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The battle of the Ballajura bill-boards The Battle of the Ballajura bill-boards was entertaining the passing traffic this week as the newest Catholic parish decided to get into the act. "Good things are about to happen here!" boomed a property development announcement. "That's right" replied the Catholic parish announcing its new Saturday evening Mass and the parish telephone number that is likely to have no peace.
The face at the end of the phone number.
"Post" Script: Twenty-four hours after this picture was taken the Catholic sign was spirited to a less prominent location!
Quote Every form of poverty under which you and so many other families suffer is a scandal. It is an intolerable scandal, when one discovers that these situations of poverty are the result of freedom among individuals and nations — a freedom which has been perverted by selfishness, by dominating power, by attitudes of indifference and 7 exclusion.
Poverty scandal
POPE URGES: KEEP FIGHTING WITH NON-VIOLENT GRIT CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul II, meeting with some of the poorest families in the world, said widespread indifference to their f ate was an "intolerable scandal".
teers to "keep fighting, with clear ideas and with non-violent d etermination, against these humiliating and crushing types of poverty and against the structures that sustain and increase them".
The pope urged the Poor and a nondenominational movement of volun-
The pope made the remarks when he met with some 350 representatives of destitute
families from four continents. A ccompanying them were volunteers from the International Fourth World Movement, an organisation founded in the 1950s by a French priest, Father Joseph Wresinski. Many of those the attending audience live in diffi-
cult or inhuman conditions — in welfare hotels, shanty towns, garbage dumps or on the streets of major cities. "Every form of poverty under which you and so many other families suffer is a scandal. It is an intolerable scandal, when one discovers that these situations of poverty are the
result of freedom among individuals and nations — a freedom which has been perverted by selfishness, by dominating power, by attitudes of indifference and exclusion," the pope said. The pope said he that understood "there are poor people, many poor peo-
ple, who are at the end of their rope". Some resign themselves to their situation, some cry in protest against the opulence and waste of rich nations and others are tempted to blame God, the pope said. He urged a nonviolent push for justice in which the wellto-do are "not all
classified oppressors". Human beings, he told the group, are capable of evil but can also be moved. through education to great acts of compassion and justice. The pope said his own role was to try to "reawaken the consciences of Christians and national leaders" to the issue.
Abortion clinic to go ahead By Nicholas Kerr Australia's first publicly. run abortion clinic has been given SA State Cabinet approval. The announcement on Thursday (July 20) has come as a surprise. Many commentators had expected the SA Government to avoid
making such a controver- named the Pregnancy sial decision before elec- Advisory Centre. It is tions later in the year. expected to be operating Most opponents to the by September next year. move are outraged that It has been reported the was that the State Governdecision announced only days ment has allocated a $1.3 before a public meeting, million grant to establish planned for Tuesday, the clinic at the old July 25, at Woodville — Maretha hospital site in the site of the clinic — to Woodville. discuss the proposal. Reports say about 900 of The clinic will be the State's 4300 abor-
tions each year will probably be carried out at the clinic. They,could include an estimated 200 mid-trimester abortions. Pro-life lobbyists have warned that, if the clinic goes ahead, it could expect daily pickets. Earlier in the week British anti-abortion leader, Mary Kenny, addressed a Right to Life
meeting at Blackfriars Priory College, Prospect. She said in an interview just before the meeting she hated the idea of demonstrations but that she had become convinced that people who value human life would have to hold more "sitins" at abortion clinics. She said demonstrations were especially
needed in Adelaide to try to prevent the setting up of Australia's first government -funded abortion clinics. "To use tax -payers' money in this way would be absolutely disgraceful," she said. Adelaide's Archbishop Faulkner has spoken out against the proposal to set up the clinic.
Archbishop Faulkner