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• A renowned world authority and scientist is coming to Perth to lecture on the famous Shroud of Turin. See story and pictures, page 2.

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*** At Christos nursing home on Monday, Archbishop Foley hears from 97 year old Sister Mary Anthony Fitzpatrick what it was like when she made her vows as a Sister of Mercy 80 years ago in the Coolgardie convent at which she had boarded from the age of 10 after the death of her mother. She is holding the papal blessing given at her jubilee Mass.

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Sister's big day

Mary Fitzpatrick was just 13 when in 1901 she begged the Coolgardie Sisters of Mercy to let her enter the convent but they said to wait until she was

15.

True to their word, she was allowed to start as a novice in 1903 and last Monday she celebrated the 80th anniversary of her vows on February 17 1906.

She did not have far to go to join the Coolgardie Convent of Mercy. After her mother died, when she was 10, her father asked the sister to take Mary as a boarder. Mother Antonia, foundress of the Coolgardie convent became Mary's virtual foster mother.

It was the time when the sisters were using the old Coolgardie Theatre Royal as their convent until the new impressive building, now a historic Coolgardie monument, could be completed.

It was also the time when the railway went only to Southern Cross and the Fitzpatrick family like all other Goldfields travellers did the last 100 miles (160 kms) by coach.

Sister Mary Anthony became part of the of Goldfields Catholic community taking care of generations of boarders at Coolgardie and serving also in the Sisters of Mercy communities at Leonora, Norseman, Kalgoorlie and Esperance.

• School teacher, Christa McAuliffe, killed in the horrific Challenger launch mishap taught religion in backwoods American school.

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A group of Australian delegates at an

Oceania Lay Apostolate Congress has identified 39 items which are either a concern for the Australian church or aims the Church should pursue.

The 22 Australian bishops, priests and laity out of a total of 80 who attended from New Zealand and other Pacific countries grouped their concerns under seven headings: • the need for a lay voice in the Australian Church; • the mission of laity in the world • reaching out to the alienated, inactive and hurt people in the Church;

by JIM MIOLIN • the needs of youth in the Church: • the place of women in the Church;

• mamage and family life in the world today; • discrimination against Aborigmnes and Islanders A statement issued at the end of the four day meeting in Auckland convened by the Pontificial Council for the Laity in Rome said factions, friction and tensions of many such con-

gresses had not happened at Auckland.

The Australian group which had representatives from every state as well as the Aboriginal and Islander Council resolved to renew their study of the Vatican Il documents as "the authentic source from which the Church will continue to learn and grow."

"We urge the whole Australian Church to also respond to the call of the recent Extraordinary Synod to a 'better and complete' investigations of the teachings of Vatican IL "We believe action based on these documents will produce a situation where the Church will catchise the World they said

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Perth talk on Turin Shroud A world authority on the Shroud of Turin Dr Ron Jenkins from the US is giving a free ANZAAS public lecture next Tuesday in Nedlands.

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ANZAAS (WA Division) asked Dr Jenkins to give a public lecture as well because of the wide community interest in the Shroud of Turin and work of the scientific team examin ing it The scientific, religious and social implications of this artifact combine to produce a fascinating problem which has, for a number of years, intrigued historians and scientists alike Dr Jenkins' talk will review the evidence available to us today from the perspective

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of one who is both a scientist and a born again Christian It will be held Tuesday February 25 at 8 pm in the Weatherburn Lecture Theatre, University of Westem Australia (parking off Fairway Entrance No. 3) The Shroud of Turin is 2 large piece of linen cloth 14' x 37 preserved today in a

chapel attached to the Cathedral of Saint John in Turin. Ital The Shroud is of particular interest to Christians because tradition savs that the body of Christ was wrapped in this cloth at the time of his burt.al The most interesting aspect of the cloth is that it shows a faint reddish image. both frontal and dorsal, of an apparent crucifixion victim The origin of this imagestain is still unknown and is the subject of intense investigation today Historians trace the cloth back to France where in 1357 it became a centre of controversy between the Cannons of the cathedral at NEW YORK (NC) Terry Martin, Catholic U.S. National Catechetical Directory Lirey who claimed it was Relief Services director for Latin America, said Jesus' burial cloth and the he is shifting emphasis away from welfare Bishops of Troyes who claimed it was a painted programs such as distribution of Food for Peace forgery. commodities and increasing efforts to promote The controversy was never development. resolved and still casts suspiCRS has programs in 17 Latin American cions on the Shroud today countries, he said, and almost all of them The Shroud has been put on public display man include a food component. times over the years and He said CRS would continue to carry out such a display took place al welfare projects where needed, particularly in the turn of the century in such impoverished nations as Haiti and Bolivia, Turin but emphasis would be placed more heavily on At this time, permission was granted to photograph programs to help people become self-supportthe Shroud for the first time, ing. and the result was to respark public interest The image of the photogr phic plate was not a negative as expected but as a positive EDINBURGH: Scots cou- rose more than 11,000 in This in turn meant the ples who marry in church 1984. image on the cloth was itself have a better chance of It is estimated 27 per cent staying married. of marriages end before a negative The divorce rate for civil their 30th year.

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ADELAIDE: "I am conterned about the recent public criticisms of Project Compassion and Australian Catholic Relief and I am concerned this quarrelling in our affluent country could harm the poor and suffering in other countries."

This was said by Archbishop Leonard Faulkner of Adelaide, chairman of the Australian Bishops' Committee for Development and Peace.

The best possible way to help the poor and needy is

Prelate concerned at ACR criticisms to support Project Comp a ssi on, Archbishop Faulkner said.

"I want to assure Australian Catholics the best possible way they can help the poor and needy

suffers they are the people who will be hurt.

"Some of you may not agree with the way a tiny amount is spent, but I assure you Project Compassion is still the most effective way to help

in developing countries, is by giving generously to Project Compassion," he said.

'These people are depending on our generosity during Lent 1986. If Project Compassion

people in need.

"The poor are not complaining about the way Project Compassion money is spent.

"They are full of praise for what ACR is doing," the Archbishop said.

Laity to know role in church Seminar The laity in the Australian church needs a platform which will raise their consciousness of their role in the Church, a meeting in New Zealand decided earlier this month.

The Australian delegation of 26 at the Oceania Lay Apostolate Congress want an interim commission for the laity to be set up.

The platform could help prepare for the 1987 Synod on the laity and couldhelp in regional national and other communications with Rome.

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A third seminar on Death A Part of Life has again burst the attendance barrier and there are already more than

A statement at the end of the four day meeting in Auckland said "in recent years the Australian Church has not given sufficient priority to the way laymen and laywomen exercise their vocation in the world."

The Australian delegation which was part of a congress of 80 people from surrounding Pacific countries, said it 30 too many applicants for wants the Australian Church the absolute limit of 300 at "to ensure that the comthe March 1 event munity of the faithful does When The Record pubnot close in on itself but lished an interview with the proclaims the gospel in organiser Mr Gerry Smith a society." fortnight ago only half the Asked to choose their places had been filled. priority between the misHowever, the same pattsion of the laity in the em emerged as with the last Church, and in the world, 22 two seminars and an avaof the 23 delegates chose lanche of applications has the latter. closed the list well ahead of The meeting of the Austhe February 21 closing tralian group also stressed date.

Mr Smith pointed out the the need for the Australian Church to reach out to those coming seminar was meetwho are inactive, alienated ing a new community need or suffering hurt. and all 300 participants had "The Church needs to not attended the earlier bring a message of love and seminars. hope and special concern to He said the overwhelming all people, particularly those interest had shown there who are suffering amongst was a persistent need ethnic groups, amongst people for this Aboriginals, divorced, separated, single type of education and just as those re-married the earlier seminars had parents, outside the church, those finished with provisional going through marriage tribwaiting lists, so any people unals for annulments, inacwho missed out this time tive catholics who, as a would be kept in mind for a comprise a large group, future occasion. of the Body of proportion "If the numbers of people Christ in Australia. showing interest continues The Australian group also then it is our responsibility felt those called to a ministry as a funeral and bereaveshould be encouraged, ment education service to see how we can meet that trained and funded in.their trainingneed," Mr Smith said.

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The Western Australian delegates to the Oceania Lay Apostolate Congress were Mr Jim Miolin, Perth archdiocesan executive officer for the Christian Social Apostolate and Christian Life Groups; Mr Peter Shooter a full time worker with the Young Christian Workers.

Both were nominated by Archbishop Foley after consultation with the Diocesan Pastoral Council and Council of Priests.

From Bunbury diocese Mrs Georgie Bruce-Smith WA vice president of the Catholic Women's league was nominated by Bishop Quinn.

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Many Australian delegates to the Oceania congress felt women were excluded from decision making in the Church or were belittled because of their sex.

"Many of the decisions concerning the work of the church are made by men in their capacities as priest and bishops," said a statement.

"Women's experiences, concerns, faith and spirituality need to be recognised by the decision-making bodies of the

church.

"Me hope moves towards more equal representation on diocesan and parish councils continue, and that women be encouraged and affirmed to take on more positions of responsibility within our Church.

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The welter of publicity about any prominent personality or institution these days means that the image in the public view is all important. It comes as a shock to over-pious and over sensitive Church members to hear that the Church even has an image, let alone that it should cultivate one.

The cartoon image of the Church -mostly its clergy an occasional woman religous is not only enduring but convenient. If religion can be consistently caricatured in the guise of balding clergy, long on their waistlines and short on intelligence or this world's wisdom, it can be conveniently ignored by those who don't like to be seen on the losing side.

Others have held such terrible images of the Church that they have taken their revenge in death and destruction. As television has recently reminded us a mere fifty years ago some sections of Spain had such a hatred of the Church that thousands of bishops, priest and religious were murdered.

There would be apologists still alive today, and not only Spaniards, who if not condoning the actual murders would see it as justified retribution on the Church in what later became a murderous civil war.

The hazard of being a Church with an image became more obvious following communist victories in Eastern Europe 40 years ago. The Church that was on trial was not only the bishops and priests hauled though Czech, Hungarian, Yugoslav, and later Chinese courts.

It was a Church whose image was anathema to the new political regimes. It is an image that is not allowed to die, is case any too eager a Catholic is tempted to buck the system.

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Elsewhere the image of the Church has undergone a change whose repercussions are yet to be fully played out. The predictable view was that in South-American countries the Church would traditionally and consistenly be found on the side of power and privilege. It was not only a predictable view, it was a conveniently handy excuses to blame only the Church for the mismanagement and poverty that has hit those countries so fiercely in modem times.

It may be hard to swallow but the world cannot escape the truth that the Catholic Church of which some say the world could profitably be rid is the now the thorn in the side of many South American governments, in Chile, in Peru, in Brasil, in Argentina. And the politicians and vested interests know it and they are not amused.

The history of the Church's modem image and it has many more facets than these is relative to what has taken place in the media in the past week. Wonderful as is their celebration, the image of the Church is not that some local Catholics have lived long and fruitful lives in the service of God in marriage and religious life.

Across the front pages of both local and national newspapers was blazoned the inescapable truth that the Catholic bishops of the Philippines have taken a deliberate and calculated step in establishing the Church's position and image in the shambles following the socalled election of Marcos.

The bishops are not unique in their courage, because it is not they alone but thousands of dedicated priests, religious and laity who have laid the groundwork for the Church publicy to endorse civil disobedience if that is turns out to be the only path for elementary democratic justice to function in that country.

There are some who have instant and easy solution to what churchman should and should not be doing about a thousand moral, political and social issue that plague every country.

Only God knows the personal heroism that individual Catholics will use to advance what they see to be the challenge of the gospel. What Australian Catholics are now beginning to see, right on their doorstep, is the development of an image of the Church that is likely to have wide repercussions far beyond the current Manila crisis.

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Racism in the Church in US WASHINGTON: At the half yearly meeting of the American hierarchy, 10 black bishops released a statement condemning racism in the Church.

The statement pointed

out many black Catholics, including clergy and religious, believed that "the Church is still European. . . . and in some way incompatible with the black experience in America".

It called on the bishops to adopt a "preferential option for black Americans" which would include: the setting up of a black secretariat with official status at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; the training of black lay Catholics as catechists or evangelists, and for leadership roles; a continuing commitment to Catholic education in the black community.

The statement also emphasised the need for more black bishops.

Volunteers enter prison

NEW YORK (NO) -Every Tuesday evening volunteers enter the gates of the Idaho State Correctional Institution to attend Mass with a group of inmates, pray with them, listen to them and laugh with them.

A few hours later the volunteers walk to the gate in the yard with those men who have become their friends. The two groups bid each other farewell. The volunteers return to their busy lives in the city and the inmates to their cells.

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"We are very blessed to be able to share with them (the inmates) and be part of their lives," said Sister Barbara Gonzales, one of the volunteers, after a Mass at the prison.

"I wish there were a lot more Catholic volunteers coming out here," said inmate Gary DuPont, a former volunteer facilitator. "A lot of us don't have family around to share with.

When the volunteers come, it helps to take away tensions and loneliness and helps us get closer to Jesus."

Marcos Pardo, an inmate who is currently the Catholic Volunteer facilitator, says he enjoys the volunteers "It makes me real happy when they come, he said. "It shows that someone out there really does care cares enough to give up some of their free time to share the word of God with us."

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attending has increased in

relation to the number of Catholic volunteers who attend, the inmates say.

But the inmates say there are more. Only about 20

The inmates said there are many more Protestant and Mormon volunteers going out to the prison than Catholic.

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"We don't have many organised classes out here for Catholics," DuPont said

inmates attend the Tuesday Masses which are celebrated regularly by Father Mario plain

School aid moves food mountain

VATICAN CITY (NC) -Pope John Paul IJ has said that for the Church to be universal, it must recognise non-European forms of liturgical music.

The church must open its mind and heart to the music of non-European cultures to allow "a new cultural sensitivity, and even before that,

an authentically Catholic ecclesial vision," the pope said.

The pope, who was honoured with tribal music on his recent visit to Africa, made his remarks at a 75th anniversary celebration of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music

The pope also told litur-

gists and musicians to work together to improve liturgy cal music and said there needs to be "a synthesis between liturgists and musi cians."

DOD He said for a long time the two groups have engaged in "parallel studies," but "without the united vision' needed for the "proper appreciation of one for the other."

He asked musicians to find

"a just balance" between

liturgical and musical studies, so they could make a "true response to what the Church and the world wait for from musicians at the service of the liturgy"

LONDON: MORE than 100 sacks of food collected by

children from a Birmingham Catholic school were sent to Band Aid on Monday to help feed the starving people of Ethiopia. Children from

Bishop Challoner in King's

Heath, Birmingham, were inspired by the Band Aid video to write to families, churches, temples, mosques, schools and supermarkets and ask for contibutions to a

'food mountain'. "Bob Geldof challenged us to start a 'school aid' project," headmaster Watts said. "The children were alive with ideas and wanted to respond immediately."

Genesis and evolution VATICAN CITY: "So long as we do not exclude divine casualty as the explanation for creation," says Pope John Paul II, 'We can hold that Genesis is not opposed to the theory of natural evolution."

'The two different accounts of creation contained in Genesis have primarily a religious and theological meaning," the pope said. "We do not discover in Genesis scientific truth as we

understand it."

The pope also repeated Church condemnations of pantheism and materialism. Pantheism holds that God is in nature but does not necessarily transcend it.

"It is contrary to our Catholic faith to say that only matter exists, or similarly to claim that God is to be identified essentially with the world,' the pope said.

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LONDON: There are at least four women judges serving on diocesan tribunals in England and Wales.

This year the archdiocese of Westminster has appointed three women judges, all members of religious orders with doctorates in canon law.

The 1983 code of canon law lays down diocesan judges should be clerics but that the episcopal conference may appoint lay people as judges, who must be "of good repute, and possess a doctorate, or at least a licentiate, in canon law" (Canon 1421) The judicial vicar or officials, however, and associate judicial vicars or vice-officiales, must be priests of at least 30 years of age

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NEW YORK (NC) - Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House says the "tens of millions of Godfearing Americans" who patronise the "sex industry" are "putting money in the pockets of organised crime."

The total control of organised crime over the production and distribution of pornography is so obvious, he said, that trying to deny it is like "denying that the sun rose this

morning."

He said youngsters who have become

involved in pornography and come to his

Times Square shelter in New York for help are sometimes in fear of their lrves because "they know too much."

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MANAGUA, The official Catholic radio station, Radio Catolica, was closed

down on January 1 for not broadcasting an

official program in which the president, Daniel Ortega, was to send a new year message to the nation.

Radio Catolica was closed for two days in October last year by the government for broadcasting a sermon by the Archbishop of Managua without government approval.

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Scotland prays for new saint

Mrs

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teacher who lost her life in the Challenger space disaster was an active member of St Peter's Parish in Concord New Hampshire where she taught religious education.

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□LONDON: The ecumenical movement is

being slowed because many clerics do not realise how urgent a mission it is, according to the former chairman of an AnglicanRoman Catholic ecumenical commission.

"Lack of information, particularly among the clergy" is a major obstacle to ecumenical advancement, said Bishop Alan Clark of East Anglia, England.

Bishop Clark, chaired the first AnglicanRoman Catholic International Commission.

Many clerics do not realise that work for Christian unity "is not just an option," but is "urgent" and "a part of the church's mission," he said.

He also said despite Catholic and efforts, large numbers of Christians ignored efforts to bring about Christian unity.

He estimated that "300 million Christians have nothing to do with the ecumenical movement" and said the Catholic Church and WCC are "a small boat on a big sea" in this regard.

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Anti-apartheid spreading NEW YORK: Controversy over apartheid surged undiminished within South Africa and spilled over into the United States as well following the failure of a meeting between leading South African churchmen and the to government achieve progress.

As violence continued, bringing the death toll in about a year to more than 625, South Africa Catholic bishops and other clergy pleaded for peaceful change but warned that without efforts to end apartheid the unrest will not cease.

Among incidents sparking further hostility was the detainment August 22-23 of about 800 schoolchildren, many under age 13, rounded up by police on allegations they failed to go to school.

After being held at a local police station, they were apparently released to their parents. About two dozen political activists also were arrested.

After a meeting of Catholic and Protestant Church officials and South African President Pieter Botha on August 19, Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban announced no progress was made in solving South Africa's crisis because "we hardly began to communicate at all."

In a statement, the racially mixed clergy delegation advised the president that "unless people see a significant substantial move from apartheid to sharing, there will be no end to the unrest."

During a visit to the United States, another South African Catholic leader, Bishop Michael Rowland of Dundee, also warned the South African government must end apartheid or escalating violence "will result in the greatest bloodbath the African continent has ever known."

Apartheid, South Africa's system of racial separation, is "a morally repugnant policy," Bishop Rowland said in an interview in Los Angeles.

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Priest hurts 'to depth of faith'

from FATHER ROBERT CROSS, Northampton

SIR: In recent months there has been a verbal war among Catholics which has hurt me as a priest to the very depths of my Catholic faith and charrty.

Criticisms and innuendoes have been fired from all directions at individuals and organisations within our church.

For the last few days it has been my privilege to sho,, I around two Gambian visitors who are in Australia to promote Project Compassion.

John-Paul and Grace N'jie are two African people of great dignity, people who have first hand experience of Grace N'jie and her husband John showing The Gambia from which they have come to thank Australians for their Catholic aid programs. poverty and oppression.

They are not in Australia to beg, but to seek justice for their country and other impoverished countries by heightening our awareness "these hell on earth" institumember of several different of the causes of poverty in the from Ron and Helen tions she was remarkably sects.

Her husband world. religious COLEMAN, Menora better and was able to lead a I have heard it rumoured with a lot more trials put up SIR: We read with disbelief than God would have wanted relatively normal life with her many Catholice are not going family until illness caught up to give to Project Compassion the interview with Cloreen any man to go through Roach by Roslyn Ross (The with her again this year.

Her husband has not got an We believe the article is In making this decision I Record February 6). We have alcohol problem, is not a grossly unjust, and has no would ask them to be aware known the family and its and has brought up history for the past 15 years. gambler, consideration for the reputaof two things. the children mostly on his The article is far removed tion of her husband. Due to Firstly, Australian Catholic own to the best of his ability. this scant regard for the truth Relief is considered to be from the truth of the situation It is necessary to point out and defamatory innuendo Australia's most reputable and has been poorly there is a history of mental about Don Roach we refuse non-Government Aid organ- researched.

Cloreen Roach is not a illness and each time Cloreen to purchase The Record isation with the lowest of Catholic, but has been a Roach has emerged from again. overheads, with something

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Mrs Mandela, wife of gaoled anti-Apartheid activist Joseph Mandela in South Africa.

African problem U.S. by a Special Correspondent

Archbishop Hurley's meeting, which also involved Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational church officials, followed Botha's August 15 hard-line national address. In the speech, the president reiterated earlier proposals for only limited changes in apartheid.

Archbishop Hurley, at a news conference in Preto-

ria, said that during the session with Botha, "the two separate perceptions of South Africa's reality were so different that we hardly began to communicate at all."

Botha "did not really answer any of the issues we raised," the Catholic archbishop added. "We haven't anything substantial to take with us as a result of this

meeting."

In another development, the Catholic bishops of southern Africa urged South Africa's Chamber of Mines to accept the demands of mineworkers and avert a potentially violent strike. ''Now that workers are unionised. they are demanding a living wage, that is, a wage that enables

them to provide decent support for themselves and theri families," said a statement by the Southem African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which includes bishops of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.

A strike, which might affect about 400,000 workers, "could lead to widespread violence and immense suffering," the bishops' statement said.

According to the bishops, a large proportion of the miners earn "below-subsistent wages, even after the July increase implemented by the Chamber of Mines," an organisation representing mine owners.

The meeting of Archbishop Hurtey and the other churchmen with Botha was marked by the absence of Bishop Tutu

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like 92% of funds being directed to development and Aid projects.

This compares with a more well known organisation which has overheads and administration costs in the vicinity of 30%.

Secondly, countries which have been recipients of ACR grants have requested that a percentage of funds raised in Australia be used to educate Australians as to the causes of world poverty.

A couple of hours ago I finished celebrating my first Mass for Ash Wednesday.

I signed the foreheads of the gathered people with the dust which was obtained from last year's palms; which were used to hail Christ our Kina,

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see your Son walking into Jerusalem, being haied l as King with palms outstretched. I see Your Son Jesus whipped, mocked, scourged, ridiculed. I see Your Son risen and triumphant over the sin of mankind. Lord allow us your people to see Your Son Jesus each other, i nthe body of the church, the Body of Christ, and not to be a deceitful, revengeful crowd, but a joyous people of the resurrection, already sharing in the Kingdom of of justice, God, a kigdom n

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peace and above all charity and love.

May our efforts as the Body

of Christ with Christ at our head bring all makind to ts true di a dignity nity. g created i nthe image of God. l ask this through Christ our lord. Amen.

As one of the diocesan directors of Australian Catholic Relief and the Catholic Commission for Jus tice and Peace in Western Australia I would like to urge all Catholics to be as gener ous. if not more, in contributing to Project Compassion during this Lent, as in pas

years.

May God bless us in our generosity as we seek to make His Kingdom Come and not ours.

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now became the sign of out finiteness and our need to turn away from sin and vengefulness and become faithful people of the gospel.

May I share a prayer with you all: Heavenly Father, all ot us aim to do what is right and good. None of us deliberately set out to deceive and hurt one another, and yet l detect so much unintended hurt. I see a people threatenig n and revengeful. But above all this I see Your Son Jesus once agai nresistig n the temptations of the desert, temptations of testing God, of power and domination and of greed. I

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Schools benefit Special Reporter

ducts the primar school.

Bother Michael Toohey

will share his time

between Newton Sister Josephite on Commission Moore and Bunbur Rosemary FarringHigh Schools.

Education. ton and St Gerard There are now nine cha Brother Michael Sister Rosemary is plains working in stat€ from the Eastern high shools Toohey are among States and will be The Churches' Commis the four new chaattached to the Dission on Education is t plains appointed to trict High School in receive a grant 0 state high schools Wyndham where $20,000 a year for th her order also connext three years tu by the Churches'

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Objections to advert from ROB O'CONNOR, Ned/ands

SIR, The strong objection by Jenni York (The Record, February 6) to The Record pubpaid political lishing advertisment which "mention family values and/or Catholic background" cannot be supported Subject to exceptions such as illegality or immorality, any newspaper should be open to any advertiser who is prepared to pay the going price.

A politician

is

as free to

insert an advertisement dealing with what he sees as the single issue of "family values and/or Catholic background" as are other politicians who have advertised on other single issues, eg land rights, taxes and charges, or interest rates.

The answer is that a better remedy than political censor-

ship by the editor is available to Ms York. ff she IS offended by the content of any advertisement, she has the democratic right to vote against that candidate or his party.

Ms York's other suggestion, that party platforms be discussed in the light of the Gospel or Church teaching, has considerable merit

One thing is for sure an avalanche of heated debate from both sides would follow

Women not one

from E.P. MARSH Alfred Cove SIR: Peter Bertola (the Record February 3) is right.

Woman was near no.1 in the good old days!

Of course woman could only be near no. 1 at that time because man was no. 1.

So what's new?

He was wrong from FATHER JIM O'BRIEN, Gosnells SIR, I was wrong. I said in

your columns that if you give

to Project Compassion you

are supporting the Catholic

Commission for Justice and Peace.

Well, it ain't necessarily so

As a slow learner I have learnt that if a receipt is given

for your total contribution, all

the money you donate goes to overseas projects.

Like many people I objected to the peace statement of the

Commission which is funded from Project Compassion money.

I did not realise that nothing goes to the Commission except donations given specifically for rt and unreceipted

donations.

This was made clear recently in a circular to all priests and parish councils. I am told that rt had often been stated previously. Mea culpal

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assist in establishing chaplaincies at schools in under-privileged areas. Announcing the grant, the Premier Mr Burke said that the potential value of chapfincy work was well appreciated and he was anxious to assist as far as possible.

The Executive Director of the Churches' Commission on Education Mrs Margaret Wiltams, welcomed news

of the grant.

She said that it would enable chaplaincies to be established in schools where previously there had been no hope because the local community could not raise the necessary funds.

She expressed some concern, however, that, the inadequate staffing of the CCE was also a limiting factor in expanding the chaplaincy program.

MELBOURNE: THE Australian tour

by Pope John Paul II in November will be a dynamic event, bigger than "The Beatles or Abba".

National director of the papal visit, Monsignor Brian Walsh, 49, with all the aplomb and charisma of a rock entrepreneur, has said the tour would be a historical occasion for all Australians.

"The only way I can describe it to people is if you

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Co-operation: the key to a new life.

were alive and well in 1954 and saw the reception the

Queen received with hundreds of thousand of people cheering. that is the sort of response he will get.

We have had letters from every municipality in Australia," he said.

Monsignor Walsh said the

corporate response had

already been pleased with the Jack Chia Group providing office space in its Melbourne Collins St headquarters and the ANZ Bank seconding staff to assist with the tour.

"I have no idea how much this is going to cost but I have been given the brief there is to be no debt at the end of it, so as far as I am

concerned it costs nothing."

he said.

"Reading his mind he would want to see the Aboriginal people and where they live, he would want to see the sick, the less privileged in the community.

"He will talk to about 35 groups and give not only a national but an international address to them. We are an agricultural country and he will speak to farmers in Australia and the whole world and give them a message," Monsignor Walsh said

We say

"Our Father" too.

Scientists' respect

VATICAN CITY (NO) -Scientists show a growing respect for the Christian view that man was created in the image of God, said Pope John Paul II at his weekly general audience.

"Many scientists have assumed an attitude of increasing respect for the Christian view of creation, which allows for fruitful dialogue concerning the different ways of approaching the reality of the world and the human person," the pope said.

The dialogue allows a growing convergence of views between Christianity and science that the human person is created in "the image of God and called to be the intelligent master of the created world," the pope said.

"The roots of modern science are closely linked to the biblical truth about creation, even though the relationship between the two has not always been harmonious, " he added.

"In our own day the mutual between relationship science and religious truth is better understood," he said

teaching agricultural and administrative skills, pointing the way to formation of self-help cooperatives.

Pooled skills and resources are making the promise of new equipment a reality and breaking. once and for all, the vicious cycle of poverty.

Already many have benefited and, with the support of Project Compassion, many more will have a better future.

One third of Latin America's people live below the poverty line.

Many of these are rural peasants battling to farm tiny plots of land.

With insufficient means to support loans for badly needed equipment, they often become the victims of the crippling interest rates of money lenders.

The Interamerican Cooperative Institute (ICI) in Panama has at last begun to give the poor some hope.

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Reflecting community "A church building reflects the community" it is built for, said Father Richard Vosko of Albany, NY, a liturgical design consultant. "If the community is hospitable and sensitive and considerate of members' needs, the church building should reflect this." "ht should be attractive and

D'Orazio added people initially tend to favour traditional church

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accessible and user-friendly," Father Vosko said. He travels widely consulting with parishes

on building and renovating church structures

In designing a church, "every case is different," said architect

Joel D'Orazio "Designing a church isn't like shopping for a car where there are many differ. ent styles" to chose from.

"1 approach church design like a puzzle"with a lot of different

pieces to put together, D'Orazio

added For both men, getting to know

a particular community is the first piece of the puzzle. This includes assessing parish needs, wants and expectations. It means find ing out how the parish worships and what its educational and other needs are

DOD "No two communities are

alike," Father Vosko said, "even though they may share a single denominational identity." Each community has its own social and political makeup, culture and sometimes ethnic distinction.

The consultation process can be an educational experience for

In Covington, Kentucky, the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, begun before the turn of the century, remains unfinished. Two spires 185 feet high planned to top the cathedral never were constructed due to shortages of funds. Elaborate pedestals at the main entrances lack statues that never were carved. But despite these unfinished touches, the cathedral is sheer architectural beauty complemented by art work of the highest quality.

For many people, the word "church"

Inside a church building, people and structure interact. On the one hand, the

In buildings constructed for religious purposes, it is axiomatic that form follows

goals of the people e.g. to learn, to serve the ever present stranger in need.

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Spetacular remain's of sunagogue

At Capernaum, t centre of

Jesus' ministry in Ge, are the spectacular remif an old synagogue constred in the third century. le likelihood it was built on the siof the one in which Jesus oftereached.

All the stctress rounding the synagogue ilt of the almost black volar ock of the region. By cont the synagoge was ma#entirely of luminous white lineone, which had to be brougtt from the south at great cost lt resembled 4ii jewel in a black setting," e commentator put it.

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Father John Castelot t is an axiom in architecture that form follows function. And since the function of the synagogve was quite different from that of the Jewish temple, so too was its architecture.

A flight of steps led to the

raised stone platform on which the synagogue structure rested.

The entire facade faced south towards Jerusalem.

Inside, lining the two side walls, were two rows of stone benches, probably for the elders, the board of directors. The congregation apparently sat on mats on

the floor as was customary in the Middle East.

Originally this synagogue had

two stories with a gallery above the two side aisles entered by an outside rear stairway. It was thought at first that women sat here but there is really no basis in rabbinic literature for

the supposed separation of the

sexes at services.

At one corner was a small room, probably for the storage of the biblical scrolls.

0f special interest is a colonnaded portico and courtyard

attached to the side of the building. lt probably served as the community school for both children and adults. It may also have been used for overnight

accommodations for the ever present "needy stranger."

These features point up the function of the synagoge.

the stone statues all around the side walls seemed almost alive He became very calm and quiet inside. It was all

so still, so big. so beauti-

ful. He felt for a moment that God was nght there with him. Words from a hymn came into his mind and he prayed. "O God,

how great thou an!"

At that moment. a dream was born in Hans' heart someday to build a great cathedral where people could feel God's presence "h has to be big." he thought later as a teen-

ager "Otherwise people

will not notice it. It has to be pointing up to the sky, so people will raise their

minds and hearts to God It must be beautiful, so people will feel God's beauty in their lives. It must be big enough to

became an architect, an artist who builds useful,

beautiful buildings Then one day the mayor and the archbishop of a large city invited Hans to

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visit them.

"We have heard a lot about you," the mayor began. "We know you are a skilled builder and artist

"We want you to build a cathedral in our city, the archbishop added

hold everybody so they feel at home."

'All my life I have dreamed of building a cathedral," Hans said. "T

Hans worked hard to

make his dream come true He learned to take a rough stone and shape it into a human face, an angel, a dove. He learned to tell a Bible story in stained glass. He learned to work with wood and metal He learned how to build walls straight and to

accept your invitation.

I

am honoured to use my talents to build a house for God and God's people."

When Hans returned home. he shared the good news with his family

"O Lord," he whispered

keep them from falling

"Help me create a beau-

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be. On the other hand, the life within the people themselves somehow contributes to making this building all that it can be.

was a building that reflected the life and

routinely were far away from the

altar and paid little attention to

a home dining room, "should be vibrant and alive and so located that all feel as if they are sitting at the table of the Lord."

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synagogue where Jesus often spoke. It

Vosko said

D'Orazio pointed out that in Gothic churches worshippers

quickly understand what we're talking about" Like a home, a church can be welcoming and comfortable, he said. The eucharistic setting like

people it could hold. He

was fascinated by the warm red and blue

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structure itself can make a statement to

built, very possibly, on the site of a

they can't descrbt" Father

Both men commented that church styles alter as people's vision of what a church is changes.

many churches today are "modelled after a home." One advantage of this is that people

wonder at how many

Hans left his villages designed cathedral

I am 1ssuing a call.

does the shape of a church building make?

third century to visit an ancient synagogue

"Many have ima f what a church building sld be but

outlines of a design and how people think "the church should feel," Father Vosko said The priest told of consulting on a renovation project. Since the parish is in the midst of a parish renewal program, he centered discussions on the theme of "what we can do to help the parish grow and change."

Father Vosko added that parish consultation leads to a document which serves as a guideline for the architect. The ground covered in this report varies widely

many big buildings On Sunday they went to Mass in the largest building in the city, the cathedral. "ht's so tall," Hans exclaimed as he looked up at the steeple Inside, Hans stared in

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scripture scholar takes readers back to the

want in a church n

A goal of consultation is "con-

sensus." at least on the broad

each other He spoke of designing a Catholic church in Pennsylvania with the pews radiating out from the altar in a fan shape. The community "wanted to be as close as possible to the sanctuary and to each other," he said Father Vosko observed that

for the first time and went with his parents to a big city. It was an exciting trip.

He had never seen so

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function, writes Father John Castelot. The

designer and parsers, both men indicated. Pe 4ten need help in determini «hat they

designs because they "feel safe with the past."

D'Orazio told of working recently with a church community in Maryland which presented himn with a 30-page comprehensive document. It covered every facet of community life from the origins of the community to worship needs. Their statement asks the architect "to translate our vision of what is needed to live out our faith and covenant life into art and architecture."

When he was about 10, Hans left his small village

The ruins of the synagoge Capernaum on the shore of the Sea of Galilee are an important stop on" the itinerary of mamy Christian

pilgrims in Israel. Mere, according to tradition, a youthful Jesus taught.

The beauty of the synagogue, built of imported luminous white limestone, contrasts with the surrounding structures which are almost entirely

·i4 te black volcanic rock native t the region.

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WA author finds feminism alive and well in women

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women ace a

i er s ru Dr Sally Kennedy knows better than most, what we see is not necessarily what we get.

In the newly-turned fields of women's history it is more likely to be a case of what we "think we see" and what we "think we get."

As the author of a recently released book called Faith And Feminism, Catholic Women's Struggles for Self Expression (published

by Dove Communications, $29.95) she knows at first-hand how much the convenient covers of "image" shroud the people of the past - and especially when those people are women.

As a woman who defines "feminism" as "equality for all," Dr Kennedy was pleased to find among the "dry as dust" details of her research, the rich and fearless elements of feminism, alive and well in women of faith.

Her book breaks new ground.

The Catholic Church has played an important and often controversial role in shaping Australia's social and cultural history.

But scrutiny of this has largely focused on men. and especially on clerics.

The subject of Faith And Feminism is lay Catholic women and their efforts to organise within the Church.

The focus is on Melbourne and Sydney in the 30 years to

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[The book details the strength of the radical impulse among lay Catholic women between the World Wars, the diverse expression of this in the five organisations examined, and its ultimate frustration in an environment dominated by clerical ignorance.

by ROSLYN ROSS Dr Mary Glowrey 1950 a period which saw the establishment of Catholic Action and the seeds of those divisions which erupted within the Church and the wider community in the 1950s.

In her book she details the strength of the radical impulse among lay Catholic women between the World Wars. the diverse expression of this in the five organisations examined, and its ultimate frustration in an environment dominated by clerical ignorance.

Maud O'Connell, first secretary of the Catholic Womens Social Guild.

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It's all heady stuff for those who believe solely in the "little lrish mother" of old.

Those "Irish mothers," says Dr Kennedy, were a force to be reckoned with, not just physically but intellectually.

It is the vital role they played as a force within the Church and within society that she seeks to describe in her book.

The fact the book exists at all is somewhat a quirk of fate, she adds.

A graduate of the University of Western Australia, Dr Kennedy received a scholarship to complete her Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales after moving to Sydney in 1978.

She was interested in women's history and had done a lot of work on women in the depression, a field she planned to explore further for her doctorate.

But it was not to be.

'When I got there someone else was already working in the area," she said.

"I talked to Beverley Kingston who suggested the area was untouched.

"It was an interesting situation because the Cathohc

education system obviously "After two years I had had a profound effect on decided "images of women" society in general and on would be the basis of my women in particular. thesis 'Thousands of nuns came "It was only when I talked to out to Australia in the late Professor Patrick O'Farrell 19th century, most of them pre-eminent historian of the from Ireland, and they had a Irish-Catholic experience in dramatic influence on the Australia that I was turned girls who were being eduin the direction of the Catholic cated at that time." women's groups that would It all began with two boring, ultimately provide the basis lonely years. she added. It for my thesis and for the was an untouched area and book." the only way to break new The five Catholic organisaground was by slow and tions which she explored steady digging. were: the Catholic Women's "I went through anything Association in Sydney; the and everything I could find of Catholic Women's Social Catholic literature -novels, Guild in Melbourne; St periodicals, papers, reports of Joan's Alliance Victorian sermons everything Section; St Joan's Alliance printed during the years 1860 New South Wales Section, to 1940," she said. the Grail.

"Because it was new, I had In the book Dr Kennedy no idea what it would tell me. relates the aims, successes "I looked to the research to and disappointments of the provide the themes and there five organisations and also were many of them. systematically details events "There were also many which, when considered as images of Catholic women part of a continuum, effecand I found that the needs of tively challenge the tradithe Church were often trans- tional image of the Catholic lated into images of vvomen. lay woman in that period.

"I found the material told me She exposes some raw what women "should" be nerves in the process. doing rather than what they Dr Kennedy demonstrates "were" doing. each organisation sought an

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It is this conflict which is the crux of her book She claims the dominant position of the clergy in most formal aspects of the Church in Australia meant most of the manufacturers and presenters of the images of women were members of the clergy.

She sees the traditional images being adapted to the Australian environment in the late 19th century when the model of the perfect, submissive, otherworldly Mary was laced with notions of lrish purity mixed with concepts of the ideal pioneer woman.

It had a dual purpose.

It was the mythology of a tribe anxious to establish its respectability in the context of Australian emerging nationalism.

And rt was a means of control over its subjects Catholic women's lives were ignored in the process, she said.

The presence of a large number of women religious

in Australia obscured the reality further, Dr Kenned said Nuns, by virtue of the religious clothing, communt living and various rulers were a mysterious part of the Church to those outside

significant structures Yet the imagery of the Catholic women's place in the home contnu frozen and increasingly irrel vant in the 20th century, said The image makers ignor important developments the education of Cathol girls; ignored the influence of strong amongst the religious pr ing models of independe to generations of you Catholic girls; and ignored changing aspirations a expectations of middle women generally.

Dr Kennedy makes the tentious conclusion th image manufactured a presented within the Ch that of the passive, pl "Tittle Irish mother," was fact a fairy tale, a comfort nostalgic crutch for la uncomprehending, disint ested clergy but a powe

the conflicts between t fairy tale and the reall through the histories of t five organisations There was a series of battl and the clergy, secure in t hierarchical, patriarchical a predominantly male stru ture of the Church, seeming got ts way.

Pessimism replaced opt ism in the women's organu tions, and many of th leading Catholic wome

WA people treating feet worse than those anywhere in world

of faith ...

Western Australians treat their feet worse than people anywhere else in the world. Their ignorance of proper foot care is depressingly profound. These are the sad conclusions to which Paul Carroll has come after 22 years in the boot and shoe business in WA in the light of the knowledge he has gleaned of footwear practices in many other parts of the globe.

"People here," he says "don't realise the they just take them importance of their feet for granted.

'The great strength of the human foot, which has more bones in it than any other part of the body of comparable size and has a complex bone structure, leads them to neglect and abuse their pedal extremeties through lack of care and to deform their feet in the interests of fashion."

Paul has been shocked by the condition of many of the West Australian feet he has examined, and urges everybody to consult a podiatrist at least once a year.

People in Europe have a greater knowledge of foot care possibly because the type of weather with which they have to contend leads them to demand a more protective type of footwear than in the case here, he says.

He is disturbed by the popularity here of the so-called health sandals.

These, he points out, are exercise footwear which should be worn for no more than five minutes a day if irreversible foot damage is to

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Like Brennan, Flynn was But. more than any other sought active roles outside the Church or in other counmember of the first Catholic involved in other women's tries.

Women's Social Guild com- organisations, as well as Dr Kennedy sought out and mittee, she translated a being a member of the interviewed many of the strong sense of community cwSG Another notable was Dr women who played a part in with women into co-operathis history. tion and links with organisa-' Mary Glowrey who was 29 years old when confirmed as Both from these sources as tons well as privately-held archival Only the second woman the first president of the CwSG in October 1916 and contemporary materials, admitted to practice at the She was born the third of she has presented a new Victorian Bar, Anna Brennan nine children in 1887 to lrishslant on some of the ideologbecame well known in Melborn parents ical conflicts in Catholic hisbourne for her keen interest A Scholarship enabled her tory. in, and advocacy of women's to go on to high school and They include: rights in matters of law. then to university.

• the causes and effects of Julia Flynn was another who made her mark.

She began a Bachelor of the dispute between ArchbiThe youngest of six children Arts course at the University shop Mannix and the leaders born to lnsh parents, she of Melbourne but switched to of the Catholic Women's specialised in mathematics medicine at the urging of her Social Guild in the 1920s.

• the challenge to the clergy throughout a teaching career. father.

In 1914, at the age of 36, After graduating in 1910, implicit in the radical ideas she was appointed an InspecGlowery was forced by the and teaching of the Dutch tor of Secondary Schools in difficulties female medical Jesuit Jacques van Ginniken, founder of the Grail, which the Victorian Department of graduates faced in securing struck such a responsive Education and, in 1924, such posts to complete her chord young Senior Inspector of Seconamongst residency requirements at a Catholic women in Sydney, dary Schools the highest hospital in Christchurch, New Melbourne and Brisbane in position any woman had Zealand, and only returned in the 1930s and 1940s reached in the department to Melbourne in 1913 when she took up a position at the • the effects of the introduc- that point. tion of Catholic Action into See page 12 the Australian Church on Catholic women.

Dr Kennedy has also unearthed some remarkable Catholic women.

They shine like beacons throughout Faith and Feminism.

Women like Anna Brennan, the youngest of 13 in a remarkably talented family.

Anna was born at Emu Creek in 1879 of lrish parents.

After attending various state schools in the country and St Andrew's College in Bendigo, she began studying medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1903.

Two years later she changed to law, graduating in 1909 and becoming articled to her brother Frank.

Some of Anna Brennan's lifelong interest in politics and political activity was due to her family connections.

Instead they are often worn all day by their users About 99 per cent of the people he examines have different-sized feet but the alleged health shoes are both of the same size, so one must be a wrong fitting.

Health sandals stimulate the feet and if they are worn for more than a maximum of 10 minutes a day this stimulation brings the metatarsal heads inwards instead of outwards.

The metatarsals are the springs of the body and if their condition is impaired you are quickly going to feel tired and run down.

Because of its comparatively sparse and scattered population WA presents a limited market for fractional footwear fittings and many shops don't all their shoes carry them of the size are of one width, he says Paul carnes a wide range of widths in his shop because he believes exact fitting is far more important than any other quality of a shoe.

"People talk about nice shoes," he says, "but the nicety of a shoe is what it is doing for the foot. Healthy feet are happy feet."

His appraisal of a shoe covers points such as its depth, whether it has a natural toe box, whether it will give proper support, whether it will fit securely to the foot without causing any pressure points -in short, that it is designed for the foot and not the eye.

A shoe has to be a perfect fit before he will sell it -a fact that has caused more than one contretemps with customers who want to buy it for any but the right reasons.

In co-operation with Terry Gadeen, he has designed a cardboard foot-measuring kit which can be sent to country customers along with a catalogue so they can measure

Archbishop Mannix and Fr William Lockington S.J

•

He rose through various senior executive positions and 10 years later left the company as technical director to buy his own shoe repair and sales business in Tuart Hill which he converted from near-bankruptcy to a profitable enterprise.

He added to the Tuart Hill It is a task calling for skill and business by buying J's in the utmost precision.

Claremont which specialised "For instance," he explains, in fitting orthopaedic foot"incorrect fitting of a diabet- wear. ic's shoes can cause ganOn a world tour with his grene and the loss of the wife and family in 1981, he toes " had a severe heart attack in But he finds the work most San Francisco and two more rewarding and testimony to bad turns when he got back the good name he has estab- to WA fished is the fact his little The time had come to shed establishment in Plaza some of his workload, so he Arcade is, per square metre practically gave J's to its of space occupied, one of the manager, but continued to busiest shops in Perth. "potter around" at Tuart Hill.

His climb to success in WA He was chuffed by the has been accomplished in 22 number of people who kept years, although the going has asking when he was going to been by no means all easy. get back into surgical fitting He arrived here on a Satur- and made the decision to day in 1963 and on the open the Plaza Arcade busifollowing Monday got a job ness in 1983. with Gem Footwear, initially From then he has never as a floor-sweeper. looked back.

By BOB BOYLE each foot accurately and order correctly-fitting shoes from the catalogue.

The ingenious kit, which incorporates a tape measure and clear directions for use. has appealed strongly to a big shoe distributing organisation in England which is now using it there.

Paul's reputation has been largely built up in the work he has done here in the surgical and orthopaedic footwear fields, skills he largely learnt from his early apprenticeship from his father who had a great name for the same work in Ireland.

He does a lot of work in hospitals and in the homes of handicapped people in activities such as diabetic and arthritic footwear fitting

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and martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ. faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need. to you I have cause from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me now in my present and urgent need, and grant my earnest petition. In return I promise to make vour name known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias, St Jude pray for all who honour and invoke your aid and promise publication.

This novena never fails.

In thanksgiving. Kathleen Agnes.

M.R.

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May the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus be blessed, praised and adored now and forever. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us. St Jude, pray for us.

St Jude , Saint of the Impossible, please pray for us and grant us our request. (This prayer never fails. Say it once a day for 9 days. Promise publication.) Grateful thanks to God. His Mother and St Jude for favour received. M.R.

Thank you most Sacred

Heart of Jesus for prayers answered and favours received. May your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever and ever. Amen. L and C.

Most Sacred Heart of

Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Grateful thanks for favours granted. W.D.B.

0 HOLY SAINT JUDE apostle and martyr, great in virtue, and rich in Single Lady with good miracles! Near kinsman sense of humour wishes to meet gent early 50's, mus! Novena to the Holy of Jesus Christ, faithful be a practising Catholic Spirit. Holy Spirit, you intercessor of all who and lover of gardening. who solve all problems invoke your special Reply SINGLE this office. light all roads so that I patron in time of need.

To you I have cause from If you have a weight can attain my goal. You problem we want to help gave me the divine gift to the depth of my heart and to whom you. Our program is sim- forgive and forget all evil humbly beg you God has give such great ple, natural and very against me and that in all power to come to my successful. Phone Anne instances in my life you assistance. Help me now or Jim (09) 299 6756 or are with me. I want in this in my present and urgent 480 9837. short prayer to thank you need and grant my earnMost Sacred Heart of for all things as I confirm est petition. In return I once again that I never promise to make your Jesus. May your name be want to be separated praised and glorified from you ever in spite of name known and cause throughout the world all material illusions. I you to be invoked. Say now and forever, Amen. wish to be with you in three Our fathers. Hail Say nine consecutive eternal glory. Thank you Marys and Glorias. St days and promise publi- for your mercy towards Jude pray for all who cation. Grateful thanks, me and mine. This prayer honour and invoke your Charmaine. must be said for three aid. Publication must be Grateful Thanks to the days after which favours promised. This novena Sacred Heart of Jesus. will be granted. The never fails. Grateful thanks to the Holy FamHis Blessed Mother and prayer must be published ily, St Jude, St ChrisSt Jude for favours R. D'Cruz. immediately. topher and St Michael. received. Please continue to help me. M. Smith.

Most Sacred Heart of D. Lee. Jesus may your name be Most Sacred Heart of praised and glorified THANKS to St Jude, Jesus, may your name be through the world now Holy Spirit. St Anthony. praised and glorified and forever. Amen. GrateMary McKillop, Most throughout the whole ful thanks for favours sacred Heart of Jesus and world now and forever. .. received. M.H. may your name be AMEN. Thanks to the most Sacred Heart for Grateful Thanks to the praised and glorified favours received and Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our throughout the world thanks also to our Lady of Lady of the Sacred Heart. now and forever. J. Revelation.

St Jude and St Anthony, Say nine times for nine for favours received espe- ST. JUDE Many thanks days and promise publica- cially successs in examina- for prayers answered.

B.M.S. tion. JUDY tions. K.G.

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Aboriginal delegates

received.

Board needed for country girl student. Monday to Friday, city, Fremantle or Melville areas. Contact Box 4. Cunderdin 6407.

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NOTICE

PRAYER TO ST JUDE 0 Holy St Jude, apostle and martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patron in time of need.

To you, I have recourse and from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you, to whom God has given such great power, to come to my assistance.

Help me now in my present and urgent need, and grant my ernest petition.

In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. (Say 3 Our Fathers. Hail Marys and glorias. This novena never fails. Publication must be promised).

Grateful thanks to our Lady, Sacred Heart of Jesus, St Jude for favour

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Student requires accommodation with Christian people for two or three nights a week in vicinity of W.A.C.A.E. Phone 419 1814.

Country female student W.A.I.T. attending Semester One 1986 requires full board, in a Catholic household, within a fifteen minute drive of that institution.

Prefer single room with desk. Please ring 098447 100 (reverse charges) before 8am or after 6pm.

There was a need for trained lay pastoral workers and for trained young and mature people to work in the field of the youth apostolate.

Those who were responsible for the formation and training of youth workers should submit their courses to the same review as the youth apostolate as a whole.

Youth work needed to stress • Bringing young people together in the spirit of openness and with a sense of community; • Providing opportunities for them to share their lives and their concerns; • Encouragement of prayer, Gospel reflection, and an understanding of Church teachings; • Helping youth to live out an active Christian witness in the world.

The Australian participants at the Oceania Lay Congress in Auckland included three Aborigines nominated by the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Catholic Council.

The Australian delegation expressed its deep concern for the dispossession and injustices suffered by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since white settlement in Australia "We also recognise present day discrimination against Aboriginal and Islander people especially in the areas of land rights, education, housing and health.

"We call upon all Australian people to recognise the culture and the special human and spiritual qualities of our Aboriginal and Islander people.

"We also call upon the Australian Catholic Church to be a prophetic voice working for justice and recognition for our Aboriginal and Island people.

"This could be achieved through • Catholic schools; • Giving our Aboriginal and Islander people opportunities of leadership positions within their Church communities; • Being more aware of the attitudes and hurts of out Aboriginal and Island people with regard to the bi-centennial celebrations."

Pictured at last month's Sunday Marrige a Preparatin o course are: Dearne Power of Joondanna and Brian Perrin of Bayswater who will be married at Our Lady of Victories church Wembley on February 22.

Battle for women

From page 11

Victorian Eye and Ear Hospi tal.

At this point she also renewed her friendship with William Lockington, who she had met in her university years through the Newman Society which he founded there in 1910.

Glowery was in accord with Lockington's views on the need for economic and political reform in society and the potential for lay Catholic women to act.

She willingly co-operated with him in the establishment of the CWSG and continued to advocate an active political role for women through it.

Along with Anna Brennan and Julia Flynn. Mary Glowery epitomised the quality of the CWSG leadership in its first four years.

Single, intelligent and capable, they were primarily motivated by concern about the economic and social inequities women faced in Australian society and a belief a lay Catholic women's organisation could do something about them.

All had Irish backgrounds but their attitudes and lives contradicted the common image of the lnsh Catholic woman in the home presented in the Church in Australia.

Shroud lecture

From page 2

At this time photography was a rather new science and since the cloth was known to be at least 500 years old, it existed long before anyone even knew

what a negative image was.

Thus the likelihood of the Shroud being a forgery was dramatically diminished.

In recent years, interest has again heightened with the re-examination of medical

and historical evidence, this time supplemented with results of modern analytical techniques In 1978 a group of scientists in the United States formed a group called "STURP" (The Shroud of

Turin Research Project) with the idea of providing collective expertise in this area.

In 1978 this group carried out a very intensive investigation of the Shroud on site in Turin, and while some of the results have been published, much of the data is still being evaluated The tests have raised some interesting points hitherto not considered and a further series of examinations is now being planned.

It is hoped these future tests will also include radio-

carbon dating.

For further information telephone Dr Brian O'Connor, WAIT on 350 7192.

It is women like these, and their achievements that Dr sally Kennedy has given long awaited, but long deserved recognition.

It is in thanks for that recog-

nition the letters have come since publication of Faith and Feminism, she says "I've had lots of letters, all applauding what the book says," she added, "and many of them are from nuns."

Scots' new saint

From page 5

garet was already a daily

communicant.

A few years later she

went to work at McVities

biscuit factory, where she was active in the trade union.

Margaret's sister Bella,

who joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, at the same time that Margaret joined the Poor Clares, says she was always the

peacemaker in quarrels either in their crowded home or in the factory.

Margaret entered the Poor Clare convent in Notting Hill in 1923. She took as her new name Sister Mary Francis of the

Five Wounds.

Shortly after her profession she developed tuberculosis of the throat.

During her illness the Sisters of Charity who nursed her testified she accepted the pain and discomfort of the illness with "unbelievable humil-

ity".

Margaret died on 24 November 1925 and was

buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London.

Her body was taken to Mount Berard Cemetery in Edinburgh two years

later.

Shortly afterwards various miracles were attributed to her intercession.

Obituary

It should be remembered of the recently deceased one time premier of WA Mr Albert Hawke that he was the first head of government in Australia to return to giving financial assistance to Catholic and

other non-government schools.

It came about that he had foreknowledge of a new reading of the Abolition of Assistance to Schools of 1895 to the effect that it had no future effect on the givilng or withholding of financial assistance to non-government schools.

In an election address at South Bunbury in 1953 Mr Hawke promised help to these schools if he was returned to office. The ALP narrowly won that election and fulfilled his promise in 1954 giving non-government schools access to State Government Insurance school child accident insurance.

In 1955 non-government schools were granted subsidies on radios and supplies of school stationery.

The Catholic member for Mount Hawthorn the late Mr Bill Heagney was then Minister for Education and in charge of the legislation.

This was a small beginning but rt was endorsed by the second term of office in 1956 of the Hawke government which was returned with a record six seat majority.

This modest beginning in WA brought the State Aid ssue into prominence throughout Australia as an ingredient of political suc-

cess.

It ultimately brought about the creation of the Australian Schools Commission under the Whitlam 1973 government by the then Federal Minister for Education Mr Kim Beazley.

-Paul Donnelly

Adventure in the Northern Territory Michael McAllister, the new Catholic Parish Youth full timer has led a colourful life since leaving Mazenod College in 1981. His story sounds more like the script of a recently released adventure movie more than the life of a youth worker.

After leaving the halls of learning, bull catching in the Northern Territory was Michael's introduction into the world of work.

From sun-up to sun-down he was part of a team capturing 200 cattle or water buffalo bulls each week during the dry season of the tropics Michael began on $50 a week, and was earning $140 by the end of the second

season

Bull catching was not child's play -- it was hard work and dangerous.

First the converted land cruiser would knock over the bull and if possible park over the fallen animal.

As a strapper Michael would leap from the vehicle and tie the hind legs of the beast.

When it was impossible to park over the bull the animal was held down by pulling the tail between the legs while another person strapped the back legs It took considerable skill in handling a ton weight of roaring beef When not catching bulls, Michael the helped

"Ugh, tuna sandwiches on Fridays for the next six weeks" was the reaction of one boarding school teenager on Shrove Tuesday after learning Lent was starting.

Well, there is "good" and "bad" news.

The good news is there are only two required days of fast and abstinence during Lent.

Only on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday does the Church oblige its members to limit their intake of food and refrain from meat altogether.

The "bad" news is all must do special acts of

...it's good to bealive

With

r. John Jegorow penance on each and every Friday of the year.

During Lent and on all Fridays of the year Catholics are called to do penance for their own sins and also in

the name of the Church and of the world.

This is because sin is not just a private matter but each and every sin has a social dimension.

The season of Lent focuses on the community aspect of penance.

I for one, am glad we have abandoned the early days' practise of wearing sack cloth and ashes.

I'm not too keen on banishment by the local Bishop from a loving community as was the case in the 4th century.

In those days sinners formed a group for support and encouragement! can you blame. them.

Today some would say the pendulum has swung too far the in the opposite direction and Catholics are not seen to be doing any penance on Fridays, Lent or any time for that mater.

Colourful life □ led

Catholic Parish Youth Movement is ripping along according to Michael McAllister, CPY full timer.

The year got off to a good start with a special Mass for peace celebrated by Father Kaz Stuglik of Greenmount.

In his homily he encouraged young people to have courage to start the impossible even if no-one else is doing anything about the needs of the world.

In looking for the place to start he suggested that the greatest needs are hidden from our view and appreciation right at our own doorstep.

Young people came from Joondanna, Whitfords, Bentley, Lockridge, Bedford, Willetton and North Beach.

The next important event is a Christian Living Camp at Eagle's Nest on the second weekend in March.

Any young person between 15 and 25 is welcome to mechanic repair vehicles attend and can book a place by ringing 328 8136.

The river cruise which has proved an outstanding and did whatever else was success in past years will leave the Barrack Street jetty on needed at the base camp Saturday April 19.

300 miles east of Katherine.

Drinks limited to soft drinks only.

After that stint of bull Tickets are $7 waged and $5 unwaged catching, Michael worked The tickets sell like hot cakes and since there is a limited six months as a deck hand on number it's a case of first-in, first "sailed" a prawning boat in Shark Md

to

CPY

Returning to Perth he joined the Kalamunda Antioch community and was a foundation member of the Lesmurdie group.

He decided there was more to life than fishing and bull catching The 1985 Catholic conference proved a spring board of inspiration for Michael Seeing 300 young people have a good time and get down to some of the serious issues in life was enough to setMichael on a new chosen course.

Together with his friend Stuart Teasdale he raised funds from parish, friends and personal resources to attend a youth worker's course in Melbourne.

HAVE YOUR

SAY TO THE WA CATHOLIC

YOUTH COUNCIL The Catholic Youth Council annual Vision weekend is scheduled for

March 14-16

Individuals, groups and organisations with ideas, suggestions, or concems are invited to put them in writing and sent them to

The Secretary eve, PO Box 194, NORTH PERTH 6006.

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

Margaret and Terry Fennessy

I wonder what young people think about

doing penance.

I know young people are capable of great sacrifices to attain a chosen goal like saving for a car, training to win a sporting event or even dieting just to get the blubber off to look good.

I wonder if the goal of heaven is attractive or the sense of personal and social sin sufficient motive to inspire acts of self denial.

I think that as a child I did not eat lollies or gave up ice cream because a sister or brother said so.

But at least it was training for the day when l could make my

own decision.

I believe teenagers are ready to make every day of Lent a day of some specific penance.

Youth groups and movements may do well to discuss and investigate how young people can best participate in discipline of Lent and prepare for Easter.

Youth are always open to a challenge and I am sure that invited and encouraged they will respond.

While in an imaginative way we are not supposed to trumpet

our act of self denial, if you have a good idea, let youth forum

know.

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Q: What goes up but never comes down?

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A: Your word.

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In this story for very young children a little boy learns a great deal when his Grandad comes to stay from the country.

Q: What is the best thing to make in a hurry?

A: Haste.

Jokes Q: What word is always spelt incorrectly?

A: Incorrectly.

Q: What must you do to have

soft hands?

A: Nothing.

Q. What is never borrowed but often returned?

A: Thanks.

Q: What has no legs yet runs

around a paddock?

A:Afence.

Q: What is so delicate that you can break it with a whisper?

A: Silence.

Q: What is it that even the cleverest man overlooks?

A: His nose.

Q. What is the difference between the North Pole and the South Pole?

A: All the difference in the world.

Q: What has many rings but

no fingers?

A: A telephone.

Q: What is the difference between a radio and a clothesline?

A: A radio draws the waves and a clothesline waves the drawers.

Q: What has four wheels and flies?

A: Agarbage truck Q: What is the difference between the chicken pox, a burglar, a school and a car?

A: Tbe chicken pox breaks out.

A burglar breaks in.

A school breaks up.

A car breaks down Q: What ring is always square?

A: A boxing ring.

Q: Why is the letter R like Christmas?

A: It comes at the end of

As Eli lay asleep the Lord called out, "Samuel !Samuell" Samuel answered, "Speak, Lord. Your servant is listenig." n It was dark and quiet inside the vast temple. A single lamp burned. the lamp of God. Its flickering flame danced in the darkness. The old priest Eli was sound asleep. He was weak and almost blind. His young assistant, Samuel, also slept soundly. Samuel slept near the lamp of God not far from the ark of God. As a minister to the Lord, Samuel was responsible for the lamp. It was to burn all night. About midnight Samuel woke up. He heard a voice calling his name, "Samueli Samueli" He sat up in the darkness. There was only silence.

Samuel ran to where Eli was sleeping. He woke Eli and said, "Here I am. You called me."

"I didn't call you," the old man said wearily. 'Go back to sleep.

Samuel went back and lay

hildren's Story Hour down. He was puzzled, but quickly fell asleep.

"Samueli Samueli" a voice called out. Samuel bolted upright in his bed. He ran again to Eli and woke him up.

"Here I am," Samuel said to the old priest. "You called me." Eli, half asleep muttered, "I didn't call you, my son. Go back to sleep."

Samuel was sure he heard someone calling his name.

If it was not Eh, who could it be? No one else was in the temple during the night.

Samuel was a little afraid.

He was very curious. But he was too tired and quickly fell asleep again. ""Samuel Samuel" the same voice called6ut to the man. sleeping young Samuel jumped up. He ran a third time to Eli. Again he woke up his master. "Here I am," Samuel said. "You called me."

For a moment Eli was silent. He slowly opened his sleep-filled eyes. There was a smile on his face. A glow of understanding lit up his

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A: There is no such thing as half a bole.

Q: What is 8+ 3- 2+1-

wanted to judge from what Samuel reported whether

the voice was really the Lord's or not.

So Samuel told Eh all the painful things the Lord said were about to happen to him. Eli responded, "He is the Lord. He will do what He judges best."

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A: All that working for nothing.

Q: What is always in fashion yet out of date?

A: The letter F

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lined face. "Now I understand, my son," he said to Samuel. "Go back to sleep If you are called again, get up and say, 'Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.""

The old priest felt sure it was God who was calling Samuel, Samuel did not know how God speaks to people.

So the young man went back to bed. He soon fell sound asleep. The Lord called out once again, 'Samuel Samuel " This time Samuel got up and bowed down low in the darkness. "Speak Lord," Samuel said. "Your servant is listening."

The Lord spoke to Samuel, revealing to him the painful things that were about to happen to Eli. The Lord let the startled young man fall back into a deep sleep until morning.

As the sun rose, Samuel woke up. He opened the doors of the Lord's temple.

Just then he heard Eli calling him. He went to Eli. 'What did He say to you?

Tell me everything," Eli said to Samuel. Eli did not mention the Lord by name. He

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Samuel grew up. The Lord was with him. The Lord continued to speak to Samuel. And Samuel spoke

to all of Israel in the Lord's name. God's people recognised Samuel as a true prophet of the Lord.

Q. When is a blow on the head like a piece of fabric?

A When it is felt.

Q: What bow can never be tied?

A: A rainbow.

Q: What comes up to the door but never comes in?

A: The sidewalk.

Q: What is it that plays when it works and works as it play?

A: Afountain.

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The Petra quintet have been proclaiming a new song to the lord for 13 years now.

Their high-tech, hard-hitting brand of Gospel rock has grown from strength to strength during this time not an unusual occurrence when you consider the combined talents of the group's members.

Before the conception of Petra, members of the band for acts like Bob

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Jane Cobleigh gave up her ambitions to nurture her husband's rise to stardom.

His success brought them glamour and riches, but to her - loneliness, until she began her own career.

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Seger and RE0 Speedwagon. lead singer Greg X. Voltz even turned down the lead spot in REO. Their work has generated seven records to date, the latest of these being Beat the System (Word Records, A&M Records). This is the album on which their world-wide tour has been based.

After listening to Beat the System I began to understand why so many people are "petrified" when it comes to choosing their rock music.

The penetrating four octave range of Greg Voltz is tight and powerful. Complex synthesiser programming, inspiring fuzz lead and [ rhythm guitar are musically stimulating.

by SHARON MARSHALL

Hard rock and roll previously defined for me highly agitated young men and women buzzing obscurely into microphones their frenzied songs.

And I can appreciate that.

But having researched this

week's column, I have found a band whose music is clearly as rock-solid as their Gospel message.

Petra is their name (Petra being the Greek word for rock) and they will be touring Australia from February 21

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Greg Chappell's name is a household word in Australia and throughout the cricketing world Yet, up to now, the man behind the bat has remained something of a mystery, so closely has he guarded his private life from the relentless attention that such fame attracts.

In this revealing and often controversial biography, award-winning journalist Adrian McGregor goes behind the public figure to provide an intimate, personal account of Chappell's life, both on and off the cricket field -from his childhood in a family uniquely devoted to cricket, through his triumphant Years as a great Australian sporting hero, to his life today.

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Oreg Chappell is the greaest Australian batsman Since Sir Donald Bradman He broke Bradman's 'cord for Test runs, holds the world record for catches by a fieldsman, as well as the cord for most catches by a fcldsman in a single Test He also holds the world record for the most number

Greg Chappell, by Adrian McGregor, published by William Collins, $19.95. of runs scored in a single Test. He is the only player ever to score a century in each innings of his debut as Test captain and the only Test player in history to score a century in his first and last Test innings.

This modest and immensely likeable cricketing giant was born in Adelaide on August 7, 1948, the son of Martin Chappell, a South Australian State squad cricketer, and Jeanne Chappell (nee Richardson ), daughter of Victor York Richardson who captained Australia on the successful 1935-36 tour of South Africa.

DOD Greg attended Prince Alfred College, where brothers Ian before him and Trevor afterwards set formidable schoolboy batting records.

He played his first Shield match for South Australia on November 4, 1966, spent two years with Somerset Country Cricket Club and played his first Test for Australia on December 11, 1970. He made a century then and again in his first Test at Lords in 1972.

After brother Ian retired as Australian captain, Greg led Australia to a series victory over the great Clive Lloyd's West Indians in 1975-76 His triumph was short-

lived. The World Series Cricket revolution drastically upset Australia's 1977 tour of England. Greg retired to the background for the two years of WSC, before being chosen captain after the WSC/Australian Cricket Board truce in 1979.

In 1980-81 he ordered his brother Trevor to bowl the underarm delivery which shook the cricket world as nothing had, or has, since the bodyline era.

The following year he suffered a run of ducks which threatened to end his career.

Happily he recovered in 1982-83 to retrieve the Ashes from England in Australia At the end of the series he resigned the captaincy in favour of Kim Hughes.

Greg retired at the end of the 1983-84 season and shortly after was appointed an Australian selector, a position he still holds Greg and Judy Chappell live in Brisbane with their three children, Stephen 10, Belinda 8, and Jonathon 5.

Greg is a director of Northern Securities, a property management trust.

Adrian McGregor is a feature writer with wide experience on Australian newspapers. His career began with the SydneyMoming Herald and has embraced two years experience in Fleet Street, periods with The Australian and five years as Queensland Bureau Chief of The National Times. He is a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the University of Queensland where he has tutored in journalism over a period of years In 1975 he received an Australian Arts Council liter

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Their message this album is simple, and addresses the individual: you can beat the system, break the norm.

Lead guitarist and background vocalist Bob Hartman, addresses this in Computer Brains: "You can clear all memory and be transformed when you find the key. Think on the things that will bring you peace, confusing data soon will cease." (c) 1984 Dawn Treader Music.

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TENNIS

Catholic tennis has recommenced at all clubs in the last few weeks. For anyone interested in playing tennis with a Catholic club details are as follow: ST JOSEPH'S PIGNATELLI - Wichman Road, Attadale have six courts with two under lights.

The main social tennis day is Sunday commecing at 1.30 pm.

ST JOSEPH'S -- Railway Parade, Queens Park have two courts with lights. Social tennis day is Sunday commencing at 2 pm.

WILLETON -- Corpus Christi College, Murdoch Drive, Bateman have six courts. Social tennis day is Sunday commencing at 1.30 pm GREENWOOD --Liwara school, Tuart Road, Greenwood have two courts both of which are under lights. Social tennis during the summer months is played on Fri day nights commencing at 7.45 pm.

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Alness Street, Ardross have two courts both of which are under lights.

Social tennis day is Sunday commencing at 2 pm.

Pennants The mixed pennant season is scheduled to begin on Saturday April 12.

Matches will be played on consecutive Saturday afternoons beginning at 1.30 pm.

A team consists of four men and two women.

Each player will play two sets of men's/women's doubles and two sets of mixed doubles in an afternoon.

Competition will be divided into A, B and C

grades.

Team nominations close on March 15.

Application forms are available from club secretaries or Jack Eastcott on telephoning 328 6860.

You do not have to be a member of a Catholic club to enter the competition, but you must be able to provide two courts as a home venue.

Get your friends together and enter a team.

The tennis is keen but played in a very sociable spirit.

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Dawson and Winifred Hanna preached their own unique sermon on the steps of the Redempt church last Sunday when they told · Father Brian Jones and the congregation that the secret of their 70 years of marriage was faith, love and understanding.

Their six children, 13 grandchildren and six great-granchildren also helped them celebrate the 70th anniversary of their wedding, with Father Mick Reidy, in St Patrick's Church katanning on February 161916.

Dawson Hanna now 92 was 12 when his family moved to a farm at Moojebing near dry South Australia and Dublin-born Winifred O'Meara now 89 was 12 when her Irish family came to Australia and settled also in Katanning.

They were married six months before Dawson left with the 10th Light Horse to serve against the Turks in Palestine, there being too many volunteers for the first embarkation.

After the war Dawson tried the flour mills, insurance selling and finally finished up in the building trade. For the next 40 years he laid bricks in Geraldton at Nazareth House, CBC, St John of God Hospital and Dean Hawes' Hermitage, at St John of God Hospital Bunbury, at the tower of St Mary's church Leederville and nearby CBC school under the watchful eye of Monsignor Moloney.

His last job was a fence and shed at the Redemptorist grounds.

During most of their life at Campsie Street. Dawson was a member of the Redemptorist Holy Family Confraternity and Holy Name Society and Winifred a member of the Perpetual Succour Confraternity and the Leederville CWL. She has been a constant volunteer helper in the Retreat House.

In spi of many hard times of sickness and accidents Winifred Hanna says that it is faith that has seen her through her long lifetime.

STRESS & ALCOHOLISM

A day seminar for priests and religious on the topic of Stress and Alcoholism will be given by Fathers Paul Lyons and Walter Ingling OP of St Michael's Centre, St Louis, on Tuesday February 25 from 10am to 5pm at the Dominican priory Woodlands. BYO lunch. Fee $20 or a donation. Further information: Fr Kevin Condon OP 446 2055.

LITURGICAL DANCE

One of the world's foremost exponents of Christian Dance, Martin Blogg, will begin a series of five lectures, both practical and theoretical, which he has called "Forms of Knowing in the Performing Arts" in the hall of Saint George's Cathedral, The Burt Hall, in St George's Terrace on Fridays at 8 pm.

They are free and open to all who are interested. No pre-knowledge of dance or movement is required.

SHROUD SOCIETY

The presentation of Dr Ron Jenkin's public lecture at the University of WA for ANZAAS has come at the same time as the formation of The Holy Shroud of Turin Society of WA The society originated from a large gathering last year of interested christians and others who saw the film "Silent Witness"' at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, East Victoria Park.

The President of the Society is Mr Frank Sheehan, a retired lawyer and parishioner of St Paul's Catholic Church, Mt Lawley.

The secretary/treasurer is Mrs Pat Lovett of St Mary's Anglican Church, South Perth.

Further enquiries can be made through the society's secretariat at Mardon House, 35 Archer Street, Carlisle, 6101 (telephone 362 3677).

NEW CATECHISTS -1986

A 14 session course for new Catechists commences on Tuesday February 25 at the Perth Archdiocesan Department of Religious Education, cnr Salvado Road and Station Street, Wembley.

The course will be presented twice each Tuesday, 10am to noon and 7.30 to 10.30pm.

Applications to attend the course must come through parish priests.

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WORLD PRAYER DAY

Our Lady of Victories church Wembley is host for the Women's World Day of Prayer for the Wembley, Floreat, and City Beach area. The ecumenical service will be held on Friday March 7 to be followed by moming tea in the parish centre.

CATHOLIC NURSES

The next meeting of the Catholic Nurses Guild of WA will take place on Tuesday March 18 at 6.30 pm at 11 Ellesmere Road, Mount Lawley. The guest speaker will be Sister Bernardine Daly speaking on "Catholic Nurses and the Poor of Christ'.

For further information or enquiries contact Nancy Edwards on 350 5996 or 106 Watling Avenue, Parkwood, 6155.

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BEACONSFIELD MISSION

The first mission for 25 years will be held at Christ the King Church, Beaconsfield between March 1 and 21. Fathers Brian Jones and Keith Teefey will be arriving at the church towards the end of February to prepare for an active period.

In addition to preaching, the two Redemptorist priests aim to visit as many Catholic parishioners as possible.

There will be a mass and short instruction at 6am. A later session at 9am will cater especially for those who drive their children to school.

The main session will take place in the evening, at 7.30. This session will vary each evening but generally will consist of prayer time, sermon and benediction.

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.

DARDANUP HEALING

The Pastoral and Matrimonal Renewal Centre will conduct a Parish Healing weekend at the Prayer House, Dardanup, on March 14-16.

This will be the first Parish Healing Weekend in the Sunbury diocese and priests and laity are invited to attend or send parish representation.

During the Healing weekend participants are guided through exercises to examine the hurts they have suffered in close personal relationships and the effect on their present behaviour, and finally to seek healing of their hurts.

Each exercise follows the format used on the Parish Renewal Weekend and includes prayer, patron saint, scripture, reflection, a talk, small and large group sharing.

For further information contact Rita and Bert Murphy at the Prayer House, Dardanup 097-281148 or Peter and Veronica Dymond in Perth 367 9870.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE

The monthly pilgrimage to the grotto of the Virgin of the Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday February 23 at 2pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring P. Galea on 349 7135 (Perth bus) or L. Martinz 328 4631 (Highgate bus).

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

March 4: lesmurdie Parish, Lesmurdie Road.

March 11: Rockingham Parish, Swin-

stone 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

BEDFORD

CWL: 20 YRS The Bedford branch of the Catholic Women's League was inaugurated in 1966, and with the thought of celebrating this 20th anniversary, is asking any ladies who were members from 1966 to about 1970, to please contact either Mrs Carmel Tomlin on 271 5036, or Mrs Verdi Hebb on 271 3191.

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