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Uluru pilgrims depart Five years in the planning by the deepen the coining together of National Council of Churches in indigenous and non-indigenous Australia, the pilgrimage took people, cultures and the Churchplace during the Churches' Week es in Australia. of Prayer for Christian Unity as a "I believe we must say sorry to catalyst for the jubilee celebraour indigenous people," he said. tion. "Saying sorry really has to hap-The journey is about sharing stories and making all sorts of pen if we are to come to terms connections in the jubilee spirit of with the past. The Church has a pilgrimage," Fr Doherty said. real role to play in speaking for "It is attracting a lot of interest in what reconciliation stands for, the towns along the way. Many of and influencing public opinion the communities have organised and thinking. special meetings to welcome us. "I hope people have been prayWe will listen to and talk with ing with us, particularly in this local indigenous and non-indige- Week of Prayer for Christian nous people to hear what they Unity" have to say," he added. Other churches represented are At Uluru this Sunday, 11 June, the Anglican, Baptist Union of the pilgrims will celebrate a serAustralia, the Churches of Christ, vice of reconciliation with the aboriginal Mutitjulu people, to Salvation Army, Uniting Church, Lutheran Church, Congregational whom Uluru is a sacred site. The recently elected president and Assyrian Church of the East. of the Australian Catholic BishThe Reverend Shane Blackman, ops' Conference, Archbishop Uniting Church minister and Francis Carroll of the Archdiocese chairman of the Aboriginal and of Canberra-Goulburn, is pre- Islander Commission, is also senting the Catholic Church on accompanying the pilgrimage. the pilgrimage. He said he hoped it would be an He is accompanied by Justin opportunity to develop a closer Rofe, a youth ministry leader from the Diocese of Sandhurst in Vic- liaison between Aborigines and toria, based in the town of Bendi- Church leaders and address issues of justice and the inclusion go. of indigenous culture in worship. Archbishop Carroll said he hoped the pilgrimage would - Catholic News Service

By Marcus Kuczynski of The Catholic Leader CANBERRA - To the lyrical chants of "Hallelujah" and flowing colourful ribbons, the leaders of Australia's Christian Churches set off by bus on a 3,600 kilometre pilgrimage to the heart of the continent. As they left Canberra last Sunday, 4 June, an Aborigine played a didgeridoo at the site of the planned National Centre for Spirituality and Culture in Canberra. Australia's Governor General, Sir William Deane, offered the pilgrimage his full support and farewelled the pilgrims. Leaders of nine Churches, eight of them accompanied by a young person, undertook the weeklong bus journey across the outback from Canberra to Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock. The "Pilgrimage to the Heart" is Australia's major ecumenical event to mark the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. The pilgrimage director, Father Tony Doherty of Sydney, said the journey's aim was to celebrate God's call to reconciliation in Australia - among the Churches, among cultures, and especially among indigenous and other Australians.

Students from St Thomas' School in Claremont, above, display their banner for the crowds that turned up in Forrest Chase last Wednesday, 31 May, for the Reconciliation Rally. Just a few minutes before, students from lona, below, did the same. State and non-Government schools participated in the event. Ararunore students also formed part of a mass choir.

Where are the bodies? Perth archivist wonders essary equipment and a staff member came and surveyed the Archdiocesan Archivist Sister scene, she said, but he was no Frances Stibi is seeking some- longer available. The archives applied to the one with an interest in history with the necessary equipment Heritage Council of WA for a grant but was not successful. The to help her find two graves. Someone with a metal detec- project is now in abeyance. Sr Stibi said the machine needtor or machinery which measures soil disturbance might be ed ran over the ground as signals were emitted. just what she needs. "It shows what the pattern of Sr Stibi told The Record last Friday, 2 June, she believes there the earth is under the ground are two people buried in the last and shows up where a hole has century in the grounds of Mer- been dug. "If there is a metal crucifix cedes College, in the vicinity of the pro-Cathedral, the original there it could be picked up." Cathedral for Perth. She said she didn't want to find Curtin University had the nec- the actual remains and disinter By Glynnis Grainger

them but to place a plaque and sunstroke and was buried two ensure it was a tranquil spot. days later, the first priest to die Wherever the bodies lie was In WA. the first Catholic burial place in According to Bishop Salvado, WA before the Church was given they consecrated some ground a plot at East Perth Cemetery. In January, 1846, Bishop Brady at the Cathedral of St John the arrived back in Perth from Evangelist, now known as the Europe on "The Elizabeth" with pro-Cathedral, and they buried 27 missionaries, including a Fr Bouchet in the ground next to group of Mercy Sisters and three the Cathedral. Holy Ghost Fathers, now known "We do know he was buried as Spiritans, she said. there," Sr Stibi said. One of the three Spiritans was The site was at the corner of Fr Maurice Bouchet, 24, who Hay Street and Victoria Avenue, came ashore from Gage Roads which was known as Lord Street to Fremantle on 8 January On 24 January, he died in the and was much wider. Sr Stibi in the grounds of Mercedes ColContinued on Page 2 Colonial Hospital (now RPH) of lege where the bodies might lie.

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gress will remind Catholics every- of Christian living. The Mass has loved ones. It is then that they ask where in Australia about the cen- been the perfect way of worship- the Lord to help them be better ping God because it is in fact the people and are sorry for their trality of the Blessed Eucharist. Since the earliest times the eternal self-offering of Jesus to the many failures. Church has kept alive the memo- Father. When they receive Holy ComIt has been the way of sharing in munion I can see in their quiet ry of Christ's Last Supper with his Apostles, in obedience to his the sacrifice of Jesus for the for- reverence that they are strengthinstruction to 'do this in memory giveness of sin, and the nourish- ened by the Bread of Life for the of me'. ment of the Christian life through journey ahead. Early Christians quicldy came to receiving the Body and Blood of The Eucharistic Congress may realise how important and central Jesus, the Bread of Life. well expound on profound theothe Eucharist was to their unity Our love for the Mass should logical truths. with one another and with Jesus never grow cold. That is important. But for most Christ. Ioften watch people at Mass and people, the simple belief that They had to be strong in the face admire their faith. When I see Jesus is there, truly present, is sufof rejection from the Jews and them gaze at the raised Host or ficient. persecution from the Romans. the Chalice, then bow their heads, We must retain our simple faith Only because their faith in the Iknow they sense the presence of in the Eucharistic presence of abiding presence of Jesus among the Risen Lord under the appear- Jesus. them was strong and nourished ance of Bread and Wine. We must avoid any lack of revcontinually by the Bread of Life, When they sit or kneel quietly, erence before this awesome myswere they able to withstand all almost lost in the atmosphere of tery. the fury directed prayer, I know they are in touch We must open our hearts to at them in the with deep mysteries beyond sight allow him to deepen our converearly years. or sound. sion, to strengthen our sorrow for Since that time It is then that they bring their sins and to turn to others with the the Blessed concerns and troubles to the Lord. love that Jesus himself shows us \ II past and present members of CCR Eucharist has It is then that they ask him to in the great mystery of his are invited to celebrate God's work in the been at the centre look after their children or other Eucharistic Presence.

0 coincide with the official Jubilee Eucharistic Congress in Rome, the Diocese of Wollongong south of Sydney will host an Australian Eucharistic Congress with the theme: 'Bread for New Life'. I was honoured to be invited to give the Homily on the Closing Mass of the Congress on Sunday 25 June, the Feast of Corpus Christi. A Eucharistic Congress is always an occasion for special catechesis and seminars on topics with Eucharistic themes. At this Congress there will be seminars of the Real Presence, on personal change and holiness and on the Eucharist and social justice. Ills my fond hope that this Con-

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The Pope's message, addressed to Cardinal Antonio Varela of Madrid, president of the Spanish bishops' conference, was released at the Vatican on 31 May. "In a historic moment full of controversies and profound changes, John of Avila knew how to fully face the great challenges of his time, in a way only men of God know how to do: unconditionally tied to Christ, full of love for his brothers and impatient to bring them the light of the Gospel," he said. The Pope said St John's example is still valid for priests today, challenged by rapidly changing circumstances and a . 'vast diversity of mentalities and cultures, sometimes intermingled in the same environment." Known for his dedicated prayer life, St John "teaches us that there is a culture of the spirit from which flows the serenity and acute perceptiveness necessary to

approach the most intricate personal and pastoral situations, helping to distinguish the ephemeral and superficial aspects from those which indicate what the Spirit is truly telling today's Church," he said. In addition to a deep interior life. St. John's example teaches priests to pursue "a vigorous intellectual formation, an indefectible fidelity to the church and a constant enthusiasm to carry Christ to others." Priests play a crucial role in the new evangelisation. the Pope said, because as ministers of the sacraments, they "stand in the heart itself of the Church, where one builds on a firm foundation and unites in charity," he said. "The priest carries upon himself the sign of the universality which characterises the Church of Christ," he said.

A prayer garden for Mercy schools After months of planning and construction, the staff and students at Mercy College and Mercy Primary School, Koondoola have joined with parents and board members to celebrate the opening and blessing of their new commemorative prayer garden. Acting as a permanent reminder of the Great jubilee year, the centrepiece of the prayer garden is a statue of Our Lady cradling the infant Jesus. Adding to the ambience of the garden is the stone grotto in which the statue is located, featuring a waterfall and small reflection pond. Mercy College Principal Barry Harvie said the garden reflected the school community's admiration for Our Lady.

"We are inspired by the example of Mary, the teenager who said 'yes' to God and agreed to bear God's own son," he said. "Her courage helps us to muster the courage we need to say 'yes' to God in our lives. Her holy life is an inspiration to us, a guide and model, an ideal for us to strive for. . . . As we rely upon the help and prayers of those who have gone before us, we rely on the help and prayers of Mary" he said. Conducting the blessing ceremony for the garden, College Chaplain Fr Zygmund VVIoczelc, welcomed prayers and Gospel readings from a number of students before asking for God's blessing and sprinkling the statue and garden with Holy Water. - Phil Bayne, CEO Media

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Where are the bodies, archivist asks Continued from Page 1 "On the same ship there was a student catechist called John O'Reilly, who died 12 months later of cholera at Perth on 14 February, 184Z" Sr Stibi said. "His burial papers call him a sub-deacon andIbelieve he was buried near Fr Bouchet. "Two Mercy Sisters were also buried there but were exhumed. Permission was needed from the

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Colonial Secretary to do so, and we have the documents. I cannot find exhumation records for Bouchet and O'Reilly." One of the Mercy Sisters was Mary Catherine Gogarty, a teacher from County Meath, Ireland, who died on 30 July, 1846, aged 29, and was the first Mercy Sister to die in Australia. The Gazette of 20 February, 1847, talked about "burials of people in unauthorised places," referring to Fr Bouchet, John O'Reilly and Sr Mary Catherine Gogarty, buried near the pro-Cathedral. "We hope a publication will come out of the Archives perhaps next year, on the story of the Holy Ghost Fathers," Sr Stibi said. "It would be lovely to have the information in time for the book. Everything you find adds a little bit to it." The other Mercy Sister was Sr Mary Baptist O'Donnell who died on 9 March, 1862. The two Sisters are now buried on Mercy convent ground.

Leading Religious dies in car crash Prominent Good Samaritan Religious, Sister Helen Lombard, 63, was killed in a car crash last Monday evening on the Brand Highway between the Dandaragan turnoff and Cataby, about 150 kilometres north of Perth. Two other Good Samaritans, Sr Geraldine Boylan and Sr Cannel Posa were injured in the three-car accident about 7pm.

A Good Samaritan spokeswoman said Sr Posa was soon released from hospital but Sr Boylan was in a stable condition in Royal Perth Hospital yesterday, Wednesday, after being operated on for a shattered arm and broken ribs. Moora parish priest Fr Stephen Giles was called to the accident and attended the two injured Sisters at the local hospital before they were transferred to Perth hospitals. Final details of Sr Lombarti's funeral were not available before The Record went to press yesterday but the Good Samaritans were considering a funeral from St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney sometime next week. Sr Lombard spent two terms as Superior General of the Good Samaritan Sisters from 1981-1993. During this time she was also President of the National Council of Religious from 1986-1987 and President of the newly formed Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious (ACLRI) from 1988-92. She represented the Conference of Religious as delegate to the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.

Sr Lombard was well known in Western Australia also for her work as Provost at Notre Dame University in Australia at Fremantle. Since 1996 she had been a member of the Board of Governors of Notre Dame. A statement released yesterday by the Good Samaritans said that during her tie as Superior General of the Good Samaritans, the congregation made significant developments in its structure and governance, drawing on the Benedictine concept of the giving and taking of counsel. The Good Samaritans were founded by the Benedictine Bishop of Sydney, John Bede Polding, in 1857. "As a Benedictine woman, Helen had a special interest in Benedictine spirituality," the Good Samaritans said. "She was active in developing a threeyear program of Benedictine studies which has been, and continues to be, used internationally by Benedictine and Cistercian communities." Her period as President of ACLRI saw the initiation and development of a national movement for Women in the Australian Church, the Sisters said Additional offices held by Sr Lombard, included general counsellor of the region of Australia and Oceania to the International Union of Superiors General, member of Australia's National Catholic Education Commission; and a founding member of the Australian Catholic University on the east coast. Sr Lombard was a teacher before joining the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in

Sr Helen Lombard 1961. She worked mainly in education as a teacher, principal, college lecturer and administrator in all states of Australia and in Japan. In Australia, her areas of interest in education were curiculum development and policy-making. For many years she played a major role In the development of incorporated governance of various Good Samaritanowned colleges.

Prisoners, gaols focus for Jubilee document VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Shortly before Pope John Paul II visits a Rome prison next month, the Vatican will publish a doer. lent examining the situation and needs of prisoners around the world. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican spokesman, said the document being prepared by the Holy Year co-ordinating committee should be released shortly before the 9 July celebration of the Jubilee for Prisoners. Dr Navarro-Valls said the new Vatican document would 'confront the theme of the condition of prisons around the

world from the human, social and pastoral points of view, but above all it will provide some ideas about facing the problems and not only through the use of clemency." In preparation for the jubilee, an organising committee sent a questionnaire to bishops' conferences and prison chaplains around the world. Responses from 118 countries detailing the situation of prisons and prisoners in their nation provide the background for the Vatican document. Overcrowding, a lack of work or study

opportunities and violence were the problems cited most frequently, a Rome newspaper reported. Dr Navarro-Valls also announced Pope John Paul was adding a special luncheon to his Holy Year calendar. Some 200 people who use homeless shelters and soup kitchens in the city would join the Pope on 15 June in the atrium of the Paul VI Audience Hall for lunch. He also confirmed that the Pope would celebrate the prisoners' jubilee at Rome's Regina Coeli prison, less than a mile from the Vatican.

PRINCIPAL URSULA FRAYNE CATHOLIC COLLEGE, VICTORIA PARK Ursula Frayne Catholic College is a metropolitan coeducational College catering for approximately 1100 students and operates on two campuses situated at Victoria Park (Years 7-12) and East Victoria Park (K-Year 6). The College places a strong emphasis on pastoral care. The needs of students are catered for by comprehensive academic and vocational courses. The College operates an Education Support Unit that provides for the needs of educationally or physically disabled students. The addition of sporting activities, music, drama and the fine arts, provide for rounded personal development. A significant commitment has been made to collaborative learning and the College has developed an innovative Middle School structure. Ideally, applicants will be creative school leaders who are comfortable in the role of agents for change, with a sense of community, the value of collaborative pastoral leadership and be conversant with recent changes in primary and secondary education. The successful applicant will take up the position on 1 January 2001. Applicants need to be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. They will have the requisite theological, educational, pastoral and administrative competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have completed Accreditation B requirements. The successful applicant must be able to provide the appropriate Australian Federal Police clearance. Official application forms are available from Carmen Jones on (08) 9212 9224 or email: c.jones@ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au. For further information contact Sr Clam Rafferty, Consultant, Leadership Team,on (08) 9212 9268.

Applications should he addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office. PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6903 and be lodged no later than Wednesday 21 June 2000. Website: www.ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au

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Canadian native claims: Oblate bankruptcy fear By Art Babych

St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic School is a coeducational composite school with an enrolment of 380 students from Kindergarten to Year 10. The school focuses on Curriculum Framework, Middle Schooling, Music Education, Japanese, Multi Aged Group Learning, Information Technology and Gifted and Talented students. Carnarvon is 1000 krns north of Perth and provides teacher housing and a generous North West Package. The town offers fine sporting facilities and is close to Coral Bay and Shark Bay. The website for the Gascoyne (www.gdc.wa.gov.au) gives an informative overview of the area. The successful applicant will take up the position on 1 January 2001. Applicants need to be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. They will have the requisite theological, educational, pastoral and administrative competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have completed Accreditation B requirements. The successful applicant must be able to provide the appropriate Australian Federal Police clearance. Official application forms are available from Erin Rowland on (08) 9212 9377 or by email: esowland@ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au. For further information contact Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant, Leadership Team, on (08) 9212 9268

Applications should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office, PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6903 and be lodged no later than Friday 30 June 2000. Website: www.ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au

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O'ITAWA (CNS) - Almost 10 years after the Oblate Conference of Canada apologised for abuses to Canadian indigenous or aboriginal people, the Oblate provinces that ran residential schools for the Federal Government are being forced to the brink of bankruptcy by legal costs. "We estimate the cost each year at over [USJ $2 million just for organising our defence," said Father Jacques Gagne, coordinator of the Oblates' Residential Schools Working Group. The cost does not include compensation payments, he said. The claims "are so numerous now. The provinces are kind of overwhelmed by it all," he said. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate provinces are named in about half of the Z000 lawsuits filed against the churches and religious orders that operated the residential schools. The Oblate provinces ran 57 of the schools, most of them in western Canada. Fewer than 900 Oblate priests and brothers live in Canada. Like the Anglican Church of Canada, which says it may be forced to declare bankruptcy as early as next year as a result of residential school claims, some smaller Oblate provinces, such as the Manitoba congregation, are not expected to survive the lengthy and costly claims-substantiation process now in place, let alone pay compensation. "They've had to organise their own defence, get their own lawyers," said Father Gagne. "It's become very expensive for all of them." In March, one Oblate priest told parishioners the church might have to be sold to pay debts resulting from residential school lawsuits.

In May, Father Jean-Paul Isabelle, negligent in their care, they should be provincial superior for the Oblates in held accountable, the paper states, "OthManitoba, said his congregation was on erwise, it is the federal government's the brink of bankruptcy, having spent responsibility to bear the costs and conalmost US $1 million responding to more than 1,900 lawsuits filed against it by sequences of its policy." Catholic Church sources also note that natives who allege they were sexually, psychologically or culturally abused in only about one in three of the 7,000 resresidential schools. idential school claims involve church Adding to the Oblate conference's organisations; the other two-thirds origifinancial woes is what it and the church- nate with the government. es view as an unsympathetic Federal Even so, the Federal Government typiGovernment, which has never fully cally counter-sues Church organisations accepted responsibility for the residential school system, designed to assimilate or individuals even where the plaintiffs have not done so, the Oblate conference natives into white society. Indigenous leaders have said the points out. "The government, I think, came to the churches that ran the schools helped the government carry out its policy of "cul- conclusion that they couldn't come out tural genocide" against natives. publicly and say they, alone, are responBut Oblates like Father Gagne note that sible," said Father Gagne. the missionaries often broke the federal The Oblate conference and the churchgovernment's own rules by preserving es prefer the "Alternate Dispute Resolunative languages and culture in various approach to claims settlements. tion" ways, including the development of dicNine pilot projects involving the tionaries, grammar and written forms of oral aboriginal languages. Churches and the Federal Government If those who attended Oblate residen- are under way which, according to the tial schools have an academic knowl- Oblates, are designed to "incorporate edge of their language and are able to concepts of restorative justice more write and read it, "it's because the mis- familiar to native people as well as sionaries did that," said Father Gagne. enable a broader ranger of solutions, The government "wants us to be coincluding options for reconciliation." responsible," he said. One of the stated goals of the religious 'The difficulty with that is that we can't order is to "fairly compensate those who be involved financially as much as the government can be. have valid claims against Oblate "If it wants to place us on an equal foot- provinces arising from their residential ing, this is very threatening to us, so we school experience once liability is estabsay 50-50 is not fair." lished." In a position paper, the Oblate conferBut it also believes the Churches should ence says Church organisations were pay a "proportional" share of costs "in a active participants in "a misguided, hisprocess that caps liability based on toric government policy of cultural and racial assimilation, supported and capacity to pay and that allows more of our resources to go to compensation than endorsed by the Canadian public." Where the Church institutions were to process."

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John Pujajangka-Piyirn School is a Catholic Aboriginal school catering for 45 students from Kindergarten to Year 10. Adult Education classes are also offered for the men and women of the community wanting to study externally or through TAFE. Situated 300 kms south of Halls Creek, the school is committed to the concept of Two Way Learning which respects and fosters traditional Aboriginal languages and culture whilst providing instruction in Standard Australian English and western culture and technology The successful applicant will take up the position on 1 January 2001. Applicants need to be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. They will have the requisite theological, educational, pastoral and administrative competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have completed Accreditation B requirements. The successful applicant must be able to provide the appropriate Australian Federal Police clearance. Official application forms are available from Erin Rowland on (08) 9212 9377 or by email: exowland@ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au. For further information contact Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant, Leadership Team, on (08)

St Paul's is coeducational catering for 261 students from Kindergarten to Year 7. Enrolments are drawn from Karratha, Wickham, Roebourne and Port Samson. Since its foundation in 1978, the school has been in the care of the Presentation Sisters. The school is fortunate to have a very enthusiastic and cooperative staff who readily support each other. Subsidised accommodation and other financial incentives are offered through the North West Region Package. The successful applicant will take up the position on 1 January 2001. Applicants need to be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. They will have the requisite theological, educational, pastoral and administrative competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have completed Accreditation B requirements. The successful applicant must be able to provide the appropriate Australian Federal Police clearance. Official application forms are available from Erin Rowland on (08) 9212 9377 or email: esowland@ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au. For further information contact Sr Clare Rafferty Consultant, Leadership Team, on (08) 9212

Applications should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office, PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6903 and be lodged no later than Friday 30 June 2000. Website: www.ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au

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St Pius X Catholic School is a single-stream coeducational school with a current enrolment of 239 students from Kindergarten to Year 7. The school is an integral part of the local Parish and staff and parents work closely together to create a positive and challenging learning environment for all students. The successful applicant will take up the position on 1 January 2001. Applicants need to be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. They will have the requisite theological, educational, pastoral and administrative competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have completed Accreditation B requirements. The successful applicant must be able to provide the appropriate Australian Federal Police clearance. Official application forms are available from Carmen Jones on (08) 9212 9224 or email: c.Jones@ceowa.perth.catholic.edu.au. For further information contact Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant, Leadership Team, on (08) 9212 9268.

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ROME, MAY 30 (ZENIT. org). - A group of 45 former drug addicts have gone on a 100 kilometre pilgrimage on foot to celebrate the Jubilee. 'The march in the sun is exhausting, but it is lovely to hear people encourage us: Come on! Don't give up!' said one of the youths, aged between 15 and 24. They are walking from Civitavecchia to Rome in a Jubilee pilgrimage of joy and courage. The marchers are from 'The Bridge' rehabilitation community in Civitavecchia. They are being accompanied by eight workers and the community's founder, Fr Egidio Smacchia, 59. They are all wearing shorts and red T-shirts with the motto 'Jubilee 2000 — The Bridge.' They are coming to Rome 'to cross the Holy Door, which means to 'go beyond.' Even to go beyond our own tranquility, of not wanting to address our problems.' The road is long and hard. In the midst of laughter and singing, the pilgrimage is continuing with reflections and discussions, on a one-to-one basis or in groups, to contribute to recovery.

Speatwood opens centre and Lydia Miolin, awarded for services to the parish and to the . community MORE than 600 parishioners The school choir performed gathered at Saint Jerome's Spearwood on Sunday for the blessing before the principal, Martin and official opening of the new Loney, officially welcomed the parish and school centre, which guests to lunch, and Sister Canihas been six years in the plan- sius helped cut a ceremonial cake. The centre comprises a main ning. The Parish Priest, Father Barry hall with a boardroom or comWhitely and assistant Priest, mittee room, storage and kitchen Father David Thexeira , officiated, and toilet facilities. The hall was first mooted in blessing the limestone building after concern was expressed 1994 when Mass, after the morning special prayers were said for the about the need for proper fad!!centre and for the scores of peo- ties to meet a population expanple who helped fundraising and sion with new real estate subdivisions. its construction. Michael Broderick advised on Architecture and materials used in the construction were careful- the location, between the church ly chosen to blend with the and other school buildings. A decision to proceed was made church and the school, which flank either side of the new cen- in May 1995, and a fundraising committee set up the following tre. Fr Whitely ceremoniously used August The Archbishop granted pera key to unlock the main entrance, and was followed into the build- mission for the building to proing by a stream of parishioners ceed in August 1998, and for the who helped celebrate with a lun- $550,000 loan capital to be raised from the Catholic Development cheon. Coinciding with the ceremony, Fund. Inhouse Building Design and Fr Whitely presented Archbishop's Jubilee Award Certificates to Charnely Brice carried out the Sister Canisius and to Michael design and construction.

Generous convert was loved by all

By Neil Smith

Obituary Sr Stella Bryant SIG 10.3.1925 - 2.5.2000

It was my privilege to share a wonderful friendship with Stella when she was a music teacher at Our Lady of Mercy College, Goulburn, NSW, in the 1940s. Stella's decision to convert to Catholicism caused much distress and heartache to Stella and her family, who held strong convictions about the church which Stella had grown up in . . . . She entered the Sisters of St John of God Novitiate in Broome in February 1956. Many of us remember the harsh living conditions of those years . . . [bull complaining about pain and suffering was not Sr Stella's way. . . . (She] will be remembered as a gentle, sincere, unselfish. humble, dedicated Sister who never put personal gain above the wishes of others. She longed to share her Spiritual life and Faith with those with whom she came in contact, especially the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley. Her forto was to pass on her many talents, particularly her love of music and Liturgical Celebration. "Death is not extinguishing the light. Il ls putting out the Lamp because the Dawn has come.- (Togore) A pearl of great price has left us and will be sadly missed by all. Excerpts from the eulogy by Sr Camille Poidevin SIG, courtesy of the Kimberley Community Profile.

Fr Whitely unlocks the door of the new parish centre.

Last-minute touches to the centre's grounds before the official ceremony.

Kambalda-ites celebrate church's 25th anniversary By a special correspondent The bright shining sun matched the mood of the crowded St John Viam ey Church at Kambalda last Sunday as past and present parishioners celebrated the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Church. Archbishop Barry Hickey was the main celebrant. The town of Kambalda. 50km east of Kalgoorlie, supports around 8500 people, mostly on the nickel deposits that abound in the area. When the Church was built in 1975, it was boom time with more than 7000 residents. Nickel prices were high, optimism abounded. The town has had its ups and down over the years. The closure or wind-down of a mine might mean that 500 workers lose their jobs overnight. At present, nickel prices are reasonably buoyant and the town is quietly confident about its future. Archbishop Goody blessed the new Church on 31 May, 1975 and the parish priest was Fr Jim Corcoran.

Mr Hugh Bourke designed the Church. The first resident priest was Fr Dan Foley who took up residence in March, 1970. Four former parish priests were able to attend: the two pioneer priests, and Fr Tony Pires, and Fr Paul Fogarty The Kalgoorlie-Boulder clergy, who now look after Kambalda,

At the dinner, Fr Durkin was farwelled as parish priest of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. It was his last visit to Kambalda before his transfer to the Parish of St Francis of Assisi, Maida Vale.

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We're nothing without the Spirit Peter Divan continues with his meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass. This week, the feast of Pentecost

his year, the readings for Pentecost give us a chance to consider the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit, with special emphasis on the fruits. There has been much emphasis on the gifts of the Spirit in recent years as a result of the emergence of the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church, and there have been remarkable healings reported. These have been the means of strengthening the faith of many, and a number who have attended such meetings have resumed attending Sunday Mass. Yet as was demonstrated all too clearly in the Report following the Australian Bishops' last ad limina visit to Rome, there is cause for disquiet about many features of Catholic life in Australia, including the laxity of many Catholics. There are many things which need to be done to improve matters, and this meditation can only touch on one, namely the cultivation of the fruits of the Spirit in our lives. The first reading (Acts 2:1-11) tells of the events of Pentecost Sunday, when the Holy Spirit came down on the Apostles, and people from many nations were miraculously able to hear the Apostles speaking in their own language. Although not mentioned in the

A Layman's Meditation

4:16-25) lists the fruits of the Spirit: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, good-

ness, trustfulness, gentleness and selfcontrol." We Catholics are expected to show these qualities in our lives, and if we don't, people will be scandalised, and reading, as a result of St Peter's sermon will be unlikely to investigate Catholion Pentecost Sunday, approximately cism's claim to be the one true Church. 3,000 people were converted. A telling example of how shocked peoThe gospel (John 15:26-27; 16:12-15) is ple can be when those who claim the taken from Our Lord's discourse at the be Christians fail to manifest the fruits last supper. of the Spirit in their lives is the cynical While this passage is food for many comment: "Christians bring joy - some meditations,Iwould like to briefly note by their coming, some by their going." two points. On the other hand, where joy is preSpeaking of the Holy Spirit, Our Lord sent, people flock to the Order, organisaid: "He will be my witness. And you sation or movement too will be witnesses, because you have The late Mother Teresa was right been with me from the outset" when she wrote: "Joy is a net in which Our mission is one of witnessing to you can catch souls." Christ, both by word and example. While other religious orders admitted Example is the more effective form of witness, for while words teach, exam- candidates who had good character, good health and the right intention, ple attracts. Mother Teresa insisted that girls, wishChrist made a great promise in the discourse saying: "When the Spirit of ing to become Missionaries of Charity truth comes, he will lead you to the also needed a smiling face. Young women are joining the Miscomplete truth." The human mind is seeking truth, just sionaries of Charity in droves, and this as the human heart is craving for good- at a time when other orders are experiencing a vocations crisis. ness. The owner of a fruit shop would only Given that the Catholic Church is the one true Church, why aren't more peo- have himself to blame if customers deserted him because he was often out ple clamouring to become Catholics? While the Devil tries to dissuade of oranges, bananas or apples. We Catholics, likewise, only have ourpotential converts from becoming Catholics, we need to consider whether selves to blame if, when potential conwe have helped the Devil in his efforts, verts come to see what we have to offer, by failing to be effective witnesses to find that we are lacking in the fruits of Christ. The second reading (Galatians the Spirit.

To Jesus through Mary ... a column of Marian devotion

he Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth, is celebrating 50 years of the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in this jubilee Year. The day of celebration chosen for the Golden Jubilee is the Saturday closest to the Feast of the Mother of Perpetual Help, which is 24 June. Her Feast day is on Tuesday, 27 June. The celebrations will consist of a Mass of Thanksgiving commencing at 2pm with a special procession to the Shrine of Our Lady, followed by the Novena at 4.30pm.

Refreshments will be available in between. The Rosary will be prayed every half hour from 10am and the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available in the morning and afternoon. Novena books and literature on the Icon of Our Lady are available for purRedemptorist Fathers John Hodgson, left, Ron McInnes, and Dan Magill - part of the team who chase. The Novena on 24 June completes the lead the weekly Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, whose shrine and icon can be seen in Great Jubilee Novena begun nine weeks the background. The Novena is now in its 50th year at the North Perth Monastery. previously. urday at 4.30pm and originally started the mandate to make Our lady of PerA novena is a devotion to either the on Saturday, 12 August, 1950, in the petual Help known, and novenas started Blessed Virgin Mary or to a Saint for nine evening at 7pm. during the 1940s in America. consecutive days or weeks. But the evening session has dropped When the Redemptorists arrived in You can join a novena at any week and out since then, Fr McInnes said. Australia in 1882, they brought with them participate for nine weeks at any point, A box in front of Our Lady's icon is for the picture of the Icon and each RedempRedemptorist Father John Hodgson CSsR petitions and thanksgiving letters. torist church contains the Icon. told The Record Some are marked "Private - not to be In the late 1940s, the Australian devoFr Ron McInnes CSsR and Fr Dan Mag- read"; others are signed "Your loving" tion was started by the Redemptorists in ill CSsR have led novenas at the son, daughter, or child. Mayfield, Newcastle, NSW The devotion The priest empties the boxes and sum- spread to all the Redemptorist houses in Monastery for about 20 years. Fr Mchmes said that in Manila and Sin- marises a sample of the petitions - some- Australia, and the novena in North Perth gapore there are about nine sessions a body asking for help, broken marriages, follows that begun by the community in day, from 9am to 7pm, in different lan- a wayward son, a threatened marriage Mayfield. break-up, financial trouble, health, a guages. The original Icon of Our Mother of Per The biggest Redemptorist novena desire to be cared for, any war spots of petual Help is held in St Alphonsus' shrines are in the Philippines and Sin- the world, for the Pope, or the troubles Church in Rome. A creation of the Byzangapore where crowds of up to 80,000 of life. tine school of iconography, it possibly Fr Hodgson said that in the 19th centu- came from Crete and is at least 500 years attend on any one day. - Glynnis Grainger In Perth the Novena is held every Sat- ry Pope Pius IX gave the Redemptorists old.

Maria Annunziata celebrated Father Michael Gall, parish priest of St Kieran's parish in Osborne Park and pictured at right, blessed the statue of Maria Annunziata on Sunday 28 May as part of the day organised by the Maria Annunziata Association. The day saw solemn Mass celebrated in honour of Our Lady under this title and a procession in the grounds of the parish. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick was also conferred. The Association consists mainly of people who come from Raccuia in the province of Messina in Italy where most villages honour Mary as their patron. The Shrine at St Kieran's Church has a large leadlight window in an abstract design in the colour usually associated with the Mother of God, blue, in the background. The statue shows the angel declaring to Mary that she is to be the Mother of God. Each year, on the feast of Maria Annunziata, a procession and social gathering is held to commemorate the feast One week earlier, 39 children received their first Holy Communion at the church.

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Integrity in communication is for all, not just journalists 154y,

With Penny Ashcroft

rom the time I was a little girl, I can remember being told on occasion, "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing

well." This little bit of wisdom was offered at times whenImight be setting the table, cleaning my room (I once received an award from my Mother for 'the most untidy room'), or doing my homework. Iguess it helped to shape my attitude towards the way I go about things in my adult life. I have heard myself repeat the same phrase to my own girls from time to time. As I grew older, I realised that doing things well did not mean doing things perfectly, but it did mean trying to do things to the best of my ability. I hope the message has filtered through to my children, that it is always our attitude that makes the difference. Wanting to do things correctly, to the best of our ability, or to treat people in the right way, with respect for the person themselves and their possessions, is an important life skill to learn. It is easy to lose sight of the simple principles and values that we may have been taught by our parents. It is probably good for us to do an attitude check every once in a while, to think about how we react to particular situations at home, at work in our community. Sometimes opportunities arise which help us to reflect in a deeper way about our responsibilities to be people of integrity, to respect the rights and the dignity of all men, women and children. One such opportunity came for me at a Mass celebrated last week for journalists. The Priest offered a challenge to all present to use their vocation as writers to celebrate and bring to the world the resurrected Christ. We have all heard the saying that good news doesn't sell papers. We have all experienced times of sadness and bewilderment when, listening, reading or watching one horrific news story after another, people experience the crucified Christ somewhere in the world every day in some way. It is a challenge to bring the joy of the resurrected Christ to society. In an article released in the Vatican and reported in The West Australian on 2 June, Pope John Paul fl urged the world's newsmen and women to use their particular field of communication for the good of mankind, to be aware of the power of communication, and in a sense, believe that they have been entrusted with a sacred mission. What a difference it would make to the world if all involved in media considered their vocation in this way. I do believe, however, that not only people connected with the media, but all of us could learn from reflecting on the call to respect the dignity and legitimate freedom of others. As parents, teachers, priests, sons and daughters, we all have a responsibility to try and grow in this way. We are not expected to do it alone. We can pray for the grace of wisdom in our communication with those with whom we come in contact or whom we may reach through our chosen field of work and we can learn from the scriptures. In Proverbs 4:23, we can read "More than anything else, keep watch over your heart, since here are the wellsprings of life." We are called by God to listen to our heart. to love one another as He loves us. He does not expect us to be perfect, but we can desire to grow in our ability to be more like Him, knowing that He is with us all the way, always encouraging, always gently leading us. All we have to do is to open our hearts to Him.

When indigenous rights and democracy clash

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e international jubilee for migrants, refugees and itinerants held in Rome last Friday, 2 June, reminds everybody, not just Christians, of the duty to welcome refugees. It also challenged us to share our nationbest way to achieve the common good, al resources with people for whom lack of problem of overcrowded prison hulks by to often as a result of bitter experience in sending they convicts what initially they that demands opportunity at home home countries. their be to uninhabited believed, mistakenly, seek a secure living in another country. other, many migrants of good will the On territory. Church teaching on migrants and indigenous peoples do have a that first the believe I the became ronically, convicts refugees is based, like all Catholic social they have occupied and used land to the of right forcibly Ausremoved inhabitants teaching, on the principle of the common historically. move a forcibly in that tralian continent good - what is for the true and actual comThe choice in Fiji is between democracy removed Aborigines from their home dismon good of all individuals - not just a the alleged absolute rights of indigeand tricts. majority vote on what is good - is what from another civilisation made nous peoples. Refugees should be done. In Australia, the reconciliation process is the Aborigines refugees in their own counFor example, if I amass too much land by a similar choice between disturbed UV. and too much food so that others have litSimilarly in Fiji, the British encouraged democratic processes that seek the comtle then society has a right to make laws Indians to migrate to do jobs Fijians either mon good of all Aboriginal and non-Abothat will rectify this imbalance. riginal citizens and measures that imply do or were not trained for. A country with underdeveloped refused to Fijians and self-determindtion and separate developindigenous the both And resources, if it is aware of these resources, ment for Aborigines. Aborigines had no say in the matter. Is called to open its arms to those without It is to be hoped and prayed that democSolomon the in trouble current The resources so that they can benefit from use of racy will always be the basis for prothe from stem to thought is Islands what God has created for the benefit of all. Malaitan Island labourers on Guadalcanal gressing the common good of individuals It is here that the messages of the interWar II who stayed and set- in society and not race and historical posnational jubilee are relevant not just to the during World session. tled. recent coups in Fiji and the Solomon If the goods of the earth are to be shared, many for accepted have nations three All Islands, but also to the process of reconthen indigenous peoples must have what the is democracy constitutional that years ciliation among Aboriginal and non-Abothey need to survive and prosper while means by which society is ordered. riginal Australians. would sharing what they don't need with others. migrants many hand, one the On In Australia's case, the British solved the In Australia, this means that Aborigines believe passionately that democracy is the

9i_rounof1Ae 7a4te Getting the facts straight

he attack on the well-known and respected mission at New Norcia, shown on SBS-TV on Saturday, 3 June, was not a full acknowledgment of the truth and not good history. As the biographer of its founder, Abbot Salvado, I would like to place the mission in its true historical perspective and correct some of the errors of the documentary. When the Spanish missionaries landed at the Victoria Plains in 1846, they encountered Aborigines who were extremely strange to them. They were simple hunters and gatherers of food, without effective weapons and with Immune systems unable to withstand ordinary European diseases like measles. Some, especially colonists who were eager to acquire vast lands, wanted to exploit them on the grounds that the Aborigines were doing nothing with the land. The Spaniards, horrified by the way the Aborigines were being treated, insisted on a policy of helping them. As early as 1851, Salvado (wrongly called Salvador in the program) wrote a book recounting the horrors and outlining his plans for a mission. He and his helpers were prepared to sit down and listen to the Aborigines, and work with them in their quest for food. This included teaching them agriculture. As well as being an impassioned defender of their rights, Salvado was the first Bishop at New Norcia, where the struggle to preserve Aboriginal culture is still going on. From the outset, he was opposed to taking Aboriginal children from their parents, but reluctantly agreed to a colonial Governor's insistence that he take into the mission Aboriginal "waifs and strays." Many of these children were not from the area and had fathers white they had never met, and were too poor to be kept by their mothers. He housed them in orphanThese ages. were not always happiest the places for children deprived of parental love Abbot Salvado

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time and space to gain a deeper perspective on our relationship with God, build relationships with fellow pilgrims and experience the wider Church community. As the national co-ordinator of World Youth Day 2000, I am working to prepare 1200 young Australians to embark on a pilgrimage to Rome to meet with the Holy Father and the youth of the world. They will visit Rome, the `shrine-city', and have the opportunity to connect with 2000 years of our Church history They will encounter the global Church and gain a perspective on a dimension of our faith community that is simply not available here in our own country. Many will return renewed in their faith and inspired to take up the challenge to be the generation that will carry our Church into the third millennium of Christianity. Let us not belittle, but rather let us praise the attempts of these 1200 young people (and every other pilgrim traveller in this Great Jubilee year), to journey toward a greater knowledge of God through pilgrimage. My only wish for Mr Bertola is that he might embark on an overseas journey himself and discover the particular blessings of pilgrimage. n his objection to pilgrimage (The Selina Hasham Record, 25 May), Mr Bertola poses an World Youth Day National Co-ordinator important question, "Why don't we see Harvest Pilgrimages the good God, Christ, right here, where we each stand?" Our daily lives can be so full of distracoes the publication of Olympian tion, our vision so layered with the comrepresentatives posing nude mean plicated factors of life, that a great deal of that the Olympics are becoming the time, we fail to see God right here, right Are we turning a good thing into decadent? now. Yes, God is always with us, but we can't something distasteful? May God help Australia. Please let's not always see him. We need to make use of a variety of forget our prayer to St Michael the means to grasp this reality in our daily Archangel. lives. Tini Hendriks Pilgrimage, apart from being one of the East Victoria Park essential themes of the Great Jubilee, is also an ancient spiritual practice that has assisted humanity in its quest for God for s an attendee at the recent ecuthousands of years. Taize service (The Record, menical Would Mr Bertola consider a visit to one's 11 May) held at Challenge Stadium, home town or a journey to one's land of origin a pointless exercise? Let us not for- Imust express my general disappointment. Not at the venue, nor at the beautiful decget that as Christians we have a faith heritage and history that spans the globe as orations, nor at the number attending, nor at the organisers nor the musical performwell as the centuries. Pilgrimage is a journey along our family ers, and certainly not Brother Ghislain. But there seemed a lack of both fervour tree as a community of the faithful. Sacred places await us and shrines all and cohesion among those attending, at least where I was sitting some rows above over the world hold significance for us. These do not diminish the sacred nature the floor. It had rather an atmosphere of - would of our own land, but rather help us disone call it - command performance?, or cover ways to appreciate it more. Often it takes an experience a little extra- presence out of co-option or from a sense ordinary to help us appreciate the ordi- of duty. This was particularly evident when a nary. Pilgrimage affords us the opportunity to large number of people trooped out a few embark on a physical journey that mirrors minutes before the event had actually ended. our inner journey through life. I am not targeting every person in the In the framework of a pilgrimage there is

and care. His successor, Bishop Torres, established colleges run by Australian Brothers and Nuns, for the education of Aboriginal and white children. The program said nothing about these. Admittedly, Salvado taught them Christianity as an ideal, but never presumed upon submission because of cultural inferiority, or on punishment for crimes against foreign laws. In fact, he questioned the whole basis of British colonisation in his work and writings. Contrary to the assertion that the Government granted them vast tracts of land, the monks paid for their land (except for a 20 acres grant) from donations by the Catholic people of Spain, France and Italy. So, Salvado and his successors, antiracists and defenders of the downtrodden, were not treated fairly in the documentary, which sought to undermine their work without shedding any light, or offering any solution, to the problems of Aboriginal people. George Russo Marmion

Many roads to God

and non-Aborigines must open the nation's doors to migrants and refugees at a sensible rate; in Fiji, it means that Indians are part of Fiji's future as much as indigenous Fijians are. We should remember that in Germany in 1933, a weak democratic republic was led by a weak President facing nationalist Germans who believed Jewish influence in commerce and finance was the cause of the German race and nation's problems. The minority Nazis took power by force with the acquiesence of a sympathetic military and native business class that stood to gain from the destruction of the Jews. In Fiji, a bankrupt businessman holds democracy to ransom to curtail the influence of the 'Jews' of Fiji - the Indians. The parallels with Adolf Hitler and the fall of the Weimar Republic are chilling. The swagger of George Speight and his nationalist henchmen is reminiscent of the Nazis, made all the more comical by the fact Mr Speight is blissfully unaware that he is replaying the rise of Fascism in Germany in the South Pacific in 2000.

God help Australia

Taize can be 'dynamite'

room, nor their intentions, it is the ambiance of the whole that I am referring to. It could have been dynamite. I have picked up the feeling that emanates from the Taize worship tapes. It is a pity that, in general terms, the transformation of any radical vision, such as Christ's, into institutional establishments can so blunt the original cutting edge. Anne L Keehan Mt Hawthorn

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ur Archbishop is to be commended in seeking comments regarding a proposed local Synod or Assembly (The Record 11 May). Here is a much-needed opportunity to address the most important issues facing the Church at the outset of the third millennium, and evangelisation and catechesis are rightly given prominence among topics suggested. The role of the laity envisaged by the Second Vatican Council is to accept our Christian responsibility in a world that is becoming increasingly anti-theistic, mainly as a result of secular propaganda daily brought into every home through the mass media. For many Catholics indeed the only source of information regarding the Church is a secular media, having a strong anti-Catholic bias. Consequently it is hardly surprising that the laity's role is perceived to be one of selfadvancement within the Church rather than to spread the Gospel message in the world. If the new evangelisation initiated by Vatican II is to bear fruit, a well-informed laity is essential. How many of us have ever read any of the Council documents? Likewise, we need to make use of modern technology if we are to exercise freedom of speech in a society in which religious expression is regarded as politically incorrect, and where parents are constantly urged to let children make up their own minds in matters on religious belief. Why not set up communication networks of parents, teachers and catechists working with the parish priest to determine methods that can be used to catechise and to integrate young people into parish life? This year of the Great Jubilee is an appropriate time for initiative of this kind, and it is no time for apathy or moral cowardice. As Mother Teresa said, we are all called to holiness and bear witness to Christ. It is only when we come to realise that this is possible for everyone that we can become a truly Christian community that will bear much fruit. Anne M Kirkwood Attadale The Record, June 8 2000 Page 7

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This door has legs. Perhaps that should be 'wheels'? By Fr Tony Schipp

Louise Stunner and Joe Kelly with their creation - the Holy Door for the Jubilee Year at St Joseph Pignatelli Parish in Attadale.

An Attadale snapshot

ouise Sturmer and Joe Kelly ters and the St Joseph Pignatelli logo. can be proud of the holy door Below these, panels display the at St Joseph Pignatelli parish in names of all the parish's organisaAttadale - they had a lot to do with it. Inside, panels are arranged in the Joe built the door and Louise, who form of a cross and bear artwork by Is also an artist, supervised the art- the children of the schools within the work which adorns it. parish, Mel Maria Primary and Santa The doors are something of a 'snap- Maria College. shot' of the parish. The opening of the door was also On the outside they are embla- repeated for students at the opening zoned with the Alpha and Omega let- ,Mass of the school year.

he Visitation Parish of Gingin-Chittering (Bullsbrook) has a Holy Door like no other. In the parish there are five widely separated towns or villages and six different Mass centres. The largest centre is Bullsbrook. Other centres include Gingin, 40 kilometres away, Bindoon (35 kms) with two Mass centres, and then there is Guilderton (85 kms) and Lancelin (130 kms) away on the coast. Obviously a central Holy Door that would be accessible to all Parishioners would not be possible. The question the Parish Pastoral Council wrestled with was how to come up with a door that would be accessible to everyone. What use would there be in having a Holy Door in Bullsbrook that the people of Lancelin would never see? What we came up with is a Holy Door which travels around the parish to each centre every Sunday In the Parish Priest's car. It consists of a small portable box made from a drawer from a dressing table or bureau with a soft cloth lining into which has been inserted a crucifix. There are two doors with the regular symbols which when opened activate a switch connected to a torch light inserted over the top of the crucifix. As the doors are opened, the light comes on and bathes the interior and the crucifix in a soft blue glow. On arrival the Holy Door is set up outside the door of the Church or Chapel. We ask all people who enter the worship centre to reverently and prayerfully touch the crucifix as they enter or leave the building. As it is not possible to enter the Church through our Holy Door we ask people to just touch the crucifix and "enter the experience of the Jubilee Year". We invite them to say a prayer asking for the grace

to make the Holy year a meaningful experience for them. The Door is also available to be put on devotional display when Parish groups meet. Many very encouraging comments have been made about it by people when it has been displayed at the various centres. We think it is unique and it suits the nature of our parish and ills accessible to everyone. It certainly will be a "much travelled" Holy Door by the end of the year, and travels on average about 350 kilometres every weekend.

A novel solution to a big problem - three sisters from the Bowman family visit the 'travelling Door' at Guilderton.

Icon recalls St Brendan's amazing adventures and travels By Clan Molloy

ishop William Murphy of Kerry consecrated a new icon of St Brendan the navigator - the man the Irish believe discovered America - at the foot of Ireland's second highest mountain, Mount Brandon. The consecration took place at a Mass on 16 May in Dingle parish church after a 12-day pilgrimage from St Brendan's Cathedral in Clonfert. on the feast day of the saint, who is patron of the Kerry and Clonfert dioceses, as well as a patron of boatmen, travellers, sailors and whales. After 11 days of good weather, thick mist and rain shrouded the mountaintop. Immediately after the Mass, which included prayers for good weather, the sky cleared. Bishop Murphy, who spent the previous three days in Fatima, Portugal, put on his boots and led a group of more than 100 pilgrims to the summit. Several thousand people were present at the consecration ceremony. Mercy Sister Aloysius McVeigh, who designed the new icon, says the image created through her by God needs to be "read" for its meaning to be truly understood. "A good analogy is the egg: The shell may be perfect to look at, but the nourishment is inside," she said. "The strength and peace of an icon lies in Its symbolism. Every element has a deeper spiritual significance. Like the Bible, an icon is meant to be read, not just looked at. "The boat in the St Brendan icon can be Interpreted as an image of the Church, the barque of St Peter," she said. "Here the barque is small and defenceless, representing the vulnerability of the Church today, counterbalanced by the monumental figure of St Brendan embodying the spiritual strength the Church can call." The artist, born in Northern Ireland, said the rock on which the saint's foot firmly rests "recalls Christ's reassuring words 'upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it." Bishop Murphy said he was delighted with the new icon of the man he describes as "the greatest ever Kerryman." St Brendan was born of noble birth in 486 near Tralee. He founded several monasteries, most notably Clonfert Cathedral, which he established in 559 when he would have been in his 70s. St Brendan caught the imagination The Record, June 8 2000 Page 8

of medieval hagiographers with his sevenyear voyage, accompanied, it is said, by between 14 and 150 fellow monks, to a beautiful and bountiful land far across the western sea. In Christopher Columbus' time, maps of the known world showed a large island west or southwest of Europe named "St Brendan's Isle." and folklore about the journey may have inspired Columbus to undertake his journey to the New World. In 1976, Irish explorer Tim Severin led a small crew across the Atlantic in a small hidecovered sailing boat to prove that the voyage of St Brendan was possible. Afterward, Severn concluded that the narrative was a highly plausible tale. The medieval epic describes Brendan's journey via: an island of birds; an island of sheep, thought to be one of the Fame Islands, as "Fame" means "land of sheep"; an island of fire, thought to be Iceland and its volcanoes; and a land of ice, perhaps Greenland. One Easter during their journey, St Brendan and his sailors moored on a smooth, bare island to light a fire and found that they had berthed on the back of a whale. In his journey, Severn found that his small hide-covered craft attracted whales in great numbers, who would regularly rub up against the bottom. After his voyage, Brendan established several churches in the provinces of Leinster and Munster. Before his death in Clonfert in around 575, Ills said, he regularly had conversations with St Michael the Archangel, who visited him in the guise of a bird. Each year on 16 May, the Kerry Diocese holds a pilgrimage to the summit of Mount Brandon, the mountain named after the saint who used to fast there for 40 days and 40 nights. Sister McVeigh said anyone familiar with the story of St Brendan can read her icon's meaning, particularly the saint's love of the Gospel and his readiness to go on pilgrimage. "Brendan is shown offering the Scriptures as the key to his power with God, and he invites us to follow his example of prayer and meditation on the word of God. "He is also inviting us to look for God's help which is readily available. "An icon is a door opening out to God and spiritual realities, but Ills also a door that opens inwardly, to the stillness within our own hearts, where God waits to speak to us," she said. - Catholic News Service

This icon of St Brendan the Navigator was recently consecrated at the foot of Ireland's Mount Brandon. Much of his fifth-century life is reported as legend, including a tale of his voyage to a land across the western sea, thought to be what is now America. Photo CNS

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Spiritual breath of life that really counts The solemn feast of Pentecost this Sunday at the end of the Decade of Evangelisation in the Great Jubilee Year 2000 has great significance as Pope John Paul Hpromotes the New Evangelisation for the new millennium. Pope John Paul preached on the Glory of the Trinity at a recent general audience with pilgrims on 31 May. This translation is from the ZENIT news agency.

hristian Pentecost, the cele- diversity of their tongues, cultures bration of the outpouring and historical circumstances, proof the Holy Spirit, is pro- fess one faith in the Lord, "speakfiled in diverse ways in the New ing about God's deeds of power" (Acts 2:11). Testament scriptures. It is important to note that a JewWe will begin with what we have heard outlined in the text of the ish commentator of the Exodus. recalling Chapter 10 of Genesis. Acts of the Apostles. It is the most immediate in the .which deals with a map of the sevminds of all, in art history, and in enty nations that were thought to constitute humanity in its fullness, the very liturgy itself. Luke, in his second work, places brings them back to Sinai to hear the gift of the Spirit within a theo- the Word of God: "At Sinai the r hany, a solemn divine revelation, voice of the Lord was divided into that in his symbolic language seventy languages, so that all the reminds us of the experience of nations could understand" (ExoIsrael at Sinai (cf Ex 19). dus Rabba' 5,9). The loud noise, the powerful Therefore in the Lucan Pentecost wind, the fire reminiscent of light- the Word of God is directed ning, all proclaim divine transcen- through the Apostles to humanity, dence. to announce to all people, even in In reality, il ls the Father who their diversity, "God's deeds of gives the Spirit through the inter- power" (Acts 2:11). vention of the glorified Christ. here is another telling of the story in the New Testament Peter says in his discourse: "Jesus .... being therefore exalted at the that we can call the Johanright hand of God, and having nine Pentecost. In the fourth gospel, in fact, the received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has outpouring of the Holy Spirit poured out this that you both see occurs on Easter evening, and is intimately connected to the resurand hear" (Acts 2:33). At Pentecost - as the Catechism rection. We read in John: "When it was of the Catholic Church teaches the Holy Spirit "is made manifest, evening on that day, the first day of given and communicated as a the week, and the doors of the Divine Person. . . The Holy ninny house where the disciples had met Is fully revealed on this day" (CCC were locked for fear of the Jews, 731-732). Jesus came and stood among them The entire Ilinity is involved in and said, 'Peace be with you.' After the irruption of the Holy Spirit, he said this, he showed them his poured out upon the first commu- hands and his side. Then the disnity and on the Church of all times, ciples rejoiced when they saw the which seals the New Covenant Lord. Jesus said to them again, announced by the prophets (cf Jer 'Peace be with you. As the Father 31: 31-34; Ez 36: 24-27), supports its has sent me, so I send you.' When witness and becomes a wellspring he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive of unity-in-plurality. By the power of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the the Apostles proclaim the Risen sins of any. they are forgiven them: Christ. And all believers, in the if you retain the sins of any, they

him "the breath of life" (Gen 2:7). The Risen Christ communicates another breath of life, "the Holy Spirit". Redemption is a new creation, divine work to which the Church is called to collaborate in through the ministry of reconciliation. he Apostle Paul does not offer us a direct retelling of the outpouring of the Spirit, but speaks of its fruits with such intensity that we can speak of a Pauline Pentecost, also presented as a teaching about the Trinity. According to two parallel passages of the letters to the Galatians and to the Romans, the Spirit is the gift of the Father, who makes us adopted sons, and thus participants in the very life of the divine family. Paul affirms: "For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, `Abba! Father!' it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ" (Rom 8:15-17; cf Gal 4:6-7) With the Holy Spirit in our hearts we can turn to God with the familiar name "Abba", which Jesus himself used when talking with his Heavenly Father (cf Mk 14:36). Like Christ, we too must walk accorcling to the Spirit in profound interior liberty: "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, A depiction of the Pentecost shows the Holy Spirit descending upon Mary and kindness, generosity, faithfulness, the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. The painting is from St Maron Church in gentleness, and self-control" (Gal

Minneapolis. Pentecost Sunday is 11 June this year.

are retained.'" On 20:19-23). This Johannine rendition also shines with the glory of the Trinity: of the Risen Christ who is shown in His glorious body, of the Father who is the source of the apostolic mission, and of the Spirit poured out as gift of peace. In this way the promise which Christ made in the farewell discourse to the disciples, within those very walls, is fulfilled: "The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,

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will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you" On 14:26). The presence of the Spirit in the Church is sent for the remission of sins, for the recalling and realisation of the Gospel in life, and for the ever deeper actualisation of unity in love. The symbolic act of breathing evokes the act of the Creator who, after having formed the body of man with dust of the ground, "breathed into his nostrils" to give

5:22).

Let us conclude our contemplation of the Trinity in Pentecost with an invocation from the Eastern Liturgy: "Come, people, let us adore the Divinity in three persons: the Father in the Son with the Holy Spirit. "Because the Father of all eternity generates a co-eternal Son and reigns with Him, and the Holy Sprit is in the Father, glorified with the Son, one power, one substance, one divinity. . . Holy llinity, glory to you!" (Vespers of Pentecost).

In defence of the and playing By George Russo

ecently in a sermon on the true vine, Father mentioned that once religion "s firmly planted in a child it remains for the rest of his or her life. Could this mean that prayers learnt at a very early age continue to have meaning for the rest of their lives? And further; that the habit of prayer is acquired from the teaching and example of the parents? I think the answer to both is Yes. Today ills fashionable to maintain that young children should not be taught about God; that the divine is beyond their comprehension. Let them have their dolls and trains and aeroplanes. God can wait until they get older. By all means, let them play. The truth is dare I say it - that the age of five is already too old to introduce them to God. And, do, let them play, but, let it be with God. Some of our famous poets were the first to point out the instinct for the divine in children. Wordsworth wrote: "Heaven lies about us in our infancy" In a real flash of insight he said that heaven appeared to the child as if it were all around him. It was the truth about the child, and the poet wanted us to see and experience it.

Many of us, if we analysed our childhood experiences, would have to admit that we also experienced the presence of the divine. In the brightness of our childhood we certainly felt nearer to God than we do as adults. Cynicism had not yet gnawed at our souls. Another exponent of the child at prayer was the poet of Winnie-the-Pooh fame, A A Milne. His poem 'Vespers' is about a little boy saying his prayers. Vespers is the evening prayer of the Church, looking back on the past day with gratitude. The Jews called the last hours of daylight, time for playing with God. "Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed. Photo: CNS/Nancy Wtechec Droops on the little hands little gold head. A child talks to God and is not embarrassed byIt - unlike many adults. Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Then, we could treat Him as really present down through the ages the idea of God and Christopher Robin is saying his prayers." play. in our innocent lives. The word 'play' of course covers a multiInspired by the Book of Proverbs we have I suppose that from a religious standpoint tude of things, from mimicry to open-heart- the saying: "All work and no play makes the child's, or for that matter, the adult's, ed childishness. response to play is appropriate when it is Jack a dull boy." The child is artless. Anything becomes St Thomas Aquinas insisted that play was an unconscious exploration of all the things play for him as children constantly demon- as necessary a part of man's life as rest. that God created for our world. strate to our embarrassment. We read in the Psalms that the monster, The goals we set ourselves, like creating Listen to them talking to God; watch their Leviathan, was put into the sea as the Lord's economic prosperity, or social security, do simple reverence. not exhaust the possibilities of God's world. plaything. The child talks to God, and he is not embarWe don't have to have a reason for playIn a world crowded with sociologists, psyrassed by it. chologists and counsellors,Iam reluctant to ing. Millions of people, and not only children, Only when he grows up and has to have put poetry and religious drama up as explaplay every day. They skip or shout; sing or that game of golf or join the Club and con- nations for the divine spark in play. But.I think that most of us do have vivid dance; or just plain meditate, because they form to hard and fast rules, does his recreation become joyless, burdensome and even memories of a playful attitude to God in experience the wonder of creation. There's something of the mystery of God in that! obsessive. Christian tradition has handed childhood. The Record, June 8 2000 Page 9

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Excerpts from the WA Catholic Record 9 June, 1900.

St Patrick's opened

t Patrick's Church, Fremantle, was solemnly opened with High Mass by Bishop Gibney on the feast of Pentecost. Guests included the Premier Sir John Forrest and Lady Forrest. "The Church will be of great beauty, the portion completed - that is the nave and aisles, affording a sufficient criterion on which to form a judgement of the whole. The massive solidity, so necessary to impart a solemn tone to a building, is combined with grace and lightness in a degree which it would be difficult, if not impossible. to surpass. "The handsome structure is 14th century Gothic in style, or what is called decorated Gothic. The walls are built with Cottesloe and North Fremantle stone and the doorways, columns, traceried windows and other architectural features are in Sydney freestone. "The music for the opening was Gounod's Messe Solenelle, with Handel's Hallelujah chorus at the termination of the ceremonies. In the accompaniment of the Mass, the organ was assisted by an orchestra of 20 wind and string instruments. The singers, over 60 in number, did ample justice to the glorious music. The preacher was Rev Father Hunt CSSR who took for his text Psalm XXV 8: - I have loved, oh Lord, the beauty of Thy house and the place where Thy glory dwelleth. "The special cash appeal raised 657 pounds."

A Pope-Queen toast

t the luncheon which followed the solemn opening of St Patrick's Bishop Gibney proposed the loyal toast thus " the Pope and the Queen - the Queen and the Pope. Replying to criticism in the secular press of the day and from some members of Parliament the Bishop wrote in the Record: "This form of toast is not new, nor is it of colonial invention, but one used for years in the heart of London." "In the London newspapers of June 1893 Alderman Knill, then Lord Mayor of London when taken to task for this form of toast said he was glad to follow the example of the city guilds and others who invariably recognised a High Power and gave their first toast in the form: Church and Queen."

A chook at my table

r De Pedro, of the Spanish Restaurant advises readers that owing to the high price charged for meat at the present time, he has arranged to supply poultry for the people. There will be no alteration to the tariff. Meals will still be provided (with poultry on the menu every time) at 1 'shilling] per meal.

Someone waits for you Ithe Lord am with You Always. Compiled by Christine McCarthy, Society for Eucharistic Adoration RRP $11.95 Reviewer: Peter Rosengren

hat would you do if the doorbell rang one day and, when you answered it, Jesus was standing there looking at you? No, it's not a silly question. Throughout the 2000 years that their faith has existed, countless Catholics have discovered the peace and answers to life's troubles, questions and burdens by spending time with Jesus. When they do, they are not meeting Him in a metaphorical or symbolic sense but actually go to visit Him as He really is, in exactly the same way as when they visit relatives or friends - or perhaps answering the door. They meet Him in a church, they spend time with Him, they talk to Him and they listen to Him. And when they do, they're not mad. The practice of Eucharistic Adoration may be a peculiarly Catholic one but it is one the whole world could benefit from. Part of the problem is that, in one sense, it is one of the great secrets of the Catholic Church. It's unfortunately a secret because so few Catholics behave as though they either know or care. But, if you think about it, the simple truth which should shake the world is that Jesus - the risen Jesus - is present in the Eucharist in exactly the same way as when He appeared to his disciples and his Mother after his death. And He's there waiting for you. Hard to believe for many, but those who have experienced the powerful and abiding presence of Jesus through receiving Him in Communion and spending time talking and listening to Him in adoration can all witness to the way their lives have changed as a result. Little wonder, then, that Catholics have composed everything from poetry to arias, liturgies, written treatises and tomes

and sought in endless ways to express the magic of this encounter. It's also little wonder that Christine McCarthy's compilation of prayers and meditations issued recently is getting a high rating from some of the 'big guns' in the Church's hierarchy in Australia as well as finding favour from a growing audience of lay people. Archbishop Barry Hickey, who joined the Society for Eucharistic Adoration when it formed in Perth several years ago, has written the

sury." 'Remarkable' is a good word. Ithe Lord am with You Always ranges through the liturgies and teachings of the Church, prayers and meditations of saints and scholars, hymns and poems that have risen up from the hearts of believers across the centuries, as well as the documents of the Popes and the Second Vatican Council. This excellent publication is divided into eight chapters, each covering a different aspect of

The growing practice of Eucharistic adoration - talking, and listening, to Jesus.

foreword to this 253 page yet compact paperback, noting the growfor whom ing numbers Eucharistic adoration has become part of their lives. Archbishop George Pell of Melbourne simply describes this attractively bound and illustrated volume as "a wonderful collection of prayers, meditations and reflections on the reality of Our Lord in the Eucharist." The Melbourne archdiocese's vicar for religious education, Monsignor Peter Elliott also highlights its remarkable variety of sources, describing it as a "trea-

Jesus in the Eucharist. There are prayers and reflection for a Holy Hour, Mass, Communion and perpetual adoration. Some chapters focus on prayer before the Blessed Sacrament for vocations to the priesthood, for Mary's intercession, and a final chapter focuses on prayers of the people. It is especially gratifying to meet poetry, ranging from Chaucer to Gerard Manley Hopkins and TS Eliot, and it is among these that some real delights are to be found. After all, what better way to express the heart's yearnings than

in poetical terms. Take for example, the following excerpt from Eliot's Choruses on a Rock (page 51): O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. 0 Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less; The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light. owl and moth light, Glow worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee! We thank Thee for the lights we have kindled. The light of altar and of sanctuary; Small lights of those who meditate at midnight And lights directed through the coloured panes of windows And light reflected from the polished stone, The gilded carven wood, the coloured fresco. Our gaze is submarine, our eyes look upward And see the light that fractures through unquiet water. We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee. Our gaze is indeed submarine because, as Eliot so beautifully shows, we simply do not see clearly enough. But those who purchase this book will not need to be told that. They will understand most clearly the simple truth: that when we sit in a darkened room with the one we love we do not need to see in order to speak our most intimate thoughts. Nor, on the other hand, can the relative darkness diminish their love for us, nor can it make us deaf. *Ithe Lord am with You Always is available from Gatto's Christian store (tel: 9345 5700) and Catholics Corner (tel: 9456 1777)

Venerable historian, father of English history

ede, traditionally known who arrived in Britain in AD 597, as the Venerable Bede, and later missionaries who conwas born in Jarrow in tinued his work. Bede's most famous work, HisDurham in about 673. At the age of seven, his parents toria Ecclesiastica Gentis Angloput him into the care of Abbot St rum (Ecclesiastical History of the Benedict Bishop of the Benedic- English People) is a particularly tine abbey of Saints Peter and good historical source for the Paul. conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, When he became older, he was even though the actual history moved to the newer monastery begins from the invasions of Julius Caesar. of Saint Paul at Jarrow. When he was a child, all the It ranges from the origins of the monks died of plague, except English up until 731. Bede compiled his history using old docuhimself and one other. From a very early age, Bede was ments, ancient traditions and his own observations. a capable and diligent student. He was ordained a deacon at Although Bede's history conthe age of nineteen and became tains rather more miracles than a priest at the age of thirty - the more recent history books, it is minimum age in those days. still considered an important and Throughout his life, Bede was a reasonably accurate work. prolific scholar and author, proBecause of this particular work, ducing over 45 separate works, Bede is often called the father of covering topics as diverse as English History. grammar, scriptural commenMany of his other writings are still in existence. tary, history and biography. From about the fifth century Nevertheless, during the MidBritain had been overrun by dle Ages, Bede was better known Anglo-Saxon tribes from Ger- for his scriptural commentaries, which were copied for the many. These people were originally libraries of many continental pagans, but had been converted monasteries. In these works and to Catholicism by St Augustine, in his History, Bede dated events

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Perth historian Dr Jennifer Skerritt sheds some light on Catholic history to mark 2000 years of Christianity. This week:

The Venerable Bede, 673-735 from the Birth of Christ, or in the common language wherever Latin, Anno Domini, abbreviated possible, long before Vatican II). to AD. The years before Christ's As his condition worsened, and birth he referred to in English, as the saint became gravely ill, he Before Christ, or BC. pressed the scribe to write more The popularity of Bede's writ- quickly. ings brought this system of datFinally, when the scribe proing into general use across nounced the worked finished, Europe, and is still used today. Bede was placed on the floor of Bede only ever left his his cell, which almost certainly monastery at Jarrow twice, once hastened his end, and chanted to travel to the Holy Island of the Gloria until he died. Lindisfarne and once to go to His remains are now in the York Galilee Chapel of Durham He became ill just before East- Cathedral. er in 735 but continued to pray, According to a pious story, the sing the office and read with his Inscription in his tombstone was students. completed by an angel, and He also persevered with his describes him as venerabilis. translation of the gospel of John Consequently he is known as the into English, or rather, Anglo- Venerable Bede. Saxon (the Catholic Church does, He was not canonised until and did, provide the Gospels in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII.

International News and Features

Putin eagerly meets Pope but no invitation to visit Russia ian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II said he did not object to the Pope n his first official visit to visiting Russia but that the conWestern Europe, Russian ditions must be right and at prePresident Vladimir Putin sent they are not. Other Moscow church officials spoke with Pope John Paul ll at the Vatican about the ongoing said a papal visit was unlikely. Pope John Paul has made it a need to bring Western and Eastpolicy not to visit a country with ern Europe closer together. However, during the 5 June an Orthodox majority without meeting Putin did not invite the rust having an invitation from the Pope to visit Russia, underlining Orthodox Church. So far, the only Orthodox leadthe continuing distance between the Catholic Church and the Russ- ers to extend such an invitation have been in Romania, Georgia ian Orthodox Church. and Armenia. Putin told reporters on 6 June But the planned 1999 trip to that he could not "impose" a papal Armenia was postponed because visit on the Russian Orthodox of papal illness, then cancelled Church and "a visit of the Pope with the death of Armenian Patriwhich did not include a meeting arch Karekin. with the Patriarch would make no Patriarch Alexei and other Russsense." ian Orthodox Church leaders con"There are discussions under tinue to accuse the Catholic way between the Vatican and the Church of proselytism - aggresRussian Church, and the pontiff sively encouraging the Orthodox would want to make the trip to to join the Catholic Church. Moscow when the discussions They also continue to claim that have led to solutions," Putin said. Ukrainian Catholics - who share Italian newspapers had specu- the Byzantine-rite liturgy, spiritulated that Putin would renew a ality and discipline with their standing presidential invitation Orthodox neighbours - have used for the Pope to visit Russia. force to reclaim churches the On the eve of Putin's trip, Russ- Communist government confisBy Cindy Wooden

estsba President Vladimir Putin greets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican 5 Jame during the president's first official trip to Western Europe. Ptx)to CMS/Reuters cated in the 1940s. At the Vatican the Vatican secretary of state, on 5 June, Putin and Pope john Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Paul spent half an hour alone the secretary for relations with except for interpreters, then con- states, and Russian Foreign Mintinued their discussions with their ister Igor Ivanov, the leaders distop diplomatic aides present, said cussed "the process of integration Vatican spokesman Joaquin between East and West in which, President Putin believes, the role Navarro-ValLs. With Cardinal Angelo Sodano, of the Holy See is very important,"

Navarro-Valls said. Also during the meeting, he said, "special consideration was given to the problems of disarmament and the international situation." Pope John Paul welcomed Putin, saying,"! am happy to receive you here at the beginning of your presidential mandate." The President, who has been in office a month, told the Pope it was his personal decision to begin his foreign travels with a stop in Italy and at the Vatican. "For me, this visit is significant," Putin said. Just before meeting the Pope, Putin spoke briefly with reporters after his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato. "We know that many here in Europe and in the United States are very worried about fate of the (anti-ballistic missile) 1972 accord, and we share this concern." Putin said. "Russia proposes to develop with the European Union and NATO an anti-missile system which would avoid all problems of an imbalance of forces while still guaranteeing the security of each individual country," he said. - Catholic News Service

Passion play divides critics For a Congo bishop's people, life's nearly hell T W he Jews who've seen it seem to be united: The worst moment for them in the Oberammergau Passion Play is the moment when "the Jews," played by hundreds of the village's population. shout "Crucify him." Rabbi Leon Klenicki, who was present at the first night of this season's performances, said. "It gave me the chills." Even after years of serious attempts to revise the world's most famous passion play to remove anti-Jewish passages, the play remains difficult for Jews. The play has been performed roughly every 10 years since 1634. in fulfilment of a vow made by the villagers when they were saved Actors rehearse a scene from the famous Passion Ploy in Oberamseriptu, GerPhoto: CAS/Reuters many, prior to its opening. from the plague. In the town of about 5,300, were against him. "But they were John Pawlikowski of the Catholic almost 2,000 residents take to the completely overwhelmed," Rabbi Theological Union in Chicago stage for each performance. Klenicld told Catholic News Ser- was not at a performance, but he Actors must either have been vice. was one of a team of eight rabbis born in Oberammergau or have 'The problems in the script have and Christian theologians asked lived there at least 20 years. been enlarged by the perfor- by the American Jewish CommitFor the last 30 years, Jews, main- mance." tee to examine an English transly from the US, have been pushNot all those who viewed the lation of the revised script. He ing for change. show took such a critical line. Ger- remains strongly critical: The For this year's performance, the man Rabbi Henry Brandt admits, strongest identifiably Jewish figdirector, Otto Huber, invited Jew- "It's a Christian play for Christians ures are dearly evil, he said. Father Pawlikowski said the ish critics to discuss possible and is effective as such." changes ahead of the production He said he, too, felt uneasy at the Oberammergau passion plays are and made many changes in the crowd scene, but he emphasised marketed throughout the world, script to remove its traditional the big efforts made to put Jesus and that some 350,000 of the anti-Jewish references. in a Jewish context: He's called 500,000 people who will see them In the past, Jews wore horned "Rabbi" by his followers and this year come from the US. 'The American bishops' confercostumes, the end of Judaism was makes a blessing in Hebrew over prophesied as a punishment for wine at the Last Supper, which is ence has issued guidelines for the denial of Jesus, and Judas was clearly modelled on the Jewish passion plays, and OberammerSeder meal for the eve of Passover. gau would not fulfill those guideportrayed as the devil incarnate. Rabbi Brandt said that in spite lines," the priest said."If they want Among the Jewish leaders consulted was Rabbi Klenicld, direc- of the improvements in the script, to market it internationally, they tor of interfaith affairs for the he agreed that the visual experi- should meet international standards." ence has a different impact. Anti-Defamation League. For example, the political power Rabbi Brandt does not agree and When he read the new script, he appreciated the writers' efforts to in first-century Jerusalem seems is not the only German Jewish to lie with the high priest: 'The observer to resent American make changes. temple guard is more powerful interference. But then he saw the play. 'The play is a German play in a In the scene where "the Jews" and better equipped than the call for Jesus's crucifixion, the Romans," said Rabbi Brandt, Bavarian mountain village to script called for a group of actors adding that does not reflect the which Americans are welcome. I to counter the shouts with a cry reality of the political conditions know what is possible, and in the not to crucify Jesus, in order to of the time. However, he added, realm of the possible a lot has - CNS make it clear that not all Jews 'They're on the right path." Father been done," he said.

By Bart Froze

hen Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola wanted to go from central Congo to the capital. Kinshasa, it took him 11 days, two visas and travel through two other countries. As a crow flies, it's a little more than 960 kilometres from Tshumbe, the bishop's see or diocese, to Kinshasa. But Tshumbe is in territory controlled by the Congolese rebels, backed by Rwanda and Uganda, and Kinshasa is controlled by government forces. Bishop Djomo said he obtained a visa from the rebels to go through Uganda to Nairobi; there, he went to the Congolese Embassy to get a visa to Kinshasa. In early June. the bishop told church and human rights activists in Washington that for him, the trip earlier this year was easy; for others, it is often more difficult. Sometimes, he said, people returning to his area from Kinshasa are put into prison while their documents are examined to make sure they are not "in cahoots with" Congolese Presi-

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dent Laurent Kabila. Bishop Djomo made the trip to Kinshasa to obtain medicine for malaria and tuberculosis. because "with no treatment, the disease (TB) was spreading rampantly." he said. When he returned home, there were no vehicles - not even his car - in which to distribute medicine; all vehicles had been confiscated by the military or the rebels. So, in a diocese approximately the size of the state of Ohio. Church officials used bicycles to distribute the medicine to about one million people. He said his priorities are the people's health, then protection of the population from soldiers' rape, theft and destruction. The soldiers often would surround a centre, then "they would take people's goods, they would beat people and they would rape the women." he said. "It's absolutely essential for me to be there, because I have become a sign of defence of the people," Bishop Djomo said. The people see the bishop as a person who "represents their only hope - because they are so afraid for their lives." Rwandan troops have been backing the rebels, but most people believe that Rwanda is just involved to exploit the natural resources - especially diamonds - in the region, he said. For instance, the official paper giving permission to get diamonds from many areas of the Congo is issued by the Rwandan government, which flies out planeloads of diamonds daily, he said. Rwandans soldiers are often seen at places like the airport, while Congolese soldiers fight. "It's clear that the Rwandans are orchestrating the affair," he said. - Catholic News Service

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International News

In Brief Parliament castigated GLASGOW, Scotland (CNS) - Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow has branded the new Scottish Parliament "an utter failure" on moral issues. In an interview in the 2 June issue of Scottish Catholic Observer, Scotland's national Catholic newspaper, Cardinal Winning said he felt "deeply let down" by politicians in the new Parliament, which has been running for less than a year. His comments came in the week following the results of a private referendum on a controversial law that currently bans the promotion of homosexuality in Scottish schools.

La Salle head ROME (CNS) - Toward the close of their 43rd general chapter, the Christian Brothers chose the congregation's vicar general as the new superior general. Brother Alvaro Rodriguez Echeverria, a native of Costa Rica, was elected on 2 June as the 26th successor to founder St John Baptist de La Salle, replacing US Brother John Johnston. US Brother William Mann will take over as vicar general.

Religious upset WASHINGTON (CNS) - The top officers of the US Leadership Conference of Women Religious said they experienced "deep anguish" at the latest developments in the case of Sister Jeannine Gramc.k. Sister Gramick, 58, faces possible expulsion from the School Sisters of Notre Dame after refusing to obey an order on 24 May to maintain silence about the 11-year Vatican investigation into her ministry with gay and lesbian Catholics.

Pardon hailed LAGOS, Nigeria (CNS) Nigerian Church leaders hailed President Olusegun Obasanjo's decision to pardon rebel leaders and soldiers for their role in the country's civil war more than 30 years ago. In a nationwide broadcast on 29 May, Obasanjo pardoned the rebel leader of the former Biafra Republic, Lt. Col. Emeka Ojukwu, and thousands of other soldiers dismissed from service for their role during the war that left more than a million dead.

Zoungrana dead VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II praised the late Cardinal Paul Zoungrana of Burkina Faso, calling him a "zealous and faithful son of the Church." The cardinal, who retired in 1995 after 35 years as archbishop of Ouagadougou, died on 4 June after a long illness. He was 82 years old. Cardinal Zoungrana's death leaves the College of Cardinals with 100 members under 80 and therefore eligible to vote for a Pope. He was the third black African archbishop and second black African Cardinal.

Moscow Eucharist congress ROME, MAY 31 (ZENIT) - "We Administrations in Russia. Many are already waiting for him," of them had to travel thousands of Archbishop Tadeusz Kon- miles to attend. drusiewicz replied to the Italian The faithful from the provinces television channel "Telepace," were welcomed by Moscow when it asked about a possible Catholics. Eucharistic adoration visit by Pope John Paul II. took place in the crypt of the The Archbishop was on the pro- Immaculate Conception Church. gram to speak about the First On Saturday, 27 May, two deaEucharistic Congress in Russian cons were ordained priests. history, held in Moscow from 26On 28 May, a number of chil28 May. dren made their First CommuThis was also the first Eucharis- nion. tic procession ever held in the Then the first Eucharistic procapital. cession on the streets of Moscow The Congress' theme was "The took place. Eucharist: Source and Summit of Many people came to their winChristian Life." dows or waited at the doors of Three hundred Catholics from their homes to see the Blessed all over the Russian Federation Sacrament. came to Moscow to participate in Some were simply curious, but this historic meeting. others followed the procession They represented all 4 Apostolic with profound devotion. During

the Congress, the consecration of Russia to the Virgin Mary was renewed. Moreover, two exhibitions were held: one on "Catholic Publications in Russia", and the other on Caritas' charitable activities in the Federation. Some Orthodox pastors participated in a few of the activities of the celebration. The Congress also focused on the topic, "Eucharist and Family." In 1999 there were five per cent less marriages in the country, and a 23 per cent growth in divorces. Some 70 per cent of pregnancies in Russia end in abortions. "We are in the first country that legalised abortion," explained Joseph Meaney, vice-director of Human Life International. He added, "Only 21 per cent of Russ-

ian youth think it is important to register their marriage officially, and only 15 per cent consecrate it in a religious ceremony." "Everybody in the country is waiting for the Pope," Archbishop said on Kondrusiewicz "Telepace." "And it is not just Catholics and believers, but also politicians. People ask me: 'when is he arriving?' We are waiting for him. It would be a miracle, but the Pope has made us used to miracles." At present, Russian Catholics are preparing a Marian Congress in Irkutsk, Serbia, for September. The Archbishop told the Italian newspaper Avvenire, that the papal visit could take place at that time. "We are praying to the Virgin of Fatima," he added.

Children starve as chiefs steal food tabycaust' By Joseph Ngala NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) - Several children are starving to death at the Tangulubei Catholic health centre in northern Kenya's Baringo district. Hundreds of others lie helpless In the villages, awaiting relief promised by the World Food Program and other agencies. Minito Apalinganyang, 7, and his 3-year-old sister Chepukutu, died as John Lannoi, the health centre's clinical officer, made frantic efforts to resuscitate them. "It is a pity that these children were brought to us so late. Highenergy biscuits and intravenous fluids failed," he said. Lannoi pointed out the two fresh graves of the children, who were

buried within the health centre compound. He said when their mother realised her two children had died, she was inconsolable. The deaths prompted the local area district commissioner to release two bags of maize for six families, including the bereaved mother. In late May, Kenyan President Daniel amp Moi sent an appeal for food assistance to world governments and donor agencies, saying 80 per cent of the country's 30 million people faced a serious food shortage. This, he said, was due to many months of drought and the resulting crop failure. Most parts of Kenya are seriously affected, with millions of people requiring famine assis-

tance, particularly after the failure of the March-May rains. Only western Kenya received substantial rainfall. The low levels of water in the country's dam forced authorities to ration electricity and water beginning on 1 June. Father Paul Leyden of the Tangulubei Catholic mission attributed the area's deaths to rampant corruption by area chiefs in the distribution of relief food. "I would understand district offices' lack of transparency in the distribution of relief food. But how do you explain about the chiefs, who are from this area, stealing food leading to deaths of their brothers and sisters?" asked the priest, who led the burial service for the children.

Germans celebrate but Bishop dissents HAMBURG, Germany (CNS) Some 60,000 Catholics were expected to participate in the fiveday 94th Assembly of Catholics, which was to include many Protestant speakers. The assembly, a biennial event, organised by the Central Committee of German Catholics, was a mixture of rally and seminar. For the first time, the assembly was held in a predominantly Protestant city: Only one in 10 of Hamburg's population is Catholic. One of the main themes of this year's assembly, with the motto "The Time is His," was ecumenism. Many of the 1,000 indi-

vidual events in the assembly included Protestant speakers. German President Johannes Rau, a Protestant lay preacher, was to talk about the relationship between church and state, and the assembly was to end for the first time with an ecumenical service. Father Hans Kung, whose right to teach as a Catholic theologian was withdrawn decades ago by the Vatican, was to address the assembly for the first time. Bishop Johannes Dyba of Fulda stole the headlines on the assembly's first day, 31 May. In an interview with a German newspaper, he said that 80 per cent of the

events "had nothing to do with faith," and that in many of the events "absolute nonsense (was) given an equal status with ancient truths." As an example he quoted feminist theology, which, he said "had come over to us from America at about the same time as chewing gum." The event also began with a message from the Pope containing a meditation on time. He said Jesus Christ is the centre of all time. "In the running of `chronos,' the hour of the great lairos' struck 'In the fullness of time, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,'" he said.

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KARISRUHE, GERMANY, JUNE 1 (zENrn - A German federal court has settled a battle of several months over whether pro-life demonstrators could use the term "Babycaust" to refer to abortion. The dispute arose when protesters handed out flyers in front of an abortionist's office referring to the "murder of children in their mothers' wombs." The slogan was "Holocaust then, Babycaust now." Hospital authorities sued to ban such language and won, but yesterday's ruling overturned this. The judgment was made on the basis of the protesters' right to free speech, because the leaflets "expressed the opinions of the authors that today's practice of abortion is a mass extermination of life." The judges also said that such demonstrations are "a contribution to opinion-forming in a matter that is fundamental and moving to the public in which we have to deal with the protection of living rights of the unborn." German feminists and proabortion groups were displeased with the decision. Dr Anja Klauk of the Feminist Party stated, "This verdict brands women as murderers. It is outrageous "

Greek Catholic head supports end to religion on ID cards ATHENS, Greece (CNS) - The head of Greece's Catholic minority has backed government calls to scrap the obligatory listing of religious affiliations from citizens' identity cards. However, he warned change was vigorously opposed by the Orthodox Church, which nominally accounts for 97 per cent of the country's population of 10.2 million. "Religious loyalties aren't a matter for the state, which is obliged to produce good citizens, not good Christians," said Krchbishop Nikolaos Foskolos of Athens. "Having to give one's religion causes discrimination, and we'll do everything to ensure the practice stops," he said. The Archbishop spoke after a declaration by Greece's eightmember Catholic bishops' conference supporting calls by the government of Costas Simitis for the removal of religion from IDs.

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He said the declaration had regretted the "painful lack of religious freedom" in the country and confirmed the view of law professors that citing religion violated the constitution. He added that the head of the Orthodox Church, Patriarch Christodoulos, had opposed the proposed change and demanded a referendum, although this had been immediately rejected by the government. "Orthodox leaders say we are an Orthodox nation and should not allow some minority to impose their views," Archbishop Foskolos said. "The Orthodox Church has stirred fanaticism by speaking out against the government, so it's hard to say what the outcome of a referendum would be." Article 3 of the constitution of Greece, a European Union and NATO member-state, declares Orthodoxy the "dominant reli-

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A Greek Orthodox woman holds an icon of Christ during a demonstration in Athens on 31 May against scrapping religion from new identity cards.

gion" and prohibits Bible translations without prior Orthodox Church consent. A call for the removal of religion

from IDs was made after the April re-election of the ruling Socialist Party by Justice Minister Michalis Stathopoulos.

International News

No-one's a stranger for the Church, Pope tells migrants By John Norton VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Church must work to instill in societies a "culture of hospitality," welcoming to migrants and refugees, Pope John Paul II said. Celebrating Mass during the 2 June Jubilee for Migrants and Travellers, he said, 'The Christian community is called to diffuse in the world the ferment of fraternity, of that living together of differences that we are called to experience, even today in this encounter of ours." More than 30,000 people, many in traditional ethnic garb, gathered in the brilliant sunshine of St Peter's Square for the Mass. In addition to migrants and refugees, groups represented during the jubilee celebration included seafarers and airplane pilots. Gypsies and nomads, foreign students, tourists and travelling circus performers. The Pope's message was underscored after the Mass, when thousands of Asian and African illegal immigrants marched on the Vatican to ask the Pope's help in getting Italian residency permits. Vatican officials received representatives of the protesters - on day eight of a nationally organised hunger strike - to hear their concerns. One protester said he was confident the Pope could help because "he knows it is not right that some people eat steaks and others eat bread crusts." Nadim, a 22-year-old Bangladeshi, said the Pope "always says: one earth, one people, one family. All are brothers together." In his homily, the Pope lamented endur-

possible negative manifestations," he said. The charity of hospitality occupies a central place in the Church, the Pope said, because Christians see all people as their brothers and sisters. Quoting Pope Paul VI, he said that "for the Catholic Church no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is distant." "Jesus affirmed that one only enters the kingdom of God by practising the commandment of love. One enters, therefore, not in virtue of racial, cultural or even religious privileges, but for having fulfilled the Father's will," he said. "Believers, sustained by the living presence of Christ resurrected, offer (others) the Word which re-ignites hope in their hearts. They break with them the bread of friendship, fraternity, mutual assistance. 'This is the way the civilisation of love is built," he said. The liturgy included prayers that the Church "under the wise guidance" of the Pope "becomes ever more aware of the universality of its mission," which must embrace every people, race, culture and Pope John Paul 11 waves to pilgrims gathered ethnicity. for the jubilee Mass for migrants in St Peter's In an address before the Mass, Japanese Square on 2 June. Photo: CNS/Routess Archbishop Stephen Fumio Hamao, presiing discriminatory attitudes toward dent of the Pontifical Council for Migrants refugees and migrants, attitudes he said and Travellers, called the 80-year-old poncome from "unjustified fears and attention tiff the "father of humanity," who suffers to one's own interests." because of worldwide violence and "Certainly, in a society like ours, complex assaults on human dignity. and marked with multiple tensions, the Throughout the liturgy, the Pope's voice culture of welcoming asks to be linked to sounded weak and slurred, and his face laws and prudent and far-sighted norms was flushed in the summer heat. which permit the positive (aspects) of But some Mass participants said they human mobility to be valued, preventing nonetheless detected in him an inner force.

Media must 'work for good of all' By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II thanked journalists who, for almost 22 years, have kept the world informed about what he says and what he does. Waving his cane to acknowledge journalists' applause while showing them he is not quite as frail as they sometimes report him to be, the 80-year-old Pope concluded the June 1-4 Jubilee for Journalists. Pope John Paul said he owed "a personal debt of gratitude to the numerous professionals who, throughout the years of my pontificate, have worked to make known the words and facts of my ministry."

"For this commitment, for the objectivity and courtesy which have characterised the majority of this service,I am deeply grateful," he said. The Pope told an estimated 7,000 journalists and family members that with their "vast and direct influence on public opinion" comes an equally weighty responsibility to report the truth and to turn people's attention to the needs of the weak and poor. Journalism, he said, cannot be guided only by profit, popularity or politics. The means of communication must be used "for the good of all and particularly for the good of the weakest sectors of society: from children to the poor, from the sick to people who are on the margins and discriminated against," the Pope said. "It is possible to be authentic Christians and excellent journalists at the same time," he said. Celebrating the jubilee Mass on 4 June, French Cardinal Roger

Cardinal Roger Etchegaray

Etchegaray said that to fulfill their responsibility as voices for their fellow citizens, journalists have a right and obligation to make ethical demands on media owners. Journalists must fight against the tendency to make news judgments based on the results of owners' politics or of opinion polls, said the cardinal, president of the Vatican's jubilee committee. They also must resist "the tendency toward conformity" which results when one newspaper or program plagiarises another and they all end up using the same source and providing the same point of view, he said. Cardinal Etchegaray asked the journalists to "struggle against the dictatorship of urgency, of instant news, which is by no means a guarantee of truth."

With their questions and their potential impact on public opinion, he said, journalists can break "the circles of collective shortsightedness" and draw the world's attention to the needs of the poor and the victims of war. The cardinal also paid "homage to those journalists who with courage have obtained great victories against fear, injustice, violence, hunger (and) illiteracy." Like the Pope, Cardinal Etchegaray had special thanks for the journalists who cover the Vatican; "thanks to them, the jubilee is truly a religious event which counts for all humanity." Australian Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and representatives of the World Council of Churches led an ecumenical prayer service on 3 June for the journalists. In his homily, the cardinal said journalists "are frequently called upon to report divisions and violence between members of a family, of opposing groups, of nations." In reporting those kinds of events, Cardinal Cassidy said, journalists have a role in making reconciliation possible by providing information that can help people overcome prejudice and ignorance. Journalism is a "powerful instrument for good or evil, for bringing opposed peoples together or confirming them in their divisions," he said. The journalists' jubilee also included a 2 June evening press conference broadcast live to Washington, Mexico City, Manila and Johannesburg but technical difficulties prevented most participants outside the Vatican from asking questions.

'The strength of the Pope was what marvelled me the most," said Zeribe Udeke, a 35-year-old Nigerian freelance journalist. "I'm surprised that he's still very strong." Nelia Malaca, a Filipino domestic helper from Ancona, Italy, said she thought the Mass celebrated the "true courage of immigrants to come here to work." "It's difficult, you know, to go work somewhere else - you need courage to leave your family and confront this situation," said Malaca, who has lived in Italy for 18 years. "But you make this sacrifice for love of the

family." Until the Mass was over, Italian police, using batons and tear gas, blocked the protest march of illegal immigrants from reaching St Peter's Square. The immigrants - from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and African countries - were protesting a two-year delay in the processing of residency permits, which effectively prevents them from legally obtaining work. Protest organiser DV Singh told Catholic News Service that two demonstrators had been hospitalised with head injuries from police batons. "They tried to block us, and this is our jubilee!" he said. After a tense stand-off at the square's outer perimeter with a wall of police officers two deep, six protesters were admitted to meet with two Vatican officials at the Secretariat of State. 'They promised to help resolve the problem," said Sher Khan, a Pakistani and one of the six representatives. 'They can tell the government to give us (residence) papers."

Christian journalists urged to reflect faith By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - If journalists' main task is to discover and report the truth, the work of Christian journalists must reflect their belief in the ultimate truth which is the Gospel, said speakers at the Jubilee for Journalists. US Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, welcomed some Z500 journalists and their family members to the Vatican on 1 June, encouraging them to use the jubilee as a time to pray for one another. He also asked prayers "for journalists around the world, especially those who in search of the truth find themselves in situations where their lives are In danger." Theresa Ee-Chooi, president of the International Catholic Union of the Press, told the journalists they must be attentive to the moral implications of the choices they make in what to report and how to write their stories. There may be times when communicating the whole truth "may do a lot more harm than good," she said at the opening session of the jubilee. "The demands of charity and justice may call for silence" to protect minors or an individual's privacy; Ee-Chooi said. While the freedom of the press to report the truth is a value to he promoted, she said, journalists must recognise that "the truth can be used to ruin people's lives," especially if facts are reported selectively, as the

tabloid press often does. "Freedom of the press does not mean that anything goes. It does not sanction moral anarchy," she said. Like all Christians, Catholic journalists must struggle against the temptation to separate their faith from the rest of their lives, Ee-Chooi said. If Christian journalists share their faith's commitment to promoting God's kingdom, then their work should reflect their commitment to promoting justice. love and peace, she said. Christian journalists, she said, must be "the voice of the voiceless, the voice of people deprived of their rights, their property, their education and the right to express their opinions and their religion." Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, told the journalists they are not only the eyes and ears of society, "but also the brains" to put news events in perspective and explain their significance. "For the Catholic journalist, for a true information professional committed to witnessing the faith, the starting point - the only starting point - is Christ," he said. Christ teaches people what it means to be human and what is necessary for the realisation of his kingdom, he said. But Christ also was an exemplary communicator, Cardinal Castrillon said. He not only knew how to communicate with the masses, he also knew how to synthesise important truths in language and parables everyone could understand.

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Asian Catholic News

Bombers target Christian Churches MEDAN, Indonesia (CNS) - A Catholic Church leader in North Sumatra, western Indonesia, strongly condemned bomb attacks on churches and asked Catholics to stay calm and keep alert Capuchin Father Paulinus Simbolon, vicar general of Medan Archdiocese, said the local Catholic Church "strongly condemned all terrors, including the recent bomb terror and threats" that disturb religious practice, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. A homemade bomb blast rocked the Indonesian Protestant Christian Church on 28 May at the start of the Sunday liturgical service around 8:30 am. Forty-seven churchgoers were injured. Later the same day, a second bomb was discovered at Batak Protestant Church and shortly afterward, a third bomb was found at Christ the King Catholic Church. The second bomb was detected by a church warden and was detonated by members of the police bomb squad. Capuchin Father Adelbertus Snijders, parish priest of Christ the King Church, told UCA News on 29 May that an altar boy found the bomb inside the church at around 11 am. Having no knowledge of what the device really was, the altar boy placed the bomb in his bag and gave it to the priest, Father Snijders said. The priest said that

Laotian persecution 'is genocide' By Patrick Slattery EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin. (CNS)

- The head of an Eau Claire group concerned about human rights in Laos says warfare against the Hmong people by the communist government in that country is ongoing and is nothing less than genocide. yang Pobzeb, director of the Lao Human Rights Council, said over the past 25 years, persecution of the Hmong has claimed an estimated 300,000 lives, and that an estimated 25,000 Hmong and other Lao people are being held as political prisoners. He told the Times Review, yang Pobzeb meets with Hmong refugees at the Napho camp in Thailand In Photo CNS/F?euters diocesan newspaper of La Crosse, June 1999. he thinks the United Nations and said, because over a third of this said that there is -societal disthe United States could do some- nation's 300,000 Hmong now crimination" against the Hmong thing about the situation but reside in Wisconsin or Minneso- in Laos but that in its view such after learning about the bomb claims they are ignoring it discrimination is not "part of an ta. explosion that day in a Protestant Pobzeb, who is himself Hmong According to Pobzeb, the Laot- orchestrated government policy." church, he gave the suspected bag and has a doctorate in internaBut Pobzeb told the Times ian government has conducted an to the local police. tional law from the University of aggressive, ethnic cleansing war Review he has obtained about The third bomb went off acci- Denver, bases himself in Eau against the Hmong since the early 4,000 sworn affidavits of US dentally as it was about to be det- Claire because it is the communi- 1990s. Hmong testifying to the killing of onated at the local police ty where his family was resettled He said Hmong Catholics or family members in Laos since headquarters, injuring police after being in a refugee camp in other Christians are especially 1975. Pobzeb urged Americans to sergeant J Frits, the Jakarta Post Thailand. targeted by the government for call for a stop to the atrocities and reported. Western Wisconsin is also a persecution. to protest against human rights Father Simbolon said that while good location for his work, he The US State Department has abuses in Laos. Medan Archdiocese has not officially commented on the bomb Incidents, it has asked Catholics to keep calm. The secretary of the North Sumatra chapter of Protestant Churches in Indonesia, AR Pardede, and the chairman of the local WASHINGTON (CNS) - regretted that the House did not council of Islamic scholars, Mahmud Aziz Siregar, asked people Catholic and Jewish leaders criti- tie its vote to a requirement that not to blow the incidents out of cised the US House of Represen- China show substantial improvetatives' 237-197 vote on 24 May ment on religious freedom. proportion. BANGKOK (UCAN) - With 'That's especially needed given A meeting between local Chris- that would grant permanent northe opening of a kindergarten the serious deterioration in relitian and Muslim leaders and gov- mal trade relations with China. and a primary school, the "The only loyalty in politics now gious freedom in China over the Catholic Mission in Mongolia ernment, police and military is expanding its services in the officials on 28 May discussed is to the wealthy and powerful past year," Rabbi Saperstein said country, although the Catholic ways to prevent further violence. special interests, not party people In a 25 May statement. He added that passage of an community there is small. Meanwhile, in a meeting on the or values," said Raymond Flynn, amendment to the China trade Father Wenceslao Padilla, same day, Buddhist, Christian, the former US ambassador to the bill creating a commission to superior of the Catholic MisHindu and Islamic leaders issued Vatican who is now head of the study China's human rights persion in Mongolia, told the first a joint statement calling on Catholic Alliance. formance and report annually is Caritas Asia Region meeting Medan residents -not to be pro"These politicians will now get a step in the right direction. held over 12-13 May in voked by any attempt to disrupt their big campaign contributions, Rabbi Saperstein said the UnitBangkok that following the unity." favourable political columns and ed States should press China to opening of the kindergarten, The leaders also urged the gov- editorials in the newspapers," release all religious prisoners, another school was inauguraternment to take expedient and Flynn said in a 24 May statement, give access to Chinese religious ed last July. appropriate action to track down "but we know what they really leaders, including those imprisThe Congregation of the and arrest the bombers. stand for - nothing!" oned or detained, open a highImmaculate Heart of Mary Medan, capital of North SumaRabbi David Saperstein, chair- level dialogue on religious priest explained that this is tra province, has some 2.5 million man of the US Commission on freedom, and ratify the Internapart of the expansion of mispeople with a large Christian pop- International Religious Freedom, tional Convention on Civil and sioners' service to needy Monulation. a private organisation, said he Political Rights. golian children. The Montessori Primary School run by the Sisters of St Paul de Chartres was inaugurated in July 1999 in Ulan KHONSA, India (UCAN) - Aim ysed after some outlaws shot him of unjust demands and interferBator, capital of Mongolia. and some 50 Wancho tribal for embracing Catholicism. ence by politicians. "The people It caters to some 50 very poor youths carried their lunch But Catholics "remain steadfast" who work overtime to plan children. wrapped in banana leaves and despite such incidents, Gangsa attacks on Christians are the same This effort in the area of eduwho come here asking admiswalked four hours through jungle told UCA News. cation followed the opening of tracts in northeastern India to a Father Vattoth said a faction of sions for their children," Bishop a kindergarten in September Catholic priest for Baptism. the National Socialist Council of Karotemprel said, adding that 1998 in Zuun Mod, 45 kilomeSalesian Father Thomas Vattoth, Nagaland, which has many Bap- "such demands are only raised in tres south of the capital. who knew that the youth had tist members, asked him to leave missionary schools." The kindergarten, also run walked to save him from trouble, when he visited Longkhaw village On 11 May Rajkot diocese's St by the Sisters of St Paul de baptised them in his thatched hut upon the invitation of the villagers Mary's School was attacked by Chartres, feeds, clothes and in the jungle. Hindu extremists after it disto baptise them in 1998. teaches 50 poor children, A few days after his Baptism, The state government's Freedom missed some students who failed Father Padilla told UCA News some suspected Baptist activists of Religion Act of 1978 bars con- examinations. on 20 May. Meanwhile, police arrested the kidnapped Abo and beat him version of a person of the indigeThe two schools are regisuntil he lost consciousness. nous faith "either directly or principal of a Bombay archdiocetered under the Catholic san school for allegedly "aiding Abo, who is in his early 20s and otherwise." Church Mission as part of its can now neither walk nor move Although the law is still in force, and abetting" a student's suicide, socio-developmental projects, because of his injuries, told UCA the government opposition to but the archdiocese says Ills a with the local governments as News that he does not regret the Christian missioners has lessened case of harassment. collaborators. No religion is allowed to be decision to become a Catholic over the years "as we involved Fr Sebastian Correa, principal of taught in the schools, the Fildespite the price he had to pay for them in long court cases that went Padua High School in Mumbai's ipino priest noted. the new faith. in our favour," a Wancho tribal Mankhurd suburb, was arrested The Church also collaboAim is one of the victims of an explained. on 19 May and held for seven days rates with the government in inter-denominational rivalry in Elsewhere, Carmelite of Mary for allegedly "aiding and abetting" maintaining the only kinderArunachal Pradesh state, north- Immaculate Bishop Gregory the 28 April suicide of Chetan garten which accepts slow eastern India. Karotemprel of Rajkot, in Gujarat, Tambade, 15. A statement on 26 learning children. 'We try to Wancho tribals live in 54 vil- said political parties threaten May from the Archbishop's motivate the parents to come lages in the hilly dense forests Church-run schools in his dio- House said that the arrest of to know their children and beyond the Tisa river in the state's cese, especially during admis- Father Correa was "reportedly on how to deal with them. VolunTirap district. Instructions of police higher-ups" sions time and examinations. teers are recruited to help Ngantok Gangsa, secretary of The bishop admitted that run- despite having "no objective these children," he said. the Catholic Church in Tirap dis- ning schools has become 'a major nexus being established connecttrict's Wakka village, was paral- headache" in his diocese because ing the principal with the suicide."

US-China trade vote disappoints Catholics

Novena for Secret baptisms norm for villagers peace call COLOMBO (UCAN) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sri Lanka issued a statement on 31 May supporting government peace initiatives and urging people to pray for peace at a Pentecost novena in the war-torn country "We express our fullest support for, and solidarity with, all groups and persons of goodwill who are working for peace at this crucial juncture," the statement said. Signed by conference president Bishop Oswald Gornis of Anuradhapura, the statement appealed to "the large majority in favour of a negotiated settlement" to "express their solidarity with the peace effort so as to give it the necessary support and backing." Fighting between separatist Tamil rebels and the armed forces of the government escalated in northern Sri Lanka in March just as the two parties were to start peace negotiations with the help of the Norwegian government.

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Queen of Apostles, Riverton

Queen reigns over learning community

School's out? Not quite. Students race each other to see who gets to the netball game first

Timing is everything. Catarina Cabreva, left, Ebony Smith and Natalie Drew prepare for a tutorial with percussion tutor Lindsay Evans.

ueen of Apostles motto is ents are also a part of the daily life the transition into Year 1. Acadesimple but powerful: 'Love, of the school, and can be found in mically, students are exposed to Unity, Peace' and express- the classroom, assisting in such as many possibilities as can be es what the school stands for - a areas as language activities, art offered, through: language, mathcommunity of learning where and craft, physical education, the ematics, society and environment, helping and serving love creates library, canteen, and excursions. science, art and craft, music, use Because prayer is an important of the library, health and physical unity and peace. The school is also focused on part of school life the para-litur- education, technology and enterMary who, as Queen of the Apos- gies held each Tuesday morning prise, excursions and camps. In language, children are fully tles, was the centre of the early at 9.00am are a time when the whole school can come together Immersed in language in all its Church. She taught the Apostles how to in prayer, as are the school Mass- forms and the programs focus on love Jesus and this love gave them es every Wednesday morning each child, allowing for literacy the strength to love one another which see either the whole school development to be carefully monand all others, even their perse- or individual classes participate. itored and evaluated. The whole school community cntors, so that the non-Christians Maths lessons can involve either would see that what they pro- parents and parishioners - are written or mental activities and always invited and welcome. claimed was true. help children acquire mathematMeanwhile, working in partner- ical skills through practical activQueen of Apostles tries to maintain and constantly encourage ship with parents, Reconciliation ities. is celebrated in Year 3, Holy Comstrong links with parents. The aim of the Society and EnviThe forging of these links is munion in Year 4 and Confirma- ronment subject is to develop the based upon the recognition that tion in Year 7. concepts, knowledge and attiThe aim of Kindergarten is to tudes enabling students to live in the primary role of the Catholic school is to support parents as develop the child in a happy and their world as responsible Christheir children's first educators in safe environment, recognising tians. that play is an important tool for the faith. Units of work cover environParents are therefore involved learning. ment, resources, society and culPre-Primary students, mean- ture, change and decision-making as community members, electing and largely comprising the School while, use a developmental pro- and Aboriginal Studies are inteBoard, and composing the P&F gram which includes regular grated into many areas. Association that helps build the library, music and computer sesScience is a subject in itself but educational community and pro- sions. is also integrated across other curAn integration program eases riculum areas such as health, vides so many resources. But parsocial studies and religion. Part of the fun of science is that students can become the private detectives of the physical world around them, learning how and why it operates the way it does. The library is the heart of any school and at Queen of Apostles students learn not just to read but to research as well. Art and craft helps develop the creative potential in each child and is viewed not as optional but essential. Children not only learn but can express their thoughts and feelWhat else is it, but 'sand pit fun!' A mosaic of the Queen of Apostles. ings through drawing, painting,

Parents help out - tuckshop is always a focal point in students' daily life.

colouring, print-making, collage. paper craft, textiles, weaving and 3D activities. The music program incorporates both sacred and secular music with all of the school preparing music for liturgical celebrations at one time or another. All classes from Pre-Primary to Year 7 have a weekly classroom music lesson, which sees children learning to read, write, compose and improvise. Two choirs, several ensembles, a concert wind band and a guitar ensemble perform both at school and in the wider community. Physical education is just as important as mental education and each year children participate in a Faction swimming athletics carnival and numerous interschool carnival events. Queen of Apostles also participates in interschool swimming and cross-country running and there are plenty of out-of-hours sporting teams. Computers and their associated technology are crucial and the

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