Candles for oly Week PERTH,WA:April16.1987
Number 2527
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This is the night when the pillar of fire destroyed the darkness of sin! " This is the night when Christians every. wh re, washed clean of sm and freed from all defilement are restored to grace and ~., grow together in holiness. ., This is the night when Jesus Christ broke the chains of death and rose triumphant ~., from the grave. "'" What good would life have been to us, had "• Christ not come as our Redeemer?
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A Cat ol"c group's study of the WA curre t priso practice calls for fewer appearances by of enders efore courts, an expanded use of community service orders, a greater se of fines and a more imagi at" ve use of pr"so alternatives. It also calls on U,e Wes A stralia Government to grant an amnesty of abbrev·a ion to some prisoners during the Bicente nial yea of 1988. The sugges ions appear in a ninepage docume t issued by the Criminal Justice sub-com ittee of the Perth Catholic Social Justice C mmission, at er a two year s, udy of prison pro lems. The docum nt qu riou , ·iolen e or tions nether impri· threatened vi lence. sonmenr i the most "Imprisonment has a effective opti n for the place in our society onl • as a last resort for e 5 of ' pri one ho are not there for
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Catholic are urged in the document: • to respond t pri ne and help them tart
ane ·: • to ffer more i through agencie . to Is spec Holy W ed tion of The Record feat s COLL ARD's rv1 ws lshops for their Easter messages ( 2 d report on how s ce ( ges6and 7)an p ews f ature lxlon, Reconc I es ctlon.
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to transport relatives t i it prisons; to provide contact group. f, r pri. ne and up port from e. i tin Catholic organisation . Cont page 3