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Tray and fast for peace' GeraIdton diocese has been urged to do something positive about prayer and penance for world peace.

Bishop Barry Hickey, Catholic Bishop of Gerald-

ton, has asked his priests, Religious and people to pray and fast for world peace. Letters wil be read at all Churches in the Diocese in November.

He has asked his people

to join with him in fasting and abstaining from meat on every Friday between now and Christmas.

"The world is in real danger of war," he said.

"There are conflicts not

only in the Middle East but in India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Ethiopia and elsewhere which are very dangerous.

"Minds and hearts need to be changed if a just

peace can be honestly negotiated. Our prayers and our fasting will help change hearts," he said.

"I hope other churches will encourage their people to do the same," said Bishop Hickey.

Moscow nex .—

"The next meeting will be in our country. We agreed on that today," said Mikhail Gorbachev in Russian to a Soviet journalist as he walked out of his second historic meeting with Pope John Paul.

But the pope whose "divisions" Stalin mocked is not likely to stand in Red Square before 1992 because of the need for careful preparation and an accurate assessment of the state of the Catholic Church in Russia today.

Already the February exchange of diplomatic representatives and the October Soviet recognition of religious freedom have surmounted two steps that stood in the way of a papal visit.

Mr Gorbachev was in Rome this time for a nine-hour stopover to receive the Italian Fiuggi Prize for his contribution to world peace.

Both the Gulf crisis and the question of freedom of conscience were high on the agenda for the 40 minutes the two spent together.

After Mr Gorbachev and his wife Raisa reached the Vatican the two leaders greeted each other with a double handshake, then exchanged gifts because, as Gorbachev explained, "my wife has other commitments".

Mrs Gorbachev left for a tour of Rome with the wife of Italy's president after she and her husband gave the pope a Leningrad porcelain vase with a picture of St Peter's Basilica on it. The pope gave the Gorbachevs a cameo of the Virgin Mary framed on a red velvet background.

On their way into the papal library for a private meeting, Gorbachev suggested they speak "a little Russian, a little Polish, a little Ukrainian and Italian, if we are able".

After 40 minutes alone, the pope escorted Gorbachev to the Clementine Hall, where his entourage was waiting.

The two continued talking as they walked past reporters and Swiss Guards.

Viets take to the streets Vietnamese Catholics literally took to the streets last Sunday walking in procession from their Highgate centre in Barlee Street to the Sacred Heart school grounds where nearly 1000 took part in the annual Mass commemorating the Vietnamese Martyrs.

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NURSING HOME CHARTER

Objections go back to 1984 CANBERRA: Catholic objections to the Nursing Homes Charter go back to the opposition expressed to Prime Minister Hawke in 1984 on the creation of the new status of de facto spouse.

The Nursing Homes Agreement would allow residents to form relationships without any discrimination.

The minister has said subsequently that Catholic homes may be allowed an exemption from this regulation.

In January 1984 Archbishop Carroll of Canberra, on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Australia, wrote to Prime Minister Hawke outlining a number of objections to the Sex Discrimination Bill 1983.

In the course of a number of objections, Archbishop Carroll wrote: " also regret the government's decision to retain I in the Bill those provisions that create a new marital status of 'de facto spouse of another person' and to require the community generally to recognise and respect that status.

"The exemptions to which you refer serve to emphasise that the Bill places de facto relationships on an equal footing with relationships within marriage and thus, as I see it, to denigrate the institution of marriage.

"The effect of the decisions thatIhave referred to in the two preceding paragraphs would be ameliorated if the Bill were to include a general

exemption recognising the primacy of conscientious belief.

"You have said, however, that to include an allembracing exemption based on conscience. . . would destroy the usefulness of the Bill.Icannot agree with that statement 'If it is to be understood as meaning that most Australians would be able honestly to obtain exemption under a general conscience clause, the only conclusion that one could draw would be that the Bill is an unsatisfactory piece of legislation.

"If, on the other hand, the statement is meant to imply that great numbers of Australians would seek dishonestly to take advantage of the provision, my own judgement is that would not be so."

Memorial They're next to heaven's doors service at another site CANBERRA: Crosses and flowers for the anniversary of six slain Jesuits were not allotted on the footpath of the US Canberra Embassy so they were welcomed on the front lawn of the Jesuits' Yarralumla residence on Empire Court.

Sixty people had attended a service led by Jesuit Father John Eddy, superior of the Canberra community who offered the alternative site after security officers said the flowers could not be placed on the footpath.

Joining Father Eddy were the Archdeacon of Canberra, Anglican and Uniting Church members and Quakers.

On the cross were the photographs of the eight victims of the massacre in Salvador last year and who were now being commemorated.

The six priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed in the residence of the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador, the capital.

No-one has been brought to trial for the murders, although it is commonly believed that the killers were members of a Salvadoran military death squad.

Dr Eddy said that since the murders, two new cities had been established in El Salvador.

They had been named after two of the murdered priests and were home for 600,000 internal refugees.

The six Jesuit priests did not deserve special attention just because they were priests.

Their death, however, had been important because they had focused attention on the killing of 80,000 people in the past 10 years in the tiny country of El Salvador.

Dr Eddy said there was a simple solution to the country's problems. It was the political Right agreeing to economic and social justice and the Left giving up totalitarian solutions.

During the past seven years, 35 Jesuits had been killed because they had supported poor and marginalised people against the whole political spectrum.

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Mn and Mollie . . . "Ws next door to Heaven."

For John Keegan and

By Cliff Baxter Mollie Brereton the day usually begins at Mount in the Catholic Weekly St Joseph's Randwick with prayers when the birds MP — the Minister for are starting to sing. the Aged now in conflict And when the sun is with the Little Sisters of coming down, John often the Poor who administer takes Mollie's arm in his the home. and they make a gracious Mollie, whose maiden promenade through the name was Galvin, has a drawing room of the lot to think about as she nursing home. gets up at a quarter to six prepares to say the and stately the Looking at cedar furniture, the Our Father, Hail Mary flowers peeping through and Hail, Holy Queen. the window, the carvings There are the old days and knick-knacks, much in West Wyalong, Yass of them donated by and Cootamundra and former residents, Molly, the 45 years of that 80, says: "It's next door to blissful marriage.

Heaven!"

Says Molly: "It's next John, 77, agrees: door to heaven — and I say that with all "It's the BEST!" Both sincerity!" says that they don't need "If the Government took more rights and they are over this place, religion happy with the rules the would go, and we home runs on. Mount St wouldn't have any rights Joseph's was openeded in — we'd have all these 1988 by Mr Peter Staples

stupid rights that we wouldn't want.

"The Little Sisters have given up their whole lives for the aged or infirm.

Religion plays a very important part in Mollie's life.

She attends Mass on most days and loves to say the Rosary.

In the morning she doesn't worry about a cup of tea.

"Iget my prayers all said and I go straight into my shower.

"The Holy Spirit I pray a lot to — Iasked Him to guide me today.

"Iget dressed, do up the old face a bit, take my soiled clothing into a little laundrette where it's all done for us, then back to the room to read a few more prayers."

Knights hail Wilson's stand The WA Knights of the Southern Cross have applaudcd the position taken by the Minister for Health, the Hon Keith Wilson MLA, in attempting to refuse to provide Professor Etienne Baulieu, inventor of the abortion pill RU486 with a taxpayer funded forum for publicising his product.

"Although proponents of the lecture have

minimised the link with the Abortion Provider's unlikely to be scientific in content but an attempt abortion, publicity prom- Federation." to publicise a very conKing "Restricting the oting the Professor's Australian visit clearly Edward Memorial Hos- troversial drug. pital speech to medical "Australia is already states otherwise.

"Whilst we recognise personnel reduces the witness to 80,000 aborthe principle of free political overtones of the tions a year — 8000 in speech in scientific cir- meeting but the title of WA — and hardly needs cles the Professor's visit the address: "The Inter- another drug which may suggests a political rather national Politics of enable more abortions than scientific motive as RU486" by itself would with possible side effects it is being sponsored by indicate the subject is to occur!"

ented at Parliament House by the Federal Minister for Justice and Consumer Affairs, Senator Michael Tate, who is the Prime Minister's Liaison person.

Senator Tate also presented a framed poster titled "Faith in our Nation" depicting the

images of churches active in multi-cultural Australia.

The Minister said the poster, produced for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, was appropriate to the multi-cultural flavour of the World Council of Churches.

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The pill — Mifepristone — has not been approved for use in Australia.

"We understand the manufacturers of the pill — Roussel Pharmaceuticals — are not sponsoring his visit," the Knights said.

$100,000 for world churches meet CANBERRA: The Commonwealth Government has made a contribution of $100,000 to the World Council of Churches to help defray planning and organisational costs for the Seventh Assembly, to be held in Canberra next February.

The cheque was pres-

and February 20 some 4000 representatives from leadership positions in almost every society on earth will be present in Australia.

"The nations and societies they represent will reflect the rich diversity of our own community," he said.

Today's announcement of assistance for organisational costs follows the announcement by Senator Tate in August that $1 million will be provided by the Commonwealth to help pay for international and national television and radio coverage of the WCC Assembly.

Nothing new in his funding policy SYDNEY: "There is nothing really new in the Federal Government's new funding for nonpolicy government schools" said Dr Peter Macarthur, Chairman of National Council of Independent Schools Association (NCISA).

Mr Dawkins' "new" funding policy seemed to be largely a re-statement of his controversial funding arrangements for non-government schools released earlier this year Dr Macarthur said.

"While NCISA has always supported a genuine needs based recurrent funding policy, Mr Dawkins' policy does not ensure adequate account has been taken of the costs of restructuring faced by all schools."

"As a matter of social justice the Federal Government's funding arrangements should provide increased funding in real terms for all children, including those attending schools in Categories 1-7, grants for which have been effectively frozen by the policy till the year 2000."

Mr Dawkins said that as part of the Government's new funding plans for nongovernment schools, no school will have its grants

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The policy is based on an unrealistic "community standard" which is largely unrelated to the real costs of running a school. Category 1-7 schools in particular are prejudiced by an unfair comparison with this "community standard" test.

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The Schools Price Index (SPI) which is supposed to update schools' funding for increased costs, has also been out of touch with reality for some years.

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"Schools also need to know what the Federal Government intends to do about the costs of A ward Restructuring

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"Federal Government funding for schools is at its highest ever," said Mr Dawkins, "and has now reached about $2 billion a year — an increase between 1985 and 1992 of more than 26 per cent."

As part of the new nongovernment schools funding policy post-1992, schools will be guaranteed the same level of funding they are with receiving now increases going to schools in the greatest need.

"The whole thrust of this new policy is needs-based.

"This means that the neediest schools will receive the bulk of the extra funding the Government is making available to the nongovernment sector," the Minister said.

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The Universe LONDON

BISHOP DALY There was some surprise but at the same time a delighted welcome for the choice of Bishop Cahal Daly as the next Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

His age was thought by many to be an insuperable obstacle of his appointment. His health some years ago gave cause for concern. But he was so clearly the outstanding candidate that there must be a sense in which his whole life, like that of Pope John XXIII, was an obvious preparation for this unlikely but providential hour.

He may have, perhaps, a relatively short time in which to impress his particular stamp on events. But we can look to him confidently for courageous and far-sighted leadership, for wisdom and pastoral sensitivity and for continuing efforts to forge bonds of mutual respect, trust and friendship between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

The Archbishop-elect has emerged during the past 23 years as the leading thinker and spokesman of the Irish Bishops' Conference.

In Belfast for eight years he has faced violence and bitter division with unswerving resolve and considerable eloquence. He now steps on to a stage where the world will be watching his every move and analysing his every word. He needs and deserves our unceasing prayers and support.

A THREAT TO UNITY The synod of the Church of England has been meeting this week with new members but familiar problems. Many within the church remain critical of the whole idea of synodal government, its cost and effectiveness. But undoubtedly the greatest and most diverse issue now on the agenda is the ordination of women.

The decision about women priests and bishops threatens to bplit the Church of England as dramatically and dangerously as the question of European unity divides the Tory party. That is seriously disturbing to Catholics. It is worrying to see a partner in Christian dialogue tearing itself apart; we all suffer from any further evidence of disunity.

It seems natural, if perhaps illegal, to attach a significance to debates within the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion. Already autonomous provinces have gone their own way. Progress towards Christian unity, once so promising, has suffered already. When it seemed possible that Anglicans and Catholics were inching their way towards a shared understanding of ministry, moves to ordain women raise serious questions about the extent of true agreement.

No one should doubt the passionate sincerity of those convinced that women should be ordained. They can rightly be criticised, however, for going ahead in the teeth of serious and repeated objections from Catholics and Orthodox alike. Such a radical innovation can only be divisive when pursued unilaterally. The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury is likely to offer active support to the cause. It would be helpful, however, if an early meeting could be arranged between Dr Carey and the pope. One positive outcome might be to remove the unrealistic idea still around in some Anglican quarters that Catholics are themselves likely one day to accept the ordination of women and that Anglicans are merely a courageous ancifarsighted vanguard.

Nothing will be gained by recrimination.

Catholics are irrevocably committed to the quest for Christian unity. The pope and archbishop could seek to consolidate other areas of agreement and explore fully why Catholics and Orthodox are conscientiously unable to go along the path towards the ordination of women. Further discussions may do little towards deflecting the Church of England from its apparent purpose on this particular issue. But the impetus towards unity must be sustained.

It is frustrating to see the tantalising prospect of full communion now receding into a more distant and uncertain future. Some are quick to question whether there can be any realistic prospect of mounting a convincing campaign of common Christian witness during the imminent Decade of Evangelisation. Unanimity is clearly impossible but the truths we share are substantial and may be sufficient.

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You'll make God smaller if..

NAPLES, Italy (CNS): Christians are "making God smaller" if they do not accept the biblican foundations of papal primacy, said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

"Roman primacy is not an invention of the popes but an essential element of the unity of the church which comes from Christ himself," the cardinal said.

The New Testament "documents in an impressive fashion the primacy of Peter," he said.

"Anyone, who for fear of triumphalism or for fear of arbitrary human power, takes away from these words their force, is not in fact announcing a greater God, but is rather making God smaller," he added.

Papal primacy should be affirmed "with the same realism with which we admit the sins of the pope, the

disproportion with respect to their ministry," said Cardinal Ratzinger.

The papacy has been "the rock against ideologies" and a defense against "submission to the powers of this world," he said.

The cardinal said that papal primacy also has been historically controversial within the Catholic Church, "starting from the fight in the Middle Ages between empire and priesthood."

It continues today "with the wave of protests" against the leadership of Pope John Paul H and his way of understanding papal primacy, said Cardinal Ratzinger.

But there is also "a positive tendency" today, he said.

"Even many non —Chatholics affirm the necessity of a common center for Christianity," he said.

Key to 'real dialogue' CHICAGO (CNS): "Real dialogue" between Christians and Jews depends on understanding Jews, said the president emeritus of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews 12th during the National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations in Chicago.

Cardinal Johannes Willebrands said that once real dialogue is achieved, the relationship between Jews and Christians can grow.

"We have so much to learn from each other,"

he said. In his talk, Cardinal Willebrands said the Second Vatican Council "hinted" that the same good will and intentions toward Judaism could be extended to other religions, Cardinal Willebrands said. "We were not well-prepared," he said.

"It could have been broader and better."

Christians must understand Jews "as they understand themselves", the cardinal said, and "learn by what essential traits the Jews define themselves in the light of

Outspoken Daly named new archbishop VATICAN CITY (CNS): which includes the Pope John Paul ll has troubled city of Belfast, named an outspoken since 1982. Before that, critic of Irish sectarian he had been bishop of v iolence, 73-year -old Ardagh for 15 years.

Bishop Cahal B. Daly, as The archbishop has the new archbishop of been a critic of both Armagh whose archdio- Catholic and Protestant cese straddles the border violence in the continuof the Northern Ireland ing fight over British rule and the Republic. in Northern Ireland.

The seat has been vacant The conflict in Northsince the May 8 death of ern Ireland is predomiCardinal Tomas 0 nantly "a series of dirty Fiaich. murders of nonArchbishop Daly, who combatant civilians," he is two years short of the said while presiding over traditional retirement the August funeral of a age, has led the Diocese Catholic shot by the of Down and Connor, Ulster Freedom Fighters.

their own experience".

religious

Cardinal Willebrands also spoke of the need for full communion among Christian churches.

"Among Christians, while there still exists and lives a real communion, it is very incomplete," he said.

"We must move from the present state into full communion of faith, of sacramental life, of ecclesial structure, without destroying a sound pluralism," Cardinal Wilebrands said.

Such pluralism, he said, "is not the same as a pluralism of religion".

"The pluralism we find among Christians does not define us. We are not characterised by our division. When we divide ourselves, we divide Christ."

Through Vatican II, Cardinal Willebrands said, God bestowed upon Christians "remorse over their divisions and a longing for unity".

Lutheran Bishop Krister Stendahl, formerly of Stockholm, Sweden, in response to Cardinal

Willebrands' address, said the shift in CatholicJewish relations energised the entire ecumenical movement.

"We should be grateful for what has happened in the Roman Catholic Church," Bishop Stendahl said. "When Rome moves, people take note."

Bishop Stendahl said Christians and Jews alike are guilty of referring to "the Christian God" or "the Jewish God".

"We better clean up our language. That has an enormous divisive effect," he said.

This is not an obstacle...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Different expressions of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, which divided Catholics and Orthodox for centuries, are no longer "a real obstacle" to ecumenical dialogue, Pope John Paul II said.

"The continuation of this fruitful dialogue is an intention which we fervently entrust to the guidance of the Holy Spirit," the pope said during his audience address which was a continuation of his teaching of the Holy Spirit.

In reciting the creed, Catholics say the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son", while the Orthodox say the Spirit "proceeds from the Father".

The pope said the New Testament does not explicitly say that the Spirit proceeds from Christ, but it "attests that the Holy Spirit is not only the Spirit of the Father but also the Spirit of the Son". and Catholics Orthodox tried to

resolve their differences over the creedal statement at the 1274 Second Council of Lyons and at the 1439 Council of Florence, he said. While they reached some agreement, both continued to use their own versions of the creed.

But since the Second Vatican Council "it now appears that the difference in these creedal formulas does not pose a real obstacle to overcoming the misunderstandings of the past", the pope said.

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Cultural U-turn needed in Italy ROME (CNS): Italian bishops, in an annual pro-life statement, said Italy needs to make a cultural "U-turn" to move away from abortion and other forms of violence.

The bishops said there was a growing danger of equating complete "freedom of decision and action" with the quality of life.

"Not only abortion and euthanasia, but many other forms of violence against life — such as suicide and drugs — are often invoked and justified as affirmations of liberty," the bishops said.

"Faced with a widespread notion of life that does violence to life itself, it is urgently necessary to make a cultural change, to make a U-turn," they said.

The bishops specifically condemned the mistreatment of minors, kidnappings and the persistence of organised crime.

In Italy, a predominantly Catholic country, abortion is legal and is commonly practiced.

The country has been plagued for years by a high rate of drug addiction and in recent months has experienced an unusual wave of suicides among young people.

The bishops said their message was aimed above all at youths, the "future builders of the new Europe and the world".

The statement asked Christian families to show "the courage of a more generous and responsible openness to life in procreation".

Italy's birth rate is among the lowest in Europe.

Political decisions are also important in setting a prolife framework, the bishops said. Couples should have the possibility of settling in a home, women should not be made to feel socially and professionally trapped if they become mothers, and adequate care should be given to the elderly, the statement said.

Pope's prescription...

NAPLES, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul II barnstormed through crime-ridden Naples last week, prescribing a dose of "social and moral reform" to combat crime and economic deterioration.

Over three days of talks to local government officials, workers, businessmen, residents of a poor neighbourhood, youths and Church figures, the pope firmly backed local Church efforts to combat crime and improve living conditions.

He called for comprehensive government, Church and civic programs to address socioeconomic ills which are a "fertile ground" for organised crime and individual moral laxity which is a seedbed for social ills.

High on the pope's list for blame were political and government leaders.

He accused them of corruption, letting public services deteriorate, favouritism and playing

politics at the expense of the public good.

Also receiving a papal lashing were citizens who remain indifferent or submissive to crime and other social ills.

"It is not necessary to surrender to evil." the pope said in Scampia, a poor neighbourhood known as a stronghold for Camorra, Naples' organised crime group.

The state has the obligation to provide the means for social development and "eliminate obstacles and impediments." the pope said.

"But you are the principle fashioners of this development," he added.

At the same time, the pope sympathised with the plight of poor people.

Poverty produces the conditions that lead to social ills such as drug addiction, alcoholism and "the phenomenon of criminality and violence wearing the Camorra stamp," he said.

Because of economic

hardships "too many children" leave school to seek money "on the street, which is often only a training ground of delinquency and social deviation", he added.

On the same day, the pope told political and government leaders they have the responsibility to "restore legality" and promote socio-economic and moral well-being.

"Everyone sees the urgency of a major recuperation of personal and social morality," he said.

Officials were criticised for doing little to stem social deterioration and the breakdown of public security, which makes Camorra murders easier.

These failures distance the average citizen from public institutions and officials, the pope said.

The pope said these failures are the result of "the excessive weight of playing politics, which often ends in profoundly deforming the foundation of conununitv life".

become "Rights favours" and belonging to the party is more important than personal merit or the value of programs proposed, he added.

This contributes to "a fracture between morality and society", he added.

In a talk to youths, the pope stressed that violence is not limited to Camorra killings. It includes "inducing others to evil" through "the promise of easy earnings", he said.

"Violence is not respecting society and social obligations," he added.

"Indifference is a subtle form of violence. Even corruption is violence," he said.

"Don't let yourselves be beaten. Don't take refuge in the alibi of being victims," he told the youths November 10.

The following day, the pope told businessmen to "be courageous" in the face of growing Camorra crime. He urged them to

demand that public officials provide greater public safety against crime.

The pope spoke against the backdrop of Camorra extortion efforts and programs to muscle into legitimate businesses.

These resulted in the deaths of two executives two weeks before the pope arrived.

"It is your precise duty to continue when faced with difficulty," he told the businessmen.

The pope said his trip was also a sign of hope and a pledge that people fighting to improve Naples have the Church's support.

As a symbol of this, he blessed the cornerstones of a church and two Church-run social centres in the poor neighbourhood of Scampia.

'These are the signs of the Church's commitment, and they wish to be an invitation and stimulus to public administrators, so that they, in turn, put into being a renewed effort," the pope said.

Mob using kids for 'hits'

NAPLES, Italy (CNS): Organised crime in Italy has begun using child assassins, said Bishop Antonio Riboldi of Acerra, Italy.

The bishop urged a crackdown on school truancy to ensure juveniles do not fall into the mob's clutches.

Police arrested a 15year-old boy in September on suspicion of taking part in a murderous raid by the Camorra, the organised crime group in Naples.

"It's the first time a child has killed for the Mafia.

Children grow up in the streets here, the Camorra grabs them. Killing is a show of power, of what they call honour," Bishop Riboldi said.

"You can't sink any lower. To kill a man is ugly enough, to have a child kill a man is horrid," said Bishop Riboldi, one of the Mafia's most vocal Church critics, who everywhere travels under police escort.

He was speaking on the fourth day of Pope John Paul Il's visit to the Naples area. During the trip, the pope firmly backed local Church efforts to combat crime and improve living conditions.

Bishop Riboldi said in some of Naples' poorest neighbourhoods as much as a third of the children stay home from school. He said authorities must crack down on truancy.

"It's. harder to make

sure kids go to school than to seize a small-time Mafia gangster," he said.

This year alone six children, several only eight years old, have been killed in feuding over drugs and extortion rackets among the more than 100 rival clans in the Naples area.

For the past 30 years, first in Sicily and then in the Naples area, Bishop Riboldi has urged his flock to reject "Omerta",

the Mafia's code of silence.

Going beyond the pope's blunt weekend admonition to Naples politicians to be honest, Bishop Riboldi said it was high time local administrators examined their consciences.

He said he believed the pope's courageous condemnations of the Camorra had done something to dent the criminal society's stranglehold.

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'St Mug' dies L When in November 1982 at the age of 79 Malcolm Muggeridge and his wife, Kitty, were received into the Catholic Church, Muggeridge attributed his switch from Anglicanism in a large part to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India.

Muggeridge, 87 known to millions through his television appearances, was renowned for his merciless criticism of world statesmen and politicians, died last week.

In his later life his outspokenness about Christian ideals and against permissive society earned him the nickname "St Mug".

In 1968 he produced a television documentary depicting Mother Teresa's commitment to the destitute of India.

The documentary and a book based on it were titled, Something Beautiful for God. "Words cannot convey how beholden I am to her," he wrote in The

Outspoken convert was known to millions for his attacks on world statesmen and politicians Times of London. "She has given me a whole new vision of what being a Christian means: of the amazing power of love and how, in one dedicated soul, it can burgeon to cover the whole world."

He said the Catholic response to the world's moral crisis had always appealed to him. He found Pope Paul VI's encyclical prohibiting artificial means of birth

control "absolutely correct" and spoke in its favour many times before he was a Catholic.

Like contraception, he said, legalised abortion was "morally disastrous" and inevitably brought legalised euthanasia in its train.

In 1972 he said he loved the Catholic Church too much to join it.

Muggeridge was an invariably provocative interviewer who became

something of a national institution by persistently deflating egos and ideas with an impish humour.

Lean and white-haired, with twinlding eyes, he became a familiar sight on British television, but in 1976 said parents would do well never to let their children watch TV "The corruption of our children is appalling," he told a University of Toronto audience in 1976. "On TV they see the family ridiculed, marital fidelity ridiculed and a crass materialism being constantly preached."

He said he went on TV only because he was like a piano player in a brothel, who from time to time is able to play Abide With Me for the edification of the patrons.

He wrote several books on religion, including Jesus Rediscovered and Jesus: The Man Who Lives, in addition to Something Beautiful for God.

His 1976 documentary, A Third Testament, explored the times and writings of Christian thinkers such as St Augustine.

In 1978, while serving as Writer in Residence at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, he wrote a regular column for the Canadian Catholic newspaper, The Catholic Register.

Muggeridge was born March 24, 1903, the son of a Labour Party Member of Parliament living in the London suburb of Croydon.

After graduating from Cambridge University in 1923 he became a lecturer at the Egyptian University in Cairo entering before journalism.

He wrote editorials for Manchester the Guardian newspaper and went to Moscow as its correspondent in 1932.

Muggeridge worked in India for the Calcutta Statesman, in London for

the Evening Standard and in Washington for the Daily Telegraph.

During World War II he served as an intelligence officer in Africa, Italy and France.

For four years beginning in 1953 he was editor of Punch, the humorous British weekly.

"Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh," he said.

He went on to become a television personality known throughout the English-speaking world for his attacks on targets ranging from the White House to the Kremlin British the and monarchy.

Always a controversial figure, Muggeridge fell into deep disfavour with the British public in the late 1950s over comments on the origins of British snobbishness that were interpreted as a personal attack on the monarchy.

He went to Moscow as foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, convinced that Stalin was creating a brave new world with communism.

What he saw in 1932 devastated him and left him with a profund distrust of political authority.

He saw famine in the Ukraine in which 7.5 million people died and saw thousands of starving peasants being herded on to cattle trucks to be sent to forced labour camps.

"A most wicked and horrible thing, the worst thing I have ever seen," was how he described the scenes.

He alone among Western correspondents had the courage to file the story in a series of dramatic despatches which the West refused to believe — Britain was trying to appease the Soviet Union while Hitler rearmed.

He won't fight Rome action WASHINGTON, (CNS): A and that he was "in a very South African theologian different situation" from said he had decided the archbishop. against challenging the The South African said Vatican after a Swiss he had not corresponded theological faculty seek- with the university or the ing to grant him an Vatican Congregation for honorary degree warned Catholic Education, that Rome could raise which issued the sanc"problems" over the tions, and had little honour. knowledge of the dispute And the same Fribourg over the conferring of the university has embroiled honorary degrees.

Milwaukee's Archbishop The Dominican order's Wealdand in a similar master and the universihonours ty's grand chancellor Vatican clampdown.

Father Damian Byrne in The archbishop has a letter to the archbishop criticised what he called said the Vatican Congrethe aggressive tactics and gation for Catholic Edu"ugly" rhetoric of some cation told him that pro-lifers.

Archbishop Wealcicnd The theologian, Domin- "has recently taken posiican Father Albert Nolan, tions relative to the said he spoke with question of abortion Archbishop Weakland, which are not without

doctrinal importance and which are causing a great deal of confusion among the faithful in the United States".

Heading the Vatican body is Archbishop Laghi, former nuncio to the United States. Archbishop Weakland said the Vatican action and others like it "continue to make the institutional Church less and less credible".

He called for "more open communication" in the Church.

Archbishop Weakland, in a letter to Father Byrne, wrote, "I regret that this will cause a certain amount of bitterness among many here in the United States and it will continue to

encourage some to believe that the decisions in Rome are made primarily under pressures from ultraconservative groups in the United States and that it does not seem to matter what injustices are done to human beings by leaving such clouds over their heads".

In May, after a series of meetings at which he listened to the views of Catholic women on abortion, Archbishop Weakland said that the apparent "narrowness of so many in the pro-life movement" seems to turn away many Catholics who oppose abortion.

In a 5,000-word statement, Archbishop Weak-

land said the church's

"unequivocal position apartheid theological (on abortion) does not statement. He also wrote have the full support of the book God in South many Catholics, espe- Africa: The Challenge of cially of many women, the Gospel which was because it seems to be too published in 1988. simplistic an answer to a Father Nolan said he complicated and emo- did not want to get tional question". involved in a dispute In a later letter to the with the Vatican and told Milwaukee Sentinel, the Dominicans to "drop Archbishop Weakland the whole thing". called abortion "the "It wouldn't have made taking of human life and news if my name hadn't morally been linked with Archbitherefore said, shop Weakland's," Father He wrong".

"I. . . strongly uphold Nolan said. "To me it isn't Catholic teaching and an issue at all." that certainly includes Father Nolan was the Church's teaching on elected superior general abortion". of the 7,000-member The 56-year-old Domin- Dominican order in ican Father Nolan played 1983. But in an unprecehe move, a major role in drafting dented the controversial Kairos declined the post to document, an anti- return to South Africa.

Co poser's view on liturgy ROME (CNS): Cultural adaptations in the liturgy are only "window-dressing" if a community's prayer is not a real celebration of the members' experience of God, said a noted African-American composer and liturgist.

"If a particular kind of music or dress or art will help people serve God better, then amen to that. But the point is to serve God," said Grayson Warren Brown.

Twenty-five years after the Second Vatican Council, "people are still faced with cold, lifeless liturgies", he said.

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"Liturgy must become the expression of the experience of Christ," he said.

Even the most colourful, well-planned and coordinated liturgies are meaningless if they don't bring people to a deeper understanding of God and God's plan for their lives, he said.

"You cannot have a serious discussion about liturgy without talking about love and justice, the kind of active love that brings justice to the world," Brown said.

The opening penitential rite of the Mass is hollow unless people know what they need to be forgiven

for, he said. It doesn't make sense that people rattle off a list of sins on Sunday, then on Monday "they won't let black people live in their neighbourhood".

"Isee so many people victimised by bad liturgy," Brown said. They end up "walking away not knowing and understanding what God wants us to do with our lives".

The point of making liturgy reflect the culture of the community is not to foster a diversity of ornamentation in the Church, he said, but "to let everyone feel at home in serving God".

Crusading for Mary One tends to expect mainly the poor to have strong and committed faith; that generally people with wealth don't need to because they aren't in need of consolation, whereas the poverty stricken are.

But that is not necessarily the case.

The advent of Our Lady's daily reported appearances at Medjugorje, Yugoslavia to six seers initially in June 1981, and now to two daily has been both an irresistible attraction for many and a draught of the elixir of life.

Elixir because of the promise of earthly and eternal happiness and an eternity link with Our Lady who joins us daily at Medjugorje, entreating us to convert back to God. To turn away from living which is offensive to God's law and even for those who do have the faith, that they strengthen it.

To become wholehearted in our belief and practice and to encourage others to pray longer, better, and more often.

And to fast because of the rich graces to be drawn from fasting when offering the sacrifice up to God. This is the background of Medjugorje — an unsophisticated village where Our Lady, it is reported, has chosen to appear.

She appears nightly to mainly two of the seers now, as the others have been given the seven secrets she intends to give to all six visionaries.

After these have been finally given, certain events will follow which will give mankind a choice to choose between good and bed, and perhaps be followed by a chastisement for the world.

One thing for sure though, prayer to date has been effective in removing one of the chastisements God had planned for the unrepentant human race, but others remain.

The nature of these are known only to the seers and so we are constantly being entreated to fast, repent, and turn back to God. Those who have done so have gained huge benefits by the gift of peace, of being united with our Creator instead of following sinful paths.

And many millions (in excess of 17), have gone to Medjugorje and witnessed incredible paranormal phenomena, miracles, and above all — conversions back to God. Best of all, people return to their homes as though on a rip curl, bringing back their enthusiasm for rejuvenated faith, and spreading this joy infectiously around for others to catch.

Mrs Jeanie Gardner is one of those, along with many other Western Australians who have brought back the message of Medjugorje to those who haven't heard, or can't go.

Well accustomed to the good life — that of fame and luxury — Jeanie represents a number of very wealthy people who have found Our Lady's message too strong to resist and too important and urgent to b- ignored.

It's deep( than that too.

Because Our Lady's appearances at Medjugorje to the seers and the messages they feed back from her, have dramatically changed their lives to that of prayer and commitment to spread her word. Wayne Weible, Lutheran journalist and publisher, Leon Le Grand, famous novelist and multi-millionaire are two others who have been struck, almost by force, with Our Lady's command to go out and tell others, with urgency, that these are End Times and must be heeded if man is to minimise the chastisements God has in store.

She says God is hurt and angry with man's moral decline and devil's work which is so apparent in our society with drugs, corruption, greed, lack of morals, abandonment of faith and practice, evil and materialism, to name a few.

Our Lady therefore has appeared daily to the seers for the last nine years as a warning of what is to come if we don't change our lives aided dramatically, strongly by fasting and prayer, and return to God. And in effect states that one must turn back to God in order to turn the tide of retribution He has planned.

have converted back to their faith.

Also since Leon's WA visit, more than a hundred prayer cenacles have formed in WA where groups get together to pray the rosary and make the act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

These groups are part of the Marian movement coming together to pray, in accordance with Mary's wishes and becoming her army to march throughout the world in the battle against Satan, said Jeanie.

"Because in Revelations chapter 12, it speaks of the battle between Satan and the woman clothed with the sun. But Our Lady promises that in the end her Immaculate Heart will triumph."

So it is important, stresses Jeanie, that even times Until she heard Leon Le if we are living in in tribulation and trial of Grand talk here in Perth live must we Church, our three years ago, with a and trust subsequent visit to Med- in hope our through because jugorje, which became a Satan fasting, and prayer dramatic turning point will be crushed. in her life. illustrated Jeanie "There and through to us by pleading Mary's Leon's talk, Our Lady prethat out pointing very a in me touched in appeared she viously special way, and my Lourdes, as places such whole life has become so peaceful. I now feel that Fatima and Garabandal, of with the grace of God I only for a short period time. joys whatever accept can "Why would she come or tribulations come my day for nine years every way." not because she is it if Jeanie says you may live with in this world, but you was pleading humanity?" don't have to be part of it.

When Jeanie first went "Which to me means we are so much in a world to Medjugorje in late which is consumer 1987, she marvelled at oriented and media con- the reverence of the trolled that it is hard to people towards the break out of these Eucharist and prayer coming from deep within constraints.

"I have learned to find their heart.

"Never before had I time in a busy life to attend daily Mass, pray witnessed a church so the rosary three times a alive. They had someday and frequent retreats thingI wanted but didn't and days of reflection have. This was a gift I have become such an couldn't buy." important part of my life, And then on top of Mt and as a result have Krizevac overlooking the reaped rich faith fields, church and vilrewards." lages, Jeanie gained the Leon Le Grand is peace she desperately returning to WA and wanted and which has starting a whirlwind remained with her. series of talks on Medju- "What a gift it is! How gorje starting on many can say they feel November 26 at Esper- totally at peace within ance attending various themselves and among and family country and metropoli- their tan venues through to friends?"

December 9, said Jeanie, Her prayer life from because he had a dream then on blossomed, reinwhich told him to return. forced through the SacThis spells out the raments, daily Mass and urgency of Our Lady's monthly reconciliation messages, said Jeanie, and her weekly prayer because these are End cenacle.

Times.

As with other crusaders Since Leon's visit over of Mary, Jeanie passes on here in 1987, more than Our Lady's daily mesa thousand people have sages to various groups been to Medjugorje from she speaks to. and millions WA Jeanie said to be at throughout the world Medjugorje is like expeJeanie was brought up by the French Dominican sisters in Trinidad who had a great love for the Mass and rosary.

But said when she left school at 17, although attending weekly Mass, her faith was not deep "and for the next 25 years I was very much part of the materialistic world we live in — until three years ago".

Life was good for Jeanie and luxury came easily, because she won the Miss Trinidad beauty contest and represented that country in the Miss Universe contest. From then on it was a life of glamour and glitz with all life's material goods flowing in.

She then came to visit Australia in 1971 and met her husband Brian, and a continuation of the luxury life and social whirl flowed on.

Mrs Jeanie Gardner — ambassadoress of Our Lady of Medjuvrje. riencing Christmas or Easter each day with hundreds of people going to Reconciliation in the open space beside St James church with 40 to 60 priests on the alter daily.

While there Jeanie met with Wayne Weible who had recently left Perth after his round of talks and having been interviewed by The Record, and also Professor Courtenay Bartholomew from Trinidad, a notable scientist on AIDS, whom Jeanie brought to Perth • recently to speak on Medjugorje, and who has taken the message of Medjugorje to the islands of the Caribbean, said Jeanie.

He and Wayne have both published books on Our Lady and Medjugorje and are currently doing their best to spread her messages.

TV no longer interests Jeanie — "Our Lady said we have made TV our God, and that it is the greatest idol in the world today. People spend hours in front of it but yet say they have no time to pray to their creator!"

A great believer in the efficacy of prayer and fasting. Jeanie has felt its power in her own life.

She speaks highly of Maria Val Torta's book The Poem of the Man God in its five volumes "which Our Lady herself recommended to the visionaries".

And how her love has deepened for God's word and His sacraments, and sadness at a world "where sin no longer seems to exist for some people any more".

Then after her three year faith journey, dis-

covery and deepening, realising she had gained to the full the fruit of Medjugorje, as a result of Our Lady's daily appearances and the faith reverberations felt by the millions and millions who had been there and been filled up with her grace and desire to tell others.

We have become a civilisation that doesn't seem to need God anymore, said Jeanie. "Our children are subjected to reading magazines and books and watching films and TV on which free sex, pornography, drugs, abortion, greed, corruption, rape and suicide are all quite openly shown.

"But when do we read or see about God's goodness, love and mercy?

"As we approach the year 2000 the battle between Satan and the heavenly powers is getting greater," said Jeanie, "as we witness the destruction of family life, moral values, married life and the killing of unborn babies.

"Humanity seems to be immersed in materialism and consumerism and the so called fruits of this earth!"

But we can change all this, says Jeanie. And you don't have to go to Medjugorje to know what Our Lady wants because there are others to bring back her messages "to the four corners of the world".

We can become like the millions who've been there, by turning back to God through prayer, fasting, saying the rosary, praying in our homes and cenacles, "and speaking the language of love while experiencing

the joy of our faith, and above all by finding time in our busy world to pray, with all the resultant graces".

God gives us a free will to choose, said Jeanie, and a mind to think. "So the choice to believe or reject is ours. I chose to believe and I thank God every day for my gift of faith, life, and the serenity and total peace He has given me.

"There is so much to gain, in response to giving so little . . ."

Leon Le Grand will be appearing at: Country: November 26 — Esperance Star of the Sea church 7.30pm; 27 and 28 — Kalgoorlie Catholic Parish Centre 7.30pm; December 5 — Catholic Merredin church llam and same day Northam St 7Joseph's church December 7 — ManLady Our durah Assumption 1.30pm and same day Busselton St Joseph's church 7.30pm; December 8 — Bunbury (Cary Park) St Thomas' church 1pm.

M etropol itan: November 30 — North Perth Monastery 7.30pm; December 1 — Armadale St Francis Xavier church 7.30pm; December 2 — North Fremantle St Anne's church 11.30am and same day Greenmount St Anthony's church 7.30pm; December 3 — Doubleview Holy Rosary church 7.30pm; December 4 City Beach Holy Spirit 7.30pm; church December 6 — Girra7. wheen Our Lady of Mercy December 8 — Rockingham Our Lady of Lourdes 5pm; December 9 — Fremantle St Patrick's church 7pm.

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DISCUSSION POINTS

How parishes connect withIIC Jane Howard wrote a warm and perceptive book several years ago titled "Families".

journeys, in the same way Christ did — offering love, understanding and assistance.

Her premise was that families are so important to us that if we don't have one, we invent one.

The reality is that some families are not able to give their members all the kinds of loving care they need. But parishes have begun to reinvent themselves — to become families caring thernselves.

The stories that follow tell of two national programs used in parishes. Motivated by love, these ministries connect with people's actual lives in profound ways.

Parishes are sending out trained people who are willing to accompany others on their troubled

The gaunt man lay in the bed, his Adams apple moving up and down angrily in his stringy neck. His fingers plucked spasmodically at the soft fuzz of the blanket. Only this Alzheimer patient's eyes were still, staring blankly.

Gwen sat near the bed reading aloud. The sound of her pleasant voice seemed to soothe Sam.

Gwen is a member of the Respite program in her parish. She is assigned to this cheery room, once the family's sunroom, for three hours every Thursday afternoon. She stays with Sam while Dorothy, his wife, enjoys a brief time for herself.

A parishioner, who knew of the devastating situation Sam and in, were Dorothy appealed to a woman

named Thomasine, who is in charge of the Respite program in this parish.

Then Thomasine contacted Dorothy, finding a nearly exhausted woman valiently trying to care for her beloved husband.

Thomasine understood why Dorothy had not requested help. Drained by fatigue, she was emotionally caught by the inertia common to people who find themselves in the midst of a seemingly unsolvable problem.

Respite does not pn3vide medic.al assistance.

It offers hope and free-

dom to those who care for the patient. It also attempts to reinforce positive attitudes in patients themselves.

The parish advertises Respite weekly in the parish paper. But Thomasine knows that many who need help are unable to respond.

"We depend on referrals by concerned parishioners or those in the community," Thomasine said. "Our 15 volunteers are all busy and we plan to recruit more."

The Stephen Ministry is another program in the same parish. Thirty Ste-

By Jane Wolford Hughes phen ministers are dedicated to "being there" for those who need emotional support from someone who understands and is willing to listen.

Gert had lived in the same house more than half her 89 years. Now, with her mobility impared by arthritis, she is in a nursing home.

Though Gert agreed to move to the nursing home, she rebels against the reality of her need become has and

cantankerous.

One of Gert's former neighbours contacted Kathy, who coordinates the parish Stephen istry. "Gert could be happy at the home, but she needs someone to talk to who would understand her loneliness and fear. I understand you have volunteers who could visit her."

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information."

Why assured her that oatfidentiality is strictly observed by Stephen • checked ninisters. Kathy home. nursing the wth llen she asked a sensibe woman named Meg ttspend some time with Grt.

Meg said, "I bring you news of the old neighSilence. bourhood."

Gert's eyes were frigid.

Then Meg moved into the pleasant room and offered a tiny bouquet of daisies "They're from my garden. You grew daisies, too, didn't you?"

Standing in Gert's thorway, I felt like an ufwanted guest," Meg to Kathy. "We eyed ea:h other, unsure what im were supposed to do The woman continued, ned. My Stephen train; gave me courage, and "I wouldn't want the other neighbours to Iiras grateful that I had know. Gert always has dacked with Gert's for ighbo u r been so proud and

The atmosphere softened. Gert said, "There's a vase on the window sill."

Little by little Gert began to speak. She told of waking up at night,

Presumably, many of the disciples continued to make their living as fishermen.

After all, they had to support themselves.

They had to support their families, too, all of whom lived in the neighbourhood.

(Nazareth itself was only a day's walk from Capemaum.)

Peter lived across the street from the Capernaum synagogue. One of the first things we re,ad about Jesus in Mark's Gospel concerns his cure of Peter's mother-in-law.

Obviously Peter was married, and in all likelihood most of the others were.

Family ties, of course, were exceptionally strong in their culture. In following Jesus, their usual routine would have been interrupted, but not totally abandoned.

Jesus called for sacrifice in pursuit of the

By Father John J. Castelot

Where did the disciples go when they accepted Jesus' invitation to follow him?

Our tendency is to respond by conjuring up images of young men and women who become missionaries and go to distant lands.

Seldom do they get home to visit their families.

Jesus' disciples were not quite in that situation. They followed him around Galilee, with occasional trips just outside that pocket of land. But Galilee is only 80km long and 40 to 56km wide.

So the disciples were never far from home.

Jesus' centre of activity was Capemaum, on the northwest shore of the Galilee.

kingdom. Still, love, the distinctively Christian virtue, had to begin at home.

Presumably Jesus' disciples were able to share in his activity without abandoning their own. I say presumably because the Gospels, by their nature, often force us to read between the lines. They are not primarily biographies.

The Gospel writers were primarily theologians who proclaimed the good news.

Their proclamation was rooted in the history of Jesus, but much was obviously left unsaid.

So it would be hazAardous, based on a few Gospel ges, to conclude that Jesus, in calling trsseamen, exhibited a callous attitude toward their families.

That would run directly counter to all the positive indications of his high regard for such relationships.

If there are Gospel passages which seem to

urge Jesus' followers to mit him ahead of their families, one has to casider the context.

The Gospels were witten years after Jesus' death and resurrection and were directed to Christians living th ir commitment in difficult circumstances Joining a Christiat community often meant one would be &awned by family and friends.

Thus a person hadi decide which, in the long run, was more ioportant: memberhsip in God's family as broilers and sisters of the risen Christ, or meliberhsip in families offering no eternal pi:Teets.

It was a difficult deision. If the Gospels urge people to decidetn favotu. of Christ, it is not because famib relationships were disdained, but becauscommitment to Christ was more important.

Children's story hour

"All gone now," Gert cried.

"But they're alive in your memory," Meg

she completed 50 hours of training.

When we spoke she was preparing to attend a t wo-week session to become a leader herself.

Parish programs such as Respite and Stephen Ministry know how much healing can occur when people motivated by love respond to a need. Woven into their one-on-one ministries is a pattern of giving, yet receiving.

These people give care, yet they receive caring in return.

By Janaan Manternach to become her husband.

But the young man died suddenly before the wedding.

Not long after that Macrina's father died.

She now had the responsibility of helping her mother care for her nine brothers and sisters.

Macrina became manager of the family's finances, including several large estates. Besides overseeing the large household, she became a skilled weaver and baker.

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A task she loved was teaching her brothers and sisters. She not only taught them school subjects, she taught them to pray and to live as followers of Jesus.

Three of them, Basil, Gregory and Peter grew up to become famous scholars and saints.

Once all the children had grown up, Emmelia gave them each their inheritance. Macrina and her mother moved to

the family estate at Annesi. It was a be,autiful spot on the Iris River.

They decided to invite their women servants and other women to join a new kind of community. They all lived together like sisters, all being equal.

They spent their days in I . yer, study and work, supporting themselves by the work of their hands. 'They called their home a monastery. There e,ach had a chance to develop the gifts God had given her — something women at that time rarely could do.

QUESTION:

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Macrina created a fresh new way of life for Christian women. Many Christians were caught up just in making money, buying things and seeking pleasures. They had little time for God or for the poor, the sick and

victims of injustice.

Macrina's new community treated each other and everyone with respect and kindness.

They also reached out to those outside the community who were hurting. They welcomed and

cared for anyone in need.

Macrina set up a hospital for the poor beside her monastery. When her mother died, Macrina gave all her inheritance to the poor. Macrina died around 380, loved and admired by all as a saint.

Macrina

and her community believed it was verY important to share kindness with others. One way family members — even children — share kindness at home is by thanking each other for the good things each one does. What is another way children can share their kindness at home?

In terms of your homelife, what do you seek from the church?

"It is important t•o me that my parish is a • community we can celebrate with, both socially and liturgically. We really look to build friendships from this community, for ourselves and our kids." (Trish Maniatis) "When people are loving and supportive of each other in the parish, it helps me be more loving and supportive of my family." (Alfred Frank) "I need prayers, friendship, concern, support and continuous education." (LaVerne Dreis) "I live alone, and it can get lonely, especially on weekends. What a difference it makes when the people at Mass treat you like a family member, not like someone intruding on their S rivate space." (Hugh Woods)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT A parish community includes many small communities.

Recently in one parish, a group of couples and a psychologist were meeting to explore ways to enrich marriages.

Neighbouring parishes had groups of parents who had lost a child; single adults who felt lost in the larger parish; and groups of families meeting regularly to learn and socialise.

Small groups help parishes connect with the realities individuals face.

Why? Because in small groups people gain support from others whose predicaments resemble their own. This may lead them out of iS0 155n

Moreover, in small groups people discover how the Gospel applies to them.

A British lay leader, Patricia Jones, recalls a single mother living in slum housing. In a group reflecting on Lazarus, "whom Jesus unbound from death," the woman realised "her struggle to be rehoused was another kind of unbinding" I which God also addressed. That "sustained and challenged" her.

Such a discovery can release the power within people, said Ms Jones. Its purpose is "to enable people to live their S .inary lives" as a mission given them by Christ.

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onvergilig perspectives Last Christmas I left my job as editor of a magazine that focused I n parish life to return t I parish ministry itself. As I unpacked and began the first round of meetings with my new staff, I thought I f the people n I large and growing parish.

Macrina's new household

Her father, Basil, was a lawyer. Her mother, Emmelia, taught her at home because girls did not go to school in those days. Basil and Emmelia also are honoured as saints.

When Macrina was 12 or 13, her father chose a promising young lawyer

That said, she began to recall persons and happy places from the past, especially Niagara Falls, where she had honeymooned, and her own yard that once bloomed with nasturtiums, peonies and daisies.

responded.

Gert said softly, "I guess we carry who we are with us, and bring back the good things when we tall( about them."

Meg and Gert continued to meet regularly.

And Gert settled into the home, content that someone cared and knew of the "good things" that could not be taken from her.

Meg is in the second year of her three-year commitment to the Stephen Ministry. Before she began her ministry,

the Gospel to homes

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Macrina was one of the most remarkable women in the Church's history. She was born around 330 AD in what today would be Turkey, just a few years after Christians first were allowed to live freely in the Roman Empire.

afraid of strange shadows. She was bothered by the many new people and strange foods.

"What do they need from Lis?" Iwas really surprised by how much I had to relearn after nine years about how public and grS S -oriented parish ministry is in practice, even though it obviously means serving people with very important personal needs, ds the story following illustrates.

Shortly after Christmas

one of our older pariBy Father David K. O'Rourke, OP shioners died. I'll call him Jack Everett. His children came to see me A daughter, a single matter of perspective. A to plan the funeral Mass. parent, indicated that in S .rish priest is a public One son was actively the week following the leader for a large group involved in a Catholic funeral she would like to made up of numerous II as evangelical prayer group. talk with me about a small groups a,s well ind duals. This influenHe and his wife and single parents' group children, who pray the parish. We are cur- ces his perspective.

Our parishioners, most together every day, very rently establishing that o them young. working much wanted to hold a group. have definite f• prayer service in the Thinking back on all parents, want good They that me needs. strikes it this, Church before the is our that and iturgy, begins l funeral a even funeral. group- first priority. n ad public a with Another son, a recoverctive.

New parents, often ing alcoholic with pain- oriented perspe II • to relii;ious family a returning with dealt I ful years behind him, is priest ractice after a lapse of still somewhat alienated who came to "the from the family and was at the Church" as several years, need bapnot on good terms with strangers through an tismal prograrns that will appointment made over help them "catch up" his father. phone. In the midst of religiously as well as This son wanted to the personal kiss we prepare for the sacragreat make peace with his a public ment itself. plarming were father's memory and said rite.

They need preschool needed my help to do S extended e proand a is of•life much So SO. I

grams, which our school in terms of relationships: "This is who my people provides.

And we have to figure out how to minister to the other young adults, who have a difficult time figuring out where they fit into our parish.

What strikes me is the in-built risk My pastor's view rwis of becoming program-oriented.Idon't usually think that way, and I see it as spiritually limited.

I am struck by how different this perspective is from that of our laity.

A sociologist has written that the perspectives of lay people and clergy on Church membership

often have different starting points.

The clergy tend to say: "This is what we believe."

The laity tends to speak

are."

The two perspectives complement each other.

A young couple who II to be married in the come church where he or she attended the parish school 1it' receivedI COmmunion for the first time, and where family memories abound, are expressing their faith, saying: "This is where I belong. This is who my

people are."

What do they need from our parish? What is critical for me as pastor is that I understand the laity's perspective.

I think they need the parish to recognise their concrete and personoriented way of expressing their faith.

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.Ateb Pride of place in the Vietnamese Catholic procession last Sunday went to a statue (above left) by Nguyen Van Khoat, blessed by Archbishop Foley, and symbolising the 117 canonised Vietnamese Martyrs out of an estimated 130,000 Catholics who have been put to death for their faith over many

persecutions.

Perth's Vietnamese Catholics are estimated to be around 2000 with some 50 newcomers arriving each month. The Barlee Street centre is being used for daily Mass as well as a Sunday Mass in addition to the other Sunday Mass in Sacred Heart church.

Top right: Most of these men are recent arrivals in Australia.

The little ones were also part of the procession as seen in the pictures — centre left and above.

Left Some of these ladies in Vietnamese costume have been reunited with their families only in the past few months.

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their martyrs Towards

positive directions

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard The biennial national conference run by the Australian Association for Adolescent Health will take plate on November 28-30 to discuss a range of issues mainly concerned with youth health and other topics.

Venue will be the Octagon theatre at UWA with an expected 200 participants, 25% of whom will be young people from country and metropolitan areas. Workshops will be given by people such as the YWCA on Big Sister, Big Brother which matches up on a mentor basis.

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Caragh BroderMiss ick. . . on the youth panel for the forthcoming biennial conference.

Youth panel representative ing affects the way we Miss Caragh Broderick, 21, behave, our identities, and said the conference is bent values. on involving as many young Within this forum there people as possible. will be different faith The idea is not to focus on representatives. Street theathe negative but rather to tre and dance will involve assess stress and difficult students from schools, two areas for the young and then of whom will be Ursula look at the positive ways Frayne and John XXIII. they can adopt to cope.

The conference, said Miss people are Broderick, makes people "Young expected to perform better, more aware of the issues be more responsible, which will affect the young become adults before their in the next decade, give time," said Miss Broderick, them a chance to comment "and stress is hitting them at on them, and a chance to a younger and younger age." state the future positive directions they wish to take.

Sister Veronica Brady will be having a forum on values, Any enquiries please ring and how religious upbring- Mr Warick Rowell 38 2811.

Monitor to aid the subfertile

Above: Helping carry the statue of Our Lady are Bach Ten, Tuyet Mai and Duc Khiem who are leaders in the Eucharistic Children's Group.

Left: Leader of the Vietnamese Buddhist Association in WA Mr Le Tan Kiet (right) and his deputy Mr Quach Toan.

An ovarian hormone moni- Teachers of NFP are tor that can assist subfertile currently being instructed couples identify ovulation to in the use of the monitors achieve pregnancy was dem- which provide an accurate onstrated in Perth and the assessment of the state of South West recently. fertility from a daily urine Kath Smyth, co-ordinator specimen. of Natural Family Planning NFP centres in Perth and Services (Billings Method), the South-West are taking Gynaecology Unit, St Vin- part in training sessions cent's Hospital demon- before entering into clinical strated the JB Brown Ovar- trials on the application of ian Hormone Monitor, the hormone monitor in developed over 20 years by NFP services.

Emeritus Professor James Brown, a biochemist and Dr Blackwell has stated world authority on ovarian "the assay results the women are achieving are hormone function. with the best comparable He has published more in the results aboratory l than 220 papers in scientific journals on the measure- world". ment of female hormones and their application to the study of reproduction. Since 1978 he has been assisted by Dr Len Blackwell an enzyme chemist from Massey University, New Zealand. Professor Brown has worked with Dr Evelyn and John Billings on validation research on the Billings Method of natural family planning (NFP).

World Health Organisation (WHO) trials in 5 countries have found the Billings Method to be 97% to 99% effective in avoiding pregnancy in couples correctly instructed.

WHO Human Reproduction section is planning a trial of the Ovarian Monitor in Australia, New Zealand and Chile.

Used in conjunction with NFP the monitor is useful to subfertile couples who need to identify ovulation precisely in order to achieve a pregnancy.

For those who are sceptical about symptoms of natural fertility the monitor provides sound scientific evidence which supports the information provided by cervical secretions.

A small production team headed by Professor Brown will prepare 15,000 assay tubes for the monitors in 1991.

The research is on going and is dependent on government grants and donations which are tax deductable and may be sent to: The Treasurer, St Michael Research Foundation, 16 May St, Macleod. 3085.

Further information is available from The Billings Ovulation Method Centre 377 8737 and the SouthWest Family Life Centre (007) 263 210.

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Novena (here ask the favour you Heart of my God, I believe in May the Sacred Heart of wish to obtain), but if what I ask Your power; I believe in Your Jesus be adored and glori- is not for the glory of God or the knowledge; I believe in Your of my soul, do thou obtain personal love for me. And, fied, loved and preserved good for me what is most conducive to through the whole world both. Amen. Let us pray. 0 Lord therefore, 0 Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. now and forever. Sacred God, Who didst vouchsafe, by (Our Hail Mary, Glory be Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St the preaching and miracles of St to theFather, Father.) B.C.R. Jude worker of miracles, pray Francis Xavier, to join unto Thy for us. St Jude helper of the Church the countries of the hopeless, pray for us. Say this Indies: grant, we beseech Thee, Grateful thanks to the Sacred that we, who reverence his Heart of Jesus and St Jude. prayer nine times for nine glorious merits, may also imitate Through this novena you days and on the eighth day is example, through Jesus Christ, request will be granted. Our Lord. Amen. (Our Father, have granted my request.

Publication must be prom- Hail Mary, Glory be to the This novena has never been known to fail. Janet.

Father.) ised. M.F.

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Don't confuse celibacy with chastity from Robert DAVIS Esperance Sir, Surely a study of the history of celibacy (The Record, November 15) could find a single reason for continuing the tradition which wasn't materialistic or negative.

To imitate Christ, should our priests be born in a manger and die on a cross?

Paul says all the apostles and church leaders of his time travelled with Christian women (except he and Barnabbas), and they doubtless had a ministry to perform. Paul was certain to have been married, it was a requirement of being a Pharisee, which he was.

The Church has good reason for asking for celibacy, and I admire our religious who practice it, but we should not confuse celibacy (meaning physically unmarried) with chastity (the spiritual virtue of loving without lust).

Both St Elizabeth of the Gospel and St Elizabeth of Hungary were chaste, and married with offspring.

Before his conversion, St Augustine was unmarried but not chaste, as two de facto wives and a son attest.

He viewed marriage as a route to wealth and power.

The "theological link" which strengthened the law on celibacy must, as quoted, reinforce Paul's statement that the law is the word that kills; we need the Spirit for life.

1 . Christ was physically unmarried. He is spiritual bridegroom of the Church — us. are 2 . The religious exposed to the charge that they slavishly follow Luke 18:29-30 — an excess of the human need to be special; queue jumpers on our road to heaven; the sin of envy; modern day Pharisees; a

lack of inner peace and balance.

3. The creed is flatly denied; we believe in the resurrection of the body, not the soul alone.

4. God help our priests if they don't think they have a family. We are their family, that is why we call them father.

5. The American bishops teach us that sexuality is a gift from God. No gift from God can be degrading to man unless it is used sinfully. This theology of the evil flesh is Manichee, a heresy battled by and attacking the soul of St Augustine all his life. Will we ever lay the ghost of Mani?

The human soul is a great creation of God. Truly united with another in love, friendship, marriage it is greater than the sum of its parts. A soul united to God, pouring love back to the souls

around him (or her!) can be truly awesome, like John the Baptist.

There is a good case to be made for celibacy. If we are thankful for this gift of the Church, this sacrifice, and wish it to continue we should let our views be known and leave the tired and untrue in the pages of history.

EDITOR'S NOTE.- The article in question was not about celibacy as such, but about the law of celibacy applicable to the diocesan Latin-rite priesthood.

As we have been at pains to point out on a number of occasions, discussion of the celibacy of the Latin diocesan priesthood should not be confused with the issue of the celibacy of religious order priests, brothers, sisters, or dedicated laity of either gender.

Timely remarks a

new

from Barry MORGAIV, Samson

callous our society has become.

disciples of revelation.

Sir, As we approach the celebration of the birth of Christ as a baby in Bethlehem, Archbishop Foley's remarks (The Record November 15) on Australia's horrendous abortion toll are most timely.

Children, at their most helpless vulnerable stage are killed by doctors and nurses in defiance of the Hippocratic Oath, using methods that are brutal and barbaric.

In this post christian age, we are fast becoming a schizophrenic society obsessed with primitive nature, as in forests and dolphins, and our quality of life but blind to the fate of thousands of our unborn, who will never experience for themselves the happiness of God's creation in this wonderful earth.

The fact that 80-90,000 totally innocent human beings are killed each year and that this has been going on for years, even decades, is a shocking indictment of how

While society in general seems indifferent to this holocaust of the unborn, it endorses causes like the welfare of whales and dolphins and treats self appointed spokesmen on the environment and ecology as the

Archbishop Foley's message needs to be

repeated time and time again in pulpits, schools and every forum to drive home that life is sacred and a society that forgets this, is creating a bleak and miserable future for itself.

If we wish to change this, to quote Archbishop Foley, we must give a positive answer to those who market the angel of death. This is often difficult and uncomfortable for us, but the basis for a decent society can only ever be a deep reverence for human life.

Premier's other views

Acknowledging the large number of women seeking and obtaining abortions she replied: 'I have no intentions of

taking any action to prevent that.'

Therefore, until the Premier is seen to actively and courageously defend human unborn life from her position as Premier instead of indulging in political manoeuvring, believing first that 'it (abortion) must reflect the wishes of the community', there is no way these can comments be justified.

I wonder would the Premier hold the same opinion about pandering to community opinion if involuntary euthanasia was as acceptable here as it is in other countries with ageing populations?

In addition, her own words about bodily health depending on peace of mind and spirit may then be viewed with less scepticism by those who hold that all human life is inviolable.

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St Jude worker of miracles, pray for us. St Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Say this prayer nine times a day. By the eighth day your prayers My special thanks to St Jude will be answered. Say it for for answering my prayers and nine days. It has never been the special favour granted. known to fail. Publication must be promised. G.F.C. SL

Ask St Clare for three favours, one business, two impossible, say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning on ninth day. Let candle burn to end then put this notice in paper. Anne P. My most humble and grateful thanks to Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady, Holy St Jude for favours received. Please continue to hear and answer my prayers. I.L.

Ask St Clare for three favours, one business, two impossible, say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning on ninth day. Let candle bum to end then put this notice in paper, Alice.

from Mrs Patricia HALLIGAN, Mandurah Sir, I wish to strongly remind your readers that whatever has been said, the Premier Dr Carmen Lawrence is selective about 'our whole value system' which I presume is Catholic in the St John of God Hosptial (The Record, November 15).

Neither does she fully 'share our commitment to compassion and Novena to the Sacred Heart.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be paised 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. Mary and Andrew.

respect for all huamn beings and to justice for all'.

This is evident in the answer she gave to Parliament, recorded in Hansards, when asked whether action would be taken to close WA abortion clinics.

My sincere thanks to St Clare and to St Anthony for a very special favour granted. M.D.G.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Breadth beyond borders.

Conference update

Through the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference to be held at Aquinas College on January 11-16, young people will have a major opportunity to help shape the future of their society and their church.

OPEN MINDS CULTURES merely travel It is not that broadens the mind, but real immersion in another culture, according to Aaron Harding of Nedlands, whose travels in 1987 resulted in the Pope's youth mission cross reaching Perth this year.

Aaron, 21, spent a full year in Argentina after completing Year 12 in Esperance in 1986, and it was in Beunos Aires that he received the cross from Pope John Paul II, as reported on the Youth Page last week.

Looking back on his time in that country, Aaron said last week that he would encourage every young person not just to travel, but to experience another culture as a way of broadening their understanding and horizons.

"It is a matter of looking beyond your immediate scope and future and career, and realising that Australia is only one corner of a very vast

range of cultures," he job and look forward to said. their future career. That's but there is not that great, tantalising "It is like a dish — once you try one breadth of vision."

Learning the Spanish different culture, you language opened new want to try others."

"It is an enormously avenues for Aaron to enriching thing to live in absorb more of the culture of Argentina, another culture." leading to an outlook on Asked how the expe- life somewhat broader rience had changed him, than that of many other Aaron said that, apart young people. from a greater knowlAaron faced the choice edge of Argentinian of learning a little about culture and the Spanish many cultures or a lot language, his year on a about one.

Rotary exchange proHe chose the latter, gram had given him a which radically affected different perspective on his vision and underlife. standing, and one sus"I find that people who pects that the travel bug have come through their has not yet worked it's twelve years of schooling way out of his system! and straight through another four of tertiary seem to be more fed up, and do not seem to be getting as much out of life as they had intended," he said.

"They can be burned out by the time they get their degree," he said.

"Apart from that, their scope is to get a part-time

With "Crossroads of Tomorrow" just seven weeks away, the pace of preparations for the big event is reaching an even higher pitch.

A recent planning committee weekend at Eagle's Nest saw fifteen team members begin work on the final details of registration and accommodation, while other teams were finalising arrangements for the public rally and closing ceremony.

Registration forms are still trickling in, and the

A year in Argentina made all the difference Harding of Nedlands.

1991 YOUTH CONFERENCE

WEEKS TO GO! "Crossroads to Tomorrow"

ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH

YCS FULLTIME WORKER Applications are invited for the position of fulltime worker for the Young Christian Students Movement in the Archdiocese of Perth: The applicants: • Must have experience of the YCS movement.

• Must be committed to the mission of the Church shown by an involvement in Christian action in their daily life.

• Must have a knowledge of Jocist principles and experience and/or understanding of the Review of Life method.

• Own transport desirable.

Applicants should apply for either a twelve month or two year term.

For criteria and job description, contact: PERTH YCS OFFICE PO Box 194, North Perth 6006 Telephone (09) 227 7061

YOUTH OFFICE DIRECTORY

1991 YOUTH CONFERENCE

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Archbishop Foley called all young people to share in the Church's mission when he erected the Pope's youth mission cross at the Youth Offices, October 31.

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Crossroads To Tomorrow

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call went out this week for prospective delegates to return their forms quickly.

Those planning to attend the conference should notify coordinator Kristi McEvoy as soon as possible, to allow plenty of time for allocation of elective topics and for catering purposes.

Two events open to the public, a major rally on January 15 and the closing mass the following evening, have already attracted wide interest and attention.

All Catholic secondary schools have been invited to send at least 20 'official' student representatives, in order to extend the spirit and message of the rally to their wider school community.

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Featuring JOHN SMITH ('God's Squad') with Moving Images, Josiah and host Graham Maybury

PERTH SUPERDROME, CLAREMONT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 730PM Tickets: $4 single, $15 family.

Available from the Youth Office or call 328 9878 to book.

An ecumenical youth rally sponsored by Anglican, Uniting, Baptist, Catholic Churches, Churches of Christ, Salvation Army and other Christian youth organisations.

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Students and literature Happy Christmas t,

Christmas

Bush Vark's First Day Out by Charles Fuge.

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The students' bard Mike Blake is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and jingle writer who has been seen on quite a few school campuses entertaining children with mostly environmental songs, urging them to take care of their world.

The Keep Australia

Beautiful Council (WA) were so impressed with one of them Don't Throw It Away, that they reproduced it as a 45 rpm single for use throughout WA. Mike encourages students to participate in his

songs and in the recent Mercedes concert, the junior school choir performed with him.

He also performs for other social venues Mike can be contacted on 4902344 for any bookings.

New Norcia students excel Four New Norcia Catholic College students entered the reading competition conducted by the Chinese Language Teachers' Association of WA.

Two of the students won first prizes, the other two achieved distinctions.

The results, which have just been announced, are a clean sweep for the

students and their teacher of just a few months, Mr Peter Liu. Year 11 student Connie Kwok Ho won the division one prize for primary and secondary school students who have a Chinese-speaking background. From Hong Kong, she started at the New Norcia college at the beginning of this year.

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In this glorious collection Mark Daniel has captured perfectly the spirit and traditions of Christmases

past and present.

Breathtaking paintings from the Victorian and Edwardian eras are matched with the best-loved poems, carols, songs and stories of the season — from Christmas right through to the New Year.

First prize in the division one competition for students who do not have Chinese as their primary language was won by Shanti Thirunavokkarasu.

Shanti is from Singapore where her family languages are English and TamiL She is completing her TEE now and, after three years at NNCC, will be returning home at the end of the month.

L'il bee Who's Peeking at Me? A pop-up book by Kees Moerbeek. Published by Carnival through Collins.

Pop-up books are always fascinating for children and this one is no exception with its brightly coloured pages and cleverly contrived pop ups. Ideal for small children.

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A Golden Christmas Treasury compiled by Mark Daniel (Macmillan $12.99).

Hippos Go Osd by Althea, pictures by Bettina Patterson, published by Picture Piper. $6.99.

Its a special week for the hippo family — Dad is on holiday! Every day bustels with fun, activity and new things to do. Hippos Go Out

is perfect for children just starting to read and is also a great book too share and talk about.

In this book of familiar family situations. Althea understands so well how small children respond to experiences outside the home.

The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories, edited

by Sara and Stepben Corrin. Pub by Puffin. $8.99.

Fourteen festive stories for Christmas.

Christmas is traditionally the season for story-telling, and in this anthology Sara and Stephen Corrin have selected a wonderful mix-

ture of stories old and new that feature the joy, the excitement and the charm of the Christmas season.

Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Noel Streatfeild and Leon Garfield are just some of the writers included and. enhanced by Jill Bennett's delightful illustrations, The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories is a real treat for Christmas.

Literary buffs Carmelite on Carmel

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

and conse- teacher and religious literary scene is Father quently the Carmelites education co-ordinator.

Peter Slattery, 0.Carm were founded in Palestine In 1988 he won his doctorate in religious whose recently published on Mt Carmel." book The Springs of Father Slattery said that education from Fordham Carmel will be officially by drawing on the meta- University, New York, and launched by Carmelite phors it allows people to since then has been provincial Father Paul look into the very heart employed by the Catholic Cahill, 0.Carm in the staff and soul of the Carmelites Education Office, Perth, professional room of the Catholic and would be useful for in Education Office, 50 anyone interested in the development.

His other credentials are Ruislip Street, Leederville Carmelite spirituality and on Wednesday, Nov- also help for Carmelite a BA from the University religious information. of Western Australia, a ember 28 at 5pm.

He said it is a simply Dip Ed from Monash and a of The book grew out number of retreats which written book which a Dip Religious Ed from Father Slattery had given should be of general Louvain. to male and female interest to lay Carmelites, In June this year, Father religious over the last few general lay and even non- Slattery was appointed to Catholics. Not to mention the University of Notre years. other religious because it Dame Australia as Deputy were Noting that people genuinely interested in gives them a chance to Director of Development; the Carmelite spirituality, look through the meta- his role will be to assist the Father Slattery thought a phors at their own found- director in establishing a book was just begging to ers and significant people fundraising program for be published on the basis and examine theirs and the College of Education, which is the University's of those retreats. And so it their own spirituality. you use their first faculty.

"Through being. came into And planning another It has also served to learn about them but also correct false impressions your own traditions which book? "Well, right now the university is my main about the Carmelite orig- are your roots." ins and their tradition Father Slattery, whose concern, but if I should through using basic met- family has been involved write another, it would be with the Carmelite nuns on St John of the Cross." aphors, he said.

"Consequently there are nearby, was ordained in This particular saint, said chapters on Our Lady, St the Carmelite nuns' Father, was a Carmelite in Teresa of Avila, St John of chapel in 1968, the first the 16th century in Spain the Cross and others, and and only ordination there who was associated with St Teresa of Avila, working I use the metaphors they to date. are family Slattery The for the reformation of the used.

"For example the spring, Western Australians by Carmelite order. which is a metaphor for adoption, having moved "He would be one of the living water, life giving, from the eastern states in great Christian mystics of all times," he stated, "and refreshing. And St John of the fifties. the Cross talking about Since then Father has his writings are read climbing Mt Carmel — gained wide experience almost as widely as the the dimb is tough but in the education field as Bible."

A new author to the rewarding,

Tbe springs of Carmelby Father Peter Slattery, 0 Cam. (St Paul Publications $12.95.)

In this book Peter Slattery gives a refreshing account of the Carmelite spiritual tradition and the important people who have shaped its history including Elijah, Mary Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Therese of Lisieux and Titus Brandsma The Carmelite spirituality that emeiges is not simply something from the Middle Ages or the 16th century With its emphasis on love and freedom it is an extremely relevant Oft for today's world As possibly the only "straightforward and succinct explanation (in English) of the Carmelite tradition from its foundations to the present day", this book will be welcomed both by newcomers to the Carmelite spiritual tradition and those who have had actual experience of it.

Queen Victoria on stage Prunella Scales will be performing An Evening With Queen Victoria with Ian Partridge (tenor) a nd Richard Burnett (piano) at the Playhouse Theatre November 26 to December 15 at 8pm.

Prunella Scales is best known as Sybil FawIty from television's Fawfty Towers. She will be in Perth for a three week season of 'An Evening With Queen Victoria' after two performances

at the new Bunbury Entertainment Centre.

These will be her only ports of call on this Australian tour.

In her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty we saw a character who was humourless, bullish and unloving. In 'An Evening With Queen Victoria' we see a very different character.

It is a popular myth that Queen Victoria was stern, grim faced and bland. Nothing could be f urther from the truth.

Prunella Scales' performance brings to life a young princess who hated lessons but loved opera and dancing.

As the young princess transforms slowly into a Queen, mother and matron we discover a surprising person full of contradictions. She is vivid and emotional, yet nervous and unselfconfident, puritanical yet pleasure loving. "A rare and lovely entertainment" (The Australian).

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lists of the surrender of children to the mission; "Expenses of the Benedictine Mission 1857"; "and st• Aborigines" number 5, 4,11 1984-1906, a book of • Aaeo. correspondence.

The New Norcia Benedictine Community was founded by two Spanish monks, Rosendo Salvado and Jose Maria Serra, in 1846, in the Victoria Plains district of the Swan River Colony, 120 kilometres north-east of Perth. The purpose was to form an Aboriginal mission the records of the Benedic- to convert them into the Aborigines of New Nor- tine Community of New mainstream life and econcia 1845-1914, The Bicen- Norcia, from 1848 to 1914, omy of the colony. Salvado tennial Dictionary of contained in the monastery emerged as the more forceWestern Australians. Vol archives. ful and visionary personality V11. Compiled and edited The sources which have and during the nineteenth

by Neville Green and Lois been used are the "Books of century until his death in Tilbrook. Publishedby the Baptism" numbers 1 and 2, 1900, fought vigorously to University of WA Press. and "Nova Nursia" number develop the mission and 3; the "Book, of Marriages" expand its resources. In this bb $30.

This volume of the Diction- number 1; the "Book of he WAS aided by monks ary of Western Australia Deaths"; Salvado's notebook recruited from Spain, but series, is a listing of Aborig- "Various Interesting Mat- hindered by frustations inal names compiled from ters"; "Natives" containing arising out of the local

'An Evening With Queen Victoria' is a f unny and superbly performed show about one of the women who shaped the world. She led the British Empire (when there really was one) and reigned for an extraordinary 64 years.

"Two hours of theatrical delight" (Melbourne Herald). "Prunella Scales shows just what a delightful, many-faceted artist she is colonial administration, the wider demands of the Catholic church in the colony, and anti-AboriOnal sentiments on the part of the colonists and settlers.

In addition, demographic changes in the Aboriginal population as well as clunging social trends necessitated a re-definition of the mission's aims from Salvado's original goal of an Aboriginal-based farming community to an Aboriginal children's orphanage and industrial school.

The earliest comprehensive listing of Aboriginal names for the New Norcia and surrounding districts, is the Census of 1858 contained in "Various Interesting Matters". However, earlier listings of, and references to, individuals occur in the various record books and correspondence, and in Salvado's "Memoirs" first published in Rome in 1851.

The practice of consistent record keeping was continued by the monastery throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century

Pat, tops as a poet Reflections. Collection of poems by Patrick B. Miller, reviewed by Pbil Heydon, illustrated by Eric Zscherpel. Available from 12 Tetwfirtb Crescent, Nollarnara 6060.

Cost $5 plus postage $1.50. Proceeds donated to Society of St Vincent de Paul For 25 years Mirrabooka parishioners have observed Patrick Miller undertake numerous tasks on behalf of the parish, and from time to time read his poetry which has graced the Parish Bulletin with gentle words of love and peace. Patrick can also weave a rollicking tale of Australia along the lines of Banto Patterson or Henry Lawson.

In the main, Patrick's collection of poems for "Reflections" portrays a serenity that is pleasing to the reader as we follow his musing on the way through life. The poems Peace and Love show the gentleness of a man not afraid to put into words his inner thoughts. He takes us through his ideas, and experiences of Church, family life and the low of one's neighbour.

Patrick Miller has devoted 25 years to the Society of St Vincent de Paul and is now involved in a full-time capacity His light-hearted poem Day by Day tells of a

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week in his life as he drives from suburb to suburb picking up and delivering items for use by people less fortunate than he. Proceeds from the sale of this small volume will go to the Society of St Vincent de Paul.

Special mention must be nude of the delicate illustrations — including the cover — prepared by parishioner Eric Zscherpel, which so artistically portray the various poems. Also the splendid work by parishioner Bryan Lewis who undertook the layout and design, after

first encouraging Patrick to complete the collection.

Reflections is a pleasing little volume which would make an inexpensive and delightful gift to a loved one or a close-knit family This delightful book will be launched by Monsignor Michael Keating on 3unday, November 25 at 7pm in the parish hall of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 263 Flinders Street, Nollamara Light refreshments will be served and autographed copies will be on sale during the evening.

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These two fulltime positions wilt constitute the team of the newly created Catholic Adult Faith Education Service (CAFES) which will operate initially under the auspices of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Office, CAFES aims to serve the people of the Archdiocese of Perth by planning and implementing initiatives in adult faith education while supporting and enhancing existing opportunities.

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Developing and maintaining an overview of adult faith education in the archdiocese. Implementing the interim Charter of CAFES. Providing a consultancy service for parishes and organisations in relation to faith education. Developing an advocacy service for special groups. Providing some training and education for mission.

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Mosman Park's Corpus Christie parish makes a radical change to open the new eccelisiatical year of Advent.

Replacing the former Masses at 7.30 and 9.30am will be the one Sunday Mass at 8.30am along with the usual Saturday Vigil Mass at 6.30pm.

Parish Priest Fr Lisle said that the change had been under consideration for 12 months and was approved at the August annual general meeting for the parish.

ROSARY PROCESSION The annual Rosary procession in honour of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception will be held at St Joseph's Church, 13assendean on Sunday, December 2, commencing at 3.30pm. Benediction will follow procession and there will be a "cuppa" and cool drinks in the hall.

All parishioners and visitors are welcome. Enquiries to 279 1549 or 279 4078.

PRIESTHOOD INFORMATION A day of information for the priesthood will be held at the St Charles Seminary, 30 Meadow Street, Guildford, on Sunday, December 9.

As one of our seminarians, Tony Vallis, will be ordained a deacon in his parish church, Our Lady of Lourdes, Flinders Street, Yokine, on that same day enquirers are invited to join the 10am Mass at Yokine, returning to St Charles to continue until 5pm.

The day is for men or lads who are 16 years and older. Lunch is provided.

If attending please ring Father Justin Bianchini 279 1310.

One of Australia's leading Catholic researchers into faith development, Carmel Leavey, OP, the director of the Institute of Religious Studies, will discuss the findings and implications of a recent study on teenagers and faith development.

Public meeting: Wednesday, November 28, 7.30-9.30pm. Cost: Waged $4, unwaged $2.

Day with parents: Sunday, December 2, 10am-4.30pm. Cost: $10.

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MASS TIMES For publication in our Christmas issue December 20, details of Sunday mass times of all WA churches must be in the hands of the editor in writing no later than Monday, December 10.

NEWMAN SOCIETY On Tuesday, November 27 at 7.15pm the AGM will be held. At 7.30pm Father Nally, a sociologist of St Columbans Mission Society will lecture on "The way Australian Catholics believe". Both events to take place in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley. Open to all interested.

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Applications close on Friday, December 7. Applications including a curriculum vitae, two professional and two personal referees should be addressed to: The Director, Pastoral Planning Office 2nd Floor, 459 Hay Street, Perth, WA 6000 Enquiries and further information available from Michael Fox on 221 1548.

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