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Among the parish representatives who collected their Project Compassion materials last Saturday night were: ABOVE: Maria and Merv Palmer of East Cannington and Keith Raccani of Embleton. BELOW: Lynn and Kevi Fisher of Floreat, and at BOTIOM: W yne McGorty and Pauline Brown of • Queens Park.

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The impact of mo ility and hesitancy to settle into new parish surroundings were o of the things that Sister Joan Smith learned after her 12 months · n the ingsley Woodvale r a. " t was a new phenomenon or m not o exp rience t e stea y pro ression of g n rations in a suburb s occurred I was growing up in Joo anna," she says.

From he Shire of Wanneroo she ound a lar num r of famili s re Ii ely o mov wi hin a ra ius of 5 km aft r just two a d a ha f y ars in th district. By the end of the year he new of 6 famili s o h d mov in he ime she was th re.

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Mammoth increase in numbers At the close of the Second Vatican Council

in 1965, there were 60o million Catholics in the world. Today there are 825 million Catholics.

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touncil hastened Church growth

emergence of Catholicism as a world Church.

Fifty-percent of the church is in the Third World. mostly in Africa

By Father Alfred McBride, O.Praem.

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and Latin Americ . Third World

Catholics are ms CQd, its 0"11 CUSIO ·, . asserting therns Ives as Ian e and culture. partners who do not Togt,r they form the think Wotern thoughts �1lllhurch united under tht lei,hip of the pope. or wear \'('estern faces.

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bership and assertiveness poses the principal chal- Tii; church confronts• SIIDII similar to the one lcnge facing Catholicism tllllt-ceorurr QuistimS today. How can Catholi- ameml at the Council cisrn become a world tijoalem. Led by St Paul.

Church and retain its tlx,bkefromthcirJco.ishd c111:ll moorrngs an baste identity and unity' i... fresh""}� of open· At vaucan 11, the church 1111 Gospel 10 Jew and realised 11 wa., no long r just gol GKeks, Romans and a European Church. Rather bdans. it b a world Church, com· 1'I present Church posed of local churches rmlces cultures that

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th space age. Catholic faces are black. white, red. brown and yellow In such attracuvc di, cNt'), the church of manl fate,, ,tri,·cs to be one, hOI}, catholic and apostohc.

Herc arc some of the faces of Cath lici-m around the world • In Africa black "-niours tun from the crosees and people dance a some or the

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under watcrf.lll, and rc:fw to have fund, spent co build new churche in neighbour· hoods" here the f.uthful can bard) maintain their '>hacks.

A band played on a plat· form made to look like the front of a church There were ride!>, and the brightlr lit streets were lined with food stands. All the town turned out and at the end there were fireworks

In past years we could look to the cultural sinularities in our people.

Now, with that si.miliuity replaced by great social diversity, v.-e OlristiartS look to the essentials or faith. Let me illustrate with a story.

One Sunday morning before local electlOCtS. I was

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After months at sea Jesuit Father Roberto De Nob11i was excited as the ship docked at Goa, India. in May 1605 Ever since his teen years, he had dreamed of being a missionary.

Everything about India fascinated him.

Indian houses and clothes were different from those an Italy where he grew up. The people of India spoke many languages. none of which he understood. They ate foods he had never tasted. They believed an hundreds of gods.

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talking with parishioners outside the church A hotly debated local issue had the town rcally worlced up. By chance, our tittle group that morning included people on both sides of the tSSUe. When talk turned to the election, the depth of the divisions among the people became quicldy, even pain fully, clear.

Because of my presence the group remained civil and restramed. But I could see

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Disunitx can be painful ...

Disunity among peopie can be painful.

• think of homes where family members have gone off in such different directions and into such varied commitments of time that ther Catholic unity is preserved no longer can find any in the confes: ion of on time co spend faith, one bapti rn, one Lord together. Their disunand Saviour of all Drversiry ity is a source of agony. arises from the wide vanery • think of the hostilof cultural applications of between co-. ity this singular vision and workers who find they commument.

The biblical Joseph and his can do nothing but tecbnicolour drearncoat compete with each come. to rrund On coat other, even when a ·01 just a jomt endeavor on their many colours rainbow coalrtion but the part is what is truly rainbow uself needed Their disunity ultimately demoralises Pope John Paul 11 "3}. h ha, a dream "in wtuch a them.

• think of the chairsymphony of liturgies in all the languages of the world man of a fund-raiser will he united in a <inglc who watches the camliturgy hkc the immen. paign's goal slip away quantity or the multico- because members of loured stones in a Byzantine the organising group mosaic." haven't learned to As th Holy Spmt conwork together. The unu to brood ov.•-r th world Church thtS dream pain of their disunity is felt vividly, "ill certainly come true,

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• they learned that when divided pcopl carry out a project together - cooperate in of the a social ministry, for • think example - their joint anguish in a mixed marnage when both action draws upon what already unites them and spouses are concerned about sharing help, them see it more clearly.

Christian values with • thC) learned that if the children The dispeople can pray together, unity of the couple's an atmosphere is created respective Churches is in wruch antagonism IS an C\ er present fact of reduced and understandlife. mg grow .

The onlpoo-real pain • thC) learned that if ofdi ururymak . 11casier they cc first what to cell what human urury already unite them, rs not - tt L� not disurury they'll Im an improved - than to describe wtw perspective for confrontit IS. The pain of <fuurut') ing what drvid them. In can have some uucresr- some thC)· found that points of divi: 100 mg repercus ion� on urury, however weren't points of division When the topic i after all Church urury, 11 " worth • the · learned that n ting hov. th various urury metim will be church , pained at div- found wnere peopl arc ision between them, unaccustomed to look for rt. began looking for paths to greater urury, What dJd thC)· learn> • thC)· learned that 10 discover unity people

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Recently I called a friend, pastor of an old ethnic pari h. He described the fun and excitement of life in his tightly knit community. Hi .._,;;;,:.,�� stories made me think back i::;;;.:;=;;.=. to the annual celebrations of t Anthony and Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the streets of my hometown.

His stories also made me think how things are in so many cases today. The cultural unity that once nurked people is simply not there anymore.

There Is great diversity among society's people and it also affects the church.

How? For one thing, it has made us sharpen wtlat we mean by unity and whett to look for

• Because they make up only I percent of th population, Japan's Catholics must frequ ntly marry out side the church • Polish Catholic are 1.000 new building churches so that every Catholic will be able to wall, co church • Cz ch Cathohc endure a government that IS relent· I sly hosule to their faith.

• French Catholic, report a religious revival in their country and U S. bishops wrue pastoral Ieuers on world peace and capitalism All these diverse members fonn a single urury

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deeply the multiplicity of the churches in the one Church. Is it not the task of Peter's successor to see that this Church, in her multiplicity, gather, around Christ in her visible unity?"

In all his pastoral visits, the pope gives priority to teach· ing and preaching the word of God and celebrating the sacraments, especially the Eucharist. By means of his personal pastoral presence to the world Olurch. th pope hopes to further th drive toward unity in the midst of diveNty.

that because of their div· isions, these people would ha.-e a hard time working together on almost any Issue, or socialising together.

The time approached for Mass to begin, so I went in to vest while the people found scats near each other During the Mass I could not help but rccall the discus· s.lon outside the church.

These men and women well· Intelligent, intentioned, well·infonned

- were in real disagreement on the way to run our town My role was not to resolve their differences. In any event, Catholic theology Is quite clear that there can and will be legitimate differences on the precise policies for best running a democracy.

DOD But during the Mass the people were able co put their differences aside for a few minutes in order to focus on the f.uth they have in common.

That's the first place we look to find unity. In the li!Wl!)'we recogrusc that the

political choicel> dividing us are not the whole story.

Thett is also the one faith we li�-e by and the same one God toward whom we all

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Toward the end of the liturgy the people greeted each other with the Sign of Peace. Long-tune residents came forward to receive Communion together with recent ururugrants who do not yet speak English. After lass the people said hello to strangers, exchanging namo and v.-elcoming newcomers to the paruh.

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To the contrary, Faith is a sign that unity is a value we beUC\-e in and a goal v.-e work for.

DOD Mier the Mas , people returned to their cars and drm-e off to the worlds they live in Of course,, that' the second place v.-e look for unity - the world of dally life. Or perhaps I should say it is where we attempt to create unity, for much in the world seems to divide people.

Very often people become divided into group, like the controllers and the con·

The young Jesuit worked hard to learn the Tamil language He came to love the people of India and slowty learned to understand and admire their customs One thing puzzled Father De Nob1li. The missionaries insisted that Indian converts adopt European ways of life. To become Christian they had to give up almost all of what they loved about being Indian. They even changed their names.

DOD 'That does not seem right," the young Jesuit thought. "Jesus was a Jew. Yet he was open to Samaritans, Greeks, Romans and other foreigners as well as to Jews."

After a long time, Father De Nobili came to an important decision: "If Jesus' own apostles, who were Jewish, decided at Jerusalem that no one had to adopt all the Jewish customs and practices an order to become Christian, then India's people should

by JANAAN MANTERNACH be able to be Christian without having to live like Europeans."

So Father De Nobili began to live like an Indian holy man. He wore a long saffron robe and wooden sandals. He ate no meat and drank no wane. He painted a rectangle on his forehead to show that he was a teacher and he spoke Tamil Many educated Indians, especially teachers, became his friends. They enJoyed talking with him about what they believed and how they lived. They shared with him their holy books, the"Veda" andthe'Vedanta." He was the first European to know well the Indian scriptures and the ancient language, Sanskrit Father Roberto told his friends about Jesus and the Catholic Church, and he shared his Bible with them. He baptised many Indians into the Church but he did not require them to live, dress and act like Europeans.

Though some missionaries disagreed with what he was doing. in 1623 Pope Gregory XV off1c1ally approved his methods His example helped Catholics see that the one Spirit of Jesus speaks many languages and acts through the wonderfully different ways of people of all kinds everywhere.

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The ecumerucal IDO\'C· ment. of course,, con· cerned about the rel.a· lions between di,ided churches But thett IS a I n in thtS for others \\-ho experience disunit)'s pain, including the members of a si nglc

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If nothing else, the ecu-

menical mO\ement led to the face-to-face encoun· ter of people who had barely knov..n each other up to then - or perhaps knev. each largely through misconceptions.

C sually it is more difficult to remam deq,ty dmdcd from people you rcally know, people }OO\-e listened to and attempted to understand This is what the small renewal groups organised by parish m people' homes tend to disCO\-er today. 1)pically, in my experience, the groups bring together people from di,crsc social and educational backgrounds. people oriented to different forms of Catholic spirituwho ality, people approach the church with varying expectations. In their face-to-face encounter the divisions they supposed might be obstacles for them diminish

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The local council of churche in Lisburn, Co Antrim had planned to hold an ecumenical prayer meeting, with gu st Bi hop Cahal Daly of Down and Connor, in the Friends meeting house.

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Money and morellty from J. LANE, Morawa

'G qu ity at the right price.

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Sir, I would as Peter Bertola, (The Record, January 5) to reconsider his claim that we are a greedy people who just borrow and borrow our way into debt.

There remains a large part of our population who are neither in debt nor in a position to ask for more than decent food and shelter.

As for the remainder, most of them certainly fall into the category of borrowers and the reason for this is simple.

All the money (or credit) in circulation comes into existence as a debt to the ban ing system (one reference ts the Bank of NSW Review, Octo r 1978).

In other words if borrowing ceased the money supply would dry up. Ludicrous but true!

Long ago the Reserv Bank forfeited its right to issue the nation's credit, d bt and interest fre , in favour of the ban ing system which too ov r that role and now holds th mon poly.

So in ite of Our Lord's teaching on the untenabl usury, w now ha situation where debt and usurious interest rates are strangling our o ce "Luc y Country", forcing even the churches to participat in this pharasaical money gam .

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o has o er he Spea ing as one s, politicians years approached bis and others with a plea for action on this matter, I applaud the editorial in this paper on February 5 for giving the subject the pub icity that the rest of the media again chooses to avoid.

I believ that the Church now has a out on littl c oice o her than to this matter.

When spea ing on Third World d Cardinal Paulo Arns of Brazil, recently stated, 'We must choo an answer that not only alleviates th crisis at this moment. but that prev nts ·t from happening again."

However, criticism of money mar ets, grain merchants and oil d llars s little purpose whilst the real villains remain unchalleng d.

Sure y they are only symp oms of a d r pro I m.

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If on 's final and sincere conviction differs from th hi srchfs posi. ti n: 'th n th tis the rea · that th

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Chord» community and 'th bier f'.chy have to !Ne with in mutu I respect fr, ch o 'h r's sincerity.

Th yuity of the Church's p s nt positkxi · s co · ional accep. t n to 'the divorced and r. m rri. is contradi . ti n of Chn 's uncon<J. ti I nn ss to people of si r. h rt.

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Antioch ls alive and well in Attadale and Hamersley parishes where recent wee ends attracted more than 50 new members to the meet every Sunday night to the weekly movement.

Balcatta and Midland Antioch m eting.

The movement is are preparing for their first eekend in 987. strongly supported by Throughout the met- married couples, Reliropolitan area some gious sisters and 600 young people brothers, and priests.

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