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St Emilie’s kicks off participation in Year of Grace and makes it a cause for multiple celebrations

Getting into the spirit of it

Watched by parishioners, Canning Vale Parish Priest Fr Robert Carillo, holding microphone, presides as a statue of the parish’s patroness, St Emilie de Vialar, is unveiled.

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T WAS a grace-filled start for the Parish of St Emilie, Canning Vale when it launched its “Year of Grace’ on Sunday 17 June - also the Feast Day of St Emilie de Vialar, the parish patroness and foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition.

Parishioners at all four masses

processed in with The Year of Grace candle. After the homily, family representatives came forward to receive their own Year of Grace candles and prayer cards.

Parishioners were encouraged to “Contemplate the Face of Christ” through prayer and other activities. The day was also significant for the Sisters of St Joseph

of the Apparition as they renewed their perpetual commitment to God. One junior sister, Sr Lilian remade her vows after one year of commitment to God with the Sisters. The parish mission outreach program, SEEDS (St Emilie Empowered Devoted Services), was also launched after being initiated by Parish Priest Fr Robert

Carrilo. The program is targeted to help various community building projects in different countries in Asia. Eleven parishioners have volunteered to spend two weeks in the Philippines assisting a breakfast program for under-privileged children, among other projects.

After the 9 am Mass a statue of St Emilie at the front of the

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church was unveiled. The ceremony also featured a scripture reading by Liturgy coordinator, Cheryl Meta and the unveiling of the statue performed by Sr Margaret Mary, the previous parish assistant and Veronica Stratton, the Chairman of the Parish Council.

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Young mum beautiful face of a new Christianity THE VIDEOS of her standing room-only funeral in Rome are already being uploaded to Youtube.

Within a week of her death the Rome-based Zenit news agency had picked up the story of Chiara Petrillo, the stunningly beautiful 26 year old woman who chose to give her unborn baby life rather than undertake treatment for cancer which might have saved her.

The comparisons with St Gianna Beretta Molla, the young doctor who made the same choice in the same situation and who was canonised as an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II in 2004 are already being drawn.

Just as a global array of hostility to the Catholic faith from gov-

ernments and media appears to be growing stronger by the day, watching the funeral and the massive numbers of over a thousand mainly young people in attendance it is almost impossible not to sense that a new age of sanctity is looming again in the Church.

If it is, it seems quite possible that the young mother with the fashion-model good looks could well become something like the cover-girl of a new and revitalisedChristianity.

When 26-year-old Chiara Petrillo was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010, she refused the treatment that could have saved her so that she could protect the child growing in her womb. A year after giving birth to her healthy son, Francesco,

she succumbed to the “dragon” that persecuted her (as she described her illness) and died last week in Rome. The choice to protect the life of her unborn baby came as no

The couple accepted this new life as a gift from God, and savoured the 30 minutes they had with their daughter. surprise to those who knew Chiara and her husband, Enrico. The couple had previously chosen to carry

to full term two pregnancies with serious defects, despite attempts by medical staff to dissuade them.

The first was when a few months after their wedding Chiara became pregnant with Maria, who, after the first ultrasound, was diagnosed with anencephaly, a congenital defect resulting in the partial or total absence of the brain and skull.

The young couple accepted the new life as a gift from God and savoured the 30 minutes of life they were given outside the womb. After celebrating Maria’s baptism their prayers accompanied her “birth into Heaven”, as they described the moment.

“At that point I thought of the Madonna”, Chiara would later say.

“God had given her a son...and

Chiara Petrillo, before her illness.

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Day for Mary’s little troopers

By Robert Hiini THE STUDENTS of Immaculate Heart College honoured Mary last month with a procession and crowning ceremony on May 25, the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia.

The students were filled with anticipation as a month of preparation edged towards its fruition as parents, grandparents and family members began gathering in the College chapel.

Students joined the congregation in the chapel, entering reverently, in single file, to take their seats.

Father Paul Fox, Director of the College and Chair of its board, began proceedings by blessing the capes, sashes, Our Lady’s Crown, and the Miraculous Medals.

The children were then invested with the medals and garments before forming a line according to height for the Procession.

They sang the hymn Bring Flowers of the Fairest, which they had learned for the occasion, as College Director and board member, Mrs Doris Anastasiades played the organ.

Year 3 student, Carla Vicedo had the privilege of performing the crowning of the Our Lady statue before Year 2 cross bearer, Ronan Conduit led the students out of the chapel behind Fr Fox. The children’s sky-blue capes cut a smart contrast against the green of the college play area as the students made their way along the fence line, praying as they went.

College Principal Dr Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis said the event was a great success.

“Whilst sad to see such a lovely event come to an end, it was comforting to know that it will be the first of many such celebrations in the life of the College,” she said.

Students of Immaculate Heart follow Fr Paul Fox in procession for Our Lady Help of Christians.

Architects win for Notre Dame works THE CITY of Fremantle has recognised Marcus Collins Architects for their significant contribution to the historic West End of Fremantle at its 2012 Heritage Awards held recently.

In particular, the architects were acknowledged for two projects

completed at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus.

They won the Compatible Infill Development category for Notre Dame’s first new building, located on a former car park.now housing the School of Health Sciences

Sunday 1st - Green 13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1st Reading: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 Made in God’s image Responsorial Ps 29:2,4-6,11-13 Psalm: God comes to help 2nd Reading: 2 Cor 8:7,9,13-15 Be generous Reading: Mk 5:21-43 Do not fear. Believe.

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Veronica does not appear in the Roman Martyrology, the church’s official list of feasts. According to legend, she was the woman who took pity on Jesus as he carried his cross, wiped his face with a cloth and was left with an image of the suffering Christ. Many such images, known as “veronicas” and “vernicles,” existed in the Middle Ages. Veronica was sometimes associated with other New Testament women, but there is no evidence that she was real. Her name may come from a combination of Latin (“vera” for true) and Greek (“eikon” for image) words. Her story was included in the Stations of the Cross in the 19th century.

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and the Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Research. The second accolade was a commendation in the Adaption of a Heritage Place category for Marcus Collins Architects’ work on the interior of Notre Dame’s main library, adapted from a 1960s warehouse.

US NURSE turned pro-life speaker, blogger and columnist, Jill Stanek will tour Australia in July, speaking in Perth on Monday, July 9.

A national figure in the US, Ms Stanek has been sponsored by Right to Life Australia and will speak at the University Club of WA, at the University of Western Australia.

As a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in the state of Illinois, in the labour and delivery department, she discovered the hospital was not only providing abortions, but surviving children were being left to die with no medical care.

Her testimony helped inform debate surrounding America’s Partial Birth Abortion Ban and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. She was allegedly fired from the hospital for speaking about her experience and now blogs at JillStanek.com and as a columnist for WorldNetDaily.com.

Last year was a banner year for the pro-life movement in the US with the passing of 83 pro-life laws, and 9 states defunding America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

Stanek attributes these triumphs to innovative ideas from diverse groups of pro-lifers, attacking the issue from several different angles.

“As a group, we’ve really come into our own,” Ms Stanek said.

“Everybody has different passions and different gifts. There are people who like to sit in front of their computer all day and there are people who have a passion for sidewalk counselling.” For more information or for a ticket, call 1300 734 175 or (03) 9385 0100.

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High Tea for kids at low ebb

By Robert Hiini THEY ARE filling a gap that very few others are interested in filling.

That is how organiser Rose Fiorucci described the significance of the Home of Mary Consoler of those Abandoned and Orphaned.

The home looks after children whose carers are struggling or at their wits’ end; grandparents with custody of their grandchildren, mothers with little support or post-natal depression, and families where crises have made sufficient care of their kids impossible.

Ms Fiorucci was part of a team that put on an “Olde English High Tea” at St Mary’s hall in Leederville on June 16, to fundraise for the home.

Around 85 people, mostly ladies, turned out for an afternoon of refreshment, raffles and delicate pastries. The monies-raised will help the Sisters of the New Apostolate Consecrated in the Heart of the Holy Family continue to provide day care to children aged 0-6, a role they have been performing for the past two years.

“One of our aims is to purchase land for the purpose of the work of the Home of Mary Consoler,” Ms Fiorucci told The Record.

“We hope to build a multi-purpose building specifically to enable the Sisters to live their mission of caring for children. Mother Mary is working. She is in charge and we are just her hands.”

Ms Fiorucci has been involved with the Sisters ever since they came to Western Australia in 2002, when she petitioned then-Archbishop Barry Hickey for a place for them to live, on their behalf.

The Sisters ended-up living at the care house of Pregnancy Assistance, looking after women experiencing crisis pregnancies, for around five years. Eventually, they felt called back to their original mission to care for children more directly.

Ms Fiorucci is also the President of the Chain of Mary Association, which runs a children’s Rosary group, called Roses Perfumed and Consecrated in the Garden of Mary in Perth and six, similar groups in Sydney. The Sisters also run Bible studies and reflection days, holding retreat weekends for any women who are discerning

Above from left, Reece Whitby, St Mary’s Leederville Parish Priest, Fr Joseph Angelo, City of Vincent Councillor, Julie Wilcox and husband Ed Wilcox. Right, High Tea helpers, Patsy Sabetta and Rose Fiorucci.

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their vocation. Both the Chain of Mary and the Sisters are part of the New Apostolate. Eventually, they

The funds will go to looking after kids whose carers are at their wits ends. hope to establish a Third Order of consecrated lay people under that same apostolate. The simplicity of the Sisters’ living is their biggest and most confounding asset, Ms Fiorucci told The Record.

“We love what they do; the simplicity of Mother Mary and the simplicity of the way they live, through the Holy Family. People don’t understand that anymore. It’s like looking at a movie of how Mother Mary lived, doing the washing and living everyday.

“There’s a peace that the Holy Family brings in the order; a peace of heart,” Ms Fiorucci said. “All they are doing is working for the poor people. There’s no confusion there.

What you see is what you get.”

For more information or to donate to the Home of Mary Consoler, call 0437 700 247 or email newapostolate@hotmail.com.

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Freo visit for imagination’s champion ONE of Australia’s most cherished authors, Morris Gleitzman, spoke about his passion for writing, the impacts of his literature on children and the enjoyment he receives from exploring his imagination every day to a vast audience at Notre Dame’s Fremantle Campus on Monday 21 May. Author of more than 30 books, including the timeless classics Worry Warts, Two Weeks with the Queen and Adults Only, Mr Gleitzman said his stories reflected the essential qualities and values each person held dear in their lives.

“I wanted to suggest that stories, while we use them often for entertainment, have been around the centre of human culture for millennia,” Mr Gleitzman said.

“These stories are modelling exactly the same skills, abilities and cultural traits via the main characters as teachers hope to develop in their students in the classroom.”

The British-born author was an avid reader as a child and soon found a love for writing after migrating to Australia in 1969.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Mr Gleitzman’s colourful career included working as a department store Santa Claus, a frozen chicken defroster and as a paperboy.

Mr Gleitzman also worked as a television screenwriter for the popular Norman Gunston Show in the 1970s.

However, it was not until a publishing company presented Mr

Gleitzman with an opportunity to turn his script about a schoolboy who drove his family and friends “bonkers” into a book that his vocation as an author was realised.

He says that, for him, writing is a technical process that is assisted by a love of language and the ability to explore and evolve characters in any given setting.

“The aspect of writing that I most enjoy is going into my imagination, a place free of all the constraints of the physical and social world where I can have adventures in the context of that freedom,” Mr Gleitzman said.

“When I’m looking for, as I do with each new character, the biggest problem in their life, the problem is almost always timeless and universal.

“The biggest problems we face in our lives today are problems that humans have faced forever and everywhere. Everyone has a need for love, friendship, recognition, validation and, sometimes, survival in their lives.”

Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Fremantle Campus, Dr Angeline O’Neill, said Mr Gleitzman exemplified the power and importance of children’s literature in contemporary society.

“Notre Dame was indeed fortunate to host the first week of Morris Gleitzman’s Perth visit,” Dr O’Neill said.

“He is a major Australian author with a significant global reader-

Dr Angeline O’Neill welcomes esteemed author Morris Gleitzman to Notre Dame’s Fremantle Campus.

ship, ranging from child readers to adults.

“We see literature in action through Mr Gleitzman’s work. His novels simultaneously entertain and inform young readers, pro-

moting social awareness through the pleasure of reading.”

While in Perth, Mr Gleitzman was sponsored by Notre Dame to conduct a series of school visits which included Mercedes College

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and John XXIII College. These visits provided students with the opportunity to hear about his new book titled After and then, the chance to speak to the highly acclaimed author.

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Sisters’ mission far from over

By Robert Hiini THE enduring impact of Religious women was there for all to see at the 150th anniversary of the Sisters of Our Lady of Missions, celebrated at St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday, June 17.

Students and staff from 14 Our Lady of the Mission-founded schools processed into the Cathedral holding the banners and symbols of their schools as they went.

They spanned city and country and more than 90 years in the dates of their foundation. Sacred Heart High School, Highgate was the first, founded in 1897, and Wanalirri Catholic School, Gibb River was the most recent, in 1991.

The Cathedral was filled to capacity with the Sister’s lay colleagues, friends and supporters, with eight RNDM Sisters taking an honoured place in the front pew.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB was the principal celebrant of the Mass, following a “Welcome to Country” given by Wadjuck Nyungar Elder, Marie Taylor and an introductory reflection from Province Leader, Sr Madeleine Barlow RNDM. Sr Barlow described their French foundress Euphrasie Barbier, as “a woman with a great heart for the world”.

Euphrasie’s Creole mother had sought refuge in France after Euphrasie’s father had been killed in the West Indies during the Napoleonic Wars.

Growing up amid stories and dreams of life overseas, the young foundress believed she had a calling to mission to foreign lands.

“The world was her home and she allowed her heart to be wounded by the cries of the poor and neglected wherever they were and so to respond with as much love and tenderness as possible,” Sr Barlow said.

A chance meeting with a Marist priest and his request for help in forming women who were missioning to Oceania led to the RNDM’s foundation.

The first RNDM Sisters to come to Western Australia came from Christchurch, New Zealand at the behest of the Bishop of Perth, Matthew Gibney.

Their work since that time has been varied, albeit with a consistent focus on education, as Sr Barlow detailed: “They established schools in the city and country areas, and passed on a love of learning among their pupils, taught music, provided for children during the war in evacuation centres at Moorine Rock and Katanning, established the Motor Mission in Narrogin and Lake Grace parishes travelling long distances to the remote farms supporting parents and teaching children their faith,” Sr Barlow said. “(They) went to Broome with the Christian Brothers and developed Nulungu College for the education of remote Aboriginal children, taught school at Beagle bay and lived in caravans on the Gibb River Road teaching in the local community, lovingly welcomed and settled Vietnamese Refugees creating strong bonds of friendship and established a mission in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and worked in Peru.”

In more recent times, with dwindling vocations but enduring enthusiasm, the Sisters have handed the schools over to lay management: “(We have) taken on roles in adult faith formation, spirituality, teaching theology, ministries of pastoral care in the prisons, personal advocacy for disabled, in the peace movement, and advocacy for

Above, the Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission wish one another peace at the 150th anniversary of their foundation. Right, Province Leader, Sr Madeleine Barlow RNDM and members of the choir from Sacred Heart College, Sorrento. Below, students from St Benedict’s Primary School in Applecross perform liturgical dance in a Liturgical Movement following Mass.

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our mother earth,” Sr Barlow said.

At the time of Euphrasie Barbier’s death, their were 205 RNDM Sisters in five different mission countries.

Their are now over 1000 RNDM Sisters working in 22 countries, generally with women and children and ostracised groups such as the “untouchables” in Central India, lepers in Myanmar and also

The world was her home. She allowed her heart to be wounded by the cries of the poor and neglected wherever they were.

Vietnam, as well as HIV-infected toddlers in Nairobi.

Archbishop Costelloe, a Salesian, said the religious life was an immense gift, but not solely, or even principally, due to the work religious Sisters and Brothers undertook.

“At the heart of our vocation to the religious life we find not the doing, but the being ... It’s this call to be something or someone in

the Church, which is, I suspect, at the heart of that mysterious power which religious women and men have to speak to people, often not in words, of the things of God,” Archbishop Costelloe said.

It was the “inexplicable attraction” to the religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, which both symbolised and realised that power: “(It is) the radical nature of the way of life we are called to live; a way of life that is a powerful witness to the absolute centrality of God,” Archbishop Costelloe said.

“The realities most of us as religious are facing, of diminishing numbers and ageing communities have taught us that there are very many people...who are ready and willing to step into the roles that we are no longer able to fulfill for ourselves...who do them often better, more efficiently and maybe sometimes even more generously than we religious have done.

“Here in the Cathedral, this afternoon, the Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission are surrounded by so many of these people who, inspired by the sisters and by their vision, are now carrying their work and their spirit forward into the future,” the Archbishop said.

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Lunch - and a hug - with the Pope ONE thing the Tuncaps and the Wongs have in common, other than attending their first World Meeting of Families with five children each, is they’ve had a lot of people tell them they were crazy.

Paula Wong, 42, said that back home in Coogee, Australia, people at the supermarket often say “I’m so glad I’m not you!” as she pushes her cart with her tousle-haired kids.

Her husband Hendrikus, 45, said his relatives still can’t understand why he would want so many children when his mother grew up poor in Jakarta in a family of 10.

“She didn’t want this for us” because she equates large families with hardship and poverty, Hendrikus said, shaking his head.

Allen Tuncap, 28, said his friends thought he was crazy for taking his wife and five kids from Charleston, South Carolina, to Europe on a shoe-string budget, with no set itinerary, hop-scotching across the Atlantic and Europe by hitching “space available” military family seats on cargo or commercial planes.

He told his wife Janell, “just pack light, bring lots of disposable nappies and God will take care of the rest.” The nappie supply was for 6-month-old Madden, the youngest of their five children. The others are: Ethan, 10; Aveah, 6; Tobey, 3; and Elyjah, 2.

Allen, a petty officer in the US Coast Guard, credits lots of planning, prayers to St Rita, packing skills, good friends with good connections and the grace of God for getting his family where they ended up: sitting at the pope’s table during a private luncheon on June 3

Hendrikus and Paula Wong of Coogee, Sydney, pose with their five children during the World Meeting of Families in Milan in early June. From left the children are Laura Philomena, 5 months, Madeleine, 14, Catherine, 5, Michael, 14, and Theodore, 12. Their trip to Milan was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Sydney.

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in Milan. “We were so nervous, we didn’t know how to eat, which fork to use,” said Janell, who still couldn’t believe they were chosen to sit with the pope at his table.

Elyjah and Ethan got up enough courage to go up and speak to the pope after the meal. The two kids talked to the pope about school, what their names were “and he said he was going to pray for our family,” Janell said. Tobey was really shy but finally went up to the pope and

hugged him, she said.

The Wongs’ trip was fully sponsored by the Archdiocese of Sydney. Although they endured a 26-hour flight, twins Madeleine and Michael, 14, Theodore, 12, Catherine, 5, and Laura Philomena, 5 months, were doing fine in Milan coping with the 10-hour jet lag, Hendrikus said on June 2.

Hendrikus and Paula moved to Australia during the Jakarta riots of 1998. He said he left behind a suc-

cessful career in banking and corporate finance to start from scratch in Australia.

Despite two master’s degrees, he said he still couldn’t find a career that offered economic security. But it’s a Catch-22, he said, because a better paying job would most likely mean missing time with his family, “and I don’t want that.”

“We do our best. Our investment is in the children, not in having a nice car or house, and we have no

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pension,” he said.

Everything is focused on formation: giving the kids the love and guidance they need to become good men and women some day, not spoiling them with gadgets, he said.

“I used to dream that my kids would become doctors and make money, but not now,” Paula said.

She changed when she read that the true measure of a child’s success is if he tells his parents one day “Thank you for all you’ve given and done for me,” she said.

Hendrikus agreed, saying if a strong foundation of values is laid down for children, “they will work hard and everything else will follow.”

The Tuncaps said they came to the world meeting to “get graces” and inspiration for raising good kids, especially in a culture that doesn’t always promote or respect what is best for humanity.

“We are on the front lines right now” against a culture that lacks respect for human dignity and life, said Allen.

He said their oldest, Ethan, is like “a lab rat for our parenting skills” – how they live their lives and raise their children will either “keep him in the faith or let him be derailed.

So if we don’t get our graces now, then one, two, three, four, five lives suffer,” he said giving a head count of his kids.

Allen said that after reading Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae (On Human Life), Blessed John Paul II’s theology of the body, and Pope Benedict’s encyclical on charity Deus Caritas Est, he was amazed that “these guys never married but they understand love so deeply.”

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‘Dot Catholic’ to be a cyber guarantee The Vatican is in line to control the new Internet address extension “.catholic” and decide who is allowed to use it. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit corporation that coordinates the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses around the world, announced the Vatican’s formal application on June 13 in London.

The corporation is overseeing a huge expansion in the number of Internet extensions beyond the standard .com, .org., .edu and .gov. Msgr Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said the Vatican plans to allow “institutions and communities that have canonical recognition” to use the extension, “so people online – Catholics and non-Catholics -- will know a site is authentically Catholic.”

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Study says biological parenting better

By Dennis Sadowski YOUNG adults raised by their biological parents in a stable intact marriage fared better emotionally, socially and relationally, according to a University of Texas at Austin study.

The New Family Structures Study by Mark Regnerus of the university’s Population Research Centre measured outcomes in 40 areas including social and economic well-being, psychological and physical health, sexual identity, sexual behaviour and criminal behaviour.

Regnerus surveyed 2,988 young

adults from 18 to 39 years old in 2011. Those questioned came from different family or home environments including traditional families, late-divorced, single-parent and adoptive families, and homes with a stepparent or a parent in a same-sex relationship.

The findings were published in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research. Regnerus wrote that the study provides data and information that shows there are differences in outcomes between children raised by their married biological mothers and fathers and children raised by a parent who is in a samesex relationship. Quoting from

Regnerus› article, the chairman of the US bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defence of Marriage Bishop Cordileone said, “The differences in outcomes illustrates ... ‘that children appear most apt to succeed well as adults – on multiple counts and across a variety of domains – when they spent their entire childhood with their married mother and father, and especially when the parents remain married to the present day.’”

The study is significant to note, Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland, California said in his June 14 report to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops spring meeting in

Atlanta, because of the sample size, which is much larger than those of other studies that showed no difference in the outcome of children raised by traditional families or same-sex parents.

Editor’s Note: Information about the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defence of Marriage’s initiative, “Marriage: Unique for a Reason,” can be found online at www.marriageuniqueforareason.org and www.portumatrimonio.org. Findings of the New Family Structures Study, in English and Spanish, can be found online at www.familystructurestudies.com.

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Mongolian Catholics ask for prayers Catholics in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region called on fellow believers to pray for them in late May, the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China, during what they say is their most difficult time in recent decades. The Asian church news agency UCA News reported that church sources told them the Catholic community in the region has faced a series of suppressive acts by authorities aimed at forcing clergy from the clandestine, or underground, Catholic community to join the government-sanctioned Catholic Patriotic Association. Father Joseph Gao Jiangping, an underground diocesan administrator, has been confined in isolation at a detention center in Hohhot since he was taken into custody on February 15.

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Prelate seeks aid to end exploitation A Peruvian archbishop pleaded for assistance in stopping the exploitation of Peru’s resources by foreign companies whose practices have polluted communities and endangered residents. Archbishop Pedro Baretto Jimeno of Huancayo told an audience in mid-May that many mining firms run round-theclock operations that leave residues that pollute drinking water supplies.

“With a large percentage of the resources of our country going abroad, we now have a massive pollution problem,” he said. The Archbishop referred to death threats he has received because of his questioning of dangerous mining practices and advocacy for stricter environmental laws.

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Bishop sues bishop over ‘proselytism’ Greece’s Catholic Church accused a leader of the Orthodox Church of “intolerance and fanaticism” after he sued a Catholic archbishop for illegal proselytism. “I hope the court rejects his petition, which has no legal or juridical basis,” said Nikolaos Gasparakis, spokesman for the Greek bishops’ conference. “It’s a pity he doesn’t say more about the plight of citizens during our grave economic crisis, rather than just attacking Catholics.” In April, Orthodox Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus filed suit against Athens Archbishop Nikolaos Foskolos, for allegedly violating the Greek constitution by running a Catholic school in Piraeus.

The metropolitan cited Article 13 of Greece’s constitution, which prohibits proselytism.

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By Cindy Wooden THE Vatican secretary of state called for free universal access to AIDS drugs and therapy, and insisted it begin by giving the drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women.

“We cannot continue to tolerate the deaths of so many mothers; we cannot think of thousands of babies as a lost generation,” said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

The Vatican secretary of state spoke in Rome June 22 during a conference on preventing motherto-child transmission of HIV. The conference, sponsored by the lay Community of Sant’Egidio, brought

together African health ministers, representatives of international organizations and donors supporting anti-AIDS projects in Africa.

The Sant’Egidio Community runs DREAM, a free AIDS prevention and treatment project operating in 10 African countries.

Cardinal Bertone said the results of DREAM and research by the World Health Organization “confirm that universal access to care is achievable, scientifically proven and economically feasible.”

“Let us quickly provide AIDS patients with free and effective care,” he said. “In the name of the Holy Father, I give voice to the

many suffering, the many sick who have no voice. Let’s not lose time; let’s invest the necessary resources.”

Cardinal Bertone said there is an obligation to offer antiretroviral therapy to every HIV-positive pregnant woman to “allow her to give birth to a baby free of AIDS and to raise him.”

In Africa, he said, there is no way to provide universal access to the drug therapy without making it free of charge, so governments, international organizations, donors and pharmaceutical companies will have to work together to provide the drugs.

“Today, treatments already let

thousands of women give birth to children free of AIDS and to see them grow because the mothers themselves receive treatment,” he said. “It is a particularly effective sign of love that defends life.”

Cardinal Bertone said a significant percentage of maternal deaths in Africa are tied to AIDS. According to Sant’Egidio, 60 percent of those living with HIV-AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 were women, and AIDS was the leading cause of death in women of childbearing age. Up to 40 percent of maternal deaths in Africa are due to AIDS and its complications, the community said.

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UK ordinations establish base for Anglican ordinariate SEVENTEEN former Anglican priests were made deacons in one of the largest group ordinations in the modern history of the Catholic Church in Britain.

All the deacons will serve in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which in January 2011 became the first ordinariate to be set up under “Anglicanorum coetibus,” the apostolic constitution issued by Pope Benedict XVI in November 2009 to allow the group reception of Anglicans.

Father James Bradley, spokesman

for the ordinariate, told Catholic News Service in a May 29 telephone interview that he had carried out some research of diocesan records in England and Wales and found no ordinations of a comparable size in the recent history of the church.

He said he expected that all the deacons, about half of whom are married, would be ordained to the Catholic priesthood over the northern hemisphere summer months.

“They are going to be ordained separately,” he added. “They will be ordained by the local diocesan

bishop where they are resident.”

Father Bradley added: “The ordinations (to the diaconate) represent a really significant moment in the life of the ordinariate because it is the first time that the process has been controlled and implemented by the ordinary and the ordinariate itself.

“We are working from within in that sense and are not relying on other factors,” he said. “We are standing on our own two feet more than we were before.”

The men were ordained at London’s Westminster Cathedral

on May 26 by Auxiliary Bishop Alan Hopes of Westminster.

In the homily, Msgr. Andrew Burnham, the former Anglican bishop of Ebbsfleet who now serves as an assistant to the ordinary, emphasised, “We are not God’s gift to the Catholic Church. Rather, the Catholic Church is God’s gift to us.”

Similar in structure to military dioceses, ordinariates permit former Anglicans to retain much of their patrimony and liturgical practices, including married priests.

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Pope urges Christian farmers to lead CHRISTIAN farmers must react to the global economic crisis and the changes demanded to protect the environment by “cultivating a deep sense of responsibility, showing solidarity and sharing,” Pope Benedict XVI said.

“Appreciate the most noble and important aspects of the human person: the sense of duty, an ability to share and to sacrifice, solidarity, observing the proper need for rest and for physical and, especially, spiritual regeneration,” the pope

told delegates to a national conference of Italians who own or work on farms, ranches and commercial fisheries. Pope Benedict met on June 22 with members of Coldiretti, an Italian organisation that promotes agricultural education and lobbies to protect agricultural land and promote farm-friendly policies.

Families involved in agriculture traditionally have thrived on values the church sees as necessary for a just and truly human life, he said.

The global economic crisis, “which

is a moral crisis,” demonstrates how much wider society needs to learn those same values, he said.

“I am thinking of respect for the dignity of the person, the search for the common good, honesty and transparency in running businesses, food security and safeguarding the environment and the countryside, and promoting the spirit of solidarity,” he said. While the global economic crisis has hit farmers and their families and may raise questions about their futures, Christians

involved in agriculture must react in a Christian way, he said.

Families, schools, labour unions, farm organisations, politicians and civic leaders must work together to stimulate the economy, protect the weak and, particularly, to help young people get training and find jobs for a better future, he said.

Ending his audience with a prayer and a blessing, the pope said he entrusted to God “the joys and daily labours” of those who work the fields.

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Researchers ‘astonished’ by relics’ silent witness

By Marnie McAllister A TEAM of researchers has been studying the skeletal remains of martyrs kept in reliquaries at a Louisville Catholic church, and so far the results seem to confirm information about the two saints passed down over the centuries.

Since 1902, the bones of two martyrs – St Magnus, a Roman centurion, and St Bonosa, a young Roman virgin – have flanked the altar at St Martin of Tours Church.

The pair are believed to have been martyred in the third or fourth century in Rome.

In late May, their remains were removed from their reliquaries – made of marble and glass – and a team of researchers from the University of Louisville began examining the bones in a former chapel at St Martin.

Philip DiBlasi, an archaeologist who teaches skeletal forensics at the University of Louisville, and four students are taking an inventory of the remains, determining their demographic profiles and hoping to learn even more about the pair While his research isn’t complete, DiBlasi said during an interview with The Record, Louisville archdiocesan newspaper, that he has been astonished by the findings.

“I am really comfortable with (the notion) these (remains) are who they represent,” he said. “I am frankly astounded that the demographic information (that was passed down in stories about the saints) is so close to what we have found.”

Research into these relics was prompted by a couple of factors, said Fr Fred Klotter, parish priest of St Martin. The side altars at St Martin, in which the sarcophagi were encased, needed repairs and the glass sides of the cases were cracking, he said. Curiosity had a hand in the decision, too.

“We had talked about doing this for seven years – since I’ve been here,” he said, noting the parish has no formal history of the relics.

“Respect made us very cautious,” as did a concern about the possibility that the relics weren’t real, he acknowledged.

“We didn’t know what we were going to get,” he said. “What we’re finding is the common stories we passed down orally have been proven.”

DiBlasi, who has also been helped by his archaeologist wife, Jan Marie Hemberger, said the investigation started on a low note, but quickly turned exciting.

“We initially unwrapped Magnus and I was disappointed,” said DiBlasi. “He is very highly fragmented. He has a complete cranium, but no mandible.

“Then we unwrapped St Bonosa and we were just astounded,” he

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Homily wins standing ovation On the eve of the feast day of St Thomas More and St John Fisher, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori held up the two martyrs as a source of inspiration for American Catholics during a Mass on June 21 launching the US bishops’ muchanticipated “fortnight for freedom.”

He said: “Their courageous witness of faith continues to stir the minds and hearts of people yearning for authentic freedom, and specifically, for religious freedom.” The US bishops called for the fortnight for freedom, which lasts until July 4, to be 14 days dedicated to prayer, education and public action. In a homily that received a standing ovation, Archbishop Lori described the integrity St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher demonstrated as the king asked them to violate their personal consciences, calling the men symbols of two “inseparably linked” aspects of religious freedom -- the freedom of individuals and the freedom of institutions.

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BXVI re-emphasises faculty constitution Pope Benedict XVI called on America’s Catholic colleges and universities to reaffirm their Catholic identity by ensuring orthodoxy in theological studies and accepting the oversight of bishops.

The pope made his remarks in early May to US bishops making their periodic “ad limina” visits to the Vatican. While he acknowledged recent efforts by America’s Catholic institutions of higher education to “reaffirm their distinctive identity in fidelity to their founding ideals and the church’s mission,” Pope Benedict said that “much remains to be done.”

He said the need for a mandate was especially clear in light of the “confusion created by instances of apparent dissidence between some representatives of Catholic institutions and the church’s pastoral leadership.”

“Such discord harms the church’s witness and, as experience has shown, can easily be exploited to compromise her authority and her freedom,” the pope said.

The requirement for a mandate was underscored in 1990 by Blessed John Paul II in his apostolic constitution “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” but many Catholic theology departments in the US have yet to comply.

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Obamacare unites faith leaders in opposition Philip DiBlasi is seen with the cranium and other bones of St Bonosa, a young martyred Roman virgin. DiBlasi and four students are examining the skeletal remains of St Bonosa and St Magnus, a Roman centurion, that have been displayed for veneration at St Martin of Tours Church in the Archdiocese of Louisville since 1902. PHOTO: MARNIE MCALLISTER, THE RECORD

said. “She was in phenomenal condition. All the damage we see on her was from bad handling.”

Her remains include a complete cranium, mandible and pelvis, which together can reveal important information – including an accurate age. She was 24 years old, plus or minus one year, when she died, DiBlasi said.

The investigation aims to determine the stature, ancestry, gender and handedness of both saints.

“We will get all of that for her (St Bonosa),” said DiBlasi. “On Magnus, we will [only] get gender and ancestry... because he’s so fragmented.” So far, DiBlasi’s team has determined that “the male is 45-plus years of age,” he said. “We will narrow that down, we hope.

There is an 85 per cent probability that he is white ” though data also suggests Egyptian or other Mediterranean ancestry.

“There is some trauma to his cranium that could be related to his death, but I really need to spend some time looking at that,” DiBlasi said. There’s a possibility, he said, that the trauma occurred after death.

The most intact pieces of St. Magnus are the cranium and a partial femur.

“Every bone he has is so fragmented, the best we can do is get an inventory of the bones,” DiBlasi said. “If he were more complete, I could say a lot about him, because as a soldier, there would be stress markers.” St Bonosa seems to be

100 percent Caucasian. “She’s a white female between 5 feet and 5-feet 6-inches tall,” DiBlasi said.

“Her age is 24, plus or minus one year. That’s pretty solid. The history that came with her suggested she was 16. We know she spent a lot of time squatting” by the wear that shows on her bones.

St Bonosa’s scan could lead to a facial reconstruction, Father Klotter said, provided funding could be found to cover it.

While he has worked with murder victims, DiBlasi said he’s never worked with relics.

“This is very exciting,” he added, noting that he’s a member of St. Bartholomew Church. “To be a Catholic and to do this is way cool.”

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Two dozen US Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders have joined the president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in signing an open letter he wrote to oppose the US Department of Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate and urge it be retracted.

The Rev. Matthew Harrison issued the letter on June 21 called “Free Exercise of Religion: Putting Beliefs into Practice,” which states that “no government should tell religious organisations either what to believe or how to put their beliefs into practice.” The letter also objected to the narrowly drawn exemption to the mandate, which requires most religious employers to provide free coverage of contraceptives and sterilisation procedures for their workers.

It added that this “incursion” by the HHS prevents the free exercise of religion. “For the well-being of our country, we oppose the application of the contraceptive mandate to religious institutions and plead for its retraction,” it added.

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Journalist hopes to cut through static

By Carol Glatz THE ESTABLISHMENT of a new post of senior communications adviser is a step in the right direction to help the Vatican deal with the challenges of a sound-bite culture, said the American journalist appointed to the job.

Greg Burke, 52, was named to the newly created position in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State and will start in July.

Burke told CNS on June 25 that his job will be to help “shape the message” coming out of the Vatican and make sure everyone there “stays on message.”

It’s a role similar to the White House’s director of communications, who supplements the work of a more visible spokesperson, Burke said, as he described some of the challenges he plans to address: “What’s the message we want to get out? How do we get it out?” And how does the Vatican respond to issues getting traction in the media?

The communications strategy “sounds very simple, but its execution will be very complicated,” he said.

He will also help develop and strengthen lines of communication among the Holy See’s numerous communications outlets, which include TV, radio, a newspaper, a book publishing house and a press office. He will work with Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the No. 3 official at the Vatican Secretariat of State, and US Msgr. Peter Wells, assessor for general affairs.

Burke, who’s a graduate of Columbia University’s school of journalism, has spent the past 24 years based in Rome as a journalist – with the National Catholic Register, Time magazine and, for the past 10 years, the Fox News network.

While he is not an expert in PR or communications, Burke said his experience covering news events at the Vatican and throughout Europe and the Middle East means “I know what journalists are looking for and what they need, and I know how things will play out in the media.”

A good example of a past

media storm that could have been avoided, he said, was during Pope Benedict XVI’s speech on Islam in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006. The pope quoted a medieval Byzantine emperor, who said the prophet Mohammed had brought “things only evil and inhuman.” The pope later acknowledged the quotation was open to misinterpretation, as he had not meant it as an endorsement of the emperor’s words.

If such a speech had been restricted to a small group of scholars, there might have been no problems, Burke said, but as a talk televised to the world, “in a soundbite, headline culture, it’s a whole different thing,” Burke said.

Burke said he has been covering the Vatican long enough “to know that no one walks in and changes things” overnight. But, he said he hopes “this post is a step in the right direction” and that he will be able to alert the right people in advance of any potential message mix-ups.

A lifelong Catholic and numerary member of Opus Dei, Burke said he wouldn’t have taken the job if he didn’t put all his faith and trust in God. Numeraries are celibate and contribute a large part of their salaries to the prelature.

When he was first approached about the new position, Burke declined, but then over the course of a week, he went with “a gut feel-

ing” to finally accept the job. “I had a great job at Fox, just the right mix of time in Rome and travel; I was in my comfort zone,” he said.

It took him some time to “get the courage up” and take the chance rather than risk living with the nagging feeling he could have been able to make a difference, he said.

The appointment is likely to provoke comparisons between Burke and Joaquin Navarro-Valls, another Opus Dei member who served as Vatican spokesman during Blessed John Paul II’s pontificate.

Burke said that he didn’t know whether being a numerary of Opus Dei was a factor in his hiring, but he noted, “I wasn’t hired at Fox

because of Opus Dei,” but rather for his knowledge and experience.

Being a native speaker of English, which is the working language of much of the global media, was perhaps a more critical factor in his favour, he said.

Despite the Vatican’s communications’ challenges, Burke said the church “still has got a great message” that needs to get out there.

“It’s a message of spread the love, which often gets lost in a lot of the static,” he said.

While he doesn’t have “a magic wand” or feel he has all the answers, Burke said the church’s direction should be based on being clear and open with the world.

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Greg Burke, then a Fox News journalist, is pictured on a papal flight to Croatia in 2011. Burke has been hired as a senior communications adviser for the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.

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Young mother’s sacrifice ripples through the Web Continued from Page 1 unforgettable moment. He hugged me and said, ‘She is our daughter and we will keep her as she is.’”

Chiara then described a wonderful pregnancy in which “we could enjoy every single day, every little kick of Maria as a gift of God”.

Several months after Maria’s death Chiara became pregnant again, but disappointment hit again after the initial ultrasound which indicated that the boy, David, did not have any legs.

Undaunted the couple continued with the pregnancy, even when further tests indicated that additional malformations meant their second child would not live either.

When David was born on June 24, 2010, Chiara and Enrico celebrated his baptism and prayed throughout his brief life until his last breath.

This was followed soon after with a third pregnancy and the first ultrasound confirmed the good health of their child, Francesco.

The news was greeted with great excitement, however in the fifth month of Chiara’s pregnancy, doctors confirmed a lesion on Chiara’s tongue to be cancerous.

Despite the personal advantages that Chiara would gain from immediate treatment, she refused to accept any chemo and radiother-

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apy until after the birth. Francesco was born healthy on May 30 2011, but Chiara would only be able to spend a year with him before she

died. At her funeral at St Frances of Rome, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Agostino Vallini described her as “A second Gianna Beretta Molla”, in

reference to an Italian woman canonised in 2004 who refused to abort her fourth child despite knowing the pregnancy would result in her death.

“Life is like an embroidery of which we do not see the reverse”, the Cardinal said.

“The disordered part is full of threads here and there; however faith enables us to see a piece of the right side.

“I don’t know what God prepared for us through this woman, but it is certainly something we cannot lose; hence we gather this legacy that reminds us to give the just value to every small and large daily gesture.”

The homily was given by Brother Vito, a young Franciscan, who assisted Chiara and her family spiritually, living with the couple in the last stages of her illness.

“Chiara’s death was the fulfilment of a prayer,” he told family and friends who had gathered.

“After the medical diagnosis that declared her ‘terminally ill, Chiara asked for a miracle - not healing, but to live these moments of illness and suffering in peace for herself and for the people closest to her.”

He described Chiara as a woman who dedicated her life to loving others, even to the point where she confided to Enrico, “Perhaps deep down I don’t want healing - a happy

husband and a peaceful child without his mother are a greater witness than a woman who has overcome an illness. A testimony like that could save so many people”, she had said.

In a letter she left for her son Francesco, which was read by

Life is an embroidery, of which we cannot see the reverse. There are threads everywhere, but faith helps us see a piece of the right side.

Enrico, Chiara said that she would now be reunited with Maria and David and together they would pray for him.

Brother Vito explained that Chiara had come to this level of faith gradually, following the rule she learned from the Franciscans in Assisi that she had loved so much – “with small, possible steps.”

He said that Chiara had now taken a great step and that she had been clothed in her coffin with her wedding dress because she had been ready for her “heavenly marriage with her Spouse”.

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Hell living

Dear Father, In an earlier column you mentioned that sanctifying grace and actual grace are the two principal types of grace. I thought they were the only two. What other ones are there?

In the 1980s, people hoped to confine starvation to history or at least to lesson its likelihood. But for the present day people of West Africa's Sahel region, it is no impending threat, it is already happening.

By Maria Pia Negro

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illions of people in West Africa’s Sahel region face severe food shortages that could be catastrophic if international aid falls short in the coming weeks, according to representatives of Catholic and other humanitarian organisations.

“The crisis is already here. People are already starving in some parts of the region,” said Ryan Worms, Sahel communications officer for Caritas Internationalis.

UN agencies estimate that 18 million people, including 3 million children, are at risk of hunger in parts of Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Cameroon and northern Nigeria.

Organisations like Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development and Catholic Relief Services are working to solve problems of hunger and malnutrition. Even with the humanitarian response, there still is not enough money to address the overwhelming need, said Bill Rastetter, CRS country representative for Niger.

As the food crisis in the region grows, food prices skyrocket in urban centres, making it almost impossible to get enough food in the Sahel, the area bordering the Sahara Desert.

In March, families started rationing food to survive.

“We found families that couldn’t afford to eat more than once a day,” said Philippe Mougin, CAFOD’s senior emergency response officer for

THE FOOD CRISIS IN WEST AFRICA is putting millions of people at risk. Parents who farm and herd are forced to sell essential tools and livestock in order to feed their families.

POPULATIONS AT RISK MAURITANIA .7 MILLION

GAMBIA .6 MILLION

MALI 4.6 MILLION

SENEGAL .8 MILLION

NIGER 6.4 MILLION

CHAD 3.6 MILLION

BURKINA FASO 3 MILLION

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Africa. CAFOD, the aid agency of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, reported that families started selling their livestock, jewellery or farming equipment in order to afford food months ago, which makes them vulnerable to future crisis.

“Year after year we see people with less capacity to cope during the emergencies,” Mougin said, adding that the neighbourhood solidarity that helped the poorest families to survive in the past has decreased because everybody needs

help. Things could worsen in July and August, when most of the food stocks that have been at their lowest levels would be all but gone. As people wait for the September harvest, Rastetter said, even the aid from the international community could be exhausted, if more is not sent.

Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of Catholic relief, development and social service agencies, has launched appeals to help Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. These countries have not yet recovered from the crisis in 2010 and last year’s failed harvest, Worms said.

In Niger, a country particularly hit by water shortages, Caritas appealed for $5 million to help 400,000 people over the coming months. According to Worms, more is necessary to prevent the situation from deteriorating further.

“A huge amount of money is needed to be able to provide food and seeds to those who need them,” he said. Worms stressed the need to act quickly. Late responses to food crises in 2005 and 2010 resulted in unnecessary deaths in the region.

“We hope that the international community acts now instead of waiting as it has been the case for the last times,” he told Catholic News Service in a phone interview.

The C anadi an C at holic Organisation for Development and Peace joined the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in a joint emergency appeal in response to the food crisis in the Sahel. In a letter to the bishops of Canada, Archbishop Richard Smith of

Above, Fatimata Harouna holds her two-year-old dauvghter Aissata Dia as she is treated for malnutrition and malaria at a nutrition center run by the aid group Action Against Hunger in the Guidimakha region of Mauritania on June 3. Below, A girl carries water from a well in the village of Synthiane Ndiakri, Mauritania on June 1. UN agencies estimate that 18 million people in West Africa’s Sahel region face hunger because of drought, conflict and rising food prices.

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Edmonton, Alberta, CCCB president, asked parishes to collect donations until mid-September.

In response to this humanitarian crisis, aid organisations have implemented work programs, seed banks, and seed and food vouchers in countries like Niger, where more than 6 million people could be affected by the food shortage.

The region has been influenced by Mali’s March military coup, which displaced more than 300,000 people,

Year after year we see people with less capacity to cope, said an aid official – and solidarity is decreasing because everybody needs help. many of whom have fled to neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso since rebel separatists took three towns in the North.

“The areas under the rebels’ control are almost off limits to all humanitarian aid,” said Timothy Bishop, CRS country representative for Mali.

He also urged the international community to help to retake the northern region, so the population can receive food and other services. As the situation in Mali remains uncertain,

humanitarian agencies are trying to help the displaced, Bishop said.

Other efforts in Mali and the rest of the region include providing food to children under 5 and those who are most vulnerable to the potential famine. Humanitarian organisations also

maintain nutrition centres to treat children with acute malnutrition in the region.

“Investing in preventing someone from falling into food insecurity only costs $1, but to treat the person costs $80,” Worms said.

How to help Donations to Caritas Australia's West Africa Appeal can be made online at: www.caritas.org.au

Like a famous namesake, Cardinal Marx sees no answer in capitalism

But the similarities stop there for Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, who proposes the Catholic principle of subsidiarity as a middle way between economic theories of the left and right.

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G Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany, gestures during a news conference in downtown Rome on February 9.

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erman Cardinal Reinhard Marx called for a “social market economy” in the wake of the fiscal crisis that has gripped much of Europe over the past year.

In a May 30 talk delivered at Georgetown University in Washington, Cardinal Marx, the archbishop of Munich and Freising, said the economy needed to move “beyond capitalism” in order to be more fair.

He added that he was not calling for the abolition of capitalism, saying that capitalism was “an element” in the social market economy he has in mind.

But Cardinal Marx suggested that it was the practice of “financial capi-

talism” in the era since the tearing down of the Iron Curtain that had brought Europe to its crisis point today.

The cardinal’s talk, “Economic Crisis as an Opportunity for Change,” was delivered at Georgetown’s Berkley Centre for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.

“The revolution of 1989 is one of the prepositions of this crisis,” Cardinal Marx said. “The world became free from communism. As a consequence, it became free for financial capitalism.”

One of the ills this form of capitalism wrought, he added, was that it “separated the virtual from the real economy,” giving people “the dream of permanent easy money” without acknowledging “the problem of debts, particularly in Europe.”

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Cardinal Marx said, “We cannot step outside the history, but we can learn from it.” Lessons from the current crisis, he noted, are “not yet learned.”

The cardinal, who wrote Das Kapital: A Plea for Man in 2008, is head of the Committee for Social Issues for the German bishops’ conference and is president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community. He is member of both the Congregation for Catholic Education and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Christianity has its part to play in formulating lessons to be learned, Cardinal Marx said. “Christianity is the mother tongue of Europe. If you don’t know the mother tongue, you can’t understand.”

Cardinal Marx added, “The Bible is not, in fact, the last word” in coming to terms with the euro zone crisis. “We can make it better. This is

Unlike his namesake, Cardinal Marx is not calling for the abolition of capitalism, but is warning about some of its delusional practices that have led to a crisis. very important.”

On the day of judgment, “we will have a new heaven, a new earth,” Cardinal Marx said. “Jesus will ask,

‘Did you make the world a better place while you were on earth, or did you not?’”

In response to a question from the audience, Cardinal Marx said he approved of the idea of “Eurobonds,” an instrument that could help manage the debt of euro zone nations more equitably.

“In the long term, it’s something like a transfer,” he said. “Subsidiarity works on many levels. But we will have transfers from rich countries to poorer countries.”

He added that rich euro zone nations cannot tell struggling ones, “Oh, you can go out,” or tell themselves that poorer nations’ crises are “not my problem. That’s not how it should work.”

Berkley Centre director Thomas Banchoff noted that some in the

United States interpret the Catholic social teaching principle of subsidiarity - which holds that decisions or actions should not be made on a higher level when a lower level of competence would suffice -- as meaning “keep the government out of it.”

Cardinal Marx replied, “The state is not a bad thing, as Aristotle told his disciples,” nor is the state “unfriendly.” Without the state, he said, “man does not come to the fullest possible life,” adding, “You cannot navigate the common good only with the assistance of families. It is not possible.”

The cardinal travelled from Washington to Chicago, where he was to lead a May 31 - June 1 symposium called “Toward a Moral Economy.”

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he Catechism of the Catholic Church mentions three more types of grace: sacramental grace, graces of state and charisms. As regards the first, we know that all the sacraments confer sanctifying grace, which is a sharing in the very life of God, but they also confer a special grace proper to each sacrament. The Catechism describes sacramental grace as “gifts proper to the different sacraments” (CCC 2003).

St Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa Theologiae, says that the sacraments confer, in addition to sanctifying grace, “a certain divine assistance in obtaining the end of the sacrament” (STh III, q. 62, a. 2), which he calls sacramental grace.

Sacramental grace is thus a specific grace proper to each sacrament which helps the person to obtain the purpose of that sacrament. It might be considered an orientation of the person’s supernatural life toward the purpose of the sacrament. Sacramental grace also involves the assurance of obtaining all the actual graces that the person will need to fulfil the rights and duties relating to the sacrament. Looking at the seven sacraments in particular, the sacramental grace of Baptism confers the help to live as an adopted child of God, as a brother or sister of Christ, and as a member of the Church. It helps the person to seek the holiness demanded by Baptism and to fulfil faithfully the will of God in all things.

Confirmation confers the sacramental grace which strengthens the person in professing, defending and spreading the Faith without regard to the obstacles this may entail.

The sacramental grace of the Eucharist strengthens the recipient in love for God and union with Christ, who now lives in the person and the person in him (cf. Jn 6:56).

The sacrament of Penance confers sacramental grace which helps the penitent to make up for their sins and to struggle to avoid falling into the same sins again.

The Anointing of the Sick strengthens the recipient to trust in the divine mercy, to be united with the Passion of Christ and to resist the temptations of the devil, which can sometimes be strong in times of sickness and impending death. The sacramental grace of Holy Orders strengthens the bishop, priest or deacon in carrying out the duties of their order and ensures them of all the actual graces they will need

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for the worthy exercise of their ministry.

Finally, Matrimony strengthens the spouses in love for each other within the nuptial covenant of Christ with his Church, and ensures them of divine assistance to be faithful to the commitments of marriage throughout their lives.

In addition to sacramental grace, the Church often speaks of “graces of state”. By this is meant the special grace God grants to people in certain estates of life to assist them in fulfilling the duties of their state. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that these graces “accompany the exercise of the responsibilities of the Christian life and of the ministries within the Church” (CCC 2004).

By special grace, God helps people in their different states of life to live well.

The Catechism quotes St Paul who writes: “Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching; he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness” (Rom 12:6-8).

Thus people like teachers, principals of schools, those dedicated to helping the poor, superiors of religious communities, spiritual directors, parents, etc., can count on special graces to help them in carrying out the duties of their state in life.

Finally, the Catechism mentions “special graces, also called charisms after the Greek term used by St Paul and meaning ‘favour,’ ‘gratuitous gift,’ ‘benefit’” (cf. LG 12).

The Catechism mentions such extraordinary charisms as the gift of miracles or of tongues, and says that all charisms are “oriented toward sanctifying grace and are intended for the common good of the Church” (CCC 2003). Other charisms are more ordinary: the gift of teaching, generosity with the poor, etc.

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How easy it is to rail against others for their sins, particularly when those sins have been publicly exposed. It is much more difficult, writes Betty Duffy, to give others as much understanding as we regularly allow ourselves.

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here’s a retired priest in our town, who travels to the different parishes when a Pastor is off duty. I was sitting in a pew, wrestling a threeyear-old before Mass one day, when I saw this particular priest in the Sacristy putting on his vestments.

My stomach lurched because I knew then that Mass would take a very long time. He always gives a rambling 45-minute homily. He also cries, every. Single. Time. he reads the Gospel.

It wasn’t too late to drive three miles over to the other Parish in town. I’d only be a few minutes late getting there. But I felt this guilty sensation: what if scads of people escaped to other Parishes every time I showed myself in Church?

I stayed.

During the Gospel, as ordained, Father cried when Jesus said, “One of you will betray me,” and Judas dipped his morsel in the cup with Jesus. For some reason, on this day, the tears touched me. It was sad that Judas would betray Jesus, and that Jesus knew it, and Judas knew it, but that no one would stop it. It was sad that Judas would condemn his own soul as a result.

During the homily, Father let

us know that it was the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. He thanked us for celebrating with him. He recalled his baptism. He recalled his time in the Seminary, and how during a homiletics course, his professor chastised him for using the term, “we sinners” in a homily, saying, “Never, ever, admit from the pulpit that you are a sinner.”

“My teacher was a very good and holy man who did much good for

Feeling outrage at other people’s sins seems too easy to be the right response. the Church,” said the retired priest, “but that is the one lesson I learned in Seminary with which I have never agreed. Just as the Gospel points out today, good and evil have always existed side by side in every man, but Christ.”

In the wake of Legion of Christ Father Thomas Williams’s revelation that he fathered a child during his priesthood, there have been a few blog posts going around in

recent months that insist it is okay to feel outrage about this situation.

It’s not uncharitable to discuss the scandal, and we have a right to our feelings of anger about it.

To which I say, thank you for the permission to feel outrage. But not only do I not need another charismatic leader telling me how to function, the feeling of outrage at other people’s sins seems too easy to be the right response.

I recognise that many of the posts (on my blog) come from people who have had ties in the past to the Legion or its lay arm Regnum Christi, and so they are used to being told that they should not discuss the failings they see in others.

I have to admit, that the sense of charity offered to others, assuming the best of people, even though it contributed to a culture of silence, is something I miss from my RC days.

At the time, it bothered me that I couldn’t go into the dorms with another co-worker and complain about the Consecrated lady whose heavy footfall in the hallway always meant that she was coming to ask: “Can you do me a favour?”

She had so many favours to ask, and I just wanted to point it out to

someone: “Have you noticed she always asks for favours, and they’re always totally easy things she could do for herself? Isn’t that annoying?”

I could not wait to point out that the emperor had no clothes. She acted holy but she wasn’t.

I could recognise it, and all that was left for me to do was to say it out loud to someone, so we could feel mutual annoyance, and experience a bond. Keeping my feelings to myself was one of the most dif-

ficult things I’ve ever done. In the internet age, there are many, many watchdogs waiting to point out that the emperor has no clothes. It’s good, I suppose, that people, especially priests, aren’t getting away with tough sins.

And it’s definitely good that they no longer get away with crimes but what surprises me about all this information is that it doesn’t feel as good to dwell on it as I thought it would feel. I want to feel outrage.

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Grace needs no targets as we gaze at Christ’s face The Year of Grace is a time for getting to know who Jesus really is, enabling us to ask what he would do, and to do just that, in the concrete situations of our lives.

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Clockwise from left, celebrity priests whose sexual relationships have been exposed in the religious and secular media; Fr John Corapi (resigned from the priesthood in June 2011), Fr Albert Cutie (now an Episcopalian priest) and Fr Thomas D Williams LC (on a year’s leave from priestly duties).

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My gut instinct says OUTRAGE! But, there’s a still small voice that says, ‘Lord, protect me from the kind of thinking that says, I would never do that. I would never be unfaithful to my vocation. I would never deceive people who believed in me. I would never maintain the office of speaking for the faith when my private life was such a mess.

What a Judas-y thing to do.’

The problem with thinking that way is that it’s A) not accurate, and B) it distracts me from the outrage I should feel for my own failings.

In different circumstances, with a different psychology, I have been unfaithful. I have been deceptive.

Do I feel outrage about the time I hid the receipt for an online purchase until the evidence was on my doorstep? Am I outraged about my pride? About trying to control people? About not praying? About my out-of-control anger? About giving less than I can to the poor? About being uncharitable in my thoughts towards good and faithful priests who happen to test my patience?

Good and evil do exist side by side in every man, so even if the circumstances of my life prohibit me from committing the exact sin that Father Thomas, or even Maciel

committed, sins of public duplicity, of taking advantage of people’s trust and good intention, of abuse, it is equally outrageous that I betray my own vocation in the ways that are particular to my own life.

Saint Paul says that if we must boast, we should boast of our own weakness, not of our astute ability to identify other people’s sins. We could spend our whole lives cataloguing their sins, and never run out of things with which to be out-

St Paul says we should boast of our own weaknesses, not our ability to identify others’ sins. raged (They use NFP selfishly. They have disordered sexual desires...).

It’s exhausting to think about.

When I consider my own weakness, the truth is that I don’t feel outrage about my sin.

If I’m able to silence the justifying reasons why I behaved the way I did for long enough to make a good confession, underneath I feel

sadness and disappointment at my own Judas-y behaviour, followed by tearful relief at God’s mercy.

Poor Jesus gives his life for all of humanity, but can’t even find twelve good men to eat at his table for his last meal.

Judas betrays him. Peter denies him, and thousands of years in the future, priests continue to behave badly, and people keep ignoring their own sins, saying, “Thank God I am not like them”.

I no longer think that charity entails pretending that other people’s faults don’t exist, but it does seem to involve extending the same gentleness to others that I extend to myself.

I don’t think that what Father Thomas did is excusable, but it is forgivable, and when I imagine that God has already forgiven him, which is most likely the case, maintaining any kind of personal outrage becomes too much labour.

Rather, tears seem more appropriate.

It’s no wonder the old priest in my town cries at the Word of God. Maybe tears are the only thing that make sense in response to the tragedy of human failing, and Christ’s outrageous mercy.

’ve probably said it before and I will say it again.

I am so delighted that the Australian Catholic Bishops did not set up any “expected outcomes” sort of lists for the Year of Grace. I’m excited knowing that whatever I do in this year of Grace, the return for me will be Jesus’ own choice of blessing not yet revealed to me. I’ve got so much to learn during this year.

A hard lesson that I’m still learning is to listen when God says, “Be still and know that I am God.” I know that if things were left to me I would fix up all those problems in the world and in the Church the way I want them to be fixed. I would be so busy that I wouldn’t even know if God is trying to talk to me or not. But I know that is not God’s way.

During this Year of Grace I am invited to look at my everyday life and consciously be aware that Jesus is there with me. During this Year of Grace I am asked to allow Jesus to speak to me in my pain, frustration, anger, doubt, unknowing, impatience, waiting and grief. I am asked to listen to his word of comfort or challenge.

In turn I can be the word of Jesus for others.

No one reading this or having this read to them is free from pain and hurt. That comes from being human.

Coping with it and living through it comes from the Divine.

“What Would Jesus Do?”, or WWJD, was a popular slogan started in the 1990’s. The slogan appeared on wrist bands, coffee mugs, spoons, bangles and lots of other places. What does it mean? That’s not a bad thing to consider before I do anything, especially before I open my mouth. I think that the Year of Grace is really a year in which we Australians can spend time getting to know Jesus so that when we ask ourselves, “What would Jesus do?” we will have a much better understanding of what we are asking.

Sometimes I hardly know what I am doing much less know what Jesus would do. Am I being presumptuous when I ask, “What Would Jesus do?”

Can I, without fear, say that I think Jesus would do this or that? The short answer to that question is, “Yes...” Jesus has already told us from His life and his teachings how to follow his example. Jesus tells us to love one another as He has loved us.

How did he love us? With an everlasting Love. Many people say that they know the mind of Jesus and yet their actions seem

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so far removed from the Jesus I know. I am so blessed that I do not have to stand before God in judgment for what other people do or don’t do.

If I become aware that Jesus is indeed “Emmanuel” – God with us, then I need not panic when I am asked to make a decision about this or that.

However it is very easy to panic and have a sense of being overwhelmed.

What do I say to a grieving family whose son or daughter is now in rehabilitation hospital learning to coordinate their brain with their vocal chords or their limbs so that they communicate and maybe walk again? And all because another driver failed to realise that after a few drinks it was not appropriate to get behind the wheel of the car. What would Jesus say or do when he gazes into the faces of parents who

If it were left to me, I would fix the problems in the world and the Church the way I want them to be fixed, but that is not God’s way. hopes for the “perfect” baby delivers a child whose weak body is kept alive through endless tubes and machines and they are not allowed even to cradle their precious little one?

What would Jesus say or do when approached by someone with both a drug and alcohol issues who requests just a “couple of dollars?”

What will the Year of Grace offer them? The short answer is, “I don’t know.” The long answer is that looking into the face of Jesus will always bring blessings. Looking into the face of Jesus is like looking into a mirror because Jesus, too, experiences the same emotions we do. Jesus may not have had to deal with drugs but he certainly knew what it meant to be desperate for love. The story of the Samaritan woman was not such a rarity. That Jesus would involve himself with her needs was.

The love of Jesus poured out on us is as available to us today as in any age. Maybe we just need to sit long enough for it to come to our notice.

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REVIEWS

The text that you didn’t know you need to know Illuminating the End of Time: The Getty Apocalypse Manuscript with commentary by Nigel J. Morgan. Getty Publications (2012). 180 pp., Available in two weeks.

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The morning after last night A new book on the Pill forensically analyses the contradictions it depended - and depends - on.

Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution by Mary Eberstadt.

Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2012). 171 pp., $27.95 +p/h.

Available from The Record Bookshop.

Reviewed by Brian Welter

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lluminating the End of Time is that rare book that you are welcome to judge by its cover.

The beautiful, visually arresting dust jacket alone makes it a coffee-table rock star.

Inside, the facsimile of the Getty Apocalypse Manuscript, with 82 colour and 34 black-and-white illustrations, is breathtaking, printed on seriously sumptuous thick paper that feels respectful and appreciative. And yes, you can look at the pictures first.

Then sit down and do your homework. It’s a different book once you know what you’re looking at.

When first confronted by the exhaustive commentary on the text and illuminations by Nigel Morgan, you might want to throw yourself (and the book) out the window. Don’t. The cramped, compact print is hardly “casual reader”-friendly, but making your way through the tight, intense, scholarly history of the Apocalypse books is the key to enjoying this beautiful book from an aesthetic angle. There is context here that you didn’t know you needed to know.

Morgan, a fellow of Corpus Christi College at Cambridge, is one of the world’s leading authorities on English illuminated manuscripts of the Apocalypse (and how many can there be?).

His history and context read like sitting through an entire semester of medieval history class. But you have the luxury of stopping at any time and referencing the panel(s) you’ve been reading about. You may be surprised and delighted by what sinks in.

Illuminating the End of Time is not ‘Apocalypse Manuscripts for Dummies.’ The overall history of these religious manuscripts, comparisons of different styles, texts and illustrations, and the ideas historians have on how and why the similarities and differences are important, can’t be absorbed in a scan-through or even a single reading. Morgan writes, “The Getty Apocalypse stands out as one of the most original interpretations of the illustration of John’s visions of its time. It ... expresses the drama of the events of the visions in a special way that sets this book apart among the remarkable series of illustrated Apocalypses created in 13thcentury England.” Knowing a little something about the zeitgeist that produced a flurry of apocalyptic manuscripts may not make you an instant hit at cocktail parties, but when you are exposed to a scholar’s great knowledge of a subject, it can be a culturally transformative experience. A brush with greatness can only improve your world. At any rate, your coffee table will thank you.

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requent First Things contributor Mary Eberstadt examines the sexual revolution’s negative fallout in Adam and Eve After the Pill. She shows how the predictions of Humanae Vitae (On Human Life) have come true in full force. Even non-Catholic and anti-church thinkers such as researcher Lionel Tiger note again and again how the sexual revolution, at the centre of which is the pill, has led to “unique problems.”

She notes the main points of that much-criticised 1968 encyclical, and their prescience for today. Humanae Vitae “warned of four resulting trends: a general lowering of moral standards throughout society; a rise in infidelity; a lessoning of respect for women by men; and the coercive use of reproductive technologies by governments.” These trends have harmed men, women, young adults and children, the author shows, before she moves on to discussing the changed moral landscape wrought by the sexual turmoil.

This more intellectual side to the revolution’s poison offers the best reading, as we come away with a better understanding of mainstream thinking, and how to offer a Catholic counter argument.

Eberstadt clearly explains that, in step with the sexual revolution, Western society has flip-flopped its morals. Sexuality and food, for instance, have changed roles.

Nowadays people have the same moral rigidity about food that 60 years ago they held about sex.

This includes the belief that other people should also hold the same views. Yet, judging another’s sexuality or sexual practices nowadays is off-putting to most, considered puritanical and old-fashioned.

Smoking and pornography have also flip-flopped, where people are resigned to the bad habit of the day (smoking in the 1950s and pornography today) and don’t see a way out. Yet the author notes that decades of struggle against Big Tobacco, though highly irritating to some, was well worth it, as most people would agree. An identical fight could be undertaken now

against Big Porn. Eberstadt sees the same basic “harm-minimising synergy” between producer and consumer in each battle: 1950s smokers didn’t want to hear that their habit was killing them, and

Flip-flopped morals: sex and food have swapped roles. Today, people have the moral rigidity about food that 60 years ago they held about sex. the tobacco companies didn’t want to tell them. Similarly today, porn users might know they are hurting themselves and their loved ones, but they turn a deaf ear to such advice.

Eberstadt concludes that the research clearly shows how “pri-

vate actions, notably post-revolution sexual habits,” have “massive public consequences”, contrary to mainstream claims that what happens in the bedroom is no one’s business.

The social science backing up the sexual revolution is as bad as the ethics. Tradition, particularly Catholic tradition, has much better things to teach about sexuality than Marxist university professors.

Eberstadt quotes researcher Matthew Connelly: “The great tragedy of population control, the fatal misconception, was to think that one could know other people’s interests better than they knew it themselves... The essence of population control ... was to make rules for other people without having to answer to them. It appealed to people with power because, with the spread of emancipatory movements, it began to appear easier and more profitable to control populations than to control territory.”

Cultural Marxism, in two words.

The church finds itself battling the same people today as 30 years ago in Poland and Slovakia.

Unlike many current Christian writers concerned about marriage and sexuality, Eberstadt does not adopt a shaming stance toward men. She does nevertheless note the much-reduced engagement of men in family and the public arena.

For instance, more and more marriages are sexless as men turn toward pornography. The author notes that as feminism and its close partner, the sexual revolution, have taken over more and more, women have become less and less happy and men more and more withdrawn.

Yet mainstream media and academia avoid blaming feminism and the pill. The author finds this curious, given the mountains of evidence to support the claims of Humanae Vitae about the toxic results of changed sexual mores. Just as she sees the switch in ethical thinking between food and sex, and between pornography and smoking, so she links reflections on the Cold War with judgments on the sexual revolution. Academics and other leading thinkers in the West, mostly Marxist, remained in denial until 1989 about the evils of communism, even when confronted with the evidence. People today are in denial about the sexual revolution even when faced with the facts.

Yet the author doesn’t give up, and encourages us to address society with the truth of Humanae Vitae and faithful Catholic social teaching, proven to have been right all along. Adam and Eve After the Pill thus calls Catholics to Blessed John Paul II’s counter cultural new evangelisation and its transformation of the culture of death.

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Three cardinals who changed history Cushing, Spellman, O’Connor: The Surprising Story of How Three American Cardinals Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations by James Rudin. Wm. B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2012). 157 pp., Available in two weeks.

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abbi James Rudin has been involved in JewishChristian relations for the American Jewish Committee since the late 1960s, and his writing reflects both sound research and a wealth of personal experience.

Cushing, Spellman, O’Connor: The Surprising Story of How Three American Cardinals

Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations, engagingly written for general readership, tells the story of three key American cardinals who, among others in the US and Europe, profoundly influenced the development and implementation of the Second Vatican Council’s groundbreaking declaration, Nostra Aetate, which redefined and set a new direction for Catholic-Jewish relations after nearly two millennia of mistrust.

Rabbi Rudin sets the context for the mid- to late 20th-century story he tells by going back to its beginnings in the New Testament, a collection of books written by Jews for other Jews presenting a Jewish case for the significance of the life and teaching of the Jew, Jesus. The argu-

ment for Jesus met with a great deal of success among Jews, as St Paul noted, and Christianity spread throughout the thenknown world virtually wherever there were Jewish communities to receive its “good news.”

Many Jews, however, did not accept what the increasingly gentile church had to say about Jesus, and the fathers of the church shifted their argument from one for Jesus into one against Jews and Judaism.

Despite the positive teachings of St Augustine and many of the popes regarding Judaism, the treatment of Jews in Christian Europe gradually deteriorated over the centuries. Rabbi Rudin commendably does not oversimplify this long and complex

history, though he accurately describes the record “overall” as “a bleak one,” laying the groundwork for the Holocaust.

The speech Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston gave at the council, narrated in riveting fashion by Rabbi Rudin, and the behind-the-scenes political activities of Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York were, indeed, instrumental in the ultimate, overwhelming passage of the document. Rabbi Rudin’s story of New York Cardinal John J. O’Connor’s involvement in Jewish-Catholic relations in the 1980s and 1990s is a more personal one, since he knew Cardinal O’Connor well and worked with him on numerous joint projects over the years.

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And taking the child by the hand he said to her, ‘Little girl, I tell you to get up.’ The little girl got up at once. - Mark 5: 40-42

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Across 2. Calling the woman from the crowd Jesus said, ‘My daughter, your ____ has restored you to health; go in peace and be free of your complaint.’

5. Then the president of the ____ came up, named Jairus, and seeing him, fell at his feet 6. And at once aware of the ____ that had gone out from him, Jesus turned round

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and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’

7. So they came to the house of the president of the synagogue, and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people ____ and wailing unrestrainedly.

Down 1. Now there was a woman who had ____ from a haemorrhage, heard about Jesus

and ____ his cloak from behind.

3. Jesus took the child by the hand he said to her, ‘Little girl, I ____ you to get up.’

4. Jairus begged him earnestly, saying, ‘My little ____ is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her that she may be saved and may live.’

8. The little ____ got up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old.

At once they were overcome with astonishment.

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OPINION

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EDITORIAL

Should we drop the word ‘marriage’?

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t first glance the suggestion being put in the headline above this editorial might seem ridiculous, even offensive, to some.

Several editorials in The Record over the last two years or so have unashamedly been on the side of defending marriage in its traditional Christian-inspired sense. Quite aside from religious principles, this is also because The Record subscribes to a philosophical natural law position which sees the unique, voluntary, lifelong bond between a man and a woman who are open to the possibility of life they may conceive as being of fundamental importance to those two people, their children (if any) and to society. Destroy marriage and one breaks down relationships between individuals as well as society and all the bonds which hold it together.

Despite the fact that everyone except advocates of same sex marriage such as Channel Seven’s Sunrise breakfast television program understand the unique importance of marriage, the time has come to ask whether or not it is perhaps better that the Church seriously thinks about dropping use of the word ‘marriage’ altogether. The Record poses this question for several reasons but perhaps the most important is that as those defending the idea of marriage as a unique relationship between a man and a woman watch the tide progress in favour of legally raising relationships between individuals of the same sex to the same level as marriage (and what comes after that?) it is also clear that in actual fact the word ‘marriage’ has, in developed societies such as Australia and around the globe, almost completely lost its meaning.

After all, what does the word ‘marriage’ really mean today? Or perhaps the more precise question should be: why bother defending something that really no longer means anything at all and which almost no-one actually believes in?

Marriage has faced threats at different periods of history for different reasons and it is true that it has often been in need of reform itself, but the 20th and 21st centuries are the first time it has been globally attacked in and of itself for what it actually is. At its 1930 Lambeth Conference the Anglican Church undermined an essential foundation stone of the meaning of both Christian marriage and marriage in general when it approved the use of artificial contraception, thus removing in the minds of the wider society any relationship between the idea of marriage and human fertility. In the 1960s the universal introduction and availability of the artificial contraceptive Pill, as it became known, was a powerful factor in persuading people that sexual relationships could be entered into without any corresponding idea of comPO Box 3075 mitment because the idea of a Adelaide Terrace child was now effectively trunPERTH WA 6832 cated. People could indulge their lusts (within or outside office@therecord.com.au marriage) and not be bothered Tel: (08) 9220 5900 by the idea of a child. Marriage Fax: (08) 9325 4580 suffered a further body blow in the 1960s and 1970s when the US exported quick no-fault divorce to the world, effectively meaning that no marriage, apparently, could offer anyone any basic idea of commitment with security, much less the unfortunate victims who were the children of divorce. The results of this self-destructive tsunami have also been comprehensively studied and quantified by the social sciences for decades. The introduction of abortion (another US export) meant that millions of children from married or unmarried relationships were consigned to the rubbish bins of the streets for the crime of being unwanted but, in the process, marriage was also being ground down into an ever more meaningless relationship.

The current push to legalise same sex marriage, rather than being a novel innovation, is therefore simply one further progression in a continuum of decay. It is therefore perhaps timely that those who see the unique meaning and importance of The Relationship Once Known as Marriage reflect on the fact that almost no-one in our society actually wants it. In this sense, marriage as a unique thing is now practically beyond defence and certainly cannot be imposed on a society that is profoundly antagonistic to its true meaning.

Perhaps it is better, therefore, for the Catholic Church to abandon the word ‘marriage’ in favour of another term or phrase (‘Sacrament of Christian Covenant,’ to nominate an example) and to leave the meaningless word ‘marriage’ to a society that thinks human happiness can be found through redefining words. There is now practically no reason why polygamous relationships should not be called ‘marriage’. It could well be hard to object to bigamous relationships as marriages.

And then there are other relationships, currently regarded as beyond the pale, which may well soon find their own enthusiastic advocates, vehemently and righteously demanding ‘equality.’ If such things come to pass, advocates for ‘marriage’, among all the possible permutations and commutations available, will certainly experience a form of equality. But while they have a word that once meant something completely different, Catholics (and why not other Christians, Jews and many Muslims?) will have something that is unique. Furthermore, they will have the clearest idea of anyone in the world what it is, what it means and why it is special, almost beyond the power of words to quantify.

Perhaps the Church should abandon the term ‘marriage’ as it almost certainly bears no relation to the real thing anymore.

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*Apologies to Barack Obama, and possibly, Sarah Palin: “You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”

Soulless civilisation is the enemy of Church and itself The virtues of our civilisation are, in large part, thanks to Christianity, but now the Faith’s homeland is turning ever more hostile.

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ANY years ago, I was a reporter at The West Australian covering a shire council

meeting.

One of the councillors was very angry that the RSL had used the council hall for some function and left a rude picture on the wall. He talked of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

At the time I dismissed it as nonsense from an old fogey, and I still think the councillor’s reaction was over the top. But today I would have other thoughts about the Roman Empire.

For the first time a majority of the English-speaking countries – Britain, Australia and America (I don’t know about Canada or New Zealand) are under the rule of people actively opposed to central features of Christianity.

In Britain David Cameron, a Conservative, is determined to force through homosexual marriage despite strong public opposition (a petition opposing it of 500,000 signatures has just been delivered to Number 10 Downing Street). Transvestism is also forced on children as young as 4 in a government school (for those who find this unbelievable, see the Daily Mail Online for 20 June). This reminds one of the recreations of some of the more perverted Roman Emperors.

African nations have been warned that if they discriminate against homosexuals they will lose British Foreign Aid. (Never mind if they have secret police and torture chambers, as long, presumably, as the said secret police, not to mention the torture victims, preserve a balance of sexual orientation).

Much the same pressure for homosexual marriage is being put on the churches by some governments in Australia.

In America, all manner of groups are being compelled to fund abor-

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tions, despite the conscientious objections many have to it. It seems to me that the message is gradually sinking in that we are in a fight such as we have hardly seen since the Reformation, or perhaps since the Dark Ages.

In all three countries we can see government pressure for the legalisation of abortion’s evil twin, euthanasia: both destroy human life and devalue it. The pressure for euthanasia will inevitably increase as the population ages, more old people will need to be supported and cared for, and the number of working-age income-earners

We are in for a fight such as we have hardly seen since the Reformation, or maybe the Dark Ages. and tax-payers declines. There is evidence that thinly disguised euthanasia is already under way in Britain, with cases running into six figures a year. In Holland, it is reported that special euthanasia vans call at the homes of terminally ill – or merely depressed – people to kill them – this in a country where the Nazi holocaust killed not only the Jews but also Jewish converts to Catholicism, such as the great theologian and Carmelite Nun Edith Stein. The only solution is increased production but this is opposed by anti-technology lobbies.

Quite suddenly, it seems, Christianity, and perhaps espe-

cially Catholicism, is in a fight, in what should be the heartland of Christendom, for its fundamental values. For if the anti-Christians in power now win, to the extent of fundamentally changing legislation, our society will be fundamentally changed with it.

Christian society is subject to a two-pronged attack – from militant Islamicism from without, and something from within that goes under a number of names – Atheism, secular humanism, relativism, nihilism, and (the latest term I have encountered) empiricism. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire sometimes does not seem all that far away.

If we – that is not only our religion but also our civilisation – are going to survive, we will need to fight for our survival. A first step might be to promote some of the great, inspiring culture Western Christendom has produced.

One piece that springs to mind, which every Christian should read, is G K Chesterton’s The Ballad of the White Horse, a book-length epic, telling of how the “oft-defeated king” Alfred the Great, gathered an army, miraculously defeated the marauding Danes, and converted their leader.

The story sounds impossible, but, in addition to being stirring poetry, it happens to be based on historic truth. Here the king is arguing with Eldred, an old, reluctant warrior, pointing out that duty cannot be escaped: “And this is the word I bring you, The word of the world’s desire ‘No more of comfort shall ye get, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.’”

It is also one of the lessons of The Lord of The Rings: let yourself be pushed far enough, and you will find the only means of defence is attack.

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Control freaks can’t expect seeds of faith to grow Beware excessive busy-ness and goals which come from ourselves and not from God, for happiness is not to be grasped at.

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HE Sunday before I wrote this column, the Gospel reading was Mark 4:26-34, which contains some of Jesus’ many parables about seeds and sowing. It begins: “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground and should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how…”

Summer has begun in Canada, which means the sowing season has recently concluded. No longer worried about the logistics of getting seed or bedding plants into the ground, farmers and gardeners are now fretting about good growing conditions. In western Canada, we have been experiencing weeks of numerous and heavy rains, so people are now praying for warm, sunny weather to get the growing season underway. But that’s all we can do: pray for favourable conditions. The actual germination and

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growth are entirely in God’s hands.

I was visiting my parents’ parish that Sunday (it was Fathers’ Day in Canada), and their priest (Fr ‘M’) gave a very good homily on the subject of seeds and growth. He said that too often, we forget that it is God alone who “gives the growth” for the various undertakings in our lives. He didn’t use the phrase ‘control freak’ but you know you’ve become one when, in a metaphorical sense, you plant a seed and then try to stay awake 24 hours a day watching and waiting, hoping to force it, by sheer will if nothing else, to growth and fruition.

Father M further suggested that we sometimes start out with the wrong kinds of seeds, in that we

consult our own will, and not the Lord’s when it come to ordering our days. He cited our fondness for our lengthy and ubiquitous ‘To Do’ lists, which, in the unlikely event that they are entirely crossed off, engender a false sense of pride in our accomplishments, or (far more likely, at least in my case) they leave us discouraged because we only completed two of the twenty items we had planned for the day.

Sometimes we need to be reminded of the blatanly obvious. Seeds are small.

We need to step back and allow God to lead us in how our days are planned and in how those plans come to fruition. For example, it might be more ‘productive’ (eternally speaking) to spend a few

hours on an impromptu visit with a lonely elderly person than it would to frantically dash about the house or town crossing items off that list.

This is especially true if, like me, excessive busy-ness sometimes makes you excessively irritable towards your loved ones. A smile and a kind word may lead someone closer to salvation than meeting all the goals in your day-planner.

Nor need we worry when events (large or small) don’t seem to be taking the trajectory that we’d hoped or planned for. Whether we are organising a small parish event, or helping to launch our grown children on a new career, we must become practiced at “letting go and letting God.” This can be very difficult to do, sometimes heartbreakingly so, when our children make decisions that take them off the path of faith we tried to set them on. Amid the tears and supplication, remember: God gives the growth; we know not how. Keep planting seeds of

prayer and hope in your heart.

In the latter part of that Sunday Gospel reading (Mark 4:31), Jesus mentions the mustard seed, “the smallest of all the seeds on earth,” and how it grows to be the “greatest of all shrubs,” putting forth large branches. Sometimes we need to be reminded of the blatantly obvious, as Jesus does in this Gospel. Seeds are small. This should give us hope and comfort, because the vicissitudes and burdens of life being what they are, sometimes ‘small’ is all we can manage.

A short but heartfelt cry to God; a smile, a hug, a cup of coffee with a discouraged friend; being ‘present’ to those you love. Just plant some small seeds: some will be so tiny, they cannot be seen by others—but be assured, God sees them all. Then let go and allow him to look after the rest with his Fatherly care. God gives the growth; we know not how.

But we do know we can trust in his love and mercy.

Fine life of faith, prayer and politics A business woman, a pro-lifer and a leader in politics Julie Borger finds that faith is central to all her pursuits.

How I Pray DEBBIE WARRIER

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HAVE a busy life. I manage our family business, I’m involved in prayer and faith ministries, the pro-life movement and I’m politically active. My work life involved human service delivery and included child protection work, and community development. I did a Post Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution and then worked in mediation helping separating couples to make their parenting and property agreements; and also as a Juvenile Justice Conference Chairperson with offenders and victims.

I grew up in New Zealand and in 1976 came to Australia. Six months later I married Paul and we have four grown children and a beautiful granddaughter. Wanting to understand my faith better I undertook a Masters in Arts (Theology) degree and graduated in 2009.

My life is a prayer. I wake in the morning and thank God for the day ahead. I surrender it to Him and ask that all I do gives Him the glory. I ask that I see things as He sees them, understand as He understands, love that which He loves and as He would love. Surrendering has been a significant part of my faith walk and has transformed me. God gives us our free will but I believe He delights when we give it back to Him “not my will but Yours Lord”. The two great examples of surrender are Mary at the time of the annunciation and Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane.

To surrender my day to God puts a whole different slant on how I live it. It means if something comes along that I haven’t planned, I embrace it. God knows what is more important. Sometimes silently I thank God for the interruption and let Him know that I trust Him for the things that need to get done.

He never lets me down and living like this removes much stress.

I like to go to Mass daily. During the Eucharist I give my family into God’s care and ask that they be washed in His precious blood pre-

Queenslander Julie Borger likes to go to daily Mass and spends a rostered two hours in front of the Blessed Sacrament from 5am on Tuesdays.

sent on the altar, and that they be made whole, healed and renewed.

God hears my prayers.

Paul and I have always prayed together at night. We each in turn bring to the Lord our concerns. I thank God for these times because as we reveal ourselves before the Lord we reveal ourselves to each other. Pope John Paul II (now Blessed) said that our greatest weapon is the rosary so in recent years we have included the rosary.

I believe that through Our Blessed Mother’s intercession we have grown in gentleness and unity.

When alone I sing songs of praise and pray out loud. Sometimes I complain but far more often I thank God for the many wonderful things He has done for me and continues to do. I am on a roster to sit before the Blessed Sacrament.

My two hour shift starts at 5am on Tuesdays. It is hard to explain how blessed it is to spend time before the Lord and how refreshing it is

to my soul. I take my bible and a journal to record His messages to me. Since doing this I have a greater strength, depth and peacefulness.

When Pope John Paul II died I prayed to him saying if there was anything he had left unfinished here on earth let me know so that

My life without faith would be empty ... I ask Mary to mould me and change me in whatever ways needed to walk with her and Christ.

I can continue the work. In 2008 Victoria passed horrific legislation allowing abortion right up to the time of birth and there were rumours that a certain Qld Member of Parliament had a similar bill in

draft form ready to present to our State Parliament after the elections.

Luckily she lost her seat but I feared this was just a temporary reprieve.

The need to protect the unborn stirred me into action. I started a local branch of Cherish Life Qld Inc and became the President. Then I learned that Pope John Paul II stated the singular most important ministry in our times is the protection of the unborn. I was amazed at how my prayer had been answered.

Further study of the writings of the late Pope John Paul II and also our current pope challenged me to become politically involved. I got together with some friends once a week for about a year to pray and discern the way forward. In 2009 I joined the Liberal National Party (LNP). At our LNP Women’s State Convention in July 2011 I was elected as State Secretary of the LNP Women’s. In this capacity I have a place on the State Council that votes on LNP policy and also

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decides who to put forward as LNP Senate candidates. Here I can give my vote for policies that are pro life and supportive of the family.

I ask Mary to mould me and change me in whatever way needed so that I can more closely walk with her and Jesus. I ask her for peacefulness and gentleness in my heart so that my home can be a refuge for others. I know that she is answering my prayer slowly and surely and I am grateful. On my own I can do nothing. All is grace.

I think that my life without faith would be empty. I am reminded of St Augustine’s words “My soul can find no rest until it rests in thee.”

I look at others that do not have faith and I see them striving in all the wrong places, seeking wealth, prestige etc when what they really want and need are the fruits of the spirit alive in them. These are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control (Galatians 5 v 22, 23).

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Refreshments afterwards. Enq: John 9757 7771.

EVERY SECOND SUNDAY

Embracing Womanhood A Spiritual Dimension Over a Cup of Tea 9am-2.30pm at St Thomas More Bateman Parish Hall, cnr Dean and Marsengo Rds, Bateman. Mass celebrant: Fr Clayton. Cost: $5. BYO: lunch, morning tea provided. Daycare available for children.

Enq: Gertrude 0411 262 221 or Brenda 0403 226 350 or Carolin 0432 855 605.

8.30am at St Bernadette Church, 49 Jugan Street, Glendalough.

St Padre Pio DVD in Parish Centre. 10am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Divine Mercy, silent Adoration and Benediction. 11am Holy Mass, St Padre Pio Liturgy, Confession available.

12noon Lunch, BYO Tea and coffee provided. Enq: Des 6278 2540.

Healing Hour 7-8pm at St Lawrence Parish, Balcatta. Join us for songs of praise and worship, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and prayers for the sick. Enq: Fr Irek Czech SDS or parish office Tues - Thur, 9am2.30pm 9344 7066.

SUNDAY, JULY 15 Feast Day of Our Lady Of Mt Carmel - Mass 9am at Our Lady of Mt Carmel, 82 Collick St, Hilton.

The main celebrant will be Archbishop Costelloe.

Enq: Fr Paul 9314 7733.

Oblates of St Benedict – Meeting 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth.

For all interested in studying the Rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople: Vespers and afternoon tea afterwards. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758.

FRIDAY, JULY 20 TO SUNDAY, JULY 22

EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY

The Spirituality of Compassion: Befriending Life and Presence” 6pm at St John of God Retreat Centre, 47 Gloucester Cr, Shoalwater. For women working in the health profession - exploring questions as ‘How can health professionals consistently provide ‘care’ and ‘presence’ in current challenging climate and is it possible to respond to people’s suffering with the many challenges that othercenteredness involves?’ Enq: Sr Ann on 0409 602 927 or Sr Kathy on 0418 926 590.

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life 2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. The hour includes exposition of the blessed Eucharist, silent prayer, scripture and prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations can hear clearly God’s call.

One-day seminar “Knowing God in everyday life” - Holy Trinity Community 8.45am-6pm at Faith Centre, 450 Hay St, Perth.

By Fr Tuan and team. Registration and enq: Adri 0412 948 688 or William 0447 388 882 or Bryan 0406 671 388.

A Morning Retreat: Inner Freedom and healing 9-12pm at Mary MacKillop Room, John XXIII College. Retreat deals with our inner wounds and what is needed to transform our inner hurts; followed by Ignatian Scriptural Meditation. Cost: donation for Inigo Centre. Registration and Enq: murray@johnxxiii.edu.au.

One-Day Healing Retreat 9-5pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375 Alcock St, Maddington. Leader: Fr Michael (Divine Mercy centre - India) and Fr Joseph (Tabor Retreat Centre - India). BYO Lunch. Enq: Admin 9493 1703.

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 AND SUNDAY, JULY 1 Annual Retreat - AHFI Perth 8.30am-5.30pm at St Anne’s Parish, 11 Hehir St, Belmont. Alliance of the Holy Family International - retreat Master: Fr Edgardo ‘Bing’ Arrelano.

Cost: $20/day (pensioners $10/day). Coffee/tea supplied; please byo lunch. Seating is limited.

Registration and enq: Vicky 0400 282 357 or Nick 0428 953 471 or John/Joy 9344 2609.

NEXT WEEK SUNDAY, JULY 1 Focolare – Gospel reading 2.30-4.30pm at Little Sisters of the Poor, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Children’s program held simultaneously. Discover the extraordinary words in the Bible: “… they were eternal words, for all times, therefore also for our times.” Chiara Lubich. Enq: secretary 9349 4052 or ffperth@iprimus.com.au.

An evening with Mother Mary: Reflection on ‘Our Lady of Mount Carmel’ 7-9pm at Our Lady of Mt Carmel, 82 Collick St, Hilton. Presenter: Fr Leo. Enq: Fr Paul 9314 7733.

Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Sunday 11am at Holy Trinity Church, 8 Burnett Street Embleton. The Aboriginal Catholic Ministry and Community Council invites you to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Straights Sunday. Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Don Sproxton. Enq: 9328 7529.

TUESDAY, JULY 3 Rejection can be healed.

7pm-8pm at St Benedict’s School Hall Alness St Applecross. Presented by Norma Woodcock, Accredited- CEO- Faith Formation for ongoing renewal. Everyone is welcome. There will be a collection. Registration $10. View a weekly short video broadcast at www.thefaith.org.au Enq: 94871772 or www.normawoodcock.com

THURSDAY, JULY 26 Charismatic Renewal ‘CCR Together 7.30pm at Good Shepherd Church, Altone St, Lockridge. All are invited to CCR Perth’s Prayer Night, evening includes Prayer & Praise, and Teaching,“CCR in the Year of Grace”, followed by Prayer Team Ministry. Light supper will conclude the evening. Enq: Dan 9398 4973 or dhewitt@ aapt.net.au ” THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 50th Anniversary of Aloysius Parish - Mass 6.30pm St Aloysius Parish, 84 Keightley Rd, Shenton Park. 50th Anniversary of the Blessing and opening of St Aloysius Church by Archbishop Prendiville in 1962. Mass celebrant: Archbishop Timothy Costelloe. Followed by a light supper in the parish centre. If transport is required, let us know. RSVP by July 19 for catering purposes. staloysius@westnet.com.au. Enq: Admin on 9381 5383.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 DIVINE MERCY PILGRIMAGE – with Br Stanley Villavicencio 11.30am BYO lunch, Divine Mercy Church site, Cnr. Muchea East Rd & Santa Gertrudas Drive, Lower Chittering. 12.30 pm Exposition, Rosary and Benediction, 1pm Holy Mass. 2pm Br Stanley’s talk 3.00pm Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Veneration Service. Tea provided. Transport booking: Francis 94593873 / 0404 893 877 or Laurie 0448 833 472.

FRIDAY, 10 TO SUNDAY, 12 AUGUST RENEWING THE LIGHT OF HOPE - SEPARATED, DIVORCED, WIDOWED 7.30pm at Epiphany Retreat Centre, Rossmoyne.

Beginning Experience is running a weekend programme designed to assist and support people in learning to close the door gently on a relationship that has ended, in order to get on with living.

Registration: Josie 9285 8661 or Mauz 0419 928 110. www.beginningexperienceperth.org.au

REGULAR EVENTS

SATURDAY, JULY 7

EVERY SUNDAY

Day With Mary 9am-5pm at St Columba Parish, 25 Forrest St, South Perth. Day of prayer and instruction based on the Fatima message. 9am video; 10.10am holy Mass; Reconciliation, procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic Adoration, sermons on Eucharist and on Our Lady, Rosaries and Stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Enq: Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate 9250 8286.

Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio Join the Franciscans of the Immaculate from 7.309pm on Radio Fremantle 107.9FM for Catholic radio broadcast of EWTN and our own live shows. Enq: radio@ausmaria.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 8 Weekly Praise and Worship 5.30pm at St Denis Parish, Joondanna, followed

by Mass. Healing Mass once a month with the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Enq: Patricia 9349 1527 or 0402 398 541.

UPCOMING TUESDAY, JULY 10 TO SUNDAY, JULY 15 RSCM Choristers Camp At WA College of Agriculture, Narrogin. Stay tuned for more info. Enq: 9332 4994 or tburbid@bigpond.net.au.

FRIDAY, 13 JULY TO SUNDAY, JULY 15 Inner Healing Retreat (live-in) 7.30am at Epiphany Centre, Rossmoyne. Retreat leader: Vincentian Fathers. Registrations and Enq: Melanie 0410 605 743 or vincentiansperth@ yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 14 Divine Mercy 2.30pm at St Francis Xavier Parish, Windsor St, East Perth. Main Celebrant: Fr Marcellinus Meilak.

Reconciliation in English and Italian available.

Divine Mercy prayers followed by Veneration of First Class Relic of St Faustina Kowalska.

Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook.

Commencing with Rosary followed by Benediction.

Reconciliation is available before every celebration.

Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292.

EVERY FIRST SUNDAY St Mary’s Cathedral Youth Group – Fellowship with Pizza 5pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth.

Begins with youth Mass followed by fellowship downstairs in parish centre. Bring a plate to share.

Enq: Bradley on youthfromsmc@gmail.com.

Singles Prayer and Social Group 7pm at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Sq, 77 St George’s Terrace, Perth. Begins with a Holy Hour (Eucharistic Adoration, the Rosary and a teaching) followed by dinner at a local restaurant. Meet new people, pray and socialise with other single men and women. Enq: Veronica 0403 841 202.

Divine Mercy 1.30pm at St Francis Xavier Parish, 25 Windsor St, East Perth. Homily: The Body and Blood of Jesus.

Main Celebrant: Fr Johnson Malayil. With exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Reconciliation, holy Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Divine Mercy prayers, followed by Benediction and veneration of first class relic of St Faustina Kowalska.

Refreshments afterwards. Next Divine Mercy: Sunday, June 3. Enq: John 9457 7771.

EVERY THIRD SUNDAY

EVERY SECOND AND FOURTH MONDAY A Ministry to the Un-Churched 12.30-1.30pm at St John’s Pro-Cathedral, Victoria Ave, Perth (opposite church offices). With charismatic praise, and prayer teams available. Help us ‘reach out to the pagans’ or soak in the praise. Enq: Dan 9398 4973.

EVERY LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH Filipino Mass 3pm at Notre Dame Church, cnr Daley and Wright Sts, Cloverdale. Please bring a plate to share for socialisation after Mass. Enq: Fr Nelson Po 0410 843 412, Elsa 0404 03 8483.

EVERY MONDAY Evening Adoration and Mass 7pm at St Thomas Parish, Claremont, cnr Melville St and College Rd. Eucharistic Adoration, Reconciliation, evening prayer and Benediction, followed by Mass and night prayer at 8pm. Enq: Kim on 9384 0598 or email to claremont@perthcatholic. org.au.

LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH Be Still in His Presence – Ecumenical Christian Program 7.30-8.45pm at St Swithun Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie St, Lesmurdie (hall behind church).

Begins with songs of praise and worship, silent time, lectio divina, small group sharing and a cuppa at the end. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 043 5252 941.

EVERY TUESDAY Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 6pm at Pater Noster Church, Marmion and Evershed Sts, Myaree. Mass at 5.30pm followed by Benediction. Enq: John 040 8952 194.

Novena to God the Father 7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Victoria Park.

Novena followed by reflection and discussions on forthcoming Sunday Gospel. Enq: Jan 9284 1662.

EVERY FIRST TUESDAY Short MMP Cenacle for Priests 2pm at Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Fr Watt 9376 1734.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Holy Spirit of Freedom Community 7.30pm at The Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We are delighted to welcome everyone to attend our Holy Spirit of Freedom praise meeting.

Enq: 042 3907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com.

Bible Study at Cathedral 6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth.

Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy Scripture by Fr Jean-Noel. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: Marie 9223 1372.

EVERY THURSDAY

Mary MacKillop Merchandise Available for sale from the Mary MacKillop Centre.

Enq: Sr Maree 041 4683 926 or 08 9334 0933.

Divine Mercy 11am at Ss John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy and for the consecrated life, especially here in John Paul Parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Please do come and join us in prayer. Enq: John 9457 7771.

Financially Disadvantaged People Requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement The Little Sisters of the Poor community - set in beautiful gardens in the suburb of Glendalough.

“Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Registration and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155.

St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting 7.45pm every Thursday at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes praise, song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@flameministries.org.

Resource Centre for Personal Development The Holistic Health Seminar “The Instinct to Heal’’, every Tuesday 3-4.30pm; and RCPD2 “Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills” every Tuesday 4.30-6.30pm, 197 High St, Fremantle - Tuesdays 3-4.30pm. Enq: Eva 0409 405 585. Bookings are essential.

Enq: George 9310 9493 or 6242 0702 (w).

Group Fifty - Charismatic Renewal Group 7.30pm at the Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass. Enq: Elaine 9440 3661.

EVERY FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH Prayer in Style of Taizé 7.30-8.30pm at Our Lady of Grace Parish, 3 Kitchener St, North Beach. Includes prayer, song and silence in candlelight – symbol of Christ the light of the world. Taizé info: www.taize.fr. Enq: secretary 9448 4888 or 9448 4457.

EVERY FIRST FRIDAY Healing Mass 7pm at St Peter’s Parish, Inglewood. Praise and worship, exposition and Eucharistic Adoration, Benediction and anointing of the sick followed by holy Mass and fellowship. Celebrants Fr Dat and invited priests. 6.45pm Reconciliation. Enq: Mary Ann 0409 672 304, Prescilla 0433 457 352 and Catherine 043 3923 083.

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life 7pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Mass followed by Adoration with Fr Doug Harris. All welcome. Refreshments provided.

Healing and Anointing Mass 8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree.

Begins with Reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189.

Is your son or daughter unsure of what to do this year?

7.30pm at Ss John and Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton – Songs of Praise and Prayer, sharing by a priest followed by thanksgiving Mass and light refreshments after Mass.

Enq: Kathy 9295 0913 or Ann 0412 166 164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail.com.

Suggest a Certificate IV course to discern God’s purpose for their life. They will also learn more about the Catholic faith and develop skills in communication and leadership. Acts 2 College of Mission & Evangelisation (National Code 51452).

Enq: Jane 9202 6859.

Communion of Reparation All Night Vigils 7pm-1.30am at Corpus Christi Church, Lochee St, Mosman Park or St Gerard Majella Church, cnr Ravenswood Dr/Majella Rd, Westminster (Mirrabooka). The Vigils consist of two Masses, Adoration, Benediction, prayers and Confession in reparation for the outrages committed against the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Enq: Vicky 0400 282 357 or Fr Giosue 9349 2315or John/Joy 9344 2609.

AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA 3253 5666.

EVERY SECOND FRIDAY OF THE MONTH Discover the Spirituality of St Francis of Assisi 12pm at St Brigid’s Catholic Parish Centre. The Secular Franciscans of Midland Fraternity meet for lunch followed by 1-3pm meeting. Enq: Antoinette 9297 2314.

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Healing Mass 12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader Fr Waddell.

Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org. au.

EVERY LAST SATURDAY Novena Devotions – Our Lady Vailankanni of Good Health 5pm at Holy Trinity Parish, 8 Burnett St, Embleton.

Followed by Mass at 6pm. Enq: George 9272 1379.

Adonai Ladies Prayer Group 10am in the upper room of St Joseph’s Parish, 3 Salvado Rd, Subiaco. Come and join us for charismatic prayer and praise. Enq. Win 9387 2802 or Noreen 9298 9938.

Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 12pm at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass.

Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.

Holy Hour Prayer for Priests 7.30-8.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.

Novena to St Mary of the Cross MacKillop 7-7.45pm at Blessed Mary MacKillop Parish, cnr Cassowary Dr and Pelican Pde, Ballajura. Begins with Mass, novena prayers and benediction.

Followed by healing prayers and anointing of the sick. Enq: Madi 9249 9093 or Gerry 0417 187 240.

EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY Chaplets of Divine Mercy 7.30pm at St Thomas More Parish, Dean Rd, Bateman, on the second Wednesday of each month. A powerful, prayerful, sung devotion accompanied by exposition and followed by Benediction. Next devotion: Wednesday, June 13.

3. Higher Certificate in Biblical Studies The Higher Certificate of Biblical Studies is a distance education program that can be followed in your own home at your own pace with periodic face-to-face contact workshops. Tutorial assistance is available as required. It is equivalent to a one-year tertiary course, although it is recommended that you aim to complete it in two years.

For enquiries and enrolment, ph The Faith Centre on 6140 2420.

Catholic Faith Renewal Evening

Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry CYM is back in 2012. Mass at 5.30pm and Holy Hour (Adoration) at 6.30pm at the Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Enq: www.cym.com or 9422 7912.

EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY

Courses held at The Faith Centre in 2012 450 Hay St, Perth 1. RCPD2 - Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills This course provides knowledge of principles that, if applied, will improve all relationships. Skills of self-analysis are taught as well as communication skills. Mondays: 5-7pm, until 10 Dec. For enquiries or bookings ph Paul 0402 222 578.

2. RCPD4 – Increase Personal and Spiritual Awareness and Improve Relationships This course promotes self-awareness and spiritual growth. Emotional development is explained in order to improve understanding between persons. Study of Psychology and Theology. Mondays: 10am–12.30pm, until 10 Dec. For enquiries or bookings ph Eva 0409 405 585.

EVERY FOURTH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

GENERAL Free Divine Mercy Image for Parishes High quality oil painting and glossy print – Divine Mercy Promotions. Images are of very high quality.

For any parish willing to accept and place inside the church. Oil paintings - 160 x 90cm and glossy print - 100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 9417 3267 (w).

Sacred Heart Pioneers Is there anyone out there who would like to know more about the Sacred Heart pioneers? If so, please contact Spiritual Director Fr Doug Harris 9444 6131 or John 9457 7771.

St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Drive, Malaga. Mass of the day: Monday 6.45am. Vigil Masses: Mon-Fri 4.45pm. Enq: Fr David 9376 1734.

Saints and Sacred Relics Apostolate Invite SSRA, Perth invites interested parties, parish priests, leaders of religious communities, lay associations, to organise relic visitations to their own parishes, communities, etc.

We have available authenticated relics, mostly first-class, of Catholic saints and blesseds including Sts Mary Mackillop, Padre Pio, Anthony of Padua, Therese of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe and Simon Stock and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Free of charge and all welcome. Enq: Giovanny 0478 201 092 or ssra-perth@catholic.org.

Enrolments, Year 7, 2014 La Salle College is now accepting enrolments for Year 7, 2014. For a prospectus and enrolment form please contact college reception on 9274 6266 or email lasalle@lasalle.wa.edu.au.

Pellegrini Books Wanted An order of Sisters in Italy is looking for the following: The Living Pyx of Jesus, Fervourings From Galilee’s Hills, Fervourings From the LoveBroken Heart of Christ, Fervourings From the Lips of the Master, Listening to the Indwelling Presence, Sheltering the Divine Outcast, Daily Inspection and Cleansing of the Living Temple of God, and Staunch Friends of Jesus, the Lover of Youth. If you are able to help, please contact Justine on 0419 964 624 or justine@waterempire.com.

Secondhand Electric Organ Good working condition. Angela Vigolo would like to give it away to a good home; maybe a parish would like it? Enq: Angela 9276 9317.

Acts 2 College, Perth’s Catholic Bible College, is now pleased to be able to offer tax deductibility for donations to the College. If you are looking for an opportunity to help grow the faith of young people and to evangelise the next generation of apostles, please contact Jane Borg, Principal at Acts 2 College on 0401 692690 or principal@ acts2come.wa.edu.au.

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IN THIS YEAR OF GRACE AND FAITH A special pilgrimage organised to Italy, France, Spain and Portugal for 24 days (Sep 6-29) to explore holy places in Europe for just AU$5,990.

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