended the camp it was a worthwhile experience. Patricia Hicks from Kalgoorlie said: "Before the camp we all had different preconceived ideas about what the weekend would hold as the majority of us had never attended such a camp before." "As we all arrived at the site where the camp was to be conducted there was a sense of fear, curiosity and excitment." "The fear soon left, and the curiosity and excitment became more intense." "It wasn't long before we felt we had known each other for days."
"Throughout the weekend we completed many interesting and useful activities. "Interesting, because we bagan to realise things about others and ourselves which we hadn't noticed before and useful, because all the activities had deep and realistic meaning, and we had to really think about them to benefit. "This meant we were finding out more and more about what we really thought of life and where we were heading." "To everyone's disappointment Sunday soon arrived and this meant it was time to go home. An oppressive feeling seemed to overcome us as we realised that the camp had unfortunatel come to an end. "Though at the same time a sense of satisfaction, warmth and achievement filled us as we retained and reminisced the weekend.'
ElYouthForum introduces Sharon Marshall with the first of a series on contemporary Christian music. Contemporary music is alive and well in the Christian world. There are many groups and individual artists from Australia and overseas who are producing top of the range material which caters for a variety of tastes. From rock, pop and adult contemporary styles to music suitable for children, the quality of the music is enhanced with its lyrically distinctive Christian theme. One artist who is always to be found in the foreground of contemporary Christian music is Amy Grant. Winner of three Grammy Awards and numerous Dove Awards (the G ospel Music Association's Grammy equivalent), Army is finding continued success with her latest a lbum, Unguarded, (Festival Records and Word Records). Unguarded is currently in the Top 40 on American Billboard magazine's pop chart, which is more than an indication of the quality of its content. Grant's vocal warmth and vitality have reached a prime quality on this album. Her style is modern, fresh and unafraid. Produced by Brown Bannister and featuring many of the artists who worked with Amy on previous albums, Unguarded is Grant's best
evident in this album, an example being the highly successful single released, Find A Way, (Festival R ecords). However, there is no compromise in Grant's testimony to her faith. As Amy explains, "Not every song has to be a total explanation of faith. I want to give the listener some credit for searching for his own meaning. "My message is, 'Look, I'm not going to throw it in your face. But if you're searching, this song will really say something to you"." Unguarded is the first album of Grant's to be released throughout retail stores within Australia. Her ninth album to date, Amy's previous successes include Age To Age which recently received a platinum award, and Straight Ahead. Amy Grant will be touring Australia early 1986. SHARON MARSHALL
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The Redemptorist Youth Group and Kalgoorlie participants of the recent weekend. God is love. Christ replies to the young man in the Gospel. He says: -No one is good but God alone." In other words only God is the ultimate basis of all values; only he gives the definite meaning to our human existence. Without reference to God created values remain as it were suspended in an absolute vacuum. It also loses its transparency, its expressiveness. Evil is put forward as a good and good itself is rejected. Are we not shown this by the very e xperience of our own time, wherever God has been removed beyond the limits of evaluations, estimations and actions? Why is God alone Good? Because He is love. Christ gives this answer in the words of the Gospel and above all by the witness of His own life and death: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son". God is good precisely because He "is love". The question about the value of life, about the meaning of life, forms part of the singular treasure of youth. It comes from the very heart of the riches and the anxieties linked with that plan for life that
Suffering is a test for youth
must be undertaken and carried Out. When youth is tested by personal suffering, or is profoundly aware of the suffering of others; when youth experiences a powerful shock at the sight of the many kinds of evil that exist in the world and finally, when it comes f ace to face with the mystery of sin, of human iniquity, Christ's reply is this: "Only God is good, ' only God is love. This reply may seem difficult, but it is firm and true; it bears within itself the definitive solution. How I pray that you, my young friends, will hear Christ's reply in the most personal way possible; that you will find the interior path which enables you to grasp it, accept it and undertake its accomplishments!
Such is Christ in the conversation with the young man. Such is Christ in the conversation with each of you. When you say: -Good Teacher," he asks: "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone." And therefore: The fact that I am good bears witness to God. "He who has seen me has seen the Father.- Thus speaks Christ, the teacher and friend, Christ crucified and risen: Always the same yesterday and today and for ever. This is the kernel, the essential point of the reply to these questions which you young people put to him through the treasure which is within you, which is rooted in your youth. Your youth opens different prospects before you; it offers you as a task the plan for the
tian music is familiar, yet it can be expressed in a multitude of ways. A more subtle approach to lyrics is
Just over 2.6 million young people in the Australian population are between the ages of 15 and 24. Just over two million of these are engaged in employment, full-time education, or some combination of education, training and employment. Nevertheless at June 1985 about 230,000 young people or 15 per cent of the labour force were recorded as unemployed and seeking full-time work. This group represented some 8.8 per cent of the total population of young people. Since the government came into office, about 76,000 more jobs for young people have been created. structural H owever, c hanges in the economy suggest that even rapid economic growth will not bring about an early return to low levels of unemployment, particularly for young people. In addition, too many young p eople are inadequately housed, do not receive adequate health care and have welfare needs that are not being met. There is a growing sense on the part of young people of alienation from adult society. The Commonwealth Government has in the past two years initiated several steps t o enable a constructive response to be made to the problems facing young Australians. R eports and reviews initiated by the government have been sought from the OECD, the Youth Affairs C ouncil of Australia, the Kirby Committee of Enquiry into Labour Market Programs, the Karmel Committee on the Qual ity of E ducation, and a public review of income support provisions for young people. Acting on the recommendations and advice received, the government has adopted an integrated strategy for young people. It is intended to ensure the programs and activities designed to assist and support young people are linked together at all levels of government and in such a way are mutually supportive. The most important initiatives the Government is undertaking are to extend and improve the system of vocational training, and to upgrade the quality and range of educational provision. telSIA07,,,ZWZ./17./
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Amy Grant whole of your lives. H ence the question about values; the meaning of life, about truth, about good and evil. When Christ tells you to refer all this to God, he shows you what the source and foundation of this is in yourselves. Each one of you is the image and likeness of God through the very act of creation. Precisely this image and likeness makes you put the questions that you must ask yourselves. These questions show how man without God cannot understand himself, and cannot even fulfil himself without God. Jesus Christ came into the world to make each one of us aware of this.
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Record Kids Club hildren's Story Hour became Tobit was a successful Tobit man. He and his wife, depressed. One day he Anna, lived well. He prayed to die. "Lord, had a good job. Their you are good. Your home was beautiful. ways are merciful. It is They had a son, better for me to die Tobiah, whom they than to suffer so much." dearly loved. Tobit was a religious Trusted man. He loved God God's and obeyed laws. Even when oth- Tobit did not die. ers worshiped false Deep down he trusted gods, Tobit remained in the Lord. He faithful to the one, believed that the Lord true God. He often would rescue him. His slowly went alone to Jerusa- depression lem to observe the lifted. great holy days of the One day Tobit rememJewish people. bered that he had He also was a gener- invested some money ous, caring man. He with a businessman. gave as much as 30 per So he decided to send cent of his money to his son, Tobiah, to get the poor and needy. the they money He gave bread to those needed so badly. who were hungry and clothes to people who "My son," the father instructed, "Go on a needed them. journey to the region life his Then o f Media. Along the his Tobit and changed. family were forced to way, act as I have move far away to the always taught you to city of Nineveh. They act. Do good always. Do not turn away from missed their home. any of the poor and Tobit, now blind and poor, tells his son, Tobiah, to go to Media and find the man who owes them money. "Along the way ...do At first Tobit had an God's face will not be boy. instructs the turned from you,he be will not and God's face poor, purfrom any of the job as not turn away important chasing agent for the turned from you." king of Assyria. But Tobiah listened carethen the king died. fully. Tobit had more The new king did not to tell his son.
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received, it's great. I've read when be threw out his line? Dear Captain Bob, How can you most upset a like Tobit. In fact the What do you call a Cat that "Don't do anything to Far out. a few pages already. Here are some jokes: farmer? drinks lemon juice? new king was very anyone you that What did the It is really broken shop interesting. Q. What sort of pine has the By treading on his corn. Sour puss. angry at Tobit for bur- would not want done windows say when the tree What's the hardest part What has many rings hut no Here are some jokes: sharpest needles? ying the bodies of peo- to you. Give some of "Mummy there's a man here fell on them? A. A porcupine. fingers? about milking a mouse? killed by the king. your bread to the ple Tremendous ( Tree mend Putting the bucket under it. A telephone. Q. What animal can carry the with a parcel for you." us). What is it dear?" heaviest things? hungry. Share your He sari it's a fish and it's Why did the boy put his car A. A snail, he carried his clothes with those Plotted marked C.O.D." house on his back. in the oven? none. who have Tell him to take it back, I Because be urinted a hot Knock Knock The king plotted to Always praise and ordered salmon." Who's there? rod. kill Tobit. Tobit and thank God for being so There was a man who put What were Tarzan's last Cook his family fled for good. Always keep the salt on his dog and patted the words? Cook, who? commandtheir lives. The king Lord's roast beef. Cuckoo, Cuckoo. Who greased the vine? ments.took everything they Now some riddles: Anne Wringe, What was the first smoke Q. What holds the sun up in signal sent by an Indian? owned. Kalgoorlie. Tobit then gave his the sky? Not long afterward, Dear Captain Bob. Help, my blanket is on fire. instructions about son Thank you for the book I A. Sunbeams. the king was killed. Why does the sea roar? and how to money the Q. Where do you find giant Wouldn't ,you if you have a Tobit and his family find the man who had snails? crab on your bottom? returned home and it. Then Tobit said: A. On a giant's finger. First student: "How were celebrated with a fine Q What's yellow and stupid? your exam questions?" "My son, don't be disfeast. But that very couraged because we Rosemary Bateman, Bever- A. Thick custard. Second student: "They were night Tobit lost his ley; Barbara Carey, Perth; Q. What runs around Paris at easy, but I had trouble with are poor. Trust and sight. He woke up Damian Hicks, Kalgoorlie; midday wrapped in a plastic the answers." love God and you will unable to see anyDebra Jennings, Brunswick; bag? Fred: "My dog has gone be a rich man. A. The lunch pack of Notre missing." thing. The doctors h a Lockwood, Harvey; Stewere not able to cure "Avoid all sin and do phen Martin, Spearwood; Dame. Peter: "Put an advertisement what is right in God's Matthew Rosinski, Man- Q. What makes the tower of in the paper." him. jimup; Melanie Atkinson, Pisa lean? At first a wealthy rel- sight. Go quickly. Fred: "Dogs can't read." Dalkeith; Tracey Plackett, A. It doesn't eat. ative took care of Tobit Have a safe journey Q.What did the dirt say when Vanessa Jackson Morley; Kylie Hughes, Balit started to rain? and his family. Then and hurry back." catta; Kay Dewar, GreenA.If this keeps up my name the relative moved. Tobit watched his son wood; Lisa Murray-Smith, will be mud. Tobit's wife, Anna, leave the house. As he Bibra Lake; Ethan McCoy, Q.How do you make a hand worked hard to sup- saw Tobiah walking Craigie; Susan Naisbitt, Lake stand? port her blind hus- down the street, Tobit Grace; Yvette Andrews, Welcome to our new A.Take away the chairs. band. They slowly asked the Lord to be Bridgetown; Heidi members: Michelle Ventris Q. Why did the robber chop off Arbuckle, Nedlands; Sally became very poor. with him. of Merredin; Shauna Roll of the legs of his bed? Adam, Collie; Andrew Thornlie; Emma Bacon of A.Because he wanted to lie Bridger, Ravensthorpe; Armadale. low for a while. Adele Clair, Beckenham; Q.What is it that even the Joseph Ercegovic, Morley; N nu ha. e gof to be in the club To join simph send the comcleverest man ottrlooks? Nyree Farrell, Balcatta; Betif ou ..ant to enter our com- pleted coupon here to The A.His nose. petitions and skin some of the R ecord Kid's Club. PO Ros tina Hughan, Coolbinia; Why do elephants have super priies. 50, .kberdeen Street. Perth, Claire Hebble, West Leeder6000. trunks? ville; Richard Jacquemin, What is the difference They can't afford suitcases. Kelmscott; Matthew between a fisherman and a Q.What has many rings but McCaughey, Mullaloo; David school boy? no fingers? Osman, Onslow; Rohan One baits his hooks while the A telephone. Young, Fremantle; Kevin other bates his books. 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Special business The Business of Heaven, Daily readings f rom C.S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper, published by Fontana, $5.95. In The Business of Heaven, a reading for each day of the year selected from the whole range of C.S. Lewis's bestselling books presents the honesty, originality and wisdom of this greatest of Christian thinkers. Each passage is carefully chosen to represent his beliefs and to reflect the seasons of the Church year. Born in Ireland in 1898, C.S. Lewis was educated at Malvern College for a year and then privately. He gained a triple First at Oxford and was a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College 1925 — 54. In 1954 he became Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English literature at Cambridge. He was an outstanding and popular lecturer and had a deep and lasting influence on his pupils.
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Meeting some real needs Options: A Handbook For the Elderly and those who care for them, by Glenda Banks, published by Dove Communications, $8.95.
Because most ageing parents cope adequately for as long as they have each other to rely on, this book begins at the point when the situation is most likely to change with the death of one of the parents. It is based on the premise that it is usually in the interest of all concerned, the surviving parent and the family, that the parent continues to live an independent life, with family support, for as long as possible. Using everyday language, Glenda Banks deals sympathetically with the needs of the elderly parent and those of the family. She outlines the options available: living alone, living with a son or daughter. moving into a retirement village or some sort of specialised accommodation and describes the many support services and assistance schemes to help the elderly and their families cope. The author also offers specialised advice on helping an ageing parent through grief and the practicalities that follow the death of a husband or wife, and how to cope with some of the symptoms of ageing. from physical disability to dementia. Glenda Banks is a journalist with a special interest in
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ing an elderly parent put on some couples which led to or highlighted problems of communication and negotiations between the marriage partners and also the marriage partners and their children. Her subsequent research revealed that many elderly people who were living with their adult children regretted their loss of independence, eventuating from decisions which had been made for them, in many cases without knowledge of all the options available to them and to their well-meaning families.
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WHAT'S ON Six teams of two women entered the round robin tennis tournament played at St Mark's tennis courts in Bedford. Each woman plays a set of singles and a set of doubles in each round of the tournament. On the first day, two and a half rounds were played. The tennis was of a high standard and all the ladies were feeling the effects of the hard tennis by the end of the day. Unfortunately the weather intervened this weekend and washed out all matches. As you are probably aware by now we are hosting this year's National Carnival which will be held from December 26-31. The carnival is an opportunity for our top seven men and ladies to compete against players from the eastern states in a teams event. Trophies are awarded for team and individual performances. Our teams will be selected from players who have played in the pennant competitions held this year and who will also be competing in the annual championships to be held on the weekends of September 14-15 and 21-22.
We have been fortunate in securing the use of the Hensman Park Tennis Club courts to hold the carnival tournament. Social tennis will be organised on each day of the carnival for those not competing in the teams event. Accommodation for our eastern states visitors has been arranged at the Westos Motor Inn in South Perth, just a stone's throw from the tennis. A very reasonable tariff of $15 a night per person, bed only, has been negotiated. Of course any of our members who want to be right in the thick of things can book into the hotel for the week. Anyone interested in staying at the Westos should give Greg Pearce a call on 447 4950. Each night of the carnival week social activities have been arranged to entertain our visitors and local members as well. These functions range from a very informal -Wild West" night to a more dignified ball and queen quest crowning at the Merlin Hotel. I will be highlighting the social functions in this column in the coming weeks.
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ANTHONY ANT Sacred Heart Primary School, Highgate, staged a musical "Ants'hiltvania", combining the stories of the prodigal son and the sower. Anthony Ant goes through various stages of being independANT, extravagANT, importANT and galivANTing and comes back after his adventures very repentANT! While the dragonfly, played by Cailli Pearce, tempts Anthony Ant (Kaye Livingstone) to come and have a good time, kind Miss Millipede (Elvira Rozzi) looks on sadly and the flowers share her BACK L to R: Father Neville, OMI, Father Casey, OMI, Father Ahearne, OMI, Farther Donaghoe, PP, Father Lynch, PP, Father Hayes, OMI. FRONT L TO R: Father Callan, OMI, Bishop E. Coppo, SDB, Father J. Satero, SDB. THE SALESIANS AND THE OBLATES IN WA The return of the Salesians to WA to take over the parish of Victoria Park makes the accompanying photo of interest. After World War I it was thought advisable by the Church authorities to have missionaries who were not German in charge of the Kimberley area. Consequently the Salesians of Don Bosco were entrusted with the care of the vicariate. Father Ernest Coppo, SDB was chosen as the Vicar Apostolic and was consecrated a bishop in Turin in December 1922. He came to WA in the middle of of 1923. It was soon realised that the fear of the Church authorities about the acceptance of the German Pallottine Fathers was unfounded. Eventually the Salesians withdrew and the territory was returned to the control of the Pallottines in 1927. This photo was taken behind St Patrick's Presbytery, Fremantle. The original was in the form of a postcard. Without too much research it can be dated as pre-1926 as Father Callan returned to Ireland that year.
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RADIO MEDITATION ABC Radio is presenting a series of programs exploring the experience of Meditation. Father William Hewett SJ leads each Meditation — taking his listeners, step by step, on a journey in which he teaches how to "meditate". The series over eight weeks, Mondays to Fridays, starts September 9. 6WN listeners can hear it at 11.16 pm.
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ARCIC DISCUSSIONS A series of three meetings has been arranged to follow up some of the issues arising from the recent parish discussions between Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Monday September 16, Father Patrick Bishop SJ and Bishop Brian Kyme will discuss issues relating to the Eucharist. Monday September 23, Archbishop Foley and Archbishop Camley will discuss issues relating to authority. Monday October 7, Archbishop Goody and Archbishop Carnley will discuss issues relating to Ministry. The basic approach each night will be one of dialogue. The speakers' time will be spent responding to the questions/ comments which people wish to raise with them. PALLOTTINE RE-UNION The venue is St Denis' Church, Powell On Sunday, September 1 there will be Street, Joondanna, commencing 7.45 a day of re-union and renewal for anyone pm each evening. Open to all. who over the years has worked with Pallottines in WA. The celebration marks the 150th anniversary of St Vincent Pallotti's foundation. St Vincent founded the Union of the Catholic Apostolate 150 years ago calling on the laity to participate in the Apostolate of the Church and to combine with clergy and religious in the work of the Church. The venue is the Pallottine Centre, Fifth Ave, Rossmoyne. Mass at 11.00 am, followed by b.y.o. barbeque. In the afternoon there will be slides and a talk. MARIAN FEAST Celebrate Our lady's birthday at her grotto, Bullsbrook, Sunday, September 8 at 11.30 am. Rosary, Mass, lunch break, procession and Benediction. For further information and bus reservations phone P. Galea 349 7135 or L Martinz 328 4631. EAST FREMANTLE ARC1C September 1: Vespers at 5.00 p.m. Church of the Immaculate Conception, East Fremantle.
Brother Andrew Kennelly OFM, youngest of five children from Blackburn, Victoria, has just finished a six months period at the Midland Friary. This community term enabled him to put his previous theology studies into practical parish application. During this time he has taught at La Salle College, has proven himself a keen sportsman and has been involved with instructing those who wished to enter the church, vocation work, adult education, the Midland Antioch youth group and St Vincent de Paul Society. Joining the Franciscans in 1980, Brother Andrew spent a period in Auckland, New Zealand, one year in Sydney (his novitiate) and three years at the Yarn Theological Union in Victoria. He is simply professed and will take his final vows next year. Combined with the previous six months, his next term will further prepare him for his ordained ministry. In response to questions as to how he sees his future role in the emerging
church, Brother Andrew sad: "What we are about is building basic Christian communities, which means that instead of being involved in big institutions, we try and build communities where people are able to express their needs and have them met within that community. Christ," he said, "comes to us basically through little communities. They are more human related. Jesus becomes more personal; someone we can relate to." For Brother Andrew this is highlighted by his Franciscan way of life which emphasises community and simplicity. "I would see my Franciscan role as giving witness to a Lord centred life and in building up Christian communities wherever I am. "There is a certain sense of feeling one's way, not knowing what the church will be in 20 years time. The church is changing, assuming a new identity, and emerging in a new way. My life is to give witness to this new church." COLLEEN HOWARD
Archdiocesan Calendar September 2: Ukrainian Liturgy, Ukrainian Catholic Church Ferguson St., Maylands, Bishop Prasko, Archbishop Foley to attend. September 3: Christian Brothers' Assembly Mass Aquinas College, Archbishop. September 7: Mass and Investiture, Order of Holy Sepulchre, Archbishop Foley; Golden Jubilee Sister Colette and Silver Jubilee of Sisters of the Holy Family, North Beach, Archbishop Foley; Inaugural Dinner for the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Bishop Healy. September 8: Ursuline Profession, Fremantle, Archbishop Foley. September 14: Mariapolis, Bateman, Archbishop Foley. September 15: Confimtit_-------ion Archbishop Foley.