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Flynn and the InterCongregational Aged Care Group for about four years. Ten Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions will settle into the home in November, along with 12 Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, three Presentation Sisters, I S Massa five Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition, one Pallottine Father and two Christian Brothers. "It is a huge thing for them to have to move; it is costing them emotionally," Sr Cabassi said. "They are part of our community; we will miss them." But Sr Cabassi said it was too expensive for religious Orders to rebuild and run separate aged facilities. The Josephites have a 97-year-old Sister and Sisters in their 90s, 80s and 70s in their nursing home and hostel in South Perth. "Our aged members are called once again to be pioneers, to start something new, to be part of coming together with other congregations in a community of a variety of charisms, all giving their particular expression to the Gospel," she said. "They have to be fairly dependent, at a higher care level rather than lower care. "They will have the option to have their own doctors, if they will visit."

City urged: pray for more rural rain Archbishop Barry Hickey has urged all parishes and communities in the Archdiocese of Perth to pray this weekend for consistent, farmer-friendly rain as the winter's first rains fell. "Farmers of Western Australia have been telling me that the situation is getting desperate," Archbishop Hickey told The Record last Thesday before the rain came. 'The planting of crops has been seriously delayed because of the extended dry spell. Unless the weather breaks in the very near future, with extensive rains into the wheatbelt, the livelihood of many of our farmers will be affected." "Ihope that all our city parishes and com-

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Orders join to care for aged embers An inter-congregational nursing home for Religious Orders is currently under construction in Shelley by Southern Cross WA Aged Care. The home is part of the Margaret Hubery Village in Fifth Avenue and there will be 33 beds for Orders out of a total of 60 beds. Margaret Hubery is a distinguished health professional, former head of nursing at Royal Perth Hospital and a former student of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, Highgate. Southern Cross WA Aged Care executive director Stuart Flynn told The Record the project was on track and should be completed by the end of October. He said they would be closing their facility at Two Pines. Spokesperson for the Orders, Josephite Sister Alma Cabassi, said it was a historic occasion to have Orders combine with a lay organisation. "Southern Cross WA Aged Care gave us the opportunity to join with them," she said. "There was a whole lot of work to come to agreement; even the congregations coming together in a mutually beneficial way was breaking new ground. Everyone was so willing to work together." Sr Cabassi has been organising meetings of the different congregations with Mr

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By Peter Rosengren When Archbishop Barry Hickey faced an Internet camera last Wednesday to launch the LifeLink Day Campaign in Catholic schools, students' questions came from all directions and on every subject under the sun. Kids in schools throughout the archdiocese used a live Internet link to ask everything about the Archbishop's life and his opinions. For an hour or so they plastered him with questions: Does he have any pets? Does he pray? How does he decide which archdiocesan charities receive funding? Would he urge Prime Minister John Catherine Kingsley, Laura Ferraro and Zoe Howard to say 'sorry' to Aborigines for Baldwin from Our Lady of Grace School in past injustices? Does he enjoy being an North Beach ask Archbishop Hickey questions over the Internet Archbishop? But while students wanted to ask the as their own responsibilities as Catholics questions, perhaps it was the Archbishop to help those less fortunate than themwho was wondering how the whole exer- selves; and to provide practical support cise was going - after all, he could nei- by donating a small amount to the agenther see, nor hear, his questioners. cies: this year's target for arc.hdiocesan That was because while his audience schools is $50,000. watched and listened to him on their This year LifeLink will assist approxicomputer screens via the Internet in their mately 45,000 WA families and individuclassrooms, the archbishop was sitting als in some way at a cost exceeding $15 miles away in a boardroom 32 floors million. above Perth's central business district Donated funds will go to help homeless without any view of his interlocutors unemployed people, those seeking to and For Archbishop Hickey the Internet linkescape drug addiction or prostitution, up with students was a definite first and the physically and intellectually disAs questions were e-mailed in to the abled, victims of domestic violence and offices of WestNet, the Perth computer many others. consultancy which set up the link, the Brett Mendez, the consulting manager Archbishop was seen live, give a ten second break, answering the questions on for the LifeLink campaign, said that next year the Internet encounter between WestNet's website. All students had to do was log-on to the Archbishop and students would be organised so that the Archbishop will be site and send their questions in. By the end of the hour, several hundred able to see his audience and listen to 'hits', with each hit usually representing their questions as well. Apart from the LifeLink Day itself, many a class or a school, had been received on the site - including some from overseas. schools will also organise a range of extra The interactive session saw the Arch- activities throughout the June to Decembishop not only answer questions but ber appeal period to raise funds for archemphasise to students the importance of diocesan agencies. Mr Mendez said that one outstanding the Archdiocese's LifeLink campaign which raises funds for the Archdiocese's example was Corpus Christi College in welfare agencies each year. Bateman which raised approximately The day in schools also had two pur- $12,000 last year and split the proceeds poses: to educate students in the impor- equally between the Telethon appeal and tant work of the LifeLink agencies as well LifeLink.

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his Sunday, the Feast of the Blessed Trinity, Catholic churches around Australia will come together in prayer to remember the Great Jubilee. While most of the celebrations of Jubilee 2000 have been at the local parish level, on this occasion we will be able to sense our unity across Australia as we give thanks to God for the gift of His Son on the 20001h Anniversary of His birth. How has this Jubilee Year been going? I think, by and large, that it has gone very well. The secular media, not just the Church media, have taken a keen interest in events in Rome. The opening of the Holy Door in St Peter's Basilica by the Pope was beamed across the world. His act

of repentance for past failures also claimed world attention, as did his historic trip to the Middle East and to the Holy Land. The beatification of the children of Fatima in Portugal was the subject of numerous radio talk-back programmes throughout Australia, especially when the Third Secret of Fatima was revealed. At our local level I have been pleased with the response. Nearly all the churches I have visited have a Holy Door, unique and artistic. Parish pilgrimages are constantly being held - to the Cathedral, to the Schoenstatt Shrine and to New Norcia. Even the priests made their own pilgrimage to New Norcia recently. Bishop Healy and I were both

able to go. Quite a number of people have made pilgrimages overseas - to Rome, to famous shrines around the world, to the Holy Land, and to the other Holy Land of Western Turkey where early Christianity took a firm hold, the place where numerous Councils of the Church examined and clarified the basic tenets of our Faith, especially about the person of Jesus and the Blessed Trinity. At an ecumenical level much has happened. On the Feast of Pentecost last week, for instance, St Mary's Cathedral and St George's Anglican Cathedral exchanged pulpits and choirs for Evensong at St George's and Benediction at St Mary's. On the same day representatives of all the major Christian reli-

gions, accompanied by a young person, went on pilgrimage to Ultuu to pray for unity and peace between all Australians. The event was called 'Pilgrimage to the Heart". In this archdiocese we look forward to celebrating the Feast of Christ the King in Subiaco Oval on Sunday 26 November. Many will remember the processions that took place at Aquinas College for many years on the Feast of Christ the King. This year we hope that the whole Catholic community will come together at Subiaco Oval to praise Jesus our Lord and King, to thank Almighty God for the gift of His Son, and for twenty centuries of Christianity, and to strengthen one another's faith as we move in to the New Millennium.

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By Dan McAloon of the Catholic Weekly SYDNEY, (CNS) - Catholic runners were among those carrying the Olympic torch through Australia to Sydney for the 2000 Olympic Games. On day three of the relay on 10 June, the torch was carried through the Queensland outback town of Longreach by Presentation Sister Anne Maree Jensen, 46, known affectionately as "the flying nun." As a pilot, Sister Jensen has clocked more than 3,300 flying hours over the past decade. Her pastoral work involves visiting the isolated families who are scattered on properties around southwestern Queensland, an area covering 290,000 square kilometres. Sister Jensen dedicated her leg of the relay to the memory of her fellow Presentation Sisters, who, 100 years ago, had arrived in Longreach to establish Our Lady's College. "The five sisters arrived on 1 February, 1900, dressed in the long black serge habits of the times," on a day when the temperature reached 113 degrees Fahrenheit, said Sister Jensen. "The whole town came out to greet them." An estimated crowd of 4,000 gathered to see Sister Jensen's run, some travelling up to 800 kms to be part of the celebrations. When the torch reaches Canberra, the nation's capital, one of the runners will be Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Power of Canberra. A runner since his days in the seminary, Bishop Power normally runs three

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tennis player and cyclist. Last December he and Canberra Archbishop Francis Carroll were involved a car crash that left the two men hospitalised for two weeks. Bishop Power's injuries included a head wound, fractured ribs and fibula, and a broken shoulder blade. "The accident slowed me down, but I'm well on the mend now," said Bishop Power, 58. He said it was a great honour to be part of the relay "where participation takes precedence over winning. It's for everyone who's a trier, it's not just for champions." Another runner from Canberra is Father Ken Barker, moderator of the Australian order Missionaries of God's Love. Father Barker describes himself as a cross-country jogger. He said he sees the torch as a symbol of Christ's light. "I see the flame as a statement of faith, a symbol of the Easter light, the light of Christ, which can be taken to the nation and given to the people who do not know Him," the priest said. As the relay reaches Sydney in its final stages in September, Kerry Bray, a parishioner from the outer suburb of Menai, will carry the

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Choristers from St George's and St Mary's sing together in St Mary's Cathedral Earlier, the two choirs prayed outside St George's Cathedral before singing under the baton of Fr Timothy Deeter and before the Blessed Sacrament. Evensong for a congregation of Catholics and Anglicans.

grateful that it was through their efforts the service had come about. The Monsignor said Christian unity should not be left "only to theological commissions or professional ecumenists." "It is the task of each one of us made brothers and sisters through our common baptism," he said. He pointed out that Pope John Paul II had called for the divided Christian churches to engage in viable forms of spiritual communion such as joint prayer and fasting. However, he said, "most of all we must build friendships with one another, we who call ourselves Christian." "Our choirs are teaching us the lesson of harmony: not only musical harmony but also the fraternal

Or Shepherd: Receiving Communion Choirs, incense bearers and congreshould be a first step for Catholics and gation process through Perth streets Anglicans, not a goal. to St Mary's Cathedral.

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Reconciliation WA chairman Robert Isaacs, right, presents Ursula Frayne College's head boy and girl Chris Mattock and Ania Stasinska with a copy of the People's Document for Reconciliation last week. The celebration of the Jubilee theme of reconciliation began with the singing of Holy Spirit Land and a procession of Australian icons which were placed on stage next to a display representing aspects of Aboriginal and Catholic cultures. Mr Isaacs, speaking as a representative of the Nyoongar people, recalled his involvement in the recent Corroboree 2000 ceremony held in Sydney, saying the event was a major step forward in the reconciliation process. "Reconciliation is a rich and complex process and while it can never be reduced to a piece of paper," he said, "we take this document as a challenge for us all to commit ourselves to reel reconciliation." Reconciliation at Uluru - Page 8

ROME (CNS) - Mehmet Ali Agca, the Mirk who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, will be released from an Italian prison and extradited to Turkey to serve time for the 1979 killing of a journalist, Italian authorities said. Italian President Carlo Ciampi signed a clemency order for Agca last Tuesday, 13 June, and Italian justice ministry officials signed the decree for his extradition to llirkey. "For me, this is truly a dream. I can't believe it. I say thank you to the Holy Father, thank you to the Vatican, thank you to the president of the republic," Agca, 42, said through his lawyer. The Vatican said the Pope Was particularly

Dean of St George's, told worshippers in St Mary's that joint communion should be the first step, "not the distant goal," of ecu-

menical endeavour between the two Churches. "The most important liturgical act of the Christian Church - the receiving of communion - must begin to be a symbol of inclusion, and cease to be a symbol of exclusion," he said. "It would be good to think that our united worship this evening is the first in a series of AnglicanCatholic initiatives, building upon the important and gracious visit of Archbishop Hickey to St George's Cathedral some three years ago." Such a freedom to come and go within an enlarged community did not mean either communion would lose its individual character or personal identity, "as we've shown clearly tonight" Dr Shepherd said. "What must go, however, are any thoughts we might harbour of superior self-sufficiency." Choir reunion - Page 7

ii his latest book Fr Paul Glynn - the author of the best seller 'A Song for Nagasaki' intimately explores God's healing

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New era looms as Fr O'Malley looks back By Glynnis Grainger Fr Charles O'Malley has been forced to retire from his duties as parish priest of Sacred Heart Church, Thornlie, due to a recent stroke, from which he is recovering. A farewell celebration will be held for him at the school in Ovens Road, Thornlie, at noon on Sunday, 18 June, and cash donations instead of presents will be welcome for his retirement fund. Fr Patrick Lim is the new parish priest. Fr O'Malley, 74, told The Record at his new home at the Little Sisters of the Poor Hostel, Glendalough, he has been a priest for 39 years. He was born in Louisburgh, County Mayo, Ireland, in the shadow of St Patrick's Holy Mountain, and ordained in 1961 in Genoa, Italy, where he trained for the priesthood and in Germany, where his love for languages increased. "Languages were extremely valuable in my priesthood," Fr O'Malley said. His first parish was Applecross in 1962, where he was assistant priest for five-anda-half years under "the great priest-violinist," Fr Albert Lynch. "I enjoyed my times with him enormously and we became fast friends, good mates and did much together to build up the parish of Applecross. We played the violin periodically togeth-

er especially with the accompaniment of the Music Minus One records. "He was a thorough gentleman andI found him most helpful and his advice most encouraging in a fine, growing parish. "His time, in the latter half of those years was taken up with the Australian Liturgy Commission and its demands on him." Fr Lynch was a composer, producer and "consummate musician." From there, Fr O'Malley became managing editor of The Record for three-and-ahalf years, from 1969-72. "Challenging though the position was, I found the enormous difficulties of editorial work were demanding and exhausting," he said. "I had a staff of only one, and with the business Record Print to run competently and profitably, it was impossible." He was transferred to Kellerberrin as parish priest and "loved it." Later, he would be asked to double the size of his parish to take in Wyalkatchem, Trayning and Kununoppin. He was there for eight-and-a-hall years, in "very happy, very busy times." During the visit of Pope Paul VI to Sydney, he met artist Frank Pash who had just produced a book of pictures and poems. "Later, in Kellerberrin, he would contact me to compile con-jointly a similar book to celebrate the bicentenary of Australia in 1976," Fr O'Malley said.

"Frank said he was afraid the bicentenary would pass without some religious commemorative work and we laid plans for 'Come Follow Me' with Frank's artwork and my editorial." In 1979, for the sesquicentenary of WA, he researched the history of the whole of the locality and featured his findings in the ecumenical celebrations he held for the event In 1980, Archbishop Goody asked Fr O'Malley to take over the parish of Kenwick/Thornlie, where he remained for 20 years. "I will never forget seeing 200 children fit into a half-acre playground - and survive," he said. Kenwick/Thornlie parish expanded rapidly and is developing out to Forest Lakes, Huntingdale and beyond. In March, 1992, Sacred Heart Church, Ovens Road, was built and "bears witness to the dynamic faith of the builders of the parish, planners, helpers and parish councils." The whole complex: the school can accommodate 600 children; and church can seat 600 and the foyer and adjoining hall take the overflow, Fr O'Malley said. "'My house is a house of prayer,' the parish motto, inspired the parishioners to give of their best and may God reward them," he said. "A new era just beginning will give new life, hope and added blessing to all the families of Kenwick/Thornlie."

Nearing four decades of priesthood: the wellknown and widely respected Fr Charles O'Malley, who has just retired after 20 years building up the Kenwick/Thornlie parish.

Pioneering priest taught students to aim for top By Glynnis Grainger Being successful in education for Aborigines was the highlight of Father John Luemmen's 50-year career in the priesthood. Pastor Emeritus of Queen of Apostles Parish, Riverton, Fr Luemmen will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on Sunday, 25 June, with Mass at 9am. This celebratory Mass will be followed by a reception in the new parish hall named after him. Over the past 49 years as a migrant priest in Western Australia, Fr Luemmen dedicated his life to the care and education of Aboriginal children at the PaHotline Mission Centre he built in Rossmoyne. He spent roughly 25 years at the mission and 25 years at the parish. Born in Germany in 1919, he was ordained in Limburg, Germany, 50 years ago next month, where he will return to celebrate with the five remaining priests out of the 10 ordained at that time. -11,vo have passed away, one has left us, one has left the PaHotlines but is still a priest, and one is too sick in Melbourne," Fr Luemmen told The Record. Though he had a heart attack five years ago, his doctor declared him fit and he is flying out to

Europe on the Wednesday after his party. From 1951-55, he arrived in WA a newly-ordained priest with little English and was sent to Tardun, where he was in charge of about 30 boys and spiritual director of five PaHotline priests. He gave the Aboriginal boys a good primary school education, with "some very promising boys among them." "I had the idea we must have something for them to carry on their education." Fr Luemmen said. "When we settled in Perth, provision was made for three rooms at Rossmoyne for Aboriginal boys to be apprenticed in Perth."' At first Fr Luemmen couldn't Father John Luemmen - led the way in education for Aborigines. find them apprenticeships apprentices it was a success over the country. "She representbecause of racial prejudice and from 1956-57 - and in 1961 there ed us at Bishop 1obst's consecrabecause they didn't have high were girls as well. tion in Sydney and felt at home school education. "As a migrant, I had no clue with Aborigines," Fr Luemmen Harold Little was the first to go about regulations in Australia," he said. to secondary school at the age of said. "I told the students, 'if you are 14, "the right age." Harold Little went on to become not educated, you have no "He was a success, settled down a Perth Football Club league play- chance.' well, became popular and liked er of distinction. Each parent had to sign a form It," Fr Luemmen said. His sister, Edith, became the to say that they wanted to send After first going to a State school housekeeper at Rossmoyne, who their child to Fr Luemmen. for a year, he went to Clontarf by was "very capable with common "The parents were fully behind bike from Rossmoyne, where he sense." It and I met all of them; they felt did woodwork, and metalwork She died the day after an oper- their children should have a bet"practical subjects that were per- ation aged 37 - "it was totally ter education than they had," he fect for them." unexpected." Her funeral was said. The first three students became attended by 400 people from all "I believe in equal education

with white people; we didn't take one child away from their parents. "All 16 staff were volunteers, 80 per cent were Aborigines, with the top people white. "It has gone from assimilation, to integration, to self-determination, now inculturation." The Pallottines will have been 100 years in Australia next year. "If you judge the past in the present time you are always wrong," Fr Luemmen said. His students have become lawyers, teachers, nurses, accountants, and good tradesmen, and include Peter Yu, co-ordinator of the Kimberley Land Council and singer and actor Jimmy Chi, playwright of "Bran Nue Dae" and "Corrugation Road." "I didn't have room enough to place those who wanted to come," he said. "In 1986 or 1987, it was handed over to the Aborigines to run but they couldn't dolt after two years," Fr Luemmen said. The Centre and the property have been sold and have become a retirement village after closing down about 1988. "Some money we got from the sale we put aside for a scholarship for Aborigines for University studies," he said. "I told them to aim high or aim higher and they exceeded that."

Lotteries' money to help 'Confusion on Confession's importance' Kimberley churches

The Lotteries Commission has granted $88,170 to the Bishop of Broome, Christopher Saunders, for urgent preservation work on two remote Churches of great historical significance. A total of $48,000 has been allocated to the unique brick and masonry church at Sacred Heart Parish, Beagle Bay, while the balance will go to Christ the King at Lombadina/Djarindjin, a superb example of Kimberley pioneer bush carpentry and ingenuity. Part of the grant money for Beagle Bay will be used to help eliminate the rising damp problems. The concrete plinth around the building will be removed and the concrete floor replaced, the floor will be re-tiled and broken pearl shell inlay inset into the new concrete floor. Glazing and joinery to the win-

dows and doors will also be repaired. At Christ the King, the funds will be used to replace the roof and some of the timber purlins, the paperbark insulation will be reinstated and the roofing structure will be upgraded to meet cyclonic conditions. Commenting on the grant, Bishop Saunders said, "These two buildings are the most significant examples of early Kimberley architecture available for the present generation to enjoy. "Without the grants, the future of Sacred Heart Church, Beagle Bay looked particularly grim. Bishop Saunders said he was grateful for the monies from the Lotteries Commission. "Their grant represents a generous investment in Kimberley heritage and recognises the value of key historical buildings. .. ."

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Priests' own confusion about the importance of Confession and their reluctance to spend time in the confessional are partly to blame for a general decline in use of the sacrament, several Vatican officials said. "A significant number of priests are confused about the need for Confession, and they don't preach about it often enough," said Jesuit Father Urban° Navarrete. The Jesuit, a consultant to the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, and other officials spoke during the 13 June presentation of a book containing 12 speeches on Confession by Pope john Paul II. The speeches were given to the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican court dealing with issues

related to Confession and led by US Cardinal William Baum. The cardinal said his office was publishing the book during the Holy Year because ills "a privileged time of reconciliation" for individuals with God and one another. The 12 speeches in the book. Father Navarrete said, are part of Pope John Paul's campaign to "safeguard and renew the practice of the sacrament of Confession." The speeches give priests precise guidelines and suggestions for celebrating the sacrament, focusing on the need to be welcoming and open as well as the obligation to seek the truth and to present fully the teaching of the Church. But the Pope also asks something of the faithful who go to confession, Father Navarrete

said: They must "accept with enlightened and trusting faith the necessity of the Church's mediation to obtain the remission of serious sins committed after baptism." Jesuit Father Ivan Fucek, the Apostolic Penitentiary's theologian, said ills not enough for people who have committed a serious sin to ask God's forgiveness. "We must ask God everyday, even several times a day, to forgive our sins," he said. "But Jesus instituted this sacrament, giving the power to forgive sins to the Apostles and through them to His Church. "Sins can only be forgiven through sacramental confession made with a minister of Christ's Church," Father Fucek said.

Chairs will roll in Cambodia By Glynnis Grainger The Christian Brothers and the Rotary Club of Scarborough are sponsoring a special three-person team travelling to Cambodia to set up a workshop to build wheelchairs for landmine victims and other disabled people. The group left on Monday to travel to the small Cambodian village of Sisophon, near the Thai border. During a three-week visit, the group of Perth people will provide the knowledge and skills to allow the people of the village to help themselves. The Rotary Club of Scarborough has provided the tools and funds all the materials for a children's

wheelchair fabrication workshop, where students have made speleased by the Christian Brothers, cial items and have provided toys for the team to take to Cambodia. in Wangara, WA. "With our wheelchairs now The workshop, under the leadership of Brother 011y Pickett, cur- being sent to Vietnam, Cambodia, rently produces 50 wheelchairs a Indonesia and China, we are promonth, manufactured by 28 viding a major tool that will allow retirees, who are part-time volun- disabled children to rebuild their lives and probably resume their teers from around Perth. "A basic wheelchair opens up a education," he said. "I will be working with Adelia whole and wonderful life for a child with a physical disadvan- Bernard, who is the representatage in a poor environment, such tive of the Catholic Organisation as landmine victims in Cambo- for Emergency Relief and Refugees (COERR) and Bob dia," Br 01ly said. "Rotary has now funded more Sheridan, a teacher from Perth." The wheelchair project will than $50,000 worth of materials to build wheelchairs - but the value operate from an existing COERR of the wheelchairs to the people workshop which is at present who receive them cannot be cal- training underprivileged Camboculated." Brother 01ly also runs a dian youth to master an engimetal fabrication workshop neering workshop trade.

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Highgate open day as Sisters leave NSW Eucharistic Congress By Glynnis Grainger After 103 years of living and working at their convent at 40 Mary Street, Highgate. the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions are moving out. Before they leave, the Sisters are inviting all their past students, friends and associates to join them for a nostalgic visit when they hold an Open Day on Sunday, 23 July. Everyone is invited to call in and wander through the threebuilding convent storey between 10am and 4pm on that day. The convent has long been a significant landmark in Highgate. The Sisters moved there in 1897 and immediately started their work in education with their first 38 pupils growing to 140 by the end of the first year. The Sisters ran two schools at the Highgate site: Sacred Heart

GST guide published for Church agencies A goods and services tax handbook explaining the theoretical implications of the GST specifically for the Voluntary Sector is now, available on the Australian Catholic BishConference ops at web-site http:/www.catholic.org .au or in print form from Diocesan Offices. The Gsr Start-up Assistance Office funded the development of the handbook A consultative Committee made up of ACBC representatives and the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes worked with members of the GST Start-up Office in developing the Handbook This group is now working on a handbook with more practical applications for the Church sector in implementing the GST and should be available within the next couple of weeks, a statement from the Australian Catholic Bishops ConferenCe. said last Week.-

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Primary School and Sacred Heart High School. The High School's curriculum included Latin, French, Shorthand, Typing, Pianoforte, Harp and Violin - more than 10 years before any government high schools were established.

In 1958 the Sisters purchased land at Sorrento in anticipation of the expansion of Perth along its northern corridor. They established a new secondary college there, which has developed into the very successful Sacred Heart College Sorrento, now a co-educational high school of 980 students. The high school at Highgate has been gradually phased out but the primary school is still going strong with a current enrolment of 240 students. It is likely the Sacred Heart Primary School will be able to use some of the convent buildings after the Sisters have left. In recent years the Sisters have changed their focus from education to work in the pastoral care of the aged, the handicapped, refugees and migrants. as well as adult education. For more information about the Open Day, call Sr Veronica Martin on 9443 9298 or Mrs Karen McLean on 9271 4378.

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Gratitude, not servility, is the way Peter Dwan continues with his meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass. This week the feast of The Holy Trinity

rinity Sunday invites us to consider our relationship with God. In the first reading (Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40) we hear how Moses tried to instil into the hearts of his bearers gratitude to God for His special relationship with them. Among other things, Moses said: "Did ever a people hear the voice of the living God speaking from the heart of the fire, as you heard it, and remain alive?" Moses went on to show that gratitude to God must be expressed by the way in which we live, saying: " Keep his laws and commandments as I give them to you today, so that you and your children may prosper and live long in the land that the Lord your God gives you for ever." If we do not love as God's grateful children, we shall be depriving ourselves of many blessings which God would have otherwise bestowed on us. The Jews disobeyed God and suffered exile from the Promised Land. If we don't obey God, we could face exclusion from the Promised Land of heaven. However our obedience should be prompted by filial gratitude rather than servile fear. Our relationship with God is spelt out In the second reading (Romans 8:14-17) in which St Paul says: "The spirit you

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Meditation received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out "Abba, Father"." If we have a loving childlike relationship with God, it will colour our whole spirituality. The Little Flower, St Therese of Lisieux, once wrote that no-one could frighten her by speaking of God's justice, because of what she knew of His mercy. St Paul comments: "The Spirit and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, we are heirs as well: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, sharing in His sufferings so as to share in His glory." We need to remember that just as Christ's sufferings were a necessary prelude to His resurrection, so the sufferings of this life are a necessary prelude to our enjoying eternal happiness. Hence the expression: "No cross, no crown". Keeping the commandments involves suffering, for doing so involves a constant battle against selfishness in all its forms. Of course, suffering must not be sought for itself. However suffering must be accepted when a refusal to suffer would constitute a refusal to love. The Gospel

(Matthew 28:16-20) is St Matthew's account of the missionary mandate. There are two points which particularly concern us on this Trinity Sunday. The Gospel gives the trinitarian formula to be used: "Baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Baptism incorporates us into the Life of the Trinity. After baptism, we are no longer just God's creatures, we are God's adopted children. God loves us so much that nothing less than making us His adopted children through baptism will satisfy His love. The second reading spoke of sharing in Christ's sufferings so as to share in His glory. We need to remember that the suffering which working for evangelisation entails, going without luxuries to enable missionaries to have much-needed finance, is expected of us, both as individuals and as parish communities. Sometimes we shall have to dig yell deep, and to go without what we would normally consider necessities. Yet Christ has assured us: "Know that I am with you always." God is our Father, and he provides for us. If we are generous to the missions, He won't be outdone in generosity. Once a man sent a donation to the missions instead of buying himself a new satchel. Shortly afterward, a kind lady gave him a satchel which had belonged to her late son.

To Jesus through Mary ... a column of Marian devotion By St Alphonsus de Liguori

t Bernard asks why the Church calls Mary "The Queen of Mercy"? And he replies, that "it is because we believe that She opens the abyss of the mercy of God to whosoever She wills, when She wills, and as She wills; so that there is no sinner, however great, who is lost if Mary protects him." But perhaps we may fear that Mary would not deign to interpose for some sinners, because they are so over-loaded with crimes? Or perhaps we ought to be over-awed at the majesty and holiness of this great Queen? "No," says St Gregory VII: "for the higher and more holy She is, the greater Her sweetness and compassion towards sinners who have recourse to Her with the desire to amend their lives." How great, then, should be our confidence in this Queen, knowing Her great The Save Souls Madonna and Child panel at power with God, and that She is so rich the Holy Door of Our Lady of Lourdes Church and full of mercy; that there is no one liv- In Rockingham. Artist: Mary-Lou Noid. ing on the earth who does not partake of u s than they would otherwise have been. Her compassion and favour. This was revealed by Our Blessed Lady No one, She adds, "unless the irrevocaHerself to St Bridget, saying: "I am the ble sentence has been pronounced," Queen of Heaven and the Mother of (that is, the one pronounced on the Mercy; I am the joy of the just, and the damned), "is so cast off by God that he door through which sinners are brought will not return to Him, and enjoy His to God. There is no sinner on earth so mercy, if he invokes My aid. "Iam called by all the Mother of Mercy, accursed as to be deprived of My mercy; and truly the mercy of My Son towards for all, if they receive nothing else men has made Me thus merciful towards through My intercession, receive the them:" and She concludes by saying, grace of being less tempted by the dev"and therefore miserable will he be, and miserable will he be to You are warmly invited to celebrate all eternity, who, in this life, having in his .power to invoke Me, THE GOLDEN JUBILEE Who am so compassionate to all, and so desirous to assist sinners, OF THE NOVENA1U is miserable enough not to invoke Me, and so is damned." OUR MOTHER OF Let us then, have recourse, and PERPETUAL HELP always have recourse, to this most sweet Queen, if we would 1950 - 2000 be certain of salvation; and if we Redemptorist Monastery are alarmed and disheartened at Saturday 24 June 2000 the sight of our sins, let us remember that it is in order to 10am-1.30pm Rosary save the greatest and most aban2pm THANICSGIVING MASS doned sinners, who recommend 3pm Refreshments themselves to Her, that Mary is 4pm A Tribute to Mary made the Queen of Mercy. 4.30pm JUBILEE NOVENA We read in the life of Sister Please bring a plate. Catherine of St Augustine, that in Tea/Coffee provided the place where she resided, Phone: 9328 6600 there was a woman, of the name of Mary, who in her youth was a The Record, June 15 2000. . Page 6

sinner, and in her old age continued so obstinate in wickedness, that she was driven out of the city, and reduced to live in a secluded cave; there she died, half consumed by disease, without the sacraments, and was consequently interred in a field like a beast. Sister Catherine, who always recommended the souls of those who departed from this world with great fervour to God, on hearing the unfortunate end of this poor, poor old woman, never thought of praying for her, and she looked upon her (as did every one else) as irrevocably lost. One day, four years afterwards, a suffering soul appeared to her, and exclaimed: "How unfortunate is my lot, Sister Catherine! Thou recommendest the souls of all those that die to God: on my soul thou hast not compassion." "And who art thou?" asked the servant of God. "I am," she replied, "that poor Mary who died in the cave." "And art thou saved?" said Catherine. "Yes," she answered," by the mercy of the Blessed Virgin Mary." "And how?" "When I saw myself at the point of death, loaded with sins, and abandoned by all, I had recourse to the Mother of God, saying: 'Lady, Thou art the refuge of abandoned creatures; behold me, at this moment, abandoned by all; Thou art my only hope; Thou alone cant help me. Have pity on me.' The Blessed Virgin obtained for me the grace to make an act of contrition. "Idied, and am saved; and besides this, She, My Queen, obtained for me another favour, that my purgatory should be shortened, by enduring, in intensity, that which otherwise would have lasted for many years. "I now want only a few Masses to be entirely delivered; I beg thee to have them said; and on my part, I promise always to pray for thee to God and to Mary." Sister Catherine immediately had the Masses said; and after a few days that soul again appeared to her, shining like the sun, and said: "Ithank thee, Catherine: behold,Igo to Paradise, to sing the mercies of my God, and to pray for thee." * Taken from - St Alphonsus' "The Glories of Mary", courtesy of the April 2000 edition Ave Maria magazine of the Garabimdal Centre in Midland

Reconciliation Sacrament heals contraception's hurt, separation

With Paul Gray

t's always a delight to receive a letter replying to one of my columns. Even when the letter disagrees with me. Such was my experience recently when a reader challenged my 11 May column on the touchy topic of confession and contraception. The reader voiced his concern that many Catholics have abandoned the practice of Confession - and sometimes their faith altogether - because of the Popes' insistence that contraception is wrong. To the author of this letter, thank you, my friend. You have accurately mapped out the psychology of many good people in today's Catholic communities - a psychology we should all do more to.understand. The author describes Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae, urging couples who fail to live the Church's anti-contraception teaching to avail themselves, time and again, of God's forgiveness through the Sacrament of Penance, as an "endless cycle" approach. "I have to say that in a long experience, the prayerful remedy offered by the Holy Father as quoted by you, doesn't work for a great many. "Some try to live that way for a while, fail and try again. "Others become disillusioned with the constant guilt and walk away from the practice of their faith. "And how many continue going to Mass but making their own rules which has to mean at least the abandonment of the practice of regular Reconciliation?" The author then asks how the Church can let this go on happening. Respectfully, may I suggest to my friend that there is another way of viewing the problem. Rather than focusing, pointlessly and endlessly, on the excessive guilt felt by some, why can't we instead all do more to accept and promote the great gift of forgiveness the Church offers through the Sacrament of Penance? Debilitating guilt over sexual matters within marriage is clearly not God's will for us. But that doesn't mean we should reject Christ's urging and challenging of us to seek perfection through Him. A crucial step in accepting this challenge, in my opinion, is facing up to our own weakness as human individuals and acknowledging that without God's supernatural assistance (grace) we cannot live as He would have us live. If anything, this process should be seen as a joyful one - for it 'helps us come closer to God. And if we approach it as a married couple, it also helps us come closer to each other. An impressive book I've just read - not on sex - by an American Protestant psychiatrist highlights the importance of not letting our relationship with God be dominated by guilt. Rebuilding Your Father Relationship focuses on personal prayer. Many people, says author James Schaller, mistakenly let their daily prayer drop whenever they feel guilty about some sin. This is a serious, even childish mistake. If we truly believed that God loves us despite our sins and is waiting to pick us up whenever we fall, then we would never turn our backs on Him in this way. In the years since Humanae Vitae was published, many Catholics may have done just this,I suspect - abandoned the joy that could, and should, have been theirs through the Sacrament of Penance. This tragic abandonment has coincided with a widespread quibbling with and arguing against the Church's authority to teach God's will for human sexuality. Have all these arguments made us happier? Have they strengthened our faith in God? I think they haven't, for most people. Despite all these troubles, the Sacrament of Penance - or the sacrament of conversion, as it's sometimes called - is still available to all who seek it. Surely that's good news.

Human genius more than science, technology T

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he search for ancient treasures continues to reveal marvels of art and architecture, and the revelations are likely to continue as search and recovery technology improves even further. The latest wonder is the discovery of the remains of the ancient cities of Herak- starting with Protestant scripture scholars leion and Menouthis in the seabed north in the 19th century and sputtering fitfully of the Nile delta in Egypt, preserved after in Catholic scholarship from the same an earthquake sent the cities below the time until flowering powerfully from the 1960s onward. waves. There is no doubt that scientific and techOne of the most spectacular pieces recovered is the headless statue in black nological knowledge has exploded since granite of the Egyptian goddess idol, Isis. the 16th century to the point that a man Dating back to sometime in the three has walked on the moon and humanity is centuries before Christ, the statue is a mapping its genetic structure. Yet this is nothing more, intellectually, splendour of artistic form and execution. Yet this statue was crafted 1,800 years than a more and more accurate descripbefore Michelangelo and 2,200 years tion, with the aid of more accurate tools, before the great French sculptor Auguste of the detail of the physical chains of cause and effect that make up the material Rodin. world. There were no lasers to guide the sculpThe human beings who performed the tor's hand or pneumatic drills to power architectural, navigation and irrigation his stroke. To mutilate the words of the 18- feats of the ancient world did so with the 19th century English poet, William Blake: most primitive of tools. What mortal eye didst frame thy stunning That makes them far more ingenious symmetry? and imaginative lot than allegedly modBut that mortal eye was not a 'modern' ern men and women who have access to or even Renaissance eye - it lived before knowledge and tools beyond the dreams the dawn of our Redemption in Jesus of the ancients. Christ, God and Man. The human genius and artistic sensibilYet the assumption to all secular schol- ity of the ancients is thus seen in those arship since the 16th century, at the least, areas of art and technology that cannot has been that human civilisation is pro- piggyback on the work of others - the gressing in understanding and virtue from ability to conceive a form and impress it darkness to light. on stone or metal, as the ancient sculptor This presumption has also slipped over and his artisans did with the statue of Isis. Into some prominent religious thinking, Intelligence and appreciation of beauty is

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not something that has progressed with time. This is because such talent is part of the nature of our immortal souls since Adam and Eve. Living in the 20th and 21st centuries does not make one more fundaintelligent than a mentally hunter-gatherer in Australia or elsewhere 10,000 years ago. In fact, the longer the human race lives, the more likely its pride in accumulating technical and physical, scientific accomplishment will cloud its mind as to the higher speculative and spiritual functions of the human soul. After all, we have to remind ourselves that the perfections of humanity, the New Adam, Jesus, and the new Eve, His Mother, walked the streets of Nazareth 2,000 years ago. And, rhetorically, what good can come out of Nazareth? The biggest error in rational thinking since the Renaissance and the Reformation has been to assume that, because the understanding of physical science and technology has progressed, that metaphysical and spiritual understanding of human nature must similarly progress. Even baptised souls, benefitting from our Redemption 2,000 years ago, are still suffering from the effects of the Original Sin that has affected all others in human history.

Only the detail of the stage on which the actors play has changed. Jut as ancient art shows, insights into what it is to be a human can reveal themselves in ancient times. Would knowledge of Star Wars technology have made any difference to the insight and art of William Shakespeare's depiction of mediaeval battle? Yet forests of trees have died to produce millions of books in the last century to spread the ideas of thinkers who ignorantly, and often innocently, believe that nothing of lasting significance in human art, experience and religion took place before the 15th century. All these people, many of whom see themselves as progressives in the Christian Churches, do is reveal their ignorance and weak intellects. They are in fact looking in a mirror when they look past the 15th century and take for intellectual darkness what is in fact their own increasing darkness. Statues such as that of the fantasy Isis reveal that greater eyes, minds and souls have gone before many modern artists and thinkers. Hopefully, they will drop the scales of progressivist assumptions about human nature from the eyes of their minds and take in the deeper insights of many who have gone before them. Insight into the human condition does not rely on science and technology. • The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

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Is the editor talking about a treaty? If so, he should give us very good evidence of its anti-democratic implications. Otherwise, it would be better to be silent. Iam left wondering why the editor of our Catholic newspaper is questioning the recwish to take issue with some of the onciliation process. views of history and current issues that Why does the editor see anti-democratic relate to Aboriginal people and the undertones to the reconciliation process indigenous peoples of Fiji and the Solomon (or for that matter, similarities with Fiji!) Islands that were presented in the editori- when Catholic Church leaders such as al of The Record, 8 June. Archbishop Carroll [of Canberra and GoalThe editor argues that "the choice in Fiji burn and President of the Australian Is between democracy and the alleged Catholic Bishops Conference] quoted on the front page can only embrace the absolute rights of indigenous peoples". He then compares this with Australia, process with open arms? The editor goes on to argue that as in Fiji, where we are told "the reconciliation process is disturbed by a similar choice Aboriginal people need to share" the goods between democratic processes that seek of the earth". the common good of all Aboriginal and An interesting idea in the Australian connon-Aboriginal citizens and measures that text, given they were invaded and have virimply self-determination and separate tually not received any native title rights so development for Aborigines". far in Australia. What disturbance? What choice? What Just ask an Aboriginal person from the are these measures? South West when they last got the chance Surely Aboriginal medical services rep- to share a bit of land. What an insensitive resent a good example of self-determina- thing that would be. tion and separate development for Aboriginal people have home ownership Aborigines. rates lower than any other group in AusAre they a threat to democracy? As a non- tralia at around twenty per cent and in the Aboriginal person employed as part of an South West of WA they find it is almost Aboriginal organisation, whose stated prin- impossible to get a kangaroo without ciples are Aboriginal community control breaking the law. and self-determination, I cannot work out In contrast, the wealthiest ten per cent of what the editor is talking about. Australians own 50 per cent of the wealth I cannot see how Aboriginal organisa- in Australia. tions are not helpful to the common good Needless to say the wealthiest ten per or are anti-democratic. cent are not Aboriginal people. Or does it

place on a metre-high plinth. The Church should be able to meet this cost. Rob O'Connor Perth

need to be said? Perhaps it does. In any case, the Catholic newspaper should not be giving Aboriginal people a lesson in how to share! Iam consistently left feeling embarrassed by the editorial line of The Record on Aboriginal issues. I know I am not alone. The editorials seem to contrast significantly with the public stances of Catholic leaders on these issues. In recent weeks the editor seems to have been at odds with Bishop Saunders (16 March), Archbishop Bathersby (6 April) and now Archbishop Carroll. How long must we endure this? Tim Leahy Maylands

Forgive, pray to forget

orld War Two ended in May 1945 and hundreds of thousands tried to escape to avoid reprisals from partisans in Yugoslavia who pushed us to the Austrian border. Then the border suddenly was closed. Some Croatian soldiers managed to cross the border and gave themselves up to English soldiers. But the English handed them over to Tito's partisans who then executed them. I was a witness to the killing of ten thousand on way from border back to Croatia. Most of Croatians been killed in Slovenia between Dravograd to Brezice. The sight and experience of refugees in recent years in Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya was really terrible But 1945 was worse. In a few weeks, a few hundred thousand Croats, innocent people civil or soldiers, were killed. I was 15 years old, a prisoner, and suffered hard labouring in concentration camp and reprisals as well, living in Bosnia under Cortununist rule, then came to Australia 1971 with three kids. I pray to forget, yet I forgive what happened 55 years ago. Anto Jelavic Beaconsfield

Uluru question

ow can it possibly be considered orthodox Christian practice for Australian clergy to be leading a pilgrimage to the pagan shrine of Uluru? Frank Curran South Perth

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hose responsible for the erection of the Celtic cross and plaque as a memorial' to the six Irish priests at the East Perth ceremonies are to be commended. However, it is disappointing that the cross is so small and that the plaque is at ground level making it very difficult for visitors to read. I suggest that the Cross and plaque be

Old and new boys meet at choir reunion By Peter Rosengren Some of the voices may have been a little rusty, but all the gusto was still there when men who have sung in St Mary's Cathedral Choir over the decades returned last Sunday to the Cathedral for only the second-ever reunion in its 62 years. However, former angelic choristers could be little demons too, as former choir director, Fr Patrick Ahern, told worshippers at last Sunday's 10am Mass. Fr Ahern, choir director from 1961 until the 1970s, recalled noticAll hands in the bickie barrel - Bob Crowe, left, a member of the St ing that one boy chorister had Mary's Cathedral Choir from 1940-46, Brian Anthony, 1938-44 and something in hand during a prac1964-70, and Victor Rtzgerald, 1941-44, go for the cheese and biscuits tice session. The something had with current members David Allen and Daniel Ohlers on Sunday.

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turned out to be a frog, which he had been forced to liberate, he said. When the choir visited Melbourne for the 1973 International Eucharistic Congress he had been so scared of losing boys on the return journey to the airport he told the men of the choir to each tie three boys to themselves with the cord of their choir robe, he said. They had not lost any boys but during the return trip one of the boys, sitting at the back of the plane, had tried to order a Bacardi and Coke, he said. Fr Ahern paid tribute also to those who had created the choir and sustained it, including its founder, Fr Albert Lynch. •-

When Archbishop Prendiville asked Fr Ahern to take over the direction of the choir he had been so overawed at having to fill Fr Lynch's shoes that he had prayed to the Holy Spirit for guidance and strength, Fr Ahern said. Mrs Annette Goerke, one of the best organists in Australia, had played a huge role in the choir for decades even when she was expecting children, Fr Ahern noted. After the Mass, which saw the current choir renew its commitment and new boy choristers formally inducted into the choir's ranks, a morning tea in Mercedes College saw old and young mix and swap anecdotes.

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Features

Perth pilgrims mount the heights of spiritual joy in Gallipoli, Ephesus and Greece

The Lone Pine and memorial at Gallipoli under which the Perth pilgrims celebrated Mass.

he purpose of our Jubilee Pilgrimage was to strengthen our faith by retracing the journeys of St Paul; it also unexpectedly became a discovery of the long history and present country of 'flukey. A thousand years before St Peter's Basilica was built in Rome, a massive domed church was erected in Constantinople, later re-named Istanbul. Now a museum, the basilica of Hagia Sophia (Divine Wisdom) is a remarkable reminder of the rich and long history of the Church. Hagia Sophia became a mosque in the 15th century and the walls were whitewashed, but restoration has revealed wondrous Christian mosaics of Jesus, Our Lady and others.

Ephesus The Perth pilgrims place the Australian flag between Anzac graves.

Sister Helen Giles prepared our group with a series of lectures on

St Paul and his world. Even she could not prepare us for the experience of Laodicea and the other Churches of the Revelation. (Rev 1,11), especially Ephesus. St John Cluysostom described St Paul as "five feet high, but with a reach beyond the stars." He is described as being "small of stature, balding, bow legs, large eyes, eyebrows meeting nose slightly hooked". Be that as it may, the description adds: "His appearance was full of grace; sometimes he looked more like an angel than a man". He may have been a physically unimpressive man but he was nonetheless singularly impressive. His presence dominates these Churches still in spirit, and reading his letters takes on new meaning once they have been visited. For Catholics, a visit to Ephesus is moving. Our group had Mass next to the home of the Virgin Mary high In the mountains above the amazing ruins of Ephesus. This is a strong Christian place of pilgrimage in a Muslim world of mosques and minarets. It is a place of pilgrimage for Muslims too, and on the walls of the chapel were excerpts from the Koran extolling Our Lady. The ruins of the Basilica of St John in Ephesus, with its walk-down baptistry, were a highlight, especially for the liturgically-minded members of our group.

Gallipoli

suppose one builds up ideas of places from TV and books, but it is hard to imagine the stark beauty of Gallipoli. We started our preparation the night before and re-told stories of 25 April, 1915. Our day, 11 May, 2000 dawned sunny and fresh. We travelled to Canalckate by bus and crossed the Dardanelles by ferry. A visit to the museum sets the scene with Lone

Pilgrims and tourists on a street of ancient Ephesus last month.

Monsignor Michael Keating, parish priest of St Thomas More, Bateman, led 22 Perth pilgrims on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of St Paul in the Middle East. The group also visited Gallipoli. Mgr Keating penned the following 'epistle' during his journey. Pine visible in the distance, relics helping the wounded of the other of the war on both sides are on side. exhibition - there was silence withThough one respects the numin the group as we read the letter bers of young Australian and New of a young Turkish soldier to his Zealand backpackers who arrive mother. at Gallipoli, I was personally disA visit to Anzac Cove and John appointed by the loutish behaviour Simpson's grave - of Simpson and and over-drinking of some. his donkey fame - evoked many We didn't see any sign at all in memories - in the distance a Mut- Turkey of such behaviour by the ish fish boat and a dolphin added locals. realism. Gallipoli is. of course, a very Simpson died only 24 days after place for Turkish pride important the first landing. and nationalism. Everywhere there is evidence of Though they won the battle, they the work done by the Commonlost the war. They did, however. wealth War Graves Commission. While one sees the trenches of emerge as a nation under the leadthe opposing forces in close prox- ership of the general who pushed imity, it gives them a human dimen- the Anzacs back, Kernel Ataturk. After celebrating our Mass sitting sion. Besides Simpson and his donkey, under the Lone Pine, we sang the stories abound of 'arks and Anzacs Australian anthem and one of our

pilgrims, himself a veteran, recited the remembrance Ode - we then went to place our Australian flags and the lovely wild red poppies growing nearby on a particular grave and silently prayed for these young men and our nation, Australia.

Athens

t our first Mass in Athens A we read from the Acts of the postles (1Z 16-34) where St Paul addressed the Athenians. We had seen the place where he had preached, the Areopagus, from the Acropolis, this most important ancient monument in the western world, crowned by the Parthenon. St Paul preaching to the Athenians of almost 2,000 years ago seemed real and very relevant

today to all of us. The influence of the Orthodox Church in modern Greece is paramount and one can enter into a discovery of the riches of the Orthodox tradition; few Catholics know much at all about the Eastern Catholic rites nor about the Orthodox Churches. We had the opportunity to attend parts of two Eucharists in the large churches of Thessaloniki (modernday Thessalonica) - these splendid churches of St Dimitrios and St Sofia are typical of the churches which dominate the countryside and witnessed the Baptism of a child with total immersion. The visitor to Meteora has the opportunity to explore eastern 'Nearer 0 God to Thee': the Orthodox Monastery at Meteora, Greece. monasteries. The name comes from the adjective meaning 'suspended in air' and the English word 'meteor' comes from the same root. From the 11th century, monks started seeking haven from the bloody wars around them and the inaccessibility of the rocks of Meteora made it an ideal retreat. The less safe the monks became the higher they climbed, and eventually over twenty monasteries were perched precariously on top of these huge rocks with enormous drops on all sides. Accessibility was only by removable rope ladders, or people and provisions were hauled up in nets. Provisions are still brought up in this way in some of the five or so monasteries and nunneries still occupied. Keating as the master's apprentice: working on an icon watched by monk Many of the church walls in the Mgr Meteroa Monastery. the at monasteries are covered in superb frescoes, which portray many We read with new insights his water of the fast-flowing stream. Images. basically of Heaven and words to his beloved Philippians, We celebrated also Mass at Berdea Hell and the various Orthodox Thessalonians and Corinthians as where St Paul preached and at saints. we passed through the ruins of Corinth. Frescoes and icons of Our Lady these places. At an icon factory we had a speexperience. dominate in all parts of Greece cial We visited the place of Lydia's the Dormition (Assumption) of Our The priest who is the artist wrote baptism in Philippi (Acts 16, 11-15), personally on the back of our icons Lady is a common theme. celebrated Mass next to the river of St Paul, Our Lady and Jesus; his To journey in the steps of St Paul renewed our own Baptismal was a patient labour of great love in Greece is to marvel at the length and splashed by the and inspiration. commitment, and hardship of his journeys.

Australia's Christian Church leaders pledge Reconciliation in continent's heart at Uluru Marcus Kuczynski, the editor of the Catholic Leader, weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, covered the National Council of Churches of Australia Pilgrimage to the Heart to Uluru in central Australia. Here is his report of the culmination of the pilgrimage at Uluru.

ustralia's Church leaders have pledged to further the cause of reconciliation with the nation's indigenous people, its races and cultures, and between the Churches, following a deeply moving service with members of an Aboriginal community in the shadow of Uluru (Ayers Rock) last Sunday, 11 June. The Pentecost service was the culmination of the nine Church leaders' week-long Pilgrimage to the Heart, visiting a string of rural and outback towns along the way. Eight of them were accompanied by a youth representative, and travelled aboard a chartered bus from Canberra, for the biggest ecumenical event of the Year of Great Jubilee. A group of about 60 Aboriginal people from the Mutitjulu commu- Pilgrim and Uniting Church minister, Rev nity at the base of Uluru, as well as Shayne Blackman of the Aboriginal and from other parts of the Northern Islander Commission, drapes a pilgrimTerritory, took part in last Sunday's age scarf around the neck of an Aborigelder at Wilcannia. open-air service with the Church inal leaders. policies for the removal of AborigiThe pilgrims acknowledged their nal children from their families. Fr Tony Doherty, of St Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Sydney, assists as an Aboriginal pastor reads part of the text of Churches' past failures to respect They pledged to 'work together for the reconciliation service in the MuUtjulu community at Aboriginal culture, as well as their reconciliation and for the healing of the base of Uluru. our ignorance and prejudice*. Photos Marcus Kuczynski/The Catholic Leader unwitting complicity in government The Record, June 15 2000 Page 8

The service was led by the Dean of Sydney's St Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Fr Tony Doherty, who was also the pilgrimage director. One of the pilgrims, Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference president, Archbishop Francis Carroll of Canberra and Goulburn, said the Uluru service and the Pilgrimage to the Heart were largely symbolic but they had become more than that. 'It is clear that the reconciliation movement has begun to touch the hearts of people in rural Australia. 'We were much encouraged by the impressive display of Christian unity and the high degree of cooperation between indigenous and non-indigenous people in concerts and worship services along the way. 'It goes well beyond those involved in city marches. We are greatly encouraged,' he said. 'The true heart of Australia cannot be healed until there is true reconciliation.' Another pilgrim, President of the Baptist Union of Australia, Rev Tim Costello, said the pilgrimage had been important because 'the process of national recognition can

only be taken further by paying attention to the spiritual dimension'. 'This has tended to be overlooked in the quest to develop very practical projects and strategies aimed at improving the health, housing and education of Aboriginal Australians. 'As important as these things are, they must be accompanied by a conversion of heart and mind so as to transform fundamental attitudes throughout Australian society. 'Given that 80 per cent of indigenous Australians profess the Christian faith,' Mr Costello said, 'it is also important to them to lay firm spiritual foundations for reconcilia- Indigenous children hold the Aboriginal flag at a Wilcannia performance. tion.' Anglican Primate, Archbishop er better, our differences become pass on their experiences to their Peter Carnley of Perth, said the pil- less significant and even appear congregations. "While specific initiatives and diagrimage had special significance for increasingly ephemeral.' Other Churches represented on logue on indigenous issues did not ecumenism. 'The very fact that heads of the pilgrimage were the Uniting really occur,I would hope that as a Churches and youth representa- Church of Australia, Churches of result of the pilgrimage these issues tives have been on the bus together Christ, Salvation Army, Congrega- would be picked up, in particular for a full week is itself uniquely tional Church and the Assyrian through the NCCA (National Council of Churches in Australia) enterChurch of the East. important. Uniting Church minister and ing into dialogue with indigenous "The pilgrims have not only prayed together, but have shared in some of chairman of the Aboriginal and groups.' Mr Blackman said one of these the pain of remote and isolated rural Islander Commission, Rev Shayne Blackman, who was also one of the issues was incorporation of Aborigcommunities. 'Affective ecumenism holds with- pilgrims, said he believed the jour- inal culture in worship. 'The Churches need to realise that in it the possibility of a more effec- ney gave the Churches a real focal point to work from on reconcilia- Aboriginal identity is part of the tive ecumenism. "As we come to know one anoth- tion. The Church leaders need to identity of Australia and is wrapped

EGYPT JORDAN ISRAEL PILGRIMAGE A 23 day Pilgrimage departing Perth on Saturday, September 2, 2000. Leader and chaplain Fr Brian O'Loughlin of Claremont and Egyptian specialists, Travel Image.

Catholic Archbishop Francis Carroll of Canberra and Goulburn, centre, and Catholic youth representative Justin Rote of Sandhurst diocese receive their pilgrim swags from Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Pat Power, before leaving Canberra.

up in local Church life.' The Pilgrimage to the Heart left from Canberra and visited Narrandera, Griffith, Cobar, Wilcannia and Broken Hill in NSW, Peterborough, Port Augusta and Coober Pedy in South Australia, before reaching Uluru.

Tour Cairo and the pyramids, sphinx and the Egyptian Museum. Fly to Aswan to board a three day Nile River cruise to Luxor. Cross the Red Sea, reminiscent of Moses and the chosen people leaving Egypt in the Exodus for the promised land, and visit Mt Sinai. Travel onto Jordan, visiting Mt Nebo from where Moses saw the promised land, and tour Petra, and then to Amman and the Jordanian Museum and 'Crash with its impressive Roman colonnade and John the Baptist's site on the River Jordan. Enter the Holy Land crossing the Allenby Bridge and onto Jericho and the Dead Sea. Tours of old and new Jerusalem Mass at the Christian sites. Visit Bethlehem Caesarea and Mt Cannel, the Sea of Galilee andNazareth. Return home direct or a bonus flight to a European destination. Some vacancies available on this remarkable Pilgrimage to the lands of the Bible. Further details from Fr Brian O'Loughlin, Claremont parish, Fax / Phone 9384 0598. The Record, June 15 2000 Page 9

Features The Record 100 years ago With Mary Busher, Perth Catholic Church Archives volunteer

Excerpts from the WA Catholic Record 16 June, 1900.

Priest gets a house Jarrandale Catholics have subscribed liberally towards the building of a presbytery for their esteemed pastor, the Rev. Father Laveth. The contract was signed on the 1st June and it is understood that when completed, it will cost 120 pounds.

Music for Boulder At Boulder the Rev. Father O'Donnell announced at Sunday Mass that it was the intention of the Church Committee to establish a Catholic Choral Society to develop a taste for sacred and secular choral music. The Committee also intended to hold quarterly concerts for which an annual subscription of one guinea would be charged. Each subscriber would receive three reserved admission tickets.

Rockingham Road The Rockingham Road Board has obtained a grant of 250 pounds from the Government to extend the main road towards Fremantle. A new road which it is understood will be cut through what is known as Richardson's paddock, will when completed, shorten the route from Rockingham to Fremantle by about 2 miles.

Mining the Cross At Southern Cross the Central mine is now working full time and great credit is due to the management for putting things in order in such a short space of time. A great impetus has been given to Southern Cross mining by this new venture and several mines which have been held with difficulty. will now be set going on account of the opportunity afforded them at the Central. of crushing and cyaniding at a reasonable cost.

Life as children of God of the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity. The source of our lives is, therefore, a Trinitarian presence of blessing and love. As I alluded to earlier, there exists another dimension in the life offered to human creatures. It can be explained with three theological categories from the New Testament. The first of these is zoe aionios, that "eternal life" celebrated by John (cf 3:15-16; 17:2-3) and meant as a participation in the "divine life". Secondly, there is the Pauline kaine ktisis, the "new creature" (cf 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15), produced by the Spirit who erupts into the human creaturality, transfiguring it and giving it a "new life" (cf Rom 6:4; Col 3:9-10; Eph 4:22-

The solemn feast of the Most Holy Trinity is celebrated this Sunday. Pope John Paul H preached again on the Trinity at a recent general audience with pilgrims on 7 June. This translation is from the ZEN1T news agency.

n this Jubilee Year our catechesis has concentrated on the theme of the glorification of the Trinity. After having contemplated the glory of the three divine persons in creation, in history, and in the mystery of Christ, we now look to the human being in order to gather to ourselves the luminous rays of God's action. "In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being" (Job 12:10). Job's evocative declaration reveals the radical ties that unite human beings to the "Lord, lover of the living" (VVis 11.26). Rational creatures carry within themselves an intimate relationship with the Creator; a profound chain made up first of all by the gift of life. It is a gift lavished upon them by the Trinity itself and it is composed of two principle dimensions, which we will now try to illustrate by the light of God's Word. The first fundamental dimension of the life given to us is the physical and historical dimension, that "heart" (nefesh) and "spirit" (ruah) to which Job refers. The Father enters the scene as the source of this gift from the very beginning of creation when he proclaimed with great solemnity: "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness . . .. so God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them" (Gen 1:26-27). With the Catechism of the Catholic Church we can draw this conclusion: "The divine image is present in every man." "It shines forth in the communion of persons, in the likeness of the unity of the divine persons among themselves" (CCC 1702). In this communion of love and in the generative capacity of the human couple there is a reflection of the Creator. In matrimony man and the woman continue the creative work of God, participating in his supreme fatherhood, in the mystery that Paul invites us to contemplate when he exclaims: "One God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all" (Eph 4:6). The effective presence of God, whom the Christian addresses as Father, is already revealed at the beginning of every human being's life, then expanding itself over his days. An extraordinarily beautiful line from Psalm 139 attests to this, which can be rendered in a form closest to the original: "For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. . . . My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven In the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my embryo (golmi). In your book were writ-

24). It is the Easter life: "For as all die in Adam,

so all will be made alive in Christ" ( iCor 15:22).

Finally, there is the life of the sons of God, the hyiothesia (cf Rom 8:15; Gal 4:5), which explains our communion of love with the Father, following Christ, in the strength of the Holy Spirit: "And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba! Father!' So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir" (Gal 4:6-7). This transcendent life infused into us by grace opens us to the future, beyond the limits of our fallen state as creatures. This Is what Paul affirms in his Letter to the Romans, recalling once more the llinity as source of this Easter life: "If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit that dwells in you" (8:11).

"Therefore Eternal Life is the very life of God together with the life of the sons of God. Ever-new wonder and limitless gratitude A hand-carved wooden piece depicting the Trinity cannot fail to take the believer before this shows figures representing Christ, the Holy Spirit unexpected and ineffable truth that comes to and God the Father. The santos - or carved holy us from God in Christ (cf 1 In 31-2) .. . . Thus image - is one of several which were presented in the Christian truth about life reaches its apex. 1998 at the National Museum of American History The dignity of life is not tied only to its oriin Washington as part of an exhibit on the cultural gins, to its coming from God, but also to its history of Puerto Rico. Photo: CNS/Smithsontan Institution end, to its destiny of communion with God in ten all the days that were formed for me, when the knowledge of love of him. none of them as yet existed" (vv. 13, 15-16). It is in light of this truth that St Ireneus specThe Son is also present with the Father in ified and completed his exaltation of man: the our facing of existence; he who assumed our 'glory of God' is, yes, the 'man who lives', but very flesh (cf Jn 1:14) even to the point of being 'the life of man consists of the vision of God'" able to be touched by our hands and heard (Evangelium Vitae n. 38; cf Ireneus, Adversus by our ears, seen and contemplated by our Haereses IV 20:7). eyes (cf 1 Jn 1:1). Let us conclude our reflections with the Paul, in fact, reminds us that "for us there is prayer of an Old Testament sage to the God one God, the Father, from whom are all things who lives and who loves life: and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus "For you love all things that exist, and detest Christ, through whom are all things and none of the things that you have made, for you through whom we exist" (1 Cor 8:6). would not have made anything if you had Every living creature is also entrusted with hated it. the breath of the Spirit of God, as the Psalmist "How would anything have endured if you sings: had not willed it? Or how would anything not "When you send forth your spirit, they are called forth by you have been preserved? You created" (Ps 104:30). spare all things, for they are yours, 0 Lord, you In light of the New Testament it is possible who love the living. For your immortal spirit to read these words as a pre-announcement Is in all things (Wis 11:24-12:1)."

Great missionary monk had a talent for making enemies

he Catholic Church had shire. He established the Rule of scarcely converted the St Benedict in this community. whole of the Roman He was not ordained a priest Empire, when the Empire was until about 664, by the Gaulish overrun by pagan barbarian (French) Bishop of the West Saxtribes, and the Church had to ons (now Wessex) whose name begin again. was Agilbert. Saint Wilfred was one of the He then went on to speak for saints who participated in this A,gilbert at the Synod of Whitby, process, converting the Anglo- called to end the continuing disSaxons, who had occupied Eng- pute in Britain over the date of land, and helping reintegrate the Easter, based on either Celtic or Celtic and Roman churches. Roman practices. Wilfred was born into a noble The Roman party, including family in Northumbria in 634. Wilfred, was victorious. He entered the famous monastKing Oswiu then appointed ery at Lindisfarne, but later went Wilfred Archbishop of York, but to Canterbury, where he joined because he refused to be consewith St Benedict Biscop to travel crated by Celtic bishops, he had to Rome. to go to France for his consecraOn his way home he spent three tion. years in Lyon, France, before When he returned, he found returning to Northumbria in that the King had appointed about 658. Ceadda (St Chad) as Bishop of Upon his return, King Oswiu of York instead, and Wilfred was Northumbria made him abbot of obliged to return to his a monastery at Ripon in York-,..... monastery. He was restored as • • • ^ .......... . . .. . . •

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archbishop in 669 by Archbishop St Theodore of Canterbury, but this was not to last. In 677 Theodore divided the diocese of York into four, consecrating three more bishops. Wilfred was furious and set off for Rome to appeal his case. On the way, he was shipwrecked on the coast of Frisia, and so converted the Frisians. Pope St Agatho and the Roman Synod ordered his restoration. In the meantime, King Oswiu had died and was succeeded by King Egfrid. Egfrid's wife, EtheLreda, wished to follow a religious life and had refused to consummate their marriage for ten years. Wilfred supported her, allowing her to enter a convent. But when he showed Egfrid the papal decree and requested to be restored to his See, the King was less than sympathetic, imprisoning Wilfred for nine months.

i'n e4rist 2000 Perth historian Dr Jennifer Skerritt sheds some light on Catholic history to mark 2000 years of Christianity. This week:

St Wilfred, 634-709 When he was released, Wilfred escaped to Sussex, the kingdom of the South Saxons. The king, Ethelwalh, had become a Christian, but his people were still pagan. Wilfred converted them, averting famine by teaching them to fish (or more probably, by removing a pagan taboo on eating fish) and establishing a monastery at Selsey. He spent the rest of his life fighting with various British bishops and kings, in an attempt to regain his see of York, while continuing to. establish . . . .monasteries. . . Finally ....

when he was 70, he returned to Rome to appeal for his rights. King Alcfrid, Egfrid's successor. repented on his deathbed of the injustices done to Wilfred. Wilfred toured all of his monasteries in Mercia, then died at Oundle and was buried at Ripon. He was a zealous builder and a great missionary, even though he had a particular 'aptitude' for making influential enemies. His followers, the most prominent of whom were St Willibrord and Swithberht, went on to convert Germany and Holland.

Movie Reviews

Movie theme Celibacy treated Ratings in 'witty, troubling' way By Anne Navarro

he lifelong friendship of a rabbi and a priest is threatened when a childhood friend re-enters their lives and both fall for her in the troubling yet witty comedy "Keeping the Faith" (Touchstone). How's this for an opening scene: A young priest, plastered from a night of binge drinking, falls down onto a pile of garbage bags on the streets of New York Is it more than a bit off-putting? Absolutely. Is it typical of the rest of the film? No. It is certainly upsetting to see a Catholic priest portrayed in such an unholy manner. But don't be deceived; this is not all the film is about. Best friends since childhood, Rabbi Jake Schram (Ben Stiller) and Father Brian Kilkenny Finn (Edward Norton) chose careers serving God because of their passionate faith. The trouble comes when a childhood friend, Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman), now a high-powered

tionship, but it does tread on dicey territory, namely a priest's confrontation with temptation. When Brian sits down to speak with his pastor about his trouble, the old monsignor's response that he has fallen in love at least once a decade since he became a priest may be disconcerting. But the more significant implication is that he did not succumb to these temptations and his faith is stronger because of them. Even the provocative issue of celibacy is taken on in a clear and straightforward manner. Brian explains that his fulfilment with God is so satisfying that the question of sex has been settled Ben Stiller and Edward Norton star as a rabbi and a priest in the romantic for him. Photo: CNS/Touchstone comedy Keeping the Faith. Although some may be discomexecutive, comes back to New and he begins to have doubts forted watching a priest battle with temptation, "Keeping the about his priestly vows. York and both men fall for her. When, humiliated and embar- Faith" presents Father Brian in a Although Jake and Anna agree to keep things low-key and - most rassed, he discovers that not only humble and human way. Because of questioning of priestimportantly - a secret from Brian, are the feelings not reciprocated Anna falls harder for Jake than he uncharacteristically goes on a ly vows, the rabbi's affair, fleeting bender, bringing the audience full crass language and an instance of either anticipated. In the meantime, Brian's mind circle to the beginning of the film. profanity, the US Catholic ConferThe majority of the film is con- ence classification is AIV - adults, has wandered into the murky ter- CNS ritory of romantic love with Anna cerned with Anna and Jake's rela- with reservations.

A souffle Mission 2 even more impossible half-baked S By Anne Navarro

ollege sweethearts experience the thrills and disappointments of first love in the frivolous romantic comedy "Down to You" (Mirtunax). Al, a college sophomore, is majoring in "liberal arts" but his goal is to become a chef, like his father, television's celebrated Chef Ray (Henry Winkler). Imogen. a fresher, is a talented artist whose art work adorns her rare, and convenient, single dormitory room. They fall in love at first sight at the local dive bar and become the 'it' couple. Unfortunately, what could have been a sweet story about young love turns into a tale of campus lovers in a tiresome atmosphere of boozy. druggy. bed-hopping parties. Because of implied affairs, sexual references, brief recreational drug abuse and an instance of rough language, the US Catholic Conference classification is All! - adults. - CNS

ecret agent Ethan Hunt is as bait. Although he needs Nyah back to tackle yet another to get the job done, Hunt can't incredible task in the divert- help but fall for the statuesque ing action sequel "Mission: beauty and the chemistry between Cruise and Newton sizImpossible 2" (Paramount). When the deadly Chimera virus, zles. Until the action starts, that is. a man-made strain of influenza so But in fact, all the razzle-dazzle dangerous it kills its victims within 20 hours, falls into the wrong is nothing more than a lightweight hands, spy extraordinaire Hunt (a cover for what is essentially a long-haired Tom Cruise) must cut superficial film without much short his rock-climbing holiday to substance. One can't help but think that embark on another - you guessed "Mission: Impossible 2" has It - impossible mission. This time, Hunt is aided by a turned into an American -007." Due to implied sexual encounbeautiful cosmopolitan thief named Nyah (Thandie Newton), ters, periodic stylised violence whose past relationship with the and minimal crass language, the US Catholic Conference classifisecret-agent-turned-terrorist • (Doygray Scott) who stole the cation is Mil - adults. - Catholic News Service highly infectious poison is used

Growing up Brit, Paki and swinging

n overbearing Pakistani father tries to tighten the reigns on his seven British'born children in the droll comedy-drama, "East Is East" (Miramax). In 1936 George Khan (Om Puri) emigrated from Pakistan to Britain in search of a better life. "East Is East" takes place 25 years later, in Britain's swinging early '70s as George rules over his brood of

seven, determined to make them traditional Pakistani children while ignoring the very modern world they live in. Adapted from writer Ayub Khan-Din's play of the same title, "East Is East" is filled with the hip, far-out colour and energy of the 19705. The performances are superb and the film does not shy away from presenting the charged polit-

hen a Texas town is decimated by W mutant bats on a killing rampage, the sheriff and bickering scientists struggle to

devise a manner to kill them all before the mayhem spreads across the country. Recurring violent bat attacks,, some profanity and minimal rough language. The US Catholic Conference classification is AIII - adults.

Dinosaur

Tisually superb animated adventure set

V in prehistoric times after a devastating rheteor turns much of the earth into dry rubble, forcing a herd of dinosaurs to search fur their nesting grounds while pursued by larger, hungry predators. Directors Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton successfully combine real backgrounds with spectacular computergenerated digital images that are extraordinarily lifelike although the narrative is

ical atmosphere of the time. It becomes serious as George's insistence that the Khans be a model Pakistani family grows more and more oppressive. Due to a brief marital sexual encounter, some domestic violence, fleeting nudity and recurrent rough language, the US Catholic Conference classification is AIII - adults. - Catholic News Service

28 Days

Bats

Actor Tom Cruise climbs a canyon wall as Ethan Hunt in Mission: ImposCNS,Reuters sible 2.

Movie Briefs skimpy and the pace sometimes slow-moving. Some scenes of predatory violence. The US Catholic Conference classification is All adults and adolescents.

sn't She Great I ampy but disappointing biography about tawdry novel author Jacqueline Susann (Bette Midler), whose steadfast manager-husband (Nathan Lane) and gaudy wardrobe helped propel her to the fame she desperately sought. Numerous crude sexual references, some homosexual innuendo, depictions of fairly explicit book covers, and recurring rough language. The US Catholic Conference classification is AN - adults, with reservations.

pedestrian seriocomedy in which a sucP k cessful writer and notorious party girl (Sandra Bullock) is sentenced to rehab for

driving under the influence and so must come to terms with her addiction to alcohol and her cynical outlook on life. Substance abuse theme, implied sexual encounters, some crass language and an instance of rough language. The US Catholic Conference classification is AM - adults.

Pitch Black

fter crash-landing on a desert planet inhabited by nocturnal monsters, spaceship survivors must turn to a convicted murderer in their midst (Vin Diesel) to lead them to safety. Intermittent stylised violence, a character's drug abuse, occasional profanity and much rough language. The US Catholic Conference classification is All - adults,

NEW YORK (CNS) Here is a list of recent films the US. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability. USCC classifications: Al- general patronage; All adults and adolescents; AM adults; AIV - adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations); 0- morally offensive. All About My Mother, MV American Beauty, 0 American Psycho, 0 Battlefield Earth. MU The Basket, All Being John Malkovich, MN/ Bicentennial Man, All The Big Kahuna, AIII Big Momma's House, Alll Black and White, 0 Bossa Nova, AIII Boys Don't Cry, MV Centre Stage, All! The Cider House Rules, 0 Cirque du Soleil Journey of Man, Al Colour of Paradise, All Croupier, AN (no rating) Dinosaur, All EastWest, AIII East Is East, All 81/2 Women, 0 Erin Brockovich, All Family Tree, AI Fantasia 2000. Al Final Destination, All The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, All Frequency. All! Galaxy Quest, All Girl, Interrupted, All! Gladiator, AIV Gossip, AIV The Green Mile, Mil Hamlet, All Held Up, All Here on Earth. AIII High Fidelity, MV I Dreamed of Africa, AM Joe Gould's Secret, AIII Keeping the Faith. AIV Kikujiro, Affi The Last September, AM Love and Basketball, AIII Luminous Motion, MV (no rating) Me, Myself, I, AIII Mission: Impossible 2. AIR Mission to Mars, All My Dog Skip, All Next Friday, MV The Ninth Gate, AN Passion of Mind, AIII Price of Glory, AIII Ready to Rumble, AN Return to Me, All The Road to El Dorado, All Road `nip, 0 Romeo Must Die, AIII Rules of Engagement, AIII Running Free, Al Screwed, All Set Me Free, All! (no rating) Shanghai Noon, All The Sixth Sense. AM The Skulls, AM Sleepy Hollow, MV Small Time Crooks, AM Snow Day, Al Stuart Little, All The Tigger Movie, Al Time Code, 0 TopsyTurvy. MV Thy Story 2, Al 28 Days, All U571, MI Up at the Villa, AIII The Virgin Suicides, 0 Where the Heart Is, MV Where the Money Is, AIV The Whole Nine Yards, AIII

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International News

Pope appeals for 'the Condolences for Assad bleeding head of Africa' In Brief

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II sent condolences on the death of Syrian President Hafez Assad and prayed that the Middle East country would continue taking steps toward peace. The death of Assad on 10 June removed one of the region's most experienced leaders and raised questions about the future of SyrianIsraeli peace talks, which had stalled earlier this year over territorial issues. A four-man Vatican delegation headed by Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, assistant secretary of state, was to attend Assad's funeral on 13 tune, the Vatican announced.

Museum scare

VAI'ICAN CITY (CNS) - Visitors at the Vatican Museums' new entrance got a scare on 6 June when a piece of plasterdrop ceiling near the ticket booths fell to the floor, injuring no one but creating panic and confusion. Officials shut the new entrance's enormous bronze doors for 10 minutes and sealed off the area of the accident. When the museum reopened, museum-goers were redirected through the old entrance, which since February has served solely as an exit.

Gay tape uproar ROME (CNS) - A graphic videotape of US gay pride events containing images of gay celebrations on the streets of San Francisco - complete with men making obscene gestures, some in traditional nuns' garb and others completely nude - obtained from the San Francisco Archdiocese ignited a political firestorm in Rome weeks before an international gay pride celebration in the Italian capital. Critics of the 1-9 July Rome celebration said the event is a clear provocation of Catholics during the jubilee year.

Protest sentence COLUMBUS, Ga. (CNS) Ten protesters against the US military School of the Americas, including a 70-year-old nun, a Medal of Honour winner and two retired Protestant pastors, received sentences ranging from probation to a year in prison and fines ranging from US $1,000-$10,000 on 8 June. Federal District Court judge Hugh Lawson gave Charles Liteky, 69, of San Francisco, the maximum sentence of one year in prison and a US $10,000 fine for two counts of trespassing.

Pope to holiday VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II will spend a nearly two-week summer vacation in the Italian Alpine mountain retreat of Valle &Aosta, the Vatican announced. The Pope's visit to Valle d'Aosta, where he has vacationed seven times in the last 10 years, will run from 10-22 July, said a Vatican statement issued.an 7 June.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II appealed for an end to deadly clashes in Congo, saybig all sides should listen to the "voice of conscience" and end the fighting. The Pope's remarks came after a week of conflict in the city of Kisangani between Rwandan and Ugandan forces supporting rival rebel factions. At least 150 civilians were reported killed and 700 injured. "My thoughts go now to Africa: Once again, the heart of Africa is bleeding," the Pope said at the end of a Sunday blessing on 11 June. The Pope said the civilian population of Kisangani, which is in the country's northeast, had been "held hostage by the violence of armed factions" and noted that Church institutions and property had also been damaged in the attacks. "I appeal to the responsibility and to the sensibility of the polit-

ical and military authorities and pray God to let them hear the voice of conscience: Africa, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in particular, need reconciliation and peace," he said. The day the Pope spoke, Rwanda announced it was withdrawing troops from Kisangani, as residents of the city ventured outside their homes for the first time in a week. Thousands of others had already fled, carrying belongings on their backs. Church officials said the city's cathedral, along with a seminary and a missionary residence, had been damaged in the most recent attacks. The papal nuncio in Congo, Archbishop Francisco-Javier Lozano, said the Church was paying the price for offering places of refuge to civilians. In an earlier telephone interview on 8 June Archbishop Lozano said that the Kisangani

Congolese residents attempt to extinguish a fire in the Kisangani Cathedral following artillery fire, on 7 June. Photo CNS Todd Pitman Reuters

cathedral had been severely damaged by shelling and fire on 7 June. In 1998, Rwanda and Uganda sent troops to fight alongside Congolese rebels in their bid to

oust Congolese President Laurent Kabila. Since last summer, however, they have fought each other over which rebel group to support.

Jesuit concern for Burundi refugees Christian By Joseph Ngala NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) - The Jesuit Refugee Service of eastern Africa has expressed concern about premature repatriation of Burundian refugees from Tanzania. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been quoted as saying that the refugees will be repatriated if the talks in Arusha, Tanzania, result in peace for Burundi. The Jesuit Refugee Service Edstern Africa director, Jesuit Brother Stephen Power, said that if the repatriation were timed incor-

rectly, returning refugees could end up joining Burundi's 800,000 Internally displaced people. "Any quick-fix solution could be very premature. "There is no apparent breakthrough in the Arusha talks and no evidence of changing with Burundi," Brother Power said in a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees director for the Great Lakes and the Horn of Africa regions. In 1998. peace talks began in Arusha under the mediation of former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. After Nyerere died last October,

South African President Nelson Mandela took over, and the next face-to-face talks are scheduled for July. In a report published in May. Amnesty International said "Standards of refugee protection in Tanzania have dropped dramatically again since late 1999 as scores of Burundian and Rwandese refugees have been forcibly returned to their countries in violation of Tanzanian law and international refugee law." In Tanzania, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees provides protection and assistance to 415.000 refugees from Burundi.

to the Pope, who is both head of state and head of church, to visit Moscow should also be made by Moscow's patriarch," he said. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said Russia's "not yet" did not mean "not ever." "Once a door is opened, it remains open until ills closed," the spokesman said. Patriarch Alexei and other Russian Orthodox Church leaders continue to accuse the Catholic Church of proselytism - aggressively encouraging Orthodox to

join the Catholic Church. They also continue to claim that Ukrainian Catholics - who share the Byzantine-rite liturgy, spirituality and discipline with their Orthodox neighbours - have used force to reclaim churches the Communist government confiscated in the 1940s. At the Vatican on 5 June, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope John Paul spent half an hour alone except for interpreters, then continued their discussions with their top diplomatic aides present.

Patriarch says 'not yet' to papal visit VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Speaking about a suggested papal visit to Russia, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II told the Russian news agency liar-1'ms on 7 June "Our church has always been calling for dialogue, and a negotiating process is currently under way," Patriarch Alexei told liarTass. "We are talking about our difficulties. Until these problems are solved, there cannot be a meeting between the primates of the two churches," he said. "An invitation

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CAIRO (Fides) - On 5 June. Coptic Christian William Shaiboub was sentenced after a mock trial to 15 years with hard labour for the murder of two men in El-Kosheh village in August 1998. Shaiboub was first taken into custody on 17 September 1998. His arrest followed the indiscriminate round up of over 1000 local Coptic Christians, many of whom were then tortured by local police officers whilst being held in detention. According to reliable reports. William himself was severely tortured. He was hung upside down by his feet, beaten, tied to a chair and given electric shocks to sensitive parts of his body. Christian Solidarity Worldwide says the sole prosecution witnesses against William, Abdu Mikhail Malak and Yasser Shahid • Allam, both army conscripts. later retracted their statements saying that they had only admitted his guilt under duress.

Holy Ghost priests cause stir with unorthodox policy By Declan Walsh ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (CNS) In a remote corner of Ethiopia, Holy Ghost Father Owen Lambert and his colleague, Father Brendan Cogavin, have won them a reputation as ecclesiastical renegades, Invoking the censure of the local hierarchy and Vatican officials. Instead of searching for new Catholics to baptise, Father Cogavin and a small group of Holy Ghost Fathers have encouraged Ethiopians to convert to the predominant Christian church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. One in two Ethiopians - 30 million people - are Orthodox, while there are just 600,000 Catholics. The first Holy Ghost Fathers arrived in Ethiopia in 1972. More

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than 25 years later, they pay to train Orthodox priests, have theological input into seminary programs and recently signed a contract to fund the second all-

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female monastery. Catholic Archbishop Berhanejesus Demerew Souraphiel of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia said that on a national level "they are appreciated by neither the Catholic nor Orthodox

hierarchies. "They have failed to keep the door open for those who want to be Catholics. If others want those services, who are they to decide for them?" he asked. Vatican officials told CNS on 9 June that the priests cannot compare the situation in southwestern Ethiopia to the situation in Russia, where the vast majority of the population is at least nominally Orthodox. It was reported that with the agreement of Ethiopia's Catholic bishops, Australian Cardinal Edward Cassidy, council president, and Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, wrote a joint letter to the Spiritans asking that the focus of the order's ministry in Gamo Gofa change.

International News

Vocations fall linked to understandings of Jesus By John Norton VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Incomplete and sometimes false understandings among Catholics regarding Christ, the Church and the priestly identity have contributed to a decades-long shortage of priestly vocations, a top Vatican official said. "The problem of the vocations crisis is linked to the crisis of faith in Jesus, in the Church and in the priestly identity," said Polish Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. The Archbishop made his remarks on 19 May in Czestochowa, Poland, during a national Church congress on fostering vocations. The text of his speech was published June 7 by the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

Archbishop Grocholewski said the most critical challenge underlying the vocations shortage was the ability to present to young people today the person of Jesus "in an authentic, persuasive, attractive manner." Christ should be presented independently of "historical, cultural and social conditionings, which have influenced, even if indirectly, certain vocational models," he said. "One thinks, for example, of the spiritual sterility of the presentation of the figure of Jesus in certain currents of liberation theology or political" theology, he said. "We must know how to propose the true image of Christ, as it appears in the sacred texts, the image which fascinates and makes possible the decision to follow Christ," he said. In addition,

young people must be able to experience Christ within a Church "which is for them truly credible, because it is presented in its supernatural authenticity, and thus beyond those aspects only perceivable from outside," the Archbishop said. Among the dimensions of the Church that transcend a simply human organisation, he said, are the Church as the "communion of faithful," the "Mystical Body of Christ," the "people of God," and the "universal sacrament of salvation for the human race." "Young people must be stimulated to see and live this mystical dimension of the Church," he said, "and thus to have trust in its teaching." Archbishop Grocholewski said that a crisis of priestly identity since the Second Vatican Council had also added to the vocations

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crisis. "It seems that today in the life of the Church it is often forgotten that the common priesthood of the faithful and the priestly ministry differ not only in degree but essentially," he said.

Catholics pressure U over women's health

Pope reiterates Iraq call

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) - The Vatican said that the UN conference reviewing progress since the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women produced a document that, like the Beijing Platform for Action, gave undue emphasis to the single issue of sexual and reproductive health. That issue was emphasised "to the detriment of a holistic view of the health of women and their families," the Vatican said. The statement of the Vatican's UN mission was delivered by Kathryn Hauwa HoomIcwap, a Nigerian who also served on the Vatican delegation to the Beijing Conference. She presented the statement on 9 June, the final day of a weeklong special session of the UN Gener-

al Assembly reviewing results of +5 review, the Vatican has characBeijing and using the theme, teristically fought to get as much "Women 2000: Equality, Develop- acceptable language as possible ment and Peace for the Threnty- on matters it considered most vital, and then accepted the comfirst Century." The Vatican delegation "strong- promise results with reservations. Some UN officials have interly supports" sections of the document produced at the special preted its approach as an indicasession "condenming all forms of tion of a shift in Vatican positions violence against women, uphold- on some of its traditional views, ing women's rights to economic such as birth control. But Hoomkwap disputed such and political empowerment" and calling for action against poverty interpretations. "Nothing is to be and high mortality rates among understood to imply that the Holy girls and women, HoomIcwap See endorses abortion or has in any way changed its moral posisaid. In the Vatican view, she said, the tion concerning abortion or con"living heart" of the Beijing Plat- traceptives," she added. • Charges by Amnesty Internaform for Action lay in the discussion of needs that "correspond to tional that the Vatican entered into the multiplicity of services the an "unholy alliance" with some Catholic Church has historically UN members to undermine supprovided to women." port for women's rights are In UN meetings such as the Bei- absolutely false, the Vatican's UN jing. Conference and the Beijing nuncio, Archbishop Renato Mar-

tino said in an interview on 7 June. Amnesty International made its allegations in a statement from its London headquarters on 5 June. "The unholy alliance formed by the Holy See, Iran. Algeria, Nicaragua, Syria, Libya, Morocco and Pakistan has attempted to hold ransom women's human rights," Amnesty International charged regarding preparations for Beijing +5. Archbishop Martino said the accusations from a human rights agency showed lack of awareness of what actually happened in the preparatory process, and were surprising because the Vatican had always supported human rights "in every respect." Differences arose when some countries tried to impose the concept that practices such as samesex marriage or abortion were human rights, he said.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (CNS) - Catholic Church officials in the Solomon Islands said unrest was spreading following the takeover of the capital by armed militia. The Malaitan Eagle Force of the island of Malaita and the Istabu Freedom Militia of Guadalcanal island have been jockeying for advantage since the Malaitan force launched a coup on 5 June, seizing the capital, Honiara, on Guadalcanal, and kidnapping Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu. E-mail messages from the

Solomons' Catholic bishops received by New Zealand's Catholic newspaper, the New Zealand Catholic, reported that the weekend after the coup was launched the unrest had spread to Gizo, the capital of the western province. The secretary of the country's Catholic bishops' conference, Lawrence Stephens, said a third rebel group, linked to the Bougainville Revolutionary Army, took control of the town on 11 June. Bishop Bernard O'Grady of Gizo reported a fluid situation

there. "We are under the control of a group of BRA and locals heavily armed here at their own suggestion to protect us," he said. Things were very tense, he said. Soon after the coup, the country's bishops reminded the people of Melanesia of the message of the New Testament: the brotherhood of Christianity, the coming together of societies and love for one's brothers and sisters in the wider community. Archbishop Adrian Smith of Honiara also met with the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, a corn-

munity of indigenous sisters, and brought them up to date on events and challenged them to lead lay women in a demand for peace. The archbishop has been involved in ongoing meetings of the Solomon Islands Christian Association, which is trying to positively influence events. In Auckland, a spokesman for the Catholic Overseas Volunteer Service, Marist Brother Gabriel Power, said the group's only missionary worker in the Islands, Dwayne Keegan, was remaining there.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Bishop John Leibrecht, who headed a nine-year project to develop Church norms for Catholic colleges and universities in the US, said the Vatican approval of those norms "is a breakthrough." He said the US norms represent the first detailed description in any Church legislation of the "mandatum," the ecclesiastical mandate from a bishop that Catholic theologians need to teach at Catholic institutions of higher learning. Bishop Leibrecht, head of the

Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, spoke with Catholic News Service by telephone on 7 June, the day it was announced that the Vatican had given its "recognitio," or approval, to the norms the US bishops adopted at their meeting last northern autumn. "A lot had been written about the 'mandatum," but there were no legislative precedents to go to when the US bishops tried to draft more detailed norms on the issue to apply to the US situation, Bishop Leibrecht said. "We owe real

gratitude to the subcommittee," he added, referring to the subcommittee of canon law specialists, headed by Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia, which spent nearly three years working out the legal details of the norms. The biggest sticking-point throughout the development of the norms was how the "mandaturn" would be interpreted and implemented to affirm the bishop's responsibility for oversight of the teaching of the faith without jeopardising the institutional autonomy of Catholic colleges

and universities or the legitimate academic freedom of their professors. When the bishops were preparing to vote on the norms last November, Cardinal Bevilacqua said the treatment of the "mandatum" in the norms was "the most benign interpretation possible." "Granting the 'mandatum' does not involve an intensive, intrusive investigation of the theologian," he said. The new US norms, which go into effect next May, are called "Ex Corde Ecclesiae': An Application to the United States."

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In addition to the theological considerations, the Archbishop made some practical suggestions for vocations promotion, which he said was the responsibility of all Catholics. Since families are a type of "rust seminary," he said, "why not therefore tackle the question in the preparation of couples for marriage?" In presenting the priesthood to young men, he recommended emphasising the beauty and value of the gift of priesthood, instead of its obligations and sacrifices. To be able to hear Christ's call in a modern world full of competing noise, young people must be encouraged to develop a personal, silent, prayer life, he said. "I think that today this type of prayer especially is lacking among young people," he added.

Solomons' bishops issue peace call to Melanesia

Vatican approval of US guidelines welcomed

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As the economic and military against Iraq sanctions approached the 10-year mark, Pope John Paul II appealed to the international community to end the suffering of civilians in the Persian Gulf nation. Addressing Chaldean-rite bishops at the Vatican on 12 June, the Pope said his thoughts were often with the Iraqi people and the trials they have faced over the past decade. "On several occasions.Ihave had the opportunity to remind the international community of its duty to ensure that new hardships are spared a people already so sorely tried." he said. "Today I repeat it even more strongly: Everyone should do their best to bring an end to the ordeals of so many civilian victims," he said. International agencies have said that as a consequence of the sanctions, more than 100 children are dying each day from infections and diseases such as cholera, typhus and diphtheria. Meanwhile, in talks with a delegation from Baghdad, Vatican officials expressed solidarity with the Iraqi people. Cardinal Angelo Sodano. Vatican secretary of state, and Archbishop jean-Louis Tauran, secretary for relations with states, met with the president of the Iraqi parliament and other Iraqi officials on 9 June. A statement from Joaquin Navarro-Valls, papal spokesman, said Cardinal Sodano assured the Iraqi delegation of the "closeness of the Holy See to the suffering people."

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Asian Catholic News

Four Indian churches bombed NEW DELHI, India (CNS) - Four people were injured when a series of bombs exploded inside churches in three states in southern India. The 8 June explosions occurred in one Baptist and three Catholic churches in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa states. Some Church leaders suspect the bombings are part of an ongoing hate campaign against Christians in the country. Two people were hurt when bombs exploded at 8:30 am inside the 114-year-old Jewitt Memorial Baptist Church in the coastal town of Ongole, reported UCA News. Half an hour earlier, a blast damaged the altar of Mother Vannini Catholic Church at Kadakatla, some 200 kilometres northeast of Ongole. In neighbouring Karnataka state, a journalist and a church committee member were wounded when two bombs exploded within three hours inside Bellary Diocese's St Anne Catholic Church in Wadi. None were hurt when the first bomb went off at 6:05 an' because the church had cancelled the morning Mass because of its priest's transfer. Hearing the blast,

Franciscan missionary beaten to death NEW DELHI, India (CNS) - A Franciscan brother was beaten to death at a mission station in northern India. Six men armed with sticks entered Assisi Ashram in Agra Archdiocese's Nawada mission at approximately 2 am on 7 June and attacked Franciscan Brother George Kuzhikandam, 40, who was sleeping outdoors because of the heat, said an archdiocesan official. UCA News reported the incident and identified the official only as Father Bhaskar, archdiocesan secretary. This was the eighth attack on Church workers in the archdiocese and the 15th in Uttar Pradesh state since January, but the first in which a missionary died. Father Bhaskar told UCA News the intruders took a servant boy,

who was sleeping outdoors, inside the main building and locked him in a room before attacking Brother Kuzhikandam.

The priest said police arrived in the morning and took the body to a local government hospital for an autopsy.

parishioners and others gathered at the church, and the second blast occurred at 9 am, wounding two. Bishop Joseph D'Silva of Bellary told UCA News that more would

have been hurt if the police had not cleared the church after detecting the second bomb. At about 10:15 am, a low-intensity bomb exploded in Goa's Vasco town, damaging 430-year-

old St Andrew's Church. Christian groups in Andhra Pradesh have condemned the blasts, the latest of five such incidents in the state in an 18-day period. "Icannot understand why Chris-

Church leaders pray for peace as war intensifies ILOILO CITY, Philippines (UCAN) - Church leaders have launched prayers and collected aid for victims of the war in the southern Philippines, while some peace advocates say that political will is also needed to end the fighting. Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of Jam led a 4 June prayer vigil In Iloilo City, 450 kilometres southeast of Manila, that was broadcast live in his archdiocese and in seven cities in Mindanao, the southern region affected by the fighting between the government and the Mom Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). "In war there can be no winners, but in peace all are victors," the Archbishop said in his closing message for the vigil. Some 2,000 people gathered at St Elizabeth Cathedral in Iloilo City to pray with him. "We are one with you in your aspiration and struggle to build peace and reconciliation in Mindanao," he told Mindanao listeners as he appealed for money, clothing and canned goods from his archdiocese. He said he would send the aid to bishops in Mindanao areas where some 300,000 villagers have fled to schools and Church centres because of the fighting between government troops and MILF rebels. Archbishop Lagdameo noted that many of the aid recipients are settlers from the west-central province of Iloilo who

moved south in the 1950s seeking greater opportunity in lesspopulated and resource-rich Mindanao. Jaro archdiocese covers the province and city of floilo. Priests from Iloilo towns joined their archbishop in prayer. Father Ronald de Leon of the parish in Lambunao said he hoped the prayers would "touch the hearts" of Philippine President Joseph Estrada and other government officials who ordered the assault on MILF camps in Mindanao. Fighting has persisted since the military attacked an MILF camp in Bu'don, Maguindanao province, on 28 April to reclaim a rebel-controlled highway. Teresita Deles of the National Peace Commission that appealed to Estrada for 40 Days of Tranquility for Humanitarian Action in Mindanao said the President rejected her group's proposal at a 31 May meeting with peace advocates. She said Estrada told meeting participants that the military operations in Mindanao had produced results and that the government wanted to negotiate with the MILF "from a position of strength." Government and MILF peace negotiators met from 30 May-1 June. A Government department reported that the clashes had sent 113,338 families to 170 evacuation centres by 1 June.

Members of religious minorities demonstrate in New Delhi on 10 June urging government action in a string of bombings against Christian churches.

tians were targetted, but I know it is the work of some very politically motivated people," the minister in charge of the Ongole Baptist Church told UCA News on 9 June. Prakasam district police told reporters it was fortunate that some 1.00 students attending a Bible class left before the time bomb exploded. The Reverend Vijay Kumar, president of the Hyderabad Baptist Churches Association, said he suspected Hindu right-wing groups' involvement in the blast. He told UCA News that antiChristian writings were found on the church walls. James Sylvester, president of the Hyderabad Catholic Association, said the "well-planned" attacks are "the handiwork of a particular group which is working against Christians." Bishop D'Silva said that the blast in his diocese could be the result of the national agenda of some militant Hindu groups. A regional convention of Hindu religious leaders at nearby Udupi town from 6-8 June called for grass-roots campaigns to check alleged Christian conversions.

Vatican II example: Wahid MANADO, Indonesia (CNS) Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid called for Christians and Muslims to recognise, tolerate and respect the differences between Christianity and Islam. "Although we know that the two religions are different, we must accept and respect the differences, for example, in the way we communicate with God," the Muslim president told participants of the 11th General Assembly of the Christian Conference of Asia on 3 June. Wahid noted that in many cases, sectarian conflicts are caused by lack of mutual understanding and respect among followers of different religions. The president cited the Second Vatican Council in urging all to practice interreligious tolerance. The council "gave us ideas on how we should exercise in concrete ways the mutual understanding and tolerance," he said. "On one side the Catholic Church maintains that in the

Catholic Church there is truth, but on the other side the Catholic Church also appreciates truth in other religions," explained the president, an Islamic scholar. The Second Vatican Council document "Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions" ("Nostra Aetate") was published in 1965. • The Indonesian government -qv-1st must act to end violent clashes "*., between members of different et. . / religions and to guarantee the equality of all its citizens, Pope John Paul II said. Ph CNS/P., "The only firm foundation of national unity is respect for all," Indonesian President Abdurrahman the Pope said on 12 June as he Wahid speaks at a news conference welcomed Indonesia's new in Jakarta's state palace on 5 June. ambassador to the Vatican. in November in the Molucca "Recourse to violence in the Islands and caused thousands of name of religious belief is a trav- Christians to flee their homes. esty of the tenets of the major reli"Atrocities, massacres and gions," he said. destruction have taken place," the Pope John Paul said he was par- Pope said, and continuing tenticularly worried about the Mus- sions in the region are a motive lim-Christian violence that began for concern.

COLOMBO (UCAN) - Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando of Colombo mourned the 7 June death of Clement Victor Gooneratne, the first cabinet minister in Kumaratunga's government to be assassinated. Kumaratunga, in a condolence message, said that she entrusted Gooneratne as a devout Catholic to liaise with the Catholic Church on behalf of the government. The

industry minister "was the main representative of the Catholic people in our government," she noted. Gooneratne's assassination by a suicide bomber is being blamed on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTFE), who have been fighting since 1983 for an independent Tamil state and have used suicide bombers many times. • Pope John Paul II sent a message of condolence to Sri Lanka's

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bishops on 9 June, two days after a suicide bomber killed Gooneratne, his wife and 21 others. The Pope "has been deeply shocked by the news of the tragic explosion at Ratrnalana, which killed so many people and wounded even more," said the statement signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano. The statement added that the Pope was "greatly saddened" about the deaths.

Pope hopes Korean summit will open doors to reconciliation

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II set to begin on 13 June after North Korea favour of the common good will it be possaid he hoped the historic summit between requested a 24-hour delay for technical sible to overcome the problems and reach North and South Korea would open the reasons. a positive result," he added. way to reconciliation and help reunite long"I join all people of good will in thanking Western leaders were hopeful that the separated families on the peninsula. the leaders of the two countries for this ini- summit marked an attempt by North Korea The Pope, speaking at a Sunday blessing tiative, in the hope that dialogue and to reach out from its international isolation on 11 June, said that if the three-day sum- exchange of views can contribute to the and bring peace to the peninsula, where a mit were successfui, it would offer cause reconciliation of the two populations, to 1950-53 war ended without a treaty. for "joyous hope" for all humanity. the reunion of families separated for half a Catholic leaders in South Korea have welNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-il and century and to the renewed stability and comed the summit because it could open South Korean President Kim Dae-jung were prosperity of the entire Korean peninsula," _the way to reuniting the thousands of sepscheduled to meet in the North Korean the Pope said. arated families. After the Korean War rapttal of' Pyongyang: The •encennter was • • • nOnly throngh a generonsTrormnitment in • -began in 1950, some 690,000 people fled to i lhae4ciiitc1 uWe'*120hoci%ecil

the South, leaving families in the North. South Korean Church leaders have also said the summit could help lead to more accurate outside monitoring of humanitarian aid distribution in the North, where famine has recurred in recent years. South Korean Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk of Seoul, apostolic administrator of Pyongyang, said that although political reunification may be an unrealistic goal for the immediate future, economic and cultural exchanges could begin between North and South.

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St Maria Goretti Primary Redcliffe

Small school, but a bigger picture

Grina nd bear it: On an excursion, students and staff from St Maria Goretti's got a big, perhaps slightly daunting, kick out of this snaky character in - dare we say - a pythonesque encounter.

ednesday afternoon 21 June will be a big day for St Maria Goretti's School in Redcliffe. That's the day the school presents its first production of Kingdom Castle, a musical with some Important lessons. Here's the plot: a group of children become lost in the bush and stumble on the Kingdom Castle. Upon entering they meet two characters, Truth and Grace, who proceed to help them learn about Jesus and his values - and to apply them to their own lives. It's a Jubilee Year event with a difference, put on by all students from Years 4 to 7 and one way the school has chosen to mark a special year in the life of their Church and their faith. Staged at the Belmont City College in Fisher St, Belmont, another performance will be presented on 22 June at ZOOpm. School principal Drew Jago is justifiably proud of the way students have thrown themselves into preparing for the big event. St Maria Goretti's is a school very much based on family and emphaSises that education is much more than formal lessons. It recognises that Mum and Dad are key figures, particularly in the area of faith where, unless parents live their faith and help their children learn it, a school's best efforts will always be hampered. In academic areas parents' voluntary assistance is also eagerly sought: for example, the Parental Assistance in Language Scheme sees parents active in the class-

The main courtyard of St Maria Goretti. The parish Church is on the right.

room on Mondays and Tuesdays assisting students to learn more about language and communication - written and spoken. The school has also started regular community Masses. Every third Saturday night sees many of the families connected to the school come together for a Mass where it is the student choir which leads the singing. All these, and much more, are little examples of how St Maria

Goretti's is a school which is more than a school: one where all efforts are focused on learning within a community of faith, on the total development of children Into mature members of the worldwide community which is the Church, and on helping produce young people who will become lifetime forces for good within their own community Small classes mean there is more one-on-one assistance avail-

Hands on fun - and learning - is experienced during a farm visit.

able to each student. The weekly Masses for Years Six and Seven students help cement the strong Catholic ethos. The open grounds and the large oval mean that, whether students are pretending to be princesses or AFL superstars, there's plenty of room for fun. Classrooms have been newly refurbished, as has the administration block. Specialist and support teachers mean that students get the best attention possible for their learning and development - for example as they learn Italian, taught to all classes for one hour a week. Computers in every classroom mean that all are familiar with the world of Information Technology. Surfing the Net may be a mystery to parents and older generations but for students it is a normal part of school life, as are the software programs that help to hone reading, comprehension and mathematical skills. The school also has its own website. And even though it's a small school - at just 108 families - St Maria's is a humming, thriving community. The P&F is very active with large, well-attended meetings which help the school chart its future course and fundraising activities. Pastoral Care is an essential aspect of school life and in recent months has been the focus of staff efforts to further refine and Improve it. The strategy has been to help children reflect more on their behaviour, allowing for the oppor-

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tunity, if the need arises for child, teacher and parent to come together. Excursions and camps are not just opportunities for fun. Considered a normal part of the school curriculum, they are an important way of introducing students to the wider society and the world outside the classroom, and among the fun activities have been close encounters with farm animals and, more exotically, a python. A close relationship with the City of Belmont has helped in the development of the school; the City has delivered free sand on occasion for brick paving work and free fill for the parts of the grounds that need it. Mr Jago, meanwhile, attends Council meetings, helping to cement the role of St Maria's as an integral part of, and contributor to, the life of the area. Small St Maria's may be, but as a part of the Belmont topography and the life of the families it serves, it fills a big role.

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