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The Extraordinary Synod that closed here on Sunday was a remarkable experience and devoid of any conflict. This was the view of Archbishop Rush of Brisbane at the end of the Mass concluding the Synod at which he
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was Australia's representative. Twenty years ago he had attended all four sessions of Vatican H in the years 196265. "The media were disappointed in their prediction that the synod would be divided on the key issues, including Liberation Theology which was discussed quite openly and on which there was no disunity. "In fact there was a real bond of affection between us over the two weeks. It was a remarkable experience and what has been achieved is nothing short of breathtaking." Archbishop Rush spoke on the Wednesday afternoon of the first week in a procession of speakers that included 168 representatives all being given a limit of eight minutes.
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"By listening to each other in a spirit of brotherhood this synod has endeavoured to bring about such changes. "Any pessimism that may have been aired by individuals or the media appears to have been unjustified. The synod was a success." Archbishop Rush felt as a result of the synod there would be a return to the study of the documents of Vatican H and an extensive preparation for the synod of the laity in 1987. At a packed Press conference after the synod this week, a Colombian cardinal summed up liberation theology when he said: "When I see a church with a machine gun I cannot see the crucified Christ in that church."
The 25th anniversary of the East Victoria Park Church of Our Lady Help of Christians owed a debt to those who had shaped the past but turned the minds of the present generation to its f uture responsibilities, Bishop Healy said last Sunday. Speaking at a Mass to mark t he silver jubilee of the church and the golden jubilee of the parish and school, he said the East Victoria Park community had built not only buildings but the Body of Christ.
Debt to past But, he said, buildings were only a means to an end, to the preaching of the Good News. The present generation had to be faithful to the people who had given the present generation the benefit of the new church opened during the time of the late Mons. O'Connor. "We have an obligation as members of society to be seen and heard and to make
an impression on society, he said. It was a society changing rapidly Many people in the Church have not been accustomed to change and have not assumed their responsibility to play a more active role as lay people "We have to adapt ourselves to change Our methods and ways of doing things must change,- he said.
What is a priest
"I came to find out what sort of people priests were, and if I was capable of doing that sort of work." That is why 17 year old Shaun Hopkins from Hamersley attended the fifteenth Enquiry Day in the six year history of St Charles Vocational Residence. He was one of eight young Perth men who travelled to Guildford for open questions, sharing and Eucharist. They were welcomed by a few priests of the diocese, five residents of St Charles and seven seminarians from Adelaide. "I found out that people have experienced the same things as! have," said Shaun Hopkins. "And I am more suited to being a priest thanI thought I was.
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"Priests do not have to be superhuman, they're just normal people." St Norbert's student, Glen Brown and Danny O'Connor from Mazenod College both enter year 12 in 1986. Danny was attracted to the Enquiry Day by a "searching but simple" poster at school which read, "Me a priest, how would I know?" "Just by being together and hearing different views on being a priest, you can get in on the experience," Danny said. "That develops you more than any book can." Glen said his knowledge of what priesthood meant had widened "It encompasses growing in friendship with people and God," he said. Paul Gsodam from Morley
has just completed his TAE and looks forward to studying biology next year. He came "out of interest" and enjoyed the group discussion. Michael Rowe from Highgate parish and David Hughes of Attadale have also just finished their TAE. Michael, who hopes to study either engineering or metallurgy, said he gained valuable information from the day. Others to attend were 25 year old George Talcach De Duka, a trainee engine driver from Glen Forrest, and Richard Saviel from the Highgate parish. For new vocations director, Father Justin Bianchini, it was his first experience of a St Charles Enquiry Day. In his homily he said the best way of finding out if one should be a priest was by "regularly being in tune with God". "When we pray we find out what God wants and not what we want," he said.
Bishops defend stance
Homes' new bus kept busy Residents of the Joseph Cooke Hostel at Rossmoyne, were hosts to 200 residents of the Knights of the Southern Cross aged care associations Southern Cross Homes Inc. and Villa Pelletier Inc. on Thursday, December 5. Southern Cross Homes new bus was kept busy on a shuttle service between the B.F. Prindiville Village North Perth, Taylor-Dallimore Village Embleton and Mount St Camillus Nursing Home at Forrestfield. Help was still needed for transportation because of the number of disabled people, their wheel chairs and frames so volunteer drivers from Two Pines Nursing Home Maylands helped out as did Catholic Homes for the Aged by providing their bus to ferry the residents from Villa Pelletier.
SYDNEY: The Australian bishops have told Federal members of parliament their stance on abortion is not anti-woman.
The afternoon started with drinks and picks being served under the new pergola at the hostel. The pergola had been finished only the day before thanks to the herculean effort by the volunteer labour in painting the timber and laying the bricks.
In a letter asking for the unborn to be protected in the Australian Bill of Rights they refer to their statement on abortion in 1980 saying that for all the Church's passionate concern for the unborn, it is equally one of understanding and compassion for the pregnant woman.
The volunteers were residents of the Thomas Perrott Village home units organised by Allan Aitken and George Collopy. After drinks all residents were seated in the dining room and served a Christmas fare with tea or coffee. Father Kearney from the Pallotine Centre started proceedings, with a prayer and Mrs Carr and her volunteer musical group took positions for the afternoon's entertainment. Mrs Thelma Rowe administrative officer for Southern Cross Homes welcomed all residents and introduced the hosts for the day, Mrs Mattocks the hostel supervisor and her team of staff, residents and volunteers who had worked for days to decorate the hostel.
"It takes great moral cour age to go on with an experience of such magnitude as pregnancy and childbirth when, all around, social pressures are urging to her to end it," says the 1980 document. "Insistent voices allege it is a small thing to get rid of the new life in one's womb. "In such a climate, bishops would be straying far from the preaching and the spirit of Christ if they were judgemental or censorious or harsh: if they simply proclaimed the rights of the child and ignored the pressures on the mother. "The Church in the different states offers a variety of pregnancy-support services. "We hope to see these increasingly integrated with adoption services. 'We will never rest content with the Church's effort in this whole field until every pregnant woman — married or single — can readily obtain all the professional and practical assistance, and all human companionship and encouragment, which she needs to help her have her baby," the letter said.
Carol singing followed with homes residents, Bill Tarrant, Helena McAnuff, Kath Longton, Eva Ainsworth helping the spirit of the day by joining in with the band.
Southern Cross Homes chairman Mr Tom Perrott obviously enjoyed drawing a winner for the Homes Christmas party last week, assisted by Miss Heather Mattocks, receptionist at the Thomas Cooke Hostel where the party was held.
Bishops lobby parliamentarians CANBERRA: The Australian bishops have written to every Australian Federal member of parliament saying that human dignity and the human rights of every human being without exception are non-negotiable politically. The bishops want the parliamentarians to support the life of every Australian from conception to the grave. They want the Australian Bill of Rights to provide
DUBLIN: The sense of justice, deep generosity and passion for peace felt by young people today were applauded by a recent pastoral letter from the Bishops of Ireland. "The Young Church: God's gift in your care" was launched to mark International Youth Year, and is unusual in that it was written not by the bishops themselves but by a group of diocesan youth chaplains.
Dignity human right... explicit protection for the unborn. "We believe in the human rights to dignity and life of every human being: not only the influential, . the politically organised, the fullydeveloped; but also the weak, the unwanted and the undeveloped. Many categories of human being are victims of injustice. "We identify ourselves and our Church with the just claims of all such individuals and groups suffering injustice. "But the unborn have not attained that sort of consciousness, and powerful
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lobbies attack every suggestion that their lives and dignities be protected. "We therefore raise our voices for them. They are not Catholic or Protestant or Jewish: they are simply helpless lives at the mercy of the good will and compassion of others. "The human foetus is a human being. Once the marvel, the irreversible marvel of human conception has occurred, the new life is truly human. "It is providential that, just when the attack on the unborn child's right to life is gathering momentum, recent scientific research should illustrate so clearly that the foetus is indeed a new separate human individual. "Television viewers have seen for themselves the development of the new, separate individual from immediately after conception. This evidence is so telling, and becoming so widely recognised, that proabortionists have been shifting their ground.
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Bullsbrook Statement In view of recent press publicity given to a Catholic church being built at Bullsbrook near a shrine to Our Lady, Archbishop Foley on Wednesday released the following statement: Permission has been given for a branch of an association called SACRI to be formed in Perth archdiocese. The association has been given permission to build a church in Our Lady's honour on land donated for this purpose. Some provision was made for the possible use of the church by the local Catholic community. The SACRI association was founded in Italy following reported apparitions to an Italian layman Bruno Comacchiola, which commenced some thirty years ago. The location of the reported apparition is Tre Fontane on the outskirts of Rome. Many happenings of an extraordinary nature as well as further apparitions have been reported. The Roman authorities have given no formal approval to the apparitions or to the devotion to Our Lady which has been fostered under the title of Our Lady of R evelation. There is however regular contact maintained between the group at Tre Fontane and the R oman authorities. As Catholics, though we know miracles and apparitions are possible, we should seek to foster our devotion to Our Lady with solid piety, recognising her important place in God's plan of salvation.
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should be during adolescence, that is between 12 and 18, with each bishop ruling for his own diocese. E E r---1DUBLIN: The practice of lighting L_Icandles in churches is expected to be reviewed by the Irish bishops following the award by the Irish High Court of f74,345 in damages to 11 -year -old Maria Janette Rooney who successfully sued her parish priest after she burned her arm and shoulder while lighting a candle in her local church when she was nine years old and her sleeve caught fire as she reached across the other 7 E E candles.
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BOGOTA, (NC) — The Latin American Jewish community "has a better understanding" of the Catholic Church because of a new approach to interreligious relations, according to a Colombian church official. "Errors regarding the Jewish people" are also being corrected, said Father Guillermo Melguizo, secretary general of the Colombian bishops' conference.
Father Melguizo spoke at a fourday interfaith conference in Bogota designed to improve relation.s between Catholics and Jews in predominately Catholic Latin America. Sixty bishops and rabbis E E attended the August sessions, Nigerian bishops have called L_J for the restoration of the role of the organised by the Latin American Church in Nigerian education. bishops' conference, the Latin In a letter to mark the twenty-fifth American Jewish Congress and anniversary of independence from Britain, the Anti-Defamation League of the bishops also called for more aid for the B'nai B'rith. and rural in areas, especially Nigeria, of poor more tolerance of diversity. Before the Second Vatican The bishops criticised tribalism, nepotism, Council, Catholic-Jewish relations and religious and social discrimination. tended to be strained, Father Nigeria's Catholic schools were nationaMelguizo said. lised during the civil war with Biafra in the However, the situa1960s. tion has improved as a result of interfaith dialogue, he said. Now, he said, "more VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Catholic Church in India has us than divides unites a "duty" to evangelise. Pope John Paul ll told a group of have a common We us. Indian bishops. patrimony which is The bishops, the pope said. "have the supreme duty of making known the Gospel message of salvation." That also the Bible and, more applies to the Church community, he said. specifically, the Old "Your people have strong Christian convictions and Testament." traditions. They have a developed sense of their Christian
Duties to aid poor VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II said wealthy countries have a duty to aid poor nations, even when the recipients misuse the aid. He also said developing countries should not be forced to adopt the economic or social models of donor nations. The pope, speaking at a symposium on the church and economics said industrial nations risk falling into a "collective egoism" if they regard developing countries in purely economic terms. The pope said justice is k ey to a Christian understanding of economic r elationships between rich and poor countries. -
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identity," the pope said. "Yet in the face of the many challenges which the Church faces as it approaches the end of the second millennium, there exists a great need for a sustained effort to evangelise and catechise the faithful, especially the young," he said. Because evangelisers must confront new social and cultural situations in India, they "cannot be content with the methods of the past alone," the pope said. They should reshape the means of evangelisation, without altering its content, he said.
Father Melguizo said that as part of a new approach to interfaith relations, rabbis in some countries teach classes in Catholic schools, while priests meet regularly with Jewish groups. Delegates at the meeting also discussed teaching Judaism and Catholicism in schools.
Bishops live with Malay fishermen
KUALA LUMPUR: Three Malaysian Bishops made the unusual choice of living with Malay farmers and fishermen for five days. Bishops James Chan and A. Selvanayagam lived in a village near Kuantan while Archbishop Soter Fernandez stayed with Kelantan villagers. This "exposure-immersion" programme was organised so that they could live in poverty and see the world with the eyes of the poor
German cardinal urges solidarity sign BERLIN (NC) — Christians should support land reform, arms cuts and increased development as a sign of solidarity with the hungry nations of the Third World, West Cardinal German Joseph Hoffner of Cologne has said. In Latin America, land reform should include abolishing large estates, without giving market-value compensation to the landowners, the cardinal said. "Abolishing the structure of large estates and small urgently is holdings needed," the cardinal said. Compensating owners on the basis of the value of their
Supporting land reforms holdings -will not be possible, nor is it stipulated by Catholic social teaching," he said. "If soldiers are expected to risk their lives without compensation for the good of all, then landowners can certainly be expected to surrender their property holdings for compensation that is in keeping with the prevailing circumstances," the cardinal, a member of two departments that oversee Vatican economics, said
The cardinal also urged: • expanding aid and trade between rich nations and developing countries. • abolishing economic protectionism. • cutting arms use "drastically" to free funds for international aid. • increasing arable land in developing countries • keeping aid programs to small scale, labour-intensive activities rather than "prestigious large-scale projects."
"People in the affluent be should countries shocked and dismayed about the fact that, of the 4.8 billion human beings who populate the earth today. one billion are either undernourished or suffering from hunger," he said. "The hungry nations in the Third World are waiting for a sign, particularly from Christians," he said. The Christian response should be a "solidarity' emphasising individual dignity and social responsibility, he added. He cited the Church teaching of the common ownership of worldly goods.
The Bishops are already familiar with poverty among Chinese and Indians, so they made the bold move of living among Muslim Malays. The experience made them more aware of the hospitality of Malay- villagers, the simplicity of their Ilk. style, their lack of envy or jealousy, lack of anxiety for the future, sense of togetherness, their shrewdness in analysing their poverty, the great influence of PAS (an Islamic Party) and the possibility of dialogue with the Muslims. The Bishops are concerned that priests and Muslims will not misinterpret their action. Instead they want to encourage: • all priests to pay more attention to possibilities of dialogue with Muslims, especially Muslim poor. • lay people to "reach out" to Muslims and dialogue with them. • the possibility of dialogue not only with Islam, but with all other religions as part of the pastoral approach of the church.
Marcos would lose bishops
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MANILA: If non-violent opposition groups in the Philippines would unite behind one candidate in a fair election, President Ferdinand Marcos would lose, say rik,o Filipino bishops. "There's no dearth of leaders, although aging ones, among the opposition," said Archbishop Jesus Dosado of Osamiz. "All have their programs, but it would be better for the country to try (just) one of them. One of them could win a fair election. "If the opposition could only agree on one candidate to nm against the president, then I am certain that Ethiopia. in northern people the meets Texas, diocese, uston of Galveston-Ho Marcos will go down," said Bishop Bishop McCarthy run n distributio of food a and centre war civil of the Federico Escaler, head of the Ipil • line front in the is The village of Hagaz Prelature. However, he added, if the by Catholic Relief Services. opposition cannot agree on a candir. I
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My meetings with Religious have offered me the occasion to explain my own ministry. As prefect of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, I am at the service of the Holy Father for whatever concerns the consecrated life. I look upon my work as a three-fold ministry: a ministry of deepening the understanding and appreciation of the religious life, a ministry of helping Religious to a more profound living of their ideal through conversion, and a ministry of contributing to the celebration of religious life in joy and
praise. The Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes serves the Holy See in its worldwide responsibility for the religious life. The Holy Father, both by his word and example, encourages those who serve in the Curia to have a firsthand knowledge of the world's differing situations with their attendant problems and opportunities. The Catholic Church in the United States, with over 50
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Dosado Archbishop emphasised fair elections In my area the last election was a joke," said Archbishop Dosado. "There was buying of votes before and during the election and changing of results afterwards." Bishop Escaler and Archbishop Dosado. believe Marcos cannot win the election because of the abuses and corruption associated with his government. "It's too late for Marcos himself." said Archbishop Dosado, who spoke of upheaval in the nation's economic and political life. The problems. he said, "didn't happen last week or last year. They've been going on in earnest from 1976 onwards. That's when Marcos should have done something." Bishop Escaler predicts an election campaign will centre on a number of different issues.
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VILNIUS, (Lithuania): The June amnesty release of the unrecognised Catholic priest, Father Jonas Matulionis was short lived when KGB men came and took him away for questioning about being an unregistered priest and organising a demonstration. The "demonstration" was the reception given him at St Michael's church where he had served as a pastoral assistant before his three year sentence imposed in January 1985. He had to be classified as a pastoral worker because the authorities would not register his ordination to the priesthood. He was sentenced for organising a procession while impersonating a priest. Father Matulionis was ordained after attending a secret seminary backed by the Lithuanian hierarchy. Parishes are being they if threatened employ these so-called imposter priests. In June an amnesty was declared for some prisoners in labour camps to mark the 40th anniversary of the Soviety victory in 1945 and protests secured the release of Father Matulionis. Some observers think he may have been released in the amnesty by mistake. — Keston News
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Carmel was the only songwriter from Western Australia participating in the section. The Pater Award is made for professional excellence in the broadcast arts and sciences. It is an annual award. It may not be an annual event for Carmel Charlton but it is one that is welcome at any time. A self-taught guitarist, Carmel now earns her living by teaching guitar and is also studying music at the Western Australian Conservatorium. She recently completed the first year of a two year course — an Associate Diploma of Performing Arts (Music) specialising in classical guitar. Born in Cunderdin, she studied the piano from the age of eight and says she has always loved music. She was educated at the Presentation Convent in Wyalkatchem and then at lona College, at Mosman Park. But singing was always her greatest love and when she left school and found herself in possession of a guitar she realised she had some very portable music in her hands. But they were the days of learning and while music may "soothe the savage breast", it certainly doesn't feed it. Young Carmel found herself jobhunting and subsequently worked in the Tammin Shire Council office for a time before moving to Perth with her f amily and working in a number of music stores. When she finally became proficient on the guitar she began to teach . . . that was about 14 years ago.
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For Carmel Charlton, guitarist and songwriter, the music is what really matters — but recognition doesn't go astray. Such recognition may come rarely, but when it does, she is delighted. Like the recent Pater Award, which was presented to her in Melbourne last month in the section Best Anthem to Peace, Sport, Life.
Two keynote speakers have been chosen for the 1986 charismatic conference "Come to Me" to be held at the Perth Concert Hall on January 3-5. They are Father George Kitchin and married Catholic layman Jack Brombach. Both are from the United States. Father George is a diocesan priest from New Orleans and is deeply involved in building "sharing community groups" within parishes which enables the living out of Gospel principles in everyday life. His work is widely recognised and he has built a reputation of being a gifted
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. . late have I followed him to be a prophet of hope to our world, an instrument of healing and reconciliation; and a builder of eucharistic community in his church. And I know I shall not rest until I find my rest in him.
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Since then she has been able to combine her teaching with entertaining. The latter has included many performances — at weddings, the Fremantle Arts Centre, Festival of Perth, concerts for the blind and other charitable organisations, television appearances and involvement in Australia Day and WA Week celebrations. Some 13 years ago she started a folk group at her church, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at Scarborough and still performs at each 9.30 Sunday Mass. It has survived the years, she says, despite the fact that numbers rise and fall. "There are seven of us at the moment and it's a bit on the small side but we manage to hang in through the lean times," she said. Seven years ago Carmel undertook lessons in classical guitar and last year completed a Certificate of Music Course.
Award to a Perth girl She has about 20 pupils and teaches in her music room at home. Studies are more for the challenge than anything else, she says, and also for the opportunity to mix with some of WA's best musicians. She has been composing for eight years and is a member of the Australasian Performing Rights Association. She has written 20 or more works and says songwriting was something to emerge gradually. It had a lot to do with lit e experiences. "In 1978 I met a young blind man who had written many poems in connection with his own experiences," she said. "I put one of his poems to music, entitled, The Beauty of Natural Things. "I recorded the song and it was released as a single. "It was played by local radio stations although not as much as we would have liked. "I was told by some city stations that it wasn't c ommercial and by another that it had to be a hit overseas before it could be played here — however, about 500 copies were sold." Carmel has recorded 10 of her own songs to date and says the hardest thing of all is finding outlets for her music which concentrates on r eligious and nature themes. One of her songs, called Home to You and Me was used by the WA Week Council at a number of official functions. A personal favourite is One Solitary Life, the words of which are often seen on Christmas cards and posters. "I had given my Father a card with the words and decided to put them to music one day," she said. "I recorded it in time for Christmas 1982 and it has continued to be popular on the Nightline radio program." Cannel has also set to music the poem, The Red Road, written by the late John K. Ewers, West Australian author and poet. Also from her pen came a song entitled, Australia II, Perie Banou, written after Australia won the America's Cup. Perie Banou was the name of the yacht in which lone sailor, Jon Sanders, had sailed twice around the world. She was asked to sing it at the 1984 Citizens of the Year Award at Government House.
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Swedish Christians honour her with the Lucy Bride celebration. On the eve of her feast, a young woman is chosen as St Lucy. In white garments and carrying palms, she Dec 6: St Nicholas. History enters the church tells us that St Nichowearing a crown set las, bishop of Myra, with lighted candles. Lycia, in Asia Minor, Hungarian Christians became known for his honour St Lucy on her piety. But few details of feast by planting Christhis life are known. mas wheat in soil. Kept A delightful legend about warm and watered St Nicholas tells how carefully, the wheat he was orphaned as a should sprout soft young man and detergreen shoots by Christmined to use his inhermas. Then children itance to help others. carry the wheat to their Nicholas came across creche; it symbolises a man who had lot his the wheat for making money and was planeucharistic bread — ning to turn his daughthe bread of life.
ters over to prostitution December 23: St John since he couldn't Cantius. Born in Kanty, afford doweries for Poland, St John their marriages. On became a priest and a three occasions late at scripture professor at night Nicholas tossed a the University of bag of gold into the Krakow. He was man's window for dovvknown and loved for eries. his simplicity and love Today, in memory of the of the poor. He made legend, many children f our pilgrimages by — especially children foot to Rome carrying of German ancestry — his belongings on his put their shoes outside back. their rooms on St Another story tells how Nicholas' Eve, hoping John, while eating to find the shoes filled dinner at his university with goodies the next one evening, looked up morning. and saw a famished December 13: St Lucy. beggar pass by the History records that door. John immediaLucy was a fourthtley jumped up and century martyr. She took the food from his became a favourite of plate to the beggar. missionaries. When John returned, The name Lucy comes his plate was still full. from the Latin word John died on Christmas "lux" meaning "light". Eve, 1473. In his As an Advent saint, honour, Polish Chrisshe points to the comtians set a place for the ing of the Light of the Christ child and his World on Christmas mother at the ChristDay. mas Eve dinner.
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What does it mean for Christians to take up a dialogue with the world? This topic occupies our writers this week as the exploration of Vatican II and its impact continues. Father Herbert Weber explores the basic concept of dialogue. He tells the story of a plant manager who realised that his Christian life and his work life had to intersect on significant issues. Katharine Birdinterviews historian Mons. John Tracy Ellis who reminisces about Pope John XXIII. A keen student of history, John XXIII believed a knowledge of history could keep people from making the same blunders twice, Mons. Ellis says. Father Robert Sherry, who was ordainedjust as Vatican II was ending, tells what the council meant for him. For one thing, it meant his formation as a priest was never to end. It is an ongoing formation, furthered through his dialogue with the people and the world around him. Father John Castelot points out that, following Jesus' example, the earliest Christians believed they should be involved in the world around them. Jesus wept over his people, went to their wedding parties and was a welcome guest. He associated with people on terms of intimacy and honest dialogue, the biblical scholar says.
Dialogue with the world is a key concept... A man in the parish stopped me after Mass to ask advice. As a plant manager, he had observed many employees living lives of painful drudgery. When they left work they would go to homes where there was conflict and pain. They frequently found their lives unfilled and unhappy, but weren't sure what they were missing. The manager knew these desperate persons needed to hear some kind of good news. His question was how he could better share the Good News with them. This plant manager happens to be a person of adult faith who believes that his Christian living and his work life have to intersect on significant issues. For him, faith has to be a dialogue with the very world that he attempts to serve by his work. Dialogue with the world was a key concept of the Second Vatican Council. Like all true dialogue, it means listening as well as .speaking. Thus the church in dialogue hears the 'joy and
hope, the grief and anguish . especially of those who are poor or afflicted in any way," as the council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World asserts. Hearing the hopes and concerns of all members of our world means being in touch with society and its development. If it is true that a good listener makes sure that she or he understands what is being said before responding, then a church and its people in dialogue with the world listens closely to sisters and brothers in the secular world before making its response. Not long ago I had the chance to hear a fine scientist talk about genetic engineering and what is developing in that particular field. He ended his address by saying that scientists have made great progress and now can do amazing things regarding the embryo in development. But he went on to say that the simple fact that scientists can do something doesn't necessarily mean that they "mar' do it. What may be done is a question that has to be answered by others in collaboration with scientists. Certainly persons of faith and persons, wellethical developed approaches have to be
included in such dialogues. Just as certainly the scientists have to be respected for their expertise. There are other times, however, when the church has to initiate the dialogue. These are the occasions when the church has to address the norms of a society and call the citizens of that society to question those norms. Two recent endeavours of the U.S. bishops — the pastoral letter on war and peace and the proposed pastoral letter on the U.S. economy — have attempted to do that. Both invited others within and outside the church to enter a dialogue.
"I am deeply convinced that dialogue — true dialogue — is an essential condition" for peace, Pope John Paul ll has written. "Dialogue," he said, "is a central and essential element of ethical thinking among people."
Initiating a dialogue with society can be done best when it is clear that the men and women of faith who are expressing a gospel value are also members of that society. Likewise, there is a need to state clearly that the dialogue between church and world does not mean only between church leaders and world leaders. All those who make up the church are called to be in dialogue with their local worlds. For example: • A woman took advantage of her managerial position in a company to protest a policy that was unjust to minorities.
In his message the pope concentrated on dialogue for peace. But the characteristics of dialogue he outlined can apply to dialogue in the broadest sense — echoing Vatican ll's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. For example, he said dialogue means: • Developing an attitude of openness and welcome. "Each party should explain its thoughts, but should also listen to the e xplanation of the situation as the other part describes rt." • Accepting the difference and specific nature of the other party. "Each party should become really aware of what separates it from the other . . without renouncing through cowardice or constraint what it knows to be true and just." • Treating others with respect, without reducing them to the status of mere objects. • Making the other a neighbour. Dialogue is a "search for what is and remains common to people even in the midst of tensions, opposition and conflict." • Recognising the inalienable dignity of human beings; acting "in such a way that the factors which bring people together will be victorious over the factors of division and hate."
• Members of a church council voted to use the parish buildings as a sanctuary for Central Americans who would likely be gaoled or executed if they were allowed to be returned to their homeland. In these cases — as in the case of the plant manager mentioned earlier — individuals or groups were involved in dialogue with the world around them Furthermore, these church members were best able to enter a dialogue through the channels closest to them: their jobs, their community organisations, or their neighbourhood groups. Since the Second Vatican Council, many people have learned that being in dialogue with the world is not a task to be accepted lightly. Often it means being countercultural in the values that are expressed. But always it means offering hope — gospel hope — to the world.
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In his 1983 World Day of Peace message, Pope John Paul II outlined some characteristics of true dialogue. Dialogue, a twoway exchange with others, "presupposes the search for what is true, good and just for every person, for every group and every society," he stated.
Look ahead to the feastdays of Advent. Perhaps they hold some fresh ideas for your home observances of the season. Here are some suggestions:
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• Respecting human life. True dialogue "is a wager on the social nature of people, on their calling to go forward together, with continuity, by a meeting of minds, wills, hearts." The goal of dialogue, the pope observed, "is to make the world a place for everybody to live in and worthy of everybody." And the advantages of dialogue? For the pope, everyone has something to gain by being willing to engage in dialogue. Addressing himself to every man and woman and to the young, he said: "You have many opportunities to break down the barriers of selfishness, lack of understanding and aggression by your way of carrying on a dialogue every day in your family, your village, your neighbourhood, in the associations of your city, your region."
On the western slope of the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem there is a quaint little chapel called, in Latin, "Dominus Flevit" ("The Lord Wept"). Built in the shape of a teardrop, it commemorates a moving incident in the life of Jesus. "coming within sight of the city, he wept over it and said: "If only you had known the path to peace this day: but you have completely lost it from view!" (Luke 19:4142 ) There is a parallel to this in his heartbroken address in Matthew 23:37: "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . How often have I yearned to gather your children, as a mother bird gathers her young under her wing, but you refused me." 'These cries came from the heart of a man who truly
loved his people. Jesus was a Jew. He shared a common cultural heritage with his fellow Jews. In fact, Jesus shared their aspirations for the future — the coming of God's reign, though he differed on the means of realising this reign and, in fact, there were many things he did not like about his country as it was being run. But the country, the people, Jesus loved. If he was often critical, it was not because he despised them but rather because he appreciated their potential for good. He fished in their lake, associated with them on terms of honest dialogue, went to their wedding parties. Judging from the number of invitations he received, he must have been a very welcome guest. Jesus was carrying out a mission for him who "so loved the world that he gave his only son . . God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world might he saved through him" (John 3:16-17). The world God so loved was not some mythical, ideal, faultless world, but the real world of weak human beings, of the good, had and indifferent: -The Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us" (John 1:14). Jesus' followers were likewise very much part of their world. They did not attempt to Christianise it by standing aloof from it. St. Paul urged his converts to "shine like the stars in the sky while holding forth the word of life" in society (Philippians 2:14-16). This "word of life" was the eloquence of their Christian lives. In the next generation, Christians would become quite conscious of their place in society. Others were whispering about them; there were rumors about the Christians, characterising them as a kooky cult, accusing them of cannibalism for eating Christ's body. Aware that people held them suspect, the Christians wanted to be seen as solid citizens. Thus, the Christians were advised to pray for all people, "especially for kings and those in authority (1 Timothy Good citizens of the day made it a priority to pray for leaders." The Christians were anxious to be "well thought of by those outside the church" (I Timothy 3:7). Acting as solid citizens helped them deflect the suspicions of others.
Keenly aware of the "human factor" in history Pope John XXIII realised that people make mistakes and cause disasters. But the pope believed that if people knew history they would try to refrain from repeating blunders of the past, said MonsJohn Tracy Ellis. Pope John, a church history professor as a young priest, remained a history buff all his life, said Mons Ellis. In his address opening the Second Vatican Council, PopeJobn made it apoint to tell the council fathers that -history is the teacher of life," he added. Mons Ellis, a distinguished church bistorkin now 80 years old, reminisced about Pope John when I spoke with him recently at The Catholic( *nitersity of America where he still teaches. Pope John was a highly intelligent and shrewd per-
son with a startling breadth of vision, Mons Ellis said During five brief _years as pope, John XXIII did "a number of surprising things." He led the way for Catholics to "move out into the world," putting aside the mentality that set Christians over against the world which was viewed "as wicked." For Mom Ellis, this was a "revolutionary change" of approach — one that reflected Pope John's desire to "carry out the words of the Master to bring the Good News to all the world" How was the pope's attitude toward the world around him reflected in his actions? In March 1963 Pope John bad a priz ate meeting uitb Alexis and Rada Adzbubei son-in-law and daughter of the, premier,Nikda Knishcher. .4 rieu vaper editor, .4dzhubei uus in Rome for the announcement that the
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Isoon realised that the pastor of 12 years — now Bishop Arthur O'Neill of Rockford. Ill. — must have planted the seeds of renewal long before I arrived. Many themes of (be council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World were evident in the parish agenda. I was out of the seminary. ButIrealisedIwas When the Secona Vatican Council's Decree on infor a few moreyears of Priestly, Formation was priestly formation. Prior to the Council of issued in October 1965I Trent in the 16th century bad already been a seminarian for II years and there were no seminaries. Candidates for holy two months. The document was implemented orders learned to be priests by thing and working June 29, 1966, one a month after my orditui- in a rectory. The Council of Trent established Hon to the priesthood. sorely needed norms and Ibad resigned myself to common criteria for prithe fact that my priestly formation would include estly formation. The only apeek at the renewal Second Vatican Council bmugbt by Vatican II. But initiated similar reforms the people at St. Thomas for our times. Vatican ITs Constitution Aquinas Parisb in Freeport, Ill. — my first on the Church in the Modassignment — were not ern World viewed tbe similarly resigned. They church in its historical expected a renewed min- setting in this world at istryfrom me, even if they this time. And the formabad to put it into me first. tion of priests today So together we began to reflects that document's grope our way to rene- spirit, erasing any unnewal: there were Catholic cessary division between Family Movement groups the doctrine of the church with a strong emphasis andberpracticalirwohieon social action; there men, in time and space. The council stated that were living-room dialogues for ecumenical "all the elements of (priunderstanding; there ests') training, spirant/4 were .youth groups want- intellectual, disciplinary, ing Masses in English, should be co-ordinated with guitar music; there with this pastoral view" were adults hungry for (Decree of Priestly Foran understanding of the mation). Has the pastoral constiBible. The inventory tution touched the averseemed endless.
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age seminarian? A priest recently told me be became a Catholic because of the church's invohernent in pastoral concerns and its teaching on socialjustice.
pope was awarded the Balzan Peace Prize for his efforts to mediate between President John Kennedy and Krushchev during the Cuban missile crisis. The meeting shocked some Vatican officials who complained that the Soviets would use the meeting for propaganda purposes. But. for the pope, the Adzbubes's were children of God, Mons Ellis said. Pope John's attitude was: "Let us try to be a bridge between them and the spiritual order." This kind of thinking was in line with thepope's desire to improve relations with communist goternments — to try to discover a "modus operandi" for living in a uorld ubere communism is a reality. In another irutiative, the pope held secret negotiations with the _Collets to obtain the release in 1963 of Archbishop Josef Slipyi, the Ukrainian church leader. Archbishop Slipryi had been imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp in 1948.
The pope was well-versed in the art of diplomacy since be served for 20 years as a Vatican diplomat in the Balkans and Turkey, and eight years in France. A t the heart of what motivated Pope John to embrace all people was his "love for humankind, regardless of religion or colour,"Mons Ellis said The pope's desire for union with allpeople meant "be tcasn't put off by contrary 14ews." The historian recalled John's overtures to other Christian churches. For instance, two days after Vatican II opened the pope met with the Protestant observers. This utis the first Protestant council obserters had been intited to attend. I nstead of sitting above the Protestants on his throne, Mons Ellis said "the pope brought his chair dozen to sit with them." Then he spoke of the joy he felt at seeing so many "representatives of churches from throughout the uvrld." For Mons Ellis, Pope John can be afine model. 'We all need heroes," he said, adding that John U YU a person of "deep spirituality and utter honesty with no pretence or stage play. Everything be did was in terms of bow it uiotolll bring people closer to God."
The pastoral constitution did indeed draw such a picture of all the people of God: pilgrims en route toward God's kingdom together. That's a reason whyIfirul that I'm still involved in my priestly formation.
A seminarian told me be bad chosen a particular college for this reason: "I am on twofoldjourney in my life at this time. The first search is for a warm personal relationship with God. Second is a quest to be of service to others through the ministry of the church. Another seminarian said that his decision to enter a seminary was based on his observations of priests who viewed In his opening address to the Second Vatican Council Pope John XXIII said, "History is the teacher of life." Keenly themselves as persons on pilgrimage together with aware of the "human factor" in history, the pope realised that people make mistakes and cause disasters. But the pope believed that if people knew history they would try to refrain from repeating blunders of the past all God's people.
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Bernard (Bernie) Thomas Lawrence, consulting engineer and partner in the firm of MacLean and Lawrence Pty Ltd, was born in Perth on December 30, 1943. Educated at St Columba's convent in South Perth and CBC Terrace, he completed a plumbing apprenticeship after having left school, won a scholarship to Melbourne, gathered further qualifications through night-school study, worked as a draftsman with an engineering consultancy, the Commonwealth Department of Works and his old firm of Lyons and Peirce and then went into his present partnership with Ian MacLean. He was diocesan president of the YCW, a member of the Lesmurdie parish council and president of the Mary's Mount P and F. Currently he is a member of the South Perth parish council and the Knights of the Southern Cross, and he and his wife Bernadette (nee Hegney) have been actively engaged in Marriage Encounter for the past nine years.
The Swan River has gently lapped the life of Bernie Lawrence. Its banks, near the old family home in South Perth to which he and his own family moved back in 1984, were his early playground. In its waters he learnt to swim, he crossed it to go to school at CBC Terrace and on its expanses he rowed as captain of the ANA Club. Behind Chesterton Lodge close to his home were the horse paddocks, on which a medical centre is now being erected, that were Elysian fields for the young Bernie. They were owned by a kindly man named Ted Godfrey who inculcated in the youngster his abiding love of horses through measures such as presenting the boy with a pony. Ted trained horses for various purposes, including show jumping and participation in Hunt Club events. Bernie was very much part of the action which offered delights like days at the Royal and country shows, involvement in Hunt Club activities and the sheer joy of riding good mounts. There are other vignettes of nostalgia from that South Perth time. Parish priest Mons McMahon, for instance, never failed to thank Bernie and the other altar boys for serving at Masses he had celebrated. The annual outings he turned on for the lads in gratitude were memorable occasions. There was the excitement of riding bikes at speed over the foreshore rubbish dump and the interest of watching the diligent Chinese working their nearby market gardens. Such enjoyments were supplemented and then partially replaced by others at CBC Terrace as childhood gave way to adolescence.
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE Study and hockey became the big things as the successful assault on the Leaving Certificate was mounted. With secondary schooling completed, Bernie had a short sojourn in the softgoods field as an employee of G and R Wills before he secured a plumbing apprenticeship with Les Peirce. For him the exacting trade training was a period of swot and cheers rather than conforming to the sweat and tears label commonly attached to it by many young people undergoing what to them is a time of trauma. He liked every minute of his work then, as he does to this day, because he knew — and still knows — that what he does is helping people. It is a spirituality-of-labour philosophy imbued in him by his connection with the YCVV and the influence of its then chaplain, Father Jim O'Brien. Examples of the ways in which it shines through are his activities for the YCVV, of which he became diocesan president, parish councils, the Knights of the Southern Cross, the P and F movement and — notably now — Marriage Encounter. On leaving school and starting the successful apprent-
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iceship that was to win him a coveted eight-month scholarship to Melbourne. Bernie took up rowing with the ANA Club headquartered in one of the picturesque old wooden buildings that used to grace the waterfront east of the Barrack Street jetty. He rose to be captain of the club and while he was in this position disaster struck its venerable home. From his car atop the Berwick Street hill in Victoria Park, the vice-captain saw clouds of smoke billowing from the north bank of the river near the city. He guessed correctly it was the ANA club going up in flames and dashed to the nearest phone to tell Bernie. The pair raced to the scene and managed to pull a few boats to safety, but most of the fleet and the valuable rowing shells were destroyed in the inferno. Then river-user camaraderie came nobly to the fore. The neighbouring Perth Rowing Club made available to ANA a number of its shells and the use of its facilities while ANA bent to the task of raising funds to replace the valuable gear it lost. In this it was successful and ANA became the first club to
move into the new rowing h eadquarters at Canning Bridge after the 1962 Commonwealth Games. On July 6, 1968, Bernie married YCVV full-timer Bernadette Hegney and the couple's first home was Marian Lodge at Kalamunda where they were caretakers. The devil of fire must have been watching Bernie's activities closely because Marian Lodge, too, was subsequently burnt down. It was at a weekend at Bunbury in 1976 the couple started on the Marriage Encounter track, a path along which the like-minded pair have walked hand-in-hand since. They were a team-presenting couple for about six years and they are still involved in various roles. 'Through the sacrament of marriage,- they say, "a couple have the power to make their relationship work in a fulfilling way. 'They can't blame anybody but themselves if this relationship is not enjoyable and active." As exemplars of the success of their Marriage Encounter beliefs, they comment on the beneficial effects on families arising from practical application of the movement's tenets. "Our children," they remember, "used to say things like 'we don't know them, why should we go,. when we were preparing to take them to somebody's house for a meeting.
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His daughter taken John, (who is unable to give his real name because of circumstances) is 45. He is married and lives in Perth with his wife, his own three children and his three step-children. He also has a 22-year old daughter but he has not seen her for 21 years — ever since she was "taken from him". It is in recent years he has finally managed to gather some flimsy shreds of information about her and, in the process, has become involved in the movement for adoption law reform. He wants to see natural fathers find their voice in the issue of adoption and feels keenly the fact his rights in regard to his daughter were minimised even further by the fact he was a male. No member of his family, he says, and a devoted Welsh family at that, has ever been lost to the family, other than through natural death.
EDE "I've had relatives who have fought in two world wars — one was even a hostile neighbour of Ned Kelly and he came through that," he said. "My grandfather survived the Boer War and World War I, my father survived the deserts of Africa and the snows of Poland. -Only one family member has ever disappeared without trace and that was one of my daughters, and she was lost, not through any war, but because of the adoption laws in this country.She was lost, he adds, because of the dedicated efforts of his de-facto wife's family, who, with the collusion of adoption agencies in New South Wales, sought to remove the child from her father and her mother. "My daughter was born in what I would regard as a serious de-facto marriage. It was more than just a relationship," he said. 'We did try to get married but Suzanne was a Catholic and didn't want to be married in a registry office. "I found I could not embrace her religious beliefs and therefore both her parents and the Church considered I was not suitable to marry her.
EEL "But we had our child and we lived together and subsequently moved to Melbourne. 'The child was registered by me in my name in Melbourne in 1963. "We had left Sydney because we had been harassed by her family. "Her father was a well known solicitor and had been able to apply a great deal of pressure. "She was 18 and I was 22. "Her parents felt I had made a mess of her life and totally ignored the fact we were living together voluntarily and quite happily. "It was really my fault it all fell apart.
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'We had been in Melbourne for some time when I suggested we should try to make up with her parents — that they might like to see their granddaughter. 'We decided to go back to Sydney for a holiday. "I knew I was not welcome at their house so I agreed to stay with a friend while Suzanne went in alone to 'smooth the way'. ' The next thing I knew she was in a private hospital. "She said later that she had been drugged. "All I know is after a couple of weeks of not being able to see her, I had to go back to Melbourne because my holidays were over and I was due back at work. "My sole aim was to get back to Sydney — it was a terrible time and I went to pieces a bit and lost a couple of months. 'Then I had a letter from her and it said: 'I signed some adoption papers. I don't know anything else. Of course you have to sign too'. "But I didn't. "I was never asked to sign anything. "She said in her letter she believed the adoption was the 'safest course for Jenny'. "Her parents were wealthy but she had been told there was no money and she would not be able to support herself and a child. -She was obviously under great duress. "All I knew was I wanted my child. 'When I did get back to Sydney I found the whole thing had been organised at
the insistence of her parents through a Catholic adoption agency. "I set about to try to get her back. The people who were organising the adoption were upset that I cared so much and they were frightened I would succeed. "I took legal advice and stated I was prepared to get married bu they would have none of it. "It was a time when fathers had little or no rights and I had even less money. "I was working as a journalist. where I could, and had about 50 pounds in the bank. -Of course the whole process was costly and I didn't have a chance — I failed. "It was sometime in 1964 that I finally accepted the situation was hopeless when Suzanne told herself our relationship was Over. "I was very angry for years but I had no guilt. "It helps a little to know that the father and mother eventually suffered for what they had done. "I heard the father died in a screaming heap because he was so overcome by what he had done and couldn't make amends. "I also heard from mutual friends in later years Suzanne had a tragic life. "She had never married but there were other children. "Apparently she has suffered terribly over the years and has desperately tried to find Jenny. "She wrote to me last year and said she had information on the adoption and could I help.
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Father's seeking daughter "I hadn't done much over the years to find Jenny because I didn't believe in f ighting the unwinnable war "I had written letters from time to time, but it was usually a dead end. "But when Suzanne wrote to me I joined Jigsaw. "I have since found out my daughter is alive and well — probably in Canberra and she is now called Catherine. "Apparently she is a member of an Irish family and I believe she has shown talent in MUSIC - that's a family trait so it's nice to know she has inherited it. -The social worker with the Catholic adoption agency in Sydney who provided the information obviously feels uncomfortable about our case. "She says it is a difficult situation because she suspects the adoptive parents were told the baby's mother was unstable. "I am hoping for a reunion — it is important to me my daughter knows of her family heritage. "My biggest worry is she has never been told she is adopted — that really frightens me." In such a situation, says John there is little one can do, except to continue the fight for reform so others will not have to suffer as he has done. "I was lucky, that within about five or six years I was able to feel human again and to get on with my own life. "I now have three other children of my own and also have three wonderful stepchildren," he said. "I could say I have gotten over the emotional pain of losing a child but I still find it hard to come to terms with such questions as human rights, social behaviour, legality and plain morality as they applied to my own case history," It still horrifies him, he says, as the natural father, with what could be regarded as a reasonable record of devotion, responsibility, good employment, good education and prospects, he should be so callously cast aside. "At the time, in 1963, it was legally and pragmatically a fairly simple matter for me to be ignored and brushed off — simply ignored and brushed off," he said. He went on to say that individual freedom could be severely affected by "power groups — wealthy, well organised families and social groups who could achieve their own ends despite conventional morality or legislation. "It is not unusual for laws to be bent, especially in Sydney
were my adoption case was engineered," he said. "I think — alas — the solutions we are seeking will always be capable of circumvention by those who pursue personal goals and rights to the neglect of others,'" he said He went on to say it was vitally important society discard the attitude of "acceptable" and "nonacceptable" parenthood when dealing with adoptions. "In my case a 'more acceptable set of parents was found for my baby daughter," he said. "Obviously those good people — and I must assume they were good people — were given an excellent explanation of how a beautiful and healthy child of maybe five or six months at that stage, with a birth registered in another city, became available to them. "God only knows what negotiations took place with those adoptive parents. "Obviously they were not told the truth. 'They were not told the natural parents had been carefully deprived of their "And they were not given an insight into the obvious reality that those people would never lose their determination to somehow set this matter to rights. "But the parents were never told any of these facts and they were not allowed to know they would be heading for trouble one day. "As it happened the agency gave them a manufactured and false account, including advice the natural mother was unstable — that's how they explained it. "My belief is that information for passing to adoptive parents should be collated and assessed by an impartial counselling authority and never by an agent whose business is to supply babies to clients. "If this role is taken over by the adoption agency, then you are setting people up for information to be massaged and processed." But the hardest thing, he added, was coming to terms with the wrongs that had been done Such wrongs, he says, are not capable of redress. "Once the die has been cast the book is closed and the natural parents are left with vain memories," he said. 'That's the end of the matter. 'There is no legal redress and everyone hopes the natural mother and natural father will simply go away." There is a quote, he adds,
from Meredith's novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverell, which is excruciatingly apt. "His true love died in tragic c ircumstances and he couldn't cope with it. In the last paragraph Meredith paints a portrait of Richard Feverell who had lost his mind sitting in a chair staring ahead and, 'ceaselessly striving to image her on his brain'," John said. -Those words and that futility have constantly reappeared in my own brain since I was stripped of my offspring and my human rights in 1964. 'That is why I have boundless compassion for relinquishing parents whatever their motives at the time. "I would have to give them the benefit of the doubt. "I can accept death or insanity might impose a burden of 'ceaselessly striving to image her on his brain,' but I can never forgive that burden being imposed by politicians, lawyers, social workers and my fellow citizens. 'To adoptive parents I would say, please have compassion for the natural parents of your child. "After all, you do owe the natural parents a great deal, whatever the circumstances of the adoption. "I would also ask, 'Can you be absolutely sure, without meeting those natural par-
ents, or without having some objective information about them that you have not benefited from some deception or some indecent haste or some cruelty that was inflicted upon innocent people?' "I am not saying it is always so, but I am saying it sometimes is the case. "We must trust in each other that what has happened in an adoption will turn out for the best. "That our children, even when they are adult or elderly, will always belong to both sets of parents — albeit that belonging will be expressed in different ways." The first step, says John, toward fairness, is to encourage our society to be more honest, tolerant and compassionate, in order to prevent the mistakes and the conflicts which lead to and beset adoptions We can start with ourselves, he adds. and in that way, begin to change attitudes. " We must also carefully educate young people in how to conduct a sexual relationship, and to understand their own human rights and those of other people — to think in advance about the future of any children they might produce," he said. 'The next step is that before permitting an adoption process, we must recognise the child's right to be with its natural parents. 'We must fully exhaust that possibility before taking alternative action. "In many cases that may mean taking powers away from adoption agencies and the people who have been making these decisions but who have been making the wrong decisions, for perfectly good motives. "I also believe there must be independent counselling available to both natural parents before referral is made to an adoption agency. 'The independent counsellor should be mandated to make permanent official records of the birth parents. 'These should be the basis of information passed to agencies and adoptive parents. "We must avoid any faking of the records. ' Where possible, written consent of both natural parents should be given before
Religious ministry
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which militate against the demands of Christian discipleship, the countercultural witness of so many faithful religious men and women effectively proclaims the Kingdom of God. The contribution of religious men and women from the United States is not only a rich heritage of the church in this country, but is also a part of the Church's heritage in many Third World countries. I know there has been public attention to an issue involving certain Religious and the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. I wish to address the principles involved as far as the Holy See is concerned: 1) the competence of the congregation, 2) the religious man or woman as a public and consecrated person in the church, 3) the teaching of the church on abortion, 4) scandal, 5) the due process which is provided in the event that a Religious fails to
repair the scandal, and 6) freedom of conscience informed by the assent of faith. I) The competence of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. This arises from the fact that the matter involves members of religious institutes which are institutes of pontifical right directly accountable to the Holy See, 2) The religious man or woman as a public and consecrated person in the Church. While all members of the Church have a duty to give witness to the Gospel and the teaching of the Church, Religious have a special, public obligation in this regard. For instance, Canon 607,3 speaks of "the public witness to be rendered by Religious to Christ and to the church," and Canon 758 states that "in virtue of their consecration to God. members of the institutes of consecrated life give testimony to the Gospel in a special manner."
adoption placement is even considered. 'This right should be inalienable throughout Australia for natural fathers wishing to exercise it. "I believe too adoption should be subject to Federal legislation under the jurisdiction of the Federal Family Court. 'This is a red hot issue but I see a need to eliminate discrimination arising from differences in State legislations. "As soon as you allow the possibility of six, eight or 10 forms of legislation, ipso facto, you have discrimination built into the situation. "Access to the Court should also be made available to all parties touched by adoption. 'The aspects of legislation required to meet the most basic human rights of adult adoptees, and also of natural parents, seems to be mandatory advice to adoptees of their status. "It should be mandatory for adoptees to be told, 'You are adopted'. It should never be kept secret from them. "If the adoptive parents won't tell them, then, by the age of 18, the Court or somebody else must tell them. "There should be free exchange of non-identifying information at all times. ' There should be availability of identifying information at age 18." Such moves, said John, would greatly reduce the heartbreak suffered by relinquishing parents, the trauma often felt by adoptees and would provide a realistic peace of mind for adoptive parents. The current system, he adds, is not only unwieldy, it is unjust. Change is needed and the Welsh words engraved on his ring best symbolise the road to take in healing the open wound of adoption. "Dell to nid hohti allan Dal yn grues nid dilyn gran" "Cross not this wood, nor hack in twain Glide even along the given grain.
It's her music
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One of her winning songs in the Pater Award is titled Song for Chris — it is also the title of her latest tape "It was a song I wrote a couple of years ago, shortly before the death of my father.
"It picks up the sentiments that he expressed only about a week before he died," she said. "He said: 'That it wouldn't do if we were all the same, and that gave me the inspiration to write the song and dedicate it to him."
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Sir, ht should not be necessary in this day and age to have to refute the insulting claims of Mr Peachey (The Record November 21) who complains that 'middle aged women' are taking away jobs from unemployed male youth. The Equal Opportunity Act operates solely on the merit principle to ensure that the person best qualified for a particular job is not prevented from securing that job on irrelevant grounds. If middle aged women are attaining positions in the Public Service it is because they have the qualifications, experience and expertise required. Surely Mr Peachey is not suggesting that a 31 year old woman with an economics degree and ten years' work experience should vacate her job in favour of an 18 year old male school leaver! In Pacem In Terris (1963) Pope John )0(111 wrote: "The part that women are now playing in political life is everywhere evident. Women are gaining an increasing awareness of their natural dignity — they are demanding both in domestic and public life the rights and duties which belong to them as human persons." Paul VI in Octogesimo Adveniens (1971) wrote: "Developments in legislation should be directed to protecting her (woman's) proper vocation and at the same time recognising her independence as a person, and her equal rights to participate in cultural, economic and political life. Pope John Paul II in Laborem Exercens (1981) wrote: "Women should be able to fulfill their tasks in accordance with their own nature, without being discriminated against and without being excluded from jobs for which they are capable."
Grateful thanks to the FLACK (Mary JoseSacred Heart, Our Lady, phine). Passed away from Mr Peter DOWDING MLC, St Jude and St Anthony peacefully on December State Minister for Employment and Training for favours received. AH. 6th, 1985, aged 87 years. The claim by Mr Peachey (The Mr Peachey claims that the Electrical Contractor Little Jesus of Prague may Dearly beloved wife of J.V. D'Esterre, 5 Vivian your name be praised and Henry (dec), mother of Record, November 21) that jobs of the young have been Valerie, "the Federal Government and taken by middle-aged women. St, Rivervale. 30 yrs expe- glorified throughout the Laurie and world now and forever. mother in law of Pam and the Burke-led State Govern- State Public Service figures rience, expert, efficient, reliable. Ring 362 4646, Thank you Our Lady, St George, grandmother of ment have abandoned the indicate that between June Joseph and St Jude. KD. Tony, Peter, Peter, Chris, traditional policy of employing 1 971 and July after hours 385 9660. 1985 the a Thank You Sacred Heart, Anita and Therese. Great good and reasonable number growth in employment of adult g randmothe Jesus, of r St Jude, holy of Rachel, of young ELECTRICAL: For all people" is nonsense. males has exceeded the spirit for helping me James and Kellie. Her types of electrical work In fact, this trend is one that employment growth of adult through my exams and funeral took place in the phone 335 2277. improving my mother's Catholic Cemetery, Karra- commenced from the late females. health. And for all other katta after Requiem Mass 1960s and was continued As at July 1985 the proportion STEELWORK: All requests granted. Victoria. celebrated in The Holy during an era largely governed of adult males in the Public types of steel gates and Thank you Saints Jude Rosary Church, Angelico by the Liberal Party, both at the Service was almost double that balustrades, mig welding and Anthony for favours Street, Woodlands on Federal level and in Western of adult females. and arc welding. Phone granted. Sweet Sacred Tuesday, December 10th, Australia. 335 2277. Mr Peachey's letter appears at Heart of Jesus I place my 1985. The "Burke -led- State be in essence a thinly-veiled trust in thee. E. Wilkinson. Bowra & O'Dea Funeral Government and, indeed, our attack against the employment Directors 328 7299 0 Holy St Jude apostle Federal colleagues, have taken of women. and martyr great in virtue steps to reverse this disturbing His views are inconsistent and rich in miracles, near THANKS trend. with community views in the kinsman Jesus of Christ, U PHOLSTERER The State Government has 1980s which reflect support for faithful intercessor of all Grateful thanks retired professional is to St Jude for interested in occasional who invoke you, special t wo favours granted the very taken on an additional 500 the removal of past discriminasmall repairs and light patron in the time of need, first day. Your name will young people in the Public tory practices and for recruitrecovering work phone to you I have recourse always be remembered. A.D. Service this year over and ment of jobs on the basis of from the depths of my 341 3995. above normal intakes. merit and equity for all. heart and humbly beg you Grateful thanks to the Most The Government is also Comments regarding the WA to whom God has given Sacred Heart of Jesus and St k iC•1 liTLX•?,1Z such great power to come Jude for prayers answered. strongly supportive of the Equal Opportunities Act and seasonal peak of the school the previous Government, it is, "Priority One — Young Austra- equal opportunities staffing in leaver period, when naturally of course, to my assistance. Help me V.E.S. unacceptably high. Companion live-in Dal- now in my present lia" initiatives currently being the Public Service entirely there is a high number of and Because of this, the Governkeith, light housekeeping urgent need and grant my Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. implemented by the Common- missed the point. young people recorded as ment has implemented, over duties, excellent condi- earnest petition. In return May your name be praised wealth Government. While the participation of unemployed as they com- the past 21 2 / years, a compretions and salary. For I promise to make your and glorified throughout the and females in the mence their career search, hensive range of programs to males further information ring name known and cause w orld now and forever, Public Service is a most impor- youth unemployment in West- provide our young people with Lyn Marks, Western Per- you to be invoked. Say Amen. 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Park SIR, Last week's edition of The Record contained seven letters and one advertisement attacking the Just Peace statement, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and the Australian Episcopal Conference. My immediate brief response is to recall the centuries long bitter struggle as Christians developed a sensitivity to the gospel message which caused them to recognise the immorality of slavery. We have not got centuries to develop a similar sensitivity about the production and threatened use of weapons of indiscriminate mass destruction.
to all sectors of the community. improvement over the record of market. This will assist both men and women and will benefit minority groups including migrants, aboriginals and disabled peofrom Don CARR, being answered in persistently ple. His letter quotes a youth Applecross vague terms by the Commisunemployment rate of around Sir, Mr Sidoti accuses those sion's spokesmen. 25%. The CCJP claims not to be With the exceptions of the who disagree with some aspects of 'Work for a Just anti-American, yet advocates Peace of using subversive the closure of U.S. bases in tactics and innuendo and slur Australia, demonstrations to "stifle discussion- and dis- against U.S. naval ships and credit the Commission. the banning of their visits to our from J CLUNE, Yokine Rather the opposite appears ports. Sir, As a further means to be true from the many letters lt accuses its critics of political towards achieving its objective, to the Record and other news- extremism, yet its "peace" will the Catholic Commission papers from people who are philosophies are in accord with for Justice and Peace state worried about the CCJP's atti- those of the far left in Australwhat steps should be taken in tude and activities regarding a ian politics — those already an endeavour to get the Rus"just peace". Specific and mentioned, and the destruction sians in Afghanistan back to, pertinent criticisms and ques- of ANZUS. and contained in, their own tions have been posed, all of Would the Commission give country. which have been, and are still some answers?
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from Michael MEGA W, chairman Catholic Social Justice Commission, Perth.
Sir, It is unfortunate that the approach taken by Mrs Stanley (The Record, Novermber 21) relies almost entirely for its impact on most readers not having attended the Seminar or having been involved in the discussions to which she refers. The answers she provides in framing her four questions reveal a marked level of misinformation. 1 . Andrew Mack is nationally and internationally recognised as an expert in strategic studies. Working as Senior Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra he was well qualified to be one of the many people submitting information for the consideration of the CCJP. 2. Mrs Stanley confuses the terms "lecturer" and "adviser". None of the people she lists have acted as advisers to the Perth Archdiocesan Catholic Social Justice Commission. Indeed the Commission has never had any dealings with Peter Jones, Field Worker with the Australian Quaker Peace Committee. Jo Vallentine, WA. Senator for the Nuclear Disarmament Party, was invited to be one of three people speaking at the Commission's public seminar addressing 'Work for a Just Peace 'on Sunday October 27, (the others being Eric Sidoti, national secretary of the CCJP, and Sr Veronica Brady). Senator Vallentine's views were clearly expressed as her own and in no way as policy of the COMMISSIC41. Vanessa Letham, employed as project officer for the
Peace Education Project operating out of the Fremantle Education Centre, and indeed the only person employed to do this work in WA., conducted one of the several different small workshops offered to participants at the Sunday 27 seminar. Since it was suggested in 'Work for a Just Peace" that peace education could be useful in assisting Christians to "search out the causes of conflict", it was judged appropriate to present some information on this at the seminar. 3. Mrs Stanley should study a little more closely the literature displays provided at Commission seminars. All the information on the Commission's stall at the seminar to which she refers was produced either by our Commission, the national CCJP, the Pontifical Commission "Justitia et Pax" or by National Conferences of Catholic Bishops. This was not the result of an overly sectarian policy, but part of an attempt to meet the real concerns of many in the Catholic community by providing background on Catholic thinking on the issue of Peace. Discussion of injustices occurring in our society and in the world are difficult in as much as they reflect on our own lifestyles, hopes and fears. Hysteria has no place in such discussion. does misinformation, nor prejudice. The Catholic Social Justice Commission does not work from a position of complete impartiality. The Church is called to have a partiality, a 'preferential option for the poor'. The Second Vatican Council declared: -The arms race is an utterly treacherous trap for humanity and one which injures the poor to an intolerable degree." From this basis the CSJC will continue to work to promote calm and well informed discussion on this issue.
In relief of boredom "The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who disappeared! That is what this candle is for. . ."
I wonder at times why young people claim to be bored. International Youth Year, fast drawing to a close, has been an opportunity for many groups to publicise their youth related activities. Many groups are looking for more active participation from young people. One instant that caught my eye was Amnesty International — their brochure 1985 proclaims, "Young people are in Prison".
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The only prison in which Perth young people find themselves is of their own making. In other parts of the world, thousands are languishing in forgotten cells and dungeons, with little hope of a fair trial Often these young people have been detained for their beliefs, their colour, their sex, their language or religion. They are called "prisoners of conscience". International Youth Year 'SS Amnesty International is they are related to holes of this world. Rotsuccessful in attaining former rulers. ten food, cells infested justice for otherwise forPerhaps our conscienwith rats and lice. gotten people. ces need to be prodded. No medical attention, It is an active struggle In the next few weeks rife diseases like scato protect human rights. the average student can bies, diarrhoea, typhoid. The battle is fought not look forward to some Not to mention the rouwith guns and bombs, bu measure of sun, sand and tine torture and cruel with the simple pen or surf. death. As you soak in the sun biro! The Perth headquarters consider the condition of Members persistently of Amnesty are at 32 young people in the hel! write letters to the priBeaufort Street, Perth soners, their families and 4 I ....c. .. 328 3332; GPO Box government authorities. X2258, Perth 6001. M embership of the o rganisation exceeds 500,000. It first began with an idea of one man. I believe a simple task for a youth group may be to find out about Amnesty and take upon themselves the task of working for justice through a letter writing campaign. There are dozens of examples of young students and young workers detained because of their (2140CCimembership in student ond11110. organisations, workers' No one ought to be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention unions or simply because or exile. Join Amnesty's struggle to protect human rights.
Youthful graduate From page 10 "Now they love meeting people and playing with other children who till then were strangers. "Eight years ago, when the eldest was only eight, we bought a mini bus to take them along. Each had his or her own seat and sleeping bag, and when they got tired they'd retire to their sleeping bags in the bus." This early introduction to peers and adults is a natural spin-off from the attitude of their parents who have always enjoyed meeting fellow-parishioners and being involved in the work of the Church. The close association of Marriage Encounter families has other benefits, ton. For instance, the Lawrences have spent many an enjoyable holiday at Rottnest with such families knowing that, if anybody wants to go out, the children are in safe adult hands while they have a ball playing with the other children.
Relative to today's work-aday world, Bernie believes people have to be prepared to change their methods and undertake successive courses of re-training to cope with the rapid evolution taking place. "Even though people have to re-train," he says, "as a society we will be better off. "Ice chests were fine in their time, but who now regrets their replacement by refrigerators and the disappearance of the ice man? -You can't stop technological progress, much of it a product of the space age, so the answer is to train and keep on re-training to cope with it. -It is essential, however, to make change work for the good of society and not downgrade people. "Modern equipment is much more reliable in terms of quality and accuracy, but like any equipment its success still depends on the operator. -Therefore thorough training of the operator is a must," he says.
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vital Anger a is A 'new' believer part of reality Come, Journey With Me, A Personal Story of Conversion and Ordination, by Russell C. Packard, published by Affirmation Books (distributed by Word of Life Distributors), $16.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross.
Come, Journey With Me by Russell Packard, M.D., is a story in journal form of a navy psychiatrist and neurologist's conversion to Catholicism and ordination to the diaconate. A long-professed atheist, believing only in the powers of science, the author is shocked to discover his own spiritual stirrings after the death of a patient.
As a psychiatrist he tries to explain them away, and yet something in him convinces him to trust his new feeelings. The journey, for Russell Packard, was not an easy one and there is no indication that it is even now. His conversion was no "blinding flash of light", but rather a long, hard and gruelling struggle full of some successes and many failures. For anyone who is travelling a similar path, his words speak long and loud of our very "human-ness" and the patient, goodhumoured support of God. With the affirmation of his wife and a priest
friend, the author struggles with his new identity of "believer", an identity which often feels at odds with that of "professional". At times he is doubtful about the thoughts of baptism, at other times he wants to jump right in, so overtaken is he by his own enthusiasm. Dr Russell Packard is the first to admit that he is not and never has been, "a saint". What he is however, is a human being who has chosen to seek God and who agrees (albeit at times grudgingly) to whatever accept comes his way in following that course. From the time of the rather more dramatic
conversion of Saint Paul and The Confessions of St Augustine to the present, men and women have found a certain fascination in reading of another's spiritual journey from unbelief to belief. No matter how different the experience there are always incidents that touch a chord within us . . . there will always be the opportunity to learn from another.
R ussell Packard's account is straightforward and honest, often brutally so. Anyone who decides to "journey with him" will not be bored and is likely to gain much.
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Flying Visits. by Clive James, published by Picador, $8.95. Clive James passion for air travel stretches back to his short-tmusered days when he could identify every plane that rattled the crockery in his house near Kingsford Smith aerodrome outside Sydney and he spent most of his time making himself indispensable to the cleaners who swept out the planes. His original two "Postcards" to The Observer recorded his first return to Sydney after fifteen years in Europe. After that, Postcards arrived from around the world and became a popular occasional feature in that newspaper. They have been despatched from the Caucus
Room in Washington DC, around by him," The where the US Attorney- Guardian. General was being willed by 'Venues and personalities Strom Thurmond, from an come alive under the pen, institute in Shanghai, where and omnipresent is Mr Mrs Thatcher was being James' sardonic smile — grilled on biochemistry by but nicely sardonic! His smiling Chinese scientists, book willplay no smallpart and from a secret Australian in the increase in air &curl lakeside restaurant where in 1985," Catholic Herald. Kini Te Kanawa WAS being -Here we have the triurniigrilled by Clive James. We rate of fact, imagination learn that women's hair- and eloquence which does styles play a large part in the for the mind what a jumbo Soviet economy, that diving jet does for the body. You in the Dead Sea should be may net,erget to Pekin but attempted only with eyes this book works as a considshut, and that Los Angeles erable consolation. Atmosfreeways distort time and phere is always as valid as space to a point where cold fact when 'walling a Disneyland, when you arrive foreign visit and James there, seems like reality. manufactures mood with 71e writes ulth such u unequalled mastery" Irish cracking intelligence that Independent. you're happy to be taken Clive James was born in
Australia and educated at Sydney University and Cambridge, where he was President of Footlights. Between 1972 and 1982 he was the TV critic of The Observer. As a television performer he has appeared regularly in several series, most notably "Cinema", "Saturday Night People", "Clive James on Television" and "The Late Clive James". His "Paris Fashion ShoW' received an Enuny nomination, and his "At the Movies" was nominated for a BAFTA Award. His books available in Picador are Unreliable Memoirs, Brilliant Creatures, From the Land of Shadows, Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket and Glued to the Box.
Anger, Issues of Emotional Living in an Age of Stress for Clergy and Religious. The Tenth PsychotheologSymposium, ical edited by Brendan Riordan, published by A ffirmation Books (available from Word of Life Distributors), $15.95. Far too often anger is used as an emotional tool to manipulate a group or a person. The expression of anger should never prevent our examining the consequences of actions. Anger is only one aspect of reality, not a threat to it. When we try to ignore or escape the inevitable differences of opinion or interest. we do so at the price of becoming submissive to others and of ignoring or escaping our own sense of individuality and dignity. Without the expression of anger it is impossible for community members to know one another, and to meet one another's important and realistic needs. In a community- where such feelings are not expressed there unresolved and exist unhealthy dependency struggles, rather than a mutual acceptance of realist and shared needs and abilities. It is suggested that persons in ministry function effectively only if they are comfortable with their own anger and that of others. Men and women in ministry are to teach a proper model of the whole Christ: a Christ who was meek on some occasions and freely shared his anger at other times.
This book contains a number of reflections on anger which may hopefully challenge thoughts and encourage faith. The essays contained in this book examine anger from a number of points of view. As anger has its genesis in frustration, the essays presented emphasize the frustration found in the lives of today's committed and struggling religious ministers: the frustration of living in a community with angry and unhappy persons; the frustration of maintaining healthy, loving and celibate relationships; the frustrating helplessness experienced in the midst of ecclesial, political and global iniiistices; and the frustration and guilt of anger even toward God. The editor. Rev. Brendan Riordan says: "These essays will prove especially helpful to the persons who seek not only to admit to anger in their lives. but who are also willing to 'own' that anger and recognise it as a powerful and liberating source of energy for personal and
Health The Good Health Cookbook, by Mary-Lou Arnold, published by Bay Books, $4.98. Compiled by Mary-Lou Arnold, an experienced home economist, this book contains recipes which are based on natural foods with a low fat, salt and sugar content. You'll find such healthy delights as breakfast granola, sun glory pawpaw pudding and pineapple calYPso
historical change. The authors recognise anger as not only a 'ferocious lion going about seeking to devour' but also as an emotion that can be tamed to become a helpmate in our search for creativity."
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The Wounded Stag. by William Johnston. published by Fount, $6.95. This book gives a positive approach to the conflict in the world and in our hearts. 'the author draws on the Old and New Testaments. and on the whole tradition of prayer, to show how we can attain the peace of mind without which there will be no peace around us. William Johnston SJ ( Jesuit), born in Belfast. has lived and worked as an academic in Japan and the Philippines for many years. A leading expert and writer on mysticism, he has a particular interest in the links between Eastern and Western religions.
new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new title 30 Days to Better English. by Norman Lewis, publishedby Methuen Australia, $7.95. This proven step-by-step programme will help you to build your vocabulary, avoid errors, pronunciation sharpen your spelling. improve your grammar and express your ideas clearly and correctly. Kids Can Read Better, by Victoria Williams Ph.D., publishedby Methuen Austraiia, $7.95. Reading is without doubt your child's most important skill throughout all the school years and beyond. For parents who want to ensure their child's reading success, this winning, upbeat book provides dozens of innovative and easy-to-master strategies that take as little as five minutes a day. Dare to Change, How to Program Yourself for Success, byJoe Alexander, publishedby Methuen Australia, $8.95. A book designed to show you how to rechannel your
energies from what you think you should be to what you want to be. It deals with problems such as how to manage stress, how to stop procrastinating and how to find out what you really want from life and get it. Birds of America, by JobnJames Audubon, published by Methuen Australia, $92,50. Two centuries after his birth, John James Audubon, the "American Woodsman", is ranked among the greatest of naturalist painters. The Birds of America, first published more than a century and a half ago, is largely responsible for that reputation. In a revolutionary departure from the practice of earlier nature painters, Audubon travelled to the American wilderness to capture his subjects in their natural settings. The resulting paintings — vivid and dramatic — were hailed as vastly superior to the stodgy renderings taken from stuffed and mounted specimens displayed in airless museums.
Birds of North America Eastern Region, by John Bull Edith Bug Gerald GoldandPeter PralL published by Methuen Australia, $22.95. At last, a most efficient and accessible tool for quick identification is available to the bird-watcher. Unlike other popular guides, which group birds by family alone, Birds of North America: Eastern Region organises birds by species, pattern and colour — for instant identification. With a complete species index, a pictorial glossary of field marks, where and when to find the birds you're seeking, and many other helpful features, this guide is a vital reference foi- every bird-watcher.
established him as one of the most original writers and artist of his time. Celibacy Affectivity And Friendship, by Bernard Bush, Word of Life Distributors, $2.02. Another in this excellent Affirmation Booklet series on Spiritual Health. It draws on the insights of theology and psychology that provides a unique insight into these important aspects of everyone's life. The Affirmation of God, by David Manning White, publishedby Methuen Australia, $60. The Affirmation of God crowns a lifelong study of the meaning of God. The Search for God, the first volume in this two-part anthology, covered such A World Away, by Maeve theological problems as evil, Gilmore, published by suffering, doubt and God's Metbuen Australia, "unknowability". Now, in $13.95. The Affirmation of God, The classic and moving Professor David Manning account of the life of Mervyn White explores how finding Peake, written by his widow God and transforms shortly after his death. Since enlightens our lives. Ecuthen the reputation of the menical in content, the book author of the 'Titus' novels draws on the Old and New has grown enormously and Testaments, Upanishads and
Talmud, as well as the ideas of great theologians, novelists, philosophers and poets. It demonstrates that Jews and Hindus, Catholics and Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists share a deep and abiding kinshop and finds common threads from which a universal moral fabric is woven that units all religions and all people in a common Grace. The Epicurean Diary 1986, by Penny Smith, publishedby Methuen Australia. $19.95. A beautifully packed and presented diary for wine and food lovers. Ravishing photographs from 12 of Australia's finest restaurants accompany favourite recipes. Epicurean's Diary has a seasonal recipe and photograph each month as well as many helpful hints on food and on storing and serving wine. The French Kitchen, by Diane Holuigue. published by Methuen Australia, $24.95. Now in paperback! A superb practical guide to French cooking for Austral-
ians. For the past fifteen years Diane Holuigue has offered refreshing, down-toearth advice at her Melbourne cooking school. This unique book continues her enthusiastic approach to the de-mystification of French cooking. Walking to the Hills, by Geoff Spearpoint, published by Methuen Australia. $24.95. This book is a celebration of the joys of adventuring in New Zealand's back-country ranges and valleys. It will provide inspiration to active trampers planning trips, and it contains enough hint of adventure to inspire others to take their first major steps into the New Zealand outdoors. With eleven tramping routes covered, the author combines sensible route guide details with background information on the history, plant life and general atmosphere of each range. Most of the routes described are within the competence of the average tramper. Specific difficulties
and obstacles are carefully described and the reader is referred to local sources for on-the-spot details. Community Work or Social Cbange? An Australian Perspective, by Rosamund Thorpe and Judy Petruchenia, published by Methuen Australia. Community Work or Social Change is the first Australian appraisal of community work in Australia covering many interesting and controversial community initiatives which have taken place since the early 1970s. The book covers both theoretical and practical material detailing case studies of community work in action in relation to major issues such as unemployment. Aboriginal and Immigrant rights. Most of the thirteen contributors share a commitment to far-reaching social change, and their contributions indicate where and how openings exist for community work practice which supports the struggle for larger social change.
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WHAT'S ON A squad of 10 women and eight men have been training for the past three weeks in preparation for the Australian Catholic Tennis Carnival to be held in Perth at Christmas. The team selectors have to reduce this squad down to seven women and seven men by next Sunday and their task will not be easy. The squad members are:Women: Geraldine Alderman, Maureen Collis, Kathy Dowsett, Sharon Gordon, Joanne Johnson, Kerry Messer, Judy Russo, Alison Thomas, Cathy Veza and Kathy Williams. Men: Danny Bowen, Damian Messer, Michael Messer, Greg Quain, Kevin Quain, Peter Quain, Randy Raux and Ron Smith. The carnival tennis is a state teams' event with trophies being awarded to the top women's team, the top men's team and an aggregate trophy for the best combined women's and men's team. There are also individual trophies awarded to the best number one player in each of the women's and men's competitions as well as trophies for the most
consistant woman and man. Each player plays a singles and doubles match in each rubber with each match being the best of three sets. We have been lucky to obtain the use of the Hensman Park Tennis Club to play the tennis. The venue is close to the Westos Hotel and has excellent facilities. The tennis will be played from 27 to 31 December, beginning each day at 9.00 am. Spectators are welcome, and if you like bring your tennis gear along as there will be courts available for social tennis each day. Come and meet our eastern state visitors and help us make them feel at home. Bookings for tickets to the social functions are now being taken. Contact your club secretary or Greg Pearce for details. A full carnival season's ticket costs $140 and would make an ideal Christmas present. Start organising your group now — the carnival is an exciting fun filled week.
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A t the Catholic Womens League Christmas Party: Top left to right: Mrs Pat Hackett, Mrs Marie Boswell, Miss Susan Lake, Mrs Downey. Below.. Mrs Sue Burke, Mrs Ruth Reid, Mrs Alice Gee.
LEGION REUNION The Legion of Mary annual general reunion will be held at the Stella Mans Seafarers Club, Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle on Sunday December 14 commencing at 2pm. All active and auxiliary members and their families and intending members are welcome. Members to bring cakes and sandwiches; tea and coffee provided.
COLUMBAN JUBILEE Over 1000 members of the WA Burmese community attended the variety concert and dinner in St Mark's hall to honour the golden jubilee of priesthood of Columban Father Bernard Way. Earlier, Mass was celebrated in St Mary's Cathedral by Father Way along with Bishop Healy, 20 priests and many friends. Father Way, originally from Melbourne, was one of four Columbans ordained in 1935 at Dalgan Park, Ireland by Bishop Galvin, a co-founder of the Columban Society. He was a pioneer member of the new Columban mission in 1936. The Japanese placed him under house arrest in the leper asylum in Mandalay during the Second World War. Father Way started a catechist school in the Kachin Hills and established a printing press to train Kachin boys to print catechisms and prayer books and eventually a diocesan magazine. He was the first Australian missionary priest in Burma and was there for 43 years.
CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE CHRISTMAS PARTY "Every person's life is a potential best seller," Mr Tom Hungerford, lecturer, journalist, public speaker, writer and guest speaker told 130 guests and members of the Catholic Women's League at their Christmas Party held at Chesterton Lodge, recently. Taking all down "memory lane" through the changing face of South Perth, from the days when he stood as a "fat little redheaded boy", watching from the very spot he now stood on, he traced the killing of calves, at Robert's Dairy, to the enthrallment of seeing Stan and Norm Brearly landing their aircraft on property nearby, finally brining the aircraft to rest in their "Hanger". Mr Hungerford urged all present to record their lives . . on tape. . . "At first it is difficult but the further you go, memories follow on from memories, triggering off the basis of best selling novels." The new Battye library has now a great oral library where "Life" can be lived in future generations to come, if we take that time of: Now," he said. — Pat Hackett
The SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE MISSION invite their friends, relatives, and past pupils to
Archdiocesan Calendar December 14: Fiftieth Anniversary of Sacred Heart Church, Bencubbin, Archbishop Foley. December 15: Installation of Acolytes, Kuhn — Kondinin Archbishop Foley. December 15: St Lucy Mass and Procession, Spearwood, Bishop Healy. December 21: Mass for Josephite Silver Jubilarians, South Perth, Archbishop Foley. December 22: Dedication of new parish church, Willetton, Archbishop Foley. Carols by Candlelight, Supreme Court Gardens, Archbishop Foley. December 29: Provincial Chapter Mass, Our Lady of Missions Sisters, Highgate, Archbishop Foley.
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