PERTH, WA: February 7, 1991
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Call to be prophets of hope... Australian Catholic Relief promoters in parishes are called to be prophets in their local communities, Archbishop Foley said last Sunday. Compassion for others was not merely the giving of a gift to a poor person, he said at the commissioning of representatives for the 1991 Lenten appeal. "It is a definite, realistic and essential component of Catholic living that should be present at all times and highlighted at other times," he said. "You are reaching out in response to Christ to heal the wounds. He came to heal. The challenge is to be
Symbolic persons approached Arcbishop Foley during the Project Compassion commissioning Mass. With his belongings on his back Walter Martins and his granddaughter symbolised the question: 'Why are people on the roads so poor?'
aware of others' needs and to respond in a practical way." The illustration of the woman on the Project Compassion material was a symbol of the refugees, landless peasants, slum-dwellers, and victims of racial discrimination, he said, and a "symbol of the world that hurts". The dumb man in the gospel reading could not speak, yet the Lord approached him, Archbishop Foley said. The word solidarity had taken on wider meanings
than the Polish trade union struggle where it originated, the archbishop said. Pope John Paul had said it was a word to describe a sense of responsibility in the world, to be concerned for the good of all. Archbishop Foley said Project Compassion was accountable for the distribution of money and this would be done in the best possible way. Australian Catholic Relief works in partnership with other agencies so that people in poverty can take control of their needs and grow in responsibility for their lives together.
Apocalypse again ...OR WHEN ARMS MAKE COUNTRIES DRUNK WITH AMBITION VATICAN CITY (CNS): The war in the Gulf shows how "the excess of armaments makes a country drunk with ambition and, sooner or later, it rushes toward war," said Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. "We did not lose peace the day war exploded," the cardinal said on January 29 at the opening of his council's plenary assembly. Peace
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"wasted" for years as "many grudges, frustrations and much desperation" were allowed to accumulate, the cardinal said. Cardinal Etchegaray said this 20th annual meeting of the council was the first to be held in a time of war. "Certainly in each of our assemblies some local conflict, more or less bloody, inflamed the horizon of our work," he said. "This time, however, the localised war in the
Persian Gulf has a resemblance to world war: It makes the whole planet shake and tremble in the fear of a more vast with conflagration flashes of apocalypse." He told the participants that the war should not paralyse their work, but lead them to deepen "the sense of mission of our pontifical council". "To speak of justice and peace cannot be an academic exercise, now less than ever," he said. "To work for justice and peace becomes the task
of every moment, now more than ever."
which unites justice and peace," he said.
The cardinal said the Gulf war gives concrete support to various positions taken by the Catholic Church on peace and justice issues.
The situation in the Gulf shows the need to defend international law wherever it is violated and not allow one nation's right to be sacrificed to economic or political expediencies, he said.
"Today we measure better the depth of the chasm which culturally separates some peoples," he said. There are "useless and deplorable misunderstandings between the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions". "Today we discern better the indissoluble tie
Cardinal Etchegaray said the Gulf crisis also shows how fragile human peace is and how only God's peace can "embrace the whole human person, body and soul, in integrity and
tics. Destruction, injuries, deaths and repeated threats continue to weigh Pope John Paul II on our brothers and to celebrated Mass on Janu- sadden us," the pope said. ary 30 with council He prayed for a "sincere members. will" for peace on the part of warring nations, a "Many efforts have willingness to engage in been employed to avoid negotiations and for just the violence of war," he conduct. said. But humanity still The pope also prayed has not learned to let that the rights of the dialogue and negotiation replace "the language of peoples involved would be protected and that arms". civilians would be able to "I am thinking espe- conduct their affairs in cially of the Middle East, an atmosphere of calm Somalia, and let's not "and on a land preserved forget closer to us, the from senseless populations of the Bal- destruction". harmony with the Creator and creation".
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