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SYDNEY: The NSW government's plans to expand legalised gambling activities have been strongly opposed by Archbishop Clancy, in a combined statement with Anglican Archbishop Donald Robinson. Their statement said legalised casinos "would take gambling in this country into a new dimension." They also warn moves for more legal gambling should not be made until the Stewart Royal Commission completes its investigation into The Age Tapes, as its findings will probably concern casinos and corruption. In their response to the government's proposal, Archbishop Clancy and Archbishop Robinson stated: "The report of the Committee of Enquiry into Gaming in NSW is a remarkable report. All its hearings were in camera. No record is given as to who gave evidence and .how the evidence was s,tested.
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from special correspondent "This is in stark contrast to the inquiry in Victoria where a former judge of the Federal Court presided, and most of the hearings were public. "Because of the threat of organised crime, the Victorian report came out against casinos. "In NSW the report oposes three kinds of casinos: "CATEGORY 1: One of a glamorous style (probably at Darling Harbour). "CATEGORY 2: 18 casinos in clubs, like RSL's. "CATEGORY 3: 100 small casinos to meet ethnic demands. "Further, the report recommends that those who now participate in illegal casinos should be
allowed to participate in the new legal casinos. "It also minimises the assertion that drug and other monies are laundered through casinos. "The report could not be more unsatisfactory. We remain unconvinced that the proposed casinos will not be subject to criminal penetration. "The Liberal and National Party leaders will oppose the introduction of casinos, legislation for which could be introduced in November.
This was said by Archbishop Foley when he launched last week the 1985 appeal that takes place in all archdiocesan parishes during the four weeks of Advent. 'The Church has been involved for years in helping all sorts of people and will continue to do so if we listen to Christ's command to love our brothers and sisters-, he said. Archbishop Foley traced the history of the appeals wtiich started eight years ago as a response to the needs being experienced by many agencies which had depended largely on voluntary donations and small fund raising. The first Catholic Charities Appeal was launched by the Catholic Welfare Commission in 1978 and received $24,000 from the parishes. Archbishop Foley said the annual appeal gave people of goodwill the opportunity to support those who were providing the charitable services of the Church. He pointed out the work of caring for others operates at many levels. The first was at the local level where newcomers were welcomed, and the sick and bereaved comforted by their neighbours Then come parish based services for others.
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On top of this comes the diocesan organisation usually founded by people with vision, the archbishop continued. They were the people who have the charism to inspire others to go out and achieve the goal, to go out and use voluntary efforts and to get help from benefactors. Archbishop Foley praised the welfare work that used to be done only by the religious orders. The time had come for the total Church to own that work. More than 45 parishes sent representatives to the launching ceremony in the Cathedral parish centre. Father Jim Petry of Bedford highlighted some of the pitfalls in conducting a parish appeal and offered suggestions for making parishioners feel involved in the work of the various Catholic charities.
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Australian Marist makes history
An Australian heads the 6000 Marist Brothers for the first time in the history of the 168 year old congregation. Brother Charles Howard, a former head of the Brisbane archidioceSydney province of the san Pastoral Council order, is the 10th superhas supported unanimior general of an order ously a statement of that covers 700 educaprinciples which tional institutions in more than 60 countries. teachers must accept In 1976 he was elected when they are L toir the order's general appointed to archdichapter and headed the ocesan schools. order's commission for When a teacher is poverty and justice. He has a reputation for employed, a letter of his concern for the less appointment is signed favoured and has been a by Mr Vince O'Rourke, strong supporter of opendiretor of the Brisbane ing in Alice Springs and Catholic Education Santa Teresa, and the visits of Cardinal Arns of Office, the Principal of Sao Paolo and Dom the school concerned,
New head fighter for less fortunate Helder Camara to Marist Youth Festivals in recent years. He has given support to
Continuing stand against capital punishment BOSTON (NC): The heads of Massachusetts' four dioceses have reiterated their stand against reinstating capital punishment. They said capital punishment "under present circumstances does not seem to be justified as an appropriate form of restitution, crime deterrence or criminal reform." The bishops said "even though we oppose the restoration of capital punishment," their position "must not be construed as a failure on our part to recognize, from a moral point of view, the plight and suffering of innocent victims and potential victims of crime." "Catholic teaching has always accepted the principle that the state has the right to take the life of a person guilty of an extremely serious crime," the bishops said. But, they said, "there is a difference between the possession of a right and its actual exercise. The bishops said they agreed with the opinion that opposition to the death penalty was "an affirmation of the sacredness of human life and an appeal for greater efforts towards the establishment of a more humane and just society."
"The Catholic Press can be marvelously effective in ingng • a knowledge of the Church to the world and a knowl•I• • of the world to the C urch." (The Vatican Pastoral Instruction on Social Communication)
Charismatic renewal message Responding to God's call "Come to Me" is the theme of a conference organised by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal to be held in Perth from January 3 to 5. The conference, in the Perth Concert Hall, will: • offer the opportunity for personal faith renewal. • present Catholic understanding of the celebration of which is teaching on adult consequences of seen as a culmination faith and disciple- Jesus' invitation," he to each conference. "The healing service ship. said. • foster the growth of "It's an invitation to and Mass has led to Christian commun- come to God and to many forms of reconity living in full com- learn from His living ciliation with individumunion with the word the life He wants als, families and sacramental life of us to lead and enjoy in groups as well as physical healings," he said. the Church. Him. The conferences • promote ministry to "People attending were a concrete witthose searching for previous conferences God and the per- have experienced this ness to the living Gossonal experience of Gospel invitation for pel message today and His love. personal and corpo- an invitation to personal faith renewal, he • offer counsel and rate response to God. support. "Many people have said. Earlier this year, at spokesman for the A been led back to the one of several miniconference said the sacramental life of the emphasis was on the Church while others conferences held in proclamation of God's have been converted Perth by Renewal invitation which was a to the Catholic faith." prayer groups, Archbimessage of hope for The spokesman said shop Foley encourpeople who expe- many people saw the aged participants to rience brokeness and conference as a form learn to share their personal unrest. of retreat and an oppor- gifts. "You express to me of "It is a message full tunity to reaffirm their in a very special way, practical wisdom to commitment to the help us gain a strong Eucharist, a special the life of the Spirit
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Brother Charles Howard, a former head of the Sydney province of the order, is the first A ustralian and 10th superior general of an order that covers 700 educational institutions in more than 60 countries.
and by the teacher. The letter states the teacher has read the statement of principles and accepts them. The document, a simplified version of a previous statement, has become an issue with the Queensland Association of Teachers in Independent Schools (QA11S). It states while the Catholic school is accountable "to the community at large for the provision of quality education . . . it is also accountable to the Church community for providing this within the context of (Catholic) Christian Gospel values. "The teacher in the Catholic school is more than an employee: he/she ministers in the name of the Church and of the Gospel in one way or another. "Every teacher in the Catholic school has an indispensable role to play. "It is expected of all teachers employed in a Catholic school that they: "Be qualified as required by State authorities; "Be committed to regular ongoing professional development; 'Accept the school's Catholic educational philosophy.
his hard-pressed brothers in South Africa, who have opened new schools in the so-called homeland
"If the report is criticised, the government may choose to reject the categories of 18 casinos and 100 casinos, ie. categories 2 and 3, but push hard for category 1. "We will not, however, find that an acceptable compromise, and will not on the basis of available evidence, minimise our objection to category 1, where organised crime will surely seek to take
over and where adequate safeguards are not guaranteed. "It has to emphasised that legalised casinos would take gambling in this country into a new dimension. "The public still awaits the outcome of The Sewart Royal Commission into NSW police tapes, commonly called The Age Tapes. "Its findings will probably concern casinos and
corruption, and the decision on casinos should not be made before the R oyal Commission reports. "The public has a right to a fair and proper evaluation of this matter. "We are recommending to our Church members that, because of the deficiencies of the committee's report, they should strongly oppose the proposed legislation."
within the Church — the new ways He is calling us in these times — to grow and to witness to the Spirit, to witness to the love of God," the archbishop said. "A bishop hasn't got all the graces of the Spirit. "It's not from a bishop that all initiatives in the church are going to come.
EDO "And I truly see within your ranks, within you as individuals and the movement — the Charismatic Renewal — I see a wonderful hope for the Church to fulfill its mission in the lives of each of us and the lives of the people with whom we live. "I think you good people can do so much to challenge people to growth and to listen and receive the Word of God in the parishes where you are. "It's the enriching of the total Church that I look for from people like yourselves. "It's not just a personal thing, it's a gift that you must learn to share."
Attorney-General meets Archbishop Rush The AttorneyGeneral, Mr Lionel Bowen, has met in Brisbane with Archbishop Rush, president of the Conference of Australian Catholic Bishops. The meeting was concerned with the Australian Bill of Rights Bill, which the Attorney-General introduced into the House of Representatives on October 9 and the likely effect of that Bill, if enacted, on abortion laws in Australia. Archbishop Rush said he would see it as nothing short of a national tragedy if, far from offering to the unborn some additional protection from abortion, the Bill of Rights offered to living Australians a new legally protected right to abortion virtually on request.
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The Archbishop informed Mr Bowen he accepted there was no intention on the part of the AttorneyGeneral or of the Government to expand rights to abortion by the enactment of the Bill of Rights. Nevertheless there was a well grounded fear that, in its present form, the Australian Bill of Rights Bill would bishop's request and said he hoped he would be able to have that effect. Archbishop Rush said he respond to that request by would hope the Govern- this Friday. ment would include in the Archbishop Rush put to the Bill an express statement Attorney-General the right that nothing in the Bill of to privacy is to be guaranRights was intended either teed by Article 12 of the to affect Commonwealth, proposed Bill of Rights State or Territory laws on could expand considerably abortion, or to limit the the rights to abortion now power of the Common- available in Australia wealth, the States or TerritoHe said if the right to ries to make laws on privacy in Article 12 were abortion. The Attorney-General interpreted in the same way weed to consider the Arch- as the United States Supreme
Calls for arms c uts A local war was a threat to t he peace of all states, and "the Holy See supports agreements at the level of particular types of weapons or of armed forces, as well as those that set up geographical limits on the development o f arms, respecting always the security needs of the states concerned."
freer reign Court had interpreted the implied right to privacy in the US Bill of Rights, it would have the effect ultimately of invalidating all Commonwealth and Territory laws prohibiting or regulating abortion. Article 12 would also influence the ultimate content of State laws prohibiting or regulating abortion. Article 12 would also influence the ultimate content of State laws prohibiting or regulating abortion.
Petition for 'nuke' freeze Warning
GLASGOW, (NC): Leaders of Scotland's mainstream Christian churches — including the Catholic archbishop of Glasgow — have signed a petition calling for a freeze on the production, development and deployment of nuclear weapons in Scotland. The petition, signed in mid-October, also endorsed a 1984 UN General Assembly call for a freeze on nuclear weapons. Archbishop Thomas Winning of Glasgow, one of the petition's signers, said the time had come to say "enough" to the nuclear race between the superpowers. "On all sides we hear calls for cuts" in health, education, welfare, he said. "Why is
war technology the exception? Even domestically we have to conserve fuel, and most of us have to think a little longer about buying the latest contraption on the market. "The freeze campaign is saying that perhaps the military have to learn this discipline, too," he said. The petition urges the British government "to take the lead in initiating an international and multilateral freeze by declaring its willingness to halt all production, development and deployment of nuclear weapons, as a first step to genuine negotiations for arms control and reduction."
Sects show a new a e LONDON: The growth of sects and religious fundamentalism shows Europe is moving into a "post-secularist age" marked by a "yearning for the transcendent," according to Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England. From NC
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This yearning challenges the Catholic Church to preach the Gospel "as it never has been preached before," he said. Cardinal Hume is president of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences. The Catholic Church must renew its evangelical efforts, especially with young people, because this yearning for the transcendent is producing "soil where the seed
UNITED NATIONS (NC): The Holy See has called for "decisive" cuts in nuclear arms stocks and said that "no changes in strategic doctrines or policy can replace the necessity for such reductions." Sister Marjorie Keenan, a member of the Holy See Observer Mission to the United Nations, told the political committee of the UN General Assembly the Vatican repeatedly had called for concrete steps toward "disarmament under effective international control." The Holy See will not cease to repeat that the arms race must be reversed," said Sister Keenan. She cautioned the United Nations against overlooking the fact "conventional weapons have been and are being used, causing not only the destruction of human lives but also the disruption of whole societies." Peace must be considered comprehensively in the modern, increasingly interdependent world, she said.
NEWS of God's word can be planted as never before," said the cardinal. Europe is starting to see the passing of secularist influence and the emergence of a new search for spiritual realities, said Cardinal Hume. "We cart talk of a postsecularist age," he said. "This can be seen in a yearning for the transcendent as illustrated by the great
number of sects emerging, in certain types of fundamentalism and in the search for extraterrestrial phenomenon," he said. Another problem facing Europe's bishops is that many Catholics are selectively following Church teachings, said Cardinal Hume. "Today many Catholics can be very selective in what they believe and practice because they live in an age where personalist philosophies with their subjectivism have great influence," he said.
to UK region LIVERPOOL: "A very dangerous moment" in the life of Liverpool has been reached, according to the Catholic archbishop and the Anglican bishop of the city, Derek Worlock and David Sheppard. While insisting "central government must recognise its share of responsibility" for the decay of urban areas, they deplored the confrontation over the city's budget The budget "has to a great extent been manufactured by the Militant leadership of the city council". They argued that "a party caucus outside the council" was determining policy and ignoring or damaging "vetsignificant resources" such as housing cooperatives or voluntary bodies. A threat to local black organisations arose from "the deliberate importation into the city of black members of the Militant tendency from London". "The emergence of black members of Militant tendency in local ward politics is in some ways even more sinister," they said.
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The rape of the fair country A guest editorial reprinted from The CATHOUC WEEKLY Sydney, November 6. A t the approach of the 200th anniversary of the first white settlement in Australia it would seem appropriate to carry out a fearless and very honest self-inventory. Such an assessment should provide answers to uncomfortable questions: How have we treated the soil of this country — the good earth which God has given to humanity for nourishment, work, play and worship? How can we make reparation to the land, so wounded and broken since falling under the control of an exploitative culture.? Sprayed with chemicals, seduced by fertilizers, warped by machinery, eroded by mining and, worst of all, entrappedby concrete jungles we call cities, the earth of Australia sometimes can be compared with a woman forced to endure degradation and misuse in the hands of conquerors. Australians, in the current euphoria of nationalism and yacht races, beer commercials and anthems, do not like to be told that they do not show sufficient respect for our soil; that they have allowed scientific conquistadores and multinational land-grabbing to ravage it. Native grasses and trees disappeared under this onslaught. They took with them so much life that future Australians will find many native animals only in books or old film.
Demands Give more. Give more, more, more. Give it NOW. This was the ultimatum we gave our soil. The soil gave in to our demands. Although for thousands of years the dark human guardians had merely accepted the natural benefits from the earth, the soil rose to the new European demands, to the sound of falling trees and the welling of new dams. Still we wanted more. Our machines chopped holes in the soil for water retention, and streams died. We flogged the soil, force-fed it with chemicals and did not notice the alarming decline in the native vegetation which once could survive year in, year out without artificial nurturing. The tortured soil gave forth its goodness to provide surplus grain to lie, frequently unsold in storage. Slumps in worldprices meant the piling up, under refrigeration, of meat from beasts, introduced from Europe, whose raising was difficult and costly, compared with the flourishing kangaroo.
Food shortages More, more. Give us more, we cried to the land, although the surpluses grew. And yet in our cities we did not find an abundance of food for the poorer classes of people. Even in very current times we have had the disgraceful picture of people queueing up for food, lining up in the land of plenty for a free handout. Some of the places even ran out of supplies for the give-away vegetable-curries. What of the future? Obviously the young are the hope of this land, which must be allowed to recover from our impatient and unreasonable demands upon it. The gentle respect many children have towards Australia's environment is worth emulating. Some may deny this andpoint to an outbreak of youthful tree vandalism but who taught the vandals? We have much to learn from the Aboriginalguardians of this land. The Aboriginal attitude that the land owns us, we do not possess the land may yet receive a decent hearing despite the wrangling over the hand over of Uluru (Ayers Rock) to them. The use of the Rock — as sacred to Aborigines as Saint Peter is to us — for commercial exploitation needs further examination anyway. One can only admire the tremendous sacrifices made by Australian farmers and their ingenuity as the nation's food providers — a fact all too often forgotten by city residents. They should not be made the subject of unfair criticism. But surely it is time for all Australians, both city and country folk, to re-examine their attitude to the soil which nourishes us all.
Our trespasses As human persons, and all the more as Christians who understand the dignity and destiny of our world, we are called to goodness and responsibilPart of that mature response to God's call should be obviously loving respect for the soil which places food on our table. If we can say grace over our meals why not over the land, sanctified by God's creation? As Australians we must allow the land to forgive us our trespasses.
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Bloody fed up - says priest PRETORIA (NC): The struggle to end racial discrimination in
violence-torn South Africa has reached a "critical phase," said an official of the southern African bishops' conference.
"Apartheid, whether it wants to or not, certainly will be dismantled," said Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, the conference's 45year-old secretary general and a well-known anti-apartheid activist. from BILL He cited prolonged PRITCHARD protest in his country and in other nations phase in the "strugagainst apartheid as gle". evidence of a new Father Mkhatshwa, the
Irish to seek divorce? DUBUN, (NC) — Almost half of the Catholics in the Republic of Ireland f avour the right of divorce, according to a survey conducted on b ehalf of the Irish bishops' conference. The survey showed 48 per cent of the respondents disagreed with the proposition "divorce should never be allowed". Forty-three per cent agreed, and nine per cent were undecided. Bishop Joseph Cassidy of Clonfert, said the findings required a pastoral response about marriage and the family. Divorce is prohibited under the republic's constitution, but a small group of senators is pressing for a referendum to determine if divorce legislation should be allowed. The Irish Parliament's Committee on Marital Breakdowns has been established to draft a new law which would make divorce legal for the first time in Ireland.
first black to hold the conference post, was under banning orders by the South African government from 1977 to 1983. The banning order, which prohibited him from making any public statements and restricted his movements and activities, was put into effect after the priest was accused of fomenting public disturbances. Being a black South African who has grown up under apartheid and a minister of a religion based on love can be complicated, he said. The country is so polarised many believe justice can only be won by violent revolution and the priest said "I find it extremely difficult to work in a situation like that. "One can understand the anger of the people" and those who say 'I'm bloody fed up'," he said. But Father Mkhatshwa said he believes in exhausting "all possible means of peaceful pressure" to make the change. The Catholic Church has joined others in a push for peaceful change to a just social system in South Africa and Namibia, the neighbouring territory which South Africa administered for years, he said. But some of their efforts. have been frustrated.
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Naples, cancelled the patronal feast because the Camorra (the Neapolitan version of the Mafia) had announced by means of telephone calls and anonymous threats it wanted the feast celebrated its way. The C,amorra was hoping to be able to levy protection money. The feast will now be celebrated only in Church — "provided we are not stopped from doing that , added Bishop Rimoldi. A month earlier two men were arrested in nearby Cardito for levying protection money on donations raised by Catholics f, . [ a similar feast. E 1 1PRAGUE For the first time since
L_J religious orders and congregations were officially dissolved in Czechoslovakia in 1950, a numb( of Franciscans appeared in public in their habits. A vigil of prayer when more than 20,000 Catholics, most of them young people, gathered at the Marian shrine at Sastin, 35 miles north of Bratislava. Secret policemen scattered through the crowd went into action at once and started photographing the friars
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VAT1CAN CITY After two months' silence, the Vatican has agreed to the appointment of an agnostic and Marxist as Spain's Ambassador to the Holy See. He is Senor Gonzalo Puente Ojea, a career diplomat who was known for his leftwing views during the Franco regime and who was under-secretary at the Spanish Foreign Office during the first three years of the socialist government of Senor Felipe Gonzalez. His appointment has been described by the Spanish Catholic daily Ya as "an insult to the Vatican". Points of tension between Senor Gonzale,z's government and Rome include the partial legalisation of abortion and the reform of education.
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PRAGUE: This year 63 new priests have been ordained in Czechoslovakia — a total somewhat higher than previous years, such as 1982 when only 48 were ordained. The state restricts the number of clergy by imposing a limit on those who may be accepted for the country's two seminaries at Litomerice and Bratislava. At most half, and often only a third, of would-be students for the priesthood gain a place. Thus last auturrui, out of 105 only 43 applicants were accepted by the Bratislava seminary. Meanwhile at the Vatican Pope John Paul II has sympathised with a Czechoslovakia-born bishop living in Rome who was rebuffed by the Czechoslovakian government when he sought to enter the country to attend his mother's funeral.
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The famous 'flying nun' dies in US CHICAGO (NC) — Franciscan Sister Mary Aquinas, whose fame as a pilot and an instructor of aeronautics inspired a television series called "The Flying Nun," has died at the age of 91.
Sister Aquinas became a licensed pilot in Manitowoc in 1938, the first nun to do so was teaching aerodynamics and meteorology at a high school in 1942 when the government discovered her.
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CINCINNATI (NC) — Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati said what the archdiocese is facing in a potential priest shortage "is not catastrophe, but opportunity'.
She did that from 1942-44 In recognition of her service, Sister Aquinas was honoured by the military in 1957 for outstanding achievements for world peace and national security.
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The planning office estimates by 1990 there maybe between 284 and 301 priests, and by the year 2000 the projection shrinks to between 184 and 232 priests. Father Robert Schmitz, archdiocesan director of planning and research said minimum numbers of parishioners would be necessary for parishes to qualify for a full-time resident pastor or an associate pastor. "The overall picture is by no means bleak and we do ourselves no service if we concentrate only on the dark side," Archbishop Pilarczyk said at the meetings "After all, the Church is more than priests," he said.
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The ruling also barred doctors from prescribing contraceptives for children under 16 without Meanwhile Hindu pri- their parents' knowledge and ests have called for permission. protest demonstraThere were reports in tions during the the national press there visit. Indian newspapers have said as many as 2.5 million people could turn out to see the pope. Police officials in Cochin, India, said the crowds predicted by the newspapers would be "unprecedented" and could overtax the site proposed for the papal events. The site — a walled, 35 acre piece of government land in the city's eastern zone which cannot hold more than 500,000. At a conference of Hindu priests, Swami Chinrnayananda said a protest was being planned to show the pope Hindus are united against Catholic proselytising. He said Hindus particularly oppose attempts to convert members of remote tribal communities and members of Hinduism's former untouchable caste.
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Since Redemptorist missioners started their first parish in Ipoh, June 19, 1960, personnel, parish mission preaching and pastoral methods have changed. They are now entirely Malaysian. Australian Redemptorist Father James Wallace, now in Singapore, was the first parish priest. Since the mid-1960s, local men have been ordained Redemptorists, so parish priests today are all Malaysians ordained since Vatican Council II. "Naturally, the life-style has changed, as we are all Malaysians in the community here and agood deal younger," Redemptorist Father Joseph Tan said.
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Following the tradition of Singapore's Redemptorist Fathers, who used to give parish missions throughout Thailand, India, Burma, Singapore and Malaysia, the Redemptorists here still emphasise "proclamation of the Word." But their style has changed, particularly in adapting to a diocesan policy to create basic Christian communities. "Whereas before we concerned ourselves mainly with preaching to the people and visiting their homes, now we spend more time in group sessions and the experience of small Church communities," Father Tan explained. He supports basic Christian communities, he says, because a parish mission provides spiritual renewal, but a supporting structure is needed to nourish it. Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church was founded in Ipoh 25 !Jean ago by Australian Redemptorists from Singapore. They had worked in the Philippines before founding the Singapore community 50 years ago. (UCAN)
Patrick Thomas (Pat) Lanigan was born at New Norcia on October 20, 1905. He started school at the convent there and became one of the first pupils at St Ildephonsus College, when it opened in 1913, before going farming three miles from the town with his brother Bob. H e served with the Eighth Division of the AIF, w as captured in Singapore and spent 3',-2 years as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese. On his return to WA he f armed again for a short period at New Norcia, took up a small property in the South-West and then worked at the Sunny West butter factory in Manjimup, the area in which he was to spend 33 y ears until his retirement. Pat, the youngest of nine children, is a son of Richard Lanigan who ran the store, post office and boarding house at New Norcia and was secretary o f the Victoria Plains Road Board for 38 years. Bachelor Pat is now living happily with the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough.
Dulgites (not to be confused with dugites) were strange little creatures with a face like a pig's, according to Pat Lanigan. They abounded on the New Norcia property he was farming, but you rarely saw them by day because they came out to forage at night. Burrowing animals now extinct or almost so, they were evicted from their housing by the rabbit invasion of the mid-1920s.
The cursed rabbits who took over the extensive burrows dug by the dulgites were a plague for Pat and his brother Bob who resorted to various measures to combat them, including laying poison baits and trapping. From hard-won experience, the brothers learnt a neat trick which is probably not effective against today's educated rabbits but it worked then. They would scratch out a Vee shape on the ground with a pick or spade and lay the trap at the point of the Vee. The rabbit would sniff suspiciously along the arms of the Vee till he came to the point. Then he would start to dig and get trapped. When they got their own poison cart they developed another anti-rabbit ruse. Instead of laying the baits in a straight line, as they did without effect initially, they put a few kinks in the line and laid the baits at shallow depth at the kinks.
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They found that rabbits would tear straight along a direct line, but when confronted with the kinked verI sion they tended to pause and dig at the kinks.
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE There were no tractors and all the tillage for their wheat and oats had to be accomplished with horses. For a start, too, they had to take their sheep over to the neighbouring Clune property to be hand-shorn. The Benedictines had a shop in the monastery run by Brother Benino, who was apparently something of a mathematical genius. On busy days he would serve a multitude of customers without writing a thing down. When they had gone he could make up their detailed accounts with never a mistake. Life wasn't all sweat and toil for Pat and Bob.
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from K.M. RYAN Herne Hill SIR, Criticism of the Catholic the superpowers, which has Commission for Justice and been the primary factor in Peace is not strictly related to world peace for four decades. the issues being addressed 'Working for a Just Peace" by the commission as is just another example of the claimed by Eric Sidoti (The failure of the CCJP to produce Record October 3, 1985) but balanced impartial staterather to the way in which it ments based on sound analapproaches them. ysis. The CCJP is held in derision This failure has previously by many Catholics not been seen in the commisbecause it calls for disarmasion's support for the Marxist ment — it should — but Fretilin group, its recommenbecause it recommends a dation that Rhodesian refupolicy of guaranteed suicide gees be refused entry into that has been projected IN Australia, its use of the the Eastern Bloc countries inaccurate statistics of Marxand resoundingly rejected by ist economist Raskell, and its the West. white-washing of the murder The argument is not of two Jesuit priests, a lay whether Catholics should be brother and four Dominican involved in the quest for nuns in Rhodesia by Marxist peace — they should — but guerillas — just to name a whether they should pursue few. The Peace Seminar held on a policy which will destroy the Sunday, October 27 was also balance of power between
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Gillingarra, Amatxa and the big hay shed at Warrington. Carting fodder and having to feed the horses, however, was a bind so they acquired push bikes for their terpsichorean excursions. But pedal power was not the answer for the 72-mile return journey to Moora. When light fantastic-tripping was on there they usually managed to borrow the vehicle of father Richard, the first motor car in the district which proudly wore the registration plates VP3. Cricket was the big summer game and football took its place in the winter. By 194.0 the time had come for Pat to beat his plough shares into swords and he enlisted in the A1F. Shortly after he had marched into Northam camp he realised that his age of 35 would probably bar him from going overseas as an artilleryman or footslogger, so — with the aid of Chaplain Cahill who was a St Ildephonsus College old boy — he man-
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aged to get into the 4th Reserve Motor Transport unit. MT drivers were about the only people 35 or over who had a chance of going overseas. They sailed from Fremantle about Easter, 1941. Pat was aboard the New Amsterdam in a convoy that included the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and other big ships. Every day one of the ships would give something of a demonstration by sailing round the convoy at high speed. 'When our turn on the New Amsterdam came," Pat says, "we smartly sailed round half the convoy and then left it The rest of them went on to the Middle East and we headed for Singapore." Life in the tropical paradise was fun for a start. The unit was posted to a village near Malacca, in what was then called Malaya, to pick up their trucks and go through driving tests. Later, from their Singapore base, they did many trips to Kuala Lumpur and saw a lot of the country — "until the Nips came in and spoilt it" The Japanese bombed Singapore on the night of the day that they had attacked Pearl Harbour. "Our tents were on the exposed waterfront," Pat
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symptomatic of the refusal of the CCJP to present a balanced and unbiased forum by using three speakers holding essentially the same view; without any apparent attempt to . have the other side expressed. In view of this refusal to canvass the essential arguments it is a misrepresentation to call 'Working for a Just Peace" a discussion paper as it does not contain
the logical elements required for proper discussion. Nor can it claim to represent the opinion of the majority of Catholics who along with three quarters of the Australian population (recent opinion polls) support this country's alliance with the U.S. as they accept this as the only defence strategy one can pursue when utterly defenceless in a hostile world.
Albany's parish priest Father Steve Kelly is transferring to Brunswick Junction with mixed emotions. He applied for the move to a smaller parish for health reasons so he is happy to be having less daily pressure but he regrets leaving Albany at an exciting time heralding the building of a new church. He has been replaced by Father Noel FitzSimons, of Brunswick Junction. Father Kelly has been at Albany for nearly seven years.
says, but immediately after the raid we were shifted into a rubber plantation. -We went back to our old campsite just before Singapore fell.' On Friday, February 13, the unit lost 150 trucks in an air raid, bot that 1 942 day was not unlucky for Pat and his mates, none of them was injured He recalls during their training they had been told, when lying flat on their faces in a raid, to lift their bellies so that the blast would pass harmlessly through the arch created. He always thought it was a silty idea, but just before he f lung himself flat in the February 13 raid he saw that a rivulet of filthy water was gurgling along the ground through where his midriff should have been. Instinctively, he raised his belly to form the stipulated arch just as a piece of shrapnel from a bomb hissed along the water below him. Had he been really flat down to earth, his guts would have been torn out. His first three months as a POW were in Changhi followed by several months at
Victoria Point at the top end of Malaya, where a number of the prisoners were compelled to dig-up land mines planted at the aerodrome by the British. Then came the move to Burma to work on the Death R ailway. At first they were fairly well fed, and the Japs gave them only a reasonable amount of work to do each day, but their workload was increased progressively as their condition fell away. Their captors had some strange ways of doing things, according to Pat. Initially they were not searched and for about 12 months they were thus able to keep a lot of things. Then they were given 24 hours notice that there would be a search. This prompted furious stashing and abandonment of all sorts of things, including some hand grenades. The 24 hours notice was a prelude to all subsequent searches — quite a useful arrangement. One trick the captives learnt not to fall for was the Japanese plea to hand over their
Three years ago he underwent major surgery to have a lung removed and was convalescent for six months. "It has been getting too much for me and I felt it would be better for my successor to start before building began on the new church." Trained at St Kieran's College, Kilkenny, he came to MidlandJunct ion in 1946. "Although I was there only two years, it was my first love and I still keep in touch with many parishioners," he said.
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1. GENERAL MAINTENANCE PERSON ft is not the least surprising that many Catholics contest the ability of the CCJP to represent them when they produce recommendations that would end the Australian — American alliance, and place the Soviet Union in a position of military superiority. Nor is it surprising some Catholics with many years of experience in the social apostolate will become annoyed when they are not approached to provide a balanced view. That a Quaker whose pacifist views are contrary to the teaching of the church is invited to put her already well known opinions must surety exacerbate an already deplorable situation. It is understood the CCJP is soon to make approaches for submissions on industrial relations and it will be of interest to note whether those Catholics who have been involved in that area for more than 40 years as a group, will be approached. Personally, I wouldn't hold my breath; but it is London-
to-a -brick the traditional Labor Left will get the nod. I would imagine the idea expressed by Johanna Bowen (November 7) of an independent appeal for the CCJP would decide the future of the commission very quickly — and witness a dramatic increase in the contributions to Project Compassion.
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Twenty years ago, the Second Vatican Council, the 21st General Council in the history of the Church closed in St Peter's Basilica. This week Pope John Paul has called an Extraordinary Synod of Bishops to meet in Rome and assess the strengths and weakness of the implementation of the Council's decrees.
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Second Vatican Council changed the face of Catholic worship and involved the laity more actively in its practice. Since the council, Catholics have been urged to: respond at Mass, carry gifts in the Offertory procession, proclaim the Word of God, distribute the Eucharist, and, occasionally, dance. In the Latin rite, the l anguage of the people has replaced Latin as the language of the Mass. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy ( "Sacrosanctum Concilium"), the basis of the reforms, was the first document of the council to be completed and was approved by a 2147 to four vote.
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ROME (NC) — The dialogue with the modern world sparked by the Second Vatican Council generally has been good for the Church, but has brought practical difficulties and risks for the faith. French Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Secretariat for NonBelievers, said the constitution sometimes has been misunderstood as simply embracing modern culture. He noted the document's first words, "Gaudium et Spes" (Joy and Hope) were followed by "luctus et angor" (grief and anguish), which refer to what is wrong in the world. "The council said both, but only one part has been stressed," Cardinal Poupard said.
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study of the problems that But when asked if a class on have brought society to Catholicism could be set up unbelief" Those problem in an East European univerhave changed over 20 years, sity, the professor replied he said. "unthinkable," the cardinal Particularly in non-com- said. munist countries, formal Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garand militant atheism has rone, a Frenchman who led diminished, Father Gallegos discussion on "Gaudium et said. "An official atheist is Spes" at the council and hard to find these days," he later became the first presisaid. dent of the council for But it has been replaced by culture, said the last 20 years widening agnosticism or have taught the Church to religious indifference, look more realistically at the Father Gallegos said, and it is world. difficult to conduct a diaBut Cardinal Garrone said logue with people uninter- he believes the council's ested in religious problems. "opening" to the world has Father Gallegos and others been positive. The council linked faith said some groups have with social action aiming at attempted to exploit dialogue. Marxists seem to solving economic inequaliwant to talk when they are ties, peace and human out of power, Father Galle- rights. gos said, but otherwise are Much progress has been not interested. made in these areas, officials Cardinal Poupard said he said — by the pope, Vatican recently told an East Euro- organisations such as the pean professor who wanted Justice and Peace Commisto teach a class on Marxism sion, bishops' conferences at a pontifical university and other Church groups. such an arrangement could The image of the Church in be made. the world has much
improved," said Cardinal Poupard. The Church "is now recognised in many countries as the only place of freedom in the world. "This is important." The council said talented individual Catholic lay people should participate in politics. Pope John Paul and other Church leaders have repeatedly stressed that theme. But the council also drew a line between the institutional Church and party politics. In a chapter reportedly edited by then-Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, now the pope, "Gaudium et Spes" says: "By its nature and mission the Church is universal in that it is not committed to any one culture or to any political, economic or social system." On several occasions priests and Religious have been told to step down from public office. Cardinal Pietro Pavan, who is credited with helping write two major social encyclicals of Pope John 'Mater et Magistra" (Mother and Teacher) and "Pacem in Terris" (Peace on
E arth ), said U.S. bishops' statements on nuclear war and the economy were examples of applying general council teachings to concrete situations.
But Cardinal Pavan said much more should have been done in this regard over the last 20 years. In "Mater et Magistra," Pope John urged the Church's social doctrine be systematically taught at all levels in the Church, he said. Instead Pope John's appeal "has remained for many years a dead letter — or almost dead — in nearly all the episcopal conferences of the world," the cardinal said.
By Sister Mary Ann Walsh Promulgating the decree on December 4, 1963, Pope Paul Vi called liturgical reform -the first invitation to the world, to break forth in happy and truthful prayer," The council said the aim of reform was the "full and active participation by all the people.Work on reform of the liturgy advanced more rapidly than reform in other areas of Church life because Irturgists had come to the council primed by history. Such work had begun 60 years before the council, at the urging of Pope Pius X. One result, the British bishops said in a report submitted to the Vatican pricr to the extraordinary synod, s "the Word of God has been more thoroughly heard as the source of enlightenment and animation of the community of believers.-
El EJ The council also called "for l egitimate variations and adaptations (of the liturgy) to different groups, regions and peoples, especially in missionary countries.In some African countries. members of the Offertory procession danced to the attar. In parts of India profound bows replaced genuflections and oil lamps replaced candles. Handclapping, shuffling of feet, and swaying in rhythm to music entered spontaneously into the liturgy in Zimbabwe. At a meeting of heads of national liturgical commissions at the Vatican last year, bishops from missionary countries said laity preside over liturgical services where there is a shortage of priests.
Along with change, the adaptions of the council teachings over the past 20 years have also raised problems, said several observers. The increased lay participaCardinal Pavan rejected the idea that the council's call tion highlighted discriminafor dialogue with the world tion against women, several participants at the liturgical has hurt the Church. meeting said. Even in "complex" areas Many criticised the such as Latin America, he said, the Church has had a Church's refusal to permit growing effect on society women to be officially while clarifying the nature of installed as acolytes and ministers of the Eucharist, its own mission. although they perform these The Vatican's recent warnroles regularly without official info about some strains of stamp. "liberation theology" are part of the clarification The bishops' conferences of England, Wales, Ireland and process, he said.
Scotland, at the same meeting, said the ban "preserves the unfortunate impression the Church regards women as second-class citizens." In their presynod report, the British bishops also criticised use of exclusively masculine liturgical language, saying disquiet over the issue "will undoubtedly grow in importance during the next decade."' The bishops also cited problems exposed by liturgical renewal. There "has been a failure to appreciate and make use of the rich opportunities for teaching the fundamental truths of the faith which are present in the Sunday Mass," they said. Canadian Father Gaston Fontaine, speaking at the Vatican liturgical meeting, spoke of "insufficient preparation of homilies.The priest, who was a consultant to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, blamed "negligence, lack of time, biblical ignorance, lack of working materials, and the difficulty of biblical texts." Father Fontaine cited inadequate liturgical formation for catechists, priests and deacons. He said "many bishops totally lack in leadership in the liturgical domain and the cathedrals are rarely models of celebration.Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has been concerned about the role of silence. 'The impression arose there was only 'active participation'
when there was discernible external activity — speaking, singing, preaching, reading, shaking hands. "It was forgotten that the included also council silence" He said silence -facilitates a really deep, personal participation, allowing us to listen inwardly to the Lord's words.The council's document on the liturgy stressed the Church's communal nature. But some say later interpretations of that emphasis are detrimental to the meaning of the Mass. 'There's been a great undervaluing of the divine worship aspect of the liturgy,- said Father Herron, an official at the doctrinal congregation. "If the principal person or persons (of the Mass) is the community," he said, "you automatically change the liturgy from worship to theatre, and the congregation becomes an audience. Cardinal Ratzinger says that the stress on community has led to a narrowing of the concept of the Eucharist. -The Mass is not only a meal among friends who have come together to remember the Lord's last supper," he said. Pt is the "common sacrifice of the church, in which the Lord prays with us and for us and communicates himself to "It is the sacramental renewal of Christ's sacrifice ," the cardinal said, and its power "extends to all men, those present and those far away, the living and the dead.-
highlight of the Vatican N Nturgy was to give scriptural preachify and scripture reading a new importance in the life of the Church.
ROME (NC) — "Access to sacred Scripture ought to be open wide to the faithful," Christian decreed the Second Vatican Council in 1965 in "Dei Verbum," the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation. In the 20 years since then, the simple statement has helped reinstall the Bible as the centrepiece of Catholic life from which springs not only its theology, but also its worship, spiritality and social-action endeavours. The constitution and its emphasis on promoting Bible reading also shows how the documents and issues of Vatican II have c ross-fertilised each other. One of the greatest ways in which the Bible has been made accessible to Catholics is through the liturgical
Central documents By Jerry Filteau
What many consider the most central of all the documents of the Second Vatican Council was its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. "Lumen Gentium," as it is titled in Latin, officially endorsed views of the Church as the people of God, a communion, and a pilgrim people. It marked the first time in Christian history an ecumenical council gave a comprehensive exposition of the nature of the Church itself. From that document comes the declaration the laity, through their baptism, are "sharers in the priestly, prophetic and kingly functions of Christ" who 'by their very vocation . . work for the sanctification of the world from within." The document also reaffirmed the hierarchical nature of the Church and the doctrines of papal primacy and infallibility defined a century earlier by the First Vatican Council. But it carried out what many considered an essential unfinished job of Vatican 1.
It balanced the well-deveioped Church teaching on papal authority by presenting an equally well-developed teaching on collegiality, the role in governing the Church that each bishop individually and of the whole college of bishops together exercise in union with the pope.
"Lumen Gentium" was formally approved and promulgated on November 21, 1964, the final day of the third of the council's four sessions. But much earlier it had been the centrepiece of a decisive debate over the whole direction of the council. The first draft of the document, prepared before the council began in 1962, looked more like a standard apologetic treatise that viewed the church in largely juridical terms and defended its hierarchical structure. At the first session the world's bishops demanded a more historical, biblical and dynamic treatment, and the drastic revisions carried on over the next two years on that central document redefined and redirected virtually every other council document as well.
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reforms which allowed Mass in the vernacular and reordered Bible readings so that a more representative sample of the Bible is presented during the liturgical year. It also asked homilies be Scripture-based. T he constitution on divine revelation has ecumenism helped because it encourages joint Catholic-Protestant translations of the Bible. Social action work and active lay participation in Church life have been sparked, especially in Latin America, by the formation of lay groups which study the Bible, then seek to apply its teachings to the problems around them. The council's impact on knowledge of the Bible has been "marvellous, e xtraordinary," said Spanish Jesuit Father Lids Alonso-Schokel. Father Alonso-Schokel is a Scripture professor at Rome's Gregorian University and has written commentaries on the divine revelation docemeat for anthologies on Vatican "I was 42 years old when the council started, so I know the lack of Bible orientation before the council," he told National Catholic News Service. "I was is the Jesuits 10 years before they gave me a Bible to read. We
didn't even have one in the library," he said. Father Alonso-Schokel said he was given his first Bible as a Jesuit when he was at the theology level in the seminary, prior to being ordained. T he most popular approach to making the Bible available has been through the introduction of the vernacular — the language of the local people — in the liturgy, he said. "In Latin America there has been popular acceptance. The resistance has come from the numerically small upper class because the Bible is demanding with its message of social justice," he said. "The readings of the Bible have provoked reaction against alcoholism, 'machismo' and family breakdowns," he said. Bible reading also has led to a concern for social issues and, in some cases, to persecution by government authorities fearful of political opposition, he said. Pope John Paul has praised interfaith Bible translations as an important ecumenical evangelisation effort. The efforts of interfaith groups have led to the translation of the Bible into 160 languages, the pope told a group of Bible scholars September 30. He expressed hope joint translations "lead to a fruitful rediscovery of our common origins."
Another area of concern is the follow-up to Vatican ll's revision of the sacrament of penance. Dominican Superior General Father Damien Byrne said Vatican II asked for revision but "we've only tinkered with it. -We have not come to grips with the need for counselling. Most churches do not have facilities for counselling in them." Father Byrne, who is also grand chancellor of the Angelicum University, advocates widespread use of general absolution without individual confession as now required by the Church. "Experience has shown general absolution has brought people back to the Church who later have sought out the Church for advice, counselling and individual confession," he said. Father Kerr, in his magazine article, said use of communal penance could bring people out of a bad sense of individualism. "Confronted with individualism, the time is absolutely ripe for that group reflection and examination of conscience which so many Catholics already sense would help to free them from individualism," he said.
In a council whose hallmark was fresh, innovative thought, the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Christian Education, "Gravissimum Educationis," stands out chiefly for its reaffirmation of many traditional Catholic principles of education. Passed by the council f athers October 28, 1965, the declaration a ffirmed again the Church's teaching that parents have the primary right and duty to see to their children's education that every person has "an inalienable right to an education," and that all education ought to be aimed at integrating "physical, moral and intellectual" development Upholding the view Christian faith permeates one's whole life, so religion cannot be isolated from other dimensions, the document called on Catholic parents to send their children to Catholic schools if possible and to support those schools to the extent they could. It also urged the state, as a matter of justice, to subsidise religiously run schools as well as secular public education, so par
Stands out for many reasons By Jerry Fifteen I
eats could exercise a bye freedom of conscience in their choice of education for their children. W hile the document broke no new ground in such areas, much of what it said took on new meaning in light of other cow ciliar decisions and it incorporated a 110W toes, spirit and language from other council statements. Where Catholic schools before had often bee. looked up* as havens to protect Catholic youth from the dangers and error of modern secular society and pluralism, the declaration took a positive rather than SAISOcloys stance toward the wider world. It spoke of Catholic schools serving to "further the dialogue
between the March and the family of maa" and of the need for Catholic-
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valuables which would be returned to them after the war. With one exception, the valuables handed over were never seen again. The exception was Pat's wrist watch, presented to him on his enlistment by several members of his family. In 1944 word went round among the prisoners there would be a surprise search and men who had not handed over their valuables would be executed. Pat decided this warning was dinkum (so it turned out to be) and he handed over his treasured watch, expecting never to see it again. At the next camp he was surprised to be called to the orderly room, run by prisoners, to reclaim any valuables he might have surrendered. The watch was produced after complicated checking of lists and he recognised it straight away, but there was great reluctance to return it to him. Finally he got it back after repeating with complete accuracy the inscription on the back of it. The Japs, deceived by the leather cover over it into thinking it was of little value, had thought it was not worth pinching. Pat still wears it today, and after more than 40 years and it's only and very recent cleaning, it still keeps perfect time. He suffered severely, with many of his fellow -prisoners, from malnutrition, dysentery, berri-berri and a night-blindness that disappeared once
he got back on to a proper diet. On August 15, 1945, the prisoners were given a rest day. The next day, much to their amazement, they got another one. Clearly, something was afoot. On the evening of August 16 they were told to get their gear together, and the next morning they were loaded onto trucks. There must be something big happening, they thought, because up to now they had been forced to make even the longest journeys on foot. The trip turned out to be one of 100 miles and on Pat's truck was a 6ft 6in South Australian inevitably nicknamed Shorty. From his natural observation post, he could see a lot further ahead than the others. Suddenly, he nudged the Japanese guard on the back of the truck and yelled: -Hey Nippon, there seem to be a lot of flags flying down the track there." The crest fallen Jap lowered his gaze and murmered. "Yes, I know.For the first time, the prisoners realised the war had ended and they were free. Their destination was a base camp to which groups of prisoners had been brought. a lot of whom had not seen each other for years. "I've never seen so many men crying," is Pat's poignant recollection. The next day Allied aircraft flew over and dropped food, clothing and medicine. 'We were hungry for outside news," he recalls, -but the only parachute that failed
to open was the one to which the wireless set was attached." He has no doubt his Catholic faith was a vital factor in enabling him to endure successfully the long period of anguish and suffering to which he had been subjected. As it happened, he completed a Novena on August 1 5, 1945, the day the war ended. From the base camp the prisoners were transported back to Singapore via Bangkok, and he was on the first ship transporting them to WA. The ship's captain obliged by giving them a kind of Cook's Tour to fill in the mandatory 12 days' quarantine before they arrived at Fremantle. During his period of unwinding, he went with relatives on a tour of the South-West before going back to the New Norcia farm. He found that, because of the privations he had suffered, the New Norcia climate no longer agreed with him. In fact, his days there were suddenly brought to an end when he lost the tops of two fingers in an accident with a plough. Shortly afterwards he began the 33 years he was to spend at Manjimup, running his own small farm for a time but mostly working at the Sunny West butter factory until his retirement. Still pretty fit as he approaches his 80th birthday, he is happy to live out the rest of his life with the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glenda lough.
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He noted South African President Pieter W. Botha refused to meet with Church leaders protesting his approval of a South Africa-sponsored transitional government to oversee independence elections in Namibia. The churchmen argued the government was unelected and an existing UN independence plan was the only legitimate formula Except for the white Dutch Reformed churches, which underpin the white Afrikaaner society, South Afri-
can Christian churches "have realty tried to identify themselves with the people who are trying to bring about social change," the priest said. Father Mkhatshwa said the "struggle will be intensified." He also said he feared "a lot of ugly things will happen" because the ruling regime will not 'give in'. South Africans must brace "for a long, long struggle," he said. The Catholic bishops have made their position clear, Father Mkhatshwa said. They have called for an end to the state of emergency
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imposed July 20 in 36 black it calling townships, "immoral," he said. They have also called for the release of imprisoned black leader Nelson Mandela and others, and have said that exiled anti-apartheid groups, such as the African National Congress, "should be unbanned," Father Mkhatshwa said. He said the bishops probably could do more, particularly in promoting "real, openi dialogue among all groups and persons" in the country. Father Mkhatshwa also said South African Catholic semi• narians are beginning to look "much more" at the question of peace and it'stice. He said they realise they cannot "live in isolation" from society while they study for the priesthood. Some seminarians have organised discussion groups and have invited speakers on apartheid and the civil conflict to brief them, the priest said. On September 5 a multiracial group of seminarians marched into South Africa's government headquarters in Pretoria demanding economic justice and an end to apartheid. Since seminarians will be leaders in their communities after ordination, they "have to understand the implications of that leadership," Father Mkhatshwa said.
It is five years since Bouwman's Irene was stillchild second born and barely 18 months since she miscarried her fourth. She has been happily married for 10 years and has two healthy young sons aged seven and three but Irene is one of the 21 per cent who mothers of develop a pathological grief to the loss of a baby. It is an experience, she says, that has turned her and her life upside down and one that has been made bearable by her deep and abiding faith. She has questioned herself, her God and her life and while the answers have been slow in coming, they have been coming. She does not know, she says, how people can go through a grief experience like this without some faith. Her own faith has grown steadily and surely because of it, but she is not yet at the stage where that faith is so great it can override the pain — but that is where she is heading. "I value my relationship with God but I haven't reached the point of real acceptance yet." she said. "The hurt of the loss is still greater than the peace I get from my relationship with God." When she lost her first baby she questioned life; when she lost her second she questioned God. 'When I lost my second baby I said, Why?* Does God have a message for me?," she said. The next anguished cry from her heart was, "If so, what is it?" She is still searching for the answers and says she finds her involvement in SANDS a great support. "It has helped to have christian friends although it was often christian friends who said the wrong things too," she said. "More important has been having people to talk to who have experienced the same thing. "SANDS gives me hope. "It is not a lot of women being morbid as some may think. 'There's care and support and the chance to cry and always, there is the joy of the next babies that they have." The joy of the next baby is still some way off for Irene. The last 18 months have taken a heavy physical and emotional toll. She has lost more weight than she can afford and her emotions are exposed and raw. It seems such a long time ago, she says, when she had an energetic toddler on her hands and was joyfully awaiting the birth of her second child. It was to be a birth she would never forget — but for the most terrible of reasons. "My family had all had healthy pregnancies," she said, "I didn't give it a thought." 'The baby was due on the Monday and the Tuesday before I went to the doctor. 'That night the baby was jumping a lot and I had contractions but it all settled
This week Record reporter ROSLYN ROSS talks to Irene Bouwman, a young mother who has lost two babies in the last five years. A member of the Stillbirth and NeoNatal Support Group for much of that time she is also a committed Catholic and talks here about the faith experience that came handin hand with her tragic loss.
Faith integral backdrop to grief by ROSLYN ROSS
down and the next day the baby was quiet. "I didn't think much about it because I knew babies often went quiet before they were born. "Also, I didn't want to be a neurotic mother. "But by that afternoon the baby was still quiet and I was concerned. I was having contractions off and on and that night I had a show so I rang the hospital and said I was a bit worried. "I still didn't want to make a fuss. They said come down so I left my husband with our son. 'When I got there the nurse examined me but couldn't pick up a heartbeat. "I rang my husband. 'Then the doctor came in and he and the nurse were standing either side of me listening for a heartbeat but not saying anything. "I knew then . . . "But you believe it can't happen to you. "It all seemed so unreal. They didn't speak so I sad: 'I've lost the baby,' and they said; 'yes.' I cried and said; What do we do now?' 'They said the baby would have to be delivered and I chose to do it naturally because I knew that if I had a caesarean it would limit the number of children I could have and I had always wanted a large family. "I was lucky because I was only in labour for a couple of hours even though induced labour is always hard." Irene delivered an 8Ib 6.oz baby girl. Her husband was by her side. "She was perfect." Irene said. "She just looked as if she was asleep." An added tragedy was that an autopsy could find nothing
medically wrong with her. She was perfectly formed and there was no reason for it . . but she was dead all the same. "When she was born I wanted to see her — after going through so much and I think I still secretly hoped there was a chance, that they had made a mistake. -They gave her to me when she was born — we called her Cheryl. "II was such a shock to go through the nine months and then lose her. So frustrating to go that far — to go through it all for nothing — to carry a child fullterm and to lose it. And it was even more frustrating because medical science had no explanation for why she had died. "I must say though that although the time in hospital seemed unreal, I really did feel close to God. "I guess I felt for the first time that I was unique in my relationship with God. I don't know why I felt that; she said. 'We had an unattended cremation — perhaps I should have gone but it was in the days before hospitals had really become aware of the needs of grieving parents and I just felt I couldn't bear any more. "We went on holidays straight away and that was fine. "It was when I was back home again and alone while my husband was at work that it really hit me. I had the room all ready and it really hurt to see it . . . "It was the little things that normally would go over the top of my head that seemed to bring up emotions.
"Like seeing an advertisement on television for baby food. "It's funny, after something like that you see more babies than you have ever seen before. They seem to be everywhere." After five months Irene got in touch with SANDS and found the pain eased as she began to talk with others of her feelings. "I think it was New Year's Eve when I first rang to talk to someone from SANDS," she said. "I guess it was the beginning of another year and that was a hard time for me. "I found people wanted to help but didn't know how. 'There seems to be a wall of silence which builds up. I think it all goes back to superstition — the belief that if we talk about it we will make it happen. "And my husband is very caring and supportive but he and his family are very selfsufficient people. 'They were kind but they didn't seem to understand why I felt as badly as I did. "I found it very helpful to be able to share my feelings with people who had experienced the same thing." 'The hard thing about it is that it is a very private grief. "Paul and I are the only ones who saw her apart from the doctor and the nurses. "It isn't real for family and friends. "First they see you pregnant and then they see you not pregnant. 'That's all there is — and there is nothing to show for it. "It took me nine months to conceive again. "I desperately wanted to get pregnant after Cheryl but it
A bishop's impression of Africa BRISBANE: God heard cry of the poor, his own Son identified with them — yet, during my brief visit recently to South Africa, I met Christians, including Catholics, who argued against the pressure for equal dignity and justice for black South Africians, Bishop John Gerry, Auxiliary, Brisbane, told a prayer vigil for South Africa in St Stephen's Cathedral.
"In South Africa, I met two lots of people behind bars: the affluent whites, who locked themselves in behind their high walls, and black detainees awaiting trial for treason," Bishop Gerry said. "Both groups were professing Christians; both groups were prisoners of the system; the blacks were more hopeful and joyful. JJ- 4.)ien for a long time ., longer than before. "I suppose it was because I was nervous and upset. "tt was funny, when I had reached the point of thinking, Too bad, I'm not going to worry about getting pregnant,' and went on holidays and relaxed — I did. 'When I did get pregnant I was nervous. I tried to ignore the fact that I was pregnant. "It was only when the baby began to move that I became interested in it. I had gone through all the questioning about 'why' it had happened. "Did I do this, did I eat that? — But I had decided that I couldn't find any reasons. "Pt was hard not to have a reason for her death — that makes it more frightening. "if she had been deformed I guess I could have thought that at least it was for the best but she was perfect . "I know I felt a failure as a woman. I realty felt my body had let me down. "tt was the first grief experience in my life and I thought it would be over with much sooner. "I was delighted when Alan was born although I must admit that I was a bit disappointed he wasn't a girl. "I didn't think it mattered but it did. "Of course those feelings went . . . he was such a gorgeous baby and is a really delightful child. 'Then I got pregnant again. I was nervous but I thought. 'Oh well'."
It was at 15 weeks Irene went to the doctor for a r egular checkup. He said everything looked okay but he would give her an ultra-scan. "I had seen them before and when I saw it I knew it didn't look as it should," Irene sad. Before the doctor spoke she knew she had lost another child. "He said he thought the baby had probably died at 12 weeks and not aborted," she added. "He did a D and C and that was It.
"I didn't ask him what sex it had been. . I didn't want to know . . . I think I should have. 'That was June last year. "Since then I have been physically sick off and on — I seem to have caught every virus there is. "I have also been very depressed. "I think perhaps I should have gone back to SANDS and had a good cry. I did cry, but not enough. "I didn't go back to SANDS because I thought that by then I knew all about it and knew what to do. "I also judged my own grief. "I didn't think what had happened was worth the way I felt. "Not that the people at SANDS would have thought that — I was perfectly able to return if I wanted to. "Funnily enough it seemed even harder to take than when I lost Cheryl "I went through the same sorts of things as I did with
Cheryl but it was worse — perhaps I was grieving for her as well. "I'm luckier with Cheryl because at least I have something to remember her by. "I saw her and I have the hospital card and bracelet — I keep them in an album. "Not everyone understands that. "Some people think it is morbid but it is all I have to remember her by. "I wish when I had her they were doing the things they are doing now — like taking photos and keeping a lock of hair. 'That's the hard thing about the last baby. I have nothing. "I don't even know what it was — I didn't see it. "Some people would think at 15 weeks it wasn't real — but it was. 'That one was normal too. "Medical science has no answers for why I lost my babies. "I think I was frightened to know what sex it was because if it had been another girl — I would have thought there was something wrong with me, that I was the reason why my daughters were dying . . . "After a few months people expect it will be over with, but it hasn't with me. "I feel I am just coming out of it now, but it has been long and hard. "I developed a fear of dying — (found it so hard to accept. 'With Cheryl, I still think of her on her birthday — I will until the day I die.
"I think of how she would look . . ." But beneath the pain, she says, it has been a chance to test and explore her faith. "I always assess and question things. 'When I lost Cheryl it was strange, but I felt close to God. "I felt comforted. "He had touched me. "But when that passed I began to say, Why me?", 'Have I done the wrong thing?' 'Then I began to question if God was there. 'There was a feeling of silence, of absence — I began reading and soon felt better and then God was there again. "I guess I learned you don't necessarily get reasons. "It is a real test of faith purely because there are no reasons. "It also made me change the way I had seen God. "My God had been a judgemental God — a punisher. "But that is not the real God. "I know now you have to developa relationship with God. as something real and whole — in my search I went back to the Bible and that helped a lot. "I saw Jesus cried at the death of Lazarus so it was okay for me to grieve too . . "I could identify with Job — I could see another person who suffered but who could find no reason for suffering. -Those christians who dismissed it all as 'God's will', were no help at all.
"I found that many in the white community were shocked at the recent unrest, and that it should last so long. "The immediate causes are various, but Archbishop Denis Hurley, of Durban, identifies the underlying cause as 'the burning resentment in people's hearts against the indignities, privations and denials of rights and opportunities stemming from the policy of apartheid'.
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"The Catholic bishops have deplored the violence from all quarters. —They insist that this is the way of anarchy and chaos. "They don't hesitate to add: 'The system bears the gravest responsibility for it. And unless the system is changed, the violence is not likely to abate'. "They continue to promote a campaign of prayer, aware that there can be no peace without reconciliation, and no reconciliation without justice."
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Prayer St Jude, 0 Holy S t Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles! Near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patron in time of need. To you I have cause from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me now in my present and urgent need and grant my earnest petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. St Jude pray for all who honour and invoke your aid. Publication must be promised. This Novena never fails. Repeat on nine consecutive days. Thanks Our Lady. Marie.
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THANKS 0 Holy St Anthony Gentlest of saints, your love for God, and charity for his creatures, made y ou worthy when on earth, to possess miraculous power. Miracles waited on your word, w hich you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged by this thought I implore of you t o obtain for me (request). The answer to my prayer may require a miracle, even so, you are the Saint of miracles. 0 gentle and loving St Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the Sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms: and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Thanks for novena answered. G. Spence. Sincere thanks to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady, St Jude and St Martha for prayers answered. Jenny. Grateful thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Blessed Virgin and special thanks to St Jude for favours received. ElH. Grateful thanks to novena to Holy Spirit, may his name be honoured. praised and glorified. Love Pat. D.
Prayer to St Jude 0 Holy S t Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your aid in time of need. To you 1 have cause from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you to who God has given such a great power to come to my assistance, help me now in my present and urgent need, and grant my earnest petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. (Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias.) St Jude pray for all who honour and invoke your aid. F.H. Thanks dear Jesus for R enee recovery, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Please continue to help Renee. V.G.
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THANKS Grateful thanks to Sacred Heart of Jesus, Infant Heart of Jesus, Our Lady, Holy Spirit, for favours granted. D. Gray. Novena to the Holy Spirit Holy spirit, you who solve all problems light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instance of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. John.
Last Friday's gathering of the Senior Citizens at the Cathedral Parish Centre was a special birthday celebration for Rose Burke, the founding president of the group, seated front left. Seated opposite her is her successor Mary Kinsey. Novena to the Holy Spirit Holy spirit, you who solve all problems light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instance of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. N.L. Grateful thanks to St Jude, S t Anna, St Anthony, Blessed Lady for prayers answered in novenas published as promised. Please continue to help us. M.A.P. Novena to the Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever Amen. Say nine times a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication. Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers answered. Liz.
LEGION SAYS THANKS Late last month more than 500 people attended Mass in St Mary's Cathedral for a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Foley and spiritual directors of the Legion of Mary. Parishioners of the archdiocese were invited to attend as a thanksgiving to the Legion of Mary's appeal for funds for a new permanent headquarters. Present at the Mass were representatives of Rockingham, Gosnells, Lesmurdie and North Beach parishes. After the Mass supper was served in the Mercedes Hall so that Legionaries could meet their friends and supporters. More than $65,000 has been collected already and options on building new premises or renovating an existing structure are being studied.
Mr and Mrs Tony Kapostril after their wedding during nuptial Mass in St Pius X church Manning last Saturday. The groom is the son of Ante and Marija Kapostni of Boulder and the bride was formerly Jenny Chamberlain, daughter of Bill and Maureen Chamberlain of Manning The couple will live in Como.
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GOLFERS' BENEFIT TO HANDICAPPED The annual Western Farmer Golf Classic at Sun City Country Club attracted 79 golfers who each contributed $20 towards a donation of $1580 made to Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped Persons. The winner was John Carey and the best gross was professional golfer and president of the Western Australian Professional Golfers Association, Peter Mills. Western Farmer and Grazier organised the classic, and BP Australia contributed towards the trophies awarded to the top players.
5e4riplurk NORTHAMPTON CENTRE Northampton "James Irwin Centre" The opening of the James Irwin Centre country area camp site is the culmination of two years of planning and restoration work started by Father Robert Cross, parish priest of Northampton. The building, formally a convent for the Presentation Sisters was vacated in 1983 due to a decline in their numbers and the suspect safety of the premises. It was decided to re-name the building. The James Irwin Centre, in honour of Monsignor Irwin who was parish priest of Northampton for forty years frorn 1923 to 1963. The centre is an historic stone building situated in the centre of Northampton.
Northampton, situated 50 km north of Geralctton is one of the oldest settlements outside the metropolitan area. Centrally located between Geralctton and Kalbarri makes the centre ideal as a base camp for groups who wish to take in all that the region offers. The centre is open as a community centre and campsite for groups of up to 46 people on a non-denomilational basis. Price rates for use of the centre are, for children $3.00 per night, and for adults $5.00 per night. For further information or to make a booking, contact James Irwin Centre, P.O. Box 5, Northampton W.A. 6535 phone (099) 341190.
CUP LUNCH Chris's Country Dinner, Midland, was the venue for this year's Melbourne Cup luncheon held by La Salle College. The horses galloped to victory and fortunes undoubtedly changed hands, but not mine — because I was late in placing my annual bet. A fashion parade featuring garments from Helen's Choice, Midland, offered a glimmer of hope for any dowdy housewife and a hat parade by the imaginative patrons showed what can be done with vegetables, flowers and bits of string. All in all — a great day! — COLLEEN HOWARD FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING The annual archdiocesan Eucharistic Celebration will take place on Sunday November 24, 1985 in Supreme Court Gardens beginning at 6.30 pm. All are welcome and encouraged to come and share in this act of worship and solidarity in the faith. Come early, have tea, bring a blanket and a candle for celebration.
Mary-Ann Barrett, La Salle student modelling an 'after five'.
I was shocked at a r ecent speech night address by a head prefect of a school that obviously shall remain nameless. In a five minute talk a young student of a leading Catholic college presented the following case: School spirit depends on winning sporting events; In the past year the school lost most major sporting events, therefore the school has no spirit! What was more disturbing, the student went on to lay the blame for sporting defeats at the feet of sporting coaches and school administration. Regrettably this student used the public forum to vent personal hurt and Father Hugh O'Sullivan (pictureii above left) returned to A delaide this week after a 10 week stay in WA. Speaking with him are Paul Carmody a farmer of Esperance and Sally Frisina a nurse of Highgate group. RIGHT: At the recent YCW Key Leaders' School, (from left) Mark Victory (Adelaide), Anne Dorozenko (Collie full-timer) Tony Jamieson (Adelaide) and Donna Stokes (presided of Port Pine). BELOW: See, judge and act method is the basis of the review groups n YCW. Pictured are (from left) Damien Bradford (Bo,bury), Therese Leydon (Adelaide), Tyrone Berg (Port Augustus) and Rozette Portelli (Adelaide).
International Youth Year 'SS disagreement with staff members. The incident was made more unpleasant when the whole senior class of 85 showed agreement with vigorous cheering and clapping. I wonder how many teachers, parents and students felt like expressing their feelings, to boo, except that would have been resorting to the same tactic as the speaker, of exploiting the situation to air personal grievance over what had just occurred.
The attitude of young school leavers is of concern to me. These young people will soon take up positions of r esponsibility in the Church and world.
Soon, these young people will be shaping and moulding the world in their respective positions of authority. The eventual shape of the world will depend on the attitudes, values and standards held by today's youth. Sitting in a crowded auditorium surrounded by hundreds of parents, many of who I know have made great sacrifices for a Catholic education for their children, I wondered about their reaction to students who hold sporting prowess as the most important value to highlight at a speech night. A simple statement of gratitude and acknowledgement of parental and
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teachers' sweat and tears might have been more appropriate. I was sorry not to hear a young person after 12 years of education echo several positive highlights, either personal or of the class.
I was sorry not to hear a young person's understanding of how Christ touches the lives of youth in 1985, I was sorry not to hear a young person's ideals and vision of how to build a better world or make a statement of hope about tomorrow. Surely even sport can teach the higher values in which there are no losers. Surely competitive sport can teach important values like, how to win with modesty and how to accept defeat with the conviction of a fight well f ought. It makes one wonder what speech nights are all about. It makes one wonder what Catholic education is all about.
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VACANCY The Albany parish invites applications for a full time parish youth worker The position is for two years Apply in writing giving details of qualifications, experience and names of two referees.
Chairman Youth Committee Ron Chandler 7 Jason Road Albany (098) 447976 (098) 414811 .de 41,
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SHARING DAY at St Peter's Church, Wood Street, Inglewood on Saturday November 30. For more information ring Angela on 443 2817
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by PAUL TERDICH
I attended the YCW Key Leaders' School for 1985 last week. The week long school gave everyone the opportunity to learn, to grow, and to meet other young workers from around Australia. The Key Leaders School showed me the strength of some young people's commitment to their beliefs.
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Safety Bay. Evening November 22nd-24th. Enquiries: Sister Carmel, 448 1151.
Saturday, December 14
Sacrifices were made by each person to be able to attend. One fellow, Paul Chrisofferson came from Townsville, which took him five days to get to Perth by bus and train. He is on his way back now, but is stopping over in Adelaide for a few days with friends he made at the school. Two unemployed Perth girls made chocolates to raise money so they could attend and were still selling them the day before the school started.
ElEN: Many people gave up their holidays and everyone had to contribute to cover the cost of the campsite, food and travelling expenses. We discussed our faith, social issues and increased our awareness of situations facing young workers today, situations in the workplace, at home and in leisure time with friends. It was hard work but I felt as if I was part of a family by the end of the week. More than anything else I think I discovered that ifs my responsibility to be aware of what is going on in the world and also be a responsible participant in my community. YCW teaches that through taking action and following what Christ teaches, we can be active participants in the community, and as a movement nationally and internationally. The Key Leaders' School was a major highlight of my involvement with YCW.
LIFE LIGHT University Sunken Gardens 7.30 pm — 9.00 pm Young & not so young from Perth, Geralctton and Bunbury dioceses; workers, unemployed, students, are all welcome. It's the annual gathering of all groups and individuals on the youth scene.
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The Challenge of Space, by Robin Kerrod, published by William Collins, $13.91.
Christmas drawing contest Christmas is coming and it's time to get your pencils sharpened for our annual Christmas Drawing Contest. We have some wonderful prizes to give away including beautiful sets of coloured pencils and superb books from William Collins. All you have to do is draw the nativity and colour it in. We have winners in three sec-
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ship form with your entry. There is no reason why you can't get together and prepare a family entry. If you do, just make sure you include all the names and ages of your brothThe Christmas Draw- ers and sisters on the ing Contest is open to back of your drawing. members only so if you Who knows, it may be are not a member of so good that mum and The Record Kids Club, dad will have it framed make sure you include after you collect your a completed member- prizes.
CI CI The KGB and The French Resistance, by Don Lawson, published by Piccolo, $4.50. The new Piccolo Spy-Shelf Series is sure to capture the interest of every young espionage aficionado aged 9 upwards. To launch this fascinating series we've two intriguing books written by Don Lawson — The KGB and The French Resistance. The KGB — A book of spytnasters agents and assassins, revealing the true nature of one of the world's most intricate, efficient and powerful spy networks. It charts the web of the KGB, describing activities inside and outside the Soviet Union, in the UN and throughout the world, and includes true-life stories of the Old Boy Spy Network and the Atomic Bomb Spy Ring. The French Resistance — A fascinating book describing the work of the French Resistance and its brave members who were prepared to risk everything to win World War II. During World War II Don Lawson spent three years in Britain and in Europe with the counterintelligence branch of the Ninth Air Force. Since then he has written several books on various aspects of wartime intelligence activities. He has a Doctor of Literature Degree, and is a former editor-in-chief of two encyclopedias for young people. All his working time is now devoted to writing children's books.
What sings, has four legs, is yellow and weighs 1000 kilos? Two 500 kilo canaries. What bird is like a car? A goose, because they both go honk. Why did the chicken carry matches, a saw and an old rag? To burn around the block, saw across the road and tear around the corner. Why does a chicken turn around twice before tying down? Because one good turn deserves another.
Using earlier space exploits as a launch pad, this book thrusts us into the shuttle of era once-a-month launches, untethered spacewalks, and satellite capture and repair. It takes us behind the scenes and follows the new breed of space men and women through their training and life in orbit. There is much more besides on the construction and work of rockets and satellites; deep space robots; space laboratories and space stations; and challenging projects for the next century. The Challenge of Space is illustrated throughout with some of the finest pictures of the space age. It is written with enthusiasm and first-hand knowledge by Robin Kerrod, fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and author of many books on the space scene.
Peter: "Our ben can lay an egg that is ten centimetres long. Can you beat that?" Louise: "Yes, with an egg beater."
Wby did the chicken cross the road? He wanted to see Gregory Peck. What causes hives? Bees. Why do bees have sticky hair? Because they have honey combs. Why were the bees on strike? Shorter flowers and more honey. Why do bees fly with their back legs crossed? Because they're looking for a BP station. What's worse than being with afoot? Fooling with a bee.
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° hildren's Story Hour Eve Lavalliere was born in a small town in France in /866. Her father often drank too much and sometimes beat Eve's mother. He even threatened his little daughter. Many times Eve and ber mother ran from the house and took a train to the home of relatives. As a child Eve wa_s mostly sad and lonely. She felt that neither her mother or her father lovedher as much as they lined her brother. She looked forward to going to school but she found little love from her teachers or the other students. By the time she was 10, Eve felt badly about herself Her parents sent her off to another school further from home. Here Eve felt lovedfor the first time. She received her First Communion. After finishing school, Eve returned home. She found some happiness in acting and she started a theatre group among teenage actors. But her home situation kept getting worse. When Eve was 17, her mother left her father. Eve went to live with her mother. One evening her father visited them. Mere was
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an angry fight. The father pulled out a gun, shot Eve's mother and shot himself too. Eve was just 18 and an orphan. She became very depressed and thought of suicide. Then she met a rich man who invited Eve tojoin his group of actors and actresses. They travelled around to small towns putting on plays. Eve loved to act and was very good at it. She moved to Paris. She badplenty of money. She was very successful and beautiful. All Paris loved her. She seemed to have everything. But she still felt lonely and sad. She felt something was missing and at one point attempted to end her life. I n 1917 she was invited to go to the United States to act. Before leaving for America, Eve decided to take a long vacation in a quiet village in the French countryside. There she met the village priest. He asked why sbe never came to Mass. At first Eve laughed at the priest. Then she argued with him. She and the priest often walked and talked togetber. One day she realised it was God she
Why couldn't the butterfly go to the dance? Because it was a mothball.
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She gave up her riches and her fame. She became a third order Franciscan and went to Africa to care for poor. sick children. Eventually she bad to return to France because of her own poor health. Eve lived a simple life after that. She prayed much and helped others however she coulrt She was often sick and suffered much. But she had found peace in loving God and other people. She died in 1929.
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Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
Growth toward Explaining the mystery analysis of a living church
Living The Faith Together, Relationship Catechesis, by Wim Saris, SDB, published by William Collins, $19.95. The process of growth towards a livthe church, ing demands of "life-long, on-going" Christian formation, raise questions both of theory and practice which Wim Saris considers in this book.
After ten years' experience with the family and community catechesis which he initiated in Amsterdam, and which has spread to many parts of the world, Wim Saris reflects on the basic issues of living in faith in the modem world, and of passing on and communicating the faith within the believing community. His reflections take in not simply the church community but relawithin tionships society as a whole — and particularly the alienation of the young from their elders. He considers models of the church, the questions of authority, leadership, participation, cooperation. Particular attention is paid to the place and f unction of professional catechists, and
The taste of Italy
The Taste of Italy, A dictionary of Italian food and wine, by Fay Sharman and Brian Chadwick, published by Paper mac, $12.95 This dictionary is designed to take the guesswork out of identifying and enjoying ttal-
ian food and wine, wherever it may be found. It is a companion guide to restaurant eating, written especially for those who are visiting Italy, and will be a handy reference when shopping. A-Z entries describe what to expect in your fish soup or salad; the secrets of Parma ham and Italian sausage; the dangers of confusing rnostarda with mustard; how to know one pasta from another and what the many different types are. The book also includes a comprehensive coverage of Italian wine, down to locally produced level, and the language and rules of Italian wine labels.
their relationship within the community catechesis he propounds. The "simple one faithful", regarded simply as the object of the ministrations of others, he calls upon for their unique, personal contribution to their own and others' formation in faith. His belief, based on the gospel, of the liberating effect of really believing and acting upon the unique value of each individual and his or her growth in faith — which is the basis of his catechesis — is deeply moving and inspiring. Saris works a great deal though diagram, picture and story: a special section of this book deals with "picture language", and the many diagrams which fill the volume exemplify his theories. as This book, Towards a Living Church was described, is "a sort of progressive meditation and interpretation of the author's own experimentation and its experience . . . inspiration remains, to to provoke action . . ." Scottish Journal of Theology.
My Kleinian Home, by Nini Herman, published by the Australasian Publishing $24.95. Company, Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. There is an enormous amount of literature both popular and academic, published each year about psychotherapy, but there are few books which explain in simple language how generous and life-enhancing an analysis can be. There are also few books which are written by psychotherapists about their own analysis. This is one of those books. Nini Herman has written her autobiography, not simply about her life, but about her search for herself and the life experiences that she has confronted along the way. It is an extraordinary story and would be so without any emphasis upon analysis. It is a book which can be read on many levels and one which offers much to professional and layman alike. Dr Herman is interesting in that she has experienced in
one lifetime, Freudian, Jungian and Kleinian therapy. Each had different things to offer, but it was only with the last (and perhaps that was partly because of the other two) that she began to find the keys to the locked recesses of her mind. As a practising psychotherapist in the United Kingdom, Dr Herman shows great courage in telling her story . . in ripping away the shroud of anonymity that traditionally protects the psychotherapist. In this book Dr Herman shows that she was and is at one with her patients, in so far as she has also been called to take the tortuous journey within. Each journey is different but it is only those who have travelled the path who can easily recognise the shared Signposts. For all those who have no real understanding of what psychoanalysis is and what it can achieve, this book will go some way toward explaining the mystery. Nini Herman herself main-
In psychotherapy, she says, tains that My Kleinian Home she found her shoulder's is not a textbook It is a very personal small place on the wheel of account, she says. It is set out life. As a child, in Switzer. in the belief that every true experience must reach out MY KLEIMAN HOW to others, like ourselves, since our inner universe is essentially of a piece 'Were this not so, man's future would appear even more bleak than we see it in our day. And so I need not theorize but let the tale speak for itself" And speak it does, to all who are willing to hear. Those whose lives have never passed through these tortuous corridors may ask in anger or dismay what all the fuss is about, says Dr land, she was always a c Herman. struck by the great St Ber"To ensure that we are nard dog who found the born as a separate entity is victims of an avalanche with one of our basic rights," she certain basic sustenance in a said. "Without that struggle basket round their necks. we may never flower to our "Now day by day I sit and full potential and give our watch frozen people come best in work and love." to life," she said.
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It's a must for parents Parents Talk Love: The Catholic Family Handbook About Sexuality, by Susan K. Sullivan and Father Matthew A. Kawiak published by Paulist P ress, $7.95. Reviewed by Katharine Bird. This book should be on the "must" list for parents concerned about communicat-
ing their Christian values on human sexuality, love and marriage to their children. The book is "an overview to help you realise that the task of raising children to be sexually and spiritually healthy and secure is infinitely important and not beyond your ability," Susan Sullivan and Father Matthev,Kawialc write. But "neither is it easy," they say.
The authors, educators experienced in leading workshops and developing programs on sexuality, have written a forthright, honest book aimed at encouraging parents to move full steam ahead in this all too often neglected area The authors point out, "The frightening reality is that only 10 per cent of the parents say anything about sex to their
Living memorial to the vision The Words of Martin Luther King, selected by Coretta Scott King, published by Fount, $4.95. Seventeen years after his assassination the words of Martin Luther King still ring out dear and strong. Martin Luther King, the Christian champion of
human rights whose leadership changed the whole course of history in America, brought a new dimension of dignity to human life, new hope for freedom and the community of man. This selection from his speeches and writings is a living memorial to the
vision, the passion and the faith of a man whose message will never die. Much of the power of King came not Just from the words, but the WAY he said them, but even without his remarkable gift of eloquence, the words still reach out to touch us all.
This is not surprising when you consider that they came from a man who said:
children. But that doesn't mean children aren't learning anything from parents. "Education is sexuality, as with most aspects of Christian life, is more caught than taught," the authors observe.
The excellent chapter on intimacy points out that children learn a great deal about sexuality and about male-female relationships from observing what's happening at home. "Parents transmit feelings of goodness and acceptance about sexuality to their children almost without realising it," Ms Sullivan and Father Kavvialc say.
"You ought to believe something in life, believe that thing so fervently that you will stand up with it to the end of your days . . . ."
"Parents who encourage attitudes of respect, dignity and responsibility in sexual relationships give their children a precious gift." the authors add.
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A valuable section of the book details the kind of information and education appropriate for children at different stages of development. Parents can turn here to find a thumbnail sketch of what children might quiz them about and how to respond. Another chapter takes up common myths about sexuality and provides correct information.
Song of Rbanna, by Christine Fraser, publisbel by Fontana, $5.95. The fifth volume in this increasingly popular series set on the mythical Hebridean island of Rhanna. Song of Rhanna revolves around Ruth — now happily married to Lorn — and her best friend Rachel who is now a famous concert violinist. Rachel's return to the island should be an occasion for great happiness, but fate ensures that it almost spells disaster for Ruth's serene happiness . . . The Other Man, Conversations with Graham Greene. by Marie-Francoise Main, published by Penguin, $5.95. Elusive and modest, Graham Greene has always shunned publicity in favour of privacy. In The Other Man, a series of conversations he had with journalist
Marie Allain, we are offered a rare and riveting glimpse of the other, more personal side of one of our finest novelists. Why We Serve, by Douglas Fisher, Word of Life Distributors, $13.95. Forword by Rosmary Haughton. In this collection of essays, lay ministers share their experiences — the satisfactions, the problems and the challenges. Realising the growing importance of this field as the number of clergy declines, many readers will appreciate an inside look at where lay ministry is going. Come Journey With Me, by Russell Packard, Word of Life Distributors, $15. 79. This very personal story leads us through atheism, conversion and commitment in a fresh and frank way
that enables each of us to relate it so easily to our own struggle on our individual journey to the fullness of life. This book is full of joy, questioning refection and painful struggling that is worth every precious moment for the author and also for us. Capital City, London as a Financial Centre, by !Famish McKae and Frances Cairncross, publsibed by Methuen Australia, $11.95. Widely accepted as the best analytical description of the financial institutions of the City of London. Capital City has now been totally revised and rewritten. Its authors — both well-known financial and economic journalists — describe in lively detail the operations of the banks, the stock market, the insurance world and the other bodies that make up
the world's largest international financial centre. They also answer a series of disturbing questions about the City's performance, accountability and honesty. They explain how the City reached its present position, and they discuss its future. Emily's Tiger, by Penny Pollock, Word of Life Distributors, $3.95. A story for young and old alike. Penny Pollock creates a warm amusing story of a little girl with imagination and faith who believes her toy tiger is as real as any other animal and needs to be blessed just as much. The priest does bless both Emily and her little animal that shares her pillow, keeps her secrets and says her prayers. Teachers and parents will find this book a good starting point for discussions about families, caring and faith.
The Perfect Stranger, by PJ. Kavanagh, published by Fontana, $6.95. P.J. Kavanagh's autobiographical account of his early years tells the story of his chaotic, adventurous youth, his struggle to succeed as a writer and poet, and his attempts to find some sense to his life. He also records his extraordinarily moving love affair with Sally, which dramatically affected him for the rest of his life. Despite Sally's tragic and unexpected death from polio, after they had been married for only a couple of years, it is not a sentimental account but rather a celebration of the purpose to his life. Thinking about Thinking, by Antony Flew, published by Flamingo, $6.95. The book sets out to reveal the underhand tactics we use in seeking to win an argument, and the ways in
which friends, colleagues, the Press, politicians, etc. try to convince us that they are right about what they are saying. The Bottle Factory Outing, By Beryl Bainbridge, published by Flamingo, Brenda and sixteen-stone Freda, workers at an Italian wine bottling plant in London, plan an outing to Windsor Great Park with the factory Lotharios. Freda is sure that at last her fantasies will come to life and she will be seduced by Vittorio the trainee manager. But everything goes tragically wrong and something very nasty indeep happens to Freda in the bushes. This brilliantly hilarious yet horrifying novel won the 1974 Guardian Fiction Prize and was runner-up for the Booker Prize
The authors offer parents reassurance that it's never too late to start discussing sexuality. Even with teenagers, "we believe that there is always hope for communication," Father Kavviak and Ms Sullivan say. But, in initiating discussions, they add, patience and being willing to listen are vital — "genuine listening to the thoughts and emotions of teens." The book, with an imprimatur by Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, N.Y., is carefully nuanced and respectful of Catholic tradition.
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EAST VICTORIA PARK SCHOOL JUBILEE Fifty years of parish and school life in East Victoria Park will culminate with a special Mass to be held on Sunday, December 8 at 11 am celebrated by Bishop Healy. There will be a Twilight Fete on Saturday, November 23, and a Jubilee Ball to be held at the Pagoda Ballroom on Friday, December 6. Tickets are available in the Parish and at Xavier College. Cost $20. All past pupils and parishioners are invited to the Jubilee Mass and buffet meal to follow in the Parish Hall. Guests are asked to bring old photos or send them to the school beforehand for display and to ring John Bianchini on 361 2994 if they can attend the December 8 Mass and lunch.
1950's photo of the late Sr Ambrose (left) founding principal at East Victoria Park and Sr Theresa, (right) also a pioneer, andnow at Victoria Square Centre is Sister Enhrem still on the school staff.
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The latest East Victoria Park success. The Xavier bricklaying team which came third in a flee of 46: (from left): Michael Alderslade, Dave Munut Justin Buttery, Darren Ewell and Mr Michael Downes, the industrial arts teacher.
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CWL CHARITY FILM Catholic Women's League (WA) will hold a Charity Picture Morning on Wednesday November 20 at the VVindsor Theatre, Stirling Highway, Nedlands at 10.30 am. "Yenti" starring Barbra Streisand will be screened, preceded by a complimentary cup of coffee. There will be a "Bring and Buy" Stall and raffle. Doors open at 9.45 am. Ample parking space is available at rear Admission is $5.00 and proceeds will aid the Seminary Fund for the training of young priests. Tickets available at door or telephone the State Secretary, Mrs Betty Corbett on 271 6308. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly Pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of the Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday. November 24 at 2 pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring P. Gales on 349 7135 or L. Martinz 328 4631. COMING EVENT Father Stefano Gobbi of the Marian Movement of Priests will visit Bullsbrook on Saturday December 14. Mass at 11 am followed by Cenacle
The Pignatelli Cup for Catholic tennis was held at the St Joseph's Pignatelli Club last weekend. Conditions were ideal for tennis, and a good day was had by all who attended. The women's winner was Ann-Marie Rose from St Benedicts with Wendy O'Neil and Kathy Williams from Pignatelli runners up. Barry McMahon from Pignatelli took out the men's trophy with Frank Hackett from St Benedicts and Damian Messer from Queens Park runners up. With the fine weather coming, now is the time to get into the tennis swing. Catholic tennis is running
DISABLED ASSISTANCE Volunteer assistants are urgently required for the holiday program for severely disabled persons at Santa Maria College, Attadale from Sunday January 5 to Sunday January 19. Assistance is required in the following areas: • personal care of the holiday makers • nursing skills • recreation and activities/ outings • laundry • house cleaners • kitchen hands • dining room — preparation and cleaning • B class bus drivers. Personal carers need to be mature and at least 18 years of age, the lower age limit for all other volunteers is 15 years. Those able to help in any of the above areas should contact Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped persons, 387 7566 or write to CCIH, PO Box 152, Wembley, 6014. VOCATION REFLECTION WEEK-END The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions invite young women to spend time reflecting on their lives and the possibility of a religious missionary vocation. Join us at Safety Bay from the evening of Friday, November 22, to the afternoon of Sunday, November 24. Inquiries: Sister Carmel, 448 1151.
TENNIS
and open to all Catholics and their partners and family. It is the ideal way to while away a Sunday afternoon in the fresh air and get some exercise as well. Join in the Christian spirit and meet others with similar ideals and who enjoy their tennis as well. Clubs in the Catholic Association are:
ST BENEDICTS — Alness Street, Applecross. The club has two courts with lights. Club day is Sunday afternoon, but the courts are available for hive of a weeknight as well. The contact is Frank Hackett -364 2925. ST JOSEPH'S PIGNATEW — Wichman Road, Attadale.
TWO PINES FETE The Two Pines Hospital, Maylands, part of Southern Cross Homes, will hold a fete and open day on Friday. November 22 from 1 pm to 3 pm. Bishop Healy will bless the hospital and open the fete which will include a band concert, afternoon tea, and stalls. The public are welcome to inspect the hospital and attend the fete.
FAREWELL TO MRS TERM DAWSON A farewell Mass and gathering is being organised at St Francis Xavier Parish, Armadale, for Mrs Terisa Dawson who has taught at the parish school for the last 18 years. The evening will start at 6.30, on Saturday, December 7, with Mass. Past parents and pupils are encouraged to share in this farewell. If you would like to be present at this occasion please ring one of the following for more details — Pam Badani 399 5310, Joan Perrett 399 2523, Peter Del Borrello Jacobson Jenny 399 3127, 399 2603.
The club has six courts with two courts under lights. Club day is Sunday afternoon, but the courts are available for hire on other days. The contact is Bill Ryan — 330 5482. LIWARA — Tuart Road, Greenwood. This club has two courts and the club day is Sunday afternoon. The contact is Jenny Pearce — 447 4950. ST JOSEPHS — Railway Parade, Queens Park. The club has two courts available with lights. Club days are Sunday afternoon and Wednesday night. The contact is Michael Messer — 459 8183.
WILLETTON — Corpus Christi College, Murdoch Drive, Bateman. The club has six courts available for use with Sunday afternoon being dub day. The contact is Tom Branch — 332 5768. New members are welcome at all clubs. Join in and bring along the family. Tennis is one of the few games the whole family can envoy together. Anyone who would like to set up a club in their area and who would bite some assistance in doing so can contact the Catholic Tennis Association President Peter Messer on 458 5031.