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Pope John Paul II makes impassioned plea for better world understandng in his New Year appeal for peace. Stories pages 6 and 7.

Society today is looking for a saviour, for strength, for love to overcome its meaninglessness, its violence and division, Archbishop Foley told the Charismatic Renewal conference in the Perth Concert Hall last Friday night.

"Our society is looking for Christ just as we are," he told over 1200 people who spent the weekend praying and studying the theme: 'Come to me all you who thirst and you will be filled'.

"Our Lord asks you to be his witness to a world that thirsts and looks for help."

Archbishop Foley said there were divisions in the Church as some sought blindly to make their faith relevant to the society in which they live, striving for social justice and a better society.

These, he said could leave the Lord behind.

At the opening of the Charismatic Renewal conference Archbishop Foley welcomes visiting speakers Mr Jack Brombach and Father George Kitchen.

On the other hand there were those who saw faith as just a personal thing for themselves, something they enjoyed but whose sharing with others they did not see as an obligation.

Using the distinction of the vertical one-to-one approach to God and the

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ers he said: "Where the two meet we have the crucifix and on the crucifix is the Lord."

Archbishop Foley called on the conference to have a

sense of the history of the

community of which they were part so that the Spirit could be brought into the community and beyond into the world.

"Down through the ages there have been many efforts to rekindle the spirit of the early church of Pentecost.

Many movements led by many people have given new life to the Church.

"Renewal is a continuing thing. We cannot guarantee that we will always remain the same. That because we

were born into a Catholic family or parish we will always have that faith in the heart and that love which fires us to greater things.

"Some of the efforts of the

The large audience at the P rth Concert Hall joined in the songs of praise led by Brother Reg Whitely and a choir that included members of Group 50, Bethel Community and Gosnells prayer group.

past were great successes and some were failures. The successes led to the awaken-

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A Geraldto ordination

GERALDTON: The ordination of Peter Downes, 49, in Geraldton this weekend, ends a four year wait since Geraldton's last priest.

Father Thomas Smith was ordained for the diocese by Archbishop Foley in August, 1982.

Peter, who grew up in Yandanooka, 144km south of Geraldton, has just finished a five year course at St Francis Xavier Seminary in Adelaide.

"I am going to have to put into practise what l learnt in the seminary," he said.

"That will also mean making the transition from an academic environment to a pastoral one."

Bishop Hickey said earlier this week Peter's ordination was a sign of the strength of the local community's faith.

"The diocese is always in need of priests prepared to work in isolated areas, with little support compared to what other diocese can give," he said.

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The major criticism of the Charismatic Renewal was the lack of social action Mr Brombach told the conference.

But what the world perceived in the way the Charismatic Renewal should act and what God wanted were two different things.

"Each prayer needs to carefully discern what form of Christian service God wants them to take on," he said.

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ing of new spirituality, new religious life, new families in the Lord ·The failures have led to hurt, to division, the last thing the Lord wants."

Turning to the conference theme, Archbishop Foley noted Israel was a dry country that appreciated the blessings of water.

"It takes just a little water to bring life, to maintain it and to spread it.

The conference is a call not only to those who are dry, but to those who realise they are dry; not only to those who need the Lord, but to those who realise their need."

Noting that during the past year he had attended two mini-conferences of the Charismatic Renewal and two commitment nights of Life in the Spirit seminars, he called on the prayer groups to become part of parish life and of the wider community, and to give the lead in a joyful lively faith and spirit in parish liturgy.

"In other words, the body

has to consult the body to find out how the body is

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The Christian world is in the "most significant period of the Church since Pentecost," the Charismatic conference was told.

Mr Brombach said it was clear "from the pope down" God was pouring out His Holy Spirit throughout the world.

"And there is an increasing number of people who see the Charismatic Renewal as a special Grace God is using to renew the face of the earth," Mr Brombach said.

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The most important aspect was prayer groups operated as a body under the anointing of leadership.

"Personal independence can blur what God wants," he said. "It's better to do together even if it's not the best so the body can grow to doing the best.

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having already prayed and ready to share and hear.

"The most important person in the Kingdom of God is the one who serves everybody else," he said.

"So if you're the head of anything you need to serve like Jesus "All of us have a basic need to serve but the question is how does God want me to serve.

"Serving the Lord is one hundredfold to serving according to our own instincts. And it can be tough.

"It involves love, patience,

dedication, service and prayer commitment."

Prayer meetings or prayer groups were there for the building of the Kingdom of God

It should be a public worship service where all the Gifts of the Holy Spirit operated so the power of God was released and service flowed.

"But it must be done as a call of God," he said.

Mr Brombach also cautioned that ministry always should be done in groups and not on a one-to-one basis or male-female basis

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the ages to bring His people back to the basic realisation Jesus Christ is Lord.

"The greatest of these was Pentecost and I believe this latter half of the 20th century is the most significant period of the Church since Pentecost.

"If you have never asked the question 'who is this Jesus' then maybe it's time you did."

Mr Brombach said prayer groups had a special role to

play in the renewal to witness the power of God. "We must be very serious about being part of this great international movement," he said. "You would think people would sign in their blood to be involved in such a great work of God." Mr Brombach said prayer groups could become a powerful dynamic by seeking to employ every gift God has given His people.

"Prayer group members

should pray for everybody for the release of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as tongues, prophecy and healing," he said.

As people were renewed so the Church was renewed.

"We must learn to become less and let God become more in us," he said.

"It is God's will everybody be filled with His Holy Spirit an& His Glory.

"God is interested in all His children which means every

Film showed some people prepared to die for a cause Christians needed to seek God's vision to understand where they fitted in God's plan, Father George told the conference.

"God wants to make it clear to us what He wants us to do today," he said. "He has a vision for each of His children."

"God is as interested in my relationship with Him as he is in the workings of the universe.

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'That applies to everybody."

The way to seek God's vision was daily prayer.

Father George said the best way to pray was to choose a regular time and place.

"Start by praying your way through the Gospels," he said. "When something comes up that speaks to you, put your Bible down and speak to God. "Because we believe the Word was made flesh we believe God will hear us because he sees it as important.

"Praise Him, Thank Him and sing to Him then let God speak to you.

"Don't presume all your thoughts are distractions. A lot of the time it is God talking to you.

"God wants us to sit still and listen because He wants to do things for us.

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mind for us than we could ever imagine.

'We will have a lot less pain and suffering if we let God run our life.

'The theme of this conference, "Come to Me all you who thirst and you will be filled" should be happening in our lives every day."

The Australian-produced film Gallipoli was used at the conference as an example of people prepared to die for causes.

"It also showed clearly human beings can rise to chalkeynote lenges," Father speaker, George Kitchin told conference delegates.

"But we don't see that happening as much today," he said. ·What we do see is people willing to die for a whole host of causes which basically are anti-God.

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The world wants to see people who can be chaste through the grace of God," he said. "The world is looking to the people of God for something to be sure of "We know the only place certainty and security can be found is in Jesus Christ Once people have found Jesus they can live without defences." Father George said the challenge facing Christians was to recognise they were God's people and they could change the face of the world "How do you become that type of people," he asked "The same way you become a top performer at Carnegie Hall or in the Olympic stadium "You train."

Daily "training sessions" before God consisting of 30 minutes prayerful reflection and communication with Him was a good start "You are the Church," Father George said. "The religious provide sacramental support for you to conquer the world for Jesus Christ.

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Christians should not be put off by thoughts of how hard it might be.

"The reality is that it is going to cost you," Father George said. "We follow a tough God but one who loves us and cares for us.

"He will never allow us to be burdened with more than we can carry.

"We have his grace and the certainty that everywhere we are is the place where Jesus Christ is "He can make the difference to everything in our lives.

"The world needs to see His light in our faces and in our strength or chasteness.

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The almost indestructible rubber thong has taken a pummelling from which it may never bounce back; it has been banned from the Burswood Casino.

And not only the thong. Open sandals are out, thus banning all Discalced Cannelites and Franciscans from the roulette wheels. And it had to be a decision hard as steel to say NO to the denim jeans brigade.

Thongs, and now the banned collar-less T .shirt and footy shorts have only themselves to blame if they did not see that the casino would lift the war far beyond tariffs and economics to ideological and even theological level.

Clothing is as unpredictable and volatile as the weather. Heaven help any institution that thinks it has fashions under its thumb, and that includes the churches.

Our ancestors shipped us to Botany Bay in tatters but on the next ship came the straitjacket rules dictating how European Australians would dress in the heavy woollen serge and voluminous gowns that were ideal for the cold upper northern hemisphere.

Change, however, was relentless, especially after the wars. There was little sympathy for the up-market restaurants that clung doggedly to ties and coats until the financial implications of empty chairs brought them down to reality.

But there would be one last line of defence: the bouncers at the right-clubs and discos and even the bastions of Aussie equality, the pubs, would stand finnly at the door and bellow No Thongs!

The Church has been no idle spectator in the clothing crisis. The 19th century orders of women religious, and to a lesser extent men, vied with each other to develop distinctive habits that, climate notwithstanding, would be a visible witness to their vocation. They too have fiddled with fashion during the last couple of decades but gave up when it appeared there were more important issues needing attention.

The lunatic party fringe, sad to say, still find some perverse pleasure today in lampooning the garb that symbolised so much heroic sacrifice by these women and men of the past.

Clothing affected church going. No excuse for not attending church was as contemptuous as the accusation that church-goers dressed up and were snobbish.

A hundred years ago Bishop Griver had to chide the Catholics of WA for dressing up so much for Sunday Mass that the poor, especially young girts and boys, were staying away out of embarrassment and shame.

Not so now, says the democratic late 20th century Church! Who says God isn't just as pleased with a prayer said in denim jeans? Who claims that the readings at Mass don't deliver the message because the speaker wears shorts, or heaven preserve us, is shod in . . . . . thongs?

But the Burswood Temple has changed all that. Now there are new gods served by a new religion. "We don't like turning people away and we don't like arguments," said the casino spokeswoman. "It's not a nice thing to have to do but we have a beautiful casino and we're doing it for the benefit of people who dress for it."

No stuffy, conservative churchman could have put it more nicely. It is typically Catholic wowserism when humourless stone-faced doonnen tum scantity dressed tourists away from St Peter's but that view must surely change now that a uniformed doonnan does it at Burswood.

We're upside down now. The standards of the churches are now inferior to those of the casino.

Which church lectern will be the first to require the dress standards required for the casino, or employ a doorman?

The parable of the Wedding Feast always presented a problem. It seemed rough justice to throw out a guest because he did not have a wedding gannent.

Now the parable can be told with a touch of modem colour: There was a rich man who went into the streets and freeways to invite people to his casino and he said: "How did you get in here wearing sandals and thongs?" And the guest was thrown out into the darkness ... .!

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Letter to US clergy NEW YORK (NC) -- Citing "clear and established norms," Bishop Stafford of Memphis told Protestant clergy in a letter they were forbidden from receiving Communion at the December 11 funeral of retired Bishop Dozier of Memphis.

Several non-Catholic ministers or priests had received the Eucharist at a Mass for Bishop Dozier, the day before he died of a stroke.

In his letter given to the non-Catholic ministers before the funeral, Bishop Stafford said, "I bring to your attention the theology and tradition of the Catholic Church does not make it possible for you to join in the reception of the Eucharist today.

"As you know, the clear and established norms of the Catholic Church do not permit inter-Communion on occasions such as this," he stated.

"Please pray with me the divisions which cause this reality may one day be healed so we may become perfectly one in Christ."

He also told the nonCatholic clergy he welcomed them to the funeral, told them to wear their "choir robes or academic gown and hood" if they desired, reserved special seats for them at the funeral, and invited them to lunch afterward.

"Your presence today is a witness to the prophetic ecumenical leadership provided by Bishop Dozier through his shepherding role in the local church," Bishop Stafford's letter added. "I rejoice in sharing the rich blessings of Bishop Dozier's legacy and ministry with you in this celebration."

Catholic canon law forbids inter-Communion with non-Catholic churches, although at funerals and other liturgies it sometimes occurs

Bishops talk on solutions for divorcees WASHINGTON (NO) -- The Church's courts are the real answer for Catholics in irregular second marriages, said Father Donald Heintschel, a leading US canon lawyer and associate general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Father Heintschel, dismissed as "simply impossible" a suggestion, raised in Rome at the world Synod of Bishops, that the Church should find some new pastoral way of readmitting divorced-remarried Catholics to the sacraments.

Archbishop Karl Berg of Salzburg, Austria, suggested to the synod the Church take a "more merciful approach to the divorced and remarried," such as readmitting them to the the sacraments after a "period of penance".

A similar question had been raised five years earlier, at the 1980 synod on marriage and family life, by Archbishop Derek Worlock of Liverpool, England.

He asked if divorcedremarried Catholics must be "forever" denied "full eucharistic communion with the Church and its Lord."

Similar questions were raised by several other bishops at that synod.

The problem with suggestions for some kind of penitential reconciliation that does not tackle the problem of the first marriage, Father Heintschel said, is "the indissolubility of marriage is a Church doctrine."

It is "the presumption of law the first marriage was a valid union which remains binding "until the opposite is proven," he said "This is where the ministry of the tribunal comes in," he said. "It's present," not speculative, he said, and "it's efficient and pastoral."

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recent estimate by a civil lawyer that about 90 per cent of separated or divorced Catholics could obtain annulments from the Church, Father Heintschel said his experience suggested that was true.

"Those who do apply probably will have their marriage declared null - I'm sure there are cases that can't be resolved, but they are minimal," he said.

He emphasised just having

a divorce or separation itself does not cut a person off from the sacraments That is a mistake often made in the media and a source of confusion to many people, he said.

He said he had seen news reports from the synod which failed to distinguish between divorced Catholics and divorced-remarried Catholics.

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President Reagan, for example, caused a stir when he and his wife, Nancy, went to Commun-

ion at the Catholic funeral of an aide in 1983 in Washington.

A diocesan spokesman said a "local custom" may have developed during Bishop Dozier's tenure in which unofficial interCommunion took place because Bishop Dozier did not wish to create a controversy when it occurred.

Perhaps some "were reading something into Bishop Dozier's personality and said he would look kindly upon this," He said. "Some of the ministers may have read more into Bishop Dozier's leniency than was really there."

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TORONTO (NC) - Russian born Catherine de Hueck Doherty, founder of Friendship Houses for inter-racial justice and Madonna Houses for social service, died at her home in Combermere She was 89.

She founded Friendship Houses in 1921 to work against racia injustices and discriminatio but she later broke with that movement in 1947 to start Madonna House in Combermere, a lay apostolate volved in wider social justice activi

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She was born in Nijni-Novgorod, now called Gorski, in the region between the Black and the Caspian seas in Russia She married a wealthy Russian engineer, Baron Boris de Hueck, in 1914. During World War 1, they both went to the front, he with the engineer corps and she as a Green Cross nurse.

During the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the couple fled to Fmland, where they were arrested by communists but were later freed They went to Toronto Once in Toronto she established the first Friendship House, In 1938 she established the first Friendship House in the United States in the Harlem district of New York City She said she chose Harlem because it was "a very stony portion of the great vineyard of the Lord' with its "poverty, misery, race discrimination and much hardship and sorrow."

After her marriage to de Hueck was annulled, she married Eddie Doherty, a Chicago reporter, in 1943. De Hueck died a few year later

Mother Teresa takes over AiDs cases

NEW YORK (NC) --New York Governor Mario Cuomo has released three convicts terminally ill with AIDs to Mother Teresa's care as the world-renowned nun opened a New York

residence for AlDs victims on Christmas Eve.

Mother Teresa told reporters each AIDS victim "is Jesus in a distressing disguise."

She said she deliberately asked for their release

Christmas Eve and announced the opening of the new AIDS shelter that day "because lesus was born, so l wanted also to help them be born in joy and love and peace."

Last year Cardinal O'Connor announced plans for the New

York Archdiocese to provide "total care" for victims of AIDs,

or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

A key element in his plan was the opening of a residence, run by Mother Teresa's nuns, for victims not in need of full hospital care.

The first attempt to create such a shelter was cut short when people in the neighbourhood of the proposed site protested.

The archdiocese is to fund the St Veronica residence, with Mother Teresa's nuns providing staffing.

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Gangster refused public funeral Mass NEW YORK (NO) -- Cardinal

John J. O'Connor of New York ordered no public funeral Mass to be held for Paul Castellano, the alleged Mafia leader gunned down in Manhattan.

Father Vincent Clyne, pastor of St Ann's Church of Staten Island, where Castellano was a parishioner, conducted a burial service and a private memorial Mass for the family at another Staten Island church, Blessed Sacrament, rather than St Ann's to assure greater privacy.

He said the family was "quite satisfied" with the handling of the situation.

Castellano, 70, had headed the Gambino "family" of organised crime for the past nine years.

Carlo Gambino, allegedly his predecessor as family chief, died of natural causes in 1976 and had a public funeral Mass in a church of the Brooklyn diocese.

afia 'boss' buried Church law says, "Unless they have given some signs of repentance before their deaths, the following are to be deprived of ecclesiastical funeral rites: notorious apostates, heretics and schismatics; persons who have chosen the cremation of their own bodies for reasons opposed to the Christian faith; other manifest sinners for whom ecclesiastical funeral rites cannot be granted without public scandal to the faithful."

Castellano was on trial on racketeering charges at the time of his death and was under indictment on other federal and state charges Because of the notoriety of the situation Cardinal

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LONDON: West End star Stephanie Lawrence joined crowds of children in Trafalgar Square for a carol concert linked by satellite with singers in the Kenyan village of Machakos.

The event was organised by Cafod and Christian Aid in association with the BBC, who recorded it for Songs of Praise. It was on BBC1 29 December at 6.40pm.

Passing businessmen, policemen, photographers and TV crews joined in the concert as 3,000 Londoners sang carols in harmony with the people of Machakos, a village benefiting from Cafod and Christian Aid relief projects.

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John Paul's New Year message in detail

Goal is to make peace...

At the beginning of the New Year, taking my inspiration from Christ, the Prince of Peace, I renew my commitment and that of the whole Catholic Church to the cause of peace.

Peace is a value of such importance that it must be proclaimed anew and promoted by all.

There is no human being who does not benefit from peace.

There is no human heart that is not uplifted when peace prevails.

All the nations of the world can fully realise their interlinked destinies only if, together, they pursue peace as a universal value.

My goal to make

Striving to bring about peace CHRISTIAN My brothers and sisters in the Christian faith find in Jesus Christ, in the Gospel message and in the life of the Church lofty reasons and even more inspiring motives for striving to bring about one single peace in today's world.

The Christian faith has as its focus Jesus Christ, who stretches out his arms on the Cross in order to unite the children of God who were scattered (cf. Jn 11:52), to break down the walls of division (cf. Eph 2:14), and to reconcile the peoples in fraternity and peace.

The Cross raised above the world symbolically embraces and has the power to reconcile North and South, East and West.

UNITY "The promotion of unity", says the Second Vatican Council, "belongs to the innermost nature of the Church, since she is 'by her relationship with Christ, both a sacramental sign and an instrument of intimate union with God, and of the unity of all mankind' " (Gaudium et Spes, 42).

The Church, which is one and universal in the variety of the peoples that she brings together, "can form a very close unifying effect on the various communities of individuals and nations, provided they have trust in the Church and guarantee her true freedom to carry out her mission" (ibid.).

ACTIVITY This vision and these demands which arise from the very heart of faith, should cause all Christians to become more aware of situations that are out of harmony with the Gospel, in order to purify and rectify them.

Christians should recognize and value the positive signs attesting that efforts are being made to remedy these situations, efforts which they must effectively support, sustain and strengthen.

Animated by a lively hope, capable of hoping against hope (cf. Rom 4:18), Christians must go beyond the barriers of ideologies and systems, in order to enter into dialogue with all people of good will,

SIN

Christians, enlightened by faith, know that the ultimate reason why the world is the scene of divisions, tensions, rivalries, blocs and unjust inequalities, instead of being a place of genuine fraternity, is sin, that is to say human moral disorder.

But Christians also know that the grace of Christ, which can transform this human condition, is continually being offered to the world, since "where sin increased, grace abbounded all the more" (Rom 5:20).

The Church, which carries on Christ's work and dispenses his redeeming grace, has precisely as her purpose the reconciling of all individuals and peoples in unity, fraternity and peace.

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In this situation blocs are formed and maintained which divide peoples, groups and individuals, making peace precarious and setting up grave obstacles to development.

Positions harden and the excessive desire to maintain one's advantage or to increase one's share often becomes the overriding rationale for action.

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peace an absolute imperative may seem to be utopian, since our world gives such ample evidence of excessive self-interest in the opposed political, ideological and economic groups.

Caught in the grip of these systems, leaders and various groups pursue their aims and ambitions of power, progress and wealth, without taking into account the necessity and duty of international solidarity and cooperation for the benefit of the common good of all peoples who make up the human family.

This leads to exploitation agreed measures that will of others and a polarization lessen the likelihood of that feeds on the self-inter- nuclear warfare.

I ask the nuclear powers est and the increasing misonce again to reflect on their trust of others. very grave moral and politiWEAK SUFFER In such a situation, it is the cal responsibility in this small and the weak, the poor matter.

It is an obligation that some and the voiceless who suffer have accepted in interamost.

It can happen directly tional agreements; for all it is when a poor and compara- an obligation of a basic cotively defenceless people is responsibility for peace and held in subjection by the development.

ARMS SALES force of power.

But the threat of nuclear It can happen indirectly when economic power is weapons is not the only way used to disenfranchise peo- that conflict is made perple of their rightful share manent and increased. The and to hold them in social increasing sale and purchase and economic subjection, of arms -conventional but generating dissatisfaction very sophisticated is causing dire results and violence.

While the major powers The examples are sadly too have avoided direct conflict numerous today. their rivalries have often NUCLEAR THREAT The spectre of nuclear been acted out in other parts weapons, which has its of the world Local problems and origin precisely in the opposition of East and West regional difference are remains the most dramatic aggravated and perpetuated and compelling example of through armaments supplied by wealthier countries this.

Nuclear weapons are so and by the ideologizing of powerful in their destruc- local conflicts by powers tive capacities, and nuclear that seek regional advantage strategies are so inclusive in by exploiting the condition their designs, that the popu- of the poor and defenceless ECONOMIC ABYSS lar imagination is often parArmed conflict is not the alyzed by fear.

This fear is not groundless. only way that the poor bear an unjust share of the NEGOTIATION The only way to response burden of today's world. The to this legitimate fear of the developing countries face consequences of nuclear formidable challenges even destruction is by negotia- when free of such a scourge. tions for the reduction of Underdevelopment nuclear weapons and for remains an ever growing threat to world peace.

Between the countries of the "North bloc" there is a social and economic abyss that separates rich from poor.

The statistics of recent years show signs of improvement in a few countries but a widening of the gap in too many others. Add to this the unpredictable and fluctuating financial situation with resolve the divisions repres- its direct impact on counented by the polarities of tries with large debts strugNorth-South and East-West. gling to achieve some positive development.

and antagonism, in which the strongest prevails.

Peace born from such an outlook can only be an "arrangement", suggested by the principle of Realpolitik.

It seeks not so much to resolve tensions through justice and equity as to manage differences and conflicts in order to maintain a kind of balance that will preserve whatever is in the interests of the dominating party.

It is clear that "peace" built and maintained on social injustices and ideological conflict will never become a true peace for the world.

Such a "peace" cannot deal with the causes of the world's tensions or give to the world the kind of vision and values which can

CONVERSION

To those who think that blocs are inevitable I answer that it is possible, indeed necessary, to set up new types of society and of international relations which will ensure justice and peace on stable and universal foundations.

Indeep, a healthy realism suggests that such types cannot be simply imposed from above or from outside, or effected only by methods and techniques.

This is because the deepest roots of the opposition and tensions that mutilate peace and development are to be found in the heart of man.

It is above all the hearts and the attitudes of people that must be changed, and this needs a renewal, a conversion of individuals.

PEACE LOST

In this situation peace as a universal value is in great danger. Even if there is no actual armed conflict as such, where injustice exists it is in fact a cause and potential factor of conflict.

Peace in the futl sense of its value cannot coexist with injustice.

Peace cannot be reduced to the mere absence of conflict as such, where injus tice exists, it is in fact a cause and potential factor of conflict.

Peace in the full sense of its value cannot coexist with injustice.

Peace cannot be reduced to the mere absence of conflict; it is the tranquillity and completeness of order

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Willis & Elliott OPTOMETRISTS

Any new interna-

tional system capable of overcoming blocs and opposing forces must be based on the personal commitment of everyone to make the basic and primary needs of humanity the first imperative of international policy. countless Today human beings in all parts of the world have acquired a vivid sense of their fundamental equality, their human

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ienable rights.

At the same time there is a growing awareness that humanity has a profound unity of interests, vocation and destiny, and that all peoples, in the variety and richness of their different national characteristics, are called to form a single family.

ODD Added to this is the realization that resources are not unlimited and that needs are immense

Therefore rather than waste resources or devote them to deadly weapons of destruction, it is necessary to use them to satisfy the primary and basic needs of humanity COMMON GOOD

It is likewise important to note an awareness of that fact that reconciliation, justice and peace between individuals and between nations are not merely a noble appeal meant for a few idealists but a condition for survival of life itself.

Consequently, the establishment of an order based on justice and peace is vitally needed today, as a clear moral imperative valid for all people and regimes, above ideologies and systems Together with and above the particular common good of a nation, the need to consider the common good of the entire family of nations is quite clearly an ethical and juridical duty SOLIDARITY The right path of a world

community in which justice and peace will reign without frontiers among all peoples and on all continents is the path of solidarity, dialogue and universal brotherhood.

This is the only path possible. Political, economic, social and cultural relations and systems must be imbued with the values of solidarity and dialogue which, require an organisation of the world community to watch over the common good of all peoples.

au In order to achieve a world community of this kind, mental outlooks and political views contaminated by the lust for power, by ideolOgies, by the defence of one's own privilege and wealth must be abandoned, and replaced by an openness 'o sharing and collaboration with all in a spirit of mutual 'rust.

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On this 19th World Day of Peace, in the International Year of Peace proclaimed by the United Nations Organisation, I offer my profound conviction: "Peace is a value with no frontiers".

It is a value that responds to the hopes and aspirations of all people and all nations, of young and old, and of all men and women of good will.

I proclaim this to everyone, and especially to the leaders of the world.

Peace as a universal value needs to be faced with intellectual honesty, sincerity and responsibility to oneself and to the nations of the earth.

I ask those responsible REPERCUSSIONS That call to recognize the unity of the human family has very real repercussions for our life and for commitment to peace: • It means first of all that we reject the kind of thinking that divides and exploits.

• It means that we commit ourselves to a new solidarity, the solidarity of the human family.

• It means looking at the North-South tensions and replacing them with a new relationship, the social solidarity of all.

• This social solidarity faces up honestly to the abyss that exists today but it does not acquiesce in any kind of economic determinism.

• It recognizes all the complexities of a problem that has been allowed to get out of hand for too long, but which can still be rectified by men and women who see themselves in fraternal solidarity with everyone else on this earth.

CHANGES

Changes in economic growth patterns have affected all parts of the world and not just the poor-

est.

But the person who sees peace as a universal value will want to use this opportunity to reduce the differences between North and South and foster the relationships that will bring them closer together.

Peace a value with no frontier

for political decisions affecting the relationships between North and South, between East and West, to be convinced that there can be ONLY ONE PEACE.

Those upon whom the future of the world depends, regardless of their political philosophy, economic system or religious commitment, are all called to help conI am thinking of the prices of raw materials, of the need for technological expertise, of the training of the work force, of the potential productivity of the millions of unemployed, of the debts poor nations are carrying and of a better and more responsible use of funds within developing countries

□□□ I am thinking of so many elements which individually have created tensions and which combined together have polarized Norths-South relations All this can and must be changed.

DEFICIENCIES If social justice is the means to move towards a peace for all peoples, then it means that we see peace as fruit of just and honest relations on every level -social, economic, cultural and ethical - of human life on this earth.

This conversion to an attitude of social solidarity also serves to highlight the deficiencies in the current EastWest situation.

In my message to the Second Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, I explored many of the elements that are needed to improve the situation between the two major power. blocs of East and West.

struct a single peace on the basis of social justice and the dignity and rights of every human person.

INTERDEPENDENCE

This task requires a radical openness to all humanity and a conviction of the interrelatedness of all the nations of the world.

This interrelatedness is expressed in an interdependence that can prove either profoundly advantageous or profoundly destructive.

Hence, worldwide solidarity and cooperation constitute ethical imperatives that appeal to the consciences of individuals and to the responsibilities of all nations.

DIALOGUE

All of the measures recommended then and reaffirmed since that time rest on the solidarity of the human family travelling together along the path of dialogue.

Dialogue can open many doors closed by the tensions that have marked Eat-West relations Dialogue is a means by which people discover one another and discover the good hopes and peaceful aspirations that too often lie hidden in their hearts True dialogue goes beyond ideologies, and people meet in the reality of their human lives.

Dialogue breaks down preconceived notions and artificial barriers.

Dialogue brings human beings into contact with one another as members of one human family, with all the richness of their various cultures and histories.

A conversion of heart commits people to promoting universal brotherhood; dialogue helps to affect this goal.

EXAMPLES Today this dialogue is more needed than ever.

Left to themselves, weapons and weapons systems, military strategies and alliances become the instruments

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PATHWAYS The time to simply listen

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How do you explai nth,gcination of the Bible to someone who doesn't unteand what all the excitement is about?

This week, our writers tu to the church's Liturgy of the World -the first part dery eucharistic celebration A priest preparing a homily is like a cook preparing to explore the purpose the biblical readigs a n herd a meal, says Passionist Father Carroll Stuhlthen.

This i s a key part of than more just tMass, much mueller, a biblical scholar who teaches at the the "prelimiaries" n for wha,tows. our writers suggest.

Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Like a good Katharine Bird interview, Testament scholar, cook, he says, a homilist must start off with "good Passionist Father Carroll hlmueller. How does he ingredients prayers, scripture readings and assist someone new to ing the Bible? He has a songs, and a congregation" and must know how number of suggestions, ant tes that after many years "to blend them all together into healthy, palatable spent studying the Bible, itl ost none of its fascination food." for him.

Trappist Father Basil Penton describes a technique reading the Bible daily wh monks have followed for Did you ever notice what happens when the Gospel is read at Mass? The deacon or priest greets for centuries. Bi le b reading i portunity s to meet a friend, the people, saying "The Lord be with you". The people respond, "And also with you". Then the the Lord, person to person,ys Father Pennington, one First of all, the Bible celebrant says, "A reading from the Gospel according to ..." And the people respond, 'Glory to you, of today's most widely reariters on spirituality.

David Gibson offers his tions on what the Liturgy is God teaching every Lord" of the Word might mean to meone like hi m who often person who encounarrives at the church door Sunday morning in nearly Step 2 (five to 10 minutes time. Take the leisure ters it. Second, the simply Step 4. Take a word, a to be just what someone else breathless condition, havi spent the last moments Bile b is the history of or more). Listen to the Lord to listen. This is a time of phrase or a sentence away needs to hear before leaving home in a fic search for his youngest I say "listen," not read, for being with the Lord - being when God taught, from the encounter One of the wonderful child's missing shoe or sic. If the biblical readings the Lord is here to speak with a friend -- to let him how he taught and By something that speaks to words the Lord has address his actual condition life, does that mean they spoken personally. This is why the speak as he will what he taught. In you. Some days the Lord Father Basil same words can have such Step 3. Thank the Lord For, speaks was heard first the night address his real actual conn? other words, the Bible a word powerfully as before he died "I no longer Father John Castelot point't that the Bible is "a library different and rich is essentially a relimeanings if we want to speak with we listen. It can remain with Pennington for us from day to day. call you servants but between two covers," sol of meaty material that gious education They important people in this us perhaps for years or friends." writers have been turning for many years as a source are ever new (Biblical book." world, we usually have to the rest of our lives. On such In the Scriptures, if we but of inspiration for operas and 'ays.

Themes in Religious make an appointment well occasions, the word is given have ears to hear, we hear Education" edited by Set a minimum time for in advance Think how dif to us the voice of a friend Father Joseph listening to the Lord, a time ferent it is with the Lord of But other times we need to Marino, Religious to be faithful to each dav heaven and earth who is When the celebrant select a word and carry it Education Press, first greets the people, And remember There is no willing to come to us any with us. Sometimes, it will 1983.) need to cover a certain time Be thankful for such they respond to him suddenly come alive for us "When the life of the amount of text during this friendship personally.

But in the during the day. It may prove Israelites and the life of the early Christians exchange that follows it are studied, it is is as if he disappears; quickly discovered now Jesus speaks.

This same direct comthat the starting of muncation can their life with God is happen whenever the not the written word Scriptures are opened. of the Bible. Rather God is there to speak to their starti g n point is us personally. the religious expeAt our Trappist abbey rience with God." church there are two lamps (Biblical Themes in one before the fall madly and somewbat upon reflection one can Religious Education" burning: tabernacle proclaims the pathologically in love begin to understand wbry. edited by Father real presence of the Lord in withJobaran, as the BapFor one tbing the only Joseph Marino, Reli- the Eucharist tiser is called in the contact many people gious Education A second lamp burns above opera. But those gin- bare with tbe Bible is in Press, 1983.) the Bible, proclaiming the micks only added a bit tbe weekly liturgy of the The Bible Study real presence of the Lord in more buman interest ad Word during the Mass, Group: An Owner's his Word pathos to biblical stories They bear bits and Manual," by Father The Bible should have a already tingling witb snatches of books wth William Riley. This special place in homes or excitement. wbicb they are almost book offers fun read- offices too. It proclaims that The fact that the comtotally unfamiliar. Anying and practical the Lord is present there. posers chose these narra- tbing taken out of context advice on how to Daily Scripture reading can tives as vehicles for is, without further explastudy the Bible. The be an encounter with a real Giuseppe Verdi con. musical expression nation, simply puling. first and shorter part presence of the Lord. For posed a stirring opera shows tbat the stories' That problems could be deals with the centuries monks have used a titled "Nabucco" That tremendous potential for solved if people famiiamechanics of setting simple method to help them was a sort of nickname dramatic development rised themselves with the up a group deter- approach the Lord this for the ancient Babryloway. was recognised, Bible but that leads to mining what type of Let me share it nian ruler, NebucbadreBut it is not just these another problem. group to form, who Step I Preparation ( one or zar, who conquered and specific, drama-packed Television bas anaestheshould be leader and two moments). Come into what to read. The the presence of the Lord and enslaved the Jews in $8 stories that are exciting. tised a large segment of B.C Scores of others come the population. For second section, which call upon the Spirit. TwelfthThe powerful opera readily to mind. The Father Riley calls "by century usages tell the monk many, it bas effectively "Salome", by Richard whole Bible is an engrossreplaced reading as a far the more impor- to take the Bible reverently, Strauss, was based on the ing library between two form of entertainment tant section," pres- kneel, call upon the Holy gospel account of Job corers. ents material for 22 Spirit to be with him and and personal growth the Baptiser's execution Not for nothing bas tbe weekly study ses- listen to the first words still, the Word of God is sions. His aim is to After kissing the text, the Samson and Delilah bad Bible been a "best seller proclaimed Sunday after their sordid love affair for as long as that classt"open the Scritures p Sunday. It is a iring word monk sits down set to gloriously sensuous fication bas existed to the group accord- This oe imbued with dynamic acknowledges at the music by Saint-Saens.

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abstractions; it is the story of each one of us.

And it is far from dull.

It is at first surprising that anyone sbold cosider the Bible dull. But

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presence of the Lord.

A homilist starts off with isn't a mere instructor This "good ingredients -- pray- isn't a point in the Liturgy of ers, scripture readings and the Word for just giving "a songs, and a congregation" didactic report," he said present because of its faith, Instead. Father StuhlFather Stuhlmueller said in mueller believes the homily an interview Nonetheless, should show "God leading like a cook, the homilist people in daily life," must analyse the congregainvolved with their joys and tion and decide what will sorrows appeal "You can't beat a People connect with God person over the head to eat," he commented some in diverse ways, Father Stuhlmueller indicated For foods don't mix." example, they meet the In homilies, Father Stuhl- "living God in other people mueller prefers to accent and in many movements the positive.You don't need today. Many also make this to lambaste people for not connection in Scripture when where the Word of God coming to church they are in the church," he takes on a forceful mean feels.

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In his homilies, Father Stuhlmueller tries to "lead people to sense that God lives in them and in their The homilist community

For those who are sceptical that the Bible has anything to offer them in today's world, Father Stuhlmueller ffers his own testimony as

A priest preparing a homily is like a cook preparing a meal, says Passionist Father Carroll Stuhlone who has spent many mueller a biblical scholar who teaches at the years analysing and teaching Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Like a good and writing about the Scrip- cook, he says, a homilist must start off with"good prayers, scripture readings and tures. To this day they ingredients and a and must know how songs, congregation" remain a source of fascina"to blend them all together into healthy, palatable tion for him food."

The Bible can't be read as a simple mirror on how to act today. But it does reflect "the maturity of ages" and contains valid insights which can illuminate contemporary problems, Father stuhlmucller said He spoke about the Old Testament prophet Amos, who railed against the injustice of those who would sell a just man into slavery in order to pay off a paltry debt Though the law allowed this, Amos "goes behind this law to the law of humanity, Father Stuhlmueller observed The prophet "recognised that God created us as

humans with dignity and that it is wrong to reduce"a person to slavery Prophets like Amos "can sensitise us" to look for the social justice issues in our own times, he added - for instance to the plight of the

What is Father Stuhlmueller's approach to introducing people to the Bible?

Somewhat surprisingly, he would invite them to join a prayer group or to engage in a church ministry such as working at a soup kitchen or in a hospital These methods often work.

Reading in a new light By David Gibson 4

Our family sometimes arrives at the church door on Sunday morning in nearly breathless condition - on time, but barely.

Considerable energies have been expended just getting all five of us ready to go and into the car together. Typically, at the last minute, all must join in a frantic search for our 3-year-old's missing shoe or sock.

Against this background the Mass begins. Within minutes we listen to the biblical readings -- readings which, as I recently heard a homilist put it, are meant te speak to us directly How directly? Do they address my actual condition, breathless as it may be at certain moments?

As the readings in the Mass begin, I, like others, am a silent listener An outsider might think that we are meant to be the passive recipients of what is now read But did someone say I am being addressed directly by the readings? The fact is, I tend to get directly involved with whatever affects me personally Thus, I assume, simple passivity is not adequate to the task at hand People approach the reading of the Bible from a number of different perspectives

• The historian may relish what Scripture reveals of ancient cultures e The psychologist may supported by others There is a tendency in approaching the readings at Mass to ask. What's in them for me? And since the readfind stimulation in biblical accounts of human motivation and relationships The lover of literature may turn to the Bible for excellent writing on human adventure and longing Even during the Mass people enjoy the Bible for its historical or literary value.

And it doesn't take anything away from these kinds of Bible reading. Fm sure, to suggest that in the Mass the whole notion of a "reading" is cast in a special light If I listen in an active way to the Mass readings, it is likely that some questions will begin to churn in me.

Perhaps this is the initial

form my direct involvement takes with these readings

that directly address me in my actual condition. What is that condition?

I arrive at the church door with four other people.

They are very much part of my "actual condition." So I may ask how the readings

« Like others, the various

parts of my life - home, work, community involvement - don't always mesh perfectly. Do the readings address this aspect of my condition?

• Having attained middle age --along with the acute sense that there is plenty of room left to grow I may ask. What in the readings points to potential in my Life that deserves exploration e Or I ask what addresses the parish community I'm

part of - a community in which many people have a need to be affirmed and

ings have a teaching purpose, it only seems natural to ask what might be got from them

However, when one per son says to another something like, 'I value you," ·p take a direct interest in you," "I am the bread of your life," or, "whenever you care for

the least of the world's people you care for me," a response of some sort is invited Such words cannot be said lightly. They lay the ground work for a relationship. And in a relationship one gives as well as receives

In the readings at Mass, it seems a larger goal is at stake than just the communica tion of information and the enjoyment of excellent writing The readings are meant to initiate an ongoing dia logue with us, in our actual even if occasionally jumbled --- condition

he said, because people find that their very involvement in the church "forces them

back to the drawing board to

learn more" about Scripture and their faith He is adamant that an interest in reading the Bible can't be forced "You can lead a horse to water but you can t force him to drink, the scholar noted People interested in the Bible but new to reading it should start slowly, Father Stuhlmueller advises. Begin with 'the Gospels, they are the easiest to read." he said Or start with the Wisdom books in the Old Testament These books contain 'plain, matter-of-fact, homespun" tales about children and family life and work don't need to know salvation history to read these books, they move along at a human level," he added He also recommends joining a Bible study group at the outset. This provides people with the support of others as they look together for con nections between the Bible and their lives

You

It also is important to find ways of interrelating one's Bible study with the rest of the parish's life, Father Stuhl muelier believes - perhaps by having group members take an active part in parish activities as lectors at Mass or eucharistic ministers, for example Forging

close

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liturgy reinforces the truth that the Bible is not simply a historical document." he said. We pray it in the liturgical cycle."

Education Brief

Do you ever find youself tuning out when the scripture readings begin at the Sunday Eucharist?

A prominent position is

given to the Bible at Mass

In many parishes the Bible is held high in the entrance

procession as the Mass begins The obvious message. Reading Scripture is not just incidental to what is about to happen But does that always make it easy to be a good listener to what is read?

Scripture is the 'principal proclamation of the church and the first written expression of the Christian tradition," says Father William Bausch, the author of books on church life He

explains that Vatican Council II and the liturgical renewal that followed it emphasised the "place of honour" Scripture should have in the liturgy Today, "no sacrament can be celebrated without Scripture," he notes. For example, in the anointing of the sick, the gospel reading might be about the centurion who asked Jesus to "come cure my chid." he said Read before the anointing the story is a reminder that Christ is still active todav in his sacramental, mystical body. as he was in his physical body, Father Bausch said People hearing that reading in the special

circumstances of sickness may discover it speaks to them in a way it never has previously In other circumstances however some of us might tune out, possibly thinking.

"Ive heard that story a million times."

What fosters the tune-out syndrome? « sometimes a person arrives at Mass loaded down with private anxieties « At times, too, the mcaning of what is read is not immediately clear Images that made sense to people in a rural, biblical setting sound a little foreign and a person ma wonder silently, "What's in this for me

• Or physical circumstances interfere People may tune out if they can't hear well or if the readings are not well read • Again, one may be so busy listening for "the lesson" or the point" of the story that the story as a whole is not heard. the possibility for hearing it in

a fresh wav is tuned out This might be called the I already know what this is about" svndrome • Finally, there is skill

involved in listening well And sometimes even when we intend to listen well we don't succeed. In your opinion, what does it take to really tune in to the scripture readings at Mass?

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Church courts answer

From page 4

When a couple separates or gets a civil divorce, "they may receive the sacraments," he said.

Also, if a divorced person seeking to remarry obtains an annulment of the previous marriage first, "that person is still in full communion with the Church," he said.

But when a divorced person remarries outside the Church, he said, "this is the case where the person is prohibited from receiving the sacraments this is where the pastoral ministry of the courts comes in they can help the person who desires to come back to the sacraments."

Another source of confusion for many Catholics, he said, comes in cases of mixed marriage where the non-Catholic partner was previously married and divorced - especially when the non-Catholic is considered free to remarry by his or her own denomination.

Father Heintschel said the Church's stance in such cases is relatively simple.

The basic concern is whether, in the eyes of the Catholic Church, the other person is free to marry or bound by a prior marriage, he said, so the Church would "juridically review the status of the non-Catholic's previous marriage.

Even though the other person is non-Catholic, Catholic law is followed by the Church courts to determine if the marriage fulfilled all the necessary conditions for a true marriage or if it lacked some necessary element and can be declared null, he said.

From page 4 In 1947 the Dohertys moved to Combermere. where was founded Madonna House.

There now are 20 Madonna Houses in Canada, the United States. the West Indies and Europe.

Mrs Doherty's husband helped with her work. In 1969, at the age of 79, he became a Melkite priest. The Melkite rite of the Catholic Church permits the ordination of married men. He died in 1975.

Mrs Doherty was the author of more than 20 books. including "Friendship House," "Dear Bishop," "My Russian Yesterdays," and her autobiography, "Fragments of My Life."

She also lectured across the United States and Canada.

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"Have you ever been ordered to strip -with half a dozen barking eyes forcing you against a wall? Ordering you to part your legs and bend over.

"Have you ever had a door slammed, locking you out of the world propelling you into timeless space to the emptiness of silence?

"Have you ever laid on a wooden bed in regulation pyjamas and tried to get a bucket to talk in all seriousness?

"Have you ever begged for blankets from an eye staring through a hole in the door, rubbing at the cold air digging into your flesh; biting down on your bottom lip while mouthing, 'Please Sir? "Have you ever heard screams in the middle of the night or the sobbings of a stir-crazy prisoner, echoed over and over again in the darkness; threatening to draw you into its madness?

"Have you ever rolled up into a human ball and prayed for sleep to come?

"Have you ever laid awake for hours waiting

for morning to mark yet another day of being alone?

"If you've never experienced even one of these things then bow your head and thank

God.

"It's a strange thing indeed, this rehabilitation system."

So wrote Robbie Walker shortly before his death in Fremantle Prison in August 1984.

"It's a strange thing indeed, this rehabilitation system," echoes Sister Bernadine Daly that she has seen at first hand as part of her apostolate to the poor and to prisoners.

It is the Aboriginal people, poor and imprisoned who are the focus for Sister Bernardine's work.

She knows the Walker family and knows too the trauma they and others suffer when their loved ones are imprisoned.

Robbie Walker, by his own admission was no saint, but then again, he said -"1 wasn't born in heaven.

"I've cursed my skin, not black, not white, just

The simple message for Sister Bernadine

by ROSLYN ROSS

Some facts and figures regarding imprisonment and crime in Ausralia: • Nearly 75% of prisoners were not a threat to the community (editorial Western Australian 9.2.1982 from the Dixon Report).

• Western Australia's rate of imprisonment 105.2 prisoners per 100,000 people, is second only to the Northern Territory and well ahead of the national average of 64.7 (Quoted from editorial West Australian 9.2.1982).

• "Amini-explosion has occurred in Western Australia's prison population... overcrowding was a main cause of the big riot at Fremantle jail in 1968.... almost half of the state's Aborigines had committed no violent crime" (editorial from West Australian 19.3.1983.

• "Prison Officers' Union has warned serious overcrowding is causing increased tension between prisoners and warders in the state's jails" (West Australian 18.3.83) • "A prison officer is overweight, a smoker, prone to bronchitis, suffers relatively high levels of psychological disturbance and feels stress because the community does not regard his job highly, though he thinks that it is important; because of this stress he is prone to heart disease. "(Study by the School of Community Medicine and the Waverley Preventive Health Clinic and quoted in the West Australian 20.7.82) • "Corrupt prison officers and civilian staff were heavily involved in drug trafficking at Melbourne's Pentridge jail and at least one Victorian country jail... a lot start taking drugs in prison because it is so boring." (Weekend News 29.10.83).

• "The jailing of addicts was often purposeless, when drugs could be obtained in prison," says the Chairman of a Drug and Alcohol inquiry. Labor MLA Mr Gordon Hill said he would welcome moves towards rehabilitation instead of imprisonment of drug addicts and alcoholics (Daily News 26.12.1983).

• Approximately 65% were in prison through drink according to a report on the Dixon Report (West Australian 14.11.1983).

• The 1977 Australian Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare reported 73% of the men who committed a violent crime had been drinking prior to the crime. The same report says that as many as 10% of 12-17 year olds get very drunk at least once a month.

• A study of 274 Pentridge prisoners said that more than 90% were affected by alcohol or drugs about the time of the crime. (Quoted in the Messenger Sacred Heart lune '83 but taken from an article by Garry Sturgess in Melbourne Age).

• APolice report from January 1984 said 70% of armed holdups in Western Australia were connected with drugs.

(Quoted from the West Australian).

• Dr Jeff Sutton, Director of the New South Wales Crime Statistics and Research Bureau said 40% of Sydney's 10,000 heroin addicts relied on crime to support their habit... 64% of Long Bay prisoners jailed for breaking and entering said drug dependency was the motivation for their crimes... There is no evidence to support the idea that increasing penalties will lower the rate of drug linked crimes (West Australian 18.8.1983).

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another non-identity."

It is that "skin" and their often landless and homeless inheritance that dogs and downs the Aboriginal.

Whether such "sentencing" is deserved or not is beside the point.

Instead, it is a sobering fact Aboriginal people are disproportionately represented in Australian prisons.

According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, the jailing rate of Aborigines is the highest of any race in the world and yet half are imprisoned for petty offences.

In Western Australia they represent 34 per cent of the prison population and yet comprise only 2.4 per cent of the general population.

While Sister Bernardine is concerned with the plight of prisoners as a whole, it is not surprising so much of her attention is turned toward the Aboriginal people.

Here she talks to Roslyn Ross about her work in Perth's prisons and her determination to raise public awareness about the realities of the prison system.

For Sister Bernadine Daly the message is simple - Jesus called us all to minister to the and the poor oppressed.

It is when you touch the poor, she says, that you see the injustices.

She believes the one work of mercy the Church hasn't handled is that of the prisoner and states that works of mercy and works of justice are two sides of the one coin.

Sister Bernadine visits the prisons two afternoons a

week.

She spends much of her time with the families of those imprisoned and she digests every piece of information she can find on prison systems, both here and overseas.

She knows her subject well.

It is the knowledge of the truth, she says, that gives her the strength to maintain the fight against injustices.

She adds, it is a fight needing the support of each and every caring person and one which is especially the responsibility of Catholics Prison, with all its inhumanity, challenges us to take seriously the words of Scripture "Keep in mind those

who are in prison as though you were in prison with them;

and those who are being badly treated, since you too are in the one body."

"Aware of our own weakness, we enter prisons in a spirit of compassion and friendship," she said.

"We try to arouse prisoners' awareness of their own dignity and a sense of hope.

'We do not come to judge, preach or reform. We are not concerned with seeming success or failure."

Those who have never been touched by the cruel reality of prison, either directly or indirectly, have a responsibility to look with compassion upon those who have, says Sister Bernardine.

"People seem to think that only 'evil criminals' end up in prison," said. "The truth is that some 30 per cent of people in Australian jails are there for non-payment of fines."

"One of the people who works with us had a minor accident in his car and he was terrified he would be fined so much he would have to go to jail he just didn't have the money to pay," she

she

just one visit a week by a chaplain.

'We have to look at our own evil because in His sight noone is just.

"I must accept my own evil and I must fill with the spirit and go with love.

"It is terrible when people go into the prisons with the thought, 1 am going to convert those bastards." "h is not our job to judge, preach or reform ... rt IS our job to care."

Sister Bernardine believes the need for prison reform must be pushed through fellowship, She says there is much that the individual can do.

"For instance," she said, "we try to have ongoing contact with ex-prisoners; we undertake to wrrte to prisoners in special need, we spend time each week in prayer for prisoners."

Prayer, she adds, IS something that all can offer and she has high hopes of a campaign of prayer to aid the imprisoned.

Support for prisoners and their families, says Sister Bernardine, is not an option

"What we need is for Catholics to think of prisoners as if they are themselves.

for Catholics She says it is time to throw off the judgemental attitudes that have marked Catholics in the past and to wear the new coat of understanding and tolerance created by Vatican

'We need much more than

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said.

She knows her subject well. It is the knowledge of the truth, she says, that gives her the strength to maintain the fight against injustices.

She quotes the Irish Bishop's Report which says "Prison is punishment -a person goes to prison as a punishment, not for it" "People talk about those who 'want' to go back to prison," said Sister Bernardine.

"T say either they are sick o it is so bad outside they can't take it -- either way it is no argument."

Prison, she says, should be a last resort and not a first She hopes Australia will follow England in developing a judicial attitude which demands that "cause be shown" why the individual should be imprisoned.

"And there's no proof that the longer the sentence the greater the rehabilitation

rate," she adds.

'The current legislation frightens me. They are talking about bumping it up and Western Australia already has the highest rate of imprr sonment in the country.

□□□ Some 70 to 75 per cent of people in WA jails (according to the Dixon Report), need nod be there for the safety of society.

The same report states 6% per cent are there for alcohol related crimes and a Police Report from January 1984 says 70 per cent of armed holdups in Western Australia were connected with drugs This fits in with a study od

274 Pentridge prisoners in 1983 which said more than

90 per cent were affected by alcohol or drugs about the time of the crime.

But why people are in prison

who are inhuman, bully boys, who are not aware of their own weaknesses, who are not able to live themselves and are all screwed up inside and taking it out on those who are powerless."

Sister Bernardine said there was a simple reason as to why "prison didn't work" in any rehabilitative sense She said it was because those imprisoned were denied the very things which made them more human "Can you imagine what it is like to never be alone with the person nearest to you?" she said.

'These men get one contact visit a week.

"1 know when I first walked into Canning Vale, which is one of the modem prisons and has been termed 'motel accommodation,' I thought it looked very nice.

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is just one part of the problem and one which Sister Bernardine attempts to tackle through her work with the Council for Prison Fellowship in Western Australia The other part of her job is to try to do something about conditions which exist in jail

now.

She recently completed the groundwork necessary for the formation of Justice Prison Fellowship groups in each state and sees this as a positive step toward alleviating the plight of prisoners.

She says the biggest problem is people who have never seen the inside of a prison are usually those with the most rigid and often erroneous opinions.

She lists some of the dreadful things she has seen and her eyes blaze with anger: "In Fremantle, men are locked up for 15 hours a day • • . 17 hours on weekends.

'They are locked in a cell eight by nine feet.

'They have a bucket for a toilet and a container for water.

"If they are in a 'double' cell it means double-bunk not double the size.

"And that is in a prison which was considered inadequate in 1890.

"Yes, they are allowed to have a TV set but most of them don't have the money to

buy one "I would say it is a small minority who can afford any sorts of luxuries like television -most of them can't even afford to buy their own underpants.

'They have to wear prison issue and that means you take what you get and 'share' your underwear with everyone else in the pnson.

'The people who say pri-

sons these days provide motel accommodation don't know what they are talking about.

'These men are kept sometimes, many, many years in an all male environment, with their feet all day, when not in the cell, on bitumen or concrete, often with nothing todo.

"Boredom and stress leads to violence.

'There are young boys in there of 17 or 18 who are

going round the bend.

"In

Fremantle

all

the

inmates eat their meals alone in their cells -except on Christmas Day when they can take their plate and go to any other cell to share their meal.

□□□ "They can receive no presents the only gift allowed rs money.

'They don't even get gifts at Christmas.

"All the letters in and out of they have jail are read nothing in their lives which is private.

"I think the worst thing for them is the utter powerlessness.

"It is terrible.

'They have no power at all.

"I believe in Lord Acton's dictum that 'all power cor-

rupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'

"Some of the officers in prison are magnificent but I have known others who have no knowledge of their own frailties 'These officers are under stress, there is no doubt about that.

"But I believe their 'training time of 17 weeks is pitiful.

"Prison officers should be taught about the people they are dealing with.

'They should be educated to have respect for the vanous cultures.

"So many of the people in jail are Aboriginal or migrants.

'The prison officers I have seen can be divided into two groups 'There are those who are fantastically good -honourable men.

"And then there are those

"I talk to the people who have to use it.

'There is a room with chairs and tables surrounded by prison officers and everyone is in there talking together up to 50 people at a time.

'The visitors' room had green carpet, toys for the kids and a coffee machine.

"But then I talked to the people who have to use rt.

"There is a room with chairs and tables surrounded by prison officers and everyone is in there talking together -up to 50 people at a time.

'One woman said she dreaded rt 'The noise is terrible and you feel you can't breathe 'The tables are small and they will allocate four people to a table "But each couple will be separate and so you have these strangers talking across the table at each other "Can you imagine the madness of it all?

'Those people aren't allowed to be alone with the people they love - they are not even allowed to feed the birds that fly over "I have a tremendous belief in the healing powers of nature and our prisoners are denied even that.

"One man got a few weeks in solitude for feeding the birds.

'There was another prisoner who was on an 'outside' job who saw a dog "It was the first time in six years he had seen a dog and he talked about it for days.

'We ask these people to change their ways, to become law-abiding, selfdisciplined.

'Then we take away all that makes them more human 'There are no walks through the trees, no sight of the sea or the sand, no animals to pet - they never see a baby, let alone touch one.

'They never see really old people these are the things which touch the chords of humanity within us. ''We dehumanise them further and then wonder why they offend again "And as for homosexuality and masturbation, what do people expect.

"We put them into a onesex environment and give them no opportunity to show love to those they love when people criticise them for their homosexuality and masturbation I say, That's at our door ... what else have

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they got?'

.. ..·.·.," Sister Bernardine also calls for special understanding of the needs of the mentally disturbed. Such people, she

says, should be in hospital, not jail.

"It is a contradiction in terms to call someone 'criminally insane," she said. 'These people should not be in prison.

'There are many mentally disturbed people in jail and you would be horrified at the number who commit suicide there have been 11 in WA in the last five years."

But the ultimate tragedy of the prison system, she adds, is it doesn't just punish the offender, it punishes his or her family as well "In a sense the spouses and children of prisoners 'do time' as well," she said 'They suffer great humiliations and frequently, as most people in prison are poor, are lacking material necessities.'

'What I have found difficult to cope with is the anguish of people who have never had dealings with the law before, lining up to visit a member of their family (alcohol, drugs and white collar crime frequently being the cause) 'There is also the anguish of people without cars being unable to visit their loved ones at all or very rarely because of the lack of public transport or the times of permitted visits "Many men are hundreds of miles from home and do not receive a visit the whole of their sentence "Some of these too are illiterate or their family is, so they cannot communicate "Most of the jails in WA are at least half an hour from Perth if not more and are not readily accessible with public transport.

"I remember one woman told me she was praying her car would last' while her. son was in jail so she could see him

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'There is one bus a day for Canning Vale -imagine the sort of strain that puts on your

life."

Sister Bernardine said too many people believed prisoners were monsters 'They are not monsters," she said 'They are my friends "I sit with them and talk to them.

'We all have to make real friends with the poor, not make believe "We haven't got reality in our heads yet - we have lots of chastity and plenty on going to Mass but until we take up our responsibility to the poor and the imprisoned then we are letting our faith down."

She said Catholics could do much to help by joining existing groups such as Prison Fellowship and the Civil Rehabilitation Council or supporting Freedom Link. (A body which encourages employers to take on exTelephone prisoners 321 2648) Donations were also greatly appreciated to help the families of prisoners and to help those who have been released "People are let out of prison with half the welfare allocation for at least two weeks "Don't ask me why, who can understand welfare?

"All I know is they need help," she said

Recommended reading:

Too Tough for Tears, by Barry Goode, published

by Hodder & Stoughton Australia.

(This is the story of Barry Goode, the 'slum rat,' who was called from a life of crime to evangelise.)

The Man From lda Grove, by Harold E. Hughes, published by Hodder & Stoughton,

$4.95.

(For years alcohol ruled Harold Hughes. His wife and family were miserable. He resolved to shoot himself. But God touched him.)

The Man Who Keeps

Going To Jail, by John R.

Erwin, David C. Cook

Publishing Company.

(This is the incredible story of how an ldiana lad survived seven foster homes, a brutal correctional institute and founded PACE (Pro-

gammed Activities for Correctional Education), a breakthrough program that has changed hundreds of lives.)

Breakthrough, by Fred Lemon, with Robin Stridge, published by Marshalls.

(Since his 'amazing encounter' with Jesus Christ in a Dartmoor prison cell Fred Lemon has tried to live uncompromisingly by God's standards rather than the

world's.)

The Prison Struggle, Changing Australia's

Penal System, by George Zdenkowski and David Brown, published by Pelican, $14.95.

(In 1974 a battle between warders and prisoners destroyed Bathurst goal. It was the flashpoint in a decade of crisis in Australia's prison system.)

Mum Shirl, An Autobiography, with the assistance of Bobbi Sykes, published by Heinemann.

(This is the story of one of our best-known Australians ... a woman who

has special insight into the Aboriginal culture and the effect of prison and poverty on her people.)

Black Death/White Hands, by Paul Wilson,

published by Allen &

Umwin.

(This books looks at what happens when black Australians are taken by force from their homelands and placed on government-controlled

reserves).

The Call To Conversion,

by Jim Wallis, published

by Lion, $4.95.

(In this book Jim Wallis makes the call to conversion historically specific to the most urgent issues

of the 'eighties.')

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Mr Brombach said it was "vitally important" for a "daily communication with Send cheque and advertisement to: the Father".

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For Sale, For Hire, Situations Mr Brombach said prayer Vacant, Situations Wanted, also needed to become a Part-time/Casual Employment, regular ritual in families.

Before or after meals Trades & Services, Houses & generally was the best time.

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lier this year are:

Top: Phil Giglia of Fremantle and Tina Martino of East Fremantle who are to be married in Our Lady of Fatima church on February 8.

Below: Luciana Sputore of Coogee and John Lapesota of Coolbellup whose marriage takes place in St Patrick's church, Fremantle on January 18.

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• It is lost by the social and economic exploitation by special interest groups which operate internationally or function as elites within developing countries • It is lost by the social divisions that pit rich against poor between States or within States • It is lost when economic exploitation and internal strains on the social fabric leave the people defenceless and disillusioned, a ready prey to the destructive forces of violence.

Peace is endangered by vested interests, by diverging and opposing interpretations, and even by clever manipulations for the service of ideologies and political systems that have domination as their ultimate

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Australian Conference of Tertiary Christian Students A recent meeting of Brentwood Willeton parish youth representatives including (front left to right) Heather Watt, David and Trudy Mckenna, and Peter Birrell; (rear) Paul Muenchow, Barbara Carey and Father Kevin Davis.

200 attend About 200 young people from metropolitan Perth gathered at Aquinas College in the first weekend of the holidays for the second annual Antioch Convention called Flame '85.

Young people came from 13 diocesan parishes. Juhan Stowe came from as far as Geelong in Victoria and Monique Lequaietermaine from Bluff Point parish in Geraldton.

About 200 parents came to the final prayer meeting on the Sunday night, at which three young people gave a talk, as they would normally do at a Sunday evening meeting.

In tune with the season of Advent and Christmas, the talk was about the significane of Christmas in the life of young people.

The weekend began on Saturday noon with a lively get-to-know-you session, followed by a more sedate time of reflection and sharing of

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On Saturday evening all bussed into the university to attend the Diocesan Youth Rally, and then returned to Aquinas College for a late evening Eucharist.

The highlight of Sunday was a mini-Gospel concert, which had been thoroughly prepared by the different groups.

Each group had been asked to prepare a scripture passage and share their reflections and also to wnte or teach a new song to the whole gathering.

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Father Richard Cremmins, giving a talk on "education of the youth for marriage" at the Kenya conference, said young people needed to be prepared for marital life by getting a sound base about their sexuality.

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These ideas would be helpful in planning youth activities and directions for 1986.

He said sex education was relevant since it led to firmer foundations and reduced some misconceptions young people had about marriage.

The priorities, he said, were to teach young people about inter-relations between population and development and the moral question pre-marital sex.

There was urgent need for parents to teach children about sex at home.

The Church's position on chastity remained.

Sex education and caring for others fosters an atmosphere of giving.

The widening gap between the generations would be reduced if parents also learnt to trust their children, he said.

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Young readers will be cares for her. enchanted with these tales Beautifully illustrated by - of the Dragon King of Dali one of Australia's greatest Long ago in Africa Lake who tried to capture painters. lived one of the most the little daughter of the The Great Big Night Time Dragon King of Dongting Book, by Maurie Kunnas, famous men of all lake; of the princess Wen- publisbed by Metbuen, time, a man named cheng, whose father set $9.95.

Augustine. He died impossible tasks for the almost exactly 400 The Miracle Child, told envoys of the princes who THE PUFFIN BOOK OF years after Jesus died

by Elizabeth Laird with wanted her hand in maron the cross.

Abba Aregawi Wold riage; of Akui who saved his Gabriel, published by people from drought and Augustine's father William Collins, $4.95.

W PENN ANDRE YCOOK starvation by sacrificing his was a violent man who "Are you hungry, little own life; of Wengu and believed in little. His flower?" said the Ethiopian Kiana who could escape mother, Monica, was a mother sadly to her child. from the tyrant Wang only strong, gentle Chris"There's nothing left to eat." by jumping into the Bottomtian woman. She saw But the little boy was a less Pond; and of Li Aiqi and miracle child and by his to it that her three the old monk who longed to powers everyone was fed. children were edusee Li Aiqin in his dragon This happy and exciting cated as Christians. shape... Monkeys, cranes, story, written seven winged horses, a magic hundred years ago, is one of At first Augustine did golden fish, witches and the best loved tales in EthiTbe Puffin Book Of not like school and wizards all play a special part opia's rich and ancient literGames, by studying. He was in these stories, which are Indoor ature. Ethiopians love to Andrew Pennycook, pubmuch more interested set against the dramatic hear how the Archangel Chinese landscape of tower- isbed by Puffin, $3.95. in sports and in girls.

Michael swooped down to A treasure trove of fun and ing mountain peaks and As a teen-ager he save the boy's mother from deep deep lakes where a games. to love to study began a wicked king and of the Some days there's really dragon might indeed live. and learn.

He wanted carpet of light on which he The exotic, Eastern paint- nothing nicer than to stay to become a teacher. travelled when he became a indoors and play games. ings are by two young artists man.

But he did not let his who live in Beihai City, and Here's a sizzling selection of Elizabeth Laird, who lived studies interfere with games dice, and pencil using each painting reflects the and taught in Ethiopia, has cards, boards and paper, his after-school fun. origins of the story it illusretold the story of the mirtrates. The bold colours and dominoes. Try your hand at acle child with simplicity When he was 17 Augthe superb details give them Hackenbush, get set for and care, and the text is ustine went to the a special magic which only Gobang, steer yourself for illustrated with paintings Snip-Snap Snorem and don't great African city of Chinese artists could have from an original eighteenth spill the Spillikins!

Complex Carthage on the Mediachieved. century manuscript. and ingenious, or just plain terranean Sea. There Profits from this book are Tbe Growing Pains of simple fun, there's somehe enjoyed all the being donated by the author Adrian Mole, by Sue thing here for everyone. city's pleasures. And and publisher to Oxfam's Townsend, published by Earnshaw, published by he fell in love with a Ethiopian Famine Relief Pro- Methuen, $5.95.

Methuen, $14.95. young woman with gram.

The anguished Adrian Mole Two hundred years into whom he lived for returns in a succinct sequel the future, the hottest young many years. They had a to the hilarious, touching rock band in space crashand hugely popular The son named Adeodatus. land their space yacht, StarSecret Diary of Adrian Mole. clipper, on the planet Pollus.

During these years in "As engaging as ever. Sue The Star Jam Pack has Carthage Augustine Townsend's considerable arrived for the finals of the joined a group of achievement is to have Galactic Vision Song Conbright young teachers created a world that is test -and they mean to underscored with sadness who taught strange win! and disaster and yet hilarEnd Of A Tale, by J. ious as viewed through the increasingly appalled eyes of Corbett, published by Methuen Australia, Adrian." $18.95.

Time Out The Spring of ButA highly original collection Dear Captain Bob, Teddy, by Simon Bond, terflies and other Chiof short stories from a masI hope you are well? I am publisbed Metbuen, by nese Stories, ter story-teller: Each tale well. On Friday, December translated by He Liyi, $7.95. gains a unique dimension 13, I left school and I am edited by Neil Philip, From the creator of the through the imaginative going to Year 7 next year.

101 uses of a outrageous illustrated by Pan Aigtwists and turnings of the On Sunday, December 15, ing and Li Zhao, pub- Dead Cat, here is an irresist- seemingly innocent plots. my cousin Shani made her ible collection of drawings 1 ished by William first communion. celebrating the Teddy.

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On Saturday, December 21 Whether adored or abused, The wonderfully rich stomy family and I are going to ries in this book come from supporting or suffering. at Waroona for a holiday for a home or in Simon history, minority people in China: Happy Birthday to Ariton week. We are staying in a people who are not strictly Bond's Teddybears D'Souza, Morley; Susan Dil- caravan park. whimsical, and comforting Chinese. They are Tibetan, While we are there we will Yvette Dawson, ley, Coolup; -are occasionally naughty or Thai, or Uighur, or, like be going swimming and we Paul Hulbert, Mora band.

Narrogin; winning the translator himself, Bai might go to see a movie and Iliffe, Thornlie; ley; Justin from Yunnan in south-west Wombalong, by Judith Mark Jones, Kambalda West; we might see my nanna on China. All these people have and Cifton Pugb, PubChristmas day.

Sharon Arnett, Girrawheen; different cultures, customs ished by Methuen, $12.95.

Annette Vinci, Stella Northam; Bignell, and languages. Their tradiWombalong is the story of Wanneroo.

Katie Cooper, Boya; Cathy Tang, Greenwood; Ashley Dear Captain Bob, Wiese, Highbury; Pauline My teacher is going to have Walsh, Jerramungup; MclanYou have got to be in the club To join simply send the com- nie Wiley, Hillarys; Gary a baby on Christmas Day. On if you want to enter our com- pleted coupon here to The Meredith, Beacon; Ben Mil- Friday, December 13 I left petitions and win some of the Record Kid's Cub, PO Bo lar, Midvale; Daniel Ravens- school and I am allowed to super prizes.

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Joseph Vinci, Neville, Willetton; Chantelle Wanneroo Miller, Willagee; Chani Hood, Swan View; Eldin Dear Captain Bob, Hood, Swan View; David How are you? I am well. At Cooper, Coolbellup; Felicity Smith, Kelmscott; Allison home dad put down the new Meehan, Bunbury; Paul Fran- paving on the verandah. Last Name .................................... kling, Parmelia; Paula Fran- Friday we left school and my Address . kling, Parmelia; Nicole teacher gave me two canFarrell, Alfred Cove; Gavin dles. Last Wednesday my .................. P code .. · .

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Jacinta Vinci, Wanneroo.

Dear Captain Bob, How are you? Hope you have a nice Christmas. On Saturday I went to Gin Gin with my dad to build a fence and check the sheep which had a heart attack.

Dad shot a rabbit for tea.

We had a good time and came home very late.

I am eight years old.

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A look at books

The Word Made Flesh, The Meaning of the Christmas Season, by Karol Wojtyla {Pope John Paul 11), translated by Leslie Weame, published by Harper and Row (San Francisco, 1985), $12.95. Reviewed by Father Jay C. Haskin.

"The Word Made Flesh" is a collection of homilies

he was auxiliary bishop and later metropolitan archbishop of Krakow.

This edition is an edited and abridged translation of the Italian version titled "Discese dal Cielo," (He Came Down from Heaven) to which footnotes and additional references to the Scriptures have been added.

Moneytalk

The Language of Money, by Edna Carew, published by Allen & Unwin, $24.95

People can cope with theirfinances and investmentsfar more efficiently if tbey understand the terms used day

by-day in the financial sector What do these terms really mean? - alligator spread, backwardation, chips, contango, dirty float, EFTPOS, Fanny Mae, flexible peg, fifo & lifo, growth recession, J curve, 0BU, rollover, samurai bond - and what about these terms? - bullet loan, corset, EFP, cross rates crowding out, dragon, elasticity, fid & bad, Kondratieff cycle, novation, GDP, snake, straddle, triple bypass vanilla product?

The Language of Money contains more than 1200 entries which define tbe words and phrases most commonly used in: • finance e commerce • money markets • foreign exchange markets • share trading

• economics • accounting • commercial law These terms have been explained clearly and succinctly, in language that is easily understood by all, and each entry bas been checked by a panel of experts The Language ofMoney was written by Edna Carew, who has a unique knowledge of Australia's financial markets. She gained experience first-band, working in a merchant bank, and followed this with eight years as a specialist writer for The Australian Financial Review, analysing developments in money and foreign exchange markets, banking and merchant banking. She is the author of the bestselling FastMoney, the definitive work on Australia'sfinancial markets

Poor Nation Of The Pacific, Australia's Future? Edited by Joceynne A. Scutt, published

by Allen & Unwin, $19.95 (hardcover), $9.95 (paperback).

If trends are not changed, then within 30 years or 50 years -- that is, in the time of children now alive - in productivity terms Australia could become one of the less competitive countries of East and Southeast Asia... Helen Hughes.

The galling thing about the proposition that Australia might become "the poor nation" is that we have to take it seriously, living as we d . o in a country recently descrntibe zd by Mr Amaya, one of the architects of the socalled Japanese economic miracle, as "a land blessed by God..." John Button.

We must overcome the essential fragility of our industrial infrastructure. We have a lo ng way to go and not much time in which to do it... Barry Jones To subside into gloom and pessimism in examining Australia's future is the worst option. Pessimism can all too : . easily become fatal-

1sm... Anne Summers In 1980, at the Commonwealth Heads of Govern-

ment meeting in Delhi, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew bluntly presented Australia with a choice -we could become the loafers of the South Pacific or the powerhouse of the region. He made it plain which course he thought Australia would pursue.

In canvassing in Poor Nation of the Pacific many of the factors which have led to our current decline, ten commentators have sketched out the elements of a strategy which would liberate us from our dilemma. If Australia has the time and the instruments at hand, does it have the will?

Twilight Liberation, by Hugh V. Clarke, published

by Allen & Unwin, $17.95.

At noon on 15 August 1945 the people ofJapan heard for the first time in history the sacred voice of their Emperor.

The war was over.

But not quite, for the 2700 Australian prisoners of war.

For many, more than a month was to pass before they saw the faces of their liberators, before the Occupying Forces could organise their repatriation Twilight Liberation tells the story of those tense, bewildering days. Through

homilies begin with the feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, which is closely linked to Christmas, and includes the season of Advent and Christmas with its liturgical feasts concluding with the Octave of prayer for Christian Unity.

Each homily is concerned, in some fashion, with the Incarnation.

Of special interest is the liturgical feast itself which is placed into a particular context with a practical message for the occasion and the audience. Some of the contemporary messages include: the church's contribution to education, human rights, bearing witness to faith, church-state relations, ecumenism, Christian unity, church-school relationships, Christian marriage and the family In his reflections on the feast of the Conversion of St Paul. a standard is offered to all who wish to measure and evaluate their commitment to Christ the Lord -- "How far have I rejected Christ in the past? To what extent have I now accepted him?

How clearly can he be seen in me?" As each believer's personal journey involves death to self so that the Lord may live and be proclaimed, the above standard could provide a constant guidepost for our progress or lack thereof.

This is an excellent book which is an ideal resource for priest or deacon homilists and suitable for meditation on the feasts of the Christmas season by laity and clergy.

the words of men like Lang Fraser, "Roaring Reg" Newton, we are given the hitherto-untold story of the space between slavery and liberation.

Hugh V. Clarke was among the POW's who waited for liberation. This is his eighth book. His most recent, Last Stop Nagasaki! was published in 1984 to much acclaim

Southern Sky, by Lyn Fletcher, published by Metbuen, $10.95.

Did you know that there are many phenomena which are unique to the southern hemisphere, such as minute meteorites discovered only in Australian deserts?

Did you know Captain James Cook became the first European to sight the east coast ofAustralia, because of an astronomical event?

Southern Sky is an exciting, unique, full colour guide to the stars of the southern hemisphere for children ages 9-14. It introduces astronomy in Australia and New Zealand and includes many spectacular photographs and star maps of the southern sky in winter and summer form Revealing The Past, by Dr Sandra Bowlder, pubisbed by Methuen, $10.95.

Compiled by Roslyn Ross.

A creative collection of prayers

I Go In Hope, by Graham English, published by Dove Communications, $7.95.

·Who dares be God's friend?" asks Graham English in this delightful, zany, creative collection of prayers, reflections and illustrations. His prayers and pictures give many answers to the question. They are Australian, humorous, challenging, and deeply religious. "The person who finds God finds life." (Proverbs 8:35). Graham's search has an imaginative depth and a grounding in our Australian reality.

His stories abound in the wry humour of ordinary life.

They are gentle and uplifting, painful and pointed.

Each one ends with a prayer, springing out of the awareness of the presence of the God of love in the experience of everyday events Graham English is a Religious Education consultant in the Sydney Catholic Education Office. Many of these pieces have appeared in the Sydney Catholic Weekly He is married to Erin White, and they have a child Max He says of his book: "I Go In Hope began as columns in the Sydney Catholic Weekly "The columns began out of my frustration. Most of what I was reading in the Australian Catholic press was dull, unimaginative and afraid. I thought that I could do better "I am a Catholic. By the time I was born in 1944, being a Catholic was as natural in our family as getting up in the morning and having breakfast. It was also as natural as getting

A fascinating full colour study of Australia's archaeological history covering many new and exciting discoveries in Aboriginal, industrial, maritime and industrial archaeology.

Revealing The Past features fabulous photographs of archaeology sites and covers excavations and interpretations, ranging from the earliest human remains of over 30,000 years ago to the recently uncovered first Government House. Ideal for children 9-14!

Movement, by Valerie

Miner, published Methuen, $10.95.

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Movement captures 10 years of changes in Susan Campbell's life. Valerie Miner's skills as a storyteller and insights as a reflective feminist have never been stronger.

Axioms, Sheila by Macleod, published by Methuen, $10.95.

After 16 years of marriage, Claudia Hughes has finally faced up to the deceits and infidelities of her husband, a once-famous pop star. Now abandoned in the family home with her two adoles cent children, Josh and Matilda, she is confronted simultaneously with her own identity crisis and the

also a Christian Brothers' ±eve

boy, or was. I grew up with some of the strengths and weaknesses that that implies ·The strengths I gained from my Catholic upbringing were an awareness of the need of prayer, a desire for mystery, a feeling that I am part of a rich tradition. I love good liturgy and am proud to share something valuable

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with Les Murray, Graham Greene, Mozart and John XXII "Some of the weaknesses I am aware of growing up with were a fear of intimacy and friendship, a highly trained superego, a conserwative and inadequate attitude to women and an inordinate fear. I also knew nearly nothing of the Bible and even less of Christians other than Catholics "I am a sixth generation Australian. Among my forebears there are convicts, Anzacs, farmers, shearers, mostly Catholics but some Protestants, mostly Irish but some English. Thankfully enough of them loved reading and music to pass the love onto me. I am usually thankful that they were

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Pottery For Children and other beginners, by Connie Hoedt, published

by Methuen, $25.

This book aims to stimulate children's creative talents and feed their imagination.

Children have a natural delight in creativity, and it is part of the purpose of this book to provide the inspiration for them to develop their gifts to the fullest.

Clay is a marvellous medium for self-expression.

The first five chapters of this book are devoted to children of different age groups their needs, abilities and projects that suit them. The last chapter is a technical section which gives a basic understanding of the craft of pottery.

Painting Animals in Watercolour, by Sally

Michel, published by Methuen, $17.95.

There is one essential dif-

ference between painting animals and painting other subjects. Animals move! As Sally Michel says, it is impossible to know, when you start portraying an animal, whether you have time for a detailed, considered study or will need to work fast to sketch its general appear-

religious even when they were going off the rails as they now and then did.

Going off the rails in our family usually meant grog"As a child I wondered why Catholics held themselves apart. While I like a lot of things about being Catholic I was aware that the main motive for many of my actions was fear. I believed that if ever I committed a mortal sin, with my luck I'd be run over and go straight to hell before I had the chance to go to confession Many of my generation, once they stopped being afraid, left "The kind of religion I grew up with alienated many that it was meant to attract. They saw only the fear, the bigotry, the hurt and the claims to certainty. Some of them thought it cruel. Many experienced a church preparing them for a world that had already ceased to exist When these people later found that their experience did not square with what they had been taught they chose experience and walked away from religion "If people in Australia in 1985 are going to find God then it will be here in the only time and place they have. And it will be in ordinary things. There are enough things to fear in our society. Fearing God is no help at all "I have done several sensible things in the last ten years. Marrying Erin White has been the most sensible.

Then things like adopting

ance. Sally Michel's know!edge and understanding of animals has enabled her to draw and paint this remarkable collection of animal studies and to describe her approach in delightfully informative and enthusiastic terms.

The Bush Soldiers, by John Hooker, published

by Fontana, $6.95.

The Bush Soldiers is a tale of life in Australia from the First World War to the second. It weaves the story of an attack on the Japanese held at Broken Hill Mine, after the imagined Japanese invasion of Australia.

The leader of this attack Geoffrey Sawtell becomes an integral part of the story.

A hardened lonely man he came back from the Great War, quickly grew away from his mother, and found only drink in common with his father. He married, worked hard, suffered in the Depression and went away looking for a job. Then it was back to the war.

Sawtell's is a story of endurance, heroism and tragedy.

John Hooker sees in it many things that are essential to Australian life in the twenties, thirties and forties.

In telling it he shows us much of what has formed the character of Australian

Max, learning a little about painting from John Ogburn, living in another country, learning to pray with Protestants, losing some of my prejudices and fears!

"I am hopeful about life and the future. I hope that this book will help others go along in hope."

Potential Cbristian Women In a Troubled World, by Monika Hellwig, published by Paulist Press (available from Word of Life Distributors), $.95.

This, the 1985 Madelva Lecture in Spirituality, celebrated the opening of the Centrefor Spirituality of Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA and honours tbe memory of tbe woman wbo inaugurated the college's pioneering program in theology, Sister Madetva, C.S.C. Tbe material aims to sbow Cbristian women bow to come to know and realise tbeir own potential for greatness. Wbile some remarkable women have made their contribunion to tbe cburcb in times past, says Monica Hellwig, it must be admitted tbat women bave only fragments of a "useable past" wben looking to the tradition for guidance and inspiration in sbaping a spirituality for Cbristian women in tbe troubled world of our times.

people.

John Hooker was born in 1932 in New Zealand Since 1963 he has lived in Melbourne where he was until recently the publisher of William Collins Australia He is married with one son. The Bush Soldiers is his second novel and he is working on a third about The Korean War. The Gates, by Jennifer Jobnston, published by Flamingo, $6.96.

The Gates once guarded the proud entrance to the MacMahon's great estate But now they sag on their hinges, symbolising a dying breed and decaying property. Major MacMahon is quite content to watch the estate grow derelict. But his young niece Minnie, newly arrived from England, has different ideas.

The All New Australian Graffiti, by Rennie Elis, published by MacMillan, $9.95.

Rennie Ellis has done it again! This is his third book in the highly-successful series on Australian graffiti. In this all-new collection, Ellis has put together the best, worst, funniest, craziest and most esoteric and artistic daubings of he eighties. It is bound to be a huge success, just like its predecessors

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The Australian Catholic Tennis Carnival was completed in Perth last week. The WA teams played extremely well against very tough opposition from the other states.

The women's team scraped home on the final day to win the Archbishop Duhig Shield by just two rubbers from New South Wales.

In the men's competition, New South Wales won the P.J. O'Shea Shield with our team coming in second.

The Archbishop Kelly Shield for combined men's and women's teams was won by New South Wales with WA's team running second.

The tennis was of a very high standard and regular carnivalites could not remember the last time the competition was so close.

None of the shields were decided until the last day and in fact until the final sets of the day had been completed.

WA teams should be more than pleased with their performances.

The women's team consisted of Joanne Johnson, Kathy Williams, Geraldine Alderman, Kerry Messer, Cathy Dowsett, Sharon Gordon and Alison Thomas.

The men's team was Damian Messer, Danny Bowen, Peter Quain, Greg Quain, Randy Raux, Ron Smith and Kevin Quain.

In the individual competitions, Damian Messer won the Bob Taylor Memorial Trophy for the best male player at the carnival.

Damian played extremely well and went through the competition without losing a match.

Debbie Chesterton from New South Wales won the May Priddis Memorial Trophy for the best woman player She also went through the competition without losing a match.

The Monty O'Kane Memorial Trophy for the best overall average for a male player was won by Scott Feamside from New South Wales.

The inaugural Messer Family Trophy for the best overall average for a female player was won by Brenda Dale from Queensland.

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Some of the successful tenni splayers at the interstate tournament were: (BACK ROW FROM LEFT) John Alderson-Smith captain of the NSW with the aggregate trophy wi nby NSW; Scot Fernside, NS W winner men's most consistent; Brenda Dale Old, winer n most consistent women's. (FRONT ROW) Kevin Benson, NSW, men's trophy winner; Damien Messer WA, no 1 men's trophy. Debbie Chesterton, NSW, best no 1 women's; Kerry Messer, captain WA women's team with their trophy.

The Miss ACLTA Ouestwas held during the carnival at the Merlin Hotel.

Archbishop Foley was present at the function and announced the winner of the quest, Bernadette Eichner from South Australia.

The social functions held each night of the camival were a rip roaring success.

Every function was very well attended and culminated with the New Years Eve Ball held at the Belmont Raceway.

The visitors obviously enjoyed themselves and were full of praise for our organisation and smooth running of the tennis and social events.

The carnival was a wonderful experience for all who attended and our congratulations must go to Greg Pearce, our carnival organiser, and to all who in one way or another put time and effort into ensuring that it was so successful.

Bernadette Eichner, of South Australia winner of the Miss Tennis Quest conducted in conjunction with the tournament.

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The Record, January 9, 1986

The Leederville prayer meeting of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is to commence a Life in the Spirit seminar, beginning with an introductory session, on January 17.

The Life in the Spirit seminar is a seven week program, offering adult Christians a rich experience in faith, incorporating prayer and reflection, and leading to personal renewal of faith. Many thousands of people around the world have been encouraged and uplifted in their experience of this unique program.

All are welcome. The program has much to offer any who are searching for God or who may have great needs in their life.

The Leederville prayer meeting is held at the Good Shepherd convent premises, Ruislip Street, Wembley, at 8pm each Friday evenings.

The program commencing on January 17 is offered to young and mature adults.

A children's program is provided for couples who may need to bring their school aged children.

On Wednesday, February 12, the Ladies Prayer Meeting at Leederville will recommence. This meeting is also held at the Good Shepherd convent premises, beginning at 10am.

MARIAN MOVEMENT A Cenacle will be held on Friday, January 17 at the Little Sisters of Carmel, 2 Frazer St., Swanboume beginning at 10.30 am. Rosary every Tuesday. Inquiries to Yoland Nardizzi 447 8885 or Bob Wright 447 6223.

PIONEER PRIESTS Anyone with long memories who may know the travel movements of the late Fathers Richard O'Neil and John Fahey when they did a six week circuit in the Dwellingup area and other south west towns in the early 1920's is asked to contact Vicki Mackey 386 8183.

ORDO CORRECTION In the ordo for 1986 on page 33, line 3 the weekday readings for ordinary time should be taken from year 2. The reference is correct when it appears later after Pentecost.

TV RELIGIOUS DOCUMENTARIES The Christian Television Association of WA has arranged the following documentaries to be shown on Channel 7 on Sundays at 7.30 am.

Sunday January 12 HIGH NOON IN CHOL-CHOL The Mapuche Indians were the one tribe in Southern America the Spanish failed to conquer. Yet today they are treated as lower-class citizens by Chilean authorities.

And now even the missionaries who work with them are planning to move out because of lack of personnel. It is crisis time for this once-proud colourful people.

Sunday January 19 NEW DAY IN BRAZIL A close look at the recentty emerging Basic Christian Communities in Brazil's Sao Paulo. A film of great enthusiasm about a vibrant Church. Here could be a pattern for the parishes of the future in Australia.

Sunday January 26 RETURN TICKET TO CHILE Filmed both in Chile and Ireland. A documentary on the effects of working for some years in South American on volunteer priests from Dublin diocese. With the

help of the ideas brought back from Chile by its PP, Fr Chris Mangan, Dun Laoghaire parish has become one of the most dynamic and active parishes in Dublin.

Sunday February 2 THESE MEN ARE DANGEROUS A valuable account of the prophetic stand the Bishops of Brazil have taken on justice and human rights in their own country. The film was made during one of the Bishops' biannual general meetings and contains interviews with Archbishop Camara, Cardinal Ams and other wellknown bishops of Brazil.

ST JOSEPH'S REUNION

The annual reunion of past pupils of St Joseph's of the Sacred Heart will be held on Sunday, January 26 commencing with Mass in St Columba's Church, South Perth at 5.30 pm, followed by refreshments in the grounds of the South Perth Convent. Please note the alteration of starting time from 5.00 pm to 5.30 pm.

Enquiries to Mrs L. Howell, Telephone 341 2373.