The Record Newspaper 25 May 1989

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Take up these challenges, he says • At the Entertainment Centre last Sunday, Archbishop Foley (right) got into the spirit of a rousing chorus of New Life New People under the direction of Year Ten student Jessica Bosio, of Stirling.

She and 20 of her Aranmore Catholic College friends showed how actions could put new life into the Year of Mission song.

An all fired up Archbishop Foley issued a threepronged challenge to Perth's Catholics at the end of the Year of Mission.

With determination registered on his face he declared: "As your Pastor and 'herald of faith' called by the Church I ask you to join with me in responding to the challenges before us: • the challenge to a more full participation.

• the challenge to inclusion for all.

• the challenge to mount the structures which facilitate faith education and formation."

"From these challenges," he went on, "We take our directions to move towards becoming a participatory Church; to witness in our relationships our desire for inclusiveness, and commit ourselves to the formation for personal change and growth and to openness to the Spirit."

He added: "We have in part identified the strategies to activate our vision for mission.

Diocesan processes will include: • the development of structures for further participation, consultation and partnership; • the call and response for actions of reconciliation and inclusion; • the examination and expansion of structures for faith education and formation.

"Icall you all now to join with me in creating this future for the Church of Perth."

Now for action 'TRANSFORM DREAMS AND VISIONS FOR GOOD OF ALL'

Aff luence and isolation, diversion from the original aims of the Church, and a wish to belong and to be c onsulted, were aspects of the Church in Perth archdiocese singled out in the Mass last Sunday to close the Year of Mission.

A ddressing nearly 6000 people during a twohour eucharistic ceremony Archbishop Foley

said the Church had experienced something of the death of Christ through loss and change, in order to let go the old and take up the new and unfamiliar.

Sitting on the chair, celebrating at the altar and preaching from the lectern, all of which were used by Pope John Paul in his Belmont Park Mass in 1986, Archbishop Foley said: "We are

commanded (on Trinity Sunday) to go out from here with the good news of the authority of Jesus given Him by the Father and the Spirit.

"In our Year of Mission we have gathered around the table, the centre of the Church of the Perth community.

action for the good of all."

Archbishop Foley said the Year of Mission which had extended from May 21, 1988 to May 21, 1989, had enabled the archdiocese "to express our idea of Church and our vision for this our Church in Perth."

"Now at its end we will go out at the bidding of Jesus to transform our dreams and visions into

He said that Perth was an affluent city "which is at the same time the most isolated in the world.

"The isolation which is the mark of this city penetrates like an infection in the midst of us.

We speak of country being isolated from city.

We isolate ourselves into divisions of physical, cultural, religious and sociological differences and limitations."

The archbishop noted that the Diocesan Assembly had been surprised that the Aboriginal voice was among us.

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"It surprises us to learn that our Australian nature is truly multicultural and not so Anglo-Irish as we had thought, that our desire for what is best does not fit easily with the Christian call for solidarity with the poor."

He said that the AngloIrish Church of Perth had been influenced in a major way by the pioneer Spanish Benedictine

monks who had reached outward with a well articulated presence to the Aboriginal people.

"As we trace our history we can see that we have been diverted from these original aims and face, with some discomfort and need for adjustment and reconciliation, that we are and also can be also an Aboriginal people who claim this earth as the source of life," he added.

• David Shinnick, (pictured right) appointed in 1983 as director of diocesan pastoral renewal was this year appointed pastoral planning officer of Adelaide archdiocese this year. From a background in the Christian Life movement in the 1950's, he moved into the area of adult education in the 1970's, taking up pastoral planning in the 1980's. Three years into that programme it was felt

to be time to draw the wider people together in an assembly to see where the diocese was to go next. As a result of that process they came up with four new priorities: The appointment of a pastoral planning officer; leadership formation at all local levels; encouragement of small groups and communities; co-ordination of multicultural activities.

Dimensio in view

A different 600 delegates to another Diocesan Assembly could come up with a much different set of conclusions, but nevertheless a common string of issues appears to be emerging across Australia.

This is the opinion of newly A delaide's appointed director of pastoral planning, David Shinnick, who was invited to observe the Perth Diocesan Assembly at the end of April.

He also pointed out that similar to the Perth event an Adelaide assembly at the end of 1985 had

tapped the ordinary people in the parishes, whereas a UK congress at Liverpool in 1980 had drawn 2000 delegates who were not typical of people "who don't go to these sort of gatherings," Mr Shinnick observed.

Nevertheless, the Perth emphasis on adult education and formation matched a similar result in Adelaide even though that diocese had such programmes for several years previously.

Another similarity in findings was the emphasis on building small groups and community.

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hand had come up with a strong call for leadership formation and a team of five had been assembled to carry this out, whereas Perth made no mention of this, Mr Shinnick noted.

Nor was there a strong emphasis on the vocation of the lay person in the world, even though this was implicit in some of the findings.

He pointed out that a similarity of concerns was surfacing in preparations for the Canberra synod later this year with prominence being given to leadership, small groups, faith education,

lia has matured to the stage where concentration on diocesan renewal and structures is coming into its own."

And there will be no settling down, he added.

"There is so much community development to be done, so many diocesan structures to be examined, and they have to change with the mood of the people.

Attendance at diocesan assemblies gave people a sense of solidarity which broadened them from the parochial so that they can see there is a diocesan dimension to their lives.

David Shinnick

Role of laity: Bishops' message to Australians The Catholic Bishops of Australia have issued the following s tatement to the Catholic people of Australia to encourage the wide distribution and careful study of the Apostolic Exhortation: Christifideles

Laici

(The Role of the Laity):

Unique dignity of e very baptised person: Recently Pope John Paul II wrote: ". .every member of the lay faithful is seen in relation to the whole body (of Christ) and offers a totally unique contribution on behalf of the whole body."

The Pope also spoke of the "immense treasure that each has inherited" through Baptism.

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— Pope Pius XII

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With seven of the thirteen Australian dioceses on the Renew programme finishing their three year projects this year, and diocesan assemblies this year in Perth, Canberra, Brisbane and Wilcannia, representatives will attend a two-day meeting at the end of May to see what common features are emerging.

"Someone should soon be able to draw a picture of the common hopes and concerns of the Church across Australia," he said.

"The Church in Austra-

This teaching about the dignity of every baptised person is found in the Pope's letter on The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World.

This letter following the Synod on the Laity held in Rome in October 1987. lay Many people throughout Australia, together with bishops were priests, and involved in preparation for the Synod.

We, the Catholic Bishops of Australia, thank you again for your involvement. We hope that many lay people, priests and religious will read this letter.

The lay faithful are called by the Pope to a

life of holiness in the world.

They are called to be active in building up the Church as a true community of faith. They are also asked by the Holy Father to transform the world with Gospel values.

The Pope insistently calls us all to be involved in the society in which we live; he asks lay people to participate in public life and to be a christian influence in all aspects of public life.

The Pope emphasises the importance of the Parish for our people. It is in the community of the Parish that people express their faith and witness it in everyday life.

The Australian Catholic In his letter, Pope John Paul speaks to the aged, Bishops have received married people, the sick, this post-Synodal Exhorpriests and religious. He tation from our Holy has a special message for Father with gratitude and enthusiasm. We children and youth: "The Church looks to hope that it will be you with confidence and studied and taken to with love. The Church is heart by all members of the real youthfulness of the Church. the world. Look upon the Pope John Paul conChurch and you will find cludes his letter with a in her the face of Christ." prayer to the Blessed The theme of partner- Virgin Mary: We join in ship and the collabora- that prayer tion of all members of the Church is emphasised in "0 Virgin Mother, the letter. Speaking of the guide and sustain us, so formation of lay people. that we might live the Pope says: always as true sons and "The lay faithful are daughters of the Church formed by the Church of your Son. Enable us to and in the Church in a do our part in helping to mutual communion and establish on earth the collaboration of all her civilisation of truth and members: clergy, reli- love, as God wills it, for gious and lay faithful."

His glory. Amen."

'Have your say . . .

CANBERRA: Catholics in the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn are being invited to have their say on the future directions and priorities of their Church.

trine and conscience to evangelisation, are being distributed for discussion.

Synod co-ordinator, Fr Kevin Barry-Cotter said: "We want to hear what people have to say, their They can do this by views are important and taking part in the next will be taken into round of synod dicus- account at the Synod sions which is just itself."

Ten synod commissions getting underway in the have been formed and 62 parishes of the they will put forward archdiocese. propositions to the synod Already, an estimated based on the three 5000 people participated rounds of discussions. in the first two rounds of "The propositions will discussions held last be based on the teaching year. of the Church on a Papers on about 70 particular matter and topics ranging from how this should be put social justice, family life, into practice in the ecumenism, worship, the archdiocese," he said. media, spirituality, doc"They will be debated at

the synod meeting with the object of drawing up a practical pastoral plan for Archbishop Carroll's approval for the next five years and onwards to the year 2000.

"While the synod cannot implement matters which are outside the framework of the present discipline of the Catholic Church, it may discuss them and suggest that the Archbishop refer them to a competent authority," Fr BarryCotter added.

The synod will make history in the Australian Catholic Church. It will be the first diocesan synod held in Australia since the Second Vatican Council.

National overview SYDNEY: The Catholic Bishops of Australia will establish a structure to develop and articulate a national overview of the Church as employer.

The new body will have the capacity to act as a national co-ordinator when needed and provide comprehensive data on the extent and nature of the Church's employment activities outside of the area of education.

There is a need also for the Church to be, and to be seen as, a good and competent employer and for its practice of industrial relations to reflect the richness of its own social teachings.

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Like breakfast with Jesus...

The Church in Perth archdiocese was like the group of apostles sitting down to breakfast with Jesus after the Resurrection, Archbishop Foley said at the Year of Mission Mass in the Entertainment Centre.

"Often we have found ourselves in scattered remnants of groups wondering where the elders of the community are or when the youth are going to join us or why so few are at the meeting."

The image, he said, had emerged during the Diocesan recent Assembly.

He went on: "Now in this Post-Resurrection time of the liturgical year, we are energised again to meet Jesus in this place on the shore.

The death of Jesus had shattered the apostles' senses, he said, and the meaning of their world had been turned upside down.

"Like the Apostles at the beginning we bring the fish, food of our desire, food of our longing, food of our work, food of facing the truths to be

A leading Catholic A boriginal, Robert Isaacs, (pictured right), delivered the following Prayers of the Faithful at the Mass at the Entertainment Centre last Sunday to mark the conclusion of the Year of Mission.

placed upon the coals prepared by Jesus.

"The day being before us we sit down to this breakfast meal, to be fed anew on the Word which is bread of life, fed also on this our word formed as we listen to Jesus, the Word of God in this Year of Mission.

"We are making a new beginning, stretching ourselves beyond what we've known and now recently understood anew."

Spelling out that beginning, the archbishop continued: "We, as a people, recog-

nise the elements of which we are composed, the young and the old cooperating, the women finding their voice, the Aboriginal people articu- s lating their need for support, the variety of cultures among us and lay and clerical Church struggling together to serve. We see that this is the character of our face and we now proclaim that what we have seen will be the reality of our Church today.

"In these ways we want to belong. We do not want to be excluded from decision making or from education and more

ways of growing in our Christian lives together.

"We want to be consulted. We recognise the means by which our belonging will surely be achieved.

"We continue the work of that early Post Resurrection community by supporting all in their experiences of being often at the edge.

"The way for us to be a people gathered in His name is to develop structures of mutual collaboration in ministry and to firmly underpin these by processes of adult education and faith formation."

Prayers of the faithful at Mass

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1. We have described our Archdiocese as isolated and characterised by cultural and socioeconomic differences. The pioneers of this Archdiocese did not let these limitations daunt them. We give thanks for those who have gone before us, and pray that we may keep alive the faith we have been privileged to inherit.

2. We pray for our Pope, John Paul II, and all leaders of the Church. Let us pray in particular for our Archbishop William that he may be confirmed in his role as chief pastor of our diocese — a role he has embraced with courage and openess to the Spirit speaking in his heart.

3. Let us pray that we, the Archdiocese of Perth, be faithful to our vision of a Church inclusive of all. May our prejudices be "broken down" in our learning to know each other in real relationships thereby creating true community.

4. We pray that as a true community of believers we may discover ways of action that challenge us to learn together. As we carry with us all that we have learned during the Year of Mission may we have the wisdom and insight to set in place appropriate and realistic structures for faith formation.

5. May we be willing, out of our Year of Mission experience, to take up the challenge to greater participation, to commit ourselves to "partnership for the task". We pray that we may continue to be called out of our apathy into the "joyful spirit of willingness" which draws us into continued participation.

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A finely tuned and professionally sensitive eucharistic prayer and pageant at the Entertainment Centre last Sunday was a crowning salute but also a realistic commentary on the Year of Mission and its attendant features.

The balance that has to be struck on these occasions between theatre and reflection only illustrates the tension faced by the Church when it has to move from the safe security of a parish church sanctuary into the bustling reality of a hyper-charged world where mankind can seemingly neither worship or relate to God. Some say the bridge cannot be spanned and the sacred is engulfed. Others in hope say that the Church must try or evangelisation will die on the vine.

By way of commentary the very problem of the gulf between Australians who worship in one mode or another — the god of football aside --- and those who can't, landed quite low among the concerns of Assembly delegates at Attadale who saw other mountains to scale.

The empty 25 per cent of the seating at the Entertainment Centre on Sunday was thus a very frank comment on the Year of Mission.

Merely to describe those empty seats as a wonderful experience missed by so many falls wide of the mark.

More to the point, whatever was intended to be conveyed by a rousing Trinity Sunday Challenge to Mission, only a handful of the loyal core of Catholics got that particular message.

The rest voted with their feet and facing reality where many more than our good sheep neither receive, nor understand the meaning and nuances of our message, does not fit too easily into the thinking of many Catholics over buoyed by their own enthusiasm.

It is a phenonemon that ought to be pondered seriously. Three commercial television channels looked in on last Sunday's celebration yet in the estimation of many, at least one of those channels got it wrong. So that channel's viewers are behind the action.

As the archdiocesan Church enters its less spectacular but more important third phase of pastoral renewal the guiding lights will have to discern very deliberately what are the messages of concern to be relayed and how well are they to be conveyed so that ordinary people will be attracted to, and be challenged by, the issues presented.

As in all good kitchens, a pressure cooker experience, such as an exciting Diocesan Assembly weekend, does marvels for some tough foods, but the tasty essences that will appeal to the popular tongue may have to emerge by more patient means.

Notwithstanding Pope John Paul's lively promotion of the arrival of the Third Millennium as a target date, are we really in a crisis race against time for the line of Armageddon? Jesus suggested that He would remain with His Church for as long as He is needed, and that could be a long long time.

Factors behind any seeming spiritual crisis in modern humankind may well have their parallels in other periods of history but many things have not happened before and the Church has no past experience in dealing with them: the never-ending urban sprawls where identity vanishes, the technological miracles that daily uncover new gadgetry and tricks, the unbridled consumer spending — even by the poor — and the restless mobs on the streets of Moscow and Beijing saying they are sick of not having what everyone else has got.

In the heady excitement of being asked for our solutions and suggestions, we too in the Church enter unfamiliar waters and if the tide goes out we are likely to find that our pet theories and ideas have left us high and dry indeed. There's nothing worse than a spoiled child being unable to make up his mind in the toy-shop because he wants the lot.

The issues of more adult education and formation, the need to make more Catholics feel part of and take more part in their church, and the challenge to break down barriers will continue to be forever old and forever new.

The pastoral planning initiatives of the next decade are going to have to strike at the real needs of people, and time and time again those people are going to vote with their feet, if the message has not got through.

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Booze enemy of 'super' enemies ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY (NC): The United States and the Soviet Union have found a c ommon enemy in alcoholism, said a Benedictine priest who recently returned from the Soviet-American Conference on Alcoholism in Moscow.

For decades the two superpowers "have been aiming bombs at each other, but all of a sudden they find the common enemy, alcoholism, and they are cooperating."

Father Sweisgood said.

"It's a formula for peace that's never been tried."

It is estimated that the Soviet Union's alcoholism rate is three people in 10, higher even than the 10 per cent rate in the United States, Father Sweisgood said.

The severity of the problem and the Soviet attitude of openness in this glasnost era have

made the Soviets receptive to "all sorts of things" that offer any chance of helping solve their alcoholism problem, Father Sweisgood said.

He said the Soviets have been using "archaic methods of (alcoholism) treatment," but now they are studying a variety of treatments.

"They are where we were about 1935 before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous," Father Sweisgood said. "I think they are beginning to realise that religion is not

year, nor did I think I would make them in such a systematic way," the pope said.

But with time, he added, he has come to see their usefulness in terms of implementing the Second Vatican Council.

"In Europe especially there were two tendencies at work that had produced some bad fruit.

One was a progressive current that already hoped for a 'Third Vatican Council'.

"Another current was symbolised by Monsignor Lefebvre — but not only by him, since there were other priests, laity and devoted people — which was afraid of 'change' as represented by the council," the pope said.

French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre leads a

schismatic traditionalist movement opposed to Vatican II reforms.

Pope John Paul said that by going directly to visit local churches, and by "avoiding being caught up in the confrontation between the 'right' and the 'left', between 'conservatism' and 'progressivism'," he was able to "introduce an element of balance in the implementation of conciliar reforms."

If these two tendencies have not now disappeared, he said, "at least they have been placed somewhat to the side."

The pope said another trend was that of "reducing everything to the particular church."

His visits, by confirming the universal dimension of each local Catholic community, has helped

Soviet officials, however, estimate their rate of alcholism is comparable to the US rate, he added.

the opiate of the masses.

Alcohol is the opiate of the masses.

The AA program, however, has not grown as quickly as anticipated because of resistance by some Soviet officials, Father Sweisgood said.

He said the officials do not like the 12-step process of the program which included references to "God as we understand him" and "a power greater than ourselves."

These statements have since been interpreted in

a way that is more acceptable to the Soviet government, he added.

Various factors seemed to have contributed to the Soviet Union's high rate of alcoholism, including genetic factors, "the hopelessness of life in the Soviet Union and alienation form their faith," Father Sweisgood said.

Fat her Sweisgood added that the Soviet people "are starving for religion."

Pope: My travels have prevented confrontation ROME (NC) — Pope John Paul ll said he didn't plan to be a globe-trotting pontiff, but believes his 10 years of travels have been providential in preventing a "confrontation" between liberal and conservative wings of the Church.

The pope said his 41 foreign "pilgrimages" have brought a certain stability to tense local situations, and above all have served to remind local Catholics that they belong to a universal Church.

The pope made the remarks to an Italian journalist aboard the papal flight to Rome from Malawi, where he had ended a four-nation African trip.

"No, I didn't plan out the trips during my first

Cardinal's trip cut short PARIS: French Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger cut short a visit to the Soviet Union and returned to Paris following the sudden cancellation of his planned visit to the Ukraine, the heartland of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Cardinal Lustiger said the only explanation given for retracting the invitation was that Rus-

sian Orthodox Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev could not receive him, although he had been assured he could visit the city.

Kiev is the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Cardinal Lustiger said he has since received a new invitation from the Soviet foreign ministry to return to the Soviet

Union and visit Kiev.

"Breaking my visit, I wanted to underline my desire to go to Kiev which, in the heart of the Ukraine, is the cradle of the baptism of the Kievan-Russ," he said.

The invitation to visit the Soviet Union had been made by Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Alexei of Leningrad and Novgorod.

The first Catechumen's Day

SINGAPORE (UCAN): The Yong of Singapore. Two first Catechumens' Day of the catechumens gave was celebrated in Singa- accounts of their perpore archdiocese on Good sonal faith journey.

Shepherd Sunday. (April 16).

After the prayers of Six hundred catechu- intercession, mementos mens were presented to of Psalm 23, referring to A rchbishop Gregory the Good Shepherd,

were presented to the catechumens.

The event was initiated by the Archdiocesan Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults promotion team to stress the reality of the local and universal Church to catechumens.

offset that, he said.

The pope said some Vatican officials had advised against his making his first foreign trip to Mexico in 1979.

Even though things did not go perfectly, the pope said, the visit "was decisive for the development of the Latin American church."

"There was a tendency (in Latin America) that risked going off the track — as did happen with a certain type of liberation theology," he explained.

During that trip, the pope warned priests and nuns against reducing their calling to a social or political ministry, and sharply rejected Marxist social analysis.

His first trip to the United States in 1979 was arranged largely to give a pastoral dimension

to his visit to the United Nations — which, taken alone, might have been seen as too "political", he said.

The same year, he went to Turkey to "confirm the ecumenical opening" to the Orthodox made by the council, he said.

Gradually he found that his presence in certain places brought attention and created a sense of solidarity.

For example, he said he learned that "to speak of peace in Hiroshima," as he did in 1981, "Oyes a thousand times more force to the message."

The pope defended his trips from the criticism of "triumphalism", saying that they offer the chance for a real dialogue with local church leaders.

He cited his latest trip to the United States as an example.

Fatima 'heroes' recognised VATICAN CITY (NC): The Vatican has recognised the heroic virtues of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the three children who saw what the Church has recognised as the Marian apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.

The recognition of heroic virtues is the first major step toward sainthood.

The third person to have seen the apparitions, their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, is still alive and is a Carmelite nun.

A sainthood process

can only begin after death.

At the time the apparitions began, Francisco was 8 years old, Jacinta was 4, and Lucia was 10. Francisco died in 1919 and Jacinta in 1920, both of influenza.

In 1922 Church authorities in the Diocese of Leiria, Portugal, where the occurred, visions began an official investigation into the appartions, and in 1930 the bishop judged the visions worthy of credence and authorised the cult of Our Lady of Fatima-

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No pain, no gain LUMPUR KUALA (UCAN): "No pain, no gain," Archbishop Emeritus Dominic Vendargon of Kuala Lumpur said, as he opened the new Clinic for the Poor at St Anthony's Church in the heart of the city.

The Catholic Doctors' Association organised the setting up of the clinic and are providing medicine and funds. Together with members of the Catholic Nurses' Guild, doctors will attend to patients at Sunday clinics, on a voluntary basis.

It is not enough to be compassionate to the poor, the archbishop said, adding that to refuse to aid the sick, especially the poor, is rejection of the Lord.

The new centre is the second free clinic set up by the Catholic doctors.

The first was at Good Shepherd Convent in Madonna Heights, Ulu Klang, Kuala Lumpur.

Hate sin and love sinner poverty areas are now born with the virus.

NEW YORK (NC): The Archdiocese of New York is continuing to take a leading and comprehensive role in service to people with AIDS. Msgr James P. Cassidy, archdiocesan health and hospitals director said that shortly after Cardinal O'Connor was named archbishop of New York in 1984 he called for a broad archdiocesan AIDS program.

The cardinal felt that since we take a strong stand on homosexual acts and how wrong they are, we whould take an equally strong stand helping aids patients," he said.

"Like Christ, to hate the sin and love the sinner."

The archdiocese recently opened a home at a Manhattan church for babies born with the human immunodefiency virus, or HIV, that causes aids.

It is estimated that one in six babies in some

With the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Centre in Manhattan, dedicated in April, the archdiocese opened the state's first nursing care facility for AIDS patients who don't need intensive treatment of a regular hospital but cannot care for themselves.

There also is intensive care in hospitals, research at the archidocese's medical college in Valhalla, NY, a residence for AIDS patients able to care for the temselves to some degree, and pastoral care and assistance for AIDS programs in other parts of the United States and abroad, including helping Haitian doctors gain training in AIDS care.

The archdiocese may send a team to Cuba to advise on treatment and may help with a program in Ghana.

"On any given day, 1600 AIDS about

artificial feeding procedures can truly be considered "useless" and "excessively burdensome".

The decisions on uselessness and excessive burden must refer to the means used for prolonging life, not the life itself, they said. "It is necessary to note that the judgement made here is not that the person's life is useless or excessively burdensome," they said.

In the case of artificially providing food and water, they said, "the strongest presumption must be given to continuing" such treatment.

It rarely involves such pain, discomfort, psycho-

logical repugnance or cost that it could be judged useless and excessively burdensome, they said.

"Clearly, nourishment or hydration may be withheld or withdrawn where that treatment itself is causing harm to the patient or is useless because the patient's death is imminent, as long as the patient is made comfortable," they said.

They warned, however, that in current controversies surrounding this area of death and dying, legislation on the issue must be drawn up carefully to avoid opening the door to acts which

patients will be in hospitals in New York City, and about a third will be cared for by us," Msgr Cassidy said.

"The Catholic hospitals are making a greater contribution than practically any other group."

Msgr Cassidy said New York has more AIDS patients than the combined figures of the next three largest centres of the disease — San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami.

A growing number of US Caholic dioceses have established special AIDS task forces, began AIDS ministries programs and issued guidelines stressing the duty of all Catholics to provide pastoral care for AIDS victims and to work with public officials on policy to address the moral and health concerns about the disease.

One of five in New York City run directly by the archidocese, St Clare's in Manhattan, has been the centerpiece of church help for AIDS patients, Msgr. Cassidy said.

Administrators there developed a specialised unit, the largest in the nation, "as the best way to treat AIDS patients," he said.

"Other places scattered them through the hospital. They were trying to hide the patients, I think."

Msgr Cassidy said Cardinal O'Connor makes weekly visits to the AIDS patients at St Clare's, and has talked personally with hundreds.

There are 18 Catholic hospitals in the New York Archidocese.

"When he was serving on (President Reagan's) AIDS commission, he had more experience of hands-on contact with AIDS patients. . . than anybody else on the commission," including the doctors, Msgr Cassidy said.

"directly and immediately cause death."

The nine Florida bishops approved the concept of "living wills," in which people state in writing beforehand what treatments or procedures they wish to have applied or withheld if they become terminally ill and unable to communicate.

"One need not shy away from executing a living will," they said.

They cautioned, however, that: document • "The should clearly distinguish between a terminal condition in which death is imminent and other conditions in which one

could live a long time with easily provided medical care."

• "One should never ask for or demand euthanasia, mercy killing or the withholiding of 'ordinary means' of sustaining life."

The bishops also urged any living-will signer who may become pregnant to request "every measure . . . to preserve the life of the unborn child.

They suggested that anyone planning to write a living will should consult family memers especially, but also a physician, an attorney and a priest or minister when possible.

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Panamanian protest PANAMA CITY: The ., Panamanian bishops have protested at electoral fraud, violent attacks on opposition candidates and the nullification of the May 7 presidential elections in their country, in which opposition candidates claimed victory.

"The veiled threats or expressed intimidation, the restrictions of movement

and expression, the assaults and robberies of ballot boxes, the mobs of military and paramilitary attacking property and persons are some of the examples of flagrant acts that were committed to frustrate popular will," the bishops said.

The bishops also charged that supporters of the government ruled by strong-

man General Manuel Noriega had taken "brazen action" against churchmen, cutting off communications and electricity to church facilities and in some cases blocking access to churches.

A mob had surrounded the residence of Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City during the election.

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'Iliauso Warming up...

A burst of applause, first by his priests, and then by nearly 6000, said it all as Archbishop Foley waved goodbye last Sunday. For nearly two hours a tapestry of prayer through song, word and dance transformed an Entertainment Centre audience into a People of God celebrating the end of their Year of Mission. The rousing strains of New Life New People lifted the roof as never before when people threw inhibitions to the wind and dramatised the words in mime.

From a swirl of colour as first clowns, and then young dancers, set the mood of celebration, through the solemnity of the eucharist, to a rousing challenge from the archbishop, the scene was set for the proud procession of banners heralding the dozens of parishes that had taken part.

In a warm up to the Year of Mission finale 30 Santa Maria students in clown apparel welcomed people into the Centre while later on stage another 20 clowns, coordinated by Rosa Speranza and trained by Shannon Bott and Marie Hunt, presented to the accompaniment of songs by other students, two movements King of Clowns, a symbolic welcoming of the King of Kings, and I am a Clown challenging us to live like Him while in a third segment Shannon Bott (above) danced to Wind Beneath My Wings, portraying Jesus to the words You Are My Hero. A second Santa Maria group under the direction of Angela Perry presented dance movements for the opening song, the lighting of candles, the responsorial psalm, the communion reflection and a leaping tambourine accompaniment to the City of God recessional.

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...for final flourish If you were there, you would have gone home convinced that racial harmony and unity amongst all people is possible. Togetherness in prayer, song and dance was very much in evidence last Sunday. Scores of groups, the well and the not-so-well, the able and the disabled, the old Australian and the new were all there but there wasn't a trace of any distance between them. What a fitting finale it was for the Perth archdiocese's mission. Pictures on these two pages tell the story more vividly.

Top: Marion Foong-Pinto clad in sarong-kebaya (a Malaysian outfit) holds the hand of Zofia Iowa!ski in her Polish costume as they stream up to the stage where dozens of dancers and ethnic representatives raised their hands in a gesture of praise after the Responsorial Psalm movements they had presented around the arena (see picture on the right).

Top right: East and West, young and old link hands in the singing of the Lord's prayer.

A s dancers leapt after the gathering boomed out the strains of City of Gladness, a parade of parish banners and slogans brought a rousing conclusion to the Year of Mission mass. At the bottom of the picture above, music director John Willett, calls for the best from a choir made up of Julian Singers andparish singers, with help from the Trinity College orchestra under Robert Brahm, musicians Cathy Donovan, Bro Michael, Paul Thomas, Mark Hales, Terry Gee and soloists Helen Mazak and Christoper Waddell. A clear message is seen in the picture on the far right.

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By Father Herbert Weber I recently visited a priest friend who is a pastor in the middle of a large city. He has served the same parish for 29 years.

Since he first went to the parish, he has seen many changes.

There was the building of a high-rise, lowincome housing project across the street.

The parish experienced the flight of many parishioners to the suburbs.

In terms of Mass attendance, the parish suffered years of drought.

But in the last few years my friend has noted the phenomenon called gentrification — the return of many from the suburbs and the redevelopment of once deserted parts of the central city.

Consequently, the par-

Early in the history of the church there was a great debate between Sts Peter and Paul on whether or not to admit gentiles to the new following of Jesus without having them become Jews first, writes Father Herbert Weber. This was a transition to the status of a universal church.

ish is talcing on a new life.

Being a parish in transition is not easy for the pastor or the parishioners. What is true about the congregation one day may not be true the next.

But facing tansitions is not new in the church.

The history of our faith shows some enormous transitions faced by our ancestors.

There was the great debate between St Peter

gentiles to the new following of Jesus without first having them accept the Mosaic laws.

This was a transition to the status of a universal church.

A shift in the churchstate relationship from one of persecution to acceptance in the empire Constantine under solved some problems but created others.

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I first met Jack and they when Diane inquired about the parish Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program.

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When changes occur in family life, at work or home — when a transition takes place — people can be moved off balance, Father David K. O'Rourke. Coming up with a new balance requires that Christians hold a mirror up to the values they live by.

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He was a Christian leader in the bustling city of Antioch, capital in biblical times of the Roman Province of Syria, which included Palestine.

The Christian communities in Antioch were in the throes of transition from the old order to the new.

It seems that Christianity had reached Antioch about 50 years earlier and much had happened since then.

The good news had been preached there first by Greek-speaking Jewish Christians of a somewhat different outlook than the

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very observant Jewish Chistians of the mother church at Jerusalem.

These preachers in Antioch had brought the good news not only to Jews, but to gentiles. So right from the beginning the churches had been multicultural.

Over the years they had grown in numbers and in complexity.

Matthew's greatest challenge came from the Jewish Christians.

They had been upset by reports that Paul was establishing gentile churches.

Nonetheless, as long as the Jewish Christians remained

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Because of some recent circumstances, however, Diane started to believe the time had arrived to take the plunge.

Jack had been raised Catholic, with 16 years of formal Catholic education before the 1960s. But

People of the 20th century often are said to be on the move.

Just think how often and how far so many of us move about: childhood roots in one part of the country, adult life in another and relatives all over the map.

But that kind of physical moving is only part of the picture. We can be on the move without even leaving home. For as we move through life we experience transitions that affect us deeply.

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tug of his church.

As might be expected, the RCIA was eyeopening for both Diane and Jack — for different reasons. Just as Diane became excited about her new faith connections, Jack found himself resistant.

It seemed to Jack that something was missing in terms of language, terms, images and atti-

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tudes familiar to him and with which he was comfortable. In this period of transition, he found he had to let go of some of these.

At the same time, every transition demands that something be clung to.

For Jack and Diane, what would be clung to had more to do with the substance of God's call and their response than with the way that mystery might be expressed.

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Surviving a transition, then — in the church in general, in a parish, a family or an individual's life — requires that a distinction be made between what is the core of one's relationship with God and the ways that relationship can be lived out.

While it is essential to let go and adapt, it also is necessary to hold on and be faithful.

The trick is to know when to do which. That calls for prayerful consideration.

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DISCUSSION POINTS In an era of transition, people at some point are challenged to think about their values and to make a decision about what kind of persons they want to be.

In the face of many outward social changes — good, bad and indifferent — people must decide who they want to be "inwardly".

Why do we say that we are living through an age of transition in society?

Can you think of a time when some development that is part of today's era of transition — in society or the church challenged you to come to terms with your own v alues?

How is your personal life different from that of people 50 years ago because of transitions that have occurred in the society around you?

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in Jerusalem, all this was och they were shocked. taking place basically out of Insecure to begin with, they sight and out of ind. were shaken by what they found. had leader, James, their things well under control at The church was not as they home. had known it. As they saw it, Jesus had been a Jew, the Then the roof fell in. apostles all were Jews, the the martyred in James was late 60s, and Jerusalem itself Church was Jewish. Period. was crushed by the Romans At Antioch they were in the year 70. dismayed to find at least as Leaving the city and many gentiles in the everything they held dear churches as Jews. there, the Christians of And didn't gentiles spell Jerusalem felt sure they trouble? They had little would be welcomed by the regard for the Mosaic law, Christian communities in couldn't care less about Antioch, not so very far to dietary regulations. the north.

How could those from But when those from Jerusalem possibly share the Jerusalem arrived in Anti- Eucharist with these Chris-

tians of Antioch? Even entering a gentile house was unthinkable (see Acts 11:23).

It was a tense and troubling situation. But Matthew had to deal with it. He also had to be very politic. Emotions ran high.

Politics has been called the art of compromise and Matthew took care to concede that the Jewish Christians were right — up to a point. Jesus had upheld the law (Matthew 5:17-20), he had limited his ministry to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" for the most part.

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tion had changed all that. A new world had dawned. The same Jesus who forbade his disciples to preach to any but their fellow Jews (Matthew 10:5-6) was now commissioning them to "go acid make disciples of all nations, baptising them (Matthew 28:19).

It was a painful transition for the original Jewish Christians. Matthew had to try to ease them through it, delicately.

He found ways in his Gospel, sometimes subtly, to show that Jesus had come for all people — Jews, gentiles, men, women, saints and sinners.

In focus Today's Church often is said to reassess his values and to be in the midst of an era goals. of transition. But just what Father Herbert Weber talks does that mean? What is a about transition in parish transition in human life? life. Transitional ways is This week the NC Reli- difficult, and the challenge gious Education Package is for the faithful person or discusses the current era of community to know what to transition in society and in let go of and what to cling to, the Church. he says.

And in the weeks ahead Often an age Of transition is we'll continue to explore the best recognised by looking on theme, focusing not only back, Katharine Bird discovthe era of transition in ers in interviews with two society and in the Church, t heologians. and but in individual life family life, and in small One important past transition in Church life occurred groups.

In the 11th and 12th K. David Dominican Father c O'Rourke tells this week Aenturies when St Francis of ssisi and St Dominic how a young father ran f ounded new religious personal smack into a Orders to meet the needs of transition when his first City people. child was born. It forced him

Let me name some of the more important ones: leaving home; the birth of a child; changing jobs; graduating from college; retiring; marriage and the beginning of a new family; the death of a spouse; the breakup of a marriage.

All these transitions are

important. For where we work, who our friends are, how much we earn, whom we love and spend our time with — these are part of who we are.

When they are in transition, we too are in transition.

Let me give two illustrations.

Michael and I became friends when he was in school.

He was a friendly, unusually likeable young man and an able student.

Underneath the vibrancy of his youthful energy, he had a serious side, but most of the time, with his studies going well and his finances secure, it was well hidden.

A year after I met him he married a lovely girl.

His studies moved toward completion, with honour grades in the offing.

When Marie became pregnant, both she and Michael were delighted about the coming baby.

Then the baby was born. I remember seeing Michael holding him for the first time. Michael's face was white as a sheet, his eyes big as saucers.

He was scared out of his wits.

"I'm a father. What's he going to eat? What are we going to do? I've got a baby to support and I don't even have a job yet."

Marie was unflappable.

"In case you hadn't noticed," she replied, "I'm feeding him and it's free. So relax, finish your dissertation, you'll get a job and we'll do fine."

And that's what happened. But that first child marked a major transition point for Michael.

In his own eyes he became a different person.

He now had responsibilities that, in his view, went far beyond anything he had dealt with up to then.

With his intelligence and abilities, he had assumed that he and Marie could gamble with the future, take some risks and probably come out all right. That changed overnight.

Maybe he and Marie could gamble with their own future, but not with their little boy's.

The seriousness and caution that had been hidden under the surface now rose to receive equal time with Michael's youthful confidence and good humour.

The birth of a child is a basic fact of life. In this case, it was a simple change in the lives of two young people, but also a fundamental transition

that altered my friend's view of himself.

It changed the rules by which he and his wife lived.

Not surprisingly, Michael now seemed more like his own father than he ever thought he would.

I think of another transition. Good friends of mine are selling their house, the home where they raised their family.

With the children grown and out on their own, these friends no longer need the space and no longer want the work and cost a house requires.

But their decision to move reaches beyond practical considerations.

"We really have to think of what we want to do with the rest of our lives.

We're both 55 and we can retire in a few years.

Do we want to? Or

should we keep on working until we're 65?

How do we want to live?

We should have 20 years of good health before us and we want to decide what to do with these years," she said.

One thing they've decided is to spend some time on the kinds of couple-oriented leisure activities they never took part in while raising a family. So the proceeds from the house will provide a smaller unit and a bank account.

When changes occur in our families, our work or the setting in which we live — in the basics of life — we can be moved off balance. Coming up with a new balance requires that we hold a mirror up to the values we live by.

Then what we really believe will come to the surface and be reflected in the choices we make.

Facing up to transition It is easier to identify an age of transition after the fact than while it is occurring, two theologians agreed.

"The notion of transition is useful as one looks back," said The Rev Robert Wilkin, a Lutheran minister.

Looking back, people can see that some important development gradually has permeated church or society. "We can see when something began and when it ended," Dr Wilkin said.

But while living through it, "people usually don't perceive it as a transition".

Generally speaking, all ages of transition are marked by large-scale

changes occurring at basic levels, said Lawrence Cunningham. He teaches theology.

An age of transition is marked by "social dislocation — old patterns of living seem to be under stress," he added.

Both men distinguished between transitions and cataclysmic events such as the Black Death that struck 14th -century Europe and carried away 60 per cent of the population.

All of society and the Church had to regroup following this event.

Many events can fuel an age of transition.

By Katharine Bird In the seventh century, for instance, Moslems conquered the regions where Christianity had its beginnings and had flourished for centuries.

The Moslem conquest led to an age of transition for the Church, which "was forced to live under a new political rule and a religious rule not really sympathetic to Christianity," Dr Wilkin said.

The Moslem conquest meant that the Church had to adapt to a new language, to change from Greek or Syriac to Arabic, the theolo-

gian added.

The Church had to find ways to express religious ideas and practices in a new language.

Another age of transition in the Church occurred in the late 12th and early 13th centuries in Europe.

Society then was shifting from a rural, settled way of life to a more mobile, urban lifestyle.

It was in this time of transition that Saints Francis of Assisi and Dominic identified "obvious gaps in society where people were

not being evangelised and were out of touch with the Church," Cunningham said.

The members of older monastic orders took a vow of stability and were linked to a monastery in a particular place.

By contrast, the religious orders founded by Francis and Dominic were "more attuned to city life". They were highly mobile "and could move to where the problems were," Cunningham said.

Living through an age of transition is difficult for people, he went on to say. "It means subtle patterns of living are changing."

He told of a recent expe-

rience which made him newly aware of how the world is changing today.

"Iwas sitting at a computer assembled in America with microchips from Japan wearing blue jeans sewn in Korea and Reeboks manufactured by an English company and sewn in Singapore," he said. His lunch that day included vegetables from Mexico.

That combination of circumstances led him to reflect on the extent to which "normal, day-to-day operations are linked" throughout the world and how much patterns of life are shifting in the "great age of transition" today.

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Joining the Oblate College for late vocawas he tions, ordained in 1939 and spent ten years in parish work and in England preaching, until he left for Australia, arriving in Fremantle in 1950.

From then on he worked in five Australian states and a year in New Zealand and is now in his third term at Lesmurdie.

As parish priest in Fremantle, Father James built a sanctuary for St Patrick's church, which had its inception in 1900.

With the Oblate's love for Our Lady, he had a grotto erected in her honour in 1959 and directly attributes a miracle to her during an incident which took place during an annual crowning of Our Lady ceremony.

About 15( ) people were crowded in the church up near the front and away from the one doorway.

Intent on the crowning ceremony no one noticed smoke coming up through the floorboard cracks.

Father James did however and dashed down into the crypt directly underneath.

A burning box of flammable material was well on its way to when spreading, Father James picked it up and rushed outside with it. The result was badly burned hands for some weeks, but well worth it for the lives saved, said Father James.

"They would have been caught inside in chaos with the childsheer ren and numbers had they tried to escape from the only door.

"Some youths had

sneaked down there and set it alight. But thanks to Our Lady, we were saved."

Fun to be had in country towns too, the day the pigeon flew in during Mass and firstly the children and then the adults joining in the chase of trying to catch it before it finally flew out.

"Now where was I?" said Father James to the dishevelled but thoroughly now excited congregation of 70 — "I reckon finished you'd father!" they said.

And being led by God to seek out those who'd abandoned their faith for many years, and whose time was running out . . .

On one occasion when in Yallourn, Victoria, the PP gave him two boys to direct him to the houses of Catholics he wished to visit.

But sending the boys back before he visited the townsfolk, he through diverted some nearby woods, and came across a tin cottage the size of a hen house.

Sitting inside, on an old tin trunk was an old man about 90.

He too was Irish and hadn't been near the sacraments for 60 years. Father James heard his Confession and went back the next day with two Legionaries, complete with altar requirements and set up an altar on the old tin trunk.

The old man died in peace three weeks later.

A similar 'God designed happening' took place in South when Melbourne father was walking along the street and

was struck by the way an old man was staring at him. He turned back and asked him was he a Catholic? He too hadn't been to the sacraments for years so father told him he'd be back the next day.

When he visited as scheduled, he found the wire door locked and no reply to his So knocking. undaunted, Father James pulled until the feeble catch gave way, went in, and found the old man in bed.

Brushing off his

"How did you get in?",

Father James heard his Confession, gave him the sacraments and he too died sev-

eral weeks later — in peace.

And there's a little episode back in his

early days as a priest in England when the Americans were preparing to invade Germany.

Down in the south and sitting on a hill composing his homily, he was nabbed by two military as being a German spy. That was a favourite disguise for them in those days — dressing up as a priest.

Accused of mapping out details for the enemy he had to show what he was writing — a homily on Humility!

Most impressed, Father James was released with apologies and continued in his work to save more souls.

Father James' Golden Jubilee Mass will be held at Lesmurdie church on Monday May 29 at Everyone 6pm. welcome!

Mundaring vigil...

By Colleen McGuiness- Howard

Mundaring parishioners thought they'd do something a little extra and different for the Year of Mission, so they organised a night-long vigil.

Fourteen stalwarts went through the whole period, beginning with the Luke 18's at 7.30pm, followed by the Antiochians 8.30 to 9.30 and then joined by individuals, groups and families until the special Pentecost Mass at 6.30am (Mother's Day), followed by a hearty Australian breakfast.

The nucleus of 14 stayed around the altar all night

and up to 200 others phased in and out during the period.

As each person left, they lit a small candle from the Pentecost candle, as a symbol of 'taking their faith light out into the world'.

Recently arrived parish priest, Father Vincent Conroy, said the idea was mooted "and the parishioners ran with it!"

With such enthusiasm, Father Conroy said he's "running scared of any other suggestions they may have — and just hope I've got the stamina to cope!"

Mundaring parish priest Father Conroy lighting candles from the Pentecostal candle, so that Johanna and Jereme Bowen (back rear), Claire Poli (left), Emma Murray and Rosemarie Barbour could take their faith lights out into the world, at their vigil end.

Legion to mark founder's birth The Legion of Mary is celebrating the centenary of their founder's birth — Frank Duff of Dublin.

Although he died on Nov 7, 1980, his sixty years spent in consolidating and spreading his work had paid off, because the Legion of Mary has now spread all over the world into many countries.

Edel Quin was one of his able helpers who took the missionary torch to Africa, where she spent almost eight years promoting the cause.

The Legion headquarters in Windsor Street, East Perth which was opened in August 1986, bears her name.

The Legion, which Frank Duff conceived, was set up to look after people's spiritual well being, to convert and console.

Based on Roman Legion lines, it is a disciplined structure which has, at the grass roots level, small groups (praesidia) of six to 12 people. Four officers are chosen from the praesidia who then form the curia. The curia then liaise with the senatus, which is the highest governing body in the State.

They in turn are responsible to the concilium, which is the world governing body in Dublin.

One work which the

known," said Mr Reg Williams, who has spent 40 years in Legion work.

Dublin, "From members took a PPC to Moscow and Israel, and our members have gone to Port Hedland and other country areas, and different dioceses."

Legion undertakes is a Journey for Christ (peregrinatio pro Christo — PPC). "The idea of these is to take the Legion's work to people in other lands — preferably where Catholicism is not

Mr and Mrs Williams are a husband and wife team who say that Legion work becomes a way of life.

Among Legion works are visitations to the sick whether in their homes, hospitals, institutions or nursing homes.

Two groups liaise with the blind and handicapped and have been doing so for the past 40 years. said Mr Williams.

Way to fight sex abuse W ASHINGTON (NC): Child sexual abuse can be offset by teaching girls, even before kindergarten, that they are equal to boys, said Franciscan Father Ritter, Bruce founder of Covenant House, an international network of shelters for runaway teenagers.

In educating about equality, Father Ritter said women have to do the teaching. "Men are not going to tell women that they are equal to men. Only a woman can say that."

With equality. he

said, women can give up "what society has told them — that their role is to seduce".

Father Ritter said that about half the runaways who come to Covenant House have been sexually abused by a parent.

Father Ritter's staff has encountered sexual abuse "across all levels" of society, but especially among the poor, for whom "social controls are less protective" of children, he said.

"If you have no education, no opportunities, if you are a permanent member

of the underclass," he said, "all you have left is your manhood and you see women as persons to be dominated and controlled."

When forced to have sex, the women in these groups "don't see it as rape because they know the people", he said.

Father Ritter said sexual abuse leaves young people "diminished and demeaned".

"It's extraordinarily difficult for them to regain their selfworth and value.

They accept a kind of victimhood as their state in life," he said.

"They think, 'This is how men and women relate to one another', and 'It's all my fault'."

He criticised the women's movement for promoting sexual liberty as one of its goals, which he said was not "an admirable achievement".

He also said the Church "has a long way to go" in showing that women are equal to men, and he added that being "a maledominated church" limits its ability to "hold up the ideal of equality" between men and women.

Long-time Legionary Mr Reg Williams, who with his wife and other members, are veterans at visiting, consoling and bringing the faith, wherever needed.

-The Legion commenced work in Perth in 1940. And as well as these sort of things, we also do census work for priests — always in collaboration with them.

And if in the course of our work we can't handle anything theologically, we contact the priests."

Most priests give them a fairly free hand, he said, "Which we don't abuse, and keep in touch to let them know what we're doing."

Although there is no area of pastoral work which the Legion couldn't be involved in, members don't deal with the distribution of material g000ds, or collection of money.

There are 500 members

throughout the State in Geraldton, Bunbury, Busse1ton, Albany and Kalgoorlie as well as Perth. "We also have a number of auxiliary members who are the praying wing. Although they can't undertake our work, they don't mind praying for us."

Mr Williams said the Edel Quin centre has proved a real asset for Legionaries and the rosary is said there each working day at 12.15pm, including daily prayers.

A Cathedral Mass will be held on Tuesday, 6

June at 7pm. Representatives of the St Vincent de

Paul Society will also be attending because of Frank Duff's initial connections with the Everybody Society. welcome.

Mr Williams' final comment was that the Legion is not simply for 'ladies only', but there are male members whose services are warmly welcomed too. And if there is anyone out there with a good listening ear and some time available, then the Legion would like to hear from them.

Canadian farmer for Sydney meet SYDNEY: A Canadian grain and cattle farmer and mother-offive will address a women's conference in Sydney later this year.

The president of the Catholic Women's League of Canada, Mrs Evelyn Wyrzykowski will be the international guest at Australian the Catholic Women's League Conference at Sydney University from October 1-7.

The title of her talk will be Woman — Called to Serve.

She believes the

Mrs Wyrzykowski also believes the organisation helps strengthen women's spiritual lives and "to use the gifts God has entrusted to each of us".

Mrs Wyrzykowski.

Catholic Women's League enables women to serve Church and community, to make new friends, and to work with women from many walks of life.

She expects to clip heavily into the Apostolic Letter. Mulieris Dignitatem: On the Dignity and Vocation of Women and the Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici: On the Vocation and on the Lay Faithful in the Church and the World.

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

(Say nine a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication.)

Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers answered. Liz.

Ask three favours, 1 business, 2 impossible.

Pray nine Hail Marys, light candle and let burn out on ninth day; publicise prayer. Thank you St Clare M.D.G. My grateful thanks to the Infant Jesus, Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Health and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour for improved health. J.J.S. Novena to the Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world, now and forever. Amen.

(Say nine times a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication.)

Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers answered. Anne.

May the most Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved, honoured, adored and glorified forever and ever, Amen. Grateful thanks to Jesus, Mary and Joseph for favours granted.

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 that 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.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Get our house in order first From Leo JM. Von Schellenberg, Geraldton Sir, Your editorial (The Record May 4) on the subject of Pentecost in Australia was greatly and appreciated applauded.

However the conclusion ("bottom-line"?) was little a me to disappointing.

"The Church of Perth sits . ." (and sleeps?) "and prays . . . with Mary".

Would the following not have been better suited for our "environmental" community?

Church "The of Australia: • sits . . but doesn't kneel; • prays. . but not with the heart; • fasts. . no more (too old-fashioned or is it "to orthodox'?);

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• with Our Holy Mother Mary, who is in tears; • Our God the Father clenches His Fist s)?

As for that same issue's stories on justice in Singapore we are still battling with birth — and landrights, not to mention aboriginal "blackdeath", detainees.

Our Australian Law Reform Commisson experts after nearly twelve years, have still not succeeded in replacing laws, dating back to 1870.

Shouldn't we let Singapore, our other northern neighbours and SuidAfrica clean out their own nests? Let us bring our own house in order.

Who was it again who said: "Love t;ly neighbour"? Or was it: "Let him who is without sin, throw the first stone".

1989 Mixed Pennants Entries for only four A grade, four B grade and two C grade teams had been received by the pennant organiser when nominations closed for this year's 1989 Mixed Pennant. Obviously the pennant organiser and the WACLTA executives were bitterly disappointed with the response, particularly in view of the members' response to the recently completed championships.

The Association was planning to run a C grade competition, because of popoular demand, for those members who felt that the A and B grade competitors were a little too strong for them.

The 1989 Mixed Pennant season was due to commence on Saturday, May 27. However, as a result of the poor response, the pennant organiser has delayed the start of the pennants indefinitely.

Should further nominations not be received, then it is quite possible that the mixed pennants will be

by TOM BRANCH cancelled. The closing date has been extended to Monday, June 5, 1989. nominations Team should be sent to Michael Messer at 119 Yale Road, Thornlie. If you are unable to get an entire team, please do not hesitate to contact Michael on 459 8183.

Each team will comprise of two ladies and three men. Matches will consist of six sets of mixed doubles, three sets of men's doubles and one set of ladies' doubles.

Each set will be the first to nine, with a tie break at eight all.

Teams should nominate for the respective grade: A, B or C, however, the pennant committee reserves the right to deem a player ineligible to play in a particular grade when it considers it necessary.

General information and requirements for entering a team include: — 2 courts must be made available per team.

If this is a difficulty then the pennant organiser may be able to assist.

— 2 new tennis balls each playing day. The Association has tennis balls available and teams are encouraged to use these during pennants to standardise the balls.

— Afternoon tea to be provided by the home team.

— An entry fee of $5 per team to acccompany the nomination form.

It should be noted that teams are not restricted to affiliated clubs. Any group of friends can nominate a team. The Association will welcome and assist anyone interested in forming a

team. Those clubs who have not nominated a team should do so by June 5, 1989 to enable this series of pennants to commence.

Nominate a team now so that our association operates for our benefit.

The executive have devoted many hours of their time to provide the facilities to foster the growth of Catholic tennis in the State. Recently a letter has been forwarded to all parish priests in Perth advising them of the existence of the association and providing them and their parishioners with the opportunity to participate. Should you wish to commence a club in your parish, then an executive from the association would be only too willing to come out and help establish the club.

Should you wish to make further enquiries about the association, you can contact the secretary, WACLTA Peter Quain on 470 1389 or public relations officer, Tom Branch on 332 5768.

OBITUARY stoic in him never let his personal crosses stand in the way of what he was asked to do during his 38 years of priesthood.

F ather Frank Dillon was only a month into his 64th y ear when he died last M onday from postoperative complications arising from a cancer c ondition.

His quiet passing was virtually his own commentary on a life dogged by many ailments and many bouts of hospital treatment, but the

After early schooling at St Mary's Leederville and St Patrick's Boys School he had been a floor hand in The Record printery for a year when the launching of St Charles Seminary in 1942 brought him back to his books to complete secondary and philosophical education at Guildford and later theology courses at Manly.

In death he is united with his other 1942 pioneer companion Father Tom O'Neil with whom he was ordained in Perth in December 1950.

After four years as assistant at Kalgoorlie and West Perth, he was asked in 1954 to become a full time Army chaplain. Given the task he approached it with his

customary attention and perseverance and was less than happy when his archbishop asked him to cut short the army contract and become manager, and then editor, of The Record.

During ten years in that position he steered growth in the business arm of the paper and two extensions of its premises, now the Cathedral Parish Centre.

Shortly after Archbishop Goody's elevation to Perth, Father Dillon was asked, with the phasing out of the former a dministrator system to become Kalgoorlie's first permanent parish priest During his five years there he was actively involved in the redevelopment of that town's Catholic secondary colleges.

In 1974 he was persuaded to take up a posting in the familiar territory of Scarborough where

An LET ERsTOw THE EDITOR rs

from Fr Pat Bishop SJ St Thomas More College Sir, I read with great interest your report of Bishop Pell's words on Catholic residential colleges at Australian universities. "they have not achieved a great deal" (The Record May 18).

My personal experience is limited to the Western Australian scene and perhaps someone in Western Australia can explain to me how the Bishop's words might apply to us.

Perhaps one or other of St Thomas More College's 2,000 former students could enlighten me — maybe one of our judges, or a Queen's counsel? Maybe one of our graduate surgeons, or medical specialists or general practitioners?

Could the explanation come from any of our former students who is professing in some university in Australia, or Italy or Scandinavia? Could it come from a director of Catholic education, a trade union leader or two or one of our priests or religious?

Perhaps from one of our school principals, or members of parliament, or government ministers, or secretaries in Foreign Affairs?

If I am being too restrictive, maybe the words refer to the work of a College's staff. If so, could they refer to the more than 400 Catholic marriages of our former students, or the baptisms of their children, or the conversions to Catholicism to which our chaplains and staff have given their time?

Is it that we "have not achieved a great deal" through our chapel or by our work on committees within the University of Western Australia or for the State government?

Is it that we have not achieved much by our writing (even in The Record) and broadcasting for radio and television, or by our courses in theology and in pastoral and personal Catholic growth?

It is obvious — and I need no enlightenment here — that Bishop Pell is not referring to the present

he saw to the construction of a new presbytery.

In 1981-82 he served a term as chairman of the Council of Priests on which he had played a long, active role in finance and health insurance matters.

He offered his parish resignation after the stated ten years but a stroke in 1985 and successive recurrences now put a heavy burden on his last few years. In short stints, first at Merredin and then at Mundaring, he struggled to prove his rugged spirituality that one gave God of one's best until that was no longer possible.

Only another stroke, ominously as he motored to the funeral mass for his long friend since 1942, Father Jim O'Brien. did he realise he would now have to take his hand off the plough May he rest in peace

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situation and the provision we make especially for country students to engage in study in a Christian atmosphere and in a context where they are left in no doubt as to what Catholic life-values are together with the sort of adult Catholic faith that we expect our students to grow into.

Nor can the Bishop be referring to the work that we are currently attempting for the Church in diocesan and ecumenical circles.

As I said, my personal experience is limited to the Western Australian scene. Anyway, I am sure that most of your readers will be more than familiar with all that I have mentioned here.

Can any one of them help me to see (and I am intensely aware of my own shortcomings if not those of my predecessors) in what other areas we "have not achieved a great deal"?

On the other hand, perhaps it would be best for me, in all courtesy, to ask Bishop Pell himself if he has been reported correctly — and take the matter from there.

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Sign of excitin year for l'eS New moves on two fronts signal an exciting year ahead for Perth's Young Christian Students.

A Student Action Task Force and a new ecclesial assistant to YCS were some of the fruits of a busy fortnight for the movement.

The first initiative springs from a leadership formation camp held at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup, on April 24-26.

Ten secondary school students and YCS fulItime workers Paul McLeod and Annette Watkins were joined by adult assistants Maria Annese and Pat Branson as they sought to improve their knowledge of YCS and build a strong core of leaders.

Using the three-step review of life method, they listed education, environment, leisure activities, parents and family life as being among the key concerns of students today.

Difficulties faced in

these areas were contrasted to the Christian ideal of each, as participants reflected on their concerns.

Chanllenged to act as a body in response to t hese, the students decided to establish a social justice committee to inform other students and to build enthusiasm in the movement.

As a result, the Student Action Task Force will play a key role in bringing environmental, social justice and education issues into the student spotlights.

At the same time it will be helping to form future YCS leaders and, ultimately, Church leaders of tomorrow.

Inspired by a recent school for fulltime workers in Adelaide, Annette Watkins said she was looking forward to the first meeting of the task force on May 21.

"This is what YCS is all about, students forming

students, just as Cardinal Cardijn said."

In a second major move, Warren Iannello was elected as the new ecclesial assistant to YCS in Perth.

the student movement into the 1990s.

Spiritual formation for the movement will be among his top priorities.

Left: Warren lannello, the new ecclesial a ssistant to YCS.

These two initiatives by young students point to exciting times of renewed growth and vigour for YCS in Perth.

On May 7 the central review group and ful'time workers met with chaplain Fr Lawrence Murphy and adult assistant Rosa Speranza to elect Warren unanimously.

Having recently completed two years with Perth YCW, Warren is well equipped for his new role, which he will take up in July on return from annual holidays.

The choice of an adult collaborator, rather than a third student worker, was prompted by the need for a new perspective in YCS, Annette said.

As ecclesial assistant, Warren will work along side other adult assistants and with movement chaplain Fr Lawrence Murphy, to help guide

The SATF team. From left: Avril Chamberlain, Natalie Sheehy, Kim Ball, Chris McLean, Vanessa Carter, Terry Hughes and Jacinta Carter. At the back is Paul McLeod.

Antioch's day to remember YOUTH OFFICE Ideas flew from all sides when 52 Antioch leaders from 13 Perth groups met for a leaders day at Saints John and Paul parish, Willefton, on Sunday, April 23.

The afternoon meeting,

organised by Sr Emilie Cattalini, looked at ways of building up and strengthening local group meetings and weekends.

Group unity, music, talks and recruiting were

among the main topics for discussion and sharing.

The result was one of the biggest weekends seen in Perth for several years!

One great idea for recruting came from Greenwood Antioch, who set out in cars to visit each recruit personally.

I came away from the meeting with the clear impression that Antioch in WA is set for a very bright future.

Any doubts about that were dispelled by the big turn out for the Eucharist at 7pm.

An estimated 300 young people and parent couples from as far away as Rockingham and Kwinana crowded into the church for the Sunday Mass celebrated by Fr Tom McNulty of Queen's Park and myself.

Fr Tom arrived back from Ireland only a day before, but stayed on for the whole evening despite considerable jetlag!

command to love without holding back.

Seeing so many young people sharing deeply in the Eucharist, I am sure the Lord's command reached many hearts that night. After the Mass and a quick coffee break, most returned to the Church for an Antioch meeting.

More than 200 stayed on for more singing, leading to talks on the Eucharist given by Bernie and Bernadette Lawrence, Damien McBain and Virginia O'Meara.

Sharing how important the Mass is to them, the speakers opened the way for a long final prayer session.

This was one of those times I wish more Catholics could see how seriously our magnifiResurrection Shuffle cent young people take again provided the their faith. music, bringing everyone Sincere thanks go to Fr to their feet well before Richard Doyle, who so the Mass began. generously allowed us to his parish centre use Their mellow tune once again. of Gospel reflected the the day, which was Jesus' Bring on Flame '89!

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Saint Rita Rita did not want to marry Paolo. She had heard from friends that he often got drunk and had a violent temper. But her parents insisted. In those days in Italy 500 years ago, parents arranged their children's marriages.

During the first months after their marriage Paolo was very good to Rita. He drank less, stayed out of trouble and Rita grew to love him.

But Paolo gradually drifted back to drinking and spent more time at the tavern. When he came home, he often was violent. He screamed and cursed and threw things.

Later he would calm down and tell Rita he was sorry.

For years Rita tried to be patient and understanding. She took care of Paolo when he was drunk.

She cared for their two young sons. She prayed that Paolo would change.

Instead Paolo became worse. His example was having a bad influence on the two boys. They became rebellious.

One day Paolo came home half drunk and began screaming at Rita because supper was not ready. He grabbed her and slapped her. Rita ran out into the yard crying.

A few minutes later she came back in a faced Paolo. She was angry and told him how much she and their sons were hurting because of his actions. Then, afraid he would beat her, she ran to their room and locked the door.

Paolo did not run after her. He sat down, stunned into silence.

After a while Rita came out and sat beside him.

He begged her to forgive him and promised to change.

For months Paolo worked hard at controlling his drinking and his

Princess Beatrice and the Rotten Robber

kidnaps Beatrice and tries to steal the "glittering goodies" he finds he has more than met his match!

Elizabeth Honeys delightfully illustrated and boisterous story will appeal to independently minded children everywhere.

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Rita and Paolo were finding happinc • 'Again, a day at a tit , until tragedy ended it. One day Paolo was murdered brutally.

Rita struggled to forgive his killers, but her sons determined to kill their father's murderers. They drank heavily and plotted revenge. Rita tried to stop

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them but they rejected request. But Rita would her pleas. But, before not give up and asked they could carry out their again. The third time plans, both sons became they accepted her. ill and died.

She spent the rest of her Rita was not yet 40. Her life as a nun in the whole family was gone.' convent in Cascia, Italy.

All alone, she wondered She was prayerful and caring, especially to the how she could carry on.

Gradually Rita found older, infirm sisters.

Rita died in 1457. In strength in her trust in God. She decided to join 1900 Pope Leo XIII a religious community. canonized her. People call Twice the Augustinian her the saint of desperate sisters refused her cases.

The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook by Kate ,Ifacdonald Illustrated by Barbara Di Lelia. Pub by Oxford University Press. bb. $17.95.

Inspired by the most famous of all Canadian children's books, LM. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, this cookbook combines easy step-by-step recipes with charming watercolours of Anne and her friends and (pot -aloft:4 from three of the everpopular Anne books.

After her lools1

Princess Beatrice and the Rotten Robber by Elizabeth Honey. Published by Viking Kestrel. bb. $16.99.

Princess Beatrice loved to dress up — and she loved to wear lots of jewels.

When a rotten robber

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Heffalump? and the Toy Hospital by Eleanor Nilsson. Illustrated by Rae Dale. Published by Puffin. $5.99.

It was a slow day in autumn.

Heffalump? and Tiger were sitting propped up against one another on Anne's bed, hoping to see something interesting out the window "If only something would happen," sighed Heffalump?.

"Today seems so like yesterday and the day before."

Heffalump? and Tiger needn't have worried about being bored. Something did

happen to Tiger — something awful. It required all of Heffalump?'s skill and k)yalty to rescue his special friend from the brink of disaster.

Following the success of Heffalump?, here is another exciting adventure of the remarkable Heffalump? and his friends in the toy cupboard.

Eleanor Nilsson and Rae Dale are an extremely popular author/illustrator team, and the character of Heffalump? is convincing, amusing and well developed.

Never before have good things to eat and drink been so successfully derived from cooking episodes in children's literature. From 'Poetical Egg Salad Sandwiches' to 'Anne's liniment Cake' and 'Diana Barry's Favourite Raspberry Cordial', these delicious treats will be fun to make — and they'll be sure to turn out well because they were kitchen-tested by a twelve-year-old who had 'perf&:t results!

Michael Foreman's magnificent illustrations each appear opposite a page of lift-the-flap Rebus fun.

The Night Before Christmas. A lift-the-flaps Rebus Pop-up book. by Clement Moore. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. Published by Viking Kestrel. bb. $16.99.

The classic Christmas story comes alive in a unique rebus format, with stunning pictures and an ingenious pop-up ending.

Children will love to peck under the flaps, to find the missing word, and will delight in the wonderful pop-up surprise ending to ever body's best -loved Christmas talc.

The Blossoms and the Green Phantom by Betsy Byars. Published by Pan, $6.5O.

This is the third book in Betsy Byars' Blossom Quartet. It centres around the Blossom family, especially Junior, aged 7, and his fascinating, eccentric family Junior, already well-known in previous Blossom books for his mad-cap inventions, has created his masterpiece: the Green Phantom. It's a home-made space ship, designed to be launched off Owl's Cliff and float over town. The launch goes disastrously wrong, leading the Blossoms off on another hilarious and exciting adventure.

I'll Go my Own Way by Mollie Hunter. Pub by Fontana Lions. $5.95.

"I'm Cat . . . Never mind the polis or the settled folk.

Never mind what Rhona says, or Alec, or Charlie. I'll go my own way. And there's nothing, nobody, will ever stop me."

The Body's Book of Babies. Photographs by Antbea Sieveking. Words

by Kathy Henderson.

Published by Collins. bb. $12.95.

Babies, babies everywhere!

Here are all kinds of babies, up to their antics, in lots of familiar everyday scenes.

A delightful, exuberant celebration of babies — perfect for parents and toddlers to share.

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Cat McPhie, the only child of a family of "travellers", breaks with tradition in learning the poaching and river pearling skills of her father, skills that will make her a "split-mechanic" — the kind of girl no decent traveller boy will want to marry. Struggling to maintain her individuality within the close-knit travelling community, Cat comes into conflict with Charlie Drummond, who has her "marked down" as his woman. It is only after tragedy strikes the traveller's camp and Cat is forced to reconsider her position and values, that she is finally accepted for what she is.

BOOKS AND ART

Core Scholarly issues

Mandorla Art Prize

The Mandorla Art Prize of 1989 will be awarded at New Norcia on Sunday, October 15.

For the past five years, the Mandorla Art Centre of Inner Peace with the help of sponsors, art patrons and followers of religious art, has coordinated an exhibition of paintings to a selected religious theme. This year's is Prepare the Way. The first prize to the value of $5000, known as The Kevin Sullivan Award, will comprise a return airfare to Italy together with accommodation and studio space for up to two months in Tuscany — the centre of the Italian Renaissance.

The Siena studio where the prizewinner will work and live, is privately owned and managed by an Australian.

It is housed in an 11th century farm house "Casa Colonica", 39km south of Florence on the original road to Siena, nestling amid olive groves and vineyards in the famous Chianti Classico wine growing region.

There will be two additional prizes of $500 each.

Appropriately, the judging venue is well chosen, amidst the art treasures of the Bendictines' historic New Norcia. The selected paintings will then hang in their art gallery for public viewing for a period of three weeks, after which they will be transferred to a city location for Perth viewers.

Entries close late July and for enquiries please ring Joy Legge on .385 8102.

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Travesties opens Former Artistic Director

of the Hole in the Wall Theatre John Milson is back with the Company as Guest Director for the forthcoming production of Tom Stoppard's brilliant Travesties. This brainbracing word circus of fact and fantasy involves none other than Lenin and Mrs, James Joyce, Dadaist Tristan Tiara, a snooty butler, Gwendolen and Cecily from The Importance of Being Ernest — all in Zurich 1917!

John Milson directed The Hole's earlier production in 1977 and has since directed the play for Twelfth Night Theatre in Brisbane.

The facts are that James Joyce invited Henry Carr (a minor official at the British Consulate in Zurich) to play Algy in Wilde's masterpiece but refused to reimburse him for expenditure on the costumes! From this obscure footnote to Joyce's Ulysses Stoppard spins his web great of entertainment.

For the 1989 production The Hole has assembled a top-line cast. Talented Academy graduate Brendon Kennedy plays the central role of Henry Carr with Bruce Hughes as the zany Dadaist Tristan Tzara.

Bruce recently starred in ABC TV's mini-series Eden's Lost. Sara Grenfell and Michele Stayner play the delicious and delectable duo of Cecily and Gwendolen with an authentic Irishman John O'Hara as James Joyce.

Robert van Mackelenberg and Jenny McNae team up as Mr & Mrs Lenin with Geoffrey Atkins carrying the drinks (and a few other things) as the snooty butler, Bennett.

Join the outstanding Hole in the Wall Company in the final play for Season One 1989 — Travesties — a dazzling rainbow of comic delight.

Previews: Saturday, May 27, 29 and 30 at 8pm and opens Wednesday, May 31 at 8pm.

The Sixth seal by Mary Wesley. Publishedby Pipe. $6.99.

Pink and green snowfalls in July are just the first in a series of disturbing incidents worldwide — until a deadly storm blasts the life Out of everything it touches.

Only a few people remain, like Muriel, her son and his friend Henry who are below ground when the storm strikes. Stranded in the Devon countryside, they band together with other survivors to make the most of their strange new world.

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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The Bush Undertaker and Other Stories by Henry Lawson. published

by Eden, through Angus & Robertson. $7.95.

Henry i2WS0fl'S "The Bush Undertaker", "The Drover's Wife", "The Loaded Dog" and "The Union Buries Its Dead" are remembered not simply as his most popular stories, but as the cornerstones of his literary reputation.

This fine collection brings together these and twenty more of Lawson's stories, as well as three chapters of his unfinished autobiography.

Selected and arranged by Colin Roderick, a leading authority on Lawson's work. the stories form six natural sequences, each with a or theme common character.

The book begins with stories set in the bush. These are followed by stories centred on the characters of Steelman and Smith, Mitchell, Dave Regan and Joe Wilson.

The collection ends with the dominating figure of Lawson's most lovable character, the Giraffe.

The Quest for Character. Building faith to withstand the storms of life, by Charles Swindon.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton. $9.95.

"Throughout our days — year after year — the lifelong quest for character development goes on. While we wait, God works. So let's not grow weary The more He hammers and files, shapes and chisels, the more we are being conformed to the image of His Son." This beautiful, devotional book launches the reader on a lifelong journey — a relentless pursuit of integrity and inner strength. In forty stirring devotional readings, Charles Swindon indentifies life's core issues: honesty purity, courage, conviction, compromise, sincerity, love and 'deep water' faith.

Part One, Guard Your Heart, cautions the reader to seek protection from those subtle forces that attempt to invade the inner person. Part Two, Give Your Heart, is an exhortation to balance caution with a firm determination to love, to care. and to commit oneself to life's important issues. . . regardless of the risks.

Each reading ends with helpful suggestions on continuing to refine character and draw deeper into God's Word.

Eastern Christianity: The Byzantine Tradition

by Lawrence Cross. Published by Ej. Duyer. $14.95.

The 'treasures of the East' are daily being discovered by more and more Western Christians, and each new taste of this rich spiritual food feeds their fascination . . . From the practice of the Jesus Prayer to the attraction of icons. Eastern Christianity is fast becoming a welcome though still mysterious guest at Western spiritual tables.

Lawrence Cross has given us the perfect book to help fill out the picture: Eastern Christianity: The Byzantine Tradition explores Eastern Orthodox Christianity both as a serious study and in a manner accessible to the widest range of readership.

Everything the reader would want to know is here: the main features of spiritual and artistic life, approaches to belief, style of worship, history views of the Western Church and contemporary challenges.

But Eastern Christianity avoids a mere observer's view It breathes the spirit of the East in a quite remarkable way, and in the words of Archbishop Stylianos, the Greek Orthodox Primate in Australia, it will hopefully "awaken a broader interest in an immediate contact with the Orthodox sources of theology and spiritually, which in reality belong to all Christians".

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Arid Sbrubland Plants of Western Australia, by Mitchell & Wilcox. Published by the University of Western Australia Press, $28.00.

A book which is a destillation of research and survey work in Western Australia's pastoral areas and which will be an invaluable reference for everyone interested in the region is now available from the University of Western Australia Press, Department of Agriculture offices and booksellers.

Plants of the Arid Shrublands of Western Australia by Andrew Mitchell and David Wilcox. contains descriptions of the major trees, shrubs, grasses and herbs of

importance to pastoralists in the shrublands of the Gascoyne. Murchison and Goldfields. These non-technical descriptions are accompanied by 297 full-colour photographs taken by Ernie Laidlaw of the Department of Agriculture's Information branch.

The book is considered an asset for anyone wishing to improve their rangeland management skills, preserve WA's unique pastoral shrubland for further generations. wanting a guide on the best mix of plants for grazing, classification of useful plants and for any wildflower lovers wanting a guide to the great variety of shrubland life.

.4borigines and Government in the Southwest ot Western Australia, 1900-1940

Anna flaebich For Their Own Good, by Anna Haebicb. Published

by University of Western Australia Press, $17.50.

During the period from 1900 to 1936 Aborigines in the south-west of Western Australia experienced profound changes in their way of life and their status in the wider community.

At the turn of the century most were economically independent: living in the bush, on station land. or their own small farming

blocks they found some degree of acceptance.

By the early 1930s however they had been reduced to the status of second-class citizens subject to bursts of overt racism.

This book examines the inter-connected factors contributing to a bureaucratic process of pauperisation, institutionalisation and exclusion from the wider community with its associated effects of the Aborigines' status and their way of life.

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The Union of The Catholic Apostolate

THE PARISH SCENE

The Union of the Catholic Apostolate is a work of Pallottines, religious and lay people, serving the apostolic thrust of the Catholic Church.

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THE PASSION PLAY O BERAMMERGAU 1990

Our 27-day departure, (leaving July 4), accompanied by Father Hugh Galloway, has now only six seats remaining. Please if you are considering this departure book NOW.

Send coupon or ring

47 COLIN ST, WEST PERTH 6001.

(09) 322 7922

CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE

NAME ADORE SS P/C

WEEKEND FOR PAIN

Fr Marius Dawson and Sr Bridget Kayser from the Upper Room will conduct a residential weekend at Safety Bay to help people work through the emotional pain associated with life's hurts, and to experience the peace and joy of sacramental Reconciliation. The weekend will provide space and teach skills to anyone seeking to integrate personal psychological knowledge on their spiritual journey.

For further information phone 367 7847.

TEL

LK No 9 TA 00038

Mercy College Koondoola

ENROLMENTS The Principal of Mercy College invites parents to enrol their students for 1990. The usual years of intake are Years 5, 8 and 11.

Mercy College is a Catholic, coeducational College, situated at the corner of Mirrabooka Ave and Beach Rd, Koondoola. Enrolments in 1989 are 900.

Further information and application froms are available form the Principal. Please telephone 342 0011 (Secondary School) or 342 3322 (Primary School).

Past pupils and teachers of the sisters of Our Lady of the Missions at SACRED HEART SORRENTO, are invited to attend a re-union of sisters, teachers and pupils to hear of the new development of the ASSOCIATION of the SISTERS of OUR LADY of the MISSIONS.

SACRED HEART COLLEGE, SORRENTO IN ROOMS H. 1.2 & 3.

SATURDAY JUNE 24 AT 3PM

The CWL of Western Australia will hold their annual general meeting at the Cathedral Parish Centre on Wednesday May 31 commencing at 10 a.m. with 12.10 pm Mass at St Mary's Cathedral as the annual Mass for the World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations ( W.U.C.W.0.) of which Catholic Women's League is an affiliate.

SCRIPTURE LECTURES

Wednesday June 7. Mary in the Scriptures: 7.30 pm for approximately two hours, cost $5.00.

Both evening sessions will be held at the James Nestor Hall, Catholic Education Office, 50 Ruislip Street, Leederville.

Father Frank Moloney has been head of the Biblical Studies Department of the Catholic Theological College in Melbourne since 1976. He is visiting Professor at the Gregorian University and Regina Mundi in Rome. In 1986 Pope John Paul II appointed him to the International Theological Commission.

Bullsbrook Anniversary

On Monday June 5 Mass at 11 am will celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the dedication of the Bullsbrook Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church."

RSVP: By no later than June 4, with your name and place of reunion to:

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LEGION CENTENARY

The centenary of the brith of Frank Duff, Founder in 1921 of the Legion of Mary, will be celebrated on June 6 with the offering of Mass in St Mary's Cathedral at 7 pm.

LAITY NEWS Remember that 1987 synod when "lay people were being talked about in Rome"? Many Perth people were involved in the preparation program "Called to Serve". "Christifideles Laici", the resultant 175 page post synodal document by Pope John Paul is now available from Gatto's and Pellegrini at a cost of $3.

A rchdiocesanl Calendar I JUNE 4 Visitation and confirmation, Wembley. Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Shenton Park. Bishop Healy.

5 Mass and clergy testimonial dinner for Bishop Healy.

Scripture Seminar. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

Council of Priests' Meeting.

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Visitation and confirmation, Scarborough. Archbishop Foley.

Opening final stage, Yidarra School. Bishop Healy.

16 Catholic Secondary Principal Association Mass. Archbishop Foley.

18 Confirmation, Riverton. Archbishop Foley.

18 & Visitation and confirmation, 22 Greenwood. Bishop Healy.

21 Trinity College Old Boys Mass.

A rchbishop Foley.

23 & Confirmation, Brentwood Willet25 ton. Monsignor Keating.

24 & Visitation and confirmation. Kam 25 balda Norseman. Archbishop Foley.

25 Visitation and confirmation, Quairading /Cunderdin. Bishop Healy.

29 Silver Jubilee, Fr Justin Bianchini.

30 Commissioning of new catechists.

Archbishop Foley.

JULY 1 Confirmation, Kalgoorlie, Bishop Healy.

2 Visitation and confirmation, Embleton. Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Leeclerville. Monsignor Keating.

2-4 Adult education seminar.

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OUR LADY OF THE MISSIONS PAST PUPIL REUNION (SORRENTO) 79 Seventh Avenue Maylands WA 6051

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Dianella Quiz

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Salesian Fr Frank Moloney will give the following public lectures: Tuesday June 6, Prophetic Role of Religious; 5 to 9 pm (byo sandwiches, tea. coffee will be provided). Cost. $8.00.

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Our Lady's Assumption School Dianella, will hold their annual quiz night on Tuesday May 30 at the Vegas Hotel — North Perth. $5 per person — door sales. 7.30 pm start.

Book through Marie Santa Maria on 375 1142.

CORPUS CHRISTI PRAYER

Following 9.30 am Mass at St Joseph's Church, Queens Park on Sunday May 28 there will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St Norbert's Priory Church, 135 Treasure Road, Queens Par* from 10.45 am until 7.30 pm. Prayer during the day 12.10 pm; Solemn Evening Prayer 5.45 pm; Night Prayer and Benediction 7.15 pm.

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MANDORLA CENTRE OF INNER PEACE

FULLNESS OF LIFE WEEKEND Thp : 'onk-regm

44th INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS Seoul, South Korea, 5th-8th October.1989 on conjunt non with the COLtINIFIAN FATHERS)

visiting SINGAPORE. SOUTH KOREA and JAPAN 19 days from $4445 per person lusing Deluxe and First Class Accommraiationi

RING (09) 322 7922 i Ask for Alan on our Congres.s Desk

PHICMENCS 47 COLIN STREET WEST PERTH 6005 4TAIION8

June 2 (7pm) to June 4 (4pm) St Joseph's Conference Centre 27 Penguin Rd, SAFETY BAY Experience the Fullness of Life through the integration of Body, Mind and Spirit. A practical workshop for the Christian of today. Cost. $50 per person (Deposit $20 at time of application).

Apply with name, address, phone number to:

If you are self-motivated, demonstrate maturity and responsibility, and have a willingness to serve on a voluntary basis, we would like to hear from you.

We invite applications for positions as:

LAY MISSIONARIES for aboriginal mission in WA YOUTH MINISTERS for the Pallottine Youth Apostolate, Millgrove, Victoria, CATHOLIC VOLUNTEERS for Pallotti college Adult Retreat Centre, Millgrove, Victoria, Interested people should contact

Sr Anne O'Meara, RSJ: 03-8984657 or write: St Vincent Pallotti College 27 Barcelona St Box Hill, Vic 3128 Past pupils and teachers of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions who attended school at

Sacred Heart High School, Highgate Sacred Heart Primary School, Highgate St Paul's School, Learoyd Street St Mary's School, Maylands Are invited to attend a reunion of sisters, teachers and pupils to hear of the new development of the Association of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions.

at Sacred Heart Convent, Highgate in the lecture room and hall.

Sunday June 18 at 3pm

for pupils and staff who attended prior to 1950.

Sunday June 25 at 3pm

for pupils and staff who attended after 1950.

R SVP: With your name and the reunion date you wish to attend: OUR LADY OF THE MISSIONS PAST PUPIL REUNION (HIGHGATE) 79 SEVENTH AVENUE MAYLANDS WA 6051 RSVP: Students before 1950: By no later than June 4 Students after 1950: By no later than June 10.

CARS CARS CARS wanted URGENTLY for a proposed mechanics course at

CLONTARF COLLEGE old Falcons or Ho/dens in running condition, no matter how old and beaten up Contact the principal Brother Kevin Ryan

Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace C/o 13 The Esplanade REDCLIFFE 6104

458 9444

Phone: Sam or Vesta 277 3799

411•1111•1111MINNIMM.

No drugs, no devices... healthy & effective

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 325 6644 Country clients welcome. Phone or write.

Natural Family Planning Centre * 27 Victoria Square Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Irk

From Hurt to Harmony RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND, JUNE 16-18 at St Joseph's, Safety Bay

Learning and using skills to foster emotional and spiritual healing.

Enquiries 367 7847, Fr Marius/Sr Bridget Bookings: Upper Room, Box 58

South Perth, 6151. Fee $50.