The Record Newspaper 16 January 1986

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Australian Catholic Relief is not involved in any way with decisions relating to the funding of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace says ACR national secretary Michael Whitely.

He also points out 90 per cent of the money sent through ACR for programs in Kampuchea has come from contributions specifically earmarked for that country.

Project Compassion is a collection authorised by the bishop of each diocese, Mr Whitely explained this week.

While the Australian bishops established ACR to administer the Lenten program, it is the bishops who determine the amount required to fund CCJP and how much is taken out of Project Compassion for this purpose.

Mr Whitely said ACR was one of the few agencies giving the detailed account of its operations to its supporters as outlined in the 300,000 newsletters sent to parishes and the annual reports distributed to every parish in Australia.

In 1985 ACR was entrusted with aid valued at $11.5 million.

Of this $10.5million (91.5%) was destined to assist directly people overseas and another $200,000 (1.5%) was used for refugee and Aboriginal projects in Australia.

ACR's administrative expenses amounted to 3.8% of its income and amounts spent on educational activities, including the bishops' allocation to CCJP accounted for another 3.2%.

"No other major aid agency in Australia is in a position to use 93% of its resources in direct help to people in need," Mr whitely said.

"ACR accepts responsibility for 3.2% of our funds being used for development education because our partners in Asia and Africa insist that if ACR is concerned about the long term needs of the poor, then merely giving money for relief is an incomplete answer.

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At the two-week holiday sponsored by Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped at Santa Maria College, Joel Peachey of Yokine was able to show off his bike riding assisted by volunteer helper, Sean Christie of Kwinana.

Michael Whitely "The economic and political relationships between First and Third World coun-

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Father Chikhladze, who was 38, was not among the ten people who tried to divert Aeroflot Flight 6833 on November 18, but was said to be the "spiritual leader" of the group, whom he had last met in 1981.

He and three others were sentenced to death by the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Court of Criminal Justice for "banditry" and "hijacking".

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Statistics about Mass attendances could be mis-used, says Vicar General Statistics about Catholics attending Mass are in danger of being used to bolster attitudes of pessimism according to Highgate parish priest, Mons Michael Keating who is also a vicar general of Perth archdiocese.

Producing figures to try and demonstrate a drop in attendance did not tell the positive story of much greater participation and involvement in Sunday liturgy that had taken place since the revision following the Second Vatican Council.

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This was matched by increased participation in the life of the Church, in parish councils, prayer and study groups and administration, he said.

Mons Keating was reacting to newspaper reports in which the Anglican Dean of Perth reportedly said "today's Church seems to lack an attractive depth of conviction and a winning spiritual seriousness" Dean Robarts cited a claimed drop in Mass attendance by Catholics from 53 per cent in 1976 to 25 per cent in 1985. He also noted a sudden fall off in Mass attendance by upper secondary students leaving school.

He also noted the Anglican population in Australia had dropped from 52.7 per cent in 1951 to 26.1 per cent today, the same as the Catholic percentage that had remained the same. Between 1954 and 1979 the percentage of Anglicans regularty attending church had dropped from 19 to eight per cent.

Mons Keating said the drop in youth attendance at Sunday Mass contrasted with the enthusiastic participation that took place at school and other occasions when they prepared and were involved in the liturgy themselves.

Examples of this were the Antioch Masses such as the national conference Mass recently televised on the ABC. If there seemed to be a problem of young people attending Sunday Mass the challenge was to make the occasion more relevant to their lives, he said.

Mons Keating also challenged the conclusions being drawn by different commentators about the supposed decline in Mass attendance over the past 15 years.

'There are no complete national figures available for that period because dioceses were simply not collecting the statistics ten years ago.

"In Perth archdiocese the first ever count of Sunday Mass attendances was taken up in 1977 and the results were published but no other dioceses were doing similar surveys.

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'The first complete national Mass count took place in August 1984 when the Australian bishops wanted to study the question of holy days of obligation.

"In Perth archdiocese approximately the same number of people have been attending Mass each time a count was taken since 1974. Although the nominal Catholic population may have grown in that time there has been no dramatic decline in Mass attendance.

'The supposedly high figure of 52 per cent attending Sunday Mass appears in O'Far. rell's History of the Catholic Church which quotes a Gallup poll in 1976."

Any analysis of Catholic Mass attendance also had to take into consideration the migrant factor, Mons Keating said.

"O'Farrell notes in his book the high proportion of merely nominal religion among post-war European Catholic migrants.

"In Perth archdiocese probably at least one in three Catholics are either Italian-born or of at least one Italian parent.

"Regular Mass attendance is not a characteristic of ttahans today and of some other European groups. That factor has to be taken into consideration when analysing figures.

"On the other hand, there is strong faith among these national groups and this is in evidence at Christmas and other feasts 'This Christmas, we had 2500 at Mass, including the Vietnamese, compared with an average Sunday attendance of 1200," he said.

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At his first ordination of a priest, in St Francis Xavier Cathedral last Saturday evening, Bishop Hickey remarked he was ordaining a young man the same age as himself.

Father Peter Downes, 49, gave up his love of cattle farming five years ago to study at St Francis Xavier Seminary Adelaide, culminating in his ordination this week and a Mass of thanksgiving at his parish church of Joseph Mingenew the following day.

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carrying panels hand painted by Dominican Sister Imelda Ryan who got to know Peter Downes when once stationed at Mingenew.

The panels show a cattle farmer looking down a country path flanked by wheatfields and flat-topped mallee trees, symbolic of the path of life lit up by the sun as the light of the world and symbol of the eucharist Father Downes' ordination was solidly supported by all 17 Western Australian students at St Francis Xavier Seminary as well as staff member Father Tony Dean CM who presented him for ordination and preached at the Mass of thanksgiving Students Brian Limbourne, Murray Thomas and Peter Porteous chanted the litanies; Joe Comita assisted on the sanctuary and Paul Byrne and Brian Tuddenham led the singing at the Mingenew Mass.

Just before his being called forward for his ordination Father Peter Downes (right) stands with his mother Mrs Frances Downes of Dianella, his sister Mrs Jillian Mc Teigue who came from Sydney, and his brother Adrian Downes of Tarcoola, Geraldton.

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Australian Catholic Relief defends its decision to send relief to Asian families in need, irrespective of where they are living.

Australian Catholic Relief believes the CCJP document Work For A Just Peace in which 95% of the contents appear acceptable to all, fulfils a valuable purpose.

"Not everyone will agree with all its conclusions but every Australian could use such a document to stimulate discussion which might inspire personal action to rid the world of the threat of war and bring peace, justice and equal access to the world's wealth" says the ACR national director Michael Whitely.

'There is a direct relationship between the expanding militarism in our world and its increasing poverty.

"The billions of dollars spent on purchasing arms (mainly from rich countries) is money that could be used to help overcome poverty.

"For example, in Pakistan 70% of the national budget is spent on the armed forces and only 5% on health care.

"Most other developing countries would have a similar situation.

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through its One World Week over the three years 1982-84, and CCJP, through its document Work for a Just Peace, have stressed the need for Australians to understand firstly the implications of the present arms race and, secondly, to take informed appropriate action "For example, this action could be a political campaign that aimed to transfer five per cent of Australia's defence budget into overseas aid.

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"More than 90 per cent of the money sent through ACR for programs in Kampuchea has come from contributions specifically earmarked for that country.

"These were provided by the community in response to specific appeals for Kampuchea or by the Australian Government.

"Since 1980, ACR has been one of the most significant channels for funds from Australia to Kampuchea, because a consortium of the major Catholic development agencies, operating as CIDSE, has established an office in Phnom Penh."

In 1979 Kampuchea, a potentially rich country, was left in ruins by Pol Pot and facing famine.

The Catholic and other agencies, have been able to develop effective relief and rehabilitation programs only now starting to return the country to some form of normality where people are able to live with a promise of adequate food, shelter, medical attention and education.

"We have established an appraisal, evaluation and monitoring system recognised as one of the most effective in Kampuchea," Mr Whitely said.

The situation of the Vietnamese is physically much worse than that of the Kampucheans and on humanitarian grounds cries out for a much larger response.

However, the political situation in Vietnam makes monitoring of programs far more difficult and has restricted the possibility of a major response through ACR

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Seasoned travellers may crack hardy and say there is no risk in visiting certain countries, especially the Middle East.

It is not only the tourist who can dine out on stories about their experiences of security checks, delays and other interminable frustration at Israeli, Greek and other strategic airports.

Last week's television media indulged in a feast of excitement over England's Heathrow airport seeing the sub-machine guns that have been commonplace for years in other capitals.

The televised British weapons may have been intended to inject a bit of drama into the news networks hungry to wring more mileage from the aftermath of the Rome and Vienna killings but they did not shed much light on the real issues of terrorism. The prolific guns already much in evidence did not prevent nor can bring back to life the trail of dead from a decade of too many hi-jackings and bomb attacks to remember.

The would-be tourist is looking only at a fraction of the problem if he thinks merely of the risk of his own hard savings that he will spend on a tour picked out of a magazine.

Tourism is big business, too big say some. The tourist's dollar spells the difference between solvency and bankruptcy for several European countries on either side of the Iron Curtain, to say nothing of Third World areas that can't afford to knock them back. The terrorist knows that he is touching a very sensitive financial nerve when he strikes at innocent travellers.

The hundreds of thousands of people boarding aircraft, trains, buses or ferries any day of the week are a bloodstream linking countries together much more critically than a moment of sudden horror, or hysteria over the appearance of weapons.

Compared with the drawn out saga that has surrounded other killings, kidnappings, and disappearances, the Rome and Vienna victims were hustled off the news channels with a strange haste. Yet they were the innocent people going about their business. Worse was in store, according to reports, had the original plan to hijack hostages and explode a plane come off.

Whether we like it or not, the sheer build-up of population in hundreds of world cities, not just airports, is the target to be exploited by the fanatic. The killers are not veteran rebels; they are barely out of their youth, indoctrinated, manipulated and fennented into a madness that overlooks the meaning of their own or others' lives whether in Beirut, Rome or London.

More than tourism is at stake.

The issue behind the current airport violence is political but it is also religious. The tourist is deliberately snared at the crossroads of Mecca and Jerusalem, between the El Aqsa mosque on the Rock and the Wailing Wall below, between Islam and Judaism. Christianity is no idle spectator to the outcome.

Such critical questions probably flow over the head of today's secularist who is taught to ignore the consequences of the conflict of such faiths. Wrtness the trivialisation this week in a sob story of a journalist pining over a Gaddafi victim when literally millions in neighbouring African countries are bearing the brunt of his fanatical Islamic vievvs which he knows his oil money can fuel.

Pope John Paul was widely quoted, at least on television, counselling against spiralling the circle of violence by physical retaliation.

We need less news rhetoric about ReaganGaddafi disputes and more honest analysis of what moral alternatives exist other than physical retaliation if the Year of Peace is to make any progress.

So far the sanctimonious and selective attitude towards bans and sanctions that emanate from Australia only prove that we live in the fool's paradise believing that we are not involved in and are responsible for the destiny of many other countries.

It is far more serious than a tourist's dilemma or a pilgrim's lack of nerve about taking an overseas trip.

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Bishops' concern about violence SAN SALVADOR: Concern about the escalating violence and the breakdown of negotiations between the government and the guerrillas, has been expressed by the Salvadoran bishops in a pastoral letter on 'Reconciliation and Peace."

The Church had acted as mediator between the two sides.

The bishops denounced the "manipulation of the Christian faith", particularly by those on the extreme left.

These groups had been inspired by the preferential option of the poor, but "understood in a different sense from that of the pope and the Latin American bishops."

The Church, which had certainly declared a preferential option for the poor "but one that was not exclusive or excluding."

The groups did not recognise there was a fundamental poverty, when God was not present in

the heart of men enslaved by power, pleasure, money and violence."

This "deformed vision", according to the bishops, was "fundamentally conditioned by Marxist ideol-

ogy."

Black_theologian talks about attitudes on Apartheid CAPE TOWN (NC) - Blacks in South Africa do not see violence against apartheid in the same way as whites see it, according to Father Buti Tlhagale, a black South African theologian.

When black people resort to violence as a means "of redressing the wrongs of an instrinsically violent political system, they perceive this not only as a right to resist in the name of elementary justice, but as a duty to check the repression of the racist regime."

Differing view of violence African policies

"What the white community perceives as savagery, as

when people associated with apartheid are burned to death, bla':s interpret differently," said Father TIhagale, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate.

The priest was one of more than 100 South African theologians who signed the "Kairos Document," which explored the moral implications of apartheid and challenged Christians to side with the and poor oppressed.

Apartheid is South Africa's system of strict racial segregation.

"What seems a senseless destruction of life and property, of schools and buses and delivery vehicles, is seen by young blacks especially as

an aggressive statement of radical protest, of self-affirmation: a tactic to compel the government to reckon with their frustrated aspirations."

The theologian said while

Irish criticism DUBLIN: The Irish development agency Trocaire has strongly criticised the lack of commitment by the government to overseas aid.

At a conference to launch Trocaire's Development Review 85, director Mr Brian McKeown said the unparalleled response by Irish people to appeals for aid to Africa contrasted sharply with the poor response of successive Irish governments to the United Nations target for Official Development Assistance.

Irish people gave more than £12 million to Trocaire during the past year. £3.2 million was raised by the annual Lenten campaign, £5.7 million in a one-day Church collection.

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EDINBURGH: Scottish bishops have urged Catholics to dissociate themselves from all social, cultural and sporting links ment has refused to to South Africa. acknowledge non-violent The bishops backed a resistance, he said, and call from their Jusdiplomatic pressure has not tice and Peace Comhad "the desired effect." mission for "So desperate have large sections of the people Catholics to boycott become that they are deterSouth African mined that the present sysgoods, discourage tem can no longer continue, emigration to South unless over their dead Africa and question bodies," he said.

"The present violence is personal financial therefore understood as an investment in the act of self-defence." he said. country.

Having "competent authorThe commission made ity" is hard because the its call after its presgovernment bans and imprisons recognised leaders, he ident, Auxiliary said.

Bishop James The violence by blacks "is Monaghan of St seen as hardly comparable Andrews and Edinwith the human suffering burgh, Scotland, inflicted in the name of apartheid," he added. visited South Africa.

The world whites think the violence is short-sighted, blacks have virtually no stake in the protection and maintenance of public property.

He said although people like the late Martin Luther King Jr. advocated nonviolence, in South Africa, non-violence has not stopped apartheid.

He noted the tradition "Christians have a right, and even a duty, to protect their existence and freedom by proportionate means against an unjust aggressor," as Pope John Paul 11 said in his 1982 World Day of Peace Message.

The priest also explored the question of whether South African violence fulfills other requirements to make it justifiable by Church standards: that it is a "last resort, conducted by competent authority, with due proportion and a reasonable prospect of success."

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As for a reasonable prospect of success, he said, "limited violence... has finally cracked the granite foundation of the apartheid edifice."

CAP that: Cardinals Ricketts of Lima, Biffi of Bologna, Rojas of Santo Domingo and"Trujillo of Colombia put down their hats and coats before entering the synod hall at their recent conference in Rome.

'This is an act of solidarity with the mainly black Roman Catholic Church in South Africa and a sign of our opposition to the policy of apartheid," said a commission spokesman.

And at the Vatican Pope John Paul II has praised demonstrators against South Africa's apartheid system saying they were upholding "unsuppressible values and rights."

Speaking from his apartment winiow overlooking the square, the pope addressed those who were among the approx imately 10,000 people who marched in Rome against South Africa's system of enforced racial separation.

"It is a question of affirming insuppressible values and rights, which help make man more human and help to realise better his own dignity as a person created in God's image, the pope said. He added Church teaching is consistently against all forms of discrimination

( BRUSSELS: Three bishops of the Catholic Patriotic Association are on a visit to Belgium at the invitation of the Catholic University of

Leuven.

It is the first time bishops from China have visited Europe.

Bishop Michael Fu Tie Shan of Peking, the Archbishop of Suiyuean, Franciscus Wang Xue Ming, currently rector of the seminary jn Peking, and Bishop Antonius Tu Shih-Hua of Hanyang are also visiting other Catholic seminaries in Belgium, although the "Patriotic Association" broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and does not have relations with the Vatican.

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VATICAN CITY (NC)· Pope John Paul recently met with a group of about 5,000 participants in an Italian "arts and handicapped" festival. In a talk, he condemned countries which he said do not respect the life of the handicapped.

"In certain nations, denial of the right to life of the unborn or even the newborn has been 'legalised' in the case of those who carry handicaps.

'To the legislators, politicians and governors of those nations and of all the nations of the earth, I would like to recall at this time the strong word of God, 'Do not kill'," the pope said The group's activities included an arts festival with dance and theatre performances, as well as painting, sculpture and photo exhibits

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a papal message "of prayer and human solidarity with the prisoners of war" from Iraq.

The papal envoy, French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, also hoped to make a similar trip to lraq to visit Iranian prisoners of war.

VATICAN CITY (NO) - In his Christmas message to the world Pope John Paul II, calling himself "defenceless in the midst of a world that is armed and too often defeated by the temptation of arrogant power and oppression," asked Christians to unite to make Christ's message of love and justice a reality in the contemporary world.

Christians must combat massive starvation, human rights violations and a material progress which "is indifferent to moral values," the pope said during his annual "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message to the city of Rome and to the world.

"We should be zealous for good deeds," the pope said. Through Christ's birth, death and ressurection people have become "created anew" by the grace of God, he

MILAN: The plight of the Catholic Church in Laos is outlined in a book published in Italy recently, The Gospel according to Ho Chi Minh by a former missionary who left Laos in 1975, Father Giuseppe Co. The head of the Catholic Church in Vietnamese-occupied Laos, Jean Khamse Vithavong, is under house arrest, one Apostolic Vicar is in jail, two others "disappeared", two priests have been arrested. one of them in a re-education camp.

There are believed to be 30,000 Catholics in the country, with four apostolic vicars and ten priests. Three priests are reported to have been ordained in the past year, one of whom works in the Ministry of Agriculture.

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Change for school will have to attend an "alternative" class offered by the school during that time period. Currently, those with exemptions have free time during religion classes.

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Pope John Paul II sent Cardinal Etchegaray after the Iranian government said it and president of the Pontifical Council "Cor would accept an envoy.

Unum", a Vatican agency coordinating Tehran Radio reported the cardinal international Catholic relief work efforts. celebrated Christmas Mass for 500 ChrisIran and lraq have been at war for five tian prisoners.

The pope has made numerous calls for an years with neither side having gained a end to the lran-lraq war. significant advantage.

VATICAN CITY (NC) A top-ranking Cardinal Etchegaray is president of the Vatican official has been sent to lran with Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission

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ROME (NC) Catholic instruction in Italian public schools will become a matter of choice for individual students and their parents beginning in 1986.

Currently, such instruction is given to all students unless a request for an exemption is made. The agreement means students or parents may opt for or against the religion classes.

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Christians live "in a

world where there are still people dying of starvation and where human rights are scandalously violated and a mass of suffering weighs upon humanity," the pope said.

Christians must be "a people knowing how to be sober with regard to the

resources of the universe and wise in the use of the energies of its own mind," he said.

Christians must "resist the false mirage of a progress that is indifferent to moral values, and looks only to the immediate and material advantage," he said The pope asked Christians to be "a people too, that is inspired by justice in its thoughts, resolutions and deeds."

"The Church intends with all her strength to be the minister of this message which springs from Christmas, so that today's world will not lack the prospect which gives meaning to joy and sorrow, death and life," he said.

The pope read the message from a balcony in St Peter's Basilica overlooking the more than 30,000 people who had gathered in St Peter's Square to see the

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After the message, the pope offered holiday greetings in 51 languages For the first time, the pope gave a greeting in Afghan, the language of Afghanistan where Soviet troops are fighting Moslem guerillas

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Father Janos Csilik, a priest at the cathedral in Oradea, Romania, was subjected to several interrogations and threatened with arrest when he refused to collaborate with the police.

Police finally forced Father Csilik's superiors to transfer him to a remote parish about 155 miles from Oradea, where he had been extremely popular.

Romania, which borders the Soviet Union, came under communist rule following World War II. Church activities and administration were seriously hampered by a law passed in 1948 Several Romanian bishops were secretly ordained in 1949.

Tensions between the Vatican and the Romanian government had lessened slightly in recent years.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - A Minnesota Supreme Court decision that a fetus is not a human being under state law was strongly criticised by the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

The decision will probably aid the spread of abortion.

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Sad to read of parent's guilt from Mrs E.S. MOULDS Association of Relinquishing Mothers

under the Supreme Court rules under the Adoption Of Children Act.

Sir, It was very sad to read that Adopting Parent (The Record Unfortunately, natural mothers have never had, and still do December 19) is now suffering guilt as a result of Roslyn Ross's not have. any reciprocal access to information about the child article. Why? She has no need to! As an adoptive parent, the they placed for adoption, or, perhaps, more importantly, the situation is completely within her control. people with whom the child was placed. t is now common knowledge that the "secrecy' in adoption This is the root cause of many of the problems which arise is a onesided arrangement: The natural parents have no idea with relinquishing a child for adoption. whatever with whom their child has been placed, or what the In the past natural mothers have been deliberately deceived child's new name may be. when they were told that the "secrecy" flowed both ways.

However, all adoptive parents in Western Australia have I was personally shocked to read that adoptive parents such always had access to the natural mother's family name via the as your correspondent actually "pray for the relinquishing Order Of Adoption papers - a copy of which is issued to all mother hnd thank God every night for His gift of a child" adoptive parents at the time of adoption. Some adoption lawyers To do this and at the very same time decline to give the placed these papers in their client's file rather than issue them relinquishing mother peace of mind by contacting her and at the time. passing on information to her about the welfare and progress Nevertheless, these documents are always available upon of the child is nothing short of sanctimonious. request. tf the lawyer concerned is no longer in business, If the adoptive parents' concern for the natural mother is duplicate copies can always be obtained by the adoptive parents, genuine, then there is no need to feel guilt when they hear of simply by writing to the appropriate Court and requesting same. the continued anguish of natural parents. Far better to show In addition to the information contained on the Order Of some Christian charity and compassion for the natural relations Adoption if the adoption took place prior to 1970, adoptive of the child, and pass on news of the child's well-being. parents often viewed the natural mother's full name and address Surely, this is a small enough gift in exchange for the gift of when they filled in the Application To Adopt form. The signature a son or daughter? of the adoptive parent was required by law on this document There are Government Contact Registers, also volunteer

Critic of suggestion from George Purbrick, Belmont SIR: With some trepidation I read ARCIC participant Herman Dorlandt's suggestion (The Record, December 19) for participation in each other's eucharistic celebration be allowed between Catholics and Anglicans.

Even though made in the spirit of goodwill, the suggestion is premature. It is one thing to share one eucharist but something entirely different to participate in two different eucharists St Paul's admonition (1 Cor 11.29) should be enough to put us on our guard in this instance.

The whole concept of ecumenism is one of give and take. This is one area where Anglicans are going to have to consider doing a bit of giving.

The Catholic and Orthodox traditions are much older than the Protestant tradition besides having a combined following that is numerically larger.

To expect the Catholics and Orthodox to fall into line with the Anglicans in the understanding of the Eucharist would certainly be a case of the tail wagging the dog.

Calendar . . omission

from Maurice BRADLEY, Bayswater Sir, the greatest creature God ever created appears to have been downgraded in having the January 1 reference to her motherhood removed from the Church's obligatory calendar.

No explanation or reason appears to have been given. It was just dropped.

In this age of confusion we need Our Lady kept in our minds more than having her removed. Emphasis was given to voluntary attendance at Mass this January and was probably good but next year will more than likely be poor because the average Aussie won't do anything unless obliged to.

The pope uses January 1 in his appeals for peace and as Mary has been given the task of bringing peace to the world this will not happen until she sees our co-operation in love, prayer, sacrifice and reparation for the Son of whom she is the great mother.

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l believe it is a mistake to equate Adoption with the Christian Faith. The adoption laws were made in parliament not in heaven. They are man's laws not God's laws.

God makes his decision very clear as to who should be the mother of a particular child. Man questions God's decision and the Adoption Of Children Act. seeks to overturn God's decision.

To sever the legal relationship between mother and child so completely is tantamount to divorce.

The church in the twentieth century has actively encouraged, and made arrangements for, single mothers to completely sever their legal relationship with their child by adoption.

Perhaps this is where our true guilt lies.

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from Paul DONNELLY, Since 1960 the number of But why bother about Australmarried women in the work- ian babies when, it is reported, Claremont More than half (50.6 per cent) West Austraian women are now in the workforce according to the Minister for Employment & Youth Training, Mr Peter Dowling, but whether with pride or concern that so many women should now be "wage slaves", as we men, is not clear.

A record number of teenagers reach 15-16 years this 1986 some 25,000 in all and a major proportion of them will also be seeking gainful employment, often in competition with married women.

They are the matured cohorts of the 1971 birth-rate, boom year, born either here or reaching here as migrants.

Of women in the work force, the majority, about 60 per cent are married; but half of these work only part time so that often two married women share one work position and tend to be paid as the supplem enting partners of two income families.

force has doubled; and, corresmaternal pondingly, productivity of Australian-born children has been halved. Few women can serve the demands of motherhood and wage earning.

□□□ In consequence Australia's birthrate is now 10 per cent

a million Europeans are seeking emigration to Australia as well as countless Asiatics? And the Minister for Immigration, Mr Chris Hurford has stated, 'The Government has no fertility policy".

An invitation is extended to Record readers to write letters to the Editor for this column.

All submissions must be typewritten and clear hand-writing double spaced.

Letters may edited.

Take close ACR look

from John L DOHERTY, Shenton Park Sir, t is time we and our Australian bishops took a closer look a other projects funded by Austra I ia n Catholic Relief and Project Compassion. One in point is a magazine called New Internationalist.

This magazine is published in Australia by New Internationalist Publications Pty. Ltd., a company jointly owned by Asia Partnership for Human Development, Australian Catholic Relief, Australian Council od Churches, and Community Aid Abroad The July and August 1985 editions of this magazine were devoted entirely to the promoDon of radical feminism.

An article such as "Love Thy Enemy (in this case the enemy being men) by Anna Livia stated: "I publish with and now work at, Only-women Press, as the only radical feminist and lesbian press in Britain. My fiction describes, discusses and

----- helps in the creation of a lesbian community."

ACR explanation from Michael WHITELY,

under population replacement national director Australian

values; and, for the future, our Catholic Relief population development may rely more on immigration than on from children born to estab- Sir, ACR neither owns nor lished Australian parents, controls the New Internationalaccording to estimates made by ist publication. It is produced by the Australian Bureau of Sta- a collective in England estabtistics. lished for the purpose of pubNevertheless net immigration lishing information on figures are expected to remain development issues. The colat the present levels of lective is responsible not only between 75,000 and 100,000 for producing the magazine but annually, a figure which com- also several UN publications. pares with our estimated atx>r- ACR supported the establishtion rate of 80,000 each year. ment of a company to encour-

age the wider distribution of the magazine in Australia. It did this because it believes that the quality of the articles on development issues is not matched in any other publication in Australia.

ACR does not contribute funds to the production of the magazine. New Internationalist is self-supporting through subscriptions.

ACR does not necessarily agree with all the material published in the New Internationalist, just as it does not necessarily agree with every-

Contraception A bedroom guide, lists nine methods and grades them five to one, excel lent to appalling. Natural family planning rates a one appal thing published in our Catholic ling. papers.

Every page in the magazine However, we respect the has something not only nor democratic right of people in Catholic but non-Christian free countries to express their non-family, non-God point of view and the right of Is this the sort of rubbish that others to disagree. We often funds from Project Compassior dot should be used to promote i ACR believes the New Inter- the guise of educational comnationalist should be read by mitment? people who are genuinely I do not believe that all funds interested in development. For from Project Compassion are every article which might pro- so appallingly used. However voke disagreement, there are that even one dollar should be fifty others that give a valuable used in this way demand insight into the situation of poor condemnation and an explan@ people in our world. tion.

Tribulations in adopting Calls for peace from REUNQUJSHING PARENT who is required by law to remain anonymous.

Sir, It is true adopted people do have brothers and sisters (Letters, The Record, Decerrber 19) --but also aunties, uncles and especially grandparents all waiting to meet the baby who was taken from its own family at birth, due to the righteous voices of the sterile.

Adoptive parents live a fairy-tale existence with another family's child to hide their childlessness. With this great love they keep talking about they should have supported the single mother at the lowest, most vulnerable time of her life, instead of taking her baby.

Many adopting parents, one third in fact, are divorced, many separated by death or law and the child still has only one parent. This is ironic when that was the reason for the forced separation in the first place.

I can hardly equate the loss of my son 28 years ago as an "old sore" acording to Adopting Parent. Adoptees and mothers have been discreet for long enough, both feeling a sense of guilt. It's time they were allowed to be re-united with their families.

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organisations, to assist if necessary. Contact is usually best made with the aid of a mediator.

To the question. "was not the infant Jesus adopted by Joseph?", the answer is 'Nol'. Joseph was not an adoptive father. It might be more appropriate, perhaps, to compare him with a step-father. Fortunately for the world, Mary was not required to relinquish her first-born child for adoption. (Think how appalling it might have been if Jesus had been born twenty years ago instead of 2000 years ago, and Mary had been treated in the same manner as so many young twentieth century mothers have been, and encouraged or forced to sign adoption papers "in the best interests of the child"II)

and, with loving concern, this should be encouraged. How can one love the child and not its parents. The child's self-image is a reflection of the attitude shown to its parents. Responsible adoptees are also concerned to find out if their own mother needs help, and to reassure her.

The new adoption legislation is callous, to say the least The adopting parents have what they want the child, late accomplished -also the name and identity of the child's mother through the Application To Adopt form and Order of Adoption.

The adoptee now has the right to the original birth certificate showing his or her own parents' names The parents who have been through the agony of the loss or separation have nothing; no baby, no name of their child, no identity. t was their child. They were forced to give up the right to parent but they did not give up the right to go on loving their child.

I assure you that adopted children are loved and missed very deeply by their own families. The main thing I want to say to my own first son is: "T love you and always will."

from G.J. DANIELL, Greenwood Sir, the United Nations has proclaimed 1986 as the International Year of Peace. Once again Pope John Paul has begun the year with a call for peace.

His message emphasises the value of peace as a goal which can unify peoples around the world. He holds up peace as a value with no frontiers: North-South, or East-West. I believe such a vision is required to safeguard the future of our children Many people see such visions as utopian and unworkable.

However, a common threat provides a great unifying force.

I hope that during this Year of Peace, Catholics will heed the words of the US Bishops in 1983, "peacemaking is nod an optional commitment. It is a requirement of our faith. We are called to be peacemakers by our Lord Jesus"

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After just 16 years they are likely soon to see their first Indonesian Oblate priest. They have 12 other students in training and

12 novices.

ODD This contrasts, says the Australian priest, with the Oblate experience following their arrival in Australia in 1894 as it was not until 1926 I the first Australian Oblate Father Andy I McCusker was ordained.

This, however, could have been the result of the Oblates originally not doing missionary work but looking after a Fremantle parish with its prisons at Fremantle and Rottnest and a reform school at Glendalough.

The other factor could I have been a plentiful supply of lrish Oblate priests at the time.

Today the Australian Oblates are taking out Indonesian citizenship where possible but also concentrating on I building up a local Church.

Other mission countries where the Oblates have made strong local impact has been in Sri Lanka since 1874 and the Philippines. New missions

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Some 16 years after the first Australian Oblates established themselves in Indonesia in 1971 they could be seeing their first Oblate Indonesian priest ordained in 1987.

This is the news brought to Perth by Western Australian born Oblate Father John McLaughlin who is on the seminary staff looking after 12 students and 12 novices.

Originally from Bassendean Father McLaughlin was in the second Australian group to go to Indonesia in 1973. His sister, Sister Therese McLaughlin is a Franciscan Missionary in Pakistan.

Today there are seven Oblates looking after two parishes on the south coast of central Java, another parish in Djakarta and sharing a seminary programme with Jesuits, Franciscan, Redemptorist, Holy Family and Blessed Sacrament orders.

Vocations appear to be optimistic, says Father McLaughlin. A Jesuit minor seminary looks after 600 students who may choose to enter the diocesan or religious priesthood at the end of their course.

The major seminary at Djakarta has 200 students and a Divine Word seminary on Flores has 200 diocesan and 200 order students.

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Respect for the Catholic Church, which is one of the five religions recognised by the Indonesian government, may have resulted from the independence movement.

The people did not associate the Catholic missionaries, mainly Dutch, with the Dutch colonial power which was seen to be Pro-

testant. The missionaries had stayed with the people during the Japanese occupation and had suffered with the people.

Many of the heroes of the independence were Catholics and when many of the fighters for independence were exiled to the islands it was often the missionaries

One of the reasons for the growth of the Catholic Church in Indonesia may be the tolerance of the people, according to AusUralian missionary Oblate Father John McLaughlin.

"The Javanese are the Italof South East Asia. Java Is 2 crossroads through wht) ch they have seen many raders from Chinese to Arabs pass on their wav." he sai 7 d while on a visit to his home city of Perth Te people are tolerant t the government goes Out of· tts way to try and avoid

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There have been moments of tension when efforts were made to forbid conversions but the Catholic authorities would not accept this, pointing out they had a mandate to spread the gospel, he explained People who convert to Catholicism are likely to be animists and not strong Muslims. In the Oblate parish of Cilicap, whose civilian population is the same as Western Australia's 1.3 mil-

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DOD Oblates who remind the people the day could dawn when the foreigners will not be available. This was especially true in 1978 when there were pressures to have foreign missionaries depart.

"Being a priest or religious brother is looked on as something worthwhile and is valued by the community and by parents with a certain pride," he said.

There are excellent vocations amongst the Indonesians and the native Indonesian bishops play a big part in national life.

"The Catholic people feel quite strongly Catholic and quite strongly Indonesian."

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lion, 12 percent are Catholics and in 1984 there were 800 baptisms and last year over 1000 many of them adults.

"They like the sense of brotherhood in Catholicism, our social involvement and our concern for the poor. In Cilicap we have a big socioeconomic programme building roads, dykes and schools.

"People say of us: 'When you do something you don't make big speeches, you do the job' and that attracts them."

Father McLaughlin admits that coming from the Australian church 5 years ago he had to learn to work with lay people I found it a highly orga-

nised Church and a Church with strong lay participation. In Islam and the other religions there are no priests so the males lead the religion and the laity are used to doing things themselves.

"In our people up to 60 per cent of worship is led by the lay people, by catechists or the head of the station and this is a very old tradition.

"On the other hand there IS a strong emphasis in building up small communities.

"In our Djakarta parish there are 33 small communities each with its own leader and social and liturg committees Each is almost a parish itself and the parish council is a representation of all these," he said

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Most village people are uneducated in basic hygiene, nutrition, child and health care. They don't know how to avoid sickness •.• or what to do when it occurs.

Water related diseases such as cholera and typhoid are a major cause of death, especially among infants and people weakened by malnutrition.

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"There i sa growig n desire in our country that the signs, symbols, gestures and other elements (of the liturgy) be more genuine so that their very authenticity may lead worshipers to a truer understanding and faith in what they are in doing their orders ready. It's rare that he has to ask how we liturgy... Signs and want our coffee or if we like symbols as well as butter on a muffin or not. liturgical texts bear the And the customers. They're church's tradition, a real mix of folks such as It strikes me that what therefore 'renewal Jack, a lawyer, who spends started as a routine has requires the opening time quietly with the morn- become a ritual, a daily up of our symbols, ing newspaper before catch- pattern with resemblances especially the fundaing the train to work; to the religious rituals that mental ones of bread Charlie, a cigar-smoking are part of my life. and wine, water, oil, octogenarian, who orders a From different situations It could be more rou- full breakfast with and backgrounds, we come the layig n on of hands, until we can expe- tine than ritual, but I scrambled eggs "but no to the coffee shop and are a rience all of them as have been having my butter on the toast, please," part of its life. We are elderly authentic and appre- morning coffee at a while waiting for the senior- and young, professional and nearby coffee shop for citizen centre down the unemployed, educated and ciate their symbolic almost a year. I got block to open not. use." (Bishop John into the habit when an We come to spend time Cummis n of Oakland, early morning alone and to be with others in an October 1984 appointment took me We come to be nourished address to the Con- nearby each day. I've by food and by people. gress of Presidents continued for many A public-works crew parks We come sometimes for and Secretaries of reasons, and not just National Liturgical because the coffee out front and comes in for the encouragement we need !

Commissions at the tastes a lot better than coffee and good natured and sometimes for the what I make at home. bantering. And me? Some- encouragement we can give Vatican) times I sit alone enjoying the Perhaps ritual patterns are It is a simple place with a "Yes, people were peace and watching the to be found much closer to handful of formica-topped told what the 'new Sometimes I home than people sometables that seem to tilt and people. liturgy was all about change direction when you exchange quick hellos and a times think. when it came in some lean on them. In the summer bit of local trivia with One of the most interesting features of the excavated ruins 20 years ago. But do it's air -conditioned but I like friends. Most of the time at Qumran south of Jericho in Israel is an ingenious system they remember that it best when the front door there's conversation of sub' of collecting and distributing water throughout the installation. now? Did they under- is propped open and the stance because the deli has f become a meeting place for stand it then?... fresh air allowed in Qumran is on the shore of the Dead Sea, where the people friends.

The shop's charm, howMight it not be time to lives who left the fascinating Dead Sea Scrolls.

Ive talked with 25-year-old go back to 'Sacro- ever, it not in how it looks, Ruth about how she can The central building com- communal meals points of resemblance. But sanctum Concilum although someone has tried raise money to make a film, plex is often called the to give it a homey touch by Still quite visible are two what are some of the sigrif and Lumen Gentium' with Geraldine about the monastery, but this term large pools once used for icant differences between hanging cafe curtains in the and study them again front windows. The real difficulty of bringing Chrissuggests a residence for ritual washings, which fig Qumran's rite and that of i nthe light of 20 years' charm is in the people. monks. Actually, the comured prominently in Qum- John the Baptiser and the tian values into business life experience?" (From a munity did not live there and Behind the counter Tony ran's relgious life. A closer early Christians? and with Grete about keep1985 address of Cin- cheerfully greets his steady ing self-confident while job used the facilities for study, look at those washings helps The new covenant for � cinnati's Archbishop customers by name and has hunting. writing and celebration of us to understand the very Qumran was a solemn reneDaniel notion of religious ritual wal of the old, quite unlike Pilarczyk, better. chairman of the US the new covenant of ChrisMen who sought admission tianity. Members of the bishops liturgy comto the Qumran community Qumran community were mittee)

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leader Then, if he was satisfied, they were brought before the whole assembh for approval. Even after they had accepted the applicant, he had to undergo a year of rigorous probation. Only then did the ritual washing by immersion in a pool take place.

There are similarities between the ritual and the baptisms of both John the Baptiser and the early Christians; but there are important differences too.

Repentance was a strict requirement and the ceremony of admission included the taking of a solemn oath to return to a strict obser. vane of the Law of Moses, the heart of the Qumran

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by Tom Coyle. "As human beings, we need signs, symbols, music, processions and colours to help us to pray, for above all else the church building is a house ofprayer in which we should be able to feel at home," writes liturgist Tom Coyle. Through such symbols and actions, he explains, 'the church helps us to take our full part i her n worship." Coyle's book is remarkably easy to read. It provides historical background on the Mass and responds to questions about what i s intended and what happens at each point during the celebration of the Mass. This paperback book provides an explanation of the Mass for people of all ages. [TwentyThird Publications, Box 180, Mystic, Conn. 06355. $3.50)

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This recalls John the Baptiser's ministry of baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins" which also was flavoured by considera tions about the end of time Those are some of the

subject to all the restrictions

of the Mosaic law. They belonged to an exclusive sect

But both John the Baptiser and Christianity threw wide open the doors of the king dom to all indiscriminately, both gentile and Jew, and even to the masses. Mere

contact with the masses would have sent a membe of Qumran scurrying for the nearest baptistry for repuri fication This note of frequently repeated baptism is perhaps the most significant differ ence. Christian baptism, like that of John the Baptiser was a single, unrepeatable

act And, of course, in the New Testament baptism marked incorporation into the risen Christ and into the Christian community which formed his body Still the Qumran rites cast light on the whole notion of ritual. Ritual. after all, is a

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detening uniformity on whip. But our writers thi s wi suggest that ritual can heito free worshipers to paripate more fully in the lit y and that ritual is am g the ways we give me ing to our lives.

Fer Lawrence Mick belives that the ritual pattern

in orship provides a frare work withi nwhich vart y and spontaneity can find. place. Paradoxical as it ma ound, "it is preciely s the ritut pattern that enables spa aneity in our worship life

Fm-lance writer Suzanne Elser has a story to tell

abs how ritual has assumed a a ed place in her mornig n coff break. It is a ritual that bear a number of ressblances to religious ritu she writes. Ritual, she sugests, just comes nataly.

Ki arine Bird, associate

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puses of ritual and the ch»cteristics of religious mis that are effective.

Au Father John Castelot fnd hat we flesh-and-blood res tend naturaly to es our religious $ernents i nways that am9y ritual and natural s quolism. Thus it i not qursing, that i nspite of the iirnces between the ''s sacraments and the a; m of some other regrons, the ve striking simiarities l a+l, he believes.

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Ritual in a part of prayer

A decade ago I was associate pastor at Mary, Help of Christians Parish. Following the directives of the Second Vatican Counci and l the revised Liturgy of the Hours, we started a weekly celebration of Vespers or Evensong.

We encouraged parish groups to come to pray with us before their meetings. We invited

catechumens and any

other interested pari shioners to join us. It proved to be rather popular.

There was a lot of variety to the service, though we used the same format each week. It was a combination of sung and recited prayer, coupled with ritual gestures like lighting candles and using incense We chose the psalms and readings to correspond with the previous Sunday's liturgy, but we always began with Psalm 41 ("My prayers rise like incense, my hands

like an evening offering") Our culture's scepti cism of formal ritual was influential in those days Young people, especially,

were loudly rejecting what they saw as "empty rituals" in the late '60s and early "70s Of course, at the same time, young people were holding candelight pro-

cessions around the

White House and singing protest songs and flashing the peace symbol.

The contradiction was rather obvious. Still,

many of us were cautious

about ritual There was an emphasis in liturgy on variety and spontaneity.

It was in that context

that I began to notice something very interesting. After afew months of using Psalm 141, I asked myself why it wasn't becoming stale or

monotonous I realised that I was no

longer paying much attention to the words or

the notes we were sing

ing. I knew the melody

and what the psalm said, so I was free to focus on its deeper meaning. As more time passed, even the meaning became second nature, so that I

focused more and more on the Lord to whom the psalm refers.

That experience taught me a lot about the value of ritual. Ritual is simply patterned behaviour and hamans cannot live without it. Most of us follow a nearly unvarying patt emn when we get up every morning: brush teeth, shower, shave, dress, cup of coffee, morning paper, etc. Let someone try to

force us out of our rou-

tine and we'll find out just how deeply imbedded that pattern has become.

Such patterns free us from the necessity of paying strict attention to

every move we make.

Anyone who has ever learned to drive a car with a stick shift can

understand the freedom

that comes once the use

of the clutch becomes almost automatic In the case of religious rituals, the dynamic is similar. Learning a new hymn is a good example.

When we first begin, we have to concentrate on the notes, less we embarrass ourselves singing off key. Once we learn the melody, we are free to concentrate on the words and understand what the song is saying When the words become familiar, we can probe their deeper meaning and then go on to focus on the Lord to whom or of whom the words speak.

This is not an argument against new music, of

course; even the traditional hymns were once

new. But it does suggest the value of familiarity in

worship

If there is too much variety to our worship, we have to spend all our

time and energy wonder-

ing what is coming next.

When the structure is familiar, then we are free to relax and enjoy the

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This freedom also fosters spontaneity. The rit-

ual pattern provides a framework within which variety and spontaneity can find a place. This is true for the worship itself, which allows for variety in songs, readings, prayers and even variations on ritual gestures.

A picture of children at a Mass at Aquinas College, with raised hands in ritual. Mow far should the ritual of liturgy match the ritual of daily life?

"Because of its importance and because all other forms of catechesis are oriented in some way to it, the catechesis of adults must high priority at all levels of the Church. The success of programs I, have for children and youth depends to a significant extent upon the words, 1 attitudes, and actions of the adult community, especially parents, ] family and guardians."

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Enthused at a call to write

Ross Anthony Viney, chairperson (will we ever get used to that awkward expression?) of Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped People, was born at Subiaco on March 16, 1951.

He was educated at St Benedict's primary school at Applecross, Trinity College and Aquinas College from which he matriculated in 1968.

He worked for the Fremantle Port Authority before joining the RAAF in which he undertook pilot training, but his course was abandoned with the end of the Vietnam War and he resigned from the Air Force.

He spent 10 years in the Commonwealth public service in which he was senior auditor with the Defence Service Homes Corporation before leaving in 1979 to enter the retail business field.

He joined the state public service in the Department of Employment and Training in November, 1983, just as the big job creating project, the Community Employment Program, was getting

For Sister Sebastian Maher of Our Lady of the Missions, the literary call came late in life but when it did, she answered with enthusiasm.

So much enthusiasm in fact th is year sees the completion of her fourth book.

It is in fact the fourth in nearly as many years and, like the others, deals with the history and the story of her order.

under way and he is now the assistant projects officer of the Job Creation Unit.

Ross and his wife Leonie (nee Fergusson, daughter of the late Roy) are parishioners of All Saints at Hamersley where Ross is a member of the St Vincent de Paul Society.

People generally are living longer nowadays than was previously the case, and this applies also to those with intellectual handicaps. And thereby arises a problem.

Years ago those with impaired intellects frequently died at a relatively young age survived by one or both parents who were able to care for them until their death.

Now the parents often die before the afflicted offspring. Who, therefore, is going to look after them?

Helping to overcome this challenging community difficulty, along with the many others facing this category of life's unfortunates, is a task being tackled energetically by the too-small band of volunteer workers who comprise Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped People known as CCIH. The movement started in the archdiocese of Perth in 1977 when the Catholic mothers of children with intellectual deficiencies began to meet in spiritual gatherings to pray and have Masses offered for some surcease of the anguish of themselves and their young Federal and state governments and the community at large, they realised, were regarding their problems with complete disinterest.

And the Church, through its refusal to extend sacramental solace to their intellectually handicapped children, was exacerbating their dismay.

This factor, however, was decisively removed by Archbishop Goody's courageous edict that the children should be allowed to receive the sacraments.

Church interest in their plight is growing, albeit slowly through dearth of

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That longer life can be a problem

Today's People

A regular feature

By BOB BOYLE money and lack of practical enthusiasm for their worthy cause on the part of the Catholic laity. But government support falls far short of needs.

Some idea of how far short is provided in figures quoted

by CCIH chairperson Ross Viney.

Among the activities undertaken by CCIH, Ross says, is conducting the Orkney Road transition residence in Greenwood which prepares the intellectually handicapped to live independent lives.

Others of its projects which in total involve substantial financial outlay include payment of the salaries of its four social workers (this financial year being fully met by a Commonwealth Department of Community Services grant), the salary of the family care worker, the cost of the

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projected Christmas holiday camp for profoundly handicapped children at Santa Maria College (use of the premises being donated free of charge by the Mercy nuns), the May holiday camp for the children and non-handicapped adult helpers, and a number of day outings using the bus presented by the Variety Club.

Although the Commonwealth is paying the full salaries of the four social workers this financial year, Commonwealth aid will progressively diminish.

In fiscal 1986-87 CCIH will have to fund 20 per cent of the salaries and from 198788 onwards 50 per cent.

This financial year CCIH will have to find $12,000 in salaries, the following financial year $36,000 and the year after $81,000.

So monetary headaches are

looming for the CCIH as it works from its headquarters in the former Our Lady of Victories school in Wembley which also contains a canteen and meeting facilities.

The organisation is hoping that some relief of the pain will be provided by the sale of the charity home it is building at Waterford on land made available by the Christian Brothers.

The house in a quiet cul-desac will have a swimming pool, landscaped gardens. four bedrooms, and two bathrooms among its attractions.

Construction of the house, Ross says, has been generously supported by firms engaged in the building industry.

Metro Brick has donated the bricks, Bristile the tiles, Dowells Aluminium Windows the windows and the building is being done free of charge by Supreme Homes.

So far, 35 companies have supported the project.

'The solar-efficient house," he continues, "will be open for inspection for three months

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Titled Pioneer Sisters of the Congregation Of Our Lady Of The Missions, it will share shelf space with Alive In The Spirit (Vol. I), which tells the story of the first 1 5 years of the order in Western Australia; Alive In The Spirit (Vol. II) which continues the story of the Sisters in Western Australia from 1913 t0 1981 and also incorporates the SouthWest saga of their mission; and In Journeys Often ... which is the dual story of the journey of the Order's Mother Foundress, Mary of the Heart of Jesus, and of Sister Sebastian's experiences as she followed in her footsteps so many years later.

It is an impressive output from a woman who notches up her 75th birthday next year and who has been slowed (but never stopped) by intermittent ill health.

For Sister Sebastian herself it stands in proud memory of her late father whose deep and abiding wish was his daughter should become a journalist.

But journalism had no lure for the young 22-year-old, who instead entered the order because she was bent on mission work.

But life has its own way of leading us on and Sister Sebastian was no exception.

In more than half-a century

by ROSLYN ROSS

as a sister she has never been sent on mission work.

Instead, she made her mark as a teacher and then, in 1974, gleefully answered the call from her superior to become the order's official archivist.

"It was a job," said Sister Sebastian with a smile, "that my superior said she wouldn't wish on anyone.

But I was thrilled with the challenge."

The challenge was to start from scratch and set up the order's Australian archives.

Sister Sebastian is now the official archivist for Australia and New Guinea and has gone a long way toward creating order where none existed in her archive room at the Fremantle convent.

She was in France, where the congregation had been founded in 1861, when the call came asking her to take over the job of archivist.

ODO Taking over at that point involved little more than a few boxes of unsorted material.

Setting up the archives involved sorting and filing material and getting hold of it in the first place.

Through countless letters and the generosity of sisters throughout Australia she gathered the physical evidence of the orders' invaluable work and set about putting rt into some semblance of order.

ti;

As the letters and books and photos and scraps of paper came in, she became increasingly covetous. she admrts.

She also became concerned about the future of this precious flotsam and jetsam of the past and set about removing the damp from the room where she worked and installing heavy curtains to exclude damaging light.

She had also decided it was important to set her own house in order Since he knowledge of archival word was non-existent she joined the Australian Society of Archivists.

She is now a professional member.

She also visited the Commonwealth Archives and became involved with the work done at Battye Library.

If there was a seminar on, she went to it and now meets regularly with the Archivists Association.

A post-graduate course in librarianship which she had completed at the Wester Australian Institute of Technology in 1976 stood her in good stead as did the disch pline required to complete her Diploma of Education many years before.

For, as Sister Sebastian will say, archival work demand above all else, discipline attention to detail.

That attention to detail sees her spend long hours ponder ing just how to store he material.

You can't put old photos into any old envelope, she says

an

□ While such material is

very often displayed in museum form, she has stuck to her decision to focus her attention on documents rather than

Sister Sebastian of Our Lady of the Missions with one of her books ...

artefacts.

"I realise the importance of museums and of artefacts," she said, "but I happen to think that documents are much

more important."

memories alive.

'They have crossed the threshold of my life from early childhood to now advancing years," she said "Death has closed its curtarn on all of them but one "Without any tinge of pessimism I feel that life too, for me, is ebbing, hence the urge, compellingly insistent that has spurred me on."

What she offers rs a nch store of memories striking vivid chords en many Western Australians, with names such as Mother M St Genevieve, Sister M. St Martina, Sister M. St Gregory, Sister M. St Eudoxie, Sister M. St Palladius, Sister M. St Lucius, sister M. St Claire, Sister M Asumpta, Sister M. St Clement, Sister M. Catherine, Sister M. Lucille and Sister M. St Theodora representing the weft and weave of the cloak of caring the sisters began to wrap around the shoulders of Western Australia when they first arrived in

1897.

She eventually found the (acid-free) envelopes she wanted in Queensland The box files needed to contain the material in an accessible and orderly fashion where spotted in a stationery shop.

"1 lay in bed at night and dream about what I want for the archives," she said.

She has been lucky, she Says, in the way the sisters have responded to the call for archival material.

"Thankfully there is no

shortage of information about

the order in Australia," she said.

"It is just a matter of gath-

ening it all together.

Each house keeps a journal and while they do not like to part with it, they have given me of the information they contain."

copies

The early founding Mothers

did a great job with those first

Journals. They contain a wealth of information.

The order has 15 houses in Australia and New Zealand and 10 of are in Western Australia

those

hey Fremantle, Hilman, "oh. tanning, and

are at Broome, May""Sorento, Perth. Gen-

d-ake Grace.

Narrogin

There are three houses in

Victoria and two in New Zealand There are also three in New Guinea with much of the staff being sent to New Guinea from Western Australia.

It is in drawing together the

"I will be finished long before it is," she said.

But slow and steady rules the day, she adds. and she thinks long and hard before throwing anything away.

While such material is very stones of all those houses often d splayed in museum Sister Sebastian has made form, she has stuck to her her invaluable contribution to decision to focus her attenher order and to all with a tion on documents rather sense of history. than artefacts.

The past is not Just a collec"I realise the importance of tion of "old stories" and old museums and of artefacts," photos it is the stuff which she said, 'but I happen to has gone to make the pres- think that documents are ent. much more important."

Much of the material IS in letter form.

There are six volumes of She saw at first hand, the letters which are all written in value of respecting the past, French. when she spent six months She has correspondence in Rome in 1982 and spent from all of the order's supertime at the Generalate iors General at this point Archives of the Congregation. they number eight.

She had free access to the-She also has letters from the archives for the time she was founder, written to her far there and fed voraciously on flung sisters in Australia. a feast of information.

For Sister Sebastian's own "I also went to all the other innate sense of history such archives to see what they insight is hard to resist. had," she said.

It is what has inspired her to "My time in Rome was write her own books, invaluable. I came home with because, as she says, the lots of ideas." archives hold not only notes Archival work is slow and and details and statistics and painstaking and the job itself letters -they hold the history will see her out, says Sister of the order and of the countSebastian. less individuals who have

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created that history.

The story of the first 15 years of Our lady of The Missions in Western Australia is not just the story of a religious order it is a reflection of the history of this state.

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You cannot talk about those early sisters without talking about their role as pioneers, both in a religious and a lay sense, she says.

The writing of that first volume of Alive In The Spirit was an exciting and richly rewarding experience, she says.

Teasing out the terse and sometimes cryptic phrases of the House Journal, getting behind the flatness and sheer statistical anonymity of the necrology, and clothing the sisters in living flesh, was no mean feat, she said.

'Their lives were not played out in the unworldly atmosphere of a cloister, but in the concrete reality and down to earth humanness of a young colony striving to achieve its identity."

Because of this she saw her task as situating and interpreting them against the socio-economic and religious

background of the times To th IS end she haunted Battye Library, University Library, Archdiocesan Archives, Titles Offices, Bureau of Census and Statistics, Lands and Surveys Department, Port Authority .•.

She sees history as the precious life blood of the congregation and it was that theme which carried her on to Volume II. The story in this book is not just that of the sisters It is the story of the South-

West.

t is the story of the South-

West. t is as a dedicated historian

that Sister Sebastian sets out to provide her characters with a story, and with a stage and a setting as well.

Her latest book is somewhat of an exception, for although it deals with the pioneer sisters, it comprises personal cameos of just 12 of the many faces who peopled the past.

The history is there, and so is the setting, but the person this time takes front centrestage for the telling of the story.

The inspiration for this book, says Sister Sebastian comes from the desire to keep

In the words of the well known Irish bard, Thomas More, Sister Sebastian says "Fond memory brings the hight Of other days around me."

"That light which we have shared is the light of inspiration, of companionship, of trust; the smile, the pressure of a hand, the quiet acceptance, the support that has enabled us to walk in the very said. footprints of God," 'The portraits I have etched are those of some sisters of mine whose vision it has been my privilege to glimpse, whose hves I have mostly shared, and whose faith has been my inspiration.

she

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needed rewinding. is in the pages of this book that we can take a little

glimpse into the lives of these 12 pioneer sisters "Each seems so utterly unique," says Sister Sebastian. "So different from the

other.

"Each of them has her own

way of loving and serving God. 'Their stories are varied but running through each of them IS an awareness of God and his meaning in their lives."

But the choice of the 12, she

"We have lived together in community as a 'group of friends in search of God'."

She begins her book with Mother Mary St Genevieve (Annie Henley), 1861-1939, who led the little band of five pioneer sisters who first planted the Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions on WA soil in October, 1897.

She ends with the story of Sister M. St Theodora (Elizabeth Lily McFall), 1894 to

1984.

was blessed with the boisterous good humour of her heritage She spent her rebellious youth playing cops and robbers, bushrangers and outlaws with her brother, Henry and generally driving her parents to despair As a toddler she "spent time" for some misdemeanour or another pinned into a large chaff bag and hung on the clothesline But even that failed (thankfully) to dim the mischievious gleam in her eye Her parents must have sighed with relief when she went on to become a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions But even then her exuberant childhood stood her in good stead As a little girl she could kick a football with the best of the boys, do a "droppie" or a "punt" and swing a mean cricket bat it was not surprising that as a sister she had such a strong affinity with boys "Her outstand ng success with them lay in the fact she knew from experience just exactly how they ticked," Sister Sebastian said. "And hers was a clock that never

She was born in WA to a family of Irish migrants and

adds, is not a random one.

Christ chose 12 and judged by human standards the

choices were often bewildermng.

There was eager, spontaneous, blusteringly impetuous Peter; the two Sons of Thunder; a despised tax collecter and the dour and

doubting Thomas...

It is the very diversity of the 12 Sisters who people her book that makes the message of God so meaningful.

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"Each time that I look at my sisters l salute in them the deep and unfathomable mystery of God's predilection -a predilection eternity alone can explain." t is authentic diversity, adds, but a diversity mysteriously tissued into uniformity by the fact each one has "handed over her entire life to God's service".

"Mother M. St Gregory may have been more articulate in voicing her inner commitment, but how explain the assiduity of Sister M. Palladius when Vatican Il declared all sisters Choir Sisters and she when well advanced in years, had to struggle with the strange vagaries of an Office Book," Sister Sebastian said.

"In my mind's eye I can see her now in the study room when the day's work was over, patiently preparing the Liturgy for the next day.

Have no doubt about it. her heart was really in tune with the lord.

"And what of Mother M. St Martina, and Sister M. St Claire? You just have to admit it, they were poles apart.

'The one was gently diplomatic; the other blunt to the point of brusqueness.

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vocation.

"God, and God alone was the common denominator of all these sisters and He alone really mattered."

It was that belief which gave Sister Sebastian the will to embrace her life as a teacher when her soul cried out for mission work.

The call of the missions had been strong, she said, and it had been her reason for joining the order.

But with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia behind her, and the fact she had majored in English, French and ultimately Latin, she was immediately sent to Highgate as a teacher.

For the next 18 years she continued to write to her superior asking for mission work.

She kept receiving the same answer. "Keep doing God's

will."

For Sister Sebastian mission work was never to be part of the plan (apart from three weeks in Broome teaching Aborigines some years ago) But, she adds, she has been lucky enough to spend two years teaching in France and to have been given the opportunity for archival work in her later years.

Like the sisters who have gone before her she has carried to her heart the core

belief of her order, that, "vocation is a pure gift from God".

It is in letting God choose what that vocation will be that one finds peace.

And it is in accepting that choice that Sister Sebastian has been instrumental in preserving a vital piece of history - both for the Church and for Western Australians "What we want when it is open is for parish groups the Majellans and others to come out to have a look at the place and perhaps leave a donation.

"Any offers of support for

the general work of CCH, whether financial or otherwise will be gratefully

Longer life...

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accepted by our administrative officer Graeme Belle if you ring him on 387 7478."

Ross says CCIH has a current membership of about 450, but he believes there are many more people in the Catholic community who would be able to help or would find its services of great value.

His involvement with the organisation began through the development of a great friendship between its family care worker, Nancy Page, and his intellectually handicapped son, Michael.

The Sisters of Mercy, incidentally, paid Nancy's full salary for the first year and half her salary for the second year.

Sister Maureen McGahy, the CCIH services co-ordinator, approached Ross to stand for a position on the executive committee.

He responded by saying: "T'd love to help, but -"

meeting he was elected chairperson.

Ross is enthusiastic about his position in the state public service as assistant projects officer of the job creation unit in the Department of Employment and Training.

'The Employment, Program," he tells you, "has spent more than $75 million in creating employment.

'The program, which we administer for the Commonwealth, has worked more successfully in WA than elsewhere because more than 50 per cent of the people for whom we have found jobs have gone on to further employment."

He monitors and develops programs with community groups, government depart ments and local authorities.

The objectives are to assist the long-term unemployed migrants with difficulties in speaking English, Aborigines and disabled people. There a high component of those needing assistance in the under-25 age group.

His unit is also involved in many state-sponsored pro

s

jects.

"It is most rewarding," he says, "to see the improve ment in self-esteem with dignity and the recapturing self-confidence in those help to find jobs."

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The average young person's response to long sermons!

Father Jim McLaren has

been involved with young

Australians and their music for the past 16 years, firstly as a broadeaster on Radio 2UW and

now as a Director of Radio 2SM. He is the

author of several articles on music and young people.

In welcoming the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal's report, "Young Australians and Music", Father Jim said, "if you want to know where youth are at, look at a list of their favourite music."

"What needs to be understood," said Father Jim, "is the honesty of the songs. Young people

demand that the singer make an honest statement."

According to Father Jim, young people absorb the music rather than analyse it. "The lyrics are not learned separately, but go together with the melodies and rhythms as one

integral concept. Sometimes in very trite ways and sometimes in idealistic, romantic forms, the songs relate to the joys and pains of adolescence.

"At present," said

Father Jim, "the musical tastes of young people lean to a more melodic and slower, quieter type of song.

Respondin g to music "I rise and sleep and work to music," was the response of one of 1 the young people who took part in the Australian Broadcasting tribunal's report Young Australians and Music.

The report was released during International Youth Year with the intention of contributing to know!edge about the activities and attitudes of young people.

The major part of the study, which focused on young people from 12 to 20 years,

was a field survey conducted

in Melbourne in 1984 Little formal study has previously been made of the tastes, preferences and activities of Australian audiences and the importances of music to them.

Rock was confirmed as the mainstream music of young people with 45% saying it

was their favourite, followed by 'pop' (15%) and 'disco'

(9%).

from COMMUNICATION the magazine of the

Catholic Communication Centre, Sydney.

The rock music mentioned by young people were songs on the 'charts' which were current or recent at the time of the survey, but have since been replaced by other new songs Commenting on this finding the Report noted the ephemeral nature of the 'favourite' status of rock performers and the strong dependence for that status

on the electronic media Radio listening represented the most universal type of exposure to music.

The average amount of listening per week was 16 hours 32 minutes. "Commercial radio," says the

music that I find more than competitive with today's sec-

ular offerings.

Farrell and Farrell have given us many styles of music during their nine year career.

Their latest release, lump To Conclusions (Starsong) marks yet another notable growth stage.

Even the instrumental

purist will appreciate the new quality that synthesisers have brought to this album.

Well orchestrated percussion and synthesiser programing make many of the tracks totally danceable.

Lyrically the album both '-1 expresses a commitment

to Christ

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Memorable songs include People in a Box, which brings to our attention the influence of the TV. Jump Up is to be noted for its pulsing synchobeat and words based on Matthew 5: 14-16.

Considering the wide var-

ace again, a new year. And a one-off performance at the iety of themes and styles

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report, "is widely listened to for music, and is a major determinant and reinforcer of music taste."

Television video-clips of songs were watched by a large majority, with a significant number saying they like a song more after seeing the video-clip

ODD While the rate of ownership of records and prerecorded cassettes was not high (on average 19 records and 14 pre-recorded cassettes ), the young people listened to them for an average of six hours 17

minutes a week.

Taping music was a frequent activity -- 73 taped about 13 songs a month off

records.

One inconsistency noted in the report was young people rated music as having reltively low importance in the context of other activities.

However the report said this was "probably explained by the finding from group discussions that music is widely used as a background to other activities and to some extent is taken for granted."

ODO Their involvement in music, however, is evidenced by the fact 45% play a musical instrument, 51% read pop magazines regularly, 57% own posters and T-shirts and 31% go to live venues to hear their favourite type of music.

Rock music was liked by all groups, regardless of social class.

This and other figures showed a large degree of homogeneity of musical experience among young Australians

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Towser and Sadie's Birthday and Towser and tbe Water Rats, by Tony Ross, publisbed by Fontana, $3.95 each.

Towser is a dog who uses his vivid imagination and inventiveness to the full.

Sadie the cat asks Towser for the Moon for her birthday and Towser does his best to get it for her. He also outwits a boatful of water rats who want to disturb his peace.

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Freshwater Trout Cookbook - The ultimate book

($12.95),

Peter Russell-Clarke's flair for inventive cooking. This no-nonsense approach to the prepartion and serving of soups, main courses, desserts, cakes, beverages and preserves will delight the preparer and the taster! As well as reviving old favourites such as Apple Crumble, Peter Russell-Clarke offers sophisticated and original recipes such as Honey Prawn Quiche and Seafood Sauce for Pasta.

The Flying Fox Warriors, written and illus-

trated by Percy Trezise and Dick Roughsey, published by William Collins, $11.95.

In the Dreamtime, when many living creatures were still in human form, the Bird people were continually being raided by the Flying Fox people, called the Joonging, who stole their

for lovers of freshwater trout, written by one who was raised in trout territory in the Snowy Mountains of NSW. Eminently qualified for this task, Peter Russell- womenfolk.

Clarke gives old and new During one early morning guidelines for cooking this raid, the Joonging wounded delicious and nourishing Goorangi, the Emu, one of fish. A wide variety of family the strongest warriors. Goofvourites a are comple- rangi then decided to call all mented with recipes from the clans of the Bird people famous chefs around the together for a big meeting. It world. There are soups, was decided that they send appetizers, recipes using out scouts to find the Joongherbs, pastry wraps, smoked ings' main camp. trout and, of course, original The Bird warriors tracked sauces and stuffings. Amus- the Joonging back to their ing anecdotes, facts and camp which was four days figures broaden the appeal away. The main camp of the of this fabulous book. had Joonging people Honey Cookbook become so vast, it stretched Honey, the delicious natural as far as the eye could see, sweetener, is the basic ingre- with people everywhere. dient for a fabulous collecThe Bird people knew that tion of recipes which they didn't have enough demonstrate, yet again, fighting men to beat them so

Kid's Cookbook ($9.95), Cookbook Honey Trout

two of life's great pleasures - cooking and eating. Basic recipes for beginners are set out in step-by-step sequence and all recipes are clearly graded according to their degree of difficulty. This is a comprehensive book with all recipes emphasising modern ideas on nutritional balance, high fb i re and low salt content. It will keep the kids creatively occupied while they learn good dietary habits. Even parents' peace of mind is considered with advice on washing-up!

Plus there's lots of fabulous funny 4-colour cartoons by the author throughout the

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they devised a plan to set a ring of fire around the camp so that the Joonging could not escape. Most of the Joonging were burnt to death. The few remaining decided to change themselves into flying foxes. They would have wings and never again be caught by bushfires.

The two huge heaps of burnt bodies turned into Black Mountain near Cooktown in Queensland.

The Bird clan watched all this in amazement and decided that they too, would benefit from flying.

The Flying Fox Warriors is another in the series of bestselling award winning books by Dick Roughsey and Percy Trezise. It is beautifully illustrated in colours that capture the atmosphere and texture of the Australian bush.

Dick Roughsey, the famous Australian Aboriginal painter, died earlier this year.

The Flying Fox Warriors is the last book he worked with Percy Trezise, his friend. It is the 8th children's picture book they created together, bringing to life the Dreamtime legend.

The Wicked One, by Mollie Hunter, published by Methuen Australia, $4.95.

Colin Grant was an angry man and the Wicked One (or the Grollican), an invisible Otherworld creature, delights in troubling any man with such a temper.

Wild and eerie adventures befall Colin until he has a sudden idea for outwitting the Wicked One.

John the Baptist baptises Jesus in the River Jordan.

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St. Jerome lived more much time studying and where they built a conthan 1,600 years ago but writing books. vent. They learned we remember him still.

After five years he went Hebrew and became The church celebrates back to Rome. The pope Jerome's assistants in his feast day each Sept. wanted Jerome to work translating the Bible.

30. at translating the Bible Jerome treated them Jerome grew up in into Latin, the language with great respect. They what is now Italy. His remarkable of the people, so all were parents were financially Christians could read it. women. well off. Thei rson had So Jerome began the Laa everything children ofhis work that would take time wanted. aost the rest othis Me.__ When Jerome was 12 He made some good Welcome to our ne his parents sent him to friends in Rome. Several members: Marcia Rodrigues Rome to study. He liked rich women were drawn Girrawheen; Lyndon life in Rome. He had a to Jerome because of his Rodrigues, Girrawheen wild time, enjoying life as love of Christ. These Venetia Rodrigues, Girt much as he could. But he women lived together in wheen; Mark Bray, Soutt also studied hard and the home of a very good Hedland learned Lati nand Greek.

Christian woman. They Ho quickly can you spot the six differences He also had a hot temper studied the Bible with between these two pictures ? and lost many friends Jerome and helped him.

ANSWERS. because of his sharp After a while Jerome 1, Two leaves on tree.

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Happy birthday to Kathe tongue. decided to live closer to 2. One less "z", • Wheel on mower changes from black to white. rine Merks, Kalgoorlie It was in Rome that where Jesus had lived.

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Adrian Herbert, Boorago° Jerome visited the cataHe felt it would help him Greg Hilton, Hamilton H ---------------------, combs, those underin translating the Bible to Keiran Drage, Kalamund ground caverns where live in the land where the Kerrvn Lewis, Dongafi earlier Christians had Bible was first written. Jackie O'Loughlin, Beld buried martyrs killed durSo he moved to Bethle- Helen Luberda, Esperane ing the persecutions. The hem.

Emma Rose, Sorrento; Phi example of these brave Two of his Roman lip Hudson, Burrend men and women who friends, St Paula and her Emily McLean, Mt Lawl died rather than deny daughter Eustochium, Bronwyn Bowden, Kalgo lie; Claire Duffy, Joondan their faith made a strong joined him in Bethlehem, impression on Jerome.

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A ring of truth . - Man And Woman He Made Them, by Jean Vanier, published by St Paul Publications, $7.50. Reviewed by Br Brian Grenier, Catholic College Education, Sydney, in the Catholic Leader.

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For more than 20 years,

Jean Vanier, the founder of the worldwide L'Archbe com-

munities, has shared his life and his conisiderable gifts Vanier discusses the place of love and sexuality in the lives of people who are usually denied the opportunity to enter into the intimate communion of married life and who must answer in other ways the call to fecundity which echoes in every human heart.

The writer assures us that such people, whose celibacy

Understanding sexual needs

(unlike his own) is not anecdotes about, the people voluntary, have much to who live in them. extends to his readers with In fact, it is dedicated to whose fragility and vulnera- one of them called Eric of bility he can and does iden- whom the author writes: We loved him much in the tify.

If this book has a ring of community. I lived with truth, it is partly because it bim for a year. He taught is so obviously the fruit of me so much. Eric was a very Vanier's generous personal limited person -- fragile, involvement with the L'Arche communities, and partly because it contains so many references to, and

Mexican cookery Mexican Cookery, by Lourdes Nichols, published by William Collins, $19.95.

Jean Vanier with mentally handicapped

people and their assistants He has also shared the insights he has gained from these experiences in a number of books which have deservedly enjoyed a wide readership.

Man and Woman He Made

Them is his most recent

work and, in the judgment of this reviewer, it is his finest piece of writing to date.

It provides us, as Henri Nouwen observes in his foreword, with a profound insight into the mystery of human sexuality.

Peter Russell-Clarke's

Fresbwater Trout Cook-

book, publisbed by MacMillan, $12.95.

Peter Russell-Clarke is one of Australia's best known 'foodies'. What is not so well known is that he was raised trout territory, the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. His freshwater trout cookbook is a labour of love and contains both old and new ways of preparing this delicious fish.

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4lifetime in tbe kitchen, For Beginner Cooks, by Fanny and Jobnnie Cradock, publisbed by Hutcbinson Publishing

Group (Aust)., (No price

&tven), Ti,

teach the worldly-wise about the meaning of true love.

Though simply written in language which seeks to inform and to encourage rather than to impress, Man and Woman He Made Them is not a book for the speed reader. No work of "awesome beauty" (to use Nouwen's phrase ) is Not surprisingly, the compassion which characterises Vanier's relationships with the physically and mentally handicapped has its reflex in the courtesy he invariably

one-ring burner in a bedsitting room to setting up your first home.

Microwave Cooking For kids, byJudith Ryles, pubisbed by The Five Mile Press, $9.95.

This book is designed to introduce chefs of all ages to a form of cooking that is quick, simple and less expensive than conventional methods. The book has over one hundred recipes that children will find easy to prepare and serve. There are some rather fun illustrations to inspire young cooks as well.

Tbe Usborne First Cookbook, by Angela Wilkes

and Stepben Cartwrigbt,

book is not only a publisbed by Usborne,

8ood basic for beginners it $9.95.

Lots of pictures and easy Contains such vital informaHon as how to make a home directions make this book "" toasung tor tom ideal for young cooks. AII the ree cc h (hangers. Fanny recipes are for things which an4 Johnnie Cradock are are fun to make and good to obviously be "Y ztter known in eat. Some of the recipes are E, bngland than they arc here very easy and others are a t this · little more difficult but they IS certainly one of th " most sef:fu all teach the basic skills that 1 l beginner boo «~'have seen in a long every good cook needs to °and as such deserves a know. welcon ha ' The Cradocks Fruit For The Home and et out to specifically Garden, A comprehensive Impart t.. ""r culinary knowl- guide to cultivation and ed" to those embarking on culinary use, by Leslie Cook ,,"for the frst time Jobns and Violet StevenIing from cooking on a son, published by Angus

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Lourdes Nichols was born in Mexico City, where as a child she learned to cook from her mother. She now lives in Britain and has established a catering business specialising in Mexican Food... what else.

This is a book for all those who are titillated by the taste of tacos but are looking for something more. Like the country it comes from, the food of Mexico is full of contrast. Following an introduction to the country and its cuisine, Lourdes Nichols presents recipes for starters, soups, snacks, rice, vegetables and salad, meat, poultry, fish, desserts and drinks

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and Robertson. No price given.

This is a comprehensive volume that will appeal to keen gardeners and food lovers alike. Subjects covered include cultivation, propagation, pruning, world climate chart, advice on soil types, planting and harvesting, bottling and preserving and a wide assortment of basic recipes.

Anyone who wishes to do so can grow some kind of fruit and this book will tell you how to get started and what to do with the fruit you eventually pick.

The Sailing Cookbook,

by Kitty Hampton, pubisbed by Colins Wilow,

$16.95.

This is a book for the sailor who cooks or the cook who happens to be sailing. Kitty THArnpton has left no sail unfurled in putting together her Sailing Cookbook.

There is advice on galley layout, preservation and stowage, scrubbing the decks, preparation of seafood and a wide assortment of recipes divided into such useful categories as suitable for calm to light breezes, gentle to strong breezes and moderate gales to hurricanes Personally I think I would be happy to munch on a dry biscuit at that point

A bit of wit #e'Set

The Sun-Herald, publisbed by Wiiam Colins, $9.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross.

Since Judy Jobnson writes for a Sydney newspaper, tbis collection of her columns will come as a refresbing surprise for Western Australians. But wbile Judy may be a Sydneysider, beart and soul, sbe lives, laughs, loves and cries like all tbe rest of us (most of the crying is done about wbat ber teenage daughter does to her clothes).

JudyJobnson's witty and perceptive comments on life in general and family life in particular make entertaining reading.

treated a patient suffering from a rare skin disease, thought to be incurable, with a single sesion of hypnosis and gained immediate results. The case caused considerable consternation in the medical profession, nobody being more surprised than the hypnotist himself, for it is now known that he cured the disease without knowing what it was. His fellow doctors called the case "unprecedented and inexplicable" and a challenge to current concepts of the relation between mind and body.

If This Be Magic attempts to meet this challenge, to explain the "miraculous" cure that was fully documented in the British Medical Journal, and to open up the whole subject of the part played by the mind in the healing process It is a book which makes for fascinating reading and

one which "explains" the often "inexplicable miracle cures" and such methods as faith healing and psychic medicine. The words "ye of little faith", are not used in this book but they spring readily to mind as one examines the power and potential that "faith" can play in our lives.

For more than 200 years sinceMesmer introduced an ancient healing technique into Western medicine, the question of what happens to a person under hypnosis has remained unexplained. Yet, without being aware of it, the medical profession is already in possession of the key to a technique of incalculabile benefit, the true nature of which it seems reluctant to face. Playfair maintains that the unspoken transfer of information between one living being and another and the ability of the mind to move objects

without the use of physical force are equally important but neglected aspects of the art of healing Far from being occult speculations or superstitions, such natural abilities have been shown repeatedly in life and in the laboratory to be matters of fact.

The author draws on a wide range of source material, almost all of it hitherto buried in orthodox medical and specialist literature, to show that it is neglect rather than lack of knowledge which is preventing the widespread use of inexpensive and natural healing processes in our hospitals and consulting rooms.

Although primarily concerned with more effective ways of restoring sick bodies, Playfair also recognises the potential for training the mind to effect the healing and harmonising of all communities

a day, an evening, a weekend. This book gives you a planning method to design a prayer experience or retreat for young people with whom you minister. Adaptable for use in parish schools and other settings, part one deals with the who, what, when, where and why of planning. Part two is a resource section packed with sample themes, ice breakers, group session hints and much more. It includes reproducible activity sheets for prayer sessions, group discussions, liturgy planning and personal reflection.

Mary Queen Of Scots, by Antonia Fraser, pubished by Methuen, $10.95.

Mary Queen of Scots won the James Tila Black Prize and was an international bestseller, being translated into eight languages. Lady Antonia Fraser's biography provides an immensely readable and moving answer to the question. 'What was Mary Queen of Scots really like?'

nise" Cromwell, to bring out the "nature of the man himself rather seeking to relate him to the "political and social trends of the age"..."

artist's genius and real love of railways

blind, deaf, and with a

severe mental handicap.

But be knew bow to awake bearts and lead us towards the light. We lived a covenant together.

At a time when the media trivialise human sexuality and when, as a result, so many adults need remedial education in the matter, I am happy to bring this book to the notice of others, and to recommend it with enthusi-

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The power of 'faith'

f This Be Magic, by Guy Lyon Playfair, published by

The Australasian Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., $29.95. Reviewed by Rostyn Ross.

This is a book about faith, or more importantly, about the "power of faith". The subject is not tackled on a spiritual level, rather the author approaches his topic from a scientific point of view but the links are many. His main focus is on the role of "faith" in healing.

Guy Playfair's book makes fascinating reading for it examines the available evidence and the experience of "faith" in our society. "Faith" in this instance is "achieving through simply believing", which was what Jesus was talking about when he said: "If you had sufficient faith you could say to this tree, 'move', and it would be moved."

In February 1951, a young hospital doctor in England

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but true sailors are obviously much more adventurous.

Moderate Gales to Hurricanes has such delights as Squashed Egg (Tm sure it would be), Tiddy Oggie.

Vegetarian Scone Pie, and Pocket Mince (Tm sure that's where most of the meal ends up in a hurricane). Anyway, if your sailing life is about to begin this book is obviously a must.

When Is The Singing Part? By Belle Flynne and Peggy O'Connell, Word of Life Distributors, $4.95.

For the classroom: Teachers of pre-reading children will find this non verbal full colour book helpful in relating the actions of the Mass to the child's familiar experience. For the home: Parents will easily be able to read this first Mass book to their young children at home and do the familiar activities on each set of pages with them. When Is The Singing Part will become each pre-schooler's own special way of participating in the Mass at a suitable leve.I

Cronwell Our Chief of

Men, by Antonia Fraser,

Catholic Youth Retreat Book, by Mary Pasta,

published by Methuen,

tors, $14.95.

tain's most famous soldier

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Everything you need to plan prayer experiences for

$14.95.

A superb biography of Bri

Statesman. "Lady Antonia Fraser has sought to "huma

Winston Churchill: An Authentic Hero, by Piers Brendon, published by

Methuen, $9.95.

So many weighty books have been devoted to Winston Churchill that the man is in danger of being buried beneath his monuments.

This biography resurrects him in brilliant form, offering the general reader what is amazingly not otherwise available a vivid, complete but miniature portrait of Churchill set against the background of his career.

Railway Paints Of Terence Cuneo, by Terence Cuneo, published by Methuen, $35.

Following his much acclaimed autobiography, "The Mouse and its Master", now a book devoted exclsively to the railway paintings of Terence Cuneo, the undoubted master of his genre. As well as illustrating his most famous works, the book includes many new and unseen paintings. Both the paintings and the text laced with fascinating sketches and anecdotes reflects this great British

The Hyperactive Child,

by Dr Eric Taylor, publisbed by Metbuen, $8.95.

Dr Eric Taylor discusses the causes and treatments of this highly controversial child behaviour, suggests straightforward strategies for overcoming it, and bases his own conclusion on the results of extensive research into hyperactivity. There is no single cause, and no single cure for this problem The Border, by Elaine Feinstein, published by Methuen, $9.95.

Against the gathering darkness of Hitler's Europe, a human drama of love, pain and sexual betrayal is taking its own course.

"An immensely readable book brilliant, con trolled and memorable" The Game Cookbook, by Colin Brown, published

by Methuen, $25.

Game food has long had its traditional recipes and its reputation as fare for special occasions. The Game Cook book not onlv enhances this reputation but adds new dimensions to the tradi tional uses of game with exciting new ingredients and recipes for everything from banquet dishes to sim ple soups and entrees

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The fifth annual holiday camp for disabled people held at Santa Maria College has this year grown to 30 guests with up to 40 helpers living in and coming daily to care for them.

Held under the auspices of the Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped the first camp took in 16 guests, rising later to 20. This year the expanded enrolment has meant using two of the Santa Maria boarding houses which the college provides completely free.

In spite of the increased intake, Sister Maureen McCarthy said up to 50 had applied and the lucky ones were taken on a first-come basis after Nancy Page visited each of the applicant families and got a profile of the disabled person and what special care would be needed for the two week camp.

The camp is a holiday for the disabled person and also for the families for whom this is their only break from a routine of constant care and a chance to devote time to the rest of their children.

Families are asked to contribute $40 for board and a grant comes from the Department of Youth Sport and Recreation.

Because of the grant, the camp makes no profit and barely breaks even, the balance coming from CCIH, Sister Maureen said.

It is a big operation. Seventy-year-olds, Jack and Mary Mullane of Mosman Park are among the four people needed for the laundry.

Four more are required for cleaning the

sleeping areas, four more in the dining room that has to serve up to 80 people three times a day.

In addition there are night staff and extra helpers. Bobbie Waycroft of Kununoppin Hospital is one who regularly volunteers for night duty.

On top of this are the more than 150 volunteers who provide the constant oneto-one attention for each disabled guest .

More volunteers tum up each day as the word gets around.

Regular helpers include Stephen Carley, Richard Malacarim, Mary Sexton and Monica Ching. Kath and Michael Jacques of Armadale give a hand as does Mary Smith of Mosman Park. John Purcell and Sandra Lynch gave a week of their time before their wedding this weekend at Mount Lawtey.

Other helpers include a mother and daughter, both trained nurses, working night shift; two mothers with their teenage daughter; one mother and a teenage son in the kitchen; two husband and wife teams in the laundry; a farmer husband and wife team on cleaning.

For their efforts, the volunteers get one big thank-you staff dinner for which further volunteer helpers are rostered to give the regulars a rest.

Outings on buses provided by Santa Maria and Mercedes College have included the zoo, Adventureworld, Fremantle Markets and a shopping centre ice pageant.

At home the activities include impromptu concerts with plenty of action, songs and musical nights by visiting artists, hat parades and other items.

The camp has drawn country guests as well as those from the city.

The Lions of Narrogin have sponsored Bruno and Vitalone, both handicapped members of the same family.

The Jones family of Hamilton Hill, have also been able to give their two disabled children a holiday at Santa Maria.

Above: At the Santa Mari a holiday camp for disabled, Sister Maureen McCarthy looks on while volunteer Ted Barbour of Mundaring lifts Natala Cooke of Willetton into the bus for the outing to the ice skating.

Below: Brendan McCabe (left) has a few words with Craig Essler of Doubleview while Susan Moran of Cloverdale shares a joke with Tia D'Angelo of Hamilton Hill

Greyhounds - with The Record Tipster

D0GS' CHANCE ...

RACE ONE: Weston Bess 1, AII Star Deputy 2, Special Vale 3.

RACE TWO: Larrikin Lewis 1, Shintor Lad 2, Delta Kid 3.

RACE THREE: CO0gee Wave 1, Bevlyn 2, Lord Demargee 3.

RACE FOUR: Pether Road 1, Riviera Tiviot 2, King Rocky 3.

RACE FIVE: Dangerous Adios 1, Petite Flyer 2, Triple Fraction 3.

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RACE SIX: Lady Temlock 1, Brass Razoo 2, Brendan's Glider 3.

RACE SEVEN: Lamborghini 1, She'll Pay 2, Indiana Sal 3.

RACE EIGHT: Shoe Shiner 1, Brown Boots 2, Special Panther 3.

RACE NINE: Black Sabbath 1, Chief Message 2, Endless Quest 3 RACE TEN Candle Power 1, Tegimi's Freeway 2, Black Holden 3.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of the Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday January 26 at 2 pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring P. Galea on 349 7135 (Perth bus) or L. Martinz 328 4631 (Highgate bus).

CLOVERDALE SCHOOL 25th ANNIVERSARY February 16 marks the silver anniversary of Notre Dame Primary School. The occasion will be commemorated with the offering of an open air Mass in the school grounds at 5 pm. Mass will be followed

by a community gathering, entertainment. ice cream, drinks, bbq facilities provided.

We are anxious to contact all past teachers, pupils and friends of Notre Dame. Please ring 277 2226 Notre Dame, 384 5092 lona, 361 1727 River-

vale Convent.