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o change to faith and morals: Archbishop known as Christ's disciples by our love for one another, and we have given scandal to Archbishop Barry Hickey last believer and unbeliever alike. "As Church we have been too inward Wednesday rejected any suggestion that the Catholic Church would be looking, too exclusively concerned for ourchanging any of its official teaching on selves and our membership and too little faith and morals in the aftermath of committed to the mission Christ gave us to Pope John Paul It's request this Sunday reach out to the whole world. "While we must never refrain from teachfor pardon for the sins of individual ing the truth of Jesus Christ, no matter how members of the Church. challenging it may be, we have often been The Archbishop was responding to an wanting in compassion and sensitivity." the editorial and front page story in the West bishops said. Australian the same day that failed to The release of the Australian bishop's distinguish between the holiness of the short statement was meant to coincide with Church as the Mystical Body of Christ - the release in Rome of the 19,000 docuwhich includes the teachings guaran- ment of the Vatican's International Theoteed by the Holy Spirit - and the failings logical Commission on the Church and the and sins of individual Catholics. faults of the past. "The Church is not apologising for one The Vatican document (See excerpts on second for its teachings but for the human Page 12 of this issue of The Record) is the failings of its members, of its leaders," Arch- basis on which Pope John Paul will ask for bishop Hickey told The Record. pardon for the sins and failings of individTeachings such as the ban on women's ual Catholics. ordination were "not going to change," he At a press conference to release the Vatisaid. can document, two cardinals said that ask"We cannot do that" but the Church could ing forgiveness for the sins committed by ask for pardon the things individual Catholics in the name of the Church was Catholics had done for "the unintended an exercise in truth. consequences" of their actions. Like the people of Israel in the Psalms, The West Australian was reporting on the release late on Tuesday evening of the Aus- Christians must acknowledge that they tralian Catholic Bishops' statement of have had "a history of rebellion, of sin and of failures," said Cardinal Joseph Ratz1nger, repentance (See Page 2). "Those in the Church with the greatest prefect of the Congregation for the Docauthority bear the greatest responsibility trine of the Faith. "We confess this not in order to condemn but all members of the Church have reason to repent and ask forgiveness," the bish- others or to set ourselves up as a tribunal over others, but to know ourselves and to ops said. ".... We have failed to live and reflect the open ourselves to the purification of memories and to our true renewal," he said. Gospel as we should. "We have often failed to make ourselves Continued on Page 10

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Prayer, planning 'key to winning pro-life struggle'

Atchbishop Hickey joins prolifers outside the abortion clinic last Saturday. Photos Peter Roserr•

By Peter Roseagren 1Wo years after the abortion debate convulsed Western Australia. Catholic prolife campaigners continued their lonely vigil against the killing of unborn children in Belmont last Saturday morning. Archbishop Barry Hickey urged the fifty or so campaigners onwards, telling them he was with them that morning to support them in their pleading to almighty God on behalf of unborn children and their mothers. He was also with them in their efforts to warn the world of the terrible mistake it Is making in sacrificing unborn lives. As he spoke at an 8.30am Mass in St Anne's Church, Belmont, other Catholics and Christians were praying outside the Belmont abortion clinic just two kilometres away, approaching women entering or leaving the clinic and handing out prayer cards which contained Miraculous Medals. After Mass, Archbishop Hickey led the congregation in a procession to the clinic. Earlier, the Archbishop urged worshippers to continue to make themselves available for women who may, at the last moment change their minds in favour of life. Abortion was an intensely spiritual matter as most of the world's ills are, he said. Those who fought for life lived in the midst of a re-flowering of paganism, characterised by such things as the rise of witchcraft, the advance of homosexual practice, war and the tragedy of abortion. "All harm the human race because they go against the plan of God and against

Archbishop Hickey leads the pro-life march.

our human nature," he said, adding "So we are here for a very spiritual purpose." He pointed out that prayer was essential in the fight for life. "It's one thing to plan, to minister, to campaign," he said. "But it's another to pray. The two must go together." He called on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, "to be with the mothers [considering abortion] to touch their hearts and minds so they will turn away from the terrible thing they are contemplating and change their minds." Continued on Page 11

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he holy season of Lent began a few days ago on Ash Wednesday. That day marked the beginning of the penitential period of forty days of intense preparation for Holy Week and Easter. On Wednesday our heads were marked with ashes, obtained from burning the palms used at the Palm Sunday ceremony last year. The ashes were a stark reminder of our mortality and the need we all have to do penance for our sins. Let us take this Lent seriously. We cannot hope to gain the spiritual benefits of this penitential season if nothing changes in our lives. We need to do something posi-

tive about personal penance. We need to discipline ourselves in some way that is meaningful to us.

The Church now leaves it to the individual to choose an appropriate penance, obliging us to fast and abstain from meat on only two occasions, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Apart from self-discipline and personal penance, we are also to act in a positive way to deepen our spiritual lives. We are to make more time for prayer. I would like to suggest that we adopt the practice of what is called "lectio divina" or prayerful praying of the Holy Scriptures. This is an ancient custom of tak-

ing a passage from the Scriptures, perhaps the Readings for next week's Mass, reading them slowly, reflecting on them, and opening oneself up to the action of the Holy Spirit in a way that leads to closer communion with God in prayer. It is not Scripture study, nor hermeneutics, nor exegesis, nor any other form of intellectual approach to the Scriptures. One reads them prayerfully with the openness and simplicity of a child. Lent is also a time when we are encouraged to be generous with our time, our friendship, our compassion, our goods and our money. Giving is the Christian way of receiving far more than we give,

pressed down and overflowing, as Jesus promised. This week, see below, the Bishops of Australia have expressed regret for not fully living up to the demands of the Gospel. We all need to do that. In many ways we have hampered the spread of the Gospel through our selfishness, our readiness to compromise the truth, and our unwillingness to go that extra mile. We have qualified our commitment to follow Christ. Lent is a wonderful opportunity for us to admit our faults, to seek absolution in the Sacrament of Penance, and to move forward joyfully to greet the Risen Lord at Easter.

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Introduction: Since the Church is made up of human beings, it is always vulnerable to sin and error. While the Jubilee Year is one of gratitude, rejoicing and hope, it is also an occasion to examine our conscience and ask forgiveness for past failings. Those in the Church with the greatest authority bear the greatest responsibility but all members of the Church have reason to repent and ask forgiveness. In uniting ourselves with Pope John Paul's statement of repentance on behalf of the Universal Church. we, the Catholic Bishops of Australia speak in particular for the Local Church.

In General: We have failed to live and reflect the Gospel as we should. We have often

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many people suffered serious harm. In communicating the Church's teaching on marriage and sexuality, we have too often lacked compassion and understanding. The Church has not been sufficiently alert to the needs of particular groups, such as women, youth and migrants.

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By Peter Rosengren Caritas Australia, the Catholic Church's agency for overseas aid and development, has announced it will try and raise $1.5 million from Sydney companies and individuals over the next six weeks. The figure is part of its national Project Compassion drive, which has a target of $5 million. The Project Compassion Appeal was launched on Tuesday in Canberra by former Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer. The agency said that the Sydney target is urgently required to meet pressing international projects such as "enormous relief efforts in East Timor," assistance to communities devastated by floods in Mozambique, helping Rwandans rebuild their lives and the rebuilding of infrastructure in Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, Caritas has stepped in to train East Timorese to collect evidence for prosecution of war crimes, saying UN efforts are inadequate. Among the reasons given by Caritas for running the program were its criticism of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Continued - Page 6

ursing home crisis: 'not in WA' Catholic Homes Inc has been operating since 1972. "We have done very well in gaining accreditation for three years," he said. It has taken a lot of time, effort and expense for facilities to put their staff through these pro-

By Glynnis Grainger There was no general crisis in West Australian nursing homes, but there was one in staffing, according to the executive director of Southern Cross Aged Care, Stuart Flynn. "We are trying to meet the new standards for the provision of facilities since the 1997 changes took place," he told The Record this week. With the bad publicity recently for nursing homes, families were feeling anxious, concerned and guilty, Mr Flynn said. Certification came in 1997 to ensure the basic structure of the buildings was adequate and there was now an accreditation system. "There are a lot of checks and balances," he said. Southern Cross Aged Care is building a new facility in Shelley with single rooms with ensuites and closing the one in Maylands, where there were some four-bed rooms. "We have to upgrade - four people in a room won't be acceptable in the future," he said. The Knights of the Southern Cross have chosen aged care as their main activity and are behind the organisation. 'The terms 'hostel' and 'nursing home' are going out of use and the new term is 'residential care'," Mr Flynn said. "We have a crisis in attracting registered nurses, and there is a high usage of agency nurses. The biggest problem we have is recruiting and retaining registered nurses. It is difficult to get them for full-time permanent work - they would like to pick the shifts. 'In e. .ed care, wages for nurses are about 10 per cent less than in hospitals. "I think the standard of care of old people is the same; we haven't seen any diminution.

Brian Ryan is cared for by Sr Margaret a Little Sister of the Poor, at the SisPhot,;, Glynn,s 3rainger ters' Glendalough nursing home and hostel.

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"We have seven facilities all accredited for three years," he said. "We haven't seen any number of complaints from people since these reforms came in .... we are our own biggest critics - most people are pretty happy." Mr Flynn said that only six per cent of all people will ever need to go into a nursing home or hostel and 94 per cent will be cared for at home.

There are eight levels of need with level 1 the highest, paying $101 a day from the Commonwealth Government, and level 8 the lowest. "There are going to be mistakes made," Mr Flynn said. "People are worried if they complain they will be penalised. "In the past, the Government would give you money to build a facility." "Our biggest means of raising money is to clear land and build villas first and then residential care facilities." "It is going to be harder to get into residential care - in 10 years' time people will not go into residential care. People will be cared for in the community." Catholic Homes chief executive Peter Dudley said the accreditation process had been welcomed by the industry. "But its impact is putting a great workload on the industry."

A new school year means a new school name - and a new parish Church too For the primary children in Yangebup, the Great Jubilee will have special memories because their school changed its name from MacKillop Catholic Primary School to Mater Christi School, the name that has recently been given to their parish. Recently the students were given another special memory when one of the largest crane trucks in the State arrived at their school to lift the walls of the sanctuary for their new parish church into place. Some of the students are pictured, at right, along with Parish Priest, Fr Bryan Rosling, School Principal, Greg Stinton, Pastoral Assistant, Sr Emmanuel Crocetti, and teacher, Trish Daniels, as the third of the walls for the new sanctuary were lifted into place. Eventually the sanctuary walls seen in the photo will he crowned with a spire five and a half stories high. The new Mater Christi Parish Church is built at the front of the school and will be dedicated later this year. Also undergoing a name change in the same area has been Beeliar Catholic College, a new secondary school that opened last year. From the beginning of TermI this year the College has finally moved into its own new campus on the corner of Beeliar Drive and Hammond Road. The new College now also has its permanent name as Emmanuel Catholic College.

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New chaplain for Perth's Indonesian Catholics By Peter Rosengren

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A new chaplain for the Indonesian Catholic Community in Perth has arrived and will begin celebrating weekly Mass in Indonesian. Father Budi Agustreono, 30, a priest from the central Java diocese of Purwokerto, will celebrate the Mass in Indonesian every Sunday at 11.30am at St Benedict's Church in Applecross. Part of the reason for his arrival in Perth, Archdiocesan Vicar for Migration, Fr Adrian Pittarello, told The Record, was the concern the Indonesian Catholic community in Perth had at the proselytising of Indonesian Catholic students studying at university here. Proselytism - the effort to convert Christians from their own denomination to another - on campus had been a significant factor in Fr Agustreono's appointment as a chaplain. "It seems some students [were being approached and] have been leaving the Catholic Church to go to other denominations," Fr Pittarello said. But this is not the

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ing Fr Agustreono and helping him get established," he said. Fr Agustreono said there were approximately 72,000 Catholics in his own diocese in Java. There had been some conflict between Christians and Muslims there but not as much as in other areas of Indonesia such as Ambon and the Moluccas, he said. In his own diocese, other Christians had taken Catholics into their own homes or churches to defend them from Muslim attacks. However, proselytisation was also occurring in some of these cases as well, he said. Fr Agustreono said that just how difficult life was for Christians in Indonesia in their relations with Muslim neighbours usually depended on which Islamic faction predominated in their area. Four factions, ranging from the tolerant one to which Indonesian President Wahid belongs, to the Islamic fundamentalist school of thought, exist throughout the country. Fr Agustreono can be contacted on 0401 155 112.

Illegal migration laws attract church criticism des' said that formerly, a protection visa

spokesman said the Issue at the heart of automatically resulted in permanent res- the matter was that those who attempt The Australian Catholic Social Justice idence, provision of settlement services, illegal entry are not putting in claims for Council and the Australian Catholic health, medical and social security ben- resettlement as refugees to the United Migrant and Refugee Office have jointly efits and entitlement to family reunion, Nations High Commission on Refugees, making it impossible to work out released a position paper on 'people the paper said. However the new system of temporary whether their claims have a high priorismuggling.' The paper is critical of what it called visas, renewable after three years, cre- ty. He said the new measures helped dis"punitive" measures in new federal rules ates an unstable situation for vulnerable courage the 'pull' factors which attracted against those who arrive in Australia people, they said. According to the two agencies, under Illegal immigrants by denying them the without authority in order to seek asythe three-year temporary visa system all full range of services open to those who lum. It calls for an expanded humanitarian people arriving in Australia without Australia accepted as refugees. The reason for the new measures, he program to provide more places within authority are initially placed in detensaid, was that many illegal immigrants in Australia's immigration program for tion. Those with successful refugee claims recent times had been unaccompanied those who are forced to flee desperate are granted the temporary visa which young males seeking to establish themsituations abroad. However a spokesman for Immigration only allows them access to Medicare and selves here and then bring their families out. Minister Philip Ruddock told The Record Special Benefits. Australia was still meeting its protecHowever, they have no access to Engthe new measures are designed to prevent those using people smugglers from lish language training and only limited tion obligations by not sending illegal making other refugees in desperate cir- access to government settlement ser- Immigrants back to meet persecution: it was simply denying them the full range cumstances from missing out on their vices. "The punitive nature of these measures of services available to others. chance to come to Australia by taking • The National Council of Churches is clear, with tough restrictions preventtheir places. Australia has one of the most generous ing family reunion, including spouse and and the ACMRO are inviting schools and resettlement programs per capita for children, and with no automatic right of youth groups to enter the Refugee Sunreturn if they should leave Australia." day Poster design competition with the refugees in the world, he said. "Our concern is that if people smug- the paper said. winning poster to be used on Refugee glers dictate who comes here, those peoAlthough those with temporary visas Sunday, 27 August this year. A prize of ple we'd normally resettle - their places are allowed in theory to find work, in $100 will go to the winning entrant. would be stolen by those who use organ- reality it would be difficult to do so, the The ACMRO can be contacted on (02) ised crime," he said. The Catholic agen- paper argued. But Mr Ruddock's 6201 9848. By Peter Rosengren

Close to 100 students from Aquinas College in Manning gathered to donate their time and energy to cleaning their environment in the lead up to the national Clean Up Australia Day last Friday. As the weekend was the Labour Day long weekend, school officially closed at 1pm. This made for perfect timing for the clean-up at Aquinas as it does not interfere with the curriculum. All the students who remained behind were volunteers, giving up their time to help clean up litter from the Mount Henry Peninsula, bushland and foreshore surrounding the Aquinas property. This year's effort included a student scuba-diving team working under the Mount Henry Bridge plus Iwo aluminium dinghies to ferry students (and rubbish) to and from the foreshore. Past hauls have included items such as shopping trollies, roadwork signs and rusted bicycle wheels. Volunteers always have a great time dying to outdo each other with the largest and strangest piece of rubbish they can find.

only reason for Fr Agustreono's arrival, he said. Whenever any Indonesian priest had visited Perth on previous occasions the Indonesian corrununity had always been keen to acquire his services for ministry to Indonesian Catholics in general here, he said. Fr Agustreono told The Record he would also extend his chaplaincy activities to visiting families, arranging meetings with young Indonesian adults, visiting jails and the aged, among other areas. He will be available for Reconciliation, baptisms, weddings and funerals like any other chaplain, he said. Fr Pittarello said the Indonesian Mass which began in August last year every third Sunday of the month at 5pm in St Brigid's Church, West Perth, would now cease. But the Mass celebrated every Friday evening in the parish of Bateman by Fr Peter Whitely would continue, he said. Fr Pittarello said Fr Whitely, who has been a chaplain to the Indonesian Catholic community, would continue in the role on a parttime basis. "Fr Whitely has been fantastic in welcom-

NDA parades through Freo' streets Celtic genius The streets of Fremantle came alive on Thesday, 22 February, when more than 600 students and academics from the University of Notre Dame Australia paraded down High Street to the University for a commencement ceremony. Distinguished guests at the ceremony Included the Federal Member for Fremantle, Dr Carmen Lawrence, the State Member for Fremantle, Ms Barbara Scott, and Benedict Taylor, an elder of the Nyungar people, who, as a traditional landowner, welcomed the procession onto the sacred soil of Fremantle. After a short liturgy and official speeches from the Provost of the University, Professor Greg Craven, president of the Student Executive, Amanda Sapienza, and Vice-Chancellor, Dr Peter Tannock, the first-year students were invited to sign the official book of new students. The parade aims to show the University's position as the only "town university" in Australia, and is the first time in the year that the whole university is on show. On Monday, 28 February, about 60 senior students from Catholic metropolitan schools attended a seminar for head boys and girls and student councillors at the university. The leadership day was designed to give students an insight into what leadership is

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Students at the annual leadership day at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

all about. They examined the concept of "shared leadership" with the director of the Edmund Rice Centre, Professor Peter Harney. This was followed by a sharing session with Associate Professor Martin Philpott, coordinator of counselling at Notre Dame. The final session was in the form of a panel of leading University staff and the students quizzed them on their leadership skills and their ability to deal with leadership problems. The University, in collaboration with the Catholic Education Office, hopes to make the day an annual event.

Copies of the famous Book of Kells are on display in the Alexander Library and in the lobby of the Burswood Casino Hotel all this month. The displays have been arranged by the AustralianIrish Heritage Association as part of the celebrations for the Festival of St Patrick. whose feastday is on 17 March. Currently exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia, the Book of Kells is some 1200 years old and contains the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, written and decorated on vellum - high quality calfskin - in Latin text. It is beautifully illustrated with the most intricate and exquisite Celtic art. This is an opportunity for WA people unable to get to Canberra to look at the timeless beauty of a magnificent manuscript. - G. Grainger

Wheatbelt farmers pay parish dues in kind By Glynnis Grainger City slickers may not have heard of a farmers' crop donation scheme to all parishes in the wheatbelt which raised almost $1 million last season. A spokesman for Cooperative Bulk Handling said 7000 tonnes were donated to the Catholic Church at the end of 1999/2000 and the Wheat Board Ltd said the price per tonne for the Church was $130 inland or $140 near a port. The total raised was at least $910,000. Some wheatbelt parishes such as Lake Grace, raise as much as $20,000 a year from the sale of tonnes of wheat, barley and sometimes lupins, donated by farmers to the parishes. The money goes towards the dayto-day running expenses of the parishes, including the running of the parish priest's car. Father Bernie Dwyer, of Lake Grace parish, said that he knew that without it the parish wouldn't function. "We use it for the maintenance of the parish and (the amount of money) depends on the season." he told The Record. Father Ian Johnson, who used to be at Lake Grace, said so much of the load is given to the Church through Cooperative Bulk Handling. "When you have a good number of farmers in the scheme, it kept us going in the hard times," he said. "Some of them are very generous in that regard - we used to keep a

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On the feastday of St Kieran, last Sunday, Father Michael Gaff was inducted by Archbishop Barry Hickey into St Kieran's Church at the Osborne Park parish. A parish spokesman said the induction took place during a Mass concelebrated by the Archbishop and Fr Gaff, which was preceded by a procession. The procession, which included members of the Parish Pastoral Council, was led by its chairman, Paul Lynch. Readings were delivered by parish Priest of St Kieran's parish in Osborne the Mayor of the City of Stirling, Fr Gatt is inducted as the new Park by Archbishop Barry Hickey last Sunday. Tony Vallelonga, and Dr Paul Psaila-Savona. formally handed to Fr Gall by of an orchestra, brings all Symbols of his pastoral min- Archbishop Hickey, signifying together within his parish. istry, including the Book of the the transfer of responsibility of Fr Gat has set up a parish Holy Scriptures, Baptismal his new position. Internet website, on-line at Archbishop Hickey said that a www.angelfire.corn/wa2/sticierwater, blessed oil, keys of the total each year. You got advances - property and the Missal were parish priest, like the conductor an. you got a certain amount this year from the grain pool." Farmer Greg Joyce, of Kulcerin, said the scheme went back to the early 1950s, a statement backed up by his father Bernie, who was a farmer for 60 years and who has retired to Perth. "The main proportion of our (parish) fund-raising is the grain donation," Mr Joyce said. He said the weekly collection does not provide the regular cash flow for unng Lent. Caritas Australia's Project Compassion enables us to put our faith into action the parish. Normal fund-raising activities are in a very practical way. The work of Caritas Australia is about promoting a just and topped up with grain donations, compassionate society and delivering justice to the poor. It is time for us to help to build depending on the commodity prices. "When parishes had several proa better future, and make it a reality 'now' for so many living in poverty around the world. jects in the 1970s for various buildings, a grain drive was a great way to build up a bank account," he said. "CBH is the main handler of wheat, using a disc, like a Bankcard; the Australian Wheat Board Ltd handles wheat and some other grains, and the stock firms handle it as well." Farmer Jim Sullivan, who runs the Mariana is nine years old and lives in the Lake Varley store, said wheat donavillage of Fatunia. East Timor. During the tions were an easy money-earner for recent crisis, her community successfully the Church. He is on the Lake Grace parish protected their homes and crops from finance committee and handles the attack and managed to supply grain receivals and dockets. vegetables, from a Caritas project. to Bernie Joyce said the Kukerin, Lake Grace and Hopetoun churches were people in hiding - helping to keep them built with grain money, which paid alive. Life is slowly getting back to for the buildings.

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Looking for God? Seek the desert Fr Adrian Pittarello, Vicar for Migration, continues a series of reflections on the readings associated with the Lenten and Easter seasons

ent is a season of intense commitment to Christian life. The liturgy's readings present to us the main themes of Lent: • the purpose of Lent, that is, the reconciliation of human kind and of the whole creation, with God, (Gen 9:8-15), • the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ which we are preparing ourselves to celebrate; • baptism, through which we became participant of Christ's life and which many catechumens are preparing to receive on Easter night (11I 3,18-22); and the manner we are to sanctify this season (Mc 1,12-15). John's baptism marked for Jesus the official beginning of His public life. He receives endorsement from John, who prepared the people of Israel for his coming, and from God himself, who sends upon him the Holy Spirit and announces: "This is my beloved Son, Listen to him". But before He starts preaching, Jesus withdraws into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by Satan." In the history

With Fr Adrian Pittarello of salvation the desert is quite important and has a crucial role. Although God, through Moses, was leading the children of Israel to a land "where milk and honey flow," it was during the forty years that they wandered in the desert that God gave them His law and formed them as His people. It was in the desert that the Israelites responded most faithfully to God's love. In the desert they often experience shortages of food and water, they were threatened by snakes and faced many other dangers. It was in all these ways that they were tempted, making them wonder if God had forgotten and abandoned them. But, ultimately, the Israelites in the desert put all their trust in God. They realised that He was their only hope and their only salvation. Their

faith in Him became stronger. The desert is ideally the best place to encounter God, to listen to His voice, to know His will. This is why Jesus, too, withdraws into desert. For Jesus the desert is also a place of temptation. Such temptations were not to induce him into doing evil, but to help him to sort out God's will and to strengthen his faith in Him. By presenting to us the forty days of Jesus in the desert, the Church reminds us that Lent should be for us a time of also retreating into the desert. What desert? This is the challenge for anyone who really wants to make Lent a time of serious conunitment of Christian living. What kind of desert are we to move into? It must a desert where we are tempted. If we do not experience temptations, we are not really in the desert. Not that we have to seek temptations. They will be given to us, and they will be the sort that we least expect, and perhaps we would rather not face. But if we will overcome them, as Jesus did, we will be experiencing the salvation and liberation of Jesus' death and resurrection. And we will become "Good news" to those who are far from God.

To Jesus through Mary ... a column of Marian devotion By Glynnis Grainger

ruit-growers irom as far away as Donnybrook and all over the metropolitan area attended the Pilgrimage 2000 and annual Fruit Harvest Festival in honour of Our Lady of Grace, at Pickering Brook last Sunday. Held in the Catholic church grounds, a statue of Our Lady of Grace was carried by four men who led the 1000-strong, 2kilometre procession around the streets of Pickering Brook. It has traditionally been held on the Labour Day long weekend, since about 1956.

The Leederville Church Italian choir sang, conducted by Lucia Di Vincenzo, and the Perth City Band played for the The procession in hollow of Our Lady of Grace returns to the Church last Sunday. The Festiprocession. Archbishop Barry Hickey also took part val is held annually at Our Lady of Grace parish in Pickering Brook. Photo. Glynms Gidintier in the procession and concelebrated the said in his homily. "We do whatever He whether you have drifted along, and Mass with parish priest Fr Donal Madi- tells us; that is what Mary is saying to us." whether you have put the things of God gan and Fr John Cranley, from Kalamun"The Gospel is full of symbols and it first in this life. da parish. comes early on in the year. "It is a very solemn time and it is only Many ethnic groups were present, "Jesus is being revealed as the Messiah 40 days and yet the whole of our life's mainly Italians and Portuguese, repre- and the Son of God; revealed by the three journey is a time of change." Archbishop senting the fruit-growing industry, and Wise Men who came from the East. Hickey said. many came by bus from their various 'Jesus is revealed as our Saviour and "We have to open ourselves up to God's parishes. the One who came to save us. grace. Archbishop Hickey described the area "The change is from the Old Testament "Jesus would withdraw into a quiet as being "in God's garden" and said 'in into the New Testament place time and again to talk to the Father. the Gospel reading Mary is asking us to "Six stone jars were changed into wine. "When we have done wrong we seek follow and listen to what Jesus said. This Gospel talks about Jesus. the forgiveness of God and go to the "Mary went to Jesus at the wedding "It is not mainly about the wedding Sacrament of Penance. feast of Cana and and told Him to tell feast" The Archbishop said this week we "We should also seek the Sacrament of those in charge of the wedding to `do have Ash Wednesday which begins 40 the Eucharist and be more faithful daywhatever He tells you,'" the Archbishop days "to look deeply into yourselves, by-day to God."

Caritas call Historic ecumenical pact celebrated to Sydney Continued from Page 2 The agency announced its initiative last Friday. John-Scott Murphy, an advocacy adviser for Caritas Australia, said Mr Annan's decision to defer to Indonesian requests for those accused of perpetrating crimes to be tried under Indonesian law had placed an unnecessary delay in the process of justice. The co-ordinator of the program, Ms Lenita Florindo, was reported by Caritas as saying that 54 East Timorese have registered for the week-long course. Church news: Buy

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joint declaration which has been described as a "major triumph for ecumenism" has ended a dispute at the heart of one of Christianity's greatest schisms and brings to an end over 400 years of mutual condemnations and, at times, wars and persecutions. A central dispute during the Protestant Reformation was whether believers were justified and saved by grace alone or whether salvation required a combination of grace and good works. Dr Steicke said the Churches had reached "sufficient agreement to lift condemnations that have existed since the 1600s", that the two needed to bury their differences, to "agree before we could worship together." Cardinal Clancy said that many present Cardinal Clancy, left, and Or Stelae shake on the had lived long enough realise to that tension Joint Catholic-Lutheran Declaration. is often the result of entrenched misunderAbout 150 people joined with the leaders standings of real differences. He acknowledged that the signing was a of the Catholic and Lutheran churches in Australia last Friday to celebrate the the joint memorable event - "there are no grounds for Lutheran and Catholic Declaration on justi- conflict after four centuries of conflict" fication signed internationally last year. "Let us reflect on the great graces bestowed Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference on the two Churches, the hope and promise president, Cardinal Edward Clancy, and for every Christian tradition. God has Lutheran Church of Australia president Rev opened the way to achieve unity for all of us. Dr Lance Steicke, jointly led the service. The His people," he concluded.

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In the silence of Uluru, God's presence is very evident

With Penny Ashcroft

[AC is the acronym for Sit Long in Contemplation', the name of a discussion and sharing group within Young Vinnies. The phrase came to my mind several times over the past four days. I was in Central Australia visiting the "heart" of Australia, Mum. Adjectives like 'powerful' and 'spiritual' come to mind when I think of trying to describe this huge monolith. I have read that one can practice the presence of God everywhere. Anything that appeals to us because of its beauty, power or intricacy of design can lead to the thought of God and His wonderful work. I have found that to be true at different times in my life. Nowhere, I am sure, is this awareness more possible than Ayers Rock or its surrounds. There is a quiet stillness about the rock itself that permeates alL There are many sacred sites around its base which are held in reverence by the Anangu (loud Aboriginal people) and it is easy to be transported back in time through imagination to picture them living, being, in and around this huge rock in the middle of the desert. Once at Uluru, a deeper understanding of the importance of the place to the Aboriginal people is possible for those who wish to learn more about Aboriginal culture, and hence their deep connectedness to this particular part of our land. To that end, a decision was made by our group not to climb the rock, something that is discouraged by the Aboriginal people because of their spiritual connection with it. During our time there, it seemed to me that God was all about us, present in everything I saw. St Paul said. "in Him we live and move and have our being" it was for me an experience of His presence. I thought of Moses, who, because he was standing on holy ground, removed his shoes. We all felt overawed at various points on the trek around the base and stopped several times to "sit in contemplation." Even the wind, which was strong at times, and the occasional loud voice, could not destroy the inner peace and stillness felt while gazing at the sheer grandeur of the rock itself or sitting by a tranquil water hole surrounded by palms. It was hard to believe that such peaceful havens could exist in the middle of the desert. but nevertheless, they were there. It is in the stillness and silence of our hearts that we can truly experience God. We walked for over three hours and once back at the point at which we began our trek, none of us really wanted to leave. We chose to sit for a while longer. The Aborigines say "we want tourists to learn about our place, to listen to us, not just to look at the sunset, and to climb Uluru. . . . we will teach the tourist better." "We will teach them about the law, the creation period, teach them dancing, show them how we make woodcarving.... We are always saying 'welcome to Aboriginal land'." The poet Elizabeth Browning wrote "Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God". . . . God is very evident at Uluru. The Desert can be a lonely place, a place away from the hustle and bustle of city life. There we can find silence and solitude amidst stark beauty During Lent, a time of contemplation, of looking at our life, of coming back to God, a time of reconciliation, we might also contemplate the efforts being made to reconcile with the Aboriginal people. I feel fortunate to have had such a powerful experience of God's creation and will close with a quotation from a poster that my daughters gave their father andImany years ago. . . . "Lord, I see your power and majesty in the beauty of your creation, may it always be felt in my heart and seen in my life?

Mandatory gaol needed for restorative justice

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he tragedy of a young Aboriginal man's apparent suicide while in a juvenile offenders' detention centre in the Northern Territory is obvious. That he was in juvenile detention for relatively minor burglary offences adds to For the Catholic Church, gaol is recogthe tragedy. nised as a necessary last resort to protect As is well-known, the teenager was good in society and help, as much as the incarcerated for a non-negotiable term it can, to turn the offender to a moral life. after being convicted of an offence for the If there were no gaols, then the arguthird time. In the Territory, three convictions leads to automatic imprisonment, ment against capital punishment in modwhat is known as 'mandatory sentencing.' ern society loses one of its justifications: Critics of the current sentencing and without gaols, corporal punishment and prison regime in the Territory and in West- the death penalty would inevitably ern Australia have used the youth's tragic become the main way of protecting socideath as a rallying point for more cam- ety. As The Catechism of the Catholic paigning against the 'three-strikes-andChurch teaches (2267): you're-in' sentencing policy. "If bloodless means are sufficient to Generally, these activists are totally opposed to any law that gaols a person defend human lives against an aggressor without first considering the offender's and to protect public order and the safecircumstances and for reasons relevant ty of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better only to the conviction at hand. Anything else seems to smack of the correspond to the concrete conditions of imprisonment-without-trial attitude of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human pertotalitarian governments. Crime and punishment issues inevitably son." provoke passionate argument rather than In section 2266, it teaches that "the traa reasoned humanism. ditional teaching of the Church has Of course, no matter how unpopular its acknowledged as well-founded the right conclusions, right reason based in a true and duty of legitimate public authority to morality needs to prevail if society is punish malefactors by means of penalties escape a lynch mob mentality on one side commensurate with the gravity of the and an Irresponsible liberality that does crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme offenders and society no good on the gravity, the death penalty. . . . other. "The primary effect of punishment is to

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redress the disorder caused by the offence. "When his punishment is voluntarily accepted by the offender, it takes on the value of expiation. "Moreover, punishment has the effect of preserving public order and the safety of persons. "Finally, punishment has a medicinal value; as far as possible it should contribute to the correction of the offender." It is obvious for Christians and other people of good will that mercy should be shown in sentencing, especially for first time offenders and for those with diminished responsibility. But the offering of mercy also involves an unspoken contract that the offender will do all in their power not to offend again. We have to remember that it was Jesus, our Divine Saviour, who counselled the sick man He cured in the Temple with the words: —See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you.(St John 5:14)1

Society, under three-strikes-and-you'rein legislation, allows an offender to draw on social mercy twice - including a consideration of circumstances - to escape gaol for smaller offences.

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But it is against the interests of the offender, as well as the good order of society, if society does not draw a line in the sand and say: If you offend again, you will be automatically punished by gaoling. It is those most in danger of re-offending who, paradoxically, need the line in the sand. How else will they learn what is true and good when they have not taken advantage of two chances for restorative justice? It is said that gaol is not the place for repeat, small-time burglars, especially youth, as they will only learn more tricks of the burglary trade. Unfortunately, it seems that a repeat offender already knows how to offend. Certainly, adolescent offenders should not be sent to adult gaols, and that is what juvenile detention centres are for. They, more than adult offenders, need a clear statement from the community that certain kinds of behaviour are not acceptable. If adolescents do not get the message after being shown mercy twice, then detention for the third offence is needed as a last resort to help the boy or girl understand what behaviour is good and which bad. If two chances to reform are not enough, how many will be - the line has to be drawn somewhere. • The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

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brate with us leading up to Easter. Person- young hoons getting away with crimes that Asian women, is increasingly becoming part of the sex business in Australia. al reconciliation with God leads to Sacra- are just so bad. Equally, I support animal protection and To its credit, the Court Government has mental reconciliation and on Wednesday 12 April the 2nd Rite of Reconciliation will prevention of cruelty and say to people introduced legislation to crack down on who think that animals are just a com- street prostitution, recruitment advertising be available for all parishioners. modity for sale or use or to be eaten. and child prostitution. Another theme used to celebrate Jubilee They are living creatures who feel pain However, the ALP. Democrats and Greens I s pilgrimage, and in this special parish cels the jubilee celebration a reality for and suffering just as we do. gutted the Bill last year in the Legislative you? Have you even considered what ebration we encourage you to park at They are a gift from God to aid man in his Southlands Shopping Centre and walk up life in many different ways and as such Council by removing the essential police Jubilee means? It is obviously a time of spiritual renewal to John Paul Church - a pilgrimage to Mass. should be treated with compassion and powers that gave the Bill teeth. Without these provisions the Bill will Also we are having a pilgrimage candle kindness. In your lives. remain symbolic and fail to help police But coverage of happenings in our Die-- which will journey from family to family M Bedford effectively stop street prostitution and trafcese seem to involve a heavy emphasis on over the five weeks from 18-19 March to Ballajwa ficking in women. Easter. doors - not a lot on how to get people All these parties, and especially the AusThis is a pilgrimage which can be shared through them. tralian Labor Party, should come to the While they look good, what do they mean with family and neighbours. table with the Government on this issue nce upon a time parents could feel in terms of spirituality? The last but a most important theme of and ensure bipartisan support for all effechappy that anything produced by How can we open the door to Christ, the Jubilee we as a parish will be involved in tive prostitution law. firm was quite satisfacthe Disney door to the Father, who knocks at the doors is social justice and we will be using the John Barich of our hearts, our homes and our church- Project Compassion Appeal to encourage tory for children. State President longer exists. But sadly this situation no es? everyone to share generously with people Miramax, has Australian Family Association Disney, in conjunction with This year 2000 has been chosen as an throughout the world. produced a movie called Dogma which appropriate time to take stock of our relaThus, in these five weeks, we hope to mocks everything we Roman Catholics tionships with God and with others as we encourage the parish community - some of hold sacred - God, the Church, the Mass t is regrettable that Prime Minister John prepare to celebrate 2000 years since the whom may not always find time to cele- and Mary's Perpetual Virginity. has not been unable to meet Howard birth of Christ. brate with us - to reflect on the effect in our It condones what we condemn - murder the deadline he set in 1998 for reconMany of you may have already embarked lives today of the birth of Christ 2000 years obscenity, violence, profanity, drugs, drunkciliation between Aboriginal people and on a personal spiritual celebration by ago. enness and rebellion. incorporating the ideas of sabbath, recon- Jubilee Committee In the film, Christ is celibate, but Rufus (a other Australians. We would prefer to see this as an admisciliation and social justice in your daily Willefton-Brentwood Parish foul-mouthed 13th 'apostle') claims the sion of his having set himself goals that lives. Apostles were sexually active. The movie holds that Mary was a virgin were unrealistic, given his Government's But if you are like most of us you have not when Christ was conceived, but not always, past record on this issue. even thought about what it means and how hose who bash old people in their and pro-abortion Bethany learns she is Mr Howard has made it clear that he has to celebrate Jubilee. homes to rob them should get much descended from a child of Mary and `problems' with the Draft Document of RecSo the Jubilee committee at Willettonharsher punishment than someone Joseph. onciliation. Brentwood has selected five Sundays lead- stealing biscuits or pens. The Council for Reconciliation has made stand treat a people who How will God ing to the great Christian celebration of But The Record (2 March) cannot com- by and watch everything sacred be dragged it equally clear that it is prepared to work Easter when we, as a parish family, can pare the death of babies or old people or hard towards agreement. immorality? consider and participate in the celebration the way the law should act in some cir- down into the muck of little you can do There is no doubt that the lack of a nationYou may feel that there is of Jubilee both spiritually and socially. cumstances to a dog being killed in a cruel against such large business firms, but there al apology has made things more difficult These celebrations begin next weekend, and vicious manner. than they might otherwise have been. is. 18-19 March, with what we have called a Animals are put on this earth to aid man You can refuse to buy anything produced We agree with Mr Howard on the point Family Mass. in many ways, and they quite often do so by Disney, be it comics, clothing or food. that the journey towards reconciliation is a We are inviting all members of families, to their own detriment as humans are in You can also tell your relations and process that cannot be held to a timetable. including non-Catholics and especially some cases most inhumane and do to ani- friends of your objection and what you are However, we would like to see the non-practising members, to attend Mass mals what animals would not do to each doing. planned launch of the document for Rectogether and have a family meal together other. Eventually when enough people take onciliation, along with the strategies for It has taken several years and many ded- action and Disney's profits fall, the compa- achieving reconciliation, recognised as sigafterwards: eg. a Sunday roast, picnic, a icated people working with the govern- ny will respond. breakfast, a meal in Fremantle, whatever. nificant milestones along the road. Visiting Disneyland should not be conIf any family member does not wish to ment to at long last get some laws to prevent Along with others at the grassroots of the attend the celebration Mass, we are encour- cruelty to animals and get some semblance sidered. peoples' reconciliation movement, we will aging them to the following celebration of protection for them from humans such Fred Preshaw continue to work for reconciliation in our as the one who has just been let off after Scarborough meal. own area, but we hope for strong and supso vicious a killing of the dog. The idea is to take extra time to consider portive leadership from the Prime Minister I suggest that to plonk all these things and from the Federal Government. our relationship with God - a time of Sab- abortion, three strikes and animals - all in We support the calls for a national body bath. together is not possible: each has a place he Australian Family Association is l ike the Council for Reconciliation to be It is also to reconcile ourselves with God In its own right, including the animals, and calling on all parliamentary parties and others and, by inviting family mem- deserve the full attention of everyone to to support the Court Government's empowered to oversee the ongoing nationbers to Mass, to encourage them to recon- make sure that things are made right for Prostitution Bill 1999 in its entirety, includ- al process. cile with God. each group. ing the provisions for a more effective polic- Brother Shane Wood Following this family weekend, we are I do not agree with abortion for conve- ing of illegal prostitution. Broome Diocesan Office encouraging everyone to continue to cele- nience and I get so angry when I hear of Trafficking in women, particularly East of Justice, Ecology and Peace

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Yad Vashem keeps the Holocaust memory alive I

Sixteen-year-old Ron Under places a stone, a sign of respect and remembrance, at the base of The Silent Cry" sculpture in the garden of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Photo* CNS/Debble

An Israeli soldier looks at a small boat displayed at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, which was used by the Danish underground in World War ll in an operation that smuggled 7,200 Jews to safety in Sweden.

Historian David Silber*lang points out a cattle car used by Nazis to transport Jews to death camps in Poland. The car is now on display at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, in Jerusalem. Photo CNS/Debbte

"civilised" society in the middle of Europe. The fact is that the Holocaust and the totality of Nazi crimes is what has shaken our confidence in Western society," he said. Research has demonstrated that people are capable, in certain circumstances, of behaving viciously toward others, and Silberklang said this has been proven by current ethnic violence in Africa and Europe. Unfortunately, said Silberklang, it is clear by these ethnic clashes that the lessons of the Holocaust have not been learned. In the wake of these events, said Silberklang, the Pope's visit to Yad Vashem in late March takes on greater meaning. "The Pope has to take the lead to teach the world that we can't continue to do these things - something which we as humanity have somehow failed to do." We have clearly not learned from the past, and the Pope is one of the figures who can lead the way. ... to assure that the kids walking around the world today won't grow up to do these things to others," he said. Although the Nazi "final solution" was created specifically for the Jews, the Nazis also put to death homosexuals and the mentally and physically handicapped and targeted Jehovah's Witnesses and Gypsies. In addition, the Nazis put to death priests and 100,000 mostly Catholic Polish citizens. More than 50 mil-

lion people - soldiers as well as civilians - lost their lives during World War II. n the hall of the Yad Vashem Pope John Paul was a seminarian Holocaust Memorial where in Poland during the Holocaust, and Pope John Paul II is expected to that experience has left a deep lay a wreath, an eternal flame flickimpression on him. ers over a low platform. He has often referred to this periUnderneath the stone slab, ashes od when expressing his sympathy from the Auschwitz concentration with the Jewish people. camp lie buried. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, aposIt is a Jewish tradition to light a tolic delegate in Jerusalem, said the candle on the anniversary of the Pope's visit to Yad Vashem will be death of a loved one, and so the an important point of his pilgrimflame at Yad Vashem is lit permaage. nently, since every day during the Holocaust a Jew was killed, said For Israelis the Holocaust is David Silberklang, historian and deeply entrenched in their psyche chief editor of Yad Vashem Studies. as a powerful symbol of the numerous persecutions Jews have sufThe names of 3 million Jews who fered at the hands of the Christian were murdered by the Nazis are world throughout the ages, said Silregistered in the museum's Hall of berklang. Names, but they will never be able to list all the 6 million names of the The Jews are the only people people killed, said Silberklang. affected by World War II who have not replenished their numbers, Whole communities were wiped noted Silberklang. out, and no one is left to remember. Whereas before there were Though the Jewish Holocaust was between 16 million and 17 million not the first attempted genocide, it Jews in the world, today their numIs the one that has registered most ber barely reaches 13 million, he strongly in the minds of people as said. a symbol of the evil of which people are capable, said Silberklang. But it was not only people who were destroyed by the Nazis, he Perhaps this is because American, said. British and Soviet soldiers were faced with horrific evidence when An entire Jewish culture of East they liberated the camps, he said, or European Yiddish intellectual, literbecause of the tribunals that folary and artistic traditions was extinlowed the Holocaust, or the fact that guished by the Nazis. this systematic annihilation was 'The Nazis took a huge gouge out undertaken by a supposedly of the Jewish people, and that still has not healed." "That has had a tremendous impact on the Jewish psyche and Israeli psyche," said Silberklang. "Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, it is still there as a significant part of our identity." In addition to historical exhibits and memorials, Yad Vashem includes archives and educational programs Although it has been more than 50 years since the end of the Holocaust, research of the Nazi era is increasing, and the museum has plans to expand and modernise its facilities, said Silberklang. One of the memorial officials' concerns, he said, is how to teach about the era when there are no survivors left to tell their stories. The youngest survivors are now in their 60s, and soon there will be no one to give a first-hand account, he said, giving those who deny the A monument by Nandor Gild evokes the memory of millions of Jews who perished Holocaust took place free reign to in death camps under the Nazi regime. It is located between the Yad Vashem Holo- espouse their theories. caust Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance in Jerusalem. Photo CNS ()ebbe H111 - Catholic News Service By Judith Sudilovsky

St Lawrence's wit for Christ shone in the face of torture

aint Lawrence was one of seven deacons of the Church in Rome, when, in August 258, the Emperor Valerian issued an edict seizing all Church property and commanding that all bishops, priests and deacons be put to death. Among the very first victims was the Pope, Sixtus II, who was arrested on the 6th of August. According to Saint Ambrose, as the Pope was led away, he comforted Lawrence by saying, "I am not leaving you, my son. In three days you will follow me." From these words, Lawrence knew that in the next few days he also would be arrested and martyred. That he found this knowledge comforting can only be an indication of sanctity. After the Pope, Lawrence, as archdeacon, was the chief financial officer of the Church. When he received the news that all church property was to be con-

fiscated, he quickly 'liquidated Church assets', which means that he sold everything, and then distributed the money among the poor. Shortly afterwards, the Prefect of

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Rome, Cornelius Saecularis, demanded the treasures of the Church. Lawrence asked for a day to gather them up. The following day, the deacon returned to the Prefect, with a large crowd of beggars. Lawrence said, "Behold the treasures of the Church!" The Prefect was not amused. He ordered that Lawrence be arrested, and executed by being roasted to death over a slow fire. Apparently the Prefect believed that this long and frightful torture would make the saint reveal the whereabouts of the Church's wealth, which he still believed was hidden. Lawrence's death is described by Saint Ambrose of Milan, and by a Roman poet, Prudentius. He was tied to a large gridiron and suspended over a fire. After some time, he said to his executioners, "Turn me over. I think am done on this side." Just

t i-n e4rtst 2000 Lye erth historian Dr Jennifer Skeffitt sheds P2000 some light on Catholic history to mark years of Christianity. This week:

Saint Lawrence (c.AD 220 - 258.) before he died, he said, ":I think I am cooked now." Then he prayed that the City of Rome might be converted to Christ and the Catholic faith might spread throughout the world. Reportedly, mass conversions to Christianity followed his death, Including several senators in Rome who witnessed his execution. Lawrence was buried in the Catacomb of Cyriaca, outside Rome, and quickly became one of the most venerated saints of the Church. Constantine, the first

Christian Emperor, built an oratory over his burial place in the fourth century, which was enlarged by later Popes. In the thirteenth century, Pope Honorius III, combined two neighbouring churches into the basilica of San Lorenzo, which can be seen In Rome today. Saint Lawrence was noted for his quick wit, the nature of which makes one wonder how he avoided martyrdom for so long. He is the patron saint of cooks, Just to show that the Church also has a sense of htunour.

Pro ect Compassion: Where Your Money Goes

Your dollar will help Kuch, his family and others like them build a future K

uch Sarak (left) is a young boy living in a village in Kampong Chnang Province, Cam-

&di waters his vegetable patch daily.

Photo CA. McCafferty

bodia. Kuch's family, along with most of the village, depend on what they grow for their livelihood. Due to the region's weather patterns that have seen the village face flood one year and drought the next, growing enough food is very difficult. Despite their hard work, the harvest only ever yields enough food for each family for nine months of the year. To help overcome the shortfall, Caritas Australia has assisted the local people to set up a vegetable garden in the school which Kuch attends. The garden has been fully fenced and a treadle pump has been Installed. All students above Grade 3 are allocated a plot to plant and maintain vegetables. Kuch waters his patch daily and is growing celery morning glory and basil. At home, families may not be able to grow crops because of a lack of fencing protection for animals. The

vegetables grown at school there- loan in rice. The families pay reafore provide both students and their sonable interest on the loan - an families with additional nourish- extra 20 per cent on the borrowed ment. amount of rice. As many children will not comIn the past, rice interest was as plete a high level of education, agri- high as 300 per cent from private cultural skills are valuable life skills. lenders. More rice is then available to lend They can then teach their family members these improved agricul- to other families thus eventually benefiting the whole community tural practices too. Caritas works in partnership with Vegetable gardens were also built in the village next to the schooL Car- local community organisations to itas assisted the village people with help develop projects in Cambodia advice, seeds and fencing materials. such as health programs, incomeAs a result, the people had extra generating projects and loan food throughout the period of Sep- schemes such as the rice banks. The aim of working with the local tember and October when typicalcommunity groups is to help the ly they have very little. They also gained additional people of Cambodia to take charge of their own development and gain income by selling crops. In other Cambodian villages economic self-reliance. Your donation to Project Compaswhich face similar difficulties in growing enough to eat, poorer fam- sion will help the people of Camilies are able to borrow rice from a bodia along the path to freedom local rice bank funded by Caritas from dependency. Australia. Donations to Project CompasThe rice bank buys approximate- sion can be made by calling ly one ton of rice at a time and then 1800 024 413 or send your confamilies are able to borrow about tribution to Caritas Australia, 50-100ic.g of rice which is used for GPO Box 9830 in your capital food and also for rice seed. city or visit our website The families must pay back their www.caritas.org.au

Catholic aid helping •Now all the water is on tap rebuild shattered lives T

Mamma's village in East Timor is benefiting from a Caritas Australia supported project which helps to improve agricultural practices photo. Mathes Heng

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ariena is nine years old and lives in the village of Fatunia in East Timor, ten kilometres from Dili. In 1997. Caritas set up an agricultural program in her village to assist the people to develop environmentally sustainable agricultural practices and look for ways to better meet the social and economic needs of their community. During the violent militia destruction of much of East Timor In September last year, the people of Fatunia stayed in their village and managed to stay safe. They supplied food and vegetables from the Caritas project to refugees who had fled Dili and gone into hiding. Mariena and her village helped to keep the refugees alive. As the

country rebuilds, life is slowly getting back to normal for the people of Fatunia. Despite their suffering the community say they hold no grudges and are focusing on the future. Project Compassion is helping this desire become a reality Working with local partners in the Church network, Caritas is uniquely positioned to help the people of East Timor rebuild their shattered lives, with a focus on community rehabilitation and sustainable agricultural projects. The program is only possible through your generous support. Take home a Project Compassion box or set of envelopes and 'help build a better future now' for Mariena and the people of East Timor.

he people of Zambia face many challenges. The amount of foreign debt the country owes is having a crippling effect on vital services for the people. Zambia spends three times as much on the interest on their debt than they do on healthcare. The demands of debt repayments have dire consequences. One in five children die before their fifth birthday. HIV/AIDS has hit the country hard. Around 20 per cent of the adult population is HIV-positive and it Is expected that there will be 1.8 million deaths from AIDS by 2010. Efforts to maintain debt repayments have a negative impact on the lives of people at a very fundamental level. The burden of debt can not only be linked to poor health but to a country's lack of education and the loss of land amongst small communities. The experience of the villagers of Maheritona, in south-east Zambia, illustrates this reality. Lillian (pictured right) lives in Maheritona, which used to be located close to the Zambesi River. In a bid to pay back some of the countryis debt, the Zambian government sold the land to foreign investors and the villagers were forcibly moved. The villagers were pushed north, about 90 minutes walk Lilian used to walk 90 minutes to the Zambezi River for water. Caritas proaway from the river. The river elided materials so her community could build their own wail. Photo CA,Cubss remained their only source of materials so the community could ity, Caritas has helped the people water. build the well. of Maheritona "make it happen" With trips having to be made Once it was built, people had themselves. several times a day, fetching water the freedom of more time to Now they are teaching other vilfor daily use became a very time spend on other activities. Market lages in the area what they have consuming job. gardens were set up. learnt. The community came together The result has been better nutriProject Compassion allowed and decided they needed a well tion for the people and the sur- this program to happen. at the new location. plus grown has provided an Support for the annual Caritas A reliable water supply would income. Australia appeal helps to empowMoney does not have to be con- er local communities to help ensure improved farming methtinually spent now the program is themselves despite the burden of ods and food supply. Caritas responded, providing up and running. Rather than char- debt faced by their governments. The Record, March 9 2000 Page 9

Sacrament of Reconciliation - weekly times: metropolitan Perth 2000 Given the importance the Church has placed on a return to the Sacrament of Reconciliation in 2000, the Great jubilee Year, The Record publishes below a list of reconciliation times by parish for the Archdiocese of Perth. Applecross Sat 5pm - 6.30pm Armadale Sat 11am- 12 noon, after 6.30pm Sat Vigil Mass Attadale Sat 'liana - 12 noon Balcatta Fri 8.30am - 8.55am, Sat 5pm - 5.55pm. First Fridays: 6.30pm - 725pm Ballajura Sat 5pm- 6pm Bassendean Sat 4pm - 6pm and after the Saturday 7pm Vigil Mass Bateman Sat llam - 12 noon, and 5pm - 6pm Bayswater

Sat 5.30pm before Mass. Extra times before Easter and Christmas. First Fridays and Fridays of Lent and Advent during Exposition 7pm - 8pm on request. Beaconsfield Sat 5pm - 6pm Bedford Sat 5pm - 5.30pm Belmont Sat 11am - 12 noon

Bentley Sat after 8am Mass until 9am

Carlisle Sat 8.30 - 9.30am, 5.45 - 6.15pm

City Beach Sat 4.30pm - 5.30pm Claremont Sat 11am - 11.45am Clarkson Sat 5pm - 5.30pm at St Andrew's Mass Centre, Cloverdale Sat 5pm - 6pm Como Sat 5pm - 5.45pm Cottesloe Sat 12 noon - 12.30pm Dianella Sat 5.45pm-6.15pm, 1st Sat 12

noon-lpm, or by request

Doubleview Weds 8.40am, Sat 11.30am 12 noon, and 5pm - 6pm East Cannington Last Sat 9am East Fremantle Sat 11.30am - 12.30pm, 6pm 6.45pm East Victoria Park available 15 minutes before every Mass: Mass times as follows: Weekdays 9am, Sat 6.30pm Vigil Mass, Sunday 730am and 9.30am Mass. Ellenbrook Sat 5.45pm-6.15pm, or by request Embleton Reconciliation available by request Floreat Sat 5pm - 5.30pm Fremantle: St Patrick's Basilica 1st Fridays 11am - 12.30pm. Saturdays: 9.30am - 10.30am, 10am-ham (Italian), 11.30am -12.30pm, 4.30pm-5.30pm

Girrawheen Sat 9am - 10am, & by request Glendalough Sat 12 noon - 12.30pm Gosnells Sat 5pm - 6pm Greenmotmt 10am - 10.30am, and 5.45 - 8.15pm

Greenwood Sat llam - 12 noon, and 5pm - 6pm Guildford Sat 6pm - 6.25pm before 6.30pm Vigil Mass, Sun 9am 9.25am before 9.30am Mass. Gwelup Sunday 10.30am - 10.50am Highgate Sat 5pm - 6pm Hilton Sat 8.30am - 9am. and

9.30am - 10am Innaloo Before all Masses Joondann.a Sat 10am - 11am Kalamunda Weds 8pm -8.30pm, Sat llam - 12 noon Karrinyup Sat 5pm - 6pm Kelmscott Sat 5pm - 6pm Kwinana Sat 11am - 11.30am, 5.45pm 6.15pm Weekdays before morning Mass on request. Leederville Sat 12 noon - 12.30pm Lesmurdie Sat 11am - 12 noon, 5.30pm 6pm

Lockridge Sat 5pm - 6pm

Lynwood-Langford Tues - Fri 8am - 8.30am, Sat 11am - 12 noon, 5.30 - 6pm Maddington Sat 5.30pm - 6.15pm Maida Vale Sat 10am - 10.30am Manning Sat 6pm - 6.20pm Maylands Sat 5.30pm - 5.50pm

Melville Sat 10am - 11am or by request Midland Sat 11am - 12 noon, 5pm - 6pm Mirrabooka Sat 11.30am - 12.30pm, 5.30pm - 6pm Morley Sat 10am - 11am, 5pm - 6pm Mosman Park Sat 5pm - 5.30pm Mt Lawley Sat 5pm - 5.50pm

Mundaring Sat 9am -10am Nedlands Available any time during week by appointment. Sat 11am 12 noon, and 5pm - 5.45pm Nollamara Sat 5pm - 6pm or by appointment North Beach Sat 4.30pm to 5pm or by appointment North Perth Redemptorist Monastery Tues - Fri: 10am - 10.45am and 5pm - 6pm, Sat: lOarn 12 noon and 4pm - 4.30pm, 5.30pm - 6pm Ocean Reef Tues/Fri 6.30pm, Sat after 8.30am Mass, and 5.30pm 6.30pm Osborne Park Sat after 8am Mass, and prior to 6.30pm Vigil Mass Palmyra Sat 11.30am - 12 noon, 5.30pm - 6.15pm with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Perth - All Saints Chapel Mon-Fri 10.30am - 11.45am, Sat 10.30am - 11.15am

Perth - St Mary's Cathedral Mon - Thurs after Midday Mass, also Wed 8pm. Fri 11.30am - 12 noon.

Sat 12 noon - 1pm, 5pm - 6pm Pickering Brook Before Mass by request Port Kennedy Sat 6pm - 6.30pm before Mass, Sun 8.30am - 9am before Mass Queen's Park Sat 4.45pm Redcliffe Sat 5.30pm - 6.15pm Riverton Sat 4.30pm - 5.30pm Rivervale Sat 5.30pm - 6pm

Rockingham Sat 11.30am - 12.30pm, 5pm 6pm Rossmoyne (Pallottine Community) By request

Scarborough Sat 11.30am Serpentine Sundays by request Shenton Park Sat 5pm - 5.30pm South Perth Sat 11.30am - 12.15pm or by appointment Spearwood Sat 9.30am - 10.30am, 5.30pm - 6.15pm Subiaco Sat 11.30am - 12.30pm Swanbourne Sat 11am - 11.30am Thornlie Sat 9.30am - 10.15am, 5.30pm - 6.15pm. Also after 7pm Stations of the Cross Friday evenings during Lent

Victoria Park

Sat 11am - 12 noon, 4pm 5pm, First Fridays 11.15am 12 noon

Wanneroo Sat 10am - 10.30am, 730pm - 8pm

Wembley Sat 11.30am - 12.30pm West Perth Sat 5.30pm - 6pm Whitfords Sat 12 noon - 1pm, 5pm-6pm Willagee Sat 10am - 10.30am Willetton Sat llam - 12 noon or by appointment Wilson Sat after 7pm Vigil Mass or by request Woodvale Sat 5pm - 5.30pm Yangebup Sat 5pm before 6pm Mass

No change to faith and morals: Archbishop Hickey Continued from Page 1 In addition, the document said, just as the also not attributing to itself out of a false Cardinal Ratzinger and French Cardinal .'scandals of the past can become an obsta- sense of humility sins which it did not comRoger Etchegaray, president of the Vati- cle to the Church's witness today," mit" or which are still clouded in historical can's jubilee committee, spoke at a 7 March acknowledging the sins of the past "can uncertainty. Vatican press conference marking the foster renewal and reconciliation in the In addition, Cardinal Ratzinger said, the release of the document Memory and Rec- present." Christian confession of sins always should The document did not take a detailed be accompanied by a "confession of onciliation: The Church and the Faults of look at specific chapters of the Church's praise." the Past. "In a sincere examination of conscience The 19,000-word document was written past, but grouped the largest faults under by the International Theological Commis- the headings: we see that we have done much wrong in • Contributing to Christian divisions. every generation, but also that despite our sion to coincide with Pope John Paul's 12 March act of asking God's forgiveness for • Using violence in the service of the sins God always purifies and renews the the sins committed by members of the truth, for example, during the Inquisition. Church and accomplishes great works Church. through earthen vessels," he said. • Failing to denounce social injustices. Cardinal Ratzinger is president of the the"The Church can frankly and trustingly • Hostility and mistrust toward Jews. ological commission and approved the While traces of past sins may affect atti- confess the sins of the past and present publication of the document after inform- tudes today, the document said, Catholics knowing that evil will never destroy it coming the Pope of its contents, he said. today could not be blamed for the sins of pletely" and that God will renew the Cardinal Etchegaray said the Pope's "mea Church members in the past. Church so that it will continue to bring his culpa" was not and could not be seen as a The document said the impossibility of salvation to the world, Cardinal Ratzinger "self-flagellation" performed in public for inheriting blame was enunciated by the said. the benefit of others. Bishop Piero Marini, who directs papal Second Vatican Council when, in con"glue repentance has nothing to do with demning anti-Semitism, it said: "What was liturgical ceremonies and led the planning being morbid or gaudy; ills serene and committed during the passion (of Christ) for the 12 March Mass, said the Pope's gesintimate, savouring the absolute and cannot be imputed either indiscriminately ture did not imply a judgment of those who unchangeable fidelity of Christ to his to all Jews then living nor to the Jews of our preceded him. Church," the French cardinal said. "Christians today do not think they are time." Memory and Reconciliation said the In explaining the Pope's gesture of asking better than their forefathers," Bishop MariChurch, as the Body of Christ, is holy and forgiveness, Cardinal Ratzinger told ni said, but they did feel a need to acknowlcannot sin. reporters, "Confessing the sins of others edge "what in history were objectively At the same time, it said, the Church does not bring salvation. Recognising the errors of behaviour against the Gospel and embraced its past and present members sins of the past serves to awaken one's own the Spirit of Christ." "In a real and profound conununion" and conscience and open the way toward the Rather than pointing the finger at any "takes upon herself also the weight of past conversion of all of us." individual historical figure, he said, "the faults in order to purify memory and to live Confession means first of all being truth- confession will take place in a solidarity of the renewal of heart and life according to ful, he said, so it meant "not denying all of sinners: today's baptised,in fact, feel bound the will of the Lord." the wrongs committed by the Church, but to the baptised of yesterday. The Record, March 9 2000 Page 10

"The Church is a communion of saints," he said, "but there also is a solidarity in sin among every component of the people of God: the Petrine ministry, the episcopacy, the presbyterate, religious life and laity." The formal act of acknowledging the sins of the past is "a service of charity, a witness of love in the humility of the one asking forgiveness," Bishop Marini said. The Christians of today, having aired in detail the faults of their predecessors, can expect the same treatment by future Christians, Church leaders said. "What will the men and women of tomorrow think of us?" said Dominican Father Georges Cottier, the Pope's personal theologian. "We are no better than the men and women of the past. It is with modesty and 'fear and trembling' that we must judge their acts," he said. "How will we ourselves be judged in a hundred years by future generations for our current blindness?" Cardinal Etchegaray said. Current evils for which future generations may take the Church to task, he said, included modern forms of slavery like child-trafficking and large-scale prostitution - "phenomena which are growing under our eyes, amid the greatest indifference." Done correctly, though, reflection on the errors of past believers may be the best possible way of preparing for the scrutiny of future Christians, Cardinal Etchegaray said.

Perth Daily Mass Timetable 2000

THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH: METROPOLITAN PARISHES The Church obliges the faithful "to take part M the Divine Liturgy on Sundays and feast days" . . . . the Church strongly encourages the faithful to receive the holy Eucharist on Sundays and feast days, or more often still, even daily. - The Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1389. APPLECROSS COTTESLOE Mon/Weds/Fri 7am, Tues/Thurs Thurs 11am, Fri & Sat 8am 9am Mass, Sat 730am CRAWLEY ARMADALE St Thomas More College Mon 730am, Tues & Thurs 8am, Chapel, Mon-Fri 5.15pm Wed & Fri 9am DIANELLA Tues/Thurs/Fri/Sat ATTADALE 8.15am, Weds 9am Tues 745am (8.30am in school DOUBLEVIEW holidays), Thurs & Fri 8.30am, Mon-Fri 9am (Church), Weds & Sat 9am Mon/Wed 5.30pm (Convent), BALCATTA Tues/Thurs/Fri 745am (Convent), Mon 8am, 9am, Tues-Fri 9am Sat 8am (Convent) (English), 7.30pm (Italian Mass), EAST CANNINGTON Sat 8am Tues 9am BMA EAST FREMANTLE ("Majella" Mass Centre) Sat Yam Tues-Sat 9am BALLAJURA EAST VICTORIA PARK Tues 6.30am, Weds 7pm, Thurs Mon-Sat 9am 9am, Fri 12 noon ELLENBROOK BASSENDEAN Wed/Fri 8am Mon-Fri 6.45am, Weds 9am ChilEMBLETON dren's Mass, Sat 730am Mon-Sat 8.30am BATEMAN FREMANTLE Mon 7am. Tues 5.30pm, Weds St Patrick's Basilica, Barn. Thurs 7am, Fri 5.30pm, Sat Mon-Fri 12.10pm & 7pm, 8.30am Sat 12.10pm BAYSWATER FREMANTLE Mon-hi Yarn Ursuline Convent Chapel, MonBEACONSFIELD Fri 7am Mon-Sat 8.15am GIRRAWHEEN BEDFORD Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri 6.45am, 'rues-Fri Yarn Weds 9am. 1st Fri 9am also, 1st BELMONT Saturdays 8am Mon-Thurs 8.30am. 1st Fridays GLENDALOUGH 7.30pm. Sat 8.30am Tues 5.45pm, Weds & Fri 730am, BENTLEY Thurs 9.15am Mon 8am (Comm. Serv. & GOSNELLS Rosary), Tues Barn. Weds Mon-Fri 8am. 10.30am (Bmwnlie Towers), (Fri 9am during School Term), Thurs Barn (Cenacle), Fri 9.15am. Sat 8am Sat 8am GREENMOUNT BRENTWOOD Mon-Weds 8.15am, Thurs Tues-Sat 9.30am (times subject 7.30pm. Fri 9am. Sat 8.30am to change). GREENWOOD CARLISLE Mon 6.45am. 9.15am (Comm. Mon-Thur 9am, Fri 7pm, Sat Servo, 8am Tues 9.15am. Weds 6.45am & 9.15am, CITY BEACH Thurs/Fri 9.15am, Sat 730am Mon-Fri 6.45am. Weds 9am School Mass during term. Sat GUILDFORD 9am Tues-Fri 8.30am, 1st Tues (Mass at St Jude's CLAREMONT Nursing Home) 8.45am Mon/Thurs/Fri 7am, Tues 5.30pm (Convent). Weds 9am, GWELUP Sat 8am Wed 10.30am CLARKSON HIGHGATE Mon 7am, Tues/Weds/Sat 8am Mon-Fri 7am. Sat Barn. Mon Barn (Presbytery). Fri 9am (Convent) public holidays CLOVERDALE HILTON Mon 8.30am (Comm. Serv.), Tues Mon-Sat 9am (Church), 9.15am. Weds-Sat 8.30am Mon-Fri 7am (Foley Village) COMO INNALOO Tues 730am, Weds-Fri 9am, Sat Mon 730am, Tues/Thurs 8am, 730am Fri 9am, Sat 8am (Comm. Sent.)

JOONDANNA Mon-Fri 8am, Sat 8.30am KALAMUNDA Mon & Fri 9.30am, Tues & Thurs 6.30am, Weds 7.30pm KARRINYUP Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri 730am, Weds 9am, Sat 8am KELMSCOTT Tues-Sat 8am KVVINANA Tues/Thurs/Fri 9am, Wed 8.15am, Sat 8.30am LEEDERVILLE Mon & Tues Barn, Weds 9am, Thurs-Sat 8am LESMURDIE Mon-Fri 6.40am & 9.15am, Sat Barn, Public Hots 9.15arn, First Friday Mass 7.30pm and All Night Vigil LOCKRIDGE Tues-Sat 8am LYNWOOD-LANGFORD Mon-Fri 9am MADDINGTON Tues 8.15am, Weds 6.45pm, Thurs-Sat 8.15am MAMA VALE Mon/Tues Barn, Weds 7pm, Thurs llam (Nursing Home), Fri 9.30am

MANNING Mon/Weds/Fri 6.30am,

Tues/Thurs/Sat 730am MAYLANDS Tues-Fri Yam MAYLANDS POLISH CHURCH Mon-Fri 6.30pm MAYLANDS UKRAINIAN CHURCH Mon-Fri 9am MELVILLE Mon 9am. Tues 8.30am, Wed-Fri 9am, Sat 9.30am MERRIVVA Thurs loam at RAAF Estate, Baltimore Parade. MIDLAND Mon/Tues/Thurs 7am. Weds & Fri 9.30am, Thurs 9.30am (Italian). Public holidays Barn MIRRABOO1KA (Church in Westminster) Mon Barn, Tues-Fri 9am MORLEY Mon-Fri 7am & 9am. Sat 8.30am MOSMAN PARK Mon-Sat 9am MT LAWLEY Tues 7.30pm, Wed 9am (RSL Chapel), Thurs 9am, Fri 9am (RSL Chapel), Sat 9am

MUNDARING Mon 8.20am (Comm.Serv.), Tues/Thurs 7pm, Fri/Sat 8.20am NEDLANDS Thurs & Fri Yam NEDLANDS C.arrnelite Monastery, Mon-Fri 7am, Sat 730am NOLLAMARA Tues 8.30am, Wed-Fri 9am NORTH BEACH Mon 8.30am (Comm. Serv.), Tues 5.30pm (Convent), Weds 9am, Thurs 10am (Retirement Village), Fri 9am NORTH PERTH Redemptorist Monastery, MonSat 6.30am, Tues-Fri 1lam also, Weds & 1st Fridays 5.40pm also, Sat 4.30pm Novena Mass (this is not a Vigil Mass) OCEAN REEF Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri/Sat 8.30am, Weds 8am, Tues/Fri 7pm, 1st Thurs 7pm OSBORNE PARK Mon-Sat 8am PALMYRA Mon/Tues/Weds & Fri 7am, Thurs & Sat Yam PERTH All Saints Chapel - Allendale Square. Mon-Fri 12.10, 1.10pm, Sat 11.30am PERTH St Mary's Cathedral, Mon-Fri 6.45am & 12.10pm, Sat 6.45am PORT KENNEDY Tues 730pm (Home Mass). Weds 9.15am (School), 7pm (Presbytery), Thurs 9am (Pmsb), Fri 7pm (Presbytery), 1st Fri 730pm (Centre) QUEENS PARK Mon-Fri 6.45am ('745am during school holidays), Weds/Thurs Yam also. Fri 8.15am also (during school term). Sat 745am REDCLIFFE Fri 9am RIVERTON Mon-Fri 8arn, Sat 730am RIVERVALE Mon-Tues & Thurs-Sat 6.45am, Weds 9am ROCKINGHAM Mon-Thurs 730am, Fri 9am, Sat 8.30am ROSSMOYNE (Pallottine Community) Tues & Weds 9.30am, Thurs 730am, Fri 6.30am

SAFETY BAY (St Joseph's Convent & Retreat House) Mon-Sat 8am SCARBOROUGH Mon 8.30am (Comm. Serv.), Tues-Sat 8.30am, Holy Days of Obligation: 9.30am SHENTON PARK Mon-Fri Barn SOUTH PERTH Mon/Tues/Fri 10am, Weds 7am Thurs 5pm. Occasional variations. SPEARWOOD Mon & Fri 9am, Tues/Weds/Thurs 8.15am. School holidays: Mon-Fri 9am SUBIACO Mon 9.15am. Tues 11.45am, Weds 7.30pm, Thurs & Fri 7am, Sat 8am SWANBOURNE Mon-Weds 7am THORNLIE Mon-Thurs 8.45am. Fri 7pm (1st Fridays 9am also), Sat Barn VICTORIA PARK Mon-Fri 6.45am & 12.15pm, Sat 730am, Public holidays 730am WANNER00 Mon-Fri Yam (Church). TuesThurs 7am (Priory chapel) WEMBLEY Mon-Fri 6.45am. except public holidays Barn, Sat Barn WESTMINSITX (Mirrabooka Parish) Mon Barn, Tues-Fri Yam WEST PERTH Mon-Sat 7am Summer ('730am in Winter) WHITFORDS Mon 9am, Tues-Fri 7am & 9am. Sat 8.30am WILLAGEE Mon 8.15am, Tues 6.30am, Weds 9am, Thurs & Fri 6.30arn, Sat 730am WILLEITON Mon Yam (Comm. Serv.), Tues 9am, Weds 7pm, Thurs 9am, Fri 12 Noon. (Subject to change). WILSON Tues 715am. Weds 7pm, Fri 4.30pm (Chapel) WOODVALE Mon Yam (Comm. Serv.), TuesFri 9am YANGEBUP Mon/Weds/Thurs 745am (School). Fri 6pm (School)

Prayer and planning the key to pro-life: Archbishop

Francette Galabardi outside the Belmont clinic last Saturday.

Continued from Page 1 He prayed that those present "place our confidence and trust in Jesus and ask Him that we cooperate with Him and the will of the Father so all human life will be saved." Joining the Archbishop to concelebrate Saturday morning's Mass were St Anne's parish priest, Fr Eugene McGrath, Columban Father Paul Carey and Salvatorian priest Fr Irek Czech. Outside the Belmont clinic, a long-time antiabortion sidewalk counsellor, Francette Galabardi spoke to The Record about the continuous presence of pro-lifers at the clinic for the last three years. Together with her colleagues Helen Sawyer and Catherine Ryan, Mrs Galabardi have been outside the clinic each weekend, handing out prayer cards to women entering or leaving and counselling those who stop to talk. She said that the work of her group, the Helpers of God's Precious Infants, was more

difficult at Belmont, where prayer cards were less-often accepted. However at the Xera clinic in Midland, she said, "they just go [very quicIdyr Mrs Galabardi spends two days a week - one at Belmont and the other at Midland - trying to assist women entering or leaving the clinic. She said the experience often had a tragic dimension. One day, she said, "I found a girl standing at the corner.I thought she was going in." "I offered her a brochure - she looked so sad. "And then she asked to be hugged. so I did, and I realised she'd already had an abortion." And she still remembers another woman who appeared to be in her 441s. I 'll never forget her," Mrs Galahardi said. "She came out and sat down on the pavement." She said the woman, who appeared to be halfdrugged and somewhat disorientated, then tried to start saying the Rosary.

Mrs Galabardi said approximately 30 to 40 people turn up to the vigil and procession held on the first Saturday of each month outside the Belmont clinic and on the first Friday of the month outside the Midland clinic, less are present for the regular weekend vigils. She said it was essential that those who stand for life pray for "the conversion of the Iclinics'l staffs, the women, ourselves and most of all that our love reaches those little babies and that they do not die without the touch of human love." At the Midland clinic pro-lifers usually did not face aggression, she said. But at Belmont there had been "a lot of aggression" from staff associated with the clinic who maintain the grounds. Manure had been spread where protesters stand outside the fence and they had been hosed down, she said. It is estimated that more than 8,000 children are killed by abortion in WA each year.

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Official Excerpts from Pardon Document

Forgive us our sins • VATICAN CITY, MAR 7, 2000 (Vatican Information Service) - The document produced by the International Theological Commission, entitled "Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of The Past," was made public today, Tuesday, during a press conference held in the Holy See Press Office. Following are excerpts from that document:

Introduction

he Bull of Indiction of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, Incarnationis mysteritun (29 November, 1998), includes the purification of memory among the signs 'which may help people to live the exceptional grace of the Jubilee with greater fervour.' . . . . "The purification of memory is thus 'an act of courage and humility in recognising the wrongs done by those who have borne or bear the name of Christian.' "The requests for forgiveness made by the Bishop of Rome in this spirit of authenticity and gratuitousness have given rise to various reactions "Many have noted the increased credibility of ecclesial pronouncements that has resulted from this way of acting. "Some reservations, however, have also been voiced, mainly expressions of unease connected with particular historical and cultural contexts in which the simple admission of faults committed by the sons and daughters of the Church may look like acquiescence in the face of accusations made by those prejudicially hostile to the Church. "The purpose of the text is, therefore, not to examine particular historical cases but rather to clarify the presuppositions that ground repentance for past faults. "The Church is understood as the community of the baptised, inseparably visible and operating in history under the direction of her Pastors, united as a profound mystery by the action of the life-giving Spirit. "This offer of forgiveness appears particularly meaningful when one thinks of the many persecutions suffered by Christians in the course of history."

The Problem: Yesterday and Today. Before Vatican II: "In none of the Jubilees celebrated until now has there been, however, an awareness in conscience of any faults in the Church's past, nor of the need to ask God's pardon for conduct in the recent or remote past. "Indeed, in the entire history of the Church there are no precedents for requests for forgiveness by the Magisteriurn for past wrongs "One famous example is furnished by the reforming Pope Hadrian VI who . . . . deplored the faults of his times, precisely those of his immediate predecessor Leo X and his curia, without, however, adding a request for pardon.. . . . "In the view of Paul VI, both the request for and offer of pardon concerned solely the sin of the division between Christians and presupposed reciprocity." The Teaching of the Council: "Vatican IItakes the same approach as Paul VI. From a theological point of view, Vatican II distinguishes between the indefectible fidelity of the Church and the weaknesses of her members, clergy or laity, yesterday and today." John Paul II's Requests for Forgiveness: "Not only did John Paul II renew expressions of regret for the 'sorrowful memories' that mark the history of the divisions among Christians, as Paul VI and the Second Vatican Council had done, but he also extended a request for forgiveness to a multitude of historical events in which the Church, or individual groups of Christians, were implicated in different respects." The Questions Raised: "The steps taken by John Paul II to ask pardon for faults of the past have been understood in many circles as signs of the Church's vitality and authenticity, such that they strengthen her credibility. "It is right, moreover, that the Church contribute to changing false and unacceptable images of herself, especially in those areas The ifecoid, March 9 2000 Page 12

in which, whether through ignorance or bad faith, some sectors of opinion like to identify her with obscurantism and intolerance. "The requests for pardon formulated by the Pope have also given rise to positive emulation both inside and outside the Church. "Heads of state or government, private and public associations, religious communities are today asking forgiveness for episodes or historical periods marked by injustices." In Chapter Two, "The Biblical Approach," the commission looks at pardon as it appears in the Old and New Testaments, and at the biblical Jubilee. We see that pardon, as it appears in the Old Testament, is asked by a people or on behalf of a people for offences committed against God: "In all cases where 'the sins of the fathers' are mentioned, the confession is addressed solely to God, and the sins confessed by the people and for the people are those committed directly against Him rather than those committed (also) against other human beings." On the other hand, in the New Testament, we see that Christians are taught not only to ask pardon of God for offences committed against Him; rather they must learn to ask pardon of their neighbours for offences committed against them. "Jesus asks his disciples to be ready to forgive all those who have offended them, just as God Himself always offers His forgiveness: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.' "He who is able to forgive his neighbour shows that be has understood his own need for forgiveness by God." In the Bible, says the document, it is clear that "the celebration of the Jubilee was an Implicit admission of fault and an attempt to re-establish a just order. "The Pope's appeal correctly captures the spirit of the Biblical Jubilee, which calls for actions aimed at re-establishing the order of God's original plan for creation." Chapter Three is entitled "Theological Foundations" and it is subdivided into four parts: "The Mystery of the Church." "The Holiness of the Church," "The Necessity of Continual Renewal" and "The Motherhood of the Church." Here the document quotes Pope John Paul's Apostolic Letter Tern() millennio adveniente: "Hence it is appropriate that as the second millennium of Christianity draws to a close the Church should become ever more fully conscious of the sinfulness of her children, recalling all those times in history when they departed from the spirit of Christ and His Gospel and, instead of offering to the world the witness of a life inspired by the values of her faith, indulged in ways of thinking and acting which were truly forms of counter-witness and scandal. "Although she is holy because of her Incorporation into Christ, the Church does not tire of doing penance. "Before God and man, she always acknowledges as her own her sinful sons and daughters." "Historical Judgment and Theological Judgment" is the title of Chapter Four, which looks at the conditions for a correct interpretation of the past from the point of view of historical knowledge. It also studies the processes of historical investigation and theological evaluation. "What needs to be avoided," it says, "is an apologetic seeking to justify everything and an undeserved fixing of blame, based on an historically untenable attribution of responsibility." Following are excerpts from Chapter Five, entitled "Ethical Discernment." This explores "Some Ethical Criteria"; "The Division of Christians"; "The Use of Force in the Service of Truth"; "Christians and Jews" and "Our Responsibility for the Evils of Today." Ethical Discernment: "In order for the Church to carry out an appropriate historical examination of conscience before God with a view to her own interior renewal and growth in grace and holiness, it is necessary that she recognise the 'forms of counter-witness and of scandal' that have taken place in her history, especially in the past millennium. "It is not possible to undertake such a task without being aware of its moral and spir-

itual significance. "This entails defining some key terms, as well as making some necessary ethical clarifications." Some Ethical Criteria. "On the level of morality, the request for forgiveness always presupposes an admission of responsibility, precisely the responsibility for a wrong committed against others. "Usually, moral responsibility refers to the relationship between the action and the person who does it. "It establishes who is responsible for an act, its attribution to a certain person or persons. "The responsibility may be objective or subjective. . . . "Asking for forgiveness presupposes a contemporaneity between those who are hurt by an action and those who committed it "Thus, the evil done often outlives the one who did it through the consequences of behaviour that can become a heavy burden on the consciences and memories of the descendants. "The entire process of purification of memory, however, insofar as it requires the correct combination of historical evaluation and theological perception, needs to be lived by the Church's sons and daughters not only with the rigor that takes account of the criteria and principles indicated above, but that is also accompanied by a continual calling upon the help of the Holy Spirit. . . . . "We can now explore some examples among which are those mentioned in Tertb adveniente - of situations in which the behaviour of the sons and daughters of the Church seems to have contradicted the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a significant way. The Division of Christians: "The principal divisions during the past millennium which 'affect the seamless garment of Christ' are the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches at the beginning of this millennium, and in the West - four centuries later - the laceration caused by those events 'commonly referred to as the Reformation.' . . . . "The way that has opened to overcome these differences is that of doctrinal development animated by mutual love. "The lack of supernatural love, of 'agape', seems to have been common to both the breaches "Particularly problematic for the path toward the unity of Christians is the temptation to be guided - or even determined by cultural factors, historical conditioning, and those prejudices which feed separation and mutual distrust among Christians, even though they do not have anything to do with matters of faith. "The Church's sons and daughters should sincerely examine their consciences to see whether they are actively committed to obeying the imperative of unity and are living an 'interior conversion.' . . . . "To the extent that some Catholics are pleased to remain bound to the separations of the past, doing nothing to remove the obstacles that impede unity, one could justly speak of solidarity in the sin of division." The Use of Force in the Service of Truth: "Another sad chapter of history to which the sons and daughters of the Church must return with a spirit of repentance is that of the acquiescence given, especially in certain centuries, to intolerance and even the use of force in the service of truth "Analogous attention should be paid to all the failures, for which the sons and daughters of the Church may have been responsible, to denounce injustice and violence in the great variety of historical situations: 'Then there is the lack of discernment by many Christians in situations where basic human rights were via lated. "The request for forgiveness applies to whatever should have been done or was passed over in silence because of weakness or bad judgment, to what was done or said hesitantly or inappropriately.'" Christians and Jews: "The relationship between Christians and Jews is one of the areas requiring a special examination of conscience. "The Church's relationship to the Jewish

people is unlike the one she shares with any other religion. "Nevertheless, 'the history of the relations between Jews and Christians is a tormented one. . . . -In effect, the balance of these relations over two thousand years has been quite negative.' "The hostility or diffidence of numerous Christians toward Jews in the course of time is a sad historical fact and is the cause of profound remorse for Christians aware of the fact that 'Jesus was a descendent of David; that the Virgin Mary and the Apostles belonged to the Jewish people.' . . "The Shoah was certainly the result of the pagan ideology that was Nazism, a pagan ideology animated by a merciless antiSemitism that not only despised the faith of the Jewish people, but also denied their very human dignity. "Nevertheless, 'it may be asked whether the Nazi persecution 'of the Jews was not made easier by the anti-Jewish prejudices imbedded in some Christian minds and hearts_ .. "'Did Christians give every possible assistance to those being persecuted, and in particular to the persecuted Jews?' "There is no doubt that there were many Christians who risked their lives to save and to help their Jewish neighbours. "It seems, however, also true that 'alongside such courageous men and women, the spiritual resistance and concrete action of other Christians was not that which might have been expected from Christ's followers.' "This fact constitutes a call to the consciences of all Christians today.... to keep a 'moral and religious memory' of the injury inflicted on the Jews." Our Responsibility for the Evils of Today: 'The present age in fact, together with much light, also presents not a few shadows. "'First among the latter we might mention the phenomenon of the denial of God in its many forms "One encounters then a series of negative phenomena, like religious indifference, the widespread lack of a transcendent sense of human life, a climate of secularism and ethical relativism, the denial of the right to life of the unborn child sanctioned in proabortion legislation, and a great indifference to the cry of the poor in entire sectors of the human family "The true face of God has been revealed In Jesus Christ, and thus, Christians are offered the incommensurable grace to know this face "At the same time, however, Christians have the 'responsibility' to live in such a way as to show others the true face of the living God "Christians, in fact, do not believe only in the existence of sin, but also, and above all, In the 'forgiveness of sins.' "In addition, recalling these faults means accepting our solidarity with those who, in good and bad, have gone before us on the way of truth? Chapter Six is called "Pastoral and Missionary Perspectives" and looks at "The pastoral reasons for acknowledging the faults of the past"; "The implications for the life of the Church of an ecclesial request for forgiveness" and "The foreseeable implications for dialogue and mission of the Church's acknowledgement of past faults." The Conclusion of the document affirms that the Church's "request for pardon must not be understood as an expression of false humility or as a denial of her 2,000-year history, which is certainly rich in merit in the areas of charity, culture, and holiness. "Instead she responds to a necessary requirement of the truth, which, in addition to the positive aspects, recognises the human limitations and weaknesses of the various generations of Christ's disciples."

International News

Eichmann diaries confirm Pius XII help for Jews JERUSALEM, (ZENIT).- After Some people accuse the Church guarding Adolf Eichmann's of having done nothing in Octodiaries for almost 40 years, yes- ber, 1943, when the Nazis began terday the Israeli government to deport Jews from their "ghetto" made them public. in Rome. Eichmann, a Nazi SS lieutenant However, Eichmann wrote that colonel, was executed in 1962 in the Vatican "vigorously protested Israel for "crimes against the Jew- the arrest of Jews, requesting the ish people and against humanity." interruption of such action; to the Eichmann wrote these diaries contrary, the Pope would during the months following his denounce it publicly." This is a confirmation of the thedeath sentence. They are especially chilling in sis of those historians who have their description of the way the collected documents on the Nazi regime came to the "Final action undertaken by the Vatican Solution" against the Jews, and to defend Jews during those dark the way the extermination was years. implemented. It must be kept in mind that The pages are also very inter- Rome was occupied, and that the esting in studying the Vatican's Church was the only institution position on the persecution of that had the courage to denounce Jews. the Nazi action.

Christians should not be afraid, Pope says By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Imitating martyrs, Christians should not be afraid when their faith is mocked or put to the test, Pope John Paul II said. "Let us not be frightened by trials and difficulties; let obstacles not slow our making courageous and consistent choices," the Pope said on 5 March as he beatified 44 martyrs. Dressed in traditional costumes and waving flags from Brazil, the Philippines, Poland, Belarus, Thailand and Vietnam, an estimated 30,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square for the Mass. The martyrs honored included a Thai priest who died in 1944; 11 Polish nuns killed in 1943 by the Nazis in what is now Belams; a 17-year-old Filipino catechist killed in 1672 in Guam; two priests and 28 laypeople killed in Brazil in 1645; and a young Vietnamese catechist killed in 1644. Speaking in his homily about the new Vietnamese martyr, Andrew of Phu Yen, Pope John Paul prayed that his example and his beatification would be an encouragement to Catholics in Vietnam. "May all the disciples of Christ find in him strength and support In trials" and may they have the courage "to affirm their intimacy with the Lord, their knowledge of the Christian mysteries, their fidelity to the Church and their sense of mission," the Pope said. Three days before the Mass, Cardinal Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung of Hanoi, the bishops of Thai Binh and Quy Nhon and the Vicar General of Da Nang received permission from Vietnam's Communist government to travel to Rome for the beatification. They arrived the evening before the ceremony. Meeting on 8 March with the bishops and others who came to Rome for the beatification, the

Pope said Catholics in Vietnam should find in Andrew "a model of serene faith and of generous love for Christ and his church." In the young catechist and in his story, the Pope said at the audience, Vietnamese Catholics can find "the strength to remain faithful to their Christian vocation, being loyal to the Church and to their country." Also on 6 March. Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, reported that Catholic members of the Hmong ethnic group in north-west Vietnam were being persecuted by the government. Catechisms, Bibles, prayer books, crucifixes and sacred images have been outlawed, even in private homes, Fides wrote. Catholics have been told to give up their faith or face having their children thrown out of schools. having their fields confiscated or even being exiled. The Diocese of Hung Hoa, where the trouble seems to be concentrated, has been without a bishop for eight years, Fides said. "The government continues to resist Vatican suggestions for the nomination," the report said. At the beatification Mass, Pope John Paul told the crowd the new martyrs were "a shining testimony of the power of God" who accomplishes great things despite "the fragility of the human person." The 30 Brazilian martyrs, who included the first native-born Brazilians ever to be beatified, were killed by Dutch soldiers and by the indigenous men armed by the soldiers during the Dutch occupation of north-eastern Brazil. A dozen children, several married couples, elderly men and women and Fathers Andre de Soveral and Ambrosio Francisco Ferro were in the group beatified by the Pope.

In a chapter dedicated to Italy, Mathausen concentration camp. because these incidents were takEichmann explains that "on 6 He emphasised that, in giving ing place practically under VatiOctober, 1943, ambassador Moel- evidence under oath in the mili- can windows. hausen sent a telegraphic mes- tary prison of Gaeta on 27 June, But, precisely at that time, withsage to Foreign Minister 1961, Kappler said that it was with out paying any attention to the Ribbentrop in which he said that that order that for the first time he Church's position, the Italian Fasgeneral Keppler, SS commander heard the term 'Final Solution.'" cist government passed a law in Rome, had received a special "At that time, my office received ordering the deportation of all order from Berlin: he had to arrest the copy of a letter, that I imme- Italian Jews to concentration 8,000 Jews who were living in diately gave to my direct supericamps," Eichmann wrote in his Rome to deport them to northern ors, sent by the Catholic Church diary. Italy, where they would be exter- in Rome, in the person of Bishop "The objections given and the minated. Hudal, to the commander of the General Stahel, commander of German forces in Rome, General excessive delay in the steps necessary to complete the implethe German forces in Rome, Stahel. of the operation, mentation explained to ambassador MoelThe Church was vigorously hausen that, from his point of protesting the arrest of Jews of resulted, in a great part, of Italian view, it would be better to use the Italian citizenship, requesting that Jews being able to hide and Jews for fortification works. such actions be interrupted escape capture," Eichmann wrote. A good number of them hid in On October 9, however, Ribben- immediately throughout Rome convents or were helped by men trop answered that the 8,000 Jews and its surroundings. of Rome had to be deported to the The Curia was especially angry and women of the Church.

Call for aid for Mozambique By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II urged international aid to flood-stricken Mozambique, where thousands were feared dead in the wake of a cyclone. As aid agencies scrambled to provide emergency food and medical assistance to hundreds of thousands of survivors, the Pope praised the international response but said more was needed. Speaking at a Sunday blessing on 5 March, the Pope said his thoughts were with "the people of Mozambique, who are experiencing a tragedy of unprecedented proportions caused by the serious flooding that has stricken a vast portion of the country. "International solidarity has come forth without stop in recent days, but there is still much to do. "I encourage everyone to continue generously in the relief efforts, in order to ease the dramatic burden of our brothers," he said. The worst areas of flooding were in Mozambique's Limpopo River valley, about 160 km northeast of the capital. Maputo. Despite deliveries of emergency supplies by helicopter, aid workers said they risked running out

A child plays in a stagnant pool of water in the flood-ravaged town of Photo" CNS,Reuters Machanga in southern Mozambique on 6 March.

of safe water in camps where more than 200,000 people were being temporarily sheltered. Authorities were discouraging displaced families from returning to their homes because of the risk of additional flooding. They also cited a risk of disease as receding floodwaters left bodies exposed. The Mozambican government has not made an official estimate

of the dead, but relief agencies said the final toll is likely to be in the thousands. Catholic Relief Services, the US bishops' international relief and development agency, said on 2 March, it was sending an assessment team to the region to begin an emergency response in cooperation with local church partners.

Seminarians talk, pray with Holy Father ROME (CNS) - When he was archbishop of Krakow, the future Pope John Paul II talked with each of his diocese's seminarians. Now, he said. as Bishop of Rome, "I can just shake hands with each seminarian." Making his annual visit to Rome's major seminary on 4 March, Pope John Paul prayed the rosary with the students and made a short speech, ate dinner with them and shook their hands. He also shared with them his thoughts on how an important event in the Diocese of Rome was going: the Holy Year 2000. "The Holy Year has started very

well," he said. "It has surpassed pre-visions. This is what we have noticed in the first days, first weeks, first two months." Pope John Paul encouraged the 160 seminarians to participate in the jubilee events, including walking over the threshold of the Holy Door at St Peter's Basilica. The Pope told the seminarians they should look to the Blessed Virgin Mary for the perfect model of a faithful disciple of Christ. "Following her example and thanks to her intercession we, too, learn to believe, to trust and to receive the abundant gifts of grace which the Lord wants to lavish on

us," he said. "Dear seminarians," he said, "love Mary, our heavenly mother, during the years of your formation and in those of your generous and holy ministry in order to honour her one day in Heaven." Pope John Paul also asked the seminarians to remember how they are watched by their younger brothers, friends and young men in the parishes they served. "May your example help many young men overcome the thousands of fears life brings and open themselves to trust and to commitment," he said.

Seminary dean faces child sex charges SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) Father Carl A. Schipper, academic dean at St Patrick Seminary in the San Francisco Archdiocese, was arrested on 2 March on suspicion of solicitation of sex with minors via the Internet and suspicion of child sex abuse. A statement from the archdiocese said that a search warrant presented to officials at St Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, where Father Schipper lives, said San Jose police were investigating

possible charges. Father Schipper, 57, was arrested by police in Sonoma County, where he also has a residence. He was subsequently transferred to police custody in San Jose. Archdiocesan officials said they learned of the investigation when police served a search warrant at the seminary on 2 March to search the priest's quarters there. The archdiocese said Father Schipper has been relieved of his duties as academic dean and

placed on administrative leave. He has been at St Patrick Seminary for the past eight years. Ordained in 1968 for the San Francisco Archdiocese, he was an associate pastor at St Raymond's Church, in Menlo Park From 1978-8Z he was pastor of St Gabriel's Church, in San Francisco. Before taking the dean's post at St Patrick Seminary in 1992, he was the head of the archdiocese's K-12 education programs.

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Asian Catholic News

Timorese welcome Wahid visit DILI, East Timor (UCAN) Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid called for reconciliation between Indonesia and East Timor during his visit to the newly-independent East Timor where the majority of people are Catholics. "You were oppressed and we were under tyranny. But 'Alhamdulillah' (thanks to God) the past period, which was full of hardship and pain, will end soon," Wahid told some 5,000 people who came to greet him on 29 February. "Let us start building a better future for Timor Leste (a local term for East Timor) and IndoneXanana Gusmao sia," the president said at the office of the United nations Tran- Indonesia's first head of state to sitional Administration in East set foot in East Timor since the Timor (UNTAET). majority of East Timorese voted Amid tight security, Salesian for independence from Indonesia Bishop Carlos Filippe Ximenes last August Belo, Bishop Basilio do NasciTo East Timorese youths, the mento, respectively apostolic Indonesian president promised administrators of Dili and Baucau, that he would open the door for East Timor independence leader East Timorese students to return Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao to Indonesia to continue their and UNTAKr head Sergio Vieira unfinished university studies. de Melo greeted Wahid. He is Wahid also laid wreaths and

Bishop Belo

President Abdurrahman Wahid

prayed at Santa Cruz cemetery, the site of a massacre by Indonesian troops in 1991, and at the nearby Seroja Heroes Cemetery, the grave site of Indonesian soldiers killed during their tours in the territory. "Iwould like to apologise for the things that have happened in the past to the victims or the families for our friends, who are buried here. They are the victims of the

circumstance that we did not want," Wahid said. According to supporters of independence, about 250 were killed in the Santa Cruz incident, while Indonesian authorities put the number at more than 50. Earlier Bishop Belo told the press that the visit of President Wahid would open a new era of friendly relations between the two neighbouring countries. "East

Timor people had sincerely prepared themselves to welcome President Wahid. The visit will bring fresh air for bilateral relations between Indonesia and East Timor," Bishop Belo said. Gusmao told the press that he is confident that Wahid's visit would help build good relations between the two nations. "He is a great Muslim cleric in Indonesia and a symbol of democracy in the 21st century. His message will be useful for East Timor people to build a new nation and state," Gusmao said. From Dili, Wahid flew to Kupang, capital of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, in western Timor, Indonesia, to visit East Timor refugees there. On behalf of religious leaders, Divine Word Bishop Anton Pain Rain of Atambua who calls himself "the bishop of refugees" asked Wahid to speed up the repatriation and resettlement process of East Timorese refugees. According to a local source, about 100,000 refugees are still living in west Timor, 70,000 of them in Atambua diocese.

Delhi donation campaign means the eyes have it Laotians NEW DELHI, India (CNS) - Catholics in the Delhi Archdiocese responded enthusiastically to an eye donation campaign that the local Church has revived as part of its jubilee program. "Pledging our eyes is a small gift to God," said Deepak James, who, along with his family members, has promised to donate his eyes. The archdiocese launched the "Pledge Eye" project two years ago to create social awareness, but it picked up momentum only last October, Father M Devadhas, head of the campaign, told UCA News, an Asian Church news agency based in Thailand, on 17 February. "Now Catholics have become very excited" about the project, added Father Devadhas, also head of justice and peace development for the archdiocese. To popularise the project, the archdiocese set up a six-member committee, which decided to incorporate it in the Holy Year celebra-

Sin ends memorial MANILA (UCAN) - Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila closed the "official" annual commemoration of the 1986 "people power" uprising in Manila with a Jubilee year call for "a re-direction of priorities in favour of the poor." The cardinal, 72, said he accepted the people's current cry for new leadership in the "people power" spirit. "Even if my knees and my voice fail, I promise never to fail you in fighting for freedom and speaking for justice and truth," he added. During his homily for the 25 February anniversary Mass at Mary Queen of Peace Shrine in Quezon City, Cardinal Sin stated that society can change only through conversion "within each person." While acknowledging that the uprising on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) changed only "the personalities in 1986," not "the corrupt system," he said EDSA was "a jubilee experience. . . . a resurrection for a people who had been abused, tortured, (executed without trial), raped, plundered, slain."

tions. Archbishop Alan de Lastic of Delhi described the project as a "significant and unique gesture and contribution" from Catholics to the nation during the jubilee year. K L Batra, head of Venu Eye Bank that handles the archdiocesan donations, described the project as "a new path" that binds the blind with others. The Hindu physician hailed the arc.hdiocesan project as a "symbolic gesture" of Delhi Catholics to "carry out Jesus' healing ministry." Batra said Delhi alone has some 76,000 blind people but only 900 corneas in its eye banks. "In this way what the diocese is doing is praiseworthy, though it may seem a small contribution," he told UCA News on 9 February. Varghese Anthony, a worker at a voluntary agency for slum children, said his family became enthusiastic about the project because they believe "what can be used by

others after death should be donated." The Pledge Eye team visits parishes to speak about the project and to distribute pledge forms after Sunday Masses. "They also use the archdiocese's large network of schools to enlist support," Father Devadhas said. Father Susai Sebastian of Delhi's Sacred Heart Cathedral said "eye donation has become a wide topic for discussion" among his parishioners. Valsamma K Daniel, a parishioner of Our Lady of Graces Church in Delhi's Vikaspuri, said she is encouraged by the fact that even after her death someone else will be able to use her eyes "to see and admire God's creation." Father Devadhas said the project is open only to Catholics, "because it has to be a Catholic contribution during the jubilee year."

Praise for reconciliation work By John Norton VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In a meeting with South Korea's president, Pope John Paul II encouraged the Asian country to persevere in reconciliation efforts with Stalinist North Korea. Praising South Korea's humanitarian assistance to famine-shicken North Koreans, the Pope also urged the international community to "continue to show generosity" in relieving the North's human suffering. South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, a Catholic, met with the Pope and Vatican officials on 4 March. It was the first such visit by a South Korean head of state. Acknowledging that the path to reconciliation between the two Koreas "will be long and difficult,"

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the Pope praised Kim's government for continuing to promote harmonious relations despite obstacles. South Korea's humanitarian assistance to the North - facing serious food shortages after years of drought and floods - was a con-

crete sign of the South's commitment to reconciliation, the Pope said. Noting South Korea's own social and economic hardships brought on by the Asian financial crisis, the Pope said development must be guided by respect for human rights and dignity. "Productivity and profit cannot be the sole measure of progress," the Pope said. "Mire development requires that every man and woman be seen as the subject of Inalienable rights and freedoms, and that the social, cultural and religious dimensions of life be always and everywhere defended and promoted." At the conclusion of the meetings, Kim visited St Peter's Basilica, entering through the Holy Door and praying at the Tomb of St Peter.

Starving North Koreans celebrate Jubilee

SEOUL (Fides) - Although lacking food and priests, North Korean Catholics are celebrating the Jubilee with faith, priests of South Korea report after visits to Pyongyang. Father Lim Mun-chiol of Cheju diocese, who made a 10-day visit to North Korea and Yonbyon, China, from 8 February, witnessed the crucial situation: "North Koreans suffer to the point that at least one person of each family has died of starvation." But nevertheless the Great Jubilee is here too. Another priest Fr Cho Hwan-kil of Taegu archdiocese, on his first visit to the North said: was very happy to celebrate this first jubilee Mass for North Korean Catholics and I sensed that the 130 North

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Korean Catholics were very happy too. We prayed together for unification of our country and that the true Jubilee comes to North Korean Church." Fr Cho, chancellor and president of the pastoral department of Taegu archdiocese, made his 9-day visit from 28 January to 5 February, to North Korea with Dr Kim Soon-won from the International Corn Foundation invited by the North Korean agricultural academy to discuss ways to help North Korea. Fathers Park Chang-ul and Kim Taek-am from the Korea Priests Association for Justice were with them. On 29 January the group celebrated Mass at Chanchung Church and were welcomed by the faithful.

harass Catholics BANGKOK (UCAN) Church leaders and catechists have expressed optimism that harsh measures against religious activities in the past year in the remote villages in Savannakhet, south-central Laos, will come to an end. Local security officers in the eastern part of Savannakhet near the Vietnam border carried out various forms of harassment targeting mostly new Catholic converts or catechumens in some 15 villages last year, Church sources told UCA News. The harsh measures included closing down of a new church in one village, the tearing down of a church in another, forbidding Catholics to assemble for religious services, coercing new Catholics to sign papers renouncing their faith and threatening to arrest a priest, the sources said. In the renunciation document prepared by the local government with the name of each local Catholic on it, the Catholics had to renounce the "foreign religion," the sources reported. Although many signed the papers, there were villagers including Catholic leaders and catechists who refused to sign. In one village the whole Catholic population refused to sign. A local Church source in Laos said that many of those who signed the papers later apologised to local priests. Despite such repression, Church leaders and catechists in Laos said the harassment will not last. It will "pass" because such actions only provoke hostility among villagers, sources said. In Laos, the Catholic Church is unable to operate freely in the highlands and much of the north. However, Catholics are able to worship openly in the big towns of the central and southern provinces.

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t Dominic's school in ing the best possible use of it and Innaloo takes its name transforming the school. from, and was inspired by Like so many other congregaits founders, the Dominican Sis- tions in recent decades, the ters. Dominicans relinquished their They came to WA in 1940 and role in the school. But by the time after commencing several works they handed over to lay direction in their early years opened the in 1987 they had established a school in 1955. standard and atmosphere that Then, it had just 96 students. continues to be a benchmark. Within two years it had grown to St DOMillieS today operates on a figure close to today's figure of a shared leadership model where approximately three times that two assistant principals (one for number and has served the fami- Administration and one for Relilies of Innaloo and surrounding gious Education) assist principal areas in the Dominican tradition Darryl Winsor. of commitment to truth (Veritas,' Religious education is central to - Ihrth' in English - is the school's the curriculum. The school's RE motto and that of the Dominican program is a systematic, Order) ever since then. sequenced program helping chilBut today it is doubtful anyone dren relate their faith to their lives. who was at St Dominic's in its earEach class spends approximatelier years would recognise it, ly 30 minutes per day on formal thanks to an extensive renovation religious education but perhaps and building program which has just as importantly this is also taken place over the past four integrated into all subjects and years. aspects of school life in an inforAs principal Darryl Winsor mal but meaningful way. noted, this has realised the potenA whole-school Mass is celetial of a small block of land, mak- brated on most Fridays of the year and children are actively involved in choosing themes, scriptural readings, prayers and hymns. It is in the field of religious education that the school has recognised one fundamental issue which Catholic schools throughout WA must grapple with: the key importance of parents. Parents are the prime educators of their children and the school's religion program is only as effective as parental example and support in the home environment. In other words, if mum and dad aren't living out their faith, no Walking back to school from Mass.

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Year 1 students Theresa Goddard and Kalon Benier proudly show off their 'Year 2000' glasses, above, while teacher Angela Hoyne takes their peers through a class. Principal Darryl Winsor, left; drops by for a quick chat with the Year 7 student leaders, responsible for helping run student affairs. The school tuckshop, below, is part of the extensive building program.

S44:1 school can take the place of those whose example is the key to helping faith, and the values which flow from it, take root in hearts. This is one reason why the school officially encourages family prayer and attendance at Sunday Mass, which do much to help the child integrate faith into his or her daily life. On the academic front, teaching staff attend professional development courses in all subject areas and are therefore well-informed on current educational thinking. The Curriculum Frameworks are in the process of being implemented into all learning areas and a language support teacher assists children who need individual or small group assistance; this teacher also spends time with children who would benefit from the extension of the regular classroom curriculum. All children are expected to participate in the sport program, learning a variety of skills; the school enters teams in afterschool netball competitions and 'in-term' swimming lessons are also available. St Dominic's is a member of an interschool sports association and competes in swimming and athletics carnivals, with various lightning carnivals held throughout the year. Music and its application to Instruments and song are taught by a specialist and classes have

regular choir practice of liturgical enhance the child's learning and music; children have the oppor- social development. Children tunity to perform in festivals, from Year 5 upwards are expectschool assemblies and the Per- ed to attend a school camp - what better way to learn than in an forming Arts festival each year. Through a subsidy from the atmosphere of something new Halo-Australian Welfare and Cul- and different? This is St Dominic's, a thriving tural Centre, Italian lessons are offered to children in all grades. educational community charting a path into the 21st Century but including pre-Primary. Indonesian Studies have also one which also hearkens back to been introduced in the upper pri- the most noble of educational endeavours which was brought to mary classes this year. Meanwhile, all classes are It by a small band of religious involved in the school's computer women 45 years ago - a commitliteracy program which operates ment to God and to truth. on a school-wide network of Pentium computers located in the computer laboratory. The school Is implementing a learning techPrincipal: Mr Darryl Winsor nology plan which will see comAddress: 95 Beatrice St, puters in each of the classrooms Innaloo. Telephone: (08) 9446 1929 over the next couple of years. Fax: (08) 9446 1923 Camps and excursions, which Enrolment 256 boys & girls introduce something new and Email: refreshing into the ordinary cycle adminestdominics.wa.edu.au of school life are also part of the curriculum and are designed to

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