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The Vatican is currently honouring two great saints in the history of nursing care, St Camillus De Lellis and St John of God, Father Bredin 0.S. Cam. told pastoral care workers last

week.

The Vatican post office has issued stamps showing St Camillus saving a person from the Tiber In flood and St John of God supporting two sick persons.

The stamps mark the centenary of the two saints being declared patrons of hospitals and the sick of the world.

St Camillus De Lellis (1550-1614) was converted to God and after a very serious illness formed the Ministers of the Sick wearing the familiar red cross worn today by the Cammillians and later taken up by the International Red Cross.

St John of God (1495-1550) was converted by a sermon and founded a hospital in Granada and later founded the Hospitallers of St John of God. He was taken as patron of the St John of God Sisters founded In Ireland in 1870.

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Therapeutic

He noted the develop ment of pastoral care departments in many hospitals today could miss opportunities for other categories of pas-

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toral care "Everyone from the

administrator to the carpark attendant should be given every encouragement to be pastorally oriented." he said

Father Bredin said

Subiaco area was the home of hospitals and of many orders associated with the care of the sick.

At last week's gathering there were representatives also of the Sisters of Mercy, Daughters of Charity, Brigidines, Nazareth Sisters, Presentation and Ca rm elites.

"The founders and foundresses of these orders turned as Christ did to the broken hearts, hurt minds, hurt souls and broken bodies and poured out their love and compassion to be like Christ and continue his healing mission."

The healing ministry of the Church is both a gift and a power, pastoral care workers and chaplains in hospitals were told at their annual Mass and gathering last week.

"It is a gift of witnessing to the world of the love of Christ for the sick, and a power thatthe Christian community has within itself," Father Sean Bredin O.S.Cam. said at his Mass homily.

"Unless we become aware of these gifts and powers we will neglect them and become the losers," he said.

Father Bredin said that the healing ministry is an integral part of the Church's mission, and that all baptised people are part of this evangelising mission

'The pastoral care workers have to be able to forget themselves and think of others Nowadays there is a lot of emphasis on technique But unless our techniques are coloured by a caring and loving attitude we will fail to lead the suffering out of their fears, their diminished sense of themselves and their loss of dignity We will lead them to

growth even in suffering.

At last week's gathering of hospital pastoral care workers Father Sean Bredin 0.S.Cam. talks with Sister Mary Berry,

director of the Maranatha institute, Mr John Storey of Armadale who visits Hillview Nursing Home

Father Bredin said We do not have the power to raise people from the dead but we can set them free from the tombs of loneliness, bitterness and despair We can call our brothers and sisters to come forth from their tombs or we can leave them to languish there."

Father Bredin quoted the advice of the Australian

Catholic Health Care Associ ation that every parish council should have a member concerned with health care matters

He also quoted Pope John Paul's words to Catholic health workers that the were in some way continu

ing the therapeutic activity of the Lord (Matt 4.23) and that the healing works of Jesus were aimed not only at the body but were prophetic signs of the coming of the kingdom of God and the new spiritual state of those being healed For that reason the healing ministry was an essential part of the Church's mission and not merely peripheral

Caught in the middle

GUATEMALA CIT Archbishop Penados del Barrio has accused both the United States and the Soviet Union of using Central America as a test ground for their ideological struggles He has called for foreign aid to help relieve the country's severe poverty and has welcomed President Cerezo's call for regional dialogue to end violence.

Anniversary atthe SVDP

At its 75th anniversary celebration the WA St Vincent De Paul Society was urged to make use of the media to seek assistance for its material assistance of the poor.

The message was delivered by Mr Eric Ellem national SVDP president to 450 people who attended Mass in St Brigid's Church Midland and a social gathering afterwards.

Joining the Midland

conference were repre-

sentatives of most of the

other conferences established around

1911.

They included Highgate, West Perth, Northam, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Collie, Fremantle, Cot-

tesloe, Subiaco and Victoria Park.

Visitors came from Collie, Mandurah and Tammin.

Today there are 91 conferences in Western Australia.

World-wide, the SvDP

Society founded by Frederic Oxanam in 1833 in Paris now operates in 111 countries In WA the society is assisted by proceeds

Mr Eric Eller, national president of the SVDP, addressing the 75th anniversary celebration at Midland.

from 12 clothing stores operated by members

,dgxiiirieg The society is also involved in two food stores catering for peo ple on low income.

Story and pictures by RICHARD LYNAM.

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government proposal to limit its capacity from 360 to 50 beds.

According to a government report, the 310 people taken from the hostel will be accommodated in a number of houses and smaller hostels bought or built for that purpose in the suburbs - and they will not necessarily be conducted by the society.

Many people believe that the bed reduction for Matt Talbot appears unreasonable consider. ing the lack of affordable accommodation for peopie.

The accommodation problem for poor people would be exacerbated if Matthew Talbot was required to discharge over 300 men from its care.

The cost of "depopulating" Matthew Talbot and establishing alternatives will be more than $10 million.

May people working to help the homeless believe that it is strange that a government is prepared to spend this amount of money on a "social experiment"

when the number of Department of Housing

applicants is rising

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returned to Perth dioeese to take Up an appointment.

Father Patrick Lim, ordained priest in Perth in August last year, has taken up permanent residence in the archdiocese and has been appointed assistant priest at Nedlands and part time chaplain to the Repatriation Hospital.

Originally from Singapore, he worked there as an art teacher, freelance photographer and interior designer before entering St Francis Xavier seminary there in 1979 and transfemng to St

SEOUL: Two Church groups in South Korea have criticised police actions when a worker burned himself to death Paul's Seminary Kensington as police officers broke NSW the following year. up a labour protest.

Reverend Vernon THOMAS to the last Saturday was ordained According groups, when workers by Archbishop Foley and attempted to put out the expects to be ordained priest flames, the pol ice at the end of this year. dragged them away and The ceremony took place in allowed him to burn for Star of the Sea church Cot-

tesloe, currently the parish of

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the Matthew Talbot Hos. tel run by the St Vincent de Paul Society will be affected by the new

Singaporean returns to Perth diocese

WASHINGTON: A CanaA qualified special educatin o teacher, committed to the ideals of Catholi ceducation i requi s ed r for Terms 3 and dian diocese has been reim 4in 1986. bursed for losses resulting from the cancellation of Pope John Paul IT's scheApply in writing to A Singaporean who duled visit to the region The Principal The Canadian bishops' con- studied for the priestStar of the Sea School ference had insured the visit hood in Australia has PO Box 89 Rockingham WA 6168 in 1984 to cover losses if the

papal visit could not P completed.

The conference spent an timated2o million dollars on the papal visit The negotiated settlement for $320,000 represents 50 per cent of the claims made

by Church organisations

SYDNEY: More than 300 men at Sydney's largest and most famous resi. dence for homeless men,

eight minutes.

Father Michael yan who They waited 20 minutes received Deacon Thomas into more before sending him the church when he was at to a hospital.

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Originally from South Wales Vernon Thomas became an Anglican priest in 1938 and followed his missionary wish to go to Africa where he taught science in tanganyika for four years and later in Zimbabwe

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Vincent de Paul takes up Hail Mary argument SYDNEY: The NSW

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council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul has written to the Prime Minister Mr Hawke and the Premier, Mr Wran, protesting against the blasphemous film, Hail Mary, and has taken a positive step of proposing an antidote by increasing an awareness of Mary in young Australians.

President of SVDP in NSW, Mr Pedemont.

The letter from the NS president Mr Vince Pedemont to Mr Hawke savs. 'The

Society in a protest

to Hawke

NSW council of the Society

of St Vincent de Paul, representing its 1,000 branches

The influence of electronic media on families, the views of professionals and the experience of priests are areas a Jesuit priest

"The council agreed that Government was at fault in permitting the admission into Australia of a film which had clearly been demonstrated at screenings overseas, to be deeply offensive to Christian people.

wants still to hear about in his research into the Church's work in the field of communica-

tion.

"It is important for me to hear what ordinary

people think about the influence television, radio and popular glossy youth magazines are having on their families" said Father Paul Duffy SJ at the end of his two week visit to WA. Father Duffy, a one time teacher at St Louis

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We are hurt and sad that the film's screening at the Sydney Film Festival, and its subsequent commercial exhibition will bring large sums of money to those wishing to exploit the curous "Your Government, by its action in this issue is seem to have turned its back on the contribution made to Australia by the millions of Christians whose commit ment has been strengthened by their love of the Virgin Mary and the dimension she gives to the dignity of all

School, has been commissioned to give the Australian bishops a report in May next year and he has now visited all major Australian

centres.

In WA he held up to 40 interviews over some 70 hours with representa tives of youth, adult education. teachers and parents, market research and media Catholic chools and religiou education Father Duffy said he was interested also to hear from professionals in law, medicine, business and government on what issues they would like the Church to be talking about He also believes that the combined hundreds of years of pastoral experience of priests would be important to hear about.

Submissions to Father Duffy can be sent to him at Xavier College, Barker Road, Kew, Victoria.

Father Duffy said his report to the bishops would contain some immediate proposals and some longer term goals over the next decade.

"It is important to reach the people in their everyday circumstances to see what the Church can do to help them and to get this help 'on air' for them."

On talk back radio and news they get one of several versions."

"These are the things they are told are impor-

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Record LONDON: numbers of people attended this year's Walsingham pilgrimage of the National Association for the Catholic Deaf of Great Britain and lreland.

More than 600 people with impaired hearing gathered for the pilgrimage, which this year took "the family" as its theme.

The day began with a procession from the marketplace to the Chapel of Reconciliation where a Penitential rite was held.

Music and signing of the words of the hymns was

provided by the Newcastie Deaf Choir who travelled the route on a tractor down trailer.

Choirs from London, Manchester and Leeds also

took part.

After a picnic lunch, all gathered for Mass concelebrated by Bishop Kelly of Salford and 12 priests. In his homily, the bishop spoke of life as a faith journey.

"We travel together and

today have met many new

friends," he said.

"On my journey I have learned a few words of your language, and thank you for teaching me the

word Jesus."

Organiser Mr Bill Snell

of Birmingham said: "The gathering serves as a

marvellous national rally for deaf people."

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itute and helping at St Anne's; Sister Diane Kingston at Princess Margaret Hospital and Sister Kathleen Connolly SG, St John of God Hospital Subiaco.

At the annual gathering of hospital pastoral workers last week Bishop Healy said he was surprised to see how many chaplains the Catholic community has working in many hospitals.

"Tam happy to see the Church doing its job so well for the sick and dying," he told the group at a social which followed Mass in St Joseph's church Subiaco.

He said the chaplains and their assistants showed true dedica-

tion and commitment

to the sick.

Laypeople helping in the pastoral care were not merely a shadow of a

Annual getting together priest's work, but that all people had special charisms which they could use for the care of the sick.

He said the annual gathering should become much more significant than it is.

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"If they judge such issues to be important how do they get a Church or gospel view of such events?"

Father Duffy comes to his task with wide experience.

He was a journalist before becoming a Jesuit 36 years ago and later was on talk-back radio as well as in many appearances on television current affairs.

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protests to you in the strongest possible terms against the admission, censorship approval and the customs clearance of the film Hail

ROME: Cardinal Giu-

seppe Siri, Archbishop of

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Genoa for 40 years, has celebrated his 80th birthday.

No other living cardinal has worn the red hat as long as he has.

He has taken part in four conclaves and has often been mentioned as a possible candidate for the

papacy.

Now he is 80, he loses the right to enter a conclave and vote and it is

Red hat record expected the pope will shortly accept the letter

of resignation which Cardinal Siri submitted five years ago.

The number of cardinals who can now vote in a conclave is 113 out of a total of 148.

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Whatever are the serious issues that the public should be pondering in the ChambersBartow death sentence issue, they have been successfully swamped by theatrical legal posturing, political scrambling for crumbs on the fringe, and a circus of press, radio and television trying to wring every tear-stained dollar possible out of the event.

The so-called search for the truth becomes a dubious process when at this late critical stage the Herald and Weekly Times sources produce an alarming pre-arrest scenario that has escaped, or been ignored by dozens of other networks following the case all these months.

Media researcher Father Paul Duffy points in this issue to the fact that today's public are being told by their radios, press and television what events are important and at the same time they are gettng only one version. This week is no exception.

Whether the relatives of the accused deliberately sought the publicity or not, at what point does exposure become morbid exploitation when minute by minute footage of the two mothers gives the impression that this is the only tragedy on earth?

Are Australians frightened to walk into the waiting rooms also of our own prisons, casualty wards and terminal wards to find out where real pain and suffering occurs amongst the innocent?

While officials at all levels are careful to make no disparaging reflections on Malaysian law or judicial integrity, Australia is now faced with an aggressively Muslim neighbour that has no qualms in imposing the harshest penalties, if needed.

Those who believe that human rights became an issue only last week in South Africa can hardly complain if we have stood by passively while Iron Curtain countries for decades imprisoned certified and executed their anonymous thousands, while Amin and Obote slaughtered their country men, while a litany of abuse goes on but it is too far away to be our

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lt is embarrassing to complete the mathematical equation whether the horror of the execution of two Caucasians is equal to or less than the price of the many locals and foreigners who already have gone to the Malaysian gallows with scarcely a moment's recognition in Australia probably because they were Asians of little relevance to us?

Lawyers are needed and they see no incongruity in being paid accordingly, whatever the issue. There may be a point however when zeal becomes little more than gallery entertainment, and some Easter seaboard politicians appear not to have been slow to try and get their share of whatever publicity is around.

Which leaves the very serious question of capital punishment still unresolved because more than emotions are at stake. The theologians of the Church have wisely maintained that the distinction between the theoretical right to impose capital punishment and its practical implementation are two separate matters.

Whether drug running and its horrendous trail of misery and virtual destruction of human life amongst terminal addicts is worthy of such a penalty as death, will have to be determined by a public putting its own price on the thousands of lives often culpably lost on roads and other self induced illnesses.

In practice we may feel we have reached more mature heights of civilisation. Several groups of US bishops who have personally intervened in the death row tragedies that are played out there in the glare of publicity have united in their opinion that the death penalty solves nothing as either a deterrent or a punishment.

At a time when governments would like if budgets could be stretched - to build civilised prisons, and when reformers say that too many unnecessary inmates populate those same gaols, the public can only be asked to find the will to know what to do with drug offenders.

The cheap solution of legalising drugs will be the cheap road to human destruction.

How individuals judge Chambers and Bartow was determined long before the case was ever known. What the subsequent publicity of the case has so far managed to avoid are the principles at stake and the options that face Australia not Malaysia.

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MEXICO CITY (NC) -The Mexican bishops' conference favours a restructuring of the foreign debts of developing nations.

Although some bishops feel the foreign debt must be repaid at all costs, the Mexican Church would favour restructuring the debt and instituting a new international economic order, as long as the changes were based "on a just guiding principle."

The bishops are circulating the document, "Foreign Debt and a New International Economic Order," drawn up by the Cuban bishops.

According to the document, the current debt situation "creates dependency (and) is not liberating, but subjugates, humiliates and offends to the point of impoverishment."

The document points to statements by the Latin American bishops' council that "under its current repayment schedule, the Latin American debt cannot be repaid."

Brazil is the developing world's largest debtor, with a foreign debt estimated at $103 billion. Mexico ranks second, with an estimated $97 billion foreign . . . . . debt, while Argentina is third with a foreign debt of

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LONDON: Father Patrick Kearney has two flocks to look after his congregation at Our Lady's church in Bu/well, Nottingham and some pedigree Suffolk sheep he keeps at his old parish of Raimworth. He left the sheep behind when he moved to Bu/well six months ago, but makes regular

Soviet bloc in a faith revival LONDON: signs of a religious revival behind the Iron Curtain were reported at the annual meeting of European bishops' conference secretaries, attended for the first time by

delegates from the Soviet Union.

Vocations in the Eastern Bloc are on the increase. In Lithuania, 125 young men are studying for the priesthood, compared with only 50, ten years ago.

In Rumania, too, vocations are numerous, but the state controls the number of seminarians.

Conference secretaries from 19 European couna great need for the from tries attended the fourChurch to evangelise," PAUL GROGAN day meeting in Rabat, Mons Nichols said.

Malta, including deleIn Yugoslavia, the gates from Hungary, East NEW YORK: A pastoral Church was reported to Germany, Poland and letter from the Methodist be quite strong but it was bishops in the United Yugoslavia. Lithuania hindered in its work by States has condemned all sent two representatives the sheer regional divernuclear war and the polalthough it has no sity of the country and by icy of nuclear "deterbishops' conference. the fact that there were rence".

Prelate Gustauskus and two other established While the Catholic Father Kondrusevicius there: religions bishops said in 1983 that said their countrymen's they were "highly sceptiOrthodox Christianity faith was very strong and cal" that a nuclear war and Islam. that they had a special Mons Nichols could be kept within morIn Poland, the Church devotion to Our Lady. ally acceptable limits or was "virtually accepted A survey in Hungary, for could give reasonable Mons Vincent Nichols, as the opposition to the instance, had shown that hope of bringing a just general secretary of the government." peace, the Methodists bishops' conference for only a small proportion Among other subjects say such moral requireof the population were England and Wales, said discussed were the growments could never be committed marxists. But the situation in eastern ing presence ofMoslems met. although a larger proporEurope varied from in Europe, plans for And while the Catholics tion described themto country. country declared a "strictly condifuture meetings of the selves as Christians, 40 "But there was a fairly tioned moral acceptance European bishops, and per cent said they had no wide reporting that of nuclear deterrence" their Laity Synod reports. beliefs. marxism does not have which they said should While marxism has lost only be an interim policy an ideological appeal," its on the way to disarmaappeal, there is clearly Cont page 11 he said. ment, the Methodists have rejected deterrence even on those terms.

The arms race has "undermined and discreLOS ANGELES: (NO) --Pornography distributed in the United States dited' the deterrence polis produced in California but "largely "threatens the innate of dignity graphy icy, they say. controlled by organised crime syndiindividuals" and erodes society's The Methodist bishops cates in other states." moral fibre, said the Catholic Bishops have given their full supof California in a statement. port to a total nuclear Pornography is not "victimless", the "freeze", while their The bishops committed themselves bishops added, saying it "plays a vital Catholic counterparts role" in sexual abuse of children and to working with others to reverse "the spent months debating tide of pornogrpahy," which, they degrades women. the nuances of a "halt" or added, grosses as much as $10 billion Ample evidence exists that illusa "curb" on nuclear weatrates pornography interferes with annually. pons.

"As religious leaders of California, interpersonal relationships and But the Churches' doccreates "a hunger for more violent and we recognise our state's involvement ments do show a similarmore anti-social sexual materials," the in this industry," the statement said, ity of views on a number added. that 80 of all pornobishops percent adding of points.

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ACCRA: Government officials in Ghana have objected to Church criticism of its affairs and Church-state relations have now been described as "not too good" by a Ghanian archbishop.

Archbishop Dery of Tamale in northern Ghana said the only direct interference with Church affairs has been the enforced closure of the Church's only newspaper, The Catholic Standard.

However, he hopes it will soon reopen, under its original editor Father Charles Buckles.

Other issues which are now concerning the Church in Ghana include: • relations with Moslems there are fears the Islamic faith is increasing at the expense of the Catholic Church; • polygamy -the archbishop is himself the son of a polygamist who later converted to Catholicism.

He has called for the Church to insist that provisions are made for wives before a polygamist is accepted into the Church.

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VATICAN CITY (NO): Pope John Paul II has awarded the third Pope John XXIII International Peace Prize given since 1959 to the Thailand Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees for aiding thousands of refugees. The prize includes $150,000.

"In an eminent manner," the pope said, "the Thai people are an example of solidarity toward persons in difficulty."

They have done "more

than any other country

in opening their "gates and hearts to their neighbours," he added. The organisation has aided

Ruling on liberation theology RIO de JANEIRO: "The pope has left liberation theology in the hands of the Braz·ilian Church" was the view of the Brazilian bishops at the conclusion of their annual assembly in Sao Paulo.

Welcoming the two recent Vatican Instructions on liberation theology, the bishops looked forward to a new epoch in relations 'With the Vatican.

Cardinal Gantin, head of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, attended the assembly and delivered a papal message calling for a liberation theology based on Church teachings to overcome social problems You and I are convinced that liberation theology is not only opportune but useful and necessary," the message read

120,000 people in 13 camps, plus thousands of other refugees scattered along the border with Cambodia Pope John Paul also called on other nations to share equally in the burden of caring for refugees The Thai people should not be left alone in carrying the heavy burden of respon sibility and assistance in that region of the world," the pope said Pope John Paul saw the refugee organisation's work during his 1984 visit to

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Trade LONDON: unions and the Church in Guyana have called on the government of President Desmond Hoyte to resign as the former British colony plunges into deep ecorefugees on several occ- nomic crisis. sions.

The Guyanese forEarly this year, he called on eign minister came to nations to accept Asian refuLondon recently seekgees now in Thailand awaiting western funds. ing asylum Erratic policies and bad economic management have left the NEW YORK: The country virtually bankKnights of Columbus are rupt.

Abortion

to start a new campaign against the 1973 legislation of abortion.

The Knights claim 1.2 million members across the country.

Fr Leonardo Boff

The principal unions have called on the People's National Congress, which has been in power since 1964, to make way for a government of national

Church call for Hoyte to 'resign'

unity.

The PNC has been accused of running Guyana by murder, violence and fraud In his Good Friday sermon, Bishop Benedict Singh commented. "The crucifixion of Christ is being carried out right here in Guyana, in every nook and corner of the country."

The total paralysis of the economy was averted at the

VATICAN CITY (NC) -Pope John Paul II defended the dignity of life in comments to a new ambassador from the Netherlands, where there is mounting public pressure to legalise euthanasia.

"In regard to respect for life from conception and during times of grave illness or old age," the pope said, "the church, without ceasing, challenges consciences to arouse them morally."

The pope also defended the Church's right to speak publicly on moral issues, which he said does not violate separation of church and state.

"The Church would be lacking in its duty if it did not seek to enlighten consciences, to point out the evils which threaten the Christian life of the faithful and the integrity of mankind, and to encourage that which conforms to the truth and well-being of mankind," Pope John Paul said.

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perform an important and delicate role in the develop-

ment of such a theology... but I ask you to watch incessantly so the correct and necessary liberation theology is developed in Brazil and Latin America" The pope's call for a spiritual as well as material liberation has been hailed as a significant change in his thinking by the Brazilian bishops The pope's message is surprising. " Bishop Casaldaliga of Sao Felix said Twice he explicity mentions liberation theology, practically officalising it within the Church "It is no longer a marginal theology. because the pope says it is necessary Also at the assembly was Father Leonardo Boff, who was silenced by the Vatican because of his controversial book Church, Charism and Power

Unions and Church 'in concert'

Thailand During the trip, he visited Panat Nikhom refugee camp. which houses 12,000 displaced persons outside Bangkok, and donated $50,000 to a camp hospital Since then, the pope has highlighted the plight of

Brazilians greet the decision

last minute last week with the arrival of an oil tanker, but queues of vehicles, with their owners taking leisurely meals as they wait, are still forming at the petrol stations A regional hospital completed last June is reported to be unable to use its operating theatre, X-ray unit and mortuary for want of reliable power supplies A ban on the import of wheat flour has formally been lifted, but what little wheat bread is made is sold on the thriving black market.

President Hoyte's response to the worsening political and economic crisis has been to soften the pro-Soviet and anti-western rhetoric and move towards the West.

But despite the regime's appeals, the British and US governments are holding out for big changes in Guyanese policy and are pressing Hoyte to come to terms with the International Monetary Fund before they make new loans At the same time they are unwilling to allow him to be toppled

The silencing was lifted at the end of March and he has since described John Paul II as 'the pope of liberation ·We have also learned to put down roots for liberation theology in the Church "From now on there cannot be any theologian who does not include the theme of Liberation."

The Brazilian bishops also issued a pastoral declaration on the country's new constitution during the assembly.

Criticising the military rule of the country from 1964 to 1985, they called on all Christians to participate in the political process, encouraging them to stand as candidates in the November elections.

However, the bishops highlighted the social and economic problems of the country and called for concrete action to improve the lot of the poor, as well as listing "unacceptable practices", such as abortion, euthanasia and torture.

NEW YORK: SlovakAmerican Catholics are commemorating the 75th anniversary of their representative federation.

Cardinal Tomko, head of the Vatican congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, celebrated Mass in Wilkes-Barr attended by 800 Slovaks.

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The Diocese of Broome is the far North-West part of Australia, roughly 3 times the size of Victoria. A subtropical region, with a 'wet' season through the summer months, of varied terrain with beautiful beaches but a large part taken up by the Great Sandy Oesert.

Since 1959 many admirable Australians have contibuted in no small way to the personal growth and education of the Aboriginal people as lay missionaries They have formed close and lasting ties. Others are needed to continue and improve exsisting services

We need D.C. Nurses, Clerk, Typist, Store Manager, Hostel Assistants, Handymen, Carpenter, etc.

Orientation Course commences August 22, 1986

Please apply: Director, Box 7, P.0. Mittagong. N.S.W. 2575. Tel: (048) 71 1669.

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Forecast's church at each end

When the weather forecasts speak of the coast between Cape Leeuwin and Bremer Bay they will soon have two Catholic churches as their markers at

The rammed earth walls of the new church under construction at Bremer Bay.

either end.

The Augusta church was opened in January and the walls of the Bremer Bay church are now waiting for their roof and internal fitting out.

Like the Margaret River and Augusta churches the Bremer Bay building is designed by architect Chris Willcox and constructed with rammed limestone sand which will be silicon coated against the elements

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Father Hugh Galloway strolls expectantly into his new church between walls carrying the impression of the Cross of Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.

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The south coast holiday centre will have a church that is the result of a community effort by the vast Ongerup parish. It will be available to other church groups just as the Catholics use other church facilities at Borden and the community church at Jerramungup The main chapel area will be ample for some 50 people and the space can be doubled when doors are opened on to the adjoining parish centre. gallery loft will house the priest when working in the area and a small cottage at the side will be available to families

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It is a truly local project and over 200 tons of selected gravel have been carted from a Bremer Bay property.

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'They are so much involved with the clay of the earth, they need something they can relate to God, not just the God they experience in their nature life."

This is how Father Galloway describes the difference a new permanent church will make to Bremer Bay Up till now the Catholics and every other local group have had to use the local community hall in what he describes as a bunfight'.

He quotes Margaret River's parish priest Father Glover

who says he has never seen ballet well done in a shearing shed and has never seel liturgy well carriedout in unsuitable surroundings 'The people in the country need to be able to identify with something that is the expression of their faith" Father Galloway said "They the place where we bring our children for baptism "This is the church they often experience here whereas in the city they are used to going to a church with decorum. If the young are brought up only in the experience of a local hall they develop no sense of 'otherness' about the things of God 'That is why it une people who are pushing for the Bremer Bay church and not I he said

project is $100,000. Of this the parish of Ongerup has taken on a debt of $50,000 with $30,000 already being raised in a cropping programme.

Father Gallowav and the parishioners hope that there will be a generous response from the many people who use Bremer Bay as their summer resort when an average congregation of 35 suddenly rockets to 150 with the influx of visitors The locals have provided all the labour but they have no spare cash to do more than they are doing" says Father Galloway proudly of what has been achieved so far.

What happens next with the roofing depends on how further funds can be marshalled to meet the costs The Josephite Mission Sisters who work in the area are recognised in naming the complex Mary Of The Cross after their Australian foundress whose sainthood declaration is being eagerly awaited

The chapel area will have the title Holy Cross and the parish centre will carry the name Mackillop.

The walls carry four inset crosses that will be anointed at the dedication ceremony - an Anchor Cross used in Egypt and North Africa, a Celtic Cross used in Ireland, a Jerusalem Cross of the Crusades era, and Australia's own Southern Cross.

The altar and lectern have heavy rammed earth bases that will be topped with jarrah.

As a reminder ofJesus' own baptismal place in the Jordan the font will have Bremer Bay reeds rammed into its structure.

Father Hugh Gallo-

way has no qualms

about going public for funds to complete the church at Bremer Bay that will be used not only by the locals but the hundreds of Western Australians who head for the south coast holiday resort each year.

It has already worked miracles for the local community, he says.

"Economically the country, especially the rural area, is in a mess and we would be mad to build only on dollars and

cents" he said "Instead we have built it on a community that is already paying heavily financially to keep their church going "It can cost a parishioner $4000 to send one child to a Catholic boarding school "If they come to Mass it costs them $10 in fuel.

"If they travel to Mass 50 times a year it costs them $500 just to get to church. I the city you only have to g around the comer.

"On top of this it costs $27,000 a year for theMotor Misis on Sisters and myself having two cars on the road to serve 480 parishioners scattered across 250 kilome° ters.

"The Catholics in the are are three times as generous in the country as those in the metropolitan area," says the priest of 16 years who looks back on his four years in Lake Grace parish some eight years ago.

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Father Galloway wrestles with the problem of what the Church should be doing in sparsely settled areas.

"Our leaders are not putting sufficient pressure on governments over rural issues. When the farmers held their protest marches where were the priests? I feel guilty I did not march We often lead from behind ·We send them out to do everything while we stay home and keep the home fires burning."

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munity supportive of the another to play or there will be insufficient to field a team is meeting a Church people Volunteer labourers are becoming adept at using the model for Australia's "And we have Mass at 8 or which rather than building bobcat and formwork to construct the walls of the far-flung rural par- I1 am and the Church says up community is tearing new Bremer Bay church, which features a rammed ishes? Father Hugh you have to be at Mass as people out of it so that we earth form of construction.

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It needs to be more LilGood God! missionary. The motor Well I have asked missions have already Medicare why God begun it. made us, but they "It might be better in fardidn't know; l also flung areas to spend up to approached Medifour days once a month bank Private, but sang Mass in their homes they were no help or the church and then either; finally I moving on went to HBF but "The expense of rushing they said they from place to place keeping didn't know, but p a Sunday ritual is out of they told me that, date and uneconomical and does not work any more if I were in a priFather Galloway says the rather Russell was so impressed with the Lenten sermon by vate hospital for change can be gradual. AcoFather Lacordaire he went around to the sacristy after devotions 30 days, I would be lytes have already show how and asked the Dominican why the Rationalists seemed to be covered for that for three Sundays a month having things thei own r way. The preacher said the best thig n was time. the local community could to read what he said in hi s latest book of sermons in published It is evident that the

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Ninth_ week_of a 13-week series on laity in th@church What happens when the annulment of a marriage is sought by a man or woman in the church? This week our writers explore that question, explaining what the very word "annulment" means.

Paulist Father James Young tells of some common misunderstandings about annulments.

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example, people are fearful the annulment process will cost a great deal of money or that after an annulment their children will be considered illegitimate. Father Young responds to these concerns. He is rector of St Paul's College in Washington, DC., and has worked extensively in ministry to the

divorced and separated.

Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke tells the story of a woman who requested an annulment. It seemed to her that her marriage had always lacked something essential.

In the course of the annulment proceedings, the evidence seemed to suggest that her husband

always had la; the ability to give, the love required the marriage. ktler O'Rourke is n the family life oke in the Diocese gakland, Califom Katharine Bird, ssociate editor tyt's Religious Edation Package, als tells the story of a man who sought an ulment. The won had

many apprehensions initially. But in the end the woman saw the Church's action on her case as a healing ministry.

David Gibson, editor of NC's Religious Education Package, explores some qualities that prospective husbands and wives need to bring to a Christian marriage.

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vocation. It means, moreover, a husband and wife no longer can be solely interested in their individual destinies. They must be concerned with the destiny of the marriage itself with their life together.

The woman informed me immediately fter she sat down that there was no way l was going to talk her into an vnulment. I could tell she had her mind made up. "I don't see my role as tallig people into getting annulments," l said. "My concern is to help people rec@er from divorce. Some people find an annulment an important part of the prress of healing and recovery."

Well, Father, I couldn't get an annulment anyway. I was married 15 years, and there's no way I'm going to lie and say I was never married. Furthermore I have three children and there's no way I'm going to make them illegitimate.

Also I refuse to pay thousands of dollars for a piece of paper that says I was never married."

Linda (not her real name) had almost all the common misunder standings of annulment. I suggested that explain more fully the Church's position on annulments.

First, the Catholic view of marriage holds that a man and woman have to be "able" to get married to enter into a lasting Christian marriage, I explained. This ability involves human resources emo tional strength, maturity, under standing of the obligations of marriage which must be present in both parties if they are to build a lasting marriage.

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resources when they marry Once they try to live together as husband and wife, it becomes clear they cannot handle the demands of married life Many such marriages end in divorce. An annulment is a decision after the breakup that there was some defciency on the part of one or

Like flowers ushering in spring, an annulment ea mean a new beginning for one whose marriage has ended. While the Church does not grant amhmets freely, there are legitimate reasons for a marriage tribunal te rule some marriages were never valid Christia marriages. Father lames discusses some common misconceptions abort anohmerts.

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both spouses at the time of marriage which made it impossible for the marriage to last.

Linda insisted her case was different. Her marriage had broken up because of her husband's alcoholism, but he wasn't an alcoholic when

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JAMES YOUNG they married, she said In fact, they had some very good years I told her experts on alcoholism hold that even though the disease may not exhibit itself in its most destructive

form until many years have passed, it is possible the disease was present at the time of marriage The

Church tribunal would have to evaluate the situation in more detail, relying on med-

ical judgement to determine whether the alcoholism was of such duration and intensity it prevented the couple from having a true relation ship, but such alcoholism can be sufficient ground for annulment well, even if I get an annulment, I would not illegitimate my children," Linda responded I explained an annulment does not illegitimate children Her marriage had civil and religious character The children's civil legitimacy is protected. An annulment is a Church decision about the marriage's religious charac ter

The children are not affected in their lives as Catholics by the annulment.

How will they feel it if the Church says their parents were never married" «she asked The Church doesn't say you were never married," I proposed "Obviously you were married, you lived together as husband and

hr luesdy morning I go to our diocesan Irle partment and on my desk is a stack t sliders, some as thick as the Sunday

papt lee are the stories of marriages that

flt titions for annulment hr many thousands petition church courts far aliment of their marriage

Bat is an annulment and how is it granted? odiidual, a civilly divorced man or woman, wt le diocesan court claiming his or her mart imvalid The person gives all the rs lr believing the marriage did not match te ti's requirements for a valid marriage Then «r she asls for the court' s opinion

rt collects testimony from the former gos ad from anyone else, friends and ml they suggest. Sometimes both parties

e amulet Sometimes the other spouse is t in maintaining

the validity. But in pit tion the judges have to start by et Se validity until it is proven invalid !It, n annulment is an answer to a hhe question is always the same: Was

the age valid or not?

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!tlile to respond by using the words of sf ho was married for 1] stormy years tree children. For her personal safety l-being of her children she finally left ·any years I looked at other people who lo have good marriages. Compared to

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Advised to initiate process early before any pressing need

For several years after her divorce, Martha Stevens (not her real name ) didn't even think about an annulment. Just dealing with the massive changes divorce brought -- a lowered standard of living, helping herself and her three children cope with the collapse of the marriage, searching for a career - took all her emotional resources.

But after her life stabilized somewhat, she began to think about an annulment. Even then she was dubious. She didn't know anyone who had got an annulment The marriage had lasted almost 20 years and she could still remember the good times.

Surely it was a marriage that "had just died."

Furthermore she told friends. Why should I get an annulment? I don't have anv plans to get married and may never want to again."

Two conversations changed her mind The first

was with a priest experienced in the annulment

process Among other arguments, he suggested it was a good idea to initiate the annulment process early on, when there was no pressing need The process is deliberate and careful and it's easier if you aren't anxious to get an annulment in order to marry someone else." he said The priest also explained

the mechanics of annulments. Either spouse can make the initial application; couples can apply in the diocese where one currently resides or in the diocese where the marriage took place He also explained the posible grounds the church uses to determine whether a

by KATHARINE BIRD marriage is Christian He helped Mrs Stevens to see that "impediment of consent" might be applicable in her case since pregnancy and her fear over it was the primary reason why she got married A second, equally impor-

tant encounter, was with a Catholic whose marriage was annulled.

A parish pastoral assistant, she told Mrs Stevens she had found the process "a healing cxpenence, a time to wrap up the loose ends connected with the end of my marnage The pastoral assistant also asked a crucial question "Are you sure your marriage was Christian?"

That simple question proved an eye-opener for

Annulment • experience

Mrs Stevens she had found

later For in thinking about her marriage, she concluded that it almost certainly wasn't what she believed a Christian marriage should the process 'a healing experience, a time to wrap up the loose ends connected with the end of my marriage The pastoral assistant also asked a crucial question 'Are you sure your marriage was Christian?

That simple question proved an eye-opener for Mrs Stevens. she admitted

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At this point, working closely with a priest on the marriage tribunal in her diocese. Mrs Stevens wrote a letter asking the church to investigate the possibility that her marriage lacked the essentials of a Christian

Next Mrs Stevens was asked to write an account of her marriage. beginning with the courtship period and the circumstances of the wedding. and then detailing how the marriage unfolded

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She also was asked to select four or five persons who

could serve as witnesses for the tribunal

Her husband also was asked to make a statement and to provide witnesses Several months later a priest assigned to marriage cases at Mrs Stevens' parish contacted her parents, asking them to meet with him, separately, to talk about their daughter's marriage Her parents went into the

Both said later that the priest put them at ease by explaining just what he was doing The whole process took

about a year

Then Mrs Stevens received

a letter from the diocese granting her an annulment Getting the annulment,

Mrs Stevens recalls today, was a "very freeing experience. It was like closing the door gently on a painful chapter in my life."

Are you ready for marriage?

Are you ready for marriage? For anyone planning marriage, that is a key question. But it is not at all like saying "Do you have enough money to pay for your honeymoon?" or "Do you want to have a large or small wedding?" questions answered much more simply.

People married a long time can attest that each marriage is unique, a variation on the theme of love and faith in one another. Coples vary in the manner their dependency on each is expressed; the needs they bring into the marriage; their wishes for the future; the ways they define the words "happiness" or "success" in marriage.

So marriage readiness does not mean a couple fits snugly into a pre-established marriage mould on their wedding day. lt is more complex than that. ilarriage readiness means a man and a woman see each

other as more than objects or possessions. Everyone knows what it means to speak of another as a sex object.

But that is not the only "objectification" that is a problem

for marriage.

A man or woman sometimes treat each other as objects by attempting to manipulate and control each other, taking little or no interest in the other as a unique person.

Marriage readiness means one is prepared to make a permanent commitment. The word "commitment" means a person intends to stick with this marriage. But on their wedding day, most people hope t means that more tan a "intellectual" commitment is being made.

They hope a commitment is being made to them as a person, that their partner intends to undertake a profound, lasting involvement in their well-being, their hopes, their

future.

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He has conducted a research unit in Canberra for five years and has recently done media research in England and the US. While provincial superior of the Jesuits for six years he was chosen to be the representative of religious superiors at the Australian Episcopal Conference.

"Everywhere I have gone, particularly in WA, I have found a very positive response from people in the secular media of wanting to hear what the Church has to say and wanting to help the Church get its message across. ·There can be big pressures in competition and marketing.

"But the people in media are very conscious the Church ought to be having not just a minor say and they are ready to give the Church that help.

"In every case it was not just a blank response but a positive offer".

Father Duffy says publicity about the Church does not require a bishop to be on view all the time; this might not be a good idea.

"We should be tapping into people heading our agencies such as Catholic education, youth, St Vincent De Paul and adult education and giving them simple training and some guide how to deal with the media."

A central office would be able to direct the media to where they can get the information they he are seeking, explained.

"The key thing to grasp is that the media are interested in personality centred news and not just the comments of spokesmen."

Father Duffy used the reluctance of the St Vincent De Paul Society to advertise its works of charity as an example.

"In this day we are preaching to a secular society. We do not light a lamp and put it under a hushcl.

"Most of Our Lord's miracles were done in public to arouse the faith of the people and where the Church talks about its good works its not for triumphalism but to say this is the charity of Christ in action and that this charity comes from the faith of a community inspired by Christ to help addicts, broken families and the like.

"This activity is happening all the time in parishes and this is the Church in action but the world seems to pass the Church by. ·The church needs to advertise its faith in the best sense of the word.

When we have done that part it is up to God to do what He wants to do with our effort"Father Duffy said.

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sive school has beaten the threat of closure by reversing the national

trend of falling rolls. Cardinal Griffin, at Cannock in Staffordshire, was earmarked for closure withing few years by the county council because pupils had dropped to about 500. School governors warned it was a risk because so many Catholie parents were sending their children to non-Catholic schools. But after A massive "Come to Us" campaign launched by new head teacher Joln Lumb and his staff, the number of pupils has jumped to nearly 540 and is expected to rise.

Terence Edward 0'Connor, a well-known Perth lawyer, was born in Perth on February 6, 1938. Terry leaves his partnership in the law firm of Stone lames Stephen Jaques this week to go to the Bar. His education started by correspondence at Boyup Brook and was continued at the Boyup Brook state school, the Toodyay convent, St Louis and the University of WA from which he graduated as a Bachelor of Laws in 1959.

He was articled to Mr R.L Ainslie, QC, at Stone lames before he was admitted to practice.

He is chairman of the councils of both John XXIN College and New Norcia.

Terry and his wife Annabel (nee Johnston) are Cottesloe parishioners and their children, Simon (16) and Dimity (15), both attend John XXIII.

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When he was learning by correspondence with the aid of his mother Margery on the Boyup Brook property and for some years afterwards, third generation Western Australian Terry O'Connor was keen on the rural life and hankered to be a farmer.

His father, Desmond O'Connor, had sold the Wicklow Hills holding at Toodyay to Ted Hayes and taken up land at Boyup Brook, which he later sold and the famity moved to Perth.

Through Terry's educational progress by way of correspondence lessons, the Boyup Brook state school. the Tooyay convent and St Louis his

aspirations towards becoming a farmer slowly faded and finally disappeared At St Louis he was in distinguished academic company because almost all his classmates went on to unrversrty and graduated with degrees in various professional disciplines On his matriculation however, Terry was undecided about what career path to follow His father wanted him to go university, but was not insistent on any particular course of stud es. Education Department guidance tests had indicated he would make a suitable teacher, but the prospect of a working lifetime in the classroom did not appeal to him "So," he reports laconically "T just wandered down to the University of WA one day and enrolled in Law." He counts as extremely fortunate the fact that, after gaining his LLB., he was articled to eminent lawyer, Robert Ainslie in the firm of Stone James before his admission to the bar in 1961 In the following years, Ter-

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has been in the fields of commercial litigation, which involves a lot of court word, and defamation, a complicated sphere of the law in which Mr Ainslie has long been acknowledged as an expert Terry has the distinction, f that is the right word, of having acted in the longest case in WA Suprere Court history It was an action between a farmer and another party which stretched over a period of eight months and resulted in 95 days of court sittings Terry's side won, you might be interested to learn Another memorable case in which he acted. in association with Robert Ainslie, was on behalf of a prospector against the Australian Taxation Office lt was a test case in which the tax people held income tax should be paid on the profit the prospector made from the sale of a mining claim The court's decision in favour of the prospector led to hundreds of prospectors having remitted the income they had made in similar instarces. Undoubtedly, for some time afterwards, Messrs Ainslie and O'Connor would have been the toast of Kalgoorlie.

Defamation, however, is a different kettle of fish.

Terry finds defamation to be more complicated than almost all other branches of law.

"Over the years," he says. "rules have been built up around it to suit different situations often to try to draw from different cases a cogent proposition for the particular case under review "A problem the law has is to

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LONDON: If prime minister Margaret Thatcher is concerned about law and order she should give the police the money they need to do the job properly.

That's the view of Father Brendan OMalley, a Birmingham parish priest who is also the only Catholic priest to head a police consultative committee.

The committees were set up at the recommendation of the Scarman Inquiry into the inner-city riots of 1981.

Father Brendan 0'Malley (left) towards harmony in a parish only a few miles from the Handsworth riot.

schools

Mr Terry O'Connor is chairman of the school board at John XXIII college, the cloistered atmosphere of which is seen in the picture below.

And the committee is as necessary now as it was then. Father O'Malley's parl

ish is only a few miles from

Handsworth, where two

Asians died in the rioting Father O'Malley is quick to claim that he is not playing

politics I was elected chairman of the consultative committee because the other members believed I would be nonpolitical, and that is my

role," he said It's not playing at politics to say that ifMrs Thatcher keeps insisting she is strong on law and order then she must give the police the money they need to do the job properly.'

The committees were

recommended by Scarman

as a way of improving reltions between the police and the community, and as a means of letting the public take the police to task in an atmosphere free of tension or provocation

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sioners'

define just what constitutes

defamation. The most generally accepted definition is that the statement is defamatory if it tends to lower the person affected in the eyes of rightthinking people in the community."

But this simple proposition can open up a Pandora's Box out of which can pop all sorts of niggling questions.

For instance • Who are right-thinking people? • Why are they regarded as such?

• With whom has the plaintiff's reputation been damaged? • f it has been, to what extent? and so on ad infini-

tum.

Terry says most people who feel they have been injured in reputation initially get very hot under the collar but calm when they view things

down

In perspective.

In any event, when the news media realise they have made a mistake they correct promptly and publicly as a general rule.

Mention of the news media brings up the fact that, as chairman of the council of John XXN College, Terry has

had his share of publicity in recent times The John XXIIN saga originated when the Jesuits withdrew from St Louis and Terry and some others became involved in trying to keep the school going The Jesuits donated the valuable property, and Terry was elected vice-chairman of the first council formed under the chairmanship of Sir John

Lavan.

Then he was appointed joint

chairman of the St Louis-

Loreto working party set up to implement the amalgamation of the two schools In the early 1980's, the Loreto nuns indicated they wanted to leave their convent in Bindaring Parade and they gave the land to the archdio-

cese

The council then had the situation where, after the nuns had left the convent, big areas of land had become available for school use.

Many of the facilities were sub-standard and an architectural examination resulted in the drawing up of a rebuilding and renovation plan.

The rub was that implemen-

tation of the plan was likely to

cost between $8 million and $10million -- an expenditure obviously out of the question.

About this time, Tom yan, a member of the Catholic Education Commission and former principal of the Claremont Teachers' Training College, mentioned to Terry the possibility of some land becoming available at the Graylands Hospital The council looked at relocation to Graylands and entered into long negotiations, first with the then coalition state government and later with the Burke Labor government.

The result was acquisition of 50 acres (about 20 hectares) of the present site.

But at that period the counal was not able to match the cost of the new building with proceeds of sale of the land It had in hand Eventually an arrangement was entered into whereby Clough Engineering took over the land of the former school sites in exchange for building the new John XXII College on the GravMands site

The whole deal is a $13 million project and the new school has 100 staff and more than 1200 pupils.

'We were able to re-establish the school," Terry says, "without going to any government for capital grants.

It is a low-fee school because of the generosity of the Jesuits, the Loreto nuns and earlier generations of Catholic parents who left a legacy of valuable land which had on it facilities that had served their purpose.

"We were able to realise on the land and build the school for the large number of pupils it now accommodates.

"The original schools grew and finally became an architectural mess.

"Now we have a cohesive unit designed for 1200 pupils and facilities, such as a purpose-built gymnasium and a big hall, that we never had before."

A lesser-known role Terry has recently assumed is chairmanship of the New Norcia school council.

The school," he explains, "had a number of difficult

years and was not operating satisfactorily "Already, with the Good Samaritan sisters, under school principal Sister Therese Marie, there has been a noticeable improvement.

"The council has embarked on a program to upgrade facilities and lift enrolments to make it more viable. The Benedictine monastery has made land available for a farming course and provision is in train for students to keep horses in a pony club atmosphere.

"We believe enrolments will increase and the co-educational school will regain the high reputation once enjoyed

by St Ildephonsus College and St Gertrude's."

Terry is moving from his law firm partnership to the Bar for" several reasons.

He wants to see more of his family than has been possible as a partner in a big firm, and he wants to spend more time on Church and general community work.

"The system has been good to me, and I want to put something back," he adds.

organisations schools, churches, councillors, members of the public and senior police officers

The committees meet regularly, and occasionally hold public meetings at which any issue can be raised The areas covered by the committees correspond with police sub-divisions, so that people can dcal directly with those officers responsible for their specific community.

Father O'Malley, 52, is head of the Chelmsley Wood committee which covers the vast sprawling estate of highrise blocks that is, for local government purposes, in

Solihull but has all its ties with Birmingham.

It was built to house local families and now, with a population of more that 100,000 is one of the biggest council estates in Europe.

He was born in Westport Co Mayo, and studied philo-

sophy and English at Univer-

sity College Dublin, before

moving to Coventry at the

age of 23.

He worked in the production control department at the Alvis motor works for five years, for two as shop steward, and was then secre-

from GERALD HUNT

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tary to the Coventry Council

for Social Services for two years Then, as he put it. "I got the call' and went to Oscot College in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham He was ordained at St Osburg's, Coventry, in 1966 and worked in Walsall, Staffordshire and Worcester-

shire before taking over at the parish of St. Anne and St Patrick, Chelmsley Wood, in

1980

On such a massive estate, with terrible unemployment, crime, vandalism and poverty there can be plenty of flashpoints.

"So we try to defuse potentially volatile situations before they blow by being the representatives of the ordinary man in the street.

'That means we cannot limit our areas of concern to just how the people in the area and the police appear to be getting along with each

other

From page 4 The German bishops' representative revealed that they had decided to publish - against the expressed wishes of the Holy See their response to the Laity Synod consultation document.

The Dutch bishops published theirs earlier this

month, but the bishops of England and Wales have complied with the Vatican's request.

The meeting noted that "small numbers" of Christians in Europe were converting to Islam, and expressed concern that the religious freedom granted to Moslems in many European countries was not always extended in Moslem countries to Christians.

The telegram sent by the Rabat conference to the Southern African bishops was particularly significant because, as a mark of solidarity between the Church in Africa, it effectively bypassed the Vatican.

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dency of the courts to regard the fact that a person was under the influence of alcohol or drugs when committing a crime as a mitigating factor when the likely consequences of alcohol or drug-taking are well-known .

In both cases, I submit that all known consequences must be regarded as From Mrs Doris intended. The choice of MARTYR, Attadale Fr. Uren (The Record June 5) actions then rests on the individual's judgement of the erred in at least two substantial metters, especially in relative values of the 'good' claiming that the Magiste- and 'bad' effects.

This, is quite consistent with rium does not teach when life J.P. Gury's classical formulabegins and that embryos are unborn babies. The Church of tion of the principle of double course, does so teach in her effect. It does not, however, doctrines of the Incarnation appear to be the interpretaand the Immaculate Concep- tion placed on the principle by Father Uren. ton.

Father Uren argues that the The Response of the Archdiocesan Bioethics Commit- only difference between tee on the Interim Report of achieving pregnancy by northe IVF Committee of WA. on mal means and doing so by page 16 says the Vatican IL VF between husband and Declaration on Abortion does wife is the higher rate of not presume to define when embryo toss in the latter case Even if this were the case, individual life and PERSONthe significantly higher rate ALITY begins Yet that Declaration states with INF (which gets uncomCatholic teaching "as soon as fortably close to 100 per cent) the egg is fertilised a life would quite likely be sufficient to change the balance of begins . " The Uren Response adds 'good' and 'bad'.

But it is not the case. the words " and PERIf, as Christians presumably SONALITY" to the word "life", which must be read as believe, the reproductive proposing that life begins only capacity of human beings is when something called "per- a God-given gift, it follows sonality" is added to it. This is that its features, such as the a sophistry of secular huma- rate of embryo loss through failure to implant or through nism, not Catholic teaching Although both the Interim spontaneous mrscarriage, Finding and the Response were also intended perwant more public money for haps as a means of minimisIVF, the Response says ing the production of nothing on the morality of deformed or non-viable expecting taxpayers (even human beings t most certainly does not those who do not approve of IVF) to finance it and heal its follow that we are entitled to side effects in a country extrapolate by saying that where there are at least a) twice the rate of embryo 60.000 publicly funded abor- loss is also acceptable; and tions a year. This is a serious b) such embryo loss is moral question, and while a equally-acceptable even if it is government committee can induced artificially solely for ignore it, surely a truly the purpose of achieving a Catholic group should pregnancy In fact, we know that, in address it Nor does the Response addition to the higher rate of comment on the government embryo loss, VF babies are committee's recommenda- more likely to be premature, tion on the Patient Consent be stillborn or to die than Form for IVF with its implica- babies conceived normally. tion that abortion be available This compounds the embryofor "foetal abnormalities" No loss problem which Father Uren attempted (unsuccessCatholic witness there Page 3, para. 4 of the fully) to rationalize Response seems to say that as Catholics, Fr Uren and the Bioethics Committee "DO NOT BELIEVE that monogamous, lifelong commitment in marriage and of stable familial relationfrom Gillian and M.J ships . need to be sup- GONZALES Wiletton l ported by any active or Sir, we would like to express passive social, legal or even our sadness at the blasecclesiastical discrimina- phemy being committed tion." against Our Lady by the Overall, the response is showing of the movie "Hail convoluted, obscure and Mary". What a shame that equivocal and lacks an Australia could not see it frt to authentic Catholicity, rather it ban the movie as has been looks like kneeling to the done en other countries world by special pleading for While we realize that cen the still non-existent "simple sorship can be overdone n case". some ways, surely there

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Because the President's Annual Report did not refer in detail to the substantial work done by the Federation on a large number of issues during the past year does not mean that the details were intentionally included in nothing happend my Executive Report (encl.) to the AG.M., and in regular explanatory letters to Associations exhorting them to support our stance on various issues throughout the year.

Last October we produced a bulk issue pre-election Newsletter (25,000 copies), which was distributed to every family with children at Catholic schools affiliated with the Federation, and which encouraged parents to contact their Members of Parliament in support of our efforts to obtain educational funding justice for their children.

We also spent a lot of time communicating repeatedly with all members of State Parliament prior to the February election, asking them to support our August Submission on Recurrent and Capital funding, Interest Subsidies, school buses, allocation of school sites and various other issues All W.A. Members of the Federal Parliament (MHRs and Senators), and the Government and Opposition Leaders in both Houses, were also each sent a number of letters asking them to support our wide-ranging Commonwealth funding Submission, raising concerns about and asking for amendments to the Australian Bill of Rights Bill (1985), the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill (1985), the legislation concerning funding of New Schools and imposing the enhanced Accountability requirements, Affirmative Action, the continuing unsatisfactory situation regarding the availability of X-rated Video material and registration classification of obscene and blasphemous films, and ongoing submissions re Tax Concessions and the Federal Govern ment's failure to index Family Allowances and Spouse and Single Parent Rebates, and proposals to reduce, tax or means test these payments Judging from strong comments in the last year or two by the Premier and the Education Minister, regarding our criticisms of and impatience with State Government funding policy, Mr Donnelly's fears that we could be sedated or muzzled via our State Government subsidy are groundless we continue to struggle for justice and consideration for Catholc families, not only in education funding but in a wide range of family and social issues However, the main strength of an organisation such as ours resides not in the Federation Council, but in a committed and informed grass-roots membership which is willing to fight against discrimination and actively pursue genuine freedom of choice and real justice and equity for all children,by demanding that the wishes of all taxpayers receive equal consideration by Members of Parliament In criticising the Federation's increased operating costs over the last 25 years, Mr Donnelly conveniently overlooks the massive inflation of the last 15 years, and the reduced capacity of parents to contribute voluntary services because of (i) The need for both parents to work to pay school fees and other essential family expenditure, and to offset the constant erosion of disposable incomes, and reductions in the real value of family allowances and tax rebates for dependants and concessional expenditure, (ii) the greatly increased number of single parent families since the introduction of the Family Law Act, and (iii) the need for parents to spend more time at home coping with the damaging effects of the media, increased mobility, drugs and earlier alchohol abuse.

We now also have to deal with a multiplicity of organisations, Commissions, Government Committees and agencies, complex legislation and reports, many of which did not exist or need consideration in Mr Donnelly's day.

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If we also had the financial support of those few schools which are not affiliated with the Federation, even though they automatically enjoy the fruits of our labours (and some of which are in well-to-do areas where they will need all the representation they can get come the 1988 Commonwealth re-classification of schools), then our affiliation fees would be even lower.

from Margaret KRASENSTEIN, Nedlands Sir, Would Fr Uren please explain the virgin conception.

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Such an abrogation of individual responsibility is on a par with the increasing ten-

should be a limit to what is allowed to be circulated in civilized society. All great civilizations have had certain standards and we know the results of having these stand ards eroded.

The general opinion amon our friends seems to be that the less publicity we give th8 film by protesting the better.

We, however, feel that silence is in a way an endorsement and we do not want the public to think that we Catholics don't care.

We would like to congratulate the few religious leaders and prominent people who have had the guts to object to the screening of this most objectionable movie.

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Group has birthday Four years ago I boasted of a bright new light shining on the WA youth scene. This week the Antioch community celebrates its fourth anniversary. To the majority of local parish Antioch groups this fact will go unnoticed and evoke very little fanfare

in Bluff Point. Port Hedland. and Northam Over 100 adults are involved with the movement at the moment. In no way Most communities are too does the program pretend to busy preparing for the next local weekend or coping achieve or answer all the with the weekly nitty gritties needs of youth -- but it of making it all happen makes an important start In June 1982 the first WA Recently several former Antioch members sat 'glued Antioch community to the television watching attended Wednesday morning Mass at the Carmelite replays of earlier weekends It is a very significant expe Monastery in Adelma Road, rience even for those who Nedlands.

Eighty young people and have moved on some of their parents braved The community aims to a cold and dark winter attract young people in years 11 12 and older It is a morning to celebrate the beginning of a new day after powerful experience of their exciting weekend Anti- prayer and community och experience that invited Approaching weekends attendance at a weekday will be held in Maida Vale Eucharist.

Queens Park, Midland, and A few months prior two South Perth Riverton, Nedlands, Noryoung people, Paul Watt and Gabrielle Giambazi tham, Balcatta, Rockingham, returned from their first Applecross, Port Hedland weekend and set about with City Beach are among the a few adults to get the show groups preparing a new on the road. start Since then over 1200 For more information contact Father Jegorow on young people have been part of the weekend experience 328 9878 in groups as large as 100 and The next Flame weekend as small as 30 in 25 mostly for all groups is scheduled for September 20. Flame is a metropolitan parishes.

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Malcolm H. Muggeridge, I is generally conceded who, tbougb indifferent tbat tbis was one of tbe at first to Mother Teresa most extraordinary relt- and ber work, eventually glous events in tbe world. was totally captivated.

Wbat lvas tbe occasion?

He then wrote a book, It was tbe silverjubilee of "Something Beautiful for tbe establisbment of the God," a glowing tribute, Missionaries of Charity, wbicb translated into seva community of women eral languages, became a Religious wbicb was bestseller. Later, be and begun by a sister wbo was bis wife were received born in Yugoslavia and is into the Catholic Cburcb. now known worldwide as Tbe community conMother Teresa of Cal- tines to expand and cutta, grow so that now in 35 From tbe outpouring of years they bave 2400 sislove and respect from ters scattered over five People of all faiths and continents in many, even of no faith, these many countries of the sisters must bave been world. doing something rigbt.

Tbere is now a communWbat they did and bow #y of brothers alied with they did it is told in sin- the sisters wbo have estabple, clear prose by Eleen isbed 70 bouses in tbeir Agan in "Scb a Vision of brief existence. Tbere are the Streets." hundreds of lay people I all began wben Agnes called the International Gonba Bojaxhri4, age 18, Association of Coentered tbe Congregation Workers of Mother of the Sisters of Loreto. Teresa, who are motprimSbe trained in Ireland arily fund-raisers but and was sent to Calcutta. spiritual and physical For 19 years sbe lived in helpers. Tbere are also

women

several thousand ill and handicapped wbose personal suffering bas been

somewhat relieved by tbeir works of mercy.

Unfortunately not everyone is enamoured of Motber Teresa and ber work. Sbe bad been criticised for ber unfincbing stands against abortion, unetbical birtb control

and sterilisation.

Sbe bas been chided for ber unserving loyalty to the pope and ber agreement with bis stand on tbe ordination of women and married men.

Perhaps the unkindest cut of all bas come from some muns and priests who say her work is superficial because it does not attack tbe social and economic structures tbat are tbe cause of so many

buman ills.

But none of this disturbs ber. Sbe continues on ber way serenely doing wbat Jesus did in bis day for the outcasts of society.

Ms Egan is more than competent to write this book because althougb an active staff member of Catholic Relief Services, sbe bas travelled witb Mother Teresa for more than 30 years.

I bave only two minor reservations about this book. It could use more careful editing to eiminate duplications, and tbere should be some more examples of human failures in tbe organisa-

ion because, after all, these sisters, priests,

brothers are buan and it is human to err.

However, mwy last and lasting expression after finis.bing "Such a Vision of the Streets" is, "Te finger of God is here."

The Captain And The Kings by Jennifer Johnston, published by Flamingo. $5.95.

This is Jennifer Johnston's first novel Set in rural Ireland, the story centres on Mr Prendergast, an elderly man living alone in a large house surrounded by his memories and by the relics of the past Like the estate, he seems to be quietly decaying

rial was rewritten with this publication in mind The "death to sin and life to God" theme that pervades Marmion's works finds its echo here. The author makes spirituality attractive to the general reader while he encourages the more advanced to go higher.

Whether he's dealing with the sacraments or morality, he always starts with the basics and leads his readers on.

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The section on prayer is really intriguing. Quite simply, the cardinal takes a look at the wide variety of traditional forms of prayer.

Then he has a priceless little section on the "prayer of That's incompetence." when you want to pray but can't keep a spiritual thought in your head!

While the book will serve admirably for adult spiritual reading, it has so many valuable insights that an

index in a future edition should be mandatory. With that, I would say this gem of a book could well become a modern classic.

Father Dollen is book review editor of The Piest magazine.

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Tbis volume joins tbe already long list of 'counter' books tbat are guaranteed to take all of tbe pleasure out of eating.

Tbere are books to count tbe salt content of food, tbe sugar content, the cholesterol content, tbe

carbohydrate content, tbe protein content and tbe fat content ... no doubt tbere will eventually be one to tell us tbe food content.

Wble I recognise that fat can contribute to obesity and beart disease I do feel tbat poring over a book to find out bou many gramsper ounce of fat tbere are in your liquorice allsorts, lamb liver, bratwurst or brail nuts is enougb to send even tbe sanest of us into early dementia.

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THE CHURCH IS ALL OF YOU, Thoughts of Oscar Romero, edited by JR Brockman, published by Fount, $4.95 This is a collection of short, simple, spiritual pieces from the sermons of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of war-torn EI Salvador. Originally a puppet of the fascist right-wing Junta, the Archbishop became a passionate defender of the poor and the oppressed. In 1980 he was shot down by his opponents in front of his altar and his congregation.

Today Oscar Romero is well known as a modem saint and martyr.

new titles, new titles, new titles, new title Tbe Challenge of Pain,

by Ronald Melack and Patrick Wall, published by Penguin, $14.95.

A remarkable work, respon

sible for break-through developments in the debate about the nature of physical pain, an abstract concept that remains a constant challenge to doctors, scientists and sufferers

Australian Tax Guide

1985, by Lilian Horier, published by Longman, $14.95.

One of Australia's leading barristers and writers on tax has written a clear concise, uncomplicated and authoritative guide to income tax, sales tax, payroll tax and other taxes in Australia From company situations to personal allowances, all pcople will find that they need this leading Tax Guide for

1985.

Rolls Royce Te Complete Works, by Mike Fox

and Steve Smitb, pubIisbed by Faber and

Faber, $9.95.

This is the story about the two men who dreamed up

the best motor car in the world. It's also a collection of the astonishing, unbelievable and hilarious stories

that make the Rolls Royce not only the finest car the world has ever seen, but also one of the most fascinating social phenomena of the century

Particular Delights, by Natbalie Hambro, publisbed by Papermac,

$9.95.

In this collection of highly individual recipes, the author combines simple ingredients in imaginative, often unexpected ways to create stunning results which will delight the eye as well as the palate. The primary ingredients for recipes are vegetables, poultry, fish and eggs and there is even a section on cooking with flowers! For all their originality the recipes are easy to follow and basically inexpensive.

Henry Lawson, Tbe Man

And Tbe Legend, by Manming Clark, published by

Sun, $8.95.

Here is a compelling portrait of Australia's greatest literary hero by one of our foremost historians. Manning Clark paints a brilliant and absorbing picture of

Lawson, his contemporaries and his times. His first creative efforts for the Bulletin, his rise to fame as the "bard of the workers" at a time when a national spirit was emerging in art and literature in Australia and finally his tragic decline into alcoholism are all documented "What Manning Clark has achieved in this book, apart from much beautiful writing, is to have shot a sudden and revealing searchlight into Henry Lawson's soul."

Horse Racing Diction-

ary, by Keith Dunstan

and Jeff Hook, published

by MacMilan, $7.95.

In the tradition of previous Sun humour dictionaries comes this hilarious guide to

the sport of kings. Dunstan and Hook combine their talents yet again, to give you an A to Z of turfing terms to tickle your fancy!

Gertrude Jekyll On Gar-

dening. An Anthology, by

Penelope Hobbouse, pubisbed by MacMillan,

$14.95.

Gertrude Jekyll is one of the great classic writers on gardens and gardening. her ideas and innovations, particularly on planting and colour, have considerably influenced more than one generation of gardeners. In this book, Penelope Hobhouse, herself an expert gardener, has assembled an anthology of Jekyll's writing as a modern guide to the practice of her ideas.

ESPECIALLY FOR SCHOOLS -- A VIDEO CASSETTE FOR WORLD PEACE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BORROW A VIDEO CASSETTE ON OUR LADY OF FATIMA? 'The Lord wishes to establish in the WORLD the devotion to My Immaculate Heart."

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MANJIMUP JUBILEE

TENNIS·

The score was St. George 8 sets 58 games to Pignatelli No.2 four sets 46.

This match was also played in a fine spirit and congratulations must go to all the players.

The St. George team consisted of Hugh O'Neill (captain), Guy Damiano, Dale

by PETER MESSER The mixed pennant tennis competition came to an end last weekend with the finals in the A and B grades being played at the Pignatelli courts.

In fine but windy conditions Queens Park No. 2

won the A grade pennant and St. George won the B grade.

The A grade match was very closely fought all day through with Queens Park No.2 able to just play that little bit more consistently to

Jones, Terry Scorer, Hillary O'Neill and Terri Scorer.

The players in the Pignatelli No.2 team were Barry McMahon (captain), Graham Reeves, John Chilvers, Brian Webster, Gwen McMahon and Pauline Gor-

ringe.

These mixed pennants were the closest competition played for many years and certainly all the participants have commented on how much they have enjoyed the tennis.

It is hoped the teams in the coming men's and ladies' competitions are as evenly matched.

Club are delegates reminded that the next meeting of the association has been deferred one week and will be held on Tuesday July 8 at the home of John and Leonie Messer, 77 Leach Highway. Wilson commencing at 7.45pm.

The executive of the Western Australian Catholic Lawn Tennis hereby gives notice to all affiliated clubs and their members the annual general meeting of the association will be held on Sunday August 17 at 4.30pm at the Pignatelli Tennis Club, Wichman Road, Attadale.

The meeting will be preceeded by a trophy tennis day beginning at 1.00pm.

win.

The score was Queens

Park No.2 seven sets 60 games to Queens Park No.1 five sets 52.

Queens Park No.2 were well served by their women Linda Farrell and Kerry Messer who between them lost only one set out of the six in which they were involved.

The match was played in an excellent spirit and both teams are to be congratu lated for the manner in which they conducted

themselves.

The Queens Park No.2 team consisted of Peter Messer (captain), Peter Hiatt, Michael Messer, Kevin Monihan, Linda Farrell and Kerry Messer.

The players in the Queens Park No.1 team were Kevin

Quain (captain), Ron Smith,

George Miszczyk, Brian

Ouain, Dot Jefferson and Cathy Veza.

The B grade match was also very closely fought but it was the strength of the men in the St. George team which decided their match.

Looking back on 60 years as a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Sister Dorothy Therese called her life blessed at the Manjimup recent celebration.

After her profession in 1926 she spent seven years in Bega NSW before returning to WA to serve at South Perth, New Norcia, Trayning, Kellerberrin, Pinjarra, Waroona, Boulder, Busselton and Manning, finishing her full-time teaching at Pemberton.

Since then at Manjimup she has taught religion in five government primary schools and now helps out focally in pastoral work.

YOU ARE MY PEOPLE Group leader training programs for the "You Are My People" program

will be held on: Juty 8 at 10.15 am at 29 Duffy Tce, Woodvale; July 9 at 7.45 pm at Willetton, Whitfords, Osborne Park, Greenmount, Lesmurdie and Spearwood; July 10 at 7.45 pm at Applecross, Midland, Doubleview, Armadale, Rockingham and Dianella; July 11 at 7.45 pm at East Victoria Park, Langford, Girrawheen and

Nodlands; July 12 at 1.30 pm at Fremantle,

Leederville and Nedlands.

Booklets ($1.50) and tapes ($3) of Archbishop Foley's address are available from Margaret Bruce 386 7166 (9am to noon) 386 7757 (a/h) at the

Resource Centre, Nedlands, or Sister Joan Smith 29 Duffy Tce, Woodvale

409 6291, or Brother Whitely, Clontarf, Manning 458 9693.

ARMADALE ANNIVERSAY

To mark the 1Oh anniversary of the opening of St Francis Xavier Church in Armadale, there will be a special Mass on Saturday August 9 at 6.30 p.m. and all past and present parishioners are invited to attend. There will be supper afterwards and those coming are asked to bring a plate

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MUSIC FOR ST PETER

Music for St Peter on Sunday. June 29 at 11am on 6WN includes a new and excellent performance of Palestrina's parody mass Tu es Petrus' has been recorded on Argo Digital Compact by the Choir of King's College Cambridge. The rendition will be the central work in today's program to mark the annual Feast for Saint Peter ... which will also include tributes to Peter penned by contemporary writers Benjamin Britten and Maurice Durufle.

SILVER JUBILEE Father Richard Doyle of BrentwoodWilletton parish will be celebrating his Silver Anniversary on Tuesday, July 1.

Mass will be celebrated in the new church and after the Mass there will be a light supper in the John Paul centre.

On the following Friday, July 4, the parish social committee has organised a dinner dance at the Melville Civic Centre to further celebrate the occasion.

Are you a

DISCIPLE? Called to take up a CHALLENGE to a life of holiness and service Come to a WEEKEND Pictured at a recent marrige a preparatron.

ABOVE: Alex Alban of Manjimnup and Sabina Furfaro of Pickering Brook who wed at Kalamunda on July 5.

BELOW: Wayne Fowlie of Thornlie and Raewyn Smith who are to marry in Auckland on July 5.

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WONGAN CEREMONY

Past parishioners of the Wongan Hills-Dafwallinu Parish are invited to the blessing and opening of the new parish centre at Wongan Hills on Sunday July 6, by Archbishop Foley, following 10.30 am Mass, and to be followed by lunch. Everyone most welcome.

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Sister Mary and at rear Fr Evan Penberthy. Picture from Warren Black-

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St. Joseph's Convent 27 Penguin Road, Safety Bay. July 18 --20 1986 RING and talk to:

BR. TONY 446 2055,

RETREAT FOR WOMEN

A weekend retreat for women will be held at the Redemptorist Retreat House August 15-17 It is one of several sponsored by Majellans and is open to any interested lady Jo-Ell n Karstens of the Focolare Movement will lead the retreat on the theme Living the Gospel in Daily Life" The cost of the retreat is $40. For bookings send a deposit of $20 to Nola Kermode, 173 Morley Drive, Morley

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UNHAPPY MEMORIES SEMINAR For widowed, bereaved, separated divorced people with unhappy memories Mr Dan Coughlin will speak on Healing Memories at a workshop organised by the Paulian Association at the Redemptorist Retreat House on July 27 Cost $5 per head including meals. Phone Sherry Walker 445 1626 or Esther Doust (096) 27 6209 for

July

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Mercy, Leederville, Archbishop Foley.

Diamond Jubilee Mass Sister Dorothy Therese Ryan, St Joseph's Convent, South Perth, Archbishop Foley.

Blessing of Wongan Hills Presbytery, Archbishop Foley.

Mass for Vocations, Doubleview, Bishop Healy.

Meeting on Special Ministers of the Eucharist, Leederville, Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

Mass for Vocations, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation Applecross, Bishop Healy.

SR. LEONIE 478 1038

@rinitg College RIVERSIDE DRIVE, PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6000 TEL 325 3655 Applications are invited for 1. GIBNEY SCHOLARSHIPS, eligible to boys of good scholastic ability entering Year 8 in 1987. Scholarships are tenable for 5 years Applications close on Monday, 21 July, 1986 and an examination will be held at the College on Friday, 25 July, 1986 2. OLD BOYS' SCHOLARSHIP, eligible to boys entering Year 11 in 1987 Applicants must possess average-good scholastic ability with special talents in some other field, such as Music, Public Speaking, Drama, Art. The Scholarship covers tuition fees for Years 11 and 12.

Closing date 28 July, 1986 Application forms for the above scholarships are available from the College Office.