The Record Newspaper 20 November 1986

Number 2506

PERTH, WA: November 20, 1986

Melbourne writer PAT CONNELLY continues his story of the life and achievements of Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II. His story and more historical pictures continues today on pages 8, 9, 10 and 11.

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John Paul's message

"Dear people of Australia, with all my heart I greet you.

"In a spirit of joyful anticipation, I have been preparing for my pastoral visit to your nation.

"For a full week, I shall have the opportunity of being with you in a number of places all over your vast and beautiful country.

"I look forward to meeting people of every age and background - the elderly and the young, workers and the unemployed, the sick and those who care for them, the Aboriginal people, the recent immigrants and many others - all children of one heavenly Father, all made in the image of God. "It will be a particular joy to praise God with you. I wish to encourage my brothers and sisters of the Catholic faith, and all my Christian brethren, to be always strong in the faith and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

'To all of you, the people of Australia, without distinction, my warmest greetings.

"I am eager to see you face to face. May God bless you all."

Pope John Paul II is airborne on what will be the biggest ever event in Catholic Church history in Australia.

Into his ninth year of his pontificate, his 33rd journey abroad as pope - his fourth in 1986 sweeps him through the churches of Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and the Seychelles.

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It is the second visit of a pope to Australia - Pope Pa u I VI making a visit to Sydney only in 1970.

Pope John Paul is no stranger to Australia.

As Cardinal Wojtyla he travelled extensively to Australian Polish communities Perth including his following attendance at the M e Ibo urn e Eucharistic Congress in 1973.

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He was assistant priest at Leederville and Kalgoorlie before joining the team ministry at

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He became parish priest of Wongan Hills in 1978.

His brother is Father James Corcoran in

Melbourne,

Transperth is gearing up for its biggest ever operation shifting upwards of 60,000 people to the Belmont Park Mass of Pope John Paul II.

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He served as a brother St Francis' in Melbourne and was ordained priest in 1978.

He has a brother serving as a Sacred Heart Brother in Toowoomba, Queensland.

Father Vincent Conroy, chaplain at Campbell Barracks, Swanbourne since January 1984 will move to Puckapunyal in the new year to serve out his commission which concludes in March 1988.

He was a part-time chaplain in 1970-73 and after two years as administrator in Nedlands he was asked in 1981 to take up a fulltime army chaplaincy.

The late Father Harry Brennan was the last fulltime army chaplain in at

WA.

The needs of Catholic at personnel Swanbourne will be handled by other Reserve Catholic chaplains.

Father Conroy has also served in the parishes of Northam. Shenton Park, Highgate and Cathedral and volunteered for three years service in the diocese of Darwin.

The new Catholic chaplain at WAIT is Sister Margaret Lipsett who has been a Sister of Mercy for 26 years and has spent the past 20 years in education, including principal of St Jude's school, Langford.

She was attending a seven month course at the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila at the time of the Marcos overthrow.

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Tons of steel scaffolding and decking were this week transforming the Belmont Park grandstand into an immense liturgical platform which will make the Pope's Mass an exciting visual experience from every part of the ground. Sprinklers are ensurinf the lawns and gardens are in top summer bloom for Belmont Park's biggest ever attendance, this time for a Catholic pope!

Transperth scheduling FROM ARMADALE and all stations to Cannington, thence express to Belmont.

A second service starts at Cannington and all stations to Belmont.

FROM FREMANTLE and all stations to Perth, alight at Perth and transfer to the special PerthBelmont shuttle Careful planning, attention to every detail, and large helpings of common sense will make November an inspiring and pleasant experience for over 60,000 Western Australians.

Weather Bureau records point to an average maximum temperature of 26.8 degrees on that day. It has rained on November 30 only 12 times in the past 105

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Sunhats of every size or description are essential for every person. No umbrellas or sunshades are allowed;

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Food and accessories must be taken in small containers. No Eskytype boxes wil I be allowed on buses or trains.

Small folding chairs are permissible, preferably camp stool variety.

because they block the view of others, if rain threatens come armed with plastic garments.

have an ample supply of fresh water to counter heat stress on children or the elderly, give small children fluids each half hour. No large coolers permitted. Carton drinks and sandwiches will be on sale.

If you must listen to the cricket, use an ear device; your neighbour does not want to hear your radio. Special music entertainment commences at midday.

The first Christian lesson is to think of others; bring plastic bags to remove every morsel of rubbish from the race-course grounds.

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When Pope John Paul sweeps into the. grounds of Glendalough Home late on the Sunday afternoon he may only have seconds to glance at the flower beds and other landscaping.

But they are an eight month labour of love of George and Berenice Roberts of Hillarys and their children Kenneth and Patricia who attend Whitfords Catholic school.

Every Saturday and on many Sundays they have planted trees around the new parking area and landscaped flower beds.

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Shrewd umpires will declare that the ABC documentary on the Catholic Church ran out of time and call it a draw.

The match can then be played on and on for years to come; many will already have made up their minds whether the Hopes vanquished the Crisis or. as some correspondents seem to suggest, the Crisis was being given the advantage.

Strong views and reactions by Catholics on what pleased or displeased them in the series will be an exercise of self indulgence if they overtook what has happened to the Church in this rare moment of its history.

Come December 1 as the pope's aircraft heads homewards and Australians get on with real life like the America's Cup and 1988, it will be a long time before the Catholic Church ever again gets as much penetrating attention on press, radio and television.

For many Catholics it is not a comfortable experience. Writers and interviewers ask no permission or pardon for what they see or what they will edit in or out of their final product.

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Selective quotes, short segments played one against the other are the current ploy of the media industries. Catholics who can't ride the bumps of imbalance and abrasive criticism need to come to terms with world they seek to influence. Pulpits which have ignored the exposure given to the Church and what is yet to come will have done a disservice to the Catholics bombarded with an experience much different from the rock-throwing, back-stabbing hostility with which they once would have been met and which generated its own militant response.

The question is not that Geraldine Doogue produced the series and with high professional quality commanded the attention it received but where it leaves the Church in the face of its future.

Signs of Hope did not reach its destination because it could not get past the hurdles it discovered in Australian life and about which Australians themselves are loathe to be honest.

The urban decay, prostitution and high rise inhumanity of South Melbourne are what Australians have done to each other not by the Church which is asked to now bail us out of our urban misery.

The universal cry for more community life in parishes comes from a late 2Oth century when the streets are unsafe, when doors are locked, when neighbour no longer speaks to neighbour as they seal themselves into their affluent isolation.

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There is no need for the Church to cringe over its Irish flavour and vigour of the past. What else would have emerged from the thousands of heroic women and men who manned the schools of Australia with not a cent of gratitude and which produced a Church even fit enough to be asked to meet a new challenge?

The great empty continent that Australians failed to populate themselves has indeed welcomed many.

It is the Catholic Sunday congregation and the Catholic school playground where as nowehere else the potentially conflicting cultures are learning to be one in the unity of the Church.

Signs of Hope jumped the first step in the famous trilogy and forgot to look at faith. Hope follows when there is faith.

Australians have lost their faith in God, in the faith of their forbears, in each other. They are embarrassed, confused and guilty. They call on the Church to do something about their emptiness and anguish.

Calls for the bishops, the clergy, or whomever to be outstanding agents for social change are empty if the disease cannot be diagnosed.

Archbishop Ramsay of Canterbury was asked once if the Church had lost touch with the people.

He thought maybe; but many people also had lost touch with the Church, he said.

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Galileo would be astonished. The Vatican that condemned the 17th century scientist for daring to peer at the heavens through his telescope and contradict scripture by declaring that the earth was not the centre of the universe, is now engaged on a major new telescope project of its own The Two Metre Advanced Technology Telescope will be set up, not in Castel Gandolfo, the headquarters of the Vatican Observatory where the air has been deemed to be too cloudy, but in Tucson, Arizona, where the clear desert atmosphere provides ideal conditions ABOVE One of the oldest members of the Pontifical Academy, Professor Hermann Bruck and the director of the Vatican Observatory Father George V Coyne, SJ are greeted by the pope on a visit to the academy RIGHT Galileo Galilei - the man who dared to look at the heavens

LONDON: The increase in the number of families looking for somewhere to live has outstripped the number of new homes being built, according to a report just published by Shelter, the national campaign for the homeless.

The report says total investment in housing by both the public and private sector has fallen by ten per cent in the last ten years.

Investment in the public sector is down by nearly 40 per cent compared to 1976 figure.

According to the Department of the Environment, about 200,000 new "households" are formed each year, but in the last six years the number of new homes has only once exceeded this figure.

Figures released by local authorities in Britain show that for the first time ever the number of "homeless households", reached more than 100,000 last year.

The Shelter report recommends a three point plan for increased public sector investment in housing: • Increase the number of new homes provided by housing associations each year to 40,000, and by local authorities to

60,000

Romanticising of poverty LIVERPOOL:

Romanticising poverty can be just a glorious excuse for not doing anything to help the poor.

These strong words came from Archbishop Worlock of Liverpool this week, speaking at a Church Action on Poverty conference.

"It is the poor in spirit who arc blessed, not the conditions in which they live," he said.

"Let us not pretend that poverty is in itself a blessed thing. There is nothing blessed in the wallpaper peeling off the damp walls, nothing beautiful in a blocked drain."

He spoke out against unemployment rates among the young in Merseyside, now running at 60 per cent, and even higher rates among black people.

"Many in our society a excluded from sharing in

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the rich benefits that society can offer.

"That is what poverty is all about exclusion," Archbishop Worlock said.

"We must challenge the

idea that the poor will only get richer if the rich get even more richer.

"Some say this is whingeing.

"I call it concern for social justice," he said.

• Increase spending on renovating local authority housing to eliminate $38 billion repairs backlog • Restore repair and improvement grants for home owners to the higher 1983-4 levels The report also calls for expanded investment over the next four years until it stands at around £7,750 million -the 1976 level in real terms and roughly twice the present level spending Ms Sheila McKechnie, director of Shelter, has written to Mr Nicholas Ridley, Secretary of State for the Environment, enclosing a copy of the report He is currently considering the level of housing investment in this year's round of public spending talks

They say it's no joke LONDON: A Christmas joke book, in aid of Oxfam and Save the Children Fund, was condemned by an Anglican Bishop, this week, as being "absolutely chock-full of crudity, obscenity and blasphemy."

Bishop John Taylor, Anglican Bishop of St Alban's and Chairman of the Church of England Communications Committee, said that The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book was "gutter

schoolboy smut, thoroughly sick and objectionable."

The book is published by Collins/ Fontana, with 80 per cent of the profits going to Ofam and Save the Children Fund, the 20 per cent to other British charities.

"I find it very difficult to understand how people can use humour of this low level, and then try to justify it or cleanse it by giving the profits to charity," Bishop Taylor told English newspapers.

Irish • raise $6m

DUBLIN: Trocaire, the Irish Catholic agency for world development, raised $6 million during its 1986 Lenten campaign.

Their biggest collection was in 1985 at the height of the Band Aid

campaign.

Bishop Casey of Galway, chairman of Trocaire, said that the result represented a r e m ark able achievement by any standards and reflected the tr e m en do us generosity of the Irish people.

"When it is recalled that in the period of the famine crisis the Irish people contributed an estimated $50 million for the affected peoples of Africa, then the true scale of their c o n tin uln generoslty becomes clear," he said.

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He said there were two areas where Trocalre was involved which wer@ a cause of concern to the organisation, South Africa and Central America.

He called for an extension of Iris sanctions agains South Africa and he condemned the United States for Its c o n tin uIn S involvement In Nicaragua.

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LONDON: Pedal power••• Nikki Gregory, left, and Lynette Freeth, both aged 22, set off on A 400 km cross-country tandem ride to raise money for Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity. Nikki hopes one day to work in India with Mother Teresa. She and Lynette expect it will take about nine days to complete the journey, from Aberdovey on the Welsh Coast to Great Yarmouth on the East Coast. Both are from Shirley, West Midlands.

JAKARTA: Catholics in "The duty of the Church the Moslem country is limited to the of Indonesia play a protection of people significant role in against injustices and politics even dishonesty in general though they are a elections," he said.

Parliament has had small minority of the occasion to defend the population.

Church, prompting There are 42 Catholics criticisms that in the present Catholics are too parliament -- 10 per powerful in Indonesian cent of the total politics. membership -but A rule forcing Catholic schools to include nonone of their longest Catholic religion MPs, serving in their subjects Godfridus Sugiharso, curricula was passed. has said Catholics This is contradictory to have a lot to Indonesian Catholic contribute to all Church policy as well as Indonesians, because the policy of the central of their Christian government.

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Ecumenical' Leaving a will peace is not enough. rally KUALA LUMPUR: Twelve

thousand Catholics joined Protestants, Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus in a peace rally in Kuala Lumpur's national stadium to mark the world day of prayer for peace.

Fernandez Archbishop presided at a Mass which was concelebrated by more than 30 priests.

He told the crowd: "Today, we join our brothers and sisters throughout the world in praying for peace.

We pledge ourselves in this International Year of Peace to work for a world without war and a society founded on truth freedom, justice and love."

Choirs sang in Tamil, Mandarin, Bahasa Malaysia and English - the four languages Spoken in Malaysia.

The four-hour rally was organised by the legion of Mary, the Fatima Apostolate of Malaysia and representatives from each parish.

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Chaplaincy a next logical step in career When you first meet Margaret Lipsett you are engaged right away by the paradox of her serenity and bubbly personality.

She sees her appointment as a Chaplain at WAIT as the next logical step in her career, "There is a limit to what you can do in a primary school. When you've been teaching for 15 years and a principal for nearly 5, what's next.

'When l returned from Manila l needed a job. A Sister of Mercy told me the Archbishop was looking for a Chaplain for WAIT." "I applied for the job with a prayer in my heart and the certain understanding the Archbishop has a particular concern for Asian migrants and migrant students who come to Perth from parts of the world closer to us than any others.

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migrants -about them In their homeland, and nothing about their lives in Australia.

'So I developed material related to the syllabus for Primary Schools. "ft is called 'Asian Australians' and is rich in pictures and Information depicting Asian people in all facets of their lives; their religion; their beliefs; their day-to-day living; their family life - just to say to people 'What's really so different?'

"Human beings are human beings no matter where they come from.

"I believe my latest appointment is a terrific opportunity for me to express my christianity in a very diverse population like WAIT. ''There are about 14,000 people here.

It's like a small city. '' believe this appointment is Important for the Sisters of Mercy.

"It is very much in

DOD 'My interest in Asian migration really blossomed when l worked at the Catholic Education Office before studying for seven months at the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila.

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our tradition to be out and about, and available to whoever needs us. ''That's how the name of our order defines us. ''The Sisters of Mercy started walking the streets, looking after the poor and helping anyone who needed their support. "we have been in Australia 140 years this year... Now I can walk the streets in WAIT doing the same sort of thing," she said.

For Sister Margaret and the people who come to her In her role as Chaplain, her femininity provides dimensions to her ministry which she sees as vital. "l am sure it is very Important for the Church also, because l believe recognition for women's capacities and special abilities is growing all the time.

"So without making a great fuss about it, I think I can take my place, and stand beside any one, with a great deal of security and confidence.

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complementary to the facilities already on campus.

Some male and female students would come to a female only. There are things that l would talk to a man about, and things l would share with another woman.

'So many people today haven't had any religious background, but the basic goodness in them urges them to be good in themselves.

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"I think there is a place in my heart for the students who were brought up as Catholics. ''The different Catholic Tertiary groups have expectations of me.

That can be a very h u m b I i n g experience.

Faced with the question of her occupying a c h a plain c y traditionally undertaken by men, Sister Margaret stated her views with lucidity.

'A priest I knew many years ago and had many healthy rows with, taught me one very very important thing. 'If there is a problem, just stop and look at it. If it is yours, deal with It. If It Is not yours, leave it alone.

Don't make it yours'.

'I can't solve problems regarding women in the Church, but I can take what l believe to be my role which is a very valid role and just hope that over a period of time they can see the worth of the role and the capacity for a woman to deal with it.

"I have no wish to upset the Church by stamping my feet and saying that l should be a priest then I can celebrate the Eucharist here.

"I have no hangups about the fact that a man comes here to celebrate the Eucharist from time to time.

'I hope he won't either. "f other people see a problem there, then that problem belongs to them, it doesn't belong to me.

"I believe l am a lay person and not a formal minister as we know them. ''There are many good Christian men and women around In the Church generally termed as the 'laity'.

"Many could do this task as well or better then me.

'They could bring gifts to it that l might not have.

"Given the demands of today such a role could be taken by another 'lay person'.

"In some ways they have a broader experience of ife than I could be expected to have," she said.

Twenty seven years ago this month Albany Parish welcomed a pilgrim -a lovely lady who ever since has spent her time in the home of a different family each week. She is the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Her presence has reinforced the faith of those families, uniting them by a shared experience of love and devotion.

000 When she arrived in 1959, Snow Stevens was appointed Custodian, a position he still holds today.

"She came with much pomp and ceremony.

There was a procession each Saturday night as she was moved from family to family. But with the passing years that has disappeared leaving unchanged the more significant aspect of prayer and devotion," said Snow.

00g In 1964, the Legion of Mary relieved Snow of one of his duties, the finding of a weekly home for the statue and arranging a roster. In those days the Legion's secretary was Fran Menagola and, 22 years later, she is still closely associated with the statue.

"The statue has no miraculous properties. It is only porcelain but the Rosaries offered by families and their faith have had some remarkable results," said Snow.

'The first time it was shifted from the church to a home, it was a wild, wet night and accompanred by a

by PATRICK MAHER

Catholic Communication

Snow Stevens continues his 27-year tradition by delivering the Pilgrim statue to Mrs Josephine Gliosca, one of the weekly rostered recipients of the figure.

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A notable feature was the novena associated with the Fatima statue which has played a significant role in the parish for 27 years. procession of cars and Father Burnie Dwyer, we journeyed to Burgoyne Road. By the time the statue was carried into the house it was awash, so much so that it had to be wiped down and water mopped from the table on which it stood.

"Father Burnie remarked it needed a rain coat, but this was never done. Since then in 27 years it has never been wet again," said Snow.

"During a drought some years ago in answer to an appeal, the statue was taken to a farm which looked like a beach with sand so high only the tops of the fences showed. The farmers great concern was to prevent wind erosion and he was considering means of holding the soil but had no answer.

ODD "Soon after a weed-like plant grew rapidly and bound the soil as well as he could have hoped for with any effort of his own. The Agricultural Department could not identify the grass which had never been seen in the district before. As soon as the rain began, the weed disappeared."

"This is only one instance among many where Our Lady as represented by the statue has given help, solace or just signs of her willingness to ask things of God on our behalf."

□□□ Snow is not 8 sanctimonious man but he has never found it a chore to pick up and deliver the statue each week. "If I look like being in a bind to make a delivery, help always comes from the most unexpected quarters," he said.

Some years ago Snow used to take the CBC under-16 football team to the home having the statue. "I made them pray like hell. We won the premiership against all comers" laughed Snow.

Each May, Our Lady's month, Snow IS relieved of his duties when the Legion creates a roster fof families to take ove' the deliveries on daily basis to a different home, school, convent o' other dail¥ destination.

Today Snow delivers the statue to a home between 5 and 6pm on a Saturday. From then until the same

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time the next "she Saturday remains simply part of the family."

The family sets a time that visitors are welcome each day to say the Rosary with them. ff information is needed someone is available to lead the devotion an even spare Rosary beads are supplied.

Only once in the 27 years has the statue been out of circulation and that was during restoration painting.

"She is kid proof," claims Snow. "She has stood on small tables or stools for many years without damage among children now long since adults who were little horros. She still braves the sticky hands and curiosity of the little of the little ones today. So have no fear the Rosary is just as effective among the noise, the comings and goings and clamour of the normal household as it is accompanied by silence or organ recitals."

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'The has Rosary always played an important role in the parish life of Albany," said parish priest Father Noel Fitz Simmons.

In the 1830's Laurence Mooney

and his family were the first Catholics in Albany and made a weekly pilgrimage to pray the Rosary at the top of Mt Clarence.

"As we commemorate the 125th anniversary of the parish and 27 years of the Pilgrim statue in the parish, it is timely to reflect on the events that have the brought wonderful tradition of the Rosary and devotion to Our Blessed Mother to the present day," he said.

The Mooney family's prayers for a priest were answered in 1843 when Fathers Brady and Joostens arrived in Albany on their way to Perth.

district. By 1870 there were 229 Catholics in the town and another 196 in the hinterland.

DOD The Sisters of St Joseph, who arrived in 1882 and, who have continued their work of education in the parish for over 100 years, have been

great advocates of devotion to St Mary and the Rosary.

'The Rosary is still the custom before Masses at midday, and the October devotion, the Rosary Vigil in September, keep that form of devotion to Our Blessed Mother very much before our attention," said Father Fitz Simmons.

'The Legion of Mary sees in the Pilgrim Statue the key to its own vitality and growth and knows that with a tradition of 150 years since the days of the Mooney family, we can confidently look forward to the 50th anniversary of the Pilgrim Statue."

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II announced a ventt ,And after it began that was to shake indreds of thousands communist wor · of people turned out to That was greet him on each of to Poland, the sec the nine days he was of his 32 journe backontheir-andhis overseas as Pontiff an _ soil. probably the most They shouted, sang, moving and significant ept and prayed and of all.

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The pope added: "I trust that the visit will serve the further development of relations between state and Church."

Such an assurance was necessary because his election had had an immense impact on his homeland, an impact that had made the authorities nervous.

English historian Norman Davies, in his work, God's Playground: A History of Poland, writes that it had 8

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There was a heat wave during the visit. The wt r added to the enthusiasm of the masses, ensur a a massive turnout.

In her book, Man From a Far Country, writer Mary Craig says he was "greeted like a king returning from exile, tumultuously received, and streamers wherever he went - with garlands and flowers, banners and above all with song."

But first there were the formalities.

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The pope's original plan had been to be back in Poland in May when the 900th anniversary of the martyrdom of St Stanislaus was to be celebrated.

Since his death, Stanislaus had been a strong symbol of defiance of the state as a king, embodiment of secular power in those days had ordered his execution.

The authorities in Warsaw foresaw the danger in the pope rallying the people behind the 900-year-old symbol of independence but it was too late to cancel the visit.

All they could do was tolerate it ... until the pope himself inadvertently showed them a way out of the dilemma.

Just before Christmas 1978 John Paul wrote to his former Archdiocese in Cracow a letter in part praising the saint as "a magnificent example of concern about people" and elsewhere extolling his relevance to 1979.

The authorities censored the letter but such a dispute developed that they gave in and allowed it to be read out in full in Cracow churches.

The pope won that round but he lost the bout; the government learned from that episode how explosive it would be to have the Pontiff around during Stanislaus' month. The visit was delayed until the next month.

By then the pope was in the throes of preparing his first pilgrimage - to Latin America. It was a challenge that would test his diplomatic gifts because he had to question theMarxist aspect of "liberation theology" yet encourage the legitimate hopes of the downtrodden masses of the Third World.

As one who had been through so much and seen oppression in his own country he must have seen many parallels between the New World and his old one.

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A Publication of the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia

Volume 3 Number 4

Holy Spirit guides John XXIII

development

The largest school building project ever undertaken in AustraliaJohn XXIII College - was officially blessed and opened by the Most Reverend William J Foley on Saturday, 15 November.

In his welcoming address. Terry O'Connor, president of the school's council. attributed the success of the development project to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the hard work of council members. parents and school staff.

"The Holy Spirit has guided us to this magnificent new facility," Terry told the crowd of 3000 students and community members who gathered in the Saturday afternoon sunshine. ''There were times when we thought we might fail," Terry said, 'but the Holy Spirit inspired us. The Holy Spirit will guide all those who trust in him."

Terry recognized the vision of the Loreto Sisters and Jesuit Fathers, represented at Saturday's celebration by provincials Sr Anne McPhee and the Reverend P Steel. for their purchase of the land many years ago which was sold so that the new school could be built More important than this material contribution.

Terry said. was the lgnatian tradition passed on to the school by the Loreto Sisters and the Jesuit Fathers.

Terry also thanked the present Labor Government and the previous Liberal Government for their support of the school's building project The land on which the new school is situated was purchased at market value from the State Government.

Terry paid tribute to the "heroic contribution" of Sr Denise Desmarchelier. the school's principal.

The new school, Terry maintained, would "stand as a monument to her."

In his remarks, Archbishop Foley said that the new John XXIII College reflects the coming together of Catholic education in the last decade and the success, strength. and mutual support the Catholic education sector has attained.

He also said it was a privilege to ask God's

blessing on the new school buildings which, he said, were built on strong foundations laid down by the Loreto Sisters and the Jesuit Fathers.

The Archbishop noted the great management and financial strength of the John XXIII College Council and its ability to seize an initiative and bring it into reality.

Archbishop Foley said that he and other bishops

in WA were delighted to share by delegation" the work of the education apostolate with lay people.

It is important. the Archbishop pointed out, that school communities like John XXIII College continued to be mindful that their responsibility is wider than their own school in insuring that Catholic education is available to all children who want it.

School boards conduct annual

general meetings

During November Western Australia's 148 Catholic school communities have been busy conducting their annual school-community meetings and school board elections.

Des O'Sullivan. whose CEO School Resources and Management Division is responsible for assist· ing school boards in their operation. had high praise for the enthusiasm and commitment of board members.

"One of the great strengths of Catholic schools is their community·based support. The involvement of a wide spectrum of community members contributes greatly to the success and special nature of our schools." Des said.

"The Catholic Education Commission and those of us who work at the CEO are very grateful for the continuing support of these community members.'

Des noted that the school board concept enables schools to access the extensive expertise available in their local communities.

More than 1500 people throughout the State serve as voluntarily members of school boards.

History

A form of school board operation has been part ofI Catholic education in

Des O'Sullivan

WA since the 1960s when boards tied to parish organizations were introduced in some schools in the dioceses of Sunbury and Perth.

In 1974 a broader concept of shared local management was introduced to all non orderowned schools in the State and was also adopted by many orderowned schools.

Boards operate within a constitution issued by the Catholic Education Commission.

Functions

School board functions include planning, employment of staff. and financial management.

Reminder

School boards are re minded that a list of their members for 1987 should be forwarded to the CEO before 17 December in order to allow direct communication between the Commission and its officers and board mem-

bers.

PEP fasters student leadership St Brendan's College students Rosie Galati and Brendan O'Shaunnesy are two of the many students who have benefitted from the operation of the Commonwealth's Participation and Equity Program (PEP) this year. These two students are pictured above with Kevin Runge, the teacher who heads St Brendan's PEP coordinating committee.

Both Rosie and Brendan are members of their school's PEP coordinating committee.

Student membership in these committees is common to all schools which receive PEP funding because the program aims to increase student involvement in the education process and develop student leadership abilities.

Some 28 non-government schools in WA are participating in PEP this year. They have shared a total grant of approximately $88,000 for a wide range of school-based projects from literacy to pastoral care to parent participation. Many schools joined together in projects this year in order to maximize their expertise and their resources.

Commonwealth launches student assistance scheme The Commonwealth Education Department has provided the following information about its new education benefits scheme, Austudy, which was launched as part of the Federal Budget.

In 1987 Austudy will pay improved meanstested education allowances to full-time secondary and tertiary students aged 16 and over.

Austudy replaces three former schemes: TEAS (Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme), SAS (Secondary Allowance Scheme) and ASEAS (Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme).

Maximum Weekly Austudy Allowances 1987 16-17 Years AtHome Away from Home

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Tertiary

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$45.00 $80.00

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Payments start Austudy payments start from 1 January 1987 for students who are already 16. Others will start receiving benefits from their 16th birthday or an increased rate of benefit from their 18th birthday.

All Austudy allowances are income-tested. Maxi-

mum allowances are paid to eligible students whose adjusted family income does not exceed $15,745.

Austudy students in 198 7 need to know the following: • Benefits start from the 16th birthday and apply to all secondary students

regardless of years of schooling.

Transition • Special transition arrangements will be made for current SAS recipients who are still under 16by 1 January 1987.

• Austudy is paid to the student. not the parent The allowance is taxable and this arrangement will minimize tax payments for the family.

• Students who work part-time may earn $2000 without their meanstested entitlement being affected.

• Secondary students should lodge their applications eight weeks before their 16th birthday.

• Students who receive Austudy will not be eligible for the F amity Allowance paid by Social Security.

Application forms for Austudy are available from the Commonwealth Department of Education.

PO Box 6032, Perth WA 6000

Catholic colleges celebrate 50 years of sport in WA

The annual Associated Catholic Colleges of WA celebrated its 50th year of competitive

sport with the running of the annual athletics carnival at Perry Lakes stadium last month.

Brilliant sunshine, bright green springy turf, red-surfaced running tracks and the sporting colours of competing schools combined to make the carnival a spectacular event.

Athletes About 1800 athletes representing 29 colleges, including two non-Catholic schools, participated in the three divisions of sporting events held over three days.

Sports coordinator for the ACC. TonvHillas, said one of the highlights of the carnival was the partiThe ACC Athletics Carnival included official events in the high jump and broad cipation by country colljump and unofficial ones in cheering. eges.

Students from Stella Br Pickett of St Mark's Maris College (Geraldton), College (Highgate) is a Bunbury Catholic College, past president and secreSt Joseph's School (Nor- tary of the Association tham), and New Norcia and has been a member Catholic College travelled for 15 years. He will be to Perth for the occasion. leaving St Mark's at the end of this year to join the Bunbury triumphs staff of the new Karratha Catholic Secondary SchThe team from Bunool. bury was particularly successful. After winning Cheer squads the C Division competiResults of the tion last year, Bunbury Not all the action took Western Australian moved up to B division place on the field. In the this year and again took grandstands, colourfully Catholic Colleges Carnival out first place. ' dressed cheer squads from each school vied A Division Last carnival with each other to Newman Sienna College (Doubleview) This year's carnival was acknowledge individual also the last with which Br victories and urge their B Division Tom Pickett will be asso- team mates to greater efforts.

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New Catholic Education Centre nears completion

Renovation work on the Catholic Edu· cation Centre is progressing on schedule. according to Michael King, CEO Acting Assistant Director of Administrative Services.

"We expect that we will be able to occupy the Centre by February of next year," Michael said.

"The work on the building will be sufficiently advanced for the blessing and opening of the Centre

by His Holiness. Pope John Paul II, on 30 November.

Archdiocesan development

facilities for educational purposes. It will also house the development of the new Catholic Library of Western Australia.

Educational organizations A number of Catholic education organizations will operate from the Centre. including the Catholic Institute of Western Australia, the Catholie Institute Resource Centre. the Maranatha Institute. the State School Apostolate, and the Catholic Education Office.

The Centre, formerly the Home of the Good Shepherd, is being developed by the Archdiocese of Perth. It is located on Ruislip Street in Leederville.

The renovation and Good restoration project is the Shepherd Sisters work of Perth architect The Sisters of the Good Marcus Collins.

Shepherd. who formerly occupied the complex, Facilities are building a new conThe Centre will provide vent at the western end of a range of workshop, the property. meeting and conference

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Sr Mary Deane, foundation superior of the West Perth Sisters of Mercy is pictured above. Photographs such as these will be included in the Bicentennial exhibition.

Education focus of Bicentennial project There will be a Bicentennial exhibition in 1988 which will focus on the contribution of Catholic communities and institutions to the education of young people in Western Australia.

The project is being carried out by the Catholic

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student exchange Learning a language doesn't just have to be only memorizing vocabulary and conjugating verbs any longer. Language activities at Stella Maris College in Geraldton are a case in point.

Sculpture honours principal's service The Catholic Secondary Principals' Association (CSPA) commissioned a sculpture of their former president and long-time member, Jack Shanahan. who died in 1985.

The sculpture was presented to Servile College (Tuart Hill) where Jack was principal for many years.

The sculpture is the work of Dan Mazzotti, art master at Aquinas College.

Peter Hann, executive secretary of the CSPA, said the principals' group wanted to honour Jack's memory and to commemorate his contribution to the Servite College community as well as to the wider community through his work in education.

Service "It was most appropriate that Jack became principal of Servite College because the school s

Sculpture of Jack Shanahan

motto is service, a word which exemplified Jack's life, both professionally and personally," Peter said.

Community participation "Two of Jack's most significant contributions were his commitment to

Education Commission's Bicentennial Committee chaired by Kath French.

The Commission formed its Bicentennial Committee early in 1986 to plan and execute activities during the Bicentenary which would contribute to the general

vigorous community involvement and participation in the life of the college and to the provision of programs which would give students opportunities to develop leadership abilities and a feeling of ownership of their school.

"These are legacies which will continue to benefit the Servite school community," Peter said.

Dedication

Peter also announced this year's edition of PEP Talk. published by the WA Non-government Participation and Equity Program, will be dedicated to Jack because of his efforts in working toward providing a more relelvant education for young West Australians.

Seven Stella Maris students will be going to Italy next month for a five week tour, including a two week language course in Florence. The girls say they can't wait to see the Colosseum and Michelangelo's David, to eat real pasta, and to hear all those irregular Italian verbs in action.

Travel abroad Language interest has provided the motivation for other Stella Maris students to travel abroad.

Jodie Brown spent two months with a family in lvrea in Northern Italy and Erica Boschetti and Sarah Roberts visited Japan through the Rotary Exchange Program.

Another four girls went to La Reunion, a French island near Mauritius, as part of a student exchange program.

Stella Maris foreign language programs have received a boost from visits from students from other countries. Lucia Mariotto from Verona, Italy, attended Stella Maris for a few weeks as did Jerome Berrard from La Reunion,

public's awareness of the role education has played and will continue to play in the development of Western Australia. Particularly, the Committee was charged with developing a program which would demonstrate the significant contribution Catholic people and institutions have made to education which have benefitted the society as a whole.

The major project the Bicentennial Committee has chosen to undertake has three parts: the collection and establishment of a permanent on· going archives of materials related to Catholic education in Western Australia; the professional exhibition at some pub· lic venue during the Bicentenary of materials from this collection: a permanent (but chang· ing) exhibition at the Catholic Education Centre which would also be open to the public, including special arrangements for children.

It is envisaged that the exhibition will open in 1988 and will form the nucleus of a permanent exhibition and repository for archival material re· lated Catholic education.

The committee intends that there will be a very large exhibition, profes· sionally mounted. during 1 988 at a public venue such as the Alexander Library.

While the exhibitions will be open to the general public, a concerted effort will be made to involve school children as both participants and audience during the Bicentenary and in future years.

Teachers, former stud· ents, parents and others involved in Catholic education will be asked to participate as well.

Parish help aids new primary school's development

At the end of its first year, Leschenau1t Catholic Primary School (Australind) is looking good. Most of the credit for the school's spiffy grounds goes to the hard work of members of the local Catholic community, according to school principal, David King.

"Since its opening at the beginning of the school year, parents and other members of the parish have worked hard to develop the grounds, including installing reticulation and play ground equipment," he said.

The first stage of the Australind school has been developed by the Catholic community.

While the Common wealth Government agreed to provide recurrent funding, it was unable to supply funds for capital development The community has also established a canteen for the school and parents are always willing to help in the classroom with various activities, including language arts.

"The school also has become the focus of the parish's religious activities." David added.

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"This commitment to the school has helped to unify the whole parish,' said David.

He praised the willing· ness of everyone con· cemed with the school to assist whenever possible.

"There is always a good, positive response to requests for help. either for funds to buy resource material or for help in the classroom.

David King The school is used for mass on weekdays and at weekends and a school mass attended by parents is held once a month.

Staff enthusiastic

"The enthusiasm of staff members also has helped the development of the school," said David.

The school has almost

seventy students at present, but David expects this to almost double next year to about 120 students.

Enrolment to expand

At present the school has classes from prepri rnary to year 3. Year 4 will be added next year when the school will have additional classrooms built.

Children attending the school come from Australind and nearby Eaton and include some who had previously attended Bunbury Catholic Primary School.

Children at Leschenault Catholic Primary School (Australind) are seen here enjoying some of the attractive new playground equipment installed by members of the parish.

Religious education central at St Mark's

"A Catholic school must be more than a building with a cross."

These words are from Br Kevin Johns, Principal of St Mark's College (Highgate), and they reflect the centrality of the school's religious education program.

The program, led by religious education co ordinator, Torn Winrow. attempts to fulfil the school motto Christ is my life by reaching every student and giving him a chance to know Christ.

Toni believes the success of the program can be judged by the boys' willing participation in voluntary areas of activity.

St Mark's teaches its boys about the sacramental life, often beginning with preparation of younger students for their first confession and holy communion.

For some students, religious education in school is the beginning of formal education in their faith.

"Often we have boys entering the school who are Catholic in name only and know nothing of the faith. We even have had some boys who have not been baptized and we have arranged for them to be received into the Church.

"We also prepare the boys for confirmation and work with parents in this area," Toni Winrow said.

Voluntary mass "Our boys are taught respect for the blessed sacrament. Each week we have a voluntary mass. It begins at 8.20 on Friday mornings and it's regularly attended by 100 to 120 boys, 25% of the school's enrolment."

The boys are also Prepared for recncilia-

lion and taken to a nearby church for this purpose twice a year For some this contact may be the r only connection with a church and they really enjoy it according to Toni.

Non-Catholic students are always invited to participate in the reconciliation process by being given an opportunity to speak with a priest. Many ask for a blessing.

Christianity in action

An important part of the student's voluntary participation in the religious education program at St Mark's College is what Toni called its social apostolate -- Christianity in action.

Meditation Toni Winrow places great importance on meditation as a part of religious education. "We teach the boys to relax so that they can experience God within themselves, she said.

"They learn the healing value of relaxation. a technique which will assist them after they leave school."

Toni has noticed the boys respond with greater energy following these sessions.

Leaming to meditate is part of St Mark's religious education program.

St Mark's College emphasizes role of parents in religious education The parents' role in the religious education of their children is part of the St Mark's program. The school offers special courses in areas such as coping with adolescent children, discipline. pray· er, meditation and changes in the Church since Vatican II. Toni places great value on the assistance given to St Mark's College by parents. "Our parents are wonderful. They are helpful and supportive," she said.

Among the many areas of assistance given by parents overthe years has been the transformation of the old manual arts

program.

The course includes health education in bodily changes and reproductive biology. Discussions are held on values, Christian aspects of de· velopment, the need for friendship and related aspects of personal de· velopment.

The course was approved and accepted by Toni Winrow parents before its introduction in the school's campus into the religious curriculum and has been education centre. favourably received. Ac. cordingtoToni:"Bybeing Human relations invited to approve the The school also sought course the parents realparents' support for its ized we wanted to support introduction of a human their role in this part of the relations course as a part child's development, not

She proudly explained that St Mark's is wellknown for its involvement in community activities.

Boys from the college regularly take part in Red Cross and Red Shield doorknock appeals, Appealathon and Telethon. collection drives for St Vincent de Paul, and fundraising activities within the school for similar Church and community causes.

Recently, more than 200 boys participated in the 40-hour famine.

One of the school's biggest efforts each year is directed towards Father Brian Morrison's Christmas appeal which provides hampers and toys for 8000 families throughout the state.

"Father Brian has said he couldn't operate his appeal without the help received from St Mark's students and their parents," said Toni.

Pastoral care

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These two young men stand in front of a classroom wall filled with commendations awarded to St Mark students for their charitable works. program aimed at fulfill- 11 they are helping to run ing students' needs on the courses for the year 8 an individual basis. All students. teachers help by identifying children with specific Three periods needs for special counEach class receives three formal periods of selling or extra help.

Part of the pastoral care religious education a program is an incentive week. These range from scheme in which children discussing facts of the are given encouragement faith and watching films awards at assembly. This to the prayer and medipart of the program is tation sessions. aimed at building each Thirteen of the school's child's self esteem. staff are directly involved For secondary students in the RE program. the school has initiated leadership courses de- Senior program signed for boys who show Religious education for potential as Christian the school's senior studleaders or who want to ents, years 10 to 12 at the learn more about their Highgate campus, is faith. more personal.

"Some of them are Instruction is based on really yearning to learn small discussion groups more. They want to witrather than formal classes. ness to their faith." said and reflection and retreat Toni. times are made available "We use the scriptures to the students. to teach these boys to Senior students are know Christ." also taken on visits to By the time the boys in churches and church these courses reach year institutions.

School staff 'dedicated' says Broome principal "The dedication and commitment of teachers is vital in enabling St Mary's School (Broome) to provide an appropriate and relevant education to the students," said Sr Claire Gardiner, Principal.

"The natural care and concern of the whole staff can be seen every day in every classroom," she said.

St Mary's School has an enrolment of more than 300 students from pre-primary through year 6. Most of the students are mixed blood Aborigines and there are only 12 non-aboriginal students.

Problem "One of the problems we are facing in the Kimberley is that of children being born with brain damage due to alcohol," Sr Claire said.

"These children are not officially recognized as handicapped but they need special care and attention."

Sr Mary Roarty works with these children as well as the deaf children who are enrolled in the school.

"Our program for these children involves integrating them as much as possible into normal classes," Sr Mary said. " work with small groups to give them extra

help in areas such as reading, spelling and maths."

Computers The use of computers enables Sr Mary to extend these programs. "Spell ing. word recognition and maths skills can be developed using computer programs," she said.

"Students often work in pairs and are highly motivated. The computer is a non-threatening, visual teaching resource through which students can ex perience success."

Santa Maria students prepared a floral peace display.

Schools focus on peace

Health education Another important aspect of the school is to develop in students a responsibilityfortheirown health.

"Our health education program aims to get the children to look after their health," Sr Claire said.

"We have a trained nurse at the school who teaches the children how to treat cuts and sores and emphasizes the imparlance of hygiene and nutrition."

Sr Claire Gardiner prepares St Mary's health room for the daily rush of students needing routine health care.

small peace garden which became the focus of student peace celebra lions

Parents participated in peace activities by organizing peace meals' featuring food from different countnies.

St Columba's School (Bayswater) incorporated the study of peace into the school's curriculum.

On International Peace Day there was a full day of activities including parent participation, a mass and benediction.

Country schools also participated in the International Year of Peace. including Stella Maris College (Geraldton) which held two weeks of activities with a peace theme.

Faith and the

Today's adolescents often declare their unbelief in Chrstianity, but a calm and gentle approach by parents may help children grow in faith. This was the message brought to Perth's Catholic parents last month by visiting Irish priest and author, Fr Michael Paul Gallagher.

Fr Gallagher is the author of Help My Cnbelief, a book written from his 18 years experience with older teenagers as a lecturer in literature at University College, Dublin.

During his visit to Perth as part of a year's , sabbatical, Fr Gallagher spoke to parents. teachers and students, and staff of the Catholic Education Office.

Confusion

"Young people today are victims of modern culture." Fr Gallagher said. "Confusion about ..religion is only part of a Pictured above are World Vision Winner Janet more general confusion Maccora and Ann Nolan, principal of Our Lady of jn being young at this Good Counsel School (Karrinyup). time."

"Today's adolescents do not have the same symbolic rootedness of their faith that existed 30 years ago and there are no modem equivalents."

While many young people drop religious practices as part of grow ing up and establishing their own identity, others Two students from Outstanding reject them because they Perth Catholic schools see no relevance to their He said that Janet's recently won Canberra study tour scholarships entry had been particu lives.

Fr Gallagher deals with through a competition larly outstanding, adding organized byWorldVision that it was most unusual the question of non-pracin conjunction with its 40- for a primary school lice in a chapter of his student to be selected for book entitled A letter to hour Famine Appeal. the study tour as they parents.

Two girls were usually considered In it he says that young The students were not mature enough to people often accuse older generations of hypocrisy Janet Maccora, year 7 benefit. in religion the unstudent at Our Lady of Christian lifestyle of adults Good Counsel School Australia-wide who go to church and (Kaninyup) and Jennifer Altogether 25 students consider themselves Kennedy, year 9 student good Christians. at Newman Siena College from throughout Australia were selected to make the Young people are (Doubleview).

State coordinator for study tour. From these "impressed only by World Vision, David two were selected to deeds,' said Fr Gallagher.

Allum, "Other young people congratulated make a further study tour make the accusation that both girls on the quality of of World Vision aid projects overseas. mass is boring. I simply their entries.

Canberra tour for WA's World Vision winners

Many Catholic schools organized special projects to celebrate the International Year of Peace.

Among them was Santa Maria College (Attadale) where students (pictured above) prepared a floral peace display and presented a dissertation on peace at a special assembly.

St Denis School (Joondanna) established a

accept this as a statement of experience. But I throw some of the weight back on the young people themselves: what do they bring to the altar?

"It is a contradiction to expect Sunday mass to be relevant and alive if the rest of life is one of practical atheism."

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Encouragement Fr Gallagher had some words of encouragement for parents confronted with these attitudes in their teenage children. " have never come across a completely unbelieving young person who has a good relationship with believing parents who enjoy the transition of their child's growth from infancy to maturity.

"Parents should show their children they are happy in their faith and that it is important to them."

Communication He suggested that parents should keep open the lines of communication at all times and stay in gentle contact.

He added that difficult· ies such as these are not necessarily unhealthy.

"In our new environment, mature faith will no longer happen without some struggle. For some the period of uncertainty may be short. Others will remain in long-term confusion over Church and faith.

"Certainly the role of parents can be crucial at this time. A calm and gentle reaction to difficulties can make all the difference." Fr Gallagher suggested.

Support is the key Fr Gallagher suggested that parents should support their children.

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share their own humanity with their children understand their own feelings and the child's feelings be patient with themselves and the child pray for themselves and the children and share faith as much as possible open up to the new emerging self of the child, his or her friends and world be response-able, let the child know he or she is appreciated, maintain communication, admit to worries trust time and wait through changes

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Intercom is a publication of the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia. (ts publication is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Archdiocese of Perth. It is printed by Vanguard Press.

Dear Editor, Congratulations on the August copy of Intercom.

It really is good reading about what is happening in other schools in the State. It is an exciting time to be involved in Catholic education!

Thank you for including us in the WA Week story.

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In the new executive for 1987 you have listed me

as principal of St Benedict's School (Ardross).

It's very flattering to think I can run two schools at the same time when I have trouble keeping body and soul together in sunny Bridgetown.

Keep up the good work.

Yours sincerely, John Borserio Principal St Brigid's School

Parent volunteers have enabled the Good Shepherd Primary School (Kelmscott) to establish a unique language centre for its students.

Establishment of the centre began last year when teachers identified a number of children throughout the school who required extra help with reading.

The school could not afford a special teacher to work with these students, so in the words of principal, Kim Baker, it "turned to its greatest untapped resource -parents.'

"We thought that with careful training. parents could use remedial tech-

New approach to student conduct A new approach to the vexing question of coping with inappropriate student behaviour has been made this year at Our Lady of Grace School (North Beach).

Recognizing a need for consistency in dealing with student misbehaviour. the school staff. with help from social work consultant Gary Palfrey, has established a School Code of Conduct governing activities on the playground.

Care and safety The code is based on rules which are essential for safety, care of others and care of property.

Children who break one of the rules are given an appointment with a teacher/counsellor who explains the Code of Conduct. The two demerit points earned by a child through a breach of the rules are automatically cancelled by attendance at the counselling session.

Demerit points A second breach of the same rule results in four demerit points. The committee responsible for establishing the Code of Conduct selects a task appropriate to the situation to allow the child to work off the demerit points.

A consequence of earning the four demerit points is that the child is ineligible to participate in school excursions and similar special events until the points are worked off.

Further breaches of the same rule result in additional demerit points being given to the child.

At the same time the child is given additional counselling by teachers and if necessary the social worker and the child's parents are called in.

To ensure that students, teachers and parents are all familiar with the school rules and the Consequences, three seprate manuals have been Prepared explaining the System and the areas of

responsibility of each group.

Teachers involved in the program agree that it has made playground discipline less stressful.

"The system encourages self-discipline in the children. They know what will happen if they break a rule. It also means that children who have problems with discipline are

recognized earlier and receive help more quick y." Gary Palfrey said.

At present the new approach has been limited to children in years 3 through to 7.

Gary says the children are accepting the new system well and in comments to their teachers have given the opinion that it is very fair.

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to develop language policy

Teachers at three metropolitan Catholic primary schools have been working together this year to develop school-based policies in

language teaching.

Faced with this common task. the staffs at St Keiran Primary School (Tuart Hill), St Lawrance Primary School (Balcatta) and St Mary's Primary School (Leederville) agreed to work together to share expertise and ex perience.

Organization Organization of the two workshops held so far has been largely the responsibility of St Keiran's principal, Elizabeth McKenna, who provided the venue and prepared a submission for funding to support the second workshop.

At the workshops, conducted by CEO primary school consultant Irene Sorenson, the teachers worked through a model for policy development They are now preparing a draft statement of the policies they developed. t

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The school enlisted the help of a WA Department of Education reading specialist, Yola McMullen, in preparing a remedial teaching program and training parent volunteers.

Nola trained 12 mothers in the art of the direct instruction method of teaching reading, image and self-esteem building, some process writing methods and survival skills.

Parent training included workshops and observation sessions in classrooms.

Screening Parents work with small groups of children who have been screened by Nola and assessed as being in need of language centre work Most parent tutors spend two hours a day, four days a week helping in the centre. Each child attends for an hour a day during normal class reading times.

"This way the child does not miss any other work.'said Kim.

Privacy "We place great emphasis on the child's privacy. There is no direct contact between a parenttutor and the child's parents. The tutor reports

only to the child's classroom teacher." Kim said.

"So far, we have had only three withdrawals from the centre which were caused by children moving out of the area.

We have had some spectacular successes, a few problems and one or two failures." he added.

The school has been so pleased with the success of the program that it is hoping to expand it to include children with other needs and to develop the language centre as a complete enrichment centre.

The language centre itself is evidence of the

generosity and hard work of the whole school community.

Transportable

The language centre is housed in a transportable building donated by former parish priest. Fr Brunetti. and was painted by the P&F and year 7 students.

NCEC issues policy statement on accountability requirements The following statement summarizes the National Catholic Education Commission's postion on the accountability requirements of Catholic schools to government authorities.

Catholic schools have a responsibility to account to parents and their supporting community and to appropriate ecclesiastical authorities for their educational standards and their use of funds.

While schools require autonomy in various areas, the National Catholic Education Commission recognizes that there are also areas of accountIrene Sorensen ability. All schools are responsible to the approInnovative concept priate government autho"Its very encouraging rities for the use of funds to see teachers working received through government grants, and for the together in this way," said Irene Sorenson. disclosure of information "The concept of comon such other funds received by them as bining with other schools is an innovation for would directly affect the Catholic schools and can particular! level of govhave tremendous beneernment grants. fits.

"It's important for Appropriate teachers to have opporaccountability tunities to interact across The National Catholic school boundaries and to Education Commission broaden their understandaccepts and endorses ing in a collegial context," appropriate accountabilsaid Irene.

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ity. This appropriate accountability recognizes: • the obligation of educational accountability to parents and school communities and to appropriate church authorities; • the need for financial accountability for government funds and the associated need, within the normal limits of confidentiality, to provide information relevant to the establishment of funding entitlements.

The National Catholic Education Commission will continue to encourage all Catholic school authorities to develop informative accountability procedures.

Principles of justice The Catholic community bases its argument for the public funding of all schools on principles of justice. These principles are embodied in the rights of parents to choose a form of school· ing appropriate to their

need to fulfil an obligation to educate their children.

The Catholic community appreciates that appropriate accountability requirements are attached to this right.

Accurate data The Commission recognizes that consistently accurate data are essential to the funding procedures of the Commonwealth which involve assessment of the relative needs of schools for recurrent funds.

Consultation This Commission expects adequate consultative processes with the Minister and Commonwealth education authorities on any proposed alterations to accountability requirements.

In asserting that school authorities have a right and duty to ensure that proper standards of education are maintained in

accordance with appropriate norms the NCEC acknowledges that these norms include those set by governments. However, where conflict arises between objectives of governments and those established by the Catholic community as essential to the character of Catholic education, the latter must prevail and no penalties. financial or otherwise, should result This Commission acknowledges that the educational standards of all schools should be subject to certification, registration procedures and monitoring prescribed by appropriate government authorities. Data for resource monitoring standards. however, must be sufficiently comprehensive to allow for proper comparisons to be made between standards in government schools and those in nongovernment schools.

John XXIII College: the old and the new John XXIII College is a school which understands how tradition can enrich young people's lives.

When the school moved to its new campus this year, it took those traditions with it -- the commitment of its parent community, the dedication of its staff, and enthusiasm of its students. It also took the cross from Loreto Convent and fixed it atop the high tower on the chapel, making it the focus of its new home in Mt Claremont.

The new campus is handsome and functional. Built of rough-faced limestone and roofed with terracotta clay tiles,

One of the ways in which the school seeks to exemplify its easily by handicapped persons. All the buildings are single motto, Seek Justice, is through its program of assistance story except three two-storey upper secondary buildings to refugees and migrants, particularly those from South which were built into the escarpment so that handicapped East Asia. people could have ground access.

Approximately 100 children from migrant and The John XXIII Council was committed to JOHN xxm refugee families attend John XXIII College, many at providing new facilities without an increase in no tuition fees and the remainder at greatly reduced school fees because it did not wantto disadvantage fees. The fees for these children are subsidized by any child for economic reasons. Children who the school community. attend John XXIII have always come from a broad John XXIII College is also greatly committed to socio-economic background. providing for the handicapped and integrating In addition to providing the school with modem these children into the school's regular program facilities, the new campus has boosted the when possible. development of the Mount Claremont area. John Both deaf and autistic children are integrated at John XXlll's purchase of the land on which the campus is located XXIII where possible. allowed Graylands Hospital to build much-needed additions which are already well underway.

The new campus was designed so that could be accessed

the school has been designed in a timeless style which is warm, gracious, and welcoming.

The school was designed so that many of its spaces can be used for more than one purpose. For instance, the school hall can be used for school assemblies, lectures, meetings, and for music, drama and dance instruction and performance.

Because the entire school was built at once, economies of scale resulted in significant cost savings over school projects which are constructed in stages.

A family school Following a brief from the John XXIII College Council, architect Tony Brand of Brand, Deykin and Hay, has designed a family school, one which enables children from a wide age spectrum to mix comfortably and naturally at school just as they do within the family.

The school has been designed so that students of all ages share some of the same facilities - library, gymnasium, hall. The many courtyards and passive recreation areas throughout the campus provide privacy and create a feeling of intimacy.

John XXIII College is a co-educational school with an enrolment of 1200 students in years 1-1 2.

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Above students My Evans, Kerry Ryan, and Paul Stokes enjoy a stroll during lunch

Lives of service and commitment In her speech at the opening of John XXIII College's new campus, Dr Denise Desmarchelier, principal of the school, thanked Archbishop Foley for the example of "personal warmth and spiritual depth" he set to young people on his visits to the school. She also thanked Teny O'Connor, council chairman, for his great contribution to the life of the school and his "cheerful calm" throughout the building program.

Sr Denise challenged John XXIII students to lead lives of service and citizenship. She said she hoped that the work done by the John XXIII school community in creating the new campus would inspire the students with a sense of commitment to whatever tasks they undertake in their future lives.

She concluded her thanks by reading out messages she had received from Loreto Sisters around Australia, including one which read: "May justice continue to flourish in the new soil."

The chapel is on the main axis of the John XXJII campus. inviting all to recognize the Lord who loves them, a visible symbol of faith integrated with life and culture.

Above are students Kamala Sharang, Jane Taylor, John Montgomery, Melinda Kirby, and John Ralph.

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"P"aised the college for its pursuit ;"ence. noting that 80% of its ,dents complete Year 12 and ~those 90% qualify for tertiary . �on. The Premier pointed out

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t 1 have an excellent track record in obtaining employment and completing other types of vocational programs.

The Premier said he hoped that the establishment of the new secondary Catholic college in Karratha would be the forerunner of many more joint efforts between the State Government and the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia.

Left biology teacher Joan Hanavan points out some of the finer points of Mr Bones' anatomy to student Georgia Singleton.

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The happy faces of these primary children tell a story about the caring atmosphere that pervades John XXIII College. These children were about to begin their recreation class, using one of the multi-purpose open-air covered spaces near the primary classrooms.

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The Mt Claremont campus provides excellent recreation and sporting facilities, including two ovals and a large gymnasium.

The gym accommodates numerous activities, including basket· ball, volleyball, badminton and

aerobics.

Effective use of skylights means that little artificial illumination is required, even on dull days.

In the photo below boys and girls try their hands (and arms) at rope climbing in the gym.

New schools given

Two new Catholic schools have been given the green light by the Catholic Education Commission.

A Catholic secondary enrolment for 1987 and for future years," Br school will open in Karratha 1987 and a Bowman said.

The school is expected primary school in Ocean Reef will begin operation to enrol approximately in 1988.

100 boys and girls in According to Br John years 8 and 9 next year.

Bowman, who has been named principal of the Location Karratha college. com· The Karratha school munity response to the · will be built on Rosemary school has been very Road in South Karratha at favourable. an estimated cost of $7M. While the new school is Enrolments being built, the State "The board and I have Government has agreed been encouraged by the to provide transportable number of requests for buildings.

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The primary school at Ocean Reef will be built opposite Prendiville Catholic College on Prendiville Drive. It will serve the new Catholic parish of Ocean Reef.

The school is expected to enrol initially approximately 150 students, with two streams in pre-primary and year 1.

The school's interim board is currently engaged in preparing plans and costs for stage 1 of

the building project in order to determine the need for capital assistance.

Community need

Both the Karratha and Ocean Reef schools are being established in response to community need. And in the case of Karratha, also at the request of the State Government.

Both schools are ex pected to relieve overcrowding in established schools.

WA's bishops and members of the Religious Education Division at a recent conference.

From left Sr Eileen Lenihan, Fr Gerard Holohan, Bishop Bany Hickey, Bishop Robert Healey, Br Tony Clark, Maria Kelly, Fr Bryan Pitman, Sr Florence O'Sullivan, Diana AJteri, Pat Branson, Archbishop William Foley, Sr Helen Giles, Bishop Peter Quinn.

Guidelines for religious education being developed

New religious education guidelines for Catholic schools are being developed by the Catholic Education Office's Religious Education Division.

Part of the process of developing the new guidelines has involved workshops and seminars of religious education teachers and a recent conference attended by WA' s

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The winning chemistry team from Santa Maria College: Rebecca Dooley, Susan Potter, and Catriona McGregor.

Girls take top chemistry honours

West Australian Catholic secondary schools were well placed in the Titration Stakes - a recent national chemistry competition.

Three Catholic schools were represented in the first nine places.

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Catholic schools has been completed this year.

The survey was developed by the Catholic Education Commission Workparty on Women and Educational Management charied by Anne Parker, Principal, St Joachim's High School (Victoria Park).

"We undertook the survey to give women teachers the chance to report confidentially on their expectations, experiences and perceptions Anne Parker in regard to oppportunities for women to take on and positive directions in leadership roles in our this sensitive area of schools." Anne said. education," Anne said.

"The Committee was Anne also expressed delighted with the re- her thanks to the schools sponse to the question· who actively participated naire. Almost 70% of the in the survey for their 1645 female teachers in willing cooperation in the Catholic schools respon· distribution and return of ded to the survey. the survey.

"The Workparty is very The survey results have grateful to the hundreds I now been tabulated and of women who gave their analyzed. It is expected time and effort in re- that a paper outlining the spending to the survey. findings and recommend· Their honest, thoughtful ations of the Workparty and sincere reponses will be presented to the have enabled the Work- Catholic Education Comparty to formulate clear mission early in 1987.

Most successful was the team from Santa Maria College (Attadale) which finished fourth nationally after winning the West Australian section.

A team from John XXIII College (Graylands) was placed sixth and Mercedes College (Perth) team was ninth.

The demand for places in Catholic primary sch ools in Perth's northern suburbs is so great that an extra year 1 class will be enrolled at Whitford Catholic Primary School (Craigie) next year. The additional class will then transfer to Ocean Reef as a year 2 class in 1988.

The new Karratha school will relieve overcrowding and enable resources might have been required to build a new school to be diverted to upgrading the existing high school.

The Religious Education Division also organ· ized a conference for primary school principals, jed b 'y th e Dire ct :or o f et Religious Education, Fr Gerard Holohan.

Fr Holohan said the conference for metropolitan and primary school principals was one of a number of conferences arranged by his division from time to time which tel e pe »d teeac :heers un d erstand and apply Christian aspects of the education process.

Beneficial Principals who attended the conference agreed that the presentation of practical guidelines which would help them to develop spiritual aspects of their own school programs was most beneficial.

Teaching principals Kim Baker, Principal, Good Shepherd Primary School (Kelmscott) said he was aware of the need to foster spirituality in his school. but as a teaching principal he did not always have time to put the ideas into practice.

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Preparation The amount of preparation for the conference impressed John Last, Principal, Langford Catholic Primary School. " Athough we had done quite a bit of pre-reading. the bulk of the work was done by Fr Holohan and the Religious Education Division," John said.

"The hard work they did has made it easier for us."

ELIC invades upper primary

The Catholic Education Office is investigating the expansion of its Early Literacy Inservice Office (EUC) program to provide similar tuition to teachers of upper primary classes.

The decision followed the completion of the 1986 ELIC country program conducted in eight regional centres by tutors who underwent tutor training in Perth earlier this year.

Geraldton teachers and ELIC Pictured left are Andrea Pereira and Sr Monica. two of the 21 teachers and principals from Geraldton Catholic sch· ools who took part in the 11-week Early Literal lnservice Course.

ELIC success

The competition is officially titled the Australian National Analysis Competition and is organized annually by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's Chemical Education Group to encourage upper secondary students to develop practical chemistry skills.

To qualify for the national event, West Australian schools first competed locally at Perth and Bunbury.

Santa Maria College took out first place in the WA competition to qualify for the final. Altogether 68 WA schools participated in the event

Ions as to how we might • implement the results in our schools."

Catholic Education Office Primary Education consultant and ELIC tutor trainer Irene Sorenson, said the program's success could largely be attributed to the skill and devotion shown by these tutors who conducted the course sessions.

"Theyd have really been worth their weight in gold," said Irene.

"They have conducted the 10 workshop sessions for each group of teachers and have followed up the theory sessions with visits to classrooms to provide further assistance.

Enthusiasm

"On my visits to ELIC country centres I was impressed by the dedi-

cation and enthusiasm of these tutors," she said.

"In the classrooms I have visited I have seen evidence that the teachers are constructing programs based on a clear understanding of the

theoretical underpinnings of ELIC. "Athough I wasn't able to visit some centres, I have received some very positive feedback from teachers in the evaluation of the workshop series."

Under the guidance ol teacher-tutor, Margaret Cooper, participants stud· ied the latest understand· ings about how children learn to read and write.

On the final aftemoon of the course, participants shared ideas and expen ences with one another.

The course concluded with a mass during which ELIC certificates were presented to participants by the CEO Regional Officer for Geraldton, Dale Brooks.

Two-ways education develops in the Kimberley Yulungu focuses on

A unique concept of developing language programs has been established by Catholic schools in the Kimberley region of the State.

"Schools in the region are divided into three language cell areas. Two resource people based at schools within each cell work together to develop a team approach to language," said Sr Pat Rhatigan, CEO Education Officer in the Kimberley region.

"These resource people are a linguist or teacher-linguist and a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) specialist."

"Reflecting the wishes of their communities, schools are developing some form of abonginal language program. At the same time there has been a thrust to increase the effectiveness of teaching standard English to aboriginal children," Sr Pat said.

"The language cell concept rationalizes precious resources and the linguist and TESOL specialist develop a team approach to language within each cell."

aboriginal studies

Presenting a positive view of traditional and contemporary aboriginal society and building self-esteem and pride are the aims of a unique and far-reaching program being developed at Nulungu College (Broome).

"We have always been conscious of meeting the educational, social and cultural needs of our students. Our new comprehensive curriculum of aboriginal studies is an extension of this effort," said Br Peter Negus, Principal.

"At Nulungu we aim to create a caring Christian community where students grow in their knowledge of our Catholic heritage as well as an awareness of their own cultural foundations," he said.

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Language preservation "I have been in the that they can read and Kimberley for nearly 20 write the language as well years and have seen as speak it." aboriginal languages At the invitation of the slowly disappearing,' said community Joyce is also Joyce Hudson, one of the helping with Lombadina's Kimberley linguists. language renewal pro"for a long time I was gram in the Bardi langfrustrated by the lack of uage. interest shown by educators for aboriginal lang- TESOL uages. Catholic education "Teaching English to has offered the first real chance to do something speakers of other languages. in this case ababout this. m.Original languages, means that we have to acknowledge their culture and learning style as well as their language," said Br Bob Hardiman, TESOL specialist.

Patrick McConvell's work is with the Kija of Turkey language Creek.

"I am preparing a dictionaryof the language as well as teaching the teaching assistant to read and write Kija." Patrick said.

works with children to develop their writing and speaking skills.

"I spend one day each week at Turkey Creek and Wyndham and the remaining three days at Kununurra,' Jo/Anne said.

"At Turkey Creek and Wyndham I mainly work with teachers to develop their skills in teaching English to aboriginal children.

"In Kununurra I work with students from year 1 to 7 and give them

Nulungu College enrols young aboriginal boys and girls in years 8 to l l who are from isolated Kimberley communities such as Halls Creek and Balgo Hills as well as towns such as Wyndham.

Kalumburu and Derby.

"Cultural differences are so wide between the students that we must

take them into consideration in everything we do," Br Negus said.

"Some students cannot sit next to each other in class because their communities have traditionally been separated.

"When we take students on excursions we often have to take long detours Sarah Yu is the project because students from officer responsible for Broome, for example, developing aboriginal cannot travel through studies at Yulungu.

Halls Creek because of "Aboriginal studies is tribal laws." much more than just teaching students about Understanding aboriginal culture and aboriginal students traditions. " Sarah said.

Teaching young aboriAppropriate ginal boys and girls education means adopting proce"We are in fact developdures and methods to ing an education which is suit their learning style. appropriate for our stud· "If a teacher walks into JoAnne Shiosaki ents This education is a classroom at PYulungu based on aboriginal culintensive help in langand starts asking the ture and traditions and uage." students questions -and incorporates resources expecting answers -he and methods of teaching or she will be confronted which are suited to abwith absolute silence." original students." said Br Negus.

"Aboriginal people. especially young people, are very shy and they won t respond to questions like this."

Special project officer

Pae comer Bilingual education

"lam also writing down in Kija the stories that the elders of the community wt.J tell me. The total involvement and support of the community is vital in fhv work'' Patnck is currently on unpaid leave from Darwin Institute of Technology Joyce Hudson and has been working at "Aboriginal people can Turkey Creek since last now decide what to do year. with their languages. As a "I have a knowledge of Bob Hardiman various Kimberley langlinguist I help them document and record the "I work with students uages so when the comlanguage, train others in who are having problems munity asked for a school the language and make it learning English as their in Turkey Creek I felt I part of the school pro- second language. could help in their gram for their children."

"Aboriginal children language program," PatJoyce's main work at tend to be visual learners rick said. the moment is developing so I use visual stimuli to an aboriginal languages teach them English Writing and Program at Yulungu words. I also give them speaking College. exercises in sentence "My aim is to make patterns and structures JoAnne Shiosaki, an· students literate in their which' may not be used in other TESOL specialist in language which means their aboriginal language." the Kimberley region.

Bilingual education is also the aim at the Balgo community where teacher-linguist Bernard Lefort is working.

"Bilingual education requires a team teaching approach involving aboriginal language teachers and English speaking teachers.

"At the moment the teaching assistant con· ducts classes in Kukatja in such areas as aboriginal artifacts and culture and the English speaking teacher conducts classes in maths and other more traditional school sub· jects."

"Bernard's own interest in Aboriginal languages goes back a long way. He h Spent Seven years al Bernard Lefort Bathurst Island before "I am gathering ingoing to Balgo. formation about the "Bilingual education is a long term process and Kukatja language as a fundamental resource for relies totally on full supeducation," bilingual port from the communBernard said. ity." he said.

Look and learn According to Br Negus. instead of the "question and answer'approach to teaching. teachers should use a "look and learn" method.

"Aboriginal students respond very well to visual methods of teaching so we emphasize this in all our lessons," he said.

"We also incorporate practical work into our classes. We have a wide range of technical and domestic science facilities v. hich give students the opportunity to use equip· ment and develop practical skills."

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Project Officer Sara Yu.

"In social studies l am working on units which look at the aboriginal history and influence in the Kimberley," Sarah said.

"It is pointless concen trating on the broad history of WA without] acknowledging the im· portant contribution of the Kimberley.

"The aboriginal heritage has so much to offer' us and it is important for students to learn about themselves first and then learn about others."

child to live happily in the present and prepare for the future," Br Negus

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Catholic Education Commission

Members of the Catholic community share the responsibility for the provision of Catholic education in Western Australia.

Parents. clergy, bishops, teachers, religious orders, principals, students and other individuals and organizations work together to ensure the best quality Catholic education is available now and in the future.

The Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia was specifically formed to assist the community in this shared responsibility. Established in 1971 by the Conference of Bishops and Major Superiors of Religious Orders. it has been given the responsibility and authority to speak and act on behalf of Catholic Education in WA.

The Commission meets on the first Friday of each month. Its agenda covers a wide range of policy matters. including those relating to curriculum,

capital and recurrent funding, school management and practice, employment of school staff and principals. establishment of new schools and

Main functions The Commission's main functions are: • to make broad policy decisions relating to the scope and direction of Catholic education in WA; • to advise governments and other bodies on the needs of Catholic education and to work towards meeting those needs: • to assist the coordination and development of the units of Catholic education and to provide for those units advisory and consultative services: • to provide leadership in education for the Catholic community; • to plan for the development of Catholic education in WA.

Consultation These official policies, developed in response to needs expressed by school community members, were formulated after consultation with those who would be affected by them. They were designed to promote better policy-making at local school level and greater cooperation and coordination between schools and school authorities.

School communities The Commission has followed the practice of updating these policy statements to meet changing needs, and it now sees value in directing more of its energies to that task. The Director of Catholic Education is

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enrolment

Committees The Commission also considers the advice of its standing sub-committees. which currently include the School Resources Committee, Secondary Curriculum Advisory Committee, Accreditation Council. Women in Educational Management Working Party and the Bicentennial Committee.

Commission members

Dr Peter Tannock, Chairman of the Catholic Education Commission. seen here speaking at the recent opening of Padbury Catholic Primary School.

Policy statements to be reviewed

Over the years the Catholic Education Commission has developed a number of important policy statements for the benefit of school communities. These statements relate to a wide range of matters that include curriculum. teacher development, staff appointments, school resources and planning. and management issues.

changes patterns.

Listed below are the titles of the Commission's official policy statements.

Commission members are drawn as far as possible from all groups involved in Catholic education. However members do not represent particular interests but Catholic education as a whole.

Current membership includes members of religious congregations and the clergy, lay teachers, pnncipals. parents and other community members.

The members serve for a term of three years and are eligible for reappointment.

The Chairman of the Commission is Dr Peter Tannock. Dr Tannock is also Director of the Catholic Education Office which supports the work of the Commission and provides advice and service to Catholic schools.

The newest member of the Catholic Education Commission is Dorothy Savage, a lay teacher at BunburyCatholic Primary School.

Dorothy. who took up her appointment on 1 August. succeeded Leslie Gabbedy, a teacher at Christ the King School (Beaconsfield), in the lay teacher category. Her appointment will run until 31 December 1988.

Dorothy teaches year 7 at Bunbury Catholic Primary School and coordinates the school's religious education program. She has been at the school for the past 14 years.

Contribution Dorothy believes that she will be able to contribute to the Commission through her previous ex perience, but says that at first she will be playing a watching role 'I will be waiting to see where I can best be used,' she said 'I have seen the Catholic education sector change from one in which schools were almost completely staffed by religious to the present situation where there are so few in our schools. 1 believe there is a great need to work to keep a truly Catholic ethos central to our educational effort."

"Part of the contribution I hope to make to the Commission is my ex perience as a parent. I believe the parents' role in teaching is very import ant." she added "Another important aspect will be my ability to present a country view on ssues.

'Country problems often are not understood by people in the cities who have not experienced them. They don't always realize the problems that can be created by isolation, distance, housing and the lack of resources

Dorothy Savage and professional consultation," said Dorothy.

She added that she was looking forward to helping to pl n for the growth of Catholic education in Western Australia Previously Dorothy was a member of the Bun bury Catholic Schools Board which had management responsibility for the Bunbury primary school and secondary school She also served on the steering committee which established Leschenault Catholic Primary School (Australind).

Education changes slated for Kimberley-Pilbara regions

• Basic Consultation Requirement • The Employing Authority • Teachers: Termination of Services • Termination of Services of Incompetent (or Less Competent) Teachers • The CECWA and Industrial Matters Affecting Two working parties were established earlier School Staffs • An Employment Difficulty: Misconduct of Teachers this year by the Com• Staff Appointments: Summary of Procedures mission to evaluate the • The Selection of Principals of Catholic Non-Order. [ provision of Catholic education in the KimberOwned Schools in WA • The Employment of Non-Catholic Teachers ley and Pilbara regions of • Employment of Senior Teachers the State.

• Policy on Superannuation Benefits These work parties • The Operation of the General Recurrent Grants were made up of members of the Catholic Program in Group Funded Catholic Schools in WA • Policy on Class Size school communities in • Primary School Class Structures and Staffing the two regions, including principals. parish priests, Establishments • Pupil Enrolment Policy and Practice school board members.

• Exclusion of Students and parents.

• Student Counselling Services Procedures • School Policies le • Psychosexual Maturity Education in Schools Each of the work par• Objectionable Literature in Schools ties prepared and sub• Policy on School Holidays mitted detailed studies • School Librarians: Responsibilities and recommendations • Regional Planning Coordinating Committees: which were submitted to Revised Guidelines the Schools Resources • The Catholic School and the Community: Use of Committee, a special School Premises committee of the Com• Procedures for Capital Development mission which offers advice on all matters relating to the resourcing of Catholic schools. therefore establishing a over the next two or three procedure for the review years and will involve all Recommendations of Commission's various elements of the school official statements. That communities in the conUpon the advice of the procedure will continue sultative process.

Schools Resources Com·

mittee. the Commission endorsed in principle a number of recommendations put forward by the work parties. Two major recommendations are those which call for an extension of upper secondary education at Nulungu College in Broome and of junior secondary education at other Kimberley schools and the establishment of a new secondary school in Karratha.

Other recommendations include the following: • that the Kimberley

Working Party Report be accepted in principle subject to the establishment

and recommendations of the senior secondary and junior secondary committees: • that the Pilbara Work-

ing Party Report recommendations on the provision of secondary education in Hedland and Karratha be accepted and the

development

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Karratha ahead of Hedland be accepted; • that the Karratha Catholic School Board be asked to proceed to plan for pre-primary enrolments: • that the CEO carry out further investigating of the recommendations covering Newman, Tom Price and Parraburdoo, the siting of the second· ary school in Hedland, the question of Aboriginal education. and boarding facilities: • that the CEO School Services Division act on the staff development recommendations in consultation with the Pilbara and Kimberley regional education officers: • that the Regional Coordinating Committees in the relevant areas be constituted to provide for an annual review of planning: • that the development of Catholic primary schooling in Hedland be further considered follow-

ing the results of St Cecilia's application for Commonwealth capital funding to improve its school facilities.

The establishment of the work parties and the acceptance in principle of their recommendations in principle is a reflection of the Commission's com mitment to Catholic edu cation in WA's country areas.

Commissioners

Sr Gabriel Bums

Superior General WA Congregation of Presentation Sisters Second term ends December 1988

Fr Kevin Davine

Oblate Father: Religious Education Coordinator.

Mazenod College First term ends December 1987

Most Rev Peter Quinn Bishop of Bunbury Ex-officio member

John Willett

Br John Carrigg

Member Provincial Council of the Christian Brother's Congregation Th rd term ends Ap 1987

Mgr Michael Keating

Teresa Conway

Fr Gerard Holohan

Sr Maura Kelleher

Mgr James Nestor

Parent; catechist of school-aged children First term ends December 1987

Vicar General. Archdiocese of Perth: Parish

priest (H ghgate) Second term ends March 1987

Sister ofMercy: Principal, Yidarra Catholic Primary School First term ends March 1987

Leonie Reid

Tom Ryan

Parent: catechist; volunteer in handicapped children's programs First term ends December 1987

Principal. Our Lady's Assumption School Second Term ends March 1987

Formerly Head, School of Community and Language Studies at WACAE Third term ends December 1987

Fr Noel Tobin

Chancellor, Geraldton Diocese First term ends December 1988

Deputy Director of Catholic Education Director of Religious Education Ex-officio member

Spiritual Adviser Ex-officio member

Dr Tony Ryan

Head. School f Foundation Studies at WAIT: board member of Newman College Junior School First term ends March 1988

Study recommends Catholic school for Red Hill community 1988 Term Dates for Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools 1988 Term 1 2 February 4 Feb uary 7 March 31 March

Staff commence C asses com ence Pub c ohda Lab u D E. of Term

Tuesday Thursday Monday Thursday

1988 Term 2 11 Apr 12 Apr 25 April 6 June 24 June

Staff commence C asses commence P b c Ho day Anzac Day P b c Ho day Foundat n Day End of Term

Monday Tuesday Monday Monday Fr day

1988 Term 3 11 July 13 July 20./21 '22 August 23 September

Monday Wednesday Sat Sun Mon Fr day

Staff commence C asses comm nee Mid Term Break boarding schools only End of Term

1988 Term 4 10 October 11 October 56 7November 8 Decemb r 9 Decemb

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Women of Red Hill pictured in front of their community's namesake.

Two sisters of the Canossian order have recently completed a study which recommends the establishment of a Catholic school at Red Hill. an Aboriginal community on the outskirts of Halls Creek in the east Kimberley region.

The two sisters, Sr Lucy Gert and Sr Bridget Foo, xamined the viability of a chool and the type of curriculum which would e most appropriate.

For the past six years, nembers of the Lunja 4Aboriginal community, whose base is at Red Hill. ave been petitioning the Most Reverend John Jobst, Bishop of Broome, o establish a school to neet their special needs.

Tribal According to Sr Lucy, Aborigines of the Lunja community are more tribal than Aborigines who live in Hall's Creek and have been unable to integrate successfully within the government school in the town.

Both Sr Lucy and Sr Bridget have spent a great deal of time in the past few months talking to people within the Lunja community about the type of school they want.

Two-ways education "The people feel there is a great need for what we call two-ways education in the Kimberley: learning their own language and culture as well as learning standard English." Sr Lucy said.

"The people don' t want to lose their own culture.

They value it and they want their children to value it.

"At the same time, they want their children to be able to interact effectively in non-Aboriginal society."

Sr Lucy commented.

Trial teaching Earlier this year a successful trial teaching period took place in small bough shed built for this purpose on the Red Hill Reserve.

Assisted by staff from the Hall's Creek school. the trial teaching period aimed to observe the children s attendance and academic skills in reading, writing, and number values.

Several women from the Red Hill community provided invaluable support to the trial teaching period by acting as teaching assistants.

Canossian Sisters The Canossian Sisters have been providing pastoral care services in the Halls Creek area since

1977.

The Canossian order is open to any ministry and works in such areas as patoral care, health care, social welfare and education.

"Our aim is to serve those in most need,'said Sr Lucy.

Sr Lucy, who is from Brisbane. came to Halls Creek this year. Sr Bridget, a native of Singapore, has worked in Halls Creek for three years.

n the April issue

Beating the homework blues

Homework is an issue which excites strong (and often opposing) opinions. Some teachers think it is essential while others believe school work should be done within school hours. Some parents are concerned if their children don't have homework and others are worried if they do. Most children agree on the subject of homework: they don't like it!

Teachers at St Denis' School (Joondanna) tackled this thorny problem by setting up a homework policy committee.

While the responsibility for completing after school study tasks rests with each child, there are many ways parents can encourage and support their chi dren.

• setting aside a specific area for your child to use for study; • establishing with your child a suitable time each day when there will be no interruptions from family routines: • being aware of the task your child has to achieve and giving appropriate encourage ment; • encouraging your child to share information with you.

Whole school approach The policy committee set itself the task of developing a structured, whole school approach to after school study as a reference for parents, teachers and students.

The committee began by examining why after school studies should be included as part of school life. It determined that homework was beneficial when it gave students opportunities to extend and practise skills learned in the classroom and opportunities to follow up their own interests by doing research or other activities. The committee also felt that homework was useful when it gave students a feeling of satisfaction and opportunities to practise self. discipline.

How to help your child study at home

St Denis' student Blair Rainey completes home· work with support from his Dad, Mick.

These benefits were recognized the important role of parents in their only achieved if com· children's after school pleted work was acknowledged and the student's studies. Provision is being efforts encouraged by made for systematic teachers and parents. follow-up with parents The committee deve- when children don't loped a policy on home- complete their homework work, which they renamed tasks. after school studies, Parents Thie committee ~ls Prents play an essen-

tial role in encouraging and supporting their children in completing tasks.

"It's important for parents to be interested in their children's after school studies and discuss it with them," said Gary Palfrey, social worker at St Denis' who worked closely with teachers on the policy committee.

"Listening to your child tell you about the exciting things they are learning at school is good for the child and for the parent,"

Gary said.

Anne Marie March, yea 3 teacher and a member of the policy committee. said that many of the ambiguities which had previously been assoc? ted with homework had been clarified.

"Athough we are still getting the program fully established it's working well so far." Anne Marie said. "We have been able to fill in some gaps in the existing sytem and every one is happy with the new ideas.'

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A funeral service for a member of the Archbrotherhood of the Sufferings of the Lord. The Order was founded in 1595 by the Bishop of Cracow.

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ad later that day young people had their special time with the pope. Not students specifically but youth of all levels, l 00,000 of them, singing at a Mass in front of the Gniezno cathedral.

Once again the Pontiff underlined the value of their Polish heritage. "Be nobly proud of it, multiply it and hand it on."

Next stop was the core of Polish Christianity, Czestochowa in the Cracow Diocese.

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' The pope made a telling point when he said there could not be a just Europe without an independent Poland. The point was well received by both the people and the government.

Next morning he presided at Whitsunday Mass for students. The authorities had allowed only 30,000 tickets for the occasion to be printed but an extra 70,000 had been run off.

The massive rally of youth - appreciating an qtelle tual type of sermon he delivered -cheered, dna I �� sang. � Thet it �on to the city of Gniezno, to which St Adaf :om Bohemia had brought Christianity to Poland than 1000 years before.

One writer ys half a million people, many of them lFming people, welcomed him in paddocks. There might have bden even more if buses had not been taken off and road blocks not set up.

Because of/the link between Adalbert's origins and the region he helped convert, Pope John Paul made nb-holds-barred rallying call to all Slavs to remember af they were all part of Christian Europe.

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Readers may recall that in 1656 Poland's King John Casimir dedicated that country to the Virgin Mary after Swedish troops withdrew; and that 300 years later 1.5 million people are said to have converged there, demanded Cardinal Wyszyski's release from prison and the nation's release from Moscow rule.

In June 1979 the people and pope again defied secular authority.

The state had refused to grant a public holiday but the masses took one.

And at the Czestochowa monastery their pope boldly dedicated Poland and the world to "our Queen and mother".

At the end of three nights and two days in Czestochowa the pope said Mass for the miners of Silesia. He had been barred from entering the industrial zone but they came to him in great numbers.

Cracow was the next stop and from the episcopal palace where he had been silent and hidden during the Nazi occupation, he addressed a crowd for hours.

His next visit was to Wadowice, town of his birth and boyhood, where he said Mass in the church where he had been baptised He also met his old teacher, Father Zacher.

He next graced the former Auschwitz concentration camp, hell hole for so many Jews and for Father Maximillian Kolbe, a martyr of modern

times. About 150 priests who had survived the camp assisted at Mass.

Next day he went into the Tatra mountains, scene of so many leisure years and home of his hill friends.

But politics was impossible to forget as the Czech border was so close, as was the memory of the Russian tanks in Prague.

Czechs had been forbidden to attend the rally but some got there and held up a banner pleading "Holy Father, do no forget your Czech brothers."

Back in Cracow that night. it is said that he slipped out of the episcopal palace, and alone walked the streets, retracing the bitter and sweet memories of youth and early manhood.

Before leaving the airport that afternoon he made a farewell address so heartfelt and moving that thousands wept.

Among his words were: "Back there beyond the Alps I shall hear in my soul the sound of bells calling to prayer the heartbeat of my countrymen."

□□□ In the intense emotionalism of the moment he embraced President Jablonski who, similarly moved, bent and kissed the Pontiffs hands.

John Paul kissed the tarmac as he had done on arrival and was gone --but only physically.

His words and actions denoting courage and hope resounded for a long time in the nation to the extent that historian Norman Davies credits them with inspiring a development that no one had foreseen.

A year after his visit long-simmering discontent took shapes in the formation of the nationwide trade union movement, Solidarity, which confronted the government and demanded profound reform of the political order.

Solidarity had since had some teeth drawn but its potential for further impact has not been blocked.

Was impossible to estimate how many millions

B1,a l ans, serbs, Croats, Ukrainians, Czechs, Poles,

vaks, Slovenes and Russians were able to hear his words on\their state-run radio stations.

But ther? is no doubt that the speaker held high opes: "It wiuld be hard to think that there was a olish or Slav¢ ic ear, in whatever part of the world, which could ipot hear the words of a Polish pope who was a Pole\ 1d a Slav." t +

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The Record, November 20, 1986

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THE MAN TO FIT IN THE FISHERMAN'S SHOES When the pope was eight, just another boy like millions of others, he had a friend whose parents owned a cafe.

One day when mischief beckoned they opened the till and came across a pistol left there for safekeeping by one of the town's policemen.

Toying with it the lad named Boguslaw aimed it at the playmate destined to wear the well-worn shoes of the Fisherman. The bullet shattered a window but missed the target by a whisker.

He was not so I ucky on a warm Spring evening 53 years later.

Two of four bullets sent winging in his direction from a nine millimetre calibre Browning pistol hit home.

One merely shattered two joints of the left index finger and grazed the right forearm.

The other tore into his abdomen and intestines but

As with any public incident, accounts vary with each witness but a comparison of them tells the story like this: The pope had arrived in St Peter's Square at five o'clock in the open-top "Popemobile," which resembles a converted jeep.

It was the usual leisurely meet-the-people occasion on Wednesday afternoon and there were a few thousand in the eight-hectare square.

A Polish nun who lived in Rome later told French writer Andre Frossard that the size of the crowd was exceptional, "not very numerous."

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Karol Wojtyla as a bishop, in 1965.

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The Record, November 20, 1986

John Paul planned to deliver a sermon on the responsibilities rich nations have towards poorer ones because the day marked the 90th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the famous encyclical on social welfare by Pope Piux X. He was in a particularly happy mood, possibly because he would celebrate his 61st birthday in five days' time.

As the "Popemobile" threaded its way on the first circuit of the square's avenue its main passenger reached out to the people crowding the railing.

He touched fingers and hands and when it slowed almost to a halt every now and then he picked up a child. tossed it in the air, caught it and returned it to the parents.

He was standing up and wearing a white cassock, making easy game for Mehmet Ali Agca who was at the railing after asking about the best spot for seeing the pope at the general audience.

At 5.19 pm the vehicle was moving towards the steps of the Basilica where the pope was to sit and deliver his sermon.

Shots rang out... some say four, some say five.

The Polish nun told Andre Frossard: "AII the pigeons in the square flew up. I had already realised that it was an assassination attempt, for I was always afraid

missed the vital organs.

Violence (sometimes fatal) directed against the papal incumbent is not new.

A man called Peter died from upside-down crucifixion in about 64 AD during Emperor Nero's persecutions.

From the outset it became clear that

although Rome was the Eternal City its bishop was not immortal.

Pope John Paul II did, of course survive the assassination attempt 19 centuries on after a colostomy operation and the removal of about 50 centimetres of intestine.

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Continuing the story of the life and

the achievements of Pope John Paul

Il from PAT CONNELLY who was commissioned by The Advocate in Melbourne to write about his life

that something would happen and yet I thought who dares to shoot at pigeons in the presence of the pope?

The pope stood still for an instant then fell to the ground clutching his chest. "A huge sigh, a sort of groan" went up from the crowd, according to the Polish nun, then many of the people began shouting and crying.

John Paul, who had been placed back into the jeep. was slumped in the arms of companion Don Stanislaus One witness said he was "in that inert attitude of pictures of Christ being taken down from the cross' As the jeep took him back into the Vatican man) who saw his chalk-white features -stark contras! to the blood staining his cassock -thought he was dead.

An ambulance was on standby in the square an a doctor was on duty. But the pope was moved into another one that was equipped with oxygen and was raced to the Gemelli Clinic on the outskirts of Rome.

The three-kilometre trip took eight minutes -amazing feat in peak hour Roman traffic.

The papal "minder" Don Stanislaus says his char" prayed during the journey and "uttered no words a" despair or resentment."

The last rites were administered as soon as he arrived at the hospital; he was given a blood transfusion (he had lost between one and three litres) and taken to the operating theatre.

Don Stanislaus has said the pope told him he was unconscious by the time he reached the hospital, bu! another report has the victim saying before the operation: "How could they?"

The operation lasted more than five hours and he was under constant supervision until May 18 -- his birthday.

He recovered gradually (although deeply upset to learn on May 28 that Cardinal Wyszynski had died) and went back to the Vatican on June 3.

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By PAT CONNELLY ##,

It is said that he was never really in danger of dying. In fact, so sturdy was his condition that early on, when he heard about the other two people shot, he asked how they had fared.

One of those victims was a 60year-old American woman hit in

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the chest; the other was a 21year-old woman from Grenada whose left elbow was smashed.

The incident shocked the great majority of mankind but for those who could read the signs or who were in the know, it was not unexpected.

The foiled knife

attack on Pope tions and at heart the shooting in 1979 a 23-yearPaul VI in Manila was not eager to Rome, a bomb old man serving a in 1970 (during a have the Pontiff went off in Karalife sentence for journey that on Turkish soil. chi during a stop- murder escaped included Austover in the pope's from a military Turkey was heavralia) indicated ily Moslem and Asian tour. One prison near that the papacy person was killed Istanbul. did not share the was on the list of pope's enthusiand there are He threatened to tall poppies to be reasonable kill the pope, a asm to meet cut down by madgrounds for spec- fact that made there the senior men, headlineulating that the the newly elected Patriarch of the hunters and/or Pontiff was the government ner13 Orthodox conspirators. intended victim. churches in a bid vous. It had been And in February Four days before shaken by a to heal the 9001981, only three he began a visit to number of politiyear-old rift months before Turkey in late cal assassinabetween Rome and Costantinople, now Istanbul.

Those talks went well, even on the thorny issue of papal infallibility which had split the Eastern and W e s t e r n Churches in 1054. A CatholicOrthodox Commission was set up to look more deeply into the matters.

But otherwise the

However, a mysterious virus and fever had him back in hospital 17 days later. He was operated on again but discharged in mid-July.

He was back in the Vatican on August 14 and the next day was among his people again in St Peter's Square.

It was estimated that 50,000 were there to welcome him and to celebrate with him the feast of the Assumption.

Meanwhile the would-be assassin had been quickly arrested partly because, as Andre Frossard put it, it is as hard to get out of St Peter's Square on an audience day as it is to get into it.

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In June last year the judge, the defence lawyers for the seven accused and the prosecutor all ridiculed his erratic evidence.

"We still don't know what happened in St Peter's Square," the prosecutor Antonio Marini said.

"Only when we've understood what happened can we find out about the motives and the people behind the attack."

• The inconclusive trial was still going on earlier thi: year and the world is none the wiser about th that nearly took the pope's life.

journey was a failure. The people of that nation of 45 million were said to have been indifferent or hostile to the pope.

And the government received him with formal aloofness. There was no red carpet out in Ankara; instead he was limited to official talks and ringed with tanks and armed guards when in public.

hose measures were necessary, of course, to shield him from the escapee gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, but the would-be assassin finally struck, 18 months later in Rome, where the pope was an open target.

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Ali Agca was tried in Rome for attemped murder, convicted in July 1981 and jailed for life.

Whether the pope was correct in blaming "they" for the shooting or whether Ali Agca operated alone is still not known.

A note found on him identified him as an odd combination of extreme left and right, a "proPalestinian communist comrade" yet a member of the neo-Fascist Grey Wolves of Turkey.

In August 1982 an American author well up on international espionage claimed Ali Agca had struck as part of a Bulgarian group manipulated from the Soviet Union.

It was said the Soviet wanted the pope eliminated because he backed Solidarity, then at the height of its influence in Poland.

Later that year Ali Agca named two Bulgarians who, he claimed, had been involved in the conspiracy. The claim led to charges against seven people.

A fiasco of a trial, with the accuser the main witness, Was held after the pope visited him in prison and Ali Agca went on three hunger strikes.

He changed his claim of a conspiracy by saying "I am the only assassin, the only slanderer, the only liar" then went back to his assertion of a plot.

Among his statements, which were once described as "revelations, retractions and wild claims," was one that a secret Masonic lodge in Italy regarded him as Jesus Christ. ecord; No

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LIE.I@RE Crisis vs Hope: LIIEIIII!EE Thankyou

programme criticised from W.V.C. THOMAS, Medina

THANKS

Holy Spirit and St Jude for prayer answered.

Also thankyou Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of the Rosary. M.C. My Special Thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Holy Spirit, St Jude Thaddeus and our Blessed Lady Mary, for all help, and favours granted. Please continue for my success now. E.R. Grateful Thanks to Infant Jesus, Our Blessed Lady, St Joseph, St Jude and St Anthony for favours granted. A.W. My Grateful Thanks to Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Holy Spirit, Mother of Green Scapular, Mother of Perpetual Help for favours granted. Stanley.

Many Thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Padre Pio, Mother Mary, for many favours granted and blessing recieved. bless and protect us always.

D.M.F. Thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Saint Joseph and St Jude for favours received.

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ELECTRICAL: For all types of electrical work phone 335 2277.

STEELWORK: AII types of steel gates and balustrades, mig welding and arc welding. Phone 335 2277.

Handyman

wanted

casual work. 349 7762.

SITUATIONS

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UPHOLSTERER retired professional is interested in occasional repairs and light work. recovering Kitchen, dining, office, lounge, chairs, etc.

Phone 341 3995.

For Hire the Marksmen.

St Marks College swing band, for wedding cabarets, dances, etc.

Modern rock 50 50 modest fee. Contact Bro Colyer 272 5556.

GENTLEMAN retired seeks interesting casual, employment temporary, part-time city or Office country. background. Will try caretake anything property, assist in shop, relief driving, assist in office. Phone 364 4131.

Singing Group available

for weddings etc. New members welcome.

Phone Anne or Tim 450 3617.

Experienced able handyman can tackle any job, reasonable rates. Phone Norm 364 8117

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Grateful Thanks to the

Infant Jesus of Prague, Our Blessed Lady, Saint Joseph, Saint Jude and Saint for Anthony favours received. A.W. Mv Grateful Thanks to the Sacred Heart and Holy Spirit for favours granted. R.D. St Jude grateful thanks for favours granted.

Judith.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever.

Grateful thanks for favours granted. W.D.B.

Our grateful thanks to the Most Sacred Heart of

Jesus, His Blessed Mother, St Jude. St Anthony and St Anne for favours received. Please continue to help us.

E.M.T.

The Catholic Education Commission of WA Invites applications for the position of

PRINCIPAL for

St Francis Xavier School

ARMADALE

The school which has an enrolment of 277, caters for boys and girls from pre-primary to year 7.

St Francis Xavier situated in the outer metropolitan suburb of Armadale is a vital and integral part of the parish community.

Applicants should be practising Catholics committed to Catholic educational ideals, have requisite administrative skills and academic and professional qualifications.

Salaries and conditions are similar to those offered by the Education Deportment of WA.

Further information and official application forms can be obtained from THE DIRECTOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE OF WA 6 SALVADO ROAD, WEMBLEY WA 6014 Telephone: (09) 381 5444

Official application forms to be lodged by Monday, December 1, 1986

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FOLEY VERA: Died November 23, 1985 beloved wife of Mark Foley of formerly Subiaco. Eternal rest grant to her oh Lord and let perpetual light shine on her.

ZTE Grateful thanks to the Sacred Heart, Our Lady, Saints Joseph. Jude, Anne, Anthony, Teresa, Padre Pio, and the Holy Infant of Prague for favours granted. M.D. To our Holy St Jude thanks for prayers in time of need for my daughter and son who are still very sick people but are on the mend through my prayers to vou and our blessed Father and our blessed Mother. Keep it up and may your name be blessed. Many thanks, III keep on praying. E. Rogers.

Novena to the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit you

who solve all problems,

light all roads so that I can attain my goal, you gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be said for three davs after which the favour will be granted.

The prayer must be published immediately.

B.C.R.

Novena to the Holv Spirit. Holy Spirit you

who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal, you gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be said for three days after which the favour will be granted.

The prayer must be published immediately.

M.A.F.

My grateful thanks to Sacred Heart, Our Blessed Mother, Holy Spirit. Infant Jesus and St Jude for favours granted. J.B.S. ST JUDE. Gratefully

thanks for favours. Judy.

My Thanks to St Jude and the Holy Spirit for granting my special favour. Chris.

Most Holy St Jude and to the Holy Spirit thanks from my heart for favours granted. M. Arias.

Grateful thanks to St Jude for prayers answered. I promise to make your name known.

L.S.

Sir, ABC TV seems to be going to great pains of late to paint a morbid picture of despair and despondency which they claim is creating a crisis within the Catholic Church and a further slanted attack was televised in yet another nit-picking T.V. documentary entitled "A Shifting Heart".

The irony of it is that a selfconfessed Catholic, Geraldine Doogue, who atso had the good fortune to receive a sound Catholic education acted as the inquisitor and even had the temerity to pose the question whether the alleged crisis in the Church in fact signified its own "death rattle."

Surely Geraldine Doogue must believe, as every loyal and faithful Catholic does, that the Catholic Church is the one and only true Church founded by God in the person of Jesus Christ Himself who has also personally guaranteed that the gates of hell will never prevail against it!

If there is a crisis in the Catholic Church then it is to be traced to the confused state of mind of those dissenting and defecting Catholics who through apathy and indifference fail to practice their faith or listen to what the Church is saying and opt out from their duties and religious responsibilities

They then proceed to blame the Pope and Bishops of the Church for their own ill-will quite forgetting that the latter are the accredited spiritual ministers of Jesus Christ and the voice of God on earth! "He who hears you, hears Me'' and "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed also in heaven"T All I would like to respectfully say to Sister Veronica Brady and those who subscribe to her dissenting view that the Church should ordain women as priests is that since all vocations to the priesthood and religious life come from God alone, no woman can be ordained as a priest(ess) unless God wills it so.

They should seek to conform to the will of God rather than expect God to conform to their own which seems to be a popular misconception these days in matters both spiritual and moral. if Geraldine Finally, Ooogue has an axe to grind with Jesus and His Church let her do it in the secret confines of her inner conscience where, I am sure, God will provide her with the correct answers and dispel any fears and misgivings she may hold about the Holy Catholic Church!

from Mauretta LONEY, Salter Point.

Sir, We are constantly assailed in print theatre and television about what is wrong with the Catholic Church and usually by disaffected Catholics!

How about some convinced committed practising Catholics being commissioned to speak on behalf of those of us still endeavouring to keep the faith?

It is very disconcerting, as on Geraldine Doogue's television report, to be confronted by a Papal Knight who does not believe that it is necessary for an ordained priest to consecrate the host!

Where are the voices of our shepherds the bishops? If they don't speak soon to lead us, we will all be lost in the wilderness.

from Paul DONNELLY, Claremont Sir Anti-pornography signatures on a petition to Claremont Town Council were requested at church this Sunday last but it turned out to be against the establishment of "sex' shops in our area because real estate values might fall by the introduction of a sleazy element and, of course, be bad for business No mention was made of any effect on general morality or dangers to women and children that ensure, horrific as is the present reflection of the Truro mass murders of the 1970's in South Australia, in this State.

Those murders were associated with the coincident free distribution of pornography and increase of rape under the Dunstan Government: rapes rose to levels of 15 per 100,000 of population.

Under our Burke Governments rapes reported to the police have doubled from 6 per annum in the 1960's to 200 currently to equal the high South Australian levels coincident with extensive distribution of X & R rated videotapes and release of 1000's of salacious magazines and pictorials to news agents.

The innovation of naked dancing women in hotels inevitably arouses lust in alcohol-affected males. In one reported case such an hotel patron, a married man, raped an innocent girl and is now separated from his family in prison.

A few of us work, write and petition at our cost in time and expense but with little help from our churches especially at the level of the laity, drearer and deader than even Ms Doogue changes

Discussion document praised 'Founded on Justice and Peace' the selection of quotations from Pope John Paul issued on Social Justice Sunday is a visionary document. The Holy Father stresses that everyone is both, at the same time, the

subject and the object of justice. That is to say, everyone should strive to become a just person and everyone is entitled to expect justice from others.

On becoming a more just person, the pope says, we should try to show the virtues of justice, truth, love, solidarity and service. These are summed up in the First Beatitude: Blessed are the poor in spirit.

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A just person will not remain silent because, if this happens, the message of Jesus is stifled.

As the object of justice and because man is made in the image and likeness of God, he or she is unconditionally deserving of justice.

Moreover, every aspect of the person should receive justice, material and spiritual.

Fundamentally, everyone should have the right to life, from conception and at every stage thereafter.

Other rights which the pope mentions are: to responsible procreation, to work, to peace, to freedom, to a decent wage, to be a co-creator with God. Personal and social sin,

By EAMON MURRAY teacher at Newman Senior College and the Religious Education Coordinator. A member of the Catholic Social Justice Commission, he was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and migrated to Australia in 1983. however, get in the way of

achieving these ideals, unfortunately. One evil the pope highlights most of all is the existence of starvation in a world of plenty.

Violence and drug-taking are cited as examples of nonsolutions to the problems of injustice. Other problems cited are: alienation, a flawed global economic system, the Arms Race and abortion. The Third World, according to the Holy Father, could be likened to the poor man Lazarus in the Gospels. The point is also made that injustice has many dimensions: material, social, educational, spiritual, physical.

But in the light of these manifest evils, is there any hope for humankind? The strength of the document lies, for me, in the positive steps the pope mentions which enable us to overcome these limitations and achieve the ideal of becoming just persons.

Prayer is essential if a social consciousness is to be

nurtured. The help of Jesus through the sacraments will be equally efficacious, as will reflection on the Word of God. The academic disciplines should also be examined in the light of faith.

To build on these insights,

concrete action, according to the pope, is a logical follow-on: spending on develoment should take the place of spending on the Arms Race; families should be active in helping the poor; believers and nonbelievers should co-operate in bettering the world. And, fundamentally, for us as Catholics, the Church should see as an essential part of her mission the development of the human race and the building of a new society.

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As a Religious Education Co-ordinator, I believe the document to be an excellent resource for use by teachers and students. It is probably suited best for use in the upper secondary classes and I have already ordered some for use at Newman Senior.

Any schools who attempt to facilitate faith development outside of normal school hours will find it especially useful. I know that we will be making use of it on our Reflection Nights and postschool get-togethers The booklet is attractively laid out and I think the activities page at the end of

each section to be an excellent idea for further prompting reflection and action on the pope's teaching. The activities have a good blend of suggestions on linking Scripture services, prayer, discussion questions and follow-up work.

The pope's teaching in the document focus on, I believe, a number of key issues which today's adolescents find important (human development, peace and justice, defending the rights of the needy and oppressed, minority groups. poverty, human rights).

Hopefully, a guided study of the document will also help students become more just persons themselves who appreciate the importance of total development.

The holistic or "total development" theme which the pope outlines also has implications for Catholic schools in general. The vision of what a Catholic school can become can be made clearer by a study of the document. School boards, parents, parishes, school administrators, teachers, student councils and students themselves can all benefit from the document by attempting to come to an understanding of what justice means both for the institutions themselves and the people who seek self-development through them.

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As this issue of Youth Forum is published, Pope John Paul II leaves Rome (Thursday, November 20) and sets out for Australia. It will be his 33rd trip and he is coming via Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji and New Zealand -trust a Pole to visit so many places!

Earlier this year, speaking to young people the pope said "Young men and women of today, do not be afraid! Do not be afraid of your own youth, and of those deep desires you have for happiness, for truth, for beauty and for lasting love!

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"Sometimes people say society is afraid of these powerful desires of young people, and that you yourselves are afraid of them. Do not be afraid!

"When I look at you, the young people, I feel great graditude and hope. The future far Into the next century lies in your hands. The future of peace lies in your hearts.

"To construct history, as you can and must, you must free history from the false paths it is pursuing. To do this, you must be people with a deep trust In man and a deep trust in the grandeur of the human vocation --a vocation to be pursued with respect for truth and for the dignity and inviolable rights of the human person •••

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"Do not avoid the search for the true answers to the questions that confront you. Do not be afraid!

"During your whole lifetime, you must affirm and reaffirm the values that favour life, that reflect the dignity and vocation of the human person, that build a world in peace and Justice...

Those of us who have preceded you want to share with you a deep commitment to peace. Those who are your contemporaries will be united with you in your efforts.

''Those who come after you will be inspired by you so long as you seek the truth, and live by authentic moral values... ''You are growing, and with you peace is growing."

On November 25, young people from around Australia will gather for the Papal Youth Celebration. The theme is Let our choice be Peace.

At present I know of no one from WA who will be at that celebration - the tyranny of distance precludes young people making the trip, especially since the pope will be in WA a few days later.

Monique Carter paints peace symbol on faces of Midland Antioch members at a recent

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Ten days left to make decision

Ten days remain to make a big decision which could change your life. You will make no money! You will not become famous! It will be hard work! Only a few will ever know about what you do.

But the rewards will

change your life.

Young people have 10 days to volunteer to help with a special holiday

GRANTS OF UP TO $1000 WILL BE

MADE.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Individuals and groups of young people supported by community representatives or organisations.

Projects should be initiated by young people and they should have extensive involvement in the planning and operation of the project.

APPLICATION Standard application forms available from Youth Affairs Bureau.

program for disabled people.

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Youth assistants are urgently required for a holiday program on Sunday January 4.

The holiday is for severely disabled people and has been running for the past five years.

Young people can help in many areas such as personal care of the holiday makers, helping with recreational activities, kitchen hands, house cleaning and bus driving.

Come,tlyakitc-bring joy to someone's heart.

Come and be of service.

Nurses are needed.

The minimum age for non professional tasks is 15 years.

The program takes place at Santa Maria Attadale, College, January 4-18.

A very important aspect of the holiday program is the development of friendships.

Persons involved in the personal care of the holiday makers should be

Government grants are available to assist young people aged 12-25 years design and run their own project for young people in their communities.

Funding decisions are made December, March and May.

CONTACT

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Giving up the usual January pastime of swimming and surfing could be a sacrifice -but one that will be greatly rewarded.

SHAPING THE CHURCH OF

TOMORROW

DOOOOOOD available for two weeks or one week.

Some live-inaccommodation is available.

A special training session will be held on December 8 at 7.30pm.

Contact Jenny Beardmore at Catholic Care for intellectually handicapped persons, 364 Cambridge Street, Wembley, 6014, PO Box 152, Wembley. Phone 387 7478 0r 387 7566.

A SEMINAR

for Bishops, Priests, religious, assistants, adult and youth leaders.

interested or involved in working with young people St Patrick's Seminary, Manly, Sydney.

GEMMAWOOLTORTON

Former Perth YCW full timer now working for

the Australian YCW based in Sydney, bopes to

meet oldfriends at theJanuary Seminar

JANUARY 19-23 C0ST $120

Contact:

Peter Shooter 328 9667

Father Jegorow 328 9878

The Record, November 20, 1986

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The Collins Book of Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Caroline Sharp.

Published by Collins. $16.95.

"Exciting. magical things happen in the world of fairy tales. A frog turns into a prince, a pumpkin into a glass coach, straw into gold, an ogre into a mouse ...

And the wicked get their deserts in fairy tales, like Snow White's evil stepmother, the wolf who swallowed the six little kids and the witch who lured Hansel and Gretel into her house of candy... There's fun too -- when three magic wishes were wasted, a village was awash with porridge, the emperor stepped out in his new clothes, Tom Thumb outwitted the robbers.

This selection of best loved fairy tales has been specially rewritten for telling aloud and for older children to enjoy for themselves. And all children will love Caroline Sharpe's enchanting and illustrations of lively princess and witch, giant and dwarf and the other fairy tale characters which leap out on every page in a riot of colour and highlight all the magic, excitement and humour in the stories."

The Collins Book of Nursery Rhymes.

Published by Collins. $16.95.

The collection of traditional rhymes and songs will delight small readers and remind their parents of nursery days Lullabies and counting rhymes, cherry stone games and cautionary tales, nonsense, dips, skipping songs, hopscotch chants and ring games -- all the old favourites are here to be enjoyed anew.

Magic Windows. An antique revolving picture book by Ernest Nister.

Published by Collins $13.95 "The original book, In Wonderland, was published in 1895 by Ernest Nister of London. This reproduction features the unique changing pictures, the delicate illustrations and the delightful verses from the original book.

To change from one picture to another, hold the ribbon tab and slowly move it from left to right along the bottom of the circle. To change back to the first picture, move the ribbon tab from right to left."

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Moving Pictures. Action Surprise and Hidden Images, by Ernest Mister.

Published by Collins. $16.96 "Three delightful moving pictures tell each story of busy Victorian children at play with their pets, dolls and friends.

Reproduced from beautiful antique illustrations created

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A Treasury of Fairy Tales with classic "These marvellous stories rd" d 1...

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"A Treasury of Fairy Tales Their tales are passionate, is a collection of all time favourite children's tales colourful and distinctive and have little in common with retold for the modern child the folk tales of other by Michael Foss. The stories nations. The gypsy folk song of Hans Christian Andersen is little known, and the gypsy'and the Brthe 'Grfmd.

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Happy Birthday to: Paul Midland; Rosalind Ma, Classic stories such as Kearns, Samson; Michael Swanview; Yvette Rijnhart, Beauty and the Beast and Kelly, South Kumminim; Mukinbudin; Derek Boylen, Cinderella are accompanied Rebecca Peel, Kelmscott; North Perth; Elizabeth in A Treasury of Fairy Tales Helen Tuxford, Bunbury; Flynn, Mt Lawley; Mark classic equally by Jody McDiarmid, Lesmurdie; Handyside, Saudi Arabia; illustrations. Nearly every Quentin Green, Wembley Tim Ballinger; Nicole master of the form is Downs; Jamon Blechynden, Martin, Albany. including represented, Bridgetown; Greta Wilkie, Arthur Rackham, Edmund lrt Dulac, Kay Nielsen and Warwick Goble.

The illustrations, most in full colour, are reproduced to exacting standards which show them in their original beauty.

Wbat do you call a man What did one horse say A Treasury of Fairy Tales who crosses tbe ocean recreates a lost world of to the other? twice witbout taking I don't remember the children's books. It is a book bath? full of joy for the child and name but the pace is familA dirty double crosser. iar." nostalgia for the parent."

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"When my wife and I first visited the rather isolated Pallottine catholic settlement of Old Balgo Mills early in 1958, it was very different from what it is now. lt was small in size and in population, with the local people adhering in many ways to their life-style. traditional Alphonse Father Bleischwitz and Brother Richard and the kindly St John of God sisters, and other helpers, were a dependable source of welfare assistance, concern for Aborigines as individual people, and tolerant interest in their culture.

The settlement was established in the 1930s by Father Ernest Worms and Father Francis to serve as a buffer between Aborigines from the southern and south-eastern desert and the pastoral stations to the immediate north. The Walmadjeri, whose homelands were partly within the Balgo area as well as farther west, and the Wonggadjunggu whose territory was a little farther down the Canning Stock Route, were the first to be attracted to the pastoral stations.

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An exhibition of art from the Great Sandy Desert is to be officially opened by Professor Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia on Friday, November 28. It will then be open to the public from November 29 through 'till December 4 between 10 am and 5 pm each day.

"The artists from Balgo Hills have now formed themselves into an artists' cooperative as has developed with other aboriginal art communities," said Mr Michael O'Ferrall, Curator of Aboriginal Art at the WA Art Gallery. "Similar contemporary art developments have taken place in the Northern Territory at Papunya and more recently at Yuendumu {both aboriginal communities) the people at Balgo Hills have tribal affiliation with these two groups, but this is the first major development at

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an isolated aboriginal community," said Mr O'Ferrall.

The WA Art Gallery already has a collection of WA Art, but it is predominately from Arnhem land.

"I am very excited about the gallery being involved in this emergence of a major art movement within WA," said Mr O'Ferrall, "and am happy to be involved.'

The strength and vitality of aboriginal cultures is nowhere better illustrated than in the

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continuity and evolution of artistic expression occurring in many countries, he said.

This exhibition of recent painting from the north of Western Australia focuses on one such example of this contemporary development. "The sources of the works are firmly based in the traditional myths and ceremonies of the Balgo people but the incorporation of a wide range of colours and individual interpretation introduces new dynamic elements and a mature re-working of images in a contemporary idiom," he said.

The exhibition has been supported by a grant from the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Gallery acknowledges assistance given by Vanguard Press, The Western Australian Arts Council and the Catholic Education Commission.

Balgo exhibition heralds new era of Aboriginal art the context of particular identifiable sites.

Moreover, the spirits of those deities continue to be present at those places.

The range of compositions is extremely wide; but the subject matter is limited by the availability of persons who are letitimately entitled to make them, and by the extent of their geographical and religious knowledge.

au Other people speaking dialects of the Western Desert language Gugadja, and Ngadi were coming into Balgo in the 1940s and late 1950s from their desert territories that extended as far south as lakes Lucas, White, Hazlett and Mackay along the Western Australian-Northern Territory border. They constituted the nucleus of people who originally formed Balgo settlement.

For various reasons, Old Balgo mission station (the third attempt to find a permanent home for it) was moved to a new site that was in an Aboriginal reserve, located a little farther east where good water was available. As the new settlement grew and facilities were improved, Aborigines from other areas such as Yuendumu and Papunya, as well as from Hooker Creek, came to visit and stayed for varying periods. These newcomers were mainly Walbri (Walbiri), Woneiga (a western branch of the Walbri) and the so-called 'Bindubu' (Pintupi) who were generally Ngalia.

The Gugadja and Ngadi already had historical contacts with these other People because some of their homelands around the ' border lakes area were not too far distant from those of the newcomers. Even with this influx, there continues to be a fair degree of cultural homogeneity.

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The Dwarf Spirit painting by Bruce Njamma Jjangala. by RONALD and CATHERINE BERNDT, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia.

nostalgically towards the south and south-east in the hope of visiting or revisiting those territories, if not returning to them eventually on a more permanent basis.

Moreover, some of the 'new' visitors and residents at Balgo have had nonAboriginal contacts that differ quite considerably from those experienced by the 'old' Balgo residents.

On the other hand, part of the Balgo population, mainly those with Walmadjeri affiliations, moved to Malan, on Lake Gregory, and established a settlement that is closely associated with presentday Balgo.

Patterns of social living have changed considerably. Mission influence has continued now for more than 50 years, and more recently an Aboriginal Council has emerged, with the task of administering community affairs.

Nevertheless, on the

whole, Balgo people have

a close relationship with their local environment. lt is this perspective -of the country and what it contains in terms of both natural and mythological resources that is emphasized in the contemporary art of Balgo people. To retain that perspective has not been easy for them. maintained

DOD Balgo is no longer isolated, and is becoming even less so.

Communication channels extend in many directions, not only to the Kimberleys but also to other desert Aboriginal communities, including outstations, in both Western Australia and

the Northern Territory.

The Council-controlled Kingfisher airline has brought places such as Broome, Derby and Alice Springs much closer than was possible even in the '5Os and '60s. Additionally, there is a steady flow of European visitors who come for all sorts of reasons, many of which are totally inexplicable to the local people; and the ubiquitous mining companies continue to

operate almost uninterruptedly within the

general

region.

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perhaps the most potent

and consistent agent of change has been the local school. As we can see, a special branch of this has sponsored and nurtured the art forms that are presented in this exhibition.

The traditional art of the Balgo people was not expressed through paintings made on moveable sheets of material. The human body and the ground itself provided suitable surfaces on which designs could be drawn and painted in natural ochres. Like the art of the Papunya people, Balgo art included decorative ground structures that were a central feature of some religious rituals.

These were mythotopographically significant, and for the most part were regarded as being secret-sacred and not publicly accessible, except to particular categories of Aborigines.

Such designs, in highly conventionalised style, depicted segments of important mythological accounts of deities of the Dreaming, sketching events in which those characters were involved in

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developments at Papunya and at Yuendumu, a number of local Balgo people began in the mid to late 1970s to transfer some of their own landbased and mythologicallyoriented art to sheets of ready-made board. In doing so, they tried to retain their own art-style. But the fact that these were transferred to a new medium gave them an opportunity to innovate.

While innovation was 'written in' (so to speak) to the theme of presenting traditional designs, the new techniques gave the artists more flexibility of choice not only in subject matter, but also in ways of presenting 'old' topics.

Undoubtedly, external (non-Aboriginal) interest in what they were doing served as a stimulus in this direction. Another important factor was that some of the art was being removed from its ritual setting. The Balgo school, and various non-Aboriginal people interested in Aboriginal art, encouraged the artists. For instance, Mrs Mary Macha and her husband made available sheets of board and canvas and asked the people to paint on these without influencing choice of subject matter. Other persons too could well have played a part in this respect, since in 1979 a number of paintings in a traditional milieu as well as some that were highly innovative were displayed for sale in the local Balgo

store.

With the emergence of a permanent base for the St

instance, in relation to a Catholic religious context.

Innovation provides an extra dimension, a dynamic quality, when an artist seeks different ways of presenting what are essentially time-honoured images, in order to deal with a changing universe of understanding and experience.

John's Adult Education Centre at Balgo in 1981, that encouragement grew.

So did the concept of developing a place where the traditional heritage of local Balgo people could be sustained.

Financial assistance from TAFE helped to set in motion a wider programme that included training in literacy and language skills, in the arts and crafts, as well as in other relevant aspects. Working in groups, young and older men and women produced celebration banners for church festivals.

□□□ In approaching their art in this way, the artists have improvised and enlarged on what we can regard as being a Balgo art-style a distinctive way of looking at the world around them, producing not only what they see and have been taught to see but also what they feel about it.

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They soon moved on toward painting individual works of art at first in the basic ochres, but with the introduction of acrylics they were stimulated to extend their traditional themes and also to go beyond them.

Nevertheless, while there is considerable variation in the approaches of the different Aboriginal artists, the basic art-style remains peculiar to the Balgo region -although that style in a broader sense belongs to the Western desert.

There is little question but that we can categorise what is being produced at Balgo as belonging to an identifiable Balgo School of Art in its own right -as contrasted with, for example, Papumya art or for that matter the art of north-eastern and western Arnhem Land, or of Bathurst and Melville Islands, and so on.

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The inspiration of Balgo art is derived directly from the traditional regional cultures of Balgo people.

This exhibition depicts a wide range of subject matter. Most of it is rooted in their traditional background, concerning the Dreaming associations of particular artists.

That is true even when an artist is focusing on a nonAboriginal theme for $

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Exhibited here is a selection of paintings and drawings of great aesthetic significance. All of this work is contemporary. It is also uniquely Aboriginal, distinctly in the Balgo style. What is important too, is that much of this art is implicity religious in a broad sense, just as is Papumya art. But it has been transformed and projected into a secular, public context without losing its fundamental significance, and without damage to a continuing traditional religion.

DOD The artists are communicating in a manner that can readily be understood by everyone who views these works of art.

The message that is being conveyed is a vital one for all Australians.

It is a message that defines and substantiates and illustrates their firm attachment to land. It demonstrates a living land endowed with particular meaning meaning, not only for themselves as artists but for all of their people, and ultimately for all Australians. And the subject matter they have chosen to present is set within the matrix of a changing but ongoing and important traditional

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TENNIS

EAST PERTH JUBILEE

by PETER MESSER

The WACLTA held its last social function for the year at the Trinity College tennis courts in Manning last Sunday.

Unfortunately the threat of inclement weather reduced the playing numbers to only

40.

Although the rain looked threatening all day, the players thankfully only had to contend with blustery wind conditions the rain stayed away.

Even though the playing conditions were not the best, the players were provided with a feast of tennis.

Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and the standard of the tennis was good.

The tennis organisers Jack Eastcott and Michael Kowald varied the rules to keep the players on their

toes.

"Gotcha" was a phrase heard consistently throughout the day and caught many a player off his guard.

One minute a doubles pair was on top and their opposition would take advantage of "gotcha" points to catch up and keep the match alive.

Jack and Michael are to be commended for their innovative ideas which certainly kept the players guessing.

Des Hinton and Geraldine Alderman took out the trophies for the day.

Wooden spooners were Mark Malone and the

association queen quest winner Louise Barrett.

Mystery score winners were Margaret Reeves, Stephanie Kukura, John Ward and Rohan Gorringe.

Certainly everyone I spoke to had enjoyed their tennis and the day was a fitting climax to a busy year.

Also during the day the final of the mixed doubles event which had been held over from the championships was played. t was an exciting match with first Mike Lawson and Linda Farrell getting on top and then fortunes changing and Kevin Quain and Geraldine Alderman gaining the ascendancy.

Finally Kevin and Geraldine won the match in the third

set.

It was an excellent finals match and fitting that there were so many members there to see it.

To complete the afternoon, pennants and trophies were awarded to winning teams and players who had competed in the various events played during the year.

The president, Michael Kowald in congratulating the winners also commended all the players who had participated in the various pennants and championships held during the year.

The competition in the pennants in particular had never been so close and it is hoped this keen rivalry and team spirit will continue into coming seasons.

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RACE ONE: River Echo 1, Maserati 2, Bernev 3.

RACE TWO: Lady Dart

I. Star of Mikonos 2, Relle Tang 3 RACE THREE: Gentle a Time 2, Jeff 1, Trmac Chrissy's Gift 3.

RACE FOUR: Oyster Lady 1, Diamond Rocket 2, Byron's Express 3.

RACE FIVE: Take Control 1, Bowetzel's Time 2, Barmill 3.

RACE

SIX:

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Woodsman 1, Royal Dina

2, All the Aces 3.

RACE SEVEN: Ripper Country I, Curio's Gem 2, Roshana Martina 3.

RACE EIGHT: Dial Twenty Six 1, Twin Echo 2. Mash One 3.

RACE NINE: Flash McGee 1, Vagin 2, Lassie's Girl 3.

RACE TEN: Papa Toe Toe I, Harlem Shuffle 2, Swiss Pulse 3.

St Thomas More College Perth Accommodation During

PAPAL VISIT

Single rooms available: - Bed & breakfast - Lunch - Dinner Contact The Administrator St Thomas More College Mounts Bay Road, CRAWLEY WA 6009 (09) 386 8712

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The Record, November 20, 1986

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The little church of St Francis Xavier in East Perth is celebrating its Golden Jubilee on December 6 with Archbishop Foley celebrating Mass at 9.30am. After Mass there will be a get together in the hall and moring tea. Al are cordially invited, especially all those who were in any way connected with St Francis Xavier Church over the years.

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WOMEN AND CHURCH

Women and the Australian Church Nedlands Group. The final meeting for the year will be held on December 5th at Loreto Nedlands Primary School from 9.15am to 12.30pm.

Guest speaker Dr Veronica Brady will speak on 'Problems for the thinking woman in the Church.' All welcome.

MERCEDES REUNION

All the old Mercedes girls who did their TAE in 1976 are invited to go "back to school'' for an afternoon and catch up with long-lost friends and all the news that is news! The reunion is to be held at Mercedes, on Sunday, 7th November, at 2pm in the hall. Bring a plate and some scandal!

MARIAN MOVEMENT

The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement of Priests will be held at the Morley presbytery on Thursday November 27 at 3pm. Please bring breviaries.

Enquiries to Father McGrath 450 4171 or Father Ray 276 1285.

TWIN COMMUNICANTS

The first communion ceremony at Lumen Christi church would have been something of a record with six of the seven candidates being twins.

Two of the sets of twins belong to Rory and Ali O'Neil of Augusta: Janette and Matthew 13 years and Stephen and Daniel eight years.

Of the family of four boys of Kim and Karen Griffiths their twin eldest, Adam and Matthew, eight, made their first communion.

The only non-twin communicant was Donna, one of the three children of Peter and Gina McDonald of Karridale.

QUAIRADING JUBILEE

The Parishioners and Friends of St Francis Xavier's Cuairading are invited to attend the Golden Jubilee Celebrations for St Francis Xavier's Church on Friday December 12 with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Foley at 6pm in St Francis Xavier's Church. A Buffet Jubilee Dinner will be held at the Ouairading Shire Hall following the Mass. Tickets at $5 for adults and $2.50 for children available from Mrs M. Bland PO 121, Ouairading, 6383 or tel (096) 45 7014 or at the Ouairading Co-op. RRSVP November 21.

PAUUAN FAREWELL

Father Reg Ahearn, the foundation spiritual advisor of The Paulian Association of WA, has been transferred to Mefboume and will be farewelled at a dinner at the Retreat House, North Perth on November 29 after 7.30pm Mass.

Ladies please bring a casserole or sweets, Gentlemen to bring drinks to suit. A $2.00 donation would assist. Advise Dennise on 337 9076 of attendance.

PAPAL PREPARATION ALL NIGHT VIGIL

The priests of the Fremantle zone have organised an all night vigil to prepare for the Papal Pilgrimage. The vigil will be held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Hilton on Wednesday, November 26th.

The vigil is not confined to the parishes of the zone, each of which have been allocated a time to attend.

People from all parishes are welcome to come and spend some time in spiritual preparation for the Holy Father's visit.

Tea and coffee and biscuits will be available throughout the vigil.

Parish times have been allocated as follows: Fremantle 8.15-915 pm; East Fremantle 9.15-10.15 pm; Beaconsfield, Hamilton Hill 10.1511 .15 pm; Myaree 11. 15 pm-12. 15 am; Attadale 12.15-1.15 am; Palmyra 1.15-2.15 am; Willagee 2.15-3.15 am; Hilton 3.15-4.15 am; Bateman 4.15-5.15 am; Spearwood 5.15-6.15 am.

SERVITE JUBILEE

Servite Sister Carmeline has just celebrated the 25th anniversary of her religious profession and will return to Madras to continue the celebration with a reunion of the other 15 members of her group. Her jubilee Mass was celebrated by Bishop Hickey at Sacred Heart church Highgate.

Sister Carmeline joined the Servants of Mary in Madras in 1959, being professed in 1961 and continuing her studies for Master of English and teaching for seven years until coming to Australia in 1970 with the first Servite Sisters.

She has taught at St Anthony's Wanneroo, St Mary's Leederville and Sacred Heart Highgate.

In 1977 she commenced work with the Nyoongah Aboriginal Centre at Embleton and in 1981 became principal of the Guildford Education Centre, now the Culunga Catholic Aboriginal School.

CAMP HELPERS WANTED

Volunteer assistants urgently required holiday programme for severely disabled persons at Santa Maria College from Sunday January 4, to -Sunday January 18. Assistance is required for: Personal care of the holiday makers, nursing skills, recreation and activities/outings, laundry, house cleaners, kitchen hands. dining room preparation and cleaning, B Class bus drivers.

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Please contact: Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped Persons, 387 7566. P.O. Box 152, Wembley, 6014.

ENGAGED ENCOUNTER

An extra Engaged Encounter weekend scheduled for December 12-14, at the North Perth Retreat House is already half booked.

Engaged couples, or any couple thinking of marriage, are welcome on the weekend. For enquiries or bookings please contact Mark and Julie Pallot on 344 7394 or Terry and Beatrix Thompson on 451 1952.

CATHEDRAL MASSES

On the weekend of the visit of Pope John Paul, Mass will be celebrated in St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday, November 29 at 7pm and on Sunday, November 30 at 7.30am. No Masses at St Catherine's or St Francis Xavier.

Mass for Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

23 Confirmation Kalamunda, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation Yokine, Mgr Keating.

25 & 26 Bishops' Meeting with Pope John Paul in Sydney, Archbishop Foley, Bishop Healy and Archbishop Goody.

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PAPAL VISIT RECONCILIATION In preparation for our Holy Father's visit an the Papal Mass you are invited to A COMMUNAL CELEBRATION OF PENANCE on Friday, December 28 at 7.30 pm Our Lady of The Rosary church Angelico St., Doubleview.

An all night vigil of prayer will follow

Newly Arrived Refugees on

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12

CATHEDRAL NOVENA

The solemn novena in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal will commence in St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday, December 2 at 7 .30pm. Father Jos Madden will preach sessions daily 7.308pm except Saturday 5.30-6pm. The Novena will conclude with Mass at 7.30pm on Wednesday, December 1 O.

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph were refugees, as they fled t fgypt. Today the refugees flee the evil of modern d Herods."

We would like to make their first Christmas in Austral

a memorable one.

Can you help with foods, drinks, confectionery, hamper toys, gifts, cash?

Please ring or contact Gerald or Marion at Cathole Migrant Centre, 29 Victoria Square, Perth. Phone

CROATIAN CONFIRMATION

325 6644.

The Croatian bishop on canonical visit to Western Australia. Bishop Gugic, of Kotor, will arrive in Perth on Saturday November 22 and confirm 92 Croatian young people on Sunday at St Anne's church in North Fremantle.

MARANATHA ANNIVERSARY

Maranatha Institute on its 10th Anniversary invites all past associates and students to attend the graduation ceremony to mark the close of the 1986 classes. Mass will be celebrated in St Joseph's Church, Subiaco commencing at 8 pm on Tuesday, December 2, followed by a reception in the parish hall at which there will be a guest speaker.

For further information please contact Sr Mary Berry 401 2834 or Sr Assumpta 293 2646.

THE BEGINNING EXPERIENCE

A weekend program for all separated, divorced and widowed people learning to close the door gently on a relationship that has finished will be held in February 20-22 at St Joseph's Covent, Safety Bay. For information please phone Jenny on 447 3795 or Pat on 444 4061.

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Annual Fete CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTRE,

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Sun, November 23 11am

Auction. All welcome '

CARLTON HOTEL with old-fashioned hospitality good country-style accommodation

B&B Single $20; Double/Twin $ • HEARTY BREAKFAST

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