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Religious education boost for schools At present, only eight schools have indi- not interested in the Gospel message, even Catholic message. "We need, too, to place troubles we face before God during every cated that they wish to follow the adaption though they have been baptised - they need re-evangelisation." option.

Western Australia's Catholic sec- Eucharist," he urged.

This would be done according to the Fr Holohan said the draft program being "Most of all, we need to be striving as ondary students will return to school best we can to live as Christ taught . . . . implemented will hopefully be confirmed principles of pre-evangelisation. this year to a new draft religious edu- No one can help pre-evangelise towards later this year after further refinement, "The principles and methodology for cation program that has taken four what they are not trying to live them- particularly in the area of using language arousing interest in the Gospel message years to develop. that communicated the Faith to adoles- are the same for both groups," he said. selves."

These principles applied to the religious cents. is Holohan's letter text of Fr (The full The program aims to lead children A new RE program for primary students teaching process led to a program based from discussion of key issues in their on Pages 8-9) The new program is contained in would begin in the middle of the school on reflecting on human experience, own lives and society at large to a understanding Catholic faith experiences, and student texts for years 8 to 12: year, he added. teacher knowledge of the saving message of the was and relating faith to life. draft program the new to the He said will be introduced Year 8 students Gospel and the Catholic faith according The content delivered by this process is, life of Jesus, looking for the life of Christ needed because the 1987 guidelines had to the Catechism of the Catholic Church within themselves: Year 9 students will been due for a five-year review in 1992 under pre-evangelisation principles as and other Church documents. learn about the spirit within themselves and the new program was the result of applied to re-evangelisation, organised The Catholic Education Office's director leading on to teaching about the Holy extensive consultation with principals under three headings: significant human of religious education, Father Gerard Spirit as seen in the lives of Old Testament and teachers since then. experiences, understanding these in the Holohan, reminded teachers of religious figures: Year 10 will look at the desire for Additional Church statements on matters light of the Gospel, and Catholic teaching. education this week their task was not justice and the Church's teaching on covered by religious education also called For example, in the Year 12 student book, easy and the draft program would not social justice; Year 11 students will study for a review, he said. all the current social problems - abortion, solve all problems in religious education. life questions focussed on the 5th and 7th Fr Holohan told RE teachers the educa- capital punishment, euthanasia, among RE programs had the best chance of suc- Commandments before looking at the tional principles underlying the secondary others - are covered in the light of Gospel cess, he said, when teachers based their Sacraments and the Liturgy of the Word; program were those of "pre-evangelisation and Catholic teaching. teaching on a continuous personal conver- and Year 12 students will deal with the or re-evangelisation."

Invariably, the sources of Catholic teachsion that put into practice what they were Christian mission to the world, vocation, He told The Record people could, ing the students are pointed to are The trying to preach. the theology of work and the Sacraments understandably, become confused by Catechism of the Catholic Church, Pope "You and I need to remember, therefore, of initiation. words such as evangelisation, pre-evange- John Paul ll's Evangelium Vitae (The that all the strategies in the world will fail Gospel of Life), Second Vatican Council Fr Holohan told The Record this week lisation and re-evangelisation. unless we keep trying to deepen our per- secondary schools had the option of using "Pre-evangelisation refers to the princi- documents and other primary Church sonal conversion to Christ," Fr Holohan the draft program or developing a reli- ples and methodology to be followed to sources. Fr Holohan said parents would said in a letter to RE teachers introducing gious education syllabus based on the arouse interest in the Gospel message in gain access to the students' texts when stuthe draft program. program; any local adoption would have those who have not been baptised," Fr dents brought the texts home. Lack of money meant copies could only be printTeachers needed to pray explicitly for to be approved by the Director of Holohan said.

"However, the fact is that many today are ed for students and teachers. students, especially those resisting the Religious Education.

By David Kehoe

Home will help liberate disabled into the community

By Peter Rosengren

Happy to be here - Stephen Maas, one of four residents in the Beechboro house opened by Catholic Care for the intellectually disabled, enjoys settling in to his new home this week.

Four lives were made a little bit happier and easier when Catholic Care opened a comfortable family home for intellectually disabled people in Beechboro last Monday.

The housing project, a four bedroom suburban home, has been planned jointly for the past eighteen months by the state Government's Disabilities Services Commission, Homeswest and Catholic Care, the archdiocesan agency which helps individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Homeswest and Catholic Care jointly purchased the home, which will meet the need of parents to have their children placed in a specifically Christian environment.

Blessed by Father Dan Foley from Good Shepherd Parish in Beechboro, the house is designed to provide a more personalised atmosphere and care for its residents, some of whom have known little else other than the institutionalised way of life for the last 20 years.

In addition to living quarters for the residents - two men and two women - a staff room with facilities for a staff member to stay overnight is also provided.

Catholic Care director Maureen Jewell said the organisation was pleased to be able to offer people with intellectual disabilities a place to call home where they would receive love, care and acceptance.

"It is wonderful that people with high support needs can naturally and easily take part in activities such as attending Mass on a regular basis, using recreational facilities and becoming a part of community life," she said.

The opening of the house was also the first time that Catholic Care had been involved in moving individuals out of an existing institution and into the more personalised setting as part of a Government program, she said.

The four families whose children will be resident in the house were delighted with the opening, she said.

"It was a wonderful sense of relief knowing that their sons and daughters were now living in a small, safe, Christian environment," Mrs Jewell said.

Ten men and women, including some parishioners of Good Shepherd Parish, have taken on the role of carers and will provide essential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the residents.

Furnishings for the home were provided by the Lotteries Commission.

Filipinos help us focus on person of Jesus

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n the last week's edition of The Record, the celebration of Highgate in honour of St John the Baptist was reported. It is one of the many celebrations associated with different ethnic groups which we have every year.

On Sunday, January 21, the third Sunday of January, I was privileged to join the Filipino people for the Mass in honour of Santo Nino, the Holy Child.

The Church of St Joachim at Victoria Park, spacious by any standards, was full of people, mostly Filipino Catholics but also including many Australians and representatives of the Anglican Church and the Muslim community.

It was an enriching experience, with a community giving expression to their worship of God from the many strands of their experience in their history.

I suppose the single most important impression I gained

was the fact that the focus was on the central figure in our faith, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Santo Nino. He is our principal mediator with the Father and all our liturgical celebrations give expression to this truth of our faith.

It was appropriate that such a celebration should take place so soon after we had celebrated the feast of the Birth of Jesus.

Lest we be distracted by the way in which we celebrate Christmas, the feast of Santo Nino helps us to restore our concentration on what really matters, the person of Jesus Christ.

I might say too that it was entirely appropriate that the festival should take place here in Perth in the Church of St Joachim, the grandfather of Jesus.

At the conclusion of the Mass, there took place the blessing of the images of the Child Jesus to be taken to the homes of the Filipino families. More important

still was the blessing given to the little children in the congregation. They all came to the altar and received a special blessing for the occasion.

It was only a simple ceremony but it is the sort of rite that would make an impression on the children and help them now, as well as later in life, to relate to the person of Jesus.

All of this was possible, of course, only because we are fortunate to have as chaplain to the Filipino people, a priest from the Philippines, in Father Neri.

I have tried to point out the significance of various aspects of this celebration but there is one other point I would want to make.

All this has a bearing on the Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council. Referring to the enculturation of the Liturgy, it stated "Even in the Liturgy, the Church

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batting hedonism, resisting attitudes of indifference and the tenVATICAN CITY (CNS) - Those dency to disregard our personal who blame poverty and hunger on responsibilities."

The papal message recognised the the poor and hungry are dodging their own responsibility for con- huge task of feeding the estimated tributing to injustice in the world. 800 million people who suffer from the head of the Vatican's develop- hunger and malnutrition. But, it ment and relief aid body said as he said, everyone can and must do released Pope John Paul Ifs 1996 something to help.

Archbishop Cordes said an attiLenten message.

The president of the Pontifical tude of resignation to the fact of Council -Cor Unum", Archbishop hunger and poverty in the world Paul Cordes, said seeing only the was understandable.

-But it is like sin: We must continfault of others "is a game, a tactic for not looking at one's own life and ue to fight it even if sometimes we fail." obligations."

The papal message, he said.

In the message, sent to bishops' conferences in October, the Pope recognised the primary role governcalled on Catholics to make Lent ments and economic systems have 1996 a time of prayer, conversion in determining what is produced and action to overcome hunger in and distributed.

But the message does not make the world.

Feeding the poor, the Pope said, "the mistake of those with a utopian "will involve changing our exagger- idea of improving the world, pointated consumerist behaviour, com- ing their fingers only at others," he said.

While structural and policy changes were AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC RELIEF essential, "the Gospel (CARITAS AUSTRALIA) tells us that 'the new heavens and new earth' begin with the conversion of one's own heart."

The Australian Catholic Bishops are seeking a new National Director for the Church's official The Pope was calloverseas aid and development agency, ing every Christian to Australian Catholic Relief (ACR), which will prepare the way for be renamed Caritas Australia from 1 July 1996.

God's kingdom with a The appointee will fill the place soon to be spirit of penitence and vacated by Mr Michael Whitely after more charity. than 18 years of service.

Social questions The successful applicant is expected to be were fitting concerns familiar and sympathetic with the Catholic for Christians during Church's teaching, especially in the social jusLent, which was a tice area; to have a sensitive understanding or "period of participathe world situation as it affects people suffertion in the fasting of ing from poverty and injustice; and to have a Christ and of sharing capacity for teamwork, strong leadership qualhis suffering with the ities and relevant management and communiconviction that at cation skills. The National Director's principal Easter the ones who role is directing the development, aid and will rise with the Lord educational programs of ACR. are only those who An information package about the position the have first died with required qualifications and the work of ACR is available from Australian Catholic Relief, 19 him," he said.

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Cancer patient to go to Lourdes with Mandurah's help Our Lady's Assumption parish in Mandurah put their faith into action earlier this month when they raised just on $10,000 to send ill parishioner Anne Richards and her husband Michael to the Marian shrine of Lourdes in France where many miracles of healing the sick have taken place for more than 100 years.

Anne, a mother of three boys who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in mid-1995, will travel to Lourdes in May, former parish fundraiser Brian Raven told The Record.

Mr Raven, who was a deputy principal at Assumption Catholic Primary School in Mandurah last year and has just become principal of St Mary's School in Donnybrook, said that when he became aware of Anne's life-threatening disease

Both Parish Priest Father Noel and her desire to visit Lourdes he approached her and asked if she would Fitzsimons and associate Priest Fr Bernie Dwyer backed the appeal from the pulpit mind being helped to go.

He said the entire parish community at Mass, announcing special collections swung behind the fundraising effort in which Mr Raven said were responded to support of Anne and Michael, including magnificently by parishioners.

The special collections alone raised appeals at Mass and a sponsored walk by six parishioners from Mandurah to approximately $6,000 he said.

And when the walking team arrived in Bunbury over two days.

Parishioners, Assumption School and Bunbury they were presented with donaMandurah residents sponsored the walk- tions raised by Bunbury parishioners ing team which trekked to Bunbury in who had also heard of Anne's plight and Iwo days accompanied by a support team joined the cause, he said.

When Anne travelled from Mandurah to of four people on January 9 and 10, he Fremantle to receive combined radiation said.

Children at Assumption Primary School treatment and chemotherapy, parishalso offered a nine-day novena to Our ioners and members of the school comLady for Anne and staff had also con- munity had kicked in to provide meals tributed generously to the appeal, he said. and help her through the ordeal.

otre Dame tops in job placement New graduates from the University of Notre Dame Australia are having no trouble getting jobs as teachers despite high unemployment rates for new graduates elsewhere, according to Notre Dame vice-chancellor Peter Tannock.

The employment rate among teaching graduates from the private, Fremantlebased Catholic university has been 90 per cent over the last four years. This compares with employment rates of around only 20 per cent for new teaching graduates from WA government universities in Western Australia.

More action at Notre Dame. Earlier this month the executive director of Dr Tannock, said 108 students American University of Notre Dame Alumni Association Charles "Chuck" had graduated with a Diploma Lennon spoke to the Notre Dame "Owls" about the vision of Notre Dame in Education since the in the US and the need to focus clearly on their goals. "Owls" are secUniversity opened its doors in ond year students who have been chosen as "Owls" (Older, Wiser 1992. Of these, 93 of the 103 Leaders) to help this year's new undergraduates find their feet. Mr who had applied for teaching Lennon, centre, is seen here with "Owls" Caroline Tompkin, left, Rebekah positions upon graduation suc- Passmore, Aidan Mitchell and Justin Woodford. cessfully secured jobs.

Last year, 261 students were "Although we are only talking had also been appointed to in Notre Dame's colindependent enrolled both in positions of small numbers of teaching and this figeducation of schools. lege graduates who wish to do and Government year with this grow will ure "All schools want the best teaching, compared with the intake. new the gradour and possible government universities I think teachers Dr Tannock said that while It shows that the teachers we uates are having to prove their are training at this university worth to gain these highly com- the big drop in cut-off scores are in high demand," Dr petitive appointments," he said. for enrolment in teaching Tannock said.

Notre Dame, which com- courses at government univerwith the College of sities would mean Notre Dame menced Dame Notre many While graduates were employed in Education in 1992, has quickly would face a high level of comthe Catholic schools system, expanded and this year will petition this year, the universithey still had to compete for enrol around 1,000 students in ty's track record in quality edujobs from graduates of govern- its colleges of arts and sciences, cation, resulting in high ment universities, Dr Tannock business, education and theolo- employment rates, would be a said. He also pointed out that gy Next year, the university will big factor being weighed by prospective students.

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The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is next Sunday, February 11, and marks the Church's World Day of the Sick Mr Raven also said many parishioners were praying to Mary MacKillop to intercede for Anne as well.

He said that after Anne had undergone surgery to remove the cancer, her doctors had said they were confident the operation had been a success and that they had been able to remove all the cancer.

And one of the things which had made a big difference, he said, was that Anne is a strong willed person and had refused all along to give up.

The money would be used to send the couple to Lourdes and then to give Anne and Michael the opportunity to visit her parents in the United Kingdom, he said.

World's Catholic women meeting in Canberra As the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations prepares to kick off its Assembly in Canberra on 3 February under the theme "From Beijing to Canberra", WUCWO vice-president for the Asia-Pacific region, Sayoko Arai, has issued a message to delegates apologising "to the victims of the Japanese military forces during World War II." Ms Arai said that while fifty years have passed since the war ended, peace had not yet come to the world and that much of the AsiaPacific region's "rich cultural heritage" was being lost through the "evil effects of war, oppression and violence."

Ms Arai is due to address the historic conference, the first meeting of the world's Catholic women's organisations in Australia, which will run from 3-11 February and be held at the Australian National University The WUCWO assembly is held every four years and the last assembly took place at Guadalajara in Mexico in 1992.

The conference will consider the progress WUCWO and its member organisations have made over the last four years, the issues and campaigns it has been involved in, and where it will go from here.

'From Beijing to Canberra' has

been a major theme of WUCWO's preparations for the assembly, and was chosen with an eye to building on the positive commitments to justice and equality for women flowing from the 1995 United Nations Beijing Conference on Women.

Resolutions prepared for delegates to discuss and vote on include: literacy, the export of pesticides, medicines and means and methods of birth control: the right to life, human rights and a range of social and religious justice issues.

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Violence still haunts US youth

By Mark Pattison

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The growing spectre of youth violence in the United States is one area of violence vexing Catholics and non-Catholics.

In their pastoral message "Confronting a Culture of Violence," the US bishops asked Catholics to focus on the moral and human costs of violence in the week beginning January 15.

January 15 is the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, and January 22 is the anniversary of the US Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalising abortion virtually on demand.

The intensity and sheer nastiness of that violence is going up, according to a group of public officials that calls itself the Council on Crime in America.

And when the baby boomers' kids start hitting their adolescent and teen years - the group most likely to commit violent crimes is made up of males ages 15-24 the number of violent crimes will soar even more.

While most homicides are committed by people who know the victim, more frequently "murders are committed by strangers just shooting each other for the hell of it," said William Bennett, a Catholic and former Cabinet secretary who has criticised rap music, TV talk shows and violent movies in recent years.

Violence among US youth: problem will not go away

"The differences in certain neighbourhoods (in the same city) might as well be different constellations," Mr Bennett said.

Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham pinned blame on "do-good judges" she accused of coddling youthful criminals.

"Our children are as adept at risk assessment as are our criminals," she said, and if children see that people can commit crimes with impunity, they may

When developing the initiative, do the same. Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton lamented Mr Henderson said he noted the the loss of children. "Young chil- high level of concern among dren are the victims; older chil- teens.

Last year as part of the initiative, dren, the killers," she said.

"The fact of the matter is that, between 15,000 and 20,000 except for the decent citizen, Catholic teens signed a pledge everyone knows crime pays," card stating they would not comIndianapolis Mayor Stephen mit violence.

This year, the initiative takes as Goldsmith said.

Programs like Big Brothers and its theme -co Build a Culture of Big Sisters were an asset, Mr Life," with an accompanying fiveawareness-heightening Bennett said. But council mem- point plan adopted at the second bers campaigned for longer senNational Youth Congress last tences and more prisons.

"You can't build your way out of November in Minneapolis by a prison (cell shortage) problem, about 6,500 Catholic teens.

Next year, the theme will be John Dilull° Jr, a Princeton University professor of politics "Peacemakers and Apostles of and public affairs, said. "but hav- Hope," to be carried to World Youth Day in Paris. ing additional cells helps."

Based on the response of many Mr Bennett conceded the point youths to the initiative, it might of a Wisconsin public official who suggested that all that build- seem like the effort is preaching ing more prisons would do is to to the choir, but that can't be warehouse criminals. "Fine," Mr assumed.

Bennett replied, "Then we'll Take Cathi Coridan's experience. warehouse them at your house." Coordinator of youth ministry at Trinity Parish in The cost of building and main- Holy taining prisons, coupled with the Washington. Mississippi, Ms Corimpact of "truth in sentencing" idan led a talk show-style worklaws that eliminate parole eligi- shop on violence at the youth bility for violent offenders, are congress. It illustrated for her sure to be debated in Congress how persistent the problem has and state legislatures as lawmak- become. ers scramble for both solutions "I had a really hard time getting and votes. the kids past 'What's wrong with But on a parallel track is vio- this?" she said. "They're desensilence prevention - not only keep- tised to it, but (feel) entitled to it," ing young people from commit- Ms Coridan added. ting violent acts, but making Four ways she suggested dealing them aware of violence's effects with the issue of youth violence long before committing violence were: consistent parent-child is even considered. communication; better parental Paul Henderson, special assis- understanding of a youth culture tant for youth and young adult that dismisses and desensitises ministry for the US bishops' violence; to understand the Secretariat for Family, Laity, power and the importance of the Women and Youth, said the bish- media; and to have social instituops and the National Federation tions "start taking responsibility. . for forming the culture." for Catholic Youth Ministry took "Confronting a Culture of "I think we let a lot of things hapViolence" as a cue to jointly pen because we don't get develop last year a three-year ini- involved in the process," Ms tiative: To Stand Against Coridan said. "This is what we can do as Church."

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Fr Gino Henriques, left, and Fr Patrick Lynch in Victoria Square last week

laity as well as teaching seminars and giving workshops.

Fr Henrique said he wanted to tell them how to evangelise because theory is not enough - one has to practise what one has learned.

"You have to show them how to because evangelisation is not just talk, its action and the action has to be demonstrated." he said.

Most of Fr Henriques' listeners at the Flame Ministries congress last week were lay people, those who work in the world raising families and working nine-to-five jobs most days of the week.

They had come to hear Fr Henriques and Irish priest Father Pat Lynch speak on evangelisation and how they could put it into practice in their own day to day lives.

For the laity, evangelisation is a completely different concept compared to its classical clerical counterpart.

But Fr Henriques said the first way for anybody to evangelise was by what he called "the witness of life."

"You can witness to your discipleship of Jesus as spouse. a parent. as a child, as a neighbour," he said.

And if witness in one's daily circum-

stances - whatever they were - was the first step, then the second step was proclamation, he said.

Teaching people how to proclaim was part of Evangelisation 2000's mission.

It could take any shape or form, more often than not relying on personal links between people rather than standing up in public places and proclaiming the Gospel like an itinerant missionary.

"Evangelisation is a lifestyle - your whole lifestyle is being a disciple of Jesus and so your whole lifestyle is proclamation," he said.

During the week Fr Henriques delivered talks on a wide range of subjects which centred on evangelisation and bringing others to discover faith.

Also speaking at the congress was Father Patrick Lynch. a stocky Irish priest based in Birmingham in England.

Over the last twenty years he has carved out a reputation as an inspiring evangeliser who has put the 'oomph' back into a subject that most Catholics feel embarrassed about.

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The Catholic Church is like a sleeping giant - once awakened, the whole world will shake.

But for this to happen, ordinary Catholics everywhere will first have to wake up and get serious about their faith, living it as an example to others.

This was the uncompromising message of evangelisation from Father Gino Henriques, a slightly greying and deceptively soft-spoken priest who was in Perth last week from Singapore to speak at the Flame Ministries evangelisation conference conducted at John XXIII College in Mount Claremont.

Father Henriques, a Redemptorist, said the Church had slipped out of the missionary mind-set which was an essential part of its mission and was, in large part, living off its momentum from a past era.

"I think when you look at it squarely the Catholic Church as we have it today is the sleeping giant . . . . but we've forgotten this great commission (of evangelisation). We have been in the past a tremendously mission-minded Church but, since the war, somehow, missionary evangelisation has taken place only in 'pockets'," he said.

"Generally speaking we are a 'maintenance' Church, and because we art a maintenance Church we'll die out if we remain only 'maintenance' - and that's happening - because a maintenance Church cannot meet the challenges that come up from modernity," he added.

One of the principal challenges of modernity, he said, was secularism - the growing indifference to any religious belief at all.

Fr Henriques may be soft-spoken but he is one of the most active missionary priests in the Asia-Pacific region, heading up Evangelisation 2000 - Asia-Oceania, a Catholic missionary initiative based in Singapore.

Most of Asia is his parish. Consequently. his job sends him travelling as far afield as the Arabian Gulf, back to Japan and throughout the Pacific from his Singapore base.

His job is training the trainers, and from Singapore he travels widely. preaching retreats to priests, bishops, religious and

He has, consequently, become a popular and well known speaker, writer and broadcaster on the importance of all Christians carrying out their evangelical mission.

Fr Lynch is a member of the Sion Community, a gathering of committed priests, religious and laity who specialise in intensive full-time evangelisation in parishes and suburban settings in the UK. "Evangelisation is the raison d'etre of the Church. That is her first priority . . . . It's her nature and her greatest desire, to evangelise. If she stops doing it, its almost like stopping breathing," Fr Lynch emphasised.

The Sion Community was established 12 years ago and lives and works the missionary creed. Today, when the Sion community goes in to a parish, one member carries out full-time pre-mission work, followed by the parish mission team, followed by the post-mission team.

But it has branched out even more with separate arms that engage in intensive youth. primary education and secondary education apostolates.

In addition it operates a teaching and training centre for evangelisation at Brentwood in Essex where bishops. priests, religious and laity are trained over three months in discipleship and trained to be able to help other Catholics do the same work.

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hile Professor Warhurst's paper, Politicians and Citizens, ( The Record, 25 January) is well researched, any Catholic or other member of Parliament, looking for guidance on how to conduct themselves, will find the paper lacking in depth and clarity.

In the end this guide is a very basic set of motherhood statements. I would summarise these as being: 1. It is permissible and good for Catholics to participate in public life and therefore to seek political office; 2. People entering public life should: • maintain personal and public integrity; • Listen to the people and then make decisions according to good conscience and public good, while making sure that minority interests are considered and David Smith, state ALP member for Mitchell safeguarded: • Make modest promises but be persons The American expertise that is now of vision and leadership; influencing Australian political parties • Keep the promises made; seems to relish in the view that you can • Live modestly:. say anything and do anything at election • Avoid name calling and personal time, to hide your real intent. abuse; Integrity and honesty in campaigning • be courageous and decisive.

What is needed, is for these to be fleshed out to provide a more substantial list of do's and don'ts, and to better identify the moral principles that lie behind the dot points.

Unless this is done, the dot points will must not only be about what is promised, simply be used to support criticism of but also not leaving unsaid that which the others, while enabling typical politicians electorate is entitled to know about to comfortably say that they personally especially when your own party's intenmeet these standards, even if most other tions are, within the party, crystal clear. politicians do not.

Living modestly must also be related to At their simplest,I would question three means and personal character. To pretend of these dot points. to have modest means when you have The call for modest promises, will be never known hardship, and are privately misused to support minimum taxes and wealthy, is hardly honest. less Government expenditure.

Public life would be very dull indeed if Those of us who strongly believe that people of charisma, eloquence, colour, Australia still suffers from a marked and drive were entirely eliminated from imbalance in the distribution of wealth, public life. Many of these qualities are not power and influence, and that Govern- consistent with living modestly. ments have a duty to provide much better The same is true of always avoiding perand equally available services, will wonabuse and name calling. Vitriol for sonal der whether we can ever redress this sake, and especially calumny, vitriol's through modest steps or promises. should always be frowned upon, but What is required is not modest promis- sometimes it is necessary to call a kettle es, but honesty in the making of promises black, and to point out that the required and policies. standards have not been met. On the

other hand, immoral poll techniques, like the push polling so loved by the American Right, should never be allowed in Australia.

It also needs to be said that colourful public rhetoric is always better than the snide, petty calumnies that are so often the trademark of those who criticise the more colourful people on the other side of politics for being unnecessarily abusive.

I otherwise have no problem with the broad principles. but I doubt that they provide any real guidance to the practising politicians, operating in a Westminster style democracy.

We must also be very careful not to judge people on single incidents, issues or standards.

Some people may say that St Peter's denials of Christ should have disqualified him from the leadership of the Church. It did not and we are all the better for it.

Finally, can I turn to the Church itself and its role on public issues.

I need to say (admittedly from the perspective of the left), that I have often wondered why we hear so little from our Church leaders. In this area, Professor

'Integrity and honesty must not not leave unsaid what the electorate is entitled to know' Warhurst correctly identifies the principle that ought to guide the Church, and the difficulties that confront it.

When it comes to public life, the Church has an extremely difficult role. It must never be partisan, nor overstep the distance there has to be between Church and State. However, this is too often used as an excuse for saying nothing when forthrightness is required.

Without wanting to be controversial or too critical,I believe Anglican Archbishop Peter Carnley and Sir Ronald Wilson of the Uniting Church, in their respective roles with their own Churches, do a much better job than our own hierarchy in this regard.

Catholic, both lay and hierarchy, rightly have a lot to say about the right to life, the need for chastity and charity, and human rights especially where they impact on our brethren in other countries, but on

the other moral issues confronting Australian society, we seem strangely silent.

Most of us on the left, including myself. frequently choose to be silent on matters within the Church, both to avoid difficulties and division within the Church, and perhaps because we feel whatever we say will not be heard.

Another aspect of the Church's role in public life in the 1990's is that we rarely publicly embrace our own, or give appropriate thanks when the Church itself is the beneficiary of Government decision making.

The Church has both in the history of the world and of Australia a record second to none in the good things it has done, and in the moral and spiritual leadership it has always given.

My remarks are only intended to invite everyone in the Church to use that proud record as a base for doing and speaking even greater good.

But if we are going to preach to our Government leaders, and give them moral guidance, then let us also re-examine our own conscience, and in a constructive, charitable, and Christian way. debate whether we have faith, hope and charity in abundance; whether we do the good works that make our faith alive: and whether we do truly love each other, not only as brothers and sisters in Christ. but as a great coherent mass of His images and likenesses.

In the end, it is by showing that we not only truly love each other as Christians. but everyone in the world, and by collectively doing good works, that we, the Church can shine His light on the world.

My own public and personal failings are now well known. All I can say is that living the ideal personal and public life is not something that comes easy.

We do need all the moral advice, and the spiritual practice that the Church can give us.To this extent,I welcome Professor Warhurst's paper as a beginning.

However, what all political leaders in Australia of all persuasions need most from the Church are the daily prayers that are so generously given by so many.

David Smith MLA Member for Mitchell

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t seems as if every day a new talk show appears on daytime television. Consider a typical daily line-up of shows and their themes - this one from last November 9 as published in the New York Post.

0 Sally Jesse Raphael show "Men who openly cheat on their wives."

71 Gordon Elliott show - "Couples with troubled relationships."

71 Monte! Williams -"Men who purposely date virgins."

0 Charles Perez - "Infidelity."

1 Jerry Springer - "Revealing secrets to loved ones."

1 Jenny Jones - "People who want their wild friends to get makeovers."

71 Maury Povich - "Men who think it is easy to be a woman dress the part."

0 Gerald() Rivera - "Teens who have run away from home."

1Richard Bey - "Disapproving mothers meet their children'smates."

1Ricki Lake - "Women who do not want their exes to date other women."

Making the public aware of the "trash talk" of these TV shows is the aim of "Turn Off TV Day 1996," an effort by the Morality in Media organisation to get volun-

teers to boycott TV (on Friday, members of Congress. TV execuFebruary 9) and to monitor the tives and talk show producers. It TV talk shows every weekday in will also be given to national advertisers who provide the February.

It argues the eleven talk shows money that keeps these shows in that dominate daytime TV rou- business. tinely provide a national platIn the Diocese of Sacramento, form for immoral values.

California, Dino Corbin, general Each monitor will be asked to manager of KHSL-TV Channel 12 watch just one of these shows for in Chico-Redding, made the a week - five hours at most in all. courageous decision a few They will report back to months ago to pull the Jenny Morality in Media at week's end, Jones show from the station's using a form that calls for infor- programming.

In a recent letter to Bishop mation on each show such as topics, products advertised and William Weigand, Mr Corbin the monitor's reaction to the noted, "I had no idea that cancelling the Jenny Jones show show.

Because February is a ratings would have such a profound month, the time when TV net- effect throughout this country. . . works work hard to boost their . To my surprise, the support, share of the audience and with it, warmth and blessing of this their advertising rates, Morality country have overwhelmed me. . in Media predicts the talk shows "The awareness and outcry will be serving up as much sleaze as possible during that against this type of programming as a result of my decision cannot month.

Morality in Media is a 34-year- be ignored by other station manold inter-faith organisation work- agers or the people that produce ing to uphold decency standards these programs . .

"We in this industry have forin the media.

It will use the information gath- gotten that we have the power, ered by the monitors to docu- obligation and ability to stand for ment the case against the talk so much more in our society."

Mr Corbin said five TV talk shows. This information will be made available to the Federal shows have been cancelled by Communications Commission, their producers. He said he had

Children watching TV: beware trashy talk shows

personally viewed five or six new proposed TV talk shows and their content is -180 degrees different" from many of the topics currently being aired.

Many other things can be done, including: be selective about what you watch; control what your children watch; when you see something you don't like, speak out; speak out in support

of good shows ("Dr. Quit': Medicine Woman" and "Touchf By an Angel" are two examplp• and send letters to local TV lions, networks, local cable sys tems, advertisers and local newspapers. All of these efforts c 1 help make a difference in cox bating "trash talk" TV - The Catholic Heraki. newspaper of the Diocese of Sacramento, CaliforniP

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'Teachers need personal conversion' to teach RE properly The teaching of religious education in Catholic schools is the most important part of the curriculum. Catholic Education Office religious education director Father Gerard Holohan explained to teachers the principles of the new draft secondary schools religious education program in a letter last week The full text of the letter is published to help parents understand the new program.

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ear RE Teacher, this letter real- think of reasons why. Many are to be Culturally speaking, there can be many lenge of the Church today is to help ly is a foreword to the new draft found in the wider society as well as with- causes of the rock-like resistance in so teenagers suffering 'spiritual anorexia' to in the Church at the levels of family, parish many teenagers today. For example, reli- open their hearts to the Gospel message.

Religious Education units. gion is based upon experiences of God. As pointed out above, the practical steps I would like to begin by thanking you for and school.

This situation is not new in the Church's Ultimately, though stirred from different for presenting the Gospel message in the accepting the role of a teacher of Religious Education to the students entrusted to history. The principles of the Church for sources, these are experienced within the face of such conditions are those of preaddressing such a situation are those of human heart. evangelisation. your care. pre-evangelisation or re-evangelisation.

However, in today's society, many attiTeaching RE, though not an easy task, is They are found first in the scriptures, tudes and trends make it harder for peo- Religious Education a sacred one. You have agreed to work and have been articulated over the past ple to become 'in tune' with their hearts. with Christ himself towards the faith In broad terms, the RE program in a two thousands years to the official Church Hence, they find it harder to grow 'in Catholic school development of your students. has three components: I want to express my personal apprecia- teachings on RE today. It was the applica- tune' with God, or to appreciate the rela1 . the religious life of the school commution for all that you will be trying to do in tion of these principles that helped lead to tionship with God that leads to religion. nity including its values; the conversion of the Roman empire over To offer a second example, all too often 1996. Few ministries in the Church involve 2. the values permeating the general society today suggests to teen-agers that such constancy and grind as RE, for few a few centuries. school curriculum; These are the principles which underlie religion is irrelevant. are so much at the point of direct conflict 3. the systematic presentation of Catholic As a result, many do not 'connect' with : etween the teaching of the Gospel and the new RE program. They have been Implemented at the levels God who is the only beliefs and practices in RE classes. our secular culture. source of spiritual nourThe new draft units are concerned priTo assist you with this task, the new draft of content and teaching ishment. marily with the third component. They RE units are being introduced in term one. process. At the content, In turn, this leads to the cannot provide for all the faith needs of I thought that I would take the opportuni- they have been gathered under the three age old symptoms of students. These are the concern also of broad ty to write personally to make a few genheadings: 'spiritual malnutrition'. their families, parishes and the other eral background points relating to: O significant human exThey are the opposite to members of your Catholic school commu1 the focus of the new units; the 'fruits' of the Holy nity. periences; 1 the students' need for pre-evangelisaSpirit (Galatians 5:22).

O understanding these While the RE program complements the tion; Common symptoms of in the light of the Gospel; other two components, the integration of 1 the three elements of a Catholic spiritual malnutrition faith into life of the Catholic school is the El Catholic teachings. school RE program; have come to be taken by responsibility of the whole school comAt the level of teaching 1 the new draft itself; many today as the norm. munity and the general school curriculum. process, the relevant pre1 how to approach the new units; As a result, identity probevangelisation principles 1a plea for patience; lems, values confusion The new draft have been implemented 1 the need for personal conversion by through the three teachand lack of personal The draft course has been under devel• ' te teacher. direction are accepted as ing process steps: opment for the past four years. This unfortunate, but 'normal'.

O reflecting on human Mary, the Mother of God at the rhe focus of the new proincludes the piloting of earlier draft units Serious difficulties in of work by nearly half our Catholic secfoot of the Cross, from the Year 9 experiences • ram: pre-evangelisation family, married and per- ondary schools. What you are now receiv71 understanding student book sonal life; relationships ing is the fruit of teachers' suggestions, lb understand the focus of the draft pro- Catholic faith experiand sexuality problems; serious stress and comments and criticisms. ram, it is important to be clear about the ences other related problems - all seem to be asic RE problem it focuses upon.

El relating faith and life.

The draft course provides a core proseen as regrettable, but just part of mod- gram, which was unanimously proposed The Australian newspaper (28 Nov_ .nber 1995) reported a recent study that The need for pre-evangelis- ern life. by principals in 1992. .4 lowed Australian teenagers saw religion ation The intensity of the resulting inner conWhile recognising that many students • unimportant. This would not have been flicts and turmoil leads many to seek have particular faith development needs, Perhaps the best Gospel image for those escapes in drugs, excessive alcohol and the core program seeks to address the ws to our RE teachers! infortunately, in general, children and needing pre-evangelisatton is that of the other common psychological anaesthetics. needs that they share in common. As time .nagers today have little interest in the seed sown by the sower falling on rock The psychological condition which progresses, schools will be able to add to lurch, its teachings or its teaching (Luke 8:5). The process of pre-evangelisa- ignores the consequences of physical mal- the core program in ways that meet their ihority. For Catholic students, we can all tion is to help 'soften' the rock nutrition is called 'anorexia'. One chal- students' more particular needs. ie Record, February 1 1996 Page 8

The response of teachers to the units piloted during 1994-1995 was that, in general, the concepts were appropriate to the learning readiness of students.

However, rial : two broad changes were asked for.

1much fuller teacher background mate1 a student resource book at a language level suitable to the students.

These proposals have been implemented. However, it has not been possible to evaluate adequately the student resource booklets, particularly their language.

Hence, a further draft is necessary. It is hoped to revise these booklets further during this year, depending upon teachers' further comments.

The student resource booklets are not text books. Computer technology will make it possible for schools, in due course, to use the material in these booklets in different sequences and ways.

However, this technology will not be available until the language of the booklets is found by teachers to be suitable.

During the draft period,I would ask teachers to feel free to continue making suggestions and criticisms. The dialogue between schools and the CEO RE team hopefully will continue.

Approaching the new units

El read the student resource booklet; Cl read the unit objectives; 0 read the teaching-learning programs; 0 read the teacher background material.

The teacher background material aims to provide for two needs: 71 content to be taught; 71 background for possible student questions.

The student resource booklet includes: 71 content to be learnt; 71 background for student questions that may arise, and which may be used in passing.

It is important, therefore, that teachers focus upon the objectives of the unit to help them avoid dwelling unduly upon what is simply background material especially at the upper secondary level.

Reading the parts of each unit in the above sequence will give a sense of where the emphases are. The strategies especially will help teachers avoid confusing central content with passing background material.

Patience Please The units you are receiving are part of a thirteen-year school RE program. Later years build upon earlier ones. This means, for example, that upper secondary material should become easier to teach in 1997 than 1996.

The strategies suggestshould prove helpful ed The new draft RE units to upper secondary will require of teachers no Getting in touch with God, from until the backyears book less skill than that needed the year 8 student their students ground other of teaching for the improves. bring subjects. I suggest that teachers approach the new units in the Second, the unit objectives in Section following way: One of each unit make clear what teachers are being asked to achieve. read the unit introduction;

"Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world."

- Catechism of the Catholic Church

It is important to point out here that sonal conversion to Christ. Otherwise, pre-evangelisation is a cumulative thing. we cannot be effective pre-evangelisers No one unit will achieve pre-evangelisa- to those we are trying to teach. tion alone, but will contribute as part of We will be less successful if we do not the whole over the years. pray explicitly for our students, especialThird, to be realistic, it will take teach- ly resistant ones. We need too to place ers a year or so to feel on top of the con- troubles we face before God during tent. This was the experience during the every Eucharist. pilot. Teachers will need to give themMost of all, we need to be striving as selves time. best we can to live as Christ taught.

Further, teachers who have studied ter- Personal witness is essential for pretiary theology units will have selected evangelisation. No one can help prebetween course options. evangelise towards what they are not trying to live themselves. Without witness, not be will teachers most As a result, we are selling our stuequally familiar with all dents short. the material they are being asked to teach. It Conclusion is important to be realistic here also, and to I conclude by thankallow the necessary ing you once again for time to become fully being an RE teacher. familiar with all topics.

The task is not easy, Finally, research into but it is important to change makes it dear keep in mind that you that it will take students are playing a part in time to adjust as well. It God's plan for your is important for teachers students. We all need not to see students' reacto keep on going in tions to change as faith.

Reaching out to Jesus, from the reflecting upon the RE Year 8 student book The new Archdiocesprogram itself. an RE program will not solve all problems. It is simply another A final point: the need for step forward. personal conversion However, in the light of teachers' comThe ultimate foundation of all pre-evan- ments we can be confident it will be gelisation is the power of Christ, the helpful.

Word of God. (The meaning of this idea There is no doubt that more will be is explained in the last section of the needed. term one Year Eleven student resource Hopefully, continued dialogue and colbooklets). The principles I have referred between teachers and the RE laboration to in this letter really are about cooperatCEO will mean more and the at team ing with Christ. better support for all RE teachers in their You andI need to remember, therefore, task that all the strategies in the world will fail Fr Gerard Holohan unless we keep trying to deepen our perDirector of Religious Education The Record, February 1 1996 Page 9

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Holy Family's humility before the Law

By Peter Dwan BA

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his Thursday, February 2, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, popularly called Candlemas for, on this day, candles are blessed, and where practical, a procession is held with clergy and people carrying lighted candles.

We should be familiar with this event as it is the Fourth Joyful Mystery of the Rosary. Yet familiarity carries with it the risk that we shall hear the story while missing the message. This would be tragic, as the Feast contains many pertinent lessons for us today.

After the birth of a first-born male child, the Jewish law laid down certain regulations; the mother was to go to the Temple to be ritually purified, and an offering was to be made to redeem the child from Temple service. The rich offered a lamb and a pigeon, while the poor offered a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.

Although the unique circumstances surrounded Our Lord's birth exempted Mary and Joseph from these regulations, they obeyed them.

This gives us a wonderful example of obedience and humility. In the postconciliar Church, "obedience" has become a "dirty word," with people talking about "doing your own thing." Priests leave the priesthood to "do their own things," some married couples dispense themselves from heeding the teachings of Humanae Vitae, claiming freedom of conscience.

Some young people seem oblivious to the demands of obedience, and instead of considering right or wrong, claim what they are doing is right for us.

Not only does the Feast of the Presentation contain a razor sharp message on obedience, it also shows the rewards which come from praying with an expectant faith.

Although the Jews had prayed for centuries that the Messiah

would come, generations died without seeing His coming.

Simeon prayed too - but his prayer was more daring; he prayed that he might see the promised Messiah. His prayers were wonderfully answered - for not only did he live to see the Messiah, St Luke tells us, "he took him into his arms."

In this ecumenical age, many Catholics would have prayed for Christian unity, yet I sometimes wonder how many have actually prayed that they might live to see Christian unity.

and women but for which she isn't asked.

We would do well to reflect on what Simeon said when he held Jesus in his arms: "Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace, just as you promised, because my eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared for all the nations to see, a light to enlighten the gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel."

In his gospel, St John tells us that Christ is the true light who enlightens every soul born into

Simeon holding the baby Jesus at the Presentation.

In the course of her apparitions to St Catherine Laboure, in the Daughters of Charity's Convent, in the Rue du Bac in Paris, during which Our Lady revealed the Miraculous Medal to her, St Catherine noticed that some of the rings on Our Lady's fingers didn't emit rays.

When St Catherine asked Our Lady why, Mary explained that the rings which didn't emit rays symbolised the graces which she has in her hands to give to men

the world. The candles which are blessed and lit on the Feast of the Presentation symbolise the light of Christ.

Knowing the great difference between light and darkness, our hearts are moved to compassion for the blind who live in a world of perpetual darkness. However, while physical blindness moves us, spiritual blindness is less obvious and is therefore more often ignored.

It was in order to highlight the

needs of the spiritually blind that Pope John Paul II proclaimed the years 1990-2000 a Decade of Evangelisation.

He has asked that every effort be made during this period to bring as many people as possible to know and love Our Lord by the bimillenium of His birth, Christmas Day 2000.

The Feast of the Presentation is an ideal time for us to ask ourselves how we are heeding Pope John Paul's call.

We should remind ourselves that when he asked that every possible effort be made to bring people to know and love Christ.

Pope John Paul didn't mean a token effort, much less no effort at all.

The Feast of the Presentation will only have lasting significance for us if we use it as an occasion to consider how we are reflecting the light of Christ.

We must remember that just as a candle spreads light by what it is rather than by talking, so we shall spread the light of Christ far more effectively by our example than by our words; because, while words teach, example attracts.

A priest who had served a long sentence in a communist Chinese prison was about to be released, when two of the prison guards came up to him and asked him to receive them into the Church.

Knowing that they faced almost certain imprisonment if they became Catholics, the priest asked them why they wanted to be received into the Church.

They replied: "Because we have seen you."

There is, however, an important role for both the spoken and the written word in spreading the light of Christ. We should be prepared to answer questions about our Faith.

Shortly after the Catholic Enquiry Centre was established in Maroubra, NSW in 1959, it received a letter from a gentleman who asked: "Are Catholics forbidden to talk about their religion? When I ask my Catholic

mates about their religion, they change the topic and talk about football." I'm not saying that all Catholics do this, but it's a shame that even some do.

We also have a duty to spread the light of Christ to other nations. In Africa, missionaries baptise three million adult converts annually. Missionaries there need our financial help and our prayers, for money makes their work possible, while prayer makes it successful.

Those wishing to help spread the light of Christ in Africa, may send their donations, designated for evangelisation, to the Missionary Sisters of St Peter Claver, 154 Cotham Road, Kew 3101, Victoria, one of many orders working in Africa.

The Feast of the Presentation also contains a sobering note. At the Presentation, Simeon told Our Lady: "This child is destined to be a sign that is rejected - and a sword shall pierce your own soul too."

Just as Mary Queen of Apostles experienced the sword of sorrow in seeing people reject her Son and ultimately crucify Him, so we shall experience sorrow when others reject Christ.

Parents who have sacrificed to give their children a Catholic education experience the sword of sorrow when they see them stop attending Sunday Mass soon after leaving school.

Apostolic work always brings with it its sharing in the sword of sorrow through the trials and disappointments it occasions.

Those trying to do "something beautiful for God," by forming a sponsor group to coiled money for apostolic endeavours experience this sword of sorrow when their apostolic overtures are met with refusals and such weak excuses as "I gave last year." or "My wife gives."

At such times, let us not become discouraged, but rather draw comfort from the assurance given by an Irish Redemptorist missionary: "With a pair of Rosary beads and a sense of humour, you can face anything."

'A warm wind swept out from the forest • • • • Perth writer Stephen O'BrienMcCaffery continues his imaginative meditations, this week on God, creation and humanity.

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bent my ear so intently to the words of my Jesus that it was some time before I realised that tears were streaming down my face, tears of the most pure joy that this Saviour should love me so, tears of the highest hope that Jesus held interest only in true life for me, and, yes, tears of sadness that I had gone so long in life so blind to so much potential, and even more, that there were those, of such numbers, who have pushed out of their lives and their souls the love that was Christ.

My wet face must have aroused compassion in my Lord, for I felt a warm wind sweep out from the forest and dry my tears. And I think my ears may have deceived me, for they were privileged by the sound of music of a beauty that Ihad not known, of a nature I did not comprehend, of a warmth that surrounded and healed my heart. Thus comforted, I dared to speak further of what was puzzling my mind. I spoke thus: I asked Jesus of the birth of

humans. I heard His words: Child, I have watched humans seek from whence they appeared, and I have witnessed their efforts to explore their world.

Yes, I have heard the words of those who seek creation in isolation from my Father's work, and I have listened to those who speak of a first man and a first woman and I know there are those who seek to find themselves in the first of all matter and the first of all events.

But I tell you that God is, and nothing else was, or shall be without Him. And yes, I have also borne witness to those who seek order and structure in things, and there are those, who never finding that order and structure, impose it at will.

But I say that the mind of the human shall never comprehend the truth of God, because it is incapable, and it is incapable because that is the will of The Father and 1, and the mind of God has little relation to the mind of the human.

The words and thoughts of humans are bound by what they have come to reveal in different times and in different places, yet I tell you truly these words and thoughts have no meaning

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Do you not see these trees that surround us here, nor hear the monkeys screech in the forest nor the bubbling of the nearby spring of water, nor feel the powr love when it moves in . you? ...

But do not divide these things, for there is only one, that is all God. The relationships that exist in God's kingdom on earth, the progressions that can be observed, the alike and the similar, the evolution of thing and the evolution of thought, I say that these are also the intent and work of God, for they are of God, and are part of the whole God. except that they have been ory or doctrine. No, it lies only in How can it be said that this is uttered by one of my people, for the people He created and in the one, and this is the other, that all are my people. love He has for them. this is of My Father and I, and But child, hear me closely now Do you not here know the that is not. You do not have wisas I tell you this also. There is power of Jesus, the power that dom to know this, though some nothing in this earth I gave to can look upon the human past have the sincerity of their own you which does not allow for all and change it instantly, the thought. manner of human explanation. power that can take the moment It cannot be said that the Nor is there anything that can of human creation and wish it human came from here, or came hold all concept of the past as not so, the power that can return from there, or was the end of the hand of my Father and I to the time the Son walked the this, or was the beginning of that, allowed it to be, nor anything earth and undo what was done, for the human is all of these, and that may account for all that my the power that can observe truly all of these are but an image of Father and I allow to come. what is and wish it otherwise?

God that only the authority of Human thought establishes I tell you that the human was the Father can divide or bring what it shall count as evidence moulded in the image of God, together, and it is only through for that thought, and proceeds in but I tell you also that there is no the power of the Father that you search of it, but the attention of image of God, because there is can speak on these things, for God lies not in argument or the- nothing that is not of Him. they are of His making.

Computers: boon, bane. . . out of control?

Computers could make us more self-centred

Technology: do we understand it? Can we control it?

yone electronically. The social Late last year a co-founder of Impact of the combination of the Word perfect Corporation computers and telecommunicaand Director of Novell Inc, Dr tions is therefore difficult to Alan C. Ashton, visited Perth assess. under the auspices of the The gee-wiz nature of technoMormon church. The following advancement naturally logical are excerpts from a paper he disboth excitement produces cruthe of most tributed on one and the initiated the amongst cial questions of our age Whether we are talking humanity's control of the techno- naive. electronic classrooms, virabout logical behemoth that It has cre- tual reality entertainment, global ated. universities, distance learning, virtual libraries, the seamless odern information tech- digital workplace, the convernology is a conver- gence of computer networking gence of two technolo- and video technology onto the gies - computing and telecommu- home television . . . . there nications . .. . appears to be universal enthusiBecause the converged comput- asm for every single change. ing and telecommunications The question then arises, is this technologies are concerned with enthusiasm justified? There are the manner in which we relate to many in the community who each other, the social impacts might reasonably claim that sociwill be complex and it is certain ety has done pretty well in its that none of us are yet fully reaction to industrial advanceaware of what they will be. ment up to now, so why worry?

On the one hand, computers It is our view that modern techtend to have a privatising effect, isolating us from other people at nology and the information posihome, in the workplace or within superhighway will have a and humanity upon impact tive society at large. we should not be Luddites in our On the other hand, telecommu- approach to it. nications enables us to commuWhat cannot be disputed, hownicate with other people, in the same street, the same city or on ever, is that the newest technolothe other side of the world, and gies will have a profound impact the effect is one of opening the on the way in which we relate to household doors to the outside one another, in our communities community and connecting ever- and neighbourhoods, within the

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family, in the workplace and on trend towards the privatisation of society in general. These society. changes, which have already On the one hand, modems and begun, are among the most sig- networks are essentially social nificant in civilised history and technologies, enabling isolated governments cannot blithely individuals to communicate with assume that all will be for the others, albeit in a somewhat infegood . . . . there are important rior way. sides to the equation that need to On the other hand, modems be addressed by governments at and networks depersonalise relaall levels, the bureaucracies, tionships and create what might community organisations, social be regarded as a false form of commentators, and vitally, tech- interaction.. .. nologists and scientists - the The information revolution has innovators who are precipitating created new public space - electhe technological revolution . . . . tronic markets, bulletin boards, The introduction of new tech- networks and communities nology has the potential to pro- where individuals can interact. duce a whole range of repercus- Once again, these are a useful sions. These include the most supplement to real world-conextreme, such as changes in fun- tact, especially for small and isodamental social values and the lated communities of interest. structure of society, to the more The computer revolution is sublime, including impacts on placing amazing power in the interpersonal relationships and hands of individuals, but if we on the urban environment can do all of our business and Examples of inaction or tardy our socialising using a keyboard reaction by governments include and terminal, what will be left of their approach to the Internet human relations as we presently and the not inconsiderable vio- know it lent and pornographic content on Parents used to be able to exerthe World Wide Web, as well as cise some control over the envithe whole information revolution ronment experienced by their associated with the introduction children . . . . The contemporary of fibre-optics dangers are coming from the Marshall McLuhan pointed out accessibility and unchecked conthirty years ago the impact which tent of the information itself on modern technology was having international computer networks in the privatisation of society. which children of any age can Radio, and then television and access with limited parental convideos, were the first major caus- trol. es of our retreat indoors. Instead The new 'universe' created by of being required to stay outside fibre optics and the Internet has and interact in the wider com- the potential to provide access to munity, we began to quarantine the most wonderful information ourselves. and ideas as well as assist the Individuals and families could proliferation of false information, obtain their entertainment pri- questionable if not aberrant vately, instead of through an social values, and cultural stereointeraction with their neighbours types. The problem is teaching people to sort out the wheat from and the local community . . . .

On the other hand, some tech- the chaff. . . .

Indeed, because the Internet is nologies such as the telephone may have brought us closer an international broadcast mediit brought us clos- um, for the very first time govtogether friends who live ernments around the world will and family er to wish at a distance, but it isolated us to need to act unitedly if they to similar regulations institute to live who some extent from those pretheir been have which those nearby serve as independent nationThere are privatising aspects of states in former years . . . . the computer which warrant conWe have seen that information sideration as part of this broader technology can undermine the

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walls which national governments have built around their citizens. Nowhere was this more evident than during the "Velvet Revolution' in Czechoslovakia in October 1989 when protesting students defied riot police with the taunt, "The world sees you.' .

It is common social values and standards of ethical and moral behaviour which need to be preserved if society as we know, it is to continue.

Individually empowering technology will assist in communicating, if not reinforcing, some of these standards of behaviour, but at the same time, these same innovations will hit at the very foundations of family and those other institutions which have been the glue holding society together.

We therefore call on technologists to consider all of the implications of their work and establish as their prime objective (not a subsidiary one) the importance of maintaining healthy family and community values.

We call on governments to begin to develop strategies to preserve the values which society holds dear, to prepare a major educational program for themselves and their constituencies, and to create forums where all those groups in the community affected by or responsible for technological change may work together to ensure that the glue maintains its strength.

'Net Nanny' can stop young access to Internet nasties

By William West

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ne of the biggest concerns of teachers and parents about the most spectacular recent advance in computing - computer networks like the Internet - is the availability of harmful materials such as pornography.

Rarely a day passes without a story appearing in the morning paper detailing the latest outrage that has occurred.

Not only do some sites on the Internet convey information and photographs about unspeakable activities, but there have been cases where young people have been solicited for such activities through the Internet.

There have been some attempts to write computer software to protect young people from this kind of material, but with varying degrees of success. But one of the latest products introduced to the Australian market has generated quite a bit of excitement.

Called "Net Nanny" it promises to protect your child from all the known sites pushing pornography on the Internet, as well as the unknown ones.

That includes sites on all areas of the

Internet, including the World Wide Web, made specifically for parents "who know less about computers than their children". ftp sites, gopher sites and all the rest Despite this fact, it has a sophisticated It comes with a set of Internet addresses which will prevent most kids from feature user-defina that it prevents access to and able dictionary which already contains a uninstalling it. Even if a youngster did sucset of words which, when detected, will ceed in deleting the program from the cause Internet software to be closed down. computer, it would be immediately obviYou can use this dictionary to prevent ous to the parent or teacher who installed personal information from being transmit- It and the youngster would be unable to reinstall it without getting access to the ted across the Internet. original installation program. full If some one tries to send off your "The main dictionary that the program name, address, telephone number or even your credit card details, the software will uses is a hidden, read-only encrypted file," prevent them from doing so, close down, Philip Berner said.

"The main directory is a hidden directoand leave a message stating why it closed ry and you would need to have access to a down. special piece of software and know-how to the surfing is If your son or daughter World Wide Web and inadvertently opens use it before you could delete the proup a site which has pornographic infor- gram.

"Most young kids, particularly those in mation, it will again shut down the program and make a record of the informa- the 4-14-year old group, would not be able tion that caused it to shut down, placing it to delete the program and, if they did sucin a file that can be accessed only by the ceed, their parent or teacher would know what they have been up to. It is not the adult who installed the program.

This does not mean that you need to be sort of thing that happens by accident."

Given these sorts of protective features a computer wizard to install the software.

According to Philip Berner, the director in the program, Net Nanny would appear of the CheckMARK, the company market- to make it more difficult for children to ing Net Nanny in Australia, the program is access pornography on the Internet than

to come by it through other means. To keep the purchasers of the software up to date with the latest information about dangerous materials available on the Internet, Net Nanny has set up its own site on the Web Wide World (http://www.netnanny.com/netnanny) which carries an updated dictionary and other materials.

Apart from protecting your children from the bad side of the Internet, Net Nanny will even protect your personal computer from some of the destructive tendencies of inquisitive young minds. For instance, it prevents them from interfering with important files and programs parents or teachers would prefer that they do not have access to. These include the computer's autoexec.bat file and config.sys which both control how the computer operates. Altering these files can often have far-reaching effects, like preventing certain programs from operating.

Net Nanny last year retailed for $89.95 and can be purchased from most of the major computer retailers. If you have any problems getting hold of it you can contact Check Mark on (02) 9957 6970 or (1800) 504 025.

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Pro-life gains escape US Budget crisis

By Nancy Frazier O'Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) - The continuing resolution signed on January 26 by President` Clinton to keep the US government in business until March 15 contains some provisions that pro-lifers are cheering.

HR 2880, the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, includes "several important pro-life provisions," the National Right to Life Committee said in a federal legislative update on January 26.

They include a ban on federal funding of experiments on living human embryos, limits on US funding for population programs overseas and a prohibition on abortion funding by the federal Bureau of Prisons, except to save a mother's life or in cases of rape.

Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, said the bill's ban on funding for human embryo experimentation "marks a victory for preborn babies" but said the ban should be extended to all such experimentation.

is wrong and must be stopped," Ms Brown said. "There can be no justification for creating a human being in a laboratory just for experimentation."

She said "tens of thousands of outraged Americans" had joined in a postcard campaign against human embryo experimentation to the National Institutes of Health.

The campaign was coordinated by the American Life League, based in Stafford, Virginia.

The National Right to Life Committee said some in the media have confused human embryo experimentation with fetal tissue research.

Meanwhile, Spain's Catholic bishops have warned Spanish Pro-lifers in Washington march voters to scrutinise candidate's before an image of Jesus as Divine policies in the pending March 3 Mercy on Jan 22. PhdfaceNStattbfilittIkr Spanish elections to ensure the candidates are not in favour of "Ultimately, the Congress must abortion and euthanasia. clearly state that no matter how The warning comes in the this ghoulish research and exper- wake of renewed efforts by the imentation is funded, whether Socialists to liberalise Spain's privately or by the government, it abortion law.

Spiritual poverty vocation's beginning: Pope ROME (CNS) - Christians live out their vocations when they put into practice the Beatitudes, beginning with becoming "poor in spirit," Pope John Paul II said.

"The poor in spirit." he said on January 28 during a homily at a Rome parish, "are those who do not attribute to themselves - neither who they are nor what they possess."

"They recognise that they have received everything from the hands of God, usually with the

help of others," the Pope told the people of Rome's St Cletus Parish during one of his regular Sunday visits to a Rome parish.

The Gospel for that particular Sunday was from the fifth chapter of Matthew, in which Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount and teaches the Beatitudes to his disciples.

The Pope said living in the poverty of spirit sets a person's priorities according to the priorities of God and creates the space

in one's life necessary for loving God and one's neighbour.

In the Sermon on the Mount.

Jesus promises the kingdom of God to those who are poor in spirit or, in other words, to those who "are not full of themselves."

A truly Christian spiritual life. the Pope said, can never be limited to a personal relationship with God. "When it is authentic, it opens our hearts to the needs of the whole world," he said.

Lech Walesa returns to his old battleground

Lech Walesa: back again at Solidarity headquarters

By Cindy Wooden WARSAW. Poland (CNS) When Poland's ex-president, Lech Walesa, appeared on television inspecting his former work place at Gdansk's Lenin Shipyard, it had all the makings of a media event.

But as the former electrician rummaged through the oildamp electrical repair room in mid-January, surrounded by aides and bodyguards, glimpses of the worker seemed to reemerge through the hard political exterior.

A survey by the government CBOS agency just after Mr Walesa's 19 November election defeat by former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski reported that half of all Poles expected the 52-year-old father of eight to stay active in national politics, whereas 43 per cent believed it was time for him to bow out.

When the former Solidarity leader confirmed in January that he would return to his shipyard job, the move symbolised the mood of self-questioning prevalent among former Solidarity supporters, as efforts are made to rebuild the values and ideals many believe were repudiated in the presidential

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election. Mr Walesa started his national career as the shipyard electrician who defied the communist government by launching Solidarity as an independent labour movement.

On the face of it, Mr Walesa can expect to live comfortably. aided by book royalties, advertising offers and invitations to lecture.

But his rags-to-riches story some hold still could Cinderella-style surprises.

Mr Walesa knows that his power and authority have always been in his mystique as a common worker, a man of simple words but unshakable integrity. If he can rebuild that image, out of the tarnished, complex legacy of his presidential years, it could put him back on track as a major figure.

From his new office in the Solidarity headquarters opposite Gdansk's central station. where he has donned his union lapel badge again to work as an unpaid consultant, Walesa is adamant that he'll be back in his shipyard overalls on April I. "I'll continue to be a politician in the sense of trying to sort out political problems, but I won't be running for any further posts," Mr Walesa said in January.

Theology of redemption study ends after three years

By Jerry Filteau WASHINGTON (CNS) Christianity is -denatured" if its unique teaching on redemption is ignored, says a study paper released by the Vatican's International Theological Commission.

Only Christianity professes faith in the historical, redemptive life, death and resurrection of the Word of God made flesh, the study says.

It also warns against some New Age and "human potential" movements that ignore original sin and minimise "the pervasive effects of sin and the incapacity of humanity to redeem itself."

"Humanity is not redeemed, nor is God fittingly glorified, except through God's merciful action in Jesus Christ," it says.

The 22,000-word study, titled Quaestiones Selectae de Deo Redemptore ("Selected Questions About God the Redeemer") was dated October 1995 and released in English to Catholic News Service in January.

The study highlights the ecclesiological dimension of redemption, saying that "we as human

beings can come to know who the Redeemer is, but only within the community of the Church and through it. Christ cannot be isolated from the Church."

It also emphasises the unique redemptive role of Jesus Christ, citing St Anselm: "This debt (of reparation to God for sin) was so great that, while none but man must solve the debt, none but God was able to do it; so that he who does it must be both God and man."

It describes the continuing existence of evil and suffering as challenges to people's belief in redemption today.

"The acuteness of the problem of evil and suffering," it says, "has not lessened with the passage of time, but rather intensified, and the ability of many to believe that It can be adequately dealt with at all has in this century been undermined as a matter of factual record."

It describes redemption sacramentally in terms of the themes of liberation, reconciliation and communion.

"Baptism is the sacrament of liberation from sin and rebirth in the freedom newly chosen," it says.

"Liberation from sin by redemp-

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tion in Christ reconciles a person with God, with neighbour and with all creation," it adds.

It cites the word of the Gospel and the sacrament of penance as particular instruments of reconciliation.

It says those who are liberated from sin and reconciled with God, neighbour and creation "find true communion with their Creator who has become their Saviour.... Communion with the person of the Redeemer becomes communion with the Body of Christ, that is to say, the communion of all the baptised in Christ."

It is in communion that the document finds a basic link between the personal and social dimensions of redemption.

"Redemption therefore has a social character: It is in and by the Church, the Body of Christ, that the individual is saved and finds communion with God," it says.

While the text warns of weaknesses or risks in some contemporary theological approaches, its overall tone is positive. It focuses more on basic elements of a good theology of redemption than on dangers or threats to Church teaching.

It praises efforts of theologians to find themes of redemption and salvation in all religions but warns that this approach can jeopardise "the distinct identities of the religions."

Among current thought trends ills most sharply critical of New Age theories.

On New Age theories it comments: "On the assumption that the divine is an inherent constituent of human nature, some theologians urge a creation-centred religion of celebration in place of the traditional Christian emphasis on the fall and the redemption. Salvation is held to consist in the discovery and actualisation of the immanent divine presence through cosmic spirituality, joyous liturgy and psychological techniques of consciousness-raising or self-mastery."

On the great world religions and some contemporary "human potential" movements, it says their "methods of spiritual awareness and discipline" deserve attention.

"But they are not to be equated with redemption in the Christian sense of the word," it adds.

"There are no valid grounds for minimising the pervasive effects of sin and the incapacity of

humanity to redeem itself."

It affirms the work of "4 number of contemporary Catholic theologians" who it says are "seeking to maintain in tension the 'ascending' and 'descending' themes of classical soteriology (redemption theology)."

"Often leaning toward a narrative or dramatic theology of redemption," it says, "these authors have retrieved important themes in the biblical accounts, in Irenaeus, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas."

It says many of these authors "emphasise the way in which Christ identifies himself with fallen humanity" and focus on sacramental participation as "the normal manner whereby individuals become members of the Body of Christ and grow in their union with him."

The commission document does not enter into a detailed discussion of particular authors or their approaches, however.

Pope John Paul II asked the commission, a body of more than 30 papally chosen theologians under the authority of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to prepare a study of the theology of redemption in 1992.

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Two US nuns die in prowler's deranged attack Servants of the Blessed with a religious statue in the conSacrament in Waterville. vent chapel. He was arrested Two other nuns were injured: without resistance.

Sister Mary Anna DiGiacomo, 72, In the adjoining convent they hospitalised in serious condition found three other sisters beaten and Sister Patricia Ann Keane, and stabbed.

68, hospitalised in a stable condiThe attack took place about 6 tion. pm, shortly after a Saturday afterFive other nuns in the noon prayer service in the conWaterville convent were vent chapel. unharmed. The Servants of the Sister Cardozo died late that Blessed Sacrament, whose order night of massive head injuries. was founded in France in 1858, Sister Fortin died Sunday mornare cloistered nuns who devote ing. their lives to prayer and perpetuThe nuns' funeral was schedal adoration of the Blessed uled for February 1 at Notre Sacrament.

Dame Church, the largest church Police responding to an emer- in Waterville. gency call by one of the nuns Bishop Donald Pelotte of reporting a prowler found Mark Gallup, a Waterville native who Bechard beating Sister Keane regularly served Mass at the con-

Pressure Increases on China Catholics About 90 agents were stationed HONG KONG (CNS) - Chinese government agents have infiltrat- in Donglu, a popular Marian piled the underground Catholic grimage site 68 miles southwest Church in northern China, of Beijing recognised as a strongreportedly in a campaign to hold of the underground Church.

The source said the circulars, recruit Catholics to the government-recognised Church and targeting the underground Church, aim to curb these areas punish those who resist.

A Hong Kong Catholic source in which the Church is reported Chinese to be expanding rapidly. northern quoting The circulars allow recognition Catholics said that on January 14. about 10 teams from the local of the Pope as Catholics' spiritual Religious Affairs and Public leader, but they reiterate governSecurity Bureaus were dis- ment opposition to any control of patched to pro-Vatican Church Chinese Catholics by the Vatican, Baoding, the source said. in communities The source also said the circuXianxian, Langfang, Anguo and Xingtai dioceses, and areas in lars suggest agents can help shatter and isolate the underground Hebei province.

The teams reportedly were Church by claiming the officially assigned to force underground approved Church recognises the Catholics to join local units of the Pope as spiritual leader, while at government-recognised Catholic the same time reinforcing the Patriotic Association. policy of electing and ordaining The teams planned to indoctri- bishops without papal approval. nate underground Church memThe source also said underbers, demolish their Churches ground Catholics working for and disband their seminaries government offices and schools were identified and forced to and convents, the source said.

These moves and the recent vow to give up their faith.

Comments from the undercrackdowns in Hebei, the source said, were effected to comply ground Church said the governwith two circulars on the ment campaign clearly indicates Catholic Church issued last its motive to separate the Church November by the national in China from the universal Church.

Religious Affairs Bureau.

vent as a child and knew the sisters well - flew to Waterville for the funeral.

Influenced deeply by the nuns, he entered the priesthood as a member Blessed of the Sacrament Fathers, the male counterpart to their order.

Bechard, 37, lived at a group home for the mentally ill less than a mile from the convent.

Police Chief John Morris said police were not able to establish a motive for the attack, but Bechard had a history of mental problems.

Nuns at the convent later said Bechard had applied for a job and had been turned down. He occasionally worshiped at the convent chapel.

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Vatican's delicate diplomacy with the French praised as a triumph

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Using well-timed criticism and a festive welcome, the Vatican pulled off a delicate diplomatic triumph when it hosted French President Jacques Chirac in January.

France's recent resumption of nuclear testing had made Chirac persona non grata in Italy and in many other parts of the world. In Italy, there was even a movement to boycott French wines.

So when Chirac wanted to meet Pope John Paul II - in a state visit, with full pomp and ceremony there were apprehensive rumblings at the Vatican.

Simply put. the fear was that a world leader needing to shine up his own international reputation would end up tarnishing the Pope's.

In the past, the pontiff's opendoor policy has led to papal handshakes with such controversial figures as former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat.

The negative fallout from those encounters still partly lingers.

A similar reaction was possible this time, said Vatican sources.

When the Pope told Chirac, "Vive la France!" the world might hear, "Vive la bombe!"

But by the time Chirac showed

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VVAI'ERVILLE, Maine (CNS) - A nun who spent five years in an Australian Blessed Sacrament Sisters enclosed convent was one of two victims of a savage fatal attack in a United States' convent on January 27 by a man with a history of mental illness.

The dead nun, Sister Julien Fortin, 72, was a member of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters convent in suburban Armadale in Melbourne from 1959 to 1965.

Blessed Sacrament Fathers, Brothers and Sisters will celebrate a memorial service for the dead sisters at the Armadale convent this Sunday.

The other sister killed in the attack was Sister Edna Marie Cardozo. 68, superior of the

The Pope with Jacques Chirac

up on January 20, the nuclear issue had been defused by the Vatican.

A handful of anti-nuke demonstrators in St Peter's Square were reduced to holding up banners.

What happened? Just some subtle manoeuvering by the Vatican's seasoned diplomatic experts - a "pre-emptive strike," in the words of one official.

A week earlier, in his annual "state of the world" address to diplomats accredited to the Vatican, the Pope condemned nuclear weapons and called for a complete ban on testing.

It was a short paragraph in a six-page speech, but it detonated loudly in newspapers the next day. The message was clearly aimed at France and its test program on the Pacific island of Mururoa.

But French diplomats were not

upset. They knew this early salvo meant the Pope would not raise the issue publicly during his meeting with Chirac.

The episode illustrated the Vatican's long-term approach to world events.

One of its unwritten diplomatic rules is never embarrass foreign governments, even if a public snub would bring a round of global applause.

But the Church's bread-andbutter issues are things like state subsidies to Catholic schools, religious education options, the Church's influence on social policies, and legislation affecting families and the right to life.

These are items the Pope wanted to discuss with Chirac.

He did so aware that he was cultivating a potential ally, one who was already close to the Church and who may be willing to defend its interests for many years.

In the end. when Chirac's plane left, when the nuclear demonstrators had picked up their placards and when the notes of "La Marseillaise" had stopped echoing in the papal courtyard, Vatican officials were pleased with the results.

They might have even toasted their success with some French champagne.

US laity swing away from tradition: study democratic Church in which laypersons can participate at all - levels" in teaching and decision(CNS) WASHINGTON Growing numbers of US Catholic making.

"This desire is strengthening laity are moving away from offithe passage of time," they with sexual on positions Church cial added. morality, women priests and a The new study, published by variety of other issues, says a & Ward, is titled "Laity, Sheed new study by four sociologists.

Catholic: and American The sociologists reported that a Transforming the Church."

Co-authors William D'Antonio: 1993 national survey showed "a majority of the American Dean Hoge; James Davidson and Catholic laity is moving in the Ruth Wallace found that from direction of wanting a more 1987 to 1993 increasing numbers

By Jerry Fitteau

of US Catholics thought lay people have a right to participate in Church decisions.

These ranged from practical matters like deciding parish budgets to administrative decisions like assignment of priests, to doctrinal and moral questions like Church teaching on birth control, divorce and women priests.

And they found that some of the sharpest shifts toward more democratic attitudes occurred among the most committed and active weekly Churchgoers.

Feminism must go beyond gender power struggle analysis: delegate LONDON (CNS) - Feminism must go beyond seeking important positions of power and influence currently held by men, said a female member of the Vatican delegation to the UN women's conference in Beijing.

Feminism must change the way society thinks about issues and how governments and institutions react to problems, said Janne Haaland Matlary, a Norwegian political scientist.

Women are equal to but differ-

ent from men and must bring and ethical decline" as witnessed their special roles as transmitters by the acceptance of abortion of life to public values, she said and euthanasia and the ongoing in a bylined article in the January genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 13 London-based Catholic maga- she wrote.

"Will women as political leadzine, The Tablet.

"Women are privileged in being ers be less egotistical than men? transmitters of life, which is truly If the answer is no, I fail to see as close as humans ever get to why women should replace men as power-holders and decisioncreation," she said.

Women can bring to politics makers," she wrote.

But working women who are "specific values that are pro-life mothers have a natural curb to in a profound sense," she said.

Western politics is in "moral the desire to abuse the power

they hold, said the mother of four greater economic and political and senior researcher at Oslo power "to get rid of men's terms for how they should live, so as to University.

"The best cure against feeling fulfil their own special qualities," self-important is to go home and she said.

"Women did not become happiwash the kitchen floor while your children scream for food, er once they were truck drivers, coal miners or commandos. It attention and play," she said.

Ms Matlary criticised the femi- was important to show that they nist view that offers "an aggres- could do it, but what difference sive view of man where the two did it make?" she added.

"Women who entered these sexes are engaged in a power professions often imitated men," struggle."

At the same time, women need she said.

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Poverty and crime to face Pope on trip In Brief

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A dozen years after his first visit to Central America, poverty, social unrest and violent crime are still part of the reality Pope John Paul will see during his 69th foreign papal trip there in February.

His visit will take him to Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador from February 5-9, then on to Venezuela on February 9.

The first of his Central American day trips, a flight to Esquipulas, Guatemala, will highlight the key elements of the entire visit: papal encouragement for the deep traditional Catholic faith of the majority and their desire for peace.

The Pope is going to Esquipulas to mark the 400th anniversary of devotion to an image of Christ brought there by the Spaniards.

While Esquipulas is a centre of piety, it also has become a symbol of peace through negotiation.

Unity 'must be basis of credibility' ROME (CNS) - Praying for Christian unity means praying that diversity among Christians would become a source of enrichment rather than division, Pope John Paul II said.

"Unity in Christ does not mean excluding all differences," the Pope said on January 25 at Mass marking the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

The Mass, in the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls, featured music by two choirs: one Benedictine. the other from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

"It is precisely responsibility to the Gospel which presses us to seek with persistence the ways of unity," Pope John Paul said. "Christian unity, in fact, is one of the principal conditions for the credibility of our witness and its fruitfulness."

Women are blessed in Esquipulas on January 29 before the papal visit

The roots of the various peace accords reached in the region in the 1990s go back to a 1986 summit in Esquipulas of the presidents of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica.

That meeting laid the ground-

work for the 1987 Central American peace accords.

The papal trip will highlight the hard work required to stabilise countries even after a formal peace.

The bishops' conference of El Salvador has said the Pope will

find "dramatic and serious" social problems that make real peace and reconciliation impossible.

In each of the countries the Pope is expected to speak about the Church's role in social and political questions - a role that he has said must never become partisan.

Popular piety and social problems will also be addressed by the Pope in Venezuela, which withstood two coup attempts in the early 1990s.

The focal point will be the formal dedication of the national Shrine of Our Lady of Coromoto, where tradition says the Virgin Mary appeared in 1652.

But before that, he will stop at the infamous Catia prison near Caracas to bless and greet the inmates.

The prison was designed to hold 700 but now holds 2,300, many of whom have never been to trial.

North Korean first for Vatican

By John Travis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In an unprecedented visit to North Korea, a Vatican delegation brought flood relief, consulted with the minority Catholic community and opened a tentative dialogue with authorities of the communist state.

"The delegation was given a good and respectful reception by the authorities. Certainly, the Vatican hopes it is the start of a dialogue," one Vatican official said on January 24.

The official reason for the visit, arranged at the invitation of the North Korean government, was to allow the Vatican to personally present a small contribution toward assistance for victims of flooding.

Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli and Monsignor Gianfranco Rota Graziosi. both Far East experts in the Secretariat of State, arrived in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on January 16.

Government officials briefed them on damage caused by torrential rains late last summer.

A Vatican statement said the delegation offered what it called a "symbolic" donation from Pope John Paul II, to go toward food and health care; the amount was not made public.

The Vatican said more food assistance is needed in North Korea, especially leading up to next summer's harvest.

While in Pyongyang, the delegallon was also able to meet with local Catholics and celebrate Mass in a Church opened in

1988, after a 40-year ban on religion was revoked.

Vatican sources said the delegation was warmly greeted by Catholics, who welcomed an opportunity to meet with representatives of the Pope.

Archbishop Celli expressed "the closeness and affection of the Pope for these faithful, who reconfirmed their fidelity to the successor of Peter and to the Church," the Vatican statement said.

The two Vatican officials held talks with leading lay Catholics about the "most immediate pastoral needs," it said.

North Korea's Catholic population has been estimated at about 3,500. The lack of priests is considered one of the chief problems for the Church.

Coalition appeals 'unconstitutional' suicide law most vulnerable in our society bishops. The friend-of-the-court not reflect reality, the brief said, and their families," it said. brief was written by Mark "there is overwhelming and At issue in the case is the Chopko, USCC general counsel, uncontradicted evidence in this WASHINGTON (CNS) - A coalition of Christian groups led Oregon Death With Dignity Act, and Michael Moses, assistant case that suicide in fact is not at all the 'free' choice that its advoby the US Catholic Conference narrowly adopted by the state's general counsel.

It sharply repudiated the notion cates claim." has asked the 9th US Circuit voters in a 1994 referendum.

However it was not implement- of law protecting a "right to "The absence of free, informed Court of Appeals to find Oregon's assisted suicide law unconstitu- ed because its constitutionality choose suicide," saying there is and rational decision-making in was immediately challenged in no basis in the Constitution or the person who expresses suicitional.

US history for claiming such a dal wishes is evident in the fact In a brief filed on January 24, court.

Last August Judge right.

Michael that the wish often dissipates the USCC and other organisaHogan of the US On District Court in the other hand, it said, "not after appropriate treatment," it tions of Catholic bishops, Portland, Oregon, to ruled that the regard life itself as a added. fundaLutherans, Evangelicals and violates the 14th mental right leads to an absurd While the law does not require Christian lawyers and doctors law called the Oregon law an uncon- Amendment's equal protection result, for obviously without life doctors to participate in assisted stitutional attack on "the most clause by unfairly discriminating the enjoyment of any other right, suicide, it bars health care fundamental or otherwise, is providers and professional basic of all human rights, life against the dying.

The state appealed that i mpossible." deciorganisations and associations itself, without any pretense of sion to the US Court of Appeals 'The state argues that suicide is from excluding or in any way rationality." in San Francisco which had juris- rational for some because it penalising doctors who do assist "No State has the authority to diction in the matter. allows them to escape certain in suicides. institute a scheme like the one Joining the USCC in urging the problems, principally pain and In 1994 the USCC and the bishcreated here in which all or any appellate court to uphold the suffering," the brief said. ops of Oregon, Washington and class of citizens will be systemat- lower court's judgment were the "The outrageousness of this California were among those ically rid of their life and liberty," Evangelical Lutheran Church in claim is almost beyond the abili- who urged the 9th Circuit to the brief said.

America, Lutheran Church- ty of words to express," it said. overturn the ruling of a federal "Calling the eradication of the Missouri Synod, National "The rational response to any judge in Washington who had life and liberty of its citizens a Association of Evangelicals, human need or problem precipi- found that state's ban on assisted 'right' or a 'benefit' does not Christian Legal Society, Christian tating a wish to kill oneself is to suicide unconstitutional. make it one," it added. "The Medical and Dental Society and address the need or problem, not The three-judge panel assigned euphemism is grotesque." the state Catholic conferences of to destroy the subject." to hear the appeal in that case "The Oregon initiative is a Oregon, Washington and Citing studies which conclude ruled 2-1 against the lower direct affront to the sanctity of California. that nearly all suicides are linked court's decision and said human life, with deadly and irreThe USCC is the national pub- to severe depression or other Washington's ban on such suiversible consequences for the lic policy organisation of the US serious mental illness which do cides was constitutional.

By Jerry Filleau

Thft Re.cord, Fel3ruary 1 1996

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Irish law challenge DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - The Irish government has delayed introducing a divorce law because of a challenge in the Irish High Court.

In November, 51 percent of the electorate voted to remove the constitutional ban on divorce, but a prominent Catholic layman, Senator Des Hanafin, has challenged it.

Hanafin said the results were skewed because the government illegally spent $760,000 on advertising that favoured the pro-divorce stance.

Separation bill WARSAW, Poland (CNS) The Polish parliament has narrowly rejected a bill that would have allowed marital separation as an alternative to divorce.

Although all political parties in the 460-seat lower house of parliament have pledged support for legal separations in principle, the bill was defeated in mid-January.

Poland's Catholic Church. which grants 200 annulments annually, has backed the introduction of separation as an alternative for citizens unable to accept the dissolution of their marriages.

'Strengthen' law LONDON (CNS) - Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster has said the British government's proposals for divorce reform need strengthening.

Proposals being considered

by Parliament would allow couples to divorce after a 12month waiting period.

Under present law, effective since 1969, couples can be divorced within weeks if they claim adultery or unreasonable behaviour.

Archbishop out KINSHASA, Zaire (CNS) Zaire's interim parliament has dispensed with its speaker, the Catholic archbishop of Kisingani.

Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya denounced what he said was a desire among politicians to restore dictatorship in the Central African nation, which has been attempting a transition to democracy. The archbishop was regarded as a mediator and moderator.

Zimbabwe's gays HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNS) Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops have condemned any effort to harass, persecute and torture homosexuals in the country, where top government leaders have spoken and acted against homosexuals.

In a January 23 pastoral letter the bishops' said they want to "distance the Church from any attempts to institute a 'witchhunt' or hate campaign against persons with homosexual tendencies."

President Robert Mugabe faced international condemnation last year for calling homosexuals "perverts" with no rights and for threatening to throw them in jail.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church III. The three degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders 1554 "The divinely instituted

ecclesiastical ministry is exercised in different degrees by those who even from ancient times have been called bishops, priests, and deacons." Catholic doctrine, expressed in the liturgy, the Magisterium, and the constant practice of the Church, recognises that there are two degrees of ministerial participation in the priesthood of Christ: the episcopacy and the prosbyterate. The diaconate is intended to help and serve them. For this reason the term sacerdos in current usage denotes bishops and priests but not deacons. Yet Catholic doctrine teaches that the degrees of priestly participation (episcopate and presbyterate) and the degree of service (diaconate) are all three conferred by

a sacramental act called "ordination," that is, by the sacrament of Holy Orders: Let everyone revere the deacons as Jesus Christ, the bishop as the image of the Father, and the presbyters as the senate of God and the assembly of the apostles. For without them one cannot speak of the Church.

Episcopal ordination fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders

"Amongst those various offices which have been exercised in the Church from the earliest times the chief place, according to the witness of tradition, is held by the function of those who, through their appointment to the dignity and responsibility of bishop, and in virtue consequently of the unbroken succession going back to the beginning, are regarded as transmitters of the apostolic line."

1556 To fulfil their exalted mission, "the apostles were endowed 1555

by Christ with a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming upon them, and by the imposition of hands they passed on to their auxiliaries the gift of the Spirit, which is transmitted down to our day through episcopal consecration."

The Second Vatican Council "teaches . . . that the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders is conferred by episcopal consecration, that fullness namely which, both in the liturgical tradition of the Church and the language of the Fathers of the Church, is called the high priesthood, the acme (summa) of the sacred ministry."

1557

1558 "Episcopal consecration

confers, together with the office of sanctifying, also the offices of teaching and ruling.... In fact ... by the imposition of hands and through the words of the consecration, the grace of the Holy Spirit is given, and a sacred char-

acter is impressed in such wise that bishops, in an eminent and visible manner, take the place of Christ himself, teacher, shepherd, and priest, and act as his representative (in Eius persona agant)." "By virtue, therefore, of the Holy Spirit who has been given to them, bishops have been constituted true and authentic teachers of the faith and have been made pontiffs and pastors."

1559 "One is constituted a mem-

ber of the episcopal body in virtue of the sacramental consecration and by the hierarchical communion with the head and members of the college." The character and collegial nature of the episcopal order are evidenced among other ways by the Church's ancient practice which calls for several bishops to participate in the consecration of a new bishop.

In our day, the lawful ordination of a bishop requires a special intervention of the Bishop of Rome, because he is the supreme

visible bond of the communion of the particular Churches in the one Church and the guarantor of their freedom.

1560 As Christ's vicar, each bish-

op has the pastoral care of the particular Church entrusted to him, but at the same time he bears collegially with all his brothers in the episcopacy the solicitude for all the Churches: "Though each bishop is the lawful pastor only of the portion of the flock entrusted to his care, as a legitimate successor of the apostles he is, by divine institution and precept, responsible with the other bishops for the apostolic mission of the Church."

1561 The above considerations

explain why the Eucharist celebrated by the bishop has a quite special significance as an expression of the Church gathered around the altar, with the one who represents Christ, the Good Shepherd and Head of his Church, presiding.

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CHRISTIAN MEDITATION RETREAT DAY

ELLIOTT & ELLIOTT

THE PARISSCENE

Saturday 17th February 9.30am to 4pm Servite Priory, 2 Morgans Street, Tuart Hill

Optometrists Contact Lens Consultants 4 Cantonment Street, FREMANTLE Phone 335 2602

Guest Speaker: Sr Marie Therese Ryder RNDM

"Contemplation in everyday life'

BETHEL PRAYER MEETING The Bethel Friday night prayer meeting starts for 1996 on February 9 at 8pm at the Bethel Centre, 236 Railway Pde, West Leederville, opposite the Leederville Railway station.

Join our charismatic song and praise and fellowship to deepen your faith. Inquiries Ph: 388 1333

All are welcome.

Donation $7. BYO Lunch. Coffee/Tea provided.

Inquiries: Christian Meditation Centre Phone 444 5810 Meditation Sessions: Servite Priory Tuart Hill Mondays 1,00pm and 7.30pm

PRIVATISATION OF PRISONS AND THE DEATH PENALTY Two critical issues facing Christians in WA. Workshop/Seminar Saturday 17 February, 8.30am-6pm, Christian Centre for Social Action, 44 Denis St, Subiaco.

Presentations by Paul Moyle, author and lecturer; Sr Bernadine Daly RSM and Rev Neville Watson. There will be time for discussions and open forum, with a view to establishing two working groups to take action on these issues.

Cost $15, concession 510.

Please bring your own lunch.

Tea/coffee provided.

Sponsored by the Catholic Social Justice Commission and Christian Centre for Social Action. To register your the phone attendance Commission on 325 1212 or the Centre on 381 2474.

Traditional quality service chaffeur driven

Rolls Royces and Mercedes Benz Call us on Phone and Fax 330 5908 Mobile 015 988 970, Home 339 4264

THE CATHOLIC EDUCATION COMMISSION 01 WESTERN AUSTRALIA ites applications for the position of

PRINCIPAL Infant Jesus School Infant Jesus School, Morley is a co-educational school catering for 525 students from Pre-primary to Year 7. The school is operating the First Steps program and is running a very successful environmental program. The children are also taught Italian.

A building program. which includes the reno‘auun of the Year 1 classroom, library extensions, administration area and an undercover area should be completed this term.

The Parish and school are very supportive of each other and parent involvement is encouraged.

The successful applicant will be expected to take up the position at the beginning of Term 2, 1996.

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.

School Personnel Team, Ph. (09) 388 4268.

Official application forms should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office of WA, PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6903 and be lodged

by Monday. 12 February 1996.

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NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country clients welcome. Phone or write.

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WORLD DAY OF THE SICK The world day of the sick feast of Our Lady of Lourdes will be celebrated on Monday, February 12, at the Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation, Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook.

There will be reconciliation at 10.30am, followed by Holy The Mass at 11.00am.

Sacrament of the Sick will be immediately administered after Mass. All are welcome.

Public transport is available on Bus route 311. For further enquiries please phone : 444 Sacri 2285 or 447 3292.

Association PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060.

APOSTLES OF CHRIST CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP 11th anniversary and foundation night will be held on Wednesday 14 February 1996, 7pm.

Please bring a plate with something on it. John Paul Centre, Pintree Gully Rd, Willetton. Party to celebrate our 11th anniversary. All welcome.

ALAN AT KELMSCOTT The Good Shepherd Church Ave, parish, 40 Streich Kelmscott will host a talk to be given by Alan Ames on his conversion experiences, after Benediction at 7pm, Friday 9 February.

The evening will conclude with healing. All welcome.

Enq: Michael 459 1256, Russel 274 6018.

MERCEDES COLLEGE 150TH ANNIVERSARY COCKTAIL PARTY ex -students of For all Mercedes College, Our Lady's College, St Joseph's High School and Havelock Street primary school to be held on 17 March 1996 at Mercedes College.

Call Lorraine MacPherson on 325 3205 for details and tickets.

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Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace, given to Marija, on January 25th, 1996 Dear Children!

Today I invite you to decide for peace.

Pray that God give you the true peace.

Live peace in your hearts and you will understand, dear children, that peace is the gift of God. Dear children, without love you cannot live peace. The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness.

I am with you and I invite all of you, little children, that before all else forgive in the family and then you will be able to forgive others.

Thank you for responding to my call.

(It is accepted that the final authority regarding apparitions rest with the Holy See of Rome)

NAGLE CATHOLIC COLLEGE Geraldton Nagle Catholic College is a co-educational Catholic secondary boarding school which was established in 1994 following the amalgamation of Stella Mans College and St Patrick's College. The current enrolment. from Year 8 to Year 12 is approximately 700 students.

The Principal invites applications from enthusiastic and suitably qualified and experienced teachers of

SCIENCE Ability to teach Physics and/or Physical Science would be an advantage.

Ideally, the applicant will commence duties at the beginning of Term 1.

Written applications, clearly indicating the qualifications, experience and other qualities which would make the applicant a suitable person for appointment, should include a comprehensive curriculum vitae and name two current professional referees.

Applications should be sent as soon as possible: they should be addressed to: The Principal Nagle Catholic College Box 97

GERALDTON 6531

Think CARPET! Think Peter RINEY 242 1002 AH 446 6238

DIAL-A-CARPET 504 Charles St, North Perth (opposite Charles Hotel)

Carpets for home, school, church and office.

THE CATHOLIC EDUCATION COMMISSION Of. WESTERN AUSTRALIA invites applications for the position of

PRINCIPAL St Mary's College, Broome St Mary's College. Broome commenced operations at the beginning of 1995 as a result of the amalgamation of St Mary's School and Nulungu Catholic College.

The College caters for approximately 370 students from Pre-primary to Year 12.

The primary component is double stream to Year 5; primary programs include the Transition Program.

FELIKS. First Steps. and the Perceptual Motor Program. Specialist teachers are involved in ESL, Music, Drama/Dance and Special Needs, Physical Education. A Liaison Officer is also involved.

The secondary component. Years 8-12. is single stream and offers education for students in the Broome township and nearby areas. There is a vertical timetable in operation which caters for students with special needs as well as the academically gifted.

The primary and secondary components of the College are on separate campuses and are within walking distance of each other. The philosophy of education adopted in Catholic Schools in the Kimberley region embraces -Two Way Learning". It acknowledges and respects all cultures.

The Principal will require a strong pastoral care focus, some knowledge and understanding of social work and remedial techniques. multi-cultural / Aboriginal experience and exhibit a communityminded approach. A working knowledge of both primary and secondary schools would be essential.

The successful applicant will be expected to take up the position at the beginning of Semester 2, 1996. A period of introduction would be expected for a person unfamiliar with the Kimberley region.

St Luke's College, Karratha St Luke's College was established in 1987 and is a coeducational school catering for approximately 211 students in Years 8-12. These students come from Karratha, Dampier, Roebourne and Wickham.

The school is a fully established modern campus with excellent facilities. A considerable emphasis has been given to Post Compulsory Schooling needs with the College being the first non government school to adopt the INSTEP program.

Karratha is a modern resource town of 10,000 people located in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.

The successful applicant will be expected to take up the position at the beginning of Term 2, 1996.

Applicants will he actively involved in the Catholic Church and he 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, School Personnel Matn. Ph. (09) 388 4268.

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

12 February /996.

Catholic schools are smoke-free workplaces.