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People with talents or skills to offer the papal tour can apply immediately by writing to Papal Tour Helpers' Catholic Presbytery, 46 Thomas Street, Nedlands, 6009. Applicants will receive a form on which to list their skills — typing, office equipment skills, driving experience, present employment commitments, time available etc.
From these applications a task force will be built up. People with suggestions for the pope's tour should write to Papal Tour Suggestions, 46 Thomas Street, Nedlands, WA 6009, c/- Catholic Presbytery. A special office with appropriate secretarial staff for the papal tour will be established in the near future.
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The public can make suggestions on what they want Pope John Paul to do on his visit to WA next year but more importantly they can immediately offer their voluntary skills and services. This was the message of the state director of the tour Monsignor Pat O'Reilly after attending the first national meeting organisers in Melbourne last week. Among the 22 present address on a particular at the meeting were topic. "We can't hold funcrepresentatives of every state capital, of New Zea- tions for every interest land, and a three man task group in every city. There force from the Common- are already 35 listed wealth Government in groups seeking special meetings with the pope Canberra. "Each state has a dead- such as youth, sick and line to suggest what is handicapped, farmers, possible for the pope's fishermen, Aborigines, visit to particular cities. ethnic groups, religious, The final decisions will be made by the Vatican organiser Father Tucci. "The dates of the visit will be finalised when Archbishop Rush of Bris bane, chairman of the Australian Bishops Con ference, finalises matters in Rome in conjunction with the Australian Government and the Vatican.
clergy, diplomats etc. "For example, it has been decided that Melbourne will host the one and only Polish community meeting with the pope. Other major meetings of interest groups may have to be handled the same way. "Tour organisers are under orders to make the
The national symbol for the 1986 visit of Pope John Paul to Australia. An explanation of the significance appears on Page 2.
at a Mass, will be free to do so."
Monsignor O'Reilly pointed some of the organisational tasks that have to be tackled: • Setting up state office and deputy director to parallel the national office that will plan the tour from Melbourne.
during the premier's visit last year, with WA police and other bodies.
• Liaison with local press, radio and television in addition to the 200 odd international media workers who follow papal tours.
THIS WEEK • Filipino churchmen says reconciliation is possible in the
Phillipines. Page 4.
• Drawing up liturgy and ceremonial, for one Mass a day, and other ceremonies appropriate to the pope's meetings.
• Stalls Maris seeks support for new host
Directors plan for a 'no-debt' tour
• Catholic Aboriginal woman's point of
The papal tour directors in the different states intend that there will be no debt outstanding at the end of the tour, Monsignor O'Reilly, the WA state director said after his visit to Melbourne. "Monsignor Walsh, the national director, has noted that there is to be no remaining debt so that is the cost of the tour as far as he is concerned," Monsignor O'Reilly said. Because the visit is to "all" Australians and not just the Catholics, there will be approaches to corporate sponsors to cover some of the paid positions that will be required, he said.
Monsignor O'Reilly "Because of daylight saving it is definite that the pope will approach by way of New Zealand and make Perth his last port of call. The pope is almost certain to make an overnight stay in Perth in of days last the November." Monsignor O'Reilly said duplication and repetition will be avoided by making one event the occasion for a major
pope accessible to the maximum number of Australians, not just Catholics. It is a personal pastoral visit of the pope. It is not just a television tour; otherwise he could send us a video film from Rome. "In Perth, with the advice of the police on security and traffic, we have to find a place where anyone who wants to see the pope, pmbably
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"We had a three day meeting in Melbourne of 22 people and this has cast the tour committee exactly nothing so far, thanks to the generosity of business, airlines, and caterers. He listed some of the support the tour has received:
• Liaison with the WA government which personally invited the pope
• Mr Jack Chia has given temporary office space in the prestigious No. 1 Collins street address. • Shortly, CRA will offer two floors in Melbourne's Comalco House which will be changing hands and tenancy over the period of the papal visit. • Both TAA and Ansett airlines have made generous trawl provisions. • Xerox have loaned not only the required copiers and other office machinery but will donate all the paper required for the tour organisation. • The ANZ bank will second a full time senior staff member to plan the keeping of records. The hank has already loaned $50,000 interest free to help the initial organisation. All monies received will be credited with interest. • The leading motor manufacturers will he providing the loan of cars to assist the organisers.
• Two national collections will be organised in 19861w the Knights of the Southern Cross,
family scheme for seamen. visiting Pages 10 and 11.
view on the handover of Ayers Rock. Page 3. • Conflict in the wake of juvenile contraception issue in England. Page 2.
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LONDON The woman whose attempt to outlaw the prescription of contraceptives to juveniles failed last week has criticised the lack of Church support but church spokesmen have rejected her charge. Mrs Victoria Gillick said: "I have been barred from consultation with Church leaders and ignored by Church officials in my attempts to bring the matter to court," she told the meeting.
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The symbol chosen for Pope John Paul's visit to Australia has been designed to link the historic tradition of the papacy with the living unity of the universal Church today.
Components of the symbol are a bishop's mitre, the Eucharist, the ancient Christian symbol of the fish, the Pentecostal tongue of fire and the papal coat of arms.
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She said individual bishops had been "effecThe mitre is the symbol of a bishop. The . Sideways, the design is reminiscent of The circle results from the symbolism of tively gagged" by the pope is Bishop of Rome and chief bishop of the the host and chalice as the sign of the eucharistic the fish, the ancient Christian symbol of faith in bishops' conference Church. Jesus Christ Son and Saviour. unity of the Church. from making statements to the public on their 4.. The tails on the mitre directly link the own initiative. Australian . The vertical outline can represent the design to the coat of arms of Pope Lay Catholics were John Paul. tongue of fire, the presence of the Holy Spirit. . The complete concept. deliberately excluded from decision-making on major issues affecting the life of the Church, she said.
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Victoria Gillick But the Catholic Media Office says Mrs Gillick's criticisms "do the bishops of England and Wales a grave iniustice", describing her allegations as being "simply at variance with the facts". "On two occasions, 3 May and 15 November 1984, official statements were issued after full consultation in the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales," it said. "Cardinal Hume personally made public statements in March and December of last year, and also wrote about the principles involved on 27 July in The Universe. "In these statements the bishops have stated quite clearly that Catholic moral teaching cannot condone the provision of contraceptives to under16-year-old girls. "They wished, however, to go much further than this, for the immorality of the practice does not depend on the particular age of the person, the support of parental consent, nor the observance of medical guidelines. "The bishops' concerns go beyond the details of the case brought to the courts by Mrs Gillick in her courageous campaign-"
Mount Barker's church of the Sacred Heart now boasts three top class, stained glass windows donated by well known Catholic families. The windows, designed and made by Ken VVildy from specially imported English glass use barley and wheat, the chalice and host, and grapevine and candle to symbolically express the mystery of the eucharist. The windows were dedicated during Mass celebrated by former Mount Barker parish priest Father Hugh Galloway, now at Ongerup. It was Father Galloway who suggested that new windows replace other coloured glass installed some 20 years ago when the church was almost completely rebuilt under the direction of the late Father Jim McCarthy. The windows, cost and installation of which totalled $5000, are gifts of the Duckett, Enright and Toone families, all prominent in Catholic and civic life in the Mount Barker district. Mrs Agnes Duckett who came out from England 40 years ago as the bride of the late Leo Duckett, a local farmer, donated a window in his honour and his brother George, also a local committed Catholic. Miss Anne Enright, matron at the Plantagenet district hospital has given a window in memory of her mother the late Monica Enright, a dedicated Catholic and community worker for many years. Retired farmer Tom Toone and his wife Millie have donated a third window in memory of their only son Trevor, tragically killed in a car accident when returning home for Christmas 19 years ago.
At a Mass to dedicate specially commissioned stained glass windows in Mount Barker, the former parish priest Father Hugh Galloway addresses the donors (from left), Mrs A gnes Duckett, Miss Anne Enright, andMr and Mrs Tom Toone. In the background are former windows similar to those which have been replaced
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"In the debate surrounding 'Work for a Just Peace' a major point has been overlooked," said Mike Megaw, Chairperson of the Perth Catholic Social Justice Commission, this week. " Concern for 'national security' has blinded many commentators to an essential fact of the global arms race, that 'it injures the poor to an intolerable degree' (H Vatican Council 1965). "The Australian community must recognise that we are part of the web of international aggression and injustice growing from that arms race. and causing
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immense suffering and conflict in the world now. There can be no peace, or security, without justice," he said. "The whole Church has not only a right, but a responsibility to speak out on the vital issues affecting our world. 'Work for a Just Peace' as a discussion paper, provides a sound beginning to this process in the Catholic Church in Australia," concluded Mr Megaw. The Catholic Social Justice Commission operates, in part, as the Diocesan representative of the national Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, having a particular role in the promotion of the annually issued
Social Justice paper. Peace Day, Sunday, October 27, subtitled Christians working for a Just Peace, will provide a major focus for the discussion of this document in the Western Australian community. The Peace Day will involve a public seminar featuring speakers Eric Sidoti (National Secretary of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace), Sr Veronica Brady, and Jo Vallentine (WA Senator for Nuclear Disarmament). The day will conclude with a Peace Eucharist celebrated by the Most Reverend W. Foley, Archbishop of Perth, at St Marys Cathedral
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Handover gives hope A prominent Catholic Aboriginal woman says she is elated at the Yuluru Ayers Rock handover this week because it gives Aboriginal people hope that land rights is not a lost cause. "Yuluru gives other Aborigines around Australia the chance to start thinking of getting together again and struggle for land rights," said Mrs Gwen Corunna this week. Mrs Corunna is president of the Nyungah Catholic Life Centre at Embleton, the liason with the Culunga Catholic school project at Guildford and the central member of the Aboriginal Lands Trust. She said nothing had made such an impression on her as a visit to the historic Australian rock in July this year. "Now 1 know what Aborigines mean when they talk about dream time. Here sitting in the middle of Australia is what the dream time is all about." She made the visit with a group of children whose reaction was that every Australian, not just Aboriginal, should go and see the rock. -What the children tried to explain was that the rock was uniquely sitting in the midst of nowhere and seeing it felt like stepping back in time.,, Mrs Corunna compared the impression that Yuluru made on her with her experience of other places. She grew up around York and remembers her grandfather telling her not to visit a certain hillside even though the beautiful flowers there were a big temptation. "It was special to me because of what my grandfather had told me. "I have been to Kununurra and although it is beautiful, I was saddened by the many things that have been lost. On the other hand Yuluru has never been touched, even by Europeans and can remain that way forever." Mrs Corunna sees a link between her Catholic faith and Aboriginal concerns when she reads passages like: Jeremiah, "Justice shall be done in the wilderness." "As a Catholic I see justice
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and part of it is already being used for a dental clinic. The building which occupies the land is extremely run down and unsuitable for the needs of the co-operative, so it will be demolished. Eventually, Mrs Mayers said, a new two storey building will be constructed and used for the youth in the area. -We got a large group of the kids together and asked them what they really needed because we were worried about the drug and
alcohol problem," she said. "They said they would like a centre where they could come and play games and meet friends." The property in Turner was Street originally bequeathed to the Sisters of Mercy by Amelia McIntosh in 1895. The Sisters worked in the Redfern Parish until 1974... when they moved out of the area. It was then decided at a general chapter meeting to hand over the land to the Aboriginal people.
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El Then there was the Mexican earthquake. How do you watch sandwiched buildings out of which the rotting dead are stacked for identification? Are there any other possible earthquakes, even in Australia, the commenators ask nervously to take our minds off death. In Uganda, there is a non-stop civil war raging on top of years of brutalising conducted by Amin's and 0bote 's armies. Mercifully for us they don't want too many foreign cameras around to film the event. The ear scarcely notices when this week produced yet another Bay of Bengel typhoon, this time taking only 500 lives compared with the uncounted thousands last year. Vietnam cries out for help as a typhoon flattens its population. Philipinos have suffered their typhoon deaths and more poor miners were buried in mud landslides this week. In the morass of news, motorway deaths in England loom a little more important for a brief moment. As last Saturday night's hypothetical news analysis showed, news moves up the scale if the victims seem to be closer to our own kith and kin. Off screen, of course there is a monstrous war going on between Iraq and Iran. Who knows if their local television screens creep through the bloodied fields? Russians obviously are spared the television pain of watching their sons mown down in Afghanistan. And so Australians spent the past week themselves crawling through the trenches, under the bullets sending their mates to their death. The only difference was that instead of the wars of 1985, or even 1975, this generation of viewers was fighting their Dads' and grandfathers' war of 70 years ago.
Sin defends his call Vocations up but conversions down SEOUL (NC): Priestly vocations continue to grow in South Korea, but are falling behind the pace of conversions. The Church is considering alternatives, such as instituting the permanent diaconate, to help fill in the growing gap in the proportion of priests to laity. C omparing statistics f or 1983 and 1984, p riestly ordinations increased 1.9 per cent a dding approximately 46 new priests compared to 1 0-year annual average of 44 new ordinations. That brought the total number of priests in South Korea to 1,302 — 1 ,000 of whom are K orean. In the same period, the number of Catholics increased by eight per c ent, from more than 1.71 million to approximately 1 .84 million, according to conference statistics.
MANILA: Cardinal Sin has defended his controversial call for reconciliation between government and people in the Philippines. The appeal came during the cardinal's even more controversial Mass in honour of President Marcos's 68th birthday. "I am a priest, and was invited by one of my flock to perform a priestly function. "How could I refuse?" the cardinal said afterwards. "Does a doctor refuse to attend to a patient simply because he has differences with that patient?" Cardinal Sin answered widespread criticism of his actions by citing his record since he became Archbishop of Manila in 1974. "I have always worked to effect a reconciliation between Mr Marcos and his opponents," he said. "In 1982 I suggested the establishment of a national reconciliation council which could pinpoint the areas causing irritations and obstructing national-building, suggest solutions and forward them to the president for action. "I got no response." After the assassination of opposition leader Benign() Aquino at Manila airport two years ago, the cardinal urged the people to keep calm and
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E E The campaigns of World War II have been fought pretty thoroughly in dozens of documentaries but we have not yet fought the war in terms of this latest remarkable Anzac piece. The soldiers who came back in 1918 could never tell what really happened, so 1939-45 may be still under a similar shroud. On the other hand, as the countless Vietnamese films from the USA point out, that war was fought on the nation's screens and the nation has not yet made up its mind about that, whatever its verdict on involvement in that war. Television, then, is the new substitute experience of death pretending to be dealing with reality. Before press and film reporters were thought of, the lame wounded and blind walked home from their battles and either haunted the living or were the urgers of the next war of revenge to be waged when they were ready. Marathon is not a race, it is the mound of that battle's dead just outside Athens, in case the citizens ever forgot. Is it just another substitute, vicarious expression as we trudge through the bush after a suiciding father and his children, or unearth a murderer of 20 years ago, or is it a real concern over the meaning of death? Did anyone learn anything during the Rock Hudson departure or was it just entertainment? Catholic faith is about death, not merely about the fear of dying. The horror of a television experience cannot bring back the dead. The graphic fear of death cannot destroy the death that faces everyone, like it Or not. A local Catholic philosopher was asked why the Catholic church did not deal with more contemporary issues. To which he replied: Death is fairly contemporary and the Church has a lot to say about that...! 4
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"The one on top must be prepared to stoop down, and that requires humility. By the same token, the ones sign that after all these years, below should not expect to he has begun to realise that get to the top immediately. his brothers have something "Reconciliation is impossiagainst him," the cardinal ble if both parties expect to said. play a winner-take-all game. "Since he could not make Reconciliation does not peace with all of them, he mean surrender. It requires asked me to join him, for in negotiation. Both parties a sense I have been speaking must be prepared to comfor these people." promise." He had been very happy to Given sincerity and good receive the invitation, he will, humility and good faith, added. reconciliation could be The cardinal advised a wait - achieved, the cardinal said. "But let us not expect too and-see policy on Mr Marcos's support, expressed at much from the start. Let us the same Mass, for reconci- remember, as the Chinese say, that the journey of a liation. The president had even thousand miles starts with a asked rebel guerrillas to single step. That First step enter a diologue with the has been taken." government. Cardinal Sin's remarks at "The proof of the pudding the Mass have caused is in the eating," said Cardi- general confusion. nal Sin. "Remember the After the Mass several minwounds that afflict the body isters and pro-government politic have been festering newspapers urged the oppofor years and years, so let us sition to join reconciliation not expect any dramatic, talks. overnight developments." But an opposition paper Oppositiortists had said Mr accused Cardinal Sin of Marcos could only show his "blowing hot, blowing sincerity by releasing all cold." political detainees, suspendOn the anniversary of Aquiing emergency powers, guano's death, the paper wrote, ranteeing "clean" elections, "the good cardinal was pracand ensuring justice for tically breathing fire and Benign° Aquino. brimstone... People are But Cardinal Sin believed puzzled. The cardinal is that "reconciliation is a twoalways living in half-way way street. houses."
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Global scandal
The musicmaker MUSICMAN: Archbishop O'Brien is taught to play "I belong to Glasgow" on the saxophone by music teacher Mrs Una Holland at a reception in his honour in Glasgow's City Chambers. The Archbishop joined the orchestra of Our Lady's High School, Motherwell for an impromptu practice after being welcomed by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr Robert
Gray. Archbishop Winning of Glasgow and bishops from the western province including Bishop Devine of Motherwell and Bishop McGill of Paisley were also present. Lord Provost Gray revealed plans are under way to twin Glasgow with Bethlehem. He said although no formal approach had been made, civic leaders in Bethlehem were very interested.
W ASHINGTON (NC): Hunger and malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa is "the global scandal of our decade," said Bishop James W. Malone, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. In a statement for World Food Day, Bishop Malone called on Catholics to "sow seeds of peace" by participating in World Food Day activities. Bishop Malone decried that "at a time of abundant food supplies worldwide" human misery on such a vast scale should exist in Africa and elsewhere.
But it was acknowledged the cardinal was in "a delicate position". Plans for reconciliation talks have broken down in the past because President Marcos has refused to honour conditions set by opposition political parties. Former senator Francisco Rodrigo wrote recently: "There can be no reconciliation with a dictator." On the president's birthday more than 200 former political prisoners held a party, but it was not in honour of Mr Marcos. They were celebrating the birth of SELDA, an organisation for people "who have suffered detention, imprisonment, or any other form of deprivation of liberty in the Philippines on account of their political beliefs or actions, and who have been subsequently released on a temporary or permanent basis."
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John Paul ll has told a group of Brazilian bishops their evangelisation programs should include projects to help meet the material needs of their people. The Church needed dedicated pastors who "insert themselves in the life and problems of their people," the pope said to bishops from Brazil's poverty-stricken northeast region. He told the bishops to continue developing literacy programs as a key means of helping people living on the margins of society. "With illiterates you cannot develop a true reform of structures, nor create a new social order, nor achieve a genuine liberation," said the pope. "Providing literacy and basic education programs is a fundamental service which can be offered to a multitude of marginal people," the pope said. Through learning to read and write a person "begins to realise his proper liberation, not that which others try to impose, but that which is convenient to him," he added. Other problems needing solutions included malnutrition, disease and VATICAN CITY: infant mortality, the pope The pope has made said. an impassioned plea But in seeking solutions to the kidnappers of the bishops must avoid Guadalupe Ines offering "partisan politiDuarte, daughter of cal alternatives," the the president of El pope said. The pontiff also asked the Salvador. bishops to clearly state He called for her Church teachings in an release, along with effort to Overcome 1 "cerher secretary Anna tain climate of uncertainty Cecilia Villegas, sevand ambiguity in the announcement of the faith." eral Salvadorean The pope said there mayors kidnapped existed a "danger of seeing on other occasions, images of the Church deveand victims of abducloped which in theory and tion in Central Amerpractice do not conform to that" which Christ wished to ica generally. establish. Pope John Paul Earlier this year the Vatican "In expressing said: Congregation for the Docregret profound my trine of the Faith strongly at these violent criticised a book, "Church: Charism and Power," by events, I pray ferBrazilian theologian, Franvently to God that he ciscan Father Leonardo Boff, may relieve, with the as dangerous to the faith. comfort of his grace, The book said the current the sufferings of hierarchical structure of the the of part not Church was these victims and thought of the historical their families.
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AMSTERDAM: Dutch laity became more involved in their local churches, were enthusiastic about ecumenism and held high hopes for Catholic renewal after the Second Vatican Council. But the laity also began paying less attention to the "universal Church," broke Church rules in liturgical relations with other Christian churches and put personal conscience above Church norms. T hese bishops' observations were released in a 34-page response to a Vatican questionnaire in preparation for the e xtraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome November 25 to December 8. The synod, which will be attended by heads of bishops' conferences and papally appointed delegates, was called to discuss the effects of Vatican II. "The greatest problem of Vatican ll in our country is that the council aroused highpitched expectations which, in fact, in the view of many Catholics, have only partly been fulfilled," the bishops said. "People expected a renewal of the Church in head and members and started on this in good spirits," they said. In the years following Vatican II, priests and Dutch Catholics became closer to each other, the bishops said. Although there was a decline in the numbers of priests, Religious and practicing Catholics, there was a growing feeling of joint responsibility. Lay people found expression in such groups as diocesan pastoral councils and parish councils, the bishops said.
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Plan for joint ordination ROME (NC): An international commission of Catholic and Lutheran theologians has offered a unity plan to Church leaders based on joint ordination of clergy by bishops of both faiths. The plan is an effort to overcome theological and historical difficulties hindering a joint recognition of ministries, basically because of the Catholic position that a valid ordination can only be passed on through apostolic succession. On the Lutheran side, it is also a recognition that the pope is a key figure in the universal exercise of ministry. Any process leading to a common ordained ministry "necessarily requires the participation of the pope," said the commission.
Unity - plan The plan was drafted by the International Roman Catholic-Lutheran Joint Commission, a group of theologians appointed by officials of both churches to study issues that unite and separate Catholics and Lutherans. Initially, the plan would involve ordination of selected candidates to fill specific posts.
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R oderick McCaskill ( "I'm the only Catholic from a long line of Scottish ancestry") was born at Pullen Vale in Queensland on November 1, 1895. His mother died when he w as a small child and he c ame to Western Australia with his father, also named Roderick, who sought and obtained work in various parts of the state. Young Rod received his education at Boogardy in the Murchison and Canning Mills in the Darling Range. A s a boy he went wood cutting with his father in the Murchison and later, when they shifted to Karragullen, he got a job at the nearby Martin's Mill. He enlisted in the AIF in 1915, did his initial training at Blackboy Hill camp and went to Egypt with the 13th Reinforcements of the 10th Light Horse Regiment. There he transferred to t he 12th Brigade Artillery with which he served in France for the remainder of the war. On his return to WA he re-entered the timber and allied industries in which he worked until his retirement. He and his wife (who died 18 months ago) moved in with the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough in 1973. He has two daughters, "umpteen grandchildren and some great-grandchildren."
A regular feature By BOB BOYLE Life certainly wasn't meant to be easy for the child Roderick McCaskil l and his father after whom he was given his only Christian name. The boy's mother had died and about the turn of the century the pair were at Boogardy in the Murchison, where Rod started school far from their former Queensland home. They went wood cutting together before the move to Karragullen where Rod completed his schooling and went to work at Martin's Mill nearby.
ever, was hardly auspicious. In the middle of the night they finally arrived at their destination after what had seemed an interminable journey. They were not even offered a drink of water The artillery had received no word of their coming and appeared to be somewhat resentful of their uninvited presence It was what became known in a later war as a SNAFU. "No wonder there was a foul-up,'" Rod chuckles, "the date was April 1." But things were finally sorted out and a few weeks later, in that year of 1916, they were on their way to France with the gunners They were in action almost immediately on arrival, but not before at least one more contretemps
In 1915 Rod threw in his job at the mill, enlisted in the First AIF and entered camp at Blackboy Hill. He was sent to Egypt with the 13th Reinforcements of the famed 10th Light Horse Regiment. After having been at Heliopolis for several weeks they were moved to a position near the Suez Canal, but time hung heavily on the hands of Rod and a number of his fellow reinforcements. The regiment didn't seem anxious to take them under its wing and they believed that they hadn't come all the way from Australia just to sit around. So, with the enthusiasm of youth, Rod and some of his mates managed to wangle a transfer to the 12th Brigade Artillery Light of heart, they set off to join their new branch of the service. Their debut, how-
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They were half -trained soldiers handling what might be described as raw horses, and when the sergeant -major started bawling orders on the first parade in France pandemonium resulted. His stentorian tones and the inexpert efforts of the troops to comply with his orders caused the horses to panic. They deserted the parade ground in all directions at a full gallop with confused soldiers in unavailing pursuit. It was nearly a week before the last horse was rounded up, which set the unit's program back a pace or two. Rod's first taste of action was near Armentieres, but the madamoiselle famed in song from that locality was nowhere to be seen. He was sitting on a bale of hay having a spell not far behind the line when a German shell — it turned out to be the only one of the night — hit a tree near him and exploded.
He dived for shelter behind the bale and stayed there for some time. Only afterwards did he realise what scant protection the hay offered, but fortunately the whistling fragments had passed him by. His escape was a portent of the luck that was to stay with him in the torrid episodes through which he was to pass unscathed — "except for a few scratches" — during the remainder of the war.
Adventure No. 2 came a few days later. Rod was astride a horse in an ammunition convoy when they halted to watch an aerial dog-fight taking place almost immediately overhead. The troops cheered because the British plane was getting the upper hand as his opponent was forced lower and lower. But their cheers stopped suddenly when the German swooped at them, his machine gun bullets pinging off the bluemetal road on which they had halted.
ElE Rod found himself over a ditch and behind a roadside hedge, with no recollection of how he got there, as the enemy pilot made good his escape. They were all lucky that time because nobody was hurt. The 12th was a mobile brigade, so Rod and his colleagues saw action in many parts of France. He was driving a team one night when three enemy shells landed simultaneously almost within touching distance of him. All failed to explode but the team and the driver, although uninjured, got an awful fright. "All the horses I handled were very shrewd, '" Rod comments. "As they got up near the line they knew what was coming. I think in large measure it was communicated to them by their feel of the men on them." Mules, he considers, were better than horses in action but they were difficult to handle. 'There was a saying," he laughs, "that they could stand on one leg and kick with the other three."
When he was allotted one mule, he was told it was an outlaw. He rode it for six months without the slightest trouble, but came the day when it tossed him off without warning. He remounted and tried everything he knew to make the mule buck again, but it placidly refused to do so Rod was driving a waggon a few nights later when it hit a rut and he was thrown from his seat. The sergeant -major was scathing. "You can't ride a horse, you can't ride a mule, and now you can't even ride a waggon," he roared. The soldier's woes were not over. He was unharnessing one of the team when somebody flashed a light in the dark and the horse took fright. It dragged him several times round the yard at speed before he was able to control
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LID Cl When he returned dishevelled to his billet, he raised a laugh from his mates when he murmured: 'What a way to spend my 21st birthday." They took ammunition up to the line by night unless the need was very urgent, because by day they presented a target that was too clearly visible. In the dark it was a case of following the man in front, and if you went off the track at Ypres horses, waggon and
driver would be swallowed up by the mud. In circumstances nearly as bad, Rod and his crew were forced to abandon a waggon one night. The next morning their irate officer ordered them to go out by daylight and salvage the vehicle, a task they had to achieve under heavy fire. "With wounded coming down from the line as we were going up," he says. "we had to edge our waggons over as far as possible to give them room. "This caused quite a few of our vehicles to get stuck in the mud, and it was a hell of a job to get them out."
EiCI Rod managed to get three lots of leave in Britain from France and Belgium, and he spent them in Scotland looking-up relatives he had never met. There was the day when he and one of his soldier friends went for a boat trip on Loch Lomond. They had to leave so early in the morning that they missed breakfast and they had no lunch with them, so by early afternoon they were hungry indeed. A kindly civilian on the boat moved over to them. "Our party has catered for a number of people who didn't turn up," he said, "we've got plenty of food, so come and join us." The invitation was accepted with alacrity.
One of the Scottish women in the party said her brother had gone to some place in Australia named Pickering Brook, did Rod know it? It was close to his home, so he certainly knew it. "He married a girl named McCaskill," she continued, "I don't suppose you'd know her"
El E The woman, who didn't even know Rod's surname, nearly fell overboard when he replied. "She's my aunty." Rod had been sent from France with a bad dose of influenza and had almost recovered in a military hospital in the north of England when news of the end of the war came through. He and his mates rushed down to the local pub to celebrate, but mine host firmly refused to serve them because they were in hospital uniform. One of them, however, knew of a sly-groggery so they managed to mark the end of hostilities in the same way as their civilian colleagues. It was back to Australia and the timber industry in various parts of the state until his retirement for the artilleryman who had successfully brushed with death for so long. "You couldn't get a better place than this," he says of Glendalough as he approaches his 90th birthday.
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Catholic police are called to witness
At the Catholic Police Guild Mass the Commissioner Mr Brian Bull and Mrs Bull (left) are seated front alongside the Minister for Police Mr Carr and Mrs Carr.
The Catholic Police Guild was urged at assistant commissioner Mr its annual Mass to support its members Laurie Gibson, Mr Max Marin their vocation of marriage and their shall, and Federal police superintendent Mr Frank witness to others. Pim and their wives.
Addressing a congregation of 120 policemen and their families and friends the guild chaplain, Monsignor Pat O'Reilly drew on the Sunday readings to link police work in marriage disputes with the strength of their own married lives. "Many police personnel find themselves involved in marriage disputes in the course of their duty," he said. "Many are called on to diffuse difficult domestic confrontations that require counselling as well as objective handling of difficult situations often involving violence and suffering. "The sensitive handling of these and other difficult situations are no doubt helped by the understanding and tolerance that married police personnel have in their own private lives as they strive to live out the Gospel message on married fidelity." Monsignor O'Reilly said that marriage today was being subjected to aggressive ideologies corroding Christian marriage and
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other institutions that were regarded as sacrosanct. "Marriage is, of course, a hardy customer. As an institution that grows from basic human instincts it is capable of surviving any attacks and challenges. "The many happy families who witness to the joy of love and fidelity demonstrate that. "The marriages that are characterised by the mutual respect and trust of the partners is equipped to meet the rough as well as the smooth in life and to weather the storms that even true love cannot escape." He said that Christ's absolute declaration about the indissolubility of the marriage relationship presents an unambiguous ideal to the Christians of our day. Because the Maylands Police Academy, the venue of previous gatherings, was unavailable this year, the annual Catholic Police Guild Mass was held for the first time in the auditorium of Police Headquarters Perth earlier this month. The Minister for Police Mr Carr and Mrs Carr, 2..S Weil as the Commissioner Mr Brian Bull and Mrs Bull, were in the congregation as were
St Denis youth singing group provided the music. At a social which followed in the police cafeteria Sgt Val Doherty, the guild president, welcomed guests with the reminder that the aim of the guild was to encourage Christian values in the lives of all police officers. She explained that guild members were asked to be involved when fellow officers were in need of spiritual help or when they needed physical help, especially in times of illness. She noted that other Christians were warmly encouraged to attend the annual Police Mass and social.
Left: One of the readers at the Mass was Sgt Ron Webb. l art 1
Left: Monsignor O'Reilly receives offertory gifts from Sgt Kevin Hodgson and Mrs Hodgson and Constables Stephen Foley and Mark Andrews.
Above: Sergeant Val Doherty, Catholic Poke Guild welcomes guests at the social following the annual Mass. The Minister of Police, Mr Carr is seated left.
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Lady' is a FUNDING 'Our better guide QUESTION than bishops from J.D. SMITH Mt Pleasant SIR, I note from the current issue of the Record some of the contributions made by parishioners to Project Compassion were used to pay for the operations of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. I cannot recall being told from the pulpit, or previously reading in The Record, the contributions are used for any purpose other than to help the poor and needy.
DEE] Last week I read a letter from a priest in the "Australian" in which he stated that including $210,000, $130,000 for wages had been allocated to the CCJP from Project Compassion. My disbelief was shattered by the Record's confirmation. if the funding for the commission is to continue from the same source I believe that fact should be made known from the pulpit each year when we are asked to donate to Project Compassion. My own reaction is to
increase my future donations to the missions in the knowledge they will be used for the intended purpose.
from Joan HALLETT, Bridgetown
Sir I resent Bishop Gerry's reported statement that the
Servite order out to set the r ecord straight from Brother DAVID M. CLAXTON OSM, Director of Formation and Vicarial Councillor, Parkville, Vic. Sir: A recent series of articles on St Philip Benizi OSM carried the heading "Priests' Order celebrates 700th anniversary of the death of one of their leaders." I wish to highlight the fact that not all Servites are priests. As an order we have a rich and noble history, and commitment to the order is made through solemn profession of vows. The order consists of friars, of which not all are priests, sisters and secular Servites. The heading highlights the limited perception many people have of religious life. You would have only the priests celebrating when in truth and reality the order is far greater and more diverse than one particular function. We as an order have dropped the never correct title of Servile Fathers many years ago in the hope that people would come to see a more comprehensive living out of our religious life. For that is what makes one a Servite, the like given in profession to live as Servants of Mary.
CCJP document should be regarded as a Catholic voice. I know that my voice is not the only Catholic voice which does not concur with the views expressed in the document. Our Lady of Fatima warned us of the evils of Communism, not nuclear weapons, and I believe her to be a more reliable guide on faith and morals than two-thirds of our Australian bishops. Faintheartedness surely is the order of the day. St. Leo IX noted for sanctity from childhood, often mediator and peacemaker, took up arms against the Normans in 1053. He lost, naturally, but sanctity did not prevent his engagement in a necessary war, nor did such engagement nullify his sancity. The saintly Mother Teresa is firm and consistent in her claim that abortion is the biggest threat to peace. My objection is magnified by the knowledge that this statement is funded from the annual Project Compassion Lenten collection.
Source of knowledge-1 from Kevin C. CAIMANOS, Albany Sir, The CCJP document shows a disturbing inclination to ignore or play down the reality of communism as practiced under totalitarian states such as the USSR. However, if the Catholic Church is to promote the cause of world peace, why not acknowledge the source of information which tells us
how this will come about — the Holy Bible itself There we learn from Jesus Himself through the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke and the Revelation of St John that world peace can only come through the installation of one world government which is to be established by Christ at His Second Coming,
but only after man has brought himself to the edge of extinction. It is also of note that the last great battle on earth referred to in the Bible as the "Great day of God Almighty" is between the armies of man and those of Christ Himself in the Kedron Valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives,
acks perspective from Eamonn Murray, Padbury Sir: While agreeing with John Veszely's condemnation (The Record, October 17) of the barbarity of the enforced exile of certain ethnic groups in the USSR I believe that his perspective is lacking in two major aspects. Firstly, ethnic groups which he mentions had collaborated to a large extent with the invading fascists who killed 20 million Soviet citizens. The blacks in South Africa are collaborating with no-one. They are merely demanding justice. Secondly, the use of selective historical examples is to leave oneself open to the charge of inconsistency. For example, should we forget about the British policy in
Ireland of attempted genocide and cultural emasculation (of which the Irish joke is the latest manifestation)? "To Hell or Connaught" is a perfect example of "enforced domicile in areas designated". Or should we forget about the scandalous history of British/Australian policy in respect of the Aboriginal people? The latter either didn't have much choice as to
where they could live. An enforced policy in areas designated policy was adopted by the British/Americans also. The Red Indians ended up dead or on reservations, the Negroes on slave plantations and later in poverty stricken urban ghettoes. If we are going to condemn one barbarity, then let us be consistent and remember all tyrannies.
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Mission provides purpose By Katharine Bird The curtain rises on a of men group slumped over tables in a darkened bar in playwright Eugene O'Neill's searing play. Iceman "The Cometh." Larry Slade is an old man afraid of life, waiting for death to tap him on the shoulder: Willie Oban, once a brilliant law student, talks of the law career he will have after he quits drinking - tomorrow.
Harry Hope hasn't left the bar and boarding house he owns since the death of his wife Bessie many years earlier. The unkempt, shapeless garments the men wear, the dejected slope of their shoulders, the blank looks on their faces betray all too clearly that these men have no hope and no enthusiasm for the future. Psychologist Dr. Robert Wicks might say those men lack "a sense of mission." He is director of the graduate program in pastoral counselling at Neumann College in Aston, Pa. People with a sense of mission "have something to be enthusiastic about, something to put our energies into that is worthwhile," he added in an interview. A kind of "unifying principle," a mission provides a purpose which can guide us through
times of pain. Most people derive that sense from their work, he said. "Particularly in American society, work is paramount. People's identity is tied into what they do," Wicks explained. "When work is meaningful, it contributes to our sense of self-worth and identity. If it isn't, then you have two strikes against you in terms of relating to yourself and to others." "All people have the potential for mission," Wicks said. But developing that sense of mission can depend on what one's work is. "For educators it is easy to have a mission. We draw out the young to understand themselves and the world," Wicks said. He recognises that some individuals hate their jobs but are locked into them. He is convinced there
are ways to find some value even in jobs that are boring or unpleasant. "Most jobs have a people element," he said. Concentrating on people can offer a real opportunity to transform jobs from drudgery into a challenge. For him, the key is "to bring God into the job and to find God there." "Few people meet God dramatically on the road to Damascus," Wicks observed, "but we can meet God in the workplace if we open our eyes." Wicks explained that he encourages people "to take a few minutes each morning to get their attitude clear." Get up a little earlier, relax with coffee or orange juice, read a little Scripture, say a prayer. The goal is to see each day as a challenge, to ask: "How can I be open to
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bring God to my work today," he said. As a psychologist, he tries to develop a sense of inquisitiveness about the people he will meet each day, a willingness to be open to their needs. Wicks emphasised that accepting the limitations of one's job doesn't mean denying or avoiding its negative
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took part in wheelchair races; those bedridden wrote with a device that was upside down. For Wicks, it was as if they were saying: "This is my life. I'm not going to waste energy complaining or fighting to deny it. I'm going to deal with it directly and make the most of it."
Belonging to By the world Dolores L eckey of work... My daughter has just completed her fourth season of summer stock. Returning to New York to resume theatrical studies. Mary Kate now will be a member of Actors Equity Association, the theatre union. For the first time, she will belong to the world of health insurance, unemployment insurance, negotiated wages. She will belong to the wodd of work I asked what working in the
Why do people work? Is it merely to subsist — to guarantee income? Or can work fulfill a larger role in people's lives? Work is a topic of great interest to Pope John Paul II, who has written an encyclical on it. It is also a theme of the U.S. bishops' proposed pastoral letter on the economy. This week Dolores Leckey writes about the joy her daughter, Mary Kate, finds in acting. Being able to find joy in a job makes even the drudgery of work rewarding, Mrs. Leckey adds. And she has some advice for people who want the various kinds of work in their lives to have more meaning. K atharine Bird interviews Dr. Robert Wicks, director of the graduate pastoral counselling program at Neumann College in Aston, Pa. Wicks tells her what he does in the cases of individuals who hate their jobs. And he discusses the importance of having a sense of mission in one's life. Joe Michael Feist interviews Loretta Girzaitis, director of adult education in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. There are changes in the kinds of work people do today; among society's new workers are "worksteaders," people who work out of their homes, she tells Feist. For Christians to serve others well, it is important to know how they are being affected by changes in society that affect their work. Father John Castelot points out that from the first pages of Genesis we are shown a God who works. People are made in the image of God. Working is one way they resemble God. Job realignment 49 one area in which parishes and dioceses can make a contribution. A parish can set up support programs when a large number of people are unemployed. A parish can help them find resources so they can retrain themselves or transfer their skills to another area.
aspects. This conviction was renewed for him by a visit to the Alfred I Dupont Institute, an orthopedic hospital for children. The children's attitude was striking, he said: "They didn't avoid their handicap but they were not trapped in embitterment either." They did what they could: Children in wheelchairs
theatre means to her. "It's bring in a show, of course," Mary Kate replied. "But it's also the ordinary work actors do every day, between shows. It's practicing, exercising your body and your voice, auditioning, making contacts, adjusting your resume. It's important to do a full day's work whether or not on a stage," she insisted. When I reflect on the life Mary Kate has chosen, I see the different path to which her choices lead: a minimal standard of living, few consumer goods, hard physical work, disappointments. I also see the pure joy her work generates. Asked what she finds fulfilling in her work, Mary Kate answered: "When I do the work well, I use every bit of myself to my fullest potential." Describing a recent experience while acting in Chekov's "The Seagull," she explained: "The moment came when I didn't think about what I was doing. I wasn't important, only the work was." What Mary Kate describes is, I believe, an important element in a theology of work — a vision of work as self-expression which belongs to a larger reality. Theologian Dorothy Soelle calls this "co-creation" in "To Work and To Love" (Fortress Press). She writes: "Good work is a basic human need. We destroy the human being if work means functioning without joy, without fulfillment, without imagination . . . We need to understand ourselves as cocreators who require constructive joyful work in which we are challenged to develop our creative potential." Is this experience of work as co-creation limited to artists or scientists? I think not. In his encyclical, "On Human Work," Pope John Paul H writes about the dignity of all workers: "The basis of determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done, but the fact that one who is doing it is a person." I'd like to suggest several ordinary practices which can strengthen such an
awareness of work • The practice of discipline: This is the commitment to whatever task is at hand. Discipline is needed for every kind of work, whether painting a room or a portrait. • The practice of what I call common contemplation: This means deliberately turning full attention to ordinary work — preparing dinner, programming a computer — without being distracted. This can enhance our joy in work The 20th century mystic Simone Weil wrote an essay on using geometry to develop this ability to concentrate. She would work on a theorem with total concentration, seeing it through to the end no matter how long it took. But we don't need geometry to develop the practice of common contemplation. The contents of daily life can serve this purpose. • Humility: St. Therese of Lisieux spoke of humility as a means of learning to live with the truth about ourselves. How do we view the mistakes that occur in the course of our work? As a threat to our being? Or as a means of change and growth? We know that great artists learn from their mistakes. So do great people and great workers. • Respect for time: Time is the gift that tracks the flow of life. When we use time well, it enhances the beauty in our lives. To begin to get an idea of how we use time, we need to look at blocks of it: how we use each week, each day, each hour. As we understand our use of time we are able to enjoy our work and do it well. We are also able to appreciate non-work, our leisure or sabbath times. In this way, life assumes a healthy balance. One of Mary Kate's teachers is fond of reminding students that "acting means to recognise the life in yourself and the life all around you. And when you're on stage to allow the life to resonate through you and show what it is to be a human being." But I think these words provide food for thought for all who work.
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"Sweat and toil, which work necessarily involves in the present condition of the human race, present the Christian and everyone who is called to follow Christ with the possibility of sharing lovingly in the work that Christ came to do." (Pope John Paul I I in the encyclical, "On Human Work" ("Laborem Exercens"), 1981.)
"The Mass: Finding Its Meaning for You — and Getting More Out o f It," by Father Gerard Weber. The author tells of a 72year -old who attended Mass every day for 15 years. When asked why, Sam replied: "You know, everyone's got a job to do. I always believed in doing my job well. Bricklayers lay brick. Painters paint. Catholics go to Mass." Sam felt that "the Mass requires all of us, priest and people, to be actively involved," Father Weber comments. For it is when we gather together at Mass that we hear the call of Jesus -to change our lives and our way of thinking and we have the opportunity to respond to him." We learn how to love and be open to people, how to forgive and to be reconciled with others, how to be generous and to serve others, Father Weber says. (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1615 Republic St., Ohio Cincinnati, 45210. Paperback, $4.95.)
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Changing scene To paraphrase an old adage, nothing is quite so constant as change. No statement could be truer when it comes to the evolving American scene. The nation, for example, is aging rapidly. The median age in 1983 was 30.9, the oldest ever, and is inching higher. More Americans are remaining single and the fertility' rate is declining. The Frostbelt has been forsaken for the Sunbelt. A majority of Americans now Um in western and southern states. Changes in the birth rate andpopulation shifts cause shifting employment patterns and job realignment. .4n increase in the number of elderly, for example, means an increased need for nurses and nurses' aides. What does all this have to do with the church? Your diocese? Your parish? Plenty, says Loretta Girzaitis, director of adult education in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. An awareness of trends and developments in society, especially in the world of work, is essential if the church is to minister effectively, she said. In many areas. Ms. Girzaitis said people "must be prepared for change so it do esn 't overcome us through stress." She also thinks that job realignment is one area in whichparishes and dioceses can make a contribution, if they are knowledgeable. "A parish can set up support programs when a large number ofpeople are unemployed and help them find orprovide. resources so that they can retrain themselves or transfer their skills to another area, she said. The nature of work and
the kinds of jobs that will emerge in the future are favourite themes for Ms. Girzaitis, who holds a master's degree in catechetical theology from Manhattan College in New York.
After Jesus healed the paralytic at the pool of Bethesda, he was pounced on for working on the sabbath. But he said: "My Father is at work until now, and lam at work as well" (John 5:17). In the book of Genesis, God had rested on the seventh day of creation. Refraining from work on the sabbath was based on this (Genesis 2:1-3).
born on the sabbath and died on the sabbath, and God was intimately involved in both processes. Only he could give life and only he could judge those whose life
"(In the future), I think we'll see that agriculture won't have the same role," she said. "Hydroponics is now coming into its own. We won't need soil or the kind of space we use now to grow things. Younger people coming up won't be in agriculture as we know it now."
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Another rapidly expanding development is embodiedin the term "worksteader " .4 uorksteader, explained Ms. Girzaitis, is one of the 5 million Americans who labour within the confines of their homes. The number is expected to double by 1990. Many uorksteaders, she continued, work for a company and communicate with their offices through computers. But a large number are the new entrepreneurs, setting up numerous kinds of businesses in basements and spare bedrooms. The advantages: no commuter costs, no childcare costs, work time is flexible. The disadivintages: no benefits, lack of interaction with fellow uvrkers. But whatever the particular job. Ms. Girzaitis said there is a need to see a relationship between one's tiro* and one's faith. "We must see that work is an extension of our creative ability. %Then God put us here be wanted us to create," she said. 'My mental attitude determines bow 171 act toward work. We should look on work as a gift anda means of gaining satisfaction."
A group of young dancers performs a number on a CBS television special Dolores Leckey asked her daughter what working in the theatre means to her and was told that work was "being in a show, of course". But beyond that is the work that actors do every day when they are not in a show — exercising the body and voice, auditioning, making contacts, adjusting your resume. "it's important to do a full day's work whether on a stage or not," she said
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Even so, the rabbis conceded that God's work was never done. People were
Jesus "belongs to the working world; he has appreciation and respect for human work. It can indeedbe said that he looks with love upon human work and the different forms it takes."
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God was, and is, eternally active. It is significant that the first page of the Bible shows God at work. By creating, God expresses not only his power, but creative love. It is in this context that one reads: "God created man in his image . . . male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27).
"A baby nurse is one that changes diapers and loves 'em dearly. Get up at all hours of the night to give 'em the bottle and change their pants . . . Ihad my own room usually, but Islept in the same room with the baby.Iwould take full charge. It was 24 hours." Ruth Lindstrom became a practical baby-care nurse in 1918, five years after arriving in America from Sweden. She describes her experiences in Studs Terkel's 1972 best seller "Working." "Iworked for very wealthy families and for very poor families," she says. "I once worked six weeks without pay. These people lost everything in the Depression and they needed me." At the time Terkel interviewed her, Ms. Lindstrom was nearing 80 and planned never to retire. "What for? As long as I can be useful and needed
Men and women are made in the image of a God who works. Through the work they do, people carry out God's intention and find fulfillment, happiness and wholeness. When people find no opportunity to contribute through work, through service of some kind, they are prevented from being as fully human as they might be, images of an eternally creative God. The result can be dehumanising. There is a well-known story Jesus told about the owner of an estate who was looking
for workers at harvest time. On his last trip to the marketplace, he found jobless men standing around, still hoping for a few hours' work "To these Iv! said, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day?' No one has hired us,' they told him. He said, 'You go to the vineyard too'." (Matthew 20:6-7) The story is a parable about God's reign — a reign which entails the active working out of God's plan for humanity. This helps to explain why it
someplace, I'll work . . . When that day comes whenIcan't work, I'll be a lost soul." Eugene Russell, a professional piano technician who also appears in Terkel's book, says piano tuning is not really business but dedication. Russell delights in good sound and takes pride in his ability to help create it. -There's so much beauty comes out of music. So much beauty comes out of piano tuning." Speaking of work, Russell says: "What it appears to someone else is not too important as long as we do a good job and as long as we do it honestly. It's the real life. If you're using people and you gain by exploitation — Icouldn't live that way." Work is the most ordinary means of earning a living. It orders our daily routines and shapes our lifestyles. But work also holds a deeper, even spiritual, significance.
is that when the U.S. Catholic bishops express concern about unemployment, they are talking about something deeper than social justice as such. They are intent upon furthering the reign of God. As long as people anywhere are reduced to idleness that is dehumanising, the reign of God is thwarted. The Creator's purpose is foiled. St Paul, who quite justifiably could have expected his congregations to support him, insisted on working at his trade as a tentmaker. And
he wrote to others: "Work with your hands as we directed you to do, so that you will give good example to outsiders and want for nothing" ( 1 Thess. 2:9; 4:1112).
Still, work is not just a matter of giving "good example". Work is necessary for basic human integrity — for carrying out God's will for human happiness, for his reign. People must "want for nothing," Paul writes. They must "have" enough in order to "be" more.
In the first draft of their proposed pastoral letter on the American economy, the U.S. bishops addressed "the threefold moral significance" of all work: • First, it "embodies the distinctive human capacity for self-realisation and self-expression." • Second, "work is one of the chief ways that human beings seek self-fulfillment" — the fulfillment of basic material needs and of "the spiritual need to express initiative and creativity." • Finally, "work should enable everyone to make a contribution to the human community to the extent each is able. Work is not only for oneself. It is also for one's family and for others." How do you view the purpose of the work in your life? Can ft express or foster human dignity?
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Sister plays'mine host' to lonely sailors by
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When Sister Columbkille went to the Stella Mans Centre in February for a 12 months stint of 'helping out,' She had little idea of what was in store for her. It took just a few short months for her to fall in love with the place, to
lose the last five letters of her name (because they didn't fit onto her badge) and to work her way into the hearts and minds of thousands of lonely sailors. If Sister Columbkille, a member of the Order of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, has her way, she
will be at Stella Mans for much longer than her proposed year. She will find ways of creating a 'home away from home' for many more thousands of sailors yet. One of her first tasks, she says, is to boost the Host Family Scheme which
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has been instituted at Stella Mans and which has become a vital vehicle f or friendship with increased visits from American fleets. Sister Columbkille coordinates the scheme whereby local families offer hospitality to visiting sailors. This is usually organised during weekends and can involve more than one visitor per family with a meal, drive through the hills, or visits to local scenic spots. It is hard for the sailors, says Sister Columbkille, to be in a strange city in a strange land. More than anything, she adds, despite popular opinion, most of them want to spend some time with ordinary people. 'The captain and officers are generally looked after by the shipping agents but ordinary crew the members and cadets are overlooked usually because of their position on board," she said. "One of the chaplains said to me that when the men return to their ships they may discuss places of interest, but mostly they want to discuss the people they meet." It is up to the community, and the Catholic community in particular, says Sister Columkille to ensure that these, often very young, visitors have people to meet who will
welcome them with warmth and care. Warmth and care is what the task is all about, she adds, and what she spends most of her time providing. She will be at the ready to comfort a sailor after an upsetting phone call back home; ready to drive a group across town if they have no other way of getting there; down at the docks to farewell her 'boys' as their ships leave; and just there to 'talk' for anyone who needs it. "It can be so hard for these boys," she says. 'They have often been at sea for so long and then they come into port and pick up their mail and make their phone calls and the news isn't always good. 'They can get upset very quickly, often when there is no need to. "In one case a sailor rang home and his children answered the phone and said they didn't know where their mother was. "It was six in the morning over there and he was
would be an explanation. "He came to me after and said thankyou for keeping him calm. 'When he got onto his wife it turned out that she had had an emergency call in the middle of the night from a friend who was pregnant and in trouble. "His wife was a nurse and had gone over to help her, not bothering to wake the children. "Such things can be really traumatic when you are thousands of miles from home and have no more tangible link than a telephone." "Someone once said to
me, What did I have in common with sa ilors?'." Sister Columbkille said, "I said I was also separated from my home in Ireland and had some u nderstanding of how they felt." Quickly tagged Sister to Men of the Seven Seas, Sister Columbkille finds once contact is made it is often maintained. She gets more than her fair share of letters and devotes Sundays (when they are available) to answering them. The mail comes in from across the world . . . the United States, Holland, "Ort
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Sister Columbkille finds much of her time is spent talking to the seamen at Stella Mar/s. Japan, Singapore . • . the list goes on. She writes to young sailors who are barely out of their boyhood, old sailors who have been on the move too long to stop. She writes to their mothers and she writes to their wives. "Ft is my recreation to write to them," she says, "and they are so pleased I have remembered them." She has mail from the young Japanese cadets who she took to the beach for a swim and who have never forgotten the sight of her waving goodbye to them from the docks. And she has mail from a young navy wife in Honolulu whose husband passed through Perth on his way home to her and their two small sons. After teaching scripture in State schools for 10 years, including six of those years spent beetling around the wheatfields, she finds her new apostolate a challenge and a joy. -There is so much fulfillment in this work. . in welcoming those who are lonely and often lost," she said. 'When they first come into the centre they look at me because they don't expect to see a nun . . and then the second time they smile." The American sailors often say how much they need a woman to talk to, she says. Just listening to her makes one understand 'just how comforting the stroke of that soft Irish brogue must be'. So many of the Ameri-
can sailors are so very young, she adds. They really miss their mothers and this far from home are more than happy to accept Sister Columbkille as a temporary substitute. "I put through calls for them and sometimes they don't get an answer," she said. "Ii is so upsetting for them and you really need a lot of compassion. "At the same time it is wonderful when they do get through. -The operator asks if they will accept a call from Perth, Australia and you hear this broad American accent saying, 'I sure will"! 'The expression on the boys' faces is just wonderful," she said. So many of the sailors have nowhere to go when they are on leave and it was for this reason the host family scheme was first instituted in 1982. It was the success of that initial program which has led to this new drive for host families. "So many wrote to say thankyou for the hospitality they received, Father O'Shea saw a need for more organisation," said Sister Columbkille. She says with a smile she is the "organisation". She is hoping now many more families will be attracted to the scheme. "It isn't really so much to ask," she says. 'They are really such polite and well behaved boys. All it takes is a little time for a meal, or a drive and a chance to talk. "Ft is so vital for them to
touch base with reality in this way.
and their guests as much as possible.
"Cooped up on the ship as they are for so long, they have a need to relate to other people.
'We usually try to put married men into a situation where there are young children.
"And really, it might seem a lot, but entertaining these sailors is a delight for everyone concerned.
' They really miss their own, and thoroughly enjoy the experience of being with someone else's.
EEE "I remember one man took three home with him and his wife was a little shocked at first, but the two married men played with the younger children and the younger one took the teenage children to the pictures," she said. 'We try to suit families
The scheme operates mainly for members of US. fleet visits says Sister Columbkille, because these are the times where sailors spend extended leave in port. "It's not that we don't do the same thing for other nationalities," she said. 'We do. "It's just they are not usually in port as long and
there are additional difficulties with language. 'The other nuns help me out a lot as well. "I had three strays one day, so I rang Sister Bernadette and asked if she could help. "She took them to King's Park for afternoon tea and then to the show. 'The nuns are great at acting as chauffeurs and will help out at a moment's notice," she said. Helping out is what the Stella Mans Centre is all about. If anyone wishes to participate in the Host Family Scheme they should ring Sister Columbkille on 335 1 958, 335 6836, 335 6291.
Sister Columbkille and the managerecss of Stella Mans, Mrs Ann Van Der Werff at the reception counter.
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My name is Tsugihiro Torabolta. Do you friends call me John remember? when we stayed in We had very good time very Thank you. Thank you, Fremantle by you. nice a (that's Port Beach much. Especially the your car) was very beach, you took us by never forget that beautiful, so, we will you. wonderful day and Co/urn, from Japanese Sister for Thank you merchant navy. 24th of 'John', the cadet of Singapore February, '85. The Record, October 24 — 30, 1985 11
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Pictured above Trinity College captain and long distance runner Steven Spiers making his victory speech in the presence of Governor Gordon Reid and Mrs Reid of WA.
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Grateful thanks to St Jude. May his name be honoured, praised and glorified. Novena never fails. P.M.B. From page 13 If it is true that "it is established that people would die only once," it is also true that man carried with him the treasure of conscience, the deposit of good and evil, across the frontier of death, in order that, in the sight of him who is holiness itself, he may find the ultimate and definitive truth about his whole life: "After that comes judgement." This is just what happens in the conscience: in the interior truth of our acts, in a certain sense, there is constantly present the dimension of eternal life. And simultaneously the same conscience, through moral values, imprints the most expressive seal upon the life of the generations, upon the history and culture of human environments, societies, nations and of all humanity. In this field how much depends on each one of you!
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The latest state government document "Budget Outlook — opportunities for youth" to arrive on my desk is a first attempt to collate and show how the taxpayer's dollar is being spent by different government departments on youth. To someone not involved in the youth scene it may seem repetitive and an obvious beating of one's own drum. It does contain the facts about what has been done in the immediate past. Facts and figures can be deceptive in their presentation. I hope it may encourage
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the voluntary youth sector to unite in a more effective lobby to improve the financing of the non-government, church and community youth services. It is clear from the figures that agencies engaged in youth leadership and development are poor cousins to areas like sport and recreation. Voluntary agencies engaged in youth training and development could do more to tell the government and the community what they are doing. The problem is however, that it is more difficult to describe how ten young people become leaders in the community over a period of twelve months, than to show how a group of ten young people are provided with tangible material needs like accommodation. or sporting facilities. I maintain that if the taxpayer's dollar funds young sporting teams' travel expenses to interstate sporting carnivals, then at least an equal amount should be spent on young people's travel expenses in attending their formation and leadership programs run on a national level. At the moment it is easier to get government funds and more of them for a sporting carnival, than it is for a youth leadership program run in the eastern states. Some will say that is because the sporting groups are or have been better organised and put their case to the government I'm all for healthy and active young bodies, but I am also interested in the full development of the hearts and minds of our young WA citizens. The most important figures released are about unemployed youth. While there has been a 3.1 / 2 per cent drop in the past 21 years, the "official" figure for unemployed young people stands as high as 20.1 per cent.
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The document goes on to say "Major programs for youth are funded from the State Employment Strategies Fund (SESF) which since last year has been increased from $3.6m to $13.1m, with a total commitment (extending to the end of 1986) of $14m. 'WA leads the way in the national recovery of apprentice intakes." "The current Budget continues the schemes of payroll tax exemptions and rebating the workers' compensation for first -year apprentices at a cost of $1.2m and $1.6m respectively. "The cost of administering the apprenticeship system will be $2.4m. "Budget Outlook on Youth Opportunities" tells that the state government is serving 25 per cent of its citizens by:• a state co-ordinating committee fostering youth participation in International Youth Year. • interest in policy coordination, education and training, employment, health,
International Youth Year '85 established this year costing $237,000 in the first full year of operation (previously part of the Department for
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Youth, Sport and Recreation). • attacking the drug abuse and smoking among young people with an expenditure of $2.54m. • recreation and sporting programs that reach more than just youth costing $6.5m. • providing youth development grants of $201,000. • A new fund of $275,000 for 15 local youth projects. I applaud what the government is doing in many areas for and with young people. I continue to put the case of voluntary youth groups and organisations that often are already doing what government hopes for. Volunteers can create something out of a "'omoney' situation. I'm glad the age of the volunteer is not dead. There are some things that money can never buy. There are others, things for which we need more of the taxpayer's dollars. Understand the scene by getting our copy of "Budget Outlook Ring Marj Downey at the Youth Office on 328 9878.
Commandments: Pope asks do you know them
ON MORAUTY AND CONSCIENCE. • To the question "What must I do to inherit eternal life?", Jesus replies: "You know the commandments," and he immediately lists the commandments. The young man who speaks to Christ naturally knows by heart the Commandments of the Decalogue; indeed, he can declare with joy: "All these things I have observed from my youth." We have to presuppose that in the dialogue which Christ develops with each young person the same question is repeated: "Do you know the Commandments?" It will be infallibly repeat01,- acause the Commandments form part of the Covenant between God and humanity. The Commandments determine the essential basis of behaviour, decide the moral value of human acts, and remain in organic relationship with man's vocation to eternal life. In the words of divine Revelation is inscribed the clear code of morality, of which the tablets of the Decalogue of Mount Sinai
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remain the keypoint. This code of morality is written in another form. It is inscribed in the moral conscience of humanity in such a way that those who do not know the Commandments, in other words the law revealed by God, "are a law to themselves." Thus writes Saint Paul in his Letter to the Romans, and he immediately adds: "They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness." Here we touch upon matters of supreme importance for your youth and for the plan of life. This plan accepts the prospect of eternal life first of all through the truth of the deeds on which it will be built. This truth of deeds has its foundation in that twofold presentation of the moral law: The one written on the tablets of the Decalogue of Moses and in the Gospel, and the one inscribed in man's moral conscience. And the conscience "presents itself as a witness" to that law, as Saint Paul writes. This conscience — in the words of the Letter to the Romans — is the "conflicting thoughts" which "accuse or perhaps excuse them." Everyone knows how closely these words correspond to our interior reality;
from KATHLEEN HAINES, Sunbury Sir Recenty a weekend was arranged at Safety Bay for young people interested in religious vocations. This weekend was overbooked by a considerable number and this meant arranging a second weekend. What a joy it was to know of such interest by the young people and yet little or no news appeared in The Record of this very significant event in the life of the Church in this state. This surely ought to have been important enough to warrant a double page spread of comment and photos of these fine young people who were prepared to give up a weekend to learn something of the life of a religious. We must support with prayer and encouragement this awakening interest in vocations. We, the members of the Bunbury liturgy group are very disappointed at your
apparent lack of interest in the 'Wonder Weekend"
Kathleen, Your letter eventually found its way to the youth editor's desk While the wonder weekend may well have warranted a double page spread there are certain difficulties with such publicity The most important being that young people who are seriously considering a religious vocation (or any for that matter) generally are very slow to have that fact publicised to all their peers. The search for one's vocation is a very personal and to a point private matter. Yes, we must support with prayer. Youth forum is interested in wonder weekends, choice weekends, YCW weekends, YCS weekends. . . you name it, AND WRITE ABOUT IT. Youth forum will do its best to publish it.
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each of us from our youth experiences the voice of conscience. Therefore when Jesus, in his conversation with the young man, lists the Commandments: "Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother," the upright conscience responds with an interior reaction to man's corresponding deeds; it accuses or excuses. But the conscience must not be distorted, the fundamental formulation of the principles of morality must not surrender to deformation by any kind of relativism or utilitarianism. Dear young friends! The response which Jesus gives to his questioner in the Gospel is addressed to each one of you. Christ asks you about the state of your moral awareness, and he questions you about the state of your conscience. This is a key question for people: It is the fundamental question of your youth, one that concerns the whole plan of life which must be formed precisely in youth.
Its value is the one most closely connected with the relationship of each of you with moral good and evil. The value of this plan depends in an essential way on the authenticity and r ectitude of your conscience. It also depends on its sensitivity. So we find ourselves here at a crucial moment, when at every step time and eternity meet at a level which is proper to man. It is the level of the conscience, the level of moral values: The conscience is the most important dimension of time and history. For history is written not only by the events which in a certain sense happen 'from outside," it is written first of all "from within": It is the history of human consciences, of moral victories and defeats. Here too the essential greatness of man finds its foundation: His authentically human dignity. This is that interior treasure whereby man continually goes beyond himself in the direction of eternity.
The Young Christian Students movement is looking for applicants to fill the positions of two fulltime workers to begin work in January 1986 for a one or two year period. Y.C.S. is a movement of secondary students who use the Review of Life method to reflect on their lives. The job would involve meetings with students, helping to organise camps, plan meetings and general office work. Anyone interested should contact Anne McNulty on 328 4071 during office hours or apply to: YCS PO Box 194 NORTH PERTH 6006
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What you have to say hildren's Story Hour Joan lived with her family on a small farm in France. She workedin the fields and learned to sew and cook. She was strong and rode the farm horses better than her brothers. She loved to run races against the boys in her village. She usually won. But a terrible war was changing everything. Englandbad invadedFrance. English armies roamed over the countryside, destroying crops and burning homes. Joan was Just 13 when she felt God was calling her. This all happened hundreds of years ago when the world was much different than it is today. It began one bright spring day. Joan was sitting in the pasture with her father's cows and sheep. She wondered why no one would lead the
Jokes Why did the chicken go halfway across the road? She wanted to lay it on the line. Why did the tortoise cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day off. What does a doctor give to a bird? A tweetment. What happens when ducks fly upside down? They quack up. Which side of a chicken bas the most feathers? The outside I f a neighbour's peacock laid an egg in your yard, whose egg would it be? Nobody's — peacocks don't lay eggs. peahens do. Customer: "How much is that bird?" Clerk: "Ten dollars madam." Customer: "I'll take it. Will you send me the bill?" Clerk: "Sorry madam, you'll have to take the whole bird." What did the spaniel say to the bird? "I'm a cocker too."
French against the Eng- drive the English army lish soldiers. She felt God out of France." wanted her to help. "That is what God is She talked to her father. calling me to do," Joan He did not think girls said confidently. should take part in war. So she led the soldiers So she talked to her pas- into battle. They won a tor. He was more under- great victory at Orleans. standing. He told her to The presence of this pray more. She did and brave girl inspired evebecame convinced that ryone. Joan became a God was calling her to hero. And Prince Charles help save her country. became king. But then Joan was capSo Joan cut her long tured by the English. hair. She dressed in soldShe was put in prison. ier's clothing and rode with an escort of soldiers People began to say she was a witch. She was to the palace of the turned over to a church French prince. court of that day and put His guards led her to on trial. Prince Charles. "Godsent The court tried to get her me to help you save our to admit she practiced country." she told him. witchcraft. She denied the "God also wants me to charge, repeating that help you become king of God called her to help France." Everyone laughed. "How save her country. "I cancan a teenage girlhelp me not refuse God's calL"sbe save France?" the prince Insisted. But she was conthought to himself But demned to death. after a while be became Joan was Just 19 wben convinced be should take she was executed. The Joan seriously. church later realised she "1 will give you some was a great young soldiers," Prince Charles Woman. told her. "Your country We honour her as St will be thankful if you Joan of Arc each May 30.
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statements Bishops Deformed in body
but noble in spirit
Conscience Place, by Joyce Thompson, published by Penguin, $19.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. "Life does not begin at the Place: there are no births there. At unpredictable intervals nestlings are brought by the Fathers to fill the nursery, and so the numbers of the People are swelled. But there arc many deaths, for it is written in the genes of the people that they shall die younp,." The Place is a secret community somewhere in the American West set up for the deformed children of nuclear accident victims. Over the past quarter of a century it has grown from a tiny refuge into a miniature civilization where the People. ignorant of the outside world, live out their abbreviated lives in quiet dignity and harmony. They know only themselves and their mysterious Fathers who provide them with their physical comforts. Such is the story of Conscience Place which Joyce Thompson tells in her spare but touching style. The characters of Conscience Place are deformed in body but noble in spirit and their fate
is shockingly believeable. But the important message for me was not so much the dangers of nuclear energy, as the enormous possibility for potential and noble civilization amongst those whom society would consider abnormal. It matters not how or why people are handicapped, either physically or mentally; what matters is how society treats them. The people in Joyce Thompson's book may be shockingly crippled in body or mind but they are not further crippled by the atti-
tudes and bigotry of the world around them. Admittedly, her people have their own world and just as the rest of society is protected from the terrible truth they represent and their uncomfortable presence, so the handicapped are protected from the intolerance and judgement of the outside world. Such protection offers the people a precious flowering but it is a fragile one at best. Isolation is not a lasting answer to any problem as everyone soon discovers. But the real message that
Francis J. Moloney S OB
much praised Free to Love, shows ways in which we can find renewed meaning in the vows in a modern context. He first asks, What did the vows originally mean in their biblical context? Can this meaning be applied to our situation today?
comes from Conscience Place is that the world, in losing much of its innocence, has also lost the ability to truly nurture that most precious thing of all . . the human spirit. For the human spirit lives and breathes in all of us, whether or not we have arms, legs, eyes or even hearts, and in Conscience Place it is the spirit that takes precedence over all else. For the people of Conscience Place the choice is made somewhat from necessity — how much better to make the choice of our own free will.
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A Life of Promise, Poverty, Chastity, Obedience, by Francis J. Moloney, SDB, published by St Paul, (No price given). This book is a challenge issued to all Christians: are the monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience outdated today, or can they deepen and enrich our faith? Francis Moloney thinks they can, and this book, a greatly revised and enlarged edition of his
EDE He suggests they can be seen as the keys to a unique freedom and an opportunity to love and be loved. There has been only one truly free person in the history of mankind, and that was Jesus of Nazareth, who was poor, chaste and obedient. The publicly professed vows of the religious life can act as a prophetic challenge for all Christians who are called to become
f ollowers of Jesus. Paradoxically, it is only by risking our love and our freedom that we can attain to the truest understanding of what it is to love and be free. Francis Moloney is an Australian member of the Salesian Religious Order. He studied in Europe and then gained a doctorate at Oxford. He is the Head of the Biblical Studies Department at Catholic Theological College at Clayton, Victoria, Australia, and a Consuftor to the Secretariat for Christian Unity in R ome. He is the author of Disciples and Prophets (1980) and of Woman: First Among the Faithful (1985).
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What has the Australian bishops' conference said about Aborigines, or education, or families, or refugees, or Australian society. . or in fact about any current topic at all. For a long time it has been rather hard to find out! However, St Paul Publications of Homebush, NSW, has just released in a single volume the Australian Catholic Bishops' Statements since Vatican II. The 96 statements in the book have been classified into 13 categories for easy reference. Besides the topics mentioned above there are statements on Church life, ecumenism, mass media, abortion, human rights, justice and peace, marriage and sexuality, poverty and racism. The statements have been compiled by Mr Nicholas Kerr, editor of the Southern Cross, Adelaide's Catholic weekly. Having covered meetings of the Australian bishops' conference for the Catholic press for many years, he was well suited to undertake the task In the Foreword Archbishop Francis Rush of Brisbane, president of the Australian Bishops' conference. notes that the book reminds us of "some of the high points in the journey of the Catholic Church in Australia for almost a quarter of a century and recalls to mind
many of the problems the Church has had to confront." Catholic Australian Bishops' Statements since Vatican II contains much that will interest and enlighten every reader. It will be an extremely useful reference book for students doing theological and pas-
toral courses, and for courses in Church history. This 200 page book is attractively produced, and at $7.50 is very reasonably priced It is available from Catholic bookshops or direct from St Paul Publications, 60-70 Broughton Road, Homebush, NSW. 2140.
Faith story
Our Faith Story: Its Telling And Its Sharing, An Education in Faith, by A. Patrick Pumell SJ, National Adviser for Religious Education, England and Wales, published by William Collins, $ 4.95. This book is about faith and how it grows and develops; it is about the values that follow from faith and how they should affect our lives. It is written for all those who are in any way involved in helping other people grow in faith — parents helping their children discover God, teachers helping their pupils make sense of their lives, priests helping the community of which they are a part deepen their faith. The process of faith sharing is the concern of the whole church. In England and Wales, the Catholic community has begun a process called PREP: the Primary
Religious Education Project. This process, initiated by the National Board of Religious Inspectors and Advisers, has the faith education of children up to the age of fourteen as its focal point. It aims to help parents, teachers, the parish community and all involved adults in that development. In order to achieve this, there is need to get underway a wide-ranging discussion not only about ways of educating children, but about the adult members of the church as believing people and about their mission. It is in this context that Father Purnell has written Our Faith Story: Its Telling and Its Sharing. Through his own faith story. he presents a vision of how we come to know God and of how we share our understanding. Within the overall context of the Christian community, the three main settings in which faith sharing between adults and,..-oung takes place — family, parish. school — are explored in some depth. Simply written, easy to read: this book is at once inspiring, bringing readers closer to an awareness of how they themselves believe and what their own life story means, and urging a response with other adults to the common task of faith sharing, in which there are many different parts to be played.
Inew titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new title glk Resurrection, Release from Oppression, by Morton T. Kelsey, Word of Life Distributors, $17.95. Emerging from the different accounts of Jesus' resurrection "a continuous, powerful and remarkable consistent" narrative is discovered by Morton Kelsey and shared with the readers of this major new book In what is surely one of his most personal books, Kelsey knows how belief in the resurrection has helped him deal with the tensions and struggles of his own life. For Kelsey, Jesus' resurrection is the central act of the great cosmic dream of God creating and redeaming the world. As we respond to the resurrection, Kelsey feels. "we are confronted head-on with the fact of a caring spiritual reality" and the knowledge that evil has been conquered. He shows too, the Christ comes again
and again to transform the lives of those who believe. In this central event, we find hope and release from oppression. Morton Kelsey has a wide audience of readers and his book can only add to the growing number of people who find he speaks to their experience in a special way. Preaching Better, by Frank McNulty, Word of Life Distributors, $17.95. What handicap can be disastrous for the preacher? Not to be an astute and sensitive observer of life. The author has collected a group of newly written articles by people from different backgrounds who share this quality so valued by artists and poets — and so essential to the preacher. The book's first section deals with preparation for preaching, the organisation of materials, the use of storytelling, scrip-
ture and literature, and the need to listen to the voices of women. The second group of essays talk about various aspects of the relationship between preacher and listener, while the third section offers practical advice for reaching children and adolescents. An excellent resource for preachers, these essays will encourage preachers to observe with new eyes and in the process help their listeners make sense of life.
Winter Grace, by Kathleen Fischer, Wordof Life Distributors, $15.95. When Kathleen Fischer looks at the spiritual dimensions of the latter years, she finds that "aging can be a winter grace," that in spite of the losses that are a natural part of aging, these years can be filled with freedom and new life. The spirituality she presents here is the deepest dimen-
sion of all experience and can offer to both young and old a more positive image of old age. Winter Grace is a special book for older people and for their friends and families. It will be useful to social workers and counsellors in nursing homes and community centres and to pastors who find their congregations getting older. Winter Grace should change many stereotypes about aging.
The Catholic Church, A Brief History, by Alfred Lapple, distributed by Word of Life, $9.95. For anyone who wants a popular overview of church history from the century of Christianity's birth to the Catholic church of today, this book will be just what they are seeking. Readers will find especially useful the many charts relating secular and Church events as well as the maps and an
excellent glossary. Lapple's easy style of writing will make this overview of Church history appealing to a wide audience. It will also be very useful in high schools.
An Alternative Vision, An interpretation of liberation theology, by Roger Haight, published by Word Of Life Distributors, $19.95. Liberation theology is not easily understood by those outside of Latin America. An Alternative Vision shows that liberation theology can be translated into other cultural contexts. Haight begins by explaining some of the basic principles, before exploring some major ideas from a liberationist perspective — the Doctrine of God, Christology, God as spirit, the church and its sacraments, and the ministry of the church. Haight is able to
offer readers a fine summary of the Christian faith from a new perspective and at the same time, to interpret liberation theology in terms of basic Christian thought.
Code of Canon Law, by James Coriden, Thomas Green and Donald Heintschel, Word of Life Distributors, $89.95. Commissioned by. the Canon Law Society of America this authoritative commentary by over 20 of the leading experts in Canon Law includes pertinent introductory remarks and significant biographical material. It includes complete NCCB approved English translation of the official Latin text of the Code. it contains clear explanation of the meaning and application of the Law. It includes concordance of 1917 and 1983 Codes and much more. . This volume is designed for use by parishes, seminaries, schools
and religious orders for ready reference in a non technical style that will make it an essential part of your library.
What Are They Saying About Virtue. by John Crossin, Word of Life Distributors, $9.95. Contemporary virtue theory is in a state of evolution. This renewal of interest is taking place in both Catholic and Protestant circle. Crossin begins by explaining the work of some Catholic thinkers such as Joseph Piper, Karl Rahner. Romano Guarcini, Bernard Flaring. Among Protestant thinkers he focuses on the work of Stanley Hauerwas. Crossin next shows the influence of Erickson's psycho-social theory of the life cycle on several developmental theories of virtue. The hook then looks at the theories of moral and faith development.
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WHAT'S ON Fr Hugh Galloway of Ongerup shows how he gets down to the business of preaching when he recently met children in his former parish of Mt Barker. Picture by Stan Mentha. *TA,
LORETO ANNIVERSARY The Loreto Community invites all pupils, past and present, parents and friends, to join with them at a Eucharistic celebration to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of their foundress, Mary Ward at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth on Friday. November 8 at 7.30 pm. BURMESE MASS Father Joseph Themn Aung of Minor Seminary Lashio, Burma will celebrate mass at Good Shepherd Church, 42 Streich Avenue, Kelmscott on November 10 at 6pm. All are invited.
ANNE D'SOUZA, representing Willetton Club is Miss WA Catholic Lawn Tennis Association Queen for 1985. She received her award last weekend before 165 members and friends at their annual dinner dance at the Hellenic Club. Anne is a 21 year old trainee teacher and her prizes are a return trip to Broome courtesy of Ansett Airlines and accommodation at the Westos Motor Inn during the national carnival to be held at the end of this year and at which Anne will be the WA representative in the national quest. The dinner dance also included the presentation o trophies for the recent tennis championships. Plans for this year's national Tennis Carnival which is being held in Perth are nearing finalisation. The functions have been organised, all that remains is for members to lend their support during the actual carnival period which is from Thursday. December 26 to Tuesday. December 31 We need manpower over the carnival to ensure everything runs smoothly and that the work is not left to too few. Any offer of help, even if for only a couple of hours, will be gratefully accepted. Just ring Greg Pearce on 447 4950 and let him know when you are free. As well as tennis on each day of the carnival, social functions have been planned for each evening to keep camivalites in the holiday mood. Functions planned include: • a cocktail party at the Westos Motor Inn to welcome our visitors and introduce them to Western Australian hospitality. This will be a very informal evening with a DJ organised to get everyone involved and mixing. • a wild west dance at the St Joseph's Pignatelli Tennis Club. This night promises to be very entertaining. A real country flavour is assured with square dancing called by a professional caller and to relieve the hunger pangs created by all this activity a succulent pig on a spit. • the gala event of the carnival is the ACLTA dinner and crowning of Miss Catholic Tennis to be held at the Merlin Hotel. The magnificent Merlin
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Ballroom which has been the venue for televised beauty pageants of late, adds that "touch of class" to the carnival. A four course meal and drinks is included in the ticket so you can wine, dine and dance away the hours in one of Perth's most fashionable spots.
EEC] • the carnival Mass and picnic will be held at the picturesque grounds of Aquinas College. After a chicken and salad lunch the carnival games commence which although competitive are played in a much less serious vein than the daily tennis competition. To conclude the day a barbeque tea on the banks of the Canning River. • dinner at Cicero's in the fast moving nightlife of Northbridge is yet another of the functions planned. • the final function at which we farewell our eastern states visitors is the New Year's Eve Ball to be held at the Belmont Racecourse Ballroom. Get together your friends and welcome in the new year at this function, try something different to the usual backyard party. The carnival is an actionpacked week of fun and activity. A season ticket can be purchased for the entire week of activities for just $140. Tickets for individual functions are also available. Book your tickets now, through your club secretary or Greg Pearce on 447 4950.
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MEDITATION WORKSHOP Father Laurence Freeman OSB will present a talk and workshop on Christian meditation in the ancient tradition, from 58.30 pm on Tuesday October 29 in the Catholic Institute, 52 Ruislip St. Father Laurence is successor to Father John Maynes OSB as superior of the Benedictine priory and meditation centre, Montreal. Bring your own food, coffee and tea provided. Collection to cover expenses. Enquires to Father Placid Spearritt OSB (095) 43 8018. BURMESE COMMEMORATION The annual mass in commemoration of deceased members of the Burmese community in WA and in Burma will take place on Sunday November 3 at St Augustine's Church, 38 Gladstone Road R ivervale (corner of Gladstone and Salisbury Roads), at 11.00 am. Celebrant is Father Bernard Way. Please bring a picnic lunch and your own drinks. Enquiries 272 1379.
WHAT CATHOLICS BELIEVE AND WHY Video presentation of 27 one hour lectures by archbishops, bishops and priests of WA. Excellent material and parish adult education, school staff development, and convert group instruction. Dianella parish is about to produce 2nd edition. (First edition sold out) at t he same price, $200 per set. Limited production run. ORDER NOW from 356 Grand Promenade, Dianella 6062. C ARMELITE BEATIFICATION While Carmelite concentration camp Titus Brandsma is being beatified in St Peter's Basilica Rome on Sunday. November 3 a special commemorative service will take place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church Hilton at 5.30pm. Archbishop Foley will preside at the function to which all friends of the Carmelites are invited. ST ANNES 50TH ANNIVERSARY Invite former teachers - Sisters of Mercy or lay teachers, students and friends associated with 50 years of Catholic education in Harvey to a celebration on Sunday, November 10. A Mass of Thanksgiving at 10.30 am will be celebrated by Bishop Quinn and visiting priests. B.Y.O. picnic lunch on school grounds. Blessing of new multi-purpose building by Bishop Quinn at 2 pm. Afternoon tea will be provided. Inquiries - phone (097) 291287, 291227, 291030. LYNWOOD FESTIVAL St Jude's Parish, Lynwood/Langford, will celebrate the feast of St Jude with a procession and special prayers on Monday, October 28 at 730 pm. All are welcome to the Church in Prindiville Way, Langford.
ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL
FETE Sunday 3rd November COMMENCES 11.00a.m. 224 Swan Street, Guildford
NEWMAN COLLEGE On Sunday November 3 from 10.00 am to 3.30 pm, the Newman College Fair will be held in the grounds of the Newman Junior Marist Campus on Empire Avenue, Churchlands. All the usual fair stalls including produce, crafts, cakes, foods, sweets, trash and treasure, and many more fun stalls have been organised. Attractions include the State Trampoline Squad, Fire Department Emergency R escue Display and Frisbee and Gymnastic demonstrations. Peter Spencer, Phil Lamb, Jill McIntosh, Peter Hazelhurst and Bill Jones are the sporting personalities attending. Entry Fee, Bargains Galore and a fun time guaranteed. Everyone most welcome.
ABC SEEKS ADVICE The ABC's WA Advisory Council will hold a public meeting to obtain community feedback about ABC programs and services in the Octagon Theatre, University of WA on Thursday. October 31 at 7.30 pm. The convenor of the WA Council, Mr Peter Nisbet said the meeting would allow people to talk to the Council and senior ABC program executives in a public forum. While the ABC would contribute to the discussion, the main ingredient would be voices of the ABC's audience. Mr Nisbet said he hoped that people who were concerned about improving the product of the ABC, would take advantage of this opportunity to have their say.
PALLOTTI CENTRE Rossmoyne urgently needs for 1986 dedicated
Catholic Volunteers
Married/single, aboriginal/non-aboriginal to work with Aboriginal Students, for two years. Positions: House-parents, Handyman. Cooditions: Duties include evenings and weekend work. Free board and lodgings; small allowance. Please apply to: Fr. J. Kearney SAC Pallottine Centre, 5th Ave., Rossmoyne, 6155 Phone (09) 457 0344.
P•tkle csackstll C_ _ )01.0t1 Archdiocesan Calendar
October 25: Annual Clergy Meeting, Redemptonst Retreat House. Legion of Mary Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley. October 26: Liturgy workshop, Bar c,atta, Bishop Healy. October 27: Confirmation, Victoria Park, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation, Mosman Park, Bishop Healy. Mass for Social Justice, St Mary's Cathedral, 5 pm, Archbishop Foley. October 29: St Norbert College speech night, Perth Concert Hall, Archbishop Foley. La Salle College Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Monsignor Keating. October 30: Confirmation, Kwinana, Bishop Healy. November 1: Blessing of Ecumenical Chapel, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Archbishop Foley. November 3: Confirmation, Kalamunda, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation, Northam, Bishop Healy.
Greyhounds - with The Record Tipster
DOGS' RACE ONE: One Hope 1. Lady Temlock 2. Speedy Express 3. RACE TWO: Rushlake Green 1. Temlock Silk 2. Ben Peel Boy 3. RACE THREE: Chez Nous 1. News Item 2. Pearl Chariot 3. RACE FOUR: Zappa Fox 1. Sea Chariot 2. Paddy Adare 3. RACE FIVE: Icy Fox 1. Dynamite Duke 2. Tod's Pride 3.
RACE SIX: Lamborghini I. Miss Babe 2. New Range 3. RACE SEVEN: Hornsby Harry 1. Another Mini 2 Ocean Blast 3. RACE EIGHT: Peak Period 1. Half a Crown 2. Crown Mint 3. RACE NINE: Apricot Rose I. Chinese Chief 2. Countess Kim 3. RACE TEN: Dashing Domino I. Arabian Dancer 2. Daddy's Daughter 3.