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Blood, pain But Croatians find faith
their national and reliThe Catholic Church in gious identity. Croatia is in a bad way In WA there are with over 200,000 disbetween 15,000 and placed persons to care 25,000 Catholics with for. Croatian links he The destruction, he estimates. says, makes no sense. "It Yugoslavia for many is is a very dirty war. now only a name on a "If they wanted to take church," he has been church and are saying piece of paper, he says. ion of the country possess telling his congregations "It was a prison and why are they destroying at North Fremantle and 'my place is here'. God has been patient with His thank God we are free of the buildings? They grab Balcatta. everything and then We shall build a new people but it had to stop," that prison. For the past church when peace says Father Cabraja of 70 years they have tried destroy because they comes but at the moment the 45 years of commu- to destroy us and our hate us and our culture. They are trying to divide it is vey important that nist brainwashing in culture." Father Cabraja denies Croatia in two and create we pray for peace," he which many people lost their faith. vigorously the media a greater Serbia." says. For his people in West"Through blood and claim that there is a civil Archbishop Hickey will ern Australia Father say Mass for peace in pain we now have a war in Croatia. "The war is between Cabraja has little with Croatia at 2pm on Sun- united Croatia." day October 20 in St Father Cabraja came in communism and demo- which to console them. :Mary's Cathedral. The 1979 from the diocese of cracy, between darkness "What can I say? I am in Mass will be in English Sarajevo and is the third and light between west the same difficulty as but prayers and songs chaplain to be sent to WA and east, between byzan- they when it comes to finding out what is going will be also in Croatian. by the Croatian bishops. tines and the rest." Fr Cabraja wants to see Although the missionary The local church is the on.Idare not tell you my thousands at the Mass chaplains came in 1971 first target of the Serbs, phone bill!" he says of his praying with the new "we came too late" he he says; then the school, many calls to his own relatives. says and many have lost then the hospital. archbishop.
The tragedy in Croatia Although more than 100 Croatian churches has brought a conversion have been destroyed, to many people Father local Croatian ,:haplain Cabraja said, taking a Father Nick Cabraja positive view. tells his flock not to "People who never fear. came to church are now "They can't destroy us praying for peace. New because we are the living faces are appearing in
Newspaper's version rejected Archbishop Hickey has rejected Tuesday's claim by The West Australian's journalist Robert Reid that the New Norcia closure is a "victory for expediency". In a statement to the newspaper on the same day, Archbishop Hickey pointed out: • that the Benedictines wrote off $400,000 of debt before the college was handed over to the archdiocese and Catholic Education Commission in
1985.
• that between 1986 and 1990 the archdiocese contributed $525,000 to the college's recurrent operation. • that further loans from the archdiocese total more than $1 million. • that many parents have been unable to keep up with fees and that fee arrears amount to $50,000. Archbishop Hickey says that the
decision he had to make shortly after his installation was "painful" but that it was "inevitable". "I am satisfied that every effort has been made to make it viable," he said, citing the upgrading of some tecaliing facilities and the introduction of overseas students. Consultants estimated that some $3.5 million more would have been required to make further necessary improvements to the college. Thanking the principal, Sr Marie Therese Fleming, for her strong and effective administration, and the sisters of the Good Samaritan Order for their dedication and effort, Archbishop Hickey said: "The principal had in place an innovative and attractive curriculum. A special mission of the college has been to serve the Aborignal community who
make up 20 per cent of student enrolments. "Other special groups sought included students who wished to pursue careers in agriculture and students from the city and from overseas who, for family or other considerations, needed to take advantage of boarding school facilities. "Despite all efforts, and an initial increase, numbers of boarders from the country areas of Western Australia had dropped to 15 and enrolments were further declining. "The rural recession and the increasing emphasis on keeping Aboriginal children in their own communities are among the factors putting pressure on enrolments. "I have had the opportunity to meet with a number of parents and I explained to them that while there was
a glimmer of hope that we could keep New Norcia going it would have been counter-productive to publish a litany of deficits. "Many of the parents themselves have been unable to keep up with normal fees, (arrears amount to $50,000) let alone participate in a massive fund raising exercise for the $5 million or so necessary to keep the College going at a level quite rightly expected by the parents themselves, and by professional teaching staff. "While the historic interest implicit in the New Norcia settlement gives some hope that the tourist industry will help keep the historic buildings in place, there is no justification for spending any more education dollars, from Government or other sources, on the preservation of the College."
esuits do not acce t claim
SAN SALVADOR: Jesuits will accept a verdict of
innocence over priests' slayings only if the identity of the real masterminds is revealed. Although a colonel and lieutenant have been found guilty, the local Jesuits claim the two and the six others released are not the onlymilitary personnel involved in 1989 the November murders.
Father Miguel Estrada, rector of the Central American University, said:
"If the accused tell us where the intellectual authors, the inciters, the planners of the murder are, we would be the first to request (an) amnesty and their freedom." But the Jesuit said he believed that to single out the "strategists" behind the murders would be "difficult
because all those who hold the key to solving the murders do not want to turn it over". Father Estrada said that a stiff prison term for the defendants is not necessarily "the solution to the problem". "It is not just a case of having to punish these poor defendants who are victims of the system and the deformation of the military profession," he said.
He said that Judge Zamora should consider an "adequate and medicinal punishment, so that such things do not occur again". The judge reportedly planned to leave El Salvador for a study program in Europe as soon as possible after the trial. The trial, was marked by attempts at intimidation by the Salvadoran armed forces — including a demonstration outside the court house led
by a colonel and the buzzing of the building by a military aircraft. Father Jose Maria Tojeira, provincial general of the Jesuits in Central America, said that, because the Salvadoran military had resented being forced to run over the defendants and provide evidence which weighed against them, a not guilty verdict for all the defendants would have created "a serimes institu-
tional problem" and represented a threat for the Cristiani government. Following the convictions, the Washington-based Jesuit Conference said while the outcome was hopeful, several questions about the murders remain unanswered. "Could Col. Benavides and U. Mendoza actually have actedindependently of their superior officers? We doubt it."
It also asked whether The officers will receive special treatment after sentencing. The case will begin reform of the Salvadoran judiciary. The proceedings were a "show trial for international consumption". The jurors and their families, who received death threats, are in such danger they will be forced to flee the country.
Commitment a must What will they say in 100 years time?
Ecumenism may not be cooling, but there is a cooling of enthusiasm for ecumenism, a Catholic bishop told an inter-faith audience in Perth recently. "Perhaps hopes were unreal and perhaps people expected re-union to take place more quickly than has happened," Bishop Bede Heather of Parramatta told the WA Conference of Churches. Bishop Heather is Catholic co-chairman of a working party studying the possibility of a new Church body that would
replace the Australian Council of Churches and which the Catholic Church would likely join. Referring to what has been described as the "winter of ecumenism", Bishop Heather said many people's expectations were unreal and their enthusiasm had failed them. He quoted the Australian born head of the Vatican's Church Unity Council, Cardinal Cassidy, describing ecumenism like the ascent of a mountain. The early
stages were easy but the mountain got steeper as the climber went up. Bishop Heather said more regard should be taken of what had been achieved so quickly in the ecumenical movement over 30 years even if the goals became more difficult. New issues had arisen and old issues from the past had reappeared. Pope John Paul had called the path to ecumenism irreversible and ecumenical meetings were part of the program
Edinburgh had recognised the need to come together for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ and 50 years later the Catholic Church recognised the way ahead.
wherever the pope journeyed, he said. "There should be no falling away because the problems have become greater. That should not lead us to grow less committed in our work for Christian unity." This commitment had a spiritual responsibility, he said. "For so long our Churches seemed satisfied with the middle path, each had its own self-understanding, each saw its future as secure." The 1910 meeting in
"Will they say it was a great opportunity squandered because we were not open to the ways of the Spirit, not ready for the commitment called for?"
Bishop Heather has taken part in six annual meetings with Baptists. The Catholic Church takes part in a joint WCC working group that studies matters of common interest including the establishment of a hierarchy of truths as an approach to ecumenical issues. The Catholic Church also provides 12 out of the 120 members of the WCC Faith and Order Commission that had worked on statements such as the Lima Document. But dialogue had revealed real problems on the relationship of scripture to tradition, authority in the Church and the continuing tradition of a group whose task is to teach, Bishop Heather said. "While the gap narrows, I have a suspicion it is never going to close completely!" In the spiritual relationship between the churches there had been
progress in using scriptures together and working forjustice and peace, the bishop said. In addition to one Lord, one faith, one baptism, they recognised one life in the Spirit. In Australia Christians pray together, study scripture together and co-operate in theological institutes. On the other hand, problems arise over inter-communion which the Catholic Church would permit in only rare circumstances because the eucharist is seen as the summit of unity. "This may be a cause of anguish but it is a reminder of the pain of our divisions and of a responsibility to work hard at our divisions under the guidance of the Holy Spirit." There had been also many areas of common witness such as sharing pastoral care in hospitals. Because the churches had always shown sig-
Calling this the century of ecumenism, Bishop Heather asked what will be said 100 years from now.
Steady Catholic progress in ecumenism In a 40 year development of its ecumenism the Catholic Church had made progress but had discovered problems to be Bishop e ncountered Heather said. Catholic involvement in the ecumenical movement had probably commenced the year after the first assembly of the Council of World Churches in Amsterdam in 1948, Bishop Heather said. In 1949 the WCC secretary Visser t'Hooft met the Jesuit scripture scholar Augustin Bea and they saw possibilities for co-operation. The following year 1950 saw the Vatican Holy Office allowing Catholics to join others in prayer,
to dialogue when well under now Cardinal Bea. informed and to recog- Rome at the time saw a nise that the Holy Spirit lot of humour in the was active in the ecu- airlines poster "Fly with menical movement. This BEA", Bishop Heather contrasted with previous quipped. papal condemnations of The Catholic Church meetings such as at came out of Vatican II Lausanne. with a strong ecumenical It was not surprising mandate and this had that in 1958 Pope John been implemented in the XXIII called a council for areas of dialogue, spiritthe restoration of unity of ual relationship and all those who believe in common witness. Christ, Bishop Het her Although progress had said, because Pope John been made, problems XXIII had had extensive had also surfaced, Bishop contact with the Heather said. Orthodox during his The Catholic Church is time as a papal diplomat. engaged in nine diaThe Vatican II docu- logues with other ments were flavoured churches, the oldest with ecumenism and the being the AnglicanSecretariate for Christian Roman Catholic (ARCIC) Unity was established that commenced in 1970.
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visible boundaries of the Catholic Church, he added. Bishop Heather later said that a difficulty about the Catholic Church joining the World Council of Churches was the historical situation of its development. WCC members belonged as individual churches such as the 27 individual Anglican communions and the Uniting Church in Australia. It would be difficult for a world body such as the Catholic Church to fit into such a development. "There may have to be a rethink, not about theology, but about how the WCC actually developed. What we can be for the present is observers and members of the committees and commissions and for the present that is the best way to be. "We have to be like the politicians and learn never to say never."
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science, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II said science and religion should keep their recent dialogue going if they want to heal the "divorce" that occurred in the 17th century. The pope, in a talk to scientists and theologians said the church could never accept the historic rift with science because it believes that "the truth of nature and the truth of revelation come from the same divine source". The pontiff described the division of science and religion as a product of over-reaching by some branches of science and Australian Jesuit Mission in India suspicion on the part cares for the poorest of the poor • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •• ofthe church. The growth of natural National Director, Father T. O'Donovan, S.J., • May God bless you • sciences in the 1600s, he Australian Jesuit Mission in India (Est. 1951), and be assured of a special • PO Box 193, North Sydney, NSW, 2060. place in the Masses and • said, was "sometimes • prayers of our missionaries for health care and education for I enclose S • accompanied by a cerand the children you assist. U e deprived families in your Jesuit Indian Mission. tain kind of rationalism Please remember our • Mission in your Will . Mr Mrs Miss • which said that everyPR21.8 • thing could be explained U s Donations are A ddress by scientific reasonging • tax deductible •• alone" or that absolute Postcode m OOOMOSOMSOMOOOMOMOOMMOOSSMOOSOOSOOMOSO truth did not exist. Priests and nuns working in remote areas of India are greatly concerned for the tragic plight of children who are suffering and dying in great numbers. Ignorance of basic health care, hunger and lack of community care centres all contribute to this deplorable situation. Families in those areas are trapped in their poverty and are helpless to help themselves. Our priests and nuns need your help to: 1. Train more health workers. 2. Establish mother -child health clinics to care for pregnant women, assist at births and watch the progress of children. 3. Educate girls in the most difficult and important task of protecting the lives, the health and the growth of children they will have in poverty stricken situations. Whatever you give will be greatly appreciated. Donations are tax deductible. Please make your cheque payable to the "Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund" and post it with the coupon.
nals of disunity it was important to find ways of witnessing together in an incomplete communion. The basis for Catholic ecumenism was the understanding of the Church itelf that came through Vatican II he said. The statement that the Church of Jesus Christ subsists in the Catholic Church was a shift from the previous understanding that identified the Catholic Church with the Church of Jesus Christ, he said. The Vatican II document on ecumenism had looked at the status of other Christians and stated that those who have faith in Jesus Christ and have been baptised are incorporated into Christ. Through faith and baptism they have a genuine presence in the body of Christ, he said. Many of the elements that go to make up the Christian Church are to be found outside the
"The question of God was often scrutinised as to make it seem devoid of meaning. This led to a cautious and suspicious views of science as being tainted with atheism," he said. "Thus, a divorce between science and religion was set for decades to come," he said.
The pope mentioned the 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei as a main protagonist of the rise of the sciences, but without mentioning the church condemned the astronomer. In 1989, the pope publicly praised Galileo's work. In 1633, the Holy Office condemned the scient-
ist's view that the Earth revolved around the sun. The pope said the church's more open attitude towards science also meant a respect for its "rightful independence". He said he was aware that some religious exponents have tried to exploit scientific data.
Tough job but keep it up... CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul ll encouraged Burma's bishops to continue evangelising despite difficulties in a country dominated by Buddhists and where Catholic social action is limited. "Although you cannot embark on major projects of social assistance, your door is always open to the widow and orphan, to the elderly and the
handicapped so that the light of Christ's love will shine in their lives too," said the pope. Nine bishops met the pope, the first time in 30 years all the bishops could visit Rome together. The pope stressed that the church's social message is part of its spiritual legacy. "The church teaches and seeks the implementation of justice at every level of society, not for any purely
temporal motive but for the genuine welfare of individuals in view of their transcendent destiny," he said. The pope noted that Buddhists are the majority of the population and "their religious traditions permeate the whole life of society". Evangelisation programs should stress common values such as "renunciation, self-giving and peaceful relations", he said.
Real ecumenism wiII I flow from NDA move
The University of Notre Dame Australia was a recognition of diversity and choice and the ALP state conference had shown good sense in backing a land grant, Archbishop Hickey said this week.
The isolation of Notre ecumenism, that openDame Australia univer- ness; it is part of our sity may be the only mission. way it can bring about "There is a danger in real ecumenism, the isolation but only in the vice chantellor said isolation of the way we last week. do it. We should do it
"R would be nice if we could have ecumenism by being integrated into other universities but most of that thinking is for us to come in and forget our Catholic principles," Professor David Link told a businessmen's breakfast. But NDA would have to be very certain that it maintained its ecumenism, he told his listeners. "While we are consistent in our fidelity to the gospel and revelation we have to be open to hearing other people. "We have to create the
because it is the best medium in which to bring about the dialogue in ethics and moral philosophy that is needed." NDA had the potential to be a centre for Catholic thinking not only in WA but in the Asia-Pacific areas he told the group. The mission of NDA would be easy if it was only to educate and get whatever money is available for educating people, he said but NDA's mission was to be different. Its mission is forma-
tion, which is a step beyond education. A Catholic university had a different concept from other universities because Catholicity was at its very core. This different character was true not only of Catholic institutions but of any religious based universities. Research in a Catholic university is different because it looked not just at the right process but at right conduct. The time had come, he said to have a university which developed its teaching program based upon ethics. Other universities did ethical research but only in individual subjects and
often it was fought against by colleagues. Abortion and genetic engineering had to be researched not only from the scientific, economic and political points of view but also from the point of view of morality and what God wants us to do. The technique of a Catholic university would be different, Professor Link pointed out, citing Notre Dame University USA where all students have to do a standard initial course that inc.ludes philosophy and theology before going into specialist courses. "The theory of Catholic education is first to teach people how to think, to
learn that theology plays a part in the learning process, that it is not a subject in itself but permeates everything. "Research and teaching goes on with the idea that God exists." Every university had its specialty and in a Catholic university the specialty is the philosopical study of moral values to which everything is subjected and a theology on God's existence. NDA was a player in higher education because it would support other ministries such as education and social justice. Students would be not only taught social justice but would learn that they have a mission outside themselves.
He said also that many of the opposing points of views were revivals of the state aid arguments that were around 30 years ago. With jobs being shed in the non skilled area, the archbishop said, tertiary education is no longer elitist. "There is no need for universities to be all government sponsored. Diversity in tertiary education is as legitimate as in primary and secondary education. "If governments assist this diversity then I see that in order." Arguments claiming that government schools had priority in funding had not changed over the years, he said. "There may also be a deep seated suspicion of religiously controlled education. Although we have won the primary and secondary debate, it is now raising its head in the tertiary area." Archbishop Hickey said there was no truth in claims by teachers unions and others that governments should not help denominational schools until government schools were adequately funded. "We are dealing with taxpayers money and many of those taxpayers belong to denominations that want to sponsor facilities. Moreover by their cost effectiveness, they save the government millions of dollars in the long term." Archbishop Hickey said the Catholic community had a legitimate desire to see its graduates equipped with theological background and moral principles drawn from faith to bring to bear on the world in which they live and to take part in the debate of the day. "They don't get that perspective in other universities," he said.
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Business will play part The business community would have a part to play in the programs of the University of Notre Dame Australia, Professor Link told a businessmen's breakfast gathering. He said a business course would start in the spring term next year because of the strong feeling that something should be done about the question of business ethics. The course would need advice on what it should be doing and the problems it should be addressing, he said. Business people were needed not only as supporters but as evaluators and it was hoped that business people would play a part as visiting lecturers or talking with the students. Unlike universities founded by religious
orders NDA, he said, was "a university of the whole Church, a people's university. We need reaction from people, taking book language and translating it to street language, based on things that work". Professor Link said studies were being made on applying training levy funds to NDA's business courses. Teaching was the first faculty to be developed, he pointed out, because Archbishop Foley had stressed the need for the teachers to be given the same assistance in the tertiary field as the Church had given in the primary and secondary fields. NDA planned eventually to become a broad acre residential campus following the Oxford and
Cambridge model of studying within a college, he said. "The best teaching in a truly residential university does not happen in a class but where a faculty
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member shares ideas with five or six students over a coffee or beer. "It is not the lecture about abortion that is effective so much as the asking of the theological questions."
Church 'no' YORK, England (CRS): The church of England's general synod rejected a motion calling for reforms of the World Council of Churches, but urged its delegate to the council to ask for a "constructive response" to criticisms of its administration and theology. The synod urged that future restructuring of the organisation should
focus on ecumenism, and supported the development of a "vital and coherent" theology to provide a base for the council's work. The Orthodox said they saw an "increasing departure" from the foundation of the council as "a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior according to the Scriptures".
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The Record Pleas on every side call for more money to be spent on better education. From comments flowing out of last weekend's Notre Dame Australia University debate a start should be made on simple arithmetic for slow leaners. The myth makers who froth endlessly about too much money being spent on private education are not only 30 years out of date, as Archbishop Hickey points out, they are just bad, very bad at their sums. In 1989-90, Australian governments nationwide spent 82.83% of education funds on the just 72.1% of children who are in government schools. They spent 17.17°/o on the 27.9°/o on pupils in other schools. Government schools had $8991 million spent on them; non government schools got along on $1864 million. It seems lost on these claimants to the public trough that the shortfall is being made up by parents paying fees and paying dearly for the buildings that governments won't provide. Thus it will be with Notre Dame notwithstanding the munifence of its one and only land grant. The fringe dwellers of politics don't know these facts because no-one will tell them the truth and they don't want to hear it. Instead of Julian Grill being feted by the media for calling his ALP brethren hypocritical catchers of Catholic votes, it would be better for local politicians to feel the blow torch of their electoral parents who are sick of being taken for granted and short changed over private school funding. But good arithmetic gets in the way of crocodile tears and misrepresentation. The figures would be lost on so called national students bleating about another university when others are packed to the doors and whilst students with nothing better to do major in demanding everything for themselves. An ABC radio reporter also got her arithmetic wrong. It was a close ALP vote on NDA, she said, not mentioning the 106 to 60 and obviously horrified at having to admit that nearly two-thirds of the delegates were in favour. And so to The West Australian which on Monday trundled out its now familiar resident Notre Dame critic-at-all-costs, Robert Reid. Never mind that the same Robert Reid in February blatantly misreported Archbishop Foley's NDA letter, managing at the same time to make seven errors in seven paragraphs in one story. Now he has changed tack, if not direction. He claims now that Archbishop Foley "failed to mention" NDA's land grant in a supportive letter to all Catholics signed on the afternoon of his death. Why Mr Reid's persistence? Because this fearless journalist is determined to manipulate Archbishop Foley, alive or dead, into having told Catholics to vote ALP over the Notre Dame land grant. Even archbishops know when such advice would make them laughable leaders of their flock but not so to side line commentators with their own agenda. This is supposed to be journalism. In reality it is a monopoly newspaper's arrogance in treating Catholics like mindless voting automatons. So off went Mr Reid and his compliant photographer to New Norcia — not to uncover the facts of the closure (clearly spelt out in this issue) and tell readers a few arithmetical facts about monies needed for a school to survive . . . The journey turned out to be only to feed his fantasy that nobody can get education right or spend money (theirs) unless to Mr Reid's satisfaction. For some unbelievable reason his remarks appear in a supplement publication claiming to be 'Insight'. How about 'Failing Vision'? 4
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Good chance for peace says SA churchman CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS): South Africa's new National Peace Accord creates "a very good chance for peace" because it creates structures for carrying out the agreement, said the president of the southern African bishops' conference. "There is such pressure — internal and external — on all leaders to do something about the violence that people are going to have to roll up their sleeves and do just that," said Bishop Wilfrid Napier of Kokstad, president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference. Bishop Napier and Archbishop Ambrose de Paoli, apostolic delegate in South Africa, represented the Catholic Church at the signing of the accord. Twenty-nine political parties, state and trade union organisations signed the agreement. The signers — including the South African government, the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party — "committed themselves to work within structures on national, regional and local levels, which means the message of peace can get through to grass-roots levels", said Bishop Napier. He said the Church would use its structures to work for peace in communities. "We're not going to leave it to the politicians," he said. The conference will "formulate ways to bring the accord to people at the grassroots level through parishes and small Christian communities", Bishop Napier said. The first step will
be to translate the document into local languages, he added. The peace accord provides for a police code of conduct which holds officers accountable to society for their actions, and a code which commits political parties to ingraining democratic tolerance in their membership. The document also establishes a monitoring and enforcement network under a National Peace Committee to back up the pact and resolve local and regional conflicts. Underlying those provisions is a set of basic principles calling for freedom of conscience, belief, speech, expression, association and movement, and the rights of peaceful assembly and political activity. All participants in the peace conference, including those which didn't sign because they are not part of an official structure, pledged to make the pact work, Bishop Napier said. One sour note, however, was a threatening presence of approximately 3000 armed members of Inkatha who gathered outside the Johannesburg hotel where the agreement was signed. The Inkatha followers "were staging mock battles and looked very threatening", Bishop Napier said. The show indicated that "making the accord work is going to be difficult". "Groups will try to exempt themselves from parts of the agreement from time to time," he said.
'We are praying...' End this absurd conflict call CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CMS): The Yugoslavian government must end the "tragic and absurd conflict" in the breakaway republic of Croatia, said Pope John Paul II as federal troops tightened their grip on major Croatian cities. 'File pope's strong appeal was coupled with a renewed call for European intervention to halt "the unjust and cruel war". "It is not with arms that disagreements among people are solved," he said during his midday Angelus talk. "I plead again to those responsible for the Yugoslavian government to put an end to this tragic and absurd conflict," he said. European countries "cannot escape the responsibility they have in confronting this drama", he added. Europe should "hurry up, should do things faster", said Bishop josip Bozanic of Krk, in Croatia. "We live in Europe." The bishop, interviewed in several Italian newspapers September 14 blamed the federal armed forces for prolonging the fighting.
"The armed forces, financed by all, are only at the service of the Serbs." he said. Bishop Bozanic said serious Serb-Croat problems began when the two ethnic groups became part of the same country, Yugoslavia. after World War I. Prior to that, Serbia and Croatia were part of separate empires. There was an "artificial pacification" during the decades of communist rule but problems "now reexplode in the post communist period", he said. "If we returned being independent, we could live together, communicate and cooperate. With independence we would be free and with equal rights," he said. "The Church does not stand on the front line" promoting independence, he said. "But it respects the choice of the people, who have pronounced themselves for independence. "The Church does not engage in politics and does not want to. But it can only be for democracy, freedom and the right of people to selfdetermination," he said.
LIMA: The fact that guerrillas are targeting priests in Peru is a sign that the Church's preaching and social work are having an effect among the people, said Bishop Gastelumendi of Chimbote.
"We are praying that the Lord will change the hearts of those who are spreading death and terror in Peru," Bishop Bambaren said. Recently he went to Rome with the body of an Italian missionary killed by Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas in late August. The Chimbote Diocese in west central Peru has been targeted by the guerrillas, who accuse the Church of "putting
consciences to sleep" with the Bible and promoting "imperialism" with its food and assistance programs, Bishop Bambaren said. Three priests were killed in the Chimbote Diocese in August, and Bishop Bambaren said threats are continually made against other Churchmen — including himself. The attacks are being carried out in the middle of an economic crisis, which the guerrillas want to exploit to fuel their armed struggle, he said. But Sender° Luminoso, a Marxist group, "find the road to its ideology blocked by the Gospel message and by the social
work carried out by the Church, and by groups of foreigners who are involved in development and co-operation", he said. Despite a propaganda campaign waged by the guerrillas against the Church, the Church's efforts to stop the spiral of violence is finding increasing acceptance among the predominantly Catholic population, the bishop said. Bishop Bambaren stressed that the priests have been targeted not because they were involved in political activity, but merely because "they followed a very honest path" and promoted the Gospel.
Pope's pick VATICAN CITY (CNS): A rchbishop Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Londrina, Brazil is the new secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.
A rchbishop Agnelo, 57, was president of the liturgy department of CELAM, the Latin American Bishop's Council. He was named bishop of Toledo, Brazil, in
1978 and archbishop of Londrina in 1982. Ordained to the priesthood in 1957, he has taught philosophy and liturgical and sacramental theology in several Brazilian seminaries.
Mediator priest gets reward BOGOTA, Colombia (CNS): Jailed Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has given a farm valued at $750,000 to the priest who mediated in his surrender. "Iwas in Medellin yester-
day, receiving a very beautiful farm which Mr Pablo Escobar gave me for social work," said Father Rafael Garcia Herreros, an 84-year-old Catholic priest who made the announce-
ment on his daily televised religious program. The priest, who for decades has raised money to build houses for the poor, said he was going to turn the 741-acre farm into a rehabilitation centre for young drug addicts from Medellin. The house and farm are located just outside Medellin.
Escobar, the Medellin cocaine cartel leader reputed to be one of the world's wealthiest men, is being held in a prison near Medellin after surrendering in June in exchange for a government leniency offer. Father Garcia Herreros met him several times to persuade him to surrender and accompanied him when he gave himself up.
The priest gave a glowing
description of Escobar on the drug trafficker's sur-
render, speaking of his "magnificent beard. glowing eyes" and of his "noble words for Colombia".
Later, he argued that he deserved the $800,000 reward offered by the government for persuading Escobar to surrender.
Rut the government said the purse was only for the capture of the narcotics
kingpin. Father Garcia Herreros made something of a reputation for himself in persuading fugitives and rebels to give themselves up. Fifteen members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia turned themselves over to his custody in July.
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Distribution of condoms under fire
BROOKLYN, NY (CNS): Bishop Daily of Brooklyn has c ondemned a condom distribution program in 16 New York City public high schools. In a 2000-word pastoral letter he called the program "gravely deficient" and "fatally flawed". Its chief message to students, he said, is that "the school believes that extramarital sex is acceptable as long as pregnancy and disease are avoided". If a school tries to say that teen sex is unacceptable while distributing condoms, then its message is "that the school has so little respect for the student that it considers him or her incapable of acting in a moral way", he said. Bishop Daily said a "parent opt-out" proposal has "some merit" but "is not a solution to the moral dilemma" that the condom program has created. "Once the Board of Education decides to make condoms available to some students, it is already implying to all students that promiscuous behaviour is an acceptable mode of conduct," he said. The program "violates the rights of parents" who have "the first
responsibility for the moral training of their children", he said. "Human sexuality cannot be separated from the moral norms that are in the domain of the family," he said. When public schools "enter this field of education in human sexuality", they can do so only under "the severe limitations and constraints" that come with recognising the primary role of parents and their right to instill true moral values, he said. "Morality is not relative in this regard," the Brooklyn prelate said. "The condom availability program fails the moral test for all students." He acknowledged that "sadly, many young people in our society have already become sexually active". But the answer, he said, is working to reverse the trend, not "encouraging young people to abuse sexuality". "Society places children in jeopardy when it allows them to continue promiscuous behaviour," Bishop Daily said. "Many young people will suffer gravely as a result. Premature involvement with sex wrecks young lives. . . The effects of encouraging immature youngsters to have sexual relations by making condoms available will have an even more horrible impact on the future of the youth of this city."
Second attack Missionaries blocked a sacrilege COLOMBIA (CNS) — A gunman shot and seriously wounded a Colombian judge inside a church as she attended a Mass in memory of her murdered husband, police said. A tall man pulled out a gun and fired at the judge, Fabiola Borrero, as she knelt to pray after receiving Communion. Ms Borrero, 45, a magistrate of the Cali Superior Court, could lose her right eye. The gunman and another man escaped on a motorcycle and police made no arrests. Cali, some 190 miles southwest of the capital, Bogota, is the base of a powerful cocaine-smuggling cartel. Drug traffickers have killed dozens of judges and officials who have crossed them. Mrs Borrero was attending a Mass to mark the first anniversary .of the death of her husband, lawyer Oscar Campo, who was murdered by gunmen. Archbishop Saenz of Cali condemned the sacriligious crime and said the gunman would be excommunicated, if identified. He ordered the church closed until a Mass of reparation was to be held "because of what it means to make an attempt on a person's life in a sacred place during the celebration of the Eucharist."
Culprits call
MEXICO CITY, (CNS): Salvadoran rebel negotiators say they want the murder of prominent Salvadoran clergymen resolved during the current peace negotiations with the Salvadoran government. A conclusion in the investigation of the murder of six Jesuits in 1989 is a demand put on the table by the rebels, said Salvador Samayoa. The case is among five "exemplary cases" which the rebels say they want settled as a demonstration of the government's sincerity about ending rights abuses. "From the beginning we have put forward our position that impunity (for rights abusers) has to cease and that there must be punishment in exem-
plary cases. "In the case of the Jesuits, we have said that the case must be taken through the entire legal process and there must be penal consequences" for those found guilty of the murders. Among other cases is the March 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, The archbishop, who was an outspoken critic of human rights violations committed by the Salvadoran military, was slain by a gunman while celebrating Mass in a San Salvador hospital chapel. In addition, the rebels are demanding the discharge of officers who have shown a disregard for democratic civilian institutions and have shown professional misconduct in the past.
NEW DELHI, India (CNS): Three Christian missionaries, including a Belgian priest, were denied Indian citizenship and were ordered deported after having worked in the country more than 40 years each.
The government said that the three failed to indicate on their petitions for citizenship an intention to reside permanently in India. It also turned down their requests for an extension of their residency permits.
VATICAN CITY (CNS):- Pope John Paul II, in an ongoing series of talks about the life of the church, emphasised the central place of the Eucharist for early Christians and foe today's faithful. "As a sacrament of the church, the Eucharist was and is the highest expression of the worship of God in spirit and truth," the pope said at his general weekly audience. He said the eucharistic liturgy recalls the crucial moment in the formation of the church — when Jesus shared bread and wine with his discipies as a sign of their participation in his eternal life. It was a moment of grace just before Christ's sacrifice on the cros,s, the pope recalled. The church's work of redemption continues today every time Mass is celebrated, he said. "In the Eucharist the crucified Christ remains present as the centre of the church's unity. Through his church he unceasingly calls all people to share in his life, in order that one day they may share in his eternal glory," he said.
Local church sources say the charges of instigating a land takeover, theft, illegal association and firearms possession have been fabricated in an attempt to silence Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal because of the recent church's of denunciation human rights abuses in the diocese. Father Padron is the second San Cristobal
diocesan priest to be jailed by the state in a little more than a year. In July 1990, a Belgian priest who served as pastor of the Soyatitan parish. Father Miguel Rotsaert, was arrested under similar circumstances. One week later he was summoned before immigration authorities in Mexico City and deported. This latest detention is the result of declarations made last week by Bishop Ruiz. in which he singled out the present (state) government as one of the most arbitrary in the last 30 years and listed a series of human rights violations in the state."
Human rights tied to a false morality VATICAN CITY (CNS): The promotion of human rights often is used as an excuse for encouraging immorality, Pope John Paul II told a group of Spanish bishops. "Promoted in the name of human rights, often conceived from the viewpoint of a narcissistic and hedonistic individualism, are sexual permissiveness, divorce, aborgenetic and tion engineering," said the
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Get your hands dirty RALEIGH, NC (CNS) — Archbishop Weakland challenged Catholics to "get their hands dirty" and use Catholic social teaching to transform society. In a teleconference celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical, "Rerum Novarum". We singled out the 1960s as the most active decade for Catholic social teaching with "Mater et Magistra" in 1961, "Pacem in Terris" in 1963, "Gaudium et Spes" from the Second Vatican Council in 1965 and "Populorum Progressio" in 1967. "The 1960s were full of Catholic social teaching," he said. "That was the great decade. The popes were giving us something every two years. "Oh, those of you who missed it, what you missed." Archbishop Weakland characterised "Centesimus Annus" as "a powerful document" issued in the wake of the collapse of communism in Europe. "The pope said that conditions really haven't changed all that much for workers all over the globe," he said. "The conditions of workers are still bad and ...we still have so much work to do." He urged American Catholics, "we who are rich in the eyes of the world," to put Catholic social teaching into action, and he offering some suggestions. "Charity — we don't talk much about it, but it's the first way in which we live out Catholic social t eaching," the archbishop said.
"I would say if you aren't giving between 5 and 10 percent of your income to charity, think about it. Because that it is the Christian thing to do." He also urged Catholics to be advocates for the poor and the marginalised in society and to help change societal structures to allow for their integration into society in a meaningful way. Catholics should re-examine the question of personal lifestyle, he said, predicting that ecology "will be the new wave that's going to somehow or other test every one of us concerning waste". To a caller, asking how women could work for justice in a church that did not appear to treat them with equity, the archbishop said. "This question will be the nub of the future." He conceded that he does not have an answer to the problem of women's equality in the church, but work should be done to preserve recent gains made by women in the church. "We have to continue to appreciate the gifts of women in the church and in society", Archbishop Weakland said. "Where would we be with our schools and our hospitals if women hadn't shown us how to do this?" "I have faith in the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit can turn Russia upside down, the Holy Spirit can turn the church upside down," he added. "I believe it's going to happen, if we stay faithful. It'll happen in a way that we don't expect and that we can't foresee. The Holy Spirit will see to it."
Moscow hears Papal colding s Church views VATICAN CITY (CNS): A top Vatican official urged Soviet labour leaders to use Catholic social doctrine as a guideline for rebuilding their society. Cardinal Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told the Soviets the teaching "can serve as the uniting thread to understand the events which today find their epicentre in Moscow", he said. The cardinal gave the keynote talk at a September 18-20 Moscow conference on "100 Years of Social Movements", sponsored by the Labour Academy of Moscow and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a private German organisation. He said Church doctrine is not a comprehensive political program nor does it "propose a third way between Marxist collectivism and liberal capitalism". This teaching is more a light than a road," he said. "There can be no social justice without freedom" but the image of freedom offered by democratic countries is not always reassuring to countries that have gained political freedom recently, he said. "A natural tendency leads man to consider freedom as a burden which he seeks to get rid of," the cardinal said. "It is more comfortable to be a slave than a master," he said. The Church counters with the message that internal spiritual freedom is vital to building a social system resting on external freedom, he said. 6 The Record, October 3, 1991
DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS): Former Irish prime minister Garrett FitzGerald said he was once scolded by the late Pope Paul VI for a proposal he had to liberalise Ireland's abortion and divorce laws. FitzGerald, in his memoirs published in a Dublin newspaper, said the brief audience with the pontiff in March 1977 left him "somewhat shellshocked". The incident followed proposals FitzGerald, who was then the Irish Republic's foreign minis'ter, had raised to Vatican officials as a means to ease tensions with the Protestants of Britishruled Northern Ireland. In his autobiography, "All in a Life", FitzGerald said that the pope spoke to him as if he was "bent on destroying Catholicism in Ireland — someone who had to be admonished in no uncertain terms". He said the pope addressed him in French for six or seven minutes, saying that Ireland was a Catholic country — perhaps the only one left — and that laws should not be changed to make it less Catholic.
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warehouse, awaiting final paperwork and a new antenna before it could go on the air. After Soviet coup leaders took over the national and local media Yeltsin's aides asked church representatives if their station could be pressed into service. Soldiers loyal to Yeltsin loaded the equipment onto a truck and took it to the Russian Parliament building under military escort. The station, with a juryrigged antenna, was connected just as Yeltsin arrived at Parliament after reportedly escaping arrest by the KGB at his home. He went on the air, asking citizens to rally outside the Parliament
to say thank you and to volunteer the Russian leader's assistance in Christian leaders future projects. Yeltsin's seconded the dramatic offer was accepted appeal, urging the faith- quickly. ful to bring religious As a result, on October icons to the 13 the Fatima Mass is demonstration. scheduled to be shown The station kept broad- live throughout the Ruscasting throughout the sian republic. crisis, giving the microThe Witnessing to God's phone to a pro- Love foundation is perestroika lineup of financed by Dutch opposition leaders, Catholic millionaire Piet churchmen and Russian Derksen, who has officials. funded a number of In mid-September, long Catholic media and after coup leaders were evangelisation projects arrested and commu- in recent years. The other sponsoring nism had fallen, the station still agency of Catholic Radio was transmitting. Television Network is Yeltsin's advisers later Aid to the Church in phoned the radio's spon- Need, a German-based sors in the Netherlands organisation. building and resist the coup.
Euthanasia patients do not have say WASHINGTON (CNS): A recent Dutch government study of euthanasia practices in the Netherlands showed that more than 1000 patients experienced involuntary euthanasia last year and another 14,000 had their lives shortened by painkilling medication without their consent. The 294-page report from the Remmelink comission, headed by the attorney general of the Dutch Supreme court, shows the failure of the Dutch "experiment with euthanasia," according to Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the US bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. "To say abuses have been found is an understatement," said Doerflinger in a Sept 26 state-
ment. "The Dutch government's findings show that 'abuses' — the cases which violate the limit set by Dutch courts — outnumber the cases falling within these limits by a factor of 10 to 1". The reports major findings were summarised in the British journal, The Lancet. Although euthanasia and assisted suicide are technically illegal in the Netherlands, court decisions since 1973 have given physicians broad discretion in judging whether to take such actions. All such deaths are to be reported to local prosecutors, who then decide whether to prosecute the physican. About 200 cases of euthanasia are reported
each year, according to the report said, and in figures from the Ministry only 40 percent of those of Justice, but the Rem- cases was the decision to melink report showed increase dosages "and that of the approximately the possibility that this 130,000 deaths in the might hasten the end of Netherlands in 1990, life" discussed with the there were 2340 cases of patient. voluntary euthanasia, Another 23,000 deaths 390 of assisted suicide were related to nonand 1040 of "life- treatment decisions, disterminating acts without cussed with only 30 explicity and persistent percent of those patients, request". the report said. Another 2600 deaths Doerflinger said total were listed by cases of voluntary orf researchers as "being in a involuntary euthanasia boundary area where the in the Netherlands — if alleviation of pain and the "boundary" cases are symptoms with high included — exceeded dosages of opioids has 6000 last year. "The same the concomitant goal of incidence projected to a shortening life". country the size of the Use of pain-killing United States would drugs was the most implicate physicians in important factor in the killing of 90,000 23,000 deaths in 1990, patients a year," he said.
Guerilla terror loses support LIMA, Peru (CNS): bunches of white flowPeru's Maoist guerrilla ers, shouted slogans like organisation, Sendero "We want peace, we want Luminoso, has grown life." through terror but is The protest was called losing popular support, the Coordinator of by said an adviser to the Kitchens and the Soup Peruvian bishops' of the Glass oordinator C conference. Father De Lis, a 59-yearold Spanish Jesuit said "But that is not political success,". More than 5000 women from Lima's shantytowns marched recently through the city center to protest suspected Maoist guerrilla attacks and threats against food-forthe-poor organisers. The marchers, many holding banners and
of Milk programs after Shining Path guerrillas in September shot and killed Juana Lopez, the leader of the milk program in a shantytown in the port of Callao. Guerrillas were also blamed for blowing up a food warehouse for soup kitchens in the Villa El Salvador shantytown south of Lima. Sendero denied responsibility for the bombing.
The guerrillas are also suspected of killing two leaders in Huaycan on the central highway. "We are here to march for peace and to demand an end to terrorism," said Marcelina Flores, whose three children eat breakfast in the glass of Milk program in the San Juan de Lurigancro neighborhood. "It is unjust that they are attacking organisations which are helping the poor," she added. As a political group, Sendero Luminoso "has two ruthless and highly destructive characteristics," said Father De Luis, "the ongoing MaoistStalinist internal purge
and the moral autism (disregard of reality) by which they call themselves moralisers when they murder, steal, kidnap, usurp civil rights or resort to any kind of violence." Noting that the rebels in recent months have killed an Australian nun and three priests — two Poles and an Italian — Father De Lis said that for the Maoist group "all must authority disappear". 'The church has a moral authority and carries out most of the social relief services which are, for Sendero, a social 'drug,— he said.
City life is spilling into the rural areas of the parish of South Lake at an everincreasing rate. With encroaching freeway extensions, frequent land subdivision and new homes springing up every week, bushlands are becoming residential areas and more and more parishioners are crowding into the Mass centre each Sunday. However, South Lake can still "muster" the rustic atmosphere when desired. So it was a popular parish outing recently when David and Cathy Clark, already well known for their parish horse-riding lessons, hosted a Mass and dinner in the hay shed o f their thirteen-acre property in Banjup.
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Have the key but no entry ROME (CNS): When a five-inch-long key was passed through the grill of the Cistercian cloister, it was a significant step toward ending the sixyear exile of Rome's American Catholic parish from the Church of Santa Susanna. In 1985 an anonymous caller told the Rome fire department that the ornate church ceiling sagged. The church was closed as a safety hazard. The 15 nuns in the Cistercian cloister of Santa Susanna have said repeatedly that the busy ministry of the American parish threatens their contemplative lifestyle. They also contend that they own the church. Paulist Father John J. Foley, pastor of the American parish said that a late 1990 letter from the Vatican promised an investigation of the ownership, but added that either way, the pope wants "the pastoral use of the church" directed toward US Catholics in Rome. There are an estimated 10,000 US Catholics living in Rome and its suburbs. Many attend local Italian parishes or no church at all. Attendance at weekend Masses has dropped from over 500 at Santa Susanna to about 300 at the parish's temporary quarters.
After Abbess Maria Roberta Cappiotti handed the key through the grill, Father Foley, other church officials and a lawyer went to the main door of the church. The abbess entered through the cloister to remove the bar inside the door.
"We all tried the key to make sure it worked," he said. "We all went into the church." And to top it all Rome's archaeologists have piled up 25 cubic metres of dirt from a 'dig'. The government was supposed to fix the ceiling, but didn't get much beyond eroding scaffolding before it ran out of money. Father Foley said he didn't know why the archaeologists chose Santa Susanna for the dig and why they weren't digging in the open courtyard, or at least putting the excavated dirt there. The dig is part of a study of foundations used in that area of Rome in the fourth century. The current church was completed in 1603 on the site of a ninth-century church built over a fourth-century church. The dig, Father Foley said, fits into "a pattern of making it difficult to get the church in shape for public use".
Scrolls publication row
Experts disagree on materials' rights WASHINGTON (CNS): A California research library's announcement that it will make its photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls available to anyone who asks raises "some unanswered questions" and "a whole complicated mess of international law", according to a Catholic editor of the scrolls. Eugene Ulrich, Old Testament professor at the University of Notre
Dame and one of three scholars overseeing the publication of the scrolls, said that the decision by the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif, was based on the mistaken premise that access to the scrolls had been unfairly limited in the academic community. The 800 scroll fragments, discovered more than 40 years ago in caves near the Dead Sea,
are stored at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem under the control of Antiquities Israel's Authority. Several sets of 3000 photographic negatives were made in 1980 as backup in case the scrolls were destroyed. According to an agreement, those who received (the photographs) were to be in charge only of their preservation, and
are obviously not permitted to publish them or show them to the public without permission, said Amir Drori, head of the Antiquities Israel Authority. Another party to the controversy is Oxford University Press, which has first rights to publication of all scrolls material. The Huntington announcement was the second controversy over
the Dead Sea Scrolls in a month. In early September, the New Yorkbased Biblical Archeology Society announced publication of part of the scrolls, based on computer enhancement of the concordance. Father Fitzmyer said then that the unauthorised use of the concordance to produce scroll texts was not ethical or helpful to scholarship.
Church needs patience Immediate recognition over iits history VATICAN CITY (CNS): The church needs clear principles, but also prudence and patience, when dealing with imperfections in its life and history, Pope John Paul II said. At his Sept weekly general audience, the pope said Jesus' parables about the kingdom of God show the divine plan for the church's historical and spiritual growth. The parable about the wheat and the chaff illustrates how "growth takes place against the background of the constant interplay of good and evil in the world, in
our lives and in the history of the church:' the pope said. In the parable the farmer decides to wait until the harvest to separate the weeds from the wheat so that the grain isn't accidentally thrown out with chaff. With the parable, he said, "Jesus teaches us to see things with Christian realism and to treat every problem with clear principles, but also with prudence and patience". "Only at the end of time will the wheat be separated from the chaff," he said. The parable about the
VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican has told Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that it recognises their independence and is ready to re-establish farmer scattering seeds normal diplomatic relations. on a footpath, on rocky "The Holy See never recognised the forced ground, among thorns and on good soil shows annexation in 1940 of these three states by the that the farmer's initia- Soviet Union," said a statement. tive has different results Since then, the Vatican "has considered different interrupted but not broken its diplomatic under circumstances. relations" with the three countries, said the The pope said the story statement. teaches that "the growth The Vatican "immediately recognised the
of the kingdom is dependent upon God's initiative, but also upon the receptivity and free decision of the individuals who recieve it". The parables, he said, taught the disciples what to do in order to give the kingdom of God its concrete beginning with the birth of the church.
national sovereignty of the three Baltic states" when they broke away from Russia in 1918 after the collapse of the czarist empire, and appointed
a diplomatic representative to the three countries in 1912, it said. The statement added that although Lithuania declared independence last year, the Vatican did not resume normal relations then because its secession "was accepted by Soviet authorities and recognised by the international community only in the past few days."
Enough of the absurd violence, says pope's envoy ZAGREB: Pope John Paul II's special envoy to Yugoslavia told warring ethnic forces "enough of the absurd violence". "Already too much blood has been spilled on this land," said Archbishop Tauran during a homily at a Mass in the breakaway republic of
Croatia. A rchbishop Tauran made his remarks after spending the day meeting with Yugoslavia's bishops at the request of the pope. All Yugoslavians, he said, can join the Croatian bishops in what they said in late July —
"peoples have a right to peace in truth and freedom, in justice and in love", but the current violence is not leading to that end. The archbishop asked the people to pray to Mary, who hears "the pain of the many Croatian and Serbian mothers
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"Enough of the absurd violence. Already too much blood has been spilled on this land," he said. "We make this cry to heaven." A rchbishop Tauran ended his homily with a
common Father of Serbs and Croatians". He prayed God would help people to learn that violence is not the way to solve problems.
history," he prayed. "May the God of mercy save the Croatian people, the Serbian people and all the other peoples of Yugoslavia from an even worse catastrophe.
"May those responsible for so much violence understand the lessons of
"May the roar of weapons stop and refugees be able to return to their houses," the archbishop
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said. "May hate subside and distrust and fear disappear. "May the leaders of peoples who live side by side on this strip of a Europe which is knocking down barriers be able to come together to build a future of peace and prosperity."
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The person of integrity recognises this and refuses to subject others Society is layered with ander Pope termed the to such abuse. Again, it is s elf-serving attitudes honest person "the an act of love. toward truth and justice. noblest work of God". To maintain integrity is Noting our growing A dvertisers bombard us Integrity, pure and to face up to tough discomfort, the committee chair suggested that with outlandish claims, simple, is personal choices that continually confront us: Do we do we call room service for politicians cleverly use wholeness. There is no disparity this or do we do that? another round of coffee. doublespeak to mask their true intentions and About 10 minutes later, many industrialists are between what we say or Sometimes what we do and the convictions of should do is evident. In a waiter appeared. prone to sacrifice the our heart. But it is more these instances, we only After setting down his common good on the need courage and grace than that. tray, he asked to whom altar of profit. to proceed. It is having our values he should present the When we experience clearly in focus to begin But in other situations, bill. such goings-on, we know with. the right choice is not so The chair informed him integrity is being As Samuel Johnson clear. that the coffee was compromised. For example, in Jesus' said, "Integrity without compliments of the hotel, Yet these actions are knowledge is weak and parable of the Good and offered him a tip of such a part of our social useless, and knowledge Samaritan, both the several dollars. fabric that we begin to without integrity is dan- priest and Levite who Smiling graciously, he take their inherent lies gerous and ultimately passed by the dreadful". informed her that if the and subterfuge almost unconscious traveller Integrity is not just coffee was being pro- for granted. had to decide if they about attaining high vided by the hotel, he did That is the danger. moral character, it is an would risk becoming not wish a tip. For when we do this, we act of love. The reason ritually impure by touchWhen the chair once risk losing the subtle but Christians want to be ing him if he were dead. again offered the tip, he important Doing so would have nuances people of integrity is not politely declined. between right and only to stand righteous prevented them from As the waiter was wrong. before God but also to carrying out their duties closing the door behind at the Temple, with the love others. We risk beginning to cut him, several committee moral corners, rationalisIntegrity is vital to the likely loss of money members communicated ing our actions against sound development of a needed for their families. their approval with the backdrop of society's community and its A tough choice. expressive glances. tolerance for self-serving individuals. Because the path of Someone said, "Now morality. integrity is not always Without it, we could not that's integrity for you"! It is no wonder that we live in peace and secur- clearly marked for us, we What was surprising to esteem people of ity. We depend on the need, in addition to us about the incident is integrity. authenticity of what courage and grace, a that we were surprised. prayerful orientation in We speak fondly of others say and do. life. In today's atmosphere Honest Abe Lincoln, of The unfaithful mate, of acceptable greed and George Washington who, the dishonest employee, Meister Eckhart, the easily compromised as legend has it, told the the deceptive neighbour, medieval mystic, wrote principle, the discovery painful truth as a boy, of the cheating scientist that "in silence man can of simple, unabashed St Thomas More, Eng- take from us what is mostly preserve his integrity was startling as land's chancellor under perhaps our most impor- integrity". well as refreshing. Henry V111, who accepted tant ingredient for a It is in quiet, reflective Maintaining integrity death rather than com- healthy life: the ability to moments that we can today is no easy task.. promise his values. Alex- trust. clarify our values and By Neil A. Parent
Abraham was a "big" By Father John J. Castelot person, a man of integrity. He acted on his convictions even when extended family and land. This time he ways while still on that called for making freedom to move about encountered a situation speaking terms. difficult choices. as he liked. Pulling up that put his integrity to Generously he let Lot Convinced God had stakes could not have the test. His livestock had choose where he wanted called him, he answered been easy. But he went, increased, but so had that to settle. "If you prefer the left, I will go to the resolutely. But his call was "as the Lord directed of his nephew, Lot. him, and Lot went with The land did not offer right; if you prefer the a call to the unknown. him" (Genesis 12:4). resources enough to right,I will go to the left" "Go forth from the land several of journey a After sustain them both. So (Genesis 13:9). of your kinsfolk and from arrived he miles hundred their herdsmen got Lot surveyed the land your father's house to a God Canaan. of land the at involved in squabbled and noticed that the area land that I will show had he him assured around the Dead Sea over territory. you" (Genesis 12:1). reached his destination. "was well watered . . . In that call was a Almost immediately he Abram, as he was called like the Lord's own in Scripture at this point, promise of future great- faced another choice. took the initiative in garden". He chose that ness, but Ahraham had There was a famine in settling the disputes. He and they separated. no idea how it would be the land, and he had to pointed out to Lot that The incident reveals the fulfilled. leave it for Egypt where friction between kins- bigness, the integrity of He had been comforta- food was available. men was most unplea- Abram. Really big people was ble where he was. He sant. It was better that are sure of themselves. a prosperous sheik with After a sojourn there, he they went their separate They are not afraid that promised abundant livestock, an returned to the seek God's help to maintain them. In the void of silence, we confront our prejudices, selfish dispositions and other misguided values. Left unaddressed, they gradually can eat away at our integrity until it is too weak to be of much use.
Integrity places us in harmony with God because God is integrity itself. The psalmists continually praise God as justice and truth. When Christians hold fast to Gospel values they reflect God. By practising integrity
generous considerateness of others will diminish them. Abram gave Lot first choice and in the process grew in stature. It was not an easy choice and he may have had some misgivings as he watched Lot march off to the lush green of the well-wateied plain. If so, the misgivings were temporary. For later, when hostile kings invaded Lot's land and he was captured, Abram mustered a small army and went to his rescue. People of integrity stand by their convictions, even at the cost of personal inconvenience and risk.
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both the big and small matters of our lives we give others a taste of God's love. In the truest sense, the practice of integrity is a key means of helping to make God's reign in our world more evident. We can all use a little more of that.
Choosing among your options A few weeks ago, a
young man finishing his fourth year in high school, came to talk with me. He is an intelligent 17-year-old, already showing the strength of character which, I suspect, will mark his life. He recently became more active in his parish's youth ministry and his leadership abilities were quickly surfacing. But that concerned him. To be sure, there was some of the teenager's
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fear that being seen as religious might get in the way of his social life. And he did not want another responsibility to conflict with his sports activities. But that was not a major concern. More to the point was his grasp of the demands of leadership. He knew that his time, his behaviour and his values would no longer be his own as they had been. He was being asked to be responsible for other people right when he
By Father David K O'Rourke, OP was learning how to get what he wanted for himself. He isn't sure he wants that. For that means spending time on the phone rounding up help for our programs. It means promoting group projects. It means high visibility and public accountability. He finds it flattering that his friends look to him for ideas and deci-
sions. But they are also prepared to call him to account for the success or failure of their projects. Does he really want that kind of responsibility? That question is what brought him to see me. "rm only 17 and they're trying to make me responsible for all these things. Why me?" We talked about the
responsibility for other people, or can I do what I want to do?"
burdens that talent can create, and it was clear he would be just as happy being one of the crowd.
Iresponded that he may well not "have to" accept the responsibility, since this was not a matter of a crisis or emergency.
But he also recognised that, when it comes to organizing and motivating others, he can do easily what many others cannot do even with effort. Then he asked an even tougher question: "Do I have to take on all this
But, I added, "we both know you have a strong conscience. Where that leaves you as far as being true to yourself goes only you can answer." He looked at me with the beginning of a sly smile. "You're no help," he said.
Francisco is tr lig to decide, even at hi Young age, one of our nx t basic questions. He will s to do what is right. 'e has optitieois nss.tart Whinegre I)es he go? to mderstand a truth about het take e himself: thatthee r fl3eopi h care of other better than mosI 3eople thishisage ah.juHtey also $s that see', to be ogurwin ro cigv.iO c urco : pailiburtaintyd need people lot him, and he knows thi He is also smarill°ugb
to see that the opportunities for a talented young man in our area can lead to jobs with a very high living standard. Where do these truths leave Francisco? "Do I take care of Numero Uno like most people seem to, or do I think of helping other people?" Talking this out seems to help Francisco think through the possibilities. He has a strong conscience. It will be interesting to see how he puts it to work in the future.
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What forces in life pressure people to compromise personal integrity? Selected Responses From Readers: "People tend to compromise themselves when they're trying to hand on to a public image that they're not quite up to." — Lorraine Tucker. "Economic situations will cause a breadwinner to compromise his or her values rather than lose a job." — Dick Naumann. "Money". — Roy Alexander. "The variances in social mores and the fact that people tend to accept anything these days. Paapie tend to do what is easy because less in expected laily." — Mike Harvey. "Friends and peer pressure." — Karen Desideg. "Fear or anxiousness about fitting in." — Dan Sullivan. The Record, October 3, 1991
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Give these kids a taste of love Foster homes are in demand The Catherine McAuley Family Centre (CMFC) in Wembley is looking to foster out seven children under its Foster Care program, but believes the foster homes need to be special, because their seven children are special too. The CMFC has come a long way since its inception with the Sisters of Mercy caring long before the turn of the century. Originally it provided alternative care for abandoned children, orphans and unmarried mothers and from there moved on from institutional group care to group home care about 13 years ago, still on the CMFC site. Since then the children cared for within the group homes have come from a variety of unsettled backgrounds. It became apparent that some of the children could be better cared for in a more individualised family setting within the community. Hence the Foster Care program was set up and the first child placed 20 months ago in a foster home. Within the last 12 months the group homes have become more specialised and are split into three areas. . .long term group care where family clarification work takes place, and preparation for foster care. It is under this program that there exists an innovatory preparation group home where direct care workers Lyn and
John Jacques work intensively with the children, placing special emphasis on life story work. Social worker Sally Watkins also provides much expertise in this area, according to Trish McAuliffe, program coordinator. Life story work entails a therapeutic approach in which the social worker joins with the children and their families to prepare an historical perspective, filling in gaps in knowledge from birth onwards, and working through unclear or difficult issues from the past at the child's pace. This enables the children to have a more coherent self identity, said Lyn, so they can move forward with greater optimism for their futures. The children's backgrounds have often been disrupted, said Lyn and Trish, leaving emotional and behavioural damage, so the CMFC is looking for parents who have experiece with children, who are firm, patient and who have love to give. The following are thumbnail sketches of t he children, under pseudonyms, whom the Centre wishes to foster out so they can experience normal family life. • 'Michael' — described as a cuddly ten year old needing lots of care and loving; preferably with a mum and dad with no children close to
The Lesmurdie Parish Family Support program has joined the Diocesan Parish Care network. The new direction means the growth and expansion of the current program and a change of name to LOURDESCARE. LOURDESCARE brings it under the patronage of Our Lady of Lourdes, who is honoured in the Oblate Hills parish. A special launch weekend has been planned for October 19-20 to publicise the new name and invite more volunteers.
his age. Apparently he's proving quite an athlete and has been very successful in school sports, especially running. • 'Jenny' is a bright, attractive eight year old girl who would like to be the older of two chidren. She loves her brother and mother dearly and needs to keep in touch with them. 'Jenny' wants a patient, quiet, calm family who are kind and caring — and which doesn't fight. She needs a strong mother figure who can make a commitment to her until she's grown up.
none of whom can reside with their family who live in another state. 'Janine' is very interested in sport and would like a family who had clear boundaries but who were "not too strict". • 'Andrea' one of the t wins, loves younger children and pets, whilst 'Jeremy' her twin brother
has a sharp sense of humour, entrepreneurial tendencies, sporting interests, and needs a family which is patient, tolerant and will foster his emerging independence. He would like a strong father figure who will become interested and involved with him.
Father Ryan has encouraged the development of the program and said that "the changes will bring great support for the existing program from a wide network in the diocese and beyond". Carmel Smith and Mog Piasecka, initiators of the program said that volunters already involved in the Lesmurdie Parish Family Support project were very pleased to be part of the new development.
It's art time again Next Sunday October 13 in the New Norcia Gallery, the opening of the 1991 Mandora Prize for Religious Art and the announcement of this year's winner take place. Such will be the seventh consecutive prize and if the vital organising commitment continues to entice the strong enthusiasm of artists seeking selection, then the whole concept deserves to become an immovable
Sue Lang, Carmel Smith, Meg Bowness, Mog Piasecka and Loretta Elders. The Record, October 3, 1991
Program co-ordinator Trish says if anyone feels they may be able to offer any of these children a home, would they please contact her at the CMFC on 381 9222 for further details.
• 'John' is a bright, active ten year old who would like to be the youngest in the family. He would enjoy the companionship of older boys and likes soccer and model making. He needs a strong father figure and a family who are very consistent and insightful. Although unable to live with his family he is very proud of them and would need a foster family who would encourage contact with them. • 'Vanessa' is an attractive teenager who is athletic with a strong interest in theatre arts. She too likes to maintain contact with her mother and siblings. • `Janine' aged 14 has twin siblings 'Andrea' and 'Jeremy' aged 12;
feast on the State's art calendar. Thirty-two artists from across Australia have been selected for the current contest, with each offering a response to the Gospel theme "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you". If past collections are guides then the new responses will vary from the figurative to the cerebral. Restrictions on personal interpretation have never been applied. It is ecumenical in every contemporary sense and sensitivity. This year's judges (Rt Rev Bernard Rooney, Abbot Emeritus of New Norcia, Paula LatosValier, Director of the Art Gallery of WA, Sandra Murray as Curator of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA, Noel Sheridan the Director of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and established artist Robert Juniper) will share the excitement of analysing the artists' approaches regarding the theme and then their very public qualities as submissions for success.
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The CMFC would like to place these three children in one family if possible. Foster families received subsidies towards the cost of the child's care, are encouraged to participate in training provided, and have the support of the CMFC professional team.
The winner will receive The Kevin Sullivan Art Award which provides a return airfare to Italy
with studio space and accommodation in Tuscany for up to two
months. (One entrant this year who won another such prescriptive prize remarked a few years back that "cash often goes into replacing roof-gutters or a few new pickets and other essentials".) Three separate nonacquisitve awards of $500 each will go to highly -commended entries. Following the exhibition which closes in New Norcia on November 3, the paintings move to
Allendale Square (November 12-23 — and opened by Archbishop Carnley) and then on to New Collectables Gallery in East Fremantle for a final exposure from November 26 to December 1. It is the only established prize for religious art in WA and deserves wide support. While the sponsoring Mandorla Centre is a group of lay Catholics, this particular peak in their annual program is aimed at the thoughtful and perceptive public. — Murray Mason.
John Paul, who won the Kevin Sullivan Award in 1990 for his painting based on the theme of The A nnunciation.
Presentation Sisters 200 years service Big happenings are taking place for the presentation sisters in
WA.
New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Scotland, Thailand, the United States, Zambia and Zimbabwe now know the Presentations. The latest initiative is their three sister mission in Ratchaburi, Thailand, with yet another sister working in the Bangkok slums. This all adds up to a lot of womanhood and in fact there are about 3,530 sisters globally. But in particular it represents a lot of sistergiven generosity working for the happiness and well being of God's people.
Let's face it! — They've been here for a hundred years and have certainly made their presence felt. Arriving in Tasmania in 1866, they came to Geraldton in their first WA initiative (which has just seen its centenary celebrations with special invited guest Bishop O'Sullivan from Co Kerry, Ireland), and then spread to their other locations at Port Hedland, Karratha, Carnarvon, Mullewa, Lockridge, Rivervale, South Lake, Claremont, Mosman Park, Mandurah, Brunswick Junction, Collie, Mirrabooka, Lesmurdie and Cloverdale. On the international front, from their initial Irish beginnings under their foundress Nano Nagle 200 years ago, they're now also in 23 other countries on six continents.
Being their WA centenary, and the year planned for the Assembly of the Presentations' international group the International Presentation Association which is meeting formally for its first time, WA was the obvious choice of venue.
Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, England, Ghana, Guyana, Guatemala, India, Israel, Mexico, Newfoundland Canada,
This week thus has seen sisterhood links forged anew with the coming together of 40 sisters, 28 of them from overseas.
It's been a week of exchanging ideas, putting more in to a think tank and coming up with the best directional focus for the sisters from hereon and also providing a sought-for opportunity to join hands with sisters across our vast country and over the seas on other shores. The theme is Beyond the Possible and started off with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Healy at Mosman Park, along with a number of priests from throughout the state. The sisters believed the formation of an international group was necessary to keep in touch and informed, which had become difficult being spread globally. This has now been done and will prove an ongoing forum to fortify sisterhood and unity of purpose, according to Sister Gabriel Burns PBVM. "There seems to be a trend among the Presentation Sisters internationally towards justice, the rights of people, the sacredness of the person, and fighting for their
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REUNION 1991 marks the centenary of Presentation presence in Western Australia and to celebrate this occasion a special dinner will be held.
Fremantle Sailing Club Marine Terrace, South Fremantle
Monday, November 4, 1991 (eve of Melbourne Cup) 7pm for 7.30pm For past lona students For tickets send cheque for $25 to Past Pupils Dinner lona Presentation College 33 Palmerston Street, Mosman Park, WA 6012 Atter hours: Convent 384 5092 Perth sees its first ever Presentation Assembly.
The cause they adopt may sometimes seem hopeless but so was the situation of Abraham, Sarah and Isaac, Bishop Healy told the Presentation Assembly. Bishop Healy said that Christianity demanded that we serve others and for Presentation foundress Nano Nagle that took one form — the education of poor people in Ireland. "For you who come from so many countries and so many cultures, it will take different forms perhaps but it will always be an expression of the commandment of love. "It will always be founded on faith, faith on
the promise of God as in the case of Abraham. "Sometimes the cause you adopt may seem hopeless, but so was the situation of Abraham and Sarah, later of Abraham and his son Isaac when God provided a ram for the sacrifice. "Much will depend on you yourselves and your relationship with God." the choosing In Emmaus story for the mass, Bishop Healy said, "you are saying that the Eucharist is the foundation of every community and of every gathering of every community". "It is a representation of the structure of the early Christian Assembly. The
dialogue on the road represents the Liturgy of the Word and the meal is the Eucharist. "You, the Sisters of the Presentation, in your Assembly will dialogue with Jesus, and join with him in the Eucharist, and with each other to prepare new paths for your Order. "Pertinent not only to this Assembly of the Presentation Sisters but indeed to all of us is the thought that God is saying to us that those who open their table to the stranger and share a meal with him or her, will also recognise the Lord and will be reestabished in hope."
Rehab for women
India The program is located CALCUTTA, The in a Calcutta facility (CNS): Missionaries of Charity called Shantidan (Gift of are using therapy to Peace). rehabilitate mentally handicapped women The women, classified whose only alternative as "non-criminal lunathas been life in a jail ics" by the West Bengal state government, had cell.
been jailed because the Since it began the city had nowhere else to program in February, put them. 1990, the missionary order, founded by Shantidan residents Teresa of have included handiMother Calcutta, has rehabili- capped and mentally tated 40 women formerly disturbed women who warehoused in jails. were jailed as children.
Mother Teresa asked for when they leave permission to take Shantidan. charge of 15 more West Bengal's minister women now lodged in a federal jail in Calcutta. for jails estimates that 1000 women are still Some of the women at housed in Calcutta's two Shantidan work in the jails for lack of other centre's shoemaking sec- accommodations. tion. They cut, paste, sew and finish leatherware. Some women reportedly remain incarcerated A shoe company gives because their relatives material and training refuse to take them back and pays the women. even after they recover, The women's earnings behave normally and are are deposited in their issued court release bank accounts to be used orders. The Record, October 3, 1991
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from Mrs Doris MARTYR, A ttadale Sir, The ecumenical movement has achieved much greater friendliness and understanding between many Church bodies in Australia, and this is to be warmly applauded. But surely as a Catholic, Bishop Bede Heather has gone too far in saying (Record Sept 26, 1991), "No single church sees itself as the sole heir of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Australia today-. Unity of Christian churches will come only when all are guided, under God, by objective truth as well as fraternal charity. The objective truth in this case is that the Catholic Church does
see itself as the sole heir of the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, in Australia and everywhere else.
No. 3). All the means of salvation belong to the Catholic Church, even those found accidently outside her structure, for example Holy Scripture and Baptism. (See Vat II, Constitution on the Church, No.8). To deny this claim is essentially religious indifferentism. If all the churches, including the Catholic Church, possess only part of Christ's truth, how does one possibly find out what is the f ullness of that truth, and what is truth, what is error? And why should one bother to be a Catholic — why not join of the the other Churches that take a softer line on many things like divorce a nd remarriage, the
obligation of Sunday worship, and artificial contraception? I remain a Catholic because I know that she is Christ's one true Church, founded by Him on the rock of Peter, uniquely filled with the fullness of his divine and eternal message, and possessing all the means of salvation which He gave us in His Divine mercy. Catholics devoutly wish to share this totality with those in other Churches who have only part of the message, but denying this essential Catholic doctrine won't help anyone towards Christian unity in Christ, let alone towards eternal salvation.
so naive as to think these things didn't happen, but why scandalise the church on television? Was it supposed to attract people to loin the religious life and priesthood, telling them in a subtle way, they do not have to give up their sexuality? The answers I have been getting will not allow me to bury my head in the sand and accept that this was for "The Good of the Church".
and more without anyone offering opposition to them("Mary speaks to her Beloved Priests.")
Our Blessed Lady has said "I am weeping because the Church is continuing along the road of division of loss of true faith, of apostasy and errors being spread more
What is wrong with us? We are allowing from within, by our silence, our faith to be torn down and to be ridiculed and we are being conned.
I am proud of my faith that the martyrs of long ago died for and also the ones of today who still continue to spread God's word are being killed for, the people who work in the mission-fields and suffer hardships of all kinds for His sake. Can't we at least, who live in comfort support these people by bricking up the wall that is being chipped away by so called enlightened people "My people are bent on turning away from me, so they are appointed to the yoke and none shall remove it." (Hosea)
The Catholic Church, of course, admits that nonCatholics in good faith, in virtue of their connection with or desire for the true Church, can be and are saved by God's bountiful grace. But she does see herself as the one True Church, founded by Christ, and sole heir of the fullness of His gospel, the only true mark of salvation, the Mystical Body of Christ in which, and only in which, are found all the means of salvation, so that only in the Church are men and women regularly saved (See Vat II, Ecumenism,
What were the 'Brides' up to? Mrs G CROCKER, Coolbellup Sir, I cannot understand why we are supposed to accept -The Brides- as something good for the Church's sake. I have discussed this with both lay people and religious, with mixed reactions. l am supposed to be satisfied by the answer "It's about the change of attitudes in the Church". We are being conned by the media again and supposed to be satisfied with this answer. What is the point of showing "Brides"? I am not
Where are our leaders? Mary our Blessed Mother has said, "Pope John Paul II is her Pope" and yet in this show he is ridiculed as 'The Old Woman in Rome- and now I read in The Record we should thank the ABC for this broadcast
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Jesuits Father Jim Dynon's last words were typical of his spirituality, confrere Father John Prendiville said last week.
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"If I go to heaven, I shall pray for you all," said Fr Dynon on the night before he died at the Little Sisters of the Poor Home in Glendalough where he had been chaplain. Fr Prendiville said that four of the beatitudes read at the funeral Mass in Holy Rosary Church Nedlands had characterised the priest who had spent his last 17 years in Perth. As one poor in spirit he had understood the human limitations of mortality and he had a purity of heart that was not divided, but single minded on God, Fr Prendiville said Fr Dynon showed that he was a good and patient listener who
social institution. She is concerned with the spiritual well being of her people. She can never sacrifice the truth for social change, the whims of a pluralistic society or the demands of a power hungry minority. The self sacrifice, cornmittment to education and love of the church of our past (and some present) orthodox nuns will not be forgotton. I wonder if the same can be said for the "nuns" on Couchman's panel?
never turned anyone away and always encouraged. He was an expert on Saint Ignatius' spirituality and was devoted to Christian Life groups for whom he had attended five meetings in the week of his death. He had a great devotion to the loving heart of Jesus that he parcelled out to all who crossed his path. His hunger and thirst for justice was proved in action when he established and directed for 20 years the Jesuit Indian mission support group and without which the mission might have failed. Not a few supporters had found themselves invited to a bible study or prayer group as well, Fr Prendiville said. Fr Dynon's view of mercy was to always leave something for God. In his years at St Thomas More College he had been a counsellor and friend to many students, always interested in some detail of their lives. "He went in their way and came out God's way," Fr Prendiville said.
from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands Sir, There was a typographic error in my letter of September 19. It should have read: "In the 1970s it was a tradition that about 25% of the Public Service were under the age of 21 - (not 2.5%). This was the central point that I was making. Today the government discriminates against young people. It gives preference to middle aged women, who now perform the tasks that were traditionally done by junior typists and clerical assistants.
Originally from Melbourne where his name features on the honour boards of Xavier College where he was educated, Fr Dynon joined the Jesuits in 1930 aged 20 and was ordained in 1944. He was secretary to the Jesuit provincial for a time and was subsequently parish priest of North Sydney for nine years May he rest in peace.
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DianeIla Antioch held a renewal weekend at their parish centre on August 30 — September 1. every person in every walk of life. The stresses of change While the recent tele- much mileage repeating It should be comforting can either fertilise one's vision series "Brides of reflections stolen from to have confirmed on natural virtues and cause Christ" surfaced sev- the series' closing scene television what most them to flourish in eral ticklish topics in — as if we needed them Catholics already know miraculous ways, or bury Catholic conscious- to explain it — in which — that even (and per- them altogether. ness, it should have the central character, haps especially) in times The difference lies in brought comfort as while defending her of difficulty and change, one's most basic outlook well as consternation decision to leave the the virtues of fidelity, on life and view of the to many minds. convent, heaps praise on openness and persever- world. sisters ance bring forth great good IfIrely solely on myself Journalists and com- the personal fruits in the and on my own perspecmentators have made themselves. lives of many religious tive in forming judgemen and women. ment of the world, then • Catholic Social Justice Commission This is praiseworthy change is more likely to indeed. It is also true for create destructive stress • and Morley Young Christian Group present
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Benezet the bridge builder Rivers are fun places to go fishing and boating. But rivers also can be very dangerous. Many people drown each year in river waters. People so easily drive or walk across bridges over rivers that they rarely stop to think what they would do if the bridges were not there. Many years ago, a young shepherd boy named Benezet spent his days caring for his mother's sheep in the quiet woods along the Rhone River at the city of Avignon in France. Alone with his sheep all day, Benezet enjoyed watching the river flow by, but he never dared try to cross it. He often heard of people dying as they tried. Some swam and drowned when they were
carried away by the Benezet seriously, but strong currents. Others slowly came to believe drowned when their God was calling this small ferry boats sank in uneducated young shepherd to build the needed the swift waters. Benezet's heart went out bridge. So Benezet began his to those who died in the river and to their families. great work of love in 1177 He prayed for them. But A.D. It was slow work he felt he had to do more. beause he had to raise Gradually he became money, recruit workers, convinced God wanted design the bridge, buy the him to build a bridge materials and oversee the across the Rhone River at construction. At every step along the Avignon. But Benezet was a young way Benezet had to learn shepherd. He had no the necessary skills and money. He knew nothing face new challenges. about building bridges. Building a stone bridge Still he believed God across a large river called him to build the without modern equipbridge so people could ment was no small task. cross the river safely. Benezet faced constant His mother tried to problems and obstacles, discourage him. He but he never gave up. For visited the bishop of him this was a work of Avignon and told him of compassion and love. his dream. At first the Young Benezet worked bishop did not take hard for seven years with
the team of workers he had gathered. He became a hero to the people of Avignon as they watched their first bridge over the Rhone River gradually take shape. Benezet died suddenly in 1184 before the bridge was completed. He was only about 20 years old. The people of Avignon so admired Benezet for his creative life of selfless service that they built a chapel on the bridge and buried his body in it. Because so many people died trying to cross the rivers back then, bridge building was considered a work of mercy, like feeding the hungry, housing the homeless or nursing the sick. So the people of Avignon honoured Benezet as a saint. We continue to honour St Benezet as the patron of bridge builders.
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The Mysterious Giant of Barletta by Tomie de Paola, publishedby Picturemac/Macmillans Children's Book: $6.99. In the southern part of Italy, on the Adriatic Sea, is the town of Barletta. This Adriatic town is quiet; it is not visited by many tourists. But there is something special in Barletta, standing right there in front of San Sepolcro Church. That something special is a gigantic statue of a y'oung man. Some say it's the largest statue in all of Europe. No one knows exactly how it got there or exactly who it is supposed to be. One thing is sure — the people of Barletta love their Mysterious Giant. They tell stories about him. One of their favourite stories about the Mysterious Giant is how, in the eleventh century the giant statue saved the town of Barletta. This is that story
Basil, the loneliest boy in the block by Jason Timlock illustrated by Brett Colquboun, published by Viking Kestrel.
Tulika Ballet by Edwards, published by Collins. $7.95. This book looks at the exciting world of ballet.
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I tust sat there, letter in one hand, photograph in the other. Gradually, horribly I screwed the picture up tight into a ball. It seemed as if a great weight had fallen from the sky and was crushing me to bits. Rina is intrigued when her Aunt Jo leaves her a letter and a photograph. Little does she know the letter will contain news that will change her life for ever and change the glorious summer she has just spent with Stephen.
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secure them in a calico bag, then tie the bag to a fresh water eel and let it swim away. A poultice of plain flour and castor oil will draw out a boil. Ginger tea, made from fresh or ground ginger. A drug free remedy for colds. South American grandmas would stitch a severe cut with . . . ants! Those with fluid retention have a good excuse for drinking beer, it is a diuretic. Grandma has passed on her remedies for colds, insomnia, backache, stress, and travel sickness. There's tips on baby care, beauty treatments, pregnancy; and how to avoid varicose veins. For the environmentally conscious, Grandma has given us some great ideas on repelling pests without using insecticides. She also suggests numerous herbal treatments. There's a useful chart outlining the preparation of medicinal herbs. Grandma's Favourite Remedies is a charming mix of fact and fiction, reality and myth which will become an entertaining and informative guide to curing your family's aches and pains!
provide an important insight for living a Christian life today. In this booklet, Bob Maguire provides a thought provoking approach to the
Beatitudes for today's Christian. Accompanied by delightful illustrations, Father Maguire offers a contemporary Catholic social justice reflection and a sketch of people who personify the ideals suggested by the Beatitudes. Father Bob Maguire is a Priest of the Melbourne Archdiocese. Parish Priest of South Melbourne since 1973, he also Chairs the Open Family Foundation which works with homeless young people in Melbourne. Also available in the Parish Pamphlet Series: Prayers for a Listening Heart, Paul Castley Pray. . . as you are, Brian Gallagher. Moment by moment, prayers for Women, Heather Harvey Mary's Journey, Shane O'Connor and Susan Daily. Social justice in everyday life, ACSJC. The Hatstand, Denise Ryan. Befriending the Text, Michael Trainor.
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The Beatitudes from the Parish Pamphlet Series It) Father Bob Maguire (Collins Dove $4.99). At the heart of Jesus' teachings. the Beatitudes
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of nine. Then, 15 years later, Leda — strong, sensitive and rich with experience — changes his life forever. She brings excitement, criticism, truth, love — and a touch to recreate him. A touch enough to bring both wisdom, and the will to survive beyond the end of their affair. . .
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The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark. Published by Collins. $16.95. First published in 1941, Eleanor Dark's classic novel of the early settlement of Australia is a story of hardship, mutiny, savagery and danger. Above all, it is the story of conflict: of the Aborigines and the coming of the white settlers.
Often the settlers were almost starving, but as time passed, ships from home brought more of civilisation. But the sense of conflict remained. Behind the veneer of British civilisation lay the baffling presence of Australia itself, a timeless land that shared with England "not even its seasons or its stars".
Coping Stress: Cutting it down to size! (Bay Books, $5.95). 'Stress — Cutting it down to size' is an easy to read and practical guide to beating stress in the home or office. What is stress? How do our minds and bodies respond to it? How can we manage stress so that we can live our lives to the fullest? Stress comes in many guises and from many sources: our home, our
work, our health, our attitude, our lifestyle Find out your pressure points in the stress questionnaire. What can we do to cut stress down to size? Everyone agrees that a little stress urges us to accept great challenges, but too much stress is destructive. This book will help you avoid, modify and minimise those stresses which are bringing you down.
Prize-winning hymns released in book form. A music book and cassette of Joyful Songs of Praise, the winning 12 hymns in the inaugural Australian Hymn Competition of the Australian Liturgical Music Society (ALMS), have been released. Fr Jim Cosgrove, ALMS secretary said the resource for parishes had the advantage that no copyright charges had to paid as with many hymns. "The 12 enterance hymns are for use at Mass or any liturgical situation," Fr Cosgrove said. The recordings include vocals by St Stephen's
Cathedral Amabalis Chorale, Mr All Romano and Mr Phil Haplin, of Brisbane, and Fr Cosgrove. Keyboards and arrangements were by Mr Michael Lynch, the Cathedral choir master, and Mr Halpin. Mr Halpin also produced and recorded the cassette. Fr Cosgrove said the large number of people who did voluntary work for the competition and recording enabled the resource to be offered at a low price. The music book is $8 and the cassette $12, plus postage, from Fr Jim Cosgrove, PO Box 84 Boonleigh, Qld, 4207.
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Pre-Marriage Educators A five week introductory course for people interested in the work of preparing couples for marriage, will be conducted by the Marriage Preparation and Education Centre, 459 Hay Street, Perth.
The course commences on October 28 Information sheets sent on request. Ring Vicky: 325 1859 Wednesdays 10am-2pm. Project supported by The Office Of The Family
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Legion of Mary conference, Victoria Park, Archbishop Hickey. Legion of Mary 50th Anniversary Mass, Bishop Healy. Mass for St Therese at Carmelite Monastery, Archbishop Hickey. Bishops' Central commission meeting, Bishop Healy. Clergy tennis and golf, Archbishop Hickey. Ecumenical Service for 75 years of service at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mgr J Nestor. Group 50 21st birthday. Bayswater parish, Archbishop Hickey. St Mary's Cathedral St Luke's Day Hospice service, Bishop Healy. KSC AGM Mass, Archbishop Healy. St Mary's Cathedral Mass for Catenians, Archbishop Hickey. Mass and procession, blessing of fishing fleet, Bishop Healy. Comfirmation Bedford, Mgr Keating.
M AJELLAN MASS St Gerard's Mass will be held at St
Joseph's Church, Salvado Road, Subraco on Tuesday, October 15 at 8pm. After mass supper will be served in the parish centre. Please bring one plate of supper per car. Celebrant Father Pat Cunningham. Please invite other chaplain priests to concelebrate at this Mass.
SUPPORT PROGRAM
The Beginning Experience offers widowed, separated and divorced people a nine week support program to help work through and deal with the different stages of grief in their lives; at North Beach parish on Monday, October 14 at 7.30pm (ring Gemma A/H 447 29221. On Wednesday, October 16 9.30am (ring Jenny 447 3795). On Tuesday, October 15 at 7pm in Cloverdale parish (ring Louise 224 2351 wk).
HOSPICE SERVICE
The annual ecumenical service of thanksgiving and remembrance for the combined Hospice Services of Western Australia will be held on St Luke's Day, Friday, October 18 at 7.45pm at St Mary's Cathedral, Victoria Square, Perth.
DREAMS COURSE 'Unlocking Your Dreams' course enables people to tap into the message dreams and images offer and will show the practical skills needed. Presented by Fullness of Life centre — Celia Joyce and Stephen Truscott. Tuesdays 7.30-9.30pm, October 15 to November 5 at St Mary's Leederville Parish Centre, 40 Franklin St, LBederville. Applications by ringing 227 6883.
ADVENT AND TAIZE
On Saturday October 12 at Perth College — 10 am — 4 pm the Anglican Archbishop of Perth's Liturgy and Music Committee will host a seminar on preparing Advent and Christmas liturgies (including choice of appropriate music) and an examination of the role of Taize music in church. Those participating include Archdeacon Michael Pennington, the Rev Stephen Gibbs, the Rev Jonathon Holland, Deborah Stanton and Gordon Appleton. For further details please contact Archdeacon Pennington (w 325 7455) or Gordon Appleton (w 325 5766).
NEWMAN SOCIETY On Tuesday, October 8 at 7.30pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley, Bishop Brennan of Wagga will lecture on the draft version of the Social Justice Statement of the Bishops of Australia, "Common Wealth and Common Good". This will be the final item in the social justice series for 1991. Vatican ll Study Group Tuesday, October 8 at 11am at the residence of Mrs Stephonie Creese, 51a Graylands Road, Claremont. (Note change from 13 Dear St, owing to Fr Dynon's death). "On the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions" sections 1-5 "Decrees on Ecumenism". Introduction and chapter 1. Both events open to all interested. Contact number 446 7340.
past associates of Aquinas College are i nvited to the annual Communion Breakfast-Mass, Annual General Meeting and a light meal commencing at 6pm on Friday, October 11 at the College. Cost $15 (students $10). Any enquiries to Ted Brundal, secretary 388 1084 or 444 4672.
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Married couples: Enjoy a weekend of romance and celebrate your relationship with each other on a Marriage Encounter weekend at beautiful St Charles' Guildford or Karriholm, Pemberton. WEEKEND DATES OCT 18-20 & NOV 22-24 at Guilctford OCT 18-20 at Pemberton Book today — ring Chuck & Gloria Lusk (09) 370 4414
INSTALLATION PHOTOS
Colour prints of photographs taken at the installation of Archbishop Hickey can be ordered from the photograhers through the Catholic Communications Office, 23 Victoria Square, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays between 10am and 1pm. The photographs can be viewed in proof form at the Communications Office until October 11. The costs per print are $18 for 10x8 ins, $9 for 7x5 ins and $3.50 for 6x4 ins.
COUNTRY PRAYER
The 7th Day of Reflection organised by combined country Catholic parishes is to be held at St Joseph's Church, Northam on November 11, commencing 9.30am and concluding with Mass at 2pm. Theme for the day is 'The Love of God". BYO. A bus will be coming from Perth — to reserve a seat phone 385 1308. For further information on the day contact (096) 22 3109.
CATECHIST RETREAT
The annual retreat for catechists and friends will be held at St Joseph's Convent Safety Bay from Friday evening October 18 until Sunday noon October 20. Enquiries please phone 388 4257.
Lord, what do you want me to do? Francis of Assisi asked this question 750 years ago. Every serious-minded young man should do the same. The CAPUCHINS, followers of Francis, can help you answer it. CAPUCHINS AUSTRALIA CAPUCHINS AUSTRALIA C APUCHINS AUSTRALIA
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VICTORIA SQUARE, PERTH Friday (night) — Nov 15, 1991 Saturday Nov 16, 1991 Sunday Nov 17, 1991 Ph: John Hennessy
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The Conference is looking to appoint a Religious whose role can be broadly described as a combination of: • Resource person • Information officer • Net -worker • Co-ordinator. This Officer: • Identifies issues of concern in areas of social justice, development and peace at national and international levels. • Provides soundly-based comment and analysis of issues as basis for recommended action by Executive and/or Conference. Indicates implications of taking or not taking a stance. • Establishes working relations and processes of collaboration with other National social reasearch/action bodies within the Church and Churches and beyond. • Set up resource bank including information on resources held by other groups. • Distributes communication bulletins and/or urgent action sheets on request. (e.g. International Hot Line model). • Attends in both formal and informal capacity meetings of related groups. • Liaises with Planning Committees for National Assrneblies and other relevant Committees of the Conference. Employment: Initially for a 2 year period with review at end of first 12 months. Applications should be made to. Sr Margaret Anne Geatches, RSJ, Executive Secretary National Centre for Religious, 36 Collins Street, Annandale NSW 2038 Phone (02) 512 695
Closing date for applications: October 18, 1991
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