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Sisters of St Joseph open centre to highlight the life of Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop - Page 12

Christians bless God's valley and welcome Spring

Young Antiochans march with the Cross draped in silk cloths of many colours to Swanleigh, Middle Swan, last Saturday.

New prayer adds variety to Mass Parishes in the Archdiocese of Perth have begun using the new fifth Eucharistic Prayer approved for use in Australia

earlier this year.

Archbishop Hickey recently distributed the new Eucharistic Prayer - known as the Eucharistic Prayer for Various Needs and Occasions - to parish priests with his full approval for its use on Sundays.

It is hoped that the new prayers use of optional prayers will enable the celebrant and the congregation to link their offering and celebration more closely with the readings of the day.

According to the National Liturgical Commission, several priests noted how well the new Eucharist Prayer picked up themes from recent Sunday Gospels, such as the story of Lazarus and the rich man.

"There are often occasions when these prayers pick up a theme from the readings of the

homily and thereby help articulate more crisply the thanksgiving of the Church for a particular celebration," the commission said.

The new Eucharistic Prayer is provided with four prefaces, one of which must always be used with it. Each preface has a corresponding section of intercessions in the second half of the prayer.

The preface and intercession are always paired, the commission said.

The four themes are: The Church on the way to unity: God guides the Church on the way of salvation: Jesus, way to the Father: and Jesus, the compassion of God The new prayer was originally written for a synod in Switzerland in 1974. It existed at this time in three rather different versions in French, German and Italian. It was quickly translated into Spanish as well.

Australia requested an English translation as long ago as 1989.

Midland Catholic Antiochians have become an integral part of Spring in the Valley's religious service, which opens the annual event that attracts tourists from far and wide.

This year, as part of a concelebrated service of thanksgiving and blessing for the Valley, Franciscan Father John Duigan led the Antiochians holding the Cross high.

Hung with long flowing silk cloths in colours of the spectrum representing Genesis 9 - the sign of God's covenant to His people - they wended their way through the vineyard to the waiting assembly on the lawns of Swanleigh, Middle Swan.

Fr Duigan, with fellow friar Fr Michael Brown, told the people the context in which we mark the beginning of Spring was a common belief in God, and the desire to honour Him as the source of all creativity.

The Antiochians sang the Celtic Alleluia and My Saviour, former La Salle College teacher and professional singer Julie Durant sang The Lord's Prayer, and the Upper Swan Primary School Choir sang I Know A Valley. Swanleigh's Anglican chaplain and Anglican deacon led prayers, as did former member of the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Ben Taylor while the didgeridoo was being played.

After the ceremonies, the assembly gathered to toast and celebrate the coming of Spring to God's valley.

Christmas voices soar

But before it was officially approved, a Latin version was produced and a new English translation had to be made.

This was approved by the Australian bishops at the Easter meeting in 1994 and Rome's permission to use it was received from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in May 1995.

A taste of what the new prayer has to offer can be seen in the following excerpt from the thanksgiving prayer of Preface C - Jesus, way to the Father:

"Keep your Church alert in faith to the signs of the times and eager to accept the challenge of the gospel.

Open our hearts to the needs of all humanity, so that sharing their grief and anguish, their joy and hope, we may faithfully bring them the good news of salvation and advance together on the way to our kingdom."

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A truly ecumenical spirit will be detected In the compact disc of Christmas music recorded by the Choir of St George's Anglican Cathedral this year. Last week, the choir was recording "Praise to the Lord" in the Chapel of St Michael the Archangel at the Catholic Education Centre in Leederville as part of a three day recording session for a CD of Christmas music. The chapel was chosen for its acoustics and beautiful setting as traffic noise makes recording difficult at St George's Cathedral.

Let us all debate, but in a spirit of charity any people have contacted loyalty. It is perfectly in order to diocesan paper. I urge all corre- me, they will be dealt with by M me over recent weeks con- present a point of view, however spondents to discuss and debate me, and in the proper manner. It cerned about the

acrimonious strongly, on matters of legitimate issues, not personalities, and to tone of some of the letters to the debate. It is not acceptable to respect the reputations of public Editor, especially when they question publicly a person's figures. attack reputations. orthodoxy or faith.

The Church takes a strong One person even suggested I In recent weeks, the director of stand on this matter. Canon 220 bring the various parties together the LJ Goody Bioethics Centre in the Code of Canon Law insists to affect a reconciliation, and to Father Walter Black has, in my that people have the right to a celebrate a special Mass of view, been very unjustly treated. good name. Let no one attempt Reconciliation. I would if I could. He has been accused of views he to take that away from Fr Black or Surely Catholics should be able does not hold and of statements from anyone. to conduct their debates in an he has not made. His orthodoxy There will be, from time to time, atmosphere of charity and and his integrity as a theologian people who advance views that respect, no matter what the issue. and his obedience to the teach- are contrary to the Church's Furthermore, when debates ing authority of the Church are teaching. If they purport to speak move from the issue to the per- not to be doubted. in the name of the Church or in son, reputations can be seriously I will not have him treated in the name of a diocesan instrudamaged by accusations of dis- such a way in the pages of the mentality that is accountable to

Coalition IR policies seen as 'good, just'

made by Fr Cappo on ABC Radio's PM program last week in The national director of the which he called for Coalition Australian Catholic Social Welf- industrial relations policy to be are Commission, Father David 'put on the table' and for assurCappo, has described many of ances on the "no-disadvantage" the industrial relations princi- test (the test that workers moving awards-based work ples espoused by the Federal from Coalition as "good and just," arrangements to enterprise saying that the Commission agreements not be disadvantaged). would be prepared to work "The 'no-disadvantage' test is with the Coalition towards crucial and its in that area that I ensuring that the principles would like to have further diawere developed into concrete logue with Mr Reith," Fr Cappo policies.

Fr Cappo was speaking to The said.

Fr Cappo also said that Record following a meeting between himself, Coalition Coalition welfare was also signifindustrial relations spokesman icant.

Responding to Mr Howard's Peter Reith, Liberal Party federal guarantees earlier in the week in director Andrew Robb, and Coalition employment, training an address to the Australian and family services spokesman, Council of Social Services that a Coalition government would Dr David Kemp.

"The principles that Mr Reith maintain the social security safeput forward are good and just ty net, Fr Cappo said that Mr principles regarding industrial Howard had made an "important relations. As I've said to Mr commitment."

"They were very important Reith, now we would be more commitments for him to make than happy to work towards influencing the policy develop- and I applaud those commitments. . . . We will no doubt see ment," Fr Cappo said.

Coalition industrial relations further development of his social policy has been signalled by the welfare policy, but he's started government as a major issue of with a very good foundation of the forthcoming election. commitments regarding our The meeting between Fr Cappo social protection system in and the Liberal Party heavy- Australia," he said. weights followed comments Mr Howard's statements on social welfare under a Coalition government were aimed at reversing the thrust of the former Fightback strategy.

Mr Howard promised that a Coalition government would not cut pensions, would not 7pm Sunday November 12th have a $3 an hour The evening will consist of youth training waPraise & Worship, Holy Mass & ge, and that there The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick would not be changes to eligibility for the sole parent Perth. pension and no Flame Ministries International time limit on receipt of the dole.

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is not acceptable for agencies that speak in the name of the Archdiocese to promote erroneous views.

If diocesan officials are falsely accused of doctrinal error, they will be defended by me.

It needs to be clear that no public statement has official status unless it comes directly from me, or is issued with my endorsement.

Our Catholic paper has encouraged people to write to the letter page. I urge all correspondents to do so in an atmosphere of charity and respect for persons.

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Blessed Mary MacKillop's life on view at new South Perth centre

By Peter Rosengren

A unique new sound and light display, set among extremely realistic scenes from the life of Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop, was unveiled to the public at the opening of the Mary MacKillop Centre in the Josephite provincialate house in York street, South Perth, last weekend.

The MacKillop Centre consists of a photographic gallery displaying scenes from the life and times of Blessed Mary, adjoining a room where life-like mannequins styled by Leone Ferrier, a lecturer at the Performing Arts Academy at Edith Cowan Msgr Keating, right, and Sr Casey in the centre's MacKillop Room University, illustrate moments of and that, as Blessed Mary had ing for confirmation "because importance in the life of this not visited Western Australia, it they're thinking about sainthood extraordinary Australian woman. was "appropriate that here we and what sainthood is." He also In addition, there is a quiet area have our own sacred site where hoped young couples preparing for private reflection. people can come, meditate, rest for marriage would visit A tour of the MacKillop Room is and pray." The centre was not a "because they're thinking about guided by recorded information museum just to honour the past holiness in their state and need on each of the five scenes of but a place where "we can to seek out other people who Blessed Mary's life. answer the call of God." achieved holiness in theirs."

Sister Maria Casey, provincial Blessing and opening the cen"I hope it will be a centre, thereleader of the Sisters of St Joseph tre, Monsignor Michael Keating, fore, where people can come and in Western Australia, said that vicar general of the archdiocese, discover something about this she hoped the centre would said he hoped the centre would great Australian woman and pass become a place of pilgrimage be visited by all children prepar- It into own lives," he said.

Mannequins' exhibit 'stunning realism' Leone Ferrier drew on her very best professional and artistic skills to give a stunningly convincing realism to the mannequins featured in the MacKillop Centre at the Jospehite convent in South Perth.

Leone works with students of film and television in the production design area, in subjects such as makeup, design, drawing and painting.

Contacted by the Sisters of St Joseph and offered the opportunity to give life to the mannequins used in the sound and light show that depicts different stages of Blessed Mary of the Cross's life, she "had a look and thought it was pretty interesting."

The result is a sometimes startlingly realistic set of figures dressed in accurate period costumes and hair styles.

Leone was given access to the Sisters' information, including photographic records, in order to research as much about Blessed Mary's life as she could and what people in her period would have worn.

Leone painted the mannequins' faces painstakingly by hand, did all the wigs and hair styles and made sure the fashions matched the historical era "because its pretty important to make sure its accurate."

- Peter Rosengren

Leone Ferrier with her mannequin creation of Blessed Mary late in life after her stroke

Govt 'shameful' landmine policy failed, says ACR Australian Catholic Relief has called on the Federal Government to urgently revise its policy on the international landmines crisis, following the failure of its attempt to engineer a compromise on the issue at an United Nations' conference in Vienna, Austria, Australian Catholic Relief director Michael national Whitely said this week the longawaited review conference on the Convention on Inhumane Weapons broke up on October 12, a day later than expected and with no resolution on steps to limit the use of anti-personnel landmines.

Mr Whitely said the failure of the review conference showed how little the leaders of many governments - "and the weapons manufacturers who were dictating policy" - cared about the appalling human toll from the rapid proliferation of landmines.

"Throughout the world, there is a rapidly growing movement of people who believe the time has come to ban anti-personnel landmines because of the enormous death and injury toll being suffered by civilians, particularly children," Mr Whitely said. of the He said many Governments attending the conference quickly formed into two hard-line camps, both opposing the idea of a total ban.

The rich, western nations supported limiting mines to a new generation of high technology weapons. On the other side, landmine exporters and users such as China, Russia, India and Pakistan opposed any significant change at all, he added.

"The Australian Government,

much to its shame, supported the high technology option, seeking to limit landmines to ones designed to self-destruct or selfneutralise and claiming that the present high failure rates of these weapons can be reduced in coming years," Mr Whitely said.

"The Government presented this position as a noble compromise, claiming that the idea of a total ban would never get international support.

"Now that this compromise has failed, it is time the Australian Government and the Federal Opposition revealed whether they really do support the elimination of landmines or not."

Mr Whitely said that Australia must argue a clear and principled stance on the issue.

He said that the recent success of the church agencies' campaign on the landmines issue must cause the Government and the Opposition to rethink their policies. Australian Catholic Relief worked with a group of 289

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - One of the first women in Ireland to be ordained an Anglican priest has converted to Catholicism.

The decision was prompted -by the warmth of Catholicism" experienced at the Franciscan Friary at Rossnowlagh, Ireland, said Phyllis Fleury, a retired medical doctor. in interviews she said she: accepted the Catholic ban on women priests; felt that the

Reformation had been a case of Christians breaking away from the true church; and, wanted to be in communion with the Papacy.

Ms Fleury was received into the Catholic Church in October.

She had been a priest of the Anglican Diocese of Derry and Raphoe since 1991.

She said that the decision to become a Catholic was emotionally costly. In Dublin, she

Michael Whitely: leaders care little of appalling landmines toll

Unusual partnership offers hope to jobless

Catholic and five ecumenical agencies in collecting 202,000 signatures in just seven weeks for a petition seeking a total ban on landmines.

"Our Government must support the views of the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, the Red Cross, Pope John Paul II and countless community, religious and humanitarian organisations," Mr Whitely said.

Landmines are estimated to kill 20.000 civilians annually.

The UN meeting closed with only an agreement by national delegations to discuss controls at a future date. The meeting was called to update a 1980 treaty that prohibited indiscriminate use of land mines and requires countries to protect civilians.

Many non-governmental organisations had hoped that the conference would draft a treaty that either banned or strictly limited land mine use and production.

But many countries at the conference said that a ban would be unrealistic, since land mines serve an important defensive function during wars, especially for poor countries.

Land mines are an attractive weapon for many poor countries because of their low cost, ranging from $3 to S100 apiece.

The United Nations estimates that there are about 110 million land mines deployed in 64 countries, mostly vestiges of conflicts in poor countries.

At the conference, the Vatican asked industrialised nations to increase funding to deactivate mines still buried in the ground or hidden in the brush.

UN experts estimate that it costs S1,000 to deactivate a mine.

Woman priest converts to Rome

WILLIAM CARR LL.M Barrister & Solicitor Level 8 150 St George's Terrace PERTH WA 6000 Tel: (09) 481 8844 Accredited by the Law Society of Western Australia and the Law Institute of Victoria as a Family Law Specialist

Pro-Life groups have criticised the recommendations of a recent survey of the reasons women choose to have abortions, saying that increasing access to abortion services, especially for girls in school, will only increase the suffering that abortion causes by extending it to more women.

The survey, published recently in the Medical Journal of Australia, shows that several factors are often at work in the reasons which finally persuade a woman to have an abortion.

Dr Ted Watt, Western Australian convenor of Right to Life Australia, said that the report showed that in many cases abortion was not the woman's choice at all.

In the survey where respondents could check one or more boxes, 12 per cent said that their husband didn't want them to have a baby, 5 per cent said that their parents didn't want them to ' have a baby, and 15 per cent said they didn't want their parents to know they were pregnant.

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Centrecare Skills Training Centre has helped 100 young people get training chances with Myers stores.

Last week, the Myer New Work Opportunities Project was formally launched by Mr Wayne Resources Davies, Human Manager for Myers with other major Project stakeholders, the Catholic Church - represented by Archbishop Barry Hickey and Ms Pauline Robertson, Manager of the Centrecare Skills Training Centre - the Department of Employment. Education and Training, represented by Mr Stephen Smith for the Minister, Simon Crean; and two participants of the 100 (mostly young people) selected for a rare skills gaining opportunity.

The project partnership will mean that the 100 participants put forward by the Centrecare Skills Training Centre will be paid jointly by the agency and DEE-T. Myers will give the participants 26 weeks of off-and-on-the-job training in their six metropolitan stores in retail positions.

The purpose of the venture is to break the unemployment cycle for keen, ambitious folk who want to gain on-site skills to

enable easier access into the workforce.

Two representatives of the 100 selected participants at the launch were Nella Glover, a mature lady of secretarial background, unemployed for the last two years who hopes to find good employment.

The other is 22 year old Artur Zdrzynski who arrived from Poland 13 years ago, who has been unable to find work for the last three years because of an accident.

He too is hopeful that on completion of the project, of which he and Nella have already completed four weeks, work in the retail area will be more accessible.

Archbishop Hickey in his address, said the idea of a Church agency collaborating with business and government programs was unusual. But, he said, it was not unique and he also considered the Catholic Church had a vested interest in helping to make the city work place a thriving one of work opportunities and personal development.

He said Centrecare's training program had become "better and better" and thousands of individuals had now progressed through its programs.

"I've never really planned my life. Only my funeral."

had been baptised an Anglican and some of her ancestors had fought and suffered for their faith, she said. Ms. Fleury said that many Anglicans had joined the Catholic Church because of their opposition to the Church of England's ordination of women as priests.

Although her reasons for converting were different, she said that she understood their position.

Survey shows 'no FAMILY LAW choice' in abortion

Archbishop Barry Hickey at the Myer New Work Opportunities Project launch with major stakeholders Mr Stephen Smith representing the Department of Employment, Education and Training; Ms Pauline Robertson, Manager Centrecare Skills Training Centre; Mr Wayne Davies, Myers' State Human Resource Manager; and, two project participants, Melia Glover and Artur Zdrzynski.

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Generation X 'unrecognised'

Young adult conference participants in a small group discussion

Young adults are now being seen as a distinct group within the Church In Perth

and thirties and what the Church can be doing to meet them in the 1990's.

Nick, an officer with the Faith Education Services section of the Catholic Education Office in Brisbane, works in a unique kind of role which he describes as a "new focus and approach in the Catholic Church in Australia."

He was in Perth last weekend to help with the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry conference held at the Kings Hotel in the city centre and attended by 50 to 60 young adults.

Although part of the Brisbane CEO, the Faith Education Services section works both in Catholic schools and outside the education system in parishes and wherever it is needed by the Church.

Not limited to schools, Nick's job involves him intimately with the concerns and needs of the young in the Church and it is this particular area which he and others like him are seeking to address.

The area traditionally described as 'youth ministry' Nick Ryan he finds extends

beyond teens to those in their twenties ceived that the term 'young people' can 12 per cent of the 35 - 44 single male age and thirties - including married couples include people up to the age of 30," he bracket have not tied the knot either with children - "whose needs are largely said, rather than being simply teenagers.

Generation X. says Nick, are less sure, unrecognised by the Church, especially in And although young adult ministry origi- less optimistic and looking for meaning in nated in the United States, "we're not that their lives. And part of the Church's chalparish life." lenge is to reach out to those he describes Nick told The Record that part of the far behind." problem was the perception of young Some of the problems include the fact as "the most spiritual and (yet) the least Catholic adults, twenty and thirty-some- that traditional parish life now finds it religious generation." things, that they are seen as 'just youth' hard to meet the needs of young people "We're interested in discovering what is who are often sold short in recognition of and to get close to them in terms of being the lived experience of people in their their ability and what they have to offer in seen to be relevant to their aspirations and twenties and thirties, and what opportunitoday's Church. the issues which they feel are important. ties for contribution and discussion on Sharing some of his own experience, he Exacerbating this problem is the fact that their role in the Church that they have - or highlighted this sort of problem by telling the young - the Generation X of the eight- don't have," he said. of someone he knows of who left his full ies and nineties - are highly mobile and But there are avenues of hope, "good time job as an accountant for one year to move, on average, once every 21 months. processes to offer." Nick believes that it is run a large denominational church confer- "We know more than half 'boundary hop' at points like weddings, baptisms and funerals that parishes may be able to offer ence attended by 3,000 people. Managing parishes," he said. a budget of $1.5 million over the year, the So identifying with a particular parish some reason for young Catholics who young accountant - in his twenties - ran through long-term residence is no longer a have left the practice of their faith to come the conference at a profit. major factor in their lives as it might have back.

And even simple gestures such as physiHowever, after returning to his normal been thirty or forty years ago. Parishes, he job, he volunteered to become the bursar says, have to drop the assumption that life cally welcoming them to the parish could plant the seed. for his local congregation, only to be is local. thanked for his enthusiasm and told that "We have found that some parishes are And Generation X - unlike their flower he needed "experience." power parents of the Baby Boomer years - really good places for the young because Young adult ministry is a large and com- are much more conservative in their they've found a sense of community there, plex area to cover. Current statistics show approach to life in general. Affected by they like the preaching and they like the that most young Catholics (approximately the economic changes of the seventies and priests," he said.

95 per cent) cease practising their faith eighties, such as economic downturns and "Where it doesn't work is where we within 12 months of leaving school. high unemployment, he says, they are haven't engaged in the issues that are It is an alarming figure and individuals much more wary of being left behind in important to them." like Nick are working hard to address terms of employment and participation in But, he says, there is plenty of room for both the causes and to offer solutions. He society. hope because the young are thoughtful, says the Church is responding through And they are more wary of things like articulate, cautious and looking for opporavenues like the recently announced marriage than their predecessors too. tunities to participate, both in their society Australian Bishops inquiry into youth.

Thirty eight per cent of single men in the and in their Church. It is this need, he says, "The Bishops' youth inquiry has per- 25 to 34 age bracket are not married while which must be addressed.

The youth and young adult ministry conference held at the King's Hotel, Perth, last weekend had been a resounding success, Bruce Downes, director of the archdiocesan youth ministry, said this week.

"I said at the closing (of the conference) yesterday that I've been in both voluntary and full-time ministry for the past 16 years.

It would probably have to be one of the best events I've been to, even overseas," he said.

He said the conference had been a success not only for what it had achieved but the potential it opened up for young adults in the Church. It had also that it was possible to get young adults together to look at the Church, not in a critical manner, but in the light of faith, and to examine how their faith intersected with their own lives and how they were part of it.

Bruce said that between fifty and sixty

people had attended the innovative conference and that ages of those attending ranged from 21 to 35 years.

Bruce said that the twenty and thirtysomethings were quickly coming to be recognised as a distinct group in the Church.

"This is just an emerging area - the young adult area. (In) the youth area, but the young adult, which really came under the youth umbrella in years gone by now are joining the workforce at twenty or twenty one and they no longer see the teenager approach to be appropriate to them," he said.

"They're going into the Church but they're still looking for community, they're still looking for that sense of belonging, understanding and learning, but they don't want to do that in a teenager, adolescent fashion," he said.

By Peter Rosengren ick Ryan has some interesting ideas N about the religious and life problems faced by young people in their twenties

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West Australian Catholic pang adults work on the jigsaw of life during the conference's "theological cafe".

CIAIL to fight on euthanasia

By Peter Rosengren Women's The Catholic League of Australia conference held in Perth last week and attended by approximately 500 around delegates from Australia had been a great success and highlighted important issues for the CWLA to be active on over the next two years, Bunbury notable and outgoing national president, Mrs Georgie Bruce-Smith, said this week.

Mrs Bruce-Smith said that, among other issues, the CWLA would continue to lobby government and exert pressure on the euthanasia issue.

"Euthanasia is a top issue (of importance) and that's one we're going to have to be ongoing with and keep up with," she said.

The CWLA decided at its conference, held at Aquinas College, Manning, that it would petition and lobby State and Federal Governments to reject any change in existing legislation that

would allow anyone to intentionally administer a lethal dosage of a substance to any person to bring about death.

Conference also passed a resolution calling on the Federal Government to provide taxation justice and support to Australian families, including examination of income-splitting options for one-income families.

"Why not look at mothers at home and give them some sort of home-care allowance without it being a charity," Mrs BruceSmith asked.

Another issue of importance to CWLA members was the effort to reach out to rural women who often live in relatively isolated circumstances.

"Being a women's group we felt that people in the rural area are facing very hard economic times and that . . . . although we say 'get together and support each other' and things like that - well its impossible for them to do it, with thousands of miles of distance."

"So we made a pact that we would twin towns in the isolated

areas, [which] means we would be able to give them support. . . . so we'll twin with different towns and parishes and then support them in all sorts of ways," she said.

The conference also urged CWLA members to lobby the Federal Government for a total ban on the production, stockpiling, trade and use of landmines and issued a request to the Federal Government to allocate more funds for breast and prostate cancer research.

She said a major benefit of the conference had been the simple experience of delegates getting together, as Catholic women, from around Australia, meeting, discussing and supporting each other.

She also said that the conference had engendered a strong sense of identity.

"There was a strong feeling of 'I'm proud to be Australian, I'm proud to be Catholic, proud to stand for the moral beliefs that I believe in.' There was no swaying away from it," she said.

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Catholic Women's League delegates soaking up the sun during a conference break

Mrs Mary Campbell, new national president of the Catholic Women's League of Australia, is looking forward to the challenges of the job and said the league would continue to speak out on important Issues such as euthanasia, family breakdown and bioethics.

"We comment on social, economical and environmental Issues - the lot - because we need to be there at the forefront to give our views on these issues,* she said.

Mrs Campbell, a member of the Tasmanian CWL executive and a former state president, spoke to The Record on the final day of the 37th biennial CWLA national conference, which was held at Aquinas College in the southern Perth suburb of Manning last week_ Over 500 delegates, many from the Eastern states, travelled to Perth from around Australia for the conference.

Among the issues she said the league would continue to monitor were the continuing develon debate and opments euthanasia, the family and the general bioethics field.

"I think the big one is . . . . euthanasia - that's a very Important one," she said.

"And, of course, then there's the social aspect of the different things that are attacking society today, and the break-

down of the family which is a big concern to us."

She said that a league concern was the continuing denigration of the importance and status of the family unit Accepting the role of national president had involved "a bit of soul-searching, and some trepidation" but she was happy to

No pumpkins at end of the night C

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Tina D'Orsogna, a governor of NDA, chatting to guests lvana and Robert Da Prato at the Notre Dame Ball.

Maurice and Marianne Brockwell (left), catching up with Notre Dame news from Des O'Sullivan - secretary of NOA's Board of Governors and director of the Foundation's fund raising campaign - with wife Barbara.

It's the second year running that the Italian Friends of Notre Dame Australia have staged a magnificent Ball which has not only proven a great fundraiser, but has also made for one terrific night.

Held at the Italian Club. the wining and dining was once again top class and the 300 people who attended had, judging by their obvious enjoyment, a really superb night!

Beautifully attired, the attendees danced to the Troupadores until midnight and reluctantly wended their way home.

The Italian Friends have pledged to pay off the one million dollar debt incurred by NDA for the purchase of the St Teresa library from the Sisters of St Francis' College of St Teresa, in the United States.

This year the successful ball raised $12,000, and to put it mildly - (fund raising can be so much fun!) - a great time was certainly had by all!

Br Allan was born and grew up in Redfern, Sydney. After school days he trained and worked as a pastrycook and joined the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1956.

After initial training Br Allan ministered in MSC colleges at

Downlands College, Toowoomba, Queensland (1958-1962), Monivae College, Hamilton, Victoria (1968-1973), Chevalier College, Bowral, NSW (19761979) and St Johns College.

Darwin (1980-1991).

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The Australian Jesuit Mission is situated in one of the poorest areas of India. Most of the 7 million inhabitants live in perpetual poverty and are uneducated. During the past 44 years priests and nuns caring for illiterate people have witnessed their helplessness . . . lack of self respect . . . intrenched injustices . . . perpetuation of poverty . . . difficulty in communicating . . . low wages and exploitation . . . lack of confidence and initiative . . difficulty in gaining employment . . . living in unhygienic conditions . . sustaining life on poor food . . . surviving on almost no money difficulty in raising children . . . agony seeing children suffer and die. in extreme severely suffer Children adversity. Of those who survive 5 years many will live on with ill health and poor growth, unable to develop to their full mental and physical potential, unable in later years to adequately contribute to the f amilies they will have or to the communities in which they live.

For the most part lack of education denies people the basic necessities of life. That means a bitter struggle just to exist.

Furthermore it shatters initiative and the sense of being needed in society. Overall it means limited living and early dying. They need your help. We need your help.

Donations are tax deductible. Please make your cheque payable to "Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund" and post it with the coupon.

Br Allan ministered as a cook, sportsmaster and housemaster and is remembered for his concern for the students in his care.

He was always interested in

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his own on-going training and gaining more skills for ministry While in Manila, Br Allan was invited by the Philippines MSC to spend some years with them to help them in recruiting and training MSC brothers.

Br Allan happily did this ministry for some years until deteriorating health forced his return to Australia.

take it on, she said.

The new national executive will be based in Tasmania and drawn from mainly Hobartbased members of the State.

The presidency and running of the national Catholic women's organisation is rotated among the state branches every two years.

Mrs Campbell said that the Tasmanian branch had been happy to take on the responsibility of running the organisation at a national level, promoting its presence and membership, and keeping it on an even keel to hand over to the new leadership in two years time from now.

- Peter Rosengren

School fees are $15 to $20 a year

Obituary: Brother Allan Patrick Floyd MSC After several months in hospital, Brother Allan Floyd MSC died on September 29th. He was 57 years of age.

Mrs Mary Campbell of Tasmania: the new national president of the Catholic Women's League of Australia.

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Bringing Christ to the world L

By Peter Rosengren

Any parish pastoral councils interested in forming a Christian Life Group in their parish could avail themselves of the opportunity to hear a group representative explain what the groups are, what they do, and why.

Christian Life Group member, and a steering committee member for the groups in Western Australia, Graham Rose, made this offer to parish councils when interviewed by The Record recently.

But what are Christian Life Groups - or CLGs - and what do they do?

Many Catholics, in the pursuit of their daily lives, are conscious of the need to take their faith beyond a weekly • attendance at Sunday Mass. It is this interest in developing their faith, of taking it out into the world where they live and work, that generated the foundation of what is known as the Christian Life Groups.

Christian Life Groups in Perth were formed in 1958 under the guidance of the late Father Jim O'Brien. Today there are over 30 such groups operating throughout the Perth metropolitan area.

Some have been going for over 20 years. There are groups in country areas.

Different from prayer and Bible study groups, CLG's are simply a regular gathering in small groups

Graham Rose of Christians across the suburbs who endeavour to relate their own lives to the Gospel.

Group numbers can consist of six to eight people meeting in homes or, in some cases, parish centres. Meeting times are chosen to suit the members Focussing on the lives of members, an important part of meetings is the review of life where individuals share experiences and support in everyday events.

Meetings consist of prayers, a review of life, Gospel readings and discussions.

Gospel or Scripture discussions give members the chance to address issues in the light of Christian principles, and groups may decide to take some positive action on specific subjects.

"We meet together, and tend to

reinforce ourselves to go out into that so-called 'cruel world' and try and maintain a Christian value on things," Graham said.

This helps members "not to get bogged down" by the vagaries of life and the state of the world.

"Its more of a strengthening base," he said, at which members could stop and relate to the fact that they weren't just attending Mass on a Sunday and leaving their faith at the door when they walked out afterwards.

"We are sharing our joys, and I emphasise 'joys,' in our problems," he said of the groups' meetings.

CLG member John Reid said "I joined the CLG to fulfil a need to do something more than just Sunday Mass. I felt that by meeting fellow Christians on a regular basis strengthened my faith for everyday living."

Members of CLG's are people who realise that people's normal everyday lives are holy and it is this holiness that they try to spread to the world in small but significant ways.

Groups are made up of all kinds of people, from all kinds of backgrounds: married couples, singles, lining and old, and meetings are usually held fortnightly.

The CLG's have also employed Kaye Cox to help form groups and to run introductory meetings explaining what they do. She can be contacted on (09) 398 7751 or by writing to CLG, 54 Grand Christian Life Groups chaplain Father Barry Whitely prepares to celebrate a Promenade, Bayswater WA 6053. home Mass with group members

Eucharistic Prayer for masses for various needs and occasions Optional prayers of thanksgiving in the new 5th Eucharistic Prayer: A. The Church on the way to unity It is truly right to give you thanks, Father of infinite goodness, it is fitting that we sing of your glory.

Through the gospel proclaimed by your Son you have brought together in a single Church people of every nation, culture, and tongue. Into it you breathe the power of your Spirit, that in every age your children may be gathered as one.

Your Church bears steadfast witness to your love. It nourishes our hope for the coming of your kingdom and is a sure sign of the lasting covenant which you promised us in our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore heaven and earth sing forth your praise while we, with all the Church, proclaim your glory without end: B. God guides the Church on the way of salvation It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, creator of the world and source of all life. You never abandon the creatures formed by your wisdom, but remain with us and work for our good even now. With mighty hand and outstretched arm you led your people, Israel, through the desert By the power of the Holy Spirit you guide your pilgrim Church today as it journeys along the paths of time to the eternal joy of your kingdom, through Christ our Lord.

Now, with all the angels and saints we praise your glory without end: C. Jesus, way to the Father It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Father of holiness, Lord of heaven and earth. Through your eternal Word you created all things and 6

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govern their course with infinite people may stand forth in a wisdom. In the Word made flesh world torn by conflict and strife you have given us a mediator who as a sign of oneness and peace. has spoken your words to us and called us to follow him. He is the B. God guides the Church on way that leads to you, the truth the way of Salvation that sets us free, the love that Strengthen in unity those you makes your joy complete. have called to this Through your Son you gather into with N. our pope, table. Together N. our bishop, one family, men and women creat- with ed for the glory of your name, cons,all bishops, priests, and deaand all your holy people, redeemed by the blood of the cross, and sealed with the Holy may we follow your paths in faith and hope and radiate our joy and Spirit And so we praise your mighty trust to all the world. deeds and join with the hosts of C. Jesus. way to the Father angels, as they proclaim your glory Almighty Father, by our sharing without end: in this mystery enliven us with I). Jesus the compassion of God your Spirit and conform us to It is truly right to give you thanks, the image of your Son. Father of mercy, faithful God, it is Strengthen the bonds of our fitting that we offer you praise. communion with N. our pope, You sent Jesus Christ your Son N. our bishop, with all bishops, among us as redeemer and Lord. priests, and deacons, and all He was moved with compassion you holy people. for the poor and the powerless, Keep your Church alert in faith for the sick and the sinner; he to the signs of the times and made himself neighbour to the eager to accept the challenge of oppressed. By his words and the gospel.

Open our hearts to actions he proclaimed to the world that you care for us as a the needs of all humanity, so that sharing their grief and father cares for his children.

And so, with all the angels and anguish, their joy and hope, we saints we sing the joyful hymn of may faithfully bring them thegood news of salvation and your praise: advance together on the way to our kingdom.

Al the end of the preface, he joins his hands and, together with the D. Jesus. the compassion of people, concludes it by singing or God saying aloud: Holy, holy, holy. . . .

Lord, perfect your Church in faith After the consecration, the priest and love together with N. our continues, using one of the fol- pope, N. our bishop, with all bishlowing intercessions correspond- ops, priests, and deacons, and all ing to the preface that was cho- those your Son has gained for sen at the beginning of the you.

Open our eyes to the needs of all; eucharistic prayer. inspire us with words and deeds A. The Church on the way to to comfort those who labour and unity are burdened; keep our service of Renew by the light of the gospel others faithful to the example and the Church of N. (diocese/place). command of Christ Strengthen the bonds of unity Let your Church be a living witbetween the faithful and their ness to truth and freedom, to juspastors, that together with N. our tice and peace, that all people pope, N. our bishop, and the may be lifted up by the hope of a whole college of bishops, your world made new.

Judging this week's union blockade of WA

By Adrian Bertino-Clarke Recently Western Australia seems to have been plagued by Industrial strife. Trade unions and the Federal Labor Government seem to blame the State Government's approach to industrial relations as the instigator of the industrial upheaval.

Prime Minister Paul Keating was reported in The West Australian as saying that the ACTU/Trades and Labour Council blockade that affected WA last Tuesday was a genuine community revolt against the Court Government and that this was a foretaste of what is to come under a Howard Federal Government - while Opposition Leader John Howard's policies still remain hidden.

In this climate it is important to review the teaching of the Universal Church regarding trade unions and strikes. The New Catholic Encyclopedia defines strikes as a temporary concerted, withdrawal of services by a group of workers, usually for the purpose of inducing their employer to accede to certain demands.

Most strikes can be classified as economic, jurisdictional, sympathetic, or political. Economic strikes seek to improve work opportunities, compensation and working conditions and are usually directed against the strikers' own employer; jurisdictional strikes are usually over union demarcation disputes; sympathetic strikes occur when one group of workers refuse to perform services for their employer in an effort to assist another group of striking workers; political strikes are directed against civil authorities in support of political program of interest to the strikers.

Pope John Paul ll's encyclical Laborem Exercens, written on the occasion of the ninetieth

anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's famous encyclical Rerum Novarurn, said trade unions are legitimate organisations which spring from the workers' civil right to association.

He calls them "a mouthpiece for the struggle for social justice However, this struggle should be as normal endeavour for the just good . . . it is not a struggle against others . . ." clearly differentiating the Catholic from the socialist interpretation of industrial relations and social structure.

Unions, Pope John Paul said, should be recognised as a "constructive factor of social order and solidarity. . . In this sense, union action undoubtedly enters the field of politics, understood as prudent concern for the common good. However, the role of unions is not to 'play politics' in the sense that the expression is commonly understood today" ie. play party politics."

Strikes, as a method of pursuing the just rights of their members, are recognised by Catholic social teaching as legitimate in the proper conditions and within just limits, he said.

According to philosophers and moral theologians a strike may not be a breach of a just labour contract or award, nor may it impose unjust demands. It may be undertaken only when, first, all other feasible methods of settling the dispute have been exhausted; second, when there is a sound proportion between what the worker hopes to gain and the inconveniences that the strike entails; and third, when there are genuine prospects for a successful outcome.

It is necessary to add that strikes are limited to licit means in furthering the strike, i.e. no violence, pickets etc.

All these points can be used when making a judgement on the TLC/ACTU blockade.

&tiers to /..& Dance a 'long and nch tradition' in worship •

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Kovesi Watt and Barry Curthoys about I liturgical dance. (The Record. October 5) Unfortunately, in the space afforded here, I cannot possibly hope to respond adequately to the many questions and areas of concern they voiced in respect to this long and rich tradition in our liturgical worship.

I will confine myself to basically one point that of varying attitudes, and call upon both Scripture and Tradition to illustrate my point.

Some find liturgical dance worrying, irrelevant and question how it could possibly be found in liturgical setting, They call it performance. But others call it prayer, rejoicing in it, finding that it gives tangible expression to their desire to praise God with their whole person.

Some are not singers or do not like singing. They prefer a "quiet" liturgy.

While some find no inspiration in sacred dance, others do.

Together, however, we are called to respect differences and preferences as St Paul reminds us, because together we form one body in Christ (1 Corinthians: 12).

The varying attitudes in respect to liturgical dance are not new!

Take the example of the dance commis-

sioned by St Isidore of Seville in 678 AD. Choreographed as Los Seises this liturgical dance was incorporated into the liturgy Centuries later, when some would suppress it, Pope Eugenius IV authorised its inclusion in the liturgy by a Papal Bull.

When it was suppressed again by Archbishop Jayme de Palafox at the end of the 17th Century, Pope Innocent XII ordered it to be reinstated!

And On June 17, 1993, The Record reported in its highlights of the 45th International Eucharist Congress, that Pope John Paul II, witnessed this same dance which still remains incorporated as part of the liturgical celebration. Some would call it performance: others see it as prayer.

David's wife, Michal, disdained his almost riotous dance of praise (2 Samuel 6: 12-15) a processional dance before the Ark as it was bought into the city. Michal considered his dance as carrying pagan overtones. David took her reaction very seriously and declared her barren.

The Patristics took liturgical dance for granted, as the norm. They spoke out against it when it smacked of the profane, but their writings reveal that they viewed it positively.

Take St Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, (340-397) He saw liturgical

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dance as "an ally of faith and an honouring of grace". "Let us not be ashamed of a show of reverence which will enrich the cult and deepen adoration of Christ, For this reason the dance must in no way be seen as a mark of reverence for vanity and luxury but as something which uplifts every living body . . ." (Sermon on Repentance) St Ambrose presented David's dance and its repercussions, as a model for liturgical dance. "David played before the Lord as His servant, and pleased him the more in so humbling himself before God . . . Let one who still doubts hear the testimony of the Gospel 'We have played for you and you would not dance'. These actions of the body, though unseemly when viewed in themselves, become reverential when viewed under the aspect of holy religion, so that those who censure them, drag their own souls into the net of censure". (Letter 58, The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, vol 26, page 146.) David is closely connected with the Psalms, reinforcing the fact that dancing was an integral part of Israel's public praise (Psalms 149-150).

There is a place at the right time and occasion for well presented and prayerful dance in our liturgies today.

Some will find it a distraction and see it

as performance. Others will find it enhances and serves the liturgy well.

Some will see liturgical dance and movement as a way of taking up the call of Vatican II to be fully involved and actively involved in the liturgy, worshipping our God with the whole person: body as well as with the mind and voice (Sac.rosanctum Concilium, 14, 19, 30, 48) and as a means of enhancing and faithfully serving Catholic liturgical life (Gaudium et Spes 62).

It must be noted that the Volume XI, pages 202-205, cited by Mr Curthoys comes from a liturgy journal Notitiae printed in 1975.

While this article might present itself as the voice of the Sacred Congregation of Sacraments and Divine Worship in respect to liturgical dance in Western culture, in the end it is not a papal or curial pronouncement but only the private opinion of its author.

To mention just one renowned liturgist of our day, Father Lucien Deiss whose sacred music has enriched our liturgies, has also written at length and given strong affirmation to the role of sacred dance in our public worship.

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family unit, which is the focal point for a stable society, has done much damage to the Church and the community in general.

I sincerely hope that the Catholic Church will refrain from making further embarrassing statements similar to the ones of the last election.

Mario Rap anaro Dianella

Sister Shelley M Barlow RNDM Maylands

ather Mick (The Record, October 5) have read with interest the recent lettells us that the majority of Catholics ters for and against the Enneagram. My main observation is that those against the in America do not believe in the Real Enneagram seem to have no personal Presence in the Eucharist. This is yet n response to letters that appeared in experience of it. and no-one who has done another sad reminder of the materialistic The Record on October 5, attacking the workshops has written criticising it's society we live in..

While millions of Christians do not Fr Walter Black MSC, the Council of usefulness, value or origin. in the transubstantiation of the believe I can speak from personal experience of Editor's note: a report on a meeting between Priests of the Archdiocese of Perth at its wine at Mass, they do quite Fr Cappo and the Coalition following Fr and bread Upper the at workshops Enneagram the meeting on October 12, passed a resolureadily accept the tongues of fire at Cappo's remarks is carried on Page 2. tion asking that it be included in The Room. The Enneagram has made more Pentecost were truly a manifestation of the relationships my behaviour, my of sense Record newspaper. The resolution and my spiritual journey than anything Holy Spirit. It was appropriate, that the reads: I've experienced in my "50-something" form in which the Holy Spirit chose to "We, the Council of Priests of the manifest Himself, should bear a signifiyears of life.

Archdiocese of Perth, express our total he feature article (The Record, cant relation to the purpose of His appearbefore I explored many different paths support and confidence in Fr Walter this, with very limited progress. My expe- ing: The fire symbolised a driving away of October 5) written by Carmel Attard Black MSC. He is a priest who is faithful rience with it started me on a journey ignorance and fear so that enlightenment from Malta, was most interesting and I to the Church in his orthodoxy and back to the Church and the Sacraments "may to tongue with power endow". agree with him tha,t the true family congiven readily is event of a married couple - man and wife sists the in Belief Integrity as a Catholic theologian." after an absence of ten years.

The motion was passed unanimously.

It has allowed me to see the limits I had because it is based on proof, on the and children.

However, the author wanders a long way placed on God and my relationship with recorded testimony of the apostles who especialand his original subject, making mistakes happening from this experienced Father Paul Fogarty to ability my Him. It has also increased Executive secretary of Council of Priests love and accept others and not expect ly on their conversion from cowering fol- on the way and finally ends with a biased them to see the world as I do and behave lowers the courageous proclaimers of attack on the Australian trade union movement.

Christ's teachings. the way I think they should.

He attacks the Australian Department of But at the last Supper when Jesus gave to I thank God for the dedicated staff of the arding your scholarly article on the Upper Room and the way they use the us the greatest of all gifts, Himself, in the Social Security, which we all know is not nneagram (The Record, October 5), I Enneagram as a tool for spiritual direction form of bread and wine, it was fitting that perfect but, compared with many other the miracle of transubstantiation - at that countries. perhaps Malta, it compares hope that many people will take note of and growth. first Mass and at all subsequent Masses - very favourably indeed. what you have to say.

Julie Whitely He says "The policy of directing payment be accepted on faith alone, on the should I am saddened that so many priests and Doubleview to the child carer suggests that the father word and power of Jesus. religious are promoting and believing in To have had any dramatic effect accom- cannot be trusted with the money". this gnostic revival when the treasure Perhaps the department had found that the words of consecration uttered by pany trove of the lives of the Saints and the Jesus would only have detracted from the many fathers 'booze and bet' the money great depths of the Gospel are tending to s the organiser of the recent Crusade solemnity of the occasion and the dignity away and so to ensure that the children do be overlooked today. of Prayer conducted by Fr Jozo Zovko of the Celebrant. not suffer, pays the money to the child My initial shock came when I was invit- OFM, formerly Parish Priest at Medjugorje perher or his seek us of one each carer.

Let ed to see a religious sister with a view to in Bosnia-Hercegovina, I have been bear witness may we that Pentecost, He says working conditions should be a sonal her becoming my spiritual director. advised that Fr Jozo and party were to receiving in Holy Communion His Body matter between the employer and the I was subjected for about an hour and a exhausted but delighted by their tour of and His Blood. employee (like 150-200 years ago, when half to the brilliance of Jungian psycholo- Oceania. children worked in the coalmines of Young gy and to the enormous wealth of spirituOver 33.000 people attended Fr Jozo's D.J. Working conditions are not dicEngland). ality contained in the Enneagram. prayer occasions, many of which lasted Balga tated by the president of the Australian I staggered away from that session total- five hours. Among highlights of the Council of Trade Unions from an air-conly disheartened, but intent on discovering Australian tour was the participation of ditioned office - they are determined by for myself what it is the Enneagram holds Archbishop Leonard Faulkner in Adelaide. arbitration and conciliation.

A moving ceremony was also held on a that Christians should follow it so enthusiHe says "How they (the worker and his ustralian Catholic Social Welfare sacred site at Kilaben Bay near Newcastle astically. family) make ends meet should be their David Father director Commission My research merely confirmed what I in NSW where Koori elders greeted Fr private affair". already knew. I gave equal attention to Jozo and invited him to share with them Cappo is out of order in accusing the fedThen he says "The Government should fears widespread eral Coalition of causing both sides of the question in my study of Our Lady's message of peace. out (determine) how much a family work In Canberra, Bishop Pat Power in his regarding enterprise bargaining, (The needs to live decently". several books and wondered why I had moving homily, referred to the devotion of West Australian, October 13). bothered.

I thought that "how they make ends meet Fr Cappo and other church leaders late mother to Our Lady at Medjugorje. his this is understand to What I find hard a private affair." was Each of the locations chosen by the would do well to remember that in the endless quest for `self-fulfilment;' for I would like to remind your readFinally, Liberal also are Catholic Church there 'awareness' about one's self and others; organisers reported crowds full to over- minded 1894, Pope Leo XIII, in his timein that ers people who "abhor" these one on "The Conditions of Encyclical ly for 'self-knowledge' and for growth in flowing.

Fr Jozo, who has this year toured sided views in the political arena. "it is the divine right of stated Labour", 'consciousness.'

Furthermore, Fr Cappo's priorities as one Oceania, in trade-unions" further unite workers to I have always believed that these things Ireland, USA, Canada and now home to greet pilgrims to of the spokespersons of the Church, would "Ills the divine right of workers to withreturned has an of the with practice being into come Medjugorje, and prepare for a crusade to be better applied in concentrating on the hold their labour if those rights are denied objective faith wherein Jesus Christ is our England and Scotland during November. family unit and the requirements needed them". supreme example. to make it work Kevin J Morley Mahony The Labor policies advocating continuKathleen Wood Kallista, Victoria ous lavish handouts to people outside the Bentley Dunsborough

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Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations

Declaration of rights of nations needed Pope John Paul II's address to

or intelligibility to the nature of man or to the human experience.

The latter makes the international politics of persuasion extremely difficult, if not impossible.

the United Nation's earlier this month, excerpts of which follow, made the normally cynical delegates take notice as he offered them the key to resolve the The Risk of Freedom apparent contradictions facing the world's nation in their search The moral dynamics of this unifor peace - a focus on the rights versal quest for freedom clearly of nations as well as the rights of appeared in Central and Eastern individuals that, in God, enables Europe during the non-violent the two to be integrated. revolutions of 1989. Unfolding in specific times and places, those President, ladies and gen- historical events nonetheless rtlemen. It is an honour for taught a lesson which goes far me to have the opportunity to beyond a specific geographical address this international assem- location. bly and to join the men and For the non-violent revolutions women of every country, race, of 1989 demonstrated that the language and culture in celebrat- quest for freedom cannot be suping the 50th anniversary of the pressed. It arises from a recognifounding of the United Nations tion of the inestimable dignity organisation and value of the human person, and it cannot fail to be accompaA Common Patrimony nied by a commitment on behalf of the human person. Modern Ladies and gentlemen! On the totalitarianism has been, first and threshold of a new millennium foremost, an assault on the digniwe are witnessing an extraordi- ty of the person, an assault which nary global acceleration of that has gone even to the point of quest for freedom which is one of denying the inalienable value of the great dynamics of human his- the individual's life. tory . . . . This universal longing The revolutions of 1989 were for freedom is truly one of the made possible by the commitdistinguishing marks of our time. ment of brave men and women During my previous visit to the inspired by a different, and ultiUnited Nations on October 2, mately more profound and pow1979, I noted that the quest for erful, vision: the vision of man as freedom in our time has its basis a creature of intelligence and in those universal rights which free will, immersed in a mystery human beings enjoy by the very which transcends his own being fact of their humanity It was pre- and endowed with the ability to cisely outrages against human reflect and the ability to choose dignity which led the United and thus capable of wisdom and Nations organisation to formu- virtue . . . . late, barely three years after its establishment, that Universal The Rights of Nations Declaration of Human Rights which remains one of the highest The quest for freedom in the expressions of the human con- second half of the 20th century science of our time . . . . has engaged not only individuals It is important for us to grasp but nations as well. Fifty years what might be called the inner after the end of the Second structure of this world-wide World War, it is important to movement. It is precisely its glob- remember that war was fought al character which offers us its because of violations of the rights first and fundamental "key" and of nations . . . . Terrible crimes confirms that there are indeed were committed in the name of universal human rights, rooted in lethal doctrines which taught the the nature of the person, rights "inferiority" of some nations and which reflect the objective and cultures. inviolable demands of a univerIn a certain sense, the United sal moral law.

Nations organisation was born These are not abstract points; from a conviction that such docrather, these rights tell us some- trines were antithetical to peace; thing important about the actual and the charter's commitment to life of every individual and of .'save future generations from the every social group. They also scourge of war" (Preamble) sureremind us that we do not live in ly implied a moral commitment an irrational or meaningless to defend every nation and culworld. ture from unjust and violent On the contrary, there is a aggression. moral logic which is built into Unfortunately, even after the human life and which makes end of the Second World War, possible dialogue between indi- the rights of nations continued to viduals and peoples. If we want a be violated . . . . It was only when century of violent coercion to be freedom was restored to the succeeded by a century of per- nations of Central and Eastern suasion, we must find a way to Europe that the promise of the discuss the human future intelli- peace which should have come gibly. The universal moral law with the end of the war began to written on the human heart is be realised for many of the vicprecisely that kind of "grammar" tims of that conflict. which is needed if the world is to The Universal Declaration of engage this discussion of its Human Rights, adopted in 1948, future. spoke eloquently of the rights of In this sense, it is a matter for persons; but no similar internaserious concern that some peo- tional agreement has yet adeple today deny the universality of quately addressed the rights of human rights, just as they deny nations. This situation must be that there is a human nature carefully pondered, for it raises shared by everyone. urgent questions about justice To be sure, there is no single and freedom in the world today model for organising the politics and economics of human freeToday the problem of nationalidom; different cultures and dif- ties forms part of a new world ferent historical experiences give horizon marked by a great rise to different institutional "mobility" which has blurred the forms of public life in a free and ethnic and cultural frontiers of responsible society. But it is one the different peoples, as a result thing to affirm a legitimate plu- of a variety of processes such as ralism of "forms of freedom," and migrations, mass media and the another to deny any universality globalization of the economy.

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And yet, precisely against this horizon of universality we see the powerful re-emergence of a certain ethnic and cultural consciousness, as it were an explosive need for identity and survival, a sort of counterweight to the tendency toward uniformity.

This is a phenomenon which must not be underestimated or regarded as a simple leftover of the past. It demands serious interpretation, and a closer examination on the levels of anthropology, ethics and law.

This tension between the particular and the universal can be considered immanent in human beings. By virtue of sharing in the same human nature, people

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automatically feel that they are members of one great family, as is in fact the case.

But as a result of the concrete historical conditioning of this same nature, they are necessarily bound in a more intense way to particular human groups, beginning with the family and going on to the various groups to which they belong and up to the whole of their ethnic and cultural group, which is called, not by accident, a "nation," from the Latin word "nasci": "to be born."

This term, enriched with another one, "patria" (fatherland/motherland), evokes the reality of the family.

The human condition thus finds itself between these two poles universality and particularity with a vital tension between them; an inevitable tension, but singularly fruitful if they are lived in a calm and balanced way.

Upon this anthropological foundation there also rest the "rights of nations," which are nothing but "human rights" fostered at the specific level of community life. A study of these rights is certainly not easy, if we consider the difficulty of defining the very concept of "nation," which cannot be identified "a priori" and necessarily with the state. Such a study must nonetheless be made, if we wish to avoid the errors of the past and ensure a just world order.

A presupposition of a nation's rights is certainly its right to exist: therefore no one - neither a state nor another nation, nor an international organisation - is ever justified in asserting that an individual nation is not worthy of existence.

This fundamental right to existence does not necessarily call for sovereignty as a state, since various forms of juridical aggregation between different nations are possible, as for example occurs in federal states, in confederations or in states characterised by broad regional autonomies.

There can be historical circumstances in which aggregations different from single state sovereignty can even prove advisable,

but only on condition that this tempt for other nations or cultakes place in a climate of true tures, and patriotism, which is a freedom, guaranteed by the exer- proper love of one's country. cise of the self-determination of True patriotism never seeks to the peoples concerned. advance the well-being of one's Its right to exist naturally own nation at the expense of othimplies that every nation also ers. For in the end this would enjoys the right to its own lan- harm one's own nation as well: guage and culture, through doing wrong damages both which a people expresses and aggressor and victim . . . . today promotes that which I would call we must ensure that extreme its fundamental spiritual "sover- nationalism does not continue to eignty." History shows that in give rise to new forms of the extreme circumstances (such as aberrations of totalitarianism. those which occurred in the land This is a commitment which also where I was born) it is precisely holds true, obviously, in cases its culture that enables a nation where religion itself is made the to survive the loss of political and basis of nationalism, as unfortueconomic independence. nately happens in certain maniEvery nation therefore has also festations of so-called "fundathe right to shape its life accord- mentalism." ing to its own traditions, excluding, of course, every abuse of Freedom, Moral Truth basic human rights and in particular the oppression of minorities.

Ladies and gentlemen! FreeEvery nation has the right to dom is the measure of man's digbuild its future by providing an nity and greatness . . . . The basic appropriate education for the question which we must all face younger generation. today is the responsible use of But while the "rights of the freedom, in both its personal and nation" express the vital require- social dimensions. Our reflection ments of -particularity," it is no must turn then to the question of less important to emphasise the the moral structure of freedom, requirements of universality, which is the inner architecture of expressed through a clear aware- the culture of freedom. ness of the duties which nations Freedom is not simply the have vis-a-vis other nations and absence of tyranny or oppreshumanity as a whole. sion. Nor is freedom a license to Foremost among these duties is do whatever we like. Freedom certainly that of living in a spirit has an inner "logic" which distinof peace, respect and solidarity guishes it and ennobles it: freewith other nations. Thus the dom is ordered to the truth, and exercise of the rights of nations, is fulfilled in man's quest for balanced by the acknowledge- truth and in man's living in the ment and the practice of duties, truth. promotes a fruitful "exchange of Detached from the truth about gifts," which strengthens the the human person, freedom deteunity of all mankind. riorates into license in the lives of individuals, and, in political life, Respect for Differences it becomes the caprice of the most powerful and the arrogance From bitter experience, of power. then, we know that the fear of Far from being a limitation "difference," especially when it upon freedom or a threat to it, expresses itself in a narrow and reference to the truth about the exclusive nationalism which human person - a truth univerdenies any rights to "the other," sally knowable through the can lead to a true nightmare of moral law written on the hearts violence and terror. of all - is, in fact, the guarantor of And yet if we make the effort to freedom's future. look at matters objectively, we In the light of what has been can see that, transcending all the said we understand how utilitaridifferences which distinguish anism, the doctrine which individuals and peoples, there is defines morality not in terms of a fundamental commonality. what is good but of what is For different cultures are but advantageous, threatens the freedifferent ways of facing the ques- dom of individuals and nations tion of the meaning of personal and obstructs the building of a existence. And it is precisely here true culture of freedom. that we find one source of the Utilitarianism often has devasrespect which is due to every cul- tating political consequences, ture and every nation: every cul- because it inspires an aggressive ture is an effort to ponder the nationalism on the basis of mystery of the world and in par- which the subjugation, for examticular of the human person: it is ple, of a smaller or weaker nation a way of giving expression to the is claimed to be a good thing transcendent dimension of solely because it corresponds to human life. The heart of every the national interest. No less culture is its approach to the grave are the results of economic greatest of all mysteries: the mys- utilitarianism, which drives more tery of God . . . . powerful countries to manipulate And here we can see how and exploit weaker ones. important il ls to safeguard the Nationalistic and economic utilfundamental right to freedom of itarianism are sometimes comreligion and freedom of con- bined, a phenomenon which has science, as the cornerstones of too often characterised relations the structure of human rights between the "North" and the and the foundation of every truly "South." For the emerging counfree society. . . . The truth about tries, the achievement of political man is the unchangeable stan- independence has too frequently dard by which all cultures are been accompanied by a situation judged; but every culture has of de facto economic depensomething to teach us about one dence on other countries; indeed, or other dimension of that com- In some cases, the developing plex truth. Thus the "difference" world has suffered a regression, which some find so threatening such that some countries lack the can, through respectful dialogue, means of satisfying the essential become the source of a deeper needs of their people. . . . . When millions of people understanding of the mystery of are suffering from a poverty human existence.

In this context, we need to clar- which means hunger, malnutriify the essential difference tion, sickness, illiteracy, and between an unhealthy form of degradation, we must not only nationalism, which teaches con- remind ourselves that no one has

Catholic philosopher 'helped UN' The Catholic contribution to the life of the United Nations did not begin with the recent visit of Pope John Paul II to the UN. The Pope had already addressed the UN in 1979, following on Pope Paul VI in 1965. And, as Mike Aquiline argues, the UN is indebted to the Catholic thought of French philosopher Jacques Maritain.

Paul anadian scholar Marshall believes that the C -ethos of human rights"

expressed in the United Nations' documents - especially the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - "developed out of a Christian commitment to the value of the person" and naturallaw reasoning.

Marshall, professor of political theory at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, also believes that the Catholic thinker whose work had a singular influence on the UN's founding documents was the French philosopher Jacques Maritain, whose life spanned much of a troubled century (1882-1973).

It was a century that proliferated with theories, especially in politics. And it was a time when the fine points of those theories; which few people could understand, could claim the lives of millions and the souls of millions more.

Maritain glimpsed the "culture of death" long before Pope John Paul II named it as such. But in Catholicism, to which he converted in 1906, he saw a sure remedy - a coherent spiritual, social and cultural ethos that respected a natural order of rights and duties - that could lead people to lasting peace.

From the time of his conversion, Maritain placed his brilliant mind at the service of a holy ambition. He worked to win culture back for Christ. His philosophical and polemical works ranged from science to art, prayer to politics, education to spiritual direction.

During World War II, he fled

Europe with his wife, Kaissa, a convert from Judaism. Both had been targets in Nazi-occupied France. Through the war years, Maritain wrote books and gave radio addresses to fortify the resistance movements throughout Europe. An author of more than 50 books, two in particular would profoundly influence the coming discussions of universal human rights: The Rights of Man and Natural Law (1942) and Christianity and Democracy (1943), both written while he was living in the United States.

After V-E Day, he emerged as a statesman, serving as French ambassador to the Vatican and to the united Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

Maritain's work received wide notice within the Catholic Church. Pope Paul VI called the philosopher "my teacher" and "a saint," and chose him to represent the intellectuals of the the universal natural law was the 'language' world at the closure of the Jacques Maritain: urged that nations to agree. that enabled Second Vatican Council in 1965.

But Maritain's pioneering work amn said. Among nations, funda- ration, John Humphrey, later with UNESCO and his influence mental ideas about rights and realised that debates were domon the United Nations are little duties are often "mutually inated by Catholics and Commknown, according to Marshall. unists, with the latter a poor opposed."

Maritain "presided over severStill, he was optimistic. Mar- second', Marshall said. Why? al of the earliest UN meetings on itain believed that nations that Marshall cited three possible human rights," Marshall expl- could not be unified in spirit reasons. First, it is a basic princiained. "He was not active in the could still be united in "practical, ple of natural law theory that drafting, but he had a great theo- common principles of action," natural law is universal, built retical influence in the period assuming they all accept the into the nature of human beings. leading up to it. He was a godfa- democratic charter of the UN. So, in agreeing with the Catholic ther to the process."

In his book Man and the State position, delegates were merely Indeed, in a 1948 address, (1951), he illustrated this with an doing what comes naturally.

Maritain acknowledged that anecdote from the drafting sesSecond. Marshall said, ChristUNESCO was "helping to draft" sions of the human-rights char- ian natural law offered a "midthe declaration on human rights, ter: "During one of the meet- dle of the road" between the which he called "one of the most ings.., at which the Rights of Man dominant ideologies of the day. important tasks undertaken by were being discussed, someone "Within Catholic social thought, the United Nations." was astonished that certain pro- there is a tendency to defend the The problem, he told the Sec- ponents of violently opposed person without slipping into ond International Conference of ideologies had agreed on the individualism, yet to recognise UNESCO, was "Babelism." Like draft of a list of rights. Yes, they the community without slipping the workers in the biblical story replied, we agree on these into the excesses of socialism." of the Tower of Babel, the gath- rights, providing we are not Third, he concluded, "Catholic ered diplomats did not speak asked why. With the 'why,' the participants had developed and the same language. worked-out views. Not all the dispute begins."

More important than linguistic And though there were dis- others did." differences, he said, was the fact putes, the natural-law argument, Marshall, an Anglican, is not that their cultural, moral and to a surprising degree, prevailed. the first to affirm the Christian spiritual heritages were at vari- The man who compiled the first character of the human-rights ance. "Every man's voice is but drafts of the human-rights decla- declaration, which was adopted noise to his fellowman," Marit-

December 10,1948, in Paris. Pope John XXIII wrote in the encyclical Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth): "There is no doubt . . . that the document represents an important step . . . For in it, in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings."

Through these 50 years, has the UN remained true to its founders' principles?

"So far, yes," Marshall said.

"But I think in the next 10 to 20 years we'll see a real fight as the world system breaks up into groups and blocs. The West, today, lacks a strong moral base to defend universality."

He already sees breaches in the wall. "Last year, at the UN's Vienna conference, a group of nations, the Bangkok Group, pushed against the universality of rights," Marshall said.

"They claimed that rights are a Western ideology inappropriate in other countries. So human rights will be 'whatever our country says they are.'"

The UN took perhaps another backward step at its International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo last year. There, a group of countries, led by the United States. promoted "universal rights" to abortion, contraception and homosexual marriage. These ideas were vehemently opposed by delegations from Muslim nations and the Vatican.

"There are things in the U.N.'s founding documents that contradict the agenda of the American group at Cairo," Marshall said.

"The documents provide no legal or moral foundation for the approval of, say, homosexual marriage."

That battle ended in a "stand off," Marshall said - "The American group essentially did not get what it wanted."

In its 50th year, the United Nations perhaps is facing a midlife crisis. Will it maintain its delicate balance .by concentrating on "practical common principles of action"? Or is it back to the Babel of a world at war?

- The Catholic News (Singapore)

'God's love enables humanity to hope and trust in future' a right to exploit another for his own advantage, but also and above all we must recommit ourselves to that solidarity which enables others to live out, in the actual circumstances of their economic and political lives, the creativity which is a distinguishing mark of the human person and the true source of the wealth of nations in today's world.

The UN and The Future of Freedom As we face these enormous challenges, how can we fail to acknowledge the role of the United Nations organisation? . . . .

The United Nations organisation needs to rise more and more above the cold status of an administrative institution and to become a moral centre where all the nations of the world feel at home and develop a shared awareness of being, as it were, a "family of nations."

The idea of "family" immediately evokes something more than simple functional relations or a mere convergence of interests.

The family is by nature a community based on mutual trust, mutual support and sincere respect. In an authentic family the strong do not dominate; instead, the weaker

members, because of their very weakness, are all the more welcomed and served. . . .

Beyond Fear: The Civilization of Love It is one of the great paradoxes of our time that man, who began the period we call "modernity" with a self-confident assertion of his "coming of age" and "autonomy," approaches the end of the 20th century fearful of himself, fearful of what he might be capable of, fearful for the future.

Indeed, the second half of the 20th century has seen the unprecedented phenomenon of a humanity uncertain about the very likelihood of a future, given the threat of nuclear war. That danger, mercifully, appears to have receded - and everything that might make it return needs to be rejected firmly and universally; all the same, fear for the future and of the future remains.

In order to ensure that the new millennium now approaching will witness a new flourishing of the human spirit, mediated through an authentic culture of freedom, men and women must learn to conquer fear. We must learn not to be afraid, we must rediscover a spirit of hope and a

spirit of trust. Hope is not empty optimism springing from a naive confidence that the future will necessarily be better than the past. Hope and trust are the premise of responsible activity and are nurtured in that inner sanctuary of conscience where "man is alone with God" (Gaudium et Spes, No 16) and thus perceives that he is not alone amid the enigmas of existence, for he is surrounded by the love of the Creator!

Hope and trust: these may seem matters beyond the purview of the United Nations. But they are not. The politics of nations. . . . can never ignore the transcendent, spiritual dimension of the human experience, and could never ignore it without harming the cause of man and the cause of human freedom.

Whatever diminishes man whatever shortens the horizon of man's aspiration to goodness harms the cause of freedom. In order to recover our hope and our trust at the end of this century of sorrows, we must regain sight of that transcendent horizon of possibility to which the soul of man aspires.

As a Christian, my hope and trust are centred on Jesus Christ, the 2,000th anniversary of whose

birth will be celebrated at the coming of the new millennium.

We Christians believe that in his death and resurrection were fully revealed God's love and his care for all creation. Jesus Christ is for us God made man, and made a part of the history of humanity.

Precisely for this reason, Christian hope for the world and its future extends to every human person. Because of the radiant humanity of Christ, nothing genuinely human fails to touch the hearts of Christians. . . . . Thus, as we approach the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Christ, the Church asks only to be able to propose respectfully this message of salvation, and to be able to promote, in charity and service, the solidarity of the entire human family.

Ladies and gentlemen! I come before you . . . . not as one who exercises temporal power - these are his words - nor as a religious leader seeking special privileges for his community.

I come before you as a witness: a witness to human dignity, a witness to hope, a witness to the conviction that the destiny of all nations lies in the hands of a merciful providence. We must overcome our fear of the future. But we will not be able to overcome it

completely unless we do so together. The "answer" to that fear is neither coercion nor repression, nor the imposition of one social "model" on the entire world.

The answer to the fear which darkens human existence at the end of the 20th century is the common effort to build the civilisation of love, founded on the universal values of peace, solidarity, justice and liberty. And the "soul" of the civilisation of love is the culture of freedom: the freedom of individuals and the freedom of nations, lived in self-giving solidarity and responsibility.

We must not be afraid of the future. We must not be afraid of man. It is no accident that we are here. Each and every human person has been created in the "image and likeness" of the one who is the origin of all that is. We have within us the capacities for wisdom and virtue. With these gifts, and with the help of God's grace, we can build in the next century and the next millennium a civilisation worthy of the human person, a true culture of freedom. We can and must do so!

And in doing so, we shall see that the tears of this century have prepared the ground for a new springtime of the human spirit.

The Record, October 19, 1995

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Features

Is there a false god lurking in your mirror? there was just one God. The idea was so successful that it transformed the world.

Three religions descended from Abraham - Judaism, Islam and Christianity - all believing in one God. On the other hand, the early Greeks, Vikings, Druids, Romans, Africans, Asians and Americans each had a pantheon of gods that controlled their lives. There was something in people that was gratified by having many gods, and those needs are still with humankind.

In pagan mythology life was controlled by having a god for almost every activity. A major part of worshipping a favourite god was Involvement in that god's activity.

In Greek mythology violent activity meant Ares, drinking meant Dionysus, jealousy and hatred meant Hera, love meant Athena and so on through the many levels of gods and goddesses.

Since gods could exercise control over a person It was necessary to keep them happy. In ancient paganism it was easy to pay homage to the big gods like Zeus and also be a disciple of the lesser ones.

Worshipping those gods was very different from our modern worship and love of the real God. Worship meant spending time, treasure and talent on the activity

sacred to the god, as well as hon- psychological illness. Control ouring the god's human image. paganism is chosen behaviour, illModern paganism is practiced ness is not. by people who become disciples Some examples: of the activity without reference • A school principal who must to the old god, allowing them- control everything, with no selves to be obsessed with an involvement of other people or idea, activity or lifestyle that is in the real God. No one can do a reality the same thing as old-fash- thing without the principal's perioned worship. The one change is mission that the image they worship is, in • A judge who goes to church on effect, themselves. weekends but never prays for It is possible for modern people guidance in court because he or to say they worship the real God, she is fully competent to do even go to church and receive the things alone. sacraments, but in reality wor• A person determined to keep ship a lesser god through extr- his or her house clean no matter eme devotion to an activity or what; all other considerations dislifestyle. Almost always people appear into this obsession. are unaware that they have creat• People who listen to no advice ed a false god inside themselves. but their own.

It is hard to see because there is These people put the real God no graven image. Instead the key into a box, making themselves is control of their activity, their self-sufficient. Their attitude Is idea, their lifestyle. People don't that "God has a place, but God worship themselves in the had better not intrude into the abstract. They worship their con- rest of my life." trol over some specific thing or One of the great strengths of activity; the activity becomes like Catholicism is that it is a faith of an obsession. moderation, balance. A little conModern paganism is "control trol is good, too much is either paganism." Some subtle exam- psychological illness or modern ples of this include losing weight, paganism. body-building, shopping, travel, A clean house is nice, but not at house cleaning, success and even the cost of a family. Self-reliance religious activity. What moves is desirable, but not when it any of these from normal human becomes absolute. Any obsessive activity to control paganism is control - especially in religion - is that the person becomes driven a sign of lack of faith in the real to control these activities, obs- God. essed by them.

A test to find out what god a When this happens, the activity person worships is to ask the simis essentially an act of worship ple question: "What would hapand the person doing it sees him- pen if I didn't do this for the next self/herself as a god in control. little while?" If your world would It is essential to distinguish fall apart, then there is probably a between control paganism and false god lurking in your mirror.

months. Then the therapeutic team decided to lessen her medicines gradually, eventually taking her off all medicines with the agreement that after 90 days the psychiatric team would re-evaluate her.

The experiment worked beyond expectation. She got a job and was able to regather her family. Good things happened in her life after years of illness. For this she thanked God, who continued to speak to her powerfully.

The 90 days ended. Her situation was to be re-evaluated.

However, she notified us she had been cured. The Lord had done it, and her church ministers agreed. Things had indeed been going well. We knew, nonetheless, that a re-evaluation was critical. She repeatedly refused, insisting the Lord had healed her.

Always she insinuated that we

didn't understand because our faith wasn't strong. Not only was she hearing the Lord, but her ministers were "one" with her.

"Does God speak only through you and to you?" I asked. I tried to challenge her to see all human gifts, even those of medical intelligence, as godly, as messages from the divine. But she alone knew what God was up to - she and the ministers who ratified the reality of her "messages and her healing."

The unravelling of her health was subtle at first. A store had hired her conditionally; her work was excellent. The changes came subtly at first. Finally there were arguments between her and some bottles on a shelf. The bottles had begun to "act funny."

The store fired her when customers became frightened by a person talking to bottles, shaking

By Father W. Thomas Faucher he great revelation in the T story of Abraham and subsequent Jewish theology was that

Food for Hotline to God can be a kind of madness many a T thought

By Br Cyprian Rowe, FMS

hat does God ask of people W that they might find difficult or demanding?

The following are some responses from American men and women in the street: "Developing our gifts and talents, and not being afraid to take a risk to share them with people . . . . Accepting the death of a loved one when you expected a healing."

- Diane.

"Unconditional love on a daily basis. It's hard for us to give it because there is a fear of rejection - that if we do give that unconditional love and turn our life over to God and to others, what will happen? . . . Yet, as a mother, I've learned that I need to give unconditional love or it just turns into conflict." - Jamie.

"The Ten Commandments.

They are demanding because of the way people are raised. It becomes harder because no one cares anymore, like about adultery."

- Kristin.

"God challenges us to go against the flow sometimes. God asks us to challenge ourselves when it would be easier to ignore what's right. God challenges us to be Christ for one another."

- Jenny.

"That they take all people as they find them and treat them in a loving, Christian manner. That's difficult because there are so many different personalities and lifestyles and moral outlooks and value systems ... . So often we go by the outward trappings and not the real person underneath."

- Sheila.

10 The Record, October 19, 1995

he people I work with as a psychotherapist rarely admit to being their own gods. They simply insist that God is on their side.

It can be a serious matter to believe that God always wants what I want. A variation on the theme says that I alone know what God wants.

The patient had been a difficult client. She always knew what medicine she would take, how often she should come to therapy and how long each session should take. After periods of noncompliance, she would say: "I didn't need to come. And I enjoy going to church."

After almost a year, she began to change, becoming more compliant. This continued for 18

her fingers at them. Reports filtered back to us afterward that she was seen walking up and down the streets, gesturing, stopping suddenly and pointing frantically into the air.

Friends offered to take her to the hospital. But they did not understand that she was "fine."

God told her so. If God told her differently she would do differently.

Her story is an extreme example. But I wonder how unusual it is in its basics. People hear a multitude of gods, it seems, or believe God always wants what they want.

Believing we always know just what God wants can make our life with others - spouses, children, friends difficult.

Can we allow God to work in them without our intervention or control?

Temptation in the Garden of Eden alive and well

By Father John Castelot he first human temptation T was portrayed as an urge to be like God.

Enticing the woman to eat the forbidden fruit, the tempter appealed to a deep desire to throw off dependence on God, to be one's own god.

"God knows that the moment you eat of it . . . you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad" (Genesis 3:5).

What "know" means here is to determine what was good and bad, to be one's own standard, one's own god.

Ultimately, yielding to the temptation brought tragic disillusionment, the sad realisation of human "nakedness," helplessness, vulnerability Subsequent

human history saw people succumbing to the temptation to become their own gods and suffering the dire consequences.

The story of the tower of Babel illustrated defiant attempts of human ambition to establish a world centre to dominate events and, you might say, to take God's place. The result was disastrous for the builders.

Then there was Jezebel, a Phoenician princess, who was married to Ahab of Israel.

Actually, this new queen not only wanted to play god; she brought along her own god Baal - who was really an instrument of Jezebel's desire to be powerful and to dominate.

Jezebel campaigned ruthlessly against Yahweh's worshippers, doing everything to make the worship of Baal the state religion

of Israel. Yahweh's defenders, like Elijah, suffered cruelly. Like all people with pretensions to godlike power, Jezebel tried to dominate other people.

Her husband, King Ahab, had set his eyes on a choice piece of land bordering the royal property and tried to induce its owner, Naboth, to sell it. Naboth refused, and Ahab became deeply depressed.

But Jezebel knew how to get her way. She hatched a plot against Naboth, had him condemned and executed, and simply took over his property. Her determination to play god knew no bounds.

In the end Jezebel destroyed herself and suffered a gruesome death in a military coup. It is not only people in high places who want to be their own gods.

Ordinary people, too, resent their human limitations. They want to determine their own fate.

A man who asked Jesus the secret to eternal life betrayed his self-sufficiency by his very question: "What must I `do'?" (Mark 10:17). He was wealthy; he could "do" anything. Jesus' answer floored him: "Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor." This was not precisely a call to poverty but an exhortation to give up self-sufficiency, to stop playing god.

To try to gain eternal life and happiness without dependence on God is to doom oneself to failure.

The rich man, the Gospel tells us, "went away sad, for he had many possessions." These were his gods.

The Catholic Library: 20 years on

Catholic book paradise for library buffs Established under the Catholic Institute, The Catholic Library housed in the it provides quality books, journals, videos, Catholic Education Office buildings at audiotapes, slides, filmstrips and media Leederville has been serving the Catholic kits - a source of information and stimulacommunity of Western Australia for twen- tion for Catholic people. What's more, the ty years. Happy user Eve White of library's initiative of Freepost, rural bulk Subiaco gives here her appreciation of loans and extended loans bring the library's resources within reach of everyservice offered by the Library. one in WA Last year, for example, over 500 books 've always loved reading, and I've I always been fascinated by libraries. The were borrowed through rural bulk loan sheaf of plastic cards in my wallet don't services operating in Moora, Esperance, give me access to high finance but to the Wongan Hills and Boyup Brook. Country worlds opened up by books and videos. people clearly value this opportunity to They stand for all the libraries I just keep informed and up-to-date in their couldn't pass by without calling in and areas of interest.

Readers from outer metropolitan areas then being caught up in what they offered.

Someone once said that a library is a place can use the depots at Beaconsfield, where you can have conversations with Gooseberry Hill, Gosnells, Middle Swan, Queens Park and Padbury. the dead - ( and with the living, too).

Individuals can join the Catholic Library For me, there's always a special pleasure In finding a new book and getting engross- for an annual fee of $15, which entitles ed in it, as much as in returning to an old unlimited borrowing of books and audiofavourite. When I was eight years old, my tapes, and up to 10 video cassettes.

Saturday outing was catching the bus into Pensioners, single parents and the unemPerth to the junior Red Cross library in ployed pay only $5. A bargain in anyone's Murray St and coming home to feast on terms!

Teachers in Catholic schools are entitled the latest Famous Five and Biggles books.

Later, when I was an impoverished stu- to use the library, and do so in large numdent,I discovered the Catholic Library and bers, for teaching purposes and for perBookshop in Pier St, but in those days I sonal spiritual growth.

On a typical day in the Catholic Library, couldn't find exactly what I wanted there.

So when, a few years later, I became a you might see a liturgy coordinator chooscatechist, I was delighted to find a reli- ing designs for a banner for a special feast gious resource library in the former St day, a mother finding out more about Theresa's school in Nedlands, and spent preparing her child for First Communion, many happy hours browsing among the students clustered around a table stacks. Some of that collection is part of researching for an assignment in religious what is now the Catholic Library of education at Edith Cowan University, a Western Australia, and, of course, I'm an parish priest picking a book in a particular area of interest, a catechist previewing a enthusiastic and regular user.

I learned recently that Western Aust- video on the Sacrament of Reconciliation, ralia's Catholic Library is one of a kind. No a youth leader collecting ideas for group other Catholic library in Australia caters activities on camp, a lecturer drawing up a for such a range of needs: for teaching fac- list of resources for a class, or someone ulty, tertiary students, Catholic schools and comfortably ensconced in a sturdy armchair browsing through the latest Tablet general readers like myself.

Annals. or ground the on housed The Library is The library staff are patient, friendly peofloor of the Catholic Education Centre in Leederville, formerly the Home of the ple and they create a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere. They've helped me Good Shepherd.

The lofty pressed tin ceiling which once with all sorts of things from finding the surveyed mealtimes in the Refectory now words of a particular hymn, to using the looks over a different kind of food - for the computerised catalogue, to previewing mind and spirit. The bright area with its videos and slides, to providing change for tall windows and sturdy timber furniture the photocopier.

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Regular library user, teacher Adrian Martino, catches up on some literature at the library

Cheerful Catholic Library staff Helen Travia, left, Elivia de Vries. Carol Balcombe, Dierdre Monck and senior coordinator Denise HaHion, right front.

Flexible service for everyone

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard t's true that the Catholic Library of Australia's central location at IWestern Ruislip Street, Leederville, has definite 50

Sacred Heart school RE Coordinator, Anne Duncan, working on the Library computer

appeal.

But then so does its situation in the beautiful building and grounds of the Catholic Education Centre, not to mention the vast resources which the Catholic Library has to offer not only Catholics, but also others throughout Western Australia.

Administered by the Catholic Institute, it is a public library offering a wide range of literature with 9,000 books, 78 periodicals, 1,800 audios, 1,900 film strips and slides, and about 3.000 videos servicing areas from the far north of the state to the south.

The library claims the largest collection of religious books and periodicals in the State, while its collection of film strips, slides, audio and video cassettes is reputed to be the largest in Australia.

Served by professional staff headed by senior coordinator Denise Hallion, the

library attracts a wide range of people from average lay folk, educational institutions - with 105 Catholic primary, 27 secondary and 20 composite (primary/secondary) schools currently enrolled - as well as 78 parishes and 16 agencies.

While offering individuals library membership to suit their pocket and requirements, it also provides parish membership on a sliding scale,.

Under the parish arrangement, the parish can select several individuals, for a certain fee, access to unlimited borrowing for parish purposes. A parish liaison person who receives library information to pin on parish notice boards and for general parish dissemination can also be appointed.

Country people don't miss out either, because their membership entitles them to free borrowings with no postal charges.

All sorts of people seek out its resources, such as Presentation Sister Rita who. selects videos weekly for the people at the Rocky Bay spastic centre.

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To Jesus through Mffly. . . .

St Louis Grignon de Montfort, a leading thinker on devotion to Our Lady, here gives, from his eighteenth century work, The True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the signs that show a believer is truly devoted to Mary and not following his or her mistaken opinion.

After having laid bare and condemned the false devotions to the most holy Virgin, we must, in a few words, characterise the true devotion. It must be ( 1) interior, (2) tender, (3) holy, (4) constant, and (5) disinterested 1. True devotion to our Lady is interior, that is to say, it comes from the spirit and the heart. It flows from the esteem we have of her, the high idea we have formed of her greatness, and the love which we have for her.

2. It is tender; that is to say, full of confidence in her, like a child's confidence in his loving mother.

This confidence makes the soul have recourse to her in all its bodily or mental necessities, with much simplicity, trust, and tenderness.

It implores the aid of its good Mother, at all times, in all places, and about all things; in its doubts, that it may be enlightened; in its wanderings, that it may be brought into the right path; in its temptations, that it may be supported; in its weaknesses, that it may be strengthened; in its falls, that it may be lifted up; in its discouragements, that it may be cheered; in its scruples, that they may be taken away; in its crosses, toils, and disappointments of life, that it may be consoled under them.

In a word, in all its evils of body

Chinese crack down on Catholics STANFORD, The foundation said some 30 to Connecticut.

(CNS) - China has been crack- 40 arrests of underground ing down heavily on pro- Catholics were made between Vatican underground Chinese April 13 and April 19. Among Catholic clergy and laity over those taken into custody during the past year, according to an the year, it said, were three bishorganisation that monitors reli- ops who are now serving prison gious rights in the Asian coun- terms ranging from two to five years. try.

They are Bishops Li Hongye of The Cardinal Kung Foundation said that scores of Catholics who Luoyang, Han Dingxiang of Yong maintain loyalty to the pope have Nian, and Zeng Jing-mu of Yu Jiang, all of whom were arrested been arrested and fined.

"Four of the arrested were fined in August.

The foundation also cited an 900 Chinese Yen, the equivalent of almost six-months of income," August 1994 incident on the eve of the feast of the Assumption the foundation said.

The Connecticut-based founda- during which Catholics were tion is named after Cardinal beaten by authorities in an effort Ignatius Kung Pin-mei, the bish- to prevent them from congregatop of Shanghai, who spent ing for prayers.

The foundation called for the decades in Chinese prisons for refusing to join the government- Immediate release of detained controlled Chinese Catholic Catholics.

"We appeal to the Chinese govorganisation. The foundation's president is his nephew. Joseph ernment to release all these prisoners of conscience immediateKung.

One of the most recent cases, ly" it said.

The foundation also urged the foundation said, is that of ailing 76-year-old Bishop Zeng China, a member of the United Jingmu of Jiang Diocese, who Nations, to abide by the organiwas arrested on October 4 with- sation's charter to guarantee freeout being charged with a crime. dom of religion for all citizens.

and mind, the soul's ordinary refuge is in Mary, without fearing to be importunate to her or to displease Jesus Christ.

3. True devotion to our Lady is holy; that is to say, it leads the soul to avoid sin, and to imitate in the Blessed Virgin particularly her profound humility, her lively faith, her blind obedience, her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her divine purity, her ardent charity, her heroic patience, her angelical sweetness, and her divine wisdom.

These are the ten principal virtues of the most holy Virgin.

4. True devotion to our Lady is constant. It confirms the soul in good, and it does not let it easily abandon its spiritual exercises.

It makes it courageous in opposing the world in its fashions and maxims, the flesh in its wearinesses and passions, and

• • • a column of Marian devotion the devil in his temptations. So that a person truly devout to our Blessed Lady is neither changeable, irritable, scrupulous, nor timid.

It is not that such a person does not fall, or change sometimes in the sensible feeling of devotion, or in the amount of devotion itself. But when he falls, he rises again by stretching out his hand to his good Mother.

If he loses the taste and relish of devotion, he does not disturb himself because of that; for the just and faithful client of Mary lives on the faith of Jesus and Mary, and not on sentiments and sensibilities.

5. Lastly, true devotion to our Blessed Lady is disinterested; that is to say, it inspires the soul not to seek itself but God only, and God in His holy Mother.

A true client of Mary does not

serve that august Queen from a spirit of lucre and interest, nor for its own good, whether temporal, corporal, or spiritual; but exclusively because she merits to be served, and God alone in her.

He does not love Mary precisely because she does him good, or because he hopes in her; but because she is so worthy of love.

It is on this account that he loves and serves her as faithfully in his disgusts and drynesses, as in his sweetnesses and sensible fervours.

He loves her as much on Calvary, as at the marriage of Cana. How such a client of our Blessed Lady, who has no selfseeking in his service of her, is agreeable and precious in the eyes of God and of His holy Mother!

Vatican clarification seeks to aid ending of East-West Church rift Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, reaffirmed the WASHINGTON (CNS) - A "normative and irrevocable Vatican clarification to the value" of the more ancient faith Orthodox churches over a cen- statement that the Holy Spirit turies-old Western addition to "takes his origin from the Father."

When the Western church the Nicene Creed may help heal an ancient source of division, a declares in the liturgy that the Catholic specialist in Orthodox Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son," it does not intend relations said.

"This is a clarification that to - and in fact cannot - contraneeded to be made," said Paulist dict the earlier "expression of the Father Ronald Roberson, associ- faith taught and professed by the ate director of the US Catholic undivided church," the statement bishops' Secretariat for said.

Pope John Paul II had asked the Ecumenical and Interreligious unity council to issue the clarifiAffairs.

For nearly 1,000 years the cation following a Mass at St Catholic Church in the West and Peter's Basilica in June during a the Orthodox churches of the visit to Rome by Ecumenical East have had as one of their Patriarch Bartholomew I of sources of division the fact that Constantinople.

The Pope told the Patriarch the West added the word "Filioque" in the profession of then that the Catholic Church faith known as the Nicene Creed. wanted "to clarify the traditional The original Greek version of doctrine of the 'Filioque,' present the creed, which goes back to in the liturgical version of the fourth-century ecumenical coun- Latin 'Credo,' in order to highcils held at Nicea and Constant- light its full harmony with" the inople, said the Holy Spirit takes more ancient formula of faith professed by the assembled bishhis origin from the Father.

In Latin, the Greek phrase was ops of the church at Constanttranslated as "ex Patre procedit" - inople in 381 A.D. .

That ancient formula, he said. 'proceeds from the Father."

Under the influence of that trans- confesses "the Father as the lation, churches in the West grad- source of the whole Trinity, the ually began to insert "Filioque" - one origin of both the Son and proceeds from the Father "and the Holy Spirit."

The new document, titled "The the Son" into the creed.

Greek and Latin Traditions about The new Vatican document says that the church in the West has the Procession of the Holy consistently affirmed that the Spirit," argued that the different Father alone is the "principle direction taken in the Latin without (any other) principle of church stemmed not from a difthe Son and of the Spirit" and ference in doctrine but from a that the language of the Spirit slight mistranslation from Greek proceeding from the Father and to Latin which fuzzed over the the Son simply expresses "the differences between two Greek consubstantial communion of terms: "ekporeusis" (origination) the Father and the Son, while and "proienai" (procession).

"The 'Filioque' does not conexcluding any possible subordicern the 'ekporeusis' of the Spirit nationist interpretation of the issued from the Father as the Father's monarchy."

The document, issued in mid- source of the Trinity, but maniSeptember by the Vatican's fests his 'proienai,- it said. The

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creed in Greek uses a verb form of "ekporeusis," "originates," for which the Latin translation - "procedit." "proceeds" is imprecise.

The document said that while the West added "Filioque" in liturgical use in the recitation of the creed in Latin, it has refused to add "kai tou Huiou" Greek for "and the Son" - in the Greek version of the creed. This, it said, shows that the church in the West has viewed the Latin and Greek formulations as complementary, not as contradictory or conflicting.

To an everyday Christian the difference that has contributed to centuries of division might sound like scholarly hairsplitting of concern only to academics, hut Father Roberson said it has been part of a broader set of concerns.

At one level, he said, the Orthodox have had a problem with the West's unilateral addition to the creed as a matter of an improper exercise of authority that "something decided by the whole church (in an ecumenical council) could only be changed by the whole church."

At another level, he said. many Orthodox have a problem with "whether it's true or not" to say that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son. "Many Orthodox would say the 'Filioque' is heresy," he said.

"This document attempts to formulate it in a way that is more amenable to the Orthodox:: The church in the West added the "Filioque" in part to protect the equal divinity of the Son with the Father in response to the Arian heresy, which attempted to subordinate the Son to the Father. But the Orthodox have tended to view the addition as protecting the doctrine of the Son only at the expense of diminishing the equal divinity of the Holy Spirit.

Ecuador takes in refugees from China fleeing family policies

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Nine women who fled China because of the country's coercive family policies have arrived in Ecuador with assistance from the US Catholic Conference's Migration and Refugee Services and the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travellers.

The women, accompanied by Mercy Sister Evelyn Munoz on behalf of MRS and two Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) officers, left Los Angeles for Quito on October 6, 12

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said Scalabrinian Father Silvano Tomasi, secretary of the council.

The move is the end of more than 27 months in INS detention facilities for the women, but leaves unresolved a basic question about asylum and human rights, Father Tomasi said.

The larger question, he told Catholic News Service, is whether the US government should recognise forced marriage, contraception, abortion and sterilisation as violations of human rights and the basis for granting asylum.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a speech to the UN women's con-

ference in Beijing in September, said: "It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilised against their will."

But President Bill Clinton, who can sign an executive order recognising those violations as grounds for granting refugee status, has not done so.

The immigration service, adhering to a case known as the "Matter of Chang," continues to rule against granting refugee status because China's family policies apply to everyone in the

country and, therefore, do not constitute "political persecution," Father Tomasi said.

While rejoicing that the nine women were finally allowed to leave the United States, the priest also expressed concern for two of the women's husbands, who are still awaiting the final resolution of their cases before US immigration judges. Also, two women who were detained in Bakersfield, California, with the nine and had been studying Spanish with Sister Munoz in preparation for their resettlement are still in the detention facility, Father Tomasi said.

Richard Cook, their attorney, told CNS on October 10 he still was not certain why they were not brought to Los Angeles and flown to Quito with the others, but he hoped they would be released soon.

Two or three other women in the group declined to go to Ecuador, taking a chance that somehow they would be able to remain in the United States, he said.

"Being in jail for more than two years was such a traumatic experience that I'm not sure all of them are making rational decisions," Cook said.

International News

Goodness of other religions poses questions

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church preaches that there is no salvation without Christ. But it also preaches respect for other religions and the "saving grace" God may offer through them.

Thirty years after the close of the Second Vatican Council, some of the world's leading theologians are taking a deeper look at the truth of the two statements and how to reconcile them.

Gone are the days of a superficial adherence to the ancient maxim "outside the Church there is no salvation".

A year ago, the International

Theological Commission gave its final approval to a document on "universal salvation" - how God, through Christ, offers redemption to all humanity.

Dominican Father Georges Cottier, secretary-general of the commission, said the document will probably be released before the end of the year. The decision to publish is made by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Even though the document has not been published yet, commission members in early October moved ahead with a preliminary vote on a draft of another document - on the relationship between Christianity and other

religions. The new document, set for final adoption at the commission's 1996 meeting, uses faith in salvation through Christ as the starting point for the merits and limits of dialogue with other religions.

Father Cottier told Vatican Radio, "This is the basic principle: There is no salvation without Christ, but the grace of Christ borne by the Holy Spirit, as the Council said, has its ways of touching men and women who have not heard the Gospel; and, in fact, the Church, with the council, has recognised the positive and valid elements found in the other great world religions."

The theological commission

Create sacred art for modern world: Pope

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church must not only preserve its treasured historical artifacts but must support the creation of new sacred art reflecting modern culture, Pope John Paul H said.

"When the Church calls on art to take up its mission, it does so not only for aesthetic reasons, but to obey the logic of revelation and the incarnation," the Pope said on October 12 during the first meeting of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Goods of the Church.

Beauty is not a secondary attribute of God, but is part of God's identity, the Pope said.

The highest mission of art is to reflect the beauty of God in

painting, sculpture, architecture or music so that it is visible to the human eye and draws the human spirit closer to the invisible beauty of God, he said.

The commission was founded by the Pope in 1993 to take the place of the former Pontifical Commission for the Preservation of the Artistic and Historic Patrimony of the Church "The unanimous dedication of such an army of workers cannot fail to give rise to a rebirth of artistic culture, illuminating the Church and the world with a renewed fervour for thoughts and works which illustrate the values of beauty and truth," he said. The relationship between faith, art and culture has been close throughout history, the Pope said. Art and literature

have drawn their inspiration from religious themes and have, in turn, passed inspiration on to others. Pope John Paul said he changed the name of the commission because the word "preservation" implied the group was concerned only with what was produced in the past.

"If one wants to insert cultural goods in the dynamism of the new evangelisation, one cannot be limited to maintaining and protecting them," he said. New artistic and cultural expressions of the faith must be produced for new generations of believers.

The Church, he said, is not looking to embellish its buildings or liturgies, but to offer people "an experience of God, who draws to himself everything that is good, beautiful and true."

was not the only group working on the question in early October.

La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine that often reflects Vatican thinking, ran a 14-page editorial on October 7 titled, "Christianity and other religions."

The article said there are four "firm points" on which Catholics base their discussions with other religions: 'The universality of God's saving will . . . that "God realises his universal plan for salvation through his Son . . . that salvation, in its fullness and perfection, is accomplished in the Church, (and) . . . that God's gift of faith is necessary for salvation. It is a gift given by pure grace, and individ-

uals can only open themselves to receive it.

The question remains, as Civilta Cattolica put it: "If God wants all men and women to be saved, adhering to Christ with faith and belonging to his Church, how does this saving will work for those who do not believe in Christ and do not belong to his church?"

The basic answer to the question is, "It's a mystery." But, the article said, Catholics believe God, "with his saving grace, acts beyond the visible boundaries of the Church and reaches all men and women, uniting them to Christ and invisibly gathering them into his Church."

US Catholic black men called to prompt action WASHINGION (CNS) - Father -The first drug-free zone ought to George Clements, one of be the sacred temple of God," America's foremost black Father Clements said.

Black men must also "challenge Catholic priests, outlined a fourpoint plan that deserves "imme- the insanity" of the "babies havdiate personal attention" from ing babies" syndrome, Father Clements said. "We ought never black men.

Areas needing attention include have these words pass through homelessness of black children, our lips: 'Boys will be boys.With more black men in prison addiction, men in prison, and the growing incidence of out-of- than in college, "we are the only ones who can bring our boys out wedlock births by teenagers.

"Immediate (attention). I said of these jails," he said.

Father Clements said respect immediate, immediate," Father Clements remarked on October should be given to Nation of 14 at a Summit for Black Catholic Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as Men, to coincide with the Million the only American today who could stage the Million Man Man March in Washington.

"We African-American men March. But he alluded to critimust break the stranglehold that cisms of Farrakhan that he is the white bureaucrats have on anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic.

"I'm proud to be a Catholic. I'm our own homeless children," Father Clements said. "We can proud to be a Catholic," Father blame 'ern for everything (else), Clements said. "I got a problem but you can't blame them for with any of y'all apologising to be these homeless little black boys a Catholic."

He added, "I don't want anyand girls. They belong to us."

Father Clements adopted four body telling me my church is boys during his 22 years as pas- racist when they know full well tor of Holy Angels Parish in theirs is just as racist. At least Chicago. He founded "One we've tried," he said, while in Church One Child," which other churches some believers claims credit for 40,000 adop- have splintered off into racetions in 39 states. He also cited exclusive denominations. The "massive denial" over drug and priest said that includes - "and I alcohol addiction as a major told this to Minister Farrakhan" problem confronting black men. the Nation of Islam.

'Psychic defect' allowed for banning abuse clergy

By Mike Aquilina

, ., Sexual. misconduct priest returns to parish

PI1 ESBURGH (CNS) - In a CHICAGO (CNS) - A priest to have "another responsible groundbreaking decision the Catholic Church's supreme court removed from his parish by the adult present" when with a reversed an earlier decision and Chicago Archdiocese for sexual minor. Parishioners were highly upheld Pittsburgh Bishop Donald misconduct with minors has supportive of his return.

Father Calicott spent six months Wuerl's removal from priestly been reinstated; archdiocesan ministry of a priest accused of officials say he is no longer a risk last year in a residential treatto children and will be closely ment facility outside the state. sexually abusing a minor.

The staff of the facility, as well as Local church law experts said supervised.

Father Calicott was to return to psychologists in Chicago, said the new decision expands a bishop's ability to use "psychic Holy Angels parish on October Father Calicott does not pose a defect" as a basis for removing 15 after signing a pledge always significant risk to children. priests who sexually abuse minors from all ministry. public, dress in clerical attire or Before it reached its new ruling, Dated September 18, the deci- otherwise present himself as a the Signature asked the sion was reported in the October priest in good standing.

Pontifical Council for the 13 issue of the Pittsburgh Father Cipolla, who is now in Interpretation of Legislative Texts Catholic, diocesan newspaper. his early 50s, appealed the deci- to clarify the meaning of "psychic The diocese did not release the sion to the Vatican Congregation defect" in Canon 1044 in the text of the decision, citing Vatican for the Clergy, which in 1990 Church's Code of Canon Law. rules of confidentiality. upheld Bishop Wuerl.

The pertinent part of Canon The priest in the case was The priest then appealed to the 1044 says that a priest found to Father Anthony Cipolla. When Church's highest court, the be "afflicted with insanity or he was accused in 1988 of having Supreme Tribunal of the some other psychic defect" is sexually molested a minor over a Apostolic Signature, which in barred from exercising priestly four-year period in the 1980s, March 1993 overturned the bish- ministry until his bishop, with Bishop Wuerl suspended him op's order. Bishop Wuerl imme- expert advice, restores his faculfrom all priestly ministry. He diately asked for a suspension of ties. ordered him not to hear confes- that judgment and a full rehearThe pontifical council said the sions, preach, celebrate Mass in ing. which the Signature granted. term should be interpreted as it

He said that under the new decision, psychic defect can be used as grounds for barring Father Calicott has agreed to someone from ministry if there is continue to receive therapy and a problem "of a serious nature to accept a monitor. that renders a person incapable The person abused by Father of carrying out priestly ministry" Calicott is also in favour of his - even if that problem is not return as pastor, said an arch- "near insanity," as canonists have diocesan spokesman.

The tended to interpret it in the past.

Chicago Archdiocese has Nicholas Cafardi, dean of removed 22 priests accused of Duquesne University's law sexual misconduct with minors school and an expert in Church since July 1991. and civil law, echoed that view.

'Most canonists have argued that is elsewhere in the code. Among Canon 1044 is improper to use places it appears is in the code's unless the psychic defect is close discussion of grounds for nullity to insanity.

This decision allows a broader of matrimony, which may occur if one of the partners has a psychic interpretation of the canon," he defect that renders him or her said.

Cafardi said he believes the incapable of fulfiling the obligadecision will have a profound tions of marriage.

Father Lawrence DiNarclo, effect on church discipline in Pittsburgh diocesan vicar for other cases of clerical sexual canonical services, said that in abuse of minors.

"Sexual misconduct of an adult dealing with clerical misconduct "there has been some dispute with a minor as victim almost over whether some types of sex- always involves some psychologual misconduct constitute a psy- ical illness," he said.

The Signature's decision "frees chic defect as well as a moral a bishop, really," Cafardi said. lapse."

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International News

In Brief Vietnamese bishops call HANOI, (CNS) - The Vietnamese bishops' conference has asked the Church in Vietnam to involve itself more in issues affecting the nation.

The call came in a pastoral letter on September 30 which asked Vietnamese Catholics to join the Church in preparations for the celebration of the Church's 2000th anniversary.

'Internet' religion WASHINGTON (CNS) More than 50 Religious congregations have joined forces in Italy to form their own nonprofit Internet service provider.

The Peace Communication Network will pool resources to make worldwide Internet communications available to many religious organisations which otherwise could not afford it.

Korean women SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) Female church leaders in Korea have urged their bishops to act on special pastoral concerns of women.

Catholic women's groups asked the bishops to set up programs, a research centre for women and women's desks at diocesan and national levels.

'Canon' lady PITtSBURGH (CNS) - Rita Ferko Joyce, wife, mother, civil lawyer, theologian and canon lawyer, is the first woman to be appointed director of cases in the Pittsburgh diocesan marriage tribunal.

She will be responsible for the preliminary process in cases involving marriage, assisting petitioners, respondents, witnesses and clergy in preparing cases for presentation to the tribunal.

Irish abuse cases DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) Irish bishops will report to police all paedophilia cases where there is reasonable cause to suspect a priest, Cardinal Cahal Daly has announced.

The bishops are "deeply ashamed that some priests and religious have been abusers of children," he said.

Mother Teresa LOS ANGELES (CNS) Mother Teresa will be honoured by the Noel Foundation and the UN Development Fund for Women.

The Noel Foundation, an organisation dedicated to worldwide peace, was to conduct its awards ceremony and fund-raiser on October 20 in Los Angeles in conjunction with the United Nations' 50th anniversary celebration.

Lithuanian Bill VILNIUS, Lithuania (CNS) Lithuania's parliament has passed a Bill regulating church-state relations after Catholic protests forced changes in the proposal.

The Bill establishes clear procedures for setting up parishes and other bodies, said Father Gruzas, secretary-general of the bishops' conference.

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Octogenarian pin-up: 'why all the fuss?'

By Joe Bollig ATCHISON, Kansas (CNS) - Her hand fluttered up to her face and she looked away as her eyes teared slightly.

I don't know how to accept such publicity" said Benedictine Sister Fabian Dekat. "I'm praying that it does some good."

Sister Fabian, 88, isn't used to a lot of attention. From the time she professed her vows 72 years ago and all through her 57-year teaching career, she pursued her vocation quietly and modestly.

That changed in September.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops, which sponsors an annual collection for the needs of retired religious, is using a photograph of Sister Fabian in this year's poster promoting the collection.

The photo shows her sitting in a chair, rocking a sleeping toddler at Wee Care, a child-care facility at The Mount Community Centre

in Atchison. Sister Fabian, a member of the Mount Saint Scholastica Benedictine motherhouse next to the centre, retired from teaching in 1980 and has kept busy with other activities since then, despite having to use a walker.

As a volunteer at the centre she rocks babies to sleep after they've been fed - and she's good at it.

"I love it," she told The Leaven, Kansas City archdiocesan newspaper. "It's a great place to work.

The faculty is great. I think they're doing a good job here."

She had no idea she would become "the poster nun" when one of the sisters from the business office took some pictures of her a few months ago. A couple of months later someone called her and asked her permission to use the photo.

She said yes, although she didn't know how it would be used.

Then one day in September her prioress called her out of the chapel and told her about the

poster. "Well, I nearly dropped my teeth," said Sister Fabian.

"You can't imagine my surprise."

Sister Fabian was born in Flush, a small rural community about 100 miles west of Kansas City.

Vocations in her family are not unusual. She entered religious life with her sister, Sister Sebastian Dekat, who died in 1983.

She's also related to two priests of the Kansas City Archdiocese, Fathers Carl and Earl Dekat.

Sister Fabian, like many nuns her age, worked for little or nothing at small schools through the hard years of the Great Depression, World War II and the postwar years. She said she is glad to do her part to help the annual collection for religious.

The small stipends orders received for their members' services went almost entirely to members' living expenses and education, with little or nothing left over to set aside for future retirement needs.

aryl model for all: Catholics and Methodists

LONDON (CNS) - Methodists unity, but misunderstandings will tion and of Christ's church." In and Catholics disagree on funda- certainly hinder the pilgrimage," Catholic teaching, the mental doctrines about Mary, they wrote.

Immaculate Conception means mother of Jesus, but they agree "May we all be inspired by the that Mary was conceived without that she is a model for all believ- example of the Mother of Our original sin. ers, says a new joint Catholic- Lord to continue our pilgrimage "We call Mary blessed because Methodist study paper. in discovering and responding to of the great things that God has The report, "Mary, Mother of God's will for our churches," they done for her. Any privileges the Lord: Sign of Grace, Faith said. claimed for Mary derive from her and Holiness," was published The report, published in mid- unique vocation to be the mother jointly by the Catholic Truth September, acknowledges doctri- of the Messiah, the bearer into Society and the Methodist nal differences. Both churches the world of the Word made Publishing House as a discussion believe that Mary was a virgin flesh. Mary is the redeemed document for people in both when she conceived Jesus, but mother of the Redeemer," the churches and for joint study some Methodists do not accept report says. groups. her perpetual virginity. Nor does Mary is the "model for the indiIts author is Father Michael the Methodist tradition accept vidual believer, responding with Evans, a Catholic member of the the Catholic belief in the obedient and faithful love to the British Methodist - Roman Assumption - that at the end of grace of God," it says.

Catholic Committee. her earthly life Mary was "She sums up the faithful disciThe co-chairmen of the com- assumed body and soul into pleship and perfect holiness to mittee, Bishop Leo McCartie of heaven. which each of us is called and Northampton and the Rev. The report points out that embodies in herself the vocation Richard Jones, a Methodist min- Methodists have never accepted and destiny of the church," it ister, said in a foreword that the the Immaculate Conception of says. document should be a means of Mary as "a doctrine of faith firm"In so many ways, Mary repredeepening and understanding ly grounded in the Scriptures, but sents what it means to be a truly each other's positions.

Methodists and Catholics can human being - woman or man "Mutual understanding will not, affirm together much that it can rightly and denply related to of itself, bring about Christian say about the doctrine of salva- God," says the IT port.

Time to reflect on Council fruits

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As the Catholic Church prepares for the year 2000, it must examine how well it has followed the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Pope John Paul II said.

"How much of the council's message has passed into the life, the institutions and the style of the church?" the Pope asked on October 15 during his midday Angelus address.

With the 30th anniversary of the council's December 8, 1965, official closing approaching, the Pope said he would dedicate his Sunday talks to a review of the

council, which he called "a cor- the church's entire tradition in nerstone, a providential event in order to give the faithful direction the history of the modern in responding to the challenges church." of our age."

The Pope said the Second Pope John Paul said that as part Vatican Council was unique in of the "examination of conthe history of church councils, science" he has called on the almost all of which were called to Church and its faithful to make in address "particular doctrinal or preparation for celebrating the pastoral problems."

2,000th anniversary of Christ's Vatican II, on the other hand, birth, Catholics must look at how "was to be a moment of global have implemented not only reflection by the church about they reforms of Vatican II, but also the itself and about its relations with its spirit. the world," the Pope said.

"The history of councils shows "The council laid the foundations for a new springtime in the that they need time to bear their the church," he said. "It did not mark fruits," Pope said. a break with the past, but it was "Nevertheless, much depends on able to evaluate the heritage of us with the help of rod'

Now many of those religious face old age and failing health without the financial reserves to meet rising medical and retirement costs.

Through massive efforts over the past 25 years, religious orders nationwide have established retirement reserves of some $5.8 billion, but that figure is still less than half their total needs according to the most recent audited study.

The annual collection in Catholic parishes for retired religious has raised nearly $180 million in its first seven years. It is coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office, a joint project of the US bishops and national organisations of the heads of men's and women's religious orders.

Also featured on this year's poster are photos of Crosier Brother Martin McGuire doing woodwork and Sister Lucilda O'Connor, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

School for bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS) Because people are moved more by example than by word, they have a right to see their bishops being men whose lives are centred in Christ, Pope John Paul II told a group of recently appointed bishops.

"Bishops are called to be 'witnesses of Christ before all people,' building up the body of Christ in holiness, justice and truth," the Pope said on October 12 during a meeting with some 90 bishops named to missionary territories in the past five years.

The Papal meeting came at the end of a three-week "new bishops' school," sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Evangelisation of Peoples.

"When one becomes a priest, he has already had many years of preparation," said Msgr. Luigi Ghidoni, undersecretary of the congregation. "There is no seminary for bishops."

While the course did not pretend to be a seminary, he told Vatican Radio, it was an opportunity for new bishops to reflect on their roles and responsibilities and pick up some practical advise.

The Autumn course was the second sponsored by the congregation: the first was held last year for French-speaking bishops.

This year's seminar brought together English speakers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the South Pacific.

Pope John Paul told the new bishops their chief mission was to promote the holiness of themselves, their priests and their people.

"I pray that you will encourage everyone - families, youth, priests, men and women religious - to be ever more ardent in their commitment to the Gospel," he said.

The Pope told The bishops the missionary territories over which they preside "are alive and exuberant with the freshness of youth, and your enthusiasm for the Gospel is an inspiration for Christians throughout the world."

Pope John Paul thanked the bishops for making time for the course, for their witness of dedication to Christ, their courage In difficult circumstances and their 7D,1 tvng the Good News.

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T HE PARISH Continued from Page 16 S CENE CHILDREN'S UTURGY OF THE WORD WORKSHOP For both new and experienced parish ministers of children's Liturgy of the Word. The content of the workshop, resources available and their effectiveness; music for Advent and Christmas; creative possibilities. The final part of the evening will be divided into sessions for those new to the ministry and for experienced ministers.

Wednesday 1 November, 7.30pm-9.30pm, Leederville parish centre, 40 Franklin St, Leederville. $5 donation. For further details and registhe contact trations Archdiocesan Liturgy Office,

phone (09) 221 1548.

BOOK LAUNCH The Josephites Go West, The History of the Sisters of St Joseph in W A, 1887-1920, will be launched at Notre Dame Australia, 19 Mouatt Street, Fremantle on Wednesday, October 25, at 7.30pm. All welcome.

ENNEAGRAM 1 Basic introduction providing understanding of personality and styles of spirituality.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church Mixed marriages and disparity of cult 1633 In many countries the situ-

ation of a mixed marriage (marriage between a Catholic and a baptised non-Catholic) often arises. It requires particular attention on the part of couples and their pastors. A case of marriage with disparity of cult (between a Catholic and a non-baptised person) requires even greater circumspection.

Difference of confession between the spouses does not constitute an insurmountable

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obstacle for marriage, when they ties, can become sources of tensucceed in placing in common sion in marriage, especially as what they have received from regards the education of chiltheir respective communities, dren. The temptation to religious and learn from each other the indifference can then arise. way in which each lives in fidelity to Christ. But the difficulties of 1635 According to the law in mixed marriages must not be force in the Latin Church, a underestimated. They arise from mixed marriage needs for liceity the fact that the separation of the express permission of eccleChristians has not yet been over- siastical authority. In case of discome. The spouses risk experi- parity of cult an express dispenencing the tragedy of Christian sation from this impediment is disunity even in the heart of their required for the validity of the own home. Disparity of cult can marriage. This permission or disfurther aggravate these difficul- pensation presupposes that both ties. Differences about faith and parties know and do not exclude the very notion of marriage, but the essential ends and properties also different religious mentali- of marriage and the obligations

assumed by the Catholic party concerning the baptism and education of the children in the Catholic Church.

1636 Through ecumenical dialogue Christian communities in many regions have been able to put into effect a common pastoral practice for mixed marriages. Its task is to help such couples live out their particular situation in the light of faith, overcome the tensions between the couple's obligations to each other and towards their ecclesial communities, and encourage the flowering of what is common to them in

faith and respect for what separates them.

In marriages with disparity of cult the Catholic spouse has a particular task: "For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband." It is a great joy for the Christian spouse and for the Church if this "consecration" should lead to the free conversion of the other spouse to the Christian faith. Sincere married love, the humble and patient practice of the family virtues, and perseverance in prayer can prepare the non-believing spouse to accept the grace of conversion.

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GROUP FIFTY PRAYER GROUP CHARISMATIC RETREAT From Friday evening 27 October to Sunday afternoon 29 October , at the Redemptorist R etreat House, Camelia St., North Perth. Retreat leader Fr. Michael Brown, OFM . Theme: "The Human Face of Christ in our Lives". Cost $78 live-in, all meals, $54 live out, lunch and tea provided. Registrations : Vi 364 4546 or 364 1718. All welcome.

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ADVENT PROGRAMME The 1995 Advent Programme (Inform, Sydney), Scarred with History, Ringed with Grace with be available in mid November from Maranatha Institute. It is suitable for use by parish, family, RCIA groups, and for personal r eflection. Order forms have been posted to all parishes, 40 cents per copy. Closing date for orders, November 11th.

GRIEF COURSE 1991 Father John Ryan would like to hear from persons who attended his grief course at the Maranatha Institute in 1991.

Please phone 381 5383.

PRAYER EXPERIENCE Using different prayer forms to broaden our capacity for spiritual development Led by Marius Dawson, 0.Carm, Bridget Kayser, RSJ, Teresa Conneely, SJG. Enquiries/bookings 451 2712. Cost $30.

SILVER JUBILEE REV EP (TED) HEWITT PP. Holy Family Parish Maddington

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CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER

A day of retreat for people who care for a person with an intellectual disability.

A time to explore and honour our own experience of God, self and the world.

When: Wednesday, 8 November 1995, 9.30am-3.00pm. Where: Presentation Retreat House, 6 Reserve St, Claremont. Cost: S15 (morning and afternoon tea and lunch provided). Facilitators: Sr Paula Quinn and Mrs Jenny Gardner. Join us for a day of relaxation, sharing, laughter and prayer. For further details and to register phone Jenny Gardner 474 3303. Catholic Care, 46 David St, Kensington, Box 5 South Perth 6151

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The school has close links with the parish and enjoys a fine reputation in the area.

This position has become vacant due to the Principal being appointed to the position of Regional Officer at Bunbury. Ideally the successful applicant will commence at the beginning of 1996, however, a later date may be negotiated.

The curriculum includes Italian, music (individual instrumental lessons are available for Years 4-7 students) and emphasises First Steps strategies. Special education and intensive language units are currently in operation.

Applicants will be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. They will have the requisite theological, pastoral and managerial competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have, or be prepared to complete. appropriate Accreditation requirements.

Further information and official application forms are available from Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant.

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Official application forms should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office of WA, PO Box 198, Leederville 6903 and be lodged by Monday, 30 October 1995.

DIVINE MERCY

St Mary's Cathedral, Victoria Square on 5 November (Sunday) 1.30pm. Programme: Rosary, Divine Mercy prayers, Benediction. Sermon by Fr L. Henry "The shepherding role of the holy Church". Film "Angels"

by Fr W. Foley. Information: Adam 448 0002, John 457 7771.

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Our St Andrews Day fund raising f unction will take place on 1 December from 6.30pm to Midnight at Mindarie Keys Function Centre. Disc jockey music, dancing, facilities, buffet supper and lounge-bar provided. Price: $12.50 per head.

Tickets on sale now and close on Sunday 12 November 1995.

For catering reasons, strictly no door sales. For information and tickets contact Peter and Pat Carter, tel. 407 7026.

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION TALK An introduction to meditation in the Christian Tradition will be given by Vesta and Sam Gamalatage, coordinators of the Christian Meditation Community in WA at the Holy Rosary parish hall, Nedlands (cnr Tyrell and Elizabeth Sts) on Thursday 31 October at 7.30pm. The director of the International Christian Mediation is Fr Laurence Freeman OSB. All welcome.

Donation at the door. Enquiries 386 4408.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Newman Sunday will be celebrated on October 22, with Mass in St Thomas More College Chapel at 10.30am.

Bishop Healy will preside and preach and Mr D. Kehoe, Editor of The Record, will speak on "The importance of the Catholic Press in Today's Society". at the subsequent lunch in the West Tutorial Room. Cost $10. Open to all interested.

BOSNIAN GRANNIES CHRISTMAS APPEAL An appeal has been launched to brighten Christmas for the grannies of Bosnia, who have suffered so much during the war. Donations of gifts can be delivered to St Joseph's Parish Centre, 1 Satvado Rd, Wembley, on Saturday mornings, 21 and 28 October and 4 November, between 10am and 12pm. For information or for collection of goods, phone Amber 381 6263 or June 242 5351.

BUSINESS PERSONS' MASS Will be celebrated at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Friday 27 October 1995 at 7am, followed by a Breakfast Meeting at the Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade, Perth. Cost of Breakfast $8.00. The guest speaker will be John Meahan, State president of the Society of St Vincent de Paul.

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