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MANILA: Cardinal Sin has joined the chorus of protest over the acquittal of the military in the Aquino murder. He said the "flagrant disparity" between the court's verdict and the findings of the civilian inquiry "threatens to push our country to the brink of violence and despair". "It seems that a historic opportunity to restore the credibility of government and to satisfy our people's aspirations for truth and justice was lost," he said. Before the trial he said he had told some of the judges to be careful. "Now I am prepared to give them a Christmas gift: copies of a videotape of the Nuremburg trials," said Cardinal Sin. "I'm having the tape copied now. It gives a lesson: The justices should be fair and just in trying to judge, because it is not a question of legal procedure, it is a search for truth." Cardinal Sin said Filipinos "will be very sad" at Ver's acquittal. He said after Aquino's assassination, many Filipinos "went to the hills because they are disgruntled" and joined the anti-government New People's Army. The guerilla group was not necessarily a communist organisation, the cardinal added. "Most of them are there because of their feelings against the president's regime. But they are not all communists.
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The church of Christ the King at Beaconsfield is a monument announcing to the world the presence of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Foley said at the blessing of new extensions last Sunday. He called on the people to be prominent in their faith by being a leaven in the community. The extensions have added two bays to the original church opened in 1936. The extension includes a new spectacular facade that highlights a rose window whose
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stained glass features Christ the King, the sacraments and the four evangelists Inside the building a former small gallery has been extended to
provide nine rows of seating. Along with extended space below the capacity of the church is estimated to have increased from 250 to 500 persons. The project including retaining walls, brick paving and landscaping cost $300,000.
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Perth looks like drawing the prize occasion for a public meeting with Pope John Paul II — the afternoon of Sunday November 30. In Melbourne on Tuesday it was announced the pope will be entering Australia at Canberra on Monday October 24, leaving from Perth on the morning of Monday December 1 after arriving here on Sunday Afternoon.
'We could not have been more lucky," said Mons Pat O'Reilly, director of the WA section of the papal tour.
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"The pope has said that he wants to meet as many of the Australian people as possible and West Australians could not wish for a better occasion than a late Sunday Afternoon when whole families will be free to attend. "Traffic will not be an impossible factor and television will most likely be able to give extended coverage right through to the country areas," Mons O'Reilly said. A special WA Police liaison group is studying a number of locations to give maximum accessibility for people to see
attend the papal function, probably a Mass. Mons O'Reilly said WA had been allocated six the pope as well as mak- and a half hours of public ing the strict security appearances by the pope. arrangements as smooth This meant it would as possible. probably not be possible The Perth Esplanade for the pope to attend any foreshore has had to be proposed function outruled out because of side the great metropolsecurity risks. itan area. He said he was negotiatThe limited accommodation of the major sports ing for the donation of grounds may be a disad- office space to establish a vantage for allowing any papal tour office. number of people to This should be finalised by Father PAT CUNNINGHAM
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Laity meeting Three Western Australians will go to a meeting in Auckland next year sponsored by the pope's Commission for the Laity. Jim Miolin, Peter Shooter and Mrs Georgie Bruce-Smith will represent Western Australia along with 14 other Australian state representatives. They will meet with representatives of New
ian bishops on the subject "Laity with special emphasis on Youth." Zealand, the Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The meeting will prepare for the 1987 synod of Bishops on the laity.
Four Corners was a `contradiction'... BRISBANE: An ABC Four Corners on Pope John Paul last week was a successful audio-visual contradiction, says a Brisbane priest. "The audio said one thing
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ities is an educational one, and its focus is in Australia rather than overseas." Bishop Gerry said Australia, like other industrialised, western countries participated in the very processes which create poverty in the Third World. "We buy the commodities they produce often at very low prices," he said. "We sell them the goods we produce, usually at ever increasing prices. "We impact as tourists on their culture as well as their economy. "We invest in the best of their industries and repatriate the dividends. "We provide them with aid, but not always without strings. "From most of these processes we benefit more than they do. "There is a very real sense in which it is true to say we could not enjoy so high a standard of living if peoples of the Third World were not so poor."
SEOUL, South Korea oppression of women in (NC) — Cardinal Ste- Asia" and the "need to phen Kim of Seoul has discover our place as urged women Religious women Religious in their to "struggle" for the struggle." physical and spiritual "In our exposure to varliberation of Asian ied life situations of workwomen. ing women in South "The church must reach Korea," they said, "we out and touch women, experienced, on the one allowing them to stand up hand, their courage and straight. We must struggle commitment to the Gosfor full liberation of pel, and on the other, their women, both spiritual and different levels of awarephysical," Cardinal Kim ness in relation to their said, speaking at the sev- role and position as enth Asian Meeting of Reli- women." gious Women, held in The women Religious Seoul. said there is a "predomi"Both men and women nance of patriarchal strucneed liberation, so there tures both in society and in can be a new creation," he the church" which "we said. "You must help men have allowed . . . to and women in Asia realize oppress us, making us less the integration they so effective in our response to long for," he said. the call to discipleship." A statement by meeting In the statement, participarticipants struck the pants committed themsame note and set a series selves to: of goals for improving the • Creating "a liberating status of women in the formation program." • Developing a theology region. The theme of the meeting "which springs from invol— "Mission of Women in vement with people, analthe Church in Asia: Our ysis of their situation, and Role and Position" — had faith reflection from the "struck a chord near and perspective of the poor dear to the responsibility and women. of my position in the • Re-examining their church," Cardinal Kim organizations "to discover oppressive elements said. In their statement, the which prevent us from women Religious spoke of carrying out the mission of "the exploitation and Christ." • Collaborating with other religious congregations and lay women's organizations "to integrate the promotion of justice The Australian delegawith inculturation of the tion was announced durfaith and inter-religious ing a morning discussion last week by the Australdialogue."
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"So many of those here have said it time and time again that one imagines this is a commonly held opinion of the bishops," he said in a phone interview to the Catholic Leader in Brisbane days before the synod closes on Sunday, December 8. The Second Vatican Council closed on December 8, 1965 and the current synod will close in St Peter's on the 20th anniversary. "The documents themselves have not been read, let alone studied. They have been used selectively. "You find very few people who are able to say: 'I have read the four main documents of the council'. "The work of implementation is ahead of us. The vision of the Church is the vision of the document of Vatican II. "Those documents have been ratified and ratified over these two weeks here even though there is an understanding that the world in which the Church is operating has changed enormously in 20 yeafS. "Even among Catholics there are people to whom the Church is just on the very very edge of their interest, not at the very heart of their lives." Archbishop Rush said the s-ynod had been an "aweinspiring" experience that forcibly reminded him of the universality of the Church
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"He will be talking about the basics of what it means to be a christian today," he said. "I expect all Catholics — practising and non-practising — will he proud of the fact he is visiting them." Bishop Cuskelly said the pope has extraordinary gifts as a communicator. "He has a wonderful charisma as a religious leader and as a man," he said. "He has definite human gifts which have been "christened" and spiritualised.
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"But Paul VI did not have anything like John Paul's gift of speaking to the ordinary people through the media. "He does not come across as a sort of super-bishop. "We recognise he is a man with a very special job. "Ithink this comes out very clearly. "The unity of the Church, the values we all stand for. they come out in a special way when the Pope is there," Bishop Cuskelly said.
A priest's killer sent to hospital NEW YORK (NC) — Bryan Stanley, 30, was committed to Mendota Mental Health Institute after a judge ruled he was innocent of first degree murder by reason of insanity in the shooting deaths of Father John Rossiter, Ferdinand Roth Senior and William Hammes at St. Patrick's Church at U Creme, Wisconsin. Stanley had been upset because girls were allowed to read Scriptures at Mass. After challenging Father Rossiter on the issue and being rebuffed, he went to a nearby restaurant and unsuccessfully attempted to telephone Bishop John Paul. A psychologist who examined Stanley said he went to St. Patrick's because he believed he was to save the Church and children from the devil, and believed he was the prophet Elijah, and that he was on a mission to save the world from sin and communism.
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Record The word 'summit' is rapidly depreciating in currency under the onslaught of over inflated expectations and remarkably low rates of interest. When the dust settles, the summit participants who prepared themselves so assiduously, must wonder if anyone noticed, let alone remembered the gathering of the cream of the day. The Catholic Church is not immune from the hazards of summitry. This Sunday, December 8, a Vatican mini-summit concludes and some 150 key representatives of bishops conferences around the world make their way home to a world wondering what it was all about. This latest gathering, labelled an Extraordinary Synod of Bishops was specifically called by Pope John Paul II to mark the 20th anniversary of the closing of that extraordinary Summit of Summits, the Second Vatican Council which had deliberated from 1962 to 1965. The 1985 synod had to compete with an already busy agenda of synods staged every three years since the closure of Vatican II and already has jostled aside a significantly important forthcoming synod on the role of laity in the Church. Indeed, the very procession of serious topics — the latest being the Christian family — creates a feeling of spiritual indigestion. A few intellectual athletes can probably lay their hands instantly on any one of the post-synod papal statements, in-between papal encyclicals, messages and exhortations from one of the most prolific popes in history who has many healthy years ahead of him to say nothing of a speech-packed visit to Australia late next year. E] [I] Therefore, the harried Catholic who has trouble keeping up with a parish bulletin, never mind the heavyweight statements of the Church, could despair at a comment elsewhere in this issue from the Australian representative at the Extraordinary Synod. Archbishop Rush of Brisbane said there was a widespread feeling amongst the synod participants that the documents of Vatican II have not been read. It is advice that should be taken to heart because it has implications beyond the mere physical fantasy of church congregations feverishly wading through their reading homework for the week as a recipe for renewal. The first hurdle facing a genuinely interested Catholic is the fact that book publishers appear to have given English speaking Catholics a take-it-orlea ve-it single product. No doubt there are convincing market forces, allied to carefully protected copyright over translations, which have limited the availability of the Vatican ll documents to jumbo-sized paper backs that defy the fingers to keep open at a page and whose dense print quickly dims any enthusiasm for casual reading. It is a sad commentary on Catholic book publishing and retailing and the Catholic book buying public if it is alleged that in the whole of the English speaking world over a period of 20 years there has not been a market for attractively presented and readable editions of these most important documents. Archbishop Rush even offered a concession to those daunted by the list of 16 Vatican ll documents listed in our last issue. He asked how many Catholics would have read even the major four statements: on the Church, on Scripture, on Liturgy, and on the Church in the Modem World.
But the reported comments of the synod bishops would hardly be aimed at merely physical reading the documents, even if that is a basic premise. Vatican II, unlike the previous 20 General Councils of the Church, which could be couched in carefully phrased jargon suitable for the period, happened as the mass media of print and broadcasting were undergoing their own revolution. The carefully thought out statements of Vatican II, which after all are the classic texts over which the assembled bishops put their corporate infallible seal, have landed in a raging tide of popular jargon. The much abused notion of renewal can be stretched to include any view as far out as secular commentators raising eyebrows that the Catholic Church has not yet abandoned its rather well-known moral stances. It is becoming apparent that the sheer size of the Church — the estimated 800 million Catholics, large blocs of them in South American — and the now hundreds more than the 2300 bishops who packed St Peter's in 1965 is going to be a sizeable problem of unity in itself. Factions with their own agenda for a future church are not going to be shy about a takeover bid. Archbishop Rush might ask: Do they know what they are talking about?
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Laws Majority rule a solution vary in UK LONDON: Catholic bishops have protested at efforts to widen Sunday trading. On a Sunday in England and Wales, a shopper can buy Playboy but not the Bible, fresh milk but not dried, a razor blade for medical purposes — like cutting calluses — but not for shaving. British law requires most shops to close on Sunday, but a few — bars a nd newsstands for instance — are allowed to open. Because of such abnormalities in the Sunday shopping laws, the British government has proposed scrapping the regulations. Shops could remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and sell any kind of merchandise. Officials of various churches, however, have objected, saying the proposal would end Sunday as a publicly acknowledged day of rest and recreation. In November, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales joined the chorus of Church protest with a statement issued by their Department for Christian Citizenship. The bishops said they were not "opposed to people's liberty to enjoy Sunday as they wish," but they were worried about the consequences of the proposed change for some Britons. They said the law should "not create more difficulty for those who wish to keep up the religious observance of Sunday w orship"
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CAPETOWN (NC): Archbishop Denis Hurley, president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, said he is sure the conflict in white-ruled South Africa will end with black majority rule. But it will be a "long, difficult, painful struggle," he said. "With Christian hope one tries to influence what is happening . . . in the direction of justice and reconciliation and the building up of a single country involving all our people," he said on his 70th birthday. "But that is more in the light of Christian hope than any immediate human hope," said Archbishop Hurley. From In his calls for whites to
free themselves from the power, privilege and prejudice they hold in a racially segregated society, the archbishop said he is echoing his own motto: "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." "As a priest," the archbishop continued, "instinctivelyIappeal to conscience. Only late in life didI find out that in matters of social life and politics it is not conscience that counts, but power." Archbishop Hurley said he believes if a person accepts the teachings of the Church, introduced at Vatican II, then that person will also believe the Church must be involved in political issues. Vatican II's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ("Gaudium et Spes") "has a lot to say about politics and justice and the Church's role" in society, the archbishop said. 'When you Christianise and humanise society you go into all its aspects — social, political, cultural, economic." The archbishop said his "political conversion" from white prejudice came when he learned about the church's social teaching while studying for the priest-
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hood in Rome between 1933 and 1940. He said when he returned home in 1941 he realised what he learned in theory had to be put into practice — particularly in race relations. "I'd grown up in South Africa entirely accepting the social attitudes of the whites, and never thought of any injustice," said the South African clergyman. "In fact, I can remember as a young teenager, resenting Mahatma Gandhi — whom I later came to look upon as one of my greatest hems — for upsetting the British empire and rocking the boat," he said He said while he changed his youthful views on race relatively easily, he realises that sort of change is extremely difficult for most people. "And if it's difficult for one person it is almost impossible for a society," the archbishop said. "That is howl see the white population of South Africa. The sort of consolidated, fossilised strength of social attitudes is my greatest disappointment," the archbishop said.
Mobilising laity VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul ll urged a "mobilisation of the laity" before the 1987 world Synod of Bishops. The pope also voiced "great hope" there will be a "collaboration between the lively forces of the laity" and the bishops and urged the Pontifical Council for the Laity to "stimulate" efforts in that regard. The 1987 synod is scheduled to discuss "The Vocation and Mission of the Laity in the Life of the Church and Society." The Church above all needs great currents, movements and witnesses of holiness among Christ's faithful," he said, "because it is from holiness that is born authentic renewal in the Church." The pope also said the laity council, begun at the end of the Second Vatican Council, has had to address many issues during its 20-year history. He mentioned "the ministry of the non-ordained and the promotion of the dignity of women," but did not elaborate.
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The "diametric disagreement" of US clergy and laity with their pope and bishops "about what constitutes sexual sin" ought to be faced at this autumn's world Synod of Bishops, the Chicago priest said in a book released at the end of August.
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Ho!ding back the floRepres od•.•sion CAPE TOWN (NC) — Using force to repress the violence sweeping South Africa without redressing the cause is like trying to hold back a river — it will flood later, said Archbishop Stephen Naidoo of Cape Town. In a pastoral letter read in archdiocesan churches, Archbishop Naidoo said God-given personal rights did not depend on the whim of any human authority.
"What we are experiencing in South Africa is a powerful reaction against the denial of several of these rights," said the archbishop, who is of Indian background. Civil rights include the right to protest peacefully and the right to police protection, not police violence, he said. "What looms large in this struggle is the frustration of many people at not being heard in their legitimate grievances, of seeing peaceful means of protest violently disrupted and then forbidden, of having their leaders detained or imprisoned," he said. South Africa's white minority governs the country under a system of strict racial segregation, known as apartheid. Asians and coloureds — people of mixed race — have limited political input, but blacks. who make up more than 70 per cent of the population, cannot vote on national issues or in national elections. "Apartheid is totally unacceptable," said Archbishop Naidoo. "It is sinful, because it is a denial of the God-given value of a human being. Far from accepting it. a Christian true to his name must condemn it ( and ) the present state of emergency"
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HONG KONG: A Chinese Divine Word priest who spent 24 years imprisoned in China died while incarcerated there last January. In 1979, after 21 years in prison, Father Yuan wrote saying that he had been "freed and rehabilitated" and that he was "being pressed to join the National Association of Patriotic Catholics," the organisation formed by the Communist government in the 1950s to separate Chinese Catholics from the Vatican. The patriotic association wanted him to be the bishop of Nanking, but that Father Yuan refused, falsely claiming a heart condition. Father Yuan was arrested again in 1982 a nd was accused of "accepting money from West Germany, refusing t o join the patriotic church and discouraging others from joining it". He died three years later.
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Prelate joins protest chorus From page 1 "When there is a change of leadership, people will just come down from the hills," he added. The cardinal said he does not share the concern of some Americans that a communist insurgency will be unstoppable in several years. "I am not very pessimistic, because very soon
this problem will be solved," he said. "There will be another election; also, the president is becoming old, and nature itself will solve the problem. "God will not allow the people who have been suffering (under Marcos) for 20 years to suffer much longer," Cardinal Sin said.
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On December 8 1965 sure no bishop expected A rchbishop Sir Launcelot them to be put into pracGoody, then Bishop of tice immediately. Bunbury, sat in the assemIt takes time to turn bly of 2300 bishops at the these precepts into realclosing session of the ity. Second Vatican Council. In theory, the Council as A s The Extraordinary a whole introduced a Synod marking the 20 new conceptual model of years closes this Sunday on December 8, he has the Church. It introprepared this reflection duced the idea that the for The Catholic Leader, Church is a congregation Brisbane. of the People of God. On a more worldwide This doesn't mean that the older models are no basis, by the occasional longer of value. It means, synods of bishops in of course, another which representatives model. But neither from the Universal model could adequately Church gather together and totally describe the with the pope to discuss and to plan for the future. Church. The Extraordinary For instance, the old model of the Mystical Synod will consist of first Body consisting of head of all, the presidents of and members of a hierar- every national Episcopal chical society, not a Conference throughout democratic one, but one the world, plus the heads with governing bishops of the Roman departand submissive people, ments, the Congregawas a useful model — tions as they are called, partly true but not totally that is, all of the central bureaucracy of Church adequate. So also the new concept government. And this gathering is to of the Church as the whole People of God is have a look at what has useful, although by itself been done, the failures and successes, in the not totally adequate. A second consideration implementation of the was the practical implica- Council's recommendations of this new concept tions and to make suggesof the Church and the tions as well. The second consework that had to be done after the Council had quence of the new model of the Church as the concluded. The idea of the new People of God was the model employed first of co-responsibility of the all the collegiality of all laity — co-responsibility the bishops in union with which, in other words, the Bishop of Rome with means that they are as full all having joint responsi- and complete Christians bility for the Church. as the bishops and the Of course, the previous clergy, and that they are truth which had been a worshipping and workproclaimed, for example, ing community together at the First Vatican Coun- with the bishops. cil, that the pope is This doesn't alter in any Supreme Head is still way the previously true, but this is added to, accepted, and still one accepted, principle that complemented might say, by the idea the bishops throughout projected by the Second the world constitute the Vatican Council that all magisterium, but it does the bishops have a joint mean that these bishops responsibility in union share nevertheles a cowith the pope. responsibility with the This is demonstrated in laity in working out the various ways — in the requirements of the local Church by the Epis- Church. copal (bishops') ConferThis co-responsibility is ences, in which all the seen in practice in the bishops of a nation gather Council of Priests which together and discuss and exists now in every diocome to conclusions. cese to advise the bishop.
being done worldwide; the successes and the failures that have been experienced in different parts of the Church have to be assessed; and why there have been failures in one part and successes in other parts.
This is a sharing of responsibility, the bishops drawing together all the data to see what is best to implement the precepts that were laid down by the Council.
It is seen in the diocesan Pastoral Council in which the vast majority of the laity are also asked to discuss and advise on the pastoral work of the Church in the diocese, and at the grass roots level the parish pastoral council which participates, together with the priest, in the responsibility for the working of the parish. The first point in the implementation of this idea of the co-responsibility of all the People of God is that, although the Holy Roman Catholic Church is where the Church of Christ subsists, nevertheless it does not exclude contact with many Christian truths which exist elsewhere in other Churches and communities. This naturally led to the very important emphasis on the idea that it is Baptism which initially makes a Christian and, therefore, there is a vital importance in really toying to restore the unity of all baptised Christians as by their Baptism they are already incorporated in the Church of Christ, and that incorporation should be made visible and obvious to the world through their external unity. All these things I have mentioned — collegiality of the the bishops, coresponsibility of the laity, and Baptism being the key to the Church of Christ — have all been attempted and are continually being worked at throughout the Church but with varying degrees of success. So the Extraordinary Synod now must investigate how these things are
It is not surprising what Vatican II laid down has not yet been completely effected after 20 years when it is considered the precepts of the very first Council, the Council of Nicaea, which was defending the divinity of Christ, took at least 50 years to seep through to the whole Church and to gain universal acceptance. The famous Council of Trent in the 16th century took 60 to 100 years to make its role effective and those 60 or 100 years took it up to 1660 and the 17th century. Incidentally, the 17th century was the century of saints in the Church — an extraordinary flowering of energy, missionary work and sanctity — and that was 100 years after the reforms of the Council of Trent. So we should avoid at all costs giving way to impatience or to exercising too much haste and speed which is often counter -productive in the implementation of even the most desirable reforms. We have seen this happen in the matter of the liturgy. The changes, made perhaps too hastily because of the impatience of the ordinary people who required that something should be done, have by no means always been successful precisely because, perhaps, undue speed was thought to be necessary in this case. So with great hope, that patience, a cardinal virtue, should be practised by all Christians as we look to this Extraordinary Synod to further help in a practical way the implementation of the precepts presented
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"Christians recognise Christ as the heart and the source of every liturgy: He appears as the one who reconciles human beings with one another and with God." ("Sacraments and Passages", by Jesuit Father Gerard Fourez, 1983, Ave Maria Press.) "I believe that the liturgy can help to celebrate Christ, the gift of God, who manifests himself in the entire history of men and women, and not just on certain occasions in human history." ("Sacraments and Passages", by Jesuit Father Gerard Fourez, 1983, A ve Maria Press.)
KNOW YOUR F AITH This week the NC religious education package continues its four-week exploration of themes from Vaticn II, concentrating on a document that Pope John Paul II several times has asked Catholics to reread: the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. David Gibson gives an overview of some main themes from the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. Though the document is 21 years old, stepping back in time to read it is not very much like a stet) into the past, he suggests.
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Father John Castelot tells of the Galatians, to whom St. Paul sent a letter. The Galatians were descendents of three powerful Celtic tribes who fought their way into Turkey. Father Castelot says that the unique characteristics of the Galatians made them quite different from, say, the Corinthians. The early Christians struggled to understand and respond to the church's diversity, as did the fathers of Vatican II, Father Castelot says.
The hour had 'sounded in history' f or a new church document
In a new encyclical — a letter to the whole church — Pope John , Paul II highlights the I role of Sts Cyril and Methodius, the ninthcentury Greek brothers. He believes strongly that they are saints whose lives bear a message for the modern world. Men of Hellenic culture and Byzantine training, they were "the conTwenty-one years is necting links or spiritnot all that long a time: ual bridge between Just ask any parent of the Eastern and Westa 21-year-old child. ern traditions," the Still, one steps back 21 pope writes. The years in time with some saints' work of evantrepidation, wondering if gelisation contains a concerns then remain conmodel of what today cerns now. is called "inculturaTwenty-one years ago — tion, the incarnation of November 21, 1964 — the the Gospel in native Second Vatican Council's cultures and also the Dogmatic Constitution on introduction of these the Church was promulcultures into the life of gated. In September 1964, the church." Their when the council's third example stands us in session began, Pope Paul VI good stead even predicted its deliberations today, the pope said. on this document would For "being Christians distinguish the council "in in our day means the memory of future ages." being builders of comHe said that the hour had munion in the church "sounded in history" for the and in society. This church to develop a docucalls for openness to ment on "what Christ others, mutual under- intended and willed" the standing and readi- church to be. ness to co-operate When the constitution was through the generous completed, Pope Paul VI exchange of cultural said: 'We like to think that and spiritual resour- the doctrine of the mystery ces." (The encyclical of the church, illustrated appeared in the publi- and proclaimed by this councation titled Origins, cil will, from this moment, NC Documentary Ser- find a positive echo in the vice,1312 Mass. Ave. minds of Catholics." N.W., Washington, Perhaps the memory of DC, 20005. those words, and the
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memory of his own participation in Vatican II, explains why the present pope, John Paul II, has asked that people reread the Constitution on the Church. What will you find if you step back 21 years to read this document? Are its echoes heard anywhere today, as Pope Paul VI thought they would be? In many respects the document's echoes are heard almost everywhere now. It echoes, first, in the many efforts to create awareness that all members of the church are gifted people. No one is called to a merely passive Christian existence; all church members receive gifts enabling them to actively participate in the Christian life. Every lay person, for example, is "the witness and the living instrument" of the church's mission.
Echoes of the document are also heard in all the homilies, and books, and parish-council discussions of the church as a community, one whose members — whether bishops or laity — give care to each other. The constitution's chapter on the "People of God," which the council fathers decided to place near the document's beginning, was meant to set a tone here. Thus the document holds that while some church members have different roles and different states in life, all are shaped by the call to serve each other and the world through love.
Some would say this focus on the church as a community of love for much of church life today. One chapter of the constitution is devoted to bishops' roles, and its echoes are certainly still heard in the many discussions of collegiality. It reaffirms the primacy of the pope, the bishop of Rome. It goes on to discuss the roles of all bishops — examining how, with the pope, they form a college — a community of leadership in the church.
The region these Celts lived in became known as Galatia, a name derived from the word Celtic. When the Roman armies appeared on the scene, these Galatians
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In the third century B.C., three powerful Celtic tribes fought their way through the Balkans into what is now Turkey. Unwelcome wherever they went, they finally acquired tenitory centered on three cities, one of which is Ankara, the capital of modem Turkey.
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fought on their side and the country was incorporated into the Roman Empire. The Galations were a distinctive ethnic group. with traits of character and personality peculiar to themselves. They were simple and openhearted. They also were insatiably curious and gullible. An ancient historian wrote that they were intelligent and docile, but when the cloak of a philosopher appeared in their midst they clung to it like iron to a magnet — which means, I take it, that they would listen to almost
anyone who claimed to be a philosopher. It is not surprising, then, that Paul found them hospitable when illness forced him to stop among them. They were eagerly receptive when he preached the Good News. It is probably not surprising, either, that when Jewteachers ish-Christian showed up later, teaching that gentile Christians should still follow the Mosaic Law, the Galatians accepted their message even though it varied from Paul's. All this is reflected in his impassioned letter to the Galatians.
Another quite different community was the one at Corinth. Listen to this assessment by Dominican Father Jerome Murphy-O'Connor. in his commentary on First Corinthians: "Conceited, stubborn, oversensitive. argumentative, infantile. pushy. All these adjectives have their place in a description of the Corinthian Christians for whom Paul was responsible. They were the most exasperating community he had to deal with, for they displayed a positive genius for misunderstanding him."
Then there were the ThesPhilippians, salonians, Romans — all quite distinctive by temperament, culture, customs, attitudes. Paul took them as they were, respecting their uniqueness, trying to Christianise their lives. He did not try to make Jews gentiles or gentiles Jews; he did not insist that Galatians be Corinthians or that Thessalonians be Philippians. In other words, while there was a definite unity binding the early churches together, it was not uniformity. The attempts of some Jewish Christians to impose uniformity came to naught.
St Peter's Basilica was filled with nearly 2600 bishops, hundreds of advisors and observers for the opening session of the Second Vatican Council. "And there was the extraordinary presence of Pope John," Msgr. Frederick McManus said "He really set the tone of the council in a remarkable opening address." 8 The Record, December 5 — 11, 1985
Among the early Christians the churches were all joined by their common faith in the Lordship of Jesus, by baptism and the Eucharist but especially by love. So there was unity. But there was also diver sity.
of warmth. The picture of the church that emerges in the constitution's early pages is of a community held together by love. As the rest of the constitution unfolds, this foundation is presupposed. What is the church? Think about
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In a group of youngsters, several are likely to respond that the church is a building. And they're not wrong. We do have buildings called churches. What's more, the idea of the church as a building of God has roots in scripture, as the Constitution on the Church notes. But even then, it is a building made of living stones, namely its people. What is the church? How many people would begin to answer by calling the church a community of love, God's people? And does it make a difference? Do these images drawn from Vatican II's Constitution on the Church make a difference for the kind of Catholic you are in your parish or at home? The very first words of the constitution are these: "Christ is the light of humanity." The constitution draws its Latin name, "Lumen Gentium," from those words. The council fathers immediately went on to explain what they hoped to accomplish in their discussions of the church: to bring to all people "that light of Christ which shines out visibly from the church."
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Our future changed by the council On January 25, 1959, Father Frederick McManus was a 36-year-old professor of canon law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. As he went about his tasks that day, little did he know that his future, our future, was about to be forever altered by events an ocean away. In Rome, the new pope. John XXIII, elected scarcely three months earlier, was speaking to 17 cardinals in the Basilica of St. PaulOutside-the-Walls. Admitting he was "trembling a little with emotion," the pope announced that he intended to convoke "an ecumenical council for the universal church." Recalling those days, the now Msgr. McManus said he realised immediately how important Vatican Council II could be. "I was well aware of the currents in the church — biblical, liturgical and ecumenical," he said in an interview. "I knew that many things could be dealt with. I knew the potential but I didn't realise how far" the council would go. Preparations for the council began soon after the pope's historic announcement. Because Msgr. McManus had written extensively on canonical affairs and the liturgy, he was appointed a consultor in 1960 to the committee laying the groundwork for a document on the liturgy. And when the council opened in October 1962, Msgr. McManus was there as a papally selected peritus, or expert adviser, attached to the Commission on the Liturgy.
One of his most vivid memories is the opening ceremony of the council. St. Peter's Basilica was filled with nearly 2,600 bishops, hundreds of advisers and observers. "And there was the extraordinary presence of Pope John. He really set the tone of the council in a remarkable opening address," said Msgr. McManus.
Understanding this as the church's task seems basic to understanding what the church is, the council fathers suggested through the choice of these first words. They added:
The "most striking feature" of the first days and weeks of the council, he said, was the "extreme tension between what turned out to be the majority (of bishops) and the minority."
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The first crisis, Msgr. McManus indicted, ocurred during the very first general congregation when Cardinals Achille Iienart of Lille, France, and Joseph Frings of
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By Joe Michael Fiest Cologne, Germany, protested the lack of prior consultation on the part of the presidency of the council in offering candidates for council offices. That indicated clearly that there was a very strong opposition to the "concept that the council would meet for a couple of months, approve some documents and go home," said Msgr. McManus. A showdown of sorts occurred later in the council during discussion of the portion of the Constitution on the Church dealing with the hierarchical structure of the church, Msgr. McManus said. The issue was collegiality — the manner in which leadership in the church is exercised by all the world's bishops together with the pope. A number of bishops rejected the notion of collegiality.
E As it turned out, of course, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, while affirming the primacy of the pope, emphasised "the collegiate character and structure of the episcopal order." While some previous councils were "reactive" or "negative," Msgr. McManus said, the positive nature of Vatican II can be seen in the Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. He called it a "truly novel document" since in the initial planning "there had been no intent to look at the church in relation to society and culture." The idea that the church could learn from society was somewhat revolutionary, he added. Still, it should be recognised that the Constitution on the Church in the Modern World was a "first effort" that "called for more development, more reflection," said Msgr. McManus. In a sense, he added, all the council documents can be viewed as "first efforts" in need of further development. History will no doubt view the council very positively, Msgr. McManus believes. "It was the first time the church assembled in this way — and reflected on itself, its nature and its relationships. "Obviously it was a breakthrough," he said.
A quiz to get you in the mood for Advent
For many people, Advent turns into the year's busiest time. b. Gabriel There's so much to do. Quickly the days slip by. Easily Advent c. the angel of the Lord itself can slip right past you. _gut perhaps the quiz that follows will help you get into an d. the angel did not A dvent mood. Think of it as a game, if you like. It's an Advent leave his name 9. What happened to Pursuit„ thoughIhope you don't find it trivial. 1. What does the word "advent" mean? a. coming b. expectation c. preparation d. waiting
2. How many Sundays does the season of Advent hold? a. 6 b. 4 c. 3 3. Think about Advent feastdays. Match the saint's name with his or her feastday. • St. Ambrose • St. Francis Xavier • Immaculate Conception of Mary • St. Lucy • St. Nicholas a. Dec. 3 b. Dec. 6 c. Dec. 7 d. Dec. 8 e. Dec. 13 4, The Advent wreath weaves pine boughs into a circle and adorns it with candles and ribbons. Now, answer these questions — if you \can:
a. How many candles are used? b. What are the customary colours of the candles? c. What happens on Gaudete Sunday?
6. How many brothers and sisters did John have? 7. John's father was a priest. What does Luke tell us he was doing in the temple when the angel appeared to him? a. leading the people in prayer b. offering a lamb in sacrifice c. sleeping d. burning incense 8. What was the d. What does the name of the angel "gaudete" who appeared to word mean? John's father? a. Raphael e. Which Advent Sunday is Gaudete Sunday? Now answer the next few questions. Then take five minutes to read the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1, to check your answers. That's your reward for doing so well on this quiz.
John the Baptist is an important figure in Advent. His whole life was spent in expectation and preparation for Jesus. How well do you remember the events of John's birth as recorded in St. Luke? 5. What are the names of John's parents?
John's father after the angel left him? Why? 10. What famous person visited John's parents? How long did the visitor stay? Did the visitor help with the delivery of the baby?
11. Who gave John his name? a. his mother b. his father c. the relatives d. the angel I hope you had fun with this. Happy Advent. (Now, what does that word mean again?)
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It was fitting an Irish terrier should be the watch dog for the family just arrived from the Emerald Isle and living in Mabel Street near Walcott Street in that year of 1909. Beside the sandy track that was Walcott Street was an Aboriginal camp and the Irish mother, Sarah Lynch, was nervous about its proximity to herself and family. It turned out she had no reason to be. The only times she saw the camp's inhabitants was when they called on her occasionally for food, but the presence of the dog was a psychological comfort. From this North Perth home, six-year-old Phil Lynch made his way each day along a track — mainly black sand with patches of gravel — to school at St Brigid's in West Perth.
Philip Francis Lynch, r etired farmer and former AIF artilleryman in World War II, was born in County Meath in Ireland on April 10, 1903. A s a six -year -old in 1909, he came to Western Australia with his f ather Philip, mother Sarah, five brothers and a sister who died not long after arrival. Two more children were born to the family in WA — Peter in 1910 and Mary, now Sister Emanuelle of the Dominican order who is still teaching at Morawa and looking forward to next year when she will have been a nun for SO years. Phil received his education at St Brigids in West Perth, the Three Springs state school and St Ildephonsus College at New Norcia before returning to the family farm at Three Springs. He worked underground in the mines at Wiluna during the Depression, enlisted in the AIF in 1940 in which he served in the Middle East, was employed at the Golden West aerated waters factory while he was receiving medical treatment after his army discharge. and joined brother Tom on his Hyden property. He has lived with the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough for the past 10 years.
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Our recent series on grief triggered many responses. One of the most poignant came from a reader who rang to talk about the "grief that has no end"; the pain that comes to stay when one has relinquished a child for adoption. It is an "unresolved", and often, unresolvable grief that has only been recognised in recent years. The greatest tragedy is it is unnecessary.
The trek to and from school was quite a hike through the ominous bush for a Little boy, but he took it in his stride with the nonchalance accorded to such hardships by his contemporaries. The North Perth sojourn was to be of fairly short duration. The family had a powerful friend at court in the shape of their uncle, Senator P.J. ( Paddy) Lynch, later to become president of the Senate. Paddy took his brother Phil, the father of the family, on an extended tour of the State's farm areas, and Three Springs was selected as the site for the Lynch property. The family moved in after a house had been built there. Phil went to the Three Springs state school because there was no convent in the area, a lack that concerned Geraldton's Bishop Kelly to the extent that he worked hard and successfully to have a Catholic school built at Three Springs. The bishop had a warm relationship with the Lynch family. He counselled sagely on the aspiration of Phil's eldest brother, Michael, to the priesthood. When he was sure that the lad had a vocation, he arranged for him 'to study in Ireland and Rome. Michael was ordained a priest of the Geraldton diocese in 1919. Phil completed his education with the Marist Brothers at St Ildephonsus College at New Norcia. On his return to Three Springs, it was decided that there were too many boys in the family for the property to support. Jim and Phil stayed and Tom and Peter took up land at Hyden. The ability of the two brothers to move to Hyden was another example of the foresight and planning for the family of their uncle, Senator Paddy Lynch. The limit on each block was 1000 acres, so in the names of his own children and Phil's family he took up 10 Hyden blocks — a total of 10,000 acres around the townsite. The arrival of the Depression necessitated further belt-tightening on the Three Springs property and Phil moved off to go wool-pressing on stations in the Onslow area, a task for which he was paid 25C a bale and was charged $2.50 a week for board and lodging. Brother Paddy has been awarded a block at Yandanooka for his service in World War I and brother John went to Kalgoorlie where he organised the tributers (men extracting gold from the mine dumps). John and his group were the defendants in an action brought by a mining company over leases.
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This week she talks to ROSLYN ROSS about her own story and the work that is being done by the Association of Relinquishing Mothers, of which she is a member. But it is not only mothers who mourn for the children they have lost — fathers too can feel the dark pain of separation. One such father talks to Roslyn Ross next week about the daughter who was "taken from him" 21 years ago.
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more money was essential because they were running out of candles. "We had no option to paying up. Otherwise our hones would have been stumbled over years later in the darkness because we had no idea of how to get By BOB BOYLE out." Phil landed back in AustraThey lost the case in the reinforcement for the 2/ 3rd lia at Port Adelaide aboard Supreme Court, then in the Field Artillery Regiment. the Durban Castle on St High Court but won it on He managed to spend a few Patrick's Day, 1942, and for appeal to the Privy Council days in Jerusalem, but the some months he and his unit — a finding that was worth Old City was unfortunately mates lived with private pounds out of bounds. "It was the families in billets in Ade200,000 ($400,000) to John and his first time I ever saw blokes laide. tributer colleagues. with long hair," he laughs. They were moved to There were a number of Townsville and were there As a member of the Eighth Division of the AIF, John visits to Tel Aviv. on the night of the Japanese "My mate was Jack Bensky, air raid on the town. died a prisoner-of-war of the a Jewish furniture manufacJapanese. It was an inauspicious start Seeking a change from turer from Perth," he says. to the two years he was to wool-pressing, Phil decided "The locals used to give him spend in various parts of to try his luck as an under- the red carpet treatment arid North Queensland. ground miner at Wiluna in I copped the benefit of the Discharged in Perth, he got 1937. With a population of spin-off." a job at the Golden West soft He got a week's leave in drink factory while he 8000, it was a lively town indeed. Cairo, but transport prob- received medical treatment Men who found work there lems extended that to a for war-caused disabilities about that time included fortnight which included before returning to the Bishop Quinn's father, a attendance at race meetings Three Springs farm. cage operator on the Bul- at Gezirah and Heliopolis When brother Tom took a letin mine, and Dave Brand, and an inspection of the trip to Ireland, Phil moved to later to become Premier of Pyramids. Hyden to look after his farm "At the Pyramids," he for him. Western Australia. On the outbreak of World recounts, "we paid the guide It was the second return War H, Phil enlisted in the at the start of the tour. trip Tom had made to the AIF from Wiluna and sailed "When we got to the abso- land of his birth. aboard the Queen Mary for lute darkness under a Cont page 11 the Middle East in 1941 as a Pyramid, however, he said
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'Mary' (circumstances prevent her from using her real name) is 43. She is happily married and lives in Perth with her husband and two children aged 10 and nine. But she has another child, a son, who will be 18 on December 26 — a birth date which 'Mary' also shares. That is all they share, for Mary, whose fiancee left her shortly after she discovered she was pregnant, was f orced to give up her son the day he was born. She was 26 when she became pregnant, older than many relinquishing mothers (the average age is 19), but says she and her fiancee were both immature. "He couldn't face the fact I was pregnant so he broke off the engagement," she said. "At the time I didn't feel I had any choice but to give up my son. "My parents were dead but I did have a lot of support from brothers and sisters and friends — but I still couldn't see how I could support myself and a child 'Things were different then. ft was a difficult decision to make but I was looking to the child's best interests — but then, it reflected the values of society at the time." ft was, she says bitterly, the worst decision she had ever made in her life. It is a decision she regretted almost as soon as she made it. In fact, she made a desperate but fruitless attempt to get her son back three weeks after giving him up. It is a decision that has haunted her ever since and one which has given birth to bitterness, soon clothed in the cruel knowledge that throughout her experience she had rarely been told the 'real truth'. "I remember wishing he wouldn't be born because he was safe while I still had him," she said wistfully. But he was born, and he was taken. 'When I look back on it I can see that I was emotionally overwrought — I had no idea of my legal position, ' she said.
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'The worst part about it was being in hospital, before that I had been protected. Although they were kind to my physical needs they totally ignored my emotional needs. It may have been a sign of the times, but it was cruel. "Everyone said, 'You'll forget about this,' and you think, Will I really?' The reality is that you don't. 'Then you feel you will replace the lost child when you have another — but you don't."' And after it was 'over', (and when it had really only just begun), she was lucky, she says, to have had a family who would let her 'talk about it'. "I've seen the destruction caused to women who have never been allowed to talk about it," she said. 'The trauma came out in other ways for me — in guilt, lack of confidence, low self esteem — all things which I had not experienced before." She was lucky, she says, because she was able to hoed her son three times. Those three hugs would have to last a lifetime and she remains eternally grateful to the nurse who showed some sensitivity. She said I could sneak down to the nursery if I wanted to hold him," Mary said. "But I had to hide in the toilet or the flower room in case the supervisor came. I felt like a criminal . . . "It was only years later, when I found out my rights that I really began to feel angry about how it had been handled. It was 15 years before the anger really hit me — when I realised how I had been lied to and deceived. "Not being told the truth was the worst. I was never told my rights — I had no idea there was an allowance at that time for supporting mothers" Things have changed, she adds, but not nearly so much as people might imagine. "I signed the consent form after three days. Now it is nine days with a revocation
for adopted son who would be 18
Forced to give up her by ROSL YN ROSS
The Association of Relinquishing Mothers aims to: • provide emotional support to women who have relinquished a child by adoption • educate the public about the lifelong effects of Adoption on the relinquishing mother • work to change the adoption laws and practises which cause so much pain. The group meets every third Monday of the month, at 8pm at /6 Rheola St, West Perth (Immunisation clinic. Room 19. Old building). Information is also available for anyone who is contemplating giving up a child for adoption. Inquiries to Barbara, 4.51 2071; Maureen, 390 8386; Margaret, 448 2417; Shirley, 447 0105.
'The thing that gets to me more than anything is there is just no need for it I can see my experience was better than most but some are so tortured by it their lives are ruined Of they are driven to suicide. t's the 'not knowing' that I destroys us all. I can't see how a letter or photo can hurt anyone, but I can see how it can help so many." Most relinquishing mothers, she says, would be content with an annual letter and a couple of photographs. It is the secrecy, maintained by the system. which has led to the unnecessary emotional trauma -The Department of Youth and Community Affairs point blank refuses to go to the adoptive parents to ascertain their wishes if a natural parent should seek contact or information,- she said. "In one case the adoptive parents had been sending photos and information through to the department for years, assuming it was being sent on — that is, until, the department mailed the whole lot back to them." It is an attitude of secrecy, which, she says, is not applied equally.
period of 30 days but a lot of girls feel they are honourbound to go ahead with it after they have signed. "I would like to see at least six weeks allowed for signing and then a revocation period of a further six weeks." Now a keen advocate for adoption law reform, Mary joined the Association of R elinquishing Mothers after being involved in a research program conducted by the University of Western Australia in 1982. She is now a committee member with ARM and has heard enough 'horror' stories to keep her actively working for change. "Some of the stories I have heard from relinquishing mothers are shocking," she says. "I was luckier than most because after my son was born the doctor who had been looking after me offered me a job as his secretary. "After a few years I moved to Western Australia and met my husband soon after. "In those early years I did think about my son a lot but I didn't feel I had a right to know. That was the attitude which was encouraged in mothers who gave their children up.
"It was only when I began to discover the 'lies', that I realty changed my mind about things. "For a start I was told that the adoptive parents had three children of their own and they lived in the country. In 1982 I found out they had two natural children and lived in the city. "I look at myself now and say, 'How could I have done it?' "I also feel angry about how it was done. They were so underhand about it all. "It is when you find out you have been lied to and realise as far as the adoption agencies are concerned the adoptive parents are the most important — then you become realty angry. 'They were the 'goodies' and we were the baddieS and no-one ever appreciated how much we were giving up and the pain we suffered — and all because we were told to do something because 'it was in the best interests of the child'. "It is a grief unresolved until you find your child — and even then the past and the pain are not completely wiped away.
"I had always thought the secrecy applied to both parties, but it doesn't," she sad. -The adoptive parents have the full name and the address of the relinquishing mother and of the father if it is available. The relinquishing parents have no such information about the family to whom they have entrusted
their child. "It is not that we mind them having the information, because at least then they are in a position to give it to the child. "It is just that we believe the system should be more open and honest for everyone. 'What we are looking for is access of information. "I feel strongly myself adoption should cease and should be replaced by legal guardianship. "The association is not pushing for 'doorstep reunions'. Such experiences can be harmful for everyone and we would like to see negative registers established to take care of anyone who doesn't wish to be found. 'We would like to see information made freely available to child and relinquishing parents when the child turns 18,
'That is not to say that contact is obligatory — it just means it is possible if both parties wish it. "Some adoptees and adoptive parents don't want to know anything about it because they fear the pain and the hurt. "But that is a pain and hurt r elinquishing parents have been living with for years. "Studies have shown where contact is made, there is often an enhanced relationship between the adoptee and the adoptive parents. "Adoptive parents often worry that the natural mothers will step in once contact is made, but from what I have seen, most relinquishing mothers only want the best for their children — that's why they gave them up in the first place. "Most of us can live with not seeing our children if only we can know they are happy and healthy. I have found out my son does know he is adopted and that his name is Adam — even that small amount of information helps. "I've got all my information down on file in case he wants to reach me. I hope he does — but he may not ' She comforts herself with the thought an adopted child who chooses not to seek out his natural parents is probably very settled and well adjusted. It is small compensation for the chance to touch, to hug f or the fourth time, and perhaps to whisper 'sorry'. For Mary it is important to count her blessings — a wonderfully supportive hus-
Some 300 or more adopted people who have NOT tried to find out who their birth parents were are needed urgently to take part in an important confidential research project at the University of Western Australia. Mrs Sue Midford of Doubleview needs them to continue her research on the topic "The meaning of identity to adoptees" for her Master's degree in psychology. The study, the first of its kind in Australia, is part of the ongoing research programme of the UWA Psychology Department's Adoption Research and Counselling Service, which is being utilised by government and welfare groups. A s a result of appeals for help with her research, Mrs Mietford has heard from several hundred adoptees who have found or are seeking their birth parents, and who have been happy to answer the questionnaires she has sent out. However, because it is known some 95 per cent of adoptees do not try to find their birth parents she needs an equal number of those in her survey or the results will be so unbalanced she will have to abandon it. Says Mrs Midford: "Our initial research has already shown some adoptees may lack a strong sense of identity, of "who they are", and also of belonging — either to a family group or associated groups. "People who are raised by birth parents gain information about themselves, their parents and relations, the extended family, the history, exploits and traditions of the family, and so on. In addition to their own life history, this forms part of their sense of identity. "For adoptees, these links are broken and, no matter how much they are loved by their adopted family, some still do not feel totally part of it. "In some, this sense of not belonging can lead to a feeling of alienation which can extend to community relationships. "We need to gain a better understanding of identity and its function for adoptees and the extent of the effects. "This is particularly important for welfare groups working with adopted people and for those involved in considering legislation in the area. "At present in WA, for example, adopted people cannot find out through the authorities who their birth parents are. "Yet our research with adoptees who found their parents through other sources shows that 99 per cent were pleased to have the mystery of their backgrounds solved and felt closer to their adopter, parents. Only one per cent regretted finding out."
From page 10 Years earlier he and his father had taken sister Mary there to let her see a bit of the world and to give her time to think over the desire to become a nun. Mary had enjoyed the trip but had returned more firmly convinced than ever that life as a religious was the only one for her.
Now Sister Emmanuelle of the Dominicans and still teaching at Morawa, she will celebrate her golden jubilee as a nun next year.
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Phil retired from the Hyden property and lived for five years in Nedlands with his cousin — Mrs Gerry Clune, daughter of Senator Paddy Lynch. He often visited friends at the home of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough and very much liked the atmosphere of the place, so one day he asked to be placed on the waiting list. Some time later, on a Sunday it was, he got a ring from Mother John to say accommodation had become available and when would he like to move in. She was somewhat taken aback when he replied straight away. "Today — on a Sunday?" she gasped, but quickly coped with the situation. When he arrived shortly afterwards Mother John and Sister Elizabeth greeted him and showed him to his quarters in St Bernard's ward where he spent six years before becoming one of the first occupants of the new accommodation at the home
band and two beautiful children. Her relationship with her husband is open and honest and she has missed the 'secret agony' haunting the many women who choose not to tell their husbands of their 'other child'. Mary believes no one person belongs to another and that is why the current adoption law rankles so much — because it dictates a child belongs exclusively to two people. But the biggest difficulty, she adds, is not the law — it is the policy. 'The reality is the policy is more repressive than the law," she says. "You can't fight the policy, you can only fight the law — and our greatest obstacle is the 'conspiracy of silence"... It is that 'conspiracy', says Mary which locks people into lives of cruel ignorance. It is a 'conspiracy' which allows people to live out a lifetime hoping to find the child they gave up so long ago — only to find their child had died many years before; it is a 'conspiracy' which allows people to believe their child is in the 'best possible care', --
only to find, many years too late, the child has grown up in a succession of foster homes after the adoptive family had broken up; it is a 'conspiracy' allowing people to live out their years in an agony of fear for the welfare of their child — perhaps never to discover the child had been nurtured and nourished in a warm and loving family environment it is a 'conspiracy' which allows a child to suffer because genetic medical knowledge is not readily available — it is a 'conspiracy', says Mary, and all those like her, which must be destroyed.
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DEATHS SKIPWORTH (SHEILA EDITH). John and family wish to sincerely THANK all relatives and friends, Priests and Religious, for cards, letters, flowers, phone calls, attendance at the Rosary, Requiem Mass and funeral, and personal expressions of sympathy in the sad loss of their dearly loved Wife and Mother on 24 October. Special thanks also to Dr Hossen, Doctors and Staff RPH and t he Silver Chain Nurses. Would all please accept this as our personal acknowledgement and gratitude for your kindness. LOWE Maude: The Lowe family sincerely THANK all relatives, priests, nuns, brothers, Legionaries and friends for their Masses, prayers and rosaries; the sisters and staff St John's Subiaco; also all who attended the Mass and funeral for their beloved Mother.
IN MEMORIAM DEVLIN Joseph Bernard: In loving remembrance of Bernie, passed away December 3, 1976. Joyce, Patricia, Peter, Elizabeth and their families. Rest in Peace. R YAN John Martin: Accidentally killed December 5. 1971. Beloved son of Frank (dec), Sheila, brother of Moya and Helen. We still miss you John. Dearest Mother Mary intercede for him.
THANKS 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 instances 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. This prayer must be said for three days. Published as promised in gratitude. Pat. 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 instances 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. This prayer must be said for three days after which the favour will be granted. The prayer must be published immediately. A and P. Most grateful thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Jude for many favours granted. May your names be praised throughout the world always. Rita.
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extreme right and left of which he accuses his Catholic brothers and sisters (The "Record- November 28) from SENATOR FRED I attended the recent Perth CHANEY, Canberra Social Justice Commission meeting at 450 Hay Street SIR: The latest statement Perth whichI very sincerely defending the Catholic Comhoped would be a day of mission for Justice and Peace uninhibited discussion on the is a puzzling piece of propaessential topics of true justice ganda. and correctly informed On the one hand Mr Sidoti national security, although speaks out against recent the advertisedspeakers could attempts to stifle discussion only be described as well to of social justice issues within the left of the political specthe Catholic Church. trum. On the other hand he says My experience was that after issuing 40,000 copies of fact truth and honesty were 'Work for a Just Peace" only subjected to selective and 13 individuals have been very partisan chairmanship negative about the document and one had to fight to be and two or three criticise it for heard and then fight to being too conservative. remain audible among peoIt appears it is Mr Sidoti who ple who would have been wants to stifle criticism of the very much at home in the commission of which he is notoriously left wing WA national secretary. Trades and Labor Council of As a public critic of some of whichIhave been a delegate the past work of the Catholic for about 20 years. Commission I throw back at Several Sundays previously it the accusation the the Perth commission chairresponse of the critics is one man Michael Megaw, who more commonly associated chaired this Sunday rneetng, with political extremists than was invited to defend "Work Christians. for a Just Peace- at a speIndeed I have found a cthlly convened meeting at lamentable lack of balance iii the Riverton parish, andIwas a number of publications put asked to prepare a critique. forward by the COMMISSIOC1 My critique was presented a nd a sad coincidence first between many of its asserMr Megaw's response tions and those of the anti- entirely ignored the factual democratic elements of the points made and concenLeft. trated purely on loving and I think the Catholic bishops serving Almighty God, a have a duty to ensure the subject not in question and commission better repres- which the writer had been ents the range of opinions endeavouring to achieve in all held within the Catholic com- his mature years. munity in Australia. That the CCJP is funded As one who has been from part of the intake from closely involved in both policy Project Compassion without development and administra- the laity having been initially tion in Aboriginal Affairs and informed IS reprehensible Social Security, I have greatly and no attempt to explain appreciated the support of the away this alleged over-sight Christian churches for Abo- will suffice. riginal aspirations and the If the CCJP claims to be a needs of the poor. worthy and necessary organBut it should be remem- isation it should attempt to bered that many of the spe- stand on its own feet and call cific remedies espoused by for donations towards its the Commission have pro- work. duced a great deal of turmoil, The prudential arguments unhappiness and failure. advanced by the CCJP in its It is no longer credible to document 'Work for a Just argue that poverty is best Peace - are childish and danrelieved by continually gerous to a genuine peace increasing the degree of and constructed only by leavgovernment,imposed redis- ing out entirely gigantic pietribution, without regard to ces of the strategic jigsaw social attitudes which create which combine to put poverty. together the intricate pattern For example, individual irres- of international relations. ponsibility within the family is The policy proposals are one of the major causes of naive and irrational and poverty in Australia which entirely contrary to the very needs to be addressed as a peace principles which this moral as well as a political body claims to support. problem. Having challenged without It is no longer credible to success, Senator Vallentine believe that peace will be to debate the question of achieved best by unilateral international security and acts which serve only to world peace on a suitable weaken the western alliance. public forum, may I, through I am sad to say that in the the auspices of this State's lack of balance of much of the Catholic publication, extend work of the commission, I see that challenge to Eric Sidoti more of the hand of the Left and Michael Megaw; the than the hand of God. chairman, to be a neutral person agreed upon by both parties.
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SIR: It is very sad and disturbing to see Eric Sidoti his few short months as national secretary of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, using the same deplorable tactics of disinformation and distortion of the truth, a tool of totalatBrian regimes of both the
SIR: Eric Sidoti claims that "the CCJP does not perceive legitimate criticism or even outright opposition as a problem." Casual observation confirms the truth of this statement and shows that specific and objective denunciation by Catholics of 'Work for a Just
Peace" is invariably answered in vague terms and coupled with suggestions that the Commission's Christian authorship is a superior and sufficient imprimatur for the views expressed. This irresponsible and tendentious attitude suggests that the commission intends to "tough out" objections from senior rank and file Catholics and pursue their main aim of getting the document into our schools where patience and persistence with innocent and trusting minds will be more rewarding. Some specific observations/objections I have towards the document and to which I invite specific response only, include: • in spite of the papal quotations, (P24,25) and others, (P26,27) clearly supporting multilateral disarmament only, the document recommends unilateral action! This is achieved by use of the words "independently if necessary." (P38). • while it's possible that certain forms of rpacifism" and "risk taking" (P27,28,31) may be valid Christian options, suicide, via the unilateral cisarmament proposals is no such Christian option. The clear lesson of World War II was that pacifism and appeasement led to war not peace! • the document justifies its pro-Soviet stance as being a form of compensation for past invasions of Russian territory, (P31) i.e., clear condonement for the sin of revenge! • the inconsistent use of a compact and unexplained code to describe the greater Soviet Pacific fleet (P36) has achieved the effect of suggesting to the casual observer that the Soviet fleet is smaller than that of the US!
Has read the report from Dudley CARR, Doubleview Sir, Contrary to Mr G.J. Daniell's observation (The Record November 21) I am one of the critics of 'Work For A Just Peace" who has read the document. He states that the document contains nearly 100 quotations but fails to mention that many of these are from previous publications issued by the CCJP. He also makes the ridiculous statement that critics have been "blinded by the fear of communism". Yes we are indeed fearful but our eyes are wide open. Does he realise that over half a million Afghans have been killed, and another two million made homeless, by the Russian communists in recent years?
They were not fortunate enough to have American protection or "nuclear targets" on their soil. Many other countries have suffered similar fates. Equally stupid is the statement in the document quoting Archbishop Hunthausen, USA, that if the worst happens and we are occupied by a totalitarian power, we must believe that nonviolent love will prevail as it did for three centuries of Roman persecution. I prefer the message from Pope Paul V1, "It is a crime to neglect to defend oneself" or from John Paul II, -Trust must be won with acts and facts." The CCJP publication shows a lack of integrity by saying that the Pine Gap and Nurrungar installations should be handed over to an International authority, while admitting their value to give the US early warning on the launch of a USSR missile. ft also states that the North West Cape facility should be closed because it contributes to the US first strike capacity. What is the use of having an early warning system without the capacity to defend? Page 34 of the CCJP document lists the nuclear tests carried out in the Pacific by US, Britain and France, but no mention was made of the Soviet missile tests in the Pacific Ocean between 1978 and 1984. Twenty four tests were carried out on 15 separate occasions, which amounts to a set of test firings every 6 months. This can be checked with another claim of "half truths which are at times nothing short of malicious". I challenge Mr Sidoti to explain why this information was deliberately omitted from the CCJP publication. The very thought of nuclear war is terrifying, but not to have Australia defended is an even worse thought. tt is time the bishops of Australia disbanded the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.
Covered tracks from MIKE MANSFIELD, Lesmurdie Sir, Eric Sidoti (The Record Novernber 21) again has tried W cover the CCJP's tracks but again he digs a bigger hole for that organisation. To suggest an orchestrated campaign is ridiculous when we can see such valid criticism coming from such a diverse cross section of our community. For the CCJP to suggest that their latest paper is for discussion purposes is ridiculous. Discussions usually, if not always, give all sides of the argument not just the left side as in this case.
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Tertiary talks on student mission First Seek the Kingdom will be a tertiary conference on student mission. Planning is well underway for the Australian conference of tertiary Christian students being held in Perth from January 7 to 12, 1986. The conference, which is on the theme, First Seek the Kingdom is co-sponsored by the Australian Tertiary Catholic Federation of Australia. The meeting is being hosted by WA and work began in March this year when the region elected eight members onto a planning committee. The conference will focus on student mission
This area was selected in response to a survey of TYCS and TCFA groups around Australia about students' concerns and interests, and hopes for the combined conference. Over the five days 120 representatives from all states will look closely at what it means to be a Christian tertiary student, aiming to develop a better understanding of student mission and responsibilities. The conference will explore the reality of student life, Australian society and the Church community and consider areas for action using Christ's life and teachings of the Kingdom as a student model.
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Annual Catholic Catholic Parish Youth Full Timer, Michael McAlister found that his first task in his new job was to help Julie Della Franca plan and organise this year's annual Catholic Youth Rally, The Rally is to be held a t the University Sunken Gardens next Saturday, December 14 at 7.15 pm and NOT 7.30 pm as previously advertised on this page.
Hundreds of people, both y oung and old are e xpected to participate. Posters have been sent to every parish and notices prepared for parish bulletins. It is the one event in the year when all the different youth groups and movements can come together to celebrate their common unity as Catholics.
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All participants in the 11985 Flame" weekend will take part in the youth rally. "Flame" is the second annual statewide Antioch convention to take place again at Aquinas
College on the same weekend as the youth rally. The weekend will be an experience of prayer, fellowship and scripture — for the 110 taking part.
Looking for assistants The Perth Young Christian Students movement is looking for people to assist with its local groups. YCS is a movement of secondary students which has been going for more than 50 years and exists in all parts of the world, It is centred in a concern for people and is recognised by the Vatican as a key lay apostolate movement. Currently there are 19 groups meeting in the metropolitan area and of these 15 are in need of assistants. An assistant can be anyone who has left school, and former involvement and knowledge of YCS is not necessary. The role of the assistant is generally to get to know the students in the
group and support and encourage them, and share with them experiences from their own life. It is a rewarding task for it means being in YCS with younger people, but not running it; believing in the group even when the students, and you, wonder if it is getting anywhere; and often being one of the few adults they can talk to. A commitment would involve attending a weekly meeting through the school year. There will be an assistants' afternoon on Sunday February 2 at the YCS office, 32 Claverton Street, North Perth. If you are interested, please contact me at the YCS office on 328 4071. MALCOLM DIX
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LIFE LIGHT University Sunken Gardens 7.15 pm — 9.00 pm Young & not so young from Perth, Geralthon 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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Last chance to enter our 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-
tions with age ranges You can send in as of 10 to 13, six to nine many entries as you and five to seven. like but do make sure Send your entry to that each is clearly R ecord Christmas named and marked Drawing Contest, 26 with your address. John St, Perth. You Try to be as imaginamust remember to tive as you can in depictinclude your full name, ing that best -loved age, address and phone number if you scene of Christmas, the Nativity. have one. Entries must be Winners will be notireceived at our office no fied by phone and all later than December 8, winning entries will be so make a start now. published in our
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HAVE YOUR SAY Keeping reality from Bishop Geoffrey MAYNE, Catholic Military Vicar. Sir, there is a necessity for Christians to assume a leadership role in the work for peace. However, in so doing, we must strive to keep in touch with reality. In everything concerning human relationships, we will be faced always with those who, disregarding the basic rights of man, are powerhungry, lustful, cruel and greedy, and who will propagate philosophies which pander to their distorted outlook. These philosophies will be scattered through with some truths and half-truths which will beguile and deceive the undiscerning. The anti-human travesty of
atheistic communism and the greedy exploitation and selfishness of the excesses of capitalism are obvious examples. The effects of godlessness and sin in our world are only too evident. This is why the bishops of the Catholic Church, in reflecting on the griefs and anxieties of today's world, among so many things, dealt with our yearnings for peace and the horrifying reality of war In the midst of these deliberations, they stated that governments cannot be denied the right to legitimate defence and have the duty to protect the welfare of thr. people entrusted to their cc
As that great apostle of true peace, Pope Paul VI said in January 1976: "Military disarmament, if it is not to constitute an unforgiveable error of impossible optimism, of blind naivete, of a tempting opportunity for others oppression, it has to be common and general. Disarmament is either for everyone, or it is a crime of neglecting to defend oneself" In these words, he was reinforcing the statements of the Vatican Council. Pope John Paul II, in January 1982, warned against "ideologies that hold out the prospect of a totally and permanently peaceful human society as easily attainable — such deceptive hopes lead straight to the false peace of totalitarian regimes.-
People may hold different ideas of how the common good is to be defended effectively. Individuals may choose to forego their fundamental right of defence, but they may not renounce their obligation to others. Governments must defend against armed aggression. A genuine contribution to the establishment of peace is being made today by those men and women of the Australian Defence Force who are pledged to the service of their country and their fellowcitizens. The Church recognises this fact by appointing a bishop and chaplains for the spiritual, religious and pastoral care of these men and women and their families who are deserving of special consideration.
The chaplains and I look upon it as an immense and overwhelming privilege to be able to love and serve those who are prepared to die, if necessary, so that we may continue to live in freedom and peace, however fragile it may be. We love and respect them because theirs is not just the carrying out of a job but the fulfilment of a very important vocation for which there is need in our time. Patriotism, loyalty and mutual concern are an integral part of our Christian tradition and are in true accord with a desire for genuine peace and justice Should they disappear from our land then we may well have surrendered our capacity to survive
A doubt dispelled from FATHER JIM O'BRIEN, Gosnells SIR. If there was any doubt about the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission being one-eyed that doubt has been dispelled by its national secretary The Record November 28. In his latest statement Mr &dot' stresses the danger arising from the presence of US bases in Australia. He says nothing about their possible value to our defence. Nothing at all. He stresses the Commission's close relationship to the bishops of Australia, its monitoring of government its reliance on sound information, its eagerness to
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Deceit as practised in the name of peace In a kind of way, history was made in Australia during the past month. The American embassy in Canberra took the hitherto unprecedented step of writing a strong sixpage letter protesting against a document on nuclear issues recently prepared and published by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP). When the latter body replied, the American embassy did not let the matter drop, but restated its position, developing its arguments further. The CCJP is obviously pleased that it has been taken so seriously by the United States. Whether the Catholic bishops who appoint its members and finance its activities to the extent of a quarter of a million dollars annually should congratulate themselves equally is another question. The Catholic commission's document, "Work for a just peace: reflections on peace-making in an armed world", simply falls into the category of the familiar attacks made by the extreme Left in Australia on the general Western policy of preparedness to meet a possible military attack by the Soviets. The CCJP covers itself by using a few mildly critical words against the Soviet Union. The impact of its whole statement, however as of all the CCJP's statements on these questions over the past decade, is anti-Western and particularly antiAmerican. On the present state of the nuclear question, it attacks President Reagan's policy of building an anti-missile defensive screen. It alleges that President Reagan's SDI (Strategic Defence Initiative) program is not aimed at defence but at offence. If SDI is not per-
Essentially fraudulent claims raise a question of elementary honesty POLITICS: a personal view by B.A. SANTAMARIA
missible, the only alternative is to continue the present policy of deterrence. Yet the statement itself clearly implies that deterrence itself is intrinsically immoral. If both SDI and nuclear deterrence are excluded what logically follows is that there is no acceptable policy other than unilateral disarmament, regardless of what the Soviet does: neither the Pope, nor even the American bishops. let alone the French, the German or the Italian bishops who have all made statements on this question, have adopted such a position. It has been adopted only by the Australian body. As far as Australia is concerned the statement supports the New Zealand position in fragmenting the ANZUS alliance, and demands that Australia should tell the US to take its installation at North-West Cape away unconditionally, as well as the installations at Pine Gap and Nurrungar unless the Americans hand their control over to an international authority, which, of course, they cannot possibly do. It is thus demanding that Australia leave ANZUS as well and follow the same kind of neutralist course as New Zealand. That is what the document means in theory and practice, despite all the hair-splitting. The document, of course, would not have excited any notice unless
it seemed to have the authority of the Catholic bishops behind it. The lay members of the commission are c ompletely unknown to the Catholic public who have never had any say in their appointment, although the Catholic public contributes the money which maintains them. It is fair to say that not one Catholic in 50,000 would even have heard their names. The document derives its authority from a single statement that it "has been approved for discussion and reflection by a more than twothirds majority vote of the Catholic bishops of Australia". On the authority of that "more than two-thirds of a majority vote", its contents have passed into the Catholic schools system, where it is presumably learnt by children on the basis of that authority. Any criticisms are immediately attacked as coming only from "extremists". In substance, that claim of approval by more than two-thirds of the bishops is fraudulent. When I put the question of whether two-thirds of the bishops had actually approved the statement to one bishop, he replied; "Contrary to the persistent claims by the CCJP and its supporters that two-thirds of the Australian bishops approved the 1985 statement of the CCJP, 'Work for a just peace',Iaffirm that this is not so, and I categorically deny that two-thirds of the Austral-
ian bishops gave a positive approval to such a statement." What happened was this. There are 44 Australian Catholic bishops. Twenty — which is less than half (let alone two-thirds) — voted for it, which is bad enough. One voted against it. Twenty-three did not vote at all. For a variety of reasons, they abstained. But since the supporters of the statement in the episcopal conference last May had pushed through a resolution that any bishop who had not replied, indicating his view of the statement, by July 30, should be recorded as a positive vote the claim was made that the statement was approved overwhelmingly. In the less august world of trade unionism, such a procedure would call for a court-controlled ballot. Since the CCJP has knowingly involved the vast mass of Catholics who maintain it, in an attack on Australia's relationships with the US, since children in Catholic schools are to be brainwashed with this policy on the fraudulent claim that it is supported by more than t wo-thirds of the bishops, it becomes inevitable that a further issue must be raised. The people who, each Lent, contribute more than $2 million to Project Compassion, the Catholic Lenten collection for overseas relief, do so in the belief they are helping the poor. I have heard that
claim made from several pulpits. A quarter of a million dollars of that money goes to maintain the CCJP, an expenditure which has no relationship whatsoever with helping the poor. Other quite dubious expenditures are made: for instance in relation to certain projects run by the Cambodian Government. Surely there is a question of elementary honesty in this, as there is in making essentially fraudulent claims as to the number of bishops who voted for the statement, as distinct from abstaining. Two years ago, when a group of Catholic parents protested to Cardinal Gagnon, now president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, at the widespread disobedience in Catholic schools to the norms established by Pope John Paul II in the matter of sex instruction, the cardinal referred to the obligation of the ordinary faithful to ensure obedience. "They can say," Cardinal Gagnon reportedly said, "we are not going to give one more cent to the parish or the Church until they obey. And they can give their money to other places that are genuinely Catholic, genuinely obedient to the teachings of the Holy See" (Christian Order October, 1985.) It is a desperate situation. But when — despite repeated, fruitless representations — the authority of the bishops is finally used to attack the security of Australia, desperate ills call for desperate remedies.
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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
On the 'inside' looking out
A Woman in Custody, by Audrey Peckham, published by Fontana, $9.95. Reviewed by Roslyn R oss.
One moment Audrey Peckham was a successful teacher, deputy headmistress of a Gloucestershire comprehensive school . . . the next she was in prison on a charge of "incitement to murder." How did it happen? The full answer is not forthcoming and after reading this book, one suspects, that this is the question which Audrey Peckham is still too frightened to ask herself What she does do, however, is to draw on her own experiences, and those of her fellow inmates, to describe the months she spent on remand and her time in Styal Prison. A Woman in Custody provides a fascinating and thought-provoking insight
A woman in custody into a world which, thankfully, few of us will experience and a world, which unfortunatly most of us are much too ignorant about. Seen through the eyes of a sensitive, educated and thoughtful woman, this firsthand and graphic description of the effects of the remand and prison system on people, and on women in particular, comes at a time when the effectiveness of prison is increasingly being questioned. Audrey Peckham ends her book with the words: "This therefore is my testimony against the remand system as it operates in the England of the 1980's. I call upon all men and women to think about and to feel within themselves the evil of this system within our society, and to stand with me and say: 'This wrong we will no
longer tolerate, this evil we will no longer condone, this inhumanity we will no longer support. These are our fellow creatures, more in need of our compassion than most, and more in need of the protection of the law than of its punishment. And until they are found guilty by the due process of law, let them no longer be treated worse than the convicted criminals in our prisons." The essence of her campaign is based on the fact that for her, remand when in law she was at best innocent, at worst not proven guilty was infinitely worse than anything she endured in prison when convicted ' I want to make people aware of the conditions that exist in remand centres, because only when people are aware can they be indignant, and only when a large
Better understanding of ourselves Understanding Jung, Understanding Yourself, by Peter O'Connor, published by Methuen, Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. This is Peter O'Connor's third book — the others are Mirror on Marriage (1972) and Understanding the MidLife Crisis (1981). A psychotherapist with a private practice in Melbourne, Dr O'Connor was formerly director of counselling at the Marriage Guidance Council. Victoria, and spent a year as clinical associate at the Tavistock Centre, London. In this, the first introduction to Jung which relates his theories to our everyday lives, Dr O'Connor offers valuable psychological insight which can be used by each and every one of us, not only to understand ourselves, but to better understand those who share our life. Sigmund Freud spoke to the generations who experienced the anxiety of sexual guilt and repression. . . and
it is worth noting that mans of his theories have sadly dated with the years. Not so with Jung. for his wisdom is ageless and his words continue to speak to our generation and to those who seek self-knowledge and a deeper understanding of life. Understanding Jung. Understanding Yourself out lines Jung's theories and how we experience them in our personal relationships, marriages and dreams. It describes Jung's eight psychological types and his thinking on the Self, alchemy, archetypes and the collective unconscious. Dr O'Connor has taken Jung's message and put it into a form, both clear and simple, which speaks readily to all who read it. For all those who are interested in psychology and yet believe it to be too 'heavyweight' and 'complex', this is the book for you. It is a must for anyone who wishes to gain insight into Jung and their own psyche and provides appetising food for thought for all those who
wish to probe the depths of the human mind.
Dr O'Connor's chapter on marriage (which needs to be read in the context of the two chapters which precede it) is especially thought provoking as he discusses the elements which draw us together and those which pull us apart. Marriage, he says, has two faces. In every marriage there is both a conscious marriage and an unconscious marriage. "The unconscious marriage is personified — and I stress personified, not
entirely described — by the Jungian concepts of anima and animus, that is the marriage, or as it so often happens, the non-marriage, between the unconscious feminine side of a man and the unconscious masculine side of a woman with their own Conscious Self" Dr O'Connor goes on to say that it is this inner courtship that brings about the manifestations or conscious difficulties between marriage partners. "If marital problems were simply at the level of the conscious marriage, the outside or extrovert or exoteric marriage, then I believe information would cure them," he said. "The reality is that marital difficulties persist in spite of and despite the most honourable conscious intention of the marriage partners themselves. It is the unconscious esoteric marriage that causes conflict and ultimately brings about divorce. "It seems to me that in this last half of the present century we are dominated by
technological and extroverted views and therefore project the inner face onto the outer world and perpetuate the mistake of science in assuming that only the outside marriage is the real marriage."
number of people are indignant do the politicians respond. . . and actually do something. "As a convicted prisoner. I was treated like a human being; on remand, when in the eyes of the law I was still innocent, I was treated like an animal. As a prisoner I was trusted, as an innocent, I was not." And what was it that put Audrey Peckham in gaol? In her ow-n words she had once had everything: "a marvellous family, a successful career, a lovely home in the Gloucestershire countryside, money, holidays abroad, a car of my own." She had risen rapidly to become deputy headmistress of a large school, but behind the appearance of normality her emotional life was in turmoil. There had been stresses: a hysterectomy, the death of her parents, her children leaving home, the mid-life crisis of identity and purpose. And yet, she insists with brutal honesty, "there must have been something more, as these things are
faced by most people and they do not end up in prison." The escape from stress that she chose was "utterly banal and trite." She had an affair. It went wrong, and when in August 1981 another woman took her place, she went downhill with increasing rapidity." Nothing eased the pain. Finally, Audrey Peckham decided that if ony she could do something positive to -remove the other woman from the scene" would she win her lover back_ "It began to seem that all I had to do was to engineer a little violence and she would go," she said. She insists to this day that she meant the woman no serious harm. But the detective she tried to hire to engineer the violence believed she meant murder. He went to the police, who set a trap. It was at that point that Audrey Peckham began her journey into hell and it is at that point that she begins her book. A Woman in Custody-.
New mass book a useful guide
Dr O'Connor says the proliferation of how-to-do-it marriage and sex manuals which pervade our bookstores are a reflection of this 'technological' view of marriage. Such books, he adds. reflect man's naive and religious belief in the power of rational information. "Such is the level of nonsense it seems to me that the extroverted and exoteric view in being pursued to its limits produces!" he said "Behind all this technology, behind all this information, is in my opinion, the childish hope that one can acquire the solutions to life without the pain of understanding. As Jung once stated in his only written work on marriage: 'There is no birth of consciousness without pain.'"
ew titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new title The Conservative Party from Peel To Thatcher, published by Fontanta, $11.95. Lord Blakes's The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill was first published, to great acclaim, in 1970. It is still the unrivalled history of the party during that period, but he has now brought it up to date to take account of events during the leaderships of Eden, Macmillan, Home, Heath and Thatcher. The whole book is based on a lifetime's study of the published sources; but new, substantial chapters also draw on private information and personal knowledge of the people
concerned. Blake's highly readable book analyses the party's policies, management and changing fortunes. and includes shrewd judgements of the leaders, their party workers and supporters. Tidal Race, by George Foy, published by Fontana, $5.95. A gripping, fast-paced thriller set in the tough world of the New England fishing communities and along the New York waterfront. Lars Larsen is a fisherman with a shady past. But when he starts to enquire into the suspicious death of his best friend he encounters a brutally violent
response from 'the Organisation', who see Larsen as a real threat to their ambitions.
Blue Above the Chimneys, by Christine Fraser, published by Fontana, $5.95.
Decisions, by Freda Bright, published by Fontana, $6.95. Dasha and Jordan had one of those marriages everyone envied. And when Dasha returned to law school it was Jordan who was right behind her — even more so when she was asked to join the city's top law firm. That was, until her career began to outstrip his own. As Dasha awaits the court's verdict in the most critical case of her career, she is preparing to make the most difficult decision of her life. . ,
This is Christine Marion Fraser's autobiographical account of her life as a child in the Govan district of Glasgow during the 1950's. Born into a large, poor family, she was raised in Glasgow tenements where for the first years of her life she was the terror of the neighbourhood. Her days of freedom as a little street urchin tragically ended at the age of ten when she contracted a rare bone disease which led to months in hospital and left her permanently confined to a wheel-
chair. But none of this spoiled her warm personality and huge sense of humour. She takes us from backcourts to hospital wards bringing to life not only her immediate family but also the whole small world in which she grew up. The Journals, by Arnold Bennett, publishedby Penguin, $12.95. The journals of a man fondly remembered as one of the kindest and most symphathetic literary figures in London Filled with his impressions of contemporary writers, they form an illuminating portrait of a sensitive author.
St Joseph's Mass Book. A they can follow and underMass Book for Mentally stand the celebration. Handicapped Adults, by 'An ideal gift for those Sr. Stephanie Clifford, receiving the sacraments. publishedby Collins Litur- 'Useful guide to parents. friends and catechists in gical, $1.95. helping to prepare the menThe presentation and layout tally handicapped person for of this Mass Book seek to the eucharist. recognise and enhance the 'Large print, easy to read dignity of the adult mentally key texts. handicapped person by proSr Stephanie Clifford has viding a Mass Book that wide experience with the looks similar to those used handicapped. She is particuby other people at Mass. larly involved with mentally Key texts of the liturgy in handicapped adults, based at large print enable those who the St Joseph Pastoral Cenmay have impaired eyesight tre for the Handicapped in or language problems to feel the Westminster Diocese.
The Redord, December 5
1985
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Greyhounds with The Record Tipster
WHAT'S ON
(DOGS' cHANCE...) RACE ONE: Apricot Rose 1, Icy Trella 2, Pacific Hope 3. RACE TWO: Geida Boy 1, Deon's Delight 2, Alckabar 3. RACE THREE: Shirley's Rose 1, Royal Dyna 2, Temlock's Star 3. RACE FOUR: Black Anchor 1, Egyptian Dancer 2, Souchong 3. RACE FIVE: Dangerous Adios 1, Tidi Level 2, Candle Lock 3.
COOKBOOK An ideal Christmas present, the new mission cookbook compiled by the Sydney's Ladies Auxiliary of the Jesuit Missions to India — and contains recipes by Sydney restauranteurs and other well known identities — also interesting short history of the mission. Price $10. Anyone interested pleasf. contact Mrs J. Davidson on 386 5877 or Mrs P. Ourack of 384 5867.
RACE SIX: Curo's Gem 1, Lady Temlock 2, Brass Razoo 3. RACE SEVEN: Mullaloo Magic 1, Coogee Wave 2, Major Blitz 3. RACE EIGHT: Formula Balance 1, Dapper Flapper 2, Ack Willy 3. RACE NINE: Dingaan Gold 1, The Mouse 2, Mach One 3. RACE TEN: Maserati 1, Zulu Bandit 2, Carole Ann 3.
BENEDICTINE OBLATES The Christmas gathering of the Oblates of St Gregory's chapter will be held at the Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth, at 2 pm on Sunday, December 15. Ladies are asked to bring a plate of refreshments for the Christmas party that will follow the usual business and prayers. Enquiries to Adrienne Byrne 381 1180 or Joan Simpson 444 9305.
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C ARLTON HOTEL with good old-fashioned hospitality country -style accommodation at most affordable tariff $18 b & b Double/Twin $32
BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Father Stefano Gobbi of the Marian Movement of Priests will celebrate Mass at the Grotto of the Virgin of the Revelation at Bullsbrook on Saturday. December 14 at 10.30 am. For bus reservations please ring P. Galea (Perth bus) on 349 7135 and L. Martinz (Highgate bus) on 328 4631.
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Multicultural Christmas Carols Concert Friday, December 20 Grounds of St Mary's Cathedral Victoria Square.
Carols sung by the following ethnic groups: Vietnamese, Chilean, East Timorese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Croatian Organised by: The Catholic Migrant Centre 29 Victoria Square, Perth 6000.
Father John Orsanski (rigig) did not have to guess the day Red Riding Hood called on Grandma. He picked the day: September 27! and it was guesssed correctly by C.D. Monte, 185 Reynolds Road, Mt Pleasant after Mary Kinsey (left), president of the Cathedral Senior Citizens, made the doll and then sold365 guesses to raise funds that go towards St Mary's Cathedral A seminar sponsored by the WA Catholic Social Welfare Commission Adoption Sub-Committee will be held at the Commission Conference room, 459 Hay Street, Perth on December 16 from 2-4 pm. The seminar will deal with post-adoption services in North America and implications for the establishment of a Catholic Adoption Agency. The speaker will be Margaret van Keppel who attended a post -Legal Adoption Service Conference in the USA in October.
BURMESE MASS Father Joseph Them Aung Nicholas of Minor Seminary Lashio, Burma will celebrate Mass, for the Burmese community, at St Gerard's Church, cnr Ravenswood Drive and Majella Road, Mirrabooka; on December 15 at 11am. After mass there will be a gathering at the parish hall. Please bring a plate. Coffee, Tea will be provided.
ST PETER'S SCHOOL BEDFORD To celebrate the inaugural presentation of SCHOLARSHIPS to honour
LEGION MEETING Fremantle Curia meets on the second Sunday of each month at 2pm in the foyer of St Patrick's Memorial Hall, Party Street. Legion meetings continue over the holiday period.
MRS NOELA SMITH (retired school secretary and servant extraordinaire) and
Mr W.K. (BILL) SHERIDAN
(long serving chairman, treasurer of the school board) Past students, parents, staff and friends are most warmly invited to the school's
Christmas Party For newt), arrived refugees
Thursday, December 19
FINAL PRESENTATION Assembly and then to a
BUFFET LUNCHEON at the school on
"Jesus, Mary and Joseph were refugees, as they
Thursday, Dec 12 at 11 am To register your attendance and for more details about this nostalgic occasion please ring 271 2896 between 8.30 am and 4 pm on weekdays.
fled to Egypt — Today the refugees flee the evil of modern day Herods." We would like to make their first Christmas in Australia a memorable one. Can you help with: Food, Presents, Toys, Finances Ring or contact Marion or Gerald at Catholic Migrant Centre, 29 Victoria Square, Phone 325 6644.
La Salle College La Salle Avenue. Midland. Western Australia 6056. Telephone: 274 1137. 274 4758.
ANNUAL BALL Saturday, December 14 PERTH FUNCTION CENTRE 8pm - lam Open to friends of the College and ex-students * Tickets: $23 * Excellent buffet * Alcoholic & non-alcoholic beverages included. Tickets from the College or Mrs Dorothy Mills 296 4468 16 The Record, December 5 — 11, 1985
Acolytes of Our Lady of the Mission, Whitfords, held a weekend retreat at New Norcia lasting from Sunday night through to Sunday afternoon with talks by Father Michael Cave (centre). The group joined in the prayer sessions of the Benedictine community.
Why not include a Pilgrimage in your itinerary?
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PILGRIMAGES
Starting and ending in London every week from April until October
LOURDES, ROME, FATIMA
For details write to
ST. PETER'S PILGRIMS
C/o Mrs. Ann Beard, 36 Ricketts Way, Rockingham. I W A. 6168. Tel. 27 4003