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• Bishop, priest defend hand-over of Ayers Rock. See page 2
• Federal Bill on rights lacks protection for unborn. See page 3.
A training course for leaders in the P aulian Association and a formation program for a south of the river Word of Life group are the beneficiaries of the 1986 Archbishop Goody Award.
• Seminaries confident about priest numbers. Story page 3.
Mr Tony Robson, received the award of $4000 on behalf of the Paulian Association and Mrs Kathleen Bacich will receive $2350 to travel to the Rome Focolare Centre next year.
• US bishops warn abortion lobby gaining support. Story page 4.
Mrs Kathleen Bacich - off to Rome to study the Focolare program.
The chairman of the award committee, Mr Fred Gatti, said members were surprised that in spite of publicity to all parishes they
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received only seven entries compared with 16 for the inaugural award last year. None of last year's unsuccessful applicants applied this year, although conditions clearly stated that they were entitled to do so. Also, practically no enquiries for assistance were received by any of the five committee members. The committee awarded a total of $6350 out of the $7500 available from interest on the money donated to Archbishop Goody on his retirement and which he devoted to further training for the laity. (See page 3)
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace is a response to the call of Vatican II and the direct result of Pope Paul VI setting up a pontifical commission of the same • Record reporter ROSLYN ROSS looks at living after the death of a child. See pages 10 and 11.
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( Bishop McKeon and a priest yet to be selected will be spiritual leaders in an out of the ordinary 33-day European tour to visit places of special historical interest to Catholics. The London arrival and departure will include a visit to Westminster's unique Catholic cathedral and other traditional city spots. On the Continent visits include Notre Dame du Sablon near Brussels, and Cologne where stands the masterpiece of Europe's gothic cathedrals which took 700 years to build and is still being restored. Luzern in Switzerland includes the exquisite Jesuit baroque church while Milan features the viewing of Leonardo's Last Supper. En route to Venice and the spectacular basilica of St Mark there is a stop at the equally f amous basilica of St Anthony of t Padua.
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Bishop to lead discovery tour At the lower end of Italy's east coast the tour visits San Giovanni Rotondo, renowned as the monastery home of Padre Pio, the stigmatist. North from Naples and Pompeii, the tour sees the great Benedictine monastery atop Monte Cassino, completely re-built following its wartime destruction. Rome includes the basilicas of St Peter, St John Lateran, and Mary Major with opportunity to visit the catacombs and the basilica of St Paul. Northwards the tour takes in Assisi with its Portiuncula shrine at St Mary of the Angels in the plain as well as St Francis'
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ADELAIDE: The hand-over on Saturday of Ayers Rock and Uluru National Park to its traditional Aboriginal owners has been applauded by Bishop Peter De Campo of Port Pine and Adelaide Catholic chaplain to Aborigines, Father Tony Pearson. Both have lashed out strongly against critics, including the Northern Territory government, who say the rock belongs to all Australians and the hand-over was an "act of gross irresponsibility." Ayers Rock and Uluru National Park are in Bishop Dr Campo's diocese. He believes the hand over is an appropriate symbol of a belated recognition of the rights of the earlier inhabitants of Australia over an area of land most sacred in Aboriginal lore and life. "The immediate leasing of this national park to the Government Federal ensures this great natural wonder is open to all — permanent inhabitants of Australia and overseas visitors," he said. 'This unique rock has a very special place in the history of our Aboriginal people. "In the future it may be a symbol of the desire of all Australians to see the rights of every individual recognised and respected." Father Pearson said the issue of Aboriginal land rights is not one of charity, but of justice. "Two hundred years ago at White Settlement, a legal fiction was enacted declaring Australia as vacant and vested in the British crown," he said. "The dispossession of Aboriginal people began." Father Pearson believes to continue the injustice of that legal fiction would be to involve Australians today in an act of injustice. "Ayers Rock is for so many a symbol of Australia and the recognition of its rightful owners is a symbolic action," he said. "It is at once an act of justice to the people who have lived in the area for many thousands of years and it's a symbolic recognition of the injustice done to so many other Aboriginal people throughout Australia," he said.
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WASHINGTON ( NC) -Television should be viewed as a "tremendous opportunity" to serve the needs of American young people, Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan told participants in a national teleconference held to mark the Church's annual World Communictions Day. Calling it "kind of tragic" much of the discussion today about children's television was negative, Keeshan said people should focus on the potential television had to provide information and education to children.
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for the unborn Committee member Mrs Monica Bob (right) makes this week's A rchbishop Goody Award to Mrs Kathleen Bacich and Mr Tony Robson, of the Paulian Association. The $4000 granted to the Paulian Association in the 1986 Archbishop Goody award will cover the cost of the f irst WA solo parent ministry training program schedued from April 25 to June 2 9 next year. The Word of Life groups which have flourished north of the river will expand when Mrs Kathleen Bacich of Spearwood a ttends a Rome course for married people next year Mr Tony Robson who received the award on behalf of the Paulian Association entered the quest after seeing publicity in his home parish of Gosnells. The Perth training program will use two p eople from Melbourne where it has a lready operated successfully since 1 980, plus two local Redemptorists The Paulian organisation members, because of their personal experience of loss, trauma, grief and rejection, reach out t o others more recently exposed to such f eelings. Each year they organise four live-in Pauline weekends to help the separated, divorced and widowed get in touch with their feelings, to accept them and resolve them satisfactorily. Next year's training program will provide W A with a pool of leaders for the weekends. Those undertaking the course have committed themselves to a further 18 months service to the movement. They will then help train a next generation of local leaders.
PauHans benefit in award Mrs Kathleen Bacich who was prompted to apply for her award by the Focolare movement will attend the annual formation course for married people in Rome. The first fortnight of the course covers spirituality, application of the gospel to e veryday living, scripture, Vatican II and basic theology. The third week deals with family life, the g ospel and married relationships, between children, parents and relatives. Mrs Bacich will be the first Western Australian to attend a Parish Movement of Focolare congress to promote unity in the parish. On her return Mrs Bacich is to initiate and support new Word of Life groups south of the river. She will help establish groups for married people. She will be available also to help form other lay people in the archdiocese.
The proposed Australian Bill of Rights will give no protection to the unborn, says the Australian Bishops Conference which has written twice to the government but has received no satisfactory reply. On September 2, a month before the Bill was introduced into the Commonwe41th Parliament, Archbishop Rush told the Attorney General the proposed legislation offered no protection whatever to the unborn. Instead, he wrote, it could be interpreted as giving, in effect, a right to abortion on request of any pregnant woman. In the absence of any response to this letter of the Australian bishops the Catholic body wrote again to the attorney general a week before the Bill was introduced on October 9. The bishops second letter said the proposed wording "Every human being has the inherent right to life" did not diminish the possibility of giving a pregnant woman the right to an abortion. This was because the Bill applies only to "natural persons". Lawyers agreed "natural persons" referred to human beings fully born alive and not to unborn human beings, said the bishops' letter. "That provision in Article 12 which gives an
Jesuit arrests HOCHIIVIINH (SAIGON): At least four Jesuits were arrested in Vietnam in August and two Jesuit houses closed and confiscated. A Jesuit student Pham Thanh hem, was arrested in early August in the highlands near Dalat about 150 miles north of Thanh-Pho Hochiminh. Around August 20 Father Tran Van Nam, rector of the Jesuit novitiate at Thu Duc, six miles north of ThanhPho Hochiminh, and two students, Dinh Trung Nghia and Tran Van Nhu, were arrested, while the novice master, Father Hoang Van Dat was "sent somewhere else" and the house was confiscated.
express right to privacy is likely to be construed as conferring a right to abortion virtually on request" they added.
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Death with dignity ROME: Pope John Paul II said yesterday doctors and families must ensure the right of the incuratly ill to "die with dignity" and spoke out strongly against euthanasia. The pope, in a speech to scientists, referred to the problems created by medical
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The bishops said if the government intended not to confer a liberty for abortion similar to that which exists in US legislation, all that is required is to include unequivocal statements to this effect in the explanatory memoranda and in the second reading speech. "Failure to include any such unequivocal statements will lead many well and thoughtful informed people to conclude that, whatever may be said elsewhere as to the purpose of the Bill, one real intention is that it should provide a new basis for the right to abortion." The bishops' letter of September 2 was answered on October 8, the day before the Bill was introduced. The reply made no reference to the only issue of substance raised in the September 2 letter. The Australian Bishops' Conference has written a third time to the Attorney General Mr Bowen but so far no response has been received.
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Seminaries not 'desperate' from FIONA ATHERSMITH in The Southern Cross ADELAIDE. Despite seminary enrolments dropping below numbers needed to replace retiring priests the situation is not critical, according to St Francis Xavier Seminary rector Father Rom Barry. Father Barry said although, since the mid 1970s, the number of men entering the seminary has dropped, the retention rate within the seminary has risen. "In the old days you would be lucky if 50 per cent stayed at the seminary. Today the relationship of those staying to those "dropping out" is much higher," Father Barry said. He said he believes one of the reasons for this is that students entering the seminary today are older and have more experience on vvtich to base their decision to comma themselves. Father Barry said the situation of declining numbers is similar to that being experienced by religious orders. "I think it part and parcel of the present mood," he said. "We are looking at it calmly and there is no reason to panic. "It does have a positive side in that it has helped the Church reappraise the lay ministries, but on the other hand I think rt is time people started thinking about the whole question and whether they should encourage their children to look at the priestly life." Father Barry said a lot of reasons, although not proven, have been put forward to explain the national trend of falling seminary numbers. These include: • people are finding it very hard at present to make a commrtment for life. This is also expressed in the incidence of marriage break-up in today's society • there are so many career options avilable for people today. • the priesthood does not have the same standing as it once did. • peer pressure.
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The weak need laws A guest editorial from the English Catholic weekly The UNIVERSE on a recent decision against campaigner, Mrs Victoria Gillick. Although Mrs Gillick has made no secret of the fact that she upholds the Catholic Church's teaching on contraception she has made it clear all along that she took issue on the question of parental rights and not on the morality of doctors giving contraceptive advice to girls under 16. Yet, the anti-GI/lick and pro-contraception lobby, which includes the BMA and the family planning associations, with almost 100 per cent biased backing from the media, has been successful in creating the impression that the issue was the sexual behaviour of young girls and their right to use contraceptives, especially the pill. The lobby has presented the picture of young girls who insist on having sexual intercourse, girls who come from problem homes or from homes where parents would not be able to countenance such behaviour and therefore need help if they are to avoid becoming pregnant.
DELI The Law Lords in giving doctors the right in certain cases to act without parental consent have given them five guidelines which they are instructed to follow: "1. the girl although under 16 will understand the advice; 2. that he cannot persuade her to inform her parents or to allow him to inform the parents that she is seeking contraceptive advice, 3. that she is very likely to begin or continue having sexual intercourse with or without contraceptive treatment; 4. that unless she receives contraceptive advice or treatment her physical or mental health or both are likely to suffer; 5. that her best interest requires him to Om her contraceptive advice, treatment or both without parental consent. Lord Scarman in his judgement said. There are moral and family questions, especially her relationship with her parents; long-termproblems associated with the emotionalimpact of a pregnancy and its termination and there are risks to health of sexual intercourse at her age, risks which contraception may diminish but cannot eliminate. "It follows that a doctor will have to satisfy himself that she is able to appraise these factors before he can proceed upon the basis that she has at law capacity to consent to contraceptive treatment." Lord Scarman andhis fellow Law Lords must have some idea of what the average surgery is like. Where and when will the average GP find time to so inform the young girl that she can then "proceed upon the basis that she has at law capacity to consent to contraceptive treatment"? What is quite extraordinary is that their Lordships have made it legal for doctors to prescribe contraceptives for minors and yet it is a criminal offence for a man to have sexual intercourse with a girl under 16. Anyone who aids and abets a criminal act is liable under the law. Is it out of the question that a doctor who prescribes contraceptive pills to a girl under age so that she can have sexual intercourse could be charged with aiding and abetting a criminal act? Lord Scarman accepted that "there are risks to health of sexual intercourse for young girls", but did not stress how serious these can be.
EEO He and his fellow Lords also chose to overlook the substantial evidence which exists of the health risks involved if young girls use contraceptive pills regularly. The Law Lords had an excellent opportunity to remind parents, and the rest of society, that it is grossly unfair to take one area of a young girl's life in isolation, and that what really matters is to help young people to grow and develop to their full potential. And how much more important this is when girls come fromproblem homes or if they are experiencing difficulty in relating to parents. All in all the decision has to be seen as being irresponsible because it must inevitably contribute to the shattering of many young lives. Laws cannot force people to live moral lives but they can help to protect the weak and vulnerable. The Law Lords have shirked their responsibuity.
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WASHINGTON — Organisers say they have gathered about 1000 Catholic signatures so far in support of signers of a New York Times advertisement last year which said there was more than one "legitimate Catholic position" on the morality of abortion. The advertisement, published in the Times October 7, 1984, became the source of a highly publicised, ongoing conflict in the US Church after a Vatican agency ordered by JERRY FILTEAU men and women ReliNC NEWS gious who signed it to recant. ment, may well be run almost exclusively on the The Committee of before the end of the year women Religious still under Concerned Catholics, even if there is no escalation, threat, the Committee of said. In the meantime Concerned Catholics was formed last January by she the campaign for more sigalso concerned with other signers of the 1984 natures would continue, she signers who face pressures statement, is organis- added. because of their stand. ing the new signature In another development, Ms. Kissling was also execcampaign, which Ms. Kissling said, the steer- utive director of Catholics began in mid-summer. ing committer "reluctantly for a Free Choice, which A central steering committee of the committee met September and decided to run a new advertisement in the New York Times whenever "there is a concrete escalation of ,the conflict," said Frances Kissling, a member. The proposed new advertisement, a "declaration of solidarity' with those who signed the original state-
Pilgrims' special reminder VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II told a group of pilgrims from violence-scarred South Africa they stand as "a special reminder" that all "are called to share" in "the sufferings of Christ". The pope spoke of their hardships during his general audience in St Peter's Square, where about 40 South Africans were among the 6000 persons on hand for the pope's weekly talk. "May your oneness with our Lord's sacrifice be a source of strength and courage," the pope told the South Africans without specifically mentioning apartheid, the segregation system which lies at the heart of the nation's unrest. However, the pope used strong language to condemn that system which has provoked violent outbreaks resulting in more than 625 deaths. "Our repudiation of every form of racial discrimination is firmly believed and total," the pope said at an audience a week later. "To those who suffer the violence of such an inhuman situation, I express my loving participation and support," he added.
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accepted the resignations" of its two members who were nuns because "they are subjected to such great stress related to their own situations with the Vatican." The two nuns, both facing possible disciplinary action over their signatures on the original statement, were Sister Maureen Fiedler, a Sister of Loreto, and Sister Marjorie Tuite, a Dominican. Among the 97 Catholics who signed the original advertisement were at least 27 Religious — three men and 24 women — who subsequently received Vatican orders to recant or face expulsion from their communities. Several of those cases have apparently been resolved. but most of the women Religious said this September they were still under the threat of expulsion. Several lay persons who signed the original advertisement have reported cancellations of previously scheduled lectures and a drying-up of new lecture requests from Catholic institutions or other forms of pressure they attribute to their signatures on the advertisement. Ms. Kissling said although media attention has focused
sponsored the original advertisement, and she has been one of the main media contacts in the controversy throughout. The original advertisement, called "A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and
Abortion," addressed the abortion issue on several levels — chiefly as a moral issue, as a public policy issue, and as an issue of conscience and freedom of dissent for Catholics who disagree with official Church teaching. The Vatican Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, which threatened the expulsion of Religious who signed the advertisement, focused its complaints exclusively on the advertisement's assertions regarding Church teaching on the morality of abortion. It said the Religious caused "flagrant scandal" by adopt-
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Court's rebuff for US Justice case WASHINGTON (NC) — The US Supreme Court has refused to let the R eagan administration participate in oral arguments as a friend of the court in a major case involving abortion. T he administration, through the Justice Department, sought to participate in the oral arguments next week when the Supreme Court reviews lower court decisions striking down Pennsylvania and Illinois laws regulating abortion. T he statutes to be reviewed do not outlaw abortion but both demand certain actions to save a v iable fetus whenever possible in abortion and require that women be offered abortion-related information.
A threat to pope R OME (NC) — A Genoa newspaper has received a letter threatening Pope John Paul II, who was scheduled soon after to visit the Mediterranean port city, the Italian news agency ANSA has reported. The letter, signed by the Red Brigades, an Italian terrorist group, called the papal trip a "provocation" by the Christian Democratic Party. it said that "despite tight security" during the trip, "we will be able to conclude our mission."' The letter did not specify what the group intended to do. Italian police were investigating the letter, ANSA said.
Leeds greets new bishop LONDON: The new Bishop of Leeds, David Konstant, has been installed in a c eremony designed to reflect the long history of Catholicism in the diocese and the present industrial and pastoral priorities of the area. The 300-year-old crozier which he received from his predecessor Bishop Wheeler is a relic in the York Minister collection and in shared with the
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symbol of the Catholic Church's tradition in the area. Among the gifts the Bishop received from his new diocese at the offertory procession was a miner's lamp, a symbol of one of the largest and most beleaguered industries in the area which he will service. The specially-designed altar cloth also depicted the past and present.
Leaders pledge Lebanon support
' i Card nal Hume condemns 'extortion' by western banks LONDON: The British government's record on aid for victims of the famine crisis in Africa was attacked by Cardinal Hume at a massive rally last week to launch the new Right World Poverty Lobby.
WASHINGTON (NC): Two leading US Church officials have pledged their support for a continued US commitment "to preserve the independence, integrity and identity of Lebanon." Although "the Lebanese must save Lebanon," countries like the US "have a responsibility as well," said a letter to the bishops of From the services of NC News Lebanon and to Cardinal Antoine Pierre Khoraiche, patriarch of the world's Maronite Catholics. The letter was sent by Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, president R emodel that old bathroom of the National ConferAdd ence of Catholic PRESTIGE and VALUE Bishops, and Cardinal to your home John J. O'Connor of New York, president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and v•-as released in Washington.
British now gave 17 per cent less in overseas aid than 10 years ago and had consistently failed to contribute the 0.7 per cent of Gross National Product recommended by the United Nations, the cardinal said. "If government aid programs have gone out of f ashion I feel that today we should begin rehabilitating them," he told an audience of 20,000 at Central Hall, Westminster.
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NEW YORK (NC) Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the primate of Poland, has said he would like an end to the remaining U.S. economic sanctions levied against Poland. He also said Church-State relations in his country are "developing." The cardinal's comments came on his arrival in Philadelphia to begin a week-long trip to three US cities. Philadelphia is the first stop on an itinerary including Washington DC, and Detroit. Cardinal Glemp, asked at a Press conference if he is subject to Polish government restrictions during his trip, replied "no one commands the Polish Primate." The cardinal called for an end to sanctions after celebrating Mass in Latin at St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia. He said the sanctions have been a burden to the Polish people. "We need some kind of encouragement from Western nations to help our situation," he said. He said he wanted the American people to know the Polish people are "greatly enthusiastic and working diligently for a better future. Just as American people are working toward a better future." In December 1981, President Reagan imposed economic sanctions on Poland including suspension of all government-sponsored shipments of agricultural and dairy products to the Polish government; stopped the renewal of Export-Import Banks credit insurance for Poland; suspended Polish airline operations in the U.S., and stripped Poland of tariff breaks for its exports to the U.S. Most of those sanctions, except the tariff penalties, have been lifted. Later in the day, Cardinal Glemp spoke at a local parish to reporters about the relationship between the Church and government in Poland. With Cardinal John
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"We write to express our solidarity in faith and love with you, with the Christians of Lebanon and with all Lebanese who seek peace and unity in your land." The letter said Lebanon had stood for "democratic government, religious pluralism, freedom of thought and speech. and respect for the culture of East and West" and that religious communities have been "an essential part of the mean-
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Prayed with Father Jenco WASHINGTON (NC) — Protestant minister Benjamin Weir, released from captivity in Beirut, in September said he prayed with four other American hostages, including Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, who worked in Waneroo. He also warned the remaining hostages face execution if the sole demand of their captors is not met. At a press conference in Washington, Mr Weir, a Presbyterian minister who had been a missionary in Lebanon, said he was told by his captors the six Americans still held hostage in Lebanon would be killed unless
Farm policy endorsed NEW YORK (NC) — The 10 bishops of Minnesota have voiced their support for the pioposed Farm Policy Reform Act of 1985 pending in Congress because it is a "long-term answer to the crushing farm problems." Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis and Bishops Raymond [Acker of New Ulm and George Spelt7 of St. Cloud endorsed the proposed legislation at a Press conference during the annual meeting of the Minnesota Catholic Conference. According to the bishops. the Bill would safeguard personal and rural community values and conserve land and water. Congress is considering a number of comprehensive farm policy proposals to replace omnibus farm legislation expiring this year.
the U.S. presses Kuwait for the release of 17 prisoners. "A new window of opportunity has been opened at least a crack (for the release of the other Americans)," he said, but "I fear the opportunity will not last long." Mr Weir said he was told by his captors other Americans could be kidnapped or the present hostages executed if the demand is not met. The 17 prisoners in Kuwait are radical fundamentalists convicted of bombings at the U.S. and French embassies in December 1983.
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Beatification for priest put to death in horror concentration camp A Carmelite priest, defender of the Catholic Press, who was put to death in Dachau concentration camp in 1942 is to be beatified on Sunday. November 3 in Rome. The 60 -year -old former Catholic journalist Father Titus Brandsma during his 13 months in the concentration camp built up a reputation for holiness in his ministry to the other inmates who included 2600 priests and 90 nonCatholic ministers. He was a staunch defender of Dutch Jews before his arrest by the Nazis. He was killed by an injection on July 21 1942 and it has been established from eye
Carmelite killed by the Nazis witness accounts that, like many other patients in the camp hospital, he was subjected to medical experiments before being killed. The Dutch Carmelite priest was a writer, journalist and editor during his training years before his ordination in 1905. He was the founding editor of
Father Titus Brandsma at Work in Nijmegan University before the war.
several Carmelite periodicals, stressing the link between c ontemplation and the active apostolate. His other achievements were working on a Frisian Imitation of Christ and a Dutch translation of the works of St Teresa o f Avila. He also showed extensive practical compassion f or poor, homeless young people. The high point in his career as a writer and journalist was 1935 when he was appointed spiritual adviser to Dutch journalists and he immediately commenced a year long series of lectures on the evils of National Socialism. The Dutch Nazi press began a series of attacks on him and the Archbishop of Utretcht right up
to the beginning of the war and into 1941 when Catholic papers were ordered to take Nazi advertisements. The Dutch priest personally delivered the reply to all editors that it was impossible to meet the Nazi demands and still remain a Catholic publication. This resulted in his arrest in January 1942 His contacts with the editors had been betrayed and also the decision of the bishops not to support the decision Titus Bransma communicated to them. In fact, the Nazis did not force the papers to take advertisements but they arrested Bransma for being the leading figure in organising a press
campaign against the Dutch Nazi Party. Although he was warned of his impending arrest, he chose not to go into hiding.
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This sketch of Father Titus Brandsma in a second hand prison uniform given to him in the concentration camp was done by a Baptist fellow prisoner.
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The 1940s were in their second half and the red tide of communism was engulfing Yugoslavia. Well-to-do wine maker and land owner Gus Schwarzbach, seeing the inevitability of losing all to the advance of atheistic socialism, decided it was time to depart to Austria with wife Angela and their four young sons — one of whom was little Frank. Gus and Angela, now living in retirement at Bridgetown have clear memories of Austria but Frank's recollections, because of his tender age then, are only sketchy. He remembers walking through the snow, the first time he can recall having seen it to school and the fact that only the wealthy could afford white bread. Poorer folk like the Schwarzbachs had to make do with a brown variety of much inferior quality. Later, when the family first arrived in WA, the youngster was staggered to find that just about everybody ate white bread. His few remaining Austrian impressions centre on his debut on the path of learning
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By BOB BOYLE and include being taught to write the letter M by drawing a front view of a pair of lederhausen (leather trousers). Do it and you will see that the result does look like an M. In 1949 the family embarked on their fateful voyage to Western Australia. There was a long delay in the Suez Canal for some reason or other. The ship was packed with migrants who were all locked inside the vessel for safety when it later encountered a fierce storm. The seven-year-old boy was frightened by the traditional ceremonies associated with crossing the Equator for the first time, what with the fearsome King Neptune coming aboard and people being thrown into a pool of water and bespattered with some sort of white stuff. So the arrival at Fremantle and the train journey to the Northam migrant camp provided welcome relief. Gus and his four sons, on an evening walk from the camp one day, came upon an orchard that had citrus trees heavy with fruit.
They were astonished when the owner told them they could take as much as they like absolutely free of charge. 'They were the biggest and sweetest oranges I have ever tasted," Frank says in grateful memory of this warm gesture by an Australian to bewildered migrants in a strange country. To start his job as wine maker for the New Norcia Benedictines, Gus took his family to VVyening near Bolgart. The two older boys, Gus junior and Victor, were sent to St Ildephonsus College as boarders and Frank became a pupil at the Bolgart state school. 'The children there," he says, "accepted me quickly and looked after me very well." Strangely enough, he has no recollection of having had any difficulty in learning the English language. "I just seemed to slide into it," he says. Perhaps it is a demonstration of the efficacy of education by peers at a young age. There is no evidence of Stine — or any other accent for that
in his present matter conversation. In 1 954 when he started at St Ildephonsus as a boarder, the pain of separation from his parents was eased by the presence at the school of his two older brothers, Gus and Victor. He had to work hard for success as a scholar, but he quickly shared the Australian love of sport. By the time he got his Leaving in 1960 he had been school handball champion for t wo successive years, a house captain and a member of the top football, cricket and hockey teams. By then Gus and Victor were sharing a house in Perth and Frank, in pursuit of a commercial career, joined them in 1961. He responded to every appropriate job advertisement and spent hours walking up and down St George's and Adelaide Terraces knocking on doors. Finally he landed a position as junior office boy with Imperial Typewriter Sales. Initially he rode a bike on his many errands, but the kindly employers decided he was too old for this form of transport and let him have the use of a company car. He must have been the only office boy in Perth driving a car in his work. Accountancy qualifications, Frank had resolved, were a necessary basis for a successful commercial career and he embarked on the long course of night school studies that ultimately gained them for him. One of the partners in Imperial helped by ensuring that he got accountancy work on his way up the promotion ladder, even though it was dealing with hand-written records and fairly basic. When he had spent four years with the company he realised his career prospects there were limited, so the search for another job began. He got one as assistant accountant with Kevin James Motors when that organisation was being formed. That was in 1965 and Frank progressed through the ranks until he became a shareholder and director.
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(Frank) Francis Guenther Schwarzback, dealer principal of Lance Gibbons Hdlden at Gosnells, was born in Yugoslavia on September 17, 1942, and started school in Austria to which he had migrated with his parents and three brothers. The family arrived in WA in September, 1949, and Frank continued his education at the Bolgart state school and St Ildephonsus College at New Norcia, gaining his Leaving Certificate at the latter in 1960. His first job was in a category described as junior office boy with Typewriter Imperial Sales, and as he rose through the Imperial ranks he continued the night school studies which ultimately resulted in his becoming a qualified accountant. In 1965 he joined Kevin James Motors as assistant accountant and one of the original staff, later becoming a shareholder and a director of the company, before purchasing with a partner in 1980 a new vehicle dealership in which he was involved for three years. In 1983 he bought a shareholding in Lance Gibbons Holden and moved to Gosnells as dealer principal. Frank and his wife Judy (nee Berrigan), parishioners of Our Lady of Victories at Wembley, have three daughters — Frances, Natasha and Monique, all at Newman College — and a son, Peter, who is four years old. Frank is on the board of Pan Australian Insurance Brokers, the insurance arm of the Knights of the Southern Cross, an organisation he joined in 1965 and of which his father Gus is a life member.
Criticism irksome to CCJP The Australian national Commission for Justice and Peace is often a subject of discussion in its own right rather than the issues it is addressing, according to its full time secretary, Mr Eric Sidoti. "This is a diversion from what the real aims of the commission are. If we put out a document on working for a just peace, too often what appears is a criticism of the commission itself or questions about its funding. "Such criticisms don't address the issue. "We are constituted to come to conclusions, to offer advice and we want to do that in an atmosphere where these very real concerns are for debate and dialogue. "And that has to be respected." Mr Sidoti is concerned so much time has to be diverted to explaining the commission, though this is a necessary function. "I.Ve would rather have that time free for people to acknowledge the commission has an established repand has an utation established place in the Church. "What we have to do is get on with the work of social justice and to some extent we are not allowed to do that."
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Mr Sidoti said he did not necessarily spend a lot of time on the phone. In the wake of the latest document there had not been more than a dozen calls, many of them from known critics. He said he is surprised at the amount of personal abuse that he or the office staff get when they take public calls. Being the spokesman for the commission has its difficulties, he admits. "It is a challenge to present the full gamut of the commission's concerns and the
nature of its conclusions in such a way that people are going to listen. "This is the opposite of people jumping to emotional conclusions and that's a risk at any time." He said it might be only a public perception that the commission is only concerned with the issue that is in the news. At November each year the commission sets its goals for the coming year and reviews what is happening in several areas. Although the commission put out special statement on Aboriginal issues and on youth and unemployment, these were being continuously studied by the commission. Mr Sidoti said.
Signore Paolo Meco and his wife Nicoletta were received by the Subiaco council on Tuesday night The mayor Mr Richard Diggins JP made a speech of welcome and the Italian mayor responded with the help of Mr Alec Lutero as interpreter
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By our Subiaco correspondent The mayor's visit Co. with the launching next Sunday of the history of the local city of Subiaco The name Subiaco means 'near the lake' and
refers in Italy to artificial lakes butt by the emperor Nero A grotto nearby became the home of St Benedict the founder of Western monasticism and when the Benedictine monks settled near Lake Monger Ion the present McAuley Centre site) in the last century they instinc-
tively named their foundation Subiaco The name then passed to the nearby suburb Bonds with the ttalian city were forged with the visit of the town clerk Mr Laurie Sheryington two years ago and former councillor Mr Ian Temby in 1978
Keeping job in the family Mr Eric Sidoti, 29, :ias been full time national secretary for the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace since July 29 this year. He was appointed by the Bishops' Committee for Justice and Peace after the position was advertised nationally. Mr Sidoti succeeded his older brother Mr Chris Sidoti who over a period of seven years was assistant and later secretary national secretary of the CCJP. Mr Sidoti said his family name came from his Italian grandparents who migrated to Australia while his other grandparents are a mixture of Greek, English and Irish stock. He has an uncle a Franciscan priest and an aunt in the Poor Clares. After university studies, he was employed initially on a national justice and mission program sponsored jointly by the Mission agencies and Australian Catholic Relief. In Sydney he is one of seven full time staff in the
Treading brother's footsteps CCJP office, four working on policy and the other three on administration. He pointed out the CCJP is constituted and mandated by the Australian Bishops' Conference which approves the annual budget funded from Project Compassion offerings. He said to his knowledge, Perth archdiocese was the only state commission employing a full-time worker, although other diocesan offices relied on people already working in such areas as Aboriginal help or poverty issues. The commission has 15 members, headed by three bishops from the episcopal currently c ommittee, Bishop Warren of Wilcannia-Forbes, Bishop Bren-
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nan of Wagga and Bishop Mayne of the military vicariate. Each state or territory has a member appointed by the bishops of the area. The current Western Australian r epresentative is Sister Leonie O'Brien who succeeded Brother Kevin Johns in January. The full 15 member commission meets over a full weekend at least four times a year and there are procedures for between meeting initiatives. Since taking office Mr Sidoti said he had been surprised at the amount of material going out in one form or another for the study and attention of the CCJP members. Other members of the commission during 1985 are: Jeff Kildea of NSW, chairman; Edward Riley of Tasmania; Graham Fallon of NT; Mike Gibbings of Queensland; Peter Mullins of SA and Joseph Santamaria of Victoria have finished their terms; there is no representative from Canberra; Anne Byrne of NSW, Anne Considine, Kaye Nundine of Victoria and Michael Deegan are coopted members.
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Retired bishop Edward Swanstrom, former director of Catholic Relief Services, makes a point during discussion at the 1984 meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. At this year's meeting the bishops will debate the second draft of the proposed pastoral letter on the US economy.
The US bishops want to move beyond general principles to some discussion of public policies in their proposed pastoral letter on the economy, Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke writes. But policies often involve terribly concrete decisions about money, which is not an easy subject to talk about, he adds in an article telling why he was willing to get directly involved in work for needed socialpolicies on the local level.
An unusual problem By Father David O 'Rourke
Katharine Bird interviews Olga Villa, Several years ago executive director of the Midwest during a term as pasHispanic Catholic Commission at tor in California, I found myself having Notre Dame, Ind. Ms. Villa sees her to deal with an unusministry among Hispanic people as a ual problem. A sizeameans of bridging the gap between • ble number of the general principles of church teaching "flower children" who had moved to the and specific social needs. David Gibson focuses this week on the complexity the bishops see in the economics issues they are considering. The very complexity of the issues contributes in a significant way to the shape of the document the bishops are developing, Gibson writes. Father John Castelot tells about all the trouble Jeremiah the prophet encountered while trying to convince hispeople that he bore a message from God. Jeremiah encountered resistance, Father Castelot writes, because his message was an unpopular one.
San Francisco area in the late 1960s had grown up to become socially marginal adults.
Some had become drug users. Others had turned to petty theft. Still others simply couldn't cope anymore, and lived on the streets begging for food and shelter. Many of these unfortunates moved across San Francisco Bay to Berkeley. They came to the city for shelter and to the churches for food and counselling. But neither the parishes, like mine, nor the city and county agencies were prepared for the scope of the
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demands placed on our resources. We were prepared to provide for the occasional needy person and troubled family. What we were not prepared for was an entire class of men and women on our doorsteps who could not handle life anymore. Something had to be done, but private resources were strained and public funds were drying up. I found it impossible to stand by and do nothing with so many people in our community — 5000 or more — in such obvious need. Especially apparent were the people whose emotional problems were overwhelming. So I accepted a request to assist the campaign of the Mental Health Association of Alameda County for increased public funds for programmes to help people who could not help themselves. This meant attending and addressing meetings of the county board of supervisors and meeting with elected officials, while we used parish facilities to provide some food and guidance to people who couldn't manage on their own. I tell the story to illustrate whatIthink is a good answer to why the US bishops want to move beyond theological theory into the discussion of
public policy in their proposed pastoral on the economy. People may question why the bishops can't be content to clarify general principles and then encourage us to act on them as our consciences suggest and our resources permit. But a discussion of the economy brings people into the touchy topic of money. And money is terribly concrete. The American bishops' letter on the US economy, as one bishop told me recently, has to connect principles of economic justice with realities like mortgage payments and food bills. "If our letter doesn't deal with these concrete issues," he said, "then we are going to run the risk of missing a major part of our audience." We may have to go from talk of economic theory to decisions about the limited funds we have, as the bishop suggested. But that need doesn't make the move any easier. It is a difficult move because it means going from theory to policy, from a discussion about how things ought to be in the abstract, to decisions about the way they are going to be in the concrete. That is the situationIfound myself in with the flower
children in Berkeley. My efforts to help went beyond the sacramental and preaching roles of the pastor. They involved stepping into public life in ways that could involve controversy. I knew that some of my parishioners might disagree with my actions. I also knew that in the long run events might prove them right and me wrong For I was trying to contribute to public policy, and when we move from thoughts and theory to policies, there is no guarantee that we will be right. We do what seems needed, reasonable and charitable. Like parents raising children, we hope that we arc doing the right thing. But we know we might be wrong. This is the situation the bishops are in. They believe that poverty has raised the stakes terribly high. They are trying to influence public policy. With great care, much research and thought, and as reasonably as possible, they are jumping to the centre of America's struggles. There is no guarantee that they will be either right or effective on specific policies. But they believe that their vocation calls them to give it the best try that intelligence and goodwill can provide.
For CCD class that Sunday evening, the teacher had asked his eighth-grade students to bring a newspaper. He began class by asking everyone to look the newspaper over to get the flaw, ir of the day's top stories. Next ht.: asked which stories they found interesting. Together, the teacher and the class made a l ist. Finally the teacher asked students whether the list they had prepared contained any issues with moral dimensions. Taken aback at first, the students quickly began to see there were some vital moral matters at stake in some issues discussed in the public arena. What sort of news stories might those students have discussed? Here are some developments reported in a recent edition of one newspaper: • Apartheid. President Reagan imposed limited sanctions on South Africa to put pressure on the country's government to change its policies towards blacks. South African government officials and Episcopal Bishop Desmond Tutu, an outspoken apartheid foe, criticised R eagan's actions as inadequate. • U.S. tax reform: As a congressional committee worked to overhaul the tax code, experts debated the merits of new proposals. Advocates for the poor asked whether tax reform i s biased in favour of the wealthy. Housing-industry officials pointed to what they saw as the negative impact of certain proposals. • U.S. trade imbalance: Members of Congress spoke of enacting legislation to restrict imports in order to protect U.S. workers. Why? On the grounds that current policies put U.S. workers at a disadvantage when it is cheaper to produce products in foreign lands where costs are lower. Reading a newspaper with an eye to the moral dimensions of current events provides a clue to why the U.S. bishops feel impelled to discuss policy questions in their proposed pastoral letter on the economy. In today's complicated world, with so much at stake, the bishops believe it is not sufficient to speak only of general principles. Though they realise people will disagree on what policies will be effective or right, the bishops think it is vital for members of the Christian community to be concerned about workable public policies. Tonight, while watching the evening news on television, think about the news stories that are reported. In the daily news, do you see any stories with a moral dimension that concerns you as a Christian?
By Katharine Bird The U.S. bishops' proposed pastoral on the economy offers a vision which bridges Sunday Mass and daily work for Olga Villa. "I want to feel I am a Christian seven days a week," Ms. Villa explained. The document says Christians "can't he afraid to bring
principles into the workplace. It reinforces who I am and tells me that faith develops through what I bring into the everyday world," She said. Ms. Villa is director of the Midwest Hispanic Catholic Commission at Notre Dame, Indiana. The commission, associated with the U.S. bishops' Hispanic Affairs Secretariat, provides technical assistance and programs on Hispanic ministry to 29 dioceses. Nis. Villa thinks lay persons will have a unique opportunity to take the principles developed by the bishops and turn them into practical policies. The laity "are the middle people; we will incarnate the document and develop it in the work world," Ms. Villa said.
But the Hispanic leader does not underestimate the leap from principles to policies that work. For instance, the bishops suggest that a prime goal of domestic policy is to make it possible for everyone who is seeking a job to find employment which befits human dignity. But, . from the Hispanic leader's perspective, "there is a long road between saying that all people should have work and the policies necessary to make it possible for people to get jobs." Reflecting on her 11 years with the commission, she thinks a crucial task of the commission lies in the area of education — including a focus on the jobs and jobretraining needs of adults. The t 'rifted States "is changing and the church needs to
Diocese of Toledo, the Archdiocese of Detroit — a two to three-year diocesan program to prepare leaders in the Hispanic and white communities is conducted. "We prepare people to discern issues, to see what they mean in lives," she said. She gave an example of how the commission works by talking about the work done with bilingual education in South Bend, Indiana, after it was realised that the city was facing a surprisingly high dropout rate on the part of Hispanic students. She mentioned an instance when "100 Hispanics started high school and zero graduated." A bilingual program was started in South Bend
reckon with it," the Hispanic leader explained. We don't live in a society now "where people just pick up a shovel to earn a living." "We're moving into a techinformation nological, society," she .said, and many people won't make it in the new world without the right kind of preparation. But, despite the imperative need, Ms. Villa believes a large challenge is faced in this area — in job training for people who have long lived the life of a migrant farmworker, for example. So a task of the commission is to create leadership in the Hispanic and white communities. Ms. Villa reported that in numerous places — the
schools and parents were assisted to see how the program would benefit their children. It was also a - support program. to help youhg Hispanics feel it is all right to be brown" in the t niteg States, Ms. Villa said. Though results took time to show up, the high school dropout rate for Hispanics in the city has been cut in half, she concluded. For Ms. Villa, promoting tlispanic rights is part of her birthright. The daughter of Mexican-American migrant workers, she learned to love and value her culture and history from her parents and in early volunteer work with the farm-labour movement_
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By David Gibson
"If you just wait awhile, many of your problems will fade away." Undoubtedly that well-exercised theory of problemsolving still provides hope for many people. It is a theory, after all, based on an awareness that patience and time provide new perspectives on perplexing problems. Still, one wonders. Perhaps a problem that fades away over time wasn't that much of a problem in the first place. Of course, life's problems come in all sizes and configurations. There is, for example, the problem that grows out of a misunderstanding between people. Sometimes one good conversation clears the problem up. And there are problems with no great or lasting ramifications: a temporary confusion at home over priorities; a minor conflict with a close friend. • Those are problems of a simple variety. • And they are not the kinds of problems discussed in the US Bishops' proposed pastoral letter on Catholic social teaching and the American economy. No. Complex problems are what the pastoral letter is all about. The letter repeatedly speaks of this complexity: the complexity of the world; the magnitude and complexity of the problems. The impact of joblessness on individuals and families. . . the scope of poverty
and marginalisation . . the right to health care. . . jobs welfare creation. reform . . trade policies: These are complex problems. Given enough time. they will not fade away. Unlike problems of a simple variety, they have lasting ramifications. They are high-stakes issues for people's lives. The fact that the issues are complex plays a key role in shaping what the letter says. In light of the very complexity of the economic problems under consideration in their letter, the US Bishops draw a careful distinction between their discussion of general moral principles and the application of those principles to specific public policies. "The movement from principle to policy is complex and difficult," says the letter. It explains: "When we make recommendations about specific decisions or policies in the economic sphere we recognise that prudential judgements are involved. These depend on the accuracy of our facts and on our assessment of them. Although we believe these judgements are correct and will stand up to public scrutiny, we acknowledge that differing conclusions are possible even among those who share the same moral objectives. From catholics and from others we expect and welcome debate on these more specific conclusions. The questions are basic and the answers often elusive, but it is now time for serious and sustained attention to economic justice." Often people "hide behind the complexity' of an issue, the letter notes. Furthermore, people realise that "no utopia is possible on this earth." Faced with such realities about complex problems,
what does the Church have to offer? The bishops indicate that biblical and theological themes shape the overall christian perspective on economic ethics; but by themselves they are not sufficient to guide daily choices, shape policies or give direction to economic institutions. But, the letter adds, "sober realism" about economic problems should not be "confused with resigned or cynical pessimism." For "all members of the christian community are called to an ever-finer discernment of the hurts and opportunities in the world around them, in order to "There is a long roadbetween saying that allpeople should have work and the policies respond to the most pressnecessary to make it possible for people to get jobs," says Olga Villa, director of the ing needs and thus build up Midwest Hispanic Catholic Commission at Notre Dame, Ind Ms. Villa thinks lay people a more lust society step by will have a unique opportunity to take principles outlined in the proposed U.S. bishops step." pastoral on the economy and turn them into practical policies.
When you hit 'bottom'! Jeremiah bad known many low periods in his 50 years of trying to get God's message through to his people. But now be bad really bit bottom: the bottom of a muddy cistern_ In a climate withprecariously little rainfalL individuals and whole towns dug cisterns and lined them with plaster to bold rainwater. Some, especially public cisterns, were large and deep.Jeremiab found himself in one of these, with no way of climbing up the slippery sides. This was the second indignity inflicted or:Jeremiah in quick succession. Not longbefore, the Babylonians bad lifted their siege against Jerusalem in order to ward off approaching Egyptian troops: Jeremiah took advantage of this lull in events to leave the city for
a visit to his borne tillage. a feu. miles to the north. However, the guard at the city's gate pounced on him and accused him of deserting to the Babylonians. In spite of his protests. Jeremiah was brought to the city's rulers. The rulers "bad Jeremiah beaten and thrown into prison . . . where be remained a long time" (Jeremiah 37:15-16). King Zedekiab was a basically good man who liked Jeremiah and respected him as God's messenger. But the king was spineless, and easily folded under pressure from the militant, antiBabylonian lobby. Once the king badJeremiah brought to him from prison in order to ascertain God's will Men the prophet pointed out the injustice of his deten-
tion and begged for release. Zedekiab moved him to less confining quarters and ordered that be be given a loaf of bread, which was so scarce, every daYIn bis new situationJeremiab wa.s able to preach to the people. But be proclaimed a policy of subthe to mission Babylonians — believing this the better of the alternatives. Some of the people denounced him to the king, demanding his death on the charge that be was subverting the "national interest". Characteristically, Zedekiab caved in: "So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern" (Jeremiah 38:6). Starvation and debydraHon surely would have claimedJeremiah's life if an Ethiopian court officia4 Ebedmeted), bad not pleaded
for his rescue. In another turnabout. Zedekiab Jeremiah ordered released. Ebed-melech got three friends and threw some rags from a linen closet down to Jeremiah with instructions: "Put the old, tattered rags between your armpits and the ropes." Jeremiah did so and they drew bim up with ropes out of the cistern" (Jeremiah 38:1213). Why did the prophet meet violent opposition? Because be was advocating an internationalpolicy out of line with establishment policies. One can just bear the shouts: "Look, you stick to religion. We'll run the country!" Why did this prophet persist against dispiriting odds? Because be was convinced this was his divine mission.
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ing a public stand "in contradiction to the teaching of the Church." The new "declaration of solidarity" makes no direct mention of the earlier advertisement's position on the morality of abortion and Church teaching in that regard, focusing instead on issues of "the right to responsible dissent" in the Church, "academic freedom" in Catholic institutions of higher learning, and "the right to free speech and participation in the US political process." Ms. ICissling said the steering committee, responding to comments and suggestions from signers of the proposed new advertisement had decided to delete a sentence which said that, in solidarity with the earlier signers, -we shall become the dismissed, the disinvited, and the unwelcome." A number of writers were concerned that could be interpreted in a way which might threaten their jobs or other posts with Catholic institutions, she said. Marty saw it as a "gratuitous remark." Ms. Kissling also said the original layout of the proposed advertisement would be revised to make it clearer that signers of the solidarity statement were only declaring their support for the signers of the original ad, not adding their own signatures to that advertisement as well. In a statement prepared at the end of its meeting, the steering committee said a "concrete escalation" which could provoke publication of the new advertisment would include such things as "a CRIS (Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes) deadline to the religious communities on its with c ompliance demand, initiation of dismissal proceedings or the dismissal of any member of a religious community, or the firing of any signer from a full-time job."
Nazis killed priest From page 6 During seven weeks in Scheveningen prison he was questioned repeatedly about his antiNazi stand and his support for Jews. German reports at the time said the arrest of Bransma would end the rebellion against them in the Dutch Catholic press. In March 1942 he was sent to Amersfoort concentration camp in Holland where he built up a reputation for supporting the Jewish prisoners. A t personal risk he organised Sunday services and the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, making a big impact on the other prisoners. In Dachau, he was beaten often by the guards but kept up his contact with priests smuggling the eucharist to each other, until his health forced him into the hospital where he was to be killed. At the time of his beatification in Rome, Hilton Carmelite parish will be holding a commemorative service at 5.30 pm on Sunday, November 3.
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Our recent series on grief attracted a great deal of interest from readers. As a follow-up to that series, ROSLYNROSS takes a look at two highly successful community support groups which have been set up to help people through the terrible grief that comes with the loss of a baby or a child These two groups are the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Support Group and The Compassionate Friends. This week ROSLYN ROSS talks to Lynette Gil/am, secretary of The Compassionate Friends and one of the group's founding members in Western Australia, While TCF focuses specifically on the loss of a child, it also acts as a referral centre for other grief support groups such as The Solace A ssociation of WA which offers support to widows and widowers and to the Western Australian A ssociation For Loss And Grief a group formed in 1977.
FACING THE CLICHES OF GRIEF: or DON'T THEY KNOW? It's a good way to die. Don't they know there is no good way for a child to die? Can't they understand there's nothing good about his being snatched away from our life? Remember, everything is God's will. Don't they know I can't understand how God could cause me so much despair? Don't they understand I can't accept this as God's will? All things work together for the good to those who love God. Don't they know I'm not sureI can love the God who robbed me of my child? Can't they understand I'm very angry at God, who treated me so unfairly? Your child is better off. He's gone to heaven, where he'll have eternal peace. Don't they know I can't be relieved to know he is in Heaven when I ache so to have him back? Can't they understandI feel his death is an injustice, not a Godsend? Count your blessings. Don't they know in this state of mind I can't, in my wildest imagination, consider all this pain, this anger, this emptiness, this frustration, a blessing? If you look around, you'll always find someone worse off than you are. Don't they know right now, I can't imagine anyone worse off than I am. You're so lucky. You had several wonderful years together. Don't they know we should have had many, many more years together? His life was just beginning. Think of all your precious memories. Don't they know how much it hurts to live with nothing more than memories? Can't they understand that because our love was so great, the pain is more intense. Keep your chin up. Don't they know how hard it is to do that when I really want to cry, to wail, to scream at the injustice dealt me. You must put it behind you and get on with your life. Don't they know we don't hurt by choice when our children die.Ihaven't met a bereaved parent yet who wasn't really weary of the hurting. If there's anythingIcan do just let me know. Don't they know they shouldn't wait for me to let them know.' Can't they understand my mind is so numb Tcan't think of what needs to be done. You're young. You'll be able to make a new life for yourself. Don't they know a new life is the very last thing! want — allI want right now is the life we had? Time will heal. Don't they know how time is dragging for me now, that every minute seems like an hour and every hour like a day? Don't they undestand how frightening it is to face the rest of my life without her?
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Learning to live again, after the loss, is often far harder than facing the reality that someone you loved has died. Especially when that someone is a child. In those first few weeks after a death the world has a will of its own. There are so many people around you, so much to do and so much time not to think. It is when it is all over, when the dust of death has settled, the real job of grieving begins. And this is when the bereaved can so often f ind themselves alone. . . and when a group like The Compassionate Friends, a selfhelp support group for parents, can be of so much help. A branch of the international group was formed in Perth in 1981 and one of the f ounding members was Lynette Gillam, now the secretary for The Compassionate Friends. It was the loss of her twoyear -old daughter in 1978 that sent Lynette along to that first meeting. It is the knowledge she has gained since then that has kept her there trying to help others. When she went to that first meeting it was in search of others who felt like her. While no other person can totally experience the feelings of another, Lynette, like many other bereaved people, felt a great need to share her feelings. "I knew there were others like myself who were bereaved but no-one left like me,- she said. "Or at least I hadn't yet met anyone who did." She believes her own grieving process truly began when she became involved in the group and says she has found the grief period only starts when people begin to do something positive about their loss. There is no denying people do need time after a loss, she says, and that is why no contact is made for at least six to eight weeks. 'We keep a watch on the death notices and send contact letters out to people," she said. 'We have a quarterly newsletter which costs $4 annual subscription if people can pay, and even if they can't we normally send it out for about 18 months or two years." On the second Monday of each month a 'sharing night' is held for grieving parents only, at 16 Rheola Street West Perth. Films and guest speakers are often organised for this night. Coffee mornings are held fortnightly in family homes and are open to anyone who has experienced a bereavement. The group also provides pamphlets, articles, books, booklets and tapes on loan and have a telephone contact service which especially encourages people to ring on their anniversaries. Lynette and other members of TCF are also actively involved as guest speakers in a bid to educate people about grief. "I found my own experience of grief taught me a great deal. But I have also learned
Learning life again f ollowing the loss YOU ARE NOT LISTENING TO ME WHEN: • you do not care ABOUT me • you say you understand before you know me well enough • you have an answer for my problem before I finish telling you what my problem is • you cut me off before I finish speaking • you feel critical about my vocabulary and my accent • you are dying to tell me something • you tell me about your experiences making mine seem unimportant • you are communicating with someone else in the room • you refuse my thanks by saying you have not really done anything. YOU ARE LISTENING TO ME WHEN: • you come quietly into my private world and let me be an enormous amount from sharing my experience with others and from reading a wide variety of literature on the subject." she said. "In fact, this is one area where you never really stop learning. 'While bereavement is a unique experience for each individual, — it also presents a different face in different circumstances." She says there is a difference between losing a child and losing a husband; between losing a parent and losing a brother or sister; and between losing a grandparent and losing a friend. Such losses are also affected by the kind of relationship shared and often the circumstances of the death. The grief experience for someone who has lost a loved one peacefully in their sleep will obviously have different ingredients than that where the loved one has died violently, as with suicide or accident. 'What we can offer families who have lost a child, is a variety of material which deals with all sorts of grief experiences. "Very often, it is the chance to share your experience with someone who has suffered through a similar thing," said Lynette. 'We can also advise on things such as where parents
• you really try to understand me even when I am not making sense • you grasp my point even when it is against your sincere convictions • you realise that the hour I took from you has left you a bit tired and drained • you allow me the dignity of allowing me to make my own decisions even though you think they might be wrong • you do not take my problem from me but allow me to deal with it in my own way • you hold back from the desire to give me a word of good advice • you do not offer me religious solace when you sense I am not ready for it • you give me enough room to discover for myself what is really going on • you accept my gift of gratitude by telling me how it makes you feel you are being helpful
stand legally if a child is killed in an accident. "As far as emotional support goes we provide a ready ear and the knowledge grief can be eased somewhat by talking to others who have experienced the same pain." Losing a child is one of the hardest griefs of all. No-one will know how you feel unless they too have lost a child. It is nothing like losing a parent or a spouse. She said when a child dies, couples experience a loss of self-confidence in themselves as men and women and as parents. "In the case of miscarriage or stillbirth for instance, a woman will question her viability as a woman," she said.
"I actually say to couples if you want to wallow in grief do so, but just remember a time will come when you will need to stop and go on living. "It's bloody hard work but there is no other way," she said. "And facing the fact of your child's death will be like no other pain you have ever felt." There is a great need among parents to talk about the child that died, she said. In her own case she can recognise the inability of herself and her husband to share feelings and meet needs, led to the breakdown of her marriage.
"If the child is older, a mother will find her role as carer-nurturer under attack and a father his identity as protector -provider."
She advised friends and with dealing f amilies bereaved parents to be open and honest and above all recognise these people were acutely sensitive at that point in their lives. "Don't hide your own children for fear of rubbing salt in the wound.
Quite a lot of child deaths, she said, were accidental and car or work-related. 'Whatever the cause it's important to realise that grief isn't something you get over with in about six weeks," she said. The minimum grieving period is usually two years and it is necessary to endure the hurt and anguish — it's all part of the healing process.
She said many people thought it was morbid to talk about the death, but in fact, it was more likely to be therapeutic.
"Don't avoid them in the belief they should be left alone — these are all things that can be easily misconstrued," she said. "And practical help such as cooking up a casserole or organising the household (if it
Don't say you know how they feel. Unless you've lost a child yourseff you definitely don't know how they feel. Losing a parent or a spouse is a totally different feeling.
There are lots of things other people can do to help when someone loses a child. Here are some DO'S and DON'TS.
Lynette Gillam with her sons . . . David and Paul. Lynette believes it is important for the whole family to share the reality of death.
is desired) can often be a big boon. "Basically the whole family needs to draw together in such a time of crisis, so don't pack the children off somewhere. They too need to come to terms with death and grief and hiding it away from them can be damaging all round," she said. Everyone will make mistakes, she adds, the important thing is to learn from them. "I can look back now and appreciate the things I did right and the things I did wrong,'" she said. "I guess because of that I want to help other people to think about the decisions they make. "Many people just don't know how to respond to death, especially the death of a child. "I encourage them to get a lock of hair — anything to remember them by. "My father took a lock of my daughter's hair and had it put into a locket with a picture of her. "I didn't know he was doing it and it was such a surprise when he gave it to me. "It is so lovely to have it now. "I also encourage parents to let their other children become involved. "I had photos of Rebecca by my bed and my sons wanted theirs too. "In the beginning we would all go to the cemetery and the boys would help to wash and clean the headstone — now they just play hide and seek around it," she smiled. It is through working out her own regrets, she says, that
she hopes to help other parents make better decisions. "One thing I really regret is not bringing Rebecca home after she had died, but I didn't think I was allowed to," she said. 'The problem was when she died, I wasn't prepared for the grief. "I was in denial when she died. "I had been told she would probably live until she was 20 and she died at the age of two. "In effect she was my job and I got the sack. That made me very angry and very guilty. "I wanted to be as involved as possible in her funeral. "Somehow I just knew it was something I had to do. "I saw her dead in hospital, and she looked so peaceful and pretty. But I knew I had to realty see death or I would never believe she was really dead
"Isaw her dead in hospital and she looked so peaceful and so pretty But Iknew Ihad to really see death or I would never believe she was really dead Ihad to see her in her coffin. "That was one of the hardest things to do, but Iknew it was important. I said there was to be no makeup on her because Ididn't want anything hidden.
"My husband wanted them to go, but I wasn't sure. -They were four and five when Rebecca died and were too young to be making those kind of decisions. "My older son chose to go to the funeral but the younger one said he would go to kincly.
"I tried to explain to them, but it was difficult for them to conceptualise so I told them while Rebecca wasn't here anymore, she could still hear us and see us. "But in trying to explain a life after death in such a way, my children had no real concept of the finality of death.
'The one who went has coped with it all much better than the younger one.
"At one time David was found playing in the middle of a busy road.
"I let them choose.
'The younger one has never forgiven me because he didn't go.
"I had to see her in her coffin. 'That was one of the hardest things to do, but I knew it was important.
"He has never been to a funeral, and refuses to go, whereas my older son has been to plenty of other funerals, and has no problem.
"I said there was to be no makeup on her because I didn't want anything hidden.
"Because he wasn't at the funeral, David also reacted badly afterwards.
"It was a terrible shock.
"He started throwing sand at people because he had heard Paul talk about how they threw sand on the coffin. "He smashed things and was generally difficult.
"She was so different. "She was cold, white, clammy and hard — I cried so much, but I knew it was better that way. "I had to see the truth. "If I look back on it all it is not things like that which are so hard, but living with the mistakes I made. "One big mistake was in not making sure my children went to the funeral.
'The other thing I did wrong was to try and explain it all to them in 'pretty' terms. "I knew in my mind it wasn't right to 'pretty' death up, but when it came to little children I thought I had to use some sort of imagery.
'When I told him he mustn't do it because it was dangerous and he might be killed, he said it was alright — that he wanted to die like Rebecca because he could still be with us. "I feel now one of my major mistakes was not letting the boys see Rebecca dead. "I know they were young, but they needed to appreciate what death realty meant and that is something which is simpler seen than explained." Her other major mistake, she says, was in repressing her anger. "I felt restrictions were placed on me as a person. "I didn't like the way she died — I felt very angry about it and no-one would listen. "I also told people I was guilty and they wouldn't accept that, but I felt guilty
"Whatever the cause it is important to realise that grief isn't something you get over with in about six weeks. The minimum grieving period is usually two years and it is necessary to endure the hurt and anguish. "If you want to wallow in your grief do so, but remember a time will come when you will need to stop and go on living"
and I knew I was. "I had found it hard to keep up Rebecca's medication and treatment. "I would often sleep through at night so she wouldn't get her medicine — or I would be too frightened of the fuss she would make so I wouldn't give her her physio. Lynette said she remembered pleading with neighbours to help at one point and one even said, "No, she might die." I said, "She is dying, and that's why I need help. "I averaged three hours sleep a night and I just wasn't able to keep up with her needs — so I did fail. "I guess I just wanted people to accept the things I was feeling, the anger and the guilt were valid — because they were to me." The important thing in grief, she says, is for people to be themselves. "I always tell people the only thing they can do with grief is learn from it — you can't lock it away. "At least, you can't lock it away and really live. "I remember one marriage I knew of that broke up. 'The husband was a minister and the cause of the break-up was traced back to a stillbirth 11 years before. "if it isn't faced, you will live with the pain of it forever. "And that's what Compassionate Friends is all about — helping people to face the terrible pain of losing a child so they can grow with it and not be crushed by it." The Compassionate Friends self help support group can be reached on 474 1060. 450 1573 or 444 6835.
• NO need to think up wise sayings to comfort them. They won't take it in anyway. Just let your genuine concern and caring show. Be there. Listen, assure them by your warmth and touch that you care. • DO be available . . . to listen, to run errands, to help with the other children, or whatever else seems needed at the time. They won't ask for help, so do what is necessary, particularly in providing nutritious food, rather than sponge cakes and the like. • DO say you are sorry about what happened to their child and about their pain. • DO allow them to express as much grief a s they are feeling at the moment and are willing to share. • DO encourage them to be patient with themselves, not to expect too much of themselves and not to impose any 'shoulds' on themselves. Make them feel they are allowed to grieve. • DO allow them to talk about the child they have lost as much and as often as they w ant to. • DO talk about the special endearing qualities of the child they have lost. If you k new the child then you have a special gift to give. • DO give special attention to the child's brothers and sisters at the funeral and in the months to come. They are hurt too and c onfused and in need of attention which their parents may not be able to give at this time. • DO reassure them that they did everything they could, that the medical care their child received was the best or whatever else you know to be true and positive about the care given their child. • DO focus on the father as well as the mother. He has needs of his own. DON'TS DON'T let your own sense of helplessness k eep you from reaching out to a bereaved parent. Don't be frightened to see your bereaved friends. • DON'T avoid them because you are uncomfortable. Being avoided by friends adds pain to an already intolerable experience. • DON'T say you know how they feel. Unless you've lost a child yourself you definitely don't know how they feel. Losing a parent or a spouse is a totally differing feeling. • DON'T say, 'you ought to be feeling better by now' or anything else which implies a judgement about feelings. • DON'T tell them what they should feel or do, if they feel justifiably guilty, accept this. Help them to feel worthy again by pointing out their strengths. • DON'T change the subject when they mention the dead child. • DON'T avoid mentioning the child's name out of fear of reminding them of their pain — they haven't forgotten it. • DON'T try to find something positive (e.g. a moral lesson, closer family ties) about the child's death. Don't preach, this is not the time to straighten out their spiritual lives. • DON'T point out at least they have other children (Children are not interchangeable, they cannot replace each other). • DON'T say they can always have another child (even if they wanted to and could, another child would not replace the child they have lost). • DON'T suggest they should be grateful for their other children. Grief over the loss of one child does not discount love of others.
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Mature live-in house- dear Lord of the Wounded prohibit or regulate at)orIn 1 983 (the inaugural year) keeper wanted for four Shoulder for answering CORRY In memory of my tion and laws that seek to 1984 it has been and teenage children for ten my prayers in granting a wife Ivy Corry whose anni- protect the lives of the included among the recipdays. Reply with referen- pass in my examination. versary (1984) occurs on unborn ients of the prestiqeous GMH ces to Housekeeper this J H. All Saints Day, also the Grateful thanks to Sacred loving mother of Peter and office. A lady suffering from Heart of Jesus, Infant Noel. RIP. arthritis is looking for Jesus, Our Lady, Holy someone to live in her Spirit and St Jude for house in Cloverdale. Free favours granted. JBS. THANKS board and keep for light Most Sacred Heart of house work. 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Come to my the Most Sacred Heart of the world, now and for- assistance in this great Jesus, Our Lady. St Jude ever, Amen. MT. need that I may receive the for prayers answered in To St Jude in thanksgiving consolations and help of my novenas. Please con- f or an apprenticeship heaven in all my necessitinue to help me. Pub- granted to my son Gerard. ties, tribulations and suflished as promised in The novena to St Jude fering particularly (make thanks for answering my never fails. request) and that I may prayers. Novenas never SACRED praise God with you and MOST fail. I.L. HEART of Jesus may all the elect forever. I SACRED your name be praised promise 0 Blessed St Jude MOST HEART of Jesus may and glorified throughout to be ever mindful of this your name be praised the world now and for- great favour, to always and glorified throughout ever. Amen. Thanks also honour you as my special the world now and for- t o Our Lady, Saint and powerful patron and ever. 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Here car selling is more competitive than in any other state because WA has the highest proportion of dealers to people in the country. "Every day we face new marketing and people challenges,'" Frank says. 'We have 37 on the staff and I like to give every one of them an opportunity to advance. 'The quality of car now is a vast improvement on those being sold when I first joined Kevin James Motors in 1965. 'There have been tremendous increases in vehicle efficiency, safety, luxury, comfort and handling.
"And cars are now cheaper in relation to wages than they were 10 years ago and represent much better value for money. -You can buy a new Holden now, for instance, for a lot less than a year's wages -A decade ago you would have to fork out more than a year's salary " 'I believe after -sale service is the key to success in a dealership. It's the thing that keeps customers coming back to you. "A major point of my sales philosophy is embodied in my direction to the staff — treat people as you would like them to treat you. "If it's not good enough for you, it's not good enough for the customers. "1 get my greatest satisfaction from helping people, and this is certainly a people industry," he said.
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For those who would like to write to God Dear God, I'm standing at the crossroad in my life, unsure of which road to take. I'm asking for your help. I know you will be with me whichever road I take, guiding me, giving me strength. I've made it so far I know I can make it the rest of the way even though the TAE exam seems such a pain. I can't make it without your help. Please stand and sit with me fespecially in the TAE). Comfort me when I'm sad. Celebrate with me when I'm happy. Give me strength when I'm weak. Congratulate me when I'm successful. Me and you, Lord — all the way. Pictured Lesmurdie Antioch member is not the author of the accompanying letters to God. f you have recently written an interesting letter to God and wish to share it in Youth Forum, with or without your first name, only send it to Letters To God, c - Youth Forum, PO Box 50 Aberdeen Street, Perth, WA 6005.
La Salle's annual regional Mass with the combined participation of primary schools from Belmont, Lockridge, ( uildford, Bassendean, Midland and Midvale, representing a total of 1800 students, was concelebrated by priests from York, Greenmount, Belmont and Midland.
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"Jesus, looking upon him, loved him." Continuing our examination of Christ's conversation with the young man, we now enter another phase. It is a new and decisive one. The young man has received the essential and fundamental response to the question: What must I do to inherit e ternal life?, and this response coincides with the whole journey of life up to this point: "All these I have observed from my youth."
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e dness that during your whole lives will enable each one of you to remain always How ardently I hope the a person of conscience, a journey of the life of each one person of principles, a perof you up to this point has son who inspires trust, in similarly coincided with other words, a person who is Christ's response! Indeed, it credible. T he moral personality is my hope your youth will Smart people keep in this way constiformed provide you with a sturdy their names in basis of sound principles, tutes the most important front of the best t hat our conscience will contribution that you can people when they attain in these years of your make to life in the communADVERTISE! youth that mature clearsight- ity, to the family, to society, to professional activity and also to cultural and political 7 - 1‘NNNNX\\XX•NXN.NNX‘X\NN.N.\\\\NNX\NN\NNN \\NN:• activity, and finally to the Church. It is a question here of a full and profound human authenticity. Each one of you must in some way contribute to the richness of these communities, first of all by means of what he or she is. Man sees himself, his own humanity, both as his own interior world and as the specific area of his being with others, for others. Precisely here the Commandments of the Decalogue and of the Gospel take on a decisive meaning, especially the Commandment of love which opens the human person to God and neighbor. For charity is the bond of T LJ perfection. Through charity, man and human fraternity come to fuller maturity. For this reason, love is the
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Dear God, Why me? What have I ever done to deserve this? I've been good I haven't done anything terribly wrong. I don't understand! All I want is a reason why. I want to know you much better, I want to be closer, but you seem to be testing me, seeing how far I can be pushed, how much I can stand Please help me, I need something to lean on Give me a break. Help me. Signed Confused
A new branch
The homily given by
Father Fitzgerald of York centred on youth, the enormous contribution they can make to our society and potential they have with their fresh minds, dreams and energies, to shape tomorrow's world, for better or worse. Sixty girls from the primary schools performed a liturgical dance under the direction of Angela Cox. Residents present from Touhey and St Vincent's hospitals were afterwards feted at a morning tea prepared by the food and nutrition students. — Colleen Howard
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positively imposes upon him -- in the Commandment of love -- the duty to do to neighbour all the good that he would wish to be done to himself. He thus seals the inner v oice of conscience with a bsolute acceptance of Christ and his word. It is also my hope that, after you have made the discernment of the essential and important questions for your youth, for the plan of the whole life that lies before you, you will experience what the Gospel means when it says: Jesus, looking upon him, loved him. May you experience a look like that! May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love! He looks with love upon e very human being. The Gospel confirms this at every step. One can also say that this "loving look" of Christ contains, as it were, a summary and synthesis of the entire Good News. If we would seek the beginning of this look, we must turn back to the Book of G enesis, to that instant when, after the creation of man, male and female, God saw that "it was very good." That very first look of the Creator is reflected in the look of Christ which accompanies his conversation with the young man in the Gospel. We know that Christ will confirm and seal this look with the redemptive Sacrifice of the cross, because precisely by means of this sacrifice that "look" reached a particular depth of love. In it is contained an affirmation of man and of humanity such as only he is capable of — Christ the Redeemer and Bridegroom.
DIOCESAN FULL TIMER Cathok Parish Youth PID Box 194, North Perth, 6006.
V ACANCY 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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International Youth Year WI
The WA Local Government Industry Training Committee in association with the International Youth Year State Committee will conduct an important one day conference relating to local government and developments in youth affairs on
November 11 at Chesterton Lodge MID Point Road South Perth. beginning at 9.00 am The cost is $10.00 per person A range of speakers will cover Local. State and Federal youth activities The focus of the conference will be to provide basic information to local governments and community members on how to develop youth activities relevant to the area and needs If you require further information please contact Karen Milligan. the IVY Secretariat on 387 9700.
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° hildren's Story Hour a } The endowments of St Edmund Campion kept him in the limelight for most of his 41 years on earth, and have made him the best known of the Elizabethan martyrs. Lack of Church leadership caused him to stray from the path of true Faith. His powerful leadership was later the beacon that kept many faithful. Born in London in 1540, Edmund Campion won a scholarship to Oxford at the age of 15. For 14 years, he went from success to success as student, fellow and professor. He was one of the university's prize exhibits to Queen Elizabeth, who was so impressed with his talent that she assured him of her backing for promotion and preferment in the Church of England. Campion wavered. He appeared regularly at Protestant services in the university chapel. He took the Oath of Supremacy. In 1568, he was ordained deacon in the Anglican Church. His conscience told him he had compromised too far. For three years, he wrestled with his doubts and problems. There was no half-way solution. It was his Catholic Faith and exile from the land he loved. He headed for the English seminary at Douai, where he was reconciled to the Church, re-admitted to the Sacraments, and began studies for the priesthood.
Studies were no problem to Campion, but the spirit of the seminary
was. Martyrdom was the air it breathed. The students knew they would not be priests for long. It was to be ordination, undercover return to England, a secret ministry until capture, and then torture and an agonising death. The contrast with his years of compromise weighed on Campion, and he became preoccupied with his unworthiness. He needed deeper religious formation and sought it by joining the Jesuits. Allocated to the Austrian province, he seemed lost to England. Prague was his home for six years, during which he completed his religious novitiate and seminary studies, was ordained a priest, and became a reasonably successful teacher in a boys' school. Things changed suddenly in late 1579. Unexpectedly the Jesuits decided to open an English mission. Campion was chosen as one of the pioneers. He landed hack at Dover on 25 June 1580 — disguised as a jewel merchant. He had 13 months of freedom ahead and became an expert in everchanging disguises. Spies had alerted the government of his presence, and for most of the time he was just one jump ahead of capture. He travelled the length and breadth of England, mainly at one or two in stopovers night Catholic homes. He would hear confessions, give individual
advice and group instructions. Then, Mass and Communion — and back Into disguise and on to the next safe home. Twice his name hit the public stage. The first time was with the distribution of what has become known as Campion's Brag. It was a statement of his mission, dashed off in half an hour at the request of one of his Catholic friends. Elizabeth and her ministers were not pleased to read, we are determined never to give you over, but either to win you heaven or to die upon your pikes." His second effort rocked England. It was a book called Ten Reasons. It explained and vindicated the Catholic Faith, which Campion offered to "maintain and prove before the famous men of our universities. It was surreptitiously launched at the Commencement Service at Oxford in St Mary's university church on 27June 1581. Copies had been secretly placed on the seats, one for each of the 400 members of the distinguished gathering. It was none too soon. A professional spy got on to his tracks, went through the forms of piety for Mass and Communion, brought in the troops and Campion was captured.
The Tower of London was his address for the remaining four and a half months of his life. His home was the cell called Little Ease — it was impossible to stand erect or to lie at full length in it. Four times he emerged from the darkness of his dungeon. The first was to be interviewed by Queen Elizabeth. She would forget the past if he would publicly adjure the Faith and enter the Protestant ministry, in which the road to high preferment was open to him. Campion was not interested. The second was a series of confrontations with relays of Protestant scholars — them backed by books and references, him dragged from his cell with not even prior notification of the subjects. He did so well his adversaries called off the contest. The third was the formality of the rigged trial on 20 November. He fought all the way to proclaim his faith to all England, to boost the morale of the Catholics.
By Julie Grundy, Beckenham
WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY Dear Captain Bob. Hi, I go to Kukerin Primary School. We have 35 children, two Teachers and one Kindy Teacher. I live on a farm. I have one brother and one sister. I have four pets, one cat and three dogs. Our farm runs sheep and we grow wheat. I have sent you some riddles and jokes for our readers to see. Nadine Kent. Kukerin.
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You'll Grow Into Them, Titch, by Pat Hutchins. published by Picture Puffins, $.3„95. When Titch needed new trousers, he got his older brother's. "You'll soon grow into them," his brother said. When Titch needed a sweater, his sister offered her old one. "You'll soon grow into it," she said. But then Mother decided Titch needed some new clothes, and at last it was Titch's turn to say, "You'll soon grow into them . . ." Alfie Gives a Hand. by Shirley Hughes, published by Fontana, $3.95. When Mlle is invited to a birthday party he is both excited and shy. But someHis fourth and final one else at the party is also appearance was on 1 shy and needs his help — December 1581 when he and soon they are both to Tyburn taken to was having the best time of their have carried out in grim lives. and gory detail the sentHughes was Shirley ence which the judge had brought up in Hoylake on pronounced on him 11 the Wirral Peninsula. She days earlier. went to the Liverpool His message, inspiration School of Art, and her first and intercession lived commission was to illustrate on. a children's book by a histo-
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Dear Captain Bob, How are you? I am fine. Here are some jokes. Haieyour beard tbejoke about the biscuit? No tell nte. I'd better not . . . it's too crummy. Have you beard the joke about the orange? No. I'd better not tell you, it's too juicy. In November I am doing a concert. It is called Dancer-
rian. Both illustrator and author, her illustrations, she says, are influenced by both comics and Victorian painters. Temple of Terror. by Ian Livingstone. published by Puffin, $.3.95. Part story, part game, this is a book in which YOU become the hero! The dark, twisted power of the young Malbordus is reaching its zenith. All he needs now is to retrieve the five dragon artefacts which have been hidden for centuries in the lost city of Vatos, somewhere in the Desert of Skulls. Each day that passes brings him closer to them and only YOU can stop him! YOUR mission is to reach the lost city before Malbordus and destroy the treasures he seeks. But beware! Each step you take leads you closer to your doom . . Two dice, a pencil and an eraser are all you need for this adventure. YOU decide which route to follow, which dangers to risk and which monsters to fight.
ella. At the bottom of the piece of paper they gave us it says, "The cast and chorus are in no way to be held responsible for any nonresemblance to the original story . . . it is the work of our crazy teacher." Hope you like the picture. Julie Grundy, Beckenham.
Egbert who? Eghert no bacon. Who's there? Amos. Amos who? Amosquito. Dear Captain Bob. How are you? Its me again. yes Marina Antich. Here are some more jokes. IT bat's black and white ulth writing? A news paper. What goes round and sings? A record. What do you get if you Marina Anticb. cross a centipede and a parrot? A walkie-talkie. What's the difference Imairmommum, between — a cat and a Welcome to our new comma? member, Celia Grundy. of A cat has claws at the end Beckenham. of its paws, and a comma has a pause at the end of its clause. A flea-bitten dog and a bored guest? One is going to itch and the Happy birthday to Tony other is itching to go. Fitzgerald. Craigie; Amanda What did the picture say Hall, Alfred Cove; Brian to the wall? Hansard, Guildford; Anne "First they frame me and Hutcheson. Hillarys; Kellie then they hang me!" Jamieson, Scarborough; What did one lift say to Elaine Lobo, Langford; the other lift? Andrea Petrass, Girrawheen; I think I'm going down Geraldine Tillemans, Canwith something! Genevieve nington;
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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross. NO Reading the mail Facing up to the IMMEDIATE DANGER nuclear dangers Rosalie Bertell
Prognosrs for a Radioactive Earth
No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, by Rosalie Bertell, published by The Australasian Publishing Company, $32.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paper). Reviewed by R oslyn Ross.
Reading other people's mail, as this book enables the reader to do — with sensitive and incisive comlinkage mentary and designed to focus and illuminate the material — is to enter the Irish migrant experience with an intimacy whose intensity is particularly human and moving. These letters, ranging from those of convicts writing to their wives in the 1820s, through accounts of the voyage out, and pioneering life in mid-century, through love letters, to stories of
Dr Rosalie Bertell was born in Buffalo, New York in 1929; she received her PhD in mathematics from the Catholic University of America. Washinngton in 1966. Between 1974 and 1978 she worked as assistant research professor at the Graduate school, State University of New York at Buffalo, and between 1970 and 1978 as Senior Cancer Research Scientist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Buffalo. She has acted as consultant for the National Council of Churches Energy Task Force and for the Citizen's Advice Committee of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. In the international arena Dr Bertell has testified before the Select Committee on Uranium Resources in Australia in 1980, and at the Size-well Enquiry in Britain in 1984. A member of the Order of Grey Nuns, she now researches low-level radiation as Director of Research of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health in Toronto. Canada, and campaigns internationally against the dangers of nuclear technology. There is no doubt that Dr Bertell has a great deal of experience in the field of nuclear technology, much more than most of us. Her book aims to correct, if only just a little, that imbalance. Her book is weighty and academic in style and I suspect will appeal only to those who have a deep and abiding interest in the subject. Nuclear energy is obviously more of an issue in Europe and the United States but Dr Bertell has written her book out of a deep caring for the future of humanity and on the basis that we all have much to learn, no matter where we live. Nuclear energy is no ordinary kind of energy . . . there is much we do not know. Mistakes have been made, says Dr Bertell. Her research suggests that escalating radiation levels have already caused some 16 million casualties. It is difficult for the average reader to accurately assess such claims, but then the most important step toward understanding is gaining information and Dr Bertell's book will certainly provide a great deal of that.
Letters from Irish Australia, by Patrick O'Farrell, published by New South Wales University Press, $19.95.
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success and failure to master the land, to the remarkable family saga (1883-1929) which ends the book, bring their writers alive again. The immigrant Irish, distinctive, independent and colourful, have had a profound and sometimes spectacular impact on the history and character of Australia, but this book goes beyond the sometimes superficial and public manifestations of Irishness in Australia. It shows through the lives of the ordinary Irish — AngloIrish, Ulster Protestant Irish, and Catholics from both North and South — the extraordinary complexity and diversity of the Irish influx, and the way it inte-
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More medical matters
the pieces gathered in this third volume are his best yet. Hackett's discourses on the human predicament draw on a wide range of human knowledge and endeavour, including literature, art, music, anthropology and history. He very successfully combines the desire to inform and stimulate, with that of wishing to entertain. As with all three volumes, the reader is left more knowledgeable, wiser and chuckling quietly. Hackett, in covering an extreme diversity of subjects, starts with a discussion of gender — whether or not these two kinds of biological bodies provide two kinds of person. He launches into the problems of defining disease, and follows with a discussion of a Pacific tribe, the Snailartsua, who spend much of their day engagedin strange ritual activities involving their bodies. Their households always contain
at least one shrine for this purpose, and the difficult Dr Earle Hackett is the erudite, witty and whimsical medical man who has been taking Australians on anatomical adventure tours since 1965 when he began regular radio broadcasts, particularly on the NBC's "Body Programme".
E E His unique blend of medicine, history, literature, language and any other subject that seems appropriate, has captivated a wide audience composed of everyday radio listeners, amateur scientists and scientists, all of whom thoroughly enjoy the doctor's droll and highly unusual presentation. Earle Hackett was born in Southern Ireland and schooled in Ireland and England He did his medical course in Trinity College, Dublin, and practiced in
England and Ireland before coming to settle in Adelaide in 1958. He is now an Australian citizen. Dr Hackett's interests and achievements are as varied as they are impressive. As a student he edited the Trinity College magazine and was half mile champion of Ireland. As a young doctor, he organised the Irish National Blood Transfusion Service. Turning to academic medicine, he held a university readership in pathology. Since moving to Australia he became, among other things, Chairman of the Art Gallery of South Australia, President of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and Vice-Chairman of the ABC. Dr Earle Hackett recently became Chairman of the Private Blood Bank of Australia which specialises in people storing their own blood for their own private use.
ew titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles Equal Opportunities: A Career Guide. by Ruth Miller, published by Penguin, $12.95. Updated and revised for this new seventh edition, an exhaustive and very readable guide to career and job opportunities for young people and those looking for a change later in life. A unique feature is an assessment of the opportunities for women. The Poem Of The Cid, Translated by Rita Hamilton andJanet Perry, with an introduction and notes by IanMichael, published by Penguin, $7.95. The only medieval epic poem to have survived virtually complete in Spain is exceptional in several ways. Although a heroic epic in style, it blends fiction with historical fact while avoiding the excesses that were typical of later ballads. And
while the Cid himself is presented as a great warrior, he is also revealed as a husband, father, businessman, lawyer and devout Christian Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope, published by Penguin, $5.95. Frarnley Parsonage remains one of Trollope's most popular novels. It is a selfcontained story, but is also the fourth in the Barsetshire novels, and an essential part of their startlingly thorough picture of everyday life in Trollope's time. Twilight At The Well Of Souls, by Jack L. Chalker, published by Penguin,
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This is the last, catacylsmic volume in the mind-expanding Saga of the Well World. Threatened by a rift in the fabric of space and with warriors amassing for the
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Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn, edited by Robert Asprin, published by Penguin, $5.95. Continuing the fantastic fictional game begun in Thieves' World, the world's top fantasy writers have contributed to this second volume in the unique 'collaborative' series of heroic fantasy novels set in the amazing city of Sanctuary. Each writer has produced an independent story, but the setting and characters are common to each. Hear Us 0 Lord From Heaven Tb)' Dwelling Place And Lunar Caustic, by Malcolm Lowry, published by Penguin, $8.95. Tales and fictional reminiscences which echo with the sound of the sea, plus Lunar Caustic, Lowry's visionary account of his time as an alcoholic in Bellevue hospital.
Meditations, by Dorothy Day, Word Of Life Distributors, $9.95. This revised and updated version of Dorothy Day's reflections on a wide range of subjects is an inspiration to all Christians. Dorothy Day, who died in 1983 at the age of 83 was a powerful symbol to each of us in that she touched the issues that Christians are still wrestling with today with compassion understanding and love. "Love." says Dorothy Day, "is indeed a harsh and dreadful thing to ask of us. but it is the only answer." Christian Women in a Troubled World, by Monica Hellwig. Word of Life Distributors, $4.95. Monica Hellwig first looks for a "useable past- for Christian women, finding that those Christian women in history- who were remem-
bered and written about tended to be "strongly counter-ccultural in their attitudes, expectations, relationships and actions." Hellwig then asks what inspiration and implications might be drawn for women's spirituality today. Christian women today can find new and creative ways to make a difference in a troubled world The Jonah Complex: Women and Fear of Responsibility, by Rita Zeis, Wordof LifeEHstrib:dors. $2.02. The Jonah syndrome is "falling short of what one could have been". Our unused potentialities or not fully developed ones are just waiting to be realised. This little booklet is designed to help us firstly understand this sy-ndrome and then go on to reach the fullness of who we are meant to be.
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WHAT'S ON MASS FOR A GOLDEN JUBILEE At St John of God Villa Subiaco last week the clock was turned back 50 years when Dr Francis Keaman said Mass for Domenico and Euphemia Bendotti whose marriage he solemnised when he was parish priest of Manjimup in 1935. Among those present at the Mass were their six surviving children and 14 grandchildren, many of them still active in the Manjimup parish.
ASSUMPTION INSTITUTE ROSANNA All sisters who have attended the Assumption Institute are invited to a gettogether at Mt Madonna, Lot 9 Buricinshaw Road, Glen Forest, on Sunday, December 8 commencing at 11am. Please bring BBQ lunch or a basket lunch. For enquiries please contact Sister Kathleen Connolly 382 6121. Sister Joan Phelan 271 9122.
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La Salle students, Stephen Sands playing Noah (left) and Anthony Leone playing Ham in the college's first drama production.
Euphemia and Domenico Bendotti and Dr Francis Keaman recall a wedding 50 years ago in Manjimup. ANTIOCH TELEVISION MASS ABC television shows this Sunday at 11am a Mass of thanksgiving from the Antioch National convention in Sydney where the celebrant is Archbishop Faulkner of Adelaide assisted by keynote convention speaker Father Chuck Gallagher SJ and Father John Shallvey MSC, national Antioch chaplain. During the program some of the delegates share their ideas on faith.
TENNIS
ST JOSEPH'S PIGNATELLI — ATTADALE: The clubs annual championships were held recently. Kathy Williams continued her dominance in the ladies championship singles defeating Pauline Gorringe in the final. Bill Mitchell won the men's championship singles for the first time when he defeated Peter O'Neill in the final. The President's Trophy Day was held last weekend. An old stager in Ray Diggins showed that he can still hold his own on the tennis court by winning the men's trophy. Sister Philis Chalice won the ladies trophy. It is encouraging to see the religious joining into our club activities. I am sure there are many more priests, brothers and nuns out in the community who are keen tennis players. We invite them to join our tennis clubs which are an ideal avenue for bringing together all the christian community. The annual Pignatelli Cup day will be played on Sunday November 10. All members of the association and their friends are invited to participate. Play commences at 11.00 am so join in the fun and bring along a picnic lunch — barbeques will be
available. Ladies are asked to bring along a plate of afternoon tea. The courts are in Wichman Road, Attadale. WILLETTON: The addition of two extra courts at Corpus Christi College has made this centre an ideal complex for the Willetton Club. With six courts available, players can look forward to plenty of tennis. Club day is Sunday and new members are welcome. All you have to do is turn up at Corpus Christi College on Sunday after 1.30 pm, introduce yourself and you are assured of a good afternoons tennis and social activity.
CATHOLIC NURSES' GUILD The Catholic Nurses' Guild will hold a home Mass and barbecue on Tuesday, November 26 at 7 pm at 11 Ellesmere Road, Mount Lawley. Food provided $7 per head, BYO. Bookings and enquiries by November 15 to Miss Nancy Edwards at the above address.
QUEENS PARK ANNIVERSARY St Joseph's School, Queens Pad( is 70 years old. To celebrate the occasion, a reunion of past pupils and teachers is planned for Sunday, December 1. It will begin with a concelebrated mass including priests who attended the school as pupils followed by iefreshments. Any further details can be obtained by ringing 458 3369.
COLLEGE'S ANNUAL REGIONAL MASS La Salle's annual regional Mass with the combined participation of primary schools from Belmont, Lockridge, Guildford, Basseridean, Midland and Midvale, representing a total of 1800 students, was concelebrated by priests from York, Greenmount, Belmont and Midland. The homily given by Father Fitzgerald of York centred on youth, the enormous contribution they can make to our society and potential they have with their fresh minds, dreams and energies, to shape tomorrow's world, for better or worse. Sixty girls from the primary schools performed a liturgical dance under the
direction of Angela Cox. R esidents present from Touhey and St Vincent's hospitals were afterwards feted at a morning tea prepared by the food and
ST JOSEPH'S — QUEENS PARK: The club held their annual general meeting last weekend. The incoming office bearers are Mark Diviney, President, Michael Messer, Captain, Brian Quain, Vice Captain, Cathy Veza, Vice Captain, Christine Messer, Secretary and Peter Quain, Treasurer.
nutrition students. — COLLEEN HOWARD
FRANCISCANS' TRANSITUS
Noah! — La Salle's first dramatic production which ran for five nights, was an unqualified success judging by audience comments and attendance. The acting by the students was variously described as "superb", "first class" and "really tremendous" by play goers and this was the general impression on seeing the performance. Lighting, direction, sound and costumes plus the enthusiasm of the young performers, were excellent.
MIRRABOOKA HOME COMING PROGRAM A program for Catholics who have been away from the Church is being run in the Mirrabooka parish and will culminate with five weekly sessions starting Thursday November 14 at 7.30pm at the parish centre, 36 Changton Way, Belga. The sessions will provide an opportunity to share and learn something of what has been happening in the church. There will be no pressure or obligation on those attending. For more information ring parish house 349 2315 or Pat Hogan 349 6845.
NORTH BEACH SCHOOL FETE This year's fete will be held on Sunday, November 3 at 5 Kitchener Street, North Beach. Attractions are — $1,000 Hole in One, Video Games, Ethnic Foods and so on. Further information 447 3294. EMMANUEL FETE The Emmanuel Centre is holding a Fete on Saturday, November 9 from 1-5 pm at the Centre at 24 Windsor Street, East Perth. Emmanuel is a free welfare service offering aid and self help to people with disabilities who wish to learn to be independent. The Centre receives no government funding, so the Fete is an important way of raising money.
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Father Laurie Hannigan, of Belmont, and Father Ray Quirk, of Midland, listening to homily at the La Salle regional Mass.
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History states: "St Francis of Assisi died about sunset on October 3, 1226. When he realised he was dying, he called his friars so that he could see them all once more and give them his last words of encouragement and blessing. St Francis arranged his own little ceremony for dying and had his friars join in the prayers, psalms and hymns." And thus was born the Transitus of St Francis. A now ancient tradition celebrated by his followers, the Franciscan Friars and the Third Order, on his feast day. A packed church at St Brigid's, Midland, witnessed this very beautiful and moving ceremony with three friars verbalising the transitus of St Francis as he passed from this life into Eternity. Brown robes, with white knotted roped waists and brown sandals bore out the continuing charisma and following St Francis still has today, eight centuries after his death. The Mass, concelebrated by Archbishop Foley and 14 fellow priests, flowed through a musical background performed by the Julian Singers whose renditions were appropriate and superb. Among the people in attendance, some of whom had come from nearby country areas, were priests, religious and parishioners from the Anglican parishes of Midland and Swan. A get-together was held afterwards in the school hall. COLLEEN HOWARD
Archdiocesan Calendar
A SSOCIATION MEETING: The next meeting of the Association is to be held on Tuesday November 5 at the home of Bryan and Stephanie Kukura, 15 Avery Avenue, DianeIla, commencing at 7.45 pm.
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Franciscans, Fathers PhsINp, Wary and Pax reciting the Transitus of St Francis of A ssisi at St Brigid's, Midland.
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November 1. Blessing and Opening of Ecumenical Chapel, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Archbishop Foley. November 3. Confirmation — Kalemunda, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation — Northam, Bishop Healey. November 4. St Charles' Mass and Dinner, St Charles' Seminary, Archbishop Foley. November 7. Launching Catholic Charities Appeal, Cathedral Parish Centre, Archbishop Foley. November 8. Mass on 400th Anniversary of death of Mary Ward, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley. November 9. Confirmation, Mirrabooka, Archbishop Foley. November 10. Confirmation, Morley, Bishop Healey. Mass, Polish Catholic Centre, Archbishop Goody.