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Bishops set up lAtomens' group Australia's Catholic Bishops will establish a Commission for Australian Catholic Women, one of several responses to the report into the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia the Bishops received last year. The commission will be established to assist in the implementation of the practical steps the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference will undertake to improve the participation of women in the Catholic Church; it will play a part in facilitating an ongoing dialogue about their participation. Archbishop Barry Hickey told The Record last Monday Australia's Catholic Bishops would have the final say on the membership of the Commission, a membership that he said could also include men. "It was the mind of the bishops that this commission not be about power struggles but about the broader participation of women in the life and mission of the Church," Archbishop Hickey said. He said the bishops, meeting last week in Sydney, decided that the process of determining the commission's membership would begin with individual bishops sending nominations for the commission to the Bishops' Committee for the Laity. The committee for the laity would

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then propose a membership for the commission drawn from these nominations. A full meeting of the bishops would then have the opportunity to confirm the membership. Archbishop Hickey said the detail of how the commission would operate was yet to be worked out by the Bishops' Committee for the Laity. ACBC spokesman on the matter, Bishop Michael Putney of Brisbane. told The Record last Monday the commission's work would, broadly speaking, include research into the matters of concern raised by women in the course of the consultation for the report regarding their place in the Church in Australia. He said the commission would aim at producing a statement on these topics and look at responding pastorally to these issues. Bishop Putney said the new wornens' commission would have nine members and be representative of "this large country of ours." It would also reflect the multicultural makeup of Australia as well. Although the commission would not be made up entirely of women, "presumably women will be in the majority," he said. In an earlier statement announcing the commission, Bishop Putney said: "The Bishops recognise that there were differences among women in the way that they responded to the questions from the original research." Continued on Page 15; more women's stories - Page 11

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From Parliament's ministerial table to the altar of the Lord

Fr Michael Tate pronounces the words of consecration during his Mass of Thanksgiving on Saturday, May 20, In the Church of the Holy Spirit, Sandy Bay, in Hobart. Immediately behind him is one of the concelebrants, Fr Raymond Rafferty, a friend from New York. By Penny Edman

A "vocation long deferred" was finally fulfilled with the ordination of former Federal Labor Government Senator and Minister, Tasmanian Michael Tate, last week in Hobart. Archbishop Adrian Doyle of Hobart ordained the legal academic. former Senator, Justice Minister and Australian Ambassador before almost 1000 people packed into St Mary's Cathedral, Hobart, last Friday, 19 May. Guests included the Archbishop Emeritus of Hobart, Dr Eric D'Arcy, between 65 and 70 priests from around the world, family and friends including many national and state dignitaries from political, legal and Church circles. Among them were former Governor-General, Bill Hayden; former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Federal Labor AttorneysGeneral Lionel Bowen and Michael Duffy. Throughout the course of the night, messages also were acknowledged from the Pope through the Vatican's Secretariat of State and former Labor Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Fr Tate was elected to the Senate of the Australian Parliament from 1978-1993. He was Minister for justice from 1987-1993, and Ambassador to the Netherlands and the Holy See from 1993-96. For the past several years, he has been a student for the Catholic priesthood for the Archdiocese of Hobart. Archbishop Doyle, in his homily said: "In your earlier experiences of being a teacher, a defender of justice and the promoter of a more compassionate society, the power of God has been at work in your life. . . . (Now) you will not be

Archbishop Adrian Doyle ordains former Senator Tate last Friday evening, 19 May.

preaching in the name of a faculty, or speaking on behalf of a political party, or as a representative of a country, but in the name of the Risen Christ." "Your role as sanctifier will not be about the laws of the land but about the 'things that pertain to God'." Speaking after the ordination, Fr Tate quoted the famous 19th century English convert, Cardinal Henry Newman: "Late have I loved you, 0 Beauty so ancient and new; late haveIloved you" Fr Tate added that he was "by God's grace. a priest tonight but somewhat late and very conscious of the people through whom that grace has been mediated to me." Continued on Page 15

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Former hijacker says real Fatima secret to come By Peter Rosengren Laurence James Downey, 73, a Perth-born former wartime merchant navy sailor and ex-Trappist monk, has had an interesting life. One of the interesting bits came when, in an attempt to have the Third Secret of Fatima released, he hijacked Irish Aer Lingus flight El 169 from Dublin in 1981 and ordered it to land at Heathrow Airport in London. Last Friday, 19 May, Mr Downey told The Record in a faxed response to questions that he was surprised by Pope John Paul ll's decision to release the text of the Third Secret of Fatima. Mr Downey's connection with the secret goes back decades. When he hijacked the Irish flight he threatened to set fire to himself and blow up the plane, together with the 113 people who were on board. Perhaps the most startling thing about his hijacking, however, was what he wanted. Mr Downey, who lives these days in a quiet northern Perth suburb, did not want jailed Red Brigades or PLO terrorists set free - the sort of demand authorities might initially have expected from a hijacker. Instead, he said he would blow up the plane unless

the Pope released the Third Secret's text. The plane eventually landed at Le Touquet in France where it was stormed by French special forces. For his troubles Mr Downey subsequently spent five years in several French jails. The Vatican refused to release the secret, waiting nearly 20 years before Pope John Paul II unveiled part of its content at Fatima last week when he beatified Jacinta and Francisco, the two shepherd children who had visions of Mary in Portugal in 1917. However Mr Downey disputes the meaning attributed to the text by the Pope in a statement after the beatification ceremony from his top aide, Cardinal Angelo Sodano. In the statement, Cardinal Sodano said the Pope believed the secret referred to the assassination attempt on his life made by Mehmet All Agca in 1981. The US's Catholic News Service later reported that the last remaining visionary, Sr Lucy, confirmed the meaning of the secret in a meeting at Fatima between herself and the Pope. However Mr Downey is still working hard on getting out what he says is its real meaning. He told The Record last Thursday, 18 May, he believed Pope

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Hijacker which, he said in his letter to the New York Times, will be

published later this year and, "contains the Secret which concerns the Parousia." The term `Parousia' refers to the second coming of Jesus Christ foretold by the Book of Revelations in the New Testament. But a guess can be made as to something of the secret's meaning in Mr Downey's thinking. In a press release issued last December, he said, the booklet he had written contained the "missing essentials" and dealt "with the Laurence James Downey, former hijacker now author, at home in Perth last (spiritual) Fall of Rome and the week. Mr Downey said the real meaning of Third Secret of Fatima could to Conversion of Russia. Both of which events form part of the be found by reading "between" its lines. Photo Peter Rosengren overall picture of the Fatima RevJohn Paul II had not revealed the at Fatima is a 'cover up' because elations." real Third Secret. the secret is bad news for the Mr Downey says the book tells Although the words may have Church of Rome," he wrote. Asked of his mission in life, which he been those of the secret con- if the information released so far in while the signed to the Pope by Sr Lucia, by the Pope matched what he discovered "to mission was the monastery one of the three Fatima seers, its believed to be the Third Secret he real meaning could only be found said he was waiting for the full introduce an incorruptible form in the "between-the-lines" mean- text to be released by the Vatican. of government administration ing, he said. In his written response to The into the world as the forerunner In a letter to the New York Times Record, Mr Downey said he did to the establishment of an hithernewspaper sent by e-mail on not believe that the Pope knew to utopian ideal of a Churchless and Stateless society in accorMonday 15 May this year, Mr what the secret was. dance with the Biblical prophecy Downey said the secret had "nothBut he refused to comment on ing to do with the attempted what he thought its real meaning and promise of a millennium of Peace." assassination of John Paul II in was. 1981. The Pope's recent message Mr Downey is currently work- More Fatima reports - Page 11

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By Glynnis Grainger Refugees who have been given a Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) should be entitled to the same basic rights as other residents of Australia, Archbishop Barry Hickey said. Archbishop Hickey, the retiring chairman of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Committee for Migrants and Refugees, expressed concern that the Federal Government was being discriminatory in failing to provide adequate access to basic community services to holders of TPVs. Speaking from Sydney, the Director of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office, Fr John Murphy, told The Record that a TPV was a visa given to people who arrive without proper documentation often called "illegals." "If they

are found to have a valid refugee employment." Catholic agenclaim, they are given a tempo- cies, along with many other rary protection three-year visa - churches and community since November last year - now groups, were responding to the known as a TPV," he said. Immediate needs of TPV hold"At the end of two-and-a-half ers. years, they can put in an appliHowever, they did not have the cation for a permanent visa, and resources to do this alone, he if they still have a claim, they said. will probably be given permaAlso, many non-Government nent residence [by the Federal agencies were not permitted to Government]." use Government funds for this Archbishop Hickey said "The purpose. Federal Government awards "We are not asking the Govsuccessful on-shore refugee ernment to find a solution applicants a TPV but does very which excludes the involvement little to assist them to settle in of the Catholic Church," Archthis country." bishop Hickey said. "How can we expect these "We are seeking an opportupeople to integrate into society nity to work with the Governwhen they have no access to ment to provide these new Federal assistance in the areas Australian residents with a fair of accommodation, employ- and equal chance to find their ment, or English skills? feet. "The limited financial assis"The Catholic Church stands tance they receive is insufficient ready to assist with its increased to support them till they find refugee program."

More Perth parish priest appointments Father Steve Durkin, parish priest of Kalgoorlie, will be the new parish priest of St Francis of Assisi parish, Maida Vale, from 17 June, Archbishop Barry Hickey announced this week. Archbishop Hickey also told The Record last Monday that Fr Francis Ughanze, parish priest of Holy Trinity, Embleton, would move to be parish

priest of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Palmyra, from this weekend, 28 May. He said Fr Patrick Lim would take up the position of parish priest of Sacred Heart parish, Thornlie, also this weekend, 28 May. The Archbishop said new appointments for Kalgoorlie and Embleton were yet to be made.

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Pro-death doctors 'not expert in care of dying' There is no such thing as cancer pain which cannot be relieved, a leading palliative care specialist told The Recordlast Monday after two Perth doctors called for the legalisation of euthanasia. Dr Andrew Dean, a consultant physician in palliative care at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and at St John of God hospital, said it was still a common public myth that there were cases of cancer pain that could not be relieved. The major advances in techniques and drugs in recent years meant all such cases could now be cared for so that people died pain-free, he said. Dr Dean also attacked the Dutch experience with euthanasia, saying that it had been shown that thousands were killed by doctors In Holland each year without their consent. There had even been a case

where a six-year-old Dutch girl tant to point out that those who with Downs Syndrome who had are, such as oncology specialists no disease had been killed at her and palliative care specialists, are overwhelmingly not in favour of parents' request, he said. Meanwhile, he added, even Dr euthanasia," he said. Philip Nitschke had admitted in a • "What we see is a lot of people recent article in the influential in strife because of poor symptom British medical magazine, The control who express a wish to die Lancet, that of the seven people but when you fix it up, the wish is who died in the Northern Territo- withdrawn," Dr Dean told The ry under the NT's laws, three had Record. The Coalition for the Defence of major depression while a fourth Human Life, a grouping of 22 WA did not have a terminal illness. This meant that more than 50 pro-life organisations, also rejectper cent of those who were killed ed the call from the two doctors, during the duration of the NT law saying no doctors should be were illegal according to NT laws, licensed to kill. Coalition secretary Ted Watt he said. This proved it was impossible to said palliative care specialists "are introduce euthanasia laws with- nearly universally opposed to euthanasia. They know from out them being abused, he said. Dr Dean said neither of the two hard-won experience that most Perth doctors who called for requests to be euthanased - put to euthanasia's legalisation this death - are really indications that week were from medical disci- more expert palliative care is plines "hugely involved with the needed, whether to treat pain or other physical symptoms or the care of the dying." "And as such I think it's impor- clinical depression that often

The Mary Mother of Sorrows Prayer Group held a special Jubilee Year Mass and celebration last Thursday to mark its faith journey over the past 12 years. It was held in St Joseph's Convent, South Perth. The celebrant was Fr Michael McMahon, head of the Pallottine Fathers in Western Australia. The Mass was later followed by a finger food luncheon attended by approximately 60 women and a few men. Fr McMahon said in his homily, "when you think about Church, think about structure, and think about loving one another." One of the foundation members, Jeanie Gardner, told the group at the convent, "a group of 12 ladies got together at Dafne's (Jones's) home at her request to do a seminar and we met there for eight

weeks." The group met at other women's homes before finding a headquarters at Our Lady's Chapel at St Joseph Pignatelli Church, Attadale. Over the years the group has organised many events to assist the work of the Church. They have donated money to St Charles Seminary, helped serve at a soup kitchen at St Patrick's Basilica, Fremantle, run buss bees, cleaned up gardens, had a food roster for people who were ill, and supported a World Vision child and a mission in Guatemala, among other charity works. Spokeswoman Barbara Frost told The Record they have a retreat for women every year and invite other people to attend. The group meets on a Thursday at 1pm at St Joseph Pignatelli - Glynnis Grainger Church.

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accompanies terminal illness." Speaking later on public radio he noted that one of the doctors supporting,euthanasia's legalisation was not a specialist in care of the dying but a urologist. "As people who are not urologists don't give him advice on how to conduct operations on the urinary tract, he should not pronounce on palliative care, he's speaking beyond his competence." The Catholic Doctors Association of WA issued a statement on behalf of seven WA Catholic organisations providing health care saying no doctors or nurses should ever be asked to deliberately kill anyone. In 1996 a US Congressional report found that in 1990 alone more than 1,000 people were killed in the Netherlands by their doctors without their consent. Euthanasia practices have been tolerated in the Netherlands since the mid-1970s.

VATICAN CITY. (VIS) - The Third Continental Seminar promoted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the theme "Promoting Human Dignity in Oceania" is currently underway in Melbourne, according to a communique published last Tuesday by this council. The 150 participants. including 10 archbishops and bishops, priests, religious and laity, come from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The communique said themes discussed included the ethics of economic and financial globalisation and the need to re-propose values of social justice and solidarity" Archbishop Francois Xavier Van Thuan and Bishop Diarmuid Martin, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for justice and Peace. are participating in the seminar.

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Father Geoff Beyer blesses the meal at St Joseph's Convent in South Perth after the Mass organised by the Mary Mother of Sorrows Prayer Group.

In his third week in the parish of Willetton/Brentwood, the new parish priest liad his Brentwood church broken into and desecrated last week. Fr Wayne Davis arrived at Regina Coeli Church at 9am last Thursday morning, for 9.30am Mass. "The processional Cross had been used to try and get into the sacristy and money boxes," Fr Davis told The Record. The tabernacle had been ripped off the wall and smashed open with a shovel. "The Blessed Sacrament was all over the floor - I was shocked," he said. A heater and portable CD player stolen were later recovered by police.

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Aussie missionary has lived to tell the tale By Todd Flanagan Fortunately, not many of us are placed in positions where we actually fear for our lives during our working day. But for some missionaries this workplace condition is common enough. Sister Margaret Culhane, recently back from Uganda where she has been working with Sudanese refugees, has been visiting Perth Catholic schools speaking about her experiences as a missionary. Last week Sr Margaret visited Trinity College - a school known for its work with missions in India - where she held a captive audience as she spoke about moving to Uganda after years of teaching in Australia. "Ididn't think I could do it,'" she told the boys when they asked about her motivation for doing it. "I think I'm pretty practically minded.I think I was able to meet the challenges and was able to

convert them to my life there." It appears the challenges in Uganda are great and while Sr chose to water down some of the more intricate and graphic details for her young audience, there is no doubting the fear that formed part of the challenge. Towards the end of her time in Uganda, Sr Margaret and her other workers were held as hostages by Government troops. Apparently this was an Ihttempt by the troops to save faca against rebel insurrection. After UN intervention the workers were released one evening. "We were let go at curfew'" Sr recounts. "I really thought I was going to my death. We left two by two so that there would be someone to Students at Trinity College listen as Sr Margaret Culhane tells them of her tell the story if we didn't make it." experiences as a missionary - which include being taken hostage in Uganda. Ambushes are rife at night. faith. "It becomes a no-frills faith. driver and he was a wonderful Sr Margaret believes that the It's just straight out faith," she says. inspiration. experiences she has as a mis- "My faith is very different to how "Every day when we reached the sionary have changed her and her I used to believe. I had a Muslim safety of the compound he would

say, 'Thanks God' and his shoulders would slump. It spoke volumes. "Iwould say 'see you tomorrow' and he would reply 'enchala' - if God wishes, we meet tomorrow." Sr Margaret says it is very different being back but she is gradually adjusting. "It is very difficult. My heart was really there. I loved what I was doing bull knew one day it would end.Iwas there to help them and to eventually work myself out of a job." Since being back in Perth, Sr has enjoyed her interaction with the schools she visits. "The children are excellent. They sit there and listen. The questions they ask show they are taking it in." And what about the odd individual who may not listen? "When I start talking about the times that the bullets hit the vehicle I was driving; they listen," she says with a laugh.

NDA students jump into the soup Armadale Primary's day for reconciliation

The Australian Red Cross's hope of offering their Fremantle soup patrol on Saturday nights has now become a reality with the help of the University of Notre Dame Australia. A number of volunteer students and staff have undergone training to get the soup patrol underway on Saturday nights. The Red Cross van circles the streets of Fremantle stopping at various advertised venues to offer soup to anyone who may need it. The University's Edmund Rice Centre, which aims to promote a sense of social responsibility, acceptance and belonging through community service, answered the initial call for help. Students and staff go out in groups of three with a designated driver and two servers. Director of the Edmund Rice Centre, Dr Peter Harney, said the response to the call for volunteers had been very well received.

The Notre Dame University student-manned Red Cross van in action.

"Our students and staff are always very responsive to community needs and this has been no exception," he said. Those who had participated so

far this year had found it a very rewarding experience and had appreciated the opportunity to give something to the local community. - Glynnis Grainger

CEO staffer to be new head of Caritas A Perth Catholic Education Office staffer is the new director of Caritas, the overseas aid and development arm of the Catholic Church in Australia. The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference announced the appointment of Mr Jack de Groot, 34, as the new National Director last week. Mr de Groot, currently Coordinator of Faith Integration and Formation at the CEO, is expected to take up the post of National Director of Caritas Australia in August. Mr de Groot is well known in Catholic Social Justice and Caritas circles in Australia. He was the founding executive officer of the Melbourne Archdiocese's Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, he and his wife Fiona moved to Perth, where he took the position of consultant with the Professional and Faith Development Team of the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia. Since 1998 he has been Coordinator of the Faith Integration and Formation Team. He has assisted the work of Caritas Australia in both Melbourne and Perth and accompanied a "Think Globally, Act Locally" group to South America on one occasion. Mr de Groot has also served as a member of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council. A former student of Xavier College, in Melbourne, Mr de Groot

for the Australian community in helping us getting to know our neighbours and the possibility of our contribution to the rest of the world. "I look forward to being part of that story." Caritas Australia's Chairman, Bishop Hilton Deakin says he is delighted by Mr de Groot's appointment. "Mr de Groot will provide strong and collaborative leadership, and his commitment to social justice and to the work of Caritas Australia will have a positive impact on our work both at home and abroad." Mr de Groot replaces Mr Tom Story, who retired in March this year after four years of service as National Director. Formed in 1964, Caritas AusCaritas Australia's new national tralia has grown to become one of director, Jack de Groot, who current- Australia's most significant overly works at the Catholic Education seas aid and development agenOffice of WA. cies, responsible for handling holds the Degree of Bachelor of public donations and government Arts from the University of Mel- funds. In 1999 Caritas Australia's annubourne and is this year completing a Bachelor of Theology al income was $17 million. Ills best known for its annual Degree with the Melbourne Colappeal, Project Compassion, conlege of Divinity. Commenting on his appoint- ducted through the Australian ment, Mr de Groot said, "I feel Catholic community each year in very privileged to be able to work the lead-up to Easter. Caritas Australia is part of one with a highly dedicated professional staff and with the many of the world's largest independent generous and committed volun- humanitarian networks - Caritas teers who make the work of Car- Internationalis - the network of itas possible." 146 autonomous Catholic aid and "Caritas Australia is a good news development agencies, active in story not only for the Church but 194 countries around the world.

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Students from St Francis Xavier School participate in the reconciliation day organised by the City of Armadale.

In Armadale, the Jubilee theme of reconciliation has spread beyond the realm of the Catholic Education system with Year 5-7 students from St Francis Xavier School joining students from three other local primary schools and one local secondary school to participate in a special Community Day of Reconciliation. A community initiative organised by the City of Armadale's Aboriginal Liaison Officer, Leon Harp, the Day of Reconciliation was celebrated in brilliant sunshine at Gwynne Park Football Oval last week. Throughout the day, numerous activities were run for the children including: A longest football kick competition involving teachers, parents, students and police officers; Face Painting with an Aboriginal theme; Parent/student tug-of-wars and basketball games. Other activities included

The City of Armadale's Leon Harp.

traditional story-telling, a Police and Ranger vehicle display and a Bush Tucker display Mr Harp said the idea of the day was to allow all of the students from the different schools to interact with and get to know each other. He said he hoped the event would act as a prelude to other similar community based events. - Phil Bayne, CEO

The focus is friendship

Santa Clara Primary School student, Britt Ingerson, proudly shows off her contribution to the banner that will be unveiled with the Aboriginal Council for Reconciliation's final report to the Government Butt's design shows three figures circling an outline of Australia with the colours of yellow for the sun, red for the earth and brown to represent Aboriginalpeople together with the word 'Truth' from the school's motto.

St Pat's Freo' • what a story!

The hearse and funeral procession, far left, for Daniel Mulcahy Snr stands outside St Patrick's Church Fremantle in 1908. Massgoers pose for a photograph in front of the Church some time in the 1920s, at left. Below, Fathers John Smyth, William Mcallion, Joseph Wheeler, Charles Cox and John Flynn sit for their portrait some time around 1907.

By Glynnis Grainger

A new book has been written to celebrate the 3 June centenary of the completion of St

Patrick's Church, Fremantle, by local author Geraldine Byrne, whose family traces

back to the origins of the parish.

A Basilica in the Making will be launched at St Patrick's this Sunday evening, 28 May, as part of a weekend of centenary celebration which will include an 11am Mass the same day offered by Oblate Cardinal Francis George of Chicago from the US and Perth's Archbishop Barry Hickey. A Basilica in the Making tells of St Patrick's parish being the focal point of community life for the waterside workers, fishermen, business people, wives, mothers and children of the port during nearly a century and a half of change and progress. From 1843, Fremantle Catholics asked if they could hold Sunday services in the local courthouse, near the Round House. It is not known whether this building was ever used, but this was the beginning of Catholicism In Fremantle. A wooden church was built in Henry Street in Fremantle in September, 1852, with convict labour. In 1855, a presbytery was built which became Fremantle's second largest building at that time. Fr Thomas Lynch undertook the construction of a more substantial St Patrick's Church. Like the presbytery, this was built of local limestone. Built with a shingle roof in a Gothic Revival style, the Church departed from the usual tradition of right angle buttresses in favour of corner buttresses at a 45 degree angle. The main responsibility for its construction was given again to the skilled Benedictine, Brother Joseph Ascione accompanied by two of his "mason-monks." Many of Fremantle's Catholics subscribed to the cost of building the Church. The new St Patrick's Church was consecrated on 5 August, 1860. On 10 March, 1872, the worst storm in memory ripped through Fremantle and damaged St Patrick's Church. Fr John O'Reily saw this as an opportunity not only for the repair of the church but also for some much needed extensions. Work was completed three years later. The Record - which had been established in 1874 - commented "the improved appearance of the Interior of the Church is most noticeable, and the beautiful

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Gothic-shaped window of stained and the Sanctuary was not to be glass, has a most pleasing effect." completed for another 60 years. In September, 1915, the old presIn 1884, Fremantle's population had passed 5000 and gas lighting bytery that had served for 60 years was introduced, with St Patrick's was pulled down and a new one Church illuminated for the first planned and built, completed in May 1916. time with gas in April, 1885. On Pentecost Sunday, 11 June, From 1891 to 1901, the population would grow four times over, 1916, which also marked the centenary of the founding of the as a result of the goldrushes. Because of a shortage of reli- Oblates, Archbishop Clune authorised a square-built Sanctu- market. A new organ was blessed gious in WA. the Oblates were presided over the opening cere- ary which was blessed on 24 and opened in 1990, and in 1994 approached in 1893 and three mony with a blessing. April, 1960. a huge Icon/Tapestry, made of During the First World War, the priests arrived in Albany in June. Many finishing touches were Australian wool, was unveiled. 1894, and travelled 560 kilome- wall in front of the Church was still required to the Church. On 28 June. 1994, the Church rebuilt and the old Church buildtres by rail to Perth. At Easter, 1961, Fr Gaetano renovated. ing four At a meeting on 4 July, 1895, Nanni estimated that 73 per cent was dedicated to the Oblates by During the Second World War of the Catholics of the parish were Archbishop Barry Hickey, and on priests applauded when Bishop Gibney told them that "the time the Church was used by visiting Italian, as well as a minority of 28 August, of the same year, St has now come for Fremantle to servicemen. In 1955 the old hall Portuguese. Patrick's was proclaimed a Basilihave one of the best Churches in was 95 years old, since its comAt the end of 196Z the Sisters of ca, also by Archbishop Hickey. pletion as the original St Patrick's St Joseph of the Apparition sold the colony." A Basilica in the Making costs Money was raised by public Church, and the building was their property in Adelaide Street subscription and those who gave already deteriorating. adjacent to St Patrick's and the $30 for the paperback and $40 for After a fire that damaged the right-of-way to Coles for a super- the hard cover book. 20 pounds or more were to have their names inscribed on marble wooden and shingle roof, the hall was demolished and the tablets. The foundation stone of the new new hall, which seated 400 Church was laid on 17 March, people, opened on 6 November, 1955. 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Can we be honest with ourselves? Peter Dwan continues with his meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass. This week the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B

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oday's readings convey the mes- missionaries lacking funds for evangesage that God loves everyone. lisation, 4,000,000 of the 7,000,000 The liturgy of the word also African adults embracing Christianity unpacks some of the practical implica- annually join Protestant churches. tions of this for Christian living. Anyone wishing to help remedy the In the first reading (Acts 10:25-26, 34- situation may send donations for evan35, 44-48) we have an account of St gelisation to the Sisters of St Peter Peter's sermon in the house of Cor- Clover, 154 Cotham Road, Kew 3101. nelius. In the second reading, (1 John 4:7-10) Peter was inclined to restrict baptism St John says: "My dear people, let us to the Jews, but after seeing that the love one another. . . . Anyone who fails Holy Spirit had come down on the Gen- to love can never have known God, tiles, he realised that it wouldn't be right because God is love." to refuse them baptism. If we know God, we shall want to love St Peter's words are significant. Him, and shall want to prove our love He said: "The truth I have now come for Him by treating others lovingly. to realise, is that God does not have The late Mother Teresa of Calcutta left favourites, but that anybody of any the Loreto Order to found the Missionnationality who fears God and does aries of Charity to serve the poorest of what is right is acceptable to him? the poor. Do we realise that this is so? Let us not Her Loreto Superiors had assured her be too quick to answer "yes? before she left that there would always While we might say that anyone of be a place for her in the Loreto Order, any nationality can be baptised, what is should she wish to return. our attitude in practice? The difficulty of working with the poor Are we prepared to help evangelisa- soon saw Mother Teresa tempted to tion overseas by our prayers and dona- return to the Loreto Order. tions? However, it was her great love of God In practice, we seem hellbent on deny- that enabled her to persevere in her ing missionaries much-needed funds. work for the poor, seeing in them Christ If we want evidence of how lack of In a distressing disguise. funds is hampering evangelisation, we If we are tempted to withhold our time need look no further than the statistic or our money in the face of evident that in Africa, where people are hun- need, then reminding ourselves that we gering for Christ, because of Catholic would not just be refusing to help `Joe

Blow' but Christ in a distressing disguise should help us resist the temptation. The gospel passage (John 15:9-17) further amplifies this idea. It contains Christ's words: "This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you." This offers a wide field for our meditation. We need to realise that love of neighbour involves concern for their spiritual as well as temporal welfare. The verses of the passage which struck me when I was reading it over are these: "I do not call you servants any more, because a servant does not know his master's business,Icall you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father." Can we claim to be a friends to people unless we try to help them to see God's plan for them? Of course, the extent and the way in which we do it will vary with each particular case. Parents have a serious duty to work for their children's religious development. There are cases where we can't do much, but even in those cases, let us do what little we can, even if it is something as insignificant as inviting them to cooperate in a small way in missionary endeavour by buying a ticket in a raffle to raise money for the missions. There are many things that we can give people, but few are as valuable as a realisation that, despite their circumstances, they have something worthwhile to give.

Purgatory's pain 'is separation, not mild hell' By John Thavis

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ost Christians can expect to suffer in purgatory, but the pain will be more from separation than fiery flames, a Jesuit magazine said. In contrast with centuries of "grotesque" tales describing purgatory as a fetid underworld populated by demons, purgatory is not a place but a condition or state of being, the article said. And despite the recent attention on Indulgences during the Holy Year, few Christians can expect to go straight to heaven without a period of purification in purgatory, it said. The article was published on 20 May by La Civilta Cattolica (Catholic Civilisation), a magazine whose contents are reviewed in advance by the Vatican. It said the Church's teaching about purgatory can be summed up in three points: • it exists as a state of purification for those who die in the state of grace; • the suffering of those in purgatory can be mitigated by the prayers of the living; • after purification has been achieved, souls pass from purgatory directly to heaven. The article said it would be a

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pain of being separated from God is a purifying punishment and, like fire, destroys in the soul all that keeps one from God: the residue of sin, the tendency to evil and the venial sins present at the moment of death," it said. Purgatory awaits most Christians because it is extremely difficult to go through life without accumulating these "stains and residues" of sins, which remain even after they have been confessed and absolved, the article said. "Certainly, an act of perfect love could cancel them. But who is capable of such an act" except those who have lived their lives as saints and martyrs, the article asked. In an interview, the author of the article, Jesuit Father Giuseppe De Rosa. said that in theory the plenary indulgences offered during the Holy Year could ensure a direct route to heaven if the person dies, since it offers remission of temPurgatory not a 'mild fiery hell' according poral punishment for sins forgiven in to an article in a Jesuit magazine.Graphic CNS confession. But this remains a remote possibility mistake to view purgatory as a type of because it would require total love of "mild hell," since a basic difference is God, which is very difficult for most peoinvolved: Those in hell have lost all hope ple, he said. and live in hatred of God, while those in "There always remains something in us purgatory suffer precisely because their that needs purification by God, even with desire for God is not yet fulfilled. "This a plenary indulgence," he said. - CNS

Mass confirmation planned Over 5000 candidates and 45 000 sponsors, parents, friends and parish members will gather to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation at the Sydney SuperDome on Sunday 11 June 2000. This is a special event for the Archdiocese of Sydney in the Jubilee year. Confirmation, normally held in individual parish communities, is being held as an experience for the whole diocese. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, convener of Confirmation 2000, said on 22 May "for this one year of Jubilee it is fitting that the parishes should come to the diocese and celebrate together as a community of communities." Cardinal Clancy, Archbishop of Sydney, will preside at each of the ceremonies. His Eminence will be assisted by his three auxiliary bishops and many of the priests in the Archdiocese. Three separate sessions are needed to accommodate all candidates and their sponsors, parents, friends and parish members. They are at 12.30, 3.30 and

6.30pm. Parishes have been allocated to a particular session based on parish Mass times, distance from the SuperDome and the numbers of candidates. While the diocesan celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation will be held at the SuperDome, candidates will actually have three opportunities to celebrate. Firstly, on the weekend of 4 June, candidates will be sent forth from their parish/ethnic community. Secondly, on Sunday 11 June, candidates from 137 parishes and ethnic communities will come together for the conferring of the sacrament. Finally, on the weekend of Sunday 18 June, the third celebration involves the candidates and their families being welcomed back into their parish/ethnic community. Children particularly are excited at this year's celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation.

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t John of God Sister, Sr Angela Moroney, from whose reminiscencesIquoted last month, has a wonderful example of the presence of Jesus in our world. Where you see the selfless love that she describes you have to be looking at Jesus, at no ordinary philanthropy, in the St John of God Sisters. Their love spoke of a true share in the love of Jesus that we all can claim through being baptised into Him. We share in a Godly love that is unconditional and undeserved, nothing to do with one's worth. It is not, as Merton says, that this is a will to love (that we ourselves want to love), but the faith that we are loved. It's this love present in us - in Jesus - which has us do the works of love. Jesus' message to John the Baptist, fretting in his prison cell, was to look for the signs of love in Him (Jesus) - healing the sick, the lepers, and passing on the Good News to the poor. If we want to know whether we truly love or not, we have to look for the signs of love. Love is not just a feeling, it is a determination. It is known by its fruits, by its works. A slothful (lazy) person, a sub junctivist (I really must), an empty dreamer, or a talker who never gets past the talking stage, can't yet have found love because love moves us. Love moves us so mysteriously that it takes a while to discover. It's really a presence. Jesus is there. He is in us, loving. We don't create our own love - it is Jesus, loving in us. So we let Sr Angela tell a little of her story a story of this love flowing into action. "In March, 1937, after my final religious profession. I was sent to Subiaco to do my final nursing training. "I graduated in 1940 and returned North to work at the Derby Government Leprosarium with Mother Gertrude Greene (Superior and Matron), and her sister, Mother Matthew Greene. "Doctor Haynes was the District Medical Officer of Derby and Doctor Musso was in charge of the Leprosarium. "Both Catholics. . . . Leprosy was at its peak. Dr Musso out on survey, rode on horseback and camelback to their inaccessible country, bringing back many Aboriginals in the advanced stages of the disease, and some in the final stage. . . . "The sick and dying patients were nursed in their own galvanised iron huts, 8ft x 7ft, two to a hut. "Chemotherapy, dressing etc was carried out in The Administration Block "Mother Gertrude, having worked all day, would often spend the whole night in these stuffy, hot huts, with the sick "Rosaleen, a lady from Beagle Bay, noticed this and said to me 'Mother must be some kind of a Saint'. "Rosaleen herself was very kind and good to everybody, and kept an eye on things. "Every evening, Mother gathered all the Catholics and anyone else who wanted to come, for Rosary and Novenas to request a cure for leprosy. "Dr Musso urged them to keep up the Novenas because "Some day the cure will come, and when it does, it will be a quick one". "He was right. Ills an antibiotic type of drug. "At one stage some years ago we had 350 patients. Now [19771 the number is 40." The Leprosarium is now closed altogether. One has to thrill at all that love in action. "I love you, Lord, my strength, my rock, my fortress, my Saviour. My God is the rock where I take refuge; my shield,: my mighty help, my stronghold" - Psalm 17. The mystery of love is the mystery of God at work in us "to do and to accomplish." Reprinted with permission from the Kimberley Community Profile, newsletter of the Diocese of Broome.

Warning: Net 'lust virus' causes soul meltdown The recent 1Love You' computer virus crisis revealed the lack of security on the Internet. This guest editorial from The Catholic Post of the US Diocese of Peoria in Illinois condemns another form of 'love' virus - Internet pornography

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virus carried by an e-mail titled "I Love You" has shaken the security of computer users around the

globe. The so-called "Love Bug," reportedly sent to 45 million computers on 4 May alone, caused billions of dollars in damage as it overwrote files, clogged networks, and shut down personal and commerce e-mail systems. Variations of the bug soon appeared, as did warnings that far more menacing attacks are possible in the near future. Realising their vulnerability, heads of corporations and households alike acted quickly, updating their anti-virus software and issuing new cautions regarding computer e-mail use. But away from the headlines, hundreds of thousands of computer users will receive e-mails today - and tomorrow, and the next - bearing a "spiritual virus" that may not damage their computers, but can surely lead to a meltdown of the user's soul. As with the Love Bug, the perpetrators of this virus often conceal it with innocent email titles such as one recently received

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by this writer. It beckoned "I finally found you. Hi." When opened, the e-mail's message was "This is for you. You're going to love it." The 'gift' was a pornographic site only a mouse click away. Similar invitations from the 60,000-plus pornographic Web sites go out en masse every day. A more troubling thought is that so many computer users don't need an invitation to view porn - they're searching for it. Pornography is sometimes dubbed the Internet's "dirty little secret." h is definitely dirty, but it's not little and it's no secret. According to Nielsen Net Ratings, 17.5 million Web surfers visited porn sites from their homes in January, a 40 per cent increase compared with four months earlier. The top e-porn site boasted more unique visitors in January than such Internet giants as ESPN.com or barnesand noble.com. While the Love Bug virus resulted in a loss of billions of dollars, the spreading "Lust Bug" is creating profits to a similar degree. Incredibly, Web users are spending as much money online for pornographic

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videos and accessories as they are for books or plane tickets, according to the cover story of the 27 March edition of the US News and World Report. So what happens when a person, especially a person of faith, is infected by the pornographic Lust Bug? The Catechism of the Catholic Church, calling pornography "a grave offence," says it does "great injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public) since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others." Speaking at a Catholic Men's Conference in Peoria in 1998, Jeff Cavins of Eternal World Television Network said the "secret sin" of Internet porn use "is responsible for more men being shaclded emotionally and spiritually, causing them to be ineffective as husbands and fathers, than almost anything I know of right now. . . . You wouldn't believe the number of men who tell me 'I am addicted." Researchers at Stanford and Duquesne universities would believe Cavins. They conservatively estimated earlier this year that at least 200,000 Americans were hopelessly addicted to e-porn. How many others, while not necessarily to the point of addiction, have allowed the porn "virus" to infiltrate their thoughts,

In a free, pluralistic and multi-cultural society, the family should not be allowed to assume a predominantly negative aspect. The emphasis should be on unifying positives. Ron Pirola thanked His Excellency for his words which he described as clear, challenging and compassionate. I found His Excellency's words to be exactly that, unlike John Barich, there was nothing cavalier in the tone. The Dare to Dream conference was ennobled by such a high ranking, Catholic Australian's presence and opening address. rT Brian G. O'Loughlin, PP PhD. Claremont

had the good fortune, like John Barich, (The Record, 18 May) to attend the Dare to Dream Conference on the family. My appreciation to the Governor-General, Sir William Deane, for his contribution In opening the conference differs markedly from Mr Barich's. I was filled with pride to hear His Excellency say: "We Australian Catholics are responding to the Holy Father's call and that it gave him extraordinary pleasure to formally opening the gathering." How wonderful to hear the first citizen of note with interest the words of Archour land so freely acknowledge his bishop Charles Chaput (Record, 18 Catholicity - something impossible in preMay) talking at the" Dare to Dream" vious generations when Catholics were so National Catholic Family Gathering. far removed from such positions. "I'd wager my (air) ticket home that God His Excellency said: " he had the good for- is calling at least half a dozen of you to be tune of being brought up in a happy fami- active missionary families, either here in ly". Australia among the poor or in some other Unfortunately, not all can so freely and country" willingly make that claim today. It may not be known as widely as we His Excellency said: "we need to be care- would like, but the Catholic Church has a ful in honouring the twin obligations of national missionary preparation program, charity and love" and that there is a "need Paulian Association Lay Mission Service for consensus in terminology". He said the word "family is embracing or inclusive" and gave examples: the family of man, all adults, parents and children, and that family is also used in a religious sense. He said: "We Catholics used to refer to the traditional family following the example of the Holy Family. Family in the narrow sense is the traditional family of man and woman in formalised, binding marriage." "Today there are other circumstances of social and moral complexity. "The central message of the Pontifical Council for the Family was the innate vocation of love. "But what when love is negated or abused?" The Pontifical Council called for particular concern for single parent families. Unlike John Barich, I found no attempt here to give Vatican support to a liberal definition of family, but a recognition of the diversity and complexity of the contemporary family. His Excellency stated that the family remains the particular ideal which requires Perth woman Melanie Maclou: spent two years support and encouragement from the as a teacher in the Pacific nation of Tonga with PALMS. Church and State.

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devalue their attitude toward human sexuality or respect among people, place their jobs at risk, and threaten their marriage. family, and spiritual lives? When the Love Bug hit earlier this month, immediate action followed. What is society - and especially what are Catholics - doing to confront the more prolific and, to our minds, more dangerous Internet Lust Bug? Have we even realized our vulnerability? Have we investigated software or Internet services which block pornography sites? Have we asked our legislators to enforce existing obscenity and child pornography laws and looked into how to regulate this international concern? Have we discussed the threat in our families? In our parishes? And if we have already fallen victim. have we made use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the support of family or friends, the guidance of the Church, daily prayer, and the grace of the Eucharist to protect us from the temptation of this virus? Pornography long predates technology. but never has it been so easily and privately accessible. Users be warned: this virus attacks spiritual life. It's way past time to squash this bug. • The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

Lellers lo (PALMS), which has been sending singles and families as missionaries since 1961. The Paulian Association is a pilgrim movement operating in the tradition of the apostle Paul as described in the Book of Acts. Its national office is based in Sydney. It has the recognition and support of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. We give the very best preparation for lay people wishing to work and live in the communities we serve. We have been there as lay people. We understand the needs of lay people and we understand the wisdom they have to contribute as lay people. We share their spirituality. We work at the spiritual as well as temporal aspects of human development. While on my mission with PALMS working to train teachers in Western Samoa, my family's spirituality grew enormously. By working alongside local staff, or in the children's case, fellow students, faces of Jesus were revealed to us that we might never have come to know had we stayed in the comfort of our more material lifestyles in Australia. PALMS is at the service of the poor in developing communities within Australia and overseas. It is also a service for those whO volunteer as missionary families or individually. If in the words of Archbishop Chaput, one feels". . called to go somewhere else . . ." or to live ". . .the Gospel ardently where you are . . ." an inquiry about the PALMS preparation program is something you should undertake today. PALMS, PO Box 54, Croydon Park, NSW 2133. PH: (02) 9642 0558 FAX: (02) 9742 5607 Email: palmsccp@ihug.com.au Roger O'Halloran Director

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seek clarification of a sentence purporting to paraphrase the Holy Father in the letter "Boost for ecumenism" (Record, 11 May) by Fr Kevin Long (Chairman, Archdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Committee) and Brian Coyne (Member, Archbishop's Jubilee Committee). I quote: "As Pope John Paul II keeps reminding us both in word, and more powerfully by his actions, we all share in the responsibility to get out of our comfort zones and make the unity of God's people something real".

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Question: Do what precisely, how precisely? Different "fortes" are given different ones by the One and the same God, although we can certainly all pray for common goals, eg, conversions and Christian unity. For instance, I'm all for putting absolute faith in Jesus and "stepping out of the boat" to help spread the Light of Divine Truth and Love. as per official Catholicism, in this poor, darkened, sin-ridden world (in line with Vatican H's teaching on the apostolate of the laity) albeit that I do so myself far too seldom. But what meaning are these correspondents "puffing in the Pope's mouth" on ecumenism, fully and precisely? "Comfort zone" could refer to anything. (Which end of the rainbow is it?) Of itself, in the context, "Get out of our comfort zones" - hardly Papal language might merely mean: "Let us not be too afraid/shy/bigoted to talk to Protestants". However, no one is going to associate comfort with the mental state of any Catholic in Australia who is. More to the point, therefore, "Get out of our comfort zones" could also refer to the idea of "religious certitude, but rather let us jettison whatever Protestants refuse to accept so that we can make the unity of God's people something real'." Are your correspondents prepared to explain what they intended to mean by "comfort zones"? Trevor Boardman North Perth

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ecent editions of The Record had articles extolling overseas pilgrimges even to the extent that conversions occurred to some participants. It really beats me, how, why some people, good folk, cannot see the wood for the trees. That is: why don't we see the good God, Christ, right here, where we each stand? There are plenty opportunities to find Christ and God right here, in our families and our community. Pardon my preaching, but scooting off to sophisticated Europe to find God? Oh yes, there you'll find lots of evidence of a past when people there did believe, with magnificent works of art of every description . . . . but now? Peter Bertola Esperance The Record, May 25 2000 Page 7

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Program aims to help parents understand and give children their best By Glynnis Grainger

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Early childhood educator, Anne McAnearney, Is now running a program for parents to help them understand and guide their childrens' behaviour.

former teacher is running a program for parents and teachers to understand and guide their children's behaviour. Anne McAnearney, of West Leederville, is an expert in early childhood education who has held senior roles in the planning, development and evaluation of curriculum and learning programs. Her brochure says initially she was with the WA Pre-School Board, then the WA Education Department and most recently with the Catholic Education Office. She has been with the CEO for 14 years full-time and now does contract work for it. Mrs McAnearney said she came here from Ireland in 1962 with her husband Arthur and four children a boy and three girls. She studied Early Childhood Education and holds a Bachelor of Education. She was one of only four West Australians selected nationally to undertake a pilot Masters' Program

in Early Childhood Teacher Education at Macquarie University in Sydney. In 1998 she received the Edith Cowan Memorial Conference on Early Childhood Award in recognition of exemplary service to young children of Western Australia. Last year she developed the inaugural undergraduate Bachelor of Education (ECE) for the University of Notre Dame Australia. "Iam totally committed to helping parents guide their children's behaviour," Mrs McAnearney told The Record "Last year I set up the four-weekly program to help parents to take and stay in control; help parents to establish and maintain good relationships with their children; show parents how to listen so that children will talk to them; show parents how to handle parent/child conflicts, and help parents see the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. "We need to accept children as they are." Attendance is not compulsory at every session. "I am quite

excited about this because it is getting such a positive response from people," she said. Mrs McAnearney lectures at Meerlinga Training College in Hay Street, and has run in-service programs for teachers and administrators for many years. "I had a very supportive family when I was studying; the knowledge that I have now would have been an asset to me when my own children were growing up," she said. "The programs are gaining momentum because parents are experiencing a lot of difficulty and Mums now have to juggle so much. "Many Mums are juggling jobs and home situations and it puts a lot of stress on the family." She said research also suggests that children experiencing social difficulties are more likely to have problems later on. She has taught children up to the age of about seven years old but the program is for children up to 12. To find out about her Parent Program telephone her on 9382 3165.

Despite unanswered questions, Turin Shroud still inspires By John Mavis

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he scientific jury is still out on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Christ, said Archbishop Severino Poletto of 'Ruin. "The last word has not yet been pronounced on the dating of the shroud. We need further research and study," Archbishop Poletto said at a Vatican press conference on 22 May. As a special event during the jubilee year, the shroud will go on display from 12 August -22 October in the northern Italian city of 'Ruin. The 17-foot-long cloth bears the faint Imprint of a man and the apparent signs of wound marks that correspond to the crucifixion. Archbishop Poletto said that after carbon14 testing in 1988 dated the cloth to the Middle Ages, suggesting that it was a forgery, new evidence has come to light throwing doubt on those test results. At a closed-door scientific congress sponsored by the archdiocese in March, two experts spoke in favour of the medieval dating while two others took the opposite view. "For me, that was enough to say that the question is still open," Archbishop Poletto said. He noted that the Church considers the shroud not an article of faith, but a help for Christians in understanding Christ's passion. "We know it must be science and not the faith which pronounces the final word on the origin of this mysterious image," he said. He added that in recent years, there have been no major scientific discoveries about the shroud - despite occasional "sensational" reports in the mass media. The experts at the recent 'Ruin conference who cast doubt on the 1988 carbon-dating said that not enough preliminary examinations were conducted on the test sample to make the dating valid. They also pointed out that the test sample came from the edge of the cloth, which was subject to more handling and contamination than other areas. The Pope visited Turin in northern Italy to pray before the shroud in 1998 and has been invited this year, too, but so far Vatican officials are saying there's little chance the pontiff will make the trip. The shroud's display was moved up to midAugust to accommodate young people who The Record, May 25 2000 Page 8

will be coming to Rome for World Youth Day activities. Organisers expect more than 1 million visitors and, as in 1998, viewing will be on a reservation-only basis. This year, reservations can be made at one of two Internet sites: www.giubileo.piemonte.it or wvvw.sindone.org. Once reservations are made, visitors can pick up the free tickets for viewing after they arrive in Turin. In 1998 the archdiocese created a spiritual itinerary so that visitors are better prepared to view the shroud, and the same will be done this year. Special accommodations will be made for sick people to see the shroud. • Elsewhere, amid the verdant tranquillity of Italy's Umbrian hills, violent - albeit fictional - battle cries pierced the usual silence during the filming of movie on the search for the Shroud. "Bravo, killer!" shouted Italian film director Pupi Avati after calling a halt to the cameras. He congratulated actor Marco Leonard!, clad in medieval chain mail and toting a Pope John Paul IIprays before the Shroud of Turin at TOM; cathedral kr May, 199a Photo: CNS/Reuters sword, for a stabbing job well-done. bloody forays into the Holy Land. "The story said "Knights of the Quest" provided a fresh In "Knights of the Quest," Avati tells the that I tell is set during a moment in the West challenge. "The way Pupi approaches the story of five knights - three Italians, a French- In which the Crusades were becoming story is very realistic, very simple," she said man and an Englishman - who travel to unpopular," he said. after conferring with seamstresses diligentThebes, Greece, in 1271 to find the holy "People understood that there were too ly darning sackcloth tunics. shroud. many massacres," said Avati, a practising "There is a spiritual focus that Itried to renWith a US $15 million budget, an English- Catholic. der in the costumes, the five knights' search speaking cast and a decidedly fast-moving, Reflecting several years ago on what he for their mission, which is manifested by the action-driven plot, the movie, due to be terms the "dark moment" of the holy discovery of brotherhood among them," said released in early 2001, is not typical Italian shroud's history, before accounts of its exis- Cecchi. fare. tence cropped up in the mid-1300s in France, Though some of the knights are driven at "Ithought that this could be a chance to tell Avati imagined the cloth's journey from the first by commercial aims and hopes of polita story that wasn't just Italian, bemuse this East "Many centuries ago, the West, in a cer- ical power, by the end of the voyage, Avail is a story that regards the West as a whole," tain way, saw in the relics of Christianity said, "they are touched by a sort of mysteriAvati told Catholic News Service on the side- something that went beyond all else, and ous conviction that they are destined to fullines of the set on 11 May. thus relics filled a life, an existence," the 61- fill this task" Produced by Antonio Avail, the director's year-old director said. "At a certain point, these knights discover brother, for DueA Films, and Tarak Ben While in the Middle Ages, said Avati, peo- that they are part of a design, and they ask Ammar and Mark Lombardo for Quinta ple devoted entire lives to a quest, one sin- themselves, 'Can it be possible that we have Communications, "Knights of the Quest" gle project or journey, "today our existence been chosen?" he said. "It's very Gospelcontinues shooting through the summer in is filled by so many small things, not one big like." Umbria, southern Italy and Tunisia and is event." US actor Edward Furlong, who plays a expected to pick up a US distributor. Avati did his homework in addition to cul- young Englishman eager for adventure, said With Holy Year 2000 in full swing, Avail's tivating an already active imagination: he he "got lost in the script" as soon as he picked film seems well-timed, though the director read more than 150 books on the period. it up. "They're not making great epics like says it was unintentional, as his idea sprang Starting with Jehan de Joinville, who chron- 'Excalibur' or 'Camelot' anymore," said Furforth several years ago. icled the life of St Louis IX, 13th-century king long, best known for his roles in "American And while Pope John Paul II did not specif- of France, and his ill-fated Crusade to the History X" and the futuristic "Terminator 2." ically mention the Crusades in his 12 March Holy Land, Avati tried to stick as close to his'This asks questions about faith and being: apology for sins committed by Christians torical truth as possible. being willing to die for your faith in God," through the ages, Avati said he wanted to Costume designer Nana Cecchi, who has he said. take a critical look at the meaning of the several medieval period films to her credit, - Catholic News Service

International Jubilee of Priests

For Pope's 80th, it's priests that count said, "I also pray a peat deal for them, and I invite everyone to remember them in prayer, so that, thanks also to a procedurally obtained dispensation," they remain committed Christians in communion with the Church. The Pope said that priests must guide the Church "not with force but with cheerfulness, not with the attitude of masters but by offering an exemplary witness." Greeting priests during an evening prayer service on 17 May

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ope John Paul II blended celebrations of his 80th birthday with the Vatican's Jubilee for Priests, emphasising the primacy of his priestly vocation in his life. Though showered with greetings from political leaders and cultural icons from around the world, treated to a special London Philharmonia musical performance and feted with a sumptuous lunch, the Pope seemed most pleased concelebrating a birthday Mass on 18 May with some 8,000 priests. During the liturgy in St Peter's Square, which Vatican officials called the largest concelebrated Mass in history, the Pope said that Cod "desired to link my existence to the grace of the priestly ministry, as bishop and successor of Peter, to be a witness of God's love for all humanity in these, our times, which are so fascinating." He returned to his reflections on the priesthood at a birthday lunch with cardinals after the Mass, saying, "I am particularly happy to remember my birthday in this priestly dimension, which is the 7undamental one of my life." In his Mass homily, the Pope praised God for the gift of priesthood, which he called a gift of love for all mankind. But he also acknowledged the struggles and weaknesses of ordinary priests and the growing threat

in St Peter's Square, the Pope said the Church in the 20th century was

rich with the witness of saintly priests, some of whom even shed their blood exercising their ministry. "Let us follow their footsteps, because the efficacy of our ministry depends on (saintliness)," he said. The Pope, ordaining 26 priests for the Diocese of Rome on 15 May, said the Eucharist was the mystery of divine love. "Incessantly draw upon this mystery, above all in the celebration of the Mass, the spiritual energy to faithfully fulfil your mission," he told the new priests. Priests from around the world fill St Peter's Square for the Jubilee Mass for Priests on 18 May. Pope John Paul II, markPriests offering testimonies on 16 ing his 80th birthday, celebrated the Mass and asked for prayers for priests who have left the ministry. Photo CNS/Reuters May during the jubilee underof a priest shortage. He asked for releasing them from priestly istry, though they continue to hold scored the importance of prayer, in themselves a special configura- as well as spiritual closeness to prayers for priests who have left duties. "I think also of those priests who, tion to Christ through the indelible Mary and service to the needy, in the ministry and encouraged fallen-away priests to seek laicisation, for different circumstances, no character of holy orders," the Pope sustaining a priestly vocation. a Vatican dispensation officially longer exercise the sacred min- said. Interrupted by applause, he - Catholic News Service

Ordained men from all over the world tell their stories, share lives By John Norton

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ervice to the needy, daily prayer and closeness to Mary are the keys to sustaining a priestly vocation, said priests chosen to give testimonies during the Vatican's Jubilee for Priests. The priests - from Ethiopia, the US and Italy - spoke during a 16 May gathering at Rome's Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls. Ethiopian Father Mattheos Lessanu-Christos of the Archdiocese of Addis Ababa said he first became interested in the priesthood at the age of 12 after seeing a poor priest, rosary in hand, pass by his house. Told the priest often went hungry Pope John Paul Ills silhouetted in St for Mass and spent most of his time visiting Peter's Square as he arrives on his 80th birthday on 18 May. people, the future Fr LessanuChristos curiously asked his grand- seemed less incisive," he said. Fr father about the priest's Anastasio told his brother priests "extraordinary lifestyle." not to be afraid to proclaim Christ "He gave me a very brief answer to all people. which has remained in my memoHe recalled how he had encounry until now: 'He is a man of God, tered resistance, even from fellow a man for all, especially for the priests, when he was assigned to most needy. All his life is dedicat- teach religion at a public high ed to others, following the example school early in his ministry. of Jesus, whose sacrifice in the "What hurt most was to hear it cross was meant to liberate others said, even by some priests, that it spiritually and materially.' was not necessary to propose "This marked the conception I Christianity to (the students) out of have of my vocation to the priest- respect for the school's secular hood," Fr Lessanu-Christos said. nature," he said. Italian Fr Antonio Anastasio, But not to propose Christianity to ordained nine years, said he had the students would have meant learned how important prayer and denying them "a real education, a healthy interior life are to fulfill- that is, of an introduction to the reality of a life which does not ing the priestly mission. "The hour of daily silence as well reduce to bourgeois complacency as the recitation of the breviary and the delusions of a scooter, a have always been the 'breath' of girlfriend and a discotheque," he the day" said the priest, a member said. Fr Charles Mangan of Sioux Falls, of the Priestly Fraternity of St South Dakota, told the priests that Charles Borromeo Missionaries. "If they were skipped for some after 11 years of priesthood he was reason,Inoticed the loss, and even "more convinced than ever" of my missionary and parish activity Mary's powerful intercession and

encouragement in faithfully living his vocation. "She, always nearby, usually spoke to me not by way of thunder but rather by means of the whispering breeze, a gentle but persistent tugging on my mind and heart," he said. He said Mary was a spiritual mother especially of priests, who are "other Christs," and she accompanies them in each step of their ministry. "The Madonna and I both know that our kind Master is not finished with me yet," he said. "I fully expect her salutary sway over me not to wane but to increase during whatever time the benevolent Creator will allot me." The day before the huge concelebrated Mass, activities ended with a prayer vigil in St Peter's square for thousands of priests and seminarians. Between decades of the Rosary and interspersed throughout the evening, the priests were treated to music, including soprano soloists, a children's choir, and a Bavarian orchestra. One singer interpreted the works of St Therese of Lisieux in song, while later a young German priest, Fr Albert Gutberlet, sang a song of his own writing honouring Blessed Karl Leisner, who died in Dachau. After the Rosary came a series of testimonies from founders or leaders of orders and movements. Among these were Fr Marcia! Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement, and Bishop Javier Echeverria, prelate of Opus Dei. Cardinal Dario Castrillen Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, stressed the importance of the Blessed Sacrament in the priest's life and ministry Pope John Paul II also made a brief appear- CNS/ZENIT ance.

Female saints urged clergy to celebrate Mass reverently By John Norton

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ming the Vatican's Jubilee for Priests, two female saints were proposed as inspirations for priests seeking to faithfully live their vocation amid the challenges of the modern world. In two different turbulent eras in the church, Saints Catherine of Siena and Therese of Lisieux exhorted priests to live up to the dignity of their vocation, emphasising especially the importance of reverently celebrating Mass and zealously saving souls, speakers said. The reflection was presented during a 17 May Mass in St Peter's Basilica. In two "equally dramatic" periods in the Church, "two great saints knew how to speak to priests to stimulate them to live their vocations to the highest," said Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. St Catherine, who died in 1380, is probably best known for persuading Pope Gregory XI to come back to Rome from exile in France, but her other main mission was urging priests to reform, at a time when Church corruption was prevalent. Maria Antonietta Falchi Pellegrini, a professor at the University of Genoa, said, 'The battles fought by St Catherine for the Church are witnessed in her letters to popes, cardinals, monks and priests. "In (the letters) is always present a great love for the sacred ministers, a love united to devotion and respect, reverent before the dignity of the sacra-

St Therese of Lisieux

ment which they administer," she said. "The depth of this love, which certainly did not depend on their human merits, was matched only by the strength of her repriinands for those who disfigured the face of the church," she said. St Therese, who died in 1873, became a Carmelite nun specifically to pray for the holiness of priests, Discalced Carmelite Father Antonio Sicari said. "When Therese speaks of 'unworthy' priests, of priests 'not holy enough,' she does not have moral casuistry or reproachable behaviour in mind," he said. She lamented primarily "the fact that they might forget the exclusive love promised in their consecration, and that their purity not be that owed to the Eucharist which they hold between their hands," he said. Cardinal Moreira Neves said that for St Therese, the central focuses of a priest's dignity were the Eucharist and his "unlimited dedication to the salvation of - CNS souls."

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WITHOUT EDUCATION THEY HAVE NO FUTURE. V illage children in India are the poorest of the poor. They live under the most unhygienic conditions in unbelievable wretchedness and poverty. Their lives revolve around a never-ending cycle of hunger, malnutrition, and disease. Many are abandoned to the care of the nuns. Many will die before they reach adulthood.

For the post 49 years priests and nuns have been working to reverse this seemingly hopeless situation. The root cause is illiteracy. Uneducated parents' lack of skills and knowledge to properly care for their children. They have no idea of hygiene. They cannot read or write, so only the poorest paid work is available to them. And the result is that they live in a perpetual state of poverty, unable to afford medical help and subsisting on f ood. Through their programme of poor andI1 flUtflIfTT education priests and nuns are working to halt this tragedy. But, because their resources are limited, they are only scratching the surface. Your help is needed. PHOTOG RAPHS T op left. Some of the sick and abandoned children cared for by nuns. Above. Graves of three babies. At left. Children mind babies while parents look for work.

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The plight of the uneducated It is difficult for well educated Australians to comprehend a lifestyle without the benefits of education and job training. It is so easy to take for granted all the good things education provides.

The number one priority in our Mission is to educate as many people as our limited resources will allow. We teach people how to look after themselves, how to work as a community and to help each other.

And it is difficult to imagine what life would be like if you could not read and write, had little or no employment, lacked social service benefits and experienced months of hunger. Such an existence would be thoroughly demoralising.

Thousands of families are now better off because many priests and nuns, nurses and teachers have lived and worked with the people and supported them during the learning process.

Most children in Australia are given a good start in life because their parents are able to feed them nourishing food, care for their health and pay for their education. The vast majority of children in the Australian Jesuit Mission in India are severely disadvantaged all their lives from lack of education and health care. These children are denied education because the communities they live in are too poor to build schools, provide books and writing material, and pay teachers. It is not right these children grow up unable to read and write, speak properly, unable to hold down worthwhile jobs and unable to support the families they will have in later life.

During the past decade the wonderful generosity of our supporters has helped us to build, equip and run an ever increasing number of schools, particularly in distressed areas. But keeping our schools operating is a never ending problem for the priests and nuns who manage them. Over 40,000 boys and girls have to be subsidised. Their parents cannot afford to feed and clothe them properly, let alone pay school fees of $20 a year. Can you give something to help children become educated? Donations are tax deductible. The children you help to educate will be grateful for the rest of their lives. You will be remembered in their prayers.

These ctudenuare fortunate to have a teacher. But they lack books and %riling materials and have to w-ite their work in sandy soil

Education for village people begins in classes held in the sun, or under trees, or on verandahs, or in humble dwellings. Many village schools consist only of one or two classrooms made of mud or with bamboo covered with mud.

Most schools lack desks, books, writing materials. adequate lighting, toilets and a safe adequate water supply. We need to build many more village schools in areas crying out for our help. From these humble and primitive schools, families begin to learn how to improve their lives. Village people are simple, friendly and hard working. They are greatly in need of pure water, nourishing food, clothing, medical care, education and employment without exploitation.

For village people education means. 1. Less hunger and malnutrition 2. Less sickness and serious illness. 3. Less misery and suffering. 4. less deaths in the family. 5. Better food production 6. Increased water supply. 7. Knowledge of hygiene and health care. 8. Better care of children. 9. Job training and better jobs. 10.Dignity and independence.

Our grateful thanks to those who help fund this tube well which supplies safe water f or many famil ies all year round.

A typical village kitchen has no electricity, no running water, no sink. The tiny mud stove provides a little warmth during the cold winter nights.

Help us liberate families from all forms of oppression and injustice A recent survey reported appalling conditions for families trying to survive in isolated and neglected areas. Most f amilies own no land and must depend on infrequent daily employment which is poorly paid. 8- 10 hours hard labour barely feeds the family for one day. The people are gravely affected by malnutrition. Sickness i s widespread and the mortality rate among children is very high. They need our help and your help. Caring for people in isolated areas from distant establishments is not practical. It is essential that we live and w ork among people crying out for our help. To do that we must build schools and establish community care centres where dedicated priests, sisters, nurses, social workers and village development supervisors can communicate their knowledge to the people and support them in using that knowledge to improve their lives. The whole thrust of our work is so very dependent on outside aid. The poor can't pay. Please be generous and share what you have with poor families who struggle to survive. May God bless you and be assured of a special place in the masses and prayers of our missionaries and f rom the poor you assist. National Director, Father Toni O'Donovan, SJ., Australian Jesuit Mission in India (Est. 1951), PO Box 193, North Sydney, NSW, 2059. for education and health care in India.

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Deep love and gratitude To our many benefactors our sincere and grateful thanks. With your donations much has been achieved. You have fed the hungry, provided water where there was none, and clothed those who were naked and uncared for. Y ou have healed the sick and the infirm who had no hope in life. Y ou have educated those who were ignorant and illiterate. Y ou have done all these things and much more to so many of our brothers and sisters. You are greatly blessed. Y ou will be in our thoughts and prayers and especially during our masses.

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Features a d Book Review

Resistance isn't useless To Resist is to Win, the autobiography of Xanana Gusmao (Aurora Books) RRP $24.95 Reviewed by George Russo

With Mary Busher, Perth Catholic Church Archives volunteer

Excerpts from the WA Catholic Record 26 May, 1900.

Mr Lacey turns 21 Mr E.G. Lacey, proprietor of Belle Vue Brickworks entertained his employees at a dinner at his residence Undercliffe, to celebrate the coming of age of his only son Mr James Lacey. An employee, Mr J. Laidlaw, in proposing a toast to the Lacey family said the brick making plant was of the up to date modern type compare and would favourably with almost any in Australia." Responding Mr Lacey said:" I plan to add further to the brickmaking works which are the largest in the colony. They could also boast of the largest and highest chimney stack" The guests were served dinner on the verandah, and the entertainment included songs and recitations given by guests, plus music selections from the gramophone.

Season for dancing The dancing season is now upon us and with such intensity is its full force felt here that quiet people can only look on with amazement at this wonderful development of the Celtic element in our Australian national character. This being so, the St Brigid's Ball in aid of the convent and schools is surely worthy of support. The erection of these buildings cost round 4,000 pounds and through strenuous efforts about 2,000 pounds has been paid off. No effort should be spared towards freeing these schools from debt.

Who speaks up? Editorial comment on two recent court cases in the Marble Bar Police Courts in which two Aboriginals were found guilty of absconding from their employers. One was remanded for eight days, the other sentenced to a month's Imprisonment: "it would be interesting to learn what the prisoners had to urge in their favour. What were the reasons they gave, or would have given, had there been anyone to speak for them, to excuse themselves for running away? There is more in common with the old-time slave and the WA indentured black of the present day than is at all creditable to our civilisation. Who in the Police Court takes the part of the run-away black, or defends him against an unjust sentence?

Yon( terrace OK'd What ever other faults might be alleged of the York Town Council, the taste manifested In beautifying and preparing the streets, especially that of Avon Terrace, is quite commendable. This street, if only a little better fitted with shops and dwellings, would rival any other of an agricultural class In the colony.

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ome years ago I heard a young girl talk about the disgraceful behaviour of British soldiers in northern Ireland, an I thought at the time that wereIthereIwould be in the IRA. Now, after reading this book about the nefarious doings of the Indonesian army in East Timor, I would want to be in the Resistance movement, Falintil, under the inspiration of its heroic leader Xanana Gusmao. This purports to be his autobiography. In reality it is more; for, as well as his life - written from jail - it contains selected accounts of his letters and speeches, when he led the resistance forces from the mountains of that fatal land. And as we now know: they won; encapsulated in its brilliant title: To Resist is to Win.

The outstanding virtue of this book is that it is what the title states it to be: an account of heroic resistance against insuperable odds. It succeeds triumphantly in portraying the relationship of Xanana as a person to his historic achievement: the creation of the world's smallest nation against the might of another evil dictator. We see his own life in exile (and In the Timor mountains) away from his family, and sense some of the enthusiasm and zeal for the defence of his beloved homeland. Born in 1946, 'in the scorching heat that ripens the rice', of a peasant mother and a schoolteacher father, the young Xanana was educated by nuns until he studied at the Jesuit seminary. There, he emerged as a promising intellectual, though he was not "a diligent student." To his father he owed his "love of reading" and to the priests "his love of the Portuguese language." Indeed, he was the pride of his family, being the only son among seven sisters. And the example of his father endowed him with respect for leadership, hard work,

Resistance on the streets - East 77morese independence supporters march in Jakarta last April. Xanana Gusmao's autobiography also contains excerpts from letters and speeches during his time as resistance leader and when he was in jail.

and the culture and history of his an tragedy. Undoubtedly the decisive influence in his life was small country. Catholicism. He fell in love with it, then. He wrote to the Pope about his As a youth he worked "selling fish at dawn in Dili" and "on the visit to Dili: "For 14 years the people of East Timor have been diswharf, unloading ships." Later, he joined the public ser- possessed. . . . Your Holiness, we, the guerrillas of Falintil, kneel vice, and then joined the army. before you to beg the protection He married in 1969. He heard Jose Ramos Horta of your blessing and the help of speak publicly against colonial- your prayers to enable us to conism, but resisted the allure of tinue to fulfil our duties to liberate our nation by giving the Fretilin. In 1975 came the coup and civil people of East Timor the comwar, he joined Fretilin, and soon plete freedom they aspire to and the full exercise of the rights they became its leader. "Our only ideology was self- long for." On the other hand, he was feardetermination", he asserts, but "[we] did not comprehend what a less in his condemnation of the grave responsibility we had US and other big nations like Ausassumed towards our Home- tralia, "defenders of monopolistic interests" who allowed the war of land." genocide in East Timor. The rest is history. He reminded our government of Enter the Indonesians, his capture and imprisonment in Jakar- its ingratitude to the people of ta, the Referendum and slaughter East Timor who helped Australia of so many thousands of his coun- against the Japanese imperialist trymen. This is a familiar scene aggression. . . . And who "treated and as moving as a Shakespeare- them with Ethel scorn of having

our struggle considered an 'internal matter of Indonesia'." He was fearlessly critical of both Clinton and Hawke for their attitudes in supporting Indonesia and allowing the take-over of his homeland. He saw Hawke as more interested in exploiting Timorese oil. . . . even "handing Jakarta new material with which to massacre our people." He accused Australia of "complicity in the extermination of our people." Like Nelson Mandela, Xanana Gusmao made the most of what the history of his country allowed after the ravages of colonialism and western capitalism. He was an unexpected hero for the Resistance and the lesson of this splendid autobiography is that to resist is to win over the forces of evil, even if you are only the poor minority. Somehow, I think, that squares with Christian teaching, and Xanana would agree.

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orn in about 540, Gregory because he wished to continue a came from a prominent life of contemplation, but despite his protests, was consecrated on Roman noble family. His father was a senator and 3 September, 590. Civil government in Italy was his great-grandfather was Pope collapsing, and the Lombards, a Felix III. Gregory was not called to the barbarian tribe, were invading, service of the Church at an early so Gregory assumed the main age. He began a secular career, tasks of civil as well as Church and by 572, he was the Prefect of administration. He immediately the City of Rome, an enormous- reorganised the territorial posly influential position, akin to sessions of the Holy See to use Mayor. Nevertheless, two years their produce to feed the starvlater, he decided to pursue the religious life. Liquidating his vast inheritance, he established six monasteries in Sicily, and a seventh in the palace which he had inherited from his father on the Caelian Hill in Rome. He retired into this monastery which was named St Andrew's. He soon became so wellrespected for holiness that he was pressed into the service of the Papacy. Pope Pelagius II sent him in 579 as papal ambassador, to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Returning to Rome in 585, Gregory served as abbot of his monastery until, to his horror, he was elected Pope in 590. He tried for months to avoid the office, Gregory the Great

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LIye in e4rst t 2000 Perth historian Dr Jennifer Skerritt sheds some light on Catholic history to mark 2000 years of Christianity. This week Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)

ing and care for the sick. He also had grain sent from Sicily to feed refugees. Gregory then negotiated peace with the Lombards and subsequently proceeded to convert them slowly to Catholicism. When the patriarch of Constantinople declared himself 'ecumenical patriarch,' Gregory assumed the title of 'servant of the servants of God', which is still used by Popes today. In 596, he sent a mission to England, under the leadership of Augustine, who became St Augustine of Canterbury. In part, this expedition was intended to reunite the Celtic Church, which had been cut off by barbarian invasions, with the rest of the Catholic Church. From the very beginning of his pontificate, Gregory's first con-

cern was for people. He sought to make faith more understandable to the ordinary people, by popularising miracles, and by encouraging a reform of the Mass, including instituting the beautiful church music known as Gregorian Chant. Gregory has been described as the last of the Romans, the last of the Latin Fathers of the Church, and the initiator of the Medieval Papacy He is acclaimed as a doctor of the Church and honoured with the title 'Great.' When he died in 604, he had forbidden the veneration of his corpse under pain of excommunication. He was buried in the basilica of Saint Peters and canonised soon after by popular demand. He was one of the most important and influential Popes.

Women in the Church

Call issued for new Christian feminism 'This tiny By Cindy Wooden

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new Christian feminism is needed for the new milennium, a feminism that promotes cooperation between women and men and acknowledges the importance of the family, said speakers at a conference in Rome. The chief failure of feminism in the past was that it focused only on politics and society, "as if the feminine condition had nothing to do with the family," said Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family. The cardinal was among the speakers at a 19-20 May conference on "A new feminism for a .new millennium," sponsored by the Legionaries of Christ. Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said the 21st century brings hope that a balanced feminism will continue to reduce violence and discrimination against women while recognising the important role of women in the family. "To ignore that the vocation of the woman includes family and society - reducing the sphere of women's self-realisation to just the work, political or cultural aspects - brings a profound disregard for the aspirations of the human heart," the cardinal said. "Not only is it false that virginity and motherhood are 'obstacles' to a woman's self-realisation: It is precisely the contrary," he said. Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said that what is needed is "a feminism that defends and promote[s] the dignity of women, a renewed and renewing feminism which enlivens society and inspires a culture of life." The new feminism must "integrate the essential aspects of the feminine condition, which include virginity and maternity as the realisation of the vocation to love and to give of oneself," he said. Mary Ann Glendon, a professor at Harvard Law School, said, "large majorities of women now refuse to call themselves feminists" because feminism has been "indifferent to their deepest concerns." "They are alienated by its negative attitude toward marriage and family life, its antagonistic attitude toward men. its intolerance for dissent from its official positions

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and by its inattention to the problems of balancing work and family life," she said. Glendon said the forgers of a new feminism must be committed to "a cultural transformation," not only in promoting women's equality, but in changing the world of work and protecting the gift of human life. "The dignity of all forms of legitimate work, paid or unpaid," must be acknowledged, she said. The socially important role of women dedicating their time to their families must be recognised, she added. Nicole Garnett, a new mother and professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. said women of her generation have rejected "the myths of the old feminism," which include the assertion "that raising a family was pure drudgery," that a woman who chose to stay at home "was barely above contempt," and that a woman could "have it all" without making sacrifices. Younger women's "acceptance of the biological and emotional reality that our children need us and that we need them is a sign that we are more confident in our identities as women than the generation of women who came before us," she said. Garnett said, however, that young professional women must never forget that they have options many other women do not, women who cannot work part-time and still support their

families. David Blankenhorn, president of the American Institute for Values, said the new feminism also must have as one of its goals strengthening marriage and family life, particularly the role of fathers. "Motherhood as a social role can and increasingly today does exist on its own, separate from fathers," he said. "But fatherhood usually cannot exist on its own" - there must be the intention and consent of the woman to include the father of her child in the life of the family. "It would seem that large numbers of young women today definitely want a child, but do not necessarily want or believe that they need a father on the premises, just as large numbers of young men today are willing to have sex with their girlfriends and impregnate them with little or no intention of marrying the mother or helping her to raise the child," Blankenhorn said. While mothers can raise their children without a father, he said, it should be obvious to everyone that that is not what is best for the children, nor for most women. As women work to develop a new feminism, he said, "I can think of few challenges more important than restoring this broken circle, this badly damaged bond of love between men and women, mothers and fathers." Glendon told the ZENIT news agency: "We must be able to discern the specific form of a new

feminism. We know that neither feminism nor any other `ism' can give the definitive answer. A new and better feminism means aiming for a higher end to free every woman in the process of perfecting her nature, with the objective of transforming culture in terms of support of life." "The great limitations of the feminist movement of the 70s stem from the dogmatism of its ideology. The idea of freeing yourself from the responsibilities of woman and mother to replace man was an error. The result has been to confuse feminine identity, leaving women alone to face the difficulties of work and family," Glendon explained. "At present the majority of young women of the new generations reject the feminists' definition. They reject the idea of living in constant antagonism with men. "They do not accept the necessity of being closed to marriage and the family, and they are especially opposed to the intolerant and radical attitude that is typical of some feminists," she continued. However, "on the political and legislative front, there are ever more countries that are adopting feminist ideology, precisely when it is all the more necessary that families, and mothers in particular, have more time to spend educating their children and taking care of the family. The greatest problem for women is reconciling an intense work activity with a commitment to the family and children, a commitment that is no less demanding." Among other speakers were: Susan Toscani from the US, executive director of "Catholic Women @ Work"; Jo Croissant from France, wife of the founder of the Community of the Beatitudes, who spoke on "Woman: Daughter, Wife, and Mother"; Lucienne Salle from France, a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, who spoke on "Feminism and New Feminisms"; Mariele Quartana from Italy, a member of the Focolare Movement, whose topic was "Woman as Promoter of Unity"; and Irinia zu Sayn Wittgenstein BerletnuN from Germany, representing the Lutheran Church in the Geneva Council of Churches, who described the situation of "Woman in the Countries of Eastern Europe." - CNS/ZENIT

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n a manifesto issued April 29, 15 US female Catholic thinkers and a Presbyterian have urged Catholic women to "re-imagine what it means to be the whole body of Christ." "The way things are now is not the design of God," they said. "Carry forward the cause of Gospel feminism," they added. Titled The Madeleva Manifesto: A Message of Hope and Courage, the 400-word statement was composed during a retreat at St Mary's College in Notre Dame by 15 of the women who, over the past 16 years, have been part of the Madeleva Lecture series. The only former lecturer not present also signed the statement. The series is named after Holy Cross Sister Madeleva Wolff, president of St Mary's from 1934 to 1961, and the lecturers include some of the best-known Catholic women theologians in the US. The statement called especially on young women in the Church to "join us in a commitment to farreaching transformation of Church and society in nonviolent

ways. . . . We deplore and hold ourselves morally bound to protest and resist in Church and society all actions, customs, laws and structures that treat women or men as less than fully human." "We pledge ourselves to carry forth the heritage of biblical justice that mandates that all persons share in right relationship with each other, with the cosmos and with the Creator." Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Sandra Schneiders, New Testament and Christian spirituality professor at the Jesuit School of Theology and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, delivered this year's Madaleva Lecture on 28 April, on faith, feminism and the future. The manifesto was proclaimed in English and Spanish the next day at the start of a panel discussion featuring its authors. The signers, besides Sister Schneiders, were: • Holy Names Sister Mary Boys, a theology professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York

• Lisa Sowle Cahill, a theology • Monika Hellwig, executive professor at Boston College and director of the Association of former president of the Catholic Catholic Colleges and Universities and a former professor of theTheological Society of America. • Denise Carmody, author of 50 ology at Georgetown University. • Dominican Sr Mary Catherine books and a theology professor at Hilkert, a theology professor at Santa Clara University the University of Notre Dame. ChitJoan • Benedictine Sister • Sister Elizabeth Johnson, a tister, former prioress, author of 20 books and executive director theology professor at Fordham of Benetvision, a spirituality University in New York and former president of the Catholic Theresource centre. ological Society of America. • Benedictine Sister Mary • Dolores Leckey, senior fellow Collins, prioress of Mount St at Woodstock Theological Centre Scholastica Benedictine Abbey in in Washington and former execuKansas, a former professor of tive director of the US bishops' liturgical studies at The Catholic Secretariat for Family, Laity, University of America in Wash- Women and Youth. ington. She was not at the meet• Gail Porter Mandell, a profesing but signed the manifesto. sor of humanistic studies at St • Elizabeth Dreyer, a professor Mary's. of religious studies at Fairfield • Kathleen Norris, a poet and University in Connecticut. spiritual writer well known for • Maria Harris, author of 13 her book The Cloister Walk books and holder of the Howard • Jeanette Rodriguez, chairChair in Religious Education at woman of the theology and reliAndover Newton Theological gious studies department at School in Massachusetts. Seattle University and former • Diana Hayes, a professor of president of the US Academy of theology at Georgetown Universi- Hispanic Theologians. ty in Washington. - Catholic News Service

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s a 15th-century nun, St Rita of Cascia came to ome as a Holy Year pilgrim, a tiny woman with a big reputation for penitence and prayer. In a special ceremony during Holy Year 2000, the saint's remains made a unique pilgrimage by helicopter from their resting place in central Italy to St Peter's Square, where Pope John Paul 11 and at least 50,000 others paid homage on 20 May to the "saint of desperate causes." The Pope, speaking next to the casket on the steps in front of St Peter's Basilica after a Mass, called her a model of holiness for women around the world. St Rita was married against her will at age 12 to a violent. cruel man whom she succeeded in converting. Margaret (her given name) had two sons, and after 18 years of unhappy marriage her husband was killed in a brawl by an enemy family of long standing. However, she did not denounce the killer and tried to keep her two sons from seeking vengeance. She prayed unceasingly for the killer's soul. Both her sons died, victims of the plague. She was turned down three times when she tried to join the Augustinian convent because they only accepted virgins. but eventually she was accepted. "We see the thin body of a woman who was small in physical stature but great in holiness. She lived in humility, and now she is known throughout the world for her heroic Christian existence as a wife, mother, widow and nun." the Pope said. This woman, who bore on her forehead the marks of the Passion, was schooled by contemplating the Cross "in that love that she had known and expressed in a heroic way within the walls" of her home. noted the Pope. Pope John Paul II said she consecrated her life to God in contemplation, living a life of "complete abandonment to God," and of "transparent simplicity" and "granite-like adhesion to the Gospel." The Pope, speaking 100 years after her canonisation, called St Rita an "advocate for the poor and desperate" and said she had managed to be a woman of peace in every circumstance, no matter how difficult. "Rita demonstrated well the feminine genius. She lived it intensely both in physical and spiritual maternity," he said. As a result, Rita has become a symbol of "feminine nature," lived "both in her physical as well as spiritual maternity." St Rita has always been one of the most popular saints in Italy and elsewhere. St Rita's body has remained incorrupt since the day of her death on May 22, 1457 in Cassia. - CNS

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International News

Catholic and Anglican Earthquake hits hard leaders meet in Canada In Brief

JAKARTA. MAY 16 (ZENIT) The diocese of Mando, Indonesia, was struck yesterday by an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale. An earlier tremor, registered on 4 May, killed as many as 50 and left dozens injured and hundreds homeless. We now badly need medicines, food, and tents," Bishop Suwatan of Manado told the Vatican's Fides news agency Father Hans Rettob, a parish priest in a neighbouring village, reported that hundreds of houses, schools, and church buildings were damaged. The situation has been worsened by the presence of refugees from the Moluccas islands trouble spot.

Patriarch writes VATICAN CITY (CNS) Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow, who in the past has harshly criticised what he sees as Catholic proselytising, sent Pope John Paul II a conciliatory message on the pontiff's birthday. "I express the hope that the existing problems between our churches will be resolved happily thanks to common efforts, and that the new millennium becomes a time for overcoming the divisions and contrasts between Christians of the East and West." he wrote in a sealed envelope delivered to the Pope on 18 May.

Burundi killings VATICAN CITY MAY 17 (ZENIT) - Blood continues to he spilt in Burundi. Last Sunday a priest and a teacher were killed in an ambush. Fr Pascal Nzikobanianka of the Ruyigi diocese was attacked while driving back to Muriza with a seminarian, who might lose a leg as a result of the wounds he received, a nun, who will soon be released from the hospital, and Beatrice Ndihokubwayo, a teacher, who also died in the attack.

Pro-life vote call LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life in the US, is urging pro-lifers not to be afraid to make their voices heard in that country's November elections. "We have just as much right as anyone else to bring those beliefs to bear on the laws and policies of our country," the priest told The Record, newspaper of the Louisville Archdiocese.

Greek challenge ATHENS, MAY 16 (ZENIT) A Greek government agency. challenged Orthodox influence on the country on Sunday by ordering religious affiliation removed from State ID cards. Since the Greek Orthodox faith is the official State religion, this action sets up a potential friction with the Socialist government, which enjoys a comfortable majority in Parliament. Greece is currently the only European Union nation that requires citizens to declare their religion.

By Joseph Sinasac MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (CNS) Thousands of miles from London or Rome, 35 bishops from the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches met from 15-19 May to discuss how to get past a 466-yearold split started by a king of England who could not get an annulment. Anglican Archbishop George Carey of Canterbury, head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and Australian Cardinal Edward Cassidy, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, led the meeting, which included bishops from around the English-speaking world. Representing Canadians were Bishop Gerald Wiesner of British Columbia, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Anglican Archbishop Michael Peers, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. The bishops met in private in Mississauga at Queen of the Apostles retreat centre. They

Australian Cardinal Edward Cassidy, left, walks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, right, and other Catholic and Anglican bishops outside St Michael's Catholic Cathedral in Toronto on 17 May. Photo. GALS Reuters

appeared in public on 17 May to celebrate an evensong liturgy at St Michael's Cathedral in Toronto, at which Archbishop Carey gave the sermon. The bishops also were to meet with the media on

19 May. `I'he split between the Vatican and England goes back to the reign of King Henry VIII. He had been a loyal Catholic, declared a "defender of the faith" by Pope Leo X in 1521 for his treatise

attacking Martin Luther. But a battle with Pope Clement VII over King Henry's failure to obtain an annulment for his marriage with Catherine of Aragon led to a split a few years later between Henry and Rome. Relations between the two communions were bitter for hundreds of years, thawing only in this century. Today relations between the two are warm and cordial. Yet theological differences remain, particularly over such matters as the true nature of the Eucharist; recognition of Holy Orders, including the issue of women priests, which Anglicans largely accept but Catholics do not; and the nature of the papacy. The bishops gathered in Mississauga were charged by Pope John PaulII and the Archbishop of Canterbury to review 30 years of dialogue. Close observers said they were unlikely to focus on areas of contention such as women's ordination: Instead, they would explore how to get their documents down to the grass roots of parish life.

President warns bishops to back off Damascus CARACAS, Venezuela (CNS) - A Venezuelan bishops' official said the bishops would not enter "into a shouting match" with their nation's president. Mgr Jose Hernan Sanchez Porras, secretary-general of the bishops' conference, made his remarks after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez responded to a call for dialogue from the local episcopate with a long, aggressive letter. "We believe the president's reaction is a consequence of the tense electoral climate in which he wants to involve the Church, but we will remain away from the confrontation," Mgr Sanchez said. "We only demand mutual respect and the opportunity to talk for the good of the country," he added. In late April, the bishops issued

Men chat next to a poster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Macuto, Venezuela. Photo CNS/Reuters

a document asking Chavez to stop his aggressive political discourse against his critics, including some

bishops, and to secure fair conditions for the presidential elections on 28 May. The bishops also asked to meet with the president "to ease tensions for the good of Venezuela." Chavez responded on 16 May with a 21-page letter full of quotes from the Bible and papal encyclicals. The left-leaning Chavez said he is heading a popular revolution with programs "feeding off the revolutionary concepts of Jesus." He criticised the bishops' letter for saying that God does not bless political programs and cited Gospel quotes of Christ as the good shepherd protecting his flock from thieves and mercenaries. Enemies of his program are "counter revolutionaries," Chavez said, warning his revolution could turn violent if peaceful means fail.

Pope labels three African wars 'absurd' VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II appealed for peace in Africa, saying innocent civilians paid the highest price of war. Speaking after his weekly general audience on 17 May, the Pope called for a halt to fighting between Ethiopia and Eritrea and an end to the long-running civil war in Sierra Leone. "As always," he said, "it is civilians and defenceless people who

pay the price of such incredible violence." He offered encouragement to "people of good will who spend their lives in solidarity with the suffering, as well as the organisations which do all they can to brighten every glimmer of peace." He called the conflicts under way in the three African countries "absurd." Diplomatic missions have failed to resolve the disputes.

• The Bishops of Eritrea have appealed to the international community to take urgent steps to halt the Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict. warning that the lives of innocent people were at stake. "A single day of delay could mean the extermination of an entire population and the devastation of its territory," the bishops said in a statement made public at the Vatican on 20 May.

Pope hope VATICAN CITY, MAY 19 (ZENIT) - Although he is now 80, John Paul H continues to make plans, and is very clear about where he would like to go next: Damascus and Athens. The plans were confirmed on Italian television. The Pontiff wants to follow in St Paul's footsteps, one of the two apostles whose name he took when he was elected to the papacy. In 1999 John Paul II wrote, "In particular,Iwould also like to go and meditate in two cities that are singularly connected with the life of Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles. Above all, I am thinking of Damascus, the place that recalls his conversion. . . . Secondly, the Pope would like to "go to Athens, in whose Areopagus Paul pronounced an unforgettable speech. . . . "Keeping in mind the role of Greece in the formation of ancient culture, it can be understood why, in a certain sense that speech can be considered as the symbol itself of the Gospel's meeting with human culture."

Mexico gets 27 new saints including first female saint By John Norton VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In a ceremony that alternated between solemnity and soccer-stadium enthusiasm, Pope John Paul II canonised 27 Mexican saints, Including the first Mexican woman to be made a saint. "With pleasureIproclaim today the sanctity of various witnesses of the Gospel in the 20th century, all belonging to the beloved and noble nation of Mexico," the Pope said at the beginning of the Mass on 21 May. "They are the saints of

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the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000," he said, as more than 50,000 pilgrims cheered and waved sombreros and green, white and red Mexican flags in an overcast St Peter's Square. "May the example of these new saints, gift of the Mexican Church to the universal Church, move all the faithful to search with courage and determination for sanctity, with all means in their reach and above all with the assistance of God's grace," he said. To be permanently united to Christ means "to carry out our baptismal promise, to live in His

love, to be inspired by His Word. to be nourished by the Eucharist. to receive His forgiveness and, when necessary, to carry the cross with Him," said the Pope. "Separation from God is the greatest tragedy a human can live," he said. Among the. new saints were 25 martyrs of Mexico's anti-Catholic persecutions at the beginning of the 20th century. All but three were priests. Mexico's first female saint, Sister Maria de Jesus Sacramentado Venegas, 1868-1959, founded the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. dedicated to the poor and ill.

A nun attends the canonisation of 27 Mexicans in St Peter's Square on 21 May.

Fatima's Third Secret

Pilgrims agree with decision to publish prophecy cisco Marto, saw the apparitions in 1917. Pilgrims at the audience were not worried t Peter's Square in late May was that ridicule might follow the Vatican's abuzz with chatter about the so- affirmation that the Blessed Virgin Mary accurately forecast world political events called "third secret of Fatima." Pope John Paul II, mentioning it briefly in her message to three shepherd children during his 17 May weekly general audi- living in rural Portugal in 1917. "That is part of the power of it," said Keith ence, said he has asked the Vatican's doctrinal congregation to publish the message Martinez, on a pilgrimage with other along with a commentary because "the young adults from Portland, Oregon. "The predictions have come true even time was ripe." Pilgrims and tourists, young and old though they were revealed to kids who could not understand. It shows God's interagreed with the Pope. "It's only fair that everyone know," said vention." In Sister Lucia's memoirs about the Angela Stando, an 11-year-old from Shumo, apparitions, she said her little cousins Italy. "It's best to say what it js," said Stando's thought Russia was a woman. Like Martinez, pilgrims were awaiting classmate, Lucio Moccio. The boy thought it neatly tied up some the Vatican publication of the entire mesloose ends "to say it in the jubilee year and sage written down by Sister Lucia in 1943, on the anniversary of the assassination placed in a wax-sealed envelope and evenattempt," when in St Peter's Square May tually sent to the Vatican. Publication of the announcement was 13, 1981, a Turkish gunman shot Pope John Paul. expected in mid-June. Versions of the secret published over the The sixth-graders said people should not be surprised that Mary appeared to chil- last 40 years included predictions of apocdren and, according to the Vatican's inter- alyptic catastrophes and of punishment for pretation of the secret, foretold the the errors of the Church, often interpreted Jacinta and Francisco Marto are pictured with Church's battle with Communism and the as referring to the Second Vatican Council. their cousin Lucia dos Santos, right, in a photo attempt on the Pope's life. Whether or not a Catholic has a special taken around the time of the 1917 apparitions Lucia dos Santos, now a Carmelite nun, devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, most seem of Mary at Fatima, Portugal. and her cousins, Blessed Jacinta and Fran- to think the past speculation about what Pr By Cindy Wooden

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was in the message was not good for Fatima or the Catholic Church. Father Gilles LeBlanc, pastor of St Columba Parish in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, said, "Ithink it's time that the secret be revealed. . . . It will clear up all the misunderstandings and speculation." Father Tom Morley, a retired priest from East Bay, Nova Scotia, said the Fatima message is as relevant as ever. "The times call for committed Catholics," he said. 'There is no time for complacency. There is still a lot of hostility toward the Church." Brazilian Sister Raquel Capral, a member of the Missionaries of St Anthony Maria Claret, said people must remember that the secret adds nothing essential to the Catholic faith. "I don't think it is that unusual. It regards the persecution of the Church, but the Church always has faced persecution," she said. "The important thing is the revelation of Jesus. This prophecy is nothing really new, just a reminder that we must pray," Sister Capra! said. Roberto Caputo from Lecce, Italy, said the secret and its revelation reflect well on the Pope. "I think God wanted and still wants much from this Pope," the Italian said the day before Pope John Paul's 80th birthday

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peaking on the subject for the first time since Pope John Paul II announced the Third Secret of Fatima on 13 May, the Vatican's top doctrinal official, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, said the secret contains no dogma of faith and, like other private revelations, is "not essential" for Christians. While praising Pope John Paul ll's courage in announcing the secret and ordering its publication, Cardinal Ratzinger said Fatima needs to be kept in perspective in order to avoid "sensationalism." The cardinal made the remarks in an Interview published on 19 May by the Rome newspaper La Repubblica. He said his doctrinal congregation, which was working on a commentary on the Fatima messages. expected to publish that and the full text of the third secret by mid-June. The young Fatima visionaries said three messages were revealed by Mary when she appeared to them in 1917. The first two were made public decades ago, but the third, long rumoured to contain an apocalyptic prediction, has been Devotion at Fatima: Pilgrims pray outside the Fatima shrine on 12 May, 1997. Pn3to CNS Reuter:, kept secret until now. from these private revelations. Although announcement of the Third Secret had During the Pope's recent trip to Fatima, they represent a help to prayer and to been an act of courage on the part of the Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary Christian life for anyone who desires, they Pope. of state, announced that the third secret are certainly not essential for a Christian. "Yes, yes. In Fatima also, once again the involved a vision of a long war waged by "Therefore, I think it is also important to Holy Father has demonstrated his great atheistic regimes against the Church. address these things in their correct terms, courage to the world. It included a figure of a "bishop in white" not to think of sensationalism, or extraor"This also shows how vital his presence who falls in a hail of gunfire, which was dinary things, but in the fundamental is at the head of the Church, and how he presumed to be a reference to the assassi- things of Christianity" is truly courageous. He is an example to nation attempt against Pope John Paul in "There are no dogmas of faith in the mat- all," he said. 1981. ter of apparitions," the Cardinal stressed. He said the Church is grateful to Divine Cardinal Ratzinger said "We want to pubAsked if it were legitimate for a Christian Providence". . . . for this Pope who, prelish the whole third secret of Fatima as to not believe in the reported apparitions cisely in his old age and, and we could say soon as possible, with the commentary at Fatima or other places, Cardinal his sickness, is even greater and really repand historical frame of reference. The work Ratzinger said: "Certainly, it is possible for resents the voice of faith, of Christianity, of is going very well. someone to not believe in the apparitions; love for men. "For understandable reasons of discre- I repeat, we are not dealing with dogmas "He is a Pontiff who is doing a great sertion,Icannot tell you the exact date of pub- of faith." vice not only for the Church but for the lication but it will certainly not be later The Church's teaching on private revela- whole of humanity," he said.. than the first half of June." tions, expressed in the "Catechism of the The reporter alluded to the extension of He also said the commission was made Catholic Church," is that while private rev- Parkinson's disease, and returned to the up primarily of historians and theologians, elations have occurred throughout history possibility of a resignation. in order to write a document that is useful - some of them recognised by the authorBut the Cardinal answered: "I exclude it for all, and which will be presented in a ity of the Church - they "do not, however, in the most absolute way. I really do not normal press conference at the Vatican belong to the deposit of faith." believe in such an eventuality In any case. Press Office. The Church teaches that God's revelation at this time I do not see how the Holy Cardinal Ratzinger said he thought the was fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and that the Father could imagine something like that. connection between the attack on the Pope faith cannot accept private revelations that not even vaguely. and the third secret was self-evident. claim to surpass or correct that expressed "Suffice it to think of all he is doing these But he cautioned against making too in Christ's life and death. days in the Jubilee. He is present in almost much of the text of the secret and said it The reporter for La Repubblica asked: all the celebrations. held no "new surprises." "Can one not believe in the relation "I also think of so many of his actions, his Asked if it is possible to anticipate other between the third secret of Fatima and the Initiatives, his trips. Suffice it to think, for novelties or resounding surprises in this attack on Pope John Paul II on May 13, example, of his recent historic visit to Israel. third secret of Fatima, he said: "No, noth- 1981?" "All his actions, his pastoral initiatives ing. There will be no new surprises. What However the Cardinal said: "The relation these years have shown that precisely in is more,Ibelieve that, at the end, the secret between the attack and the third secret is his physical frailty the Pope is great and is will be reduced to its exact dimension. obvious, ills in the facts." very present in the Church, spiritually and Because not that much must be expected Cardinal Ratzinger agreed that the humanly," he said. - CNS/ZENIT

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he new coadjutor of Porto Alegre in Brazil, Archbishop Dadeus Grings, said the revelation of the third secret of Fatima puts an end to catastrophic speculations and discredits "the political manipulation of Our Lady of Fatima." "Since Cardinal (Angelo) Sodano revealed the content of the third secret, it is now clear that the importance of Fatima's message is one of conversion, penance and the renewal of Christian life," said Archbishop Grings on 16 Max'. when he arrived in Porto Alegre. He will be installed as Coadjutor Archbishop of Porto Alegre on 27 May. "The revelation of the Third Secret puts an end to a mystery that has never been key to our faith, but also demonstrates that the message of Fatima is one the Church has always been proclaiming: If Catholics abandon prayer and permanent conversion, we will lose our own identity, and society will suffer the consequences by the way of wars, destruction, injustice and any kind of imaginable social evil," he said. 'The secret of Fatima was never central for the Catholic Church. because all the Revelation needed was already there, available for each Christian." he said. "Nevertheless, the secret was used and manipulated by political groups who pursued ideological goals," he said. A Catholic group known as 'Tradition, Family and Property" promotes a harshly anti-Communist message, using Fatima's messages to support its views. - Catholic News Service

A politician at Fatima. US First Lady Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea visit in 1997.

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Asian Catholic News

Pakistani leader's U-turn on Islam law KARACHI, Pakistan (UCAN) - and Peace Commission, also Pakistan's chief executive suc- expressed disappointment over cumbed to pressure from Muslim the decision. groups on 16 May and announced Cecil Chaudhry, executive secthe revocation of a measure retary of the National Christian Intended to prevent the abuse of Action Forum, told UCA News, blasphemy laws, a move some "The government has for no reaChristians deplored. son caused a huge problem for "As it was the unanimous themselves by announcing a prodemand of the 'ulema,"mashkha- cedural change and now have ikh' (religious scholars) and of the gone back even on that minor people,Ihave decided to do away change." with the procedural change," Musharraf has been under presGeneral Pervez Musharraf told sure from Muslim groups who media. staged a number of protest The 'procedural change' was actions, with some calling for a announced by Musharraf at a nationwide strike, after the pronational human rights convention cedural amendment was in Islamabad on 21 April. announced. Under the said procedural Jamat-e-Islami, one of the most amendment, police could only organised Islamic political parties register a blasphemy case, make In Pakistan, along with Majils-ean arrest and conduct a criminal Tahaffuz-e-Khatrn-e-Nabuwat investigation after a preliminary (world council of protection of the investigation has been conducted finality of Prophethood), and by the district commissioner. tamiat Ulema-e-Islam (party of In the former procedure, which Islamic scholars) rallied in Sindh has been reinstated, a com- province on 28 April against the plainant can directly file a case or amendment. lodge a First Information Report They said that the announced (FIR) with the police. procedural amendment was With the FIR in hand, police can planned on the behest of Western make an arrest. powers and NG0s. Christians and other religious On 8 May about 40 heads of varminorities have -long argued that ious Islamic groups and parties in the laws have been used against a joint statement enjoined all them to settle personal scores. Muslims to observe a general Unscrupulous persons concoct strike on 19 May to press for more false allegations of blasphemy, extreme Islamic control of nationthey noted. al affairs. In light of this, a number of Among their demands were the Christians have expressed disap- incorporation of all Islamic provipointment at the decision of Gen- sions in the 1973 constitution, the eral Musharraf to revoke the Withdrawal of the proposed joint procedural amendment. electorate system, a ban on NGOs President of the Karachi-based funded by "Zionist" and Christian Mission and Action for Social Ser- organisations, and a halt to action vices Liaqat Munawar Suroiya against Islamic seminaries and told UCA News that Musharraf 'jihad' (holy war) organisations. decided hastily and did not take • Five women and a child were into consideration the suffering of killed and more than 35 people religious minorities. were injured when a Catholic Echoing his view, a Church church of Karwar diocese in source noted that Christians in southern India collapsed during Pakistan regret the decision and renovation. that Musharraf should have put The 52-year-old St John the Bapthe matter under review. tist Church in Kumta collapsed on Aftab Alexander Mughal, execu- 15 May while some 100 labourers tive secretary of the Catholic were working to replace its tiled major religious superiors' Justice roof with concrete.

Hindus offer to pay for damage INDORE, India (UCAN) - A Hindu temple trust has offered to repair a church, one of three Christian institutions damaged in attacks by alleged Hindu fanatics in Indore, central India, on the night of 11 May. The trustees of the Hanuman Mandir (temple) offered to pay for the repair of neighbouring Protestant St Paul's Church, which a Catholic lay leader said is a "welcome move from the part of the local Hindu community." "This wonderful idea is based on a 2,000-year-old relationship between Hindus and Christians in India," said John Dayal, convener of the ecumenical United Christian Forum for Human Rights. Dayal said such gestures will pose a challenge to Hindu extremists, who claim to have the Catholic nuns demonstrate in Calcutta on 18 May following recent attacks on Photo: CNS/Reuters approval of the Hindu communi- Christians in India. ty for "violence against Chris- Word Father Varghese Nedi- Reverend Daniel Nathaniel of St tians." akalayil, director of the bhavan. Paul's Church. The third instituIn one of the three attacks on the On the same night, some 12 peo- tion attacked that night was a Pennight of 11 May, militants threw ple broke open St Paul's Church tecostal church in Vandana Nagar, fire balls made of rags dipped in and destroyed the crucifix on the also in Madhya Pradesh state's kerosene at the Masih Vidya Bha- altar. Indore town. The suspects pelted van, (Christ study house), the DiaThey also destroyed electrical the church with stones and damlogue and Information Centre of fittings and overturned furniture aged some windowpanes. In their attempt to set the church The local administration initialIndore Catholic diocese. ly withheld permission for ChrisThe attack by suspected Bajrang on fire. However, as people gathered tians to hold a protest sit-in Dal (BD, party of the strong and stout) activists could damage only outside the church after sensing demonstration fearing tension, the front door of the institution, commotion, the young attackers, but granted it on 16 May. Christians scheduled the protest because a priest put out the fire who had arrived on motorbikes, and called the police, said Divine escaped into the darkness, said for 18 May.

Priests report fear in militia camps By Jennifer E. Reed WASHINGIUN (CNS) - Priests assisting people in western Timor's refugee camps say the "vast majority" want to return to East Timor, but intimidation by pro-Indonesia militias is keeping them there, said a US human rights activist. Karen Orenstein of the Washington-based East Timor Action Network was co-leader of a delegation of congressional staffers, human rights activists, journalists and filmmaker John Sayles that made a weeklong fact-finding visit to Indonesia, western Timor Sand East Timor in late April. "In some areas, the refugee pop-

ulation outnumbers the indige- fled to or were forcibly moved to nous community," said Orenstein. western Timor when violence by "The best solution to the refugee pro-Indonesia militias and crisis, repeatedly voiced by Indonesian troops escalated folhumanitarian aid workers, is lowing a 30 August referendum repatriation. The only way to last year. increase the rate of repatriation is In the vote. almost 80 per cent of to remove militia intimidation and East Timorese chose indepencontrol of the camps." dence from, rather than autonoThe Catholic Church "is very my within, Indonesia, which had much involved" in aiding the integrated the former Portuguese refugees by providing humanitar- colony as a province in 1976. ian assistance as well as counTens of thousands of refugees selling in the remained in western Timor as of Indonesian-government run early May, and the UN said some camps, said Orenstein. 150,000 people had returned to "Church workers have more East Timor since October. access and people are more apt to Aid agencies and human rights feel comfortable with them" than activists have criticised the presother aid workers, she said. ence of militias in the camps, saySome 270,000 East Timorese ing they spread misinformation.

Two new Chinese bishops HONG KONG (CNS) - For the second time within two weeks, Chinese bishops in communion with Rome ordained new bishops in eastern China. A China-watcher at the Vatican said the ordinations were significant because they indicated a diminished influence of the government-approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. The two new prelates of Ningbo Diocese were elected bishops by the diocese in December, reported UCA News. Bishop Michael He Jinmin, 83, and Auxiliary Bishop

Matthew Hu Xiande, 65, were ordained at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. UCA News reported that a story on the ordinations appeared on 15 May in the Ningbo Daily. Bishop He, ordained a priest in 1944, was sentenced to reformthrough-labour between 1958 and 197Z

Auxiliary Bishop Hu studied at Ningbo and Shanghai seminaries between 1950 and 1958. He was sentenced to reform-throughlabour from 1958 to 1965.

Pakistan's Christians pledge dollars for drought relief Sri Lankans pray for help TOBA TEK SINGH, Pakistan (UCAN) - Christians in Churches across Pakistan have prayed and pledged support for the victims of the country's longest drought in more than 50 years. On May 7 Christians attending Sunday services prayed for rain especially in hard-hit areas. An estimated 1.2 million people in the interior of Sindh province and 2.1 million in Baluchistan province have been reported to be severely affected by the drought, many of them facing starvation. In light of this, Caritas Pak-

istan and Church World Service, Catholic and Protestant relief organisations respectively, are coordinating efforts to assist drought victims. Catholic schools in Lahore have also begun fund-raising campaigns. De La Salle Brother Christie Dorus, principal of La Salle High School in Faisalabad, told UCA News, "We were already involved in collections for victims of land mines in the world, but since this is a major disaster in the country, we shall collect funds for the victims of the drought, too."

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNS) - tles have been raging in northern Ten Sri Lankan bishops on a pil- Sri Lanka since March 27, when grimage to India prayed for the separatist Tamil rebels, who have intercession of Blessed Joseph Vaz waged a war against the governfor peace in their country ment since 1983, launched fresh "Blessed Vaz came to Sri Lanka offensives to retake Jaffna, the and saved us at a time of war and country's northern capital. cruelty. We plead with him to Blessed Vaz arrived in the come once again to the rescue of Dutch-ruled coastal belt of Sri our people and obtain peace," Bishop Oswald Gomis of Anurad- Lanka in 1687 disguised as a beghapura, president of the Catholic gar. He worked as a missionary Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka, amid Dutch persecution and later said upon the bishops' return to in the Sinhalese kingdom of Sri Lanka on 10 May. Fierce bat- Kandy until his death in 1711. . .

Free press 'necessary' KWANGJU, Korea (UCAN) Freedom of the press and solidarity between civic organisations and government are two necessary elements in the struggle for democracy, according to East Timorese Bishop Carlos Belo. Religious freedom is another indispensable element for democracy, Bishop Belo, apostolic administrator of Dili diocese, told the symposium "Democracy and Human Rights in the New Millennium" on 17 May in Kwangju, South Korea. Bishop Belo visited South Korea from 16-18 May to speak at a symposium to mark the 20th anniversary of the suppression of the Kwangju prodemocracy movement in 1980. The 1996 co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize told some 100 participants that although religious freedom does not guarantee peace, oppression of this freedom brings hatred and violation of other democratic values.

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Women's group established Labor Minister now priest Continued from Page 1 "We sincerely trust and hope that through the guidance of the Holy Spirit our recommendations and decisions for future actions will bring women and men to a fuller communion with the Catholic Church." The full text of the Bishops' response to Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus, including details of the Commission for Australian Catholic Women, will be published as the Australian Catholic Social Justice Statement for this year, probably in early September.

Continued from Page 1 Catholic Women's League of Australia nationHe spoke of a poem by W H Auden was al president Verena Butler said the CVVL "very pleased" with the bishops' announce- in which God's final judgement is directed not to the things a person has ment. The 11,500-strong organisation is hoping it done, for God is merciful, but to what will be asked to nominate a person to be part that person hasn't. of the commission, she told The Record on "Late as I am, I am going to write a Monday. poem of priesthood with my life," Fr Jane Wilks, of the Magdalene Foundation, a new organisation representing Catholic Tate said. "Of course, I will only manage to women, said she would not comment on the commission until the details of its make-up and scribble a few stanzas .... but you will recognise the better lines because operation were better known.

those better lines and phrases will be recognisably yours, gleaned from your friendships." "I ask you to continue to help me to write that poem." Fr Tate offered his Mass of Thanksgiving, a Mass for justice and peace, in a packed parish church in Hobart's Sandy Bay on Saturday morning. * Penny Edman is editor of The Standard, the monthly Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of Hobart.

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Good Shepherd Primary School Kelmscott

Morning Assembly at Good Shepherd School in Kelmscott Junior students present their artwork masterpieces for their peer's inspection. Principal Tim Emery, left, applauds their efforts while older students, who presented the assembly, look on.

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ood Shepherd is a uniquely-designed school and stands on five and a half hectares of bushland within walking distance of Albany Highway in Kelmscott. Founded by the Loreto Sisters, Good Shepherd moved to its present site in 1977 after a temporary start in accommodation at St Francis Xavier School in Armadale. Since then, the Loreto order has relinquished administration to a lay staff. In 1990, a double stream building project commenced which will be completed at the end of 2000. The enrolment currently stands at 465 students. The school Board is responsible for planning and financial matters while an active Parents' and Friends' Association, an integral

A frog pond environmental project.

part of the school's operation, organises a variety of social activities. Children participate in sacramental programs in Year Three (Reconciliation), Year Four (Eucharist) and Year Seven (Confirmation). Parents are an integral part of this preparation and are encouraged to attend parent information sessions and assist in any way they can. Teachers at Good Shepherd plan their classroom programs using the syllabus documents used in all West Australian schools. In the field of English, children are fully immersed in language in all its forms and for all its purposes. Whole language programs focus on each child as an individual learner, and allow for each child's literacy development. Mathematical knowledge and skills are acquired by the children In the course of practical activities. The chief aims of teaching activity based maths are to set them free to think for themselves, provide experiences to discover the order, pattern and relationship of maths and to give children mathematical skills. Teachers strive to integrate computer technology into the various learning areas of the curriculum. Children as young as Year 2 can be seen sharing with classmates their Internet-based research projects by way of Power Point presentations. Music is an integral part of the school program and students from Years 5 to 7 are encouraged to join the school choir and/or participate in the instrumental program supported by nearby Lumen Christi College. The school choir has a long asso-

ciation with the Catholic Schools' Performing Arts Festival and regularly performs at local functions. Art and craft lessons allow children to express their ideas and feelings through various techniques of drawing, painting, colouring, printmaking, papercraft, textiles, weaving, 3D activities and ceramics. Meanwhile, the natural curiosity of children is put to beneficial use in the area of Science so that their inherent inquisitiveness helps, together with enjoyment, to broaden their education. Families arrive at school - plenty of bush makes a great place to learn. The children and teachers take full advantage of the school site which lends itself to environmental studies. Students in Years One to Three have two physical education classes a week while Years FourSeven have physical education and sports classes. The upper classes sports program includes soccer, netball, basketball, softball, football, cricket and athletics. The school's firebreak provides an ideal course for the school and inter-school cross-country competitions held each year. Athletic carnivals, school and A meeting of the Parents and Friends Association on a Friday morning. inter-school, are held each year. The whole school participates children who have special needs each child, helping them all in in an annual swimming program due to physical, intellectual, social their journey to the Good Shepand swimming carnivals at both or emotional disabilities. herd Himself. school and inter-school level. A support group of parents and Excursions are offered regularly students, known as "the Angels,' to provide children with maxi- is available to children who have mum opportunities to be active learning difficulties. Principal: Mr Tim Emery learners in their own environTwo full-time Pre-Primary classAddress: Arbuthnot St. ment. For example, visits are es are available, while sessions Kelmscott, WA 6111 organised to farms, art galleries, for Kindy operate on Tuesdays museums, factories and shopping and Thursdays. Telephone: (08) 9495 1622 centres. Good Shepherd is a good name Fax: (08) 9390 9158 Education is for everyone and at for this Kelmscott school: a comEnrolment 465 boys & girls Good Shepherd a teacher is munity focused on education Email: gsps@iinet.net.au employed to provide tuition for which brings out the potential in

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