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Perth: August 29, 1996
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WA Catholic students keep up art tradition 1
Principal of Santa Maria, Frank Owen, Art Teacher Thelma Gunning and Angelico winner Kather,:,--: an Co, e ine Gier in front of her painting at the awards last Monday.
No, the Blues Brothers have not been cloned. These are students from Orana Catholic Primary School Choir performing the Kazoo Concerto during the Choral Festival of the Performing Arts Festival at Trinity College last week. Photo: CEO/Bnan Coyne
Ten students from Catholic colleges have taken out awards in the 1996 Angelico Art Exhibition opened last Monday by ViCar General Monsignor Michael Keating at the Banlcwest Tower. The first prize was shared between a painter and a sculptor: !Catherine Gier - a Year 12 student at Santa Maria College, Attadale - won with her painting eI,ntitled I I FlJ My Place, and Anita Suvaljko - a Year 12 student at Kolbe Catholic College. Rockingham - won with her three dimensional work enlitled Repulsive Sylph.
Pregnancy help centre open soon By Peter Rosengren
The crisis counselling service offering pro-life counselling to women uncertain whether to continue with their pregnancies, foreshadowed by Archbishop Barry Hickey in April will begin its work next month, the Archbishop announced this week. To be Icnown simply as Preg-
nancy Assistance, the service will operate out of premises provided by the archdiocese in Lord street, East Perth, and will be run by trained pro-life cotmsellors, 16 of whom are currently in training. The Pregnancy Assistance service replaces the archdiocesan Centrware welfare agency's work in pregnancy counselling after the agency decided to discontinue its work in that fieM earlier this year. A co-ordinator, Anne-Marie Langdon, has already been appointed to oversee the training of counsellors and the administration of the new service. And while it will primarily do whatever it can to help girls or
women who are uncertain about moting the well being and dignitheir pregnancy, or do not want to ty of both mother and child in a continue their pregnancy, it also caring and professional manner." aims to help men whose wives or Initially, 15 voltutteers will staff girlfriends are in the same situa- the telephones and counsel tion. women on a 9-5, Monday to Pregnancy Assistance will also day basis, with the possibility of a provide moral support and prac- 24-hour. seven-days-a-week sertical help to women in need dur- vice later. ing their pregnancy and after Miss Langdon asked for childbirth including providing Catholics to support the new maternity clothes, childminding, body. Help would be needed in nappies, furniture such as cots, many areas, including volunteers and other child-rearing materials. interested in being trained as Apart from premises and tele- counsellors, providing follow-up phone equipment supplied by the support to women, or helping archdiocese, Pregnancy Assis- with duties such as childminding, tance will rely on donations of goI. ds and services from mem- handyman work or repairing secbers of the public to furnish the ond-hand baby furniture. The new service will base its building and to provide suitable counselling practices on princisurroundings for the work of its ples outlined by Archbishop staff. Archbishop Hickey said this Hickey as necessary for an agency week he was delighted that a new operating under Catholic auspices. These include: service has been established. • providing information about He said on-going supervision would be provided to ensure the reality of human life in the counselling was always carried womb and the consequences of out in a sensitive professional abortion on the unborn child as manner and within the parame- well as the possible effects on the mother; ters of Catholic teaching. • undertaking counselling in The new service promotes itself as being "unambiguously pro-life accordance with the Magisterium [and] totally committed to pro- of the Church, in particular the
The Exhibition was judged by Ms Marlene Stafford of the Stafford Galleries in Cottesloe and artist, Ms Rebecca Cool. Mgr Keating reminded the stITdents, teachers and parents present of the example set by Fra Angelico in using art to explore and express the deeper meaning of life. He noted that while the Angelico Exhibition was not an exhibition of religious art, nevertheless, some of the students had thosen to explore religious themes.
encyclicals Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae, • referral of women, wherever possible, to other pro-life agencies and Catholic health professionals; and • refusal to refer women to organisations Icnown to be linked to the provision of abortion or which advocate the use of abortifacients. Miss Langdon said the service would also provide free pregnancy testing as well as post-abortion counselling, she said. "While we can judge the act of abortion as wrong, we can never judge a woman who has had an abortion," Miss Langdon said. "VVe can offer post-abortion grief counselling in a non-judgmental and caring environment" All calls to the service would be completely confidential. Archbishop Hickey also said that discussions about a Catholic women's health care centre were continuing. "It will be .. . . a clear sign that the special medical concerns of women are clearly recognised within the Catholic health care services," he said. Anne-Marie interview - Page 9
Cathedral packed for Pilgrim Statue - Page 3
'Prayer before programs' The Archbishop of Perth. Archbishop Baffy Hickey. has called on Catholics in the archdiocese of Perth to remember that prayer and belief in the saving power of Jesus Christ are the major weapons to overcome evil and lead people to God. Writing in this week's Perspective coltunn on Page 2 of The Record, the archbishop forces us to remember that it is God who saves, not our plans and programs. "We must resist the temptation to adopt the ways of the world in solving the spiritual challenges before us," he said while reminding Catholics also that devotion to Mary, the Mother of God is a sure way to avoid this pitfall. "It would be easy to think that we could solve the question of vocations to the priesthood, or the return of faraway Catholics or the renewal of the liturgy by programmes, slcills, training, publicity and money," he said. -These things may be needed, but without prayer, they I.come techniques that we borrow from the ways of the world, and will be inadequate for matters that are essentially spiritual."
Cardinal launches women study - Page 2