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Mourners light candles at St Mary's Cathedral after Mass was celebrated as part of a national day of mourning last Sunday. Father Deeter told the congregation that Australians can best honour the ' victims by making respect for human life their national priority.

Father Deeter places the Bali tragedy in context By Peter Rosengren Australians can best honour the Bali bomb victims by adopting as a national priority respect for human life at all its stages, Fr Timothy Deeter told motumers attending St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday morning. Mourners, including the Governor of Western Australia and state leaders, packed the cathedral to pray for the victims and families of the Bali bomb blasts. The Mass, celebrated by Cathedral Dean Monsignor Thomas MacDonald, was one of numerous services conducted across the nation on a national day of mourning for the dead and wounded. Fr Deeter told the congregation that

These are the principles which have among the principles which Australians must make national priorities must be a made Australia such a wonderful place to real love of freedom, not just license to do live, and which must be adopted anew, Fr whatever they please. Deeter said. The second principle should be a thirst Later Governor Sanderson participated for justice that especially considers the in a candle-lighting ceremony to comneeds of the weak and vulnerable who memorate the victims together with Mr need their fellow Australians to speak up Ripper, Mr Barmett and the US Consul Genfor them. eral Oscar de I . With Deputy Premier Eric Ripper sitting A representative from the US Navy also alongside opposition leader Colin Barnett participated in the candle lighting. in the fmnt pew, Fr Deeter told mourmers Fr Deeter told the congregation that God a third essential principle must be respect seen all that had transpired in Bali had in all its stages, in fIr life "in all s I wants to guide us and all people into "and complexity." all its simplicity and his ways of peace." Finally, there must be reverence for God, "Let us give God what belongs to God "God who is invoked at the beginning of love for His Word. our obedience to ur every session of Parliament, God who is commandments, our service to one Father of us all, regardless of race, creed or His S another." colour, God who weeps with us at the "Only in this way can Australia fulfil its sI .nseless slaughter of his children," Fr destiny he said. Deeter said.

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Youthful liturgy music Help Bali via Catholic to celebrate 30 years Mission projects The Shalomite group celebrates 30 port them to and from practices, lituryears of continuous music ministry at gies and other events. the North Perth Redemptorist One of the present members, Monastery on Sunday (October 27). Stephen Loss, recalls how the Sunday All present and past Shalomites and evening and liturgy has evolved. their families are invited to attend the "When I came to the monastery in 30th anniversary celebrations at the the early 80s, the 6pm Mass was clearmonastery for an afternoon tea ly targeted at youth, and the music reunion at 3pm, followed by a cele- contributed to a packed congregabration of 30 years of music ministry tion," he said. at the 6pm Mass followed by supper. "But 20 years later, we all seem to Three Redemptorist brothers have grown older, and although we formed the group in 1972 to provide still have the drums and electric guimusic and song for youth liturgies. tar, it Is now a family Mass." The founders, Brothers Luke Smith, The Shalomite singing and music Vin Dale and Kieran Holmes set it up have brought joy and life to the to appeal to young people. Its modern format of drums and elec- monastery liturgies. Stephen estimates that more than tric guitars helped members put a 150 people have been part of the Christian interpretation on popular Shalomites in the last 30 years. secular songs of the time. Many present members have been Group members also assisted the Redemptorists in missions in other committed to the group for more than 15 years. parishes, travelling as far as Darwin. "The Shalomites have touched the Every Christmas they staged a tableau - a Christmas story punctuat- lives of many people through the Mass and their direct involvement in the ed with music. The group comprised 10 to 20 young group. "It's fitting we celebrate our 30 years people for the first 10 years. It also functioned as a Catholic Youth Group. of achievement," he said. Many of its members were not old Further details of Sunday's events enough to hold a driver's licence and can be obtained from Stephen on 9339 the group bought a kombi bus to trans- 0619.

People wanting to make a contribution to the Balinese people in acknowledgement of their suffering as a result of the recent notorious bombing would do well to consider Catholic Mission's Remember the Children appeal. Catholic Mission funds a variety of projects in 22 dioceses in Indonesia. In the Catholic diocese of Denpasar, Bali, Catholic Mission is funding a Protection of Life campaign which has two main features. One is the construction of Photo' CNS/Fleuters a kindergarten, day care and feeding centre for 99 An Indonesian woman kneels In prayer on October 15 at the site of children. The second is a Sundip, a bomb blast at Kuta beach on the School program for 550 Indonesian resort island of Bali. children from 37 schools. As well as the many existing problems in Ball, the people of Ball are potentially facing high levels of unemployment and a serious reduction in economic activity as a result of the bombing. Large numbers of holiday bookings have been cancelled and new ones are not being made. People wanting to send messages of support and solidarity to Balinese parishes or to contribute financially should contact Francis or Michelle at Catholic Mission on 9325 5264.

A Righteous Gentile defends Pius XII Here The Record publishes a piece age the nuncio to protect Vatican on Pope Pius XII by University of [baptised] Jews,' explains Baranski, 'but as many persecuted perMississippi law professor RON sons as possible, in the ghetto or RYCHLAK. Author of HITLER, THE elsewhere.' The nuncio kept Pius WAR AND THE POPE, Rychlak has well informed of efforts undertakbeen studying Pius XII and the en in collaboration with other tense relations between the Holy embassies, including close work See and the Third Reich for the with Swedish diplomat and respast decade. cuer Raoul Wallenberg, who also Before the recent abuse scandal. was declared a Righteous Gentile perhaps the biggest ongoing conby Yad Vashem. troversy involving the Catholic Baranski, who says that he was Church had to do with Pope Pius 'fantastically near' to Wallenberg. XII and the relationship between reports that if Wallenberg were the Holy See and the Third Reich alive today, he would defend Pope during World War II. The Church Pius XII. In fact, Baranski explains is considering Pius for sainthood, that the Catholic Church collaboand the Vatican's investigating rated with Wallenberg in his resjudge has said there is an excellent cue efforts. 'Look, there was no case to be made. problem or disagreement whatsoPope John Paul II has called Pius ever between the Catholic Church 'a great Pope.' GoIda Meir and and Wallenberg. I personally numerous other Jewish leaders arranged unofficial, private meetfrom that era praised Pius for his ings between Wallenberg and support of victims during the HoloNuncio Rotta.' Baranski reports caust. Critics, however, claim he that Wallenberg 'knew Pius was turned a blind eye to Jewish sufon his side.' Rolla. Baranski. Walfering in the Holocaust. Some have lenberg and -- yes -- Pius XII even alleged that he was sympaworked together as a team. thetic to Hitler's cause. Baranski is now working on a Much of the debate centres on book about his life. It will be an the activities of papal nuncios and important contribution not only other Catholic officials around because of the firsthand history it Europe. It is indisputable that will set forth, but also because of Photo: CNS many of them risked their lives Pope Pius XII is pictured at prayer in an undated file photo. and more to protect Jewish victims Remembrance Authority) as a authorities at the Vatican, but they the morality and fundamental digfrom Nazi persecution. The debate Righteous Gentile for his rescue were handwritten ones by Pope nity of the author. He dismisses or in recent years has focused on work. Officially he saved 3000 Pius himself.' He goes on to note deflects praise offered to him: whether these rescuers acted on Jews. Unofficially he saved at least that 'all other nuncios of the Nazi- 'Look, dear professor - the good their own or at the behest of the that many more. occupied countries received simi- Lord was so humble to allow a litPope. Baranski worked closely with lar letters.' Italian Jews, for tle nobody (me) to work his lifeAccording to some accounts, Pius Angelo Rotta, papal nuncio in instance, were sheltered in monas- saving mission....' He also tells the sent instructions to his represen- Hungary during the war (who was teries, seminaries and other story of a Nazi who once asked tatives throughout Europe, telling also recognised by Yad Vashem as Church buildings on the 'direct him: 'Why do you, a Christian, protect and defend the Jews?' He them to do whatever they could to a Righteous Gentile). Baranski instruction of the Vatican.' replied bluntly: 'You are either help Jews and all who were suf- makes clear, however, that these Baranski explains that for Pius, fering. Many authors have noted lifesaving activities were not the the first and foremost concern was silly or an idiot. It is because I am that the similar activities under- lone actions of himself or Nuncio saving human lives. 'It was pre- a Christian that I help the Jews.' Baranski acknowledges that taken by different individuals in Rotta. 'I was really acting in accor- cisely because [Pius] wanted to remote areas suggest a common dance with the orders of Pope Pius help the Jews' that he refrained Catholics might have reasons to plan, but no copies of a letter from XII.' Charges that Pius was not from making repeated public con- apologise to Jews for things that Pius have surfaced and most of the Involved are 'simple lies; nothing demnations. Pius 'intervened in a have happened over the course of firsthand witnesses are long gone. else,' and claims that Pius should very balanced way,' trying to save history. He makes clear, however, Recently, however, an eyewitness have done more for the Jews are, lives without provoking retaliation. that the wartime Pontiff is not a with impeccable credentials has according to Baranski, 'slander- He did not, however, behave dif- leader for whom Catholics need to come forward to set the record ous.' ferently depending upon the sta- apologise. Baranski personally saw at least tus of the victims. Baranski notes straight. In fact he agrees with the recentTibor Baranski, executive secre- Iwo letters from Pius XII instruct- that these same concerns prevent- ly published opinion of Rabbi tary of the Jewish Protection Move- ing Rotta to do his very best to pro- ed the Pope from making repeat- David Dalin. Yad Vashem should ment of the Holy See in Hungary tect Jews but to refrain from ed public appeals when the Nazis recognise Pope Pius XII, along with during World War II, has been making statements that might pro- killed thousands of Catholic Baranski, Rotta and Wallenberg, honoured by Yad Vashem (Israel's voke the Nazis. He adds: 'These priests. as a Righteous Gentile. Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' two letters were not written by the 'The Pontiff did not only encour- Zenit

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Joondalup moves to ban prostitution T

he City of Joondalup has moved to prevent the establishment of any premises for prostitution in any part of the municipality. At its meeting on Tuesday October 15 the council carried a resolution to include a ban on bawdy houses in any part of the city regardless of the zoning of the land. The resolution was moved by Cr Mike O'Dea and seconded by Cr Chris Baker. It is an amendment under the Town Planning and Development Act and uses the definitions of `bawdy house' and 'acting as keeper of a bawdy house' from the Criminal Code. Crs O'Dea and Baker said the council's resolution should send a clear message to the State Government that prostitution is not an activity that would be welcome in family friendly municipalities such as loondalup. Cr Baker said that if other local governments followed Joondalup's example, the State Government would have to think carefully about its declared intention to force local governments to allow prostitution within their boundaries.

The government has declared its inten- to make the Government realise that prostion to legalise prostitution, but at the time titution cannot be made to fit within the of writing its Green Bill outlining the pro- principles of industrial relations or the posed laws for public discussion had not principles of occupational health and safebeen presented to parliament. ty. Regardless of that Bill, the City of Joon"Prostitution is a contradiction of all Labor dalup's ban on prostitution will have to be Party principles relating to the value and approved by the Minister for Planning, dignity of the individual worker and their Alannah McTiernan, before it could entitlement to fair working conditions free become law. of humiliation and degradation. Archbishop Barry Hickey has welcomed "I am surprised that the present State the City of Joondalup's decision. Government cannot see that its proposals "I hope that all local government's will are contrary to all the principles on which tell the State Government that they do not our society and its own political party were want prostitution within their boundaries," founded. "I have previously suggested to the govthe Archbishop said. "I am sure the Government believes it is ernment that it has a responsibility to give doing the right thing for the community, parliament a full and frank report on the but it is making a serious mistake. effects of prostitution on the women who "Prostitution is not a normal, healthy line are drawn into it. The information is availof work and no amount of legislation and able here in Western Australia, from other states and overseas. regulation can ever make it so. One of the more prominent madams in "Tomorrow morning (Friday. October 25) this city was recently reported as saying I will conduct a funeral service at Karthat at least half the women working in rakatta for a young woman whose death prostitution have mental health problems. was a direct outcome of her involvement "This statement alone should be enough in drugs and the sex industry. This is not a

unique or even unusual end to a life in prostitution. "Perhaps an honest report on the effects of prostitution is the only way for the Government to clarify its thinking on this subject. "It would be a betrayal of the principles of honest and accountable government to push the proposed legislation through parliament without giving the public a full account of what it means." The Australian Family Association also welcomed the City of Joondalup's decision. Spokesman Richard Egan urged other councils to look at what Joondalup has done and prepare to campaign vigorously against the government's proposal. The His last book: not myth of a 'nice' prostitution previously published has industry been exposed in other states.

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Combined churches urging prayers for peace he heads of churches in West- may be avoided, and that agreement Bunbury and Southern Region, hallmarks of every nation and comern Australia have made an on disarmament can be secured by David McCall and David Murray. the munity. T Their statement said: 'Too much Anglican Episcopal Assistant, urgent call for people to pray for diplomacy and negotiation.' peace this weekend. Sunday was chosen in advance of the Bali bombing as an international day of prayer for peace, and coincides with United Nations Day. They asked for communal prayer and intercession at customary worship services, and for people to visit churches for private prayer throughout the day. 'We hope people will meet in small groups in churches and in homes to pray particularly that war in Iraq

Expressing their condolences to people who lost family or friends in the Bali bombing, the church leaders said the tragedy had brought the plea for peace closer to home. They also asked for prayers for the healing of those who were injured. The ecumenical association of the heads of churches in WA comprises the Perth Catholic Archbishop Barry Hickey. the Anglican Primate of Australia and Archbishop of Perth, Peter Carnley, the Anglican Bishops of

Correction In The Record's report of the welcome to the Missionaries of Charity last week. the Melbourne superior of the order, Sr Josephine Maria, was incorrectly identified as Sr Lucy. The parish priest of Bentley, Fr Francis Ly. assisted Archbishop Hickey at the welcoming Mass, but did not concelebrate.

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blies of God. Mike Keating, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in WA and Australia. Father Abram Abdelmalek, Executive Minister of Churches of Christ in WA, Barry Austin. Moderator of the Uniting Church, Gemmel Sherwood, and coclerk of Religious Society of Friends, Rosemary Longhurst. In a communique, they said prayers would be for a world in which peace and justice were the

enmity has been created between peoples of different nationalities and faiths in recent times, and so we commit ourselves to pray for a new day of tolerance and goodwill.' They said there should also be prayers for peace in Jerusalem. 'What is most needed is the transformation of structures of injustice and of exclusion. 'In this process we can be faithful to the prophetic life and ministry of Jesus Christ.'

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Back from M ords the dead...

y father Terry married my mother Josephine on the February 11, 1950 in St Francis Xavier's church in Mel-

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This week by Terry McDonnell

bourne. Josephine McDonnell (nee Murphy) came from a simple suburban Catholic family where attending Mass on Sundays and regular family prayer were the norm. She thought that her new husband and family would naturally follow this pattern. Alas, as soon as they married she found her hard working husband had no time for prayer, church or any of the things that go with it. In fact Terry was at times violently opposed to any thing to do with religion. Soon Josie had nine children whom she raised alone in matters of the faith. She taught prayers and ensured that we received each sacrament as these milestones came up. From a very early age I can recall her ushering us children together into a corner somewhere so

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cotland has produced some of the finest Christian writers of children's literature. We think immediately of Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M.Barry and, in our own time, J.K.Rowling. But one of the finest, a writer once considered the equal of Charles Dickens, was George MacDonald (1824-1905). His poetry was admired by Tennyson. Chesterton considered MacDonald a man of genius and called him the St Francis of Aberdeen. He was also admired by C.S.Lewis and Tolkien both of whom acknowledged an intellectual and spiritual debt to him and were inspired to write children's literature from reading MacDonald's own adventure and fairy stories. He was a friend of Lewis Carroll. The Alice in Wonderland books were read aloud to MacDonald by the author long before they were published. MacDonald was trained and served for a short while as a Congregationalist minister, but partly from ill-health and partly from theological considerations he retired to concentrate on his many books. Among the most famous for children, still popular today, are At the Back of the North Wind, and The Princess and the Goblin. He had great spiritual insight and an awareness of the Divine in nature. One of MacDonald's loveliest short stories which demonstrates his gentle wisdom concerns a village schoolmaster anxiously awaiting the birth of his child. The night is bitterly cold and he dozes before the fire. A knock at the door - is he dreaming? - and when he opens it he finds an abandoned child whom he takes in and tends: "When he had undressed and bathed the little orphan, and having dried him on his knees, set him down to reach for something warm to wrap him in, the boy suddenly looked up in his face, as if revived, and said with a heavenly smile, 'I am the child Jesus.' The child Jesus!' said the dreamer, astonished. 'Thou are like any other child.' No don't say that,' returned the boy; 'but say, Any other child is like me.'"

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that we could quietly say our evening family prayers. And apart from the every day ones like 'Angel of God', the 'The Hail Mary',' the Our Father' and pray for this or that, the one prayer that stuck in my mind was. "Please God grant Dad the gift of Faith". As the years went by I can recall saying to her "Mum you're wasting your time". To this she always replied "Terrence, all prayers are answered and God will answer them when he Is ready." We used to say "look Mum, it's been 40 years and, if anything, Dad is worse than he ever was." Anyhow, one day in 1983 Dad was having an eye operation at St John's in Subiaco when he died on the operating table. He was revived and soon recovered enough to be sent home. When he came home Mum had a different husband. Here was a gentle, passive man who didn't raise his voice any more, who told a story of a dream he had had during the operation where he visited this beautiful, bright place where his mother (whom he hadn't seen since she was killed by a Melbourne tram in 1938 when he was 14 years old) and others who loved him were present. The story finished with the disappointed statement "they made me come back". Mum didn't know what to make of this development but was happy when Dad asked to see the local priest after which he went to Confession and received Holy Communion. He also asked to see various members of the family to tell them he was sorry for things he had done or said years before (so long ago that most had thought he would have forgotten). On April 26. 1984 again at St John of God in Subiaco, Dad died: this time he didn't come back I don't think he had any reason to, now he had the gift of faith. And they didn't have to send him back.

The world's getting more anti-religious? Look again Christianity is exploding in three continents, says convert priest expert

By Father Richard John Neuhaus We have all heard it said that the war on terrorism pits liberal democracy against religious fanaticism. There is a measure of truth in that. Others say the conflict is between a secular understanding of society and a society defined by religiously based morality. That, I suggest, is both untrue and dangerous. It is untrue because it ignores how, as a matter of historical fact, liberal democracy came to be. It is dangerous because it pits liberal democracy against a world that is, as a matter of present fact, overwhelmingly religious, and becoming more so. Taking the second fact first, the extraordinary thing happening on planet Earth today is the de-secularisation of world history. This is not how things were supposed to have turned out. Since the rise of modernity and up until very recently, most intellectuals assumed that there was a necessary connection between modernity and secularisation. As people become more modern, more educated, more enlightened, religion will either disappear or will be confined to the purely private sphere of life. In this way of telling the story, religion becomes, in the words of philosopher William James, "what a man does with his solitude." Ills no longer a public factor that "interferes" with the way we order our life together through culture, laws and politics. That way of telling the story dominates our textbooks from grade school through graduate school. Until recently, sociologists of religion were puzzled by what they called "American exceptionalism." The US is the most modern nation in the world, yet it is also strongly religious. It violates the rule that modernity - and modernity's political expression in liberal democracy - goes hand in hand with secularisation. Some of those same sociologists have now decided that the rule was wrong. For instance, Peter Berger of Boston University now speaks of the "exceptionalism" of Western Europe, for Western Europe (and North American intellectuals who take their cues from Europe) sticks out as the secular exception in a world that is becoming ever

A Muslim man prays at the Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield, Indiana on September 21. Photo. CNSI.lenrufer Del Vectuo. The Chterfon

more religious. Since September 11, 2001, we are newly aware of the more than a billion Muslims in the world who, sometimes with suicidal zeal, reject what they view as the secularism of the West. Given a choice between Islam and democratic modernity, they will choose Islam. If the choice is between religion and liberal democracy, the war on terrorism will go on and on with no end in sight. The same phenomenon Is evident in India with newly politicised forms of Hinduism. But the most overlooked part of this global picture is the explosion of Christianity, especially in Latin America, Africa and Asia. This is vividly described by Philip Jenkins in his new book The Next Christendom. Most of us think of Christianity as a European import, but the rapidly growing Christian movement, which now has 2.5 billion adherents, is mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. Within a few years, three-quarters of the Christians in the world will be "people of colour." They are no more likely than Muslims to embrace liberal democracy if it comes

at the price of accepting secularism. Suddenly, Western Europe looks like an island of secularism in a sea of global religion. The de-secularising of world history is an aspect of globalisation generally neglected in current discussions. The great question is whether modernity and liberal democracy can be secured in ways compatible with vibrant religious faith. That question is answered by remembering how, in historical fact, these achievements were secured. While modernity and democracy sometimes met with ecclesiastical resistance, they were generally inspired by religious conviction. From the Magna Carta in 1215 through the Cromwellian revolution to the Declaration of Independence and its appeal to "Nature and Nature's God," the champions of freedom have invoked transcendent truth in the vindication of their cause. Michael Novak's recent book. On Two Wings, documents the deep religious convictions that shaped the thinking of the American founders in launching the world's oldest and most influential experiment in liberal democracy. It is a way of thinking that has been largely omitted from our bowdlerised textbook tellings of the story of democracy. Accurately told, it becomes evident that religion is not the enemy but the foundation of modernity and freedom. There is probably not, for instance, a more comprehensive contemporary argument for a democratic, free and just society than Pope John Paul ll's 1991 encyclical, Centesimus Amius (A Hundred Years,marking the centenary of modern Catholic social teaching). Can Islam produce a comparable religious argument in support of modernity and democracy? The answer is that we do not know. We must hope and pray that it can and will. But this we do know: If Ills true, as some still say, that liberal democracy is inseparable from secularism, liberal democracy has a very dim future in a world of resurgent religion. FR NEUHAUS, a former Lutheran minister, is editor in chief of First Things and author of The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America.

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The Family

24 October, 2002

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ome public perceptions label the Family Law Court as operating against Catholic principles. However, there is a line of thought that it is Christian, in that it helps resolve differences with a fairness that otherwise would seem to be insoluble. Jane Power, Family Law Court lawyer and a lecturer at Notre Dame, Fremantle, said this at a forum on marriage breakdown organised last week by the Fremantle Branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross. The Knights have organised the forums to collate information in preparation of a case to lobby Canberra for law reform, including the abandonment of the adversarial system of the Family Law Court and the introduction of a more user-friendly arbitration system. The third speaker, Father Geoffrey Beyer of the Perth Archdiocese Metropolitan Marriage Tribunal Is due to address a forum tonight (Thursday, October 24). The forums have been held at 7.30pm in the parish hall of the East Fremantle parish, at the corner of Canning Highway and Preston Point Road.

Mrs Power said that since the parent orders or contact orders. with fairness. In those cases The terms 'residential parent' and lawyers normally recommended amendments in 1995, the court 'contact' were new ones intro- counselling from an independent leaned in favour of non-residenduced by major amendments to body to bring the parties together tial parents. This assertion was contrary to the Family Law Act in 1995, that in an agreement. However, there were also cases that put by Kevin Fahie, of the replaced terms used initially such where the couple was so alienat- Men's Confraternity, who delivas custodial parent and access. The terminology was designed ed only a court order could ered the first lecture in the threepart forum the previous week. to diminish the harsher terms resolve the difference. She said there was also now an It was important to have this used previously and which had facility, and there seemed no emphasis on parenting agreeled to misconceptions. ments either ratified by the court Major problems that the public alternative. It was also important to have or simply agreed among the parperceived in family law resulted from clients refusing to take divergent opinions - that there be ties and their legal counsel. These had removed many of the advice from their legal counsel or organisations such as the Men's Confraternity - to put a variety of previous problems associated from the court. Jane Power with court orders. They were a misunderstanding views. Mrs Power, a practising Catholic of the court's attempts to be and mother of three children fair, or generated by a selfattending Catholic schools as well interest and loss of assets, as a practising lawyer in family compounded by the trauma law, said the Family Court did not of the failure of the marriage. Mediation was still a key tell people to marry - or to sepafor legal counsel involved in rate. It did all in its power to recon- the court and in the court's cile alienated couples, but its pri- function in dealing with mary function was to ensure the alienated couples. Sometimes a lawyer can welfare of children when separasee that couples have only tion occurred. Interested in learning about your faith, studying Mrs Power said most public per- minor differences and that ceptions resulted from people dis- while those differences pretheology or in professional development? property vented couples from staying over gruntled settlements - the division of the together, they could be easiUnits of study available include: Church History, Biblical family assets - and residential ly and satisfactorily resolved Studies, Moral Theology, Systematic Theology, Philosophy, Ethics and Pastoral Theology.

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most-needed apostolates today is that which helps families in difficulty, especially by fostering their spiritual lives and getting members to talk to one another, says John Paul H. The Pope made this appeal on Friday when he met with the participants of the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family, presided over by Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo. The assembly met on October 17-19 and focussed on the topic Family Pastoral Care and Couples in Difficulty. "In an increasingly secularised world, it is ever more important that the believing family acquire a consciousness of its own vocation and mission," the Holy Father said. "In every context and circumstance, the point of departure for this consists in safeguarding and intensifying prayer, an incessant prayer to the Lord to

increase one's faith and make it more vigorous," he added. "As I wrote in the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae. published on Wednesday at the beginning of the 25th year of this pontificate: The family that prays together, stays together,'" the Pope noted. "It is true that, when one lives through particular moments, science can offer good help, but nothing can replace an ardent. personal and confident faith that is open to the Lord," John Paul II stressed. "Prayer, frequent recourse to the sacrament of reconciliation, to spiritual direction, must never be abandoned, replacing them with other techniques of human and psychological support." the Holy Father warned. He continued: "Family help to couples, especially young ones, by families who are spiritually and morally solid" has become one of the most important apostolates "at this historic time."

This apostolate must pay special attention to the fostering of dialogue, the Pope continued. "Often, there is no time to live and talk within the family," he said. "Many times parents do not feel prepared and they are even afraid to assume, as is their duty, the task of the integral education of their children. It might be that the latter, precisely because of the lack of dialogue, feel serious obstacles when it comes to seeing in their parents authentic models to imitate and look elsewhere for models and lifestyles, which are often false and harmful to the dignity of man and to authentic love." The Holy Father added: "The trivialisation of sex, in a society saturated with eroticism, and the lack of reference to ethical principles, can ruin the life of children, adolescents and youth, impeding them from being formed in a responsible, mature love andin the harmonious development of their personality."

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PRINCIPALS WANALIRRI CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIBB RIVER Wanalim Catholic School is located on Gibb River Station in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The school was established in 1991 after parents asked the Bishop to provide a school for their children. The Our Lady of the Missions Sisters first commenced lessons in an old corrugated iron station house, which was replaced by excellent facilities in 1993. The Sisters remained at the school for ten years; the first lay principal was appointed in 2001. The school currently has an enrolment of 25 children in two primary classes. The children follow a balanced, challenging program that addresses their spiritual, physical, social and intellectual needs. Wanalirri Catholic School was one of just seven Western Australian schools to receive an Achievement Award at the 2002 National Literacy and Numeracy Week Awards. The school's curriculum is developed through a whole-school approach that combines best practice in learning, teaching and assessment for the Aboriginal children.

Warning of threat to the family VATICAN CITY, October 20,2002 (Zenit.org).- A dren and the family as a whole," he lamented. At "cultural manipulation" that tries to bestow cred- a "most difficult historical time for the survival of ibility on cohabiting and same-sex couples is seri- the family and of its human reality, the institution ously threatening the survival of the family, a of the family continues to be a necessary good and an important truth, the basis and foundation cardinal warns. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo gave that warn- of human coexistence," the cardinal continued. This is why the Church hopes to safeguard "the ing Friday at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family, of which he is family from a secularised culture that presents, president. He highlighted the grave dangers the ambiguously, reasons and justifications for iniquitous laws." fundamental cell of society is facing. That's why the Pontifical Council for the Family This is "a most difficult historical time for the preparing a 1000-page lexicon which includes is said. the cardinal family," the survival of The family is endangered by a "cultural manip- "90 ambiguous terms used by various parliaments ulation that has reached the point of recognising worldwide, when they debate and legislate on the de facto couples and homosexual couples with topic of the family," the cardinal said. the same rights as homes with civil or sacramental marriages," he warned. The meeting focused on the topic Family Pastoral Care and Couples in Difficulty. It was attended by cardinals and bishops of the executive committee of the pontifical council, as well as married couples who are members of the Vatican organisation and expert consultants. "Under the cultural profile," Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said, "the family is presented today as an METHO O VULAT I ON obstacle for a woman's fulfilment, assuming that in as wife and mother there is discrimination her Learn how to ACHIEVE or AVOID PREGNANCY integration in society and politics." - NATURALLY. "Marriage is regarded as a private event, dissoA BillingsTeacher can show you how! ciated from any commitment or responsibility in www.woomb.org Phone 9337 8737 relation to a spouse and more generally to chil-

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error, tragedy, fear. In the wake of terrorist attacks that have plucked away so many innocent lives, every member of our community looks urgently for safety Not just safety from the killing. Safety from fear. The fear that our world is changing. The fear that our lives may be turned upside down by the pressure of forces way beyond our control. It's a brave person - or at least, an independent-minded person - who can stand in the face of all this terrorist-induced anxiety and say - fear not. Yet that is the essential Christian message for our times. Each Christian is called to say exactly this: in the words of the Saviour, be not afraid. If we can say these words with conviction, today's troubled times can actually be turned to good. They can become fruitful times. C S Lewis said that during times of war, it was far easier to speak of the things of faith than it was at any other time.

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Suddenly, people who never thought about God were anxious to know everything that they can about Him. That's why I believe that times of crisis, for the Christian, are a time to evangelise. Some of us, though, might feel rather unsettled by that thought. After all, as people who usually like to be respectful of others' feelings, we think we can see good reasons why we shouldn't "use" such a time to evangelise. Maybe it's being "insensitive." We're fearful that we may be seen as shoving a religious message down people's throats just when they happen to be psychologically or emotionally vulnerable because of tragic circumstance. So it might seem easier to just go our own way, saying our prayers and going to church and not wanting to bother anybody with our doctrines. As we do, much of the time. But if we use reasoning like this to avoid evangelising, I think we're missing the point. We're also missing the Christian calling. Above all, we're failing to offer to our

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lie theme of the scriptures this 'Listen, Israel, Yahweh our God is the one week is clear and simple. To love Yahweh. You shall love Yahweh your God God and love our neighbour as with all your heart, with all your soul, ourselves. with all your strength' He is speaking In the first reading, Exodus 22:20-26, about 'love' as not a feeling but a matter the command to love is given to the peo- of faithfulness to God's covenant and ple of Israel. God has pity on those less therefore love as a commitment and a fortunate and his message to the decision. To will and to do. Israelites and to us is quite clear. To treat St Augustine, Bishop and doctor, in his these people badly or to ignore them in homily on this scripture says that, 'if a their need, will provoke the anger of God man loves his neighbour, then he will who listens to and defends the poor. also love God; for it is from one and the The Responsorial Psalm 17:24, 4Z 51. same love that we love God and our The Psalmist knew the saving hand of neighbour; God, however, for his own God. 'When I call I am saved from my sake, ourselves and our neighbour for foes. I love you Lord my strength.' He God's sake.' places himself in the company of the To love ourselves is not with selfish, people of God who had been oppressed self-consuming, self-interested love, but and had experienced God's help. to love, respect and accept ourselves as We too may have needed to take refuge God loves respects and accepts us. In our God, and we too praise Him. Scripture scholars tell us that Jesus The second reading, 1 Thessalonians meant, in this commandment, to love 1:5-10. St Paul says that the sort of life he each person in our lives with the same and those with him lived when they were love, respect and acceptance that we In Thessalonika led the people to receive from God. Treat them as we want become imitators of them and of the Lord to be treated. and so take to the gospel. Now, he says, Let us ask God to show us which perthese people themselves have become son in our lives we are not treating in this the example for others. This reading way. challenges us now to take upon ourSt Augustine continues to give us good selves this same message. The way we practical instruction in his homily. 'We live affects others. Are we an example? have nothing with which we can help The Gospel, Matthew 22:34-40 sets God. But since we have what can help before us how we need to live. our neighbour, giving to those in need The Pharisees tried to disconcert Jesus we shall be blessed by Him who by asking the question, "Master, which is abounds in all things.... some have the greatest commandment of the Law?' money, let them feed the poor, clothe the Jesus said, 'You must love the Lord your naked, build a church.., others have the God with all your heart, with all your gift of counsel, let them be a guide to soul, and with all your mind. This is the their neighbour... others have a store of greatest and first commandment. The doctrine, let them nourish their fellow second resembles it; you must love your servants.., even the poor can give one neighbour as yourself. On these two another, some may lend their feet to the commandments hang the whole Law lame, others6 their eyes as guides to the and the Prophets also'. blind, another to visit the sick.' Jesus makes the Law itself depend on Yes in loving others we love God himdeeds of love. In citing Deuteronomy 6:5, self. Page 6

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confused and suffering world a positive innocent life, as happened at Bali. People message that it desperately wants and have questions about these things, and as needs to hear. Christians it's a primary duty for us to be At times like this, after the worst terror- prepared now to help them with the ist attack on our own citizens in history, answers. Australians are earnestly looking for Of course, we DON'T want to shove theanswers and for meaning in what is going ological propositions on to people who on around them. haven't asked for them. But we should be What Christianity can offer people is an prepared to witness, in conversations, to end to the fear that is taking over their the fact that suffering has a meaning, minds, sometimes to an irrational degree. according to our belief - and that in our "Theology is sanity," a late great defender Saviour, we believe life is eternal. of the Catholic faith, Frank Sheed, used to Again and again, being able to do this say. comes down to each of us as Christians And he was right. More than ever, the having an intelligent, grown-up underconfusion and suffering in the world today highlight the need for each of us to have a standing of what the teachings about death, sane approach to the larger meaning of suffering and eternal life actually are. We need to read about them and meditate on human life. Christianity provides that sanity by giv- them. The more we understand, the more clearing us a larger context both for our lives on earth, and, perhaps even more important, ly we will see that these are messages the world wants to hear. Despite the hostility our deaths. It gives us a larger context in which to some people feel towards Christianity, we view the trials and tribulations of this earth- will know in our own minds that our faith ly existence, including the tragic, sudden has a message that is good for others. and apparently senseless taking away of It's a message we will want to share.

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sn't it interesting how silly some very important questions can sound? Questions like 'What is the importance of Mary'? To be sure I am understood,I have to add 'the mother of Jesus' and then it seems as though I have answered my own question. If only it were that simple. Important questions never seem satisfied with easy answers. If an easy answer is good enough then, perhaps, the question isn't really all that important. A mother knows the difference between 'What's for tea Mum?' and 'What's for tea Mum. I'm starving?' If Mary's importance lay in the fact that she was the mother of Jesus, important as that is, then the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary might not be so long. It seemed to me, as a young altar boy, to be very long indeed. A search through the Litany didn't provide a satisfying answer to my question but it did provide some curiosity for me later in life when I found that `Kwan Yin' an Asian divine mother figure, was also known as 'Morning Star' and 'Star of the Sea'. As so often happens, it was in pursuit of something different - a meditation on the Lord' s Prayer - that an answer, which seemed satisfactory, appeared. Consider the four words Thy will be done'. Jesus spoke those words in Gethsemene and without them who could speculate on the alternative outcome - no crucifixion, no redemption....? They were, of course, pre-emptively said by Mary as a young girl, mid-teens and betrothed to Joseph. She said them to God's angel - 'be it done unto me according to thy word'. Fiat! Abraham was tested with the proposition of the sacrifice of Isaac and he submitted to God's will (with a heavy heart) but the event was not completed. In the case of Mary it was. Jesus was God and man. Mary was human, not divine and therein lies the difference between the 'Fiat' of Mary and that of her Son. At creation, humanity, made in the image and likeness of God, walked and talked with God on earth and lived according to God's will. After the fall, humanity lived according to humanity's will - much as we do today. It was not until Mary that a human lived in unquestioning acceptance of God's will and was, therefore, sinless.

The Assumption is depicted in this stained-glass window at Notre-Dame du Sacre-Coeur in Quebec. The holy day of obligation, celebrated Aug. 15, commemorates the taking into heaven of Mary -- soul and body — at the end of her life on earth. Photo: CNS/Crosters

She was the only human who could say, unequivocally, Thy will be done' and thus trigger the redemptive process so long on offer to humanity. Jesus, fully human, was, also, Divine. Mary was fully human. Without Mary, God' s redemptive plan would have unfolded differently. With Mary, our excuse that we don't live in God's will because we are only human disappeared. She is the human exemplar to all mankind; we can say Thy will be done'. We, too, can emulate her acceptance of God's will in our life, the sorrow and the joy, and, the closer we get to her example, the closer we will get to 'walking and talking with God'. This, surely, is the importance of Mary

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our report on the weeping statue dated September 12 (Rockingham Hits the News) was sent to me here In the UK by my Sister Mrs J Mills at Dongara. The news of the above did indeed come across on our radio much to my surprise. Since 1972 I have been visiting my sister and family at intervals of five years or so and came in 1992-93 once again. Then, they lived just a few streets away from the Rockingham church and we went to Sunday Mass quite a few times there. Father Walsh said Mass several times during my stay and Our Lady was almost always mentioned in his sermons. There was one particular sermon that touched me very strongly when his praise of Our Lady continued throughout and his sincerity was beyond question. I would say to Father Brian Boyle that he is quite right, the weeping statue could be explained by any number of reasons and probably will be, but could it just be Our Lady's way of thanking Father Walsh for his devotion? M j Southall Solihull, West Midlands, England

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e concerns of your correspondent TI 114rs V Samson (The Record, October 10) will have resonated with the concerns

of many other Catholic parents who are facing the question of secondary schooling for their children. Mrs Samson is very properly anxious to find a Catholic school that will support her efforts and those of her husband to effectively evangelise her children. Her call for an open, honest discussion of problems facing Catholic education was taken up by Paul Kelly, Religious Education co-ordinator at Aquinas College (The Record. October 17, 2002). PO Box 75. Leedersdille. WA 6902 I was impressed with his response and Tel: (08) 9227 7080, Fax: (08) 9227 7087 would encourage readers to go back to cathrecglinetnetzu both these letters and consider them carefully. Mr Kelly tackled the challenge headon and was refreshingly candid and professional. It seemed to me that his take-home mes- by the sexualisation of the young. Her sage would support this view: most cer- emphasis was on the intense and longtainly furnish your religious education term damage of sexual abuse, but there teachers with the very best syllabus and is a more insidious and generalised abuse carefully-structured lesson plans but occurring all through our society understand that all of these are of little use It starts with sex education in the schools, unless the teacher has a bright and happy is continued and re-inforced on our personality and possesses fire in the belly screens, radio stations and magazine covand an enthusiasm for his faith that his or ers, is seen in today's fashions, and shows her students will want to share. its true fruit in high ratios of abortion, STD All religious education should be given and sexual activity in the young rates. by teachers no less specialist and carefulToday's children have lost their innoly-selected than those chosen to teach lit- cence, and once lost it can never be erature and mathematics. regained. There is no place for sex educaGiven the importance of the challenge tion before the age of 12 or 13 years, and raised by Mrs Samson it would be good to there never really was. Let them be young see more on the topic from Paul Kelly. and innocent as long as possible! Since this correspondence is centred on Mrs Carol V. Phillips the effectiveness of current strategies for Bmswood evangelising Catholic youth,Iwill as a final comment refer to several models that are successful and used locally to evangelise Tr hank you to Mr P Kelly for such a youth by youth. .1. thought-provoking reply to my letter in Irefer to the Disciples of Jesus Youth Mission Team which comprises young men (The Record, October 10).Iagree with your and women (often recent graduates and observations and comments and, yes, the students and from all sorts of backgrounds) institution is in crisis. Your solution of who give up a year of their time to lead a recruiting strong Catholic teachers to teach dedicated community life and who offer the faith would be wonderful. So authorities, what are we waiting for? one, two and time day retreats to young Catholic students. This has been function- A continuation of the disaster we now ing in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney for have? Again, another year 12 group leaves the about 10 years and has had remarkable system! I do hope to hear from some prinsuccess. A similar idea using youth to evangelise cipals regarding how we could get the focus youth is at the heart of the Kairos/Cursillo back on to why we have Catholic schools. model recently brought to Perth. I can If they are silent, that is a real worry to parunderstand the concerns that Mrs Samson ents. Some more RE co-ordinators may also has. Nevertheless I remain hopeful in the respond. So I watch and wait and do hope knowledge that there are dedicated teach- that people see this as an important topic. ers such as Paul Kelly, as well as wonder- Otherwise what is the point of the system? ful young role models and teachers as V. Samson found in the Youth Mission Team and Hamersley Kairos. Gerard Leahy Mount Lawley ently, Dr John Happs of the WA ceptics Society was invited to address our local group of the University of the attended a recent censorship forum, Third Age. 'where four speakers addressed various He commenced by debunking a host of censorship issues. quacks and charlatans, ranging from astrolI was struck most by a speaker who was ogists, mediums and psychics through to a counsellor for sexual abuse victims. Her the humble water diviner. testimony brought home poignantly to me, He entertained his audience with some at least, the phenomenal harm being done glib explanations and scored a few laughs

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at the expense of some simpletons and the humiliation of wives of clients, the inexpert practitioners of the black arts. destruction of self respect for some of the He then ridiculed the weeping statue at clients, and the destruction of normal sexOur Lady of Lourdes at length, telling the ual relationships and self respect for the company it was yet another piece of fak- girls who indulge in it Prostitution drives ery, filled with olive oil and programmed those who engage in it to drugs. to release the oil from minute holes adjoinAn article in The Sunday Times recently ing the lids. Fortunately, (for me)Ihad ear- reported on a young woman who had a lier been asked by our facilitator to propose great future ahead of her but became a vote of thanks to the visiting speaker trapped in the world of drugs and then whichI heartily agreed to. took to prostitution to pay for her addicI commenced by asking whether he was tion. The deadly combination resulted in aware of the test results on the statue con- her death. ducted at Murdoch University? If anyone would like to know what hapHe said he had heard of some report but pens to girls who get into this way of life I dismissed it as inconclusive and would not recommend they speak to Linda Watson of admit the statue had not been tampered Linda's House of Hope. with.Ithen asked would he agree to a simLinda herself was a prostitute and a ple test to resolve its authenticity? "What, madam but has turned full circle and helps the statue?" he asked. "No, the statue's women and girls who want to get out of the tears" I answered, and produced a small industry. She has seen it all and will dispel sachet from my top pocket and invited him any thoughts that this is not a destructive to open it and smell the contents. Some- way of life. what puzzled, he finally concluded, "It The secular media, perhaps with smells of flowers" approval from the government, appears to I later thanked him for his co-operation be pushing the view of Mary-Anne Kenbefore leaving the meeting. Regrettably, worthy, proprietor of Langtries, as the after a lifetime of smoking up until last acceptable one. Christmas,Ican no longer smell the beauAs Christians we must resist any and tiful perfume growing fainter after a month every attempt to allow this to happen. Prosor more. The Lord does indeed move in titution should not be allowed to be regardmysterious ways. ed as just another option for those seeking lawful employment. Miller Patrick I believe that the Labor Party allows its Nollamara members to have a conscience vote on legislation that deals with life and death. If this is so then all those government members take this opportunity to write and con- who are Catholics are bound by their faith gratulate you on the continuing high to put these Bills in that category, and to standard of our Catholic weekly newspa- speak against them during debates and to per, as Archbishop Barry Hickey has vote against them when the time comes. described it. We must remember that our faith is a way We have a need to be kept well-informed of life, not a pastime or a Sunday obligaon what is occurring in the Church locally, tion. nationally and internationally, and this is Terry Ryan what The Recordis doing. In particular, the Thornlie new feature of Dear Padre is most helpful in explaining matters that a lot of people have been asking about for years. We in our parish are most fortunate to rr he Christian tradition has a great deal have two priests who explain a lot of these Ito offer those wishing to gain a greater matters in their homilies, where previous- understanding of themselves. ly those matters seemed to be spoken about Ihave found the following to be very effecIn homilies given in churches such as the tive - kneeling before Jesus in the Blessed Redemptorist Monastery at North Perth, Sacrament and meditating upon the simand few others. I feel that we have been ple words of St Francis of Assisi: "Who are 'starving' for a long time for discussions you, 0 God, and who am I?", daily Mass that appear and are explained in Dear and reception of Holy Communion, frePadre. It is a pity that more space could not quent Confession and daily spiritual readbe given in The Record for more questions. ing from Sacred Scripture and the Saints. Keep up the good work and I repeat my WhileIhave a long way to go in my spirthanks for a most interesting newspaper. itual journey,I find the words of the Fathers of Vatican II so true - "Christ ... fully reveals Mick Dwyer man to himself and brings to light his most Ocean Reef high calling." If I have Jesus, what more could I possibly need? Anne-Marie Langdon refer to your report on Raymond de Duncraig Souza's very successful Apologetics speaking tour of the US. It was great to learn that a Perth Catholic was able to "enrapture a crowd of 1600 Catholics with ive God the things that are God's. This deep insights into the Faith, and solutions message came home loud and strong to the scandal-hit American Church with last weekend at an early memorial Mass his 'Angelic Warfare in the Sanctuary' and that we attended. receive three standing ovations". It is a timeless message, one that we all Who is this gentleman and how come we need to be reminded of from time to time, hear so little of him? Why aren't our especially in moments of devastating trauCatholic schools and parishes benefitting ma. from his knowledge and experience? Could How helpless have we all felt over the it be because no one is a prophet in his past week or so? Wondering what we can own city? contribute to make a difference, to show people we feel deeply for them, to help the Alwine Stuur grieving, the injured, the Balinese? Dianella Natural feelings, which have prompted Raymond de SOUTAI can be heard on Radio most of us to physically do something, Fremantle 107.9 FM on Sunday evenings whether it be prayer or the giving of help at 7.30pm. and support in a myriad of ways. I was touched deeply, however, by the sermon at Mass during which the priest he State Government will soon be talked about us all belonging to God. He created us, He lives within us and we Introducing bills to legalise prostitution and also to soften the laws on cannabis. are His. All who were killed, devastatingly I believe that as Catholics we are bound injured, those whose livelihood has been by our faith to take a stand against such affected, the families of the victims, all belong to God. destructive and life destroying bills. While we need to become physically Cannabis is quite often portrayed as a "soft" or "recreational" drug and this is the involved and support in whatever way we most dangerous thing about the substance can, perhaps we can try and give over our dead, injured and suffering to God. because many people believe it. Perhaps we can try to trust God to bring Cannabis plays havoc with the reproductive system, the mind and the lungs just to some good out of an appalling situation. I can understand how grieving families mention some of its destructive properties. Many heroin, amphetamine and other could ask "where was God?," "why did He allow this to happen?." But I truly believe drug addicts started out on cannabis. If you haven't done any research on it, that God is the love within the world, withthenI suggest now is the time to do so and in us, not the hate, or the misguided beliefs. Loving those around us, appreciating our effectively lobby members of Parliament families, our health, our very lives, is a poswhile there is still time. Prostitution is a soul-destroying occupa- itive, God within us gesture and one which tion. It destroys the prostitute, the families can only help to work towards a better of the clients, indeed society. It is not just world. about a man paying a girl to relieve his sex- Penny Pitman ual desire. It-is about destroying marriages, • Golden- Bay

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Father Chris Ross, a Mandorla committee member, Brother Stephen Barker OSM the Servite Superior for Australia, and Mrs McKay, wife of the Annunziata Prize winner with the winning painting, The Enigma of Christ, an oil on aluminium.

rominent Western Australian artist, Brian -)McKay has won the coveted Annunziata k. Prize in the Mandorla Art Award for 2002. His work, The Enigma of Christ, an oil on aluminium, was judged the best of the 178 works displayed. The WA Governor, Lieutenant General John Sanderson announced the award and other prize winners while officially opening the exhibition at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, at Notre Dame University, Fremantle last week. Mrs McKay accepted the award in the absence of her husband who is overseas. The $10,000 prize donated by the Servite Order In Australia and the United States and named after the order's first church in Florence. Italy, can be in the form of cash or more customarily is taken in the form of a grant for air travel to Umbria, in Italy, two months accommodation and studio space in the nearby hills. A $500 prize donated by Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey went to Glen Hughes for her work. Continuum, a mixed media contribution. Hughes. who became ill just before completing the painting and submitting it for judging, said she had finished it while lying on her back while convalescing. Cedric Baxter, a former political cartoonist from The West Australian newspaper and journalism's Walkley Award winner, won the Hughes-Foley highly commended award. His Milligan's Christ, an acrylic collage was Inspired by Christ, his fondness for the St Kilda AFL club and a quote from comedian. Spike Milligan. Theme of the competition was Images of Christ: Jesus the Messiah (Matt 17:5): Jesus the Healer and Liberator (Luke 4:16-21) and The Cosmic Christ (John 11:25-27). Judges for the exhibition comprised Paola Anselmi, curator of the Royal Perth Hospital art collection. Dr Ian Bernadt, patron of the Art Gallery of WA. and Rachael Kohn, presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National reli-

Lt Gen Sanderson said visionary painters and sculptors have expressed the Christian community's spiritual traditions for more than 2000 years. gious broadcasts The Spirit of Things. The exhibition is open to the public from 10am to 5pm daily until Sunday, November 3. A selection of 30 painting will then be displayed at New Norcia Art Gallery from November 9. The Mandorla was begun in 1985. when a group of art enthusiasts formed a committee to promote religious art. Father Chris Ross OSM said the enthusiasts were concerned that art awards were made for every-

One of the judges, Rachael Kohn, addresses the crowd at the award ceremony

thing from the -obscene to the obscure" and that there was nothing to encourage religious art. It was held annually for the first eight years, but is now every two years. This year's exhibition is the 12th. Opening the exhibition, Lt Gen Sanderson said visionary painters and sculptors have expressed the Christian community's spiritual traditions for more than 2000 years. Their work helped explain Christ to the soul in ways that theological treatises could not. it Gen Sanderson said: "Images of His face are everywhere and despite being perhaps the most recognisable face on the planet there was no recorded image of Christ to show what he actually looked like. There is no reliable historic or Biblical record of Jesus' personal appearance. 'The only fact we have is that there was a significant change in his appearance after the resurrection when even Mary Magdelane did not instantly recognise Him. l b the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, He remained unknown until the breaking of bread. 'The apostles, when he first appeared among them, were terrified and thought that they saw a Spirit.' One of the judges, Rachael Kohn, said she had always found it a tremendous irony that most people loved to visit churches in Italy and France, Germany and Ireland, Spain and South America to feast their eyes on religious art. There is a perception that these places have the Images of the great Biblical tradition that informs western culture. "Yet we are embarrassed - if not offended - by its depiction in our own city galleries. "We welcome the influx of Buddhist iconography and Aboriginal art because of their confident religious and spiritual themes, but a similarly assured expression of religious subjects by contemporary western artists amounts to a kiss of death in the art world," she said. It was therefore more pleasing to attend an exhibit in Australia to view a large collection of painting and sculpture that left little doubt as to its subject and invited its audience to share and reflect on its eternal messages.

Angela Albuquerque, daughter of one of the founders of the Mandorla, and Jetami, of Claremont, with a visitor from Blackpool, England, Dawn Goulding, inspecting one of the entries.

Former political cartoonist from the West Australian, Cedric Baxter, and his wife with his acrylic collage, MiHigan's Christ, partly inspired by a quote from comedian Spike Milligan, which won the Hughes-Foley prize.

Glen Hughes who won the prize donated by Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey discusses her mixed media work, Continuum, with another prize donor, businessman Larry Foley.

People inspecting some of the worts on display in the exhibition at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery last week.

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The Governor, Lieutenant General John Sanderson and Mrs Sanderson inspect an artwost

Artist Madeleine Clear, of Mundaring, right, shows her mixed media entry, Who Live In Me andIIn Them, to friend, Una Van Hall of Attadale.

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he Catechism of the Catholic Church is directly concerned with both the mystery of God and the mystery of the human person. All attempts to teach from it (catechesis) must transmit the words and deeds of revelation in such a way as to put people not only in touch with but also in communion Bishop Gerard Holohan, of Bunbury, spoke for and intimacy with Jesus Christ. the Oceania region on the implementation of This was the central theme of Bishop the Catechism of the Catholic Church in this Holohan's address to the International Catregion at the International Catechetical Conechetical Congress at Rome in which he gress held in Rome earlier this month. examined the implementation of the CateThe Congress was called by Pope John Paul princithe outlined and chism in Oceania II to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the ples necessary for it to be the foundation publication of the Catechism and the fifth of the New Evangelisation called for by anniversary of the publication of the General John Paul II In Ecciesia in Oceania for Catechesis. Directory Drawing on both the Catechism and the Holohan's words, the Catechism Bishop n I General Directory for Catechesis, Bishop presents the content of the faith in the light of Holohan pointed out that the Catechism is the Second Vatican Council, and the Directory "an organic presentation of the Catholic represents the pastoral and pedagogical prinfaith". ciples for proclaiming and teaching that conIt should be used as a reference text by tent. studying paragraphs not in isolation but in The Congress was chaired by Cardinals they the context of the themes to which Joseph Ratzinger and Castrillon Hoyos. As well belong. as those two, the Congress was addressed by "This is essential if all Catechism content Cardinals Sudano, Schonborn and Sepe, and Is to be understood in the light of the Secseven bishops from the seven regions of the ond Vatican Council," he said. world, Bishop Holohan being from Oceania. The Congress was attended by the presidents "To quote Catechism paragraphs in isolaof the Bishops' Conferences from around the tion risks understanding them in ways world; the Commissions responsible for the unenlightened by the Council. of the Catechism and the Generdevelopment interpret so do who those Commonly, al Directory; senior Vatican officials; and other Catechism content in preconciliar ways. representatives from around the world. "Experience suggests that this can lead Bishop Holohan even to divisions over what is authentic • Relate primary proclamation to human at work in human ( perience. Catholic teaching in catechesis and reli- was reduced to a course of instruction and its aspirations. nature apprenticeship an as seen being of nstead I • Develop the different kinds of religious education. God. of grace the are on faith depends education needed for believers, for that of gious themes great the Show • This frustrates the aim of the Catechism It also led to confusion between catech- sources of life and light for the human searchers or doubters, and for non-believand is an obstacle to the "renewal of mind" ers. esis and religious instruction, between being. required for new evangelisation." Bishop Holohan's address triggered liveBeatithe and life Christian the Relate • knowing and Jesus of person the knowing Catechesis, whether in relation to the tudes to the virtues present in the human ly discussion at the conference in Rome. young or adults, was concerned not about about him. The full text is available on the Bunbury knowledge, but about personally knowing 'Knowing about' a person comes from heart. diocesan website which can be found at signs the to experience human Relate • Jesus. reading or hearing about him. but 'knowwww.bunbup, 'c.atholic.org.au. God show and liturgy, the of symbols and "Catechesis helps people to 'touch' the ing' a person comes from meeting and divine realities expressed by faith formu- experiencing them. las," he said. The purpose of catechesis is to bring peoIt must help to form the believer's per- ple to the personal knowing which is essensonality so that they become truly incar- tial if the subsequent 'knowing about' is to nated as a 'new creature' who has 'put on be an enriching experience. Christ'. When catechesis is thought of as instrucishop Holohan said experience suggests that the theology of the human person Catechesis needs to enrich the entire per- tion there is insufficient emphasis on fam/ offers solutions where Catholic teachings are rejected for affective reasons, such 1 son at his deepest levels. ilies and parish communities as the real as young people rejecting Catholic teaching on sexuality because loved family memThis includes experience and behaviour source of catechesis to address the decline bers live in de facto relationships, and on marriage, because one or both parents has in religious practice. as well as the cognitive level. remarried. The misunderstanding also led to a negTo achieve these outcomes, the pedagogy Inadequate understanding of the theology of the human person is a barrier to underof catechesis needs to be an 'apprentice- ative view of religious education which standing Catholic moral teaching and to efforts to address contemporary pastoral ship' which includes instruction but is could not produce a good relationship with problems. Jesus if students were not receiving good more than instruction. In Part Three of the Catechism, for example. only about one paragraph in seven relates to moral prohibitions. "Catechesis demands to be celebrated, family and parish catechesis. lived and translated into prayer as well as The twin directions of the Catechism The rest presents the foundation and moral vision needed for a Catholic underknown," Bishop Holohan said. the mystery of God and the mystery of the standing of moral issues. It was a major challenge for the Church- human person - called in Oceania for a "To present moral prohibitions unenlightened by the vision of Part Three leads to es in Oceania to overcome the problem of greater understanding of the theology of preconciliar understandings that bleach Part Three of its meaning," Bishop Holohan seeing catechesis as an instruction, not as the human person in order to be able to: said. an apprenticeship. • Show how the Gospel fully satisfies the This was particularly so when the RCIA human heart.

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Annual blessing of the fleet draws thousands

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housands of spectators flocked to Fremantle on Sunday as the Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey celebrated the annual blessing of the fishing fleet. On the Saturday night, hundreds of revellers attended the 54th anniversary ball at the Cockburn Civic Centre in Spearwood. Sunday's celebrations began at 8.30am with a special Mass at St Patrick's Basilica in honour of Our Lady of Capo D'Orlando, an historic fishing port on Sicily. Archbishop Hickey then concelebrated Mass at 9.45am attended by the Italian Consul, Dr Maurizio Canfora and other dignitaries. A procession through the streets of Fremantle from the Basilica to the Fishermen's Harbour followed at 2pm with the Archbishop standing on a jetty in the harbour to bless the boats of the fleet as they streamed past him In a line-astern formation. Most of the boats in the fleet 'dressed ship' with the national flags of Italy, Croatia and Greece and provincial flags from Sicily and coloured bunting. The colourfully decorated boats crowded with family and friends provided a spectacular scene as they gyrated round in the confines of the harbour. A Benediction service was held at the Basilica at 5.30pm. A scheduled fireworks display was cancelled because of the day of mourning for Bali bombing victims. Page 10

Part of the crowd in Fremantle for the blessing

A yacht has a sympathetic message - Jesus loves you.

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Remembering the Children Thornlie's Sacred Heart Parish puts on a special celebration for Mission Sunday

hildren iii national costume were a feature of Mission Sunday Mass at Thornlie's Sacred Heart CChurch - appropriate to the Catholic Mission theme of Remember the Children. More than 1000 parishioners attending Mass on Saturday evening and on Sunday signed petitions and yellow armbands designed as part of a campaign by Catholic Mission to lobby the Commonwealth Government to increase foreign aid. But it was the children - in their national costumes and waving national flags, and in a combined choir of 20 voices that highlighted the work of the missions. A 10 minute video of Catholic Mission's work overseas was used as the homily, and the choir sang the Michael Jackson hit, Heal the World in front of a backdrop of missionaries working in third world countries projected on to a viewing screen. Catholic Mission mounted a major campaign in churches and schools during the week to increase public awareness of the plight of children in many parts of the world during World Mission Week, which began on Sunday. tinder the guidance of Parish Priest Fr Patrick Lim and parish secretary Sandy Lewis, children attending the Mass at 10 am were encouraged to wear national costume, and arrangements were made to have the national flags of parishioners displayed in the church. The children formed a procession following Fr Lim into the church and some were chosen to read and present the gifts at the Offertory. Church authorities asked other parishes to make a similar effort. The national director of Catholic Mission, Father Terry Bell said: "Every minute of every day, 30 children die because of malnutrition, poverty and inadequate medical treatment." "Many more are at risk because of child labour, slavery, prostitution, lack of education and abandonment. "The stories and statistics are frightening," Fr Bell said. "But we believe that one child suffering is one child too many. "We are calling on all Australians to Remember the Children during World Mission Week and to support specific initiatives to raise awareness of the plight of children around the world. "We want to encourage our government to meet its obligations as a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Seven Major Goals for Survival, Development and Protection of 1990." Everyone was urged to sign petitions on the day. The petitions call on the Australian community and gov-

Children at Thornlie's Sacred Heart Church wore national costumes to Mass in light of the Catholic Mission theme of Remember the Children

ernment to work harder for the welfare of children. They call for an increase in funding in overseas aid from the 0.25 per cent of the gross national product (GNP), to the 0.7 per cent that is a United Nations target. (Australia's contribution dropped from 0.47 per cent in 1983-84 to the 0.25 per cent in the 2002-2003 Federal Budget.) The petitions are available through 1700 Catholic schools and 1400 parishes around Australia. Parishioners were also urged to wear a yellow arm band on October 23, to help increase public awareness of the plight of children. They are then urged to sign the arm band the following day and post it to Catholic Mission, Locked Bag 8760, CANBERRA ACT 2601.

Signed arm bands and petitions will then be forwarded to the Australian government. Children at Catholic schools will also be encouraged to write letters of concern to the government as part of the schools' educational resource for World Mission Week

Remember the Children for the sake of humanity, reads a poster on the attar.

Golden wedding anniversary VINNIES MAKE The name of Thornlie's Church of the Sacred Heart was a poignant reminder for Percy and Evelyn Chalon, when celebrating their golden wedding anniversary last weekend. The couple renewed their wedding vows during Mass on Sunday - vows made initially 50 years earlier in the Sacred Heart Church in their home province of Asanol, West Bengal in India. They said they felt especially blessed at being able to renew their vows in a church of the same name. Their golden wedding celebration coincided with the parish's celebration of Mission Australia's theme Remember the Children and gave a special emphasis to the importance of parents in the lives of children. Percy and Evelyn arrived In Perth in November 1968 with four children, each with $8 in their pockets - a total of $48 to start a new life. (That was all the authorities permitted them to bring out of India.) Their fifth child was born in Perth. They now have seven grandchildren and another due soon.

CHRISTMAS APPEAL

This Christmas WA's largest charity will provide over 20,000 gifts and 8,000 hampers to people state wide in need of a helping hand. The St Vincent de Paul Society is aiming to raise $425,000 with the support of the WA community The St Vinnies Christmas Appeal will be officially launched on Wednesday October 23 at the Bell Tower. Barrack Square Perth at 8am. St Vinnies State President Brian Bull says that in order to make this Christmas a time of joy for many throughout the state, we need to start thinking about them, and assisting them now. "We are looking to the community for support now so that we can assist every genuine request for help lhis Christmas," said Mr Bull. "By working together to show we care, we can make a real difference in people's lives," he added. This Christmas St Vinnies is calling for people to ...help give the greatest gift of all... love. naditionaBy, schools, businesses and community members fundraise and donate gifts for the Appeal. Each year groups come up with new initiatives to raise money, and St Vinnies are encouraging this once again. Donations to the Christmas Appeal can be made on 9475 5400. St Vinnies helps 150,000 people throughout the state each

year. Evelyn and Percy Chalon

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Appeal for prayers and justice More war opposition

The US Congress voted on October 11, by an overwhelming margin, to give President Bush the power to attack Iraq unilaterally, remove Saddam Hussein from power and destroy any biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Signed by Bush on October 16, the resolution was crafted by the White House to show 'the United Nations, and all nations, that America speaks with one voice.' But the "one voice' coming from many Catholic and other religious organizations and leaders on both sides of the Atlantic has urged the president to exhaust nonviolent alternatives to war.

New bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In

what has become an annual ritual, an official from the Vatican Secretariat of State and one from the congregation for missionary territories visited Vietnam in mid-October. The Vatican officials were able to secure the assent of Vietnam's communist government for the naming of some new bishops, 'while for others a response on the Vietnamese side is expected in the near future,' said an October 18 VI tican statement. The statement said the appointments agreed upon would be announced soon. Msgr. Celestino Migliore, an undersecretary of state, and Msgr. Barnabe Nguyen Van Phuong of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples returned to Rome on October 17 after a weeklong visit. the Vatican.

EU letter WARSAW. Poland (CNS) -Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox leaders in Europe have signed a joint letter demanding full recognition of churches in a future European Union constitution. The letter said the absence of guaranteed religious rights in the constitution would create a vacuum, given Christianity's 'vital significance ... to the values and identities on which a society is based,' said the statement by the Commission of the Bishops' Conference of the European Community and Conference of European Churches. 'If a future constitutional treaty designed to guide the European Union through the next decades were not to make any reference to religion, this would constitute a vacuum, given their vital significance to society as a whole, to the values and identities on which a society is based, and to the union's relationship with its citizens,' the statement said. Page 12

MANILA, Philippines (CNS) The president of the Philippine bishops' conference has appealed for prayers and justice after bombings in southern Mindanao. Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato issued his written appeal on October 18, the day after two bombs exploded in department stores in Zamboanga City, about 530 miles southeast of Manila. The bombings left seven dead and more than 150 wounded, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in

Experts later defused bombs in four other Zamboanga establishments. In a separate incident, a bomb ripped through a bus in Manila on October 18, killing at least three people and injuring 20 others. Archbishop Quevedo condemned *the inhumanity of these patently terrorist acts" and bombings in the other parts of Mindanao. He said that after the bombings Catholic religious leaders prayed with other religious leaders, including Muslims and Hindus, for an end to "the senseless and brutal violence." Expressing "our deepest condolences to the bereaved families who are in pain," Archbishop Quevedo directed the bishops' Commission on Social Action, Justice and Peace to help the Zamboanga victims. The conference

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A bomb blast victim is loaded into an ambulance in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines c-1 October 17.

leader also urged authorities "to go after the perpetrators of these terrorist bombings and to guarantee the security of our people in the key metropolitan areas." Philippine Armed Forces Lt. Col. Danilo Servando said the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group based

Youth plan "Pope Day" has proclaimed the kingdom to By Tracy Early NEW YORK (CNS) - A group of millions of people in his world young adults who attended the travels and at the Vatican in his World Youth Day in Toronto fol- weekly audiences. In one of the later talks, Father lowed up that event by organizing Roger J. Landry of Fall River, a celebration of Pope John Paul H and his papacy on October 16, the Massechusetts. said Pope John 24th anniversary of his election as Paul's relationship with young people went beyond his position Pope. The "Pope Day," as it was as head of the Catholic Church. dubbed, was initiated by a group Through verbal and nonverbal of young New Yorkers who had communication, the Pope "helps young people come into contact been meeting to discuss "Love with the living Jesus," Father and Responsibility," a book pub- Landry said. lished by the Pope in 1960 when McFadden said the Love and he was still a bishop in Poland. Responsibility group put together The group also has organized a a 32-page booklet with a selection Love and Responsibility Founda- of excerpts from the Pope's book. tion. and had 50,000 copies printed. Peter McFadden, foundation In lbronto, they gave out 13,000 president, said the idea of the cel- copies, and later received ebration spread, and on the day of requests from many places for the event he heard of plans for an more, he said. On their returning observance at the 21st location, from World Youth Day, McFadden the University of Notre Dame. said, he and those in the car with A Catholic young man from him began discussing the Pope's Greece whom McFadden met in call for youths to be "salt of the Europe agreed to organize a cel- earth," and asked themselves how ebration in Belarus, and others they could be "salt of the earth in were being held in Canada, Slo- New York City." vakia and Trinidad, he said. A decision to celebrate Pope Day In New York, participants gath- was the result, he said, and it ered at Our Saviour Church, near included more than 50 volunteers Grand Central Station, for a late handing out copies of the booklet afternoon votive Mass for the at 10 locations in New York. Pope, the praying of the five gloIn the preceding weeks, as peorious mysteries of the rosary, led ple from other places called to by five young people, and a series ask for additional copies, he also of talks on the Pope's teaching and talked with them about holding relationship to youths. papal observances in their locaIn his homily, Father George W. tions, he reported. Describing a Rutler, pastor of Our Saviour variety of formats for the day. Church, spoke about the five mys- McFadden said a family was invitteries Pope John Paul has added ing people into their home for a to the rosary: Christ's baptism, his program in Indiana. And the first miracle, his preaching min- salesman who handled the printistry, his 'fransfiguration and his ing order for the booklet, a ProtesInstitution of the Eucharist. tant in Seattle, arranged for a He also said that Pope john Paul celebration there, he said.

on Basilan Island, south of Zamboanga, is the military's primary suspect in the October 17 bombings. The military spokesman said he was not discounting "other threat groups" in Mindanao. Servando said Abu Sayyaf, which is fighting for an indepen-

dent Muslim state. is suspected in the October 17 bombings because the explosives used were similar to those in a blast earlier in the month in Zamboanga attributed to the group. Four people, including a US soldier. died in that incident.

Joint commission to revise sex abuse norms By John Mavis ROME (CNS) - In its long-awaited response to the US bishops' sex abuse norms, the Vatican has called for a joint commission to study and revise some of the key elements of the bishops' plan before formal Vatican approval is granted. The Vatican said it was concerned that "ambiguity and confusion" could arise when the norms are applied, because some provisions are "difficult to reconcile with the universal law of the church." The problematic areas include the definition of terms like "sexual abuse," the role of diocesan review boards and the canonical procedures for dealing with priests who have abused minors, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement released in Rome on October 18. Bishop Gregory, bishop of Belleville, Illinois, said a commission made up of four US bishops and four Vatican officials would meet soon. "We're dealing with a basically sound document that needs modification rather than recasting," Bishop Gregory told reporters at a Rome press conference. He said the commission would be "finetuning" the norms, and that the Vatican had not categorically rejected any element of the bishops' sex abuse plan. "Nothing (in the charter and norms) has been taken off the table," he said. "Nothing has been ruled out." He said the commission's review did not mean that implementation of the sex abuse charter was now "frozen" in US dioceses. 'The mixed commission has not asked the bishops to stop pursuing the charter. It simply says let us sit down and talk together about issues that need to be clarified or modified so that 'recognitio' can be granted to the norms," he said. Bishop Gregory made public a two-page letter from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops. The letter voiced strong support for the bishops' efforts to respond to the sex abuse crisis, but said the Vatican saw possible areas of confusion and questions of interpretation in the norms. At a meeting in Dallas last June, the bishops overwhelmingly approved the "essential norms" that outlined strict penalties against priests who sexually abuse minors, along with a "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People." Vatican approval, or "recognitio," would make the norms binding in all U.S. dioceses. Cardinal Re's carefully worded letter was the result of weeks of internal discussion among five Vatican departments. It reflected the unease voiced privately by some officials that certain provisions of the norms may violate the due-process rights of accused priests. But rather than simply reject the norms, the Vatican asked the bishops to work with them to resolve the remaining difficulties.

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Pope marks anniversary with a letter

Pepe John Paul ll signs a new apostolic letter "Rosariurn Virginis Mariae," or "The Rosary of the Virgin likey,ff at the Photo: CNSAlessia G, anani, Catholic Press Photo Vatican on October 16.

-strength in body and spirit, that I By John Norton carry out to the end the mismay VA11GAN cny (CNS) - BeginLord." ning the 25th year of his papacy, sion given me by the risen he today," words those repeat I " a landmark reached by only four for his 24 of his predecessors. Pope John said. He thanked God and rePaul II thanked God for his min- years in the See of Peter and "muchistry and entrusted his future to entrusted the church tormented" humanity to Jesus' the care of the Virgin Mary. mother. October on act official His first "I also entrust my future to her. 16. the 24th anniversary of his everything into her hands place I aposnew a election, was to sign with the love of a mother that so tolic letter on the Rosary, calling present it to her son," said will she it his favourite prayer and urging whose papal motto, Pope, the Catholics to rediscover its con("All yours"), is dedituus" "Totus templative richness. Mary. to cated The signing was the highpoint The apostolic letter, "The Rosary of a festive general audience in a the Virgin Mary," announces of sun-bathed St. Peter's Square. beginning of a -year of the the Nearly 20.000 pilgrims applaudand the addition to the ed the frail 82-year-old pontiff, Rosary" prayer of five centuries-old and his fellow Poles sang a rous"mysteries of light" that optional wishing Lat," "St of ing round focus on episodes from Christ's him a hundred years of life. ministry. public diffiwith Sometimes speaking said the reason for Pope The culty and pausing frequently for mysteries was to new adding deep breaths, the Pope recalled "broaden the Rosary's horizon" his words in Poland in August make it possible for those when he asked Mary to give him and who recite it "with devotion and

not mechanically" to explore more deeply the Gospel's content. "The 'year of the Rosary,' which we will live together, certainly will produce beneficial fruits in the hearts of all," he said. "It will renew and intensify the action of grace of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 and will become a source of peace for the world," he said. While the Pope signed several copies of the letter, an aide led the crowd in the recitation in Italian of a decade of the Rosary - the third glorious mystery, recalling the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Only four other Popes in the church's 2,000-year history have governed longer than Pope John Paul. In April, the current pontificate would become the fourthlongest, surpassing the papacy of Pius VI. who reigned for 24 and a half years in the 18th century Highlighting the records Pope John Paul has set, the Vatican released a sheet of statistics from his 24-year pontificate.

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Anti-semitism can be overcome By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) - Overcoming anti-Semitism and fostering positive relations between Christians and Jews are tasks requiring constant attention and education, said Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Vatican office for Catholic-Jewish relations. The dialogue is never likely to be easy, he said, but common belief in God, in human dignity and in the hope of salvation obliges the two faith communities to know each other, learn from each other and work together to protect the values they hold dear. Cardinal Kasper spoke on October. 17 during a ceremony marking the inauguration of a new library at Rome's Gregorian University. The library - a collection of more than 6,000 volumes on Jewish history, faith and liturgy, on anti-Semitism and on Jewish-Christian dialogue - was established by the Sisters of Sion. a Catholic religious order committed to Jewish studies and to dialogue. The library is now part of the Gregorian University's Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies within the new Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures. "Christianity has a particular and unique relation with Judaism," Cardinal Kasper said. "We cannot define Christianity and its identity without making reference to Judaism, which is not the case with Islam, Buddhism or any other religion," he said. At the same time, he said, there are fundamental theological differences between Christians and Jews, differences that he said were reflected in the "heated debate" over a U.S. CatholicJewish statement on "Covenant and Mission." The August statement said the Catholic Church is committed to evangelization and to sharing the Good News of salvation in Christ, but it repudiated campaigns aimed at converting Jews to Christianity. Cardinal Kasper said the paper dealt with a basic, but

"highly delicate question in Jewish-Christian relations, a question which touches bitter historical remembrances of forced conversions, but also questions of Jewish and Christian identity." The cardinal said that although he is quoted twice in the U.S. statement "it is not my paper and not my position," although it is "an invitation and a challenge for discussion." "As Christians," he said, "we cannot renounce giving witness of this our faith to all, and we cannot remain silent on our hope in Jesus." Neither position can be an excuse to break off dialogue, because dialogue presumes being serious and honest about one's differences, he said. Dialogue, the cardinal said, "has become a fashionable byword grown shabby by overuse, a worn-out coin." While being polite, friendly and tolerant are all better than being violent, he said, none of those attitudes is enough; dialogue means respecting "the otherness of the other." Some of the key differences between Christians and Jews, he said, "concern their religious convictions on the question of God and Christ, their notions of world redemption or otherwise," different practices regarding the Sabbath and diet as well as their attitude toward "the land," an attitude with seriously divisive political overtones. "We should not approach the Jewish-Christian dialogue with naive expectations of a harmonious understanding." Cardinal Kasper said. "It will remain a difficult dialogue." At the same time, common values stemming from belief in God and in the dignity of humans created in God's image require Christians and Jews to work together in the world to protect human life, uphold the family and promote peace and justice, he said. Cardinal Kasper also called for greater attention to "remembrance," a key concept in the Jewish Scriptures and the Gospels.

Intense prayer the source of good priests Under the influence of contemporary cul- ship is doomed to failure," it said. The docBy Jolin Norton the priest today is understood often as ument suggested that dioceses set aside a ture, VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican issued other roles, ranging from "the soci- house where priests could go for periodic fulfilling a new instruction for parish priests that pre- ologist to the therapist, from the politician to recollection and prayer "so as to renew conscribes Eucharistic adoration and an intense the manager. It has even led to the idea of tact with those means which are indispensprayer life as a preventive cure for priestly the 'retired' priest," it said. able for their personal holiness." "disaffection, disillusionment or even failIt said the priest's fundamental challenge While encouraging priests to engage lay ure." people in parish roles, the document restates was to foster among his parishioners a con"Spending time in intimate conversation the unique and irreplaceable role of the sistent spiritual life in conformity with with and adoration of the Good Shepherd, priest in governing and in sacramental min- church teaching. It recommended encourpresent in the most Blessed Sacrament of istry. The document said the vast majority of aging visits to church to pray before the the altar, is a pastoral priority far superior to priests today successfully and joyfully live tabernacle, keeping churches open as long any other," said the document, released at their pastoral commitments but noted "it as possible, and devoting special attention to an October 18 press conference. can happen that some priests, having begun being available for individual confession. "Every priest, who is a leader of his com- their ministry full of enthusiasm and ideals, "A good laity is scarcely possible without munity, should attend to this priority so as experience disaffection, disillusionment and truly holy priests. Without them everything to ensure that he does not become spiritu- even failure." is dead - just as it is almost impossible to ally barren or transformed into a dry chanIt attributed this phenomenon to multiple have a blossoming of vocations without nel no longer capable of offering anything factors, including lack of support from the Christian families, which are domestic to anyone," it said. bishop or community, personal problems, churches," it said. The 38-page instruction, "The Priest Pas- inadequate formation, lack of priestly fraThe document said one possible solution tor and Leader of the Parish Community" ternity, personal isolation, "bitterness at not to the vocations crisis and priest shortages was issued by the Congregation for Clergy being able to find responses or solution(s) to was making every effort to "keep alive in the and represented the fruit of its discussions problems," lack of ascetical practices, aban- hearts of the faithful that joy and holy pride" at a 2001 plenary meeting. donment of the spiritual life "or even lack of In being Catholic. The text reaffirms priests' unique ministe- faith." "Without this joy and pride at a psychorial role in parish life and their necessity to "Spirituality is, without doubt, the most logical level, it becomes difficult to conserve the life of the church. It underscores church important pastoral concern," the document and develop the life of faith. It is not surteaching that priests, through a permanent said. "Any pastoral initiative, missionary pro- prising, at least at the level of psychology. change in their very being at ordination, act gram or effort at evangelization that eschews that in some contexts priestly vocations fail the primacy of spirituality and divine wor- to germinate or come to maturity," it said. "in the person of Christ"

New Instruction for parish priests: In this photo Father Richard Emerson, pastor at Thomas More Parish in Indiana, lights a paschal candle during a special memorial Mass early this year.

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"Black and White" a treat By Brian Coyne in the courtroom - even the appeal to the Privy Council. This film though, I am cer-recently attended a media preview of a tain, will be the proof that O'Sullivan won new Australian movie that I believe is the war. This is a Christ-like saga of herothe single most powerful movie about ic proportion where the final victory is won courage in the face of injustice that I have beyond the grave. ever seen. When it comes to a cinema near The fourth hero to emerge in the film is you I suggest you spend whatever it takes a Catholic priest, Father Tom Dixon, played you to go and see "Black and White". by Colin Friels. Fr Dixon enters the scene The film is about a famous court case that to perform the last rites the first time Stuoccurred in Adelaide in 1959. An aborigiart was going to face the gallows. He spends nal man, Max Stuart, was found guilty of the night in the cell with this unknown the murder and rape of a nine-year-old girl black man. Who is not even a Catholic. As in the remote fishing town of Ceduna on luck would have it this priest has spent the edge of the Nullabor. years in the outback serving the original The alleged crime had occurred around tribal community to which Stuart had Christmas time in 1958. As those who are belonged. He could speak Stuart's native familiar with this famous case will know, Arunte language. Like O'Sullivan and DelStuart, an illiterate man who could neither vaney he "listens" to this black man's story read nor write, had a confession bashed and becomes immediately convinced of out of him by six police. The legal, governhis innocence. ment and social establishments of South The fifth hero in this film is a young newsAustralia conspired to have this man paper proprietor played by Ben Mendelhanged for a crime. sohn. His name in real life is Rupert But he never committed the crime. Seven Murdoch. And this story was one of the limes he went to the gallows and won a one's that Murdoch used to establish what reprieve at the last moment on each occalater became a global media empire by sion. The case was taken all the way to the "shoving it up the establishment". The real Privy Council in London and to a Royal Commission called by the South Australian hero from the Adelaide News though was W I CON\ IL I ION t. )NI MAN \'VI IL AVE AN()1FI LI: the veteran journalist. Rohan Rivett. MurGovernment. There are eventually five or six heroes in doch's editor. Murdoch and Rivett had an this story. Max Stuart did end up getting his eye for a good story, but they changed the death penalty commuted. He did, though. course of legal history and the way in which still have to serve 14 years in gaol for the justice is dispensed in this country. Given 'Black and White' is a powerful movie based on a true Australian story in which a layman and a crime he did not commit. the hatred with which many people look at The real Max Stuart, now an elderly man. priest are leading figures in the fight to save a condemned man. Murdoch for his wealth and success, it is appears in the closing frames of the film young lawyer. David O'Sullivan. In the film only in their town because he was going to be interesting to see the impresdriving along a dusty road in the middle of he is played in a compelling performance employed at a travelling fun fair. sion this film makes on his public reputaoutback Australia with a poignant com- by Robert Carlyle. O'Sullivan quickly realised that a gross tion. mentary that you will probably remember There are also many villains - judges, O'Sullivan was partnered by Helen Del- miscarriage of justice was about to be perfor the rest of your life.I won't tell you what vaney one of the few female lawyers of her petrated. ambitious prosecution lawyers, politicians, it is so that you can enjoy it as much as I day, played by Kerry Fox. This is one of Running throughout the film is the a Premier. Also woven into this complex did. those cases that young lawyers are forced poignant relationship between O'Sullivan story of black-white relations, writer. Louis Max Stuart himself is the first and the to take on when they are establishing them- and his partner. Both of these actors bring Nowra, and director, Craig Lariff. have major hero in this film. I am sure the Abo- selves. It was a legal aid case in the days out the difficult tensions as they fought managed an exploration of the changing riginal actor who plays his part. David before this nation had a proper legal aid with the conflicts of their own self-interests tensions in male-female relationships that Ngoombujarra, has a real chance of being system. There was little prospect of being and that deeper call of conscience to were breaking in society at around the time nominated for an Oscar for the depth and paid. Who cared anyway? It was only a uphold truth and justice. In real life O'Sul- these events took place. range of emotion he is able to bring to the case about some black 'nobody' in one of livan was a Catholic and a leader in the Ihave to commend this film as one of the character of Stuart. More than that, his per- the most isolated places in the world. Democratic Labor Party that had split from two or three most powerful cinematic expeformance, will give pride to Aboriginal peoThe whole town had conspired against the Australian Labor Party over the issue of riences I have had. I really do hope that ples everywhere. this man, including local Aboriginal people communist influence in the ALP O'Sullivan Ngoombujarra wins an Oscar for his perThe first hero to emerge in the story is the because he was from another tribe and literally lost just about every single battle formance.

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Poison's Swimfan sinks By Geri Pare high school senior's worst nightmare materialises in the form of a eductress-turned-stalker in the derivative suspense drama "Swimfan" (20th Century Fox). Thanks in part to supportive girlfriend Amy (Shirt Appleby), Ben (Jesse Bradford) has overcome a drug problem and become the high school's swimming star, with a shot at an athletic scholarship. The two seniors are planning a future together, possibly moving in together when they get to college. However, sultry new classmate Madison (Erika Christensen) corners Ben at a vulnerable moment alone in the pool one night. He is too ashamed to tell Amy he has cheated on her and soon finds Madison insistently insinuating herself into his life. When he resists her, Madison turns vengeful. The poorly developed script gives us no notions why the petulant Madison turns psycho, but soon her sly manipulations get Ben thrown off the swimming team, fired from his after-school job — and suspected of murder. Next, Madison sets her sights on rival Amy. Director John Poison's teen thriller falls apart in the unbelievable final act, but is none too involving beforehand either. The story comes across as a cautionary tale, a tamer teen version of 1987's 'Fatal Attraction' without the fiery performances of Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. Here, Christensen and Bradford are subdued versions of the illicit couple whose one-night stand will have fatal consequences. The swimming scenes are sleekly photographed but the movie simply coasts Page 14

Erika Christensen and Jesse Bradford star in a scene from the movie "Swimfan."

along, building little momentum. Kate Burton is wasted as Ben's mum and Dan Hedaya is given little to do but scowl as Ben's sceptical swimming coach. Viewers are likely to find Ben's character exasperating for getting involved with someone so

obviously bad news from the get-go. Nor is Madison's ability to outwit two armed cops very credible. The movie's sense of morality clearly suggests infidelity can have dire consequences and is to be avoided. However, the suggestion of teen-age abstinence

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would have been welcome. Due to a discreet sexual encounter, brief violence, implied affairs and an instance of profanity, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III -- adults. - Catholic News Service

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Mass for Perth Business Community at All Saints' Chapel followed by address - Archbishop Hickey 40th Anniversary of opening of Vatican II - Foley Hall, NDA Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Nedlands - Bishop Healy

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Sunday October 27 A RCHBISIOP HICKEY ON AIR What ever happened to Archbishop Hickey's ten-point plan to revitalise the Archdiocese? On Sunday hear His Grace's exclusive interview with Raymond de Souza in 'The Layman's Hour' (Radio Fremantle 107.9 FM at 7.30pm) A must for every Catholic, lay and ecclesiastic. who wishes to take the Pastor's voice seriously. Ring 9494 2100 for your comments. October 30/31 LECTURES BY DR TRACEY ROWLAND "What does the Church actually teach about women and sexuality?" All are invited to attend at 7.30pm on Thursday October 31, at St Mary's Parish Centre, 40 Franklin St, Leederville. Enq: Gillian 9332 1803 or Margaret 9316 3529. L J Goody Bioethics Centre sponsored by St Charles Seminary "The Family as a Domestic Church" at 7.30pm on Wednesday October 30 Jugan St, Glendalough. Enq: 9321 2333 Friday November 1 A LLIANCE AND TRIUMPH OF THE TWO HEARTS ALL NIGHT EUCHARISTIC ADORATION First Fri-Sat devotions and reparation to the Sacred heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be held at Our Lady of Mercy church. Girrawheen. Confessions from 8.15pm. Holy Mass at 9pm. Vigil concludes on Saturday morning with Holy Mass at 7.30pm. You are most welcome to join us even if only for a few hours. Celebrant Fr S Nguyen and Fr 0 Ryan. Enq: 9342 5845. Friday November 1 PRO LIFE PROCESSION The first Friday Mass, procession and Rosary vigil will be held on Friday at St Brigid's Church, Midland. The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate will lead us. All are invited to witness for the sanctity of life and pray for the conversion of hearts. Enq: Helen 9402 0349 Friday November 1 SUNG LATIN MASS - ALL SAINTS DAY 1.10pm, Low Mass: 6.30pm Sung Mass Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament to take place in St John's ProCathedral after the 1.10pm Low Mass till the evening Sung Mass at 6.30pm. Includes First Friday devotions and Litany of Saints. Enq: Fr Rowe 9444 9604 November 1/2 ALL NIGHT VIGIL AND EUCHARISTIC ADORATION First Friday Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the First Saturday to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at All Saints chapel, Allendale Square commencing 9pm with Holy Mass, Rosaries, Hymns and Prayers. Concluding with Holy Mass at 7am. Please come and join us in prayer. Saturday November 2 WITNESS FOR LIFE PROCESSION The Next first Saturday Mass procession and Rosary vigil will be held on Saturday commencing with mass at 8.30am at St Anne's Church, Hehir St. Belmont. We proceed prayerfully to the Rivervale abortion centre and conclude with Rosary, led by Fr Paul Carey SSC. Please join us to pray peacefully for the conversion of Hearts. Enq: Helen 9402 0349 Saturday November 2 SUNG LATIN MASS - ALL SOULS DAY 9.00am Sung Mass and Sung Absolution prayers for the Holy Souls. 10.30am Low Mass: 11.00am Low Mass followed by First Saturday Devotions and Benediction; in St John's Pro-Cathedral, Victoria Ave, Perth. Enq: Fr Rowe 9444 9604 Sunday November 3 DIVINE MERCY An afternoon with Jesus and Mary at St Mary's Cathedral, Victoria Square, Perth at 1.30pm. Enq: John 9457 7771 or Linda 9275 6608 November 5/6/16/17 HOSEA HOUSE OF PRAYER VISION PROGRAMME You are invited to experience the Vision Program on Tuesday, November 5. 10am-4pm, Wednesday Novem-

ber 6, 10am-1pm, Saturday November 16. 10am-4pm, and Sunday November 17, 10am-1pm. Cost is S20 per person, overnight stay S35 per person or a donation (all meals provided) Enq: Sr Romanus 9728 1148. For transport/pick up points: Francis Williams 9459 3873 mob: 0404893 877. Sunday November 10 KRISTALLNACHT SERVICE FOR JEWS AND CHRISTIANS The Council of Christians and Jews WA is hosting this Service to commemorate the Night of Broken Glass, November 9 1938. when members of the Nazi Party went throughout Germany smashing the windows of Jewish buildings and burning the synagogues. All members, guests and friends welcome. Temple David, 34 Clifton Crescent. Mt Lawley 3.00pm. Friday to Sunday November 8-11 PRAYER RETREAT AT DARDANUP A t Dardanup Immaculate Conception Church, Ferguson Road, Dardanup. Friday evening 7.30-9.30pm (talk followed by Mass). Saturday and Sunday begin at 10am with talk. Mass at 11am, lunch then talks, meditations. ends with Benediction at 4.30pm. Cost: Gold coin donation. Preacher: Fr Anthony Van Dyke OP from Holy R osary Priory. Doubleview, WA. Accommodation is available at Hosea Retreat House, Dardanup. Please bring a light lunch. Tea and Coffee provided. For more information contact Fr John on 9728 1145 or Jeanette on 9721 1995. Friday November 22 REUNION OF PIONEERS Notre Dame Parish, Cloverdale, Reunion of Pioneers f rom 1960 - 1970. For information phone Kath 9277 2196, Avril 9277 5269 or Corry 9479 4207. November 22-24 FATHER PAUL GLYNN RETREAT Marist Father Paul Glynn will take his second and last Retreat in WA at god's Farm on "Christ the King" weekend. Fr Glynn is a renowned author of Healing fire from Frozen Earth and other eagerly read books. He will speak on The Kingdom within Us, offer daily mass, rosary and reconciliation. Venue God's Farm - Gracewood. 40kms south of Busselton. From 7.30pm Friday November 22 to 2pm November 24. Suggested donation $80 includes all meals. Contact Betty Peaker Ph: 9755 6212, PO Box 24 Cowaramup, 6284 Sunday December 8 SACRED HEART SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY REUNION 1952 - 2002. 50th anniversary reunion Sunday 11am 4pm, Sacred Heart School, Mundaring. Past students, families and staff are invited to attend a celebration mass followed by a light luncheon and Historical display. Please contact the school office on 9295 1562 or confirm attendance by email: sacredheartps@sacredheartps.wa.edu.au PERPETUAL ADORATION Night Adorers are needed urgently between the hours of 12 midnight to 6am for Perpetual Adoration. Feel secure and trust Our Eucharistic Lord in Faith and Love. In all weathers He carries you on eagles' wings to keep your rostered time. You are asked in Jesus' Holy Name, "Can you make a commitment for one of these hours?" Society for Eucharistic adoration, Ph: 9364 1338 EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR 2003 Combined Reunion to celebrate 40th Anniversary of St John the Baptist Catholic Church and the 100th anniversary of the former Sisters of Mercy Convent in Toodyay. to be held late in 2003. Anyone interested in either attending planning sessions. gathering and collating information or obtaining memoirs etc, is asked to contact Fr Steve Casey 9622 5411, The Sisters of Mercy 9574 2229 or Robyn Sinclair 9574 2580.

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I ore than 10,000 people attended the candlelight vigil at the Kingsey Amateur Football Club on Sunday evening to pay their respects to victims of the Bali bombing a week earlier. The vigil opened with a combined choir of the Men in Harmony giving a highly charged, emotional rendition of We Are Australian - with a thunderous acclaim at its conclusion. The mourners came from all sections of the community to a service that brought together people from all walks of life and crossed all boundaries - even some members of a motorcycle gang. Twenty of the football club members went to Bali for end-of-season celebrations. They arrived only hours before the bombing. Only 13 returned, and of them, two are in hospital - one in Adelaide and one in Perth. The vigil was organised as part of Australia's day of mourning, and was televised throughout Australia and beamed by satellite to Sky Channel in Britain and Europe, and through CNN to the United States. It was also broadcast nationally on radio and beamed out internationally by the Internet. One of the prime movers of the vigil. Father Brian Morrison of the Crisis Care Centre and who was delegated by Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey to head the Church's relief effort, told the assembly it was the start of Highway One, a movement to look to the future. Fr Morrison said events since the explosion were milestones along the highway to recovery and to moving into the future - the unrelenting determination of the survivors among the club members to remain united and find their missing team mates; their resilience and their courage. The crowd attending packed the football ground from one end to the other. Parts of the Mitchell Freeway were gripped In a bumper-to-bumper traffic gridlocks as mourners travelled to the oval. Police issued special notices broadcast on Perth radio stations warning motorists to avoid driving to the oval in Kingsley Drive, suggesting they leave their cars at the Whitfords railway station - or travel by train and commute to the ground by the free 'fransperth bus service from the station. Despite the warnings, all surrounding side streets were choked with parked cars. Federal, state and local government political representatives attended along with representatives of the business, commercial and industrial communities.

Representatives of AFL teams were among the congregation, as well as the four members of a motorcycle gang. A podium was used on one side of the oval, in front of the clubrooms, where hundreds of floral tributes were placed on the steps. Seven flags draped across the front of the podium represented the seven dead or missing members of the team. Five memorial candles on the podium were lit by representatives of the club, political leaders, and by Kevin Paltridge and his wife - the parents of Corey, the only club member confirmed killed. The chief executive of Seven Network Television, Kerry Stokes, whose private jet was used to fly the surviving club members back to Perth, lit one of the memorial candles representing the business community, with Adrian Barich, former West Coast Eagles footballer and Channel Seven sportscaster, representing all Australian sportsmen. Fr Morrison introduced a lone piper, Phil Richardson, the father of a past player, who played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes as the candles were lit. The club coach, Simon Quayle, regarded as the man who held the players together during the emotional search for their mates. addressed the congregation. He said it was appropriate there was a full moon over the assembled mourners. -l'hey are up there - looking down on this - they will always be with us." Mr Qayle said. His wife, Norelle, who was an unofficial spokesperson for the team in Perth and held those who did not go on the trip together, read a poem left anonymously at her home. After Mr Paltridge lit the candle in memory of his son, he embraced the Premier, Geoff Gallop, and Kerry Stokes. Fr Morrison appealed for support and understanding of those who had not been part of the touring group, and those who returned. A former team captain, Kitch Bain, said those who had survived would have Inevitable feelings of guilt - unnecessary feelings. But like all others they shared the dub's pain. Brad Mcllroy, a team member who was in the Sari Club, but who survived spoke of the friendship of all in the team, their unity, and how it would never be forgotten. The vigil closed with the Men in Harmony singing You'll Never Walk Alone as Fr Brian invited the people in the congregation to bring their candles forward and place them on the stage, and to leave floral tributes on the steps of the clubhouse.

The Kingsley football coach, Simon Quayle and his wife NoreIle reflect on the loss of dear friends.

A banner in memory of one of the Bali victims at the vigil. Inset: Fr Brian Morrison, one of the organisers of the vigil.

Thousands turned out to pay their respects to those who lost their lives

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