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A steering committee to look at planning an archdiocesan pastoral strategy is likely to be formed following a meeting of priests, religious and laity last week.

At the end of a four hour meeting looking at models of developing a strategy Archbishop Foley called for suggested names of people who could look at some of the issues.

The meeting felt it was as important to study the people who would be on the receiving end of the pastoral strategy as developing a strategy itself.

Also, the effectiveness of a pastoral strategy would depend on the way the mission of the local church was spelt out, probably in a statement Nineteen priests, 14 laity and six religious brothers and sisters from the Council of Priests, the Diocesan Pastoral Council and the Institute of Religious Superiors were led through the discussions by Passionist psychologist and At last week's meeting on pastoral strategy Archbishop Foley (centre) talks with Father Kevin Dance CP and some of the sociologist Father Kevin Dance CP. participants (from left) Mr Stephen Carvill, Mrs Lesley McNee, Brother Gerald Faulkner, and Mrs Jane Murphy.

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Doors open on four new Catholic schools as 44,000 students enrolled at 148 Catholic schools in Western Australia staffed by 2500 teachers.

Prendiville College, Ocean Reef and Clontarf Aboriginal Education and Training College are two new co-educational secondary ventures while new primary schools have been established at Leschenault outside

Bunbury and at Ringers Soak on the edge of the Kimberley desert.

Other schools have increased their enrolments through the addition of streams or years.

Corpus Christi (Bateman) has extended its enrolment to year 11 boys and girls.

Yidarra Catholic Primary School (Bateman) has extended its enrolment to year 5 boys and girls St School Joseph's (Boulder) has extended its enrolment of boys to year 6.

Our Lady's Assumption School (Dianella) has extended its enrolment of boys to year 5.

Kalgoorlie Catholic Primary School has extended its

enrolment of boys to year 6.

Lockridge Catholic Primary School has extended its enrolment of boys and girls to year 7.

Lumen Christi College (Martin) now enrols boys and girls in years 8 to 10.

Padbury Catholic Primary School has extended its enrolment to include preprimary and year 3 as well as years I and 2.

A new Leederville co-educational secondary college to be called Aranmore Catholic College has been formed the through amalgamation of St Mary's Secondary and Christian Brothers College.

Approximately 100 Year 8 students are enrolled in the

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"The world changed without our permission and so did the Church," he said before studying a plan of strategy.

"We have to realise many of the strategies that fitted very well the world of yesterday don't fit any more.

We can't resurrect the corpses. We have to believe sufficiently the Spirit of God is alive and He is going to show us new ways of sharing the gospel.

'We don't have to look over our shoulders.

"There is a nostalgia for the past.

"Things worked well and we can't work out why they don't work well today because there is a new cultural setting." he said.

"Although the motor car has been around for a long time, we have to come to terms with people's mobiltty.

We haven't adjusted from what was very much a village mentality in which consequently people worshipped together," he said.

• Irish bishop tells why the Church should be voice of the voiceless•..

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• Archbishop Foley talks on the aims and objectives of Project Compassion. Story and picture, page 3.

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• Defence forces vicar resigns over CCIP funding. See story page 3.

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• Charismatics under review. Story page 4.

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• Former printer gets to the top. Story and picture page 10.

# • Perth woman's 10 years of horror in 'hazy hell' of mental hospitals.

ROSLYN ROSS' in depth feature, page 10 and 11.

Onus on Church to be enough voice of voiceless

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Being the voice of the voiceless is not mere theory fro the Galway

An impressive gathering of Australian Catholic youth discovered the message that enough is enough in today's world.

bishop who heads the Irish organisation, Trochaire (an Irish word meaning mercy ), the equivalent of Australian Catholic

For two years, the Irish he did by instinct since he Trochaire office had funded was ordained in 1951.

Romero's Archbishop "As a curate in Limerick I human offices was concerned like any rights because in that situation the other Irish priest about lack of human rights and everything that concerned civil rights was what was my parishioners. holding back the people's "Only later did I analyse development. it was because the love of As Archbishop Romero's Christ has to be the love of funeral procession formed, the whole person.

Bishop Casey said he could "Christ never said: 'This is not understand the silence the body, this is the soul. I of the people until someone have come to save the soul'." told him it was because of Bishop Casey says the partheir fear. ticular aspect of human "As the bombs exploded development pursued does and the shots were fired into not matter. the crowds, a wave of fear It is the concern for the came over the crowd and person that counts that will remain with me all It has to be a genuine my life. personal concern "It was not fear at the In this case it means being bombs, but fear in which the in England for nine years, people lived their lives." first as a chaplain to Irish Bishop Casey, head of Gal- migrants and then taking up way for the past nine years work with the Catholic and formerly bishop of Kerry Housing Society, becoming for seven years says his founding director of Shelter, concern for issues of human the national housing service.

The year he returned to development is something

Relief.

Bishop Eamon Casey remembers the words a Salvadoran priest said to him after bombs and bullets had disrupted the funeral of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was murdered while saying Mass.

Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway was in Perth recently for a few days to visit his brother, Father Michael Casey of South Perth. Bishop Casey was invited to Australia to be

one of three principal speakers at the Marist Youth Festival at Assumption College, Kilmore in Victoria.

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"Whatever you do, don't forget us or we will be brutalised. Let the truth be told," said the priest to the Irish bishop who had been only metres from the funeral coffin when the pandemonium broke loose.

Bishop Casey next day made a worldwide refutation of the government story it was a riotous group that created the turmoil into which government troops fired and killed people.

"It made me realise our role in being the voice of the voiceless," said the Irish bishop who received a letter from Archbishop Romero the day he was murdered in San Salvador cathedral by men who have never been charged

Ireland as bishop of Kerry, the Irish bishops set up Trochaire and he became its chairman right through to the present.

"We came to the conclusion that unless you attack the causes of poverty you are not doing a long term job.

"The kind of projects we have helped establish have always looked at the the cause of the poverty, whether it be the digging of well, the funding of agriculture, alleviating illiteracy, adult education or preventive medicine Bishop Casey refers to a situation that confronted him in Manila "I stood on the refuse tip at Manila where hundreds of people live off the pickings and I got ill, after just 10 minutes "I had never come across people who had lost all sense of their own worth and dignity.

"We worked out what we called 'The Philosophy of Enough'," said Bishop Casey in St Columba's church South Perth.

"Too many people today are carried away by consumerism - we need to place a level.

"They are not asked to stand aside from the social set of which they are a part because they must influence that, but they are asked not to indulge in extremes and in extravagances.

"Those young people understood what the philosophy of enough meant and they have gone back to try and live it so that they will be open to receive the peace of Jesus as a gift which they may communicate to the world.

"So l say to you as I said to them on that last day:

'Go forth in the peace of Jesus to befriend the world in its poverty.'

Australian youth 'serious minded'

Australia can be proud of its rising RF WILLIS, W A O A, Optometrist Catholic youth says 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I 1111H11111111111111111111111111111111111 II II Ill I II I I IIII II lll111111111111111111111 : Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway, Ireland, who attended the Marist Youth Festival at Assumption College Kilmore.

"It was the most successful, the most serious-minded, the most creative Festival of Youth I have ever participated in as a priest, and I am now 35 years ordained," Bishop Casey told @ Large range of reconditioned portable, s South Perth parishioners during a short stay.

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Amongst the 280 young adults aged 18-25 there were seven from Perth and 14 from Bunbury diocese.

"What impressed me first was that the young people so genuine, so sincere = were = in searching for an answer to their problems and also the great earnestness of their Christian concern.

"They did want to live as Christian people. They were concerned to live as Christians.

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"Many of them said -and this is interesting - that the reason they came to the festival was they couldn't get the young people who were part of their normal life to talk with them about serious issues.

"They found it very difficult in their own situation either family-wise or with their peers, to get them to talk seriously and to share their instincts, their fears, their =IIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIiIIIIHHIIIIIIIII= expectations.

them was this that they "That by coming to the focussed on themselves -festival, they would meet they didn't spend a single people with whom they half-hour criticising others could share.

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"Many of them came CLASSIFIEDS "What happens so often at because they had a great such gatherings is that they sense of Christian responsiare not 10 minutes into the bility many of them, in s5 cash for fact, had a sense of guilt meeting when they are cri28 words about their life-style when ticising everybody else, but these people they saw the poverty of the young Third World. focussed on themselves.

They Post or deliver genuinely wanted to do "They weren't asking what (no phone ads) what they ought to do so as anybody else should do. to show their concern and "They were conscious of their own Christian respontheir solidarity with the poor.

"They didn't know how to do it and many of them even The Daughters of Charity felt guilty about that.

"As well they felt helpless, in the face of this appalling for their work for the development of the poverty which from our underprivileged point of view was so distant ' from them and yet it was part of the human family.

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sibility and wanted to know what direction they should take personally -- that impressed me more than anything I have yet seen and I want to say it shows tremendous hope for the Church in Australia," he said

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This assurance given by Archbi-

shop Foley in St Mary's Cathedral when he distributed Project Compassion parish promotion kits to representatives of some 65 parishes.

"Any money for which they receive a receipt is guaranteed to be used in development projects overseas and not in the work of development education" Archbishop Foley said.

Noting there was a debate concerning development education Archbishop Foley said: "It is one thing for a rich man to give something of his superabundance to one less well off."

"It is another thing to provide the where-with-all for the receiver to find his own dignity and provide for himself.

Using the familiar example that a fish will feed a man for a day but a fishing line will feed him for life Archbishop Foley said: "For a well-

Education the main aims of ACR help

to-do person to find work for that person would be an even better way of giving him a livelihood, of giving him human dignity and fulfilling his mission in life."

"Development education is part of our responsibility in understanding our part in providing for all men and women, children of God, in their lives."

Project Compassion over the years

"Originally the concept was to help the needy, then it grew into the idea of helping the needy to help themselves."

"Now we are realising we may have a part to play in creating better conditions for them to help themselves."

"Inter-church aid is a partnership which helps all members of Church in their common effort for the welfare of all and in the work of Christ calling them to fullness of life."

Development education is part of our responsibility."

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Dozens of homes in Moravia province were raided and large quantities of reli-

gious literature confiscated.

Abortion shock

VATICAN CITY (NC) Italian bishops have expressed their "horror and dismay" at the number of abortions performed in Italy.

Since Italy liberalised its abortion law eight years ago, official statistics show that more than 1.5 million abortions have been performed. Italy's population is about 56 million.

"We ask everyone to consider the serious consequences of the permissive legislation that permits this, " the bishops said.

Italy allows state-paid abortions virtually on demand to adult women in the first three months of pregnancy. A Church-backed effort to limit the law to therapeutic abortions failed in 1981.

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The archbishop noted there had

How that is to be done in Australia or a diocese is decided maybe by a bishop or a local committee.

"How this is going to be achieved is secondary."

"It is essential development education itself be not clouded."

"If there are new ways of achieving that goal they should be listened to by those who make the decisions.

Archbishop Foley pictured giving parish Project Compassion kits to parish representatives in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday. The diocesan director of Australian Catholic Relief, Miss Margaret Collopy is at left.

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Army bishop SYDNEY: The Catholic bishop to the Australian armed forces, Bishop Geoffrey Mayne, believes a peace paper by the Church's Commission for Justice and Peace (CCP) is "creating a false dichotomy between Catholic and Christian people."

Bishop Mayne resigned from the commission's administering Episcopal Committee for Development and Peace this week in protest at the commission's discussion paper, Work For A Just Peace.

He told The Australian newspaper he had resigned for his own "peace of mind."

Bishop Mayne said he did not want to see the commission document enter Catholic schools and believed the commission's charter should be re-examined.

Bishop Mayne, Bishop to the Military Vicariate the link between the armed forces and the Catholic Episcopal Conference said yesterday he did not regard the commission's paper as pro-Soviet but felt many people had confused it as a statement, rather than simply a viewpoint for discussion.

"You should not confuse Church teachings with the opinions of some individuals," he said.

"I don't want to see the commission disbanded, but I do feel its charter should be changed.

'The discussion paper appears to put forward one particular viewpoint and I find it doesn't line up with my own personal view.

"T feel there is a lack of objectivity there are people are interpreting rt as a Church document "I feel it's creating a false dichotomy between Catholic and Christian people," he said

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In the days when we were too poor to throw away the past, the children arriving at school this week would have inherited the darts still clinging to the rafters of rough and ready classrooms and the names of otherwise forgotten nuisances carved illegally into desks and walls.

The new plastic throw-away teaching areas are not built to hoard memories of what went on before and Catholic education also has to become a forward looking movement.

Some things have not changed. It was an annual proud boast of a struggling Catholic school system to announce at the beginning of a school year that new schools and classrooms were being commissioned, that in spite of pressures to the contrary, enrolments were forging ahead.

This week the Catholic community ought to be proud of the announcement that more schools, two of them pitched at special Aboriginal needs, have been added to the list. A dozen or more other schools have expanded their facilities. The total enrolment in Catholic schools in WA now stands at a record 44,000, up a thousand or more on last year.

It is a positive picture. It shows that in spite of the enlightened criticism of Catholic schools by vocal ex-products of that system, there are queues of young parents who know what they want for their children. Many of the schools have embarrassingly long waiting lists.

It is a picture of real co-operation. The establishment of a prefesionally competent Catholic Education Commission has forced all schools to remember that they are not in competition to excel at the expense of their neighbours and that a re-distribution of funds in the direction of smaller struggling schools is precisely what a truly Catholic system ought to be about.

It is an optimistic picture. While religious orders ponder their diminished ranks, the stalwart sisters and brothers who literally gave their lives for Catholic education can end their days with the vision that the men and women they taught are now manning the administration and classrooms of the system they gave them.

Too much self praise, however may hide the reality. The schools of today have to work to survive for tomorrow and they cannot lose sight of the roots from which they have sprung.

The fact that the Catholic school enrolment is impressive should not obscure the fact that an equal number of children, that is in the order 40,000, are estimated to be not in Catholic schools. For many it may indeed be by choice but by no stretch of planning or effort could the Catholic system expand to cope with them.

CEC chainnan Dr Peter Tannock has pointed out the argument is no longer about the comaprative quality of the education in either state or Catholic school.

We may not have to resort to some of the trenchant language used about secular education in an earlier age but the fact is that the majority of these Catholic children are receiving little or no Catholic formation, let alone education. To cope with them will require a massive re-thinking of alternative catechetical

programmes.

Secondly, it may be of some comfort that state aid for Catholic schools was not an issue in this or other current elections as it was in preMenzies and pre-whitlam days. But the salaries and conditions available to Catholic teachers today were won by the battlers of the past It may satisfy some that Bill Hartley has been dumped by his organisation, but it was the same Hartley who found the money and other powerful supporters to challenge state aid, and we have not heard the end of certian vested teacher interests equally determined to starve

Catholic education of its due.

Lastly, it rests with the Catholic teachers of today to become the living witness of the faith, just as the teachers of the past were themselves the living truth and expression, however weak, of what they taught.

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Pope urges mayor VATICAN CI1Y (NC)

- Pope John Paul II urged the mayor of Rome to make problems affecting young families a priority issue in his administration.

"In a special way, I encourage you to give precedence to problems affecting families, especially young families," the pope said in an audience with Rome's Mayor Nicola Signorello, a Christian Democrat.

The pope, who spoke to Signorello during the mayor's formal annual visit to the Vatican, said urban problems affect Rome and other major cities because of their size.

"Uncontrolled urban expansion," the pope said, has created a "beehive-like existence." Such conditions make the citizen feel "continuous physical-psychological wear and tear," he added.

He spoke of "increased air and water pollution" and "deafening traffic noise" which "endanger health and destroy quiet."

The pope also voiced concern for increasing "terrorism and violence," and decried the use of drugs among the young and the very poor.

□□□ These problems lead "to the fall of great and fundamental human values," he said.

The pope also told Signorello, who succeeded Mayor Ugo Vetere, a communist, that spiritual values are vital to healthy civic life.

"Where the moral and religious sense is lessened or degraded," the pope said, "the city becomes less human."

The pope highlighted Rome's position as an international centre, especially because of its Christian heritage.

"For its cultural richness, for its unequaled art treasures, but above all for its highest spiritual significance," the pope said, "Rome can be said to be the patrimony of all mankind." Because of this, he added, "Rome will continue to be felt by countless numbers of people as a second homeland," and a spiritual home.

Young family priority

Briefs DUBLIN: Irish government officials have been "seduced into the new religion of politics prevailing in other countries" and are separating their religious from their political principles, said Bishop Jeremiah Newman of Limerick, Ireland.

Unless the trend is checked, the bishop said, Catholic social teaching will be overridden by the end of the century.

Officials have no right to differentiate between their political and religious principles, said Bishop Newman in an early November statement.

"Making a distinction is against the teaching of the Vatican Council," he said.

NEW YORK (NC) - The US Catholic Relief Services has delivered 50,000 pounds of medicine, blankets, bedding and clothing to an estimated 5,500 survivors of the November 13 volcanic eruption in west-central Colombia.

The supplies, valued at $110,000 included 20,000 pounds of blankets , contributed by Lutheran World Relief, Mons William McCormack, national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the United States, announced he had authorised a $150,000 donation for the volcano victims from the society's general fund.

'There seem to be no immediate needs which cannot be met with the supplies now at hand or through local purchase," said Terry Martin, senior director for CRS programs in Latin America.

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NEW YORK (NC) - Archbishop Peter L. Gerety of Newark again has told a controversial charismatic group in his archdiocese to correct its views of women and vision of the world and to sever ties with an international ecumenical group.

The People of Hope charismatic community, many of whom worship at Little Flower Parish in Berkeley Heights, has been seeking official recognition as a Catholic organisation in the archdiocese. But some Little Flower parishioners have called it a "cult" and claimed that it was trying to take over the parish and the local Catholic school.

Archbishop Gerety met with about 300 members of the People of Hope group and told them members linked to the international organisation must withdraw from the Sword of the Spirit association.

Archbishop Gerety said he was told he cannot deal directly with People of Hope and must relate to the group exclusively through Sword of the Spirit leadership, a

affairs with the guidelines issued by the Secretariat for Promoting Chrisitan Unity (the Vatican office responsible for ecumenical developments)."

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ecclesiology and untenable."

Leaders of Sword of the Spirit said they will ask for clarification from the Vatican about guidelines for Catholic memhers of their community.

EDINBURGH (NC) Leading Scottish churchmen including the president of the Scottish bishops' Justice and Peace Commission have urged Scotland's National Coal Board to rehire miners who won appeals of firings they considered unfair.

Some miners were fired for offences they allegedly committed during a long, bitter national strike.

The Church leaders said the coal board encouraged miners who felt

The sword of the Spirit's statement said: "The Holy See does permit Catholics to be members of ecumenical communities. ''We believe the Catholic sector of the Sword in the Spirit has been conducting its

they were dismissed unfairly to take their cases to the tribunals, but now the board has refused to rehire some of them.

'We are sure that the board, as responsible employers, would normally wish to implement the findings of the tribunals," the churchmen said in the letter to the National Coal Board. 'We would urge you to reconsider your decision."

The Sword of the Spirit was founded in 1983 following an ecumenical meeting of charismatic leaders in Ann Arbor, Mich., and has offices in Ann Arbor and other U.S cities and London, Brussels, Belgium, and Manila, Philippines.

People of Hope started

in 1977, as a group of

charismatic priests and nuns who called them selves the House of Prayer Experience, or HOPE. Archbishop Gerety first told members of People of Hope to withdraw from the Sword in the Spirit last December.

He said then a long archdiocesan investig tion of their lifestyle showed "difficulties" that would have to be corrected if they wished People of Hope to be officially recognised as a Catholic group.

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Basis for our prayer

VATICAN CITY (NO) --In the 20 years since the end of the Second Vatican Council, "ecumenism has become inscribed deeply and indelibly in the Church's consciousness,'' Pope John Paul II said during the northern hemisphere Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

"It is our faith in Jesus Christ, together with our common baptism, that is the basis of our prayer for one another as brothers and sisters longing for unity," the pope said.

"Common baptism constitutes a sacramental bond of unity

L0NDON's new Lord Mayor is a Catholic. Sir Allan Davis, 64, married with three children and six grandchildren, was installed as

Lord Mayor in the Guildhall recently.

Educated at Cardina I Vaughan School, Kensington, he was made a Knight Commander

of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in 1977 and a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great in

1979.

Sir Allan who is a chartered accountant is a leading member of the City of London circle of the Catenian Association.

Africa.

In a letter responding to the call for the boycott, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference asked students about the wisdom of sacrificing even an admittedly infcrior education.

They asked whether the move would make

African bishops' paper JOHANNESBURG (NC) -- The Southern

African Catholic Bishops' Conference has launched a new newspaper to compensate for what some Catholics consider inadequate media coverage in South Africa.

The paper, published every two weeks inJohannesburg, is called New Nation.

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said New Nation would be a "secular" paper with a religion page.

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young people "less capable of making their own decisions in the future and less able to participate fully in meaningful and total liberation."

The 1986 academic year had been declared a "year of no school," with many students adopting the slogan "liberation before education."

Many schools for blacks

had been burned during political violence in 1985.

□□□ South Africa, which operates on a system of racial segregation, has a separate school system for blacks The bishops repeated a call to the government to set up a single education system The bishops said it would help the current crisis, "provided the police are made to exercise restraint, the defense force is withdrawn rom the townships and detained are pupils eleased The bishops noted that uth Afri ad made

"belated efforts to improve the education system for black people" but warned the improvements would have little support until the question of segregated school was systems resolved.

The noted bishops increased tension in homes where students and parents disagreed about the boycott.

□□□ "The Church upholds the rights of parents with regard to their children, but also encourages parents to remain close to their children so that together they may come to a wise decision in connection with their schooling." they said.

The bishops asked those making decisions about the boycott not to "jeopardise the opportunity of primary school children to obtain that basic education so essential for their human dignity in the future.

They also called for special consideration for children ith physical or mental di: bilities who attend speal schools

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among us and thus is the point of departure in our search for unity," he added.

Since the end of Vatican II, the Catholic Church has worked for unity by starting theological dialogues with Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant churches, he said.

"Dialogues have as their common goal reconciliation and eventual unity," he said.

Already dialogue has produced a "purifying of hearts" and a "growth in mutual charity among Christians," the pope added.

The pope praised the recently concluded extraordinary Synod of Bishops for recommitting the Catholic Church to the search for Christian unity.

School boycott JOHANNESBURG, (NO) -- A proposed boycott of South African schools by black students could lead to new forms of "slavery in the future, said the bishops of southern

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Marriage is an institution publicly entered into before witnesses and bringing about a change of civil status.

Sacramentally, the crux of the matter is the Church's teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. Marriage, instituted

by God "in the beginning" (Gen 1.27, Mark 106) as the partnership (Gen 2.24) in which husband and wife also share

Sir, the reported remarks of Father Heintschel (The Record January 9) were very encouraging. I hope those Catholics faced with the trauma of divorce read them with interest.

A. Two aspects are particularly relevant: 565 Hay Street Perth. Phone 325 0141 Firstly, the Church's marriage court or tribunal, like the in a divinely ordained fruitfulness is modelled on Christ's or ask your Local Clerk of Courts Church in her teaching on marriage, witnesses to the unbreakable union with his bride the Church REMEMBER ... THE PUBUC TRUSTEE Between baptised persons, therefore, sacramental and indissolubility of valid, sacramental, and consummated • Prepares Wills free of charge and holds marriage. consummated marriage is indissoluble. Any attempted them in safe custody when appointed Secondly, the tribunal functioning according to the recognition of a second marriage as a pastoral solution must Executor. procedure of Canon Law has clear prescriptions which must address this reality • Acts as Trustee, Executor, Administrator, The work of the marriage tribunal is the quest for objectivity be met in the search for objective truth to determine the Agent or Attorney. invalidity of marriage.

Any short circuited jump to a pastoral solution for the divorced • As an Officer of the State Government, is Hence, the favour of the law is given to the validity of who remarry and who seek sacramental communion begs the always at your service. marriage and the contrary must be proven. Such a stipulation question of the invalidity of the first marriage whereas the safeguards the common good and the respect due to the favour of the Church's law is given to the validity of that first sacrament. from Greg BROPHY, marriage until the contrary is proven Swanbourne Father Jim O'Brien (The Record Letters, The Record January Sir, Surprisingly, your issue 23) rightly states that the figure ("90% of separated Catholics January 23 which fell into the probably not properly married") is a "rough estimate" hands of its average reader on Speculation needs to be moderated by the reality expressed Sunday January 26, contained in the local figures that during 1985 the WA Tribunal judged The tribunal will need time to come to a balanced decision ANO COMPANY no reference to Australia Day. affirmative 51 formal petitions of nullity presented by people on that point; natural rights of both parties must be respected It would be interesting to throughout WA and a willingness shown by the parties to do what is expected know how many pulpits were Other cases, such as Catholics who attempted marriage The tribunal procedures are within the capacity of al with equally remiss without any respect for their baptismal status as a member help available to avoid a person being expected to do that wh Surely it is possible to say of the Church, or Privilege of The Faith cases where one or they a e unab e something positive about our even both were never baptised, are not included in these Much of the Church's procedural law is inspired by principles founding anniversary, words to figures of natural justice and some may not be dispensed The Cnr Wanneroo Rd 15 Scarborough Beach Rd strengthen our national unity in During 1985 members of the local tribunal conducted ove quest is to uphold the indissolubilrty of marriage at & Buckingham Dve a Christian context 770 interviews and were assisted by priests and religious from same time providing people with the opportunity to contest The gospel of the day spoke of places as far apart as Broome and Kununurra to Albany Arthur J. Purslowe & Co. and Associated Companvalidity of a marriage which they are convinced was radica Christ bringing good news to Kalgoorlie and Geraldton ies, are fully aware of the requirements for Catholic wrong, so that a declaration to that effect can be sought Funerals. the poor and setting prisoners This procedure entails more than the subjective opinion free We have always earned out Funeral Masses and one being right before God It means consulting those wht In the pews you would find rosaries with dignity and decorum, whether it be through training and appointment are particul rly skilled in td descendants of one or both of a low cost Funeral or an expensive Funeral There were 110 preliminary statements presented as formal area these categories whose presYou can be assured that when you call on Arthur cases after an initial interview with the priest-of-first approach The church's procedures are a protection against the ent farth, freedom and modest or their local priest.

J. Purslowe & Co or Associated Companies to arbitrary avoidance of privilege, a safeguard for the search fo worldly comfort exemplify the conduct a funeral for you, it will be carried out with Non-Catholics who were previously married in their own truth and objectivity, a respect for the sacraments, and the gospel's prophetic message. our full know1edge and understanding of your church, in the registry office, or before a civil celebrant, for a upholding of the indissolubility of marriage This could have provided religious wishes. marriage the Catholic Church recognises for a non-Catholic fruitful material for a homily or will need to approach the tribunal if they wish to marry a MEAD & PURSLOWE SNELL & PURSLOWE editorial to honour the occaCatholic in the Church.

VICTORIA PARK MIDLAND sion, to heal past wounds and Converts who were previously married need to present their 3611185 274 3866 give hope for a unified nation. case at the time of commencing instructions in the faith.

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1 Manon Street Each case is different and hence early contact may well allow the necessary time and so avoid precipitate action The work of the tribunal will continue to provide the ordinary St. John of God was a "doer", a practical means whereby a person's status before the Church is clarified Christian who effectively bridged the gulf when remarriage is proposed. between the rich and poor of his society, ministering to each according to their needs.

The Church's law envisages for Catholics only a marriage celebrated before the Church or with prior approval for another He was a pioneer in health care.

The first form. If there is genuine conviction of the invalidity of a hospital he established 450 years ago set the marriage it should be possible to prove it objectively according standard by which others were judged - and to Church law. found wanting.

The vexed question of the standing of divorced Catholics who Since that first hospital, there have been remarry, or of a Catholic who marries a divorce, was some 700 St. John of God foundations compassionately addressed by the Australian bishops in their around the world, providing health statemen 'When Dreams Die" July 3 1985. care or services to handiThe bishops state from Paul DONNELLY, Claremont. capped people.

"We urge you who are remarried to examie n your particular cicumstances r and, if your pastor so advises, seek the help of Sir, The 3.2% of the Austral- 1939 diplomatic and inva ian Catholic Relief 1985 budget stab in the back to Pola the diocesan matrimonial tribunal "We ask our priests, teachers and lay ministers to study the of $11.5 million that Mr which precipitated World Church's teachi g n on marriage, to actively support people who Whitely (The Record January II; nor without digressing are tryi g n to help, and to be ready to listen to and gently guide 16) says was used to finance fully and informedly on the Catholic Commission for history as the bulwark la modern St. John of God those seeking advice" (St Paul Publications 1985 p 166) Justice and Peace comes to between Europe and Russ@ fallows the founder's footsteps in a thoroughly practical $368,000 - a figure considerway. He learns how to create a Christian ably in excess of the Perth electric power generation How to enter the life of the community: archdiocesan 1984 total of between nuclear fission 8 Church in a more meaningful way: How to $320,000. discover peoples needs and respond to them.

He also fossil fuel use and so ca The annual CCJP publications ead a discussion on it as it acquires appropriate professional skills. in the past did not inform; bu! ut to do under "The Uran this recent "Work for a Just If you are attracted by a life of practical Christian service to people in Connection" need, please write for more information.

We will send it under a plain Peace" exceeds the worst of cover and give you the name of a Brother to talk to if you wish.

One valuable thought wh anything earlier Helping a young man to clear his thoughts about his future is as much a We find the document writers could have been put Is St. John of God ministry as nursing a dying person or educating a from Father Geoff BEYER PP Karrinyup. setting their faces against USA Europe is nearing a new l disturbed adolescent.

Sir, In defence of our threatened English language I must raise defence stations in Australia est period of peace to ex Take the first step • send the coupon to: my feeble voice in protest at the heading (The Record January but quite overlooking the the 43 years and 75 23) "Invite to the laity" steady mismatic creep of Com- between the Franco-Pru The Vocation Director. P .O.box 261 Burwood, N.S. W.2134 As I understand it, the word "invite" standing alone is an munist Russia over the face of War of 1871 and the o Imperative and not as the context requires, a noun. Surely, the globe during the long period of World War I, in 1914 NAME A "Invitation" is the correct word of detente

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mis-direction from P. CRANLEY, Wembley

Sir, On Australia Day, we should have been thinking of the future of Australia.

Instead of highlighting problems for the Church overseas we should have looked at WA. Genocide on two fronts appears to be accepted by our leaders - physical through widespread abortion, and moral through pornography.

In this election season pressure should be exerted on our government to save our naton Instead of the enrolling ot ever younger children into the schools to preserve jobs for teachers due to falling numbers in pri ary m schools, we should be actively encouraged to picket the abortion clinics tolerated by the government joining hands with the Living Alternative group ot non-conformist churches.

We need leaders to lead our return to morality.

Silent choice a great pity from STEPHEN BARTON, Thornlie

Sir, What a pity the Bishops have chosen to remain silent regarding the scandal attached to Project Compassion and the CCJP Whether they intend it or not the majority ot people will see their silence as approval of the operations oi the CCP Members of our Church have asked for, and are entitled to receive a state-

ment from the Bishops on the funding, validity and operation of the CCJP. Many letters to The Record show a lot of people will not contribute to Project Compassion until the CCJP is removed as a beneficiary. t is unfortunate the charitable work of Project Compassion is to suffer because the Bishops have decided not to take a stance on this issue.

Australia Day Mass from Mrs Patricia HALLIGAN, Mandurah Sir, During the prayers of the faithful at Mass on the Australia Day Sunday I prayed that white people and Aboriginal people would actually accept each other rather than just pray that "I accept them" The fact that many Aboriginal people refuse to recognise that anything good has come to them as a result of civilisation and Christianity coming to their shores shows that this is needed.

After all, they are God's creatures too, no less, with a free will which is capable of choosing good and evil and whose hearts can harbour love or bitterness

from JENNI YORK, Wil/etton SIR: I strongly object to political advertising in The Record in recent weeks and particularly in the last issue before the election.

The advertisements, without exception, mention family values and/or Catholic background and present these as sufficient reason to support the candidate in question.

Nothing is said about the individual candidate's position on any of the issues of the election It seems likely that, Catholic and family values notwithstanding, all candidates would line up behind their respective party platforms Thus, the emotive appeal of the advertisements is, to my mind, blatant manipulation and quite out of place in a Catholic newspaper especially a newspaper which has earned no debate of any election issue Every Christian is called to discern the signs of the times and an election, which involves many complex issues, is of great importance for us all Accordingly, it seems to me that the only Catholic newspaper in WA could well carry articles which reflect on the various party platforms in the light of the Gospel and Church teaching.

This would help concerned Christians to think the issues through and to come to a considered, informed decison.

A policy to offer such assistance in discerning a Christian response seems preferable to one which ignores the issues but opts for economic advantage from these emotive, simplistic advertisements Erther The Record fosters serious consideration of election issues or it stays out of elections completely including no political advertrsements

Dismay at dress criticisms.... from Mrs Margaret KER, Mount Lawley

Sir, Rushing in from Mass I took our hungry seven month old daughter from my husband, hastily greeted our other two pre-school-age (daughters, sat down at the kitchen table to feed the baby her second breakfast (if you count 5am) and mindful that 10 minutes at the table is not to be wasted, started to the read The Record (January 23) looked down in dismay past my tee-shirt at my feet still wearing a 10 year old pair of thongs. I doubted if being a female really absolved me from DA Fyfe's catalogue of Unsuitably dressed parishioners to be thundered at from the pulpit (or even from the pews d

' the readers heed the editor's advice). ! wondered if as a convert I'd been unlucky enough to miss the good old days of pews Packed with smartly-dressed parishioners � never arived late or left early, whatever antlCS of their children, the state of their ealth tons : or their commitment to other obligaInvolving family, friends or work.

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would like to think one reason Catholic Church%e 44_)"are by my standards so welcomingly "" that there aren't too many people like Fyfe around. I do remember an unemPloyed friend recounting a few years ago that he felt increasingly unhappy about attending

his local parish church because he sensed the disapproval by his fellow parishioners of his family's manner of dress 1like to think that my fellow parishioners are too absorbed in the celebration of what the Dutch Catechism, which formed the basis of my instruction as a Catholic, describes as "too lovely for this sorle" to notice my thongs, my punctuality or my sometimes noisy children.

They're with me on the days when, however quietly I try to leave the house in my thongs (as supposed to my noisy "respectable" shoes in which I can't run), I wake them up.

I'd like to think that our parish priests would rather I tried harder to concentrate on the readings and the sermon than that I remembered to leave my shoes outside the front door every Saturday night. Maybe they would rather I kept those thongs going for another vear and put the money I saved in the collection.

Most of all I'd like to think I'm at Mass to meet someone who told His followers (Matt 10.10) not to take on their journey a spare pair of sandals and who spent part of His last night on earth washing their understandably dirty feet.

People who are unprepared for the experience of death are tempted to panic when the event happens and two of their main concerns are likely to be how to handle children's feelings and the cost of a funeral.

This is the experience of Mr Gerry Smith, a funeral and bereavement educator with Bowra and O' Dea who was outlining some of the areas he will cover in a forthcoming Death a Part of Life seminar.

"The stress they are under in wondering to whom to turn for help comes through when interviewing people after a death" he said

DOD "Some who have been caring for a long term or terminally ill relative will have made prior arrangements and sought advice and so are more prepared "On the other hand people tend to worry about a lot of practical details that can be handled at seminars such as our forthcoming day on Saturday, March 1.

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27RTE3 D TW; IP I3IT Windows onto the world By

Theodore Hengesbach

I was introduced to Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" when it was produced at my

daughter's high school. She played the wife of John Proctor, the main character As the play unfolds, those in

the

audience

become

partners in Proctor's strug gle with himself. It is a struggle to maintain per

sonal integrity, at the risk of his life As so often happens when

a fine playwright or novelist is at work, we see reflections of ourselves in the charac-

ters before us, The writer

allows us to peek inside the

human spirit.

We gain

insight into the ways others

deal with problems that may resemble our own The Crucible" is set in the late 17th century during the Salem, Mass., witch trials Proctor, a farmer is accused of bewitching his servant girl, Mary Warren.

He is

imprisoned and sentenced to death

The court encourages John to confess and so escape

hanging. But to confess witchcraft when he and the

Novelist Barbara Pym reveals her characters' foibles, but she also notes their basic kindness and decency. The result is balance, a telling of the truth about human nature.

Literature was a topic discussed in the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (No. 62). Literature and the arts are "of great importance to the life of the church" the council stated.

Why? Because they try to probe the unique nature of humanity, along with the problems and experinces e encountered as members of the human family struggle to know and perfect themselves and the world. Literature and the arts are "able to elevate human life" because they are preoccupied with revealing the human person's place i nhistory and in the world, with illustrating the person's miseries, joys, needs and strengths, and with foreshadowing a better life. Thus, the council said, efforts must be made so that those who practice these arts "can feel that the church gives recognition to them." fThe Documents of Vatican ll, Walter M. Abbott, SJ, America Press.)

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community know it is not true, is to lie. to besmirch his aame and to belittle other

Salem citizens who went to

their deaths rather than sign a false confession

So John tears up a confes-

sion he had signed. The play

ends powerfully and tragially with his hanging So Proctor is an ordinary

man and an imperfect man - who met an extraordinary challenge. He had to

make a difficult choice.

In him, we are reintroduced to the incredible worth of each person and

the profound importance of

each person's integrity. Per-

haps, when all is said and done, we ask "What choices do I make in situations involving integrity?"

Difficult choices represent only one theme through which fine wniters view life I was reminded of this when I noticed that a novel I read I5 years ago was listed as

required reading in one of my son's classes at Notre Dame University- "Things Fall Apart," by Chinua

Achebe

This novel is about a man named Okonkwo of the Obi tribe in Africa He discovers that the world he has known is disintergrating because of the influx of white Christian

missionaries who introduce a new religion and new political order This novelist introduces readers to previously unknown tribal ways. He also illustrates the great tension found in a society substantial undergoing change. And in the main

looks. Novels. What ro do they play in Pole's lives beyond p riding amusement a distraction. ew might think of a character he offers a reminder of the many forms @at novel as a human suffering takes odium of Ultimately, unable to cmunications. Yet accept his tribe's social transition, Okonkwo ends elists are his life by hanging cmunicators who Then recently, while view hu readers to focus ing the classic 1932 film othe meaning of life.

Grand Hotel" starring olores Leckey, Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, I was ecutive director of reminded of yet another way t US bishops' Laity literature casts its light. I was intrigued by a character who Sretariat, thinks that identified himself as a baron, t novelist sometimes but who was in reality a ts the perspective common hotel thief with ood by viewing the huge gambling debts the He is, therefore, a deceiver wole of life But before the movie ends gd and the bad. She we are to meet goodness beeves the novelist's where we least expected it, ciracters often in this man He will reveal genuine affection and com- fution as mirrors in passion for others - a thief wich readers see a bit who helps others cope with 0themselves and their lives. Are we surprised that goodness is found in the tlvugh whom readers most unpredictable of pla- gn self-knowledge, ces? wch is essential if As close observers of or is tc know God human ways and of the be'er. world, novelist and play wrights can teach us life's heodore richness and dignit hingesbach, an The window opened through fine writing may eucator who is a even let in an invigorating frquent contributor to breath of fresh air stimulat- N's Reli ious g ing us to exercise Our ow ~cation Package, capacity for compassion, our own potential to make ts; how literature worthwhile choices, out reinds readers of the own pursuit of personal importance of human integnt oices and of iegrity, of the many lo ns that suffering c take and of the town of Jotapata. The f' that goodness is town fell. But Josephus sneti es m found and the survivors hid in a were it is least cave. He persuaded them to enter a suicide pact, eected.

He was right out of a book!

By

Father John Castelo

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If the name Josephus evokes a response, it probably conjures up images of a drier-thandust, ancient historian.

Actually Josephus was a veritable chameleon and just as fascinating.

Chameleons are lizards that change colour to save their skins -and this seems to have been

Josephus' style.

By birth he was Joseph ben Matthias, member of a Jewish priestly family.

He was born around 37 A.D., during the stormy era which began with the rise of the anti-Roman Zealots in 6 A.D. and led to the beginning of the war with Rome in 66.

Unfortunately what

Josephus tells about himself in his autobiography does not always square with what he writes else where. Still, the following fairly reliable picture emerges.

Not modest, Josephus says that when he was only 14, rabbis used to come to consult him. Two years later he started a

Education Brief As a holiday visit to grandmother's house ended, the seventh grader bad completed little of her school homework. With more than 100 pages left to read in the novel on tbe Civil War assigned by her social stu-

dies teacher, only one course of action now remained. The book would have to be read in the car on

glorious event learned the truth: that war drags on, that people die in war; that

a vast project must be undertaken after a war to rebuild not only buildings, but the human spirit

And the family talked about this as they drove along, exploring the compli cated reality of war and

bow it tears at the human

the long way bome spirit Her parents encouraged The novelist bad invited her to read the book aloud them into just such an so that they too could hear exploration t Tus, as each stretch of Isn't this wbat the best highway unfolded, so did a novelists and playwrights chapter in the Cvil War often do? They become As the young girt read, the explorers of the buman family heard bow a young spirit. With luck, their worte man who bad thought tbe stimulates others to under war would be a brief and take a similar task - to The Record, February 6, 1986

reflect on the values that matter most in tbe buman

family

When tbe great American

the writer's, duty is to write

about these things."

The finest writers are communicators. Their subject matter the buman person

novelist William Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel prizefor literature, be spoke

and life's meaning. People

of "tbe problems of the

ment of good reading, but for wbat the writer helps to reveal about the depths of

about the novelist's task The novelist writes, be said,

human heart in conflict

with itself." Only this makes the agony and the sweat"

of the novelist's task worth while

The novelist writes of the immortality that exists because the human person bas "a soul, spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice

and endurance."

Said Faulkner "The poet's

have long turned to novels

not just for the entertain

meaning in their own lives Faulkner tbought that in the writer's workshop there should be no room for anything but the 'verities

and truths of tbe heart, the old universal truths Lacking which any story is epbe meral and doomed - love and honour and pity and

pride and compassion and

sacrifice"

course in which he studied the three major sects of the day. Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes.

The Essenes produced the famous Dead Sea appealing to "death Scrolls. Before discovery before dishonour." But of the scrolls in 1947 who was to kill whom?

Josephus was the only This was determined by firsthand source of infor- lottery. mation about them. In Josephus rigged the fact, strongly attracted to numbers. When only he the Essenes, he under- and one other were left, took three years of Josephus convinced him monastic life in the they should surrender. desert.

As a prisoner, Josephus While still young he was predicted Vespasian's sent to Rome to obtain rise to emperor. He was the freedom of some fel- released and kept on as a low priests sent to trial reporter, interpreter and there, Josephus suc- mediator. As such he witceeded, but came away nessed the siege of Jeruswith an indelible impres- alem and the triumphal sion of Rome's power. procession in Rome hen he found his coun- where his compatriots trymen heading for were paraded as slaves. armed revolt against the Given one of Vespasian's Romans, he was dis- palaces for a residence, mayed.

Josephus embarked on a A pacifist - and realist literary career, producat heart, Josephus was ing a chilling account of sent with two other pri- what is called, from the ests to Galilee to dissuade Roman point of view, the the rebels. But by some "Jewish War." strange turn, he then When Domitian became changed stance, becom- emperor Josephus fell ing the leading general in from favour somewhat the Galilean sector of the He now changed from a revolt.

Roman propagandist to a when Vespasian, the Jewish one.

Roman military leader, His "Antiquities" con came with his legions in tains valuable informa the spring of 67,Josephus tion for the background holed up in the fortified of Jesus' ministry.

Catharine Bird acite a editor of the Religious cation Package, ts to the works of Wker Percy and Carles Dickens, telling w she views them as red spirits in some w's. A number of ttr characters are the pPle alienated and le lonely by industrial technological

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John "oms to the pent historian of Wical time¢ ephus, for the story @ man who is right a of a book. In Sephus we meet a +Son who was in Ay ways like meleon, ready to Oge the colour of jSkin i norder to save

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Viewing the obvious in a new light

By Dolores Leckey Recently a colleague remarked that I often illustrate points in my public speeches with pieces of literature, especially novels. He wondered why.

His question prodded me to think about the value l place on the art form known as the novel In the past two years I have read all six of Barbara Pym's novels. Her stories of English village life -- with an occsional London scenario

are gentle character studies of women who have a strong affiliation with the Anglican Church or a university anthropology department, and of men -- most of whom are Anglican vicars, although an occasional anthropolo-

gst appears.

Ms Pym reveals her charac ters' idiosyncracies through attention to detail what her people eat, wear and read - and through the gift of humour. In so doing she draws attention to our own idiosyncracies, which are often hidden to ourselves These English stories of manners are about the events and people of ordi nary living There are Sunday Vespers and Saturday dinner parties, walks in the country and professional meetings events with which we casil identify But through these commonplace happenings

Ms Pym gently leads the reader to see how her imagi-

nary characters remind us of

ourselves We may wonder at the woman anthropologist who can't or won't summon enough inner energy to work at a personal relationship and, in so doing. catch a glimpse of our own apathy And her clergyman's overfondness for sherry may help us to see those addictions in ourselves which we have tried to explain away Ms Pym's writing is like moving microscope She sees - and reveals her characters' foibles, but she notes, too, their basic kindness and decency The result is balance, a telling of the truth about human nature Barbara Pym, as the creator of her characters and settings, views a small piece of the world with a perspective

like God's That is to say,she sees the wholeness: beauty and goodness and love, yes; but also, pettiness, fears and self-serving behaviours. The wheat and chaff of human life intermingle and are visible for all to see.

Most of our moments of sin and our moments of grace unfold in small ways -- for example a cynical remark to a fellow parishioner, or conversely, an affirming word to an overworked, downcast pastor Thus the small failures and small victories of Ms Pym's peof serve as a mirror for the reader. it is a mirror that human mind and soul, and the love that pulses assists the growth of selfthrough our communities, breaking through rigid knowledge, and essential if defenses. We can see our ignoring. too, the ways in we are to grow in the knowlselves in new ways. The which we diminish the life edge of God really great novelists - Leo around us and in us A novel Why do I read novels? And can slow down, open our Tolstoy. George Eliot, Jane why do I talk about them eyes and help us to really see Austen, Sigrid Undset, to publicly? all that is there name a few retell the A good novel stirs the I agree with Madeleine major life themes of love and

Helping readers to see By

Katharine Bird The lucky moments

in one's writing come

when he's able to say something that everybody knows -and yet doesn't know that he knows," says novelist Walker Percy.

The reader reads it and says, "Why that's me .•• I didn't know anybody else felt that way."

Perey talks about his craft in a series of interviews spanning 20 years collected in "Conversations With Walker Percy" "I use novels as a way of exploring the way things are," Percy says. Through putting a person in a concrete situation in a fictional setting. a writer explores "reality in a way it cannot be done" otherwise. "It cannot be done with science, a microscope, or with sociology or psychology.

A main theme in Percy's writings is the lack of meaning in so many lives. For him, the "concrete predicament of life" today is what it means to be a human being in a world transformed by science He is especially interested in exploring the alienation and isolation he sees afflicting so many people in today's technical, scientific and impersonal world Often his central character is an afflicted hero who 'experiences deep unrest, and feels a deep sense of estrangement" from others, Percy says Will Barrett, a central char acter in two novels "The Last Gentleman" and "The Second Coming", is a

allowed to die of neglect because no one cares enough to befriend him, Wilson says wealthy man, a staunch citizen in the community, a widower with a child But, despite consistently having made what he con siders to be the "correct" choices, Barrett is a lonely man who wonders what life is all about. "He asks somewhere. 'Is it possible to miss your life like you miss a plane? Perey comments Percy refers to Barrett (and sometimes to himself) as a stranger and pilgrim" in an alien land, a theme he sees as Christian "he deeper themes of my novels are religious, observes Perey, a Catholic convert A question Barrett strug gles with is whether God

In the process he created unforgettable characters such as Jo, a homeless

orphan in "Bleak House." Jo

is Dickens' great triumph of

a "lost wandering child" In a letter written in 1844 Dickens indicates he is aware that authors can influ-

ence readers. 'I have great faith in the poor To the best of my ability I always try to present them in a favourable light to the rich, he says Dickens remained a lifelong champion of the downtrodden and poor

betrayal, loss and salvation

and grace, and human solidarity, in fresh and com pelling language. This is something I think educators need and want sin

As art. the novel calls forth our emotional, intuitive side. It is a side of Life neglected in many educational settings, yet it is steeped in spiritual energy Most of us rush through life ignoring the glory in people

L'Engle when she says in her

book "Walking on Water" that "art is seeing the obvious in such a new light that the old becomes new " This is something she learned from writing her own novels Indeed. she maintains that her writing has helped her to discern -and celebrate the essence of life That discovery awaits the reader as well as the wniter, of fine novels

exists. Percy observes that

Barrett gets an affirmative answer - "though not in the way he expected." Bar rett finds an answer to his quest and a bridge out of loneliness by choosing life and love.

Though a century and an ocean separates them, Percy and British novelist Charles Dickens are kindred spirits in some ways A favourite theme for Dickens was to question the role of the human in the midst of an "increasingly utilitarian. industrial world," writes Angus Wilson in his

book, " The World of Charles

Dickens."

Dickens was "always a moralist," Wilson says. With his extraordinary intuition, Dickens "Leaps the century and speaks to our fears, our violence" In Wilson's view, Dickens' 'joy in watching human behaviour is the key to his greatness."

Along with telling a rollick ing good story Dickens painstakingly focused on social injustice. In "Bleak House," a selection on pub lic television's Masterpiece Theatre," Dickens excor iated the corrupt legal and social system in Britain

I use novels as a way of exploring the way things are," novelist Percy Walker says. Through putting a person in a concrete situation in a fictional setting. a writer explores "reality in a way it cannot be done" otherwise The Record, February 6, 1986

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Printer's ink is said to run in the veins, a proposition exemplified in the case of Des Cain.

Father Gerry was a machinist on The West Australian for 42 years, so the genes had already cast the die for the offspring's career.

The respect Gerry had earned from the employer probably facilitated Des' acceptance as an apprentice compositor. A likely lad for the printing game, it was decided.

Desmond Gerard Cain, general manager of Golden Poultry farming

Industries Ltd, was born at Leederville on June 21, 1933.

Educated at CBC Leederville and Aquinas College, he served an apprenticeship in the printing trade (interrupted by six months' National Service in the RAAF) and qualified as a compositor on The West Australian newspaper.

While working as a casual on the newspaper, he did a three-year full-time course at the University of WA and graduated with a BA degree, majoring in economics.

He was a management consultant in Sydney for eight years with the W.D. Scott organisation before joining ETA Foods there as assistant general sales manager, and was later promoted to general manager of the firm's South Australian operation.

In 1968 he returned to Perth as general manager of Diamond Foods (now called Golden Poultry Farming Industries), the position he still holds.

Des represented WA for three years in under-21 hockey and was a member of the Australian universities team.

His A-grade hockey was with Old Aquinians and he still plays the game in the veterans' association with University Associates.

A member of the Woodlands Conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society, he is chairman of the organisation's state stores board.

In the Knights of the Southern Cross, he is a member of the board of commercial finance.

Des and his wife Janis (nee Tippett), who is a teacher-librarian at the Swanbourne High School, have three sons.

Stephen is a captain in the Australian Regular Army in Melbourne, Phillip is an electrician and Michael is a BA honours

student at UWA.

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But the training period suffered a temporary hiatus when the long arm of National Service directed the youngster into the RAAF for six months.

Des enjoyed the break from industrial and domestic constraints as he carried out his duties in the air force's stores depot at Merredin.

The introduction to basic business methods whet his appetite for more of the same.

When the half-year was up it was back to The West to complete his apprenticeship, but the printer's ink in his veins had begun to fade.

It was the time for a decision.

Once qualified, he gave up his permanent job on the newspaper and continued there as a casual employee while he undertook a threeyear course of full-time study at the University of WA Leisure hours were thus few, but he graduated as a BA with a major in economics.

That piece of paper was his passport into the management consultancy career to which he aspired With the door ajar, the next step was extensive perusal of the advertisements appearing in newspapers One appealed to him, and his application for the position was successful.

He landed a job as a management consultant with W.D. Scott in Sydney a post he occupied for eight years in what he considers to be the most educational period of his life.

It led to his acceptance of the invitation to become assistant general sales manager of ETA Foods in Sydney.

It was his debut in the food industry in which he has spent the rest of his working days.

ETA was a big concern with between 4000 and 5000 employees throughout Australia and Des had to learn the business from the ground up.

This involved among other things trips throughout the state on delivery trucks, a good way of seeing NSW. It must have been a successf u I learning process because he was promoted to be the firm's general manager in South Australia and worked in this role in Adelaide for two years.

By then the magnet of his home state was exercising increasing attraction and in 1968 he got the job of general manager of Diamond Foods in WA, a position he still occupies although the company has changed its name to Golden Poultry Farming Industries.

It is the state's main chicken meat producer, turning out 50,000 chickens a day, and one of the biggest food companies in WA 'We grow, feed, process and distribute the chickens," Des says, "and our main centre of operations is at Wanneroo where we have a feed mill, two hatcheries, a laboratory complex and several big farms.

"Most of our contract growers are within 30 kilometres of Wanneroo.

'We produce Tegel chickens, which are very

The Record, February 6, 1986

For 10 years Cloreen Roach was detained unjustifiably she says in mental hosptitals.

It took 10 years in the hazy hell of mental hospitals before Cloreen Roach finally found a secret weapon in her fight for recovery.

Quite simply, she said, it was thankfulness.

"While I fought against it I couldn't help myself, I was wasting _ energy.lhadtolearnto be thankful for my by mental illness and not ROSLYN ROSS to just accept it -that's a (different thing alto-hl gether."

Removing ink from his veins Today's People

A regular feature

By BOB BOYLE good meat birds, and our customers are all the big take-away places and the major supermarket chains."

Des says the market's present buoyancy has been achieved largely at the expense of the red meat industry.

Contributing factors to market growth have been a combination of price, speed of growing the chickens and the general health considerations now influencing the public's buying.

Chickens are now processed at the age of six weeks instead ofthe 10 weeks usual less than a decade ago, and their early availability has had a lot to do with keeping oosts

down.

Because of the state's isolation, the birds do not suffer from many of the diseases plaguing the industry elsewhere.

Golden Poultry brings specially-developed fertile eggs

from Sydney periodically to produce the breeding stock giving rise to marketable chickens about 18 months later.

The company is currently spending $10 million on expanding its Osborne Park headquarters to accommodate growth and provide new computerised machinery to fulfil its requirements until the mid-1990s.

Des is federal president of the Australian Chicken Meat Foundation and Chamber of Commerce representative to the WA Government Tripartite Committee.

He says about 20,000 people throughout Australia are engaged in the chicken meat industry in farming, processing and distribution.

He is chairman of the St Vincent de Paul Society's state stores board which controls 25 shops and two depots in which there are about 300 volunteer women workers.

Among the board's functions are the co-ordination of the sale of goods through the shops to disadvantaged people, the collection of goods and clothing from conference drives and providing furniture and bedding to the needy referred by the various conferences.

Furniture and bedding deliveries have doubled in the past 12 months - a reflection of the recession from which the state has obviously not yet fully emerged. "ft is a big commercial operation," Des says, "to which we are trying to bring a professional approach so every dollar donated is fully utilised."

His major Knights of the Southern Cross involvement is as a board member of commercial finance which aims at assisting the order in works such as Southern Cross Homes and other charrties.

Des represented WA at hockey for three years as a member of the state under21 side and was also in the combined Australian universities team.

He also played the game in Sydney when he was working there.

He found the game in NSW to be of a noticeably lower standard than it is here, possibly because the grounds are poorer and farther apart than they are in Perth.

Utimately she reached a point where she would say Grace before taking her tablets.

Wrth her thankfulness came a new-found peace which led her out of the hospital and enabled her to participate in self-help groups like GROW and Holyoake.

Three and a half years have passed since then and she has not been back.

What she has done however is to launch a vigorous fight for improvements in mental hospitals.

Wrth some 3000 people hospitahsed each year with drug overdoses -sustained on legally prescribed drugs she believes attitudes to mental illness and subsequent treatments are cruelly wrong.

Why IS rt? she asks, that she can be treated against her will for 10 years, with drugs and electro-shock therapy and yet not be introduced to any self-help therapy, which, when she found it, was able to re-introduce her to a normal life within a matter of months?

□□□ Self-help therapies, she adds, were not allowed in Graylands during her time there and to her knowledge, are still not accepted.

When she tried to practice her yoga, she was told she was anti-social; when she took in fresh fruits and salads for her hospital stay because she was appalled by the diet, they were confiscated.

She believes drugs are prescribed too readily for people wrth problems and when the problems don't go away, because the drugs can't achieve that, the troubled person becomes even more troubled and subsequently breaks down and is hospitalised.

"But all the time they are simply looking at the symptoms," she said.

"1 had my breakdown as the result of ill health and marital problems but when I said I was worried because my husband was having an affair, they said I was imagining it and increased my drug dosage."

It was only last year Cloreen

was unexpectedly given proof all her 'imaginings' had been

very real.

When mental illness is found in a family, she says, you can apply the same rules as with alcoholism.

"Quite simply, the family is sick, it is just that one person breaks down and carries the symptoms," she said "In all my time in hospital, no-one ever looked behind my symptoms to find out where the problem came from in the first place "One person may carry the burden of mental illness but the family as a whole is part of rt and for the person to get well the whole family must be made well" Sadly for Cloreen that was not to happen Her children were 11, 10 and eight when she folded under the strain and by the time she had begun together life back together, they were well and truly grown up.

She has since been divorced from her husband who has a problem with alcohol and gambling and she now lives

alone.

While it is a lone life. it is not a lonely one and she believes that sometimes it is only possible to get well when those you love are not too close.

"T have had to let go of those I love," she said "It was very painful at first, and difficult, because I didn't want to let go and couldn't do

rt.

"f someone dies physically

it is a great loss and one

mourns, but you know that they have really gone and you won't see them physically again, but to let go of living people who you love was far more difficult for me "But it was necessary for me to do this to survive mentally, physically and spirrtually.

"Tam getting better at it and what was once a resentment in my life has now become a blessing.

"1 have learned if we try to hang on to those we love we

very often strangle them.

"It is the same as when a lifesaver is trying to save @ drowning person.

"If the drowning person panics both can be drowned.

"If both are to have a chance to survive, the lifesaver has to knock the other one out or let him go and save himself.

"In letting go, we have to entrust that person to God's care.

"He alone can manage the impossible."

For Cloreen Roach the job now is to keep her bargain with God "Yes, I did make a deal with God and he kept his side of the bargain, so l am keeping mine.

'Toward the end of those terrible years I vowed to God

In this interveiw with ROSLYN ROSS, Cloreen recounts her experiences in a'hazy hell' of self doubts and degradations.

Free if he got me out of that place I would spend the rest of my life working for improvements," she said.

Much of that work involves writing letters to doctors and politicians in a bid to heighten awareness of conditions in mental hospitals; she also talks where and when she can about her own experiences and in her spare time returns to Graylands to visit the inmates and to offer them words of hope People who have become mentally Ill need all the help they can get, she says 'All I got was pills, needles, shock treatment and brain scans by the score," she said "When I did get the chance to talk to someone they usually said I was neurotic for all my imaginings 'The fact is if you aren't mad before you go into a menta hospital you will be soon after.

"When I first went in I was recovering from three opera tions within almost as many months, plus the added emotional trauma of having had my ovaries removed "But I was stiit not allowed to rest

she

"You are up before eight and dressed and drugged with nothing to do all day "Sure, there is occupationa therapy, but that just sends you even madder "In 10 years in hospital I have one piece of pottery, a couple of jumpers and a few shopping lists to my credit "When you feel that bad Inside you need to have things about you to make you feel better.

"There should be relaxation, water therapy, yoga, beauty treatments, sport things to build self-confidence, to make you feel good about

yourself.

"The closest you can get to sport is to hit a tennis ball around a room with a rolled Up newspaper imagine how much fun that is day in and day out.

"Many of the people in hopsital are on pensions and two-thirds is automatically deducted for their keep.

"They have $30 a week left - that hardly buys a pair of shoes these days let atone a haircut or some face cream.

"Td like to see all patients with nice track suits to exercise in leaving people who are feeling bag, looking bad s well is awful.

We also need new attitudes from staffing.. some compassion and understand-

ing.

T'm not saying there aren't

Some who are kind and

oaring, but the hospitals are 'un on a basis of power hey use force and drugs to make patients do what they are told

just seems to me if they Can force them to swallow

handfuls of pills they can force them to some alternative therapies that might make a bit of difference."

Her other complaint IS that people who are unwell, whether physically, mentally or both are in need of a nutritious diet.

"You wouldn't believe what they serve.

"I complained about the food 10 years ago and it is only recently that Graylands has employed a dietician.

"At least that is a step in the right direction -when I was there I couldn't even get an apple unless my husband brought one in for me."

She feels strongly those who suffer from mental illness are unlikely to ever be free of the 'stigma' As a result of a recent motor car accident with no injuries sustained to either party and minimal damage to her ca she is now required to undergo mental examinations for the next two years in order to retain her licence The problem, she says, is society as a whole and people in particular have little understanding of mental illness While the medical profession may have greater knowledge than most people, she believes treatment is heading in the wrong direction and there is enormous 'ignorance' even with many of the most highly trained professionals "I believe my disease, as well as many of the other socially unacceptable diseases in our communrty are a direct result of the way we behave and live," she said.

"As a committed Christian I kept trying to live by way of God's laws, but as a mere human being I kept failing.

"I am getting better at it all the time and can say with pride, and hope God forgives me, that I have not been hospitalised for the past three

While in hospital, Cloreen says she learnt 'thankfulness' and that was the only thing which helped carry her through the ordeal.

Desperation reached such a stage, she prayed almost constantly and even said Grace before taking her meditation.

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after 10 years of 'hazy hell' in a mental hospital. ■ ["While I fought against it I couldn't help myself, I was wasting energy. I had to learn to be thankful for my mental illness and not to just accept it - that's a different thing altogether."

Ultimately she reached a point where she would say grace before taking her tablets ...

years.

'That is a great achieve-

ment for me as someone who once thought she would never recover and who was given little hope by the medical profession.

"Now I can say I am thankful for my experience, my suffering, and thankful that I am called a manic depressive. I could be a lot worse.

'1 could think I was perfect and had nothing wrong with me."

There are still enormous mountains to be climbed, says Cloreen, but a lot of mountains in her life have already been moved.

"1 am no longer crushed by them, and this for me is remarkable "I remember when I was unable to get out of bed to face another day - when 1 felt so worthless that the only

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hospital

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Three and a half years have passed since then and she has not been back.

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sion, unless the Bishops guarantee that such donations are not used to fund the CCJP. Apart from the fact that only about 3.5 percent of such donations are so used. the critics seem to have forgotten that the CCP was set up by the from Patrick BROPHY, church to do exactly the type of Mt Lawley work to which they now object Sir, Accept my commendation pe purpose of the Commison your editorial (The Record gen is to"awaken in the people January .15) on standards of « God full awareness of their a die and mission dress. It is l long overdue; today" (Populorum ■ the setting of sta ndard s by t h e Progressio, Pope Paul VI). Pope from Liverpool came to Auscasino was an opportune time John Paul Il tells us that "The Fr Purcell 0Ml tralia in 1928 after his training to bring it to light. name of this institution is very and ordination in lreland the parish priest for the next six How anybody could miss the significant. Commitment % previous year. years. message is beyond my commust be closely linked In 1932 he was doing pastoral He later became secretary to prehension. Nobody can blame justice with commitment to peace in station amongst the Slav the Oblate provincial superior e clergy for the standard of «e modern world. This twofold ,,es in Spearwood and was and spiritual director at the 4tees of the laity attending9 emmitment is certainly sup.

Dr the the able to introduce the then r Obl¢ late seminary. In his. latter Mass. ported by the painful expeL.J Goody. recently returned years. poor h ea Ith required th e Good dress applies to al II rience of the tvvo great world from studies in Yugoslavia, to amputation of both legs andd h De members of the congregation. ars .. (and) .. by the per. his new ministry amongst the was cared for by the Naazareth but perhaps readers and those manent threat of a nuclear Croatian speaking community. Sisters at Camberwell. performing other duties could 4ear." (Laborem Exercens) Afterfurther mission work out Father Sean Nolan came to lead the way.

The link between our duty to of the Sorrento community in Australia in 1950 in search of Would anybody try present- «he poor and the arms race is Victoria and service as an army a warmer climate to help his mg themselves to royalty in a out in numerous spelled chaplain Father Purcell was health. skimpy unbecoming manner in church documents. In their ad in Beaconsfield in 1950 He was assistant priest a' hich many "dress" for Mass?

"Message to Humanity" the beco · th first parish priest Fremantle from October 1949 N dott ago no-one ishops stated that .."the ming enr mes h arms many'wyears b ibl F b 1952 and was in 1952 and being respons e to e ruary would think of atte nd mg s un- race 1s an utterly treacherous ch for the building of the presby- forced to spend muc ofof tha day Mass unless dressed i0 trap for humanity, and one tery and first parish school time in St John of God Hospital. {eir "Sunday Best"; very often which ensnares the poor to an there.

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Other steps he told Sir, The Catholic Cormisthem to take included: sion for Justice and Peace has been the subject of increasing • Redefining the posicriticism for some time. This tion of women in the has recently taken the form of group to "reflect the an appeal to Catholics to refuse AyT]ME SESS/0NS [/lhlhVh l mind and practices not _ donations to Project Compasonly of the church in Newark but also the wider Church throughout the world." Oppois waiting to enable you to become nents of the People of a competent PARISH ASSISTANT. Hope have cited literaWe offer you a ture and practices by

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• Aligning the community's spirit and vision of the world with the Second Vatican Council, and intergrating themselves into the mainstream of the Church. Opponents have accused the People of Hope of elitist, cult-like attitudes that regard those outside the community as dangerous or evil.

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(NO) -Pope John Paul II has established an annual World Youth Day, to be marked every Palm Sunday in diocesan and international celebrations.

The laity council invited" "warmly bishops throughout the world to put the event on their calendars. It further suggested that for the 1986 event, bishops plan youth events in their diocesan cathedrals.

The theme for the 1986 celebration, scheduled for March 23, is "always be prepared to make a defence to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you," the laity council said The theme, which emphasises Christ is in one's heart also ran through the popes 1985 apostolic letter to the youth of the world In a statement giving the rationale for the event, the laity council said the Church wished to show its unity with youths "in their anxieties and concerns, their efforts and hopes'' and wished "to respond by trans mitting to them the cer tainty, truth and love which is Christ."

A second reason. the council said, is to challenge youths to show that modern man can find meaning in Christ.

In the past two years, youth celebrations at the Vatican attracted participants from all parts of the world The first, a four-day celebration in 1984, capped the Holy Year for Reconciliation and brought together 250,000 young people for a Palm Sunday procession through the streets of Rome.

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Youth rally success

Light and darkness,

sound and silence, drama and dance were all part of the Catholic Youth Rally held at WA University Sunken Gardens.

More than 500 young people from various groups and movements gathered for the celebration of International Youth Year's Diocesan Rally.

It was a rally with a difference, co-ordinated and directed by Julie Della Franca, Catholic Parish Youth full time worker.

For the first time in some years the planning committee decided to prepare a para-liturgy rather than the Eucharist.

Father John Hill advised the committee and preached the homily.

Father Hill explained the origin of December 25 as the Christian celebration of Christmas

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The pagan feast of the unconquered sun was celebrated at the Winter Solstice and marked the shift from shorter days (light) to longer ones and thus the victory of the light over darkness Christians of course celebrate the source of all light entering our world on Christmas Day. Young people were invited to recognise and eradicate the darkness of their lives and live and move in the light of Christ.

Just like our eyes can get accustomed to the dark, sometimes we can choose to remain in darkness and imagine that the evils we live with are normal for our lives Bishop Robert Healy attended the rally and concluded the evening with a solemn blessing for all present.

Angela Cox and a team of dancers held the crowd spellbound with a fast moving dance that expressed people's struggle with good and evil, light and darkness About 180 participants at the Antioch "Flame" weekend travelled in three buses from the convention venue, Aquinas College, to participate in the rally.

Paul McGinty brought together the team of accomplished musicians and singers

way I could see to go was to die.

"Probably what stopped me was the fact that my husband said to me at the time; 'Tm going out to work, don't kill yourself here where the kids will see • I never wanted to hurt my children T know I have, but it was never intentional.

"Strangely enough, I always felt I was trying to do my best for them and if trying to live truthfully IS the best. then I hope they will grow through their pain and live and love me with all my faults as I love them."

It is in living out that truthfulness that Cloreen Roach keeps herself busy writing, talking and always caring in the hope the way may be made a little easier for any of the many others who are called to follow her path She believes until the ignorance is removed from mental illness then the fear of it will

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At a time, she says, when the grasp on reality is slight, the hospital environment serves only to take people further away from any sense of realrty and humanity.

"Just being locked up gives one a sense of being without a soul," she said When she visits the hospital these days she always takes along her exuberant labrador, Chelsea, who is a great hit with the patients "I always knew I would go back," she said, " and I knew it would not be as a patient."

For Cloreen Roach who

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to the hazy days of hospital, from assessment at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital to maximum security at Graylands Of the latter she says: "If there's a hell on earth that's it."

A few scattered rain drops, highlighted in the spotlight's beams, threatened to wash out the Rally, and careless feet disconnected the power supply with a sudden and loud "bop", but order was soon restored and proceedings continued to conclude the final function in the Catholic calendar of TY events.

It became her "home" for a time after she had been readmitted for a hospital stay and worrying about her youngest child arriving home from school and finding her gone, had climbed the wa and got a taxi home to meet him when he got there Perhaps not so strangely rt was during her stay in maximum security that she was

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The very latest in the hilarious collection of Jeremy James adventures to follow on from ELEPHANTS DON'T SIT ON CARS, THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE, GETTING RICH WITH JEREMY JAMES and BESIDE THE SEA WITH JEREMY JAMES. It's not every boy who can stop a train with one finger, make an audience laugh by just saying hello, cause panic in the library by opening his

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do it, and he does. He also talks to someone a hundred miles away, nearly kills a hairy monster and outsmarts Melissa. Whatever Jeremy James does, you can be sure he'll make you laugh, as everyday life takes on hilarious new meanings through the latest exploits of a little boy let loose on the world...

"Jeremy James is a preschool boy worthy to join the ran.ks of little Pete, Joe and Timothy and other already famous heroes of stories to read loud at bedtime."

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David Henry Wilson was born in London in 1937, and was educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Having lived in France, Ghana, West Germany and Switzerland, he has now settled with his wife and three children in Taunton, Somerset. He holds academic posts at the universities of Bristol and Konstanz, West Germany, where he founded a studenttheatre. As well as writing children's books, he has had several plays performed in England and abroad.

hildren's Story Hour This story is about Mary McCleod Bethune, who was born more than 100 years ago in South Carolina -- in the year 1875, as a matter of fact.

"Put that book down," the little girl shouted at Mary McCleod Bethune.

Black people can't read."

Mary held the book carefully in her hands. All

her life she wanted to learn to read.

She did not put the book down but asked the two white girls, "You can read, can't you?"

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Your mother is here with the laundry."

Mary's mother did the laundry for the family who lived on the big farm. She_ also cleaned their house.

Mary ran outside to wait for her mother. She sat down on the back steps and cried.

"What's wrong, child?" her mother asked when she came by. "Why are you crying?"

"They made me put their book down," Mary sobbed. "They said black people can't read."

Mary's mother felt sad.

She could not read.

Mary's father couldn't read. Neither could her brothers and sisters.

"I am going to learn to read," Mary insisted as she and her mother walked home. "I don't know how, but I'm going to read someday."

Not long afterward, a church opened a school for black children. The teacher came to the cotton fields to find students. Mary's mother and father decided to let Mary go to the new school. Mary's dream was going to come true.

Soon Mary could read.

She read the Bible out loud in the evenings to

her family. They were very proud of her.

Mary did so well in the school that she was able to go on to a bigger school. The more Mary read the more she thought of her people in the cotton fields. "I want to help more of my people learn to read," she decided. So she became a teacher.

She started her own school for black children in Florida. She was a good teacher. She hired other good teachers. More and more children and young people came to her school.

Mary Bethune became well known for her work as a teacher. Then the president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, called her to Washington. He put her in charge of a national organisation to help black people get better educations and better jobs. She was the first black woman to be in charge of a federal agency.

By the time she died thousands of people were able to get good educations, all because one day this daughter of former slaves made up her mind that she would learn to read.

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A sequel to Whistle up the Chimney, Eye Full Of Soot is not only a charming, funny and beautifully illustrated picture book, but in production terms it does great justice to the reputation of its predecessor which was commended in the Australian Book Design Awards in 1982.

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This is the rags-to-riches story of Zoe Taylor, a slum child growing up in 1920's Merseyside. Like all her brothers and sisters fiveyear-old Zoe struggles for survival amid grinding poverty and squalor - until her teacher, Joanna Dale, is beguiled by Zoe's rare beauty and intelligence and adopts her as the child she had always wanted. But Zoe's safe new middle-class world ends when Joanna is tragically killed in an accident and she must return home to her family as an outcast

Big Sbots, by David witson G Lindsay Murdoch, edited by Bob Bottom, publisbed by Sun, $8.95.

Big Shots is a hard-hitting expose of organised crime within Australia. David Wilson and Lindsav Murdoch are investigative journalists with The Age, while Bob Bottom remains an unsurpassed authority on the crime racketeers who have infiltrated Australia at all levels. Not only do the authors tie the 'Big Shots' in with race fixing. drug trafficking, murders, prostitution, etc., but they highlight the alarming nexus between organised crime and the law-keepers and makers of the nation This book will shock, but as Mr Frank Costigan QC has said, 'the rage must be maintained' if organised crime and corruption are to be beaten.

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Mindbend, by Robin Cook, published by MacMillan, $19.95.

Utterly chilling. Frighteningly plausible. A classic of medical horror that could come only from Robin Cook.

For the sake of his wife and unborn child, Adam, a third year medical student, takes a job with a powerful pnarmceutical company. Startling revelations and ominous threats emerge as Mindbend draws all those who read so much as a page into its web of irresistible suspense and holds them fast.

I Curzon: A Most Superior Person, by Kenneth Rose, published by Papermac, $18.95.

Rose is universally admired as an outstanding biographer, and this account of Curzon is further evidence of his skill. In a remarkable career Curzon occupied the prestigious position of Viceroy of India at the young age of 39. His early drive and ambitions dwindled, however, as the strain of high office, overwork and illhealth took their toll. This book is also a superb evocation of the world of elite society in a class-divided Victorian England.

Foggage, by Patrick McGinley, published by Flamingo, $7.95.

Kevin Hurley and his twin sister Maureen have lived and worked on their farm all their life, and enjoy a relationship that is more than brotherly/sisterly! But then Maureen announces she's pregnant. The only solution is for Kevin to find Maureen in bed with someone, blame the other man, and so avoid the shame in their small Irish village.

An hilarious portrait of Irish village life, combining real laughter with the darkest black humour.

Australian Garden Design, In Search of an Australian style, by Andrew Pfeiffer, pubisbed by MacMillan, $29.95.

Australian-born landscape gardener Andrew Pfeiffer is one of the leaders in his profession in Europe and America. He draws on a wide range of examples and experiences and adapts these for use in the Australian environment. In this beautifully illustrated book, case studies of gardens such as Bolobek and Cruden Farm in Victoria reveal how a genuine indigenous style is emerging.

The Kennedys, An American Drama, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, published by Pan, $9.95.

Long after the assassin's bullet brought an abrupt end to the New Frontier on that bleak winter's day in Dallas, the magic of the

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Peter Collier and David Horowitz have devoted years of research to the Kennedys' phenomenon.

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Tiger!' 60 Years of by Bill O'Reilly, published by William Collins, $19.95.

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generational change and obligation, money, sex, narcotics and religion. Hollywood could not have invented a more incredible

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kennedy name lingers on.

Traditionally the Kennedys have been seen in isolation: Joe, the hard-driving Boston Irishman who crossed from the wrong side of the tracks to found the dynasty; Jack, the murdered president; Bobby, the Machiavellian younger brother; Teddy, a

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy

career drowned at Chappaquiddick. But the story of the Kennedys is not just about individuals; it is the story of power, ambition, the Presidency, family, the

Big Bil O'Reilly, widely regarded as Australia's greatest spin bowler of all time, looks back on his life on and off the oval in this vastly entertaining autobiography.

Liberally spiced with fascinating anecdotes and rich with humour, Tiger! is not just a cricket book, although buff s will revel in Bill's descriptions of the game and its stars during the 1930s, including a rivetting chapter on the famous bodyline Tests. "...lots of utter rubbish has been written on this perplexing subject," he writes. He goes on to relate the sequence of events of that nerve-shattering season - and who better to set it down. He played in every one of the five bodyline Tests in 1932-33.

Bill O'Reilly was born in 1905 in White Cliffs, a small town away in the outback of New South Wales. When he was five, his school teacher father was transferred to Marengo where they lived for the next seven years. Bill remembers the day war was

members of the family, rivals, associates, enemies and friends. The result is a classic biography which, from Patrick Kennedy's arrival in Boston in 1848 to the death of David Kennedy from a drug overdose in 1984, explores one of the most important stories of our times. Incisive, fresh,

peppered with striking anecdotes, constantly breaking new ground, it reveals the often shocking truth behind the myths and legends as it dramatically chronicles the fairytale rise and tragic decline - of a tribal dynasty that became one of the richest, and for a time the most powerful, in the world.

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'Tiger" -a treat for all cricket lovers declared in 1914 and later reading in the casualty lists of the death of his first sporting idol, the local football team's fullback, lost in action on the Somme.

In 1917 the family moved again, to Wingello, a keen cricket town. Bill excelled at

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sport and by the time he was a 16-year-old boarder at St Patrick's College, Goulbumn, he was in the school's football, cricket, tennis and athletic teams.

In 1923 he won a scholar-

ship to Sydney Teachers' College and came to live in the city. An invitation to join a cricket club eventually led to his acceptance into grade cricket, selection to play for NSW and ultimately for Australia His cricket career was briefly interrupted by the Education Department who pointed out that his time belonged to them for teaching, not to the Australian Cricket Board. A couple of years teaching in NSW country towns followed, then Bill was back in Sydney and in 1931 he was selected to play for Australia He went on to play in every Test from that first season to the outbreak of World War II In Tiger! Bill looks back on that more leisurely time.

The team travelled by ship, taking five weeks to get to England. The pleasures of shipboard life and sightseeing along the way provided a most enjoyable holiday.

"How deprived are our present day cricketers who set out for and reach England

within twenty-four hours," he writes Bill's memories of his and

his team-mates' experiences

are as sharply fresh as if they happened yesterday. He remmbers who said what to whom and relates it all in wonderfully entertaining anecdotal style that makes for compulsive reading

In a chapter entitled Six of the Best, he pays tribute to a handful of players and others who made outstanding contributions to the game. In another he writes of his relationship with Don Bradman. He addresses the captaincy question, from the 30s to today Bill's opinions and observations over the years have never been wishy washy. He has never minded being controversial and his downto-earth approach to plying, and latterly to writing about, cricket has always given that extra spark and fire that have made him a legend and earned him the name 'Tiger'.

Two booklets will interest

Bride or Wanton, The Choice before the Churches and One Plus One Equals Prayer, by John Pelham, Sword Publications. $2.50 each.

Available at Pelligrinis.

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That remarkable historian, George Macaulay Trevelyan appears twice in the Oxford Dictionary of quotations. His first entry states "Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilisation."

I suspect that it is "Disinterested intellectual curiosity" that causes me to read almost anything and everything that crosses my desk.

There are some exceptions I do have one of the largest waste paper baskets in the diocese and annoy my neighbours by burning incinerators full of bumph quite regularly.

But John Pelham's books on prayer are two booklets which attracted my interest from the very beginning.

However, I had better get onto my second quotation, which is, "That education

has produced a vast popula-

tion able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading-"

I have certainly read John Pelham's with very considerable interest. One is always on the lookout for good books on prayer and the title of his other booklet is so compelling that one cannot do anything other than read a text which claims to put the choice before the churches especially as he sees one of those choices being a call to holiness.

The difficulty with both of these books is that they are written in a prophetic style.

I rejoice in the development of ministries which go beyond the traditional threefold order of the church, and I think it is most important that we should be aware of those who speak with a prophetic voice. I am absolutely certain that we should give heed to the secular prophets of our time, people like Erhlich, Schumacher, Acland, Sider, Barbara Ward and Rene Dubois These are people who out of a deep Christian concem for God's created order look at the world with a wide

vision and apply to it a sharp intellect and the cutting edge of persuasive intellectual argument. My view of prophecy has always been tempered by the understanding that it is a forth telling of what is rather than a foretelling of what will be, and that the prophets spoke with an intensity that came out of a spirit inspired vision that was geared to a very considerable intellect.

John Pelham's style is very different, it is that of a simple Christian who has waited on the Lord and has heard him speak. What he has heard the Lord say to him, he has checked with the church, that is to say with a group of Christian friends. Consequently there are times when what one reads appears like a concerned reflection on holy scripture.

In that sense it has a genuine validity as a message to those who will read. The disadvantage with John's method is that sometimes the reader is not sure whether this is truly inspired insight or merely recollected reflections.

There are certainly passages which perplex: 'The christian church is

either deeply involved in worldly matters or too far removed from them.' Perhaps this is so, but what is the alternative, what is the happy mean? He speaks of, 'Her idolatries, placing the world's concepts above God's and greed and her lust for religious controversies tear her apart, leaving her virtually powerless in the face of human lunacy.'

Yes the church does have her faults and failings, she is affected by worldliness and materialism but she does in spite of all her deficiencies try to speak out and proclaim the foolishness of God. She does it indeed through many people including John Pelham who is one of the church members. Yet one can only rejoice that in his booklet on the church there is a real plea for generic approach to others for cooperation and not competition between the churches He especially regrets, as many of us do, that the bible is a sword to divide God's people. He pleads for the church to proclaim boldly, the word of the Lord God Some of the issues he raises indeed deserve a much

fuller treatment than they are given and not least his

concern about the way in which the moral standards of the people of God are being eroded in order to allow its members to live comfortably in this pagan world. I suspect however, that the diversity of subject matter diminishes the impact and leads the reader to believe that the trumpet is trying to give too many different notes.

The book on prayer similarly expresses insights and delights the reader in places yet at the same time seems to cry out for a sympathetic editorial approach from another person who might indeed offer some comment. Other people's prayers can often be immensely inspiring but these read too much like little snippets when one contrasts them with some of the great masters of modern times, like Gilbert Shaw and MilnerWhite. At the same time one can only admire the author for allowing the reader an opportunity to become aware, as one seldom is from books about prayer, of the importance of listening to God

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WHAT'S ON

LAITY TRAINING COURSE

The Maranatha Institute, (under the sponsorship of the W.A. Major Superiors' Council and with diocesan approval), trains people to become parish assistants.

The 1986 classes begin Tuesday February 25 at 9.30 am at 52 Ruislip St, leederville. Classes continue throughout the year on Tuesday and Friday.

A diploma in pastoral ministry is awarded on the completion of the study program plus 12 months' supervised field work.

You are invited to make further enquiries by contacting: Sister Mary Beny R.S.M. (Tel 444 5750) or Sister Assumpta S.J.A. (Tel 293 2646).

L'ARCHE TALKS

On Wednesday February 12 at Emmanuel Centre, Windsor St, East Perth.

Miss Hazel Bradley will give a talk and show slides of her life in the L'Arche community in Madras, India. l'Arche, founded by Jean Vanier. is an international federation of communities for intellectually handicapped people. It is hoped that a support group for the homes in India may be organised in Perth.

WOMEN'S RETREAT

A weekend retreat for women will be held at the Redemptorist Retreat House on the weekend March 14-16.

The retreat is one of several sponsored by Majellans but is open to an interested lady.

Sister Concepta OP will lead the retreat.

For bookings, send a deposit of $20 to Nola Kermode 173 Morley Drive, Nollamara 6061.

MEDITATION COURSES

There were 65 at the course on Christian Meditation given by Father Christopher Ross OSM last Saturday.

The next meditation evening sponsored by the Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace will be held at 2 Morgans Street Tuart Hill on

Monday February 10 at 7.30pm.

Last Saturday 33 people attended the one day workshop given by Father Reg Smith at Sacred Heart College Sorrento.

QUIZ NIGHT Catherine McAuley Centre is having a quiz night on Friday February 14 at 7.30pm.

Tables of six can be booked by ringing

381 9222 and bar facilities are available.

Cost is $2.50 per person. Place: Catherine McAuley Centre Hall, Station Street, Wembley.

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Following a chapter decision to continue their mission commitment two more Sisters of Our lady of the Mission have been sent to join the eight Sisters already in Papua New Guinea.

Sister Maureen Belleville and Sister Rose Mullan will teach at the minor seminary in Madang. bister Maureen is a former principal of St Patrick's school Katanning and of Star of the Sea school Rockingham and spent several years with the Lake Grace Motor Mission. She has taught also in Melbourne and Canberra.

Sister Rose Mullan is from England where she taught in high schools before moving to Kenya for eight years in high schools there. In preparation for her New Guinea assignment she spent last year at the Pacific Missionary Institute Turramurra NSW.

During 1985 six other Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission also went to overseas postings: Sister Aileen O'Loughlin, former provincial superior, went to Machakos, Kenya.

LAITY RETREATS WEEKEND RETREATS: February 21-23, March 21-23, commencing 7.30pm Friday evening and concluding 4pm Sunday afternoon at the Redemptorist Retreat

Centre.

Theme: Finding God In Daily Life. This weekend offers an experience with different methods of prayer, meditation, and contemplation. Retreat facilitators will include, Ms Helen Thomas, Sr Mary Harvey, Sr Joan Smith and a priest.

The cost is $40.00.($10.00 deposit with application) Also include a stamped addressed envelope for confirmation.

Enquiries to Sr Joan Smith RSM 7/126 Edward St. Osborne Park 6017 or Mrs Jenny Waller, Phone 444 0064.

ONE DAY RETREATS: These are reflection days with a theme centred around aspects of the Lenten season.

February 25: Subiaco Parish Centre, Salvado Road.

March 4: Lesmurdie Parish, Lesmurdie Road.

March 11: Rockingham Parish, Swinstone Road.

March 18th: Balcatta Parish Centre, Albert Street.

March 25th: Redemptorist Retreat Centre.

Please bring own lunch: 9.30am2.30pm ENQUIRIES: Mrs Jenny Waller, 444 0064

Sister Roseanne Hamill, went to a nursing clinic in Papua New Guinea.

Sister Margaret Spain, former principal of Nulungu College, Broome moved to Senegal, West Africa.

Sister Veronica Martin returned to Ito, Peru, after home leave.

Sister Margaret Mcinerney, former principal of Sacred Heart College, Sorrento went to Rome to be a member of the General Council.

Sister Margaret Mary Doherty, formerly of St Matthew's, Narrogin moved to Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.

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Four new schools

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Prendiville Catholic College ( Ocean Reef).

By 1990 it will accommodate 750 students in years 8 to 12.

Brother William Woodruff has been appointed principal of the college.

Brother Woodruff has had a distinguished career in Cacholic education. Most recently he was a member of the General Council of Christian Brothers in Rome

and earlier appointments include that of provincial of the Christian Brothers and principal of Aquinas College.

Leschenault Catholic Primary School (Australind) is catering for approximately 80 children in pre-primary through Year 3 When the school is completed in 1988, it will enrol approximately 250 children in pre-primary through Year 7 Mr David King has been

appointed principal of the Australind school Mr King has been teaching in the southwest of the state since 1978, most recently at St Anne's (Harvey ) where he was senior teacher.

Clontarf re-opened this year as a co-educational school catering for approximately 60 young Aboriginal people in years 10 and 12.

The main emphasis will be to give young Aborigines opportunities to build up their self-esteem and self-

development; to improve their academic performance to enable them to attend tertiary or technical training schools; and to increase their skills so they will have a better chance in the labour market.

Brother Kevin Ryan (Christian Brothers) has been named principal of Clontarf.

Brother Clontarf has been closely involved in the development of Clontarf as a school for Aborigines.

He has more than 10 years

experience in Catholic edu cation, including two years as program director at Clon tarf when it catered for emotionally disturbed boys Ringer's Soak Catholic school will open in the Kimberley region. The school will serve the educational needs of Aboriginal children in years 1-7 Sister Naomi Smith, a member of the Sisters of S Joseph of the Sacred Heart, has been named principal of this desert school.