PERTH, WA: March 9, 1989
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THE PERSON HAS TO BE A VERY SPECIAL KIND OF PERSON TO GO OUT THERE AND TACKLE THIS JOB'
PRICE 600 By A Senior Staff Writer Getting a cure for the cancerous problem of street kids is going to be a difficult one.
Healy talks of cancerous 'street kids' problem
Towards a just, decent world • Pages 10 and 11
Church split fears
• Page 4
That's the view of Perth auxiliary Bishop Healy in a brief interview with The Record. Pausing for a while during this walk-and-talk interview, Bishop Healy said with concern registered over his face: "It is a difficult and demanding job andI feel that the Church can play a bigger role." He said that there was a greater need, too, for social workers to address the problem. However, he appreciated the difficulties these social workers faced. He recognised the fact that it was basically an afterhours task and hoped that something would be worked out to tackle the "sad problem" and effectively curtail it before it spread further. The street kids problem as he saw it was a two-fold problem — a family problem and that of the individual. "Isuppose the whole problem is one of motivation. Getting them to see what they can do with themselves and getting them going on it would be the answer," he said. He added: "And this is one of the things that we have to cure." This is where the social workers would have to come in. What about the government? "I think that the government at the moment is doing a fair job as it is. I think what they are doing needs to be well known out there, especially among people who are working among the young." Bishop Healy said he admired people who did "this kind of work" but felt there was a need for more committed and dedicated people. "The person has to be a very special kind of person to go out there and tackle this job." "They will have to be prepared to work at nights. That's the big problem." Clearing the streets of kids meant that these workers would have to start their work as late as 9pm to 10pm. Pages 6 and 7 "And that means they won't finish till one or two in the morning," he said. Bishop Healy said he was very concerned with the problem. "It is dreadful to know that there are young people out there with no homes to go to and who are preyed to so many bomb planted in his car. different evil influences Protestant extremists — drugs and what not." "have neither the right The bishop was making nor the justification to his first visit to the kill anyone," Bishop Daly Skillscare centre in Sterling Street when he gave said. The Catholic extremists this interview. The Perth archdiocese of the Irish Republican playing a major role in Army have "neither the is sponsoring projects at right nor the authority the centre. nor the legitimacy to kill He said he was happy anybody. with what he saw at the "All their victims are centre. He observed that there were many op_porinnocent," he said. tunities available these days to train young people and that the Skil'scare centre was so well co-ordinated. "I only hope that it is made known to the big, wide world outside of the things that are being done and can be done," he said.
Church in China •
'End Ulster violence'
DUBLIN, (NC): Irish Catholic archbishops have appealed for an end to violence in Northern Ireland and set St Patrick's Day, March 17, as a day of prayer for peace in the British province.
Archbishop Joseph Cassidy of Tuam and Archbishop Dermot Clifford of Cashel said that 20 years of violence have further divided the people in Northern Ireland. Violence has failed completely to achieve Irish primate Cardinal what it purported to Tomas 0 Fiaich, archbi- achieve — a united shop of Armaghi; Arch- Ireland. they said in a bishop Desmond Con- statement. nell of Dublin; "Instead, it had led to
They said that 20 years distrust, suspicion and sectarian bloodshed of heartbreak," the stateresulted in the had we "Today, added. ment people call on those involved in deaths of 2700 as times 10 nearly and to any way in violence injured. been had many again. think Another 50,000 people "We said it before. and been driven from had today: it we repeat in one of the homes their violence cannot be the moveforced reatest g way," the churchmen populations of ments said. "There is only one since World War II, they way, that is the way of said. trust, of forgiveness and The day before the of reconciliation."
archbishops released their statement, Bishop Cahal Daly of Down and Connor criticised the illegal extremist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland for killing innocent people.
"There are no legitimate targets," Bishop Daly said at the funeral of a retired Northern Ireland policeman, Gabriel Mullaly, 54, who was killed by a
Next week: The Record visits Skillscare Centre