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Kids: gift, not a right By Benedicta Cipolla VATICAN CITY (CNS) - With the sound of rain pattering behind him and thousands of umbrellas shielding mothers, fathers and infants before him, Pope John Paul II urged families to place children first and respect the traditional family. More than 150,000 people thronged St Peter's Square despite heavy rain last Sunday, 15 October, for an outdoor Mass marking the culmination of the Jubilee for Families. An encounter with the Pope the previous afternoon gathered some 250,000 pilgrims under drier skies. Rain or shine, the theme was the same: Surrounded by the "winter" of societal attacks on the institution of the family, children mark a "springtime" of hope. "They represent the flowering of conjugal love," said the Pope, stressing children's "message of life" and, with their newborn neediness and dependence on their parents, an "appeal to solidarity." Deploring a growing modern attitude that views children "more as a threat than a gift," he said children were not merely an "accessory in the project of a conjugal life." "They are not optional." he said, "but a very precious gift, inscribed in the structure itself of conjugal union." Calling on the faithful to "reverse this trend" of regarding children as a burden, the Pope called the contemporary situation of children a "challenge to all of society." Both the 14 October prayer vigil and 15

proclaimed her love and fidelity to Nicolas Segoviano, a Mexican-American also from San Jose. After he imparted his blessing on the newlyweds and thanked pilgrims for their "perseverance and courage" in braving the elements to attend the Mass, the Pope invited all families to the Fourth World Meeting of Families, to be held in Manila in the Philippines, in 2003. Trevor and Deidre Lyra of Forrestfield in Perth and the State President of the Australian Family Association. John Barich. from Applecross parish, represented the Archdiocese of Perth at the Rome Jubilee, Pope John Paul criticised the widespread acceptance of divorce, saying many children "will always bear the psychological sign of the trial that the division of their parents subjected them to." At the same time, the Pope said the Those gathered for the Jubilee for Families cheer as Pope John Paul II makes his way through St "Church feels called not to express a severe and distanced judgment." Peter's Square last Sunday, 15 October, Even those who have divorced and October Mass included emotional the weddings of eight couples from eight remarried civilly, while in a state of "objecmoments between the Pope and children, different countries. tive moral disorder," are invited to particiencounters with whom have often moved Wagga, New South Wales couple, Robert pate in the life of the Church. he said. him deeply throughout his pontificate. Slee and Elizabeth Mills, represented Auswas phenomenon Divorce just one where Afflicted by a neurological disorder com- tralia as they took their marriage vows children's rights were often overlooked, monly believed to be Parkinson's disease, before the Pope. which severely limits the Pope's facial Yellow and white papal umbrellas kept said the Pope, and despite advances in expressions, the 80-year-old pontiff broke some of the rain off the couples and their recognising the rights of the youngest Into rare smiles as he blessed youngsters. wedding finery, which ranged from white, members of society, in practice they were Several children remained at the Pope's Western gowns to a colourful robe from often denied. side to whisper in his ear, and he repaid Cameroon and elegant embroidery from For example, he referred to the growing their gestures by speaking with them in Korea. use of fertility treatments that the Church return and embracing them fondly. The couples beamed while reading their did not condone, such as in vitro fertilisaThe Sunday Mass included another mov- vows, and the voice of Lidia Chavez of San tion or genetic screening. ing ceremony when the Pope celebrated Jose, California, shook with emotion as she Continued on Page 11

I rainian lung of the Church breathes at St Mary's By Peter Rosengren Incense, icons, bright national costumes, sacred music that could have come straight off the Ukrainian steppe and rich, colourful vestments not usually sighted abounded in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday. They were all part of the second chapter in a special Perth celebration of the Great Jubilee Year called by Pope John Paul II to commemorate the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. For the second time in a month, St Mary's in Victoria Square, Perth, was transformed for a Mass of a very different kind - an eastern Byzantine-rite liturgy of St John Chrysostom. While the first chapter, celebrated in St Mary's by Melkite Catholics on 10 September, showcased Christianity in the Arab, or middle-eastern, tradition, last Sunday's liturgy was very much a Ukrainian affair. Presided over by Archbishop Barry Hickey and cele- Ukrainian layman, Volodymyr Kania, second from the right, sings the Epistle in Ukrainian during the Byzantine-rite liturgy in St brated by Fr Vladimir Kalinecki of the Ukrainian Catholic Mary's Cathedral last Sunday. Right, Father Vladimir Kalinecki presents the gifts to the people at the Great Entrance part of the Church in Maylands, the liturgy was the second collab- liturgy before the Consecration, assisted by Melkite Catholic parish priest, Fr Andre Nahhas. Fr Kalinecki said he saw this liturPhotos: Peter Roserxiren oration between 'Roman' and 'Eastern' Catholics to mark gical gesture as "Jesus coming to give himself to the people". the Jubilee in Perth. endar or 15 October in the Julian calendar. Sunday's Two saints saw her appear in a Constantinople church Like the first, it had been organised by Archbishop Feast was of special significance to Ukrainian Catholics indicating that she would protect the city from destrucHickey's Committee for the Great Jubilee. who have faced persecution for their faith over hundreds tion; at the last moment, the invading hordes turned And, like the first occasion, the event was something of of years, but especially in the 20th century. away. an eye-opener for Roman Catholics who are usually It commemorates the 10th century episode when the More recently, it has been estimated that approximateunaware that such things as Eastern Catholic churches centre of Eastern Christianity, Constantinople, was threat- ly seven million Ukrainians were deliberately starved to exist. ened with invasion and Mary, the Mother of God - known death in the 1930s by the Soviet Communist dictator, The occasion was the Eastern Christian Feast of the Pro- in Eastern Christianity as the Theotokos - was besieged Josef Stalin, as he strove to take control of the nation that tection of the Mother of God, celebrated variously by with prayer by the city's inhabitants for her intercession was known as Europe's bread basket and eradicate its Ukrainian Catholics on 1 October in the Gregorian cal- and protection. churches. - Continued on Page 8

Jim Thomas honoured with papal knighthood By Peter Rosengren

Jim Thomas, former Financial Administrator of the Archdiocese and now a Knight of St Gregory the Great, enjoys the award with his wife, Gloria. Photo Peter Rosengren

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The former financial administrator of the archdiocese, Jim Thomas, was elevated to the ranks of the Church's knights last Friday as he was honoured for his outstanding service to the Church in Perth over the last eight years. Humble Thomas, Jim, became Thomas, Sir James, when he was made a knight of St Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II. 'Sir James' was presented with his award by Archbishop Barry Hickey at the Catholic Chapel in Joondalup during midday Mass. The location was appropriate. The planning and construction of the chapel, which now serves the daily needs of officeworkers and shoppers in the quickly-expanding northern metropolitan centre, was also the last project overseen by Mr Thomas before he retired recently. The ceremony saw Mr Thomas receive a parchment scroll testifying to the fact that the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church had made him a knight of St Gregory the Great. And although the ceremony was relatively small and simple it belied the fact that the honour is a rarity

Council stalling on outreach house: dal By Peter Rosengren

The Holy Spirit of Freedom Community has accused the Town of Vincent of the Southern Cross (WA) Incorporated Council of stalling tactics regarding KSC EDUCATION FOUNIDATON efforts by the group of Catholics to reopen its Stirling Street outreach to drug addicts and prostitutes. SCHOLARSHIPS Holy spirit leader Deacon Frank Feain TO ME UNIVERSITY told The Record last Thesday that, after OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA what the Community interpreted as a series of delaying moves. Council offiThe llrustees of the KSC Education Foundation cers had told the Community last MonInc (a project of the Knights of the Southern day that the reopening issue would not Cross) take pleasure in again inviting applicabe considered until 7 November. tions from teachers of Religious Education in Deacon Feain believed his community Catholic Schools in Western Australia to had been treated "very shabbily" in the undertake further study at the University of course of the matter and had been "denNotre Dame Australia in 2001. igrated, but with no right of reply." The community's outeach work at the Application forms and further information house at 258 Stirling Street was shut are available from down by the Town of Vincent at its meetThe Secretary ing on 12 September. KSC Foundation Inc The community had been operating the PO Box Y3128 house as a drop-in outreach centre and PERTH WA 6832 wayside chapel, but without Council perTelephone: (08) 9225 6011 mission. Applications close on 6 November, nt)() "All down the line we've been blocked at every move we made," Deacon Feain told The Record. The HSOFC met with VinMADE RIGHT HERE IN WA by cent planning METRO UNIFORMS officers involved with the For all uniforms including knitted school jumpers. issue at the Design your own jumper in the school colours. You can have stripes on the

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The official directory of the had worked in the business comCatholic Church in Australia lists munity for 50 years and had been only 20 knights and three dames of extremely grateful at the conclusion St Gregory awarded by any Pope of that to work for Jesus. "I always offered my work to Him," he said. across the nation since 1971. Mr Thomas' wife Gloria told The The award is given by the Pope to recognise outstanding service to the Record afterwards that she had Church. been "thrilled to bits" for her husAs Archbishop Hickey made clear band when she heard the news. in his homily, the award was wellShe said the couple had only deserved. He said Mr Thomas had learned of the award last week and come to the archdiocese at a time were delighted by the honour. when Church agencies seemed as if "I think he fully deserves it, and they would collapse from crippling the Archbishop was wonderful to levels of Church debt - but today organise it," she said. "Jim never shows a lot but it means they are all thriving. St Paul had listed administration as much to him as anything could." Meanwhile, the new Sir James said as among the gifts of the Church and, the Archbishop said, no organ- the honour was, for him, the culmiisation could survive without prop- nation of his career. "My cup runneth over," he said. er administration. However he did not think he Not only that but Mr Thomas had worked for the Church because of would be seeking any of the official his faith, and this had guided him in knightly regalia that goes with his all his decisions. new status, although the possibility St Gregory the Great, a fifth-centu- of a sword was interesting. However asked if the fact that he ry Pope, he told those attending, was one of the great administrators of was now a knight meant he could tell his wife to carry out his orders the Church. He had faced severe problems for he told The Record I've been marthe Church and saved Rome from ried for 42 years." "And," he said gravely, "I would the invading Lombards. Mr Thomas, meanwhile, said in his reply that he hope to continue in that state."

Council offices last Monday afternoon. While some suggestions were made for amendments to the management plan developed by consultants and the Community for the Stirling Street house, the Vincent officers had been unable to say what their recommendations to council would be. Deacon Feain said the HSOFC intended to contact all Vincent councillors. Several already support the Community on the matter but he said more will support them. He said that at the Council meeting following the one which had effectively voted to stop the Community's work at the Stirling Street premises, the issue had been placed by three Vincent councillors on the agenda under Urgent Business. However, he said, later in the evening HSOFC representatives were told by a councillor it appeared the issue was being delayed. Indications the matter would be expedited also appeared to have evaporated. "At yesterday's (last Monday's) meeting we were virtually told by the Council officers we could forget about it being expedited," Deacon Feain said. Both the Mayor John Hyde and Deputy Mayor David Drewett, had spoken "strongly" against the operation of the Stirling Street house. Deacon Feain said his impression was "that the poor are considered second rate citizens. When it gets down to the personal level the poor aren't taken seriously - there's no question about that." Among the complaints against the

house had been the activities of HSOFC staff and the "undesirables" they attract. "But I'm quite happy to be bracketed with the 'undesirables' because they are the ones on the margins of society and always pushed out, the same as Jesus was on this earth, right up to His cross on Calvary," he said. But Town of Vincent Councillor Ian Kerr told The Record that, with only two meetings a month, he did not think Council was using stalling tactics. Nevertheless, he added, "I don't think it was one of our better examples of addressing an issue." He said "issues of lack of shared information" had emerged during the matter. The original report on the Stirling Street house prepared by a Town of Vincent Council officer had been "very sketchy," he said "and did not even identify the name of the group." Nor, he said, had the report substantiated the allegations being made against the operations of the house. Additional allegations raised in the first Council meeting had been unable to be verified one way or another. As to claims concerning used condoms and syringes found in the vicinity he said it had not been established whether this was because it was the house or the fact that Stirling Street had a drug and prostitution problem. However, he said, "I am hopeful that we will get a majority at the next meeting to approve an improved application [from the HSOFC]."

Scripture plumbed on the diaconate VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Members of the International Theological Commission delved into Scripture and early Christian writings trying to pinpoint the precise role and identity of the deacon. Dominican Father Georges Collier, secretary of the papally appointed commission, said despite differences over interpreting the ancient texts, the commission should be able to approve a document on the diaconate at their 2001 meeting. The theologians met at the Vatican in early October. Father Cattier told Catholic News Service on 13 October some theologians believe there are differences between the role of the first seven deacons described in the Acts of the Apostles and those appointed by bishops in the first centuries of the Church's history. The Dominican said the question has an influence on understanding the

role of the deacon today because it deals with the question of whether the deacon's emphasis should be Catholic social or liturgical service. The role of deaconesses in the New Testament also was part of the discussion, he said, although members of the commission agreed that the Apostles formally laid hands on the male deacons - a precursor to ordination - but not on the deaconesses. Members of the theological commission also discussed ideas which will be used to compile the first draft of a document on "revelation and inculturation," he said. The question of how much local culture should be reflected in the way the Gospel is presented is important "for announcing the Gospel today in communities which have not had an extensive contact with Christianity, especially in Asia," he said.

Couple seeks Jubilee help By Glynnis Grainger A Perth couple are believed to be the only Australian representatives who attending the Jubilee celebration for people with disabilities in Rome in early December. Bernadette and Bob Jolly, of Mt Lawley, both volunteers at the Emmanuel Centre in Perth, will leave for Rome on 30 November. Archbishop Barry Hickey will attend a commissioning and early Christmas ceremony at the Centre on 29 November. The major events will be in Rome on 2-3 December with a welcome with various local parishes and Mass at the Basilica with Cardinal Etchegeray, and an audience with the Pope at 5pm. "Jolly by name and Jolly by nature," Barbara Harris, the Co-ordinator of the Emmanuel Centre, said of the couple last Monday. Bernadette was born in 1949 with severe scoliosis - curvature of the spine - in New York and came to Perth in 1970. She had three operations on her back and by 1984 had to resign her job with the government because she was confined to a

"Bob and she 'jolly' each other along, wheelchair.. In 1989 she became a volunteer at the Emmanuel Centre, in the same encourage each other and they share the year as Bob. household duties and don't have any outBob was born in the Wheatbelt of WA in side support," Mrs Harris said. 1947 and in 1969 was involved in an acci"He has problems with his speech - he's dent on the farm and suffered severe head her legs, she's his speech. injuries. "She will have a go at anything - she colHe worked as a Red Cross transport drinewsletters." lates ver and married his first wife in 1981 - she Until recently they used to do a pamphlet died of cancer in 1990. drop, have lost a little bit of income, as and Bernadette's mother had also died of cancer and she met Bob at a bereavement cen- they are pensioners. "One of the saddest things for her is being tre. In 1993 Bernadette and Bob got married. part of the Church and not being able to Ten days ago, they found a lump in go to functions," Mrs Harris said. Bernadette's breast and she had an opera"It seems the Church lags behind as many tion in the Mount Hospital last Friday. government buildings and public buildAt the Emmanuel Centre, Bernadette "lis- ings are accessible." tens to people and helps people of all disAnyone who would like to help with airabilities to share their stories, encouraging fares or accommodation can contribute to them to write their stories of their lives and the Emmanuel Centre, which is a self-help puts it into a little booklet," Mrs Harris organisation, which doesn't get governsaid. grants, and "runs on a shoestring." ment "She works with the Internet and teachof the religious orders have conSome es people how to do simple cooking." Bernadette also often invites people in tributed to a sum of $1,000. but the total need of a home environment home to her cost is going to be more than $4,000. because it is during the holiday season. place. for a meal or something, she said.

Fr Sorahan goes to heavenly reward Long-time parish priest of Wembley, Father Sean Sorahan died last Saturday afternoon at St John of God Villas, Subiaco. He was 81. A Vigil Mass was held at Our Lady of Victories Church, Wembley, where he was parish priest for 18 years until 1994, at 7.30pm on Wednesday. The Funeral Mass will be held at St Joseph's Church, Subiaco, at 10am this Thursday, 19 October. Fr Sorahan was born on 10 April, 1919. at Ballinamuck, County Longford, Ireland, and attended St Kieran's College. Kilkenny, for his secondary and theological studies. He was ordained on 18 June, 1944. and arrived in Perth on 19 April.

LifeLink welfare appeal set Archbishop Barry Hickey has set a target of $350,000 for his LifeLink Christmas Appeal for this Jubilee year. $47,000 more than last year. The Appeal was launched on Tuesday night with a special celebration Mass and briefing of parish representatives' in St Mary's Cathedral. 1Wenty-five priests concelebrated Mass with Archbishop Hickey. The Appeal will be held on LifeLink Sunday. the 4 and 5 November. Last year more than $303,000 was raised from the Archbishop's appeal. The Archbishop's appeal letter will be distributed to parishioners

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Chaplain in various bases around Australia, including Pearce in WA, and in Malaysia and Vietnam. According to Auxiliary Bishop Robert Healy, Fr Sorahan returned

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He then became parish priest of Wembley in May, 1976, until his retirement in June, 1994. Last year he was awarded the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope John Paul II for more than 50 year's service to the Church. Bishop Healy said Fr Sorahan "was a great pastor and visitor of the sick and elderly and worked closely with the St Vincent de Paul Society." "He was a close friend and he came to Christmas dinner every year, we saw a lot of him over the years. "He was also very witty with a great sense of humour." - Glynnis Grainger

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at Mass on the weekend of 27 and 28 October. LifeLink welfare agencies have grown from 10 to 13, including the addition of the Cross Roads community agency which deals with drug addiction, Linda's House of Hope which supports those enslaved by prostitution, and Samaritan Projects, the Archbishop's response to emergency welfare. Archbishop Hickey said there were some people present from country areas where many farmers were worried about the lack of fol- Archbishop Hickey blesses representatives LifeLink low-up rain. last Tuesday. Continued on Page 14

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A curate at Midland Junction from April, 1945 till 1946. and at Subiaco. from 1948 to 1949, he was the first parish priest at the new parish of Margaret River in February, 1950 and at the new parish of Nannup from December, 1952. He was then a locum at Manjimup from February, 1954, until he became the first parish priest at the new parish of Swanbourne and Chaplain at Hollywood Military Hospital from March, 1955. Fr Sorahan was then locum at Palmyra parish from July, 1956 and took long leave the following year. He then moved to Kellerberrin where he was parish priest from March, 1958, until he took six month's long leave in September,

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Fiery sermons and colourful story A history of the Parish of Saint Mary. Star of the Sea, Carnan.ion

A history of the parish of St Mary, Star of the Sea, Carnarvon, titled No Sermon, Too Hot, has been compiled and written by local writer Enga Smith. A large crowd of parishioners, ex-pupils and interested townsfolk gathered at the old convent school hall of St Mary's School, Carnarvon, on 23 August, to enjoy a combined book launch and wine and cheese evening. Past parish priest Father Robert Pocock came from Dampier for the launch, Sisters Lelia Maher and Delores Desmond were also present as was Acting parish priest Salvatorian Fr Marian Brzozowski. In his address, Fr Pocock told of how he had recognised the historical value of a number of old notebooks and registers he had found during his years at Carnarvon and had bought a fire-proof cabinet for their storage. They had stayed there until

about four years ago, when the present parish priest, Salvatorian Fr Leonard Macionczyk, also realising their value, asked Mrs Smith if she would write a history of the parish. Fr Macionczyk was unable to attend the launch as he was in Poland following the recent death of his father. The first of these notebooks is dated 1927 and contains sketchy notes by Fr John Setaro, continued by Fr Albert Scherzinger and led into the meticulous entries by Fr John McKay, later Archdeacon of Carnarvon. Fr McKay remained in charge of the parish from his arrival in May, 1930 until his death in August, 1969. The events and happenings of the parish, and indeed the world, the thoughts and comments - often not flattering - about his congregation, are all there with old news-

paper cuttings - a real "treasure trove," according to Mrs Smith. For the years before the diary, Mrs Smith pieced together the history from a variety of records and sources. They go back to 1889, when Fr E. Brereton, of the Geraldton Diocese, conducted a marriage in the School House, Carnarvon." The author said she had to select what was relevant to the parish as a whole and make the history interesting and readable. The 108-page book was printed locally by Gascoyne Printers, sells for $10, and is available from St Mary's Church, St Mary's School office and Wise Owl Book Exchange, Carnarvon. Copies are also available at the Cathedral in Geraldton and the parishes of Northampton, Bluff Point and Dongara. - Glynnis Grainger

Battle of the Young migrants fire up debate for refugees Bands ripping success

As part of Austcare Refugee week the Catholic Migrant Centre and a group of young migrant and refugee youth organised a Youth Forum at St Brigid's Parish Centre in Northbridge on Saturday 14 October. The theme of the forum was Is Australia A Place I Can Call Home?, which was the subject of a lively debate by four speakers for both the affirmative and the negative. The program also included a quiz, a workshop on the major barrier to their settlement, two refugee stories and concluded with a sausage sizzle and live entertainment. Pictured at left are the two debating teams with young debaters from Colombia, Sudan, Croatia, El Salvador, Iraq, and the Philippines. They are, from top, left: Ileana Lainez, Danijela Matijevic, Davor Matijevic, Jerrick Adlawan. Meanwhile, from bottom, left, the debaters are: Jennylyn Adlawan, Moshin Hago, Delire Jabbar, and Diana Montoya.

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By Alisia Harmon of Bateman Antioch When the terni 'Battle of the Bands" is mentioned. people often envisage young adults bashing away on their musical instruments, endeavouring to demonstrate how much musical talent they possess. Obviously, they have not been to an Antioch Battle of the Bands, where musical talent is not particularly paramount but having fun and partaking is essential. On Sunday 8 October, Antioch held its annual Battle of the Bands where groups compete for the best overall Band, the best original song, the best Antioch song and the best Cover. Bands from Applecross, Bateman, Doubleview, Kwinana, Midland, Stirling and Whitford Parish groups took part. One hundred and fifty five young adults filled the Cathedral Parish Centre. Doubleview excelled in the areas of best overall Band and best cover version of "Love Shack" and Stirling took the award for best original by Prue Chamberlain - two examples of people's talent being shared with others 'on the night. There were also those who did not play in a band, but still participated in the night by cheering and giving encouragement to all. This was appreciated by those who were playing as it gave them support and encouragement to continue their performance. A big thank you must go to the Antioch coordinator Margaret Fennessy who organised the whole evening, the MCs Matt Theedom and Adam Inks, the judging panel and helpers. Antioch's version of Battle of the Bands is a 'must see' event that everyone should experience, so all those out there `umming and ahhing' about attending and didn't, next year when Battle of the Bands is held, make sure you come. Better still, attend Antioch meetings that are held near your parish so you can participate in other Antioch events and have a chance to meet people your own age. Otherwise, just make sure that you put Antioch's Battle of the Bands on your calendar for next year. The Record, October 19 2000 Page 4

"God is always with us and we must never forget that without Him we cannot accomplish what we set out to do." That was the message delivered to the Emmanuel Catholic College community In Beeliar by Auxiliary Bishop Robert Healy at the official blessing and opening of the College's first stage building program. Addressing the staff, students and families of the College as well as Parish Priests and Principals from the surrounding area, Bishop Healy said the name 'Emmanuel' acted as a reminder to the community that God is a constant presence in all that we undertake. Echoing the sentiment, Therese Temby, the Director of Catholic Education in Western Australia. said the College had developed its own unique identity based on Christian values and the recognition of God's being. Bishop Healy sprinkles holy water on crucifixes at the opening. Adding to this uniqueness is the fact that both the College and Mater Christi the common mission, membership and mary School. Since that time enrolment Catholic Parish have celebrated their dependency they share sees them effec- numbers at the College have more than openings in this year of Great Jubilee. tively co-exist as one entity, one commu- tripled as the local area has developed. Bishop Healy then went on to comment nity," he said. In paying tribute to the support of the on the close relationship that exists The extent of this relationship is also Mater Christi community, Mrs Temby between the College, the surrounding illustrated in the College's early develop- said such encouragement was "someparishes and Catholic primary schools. ment when it was located at and shared thing that Catholic education can indeed "Whilst they are three separate entities. facilities with Mater Christi Catholic Pri- be proud of." - Phil Bayne, CEO Media

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The important, yet sometimes overlooked ministry of Religious Educators of children in the State school system was discussed at the National Conference of the Australian CCD Association held last week in Fremantle, WA. The conference theme Walking the Path had its foundation in the Emmaus Story. For the 26 delegates who shared experiences of their ministries with each other, it became apparent that the journey is not always an easy one. Eighteen dioceses were represented at the Fremantle conference; a turnout described as "very encouraging" by longterm Association member Patricia Brady from the Archdiocese of Adelaide. Mrs Brady said it was magnificent that such a broad cross section of delegates had made the trip to WA. This was indicaReligious educators of Catholic students in State schools from around Australia met in Fre- tive of their commitment to the ministry. mantle last week. The conference was addressed by Fr Gerard Holohan, at right Continued on Page 14

Day focuses on mental illness By Giynnis Grainger A day of reflection to end Mental Health Week was held at the Emmanuel Centre, Windsor Street, Perth, last Sunday. At the Reconciliation Liturgy held in St Francis Xavier Church on the site, Archbishop Barry Hickey said "Jesus has expectations of us; He wants us to do something for reconciliation. "We need to be reconciled with God and ask God's forgiveness; we need to be reconciled with one another.: Archbishop Hickey said, "It is not so easy to ask one another to forgive us; we first try to be reconciled with the person we have offended, then we receive God's forgiveness. "We must try to get the world to be reconciled with God and with one another, to

bring peace, to love each other, to forgive to the brink and sometimes it is more than each other." families can bear. The Archbishop said a lot is heard today "There is a need for reconciliation perabout Aboriginal reconciliation - the peo- haps for all of us; reconciliation is someple who lived here for thousands of years. thing that is given by God. "We ask Jesus for us to be good ambas"Jesus invites all of us to go more deeply sadors, to ask Jesus to bring about that reci nto life; people with mental illness are also onciliation, by the way we live, talk, encouraging others to pray - to see each invited to go more deeply into life." Fr McShane said people have physical and person as a brother or sister in Christ," he intellectual disabilities and what struck him said. "We and they will come closer to God." was one of the people saying: "I am happy Fr Peter St John celebrated the Mass, with because I have accepted my disabilities." Fr Michael McShane and Fr Maurice Toop, "For all of us the cross means accepting who had earlier spoken about Reconcilia- the things in our life which are inescapable," tion. In his homily, Fr McShane said "Today is he said. "Fr Maurice [Tow] spoke about Jesus invita day set aside for families and the end of ing all of us into His family. Mental Health Week. "We might all be channels of reconcilia"I think often mental illness can cause problems in families; it can bring families tion," he said.

Catholic Church's place in media spotlight shows world really wants to hear it: MP By Glynnis Grainger Secular society, unconsciously or consciously, yearns for leadership in matters spiritual and turns to the Church for that, Independent MP Phillip Pendal told the Catholic Womens League last week. "The fact that the media and others then begin to dispute and criticise and sometimes condemn something (perhaps on the grounds that something is old fashioned or out-moded) may be part of that wider and deeper struggle by secular society to at least listen to what the Church has to say," he said. "My point is this: If the Church is irrelevant its activities would never be reported. "It would be ignored, shunned and scorned into a few centimetres on page 90 of every metropolitan newspaper in the world. Mr Pendal, the member for South Perth in WAs Legisaltive Assembly, spoke to the WA branch of the Catholic Women's League at its annual general meeting and conference held at the Victoria Square Conference Centre last Friday, 13 October. Mr Pendal opened the conference and spoke about its theme "Christianity: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." About 60 women from the metropolitan area and country branches attended the conference, chaired by the State President, Joan Quinlan. National President Verena Butler also attended. Mr Pendal said. "What is different for us today is that we live in an era of mass communication, where the turmoil, the disagreement, the scandal, is openly and widely reported. "In a bizarre way, the Church, in fact, gets much positive coverage; for example, the secular media gives widespread, almost daily, and certainly unprecedented coverage to the Pope, the Vatican.

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Church publications and Church teachings." Mr Pendal said, "The Church has yet to be convinced of the need, the value, of explaining itself better. "I think one who has confronted that with great courage is the present Pope. by what he has had to say about the Church's past shortcomings. "The requirement to be more up front, to go on the front foot, has implications

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When suffering means more Peter Dwan continues with his meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass. This week the Twenty-Ninth Sunday, Year B

oday's liturgy presents the consoling message that Our Lord understands our weaknesses and sufferings. The first reading (Isaiah 53:10-11) begins with the words: "The Lord has been pleased to crush his servant with suffering." We need to remember that God sometimes sends suffering for redemptive purposes. At Fatima Our Lady asked the seers: "Do you wish to accept all the sufferings it may please God to send you in reparation for the sins by which He is offended?" When Lucia in the name of all three seers replied "Yes", Our Lady said: "You will have much to suffer then, but the grace of God will comfort you." The redemptive nature of suffering is further highlighted in the final words of the reading: "By his sufferings shall my servant justify many, taking their faults on himself." If there were a better way than suffering to bring men and women to God, Our Lord would have chosen it. The late Mother Teresa of Calcutta commented that without their sufferings, the Missionaries of Charity's work would be merely social work, not part of the redemption, and that it was by

A Layman's Meditation Our Lord's suffering that He redeemed us. Mother Teresa also attributed the Missionaries of Charity's success to the prayers and sufferings offered up by the sick and handicapped co-workers. The second reading (Hebrews 4:1416) makes the point that Our Lord shared in all the trials we undergo. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews says: "It is not as if we had a high priest who is incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us, but we have one who has been tempted every way that we are, though he is without sin." Bishop Galvin, who founded the Columban Fathers once commented that we shall never put our foot down on the road of suffering without finding Christ's footprints before us. There isn't any suffering which Christ doesn't understand, having endured both physical and mental suffering during His passion. He also understands our temptations, having been tempted by the Devil after his 40-day fast in the desert. Today's gospel (Mark 10:3545) makes the point that to share Christ's glory, we must share his sufferings. The Apostles, James and John asked Christ a favour, saying: "Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory." Jesus replied:

"You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup thatImust drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I must be baptised?" Our Lord was saying to them that they had to endure trials before sharing in his glory, in other words: "No cross, no crown." We need to keep the matter of the cross and penance in perspective. We mustn't be looking to penances for themselves. Hair shirts are not the type of penance that is needed today. In today's Gospel, Jesus tells us: "Anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant; and anyone who wants to be first among you must be the slave to all. For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Instead of corporal penances, one thing needed today is the asceticism of charity, making the sacrifices needed to serve our neighbour. This might involve foregoing a favourite television program to go and visit someone who is sick or lonely. Of course, sell-denial isn't out, but this is to be linked to works of charity, such as denying ourselves luxuries to donate to missionaries so they can provide those who they serve with the necessities of life. Considering that Christ gave his life as a ransom for us, it surely isn't too much to ask of us to give our time an our money to serve others.

To Jesus through Mary . . . . a column of Marian devotion By Cindy Wooden

ith the personal encouragement of Pope john Paul II. the Vatican is studying the possibility of proclaiming St Louis Marie Grignion of Montfort, France, a doctor of the Church. The French saint is best known as author of True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, which promoted praying the rosary and has been repeatedly translated and published in the almost 300 years since his death. Pope John Paul's papal motto. "lotus tuus" (all yours), is taken from St Louis' book, which he often has cited as influential in his own Marian devotion. Meeting on 13 October with participants in an international seminar on St Louis, the Pope said the French saint "is, for me, a significant point of reference who has enlightened me at important moments in my life." "As a clandestine seminarian working in the Solvay factory in Krakow, my spiritual director suggested I meditate on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin," the Portrait of St Louis Marie Grignion de Monfort painted shortly after his death, preserved at Pope said. Photo: Montfortian Religious Family website "I read and re-read many times and Saint Laurent-sur-Sevrethe. with great spiritual profit this precious know you are the most discrete, but effec- and influential on Catholics today. little ascetic book, which had a blue tive promoter of this cause, and we thank "I think it will happen, not .just because cover spotted with sodium" from the fac- you with all our hearts." I want it, but because the Holy Father tory, he said. The 33 doctors of the Church, includ- wants it," Father Cortinovis said. St Louis "helped me understand that ing Saints Augustine and Thomas The priest said St Louis' influence is the Virgin belongs to God's plan of sal- Aquinas, are saints who have been hon- obvious in the fact that his books, espevation as mother of the Incarnate Word, oured for their important contributions cially True Devotion to the Blessed Virconceived by her through the power of to explaining and defending the faith. gin and tracts on praying the rosary, the Holy Spirit." Pope John Paul has declared only one continue to be published and to sell well. Pope John Paul said reading the Saint's new doctor of the church, St Therese of St Louis' central point, Father Cortinowork made him understand that Mary Lisieux vis said, "is that the rosary is an imporleads people to Jesus and is not in comThe proclamation was made in 1997. tant prayer because it is Christological petition with him. Montfort Father Battista Cortinovis, pro- and Christocentric since it's meditations "I then understood that I could not moter of the cause to have St Louis focus on the mysteries of Jesus' life, leadexclude the mother of the Lord from my declared a doctor of the church, said on ing people to Jesus through Mary." life without inattention to the triune God, 12 October it was possible the Pope The rosary also is a method for learnwho wanted to 'begin and fulfill' the great would make the declaration in 2001. ing contemplative prayer, he said. mysteries of the history of salvation with The Congregation for Sainthood CausBecause the prayer is simple and repetthe responsible and faithful collabora- es has completed its initial review of the itive, if recited correctly, it leads to contion of the humble handmaid of influence St Louis has had on Catholic templation. Nazareth," the Pope said. spirituality since his death in 1716. Father Cortinovis said it is true that St While he did not mention the process St Louis' writings on doctrine and spir- Louis was not a writer of thick spiritual to declare the Saint a doctor of the ituality are now being studied by the- tomes like most of the early doctors of Church, the Pope said St Louis' work has ologians working for the Congregation the Church were. a continuing, concrete influence in his for the Doctrine of the Faith, Father CortiHowever, he said, as the Church siglife and in the lives of thousands of novis said during the 11-13 October inter- nalled with the designation of St Therese, Catholics, one of the requirements for national seminar in Rome on the Saint's who was not a professional theologian, being proclaimed a doctor. teaching. doctors of the Church also should French Bishop Francois Gamier of The priest said the doctrinal congrega- include saints who were important "spirLucon told the Pope he shared the Mont- tion is not looking for errors - his ortho- itual guides, who experienced the way of fort Fathers' hopes that "this great saint doxy was guaranteed before his sanctity and knew how to communicate will be recognised as a doctor of the canonisation in 1947 - but for evidence it to others." Church." He also told the Pope, "We that his teaching is recognised, relevant - Catholic News Service The Record, October 19 2000 Page 6

Is there a Civil War precedent for today's anti-papal trend?

With Paul Gray

ho really cares about the papacy? Just a few died-in-the-wool Catholic conservatives who love discipline, and papal "groupies" who love the grandeur of the old-style Church? Many people seem to think it's so. In my opinion, they're dead wrong. In fact, the strongest defence of the institution of the Catholic papacy today - apart from the teachings of the Catholic Church itself seems to come from intellectual sources. Writers, historians and academics who trace the positive impact of the papacy, both in the modem world and throughout history. Writers like the American priest Joel Panzer, author of the book The Popes and Slavery (Alba House.) Critics of the Catholic Church and papacy have often condemned both for "defending slavery" through the centuries. Fr Panzer shows, by reference to a host of historical teaching documents, that this is a major historical error. Since at least 1435, Popes have explicitly opposed the institution of slavery in their ipitching documents and apostolic letters. Many of these texts are reproduced in full in Fr Panzer's book. The actual record of the Popes opposing slavery, as documented in this book, leads to an interesting but little-recognised historical judgment: that the failure of the "Christian" societies of Western Europe to eradicate slavery for centuries was not the fault of Popes. Rather, it was the fault of Christians who resisted the teachings of the Popes, for their own selfish masons. Even as late as the American Civil War, this pattern can be traced. To their shame, North America's Catholic bishops were sometimes slow to embrace the abolitionist cause throughout the Civil War era. This reflects badly on the Church's historical record - but not so badly on the Popes. The historical record, as revealed in The Popes and Slavery, demonstrates that the see of Peter with its unique and powerful position within the worldwide Catholic Church is actually a plus for the Church, not a negative. Strength, as the world well knows, is not always a bad thing - sometimes, it's the only guarantee of independence. When North America's Church was under pressure to support slavery, the papacy's strength was needed to hold the line for the cause of truth and justice. What happened once can happen again and on other issues. While much of the world may reject the papacy's teachings on sex, contraception and abortion, this is not an argument for the papacy to weaken those teachings, Fr Panzer's book suggests. "After nearly 25 years of legalised abortion and half a century of readily available contraceptives, might we ask ourselves what role the Church should exercise in freeing Christians from these failed attempts at 'liberation'?" the author asks. Thirty years after Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae, are there similarities in the situation of today to that of the late 19th century in America, "when consistent papal teaching against slavery was ignored or explained away by those mandated to lead the Catholic faithful?" So asks Fr Panzer. Another intellectual who strongly supports the papacy is the biographer of Pope John Paul II, George Weigel. Under John Paul II, Weigel argues, the See of Peter has been revitalised and transformed into a powerhouse of spiritual and moral renewal for the world of the Third Millennium. He demonstrates this argument at length in his much-acclaimed book of enormous length, titled Witness to Hope. These are not brainless conservatives, but intelligent writers with a challenging message. It's a message our world may be becoming more and more curious to hear.

Beautiful universality of Church revealed

unday night's Ukrainian Catholic Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, celebrated in St Mary's Cathedral in Perth, was one of those rare moments when the true universality of the Church was experienced rather than known. For everyone who was involved it was a special moment, a crossing of a threshold. Hopefully, it was also the establishment of a beginning. For Roman Catholics, so-called because we belong to the Church of Jesus centred for nearly two millennia on the capital of the western half of the Roman Empire, it was an important step away from thinking that there is only one sort of Catholic - the Roman kind - and that everyone else is Orthodox or Protestant. For Eastern Catholics, those who belong to the Church of Jesus whose traditions sprang from the eastern half of the Empire, it was a joy, a moment in which they could share with their Latin brothers and sisters in the Faith the beauty, richness and otherworldliness of their traditions. Ditto for the Melkite celebration in St Mary's in September. After all, what better way for all three churches - Roman, Ukrainian and Melkite - to witness to their common faith in Jesus at the milestone of the second millennium than by cooperating at the centre of Christian life - the liturgy? The value of the two Byzantine liturgies celebrated in a Latin Cathedral might not have been immediately obvious to most Roman Catholics. While undoubtedly interesting and uplifting, were these two events any more than that? At least at one level, however,

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Ukrainian-rile Fr Kalinecki leads last Sunday's liturgy from the lectern.

both events were the clearest possible statement that, as Catholics - Eastern or Western - we share one common faith throughout the world. Our traditions may be very different beautifully so, in fact - but essentially we are all the same, part of the one Church whose faith can save the world, part of the

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one Church desperately needed everywhere. Not only this, but in an era when, as Cardinal Josef Ratzinger recently noted, belief in a personal God is on the wane, Catholics of different traditions were able to unite and witness to their faith. And in answer to the question what sort of Catholics the world needs most, the

Arouno 1.1;e Uagfe 7 Soul-seeking Br Andrew

eartfelt appreciation to the Editor and Peter Rosengren for the meaningful details featured in last week's Record, touching on the amazing life of Brother Andrew. That God took him on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi seems only to confirm his life as a true pilgrim. Brother had no watch, no car or driver's licence, no insurance, no wage, no home; wherever he stayed he insisted on sleeping on the floor. In all his world-wide travelling, which wasn't of his choosing, he refused to go sight-seeing, always soul-seeking. We thank God for the gentle, meek and powerful words of encouragement and joyful hope Brother always gave fluently in retreats, with never a reference note. Among Brother's prolific writings was a 222-page book printed under two titles - A Journey in the Company of God and What IMet Along the Way. Here he describes his long journey as General Servant of the Missionary Brothers of Charity to the 83 houses he had established in 30 different countries, plus many words of wisdom applicable to our lives today. It must have been more than coincidence that Brother gave three of his last retreats on earth at God's Farm in July. To thank God for the priceless honour of having this humble yet strong leader of the Faith here so often over the past 12 years and to keep alive the message he gave so sacrificially, a section of the Quiet Room here, where he slept on the floor, will be known as "A llibute to Brother Andrew." It will feature many cassette tapes of his talks, some home videos, and some of his letters and writings. If anyone has books or booklets associated with Br Andrew to spare or can find any in secondhand bookstores, we would be more than grateful to receive them. Betty Peaker God's Farm-Gracewood Cowaramup

We are in the world

f, as Brian Coyne seems to imply (The Record, 12 October), the Olympic celebrations belong to the new secular religion and secular humanists, whoever they

are, then the Church must be the people looking out at the celebrations through the stain glass windows. Who would want to belong to that Catholic Church? If on the other hand, as we believe, God is present in God's world, and God's saving grace is active in peoples lives, then we are not set apart from the celebrating people, but are in there with a message, by our lives and words, to make them aware of this presence, leading them to praise God for their gifts and to see their lives in the light of the gospel, until they, too, come to recognise Jesus. Father Barry Whitely Spearwood

Contraception debate

n response to correspondents Egan, Chandler and Kelly (The Record, 12 October): nowhere in my letter did I suggest there has been a change in Church teaching on condoms. Neither have the authoritative articles in the Catholic media, including the one in The Record or the one in The West Australian. Mr Egan and Mr Kelly seem to be suggestingI was. I was merely arguing that the article in The West Australian was a legitimate report and, although brief, was accurate. In response to Ms Chandler, I simply make the comment that the readership of The RecordI understand, using a formula adopted in the secular media, to be no more than 15,000 people on sales of some 5,000 copies. The West Australian has a readership in the order of hundreds of thousands. Compared to many secular newspapers, it does carry regular reports of international Catholic news. Usually the reportage is carried in a nonsensational way. Again this is another difference compared to reportage, for example, in the some other secular media channels in Perth on Catholic matters. Like Ms Chandler,I would like to see far more people reading The Record. Unfortunately, in the Archdiocese of Perth The West Australian is the only channel of communication to the vast bulk of baptised Catholic people. As inefficient a channel of communication that it is, and for all its shortcomings, I believe we need to respect that. It is quite apparent from the authoritative reports in the international Catholic media

obvious answer is: all of us. Lest anyone should underestimate the importance of such exercises, it is worth remembering that such moments in the life of the Church can be moments of grace and powerful opportunities of renewal, which often come from the most unexpected directions and at the least-expected times. At another level, they were a reminder of the painful separation between the Orthodox and the Catholic churches and the beauty and happiness that all Christians could share if the obstacles could be overcome. Together with the Eastern Catholics, the Orthodox Christian churches share identical liturgical traditions. Tragically, for one thousand years now, Catholic and Orthodox have been separated. Was Sunday night, then, something of a snapshot into the future of what might be possible many years hence? But that lies in the future and in the hands of Providence. In the meantime the experience in St Mary's, courtesy of our Melkite and Ukrainian brothers and sisters, reminded us of the beauty of the East, its mystery, its depth, its splendour and its holy fire. It also showed us how close we are to it. It spoke to us of a truly universal Church. May the holy fire of the East come to burn brightly in our own hearts and lives too. • The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

Leflers fo //le Coigar I have the feeling that many sincere that there is discussion at a high level in the Vatican on the condom issue that has Catholics really see no harm in Feminism. caused all this heartburn for many people. and accept its tenets as merely goals for the It is natural that the lunar left and the stel- Improvement of the lot of a particular mislar right in the Church should be trying to treated group in society who happen to exploit the news of this discussion for their have been mistreated. From a Christian perspective, there can own agendas. Mr Egan is lobbying in no different a man- be no argument with such a principle. Unfortunately this is not a true, nor comner than those such as Fuller and Keenan plete picture of feminism. whom he takes such umbrage at. As it currently exists, feminism has many Mr Kelly falls into the same trap. There is a difference between "defending "camps", but at the root of most of them is the faith" and lobbying for a particular pol- power: power to earn more, to live better. to control more, to decide more, and, most icy or moral law outcome. Church teaching on this matter is not set ominously, power over their reproductive systems. in concrete. They want to be equal to men in everyThe present laws are of comparatively recent origin. Prior to about 1951 what is thing, including the ability to enjoy sex now morally allowable in the use of what without responsibility. In their hands, we have seen the debasewe now call The Rhythm Method (subsequently replaced by the Ovulation/Billings ment of the family, and the promotion of sexual promiscuity, contraception and Method) was morally wrong. abortion. It had been so for centuries. Pregnancy and motherhood are perOlder Catholics will still remember this. We do have an obligation to be obedient ceived as a choice at best and a burden at to teachings as they exist from time to time, worst. Feminism views the Church as a patriarand very often this can be difficult especially when some opinions or teachings chal domination that is to be destroyed at all cost. This is how they came to see the endure for a lifetime or even centuries. masculinity of the pronoun "He" for God We cannot read the mind of God. The final test in many of these matters as so repugnant, and the maleness of the might be on our faithfulness and obedi- clergy as anathema. They perceive the masculinity of the ence rather than on the particular moral Church hierarchy as a threat, and want to or obeissue over which our faithfulness share in the alleged "power" held. (This is dience is being tested. We can only speculate and ultimately not fantasy on my part, but fact, as any honhave to arrive at the answers to each of est reading on the subject will verify.) Feminism is destroying the social structhese issues in the privacy of our own consciences guided by Church moral teaching. ture of Australia, and is seeking to destroy We do though have to also recognise that the structure of Christ's Church. Is it any wonder that we object to artifiChurch moral teaching does change over time and the learned doctors in the Church cially-constructed and ideology-based do need to discuss these matters in a dis- "inclusive" language and other feminist notions? passionate way. What type of woman feels marginalised Even the proverbial Blind Freddy can see by the Catholic Church? this matter has present teaching on that the Ithink it is those who want some or more been one of the single most controversial issues in the recent history of the Catholic of the alleged "power" of the hierarchy, those who want the teaching on sexuality Church. contraception, homosexuality) (abortion, It is natural that any discussion on this subject should elicit interest from the changed (as if they could be), those who want to be priest, those who are in irreguworld's media. lar marriages and want the Church to Brian Coyne recognise them, and those who are so satNedlands urated by feminist ideology that any reference to maleness is an insult. As for me, during the Creed, at Mass. I must commend Judith Woodward's let- intone "for us men" with vigour. because I ter (21 September) for its loving and know that I am part of the family of man, gentle tone, but, at the same time,Ifeel a female member of mankind. compelled to respond to her assertions Mrs C V Phillips Burswood regarding feminism.

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The Middle East Crisis

Vatican's diplomatic wisdom shown in Middle East crisis By John Thavb

Ile recent spiral of Israeli-Palestinian violence demonstrates the wisdom of the Vatican's long-standing call for international guarantees to protect the sacred character of Jerusalem, Franciscan Father David Jaeger, an expert on Vatican-Israeli affairs, said. Fr Jaeger, an Israeli who helped negotiate the Vatican-Israeli agreement that paved the way for diplomatic relations in 1996, noted in an interview on 9 October in Rome that the Vatican had consistently called for an internationally guaranteed special statute for Jerusalem. The Vatican's reasoning, he said, was that "the protection of the unique character of Jerusalem and of the holy places, and of the religious and cultural heritage of humanity that is located there, is a task that goes beyond any one or two states in the region." Palestinian authorities accept the Vatican's position, while Israel - which claims all Jerusalem as its capital - has said it can unilaterally provide the protection sought by the Church, without an international statute. "Certainly the extremely sad and alarming events of the last 10 days or so make one wish that such an internationally guaranteed special statute were in place already," Fr Jaeger said. The latest round of violence began after an Israeli politician, Ariel Sharon, backed by a riot police escort, made a defiant and unprecedented visit to a Muslim religious compound in the

heart of Old Jerusalem. Many Muslims considered the visit a desecration of one of Islam's most holy places. Jews call the area Temple Mount and also consider it sacred; its fate is a central question in future negotiations over Jerusalem. In reaction to Sharon's visit, stone-throwing Palestinians rioted at the site and throughout the region, prompting retaliation by Israeli soldiers. Fr Jaeger said the recent violence, combined with the failure of Palestinian-Israeli peace talks at Camp David earlier in the year, showed the Vatican was probably right on another issue: in suggesting, from the beginning of the peace process, that the question of Jerusalem be given priority and not relegated to the very end. "Things might have turned out differently if indeed the question of Jerusalem had been discussed earlier rather than later," he said. Fr Jaeger said that despite the new crisis in Israeli-Palestinian relations, the peace process would have to go forward. 'There is no other solution, because when all is said and done - even if, God forbid, this conflict becomes more acute - in the end the same parties will still have to sit at the table and negotiate a peace," he said. "We have two nations inhabiting what we Christians call the Holy Land. "Neither of them is going to disappear. They have to resolve their differences and reach an honourable and equitable peace treaty," he said.

An Israeli tank patrols the southern border of Jerusalem overlooking the mainly Catholic village of Belt Jala near Bethlehem on 10 October. Apartments on the Jerusalem border had been hit at night by gunfire coming from the direction of Belt Jala. Photo CNS/Debbse 'r

A way to understand the great Jewish people in history The crisis in the Middle East has focussed attention again on the position of the Jewish people in world history. The parish priest of St Joseph Pignatelli in Attadale. Father Geoff Beyer, submitted this appreciation of how ecumenical guidelines from Victoria could help Catholics understand the Jewish people.

Father Geoff Beyer

or many years it has been recognised by scholars - theologians, historians and philosophers - that there are passages in the New Testament which refer to Judaism and the Jews in terms of animosity. Over the centuries this has led to anti-semitism culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust during World War II. The Second Vatican Council in the Decree Nostra Aetate took "an unprecedented step in the history of the Church by presenting Judaism and the Jews to Roman Catholics worldwide in a manner freed of some traditional anti-semitic connotations". Similar action by other churches has subsequently been taken. In November 1994, The Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria) Inc. published guidelines for Christian clergy in their use of the New Testament, to assist them in dealing with references to Judaism and the Jews without exciting odium. The Guidelines, Rightly Explaining the Word of Truth, identify five scriptural topics with which care needs to be exercised in their presentation in preaching and teaching: the trial and death of Jesus; the "new" and the "old"; the depiction of the Pharisees; the expression "the

Jews" in the Fourth Gospel; and Jesus, Judaism and the Torah. The authors draw attention to the fact that some references, hostile or less than favourable to the Jews, have their historical context in conflicts between the newly emerging Church and the Jewish communities of the time. Certain controversies reflect Christian-Jewish relations long after the time of Jesus. It is therefore of the greatest importance that this fact be kept in mind in presenting the meaning of certain Gospel texts for the Christians of today. In dealing with the five topics mentioned above, the document seeks, for example, to identify clearly those who were responsible for bringing Jesus before Pontius Pilate. To condemn "the Jews" as a race for the death of Jesus, for all time, is shown to be both historically inaccurate and scripturally indefensible. The notion that the Church had replaced or superseded Israel as the People of God is closely examined in the light of Paul's insistence upon the abiding validity of God's promise to Israel. It has to be kept in mind that certain Gospel texts which seem to favour "supersessionism" arose during a period of animosity between Judaism and the nascent Church. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary definition of a "pharisee" as one who has pretensions to superior sanctity, or simply a formalist, a hypocrite, is shown to do less than justice to a revered class of religious leaders in Jesus' time. That there were conflicts between Jesus and some of the pharisees, and that there were

some hypocrites among them is clear, especially in Matthew's Gospel, but care needs to be taken to avoid presenting them, as a class, as sanctimonious and disingenuous. Sensitivity is required too in dealing with those passages in which the term "the Jews" is employed in a negative or pejorative sense, especially in John's Gospel, where it is used seventy-one times. John was written at a time when the Church broke from the Synagogue an 9:22, 34) and relations were strained; see also jn 8: 31-47 and in 19: 16. These passages have been used in ways that have caused Jewish people great distress and suffering down to our own time. Care should be taken here, as with the pharisees, not to present all Jews for all time as lacking faith or standing in opposition to Jesus. Finally, in dealing with the relation between Jesus and the Torah, the authors of the guidelines point out that Jesus was a Jew and cannot be understood apart from the Judaism of his own time. Far from abrogating the Torah, he both observed it faithfully and gave it a fresh interpretation, eg., Sabbath observance. He is confirming its importance, while at the same time insisting on the centrality of love, mercy and generosity. False comparisons therefore between Judaism and Christianity, whether in the classroom or in preaching, need to be avoided. I have found these Guidelines both illuminating and helpful, and a useful corrective to any tendency, albeit unconscious, towards an anti-Jewish presentation of the New Thstament.

Ukrainian lung of the Catholic Church breathes at St Mary's Continued from Page 1 Approximately 15 of Perth's Latin Catholic Archbishop Hickey touched on the mod- clergy also joined the two priests in conern martyrdoms experienced by the celebration of the liturgy at the consecraUkrainian Catholic and other Christian tion of the bread and wine into the body churches when he said that, in the 20th and blood of Jesus Christ. Throughout the evening, the choir of the Century, it became a Church of martyrs. "Under Communist Russia there were Maylands Ukrainian Catholic Church many, many martyrs in the underground intoned the responses as the congregation Church, who are now confessors of the listened to the repeated invocation in Faith," he said, adding "We salute them and Ukrainian of `hospodi podmilloi' or 'Lord learn courage and fidelity from them." have Mercy' Also joining Fr Vladimir to assist in the At the conclusion of the liturgy Fr Vladimir liturgy was Fr Andre Nahhas, the priest at told the approximately BOO-strong congrethe Melkite Church in Glendower Street, gation that although he had been very nerHighgate, who celebrated the September vous, he had felt the grace of God was at liturgy in the Cathedral. On that occasion it work that evening. had been Fr Vladimir who assisted him. Thanking Archbishop Hickey for the inviThe Record, October 19 2000 Page 8

tation to celebrate the liturgy in St Mary's, and the Melkite community for their assistance, prayers and support he said "it was a wonderful experience to be here." "I feel very happy," he said. Sr Cecelia Fystor, a Canadian nun who is a member of the Ukrainian Catholic Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate congregation and who co-ordinated the evening's events with assistance from other members of the Ukrainian Catholic community in Perth, later told The Record the evening had gone well. "People seemed to be following the service in their booklets in a spirit of prayer," she noted. Meanwhile, for the Roman Catholics in

the congregation who had attended the earlier Melkite service, the Ukrainian liturgy would have been more familiar. One difference, however, was the way in which Communion was dispensed. As each communicant came forward a priest would spoon some of the sacred species from a chalice and dispense it to each person. Afterwards, leaflets distributed to the congregation invited all who had attended to visit the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Maylands on Sunday 29 October at 3pm to hear a talk on the Ukrainian rite, to experience the beauty of its icons and sanctuary, and to participate in a series of centuries-old hymns of praise to Christ.

World Mission Sunday 2000

Mission based on Good News that is Jesus T

he generosity that the Catholic people of Perth have always shown to the Mission's Appeals is an indication of their desire to spread the Faith throughout the world. We can only want to spread our Faith if we are convinced that it is Good News for the world. The recent Document from Rome, "Dominus Jesus" makes clear what we have always known, that Jesus is not only a good person, but is also the world's Saviour. Our conviction that the world needs him as its Saviour comes from our own personal experience of his power in our own lives. The Apostles were the first evangelisers. They wanted the world to know about Christ because of their experience of him and his teachings and how he turned their

lives around. They knew that he the Light of the World; here in Ausspoke to the deep spiritual needs tralia as well. Catholic Mission has special of the human heart in a way that responsibilities for spreading the no-one else could. They knew that he was the Gospel in many overseas counsource of peace and joy, that peo- tries where the local Churches ple could stop fighting, stop need help. The Gospel is energetically exploiting one another, stop their fruitless quest for power and preached in those countries both wealth, if only they lived the com- in word and in deed. I spent a few weeks in Assam, mandment of love that he taught. I ndia, not too long ago, giving They also knew that Jesus had priests' retreats. won eternal life for all those who Wherever I went, I was followed him, by his death and res- impressed by the missionary zeal urrection. of the Priests and the Sisters. This was the Good News that his Whenever a Church or a Mission Apostles understood and experi- Station was set up, a medical clinenced, and why they wanted oth- ic and a service for the poor was ers to hear about it. always an essential part of it. Bringing the Good News to peoIcould see that the Gospel of salple is the Mission of the Church. vation was being translated into We all have a part to play. charitable action, in order to conAround the world the Church is vey its message more dearly and engaged in offering Jesus Christ as convincingly.

This Sunday is World Mission Day. Please pray that we all develop a strong missionary spirit Secular Australia is as much in need of convinced "missionaries" as any other country. We must offer spiritual riches in this land of plenty. On behalf of all those working in difficult situations in countries around the world very different from Australia, I ask you to support the Appeal of Catholic Mission generously, particularly in this Jubilee Year. The first Christian Jubilee was proclaimed by Jesus himself in Nazareth when he fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, that he had come to "announce the Good News to the poor .... and proclaim a Year of the Lord's grace". (Lk 418)

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Where practical charity witnesses to Gospel call World Mission Sunday is observed world-wide this Sunday. Here Father Felix Rashidi of Goima parish in Tanzania reports on the help Australian contributions have given to evangelisation and material development in his part of Africa. Below, a report on Catholic Missions' help in Australia.

oima Parish serves more than 30 rural villages. Threnty-seven villages are registered and have a primary school. Some villages are attached to the main ones. The parish has 21 outstations and In each outstation there is a catechist. Goima is in the countryside in Dodoma region. The main occupation is farming In small holding farms or fields and a very small animal husbandry activity keeping cattle, goats and sheep. Climatic conditions are not favourable as the area lies in what is known as the central Tanzania dry belt, with rains only four months a year. As an outreach the parish runs a dispensary and a clinic which help the community with access to health care. The parish also runs a kindergarten. One hundred and twelve children from Goima go to the

kindergarten even though they don't have a classroom. The parish also cares for eight children whose parents are unable to care for them. Electricity and running water are non-existent in Goima. There is an acute shortage of water. There are no natural springs and the water table is very deep. Some attempts have been made to drill for water without success. The parish is planning to build an artificial water dam. The project is huge and it has already been eight years since the project started. The community in Goima have been victim to several diseases because necessary hygiene conditions could not be met. The parish has been educating the people, especially the women who attend monthly sessions at the clinics. Several attempts have been made to appeal for financial support

from various non-government organisations to support the villages in solving their problems, particularly the water shortage. The parish has two priests and five nuns who work as a team in social and spiritual matters. The parish has 5,200 Catholics (most of the population is Muslim, with a few traditional religions). The parish has more than 250 people currently preparing to join the Catholic faith. The parish's pastoral strategy is to start from the grassroots. It encourages families to group themselves by neighbourhood into groups of 5-10 homes. Each week the groups gather together to read the Bible, discuss matters of interest and to pray. The groups or small Christian communities are also used to settle disputes between neighbours. Being a poor parish in a poor community, serving a very large area - the needs are enormous.

Other Tanzanians who have benefited from Australia mission aid: the Mwsinge school in northern Tanzania, which was an advance on the outdoor school seen below.

Broome the main beneficiary

atholic Mission supports the work of local Church communities by providing practical, spiritual and emotional support in 160 developing countries. And Catholic Mission makes an enormous contribution to the support of Australia's own church community as well. One third of the funds raised from Catholic Mission's World Mission Day and Propagation of the Faith Appeals ($1.38m) is distributed to geographically remote dioceses of Australia to maintain the church's presence in these communities and for Aboriginal ministry. Of the 11 dioceses assisted by Catholic Mission, Broome receives the most assistance. This year, the Diocese of Broome received a total of $800,000 for. • The day-to-day running of local Church communities; • The physical support and accommodation of six priests, 10 staff and 28 lay volunteers; • The youth ministry program and the Mirrilingki Spirituality Centre; • 11.aining and education programs for staff and volunteers; • Maintenance and repair of parish buildings; • The upgrading and maintenance of computer systems;

• Travel, fuel and vehicle maintenance costs; and • Use of a plane for pastoral visits and outreach to remote areas of the diocese. "Without the generosity of Australians to Catholic Mission's appeals, these dioceses, particularly Broome, would not be able to provide the same level of outreach and pastoral care to the local Church and Aboriginal communities, which are in some of the remotest parts of Australia," Sheri Sampson, Perth's Diocesan Director of Catholic Mission, said. Catholic Mission also contributed to the support of the Church's work in 160 developing countries last year by distributing $A3.7 million for. • Health, hygiene and nutrition programs; • Education and pastoral care; • Agricultural resources and equipment; • Building schools, orphanages, health clinics and churches; • Education and training to priests, religious men and women, and catechists who care for children and their local communities; and • Educating Australians about the work of mission. PALMS lay missionaries also receive $20,000 from Catholic Mis-

sion to assist with their work of providing lay volunteers to developing countries overseas as well as in Australia. Currently, PALMS has 38 people (including children) serving the world in 10 countries including Australia. PALMS will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year, which also coincides with the celebration of the International Year of Volunteers. Since 1961 PALMS has placed over 1600 people throughout the world. For more information on PALMS phone: Adrian on (02) 9642 0558.

Catholic Missions distribution in Australia. Diocese: Arrnidale $12,000 Broome $800,000 $22,000 Cairns $225,000 Darwin $118,000 Geraldton Lismore $2,000 $13,000 Port Pine Rockhampton $8,000 Toowoomba $15,000 Townsville $110,000 Wilcannia-Forbes $37,000 PALMS $20,000 SA1.382.000 Total:

Catholic Missions aid in Australia in the Broome Diocese: Sr Teresa and Sr Visi with children from the Kalumburu community on an excursion to the beach.

The vegetable garden provides a regular source of food for the local Aboriginal community in Kalumburu, Broome.

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Book Reviezv and Features

They died young in glory The Fatal Englishman, Three Short Lives, by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage) P/b Reviewed by George Russo

With Mary Busher, Perth Catholic Church Archives volunteer

Excerpts froni the WA Catholic Record 20 October, 1900.

The Smith's fete A garden fete at Mr and Mrs Ilandran Smith's Oakleigh home in aid of the Loretto bazaar was a big social event. "Some guests travelled to Oakleigh from Perth by river launch, while a number of drags and buses took others there by road. "Chinese lanterns were hung along the garden walks and the trees were all hung with fairy lights of various colours. "Supper was laid out under the verandahs and a string band located on the lawn played dance music. Younger members of the gathering indulged in dancing while others found plenty of diversion in the spinning jennies and the poker machine."

Who said drink? An editorial thundered: "Sly grog-selling that nevertheless Is not sly, but impudent and brazen, is an evil that imperatively demands repression." This comment was in response to a meeting of a deputation from the Licensed Victuallers' Association and Premier Forrest. Claims were made that slygrog shops on the goldfields greatly outnumbered licensed premises. Kalgoorlie whisky was said to be selling at between two shillings and two shillings and sixpence a bottle and the illegal trade was openly and impudently carried on. The Record noted: "the Premier seemed very sensible of the perplexities of the situation, but in regard to the sly grog shops, all that suggested Itself to him was a Government raid."

Tram power wins A meeting at the Perth ibwn Hall discussed the electric lighting of the city and whether this should be undertaken by the City Council, or supplied by contract with the Electric namways Company. The meeting favoured the Tramways offer and considered the Company was "most deserving of support."

Food, what food? The Record noted: "recent criticisms [of Perth Hospital] included claims of ill-treatment of a man named Rogers who was refused admission and subsequently died. "Another patient said that he would be ashamed to offer his dog the food that was given to him at the hospital."

swaggy's death A York report gave details of the death of a swagman named Marrage and suggested "Christian charity was growing cold." The swagman called at a property seeking employment but was refused and later found dead hi his rug.

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ith the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this is a timely book, intensely moving and beautifully written, that records the remarkable heroism of the fighter pilots during the Second World War. In a very real way these young men - many just out of school or university - sacrificed their young lives to save Britain just as Jesus sacrificed His to save the world. One wonders whether young people today would sacrifice themselves in a Battle of Australia. WhileIrecently taught a year 11 class in a Catholic school - youth not much younger than those who died in the Battle of Britain - one remarked that he "did not see the point of religion." It happened to be the anniversary day of the Battle, so I recounted the story, and the lesson that sacrifice was the whole point of religion, and they had it in the Mass; the realisation of that point was why so many young people sacrificed their lives in the priesthood and religious life. I wonder whether the point was grasped. Back to the book! It is a threepart biography of three English prodigies who died young - a painter, a pilot, and a diplomat. All were Oxford undergraduates whose University careers were halted by the war. But, the leading story, and the one that interests us most on this occasion, is the story of Richard Hilary. His unusual bravery for his country was like that of the martyrs of old in the immense sacrifice and suffering of his young life. Hilary's own book, The Last Enemy, is a classic form which Faulks draws on for his narrative. An Australian who joined the RAF Hilary was shot down over

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the North Sea while engaged in a fight with German fighters. His cockpit filled with flames. The heat was so intense "that I could feel myself going" as he struggled to open a stuck door. "Iremember", he wrote, "a sharp second of agony, remember thinking, `so this is it.' and putting both hands to my eyes. Then I passed out." He was miraculously thrown out

of the spinning Spitfire and regained consciousness in the air and managed to open his parachute. While afloat on the unsafe ocean, he noticed his hands, "all burnt.... the skin dead white and hung in shreds." He felt "sick from the smell of burnt flesh." Eventually he was rescued. But seven months later he was killed in action. Hilary was an intelligent and

sensitive young man who was called up for war service after two years at Oxford. He was blasé about it. He wrote: "The war solved all problems of a career and promised a chance of self-realisation that would normally take years to achieve. As a fighter pilot I hoped for a concentration of amusement, fear and exhilaration which would be impossible to experience in any other form of existence.I was not disappointed." It was those such as Hilary, and other young men, like Cheshire, Bader, and Brickhill (remember 'The Dam Busters?'), whose sacrifices saved Britain. Hilary wrote, "I accept death, It is not danger that Iaccept. It is not combat that I accept. It is death. I have learnt a great truth. War is not the acceptance of danger. It is not the acceptance of combat. For the combatant it is at certain moments the pure and simple acceptance of death." And the poet Browning would agree with him. Especially in his poem, Prospice: Fear death? To feel the fogin my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blast denote Iam nearing the place, The power of the night, thepress of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear In a visible form. Yet the strong man must go. This is a book we should all read and, gratifyingly, it is in paperback, at an affordable price, as is Hilary's own book. The Last Enemy, a Pimlico paperback, with an introduction by Sebastian Faulks. If you can't buy a copy, borrow one from your local library. And if you have to make a choice, choose the original, Hilary's The Last Enemy. You'll find it 'unputdownable.'

Slave Vincent became a friend of the poor

incent de Paul is one of the most important and influential of the 'practical' saints. He was born into a large peasPerth historian Dr Jennifer Skerritt sheds ant family in the town of Puoy, some light on Catholic history to mark 2000 near Bayonne in southwestern years of Christianity. This week France. Although his family had St Vincent de Paul, 1576-1660 to work, they were not destitute. Vincent was sent to be educatas the Congregation of Priests of al nursing. The combination ed by the Franciscans at Dax and the Mission, although they were made it possible to establish hoslater his father sold two of the more commonly called the pitals for the aged, foundling and family oxen to pay for his theo`Lazarists', after their first priory the poor sick logical studies in Toulouse where of Saint Lazarus. Hundreds of babies were abanhe was ordained at the age of Vincent de Paul had many doned in Paris every year. One twenty. Returning to Narbonne by boat, A weathered statue of St Vincent de wealthy friends from his time at day. Vincent encountered a man he was captured by pirates and Paul stands outside a chapel named the French court and through the mutilating a baby so that it would become a more effective beggar; made a slave in Timis. Neverthe- In his honour at Catholic University Gondi family. He also had the truly miracu- a practice which continues in less, he managed to escape to in Washington. Photo: CNS/Nancy Wiechec Rome. Joigny. Working among the peas- lous gift of being able to extract many parts of the world today. He immediately established a When he returned to France he ants on the Gondi estates, Vin- large sums of money from these carried a secret message for the cent discovered how wretched friends, while maintaining their foundling hospital and, as he is often depicted, wandered King, Henry IV, from the court of the lives of the poor in France friendship. He set up the Ladies of Charity around the slums of Paris colRome. Consequently, he was were at that time. The poor knew received by the King and became nothing of God and their clergy for wealthy women, who collect- lecting abandoned children hima chaplain to the queen, Mar- were little better. Vincent imme- ed funds and sponsored good self. causes, but did not necessarily The influence of Vincent de garet de Valois. diately began to teach them. He never forgot his enslaveHuge crowds attended the have any actual contact with the Paul extended to all the religious ment, and it is said that he per- church at Folleville where he poor. This suited both the aristo- of France of his time. cratic ladies and the poor. He also advised the royal famsonally raised the money to preached. Allied with the Ladies of Char- ily. ransom twelve hundred ChristWith the support of the Gondi ian slaves in North Africa. More importantly his influence family, Vincent moved into the ity were the Daughters of ChariFor those who wish to follow priory of Saint Lazare and found- ty (the Sisters of Charity of St has extended to almost every his example, there are still thou- ed a congregation of priests Vincent de Paul), co-founded Catholic parish, in the form of works of charity by the laity. sands of slaves in Africa. devoted to training the clergy and with St Louise de Marillac. These were generally women He was later persuaded, in evangelising the poor of the He was canonised in 1737 and more used to hard physical work in 1885 proclaimed the patron of 1613, to become chaplain to the countryside. In 1632, they received official and less concerned about their all charitable societies by Leo deeply religious Gondi family, led by Philip de Gondi, count of approval from Pope Urban VIII. social position, who did the nein- XIII.

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International News

Family problems highlighted By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Modern threats to the family include government-sponsored sterilisation programs, widespread poverty and a cultural devaluation of maternity, speakers told a Vatican-sponsored International Theological-Pastoral Congress on children and family life. In response, Catholics should support pro-family legislation, work harder to educate their children in the faith, and offer special attention to families with disabled children, the speakers said during the 11-13 October meeting. The congress was designed as a rallying point for family values ahead of the Jubilee for Families, one of the biggest Vatican events of Holy Year 2000. Church officials and lay experts said the modern family was the focus of a political and cultural battle. "Our society is in fact deconstructing the family: in its various stages, in its components, in its ways of living, above all through a culture that is opposed to the values of the Gospel," said Kiko Arguello, founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, a spiritual renewal movement

Janne Haaland Matlary, a former Norwegian government minister who teaches international law, said one big problem was the decreasing respect for motherhood, reflected in falling birth rates, especially throughout Europe. She said individuals and governments should work to erase the social and economic burdens that often lead women to renounce child-bearing. She said there must also be respect for "the right to one's sex life," specifically with regard to interference by States through coercive birth control or mass sterilisation programs. According to Kathryn Hauwa HoomIcwap, a Nigerian who has served on Vatican delegations to UN conferences, poverty was the greatest challenge to the family and humanity, with two-thirds of the world's 6 billion population now counted among the poor. She said the Church should show a bolder commitment to eradicating poverty and spearhead the campaign for debt relief for poor nations. Christine Vollmer Herrera, president of the Latin American Alliance for the Family, said it was Important for the Church to take a leading role in helping parents

Lidia Chavez and Nicolas Segoviano of San Jose, California, are married during Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II last Sunday in St Peter's Square. The Pope witnessed the marriages of eight couples, including an Australian couple from Wagga Wagga, during the Jubilee for Families celebration.

of disabled children. Many disabilities involving brain and neurochemical disturbances can be treated more effectively today, but parents might still find it an almost unbearable burden to deal with the problem alone, she said. Helping such families was a real pastoral opportunity for the

Church, she said. One couple, Elizabeth and Richard Gerbracht spoke about the diminished contribution of grandparents in modern family life. They said grandparents should help teach the youngest members of the family spiritual and ethical values; narrate family, ethnic and

national histories; and in general help them on the road of life. They said that according to the unwritten rules of conventional grandparenting today, many families had instead accepted a much more superficial role for grandparents. Paola Bignardi, president of the Italian lay organisation Catholic Action, said many modern parents tend to talk about their children's problems and solutions without really listening to the children. She encouraged parents not to make children an instrument of their own hopes and dreams, especially those they were unable to realise. She said parents need to get down to a child's level of thinking and experiencing, remembering that Christ told his followers they would not enter the kingdom of heaven unless they accept it as children do. Chiara Lubich, founder of the Rome-based Focolare movement, said parents should remember to make frequent reference to the Gospel in their daily family life. In this way, children grow up knowing how Jesus might have faced times of trouble and problems, she said.

Queen of Australia meets Pope John Paul again Kids: a gift from God, not a right

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Australia, meeting at the Vatican, expressed their hopes that the Jubilee year would bring progress in Christian unity and in assistance to the world's poorest people. The Pope welcomed the Queen to the Vatican last Thesday, 17 October, 20 years to the day after Queen Elizabeth's first meeting with the Pope at the Vatican. After a 20-minute private meeting and the introduction of the Queen's entourage. including Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, the Pope and the Queen exchanged envelopes containing the texts of their speeches written for the occasion, but not read. The 80-year-old Polish Pope wrote to the 74-year-old Queen, "You and I have personally lived through one of Europe's most ter rible wars, and we see clearly the need to build a deep and enduring European unity, firmly rooted in the genuine human and spiritual genius of Europe's peoples." Within Europe and throughout the world, he said, the 54-nation British Commonwealth and the Catholic Church must place their resources at the service of justice and peace. Queen Elizabeth wrote in her speech to the Pope, "I welcome and admire your personal commitment" to the cause of alleviating poverty "For my government, helping the world's poor is a major priority and we are actively supporting faster debt relief for the most

Queen Elizabeth greets Pope John Paul I/at the Vatican last Tuesday, 17 OctoRe,,ters Pr,oto ber.

heavily indebted countries, many uinely expressive of our common spiritual roots," the Pope said. of them in Africa," she said. 'There can be no turning back "The new millennium reminds us all how Christianity has from the ecumenical goal we have shaped so much of our world," set ourselves in obedience to the Lord's command." Pope John Paul the Queen said. "As Christians of the 21st centu- said. The Queen told the Pope, "One ry we are called anew to follow our Lord's teaching and, by stand- of the themes you have set for this ing with those in suffering, need jubilee year is reconciliation and distress, to build a world between different cultures and faith communities. more worthy of its Creator." "Iam pleased to note the imporPope John Paul told the Queen, who is head of the Church of Eng- tant progress that has been made land, that the "sad years of divi- In overcoming historic differences sion" between Catholics and between Anglicans and Roman Anglicans and between the Vati- Catholics," she said. "I trust that we shall continue to can and the United Kingdom have ended, but more must be done to advance along the path which leads to Christian unity." move toward Christian unity. Religion, she said, "may some"In recent years there has emerged between us a cordiality times be a source of division, but more in keeping with the harmo- it can also be a powerful source ny of earlier times and more gen- of healing."

Queen Elizabeth said Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland had made progress toward peace and. "we are most grateful for your help and support for this process." Continued from Page 1 "Many share a sense of real tendency to use practices so is 'The there hope now, although much still to do," the Queen said. which are morally unacceptable Queen Elizabeth wore a black In the generation (of children) wool suit with a black pillbox hat betrays the absurd mentality of and short black veil to her meet- the right to a child," he said. ing with the Pope. "which takes the place of the corAs the Pope escorted her to the rect recognition of the right of a door, the Queen told him she was child to be born and then to grow on her way to the Anglican Cen- in a fully human way." tre, the office of her church's perThe Pope encouraged couples manent representative to the who may not be able to have their Vatican. own children to turn to adoption. She said she hoped to speak a "true exercise of charity that there with some of the British children's well-being places Catholic seminarians studying in needs." parental before Rome at the English College, the Whether conceived naturally or Beda College and the Scots Coladopted, he said, children need lege. At the centre, the Queen met both a mother and father united with Australian Cardinal Edward as one flesh in the sacrament of Cassidy, president of the Pontifi- marriage. cal Council for Promoting Christ"It is not a step forward for civilwith isation to support tendencies that and Unity, ian representatives of the Anglican, place this elementary truth into Episcopal, Methodist and Presby- the shadows and claim to assert terian communities in Rome. themselves legally," said the Pope, Anglican Bishop John Baycroft, an apparent reference to recent director of the Anglican Centre, laws in some countries recognisgave the Queen a leather-bound ing homosexual unions. copy of The Gift of Authority the Appealing to Catholics around most recent document issued by the world to promulgate respect the official Anglican-Roman human for life from the moment CommisInternational Catholic of conception, he expressed hope sion. Students from the Scots College, that governments and internadressed in their traditional purple tional organisations like the Unitcassocks, sang, "Ad Multos ed Nations would come to Annos," a Latin hymn wishing the recognise the truth of the Church's emphasis on the family. Queen many more years of life.

Call to reevaluate definition of poverty to realising potential TAMPA, Fla. (CNS) -- To face the challenges of the 21st century, a top official of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace urged US Catholic Relief Services representatives to re-evaluate the definition of poverty CRS, the US bishops' overseas relief and development agency, opened its 8-15 October World Summit in Tampa with an address by Bishop Diarmuid Martin, sec-

rotary of the pontifical council. "The defin- ple who live there, those in power, the govition of poverty must change," he said. "It ernment and the country's traditions when is not just a lack of funds. It is the inability developing a working model. "We must put people in the centre," he to realise one's own God-given potential said. "In any country where the economy and the exclusion to use that potential." There was no "one-size-fits-all" model to is strong, there is an investment in its peoaddress issues of poverty within every ple. Information technologies can be very effective. Poverty of knowledge is a povernation, the bishop said. CRS must look at each country separate- ty trap door for nations." Bishop Martin suggested that people face ly, he said, and take into account the peo-

more man-made disasters than natural disasters. Inefficient governments, a lack of civil society and situations fuelled by greed result in political and social failures, he said. The reconstruction that must be done after a disaster should not be limited to rebuilding homes, he said. "There needs to be reconstruction of flawed social infrastructures," Bishop Martin said.

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Quick public defence of Dominus Jesus noted By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Few, if any, documents in Pope John Paul ll's pontificate have sparked as much critical reaction as "Dominus lesus," a doctrinal declaration that emphasised the "exclusive, universal and absolute" value of Jesus Christ and said followers of other religions were in a "gravely deficient situation." Equally rare has been the Vatican's swift public defence of the document. In October, Church officials from the Pope on down were lining up to explain the text, rebut the criticisms and defuse the controversy flowing from secular media coverage. Normally, when the Vatican speaks on doctrinal matters even controversial ones - it lets the chips fall and the dust settle. Its officials generally do not go out on the interview circuit to win over public opinion. But "Dominus lesus" was differ-

ent. Issued in early September, it provoked such widespread dismay among other religions, Christian churches and even some Catholics in the pew that the Vatican mounted a counter-offensive. The Vatican was especially sensitive to some critics' suggestion that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's chief doctrinal official who prepared the declaration, was not on the same wavelength as the Pope, who has made dramatic overtures toward other religions and other Christian Churches. Even more troubling was the suggestion that the 80-year-old pontiff might not have been fully aware of the implications of the 36-page doctrinal declaration. It was Pope John Paul himself who made it clear that no wedge would be driven between him and his top doctrinal aide. In a highly unusual statement on 2 October, he said he had wanted the document and stood behind it. The declaration "was

approved by me" and "I feel strongly about" it, he said. This ecclesial version of "the buck stops here" was prominently published in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. A few days later, alongside a four-column photo of the Pope warmly greeting Cardinal Ratzinger, the newspaper ran a 3,000-word interview with the cardinal, under the headline: "Cardinal Ratzinger responds to the critics." The cardinal said he was "annoyed" and disappointed at much of the reaction to the document. No one should take offence at what was simply a statement of what Catholics believe, he said. In his public remarks, the Pope tried to soothe away any ecumenical and interreligious injury, saying the document's intent was certainly not "arrogance" toward non-Catholics. He pointedly called for an acceleration of interreligious dialogue and insisted that the Church's

commitment to ecumenical dialogue was "irrevocable." Cardinal Ratzinger, meanwhile, said he was amazed that so many other Christian leaders missed the document's main point, which was to highlight Christ's saving role. As for being more diplomatic, he said Jesus didn't mince words. "The truth always is bothersome and is never convenient," he said. In more recent days, other Vatican officials like Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, have joined in the chorus, saying critics are misreading the document. The Pope's in-house theologian, Dominican Father Georges Cottier, said" 'The document is not at all against dialogue. On the contrary, dialogue is very much encouraged," he said. The declaration contained many theological nuances, and some early press accounts mistakenly said the Vatican was claiming sal-

vation only for Catholics. In fact, it said others can be saved, but only through a special grace that comes from Christ and which involves, in a mysterious and indispensable way, the Catholic Church. Despite efforts to make the declaration more palatable to nonCatholics and non-Christians, there are signs that the Vatican feels the fallout may be a necessary price to pay in order to place Christ back at the centre of evangelisation. On the heels of "Dominus lesus," a series of articles and speeches appeared, affirming and advancing the declaration's statements. La Civilta Cattolic.a, a Jesuit magazine whose articles are given prior approval at the Vatican, said Christianity "is not only 'a' true religion among others but is 'the' true religion and, therefore, the only religion God willed and wills for all men and women." This is a theme that is here to stay.

Church waits for Israel's yes to Jesus: Ratzinger By Michael Lawton COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said In an interview that the Church is "waiting for the moment when Israel will say yes to Christ." The comment is included in excerpts from a book published In mid-October, a long interview between the 73-year-old German cardinal and journalist Peter Seewald. Excerpts from the book were published in mid-September in the German magazine Focus. Answering the question whether the Jews were still the chosen people of God. Cardinal Ratzinger answered: "That is a much-discussed topic, especially

in recent times. It's quite clear that but makes their approach possi- the workplace in Germany, the kind of opposition ministry." In the Jews have to do with God in a ble. However, it is indeed our cardinal said: "It makes me shud- the last 20 years, he said, there special way, and that God doesn't Christian conviction that Christ is der when women should become have been few decisions on teachlet them drop. It's true, we're wait- also the Messiah of Israel." soldiers just like men, when those ings from the Vatican "which have ing for the moment when Israel Cardinal Ratzinger also con- who are the guardians of peace, not promptly been followed by an will say yes to Christ, but we also firmed the primacy of the and in whom we have seen the abrupt oppositional statement know that, throughout the course Catholic Church over the Protes- power opposing the male will to from the council." of history, precisely in this posi- tant churches. fight and wage war, run around He accused the council of mixtion of standing before the door, it He said that the Catholic Church with machine guns and show they ing politics and faith in an unac(Israel) has had a special mission did not aim at unification through are just as warlike" as the men. ceptable way. which has been of significance takeover, but that faith would lead He also criticised the struggle Too many of the leading figures for the world." to a common Church: "We are for the "right" of women to were prominent politicians, he Cardinal Ratzinger said that, convinced that this one Church become trash-collectors or work said, and, in what is seen as a refalthough Israel remains the cho- already exists in the form of the In mines as not in conformance erence to a conflict over the sen people, it "still has a consid- Catholic Church." with "their greatness, their other- Church's ban on involvement in erable way ahead of it." He argued that the current cri- ness, their dignity." State-approved abortion counBut he rejected any suggestion sis of the Church is not a crisis of In a new afterword to a reprint selling. he said the leaders were that pressure should be put on religion hut a crisis over knowing of a 30-year-old book, Democracy unable to oppose policies in the the Jews to convert: "We must God. Religions, he pointed out, In the Church, to which he had council which they had formerly share in God's patience, and we are springing up everywhere, but contributed, Cardinal Ratzinger supported as politicians. must try to live out the Christian belief in a personal God. "who criticised the main lay organisaHe said the council concerned community in such a way that it speaks and who knows me" is tion in Germany, the Central itself too much with inner-church no longer stands against (the declining. Referring to a recent Council of German Catholics, conflicts instead of bringing the Jews) or is unacceptable to them, legal decision on women's role in which he says "behaves like a Gospel to the people.

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Canonisations ended pilgrimages: bishop HONG KONG (CNS) - A Hong Kong bishop said the canonisation dispute between the Vatican and China has led to suspension of pilgrimage tours from Hong Kong to mainland China. Coadjutor Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kitm of Hong Kong told UCA News, an Asian Church news agency based in Thailand, said on 10 October that several pilgrimage tours to Guangdong province, bordering Hong Kong, were suspended right before the 1 October canonisation of 120 Catholics who were martyred in China. Another tour that had already set out in late September was monitored throughout, he added. Instead of visiting churches, that 11/fechec Catholic group toured sightseeing Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun spots but was followed anyway, he said. ing 87 Chinese martyrs and 33 The Bishop believes the sus- foreign missionaries in China pension of Church exchange who were killed between 1648 activities is a consequence of the and 1930, mostly during the Boxer canonisation, which the Chinese Uprising in 1900. government deemed an insult to Some of the new saints were China and the Chinese people. said to be accomplices of the The Chinese government con- imperialists invading China and demned the Vatican for canonis- the canonisation has offended the The Record, October 19 2000 Page 12

Chinese people and the Chinese government, according to China's Foreign Ministry. On 4 October Bishop Zen wrote to a local Chinese newspaper saying that the central government's Liaison Office in Hong Kong had advised the local Church to keep a low profile in celebrating the canonisation. The request was rejected by Auxiliary Bishop John Tong Hon, who met liaison officers on 18 September. While Bishop Zen considered the Liaison Office's action as "friendly advice" and not an interference in religious freedom in Hong Kong, he told local media days later that pilgrimages to China were suspended and a planned faith exchange program was rejected by the Chinese Government-controlled Patriotic Church. A local travel agency staff member who requested anonymity told UCA News on 9 October that three of their pilgrimage tours to Guangdong were cancelled several days before the departure date.

Estrada has lost moral ascendancy: Archbishop MANILA (UCAN) - The president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines has backed Manila Church leaders' declaration that President Joseph Estrada has "lost his moral ascendancy," and he called for a peaceful and legal solution to the crisis of government. Soon after arriving from Rome, Oblate Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato responded to the 11 October statement of the Presbyteral Council of Manila that urged Estrada to resign in light of charges he profited from illegal gambling. "At the Jubilee of Bishops in Rome [during 6-81 October and on the days afterwards, we followed the revelations of [confessed gambling operator] Governor Luis Singson of Ilocos Sur with great concern," Archbishop Quevedo wrote on 13 October. "What we had feared all along the involvement of top government officials in widespread and rampant gambling - had finally been corroborated by one of the principal (players)," he said. Archbishop Quevedo, one of some 75 Philippine bishops who

went to Rome for the jubilee celebration, led the Church's fight against illegal gambling as Archbishop from 1986-1998 of Nueva Segovia, which covers Ilocos Sur province. While the Archbishop was in Rome, Singson confessed at Senate hearings that he operated an illegal numbers game in his province and that Estrada received US $8.58 million from the gambling operations. The governor also alleged that he gave the president 130 million pesos from tax rebates that were supposed to go to northern Philippine tobacco fanners. Archbishop Quevedo wrote, "We have no reason to doubt the revelations of Governor Singson. No matter his motivations, he knows what he is speaking about. He has confessed his own responsibility. In the process he has implicated the President." He called "morally reprehensible" the "many scandals" that have surrounded Estrada since the former vice-president assumed the presidency in 1998. "This latest involvement is the most serious and places the presidency in moral disarray," he said.

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Patriarch urges justice In Brief JERUSALEM (CNS) - As spinowhere that it should remain a ralling violence in the Middle East - land of hatred and blood. On the brought Israelis and Palestinians contrary, in the mercy of God, this to the brink of all-out war, Church land is determined to be a land of leaders appealed for a change of redemption and love." heart and a return to the negotiThe parish priest in Ramallah, ating table. West Bank, expressed sadness In Jerusalem, Latin-rite Patriarch after the mob attack on the Israeli Michel Sabbah called on 13 Octosoldiers and the retaliatory Israeli ber for "forgiveness and redempmissile attack tion" and said justice for "Iam sad for my people and am Palestinians was the only way to even sad for the Israelis killed break the chain of violence. because they are also human At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II beings," said Father Ibrahim made an impassioned appeal for Hijazin, who watched as the misan immediate end to the new siles were launched from Israeli wave of fighting, which left 100 helicopters hovering over the city. people dead and thousands "The killing is not good, andIdo injured. not support that; they can "With great anguish," he said on imprison (the soldiers) and 11 October following his weekly Israeli Border Police stand watch over thousands of Palestinians kneeling in exchange them with Palestinian Photo. CNSIReuteis general audience, "we are follolA - prayer in Jerusalem on 13 October. prisoners.... but most of our peoing the serious tension in the Mid- were Palestinians or Arab Israelis. ty and security in it for all, Pales- ple had been in a funeral procesdle East, once again shaken by Fighting escalated dramatically tinians and Israelis alike," said the sion, and when you have a child events that have caused numer- after a Palestinian mob in the patriarch. "Why did the Palestini- killed, what do you expect?" he ous victims and have not even West Bank city of 1Ramallah beat ans revolt?' he said. said. spared holy places." two Israeli soldiers to death on 12 "To say: enough promises, and A 10-year-old Palestinian boy The Pope called on both sides to October. to the delaying of promises as died on 12 October from injuries end the conflict and take up the In reprisal, Israel fired rockets at much as to hesitations. The ques- suffered during the clashes. "path of dialogue in order to find Palestinian targets in Ramallah tion today is not a question of Members of the Israel Interfaith again the joy of being children of and Gaza City. mere troubles or public disorder Association expressed their "deep God, their common father." The same day, a terrorist bomb which should be tamed. This sorrow and pain" that Jerusalem, The violence erupted on 28 Sep- blast killed 17 US sailors and vision will only make violence a the "most sacred place for the tember when Ariel Sharon, an wounded 30 others in Yemen. permanent fact in this Holy Land. Abrahamic religions, and a symOn 16 October, Israeli and Pales- The true question is that of a peo- bol for the source of their one Israeli politician, visited a Jerusalem site holy to Muslims tinian leaders met in Egypt to try ple kept hostage asking for his belief and (what) unites them," and Jews under the protection of and find a way out of the crisis. freedom." has turned into one of the causes Patriarch Sabbah, speaking to riot police. Thus, he said, courageous mea- of recent bloodshed. The visit, which Palestinians saw members of Jerusalem's 13 Chris- sures should be taken in order to The Palestinian-Israeli clashes, as a provocation and a defilement tian churches a few hours after restore this freedom. they said, are "in total contradic"This is the way to start a new tion to the spirit of the Abrahamof the religious compound. the Israeli soldiers were beaten to sparked riots throughout Israel death, said that "violence must era which corresponds to the ic religions and to their and the Palestinian territories. never be our goal nor our des- vocation of this holy land," he commandments in regard with Israeli soldiers responded with tiny." "Our destiny is the freedom said. -This is a holy land, a land the relations between all those gunfire; almost all those killed In our land, and hence tranquilli- of faith and prayer. It is written created in the image of God."

Catholic 'Asian Mandela' on history's right side SEOUL South Korea (CNS) South Korean President Kim Daejung. who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize, has credited his Catholic faith for helping him through periods of torture and Imprisonment. Kim, whose baptismal name is Thomas More, converted to Catholicism as an adult in the late 1950s. Under previous government administrations, he faced kidnapping, exile, the death penalty and beatings. He once said that when faced with the threat of death and Imprisonment, "I was able to remain peaceful and firmly resolved in my mind to face the threat of death because of my resolute faith in the risen Jesus Christ and my belief in the existence of the living God." Kim won the Nobel Peace Prize for his persistent peace efforts with North Korea and his commitment to human rights and democracy. While the Korean conflict 50 years ago ended in an armed

truce and not a peace agreement, North and South Korea have made steps toward peace. The two Koreas have held reunions of families separated during the Korean War, agreed to re-link railroads and roads cut off during the conflict, and ordered the two armies to work together to clear land mines on the border. At their landmark summit in Pyongyang, North Korea, in June, Kim embraced North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. During much of the country's past four decades of military dictatorships, Kim. 74, sometimes described as "Asia's Mandela," was under house arrest, imprisoned or in exile. In 1997, he became the first opposition candidate to win the South Korean presidency. He lost three previous bids for the presidency, in 1971, 1987 and 1992. In 1995, while speaking at a Lenten lecture hosted by the Seoul Archdiocese, Kim spoke of his faith in the face of death. In his lecture, fitted "Jesus Christ, Risen

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Lord and Reunification," Kim also outlined a three-stage plan for reunification that he said could be accomplished by 2020. The day after his election, Kim proposed holding direct talks

with communist North Korea. An outspoken critic of the 1963-79 rule of South Korean President Park Chung Hee and the other right-wing governments that ruled South Korea since 1961, Kim called the Catholic Church "the centrifocal point of the spiritual struggle against the Park dictatorship." During his unsuccessful run against Park in the 1971 campaign, Kim suffered a serious hip injury in an automobile accident, which was later acknowledged to be a secret-police assassination attempt. The accident left him with a limp and chronic neuralgia. After Park declared martial law in the fall of 1972, Kim lived in the US until 1973, and again from 1982 to 1985. During his exile, Kim founded the Korean Institute for Human Rights in the US. In a 1999 interview with the British news agency Reuters, Kim said he has been motivated by the sense that he is on the right side of history.

Vatican backs amendments against child slavery By Tracy Early UNITED NATIONS (CNS) - The Vatican said on 11 October it has signed additions to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help children affected by armed conflict and to protect them from being sold or sexually exploited. In a statement at the United Nations' headquarters in New York, Mgr Francis Chullikatt of the Vatican's UN mission announced that the two protocols had been signed on 10 October. He said the protocols "reflect the strong international moral consensus that those who perpetrate or seek to profit from armed conflicts Involving children, or those willing to exploit children for sexual purposes, violate the

inalienable rights and dignity of children." In 1990, the Vatican became one of the first signers of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the UN General Assembly had voted the previous year. Later in 1990, the United Nations held a World Summit for Children, and Mgr Chullikatt called attention to the special session that will be held next September to review progress on the goals set there. "Let us build upon the success of that gathering and exercise the necessary political will to eliminate all threats to the rights of children," he urged. Mgr Chullikatt discussed the protocols in a statement delivered to a General Assembly committee that is reviewing work to promote and protect the rights of children. He endorsed an assertion in a report by UN

Secretary-General Kofi Annan that "the family is the most effective unit for meeting the needs and protecting the rights of children during periods of armed conflict." Although the Vatican has charged UNICEF with promoting contraception and abortion, and in 1996 announced it would no longer make the symbolic gifts it had been giving UNICEF, Mgr Chullikatt's statement commended UNICEF for its work against sexual exploitation of children. However, he said that additional legal measures were needed to deal with the issue more fully. In armed conflict, the Vatican representative said, children are "often separated from their families- and then become vulnerable to forced recruitment as child soldiers or sexual slaves.

Priests die in UK

ROME (CNS) - Two English priests died of Legionnaire's disease after arriving home from a jubilee pilgrimage to Rome, where they stayed at the English seminary and at a villa owned by the seminary. Father Nicholas Hudson, vice rector of the English College in Rome, said on 13 October the college was still awaiting the result of tests to determine if the priests caught the disease at the college. A layman travelling with the priests also contracted the disease. Father Anthony Foulkes, 71, of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Blackpool, died on 4 October, and Father Harry Parker. 73, of St Wilfrid Parish, Ripon. died on 9 October.

Polish ballot OK WARSAW Poland (CNS) - A spokesman for Poland's bishops' conference said the Church respected the outcome of the presidential elections, which showed the Church was "gradually finding its place in a democratic system." But several bishops voiced disappointment over the ballot. which brought a landslide victory for the current head of State, a former Communist. "The Church respects the choice made by Poles in these frec presidential elections and hopes President Aleksander Kwasniewsld will honour his campaign promise to be a president for all Poles. Catholics included, during his second term," said the bishops' spokesman, Jesuit Father Adam Szulc.

Militant YCW call VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican secretary of state called on young Christians to be "militant" in workplace evangelisation. In a message to a 10-26 October meeting of the International Co-ordinating Committee of Young Christian Workers in El Escorial, Spain, Cardinal Angelo Sodano said the group had remained faithful to the vision of its founder. Belgian Father Joseph Cardijn. In the text, published at the Vatican on 10 October, the cardinal said that in promoting Young Christian Workers' groups. "each young person will be able to act as a militant In the workplace, as a lay person fully committed to the cause of the Gospel."

Missionary dead VAIICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II praised a murdered Italian missionary in Burundi for her work in the war-torn African country. In a 16 October telegram. the Pope offered his prayers for Sister Gina Simionato. saying that she "dedicated herself to the Burundian people." Sister Gina, a member of the Institute of the Sisters of St Dorothy, was shot dead in an armed attack on 15 October as she and other nuns were on their way to Sunday Mass in Gihiza. She was 55. A Burundian nun was wounded in the hand, reported the Rome missionary news agency MISNA.

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On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church

Christ, the 'Kingdom, the Church are one The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's Declaration "Dominus Jesus' on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church' was made public on Tuesday, 5 September. The Record is serialising the official Vatican English translation so "all the Catholic faithful", to whom the declaration is addressed as well as bishops and theologians, may read the saving and liberating teaching for themselves. This week: The Church: Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Christ.

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They stress the image of a Church which is not concerned about herself, but which is totally concerned with bearing witness to and serving the kingdom. It is a 'Church for others,' just as Christ is the 'man for others' . . . . Together with positive aspects, these conceptions often reveal negative aspects as well. First, they are silent about Christ: the kingdom of which they speak is 'theocentrically' based, since, according to them, Christ cannot be understood by those who lack Christian faith, whereas different peoples, cultures, and religions are capable of finding common ground in the one divine reality, by whatever name it is called. For the same reason, they put great stress on the mystery of creation, which is reflected in the diversity of cultures and beliefs, but they keep silent about the mystery of redemption. Furthermore, the kingdom, as they understand it, ends up either leaving very little room for the Church or undervaluing the Church in reaction to a presumed 'ecclesiocentrism' of the past and because they consider the Church herself only a sign, for that matter a sign not without ambiguity". (76) These theses are contrary to Catholic faith because they deny the unicity of the relationship which Christ and the Church have with the kingdom of God. Next week: The Church and the other Religions in relation to Salvation. Footnotes: (68) Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium. 5. (69) Ibid.. 1. (70) Ibid., 4. Cf St Cyprian, De Dominica

he mission of the Church is "to proclaim and establish among all peoples the kingdom of Christ and of God, and she is on earth, the seed and the beginning of that kingdom". (68) On the one hand, the Church is "a sacrament - that is, sign and instrument of intimate union with God and of unity of the entire human race". (69) She is therefore the sign and instrument of the kingdom; she is called to announce and to establish the kingdom. On the other hand, the Church is the "people gathered by the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit"; (70) she is therefore "the kingdom of Christ already present In mystery" (71) and constitutes its seed and beginning. The kingdom of God. in fact, has an eschatological dimension: it is a reality present In time, but its full realisation will arrive only with the completion or fulfilment of history. (72) The meaning of the expressions kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God, and kingdom of Christ in Sacred Scripture and the Fathers of the Church, as well as in the documents of the Magisterium, is not always exactly the same, nor is their relationship to the Church, which is a mystery that cannot be totally contained by a human concept. Therefore, there can be various theological explanations of these terms. However, none of these possible explanations can deny or empty in any way the intimate connection between Christ, the kingdom, and the Church. • In fact, the kingdom of God which we know from revelation, "cannot be detached either from Christ or from the Church.." "If the kingdom is separated from Jesus, It is no longer the kingdom of God which he revealed. "The result is a distortion of the meaning of the kingdom, which runs the risk of being transformed into a purely human or Ideological goal and a distortion of the Identity of Christ, who no longer appears as the Lord to whom everything must one day be subjected (cf. 1 Cor 15:27). "Likewise, one may not separate the kingdom from the Church. It is true that the Church is not an end unto herself, since she is ordered toward the kingdom of God, of which she is the seed, sign and instrument. "Yet, while remaining distinct from Christ and the kingdom, the Church is indissolubly united to both". (73) o state the inseparable relationship between Christ and the kingdom is not to overlook the fact that the king-

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dom of God - even if considered in its his- It. Building the kingdom means working torical phase - is not identified with the for liberation from evil in all its forms. In a word, the kingdom of God is the manifesChurch in her visible and social reality. In fact, "the action of Christ and the Spir- tation and the realisation of God's plan of it outside the Church's visible boundaries" salvation in all its fullness". (75) In considering the relationship between must not be excluded. (74) Therefore, one must also bear.in mind the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Christ, that "the kingdom is the concern of every- and the Church, it is necessary to avoid one: individuals, society and the world. one-sided accentuations, as is the case with Working for the kingdom means acknowl- those "conceptions which deliberately edging and promoting God's activity, which emphasise the kingdom and which is present in human history and transforms describe themselves as 'kingdom centred.'

(71) Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium. 3. (72) a ibid., 9; cf. also the prayer addressed to God foundin the Didache 9.4: SC 248. 178: "May the Church be gathered from the ends of the earth into your kingdom" and ibid. 10.5: SC 248. 180: "Remember. Lord. your Church... and, made holy, gather her together from the four winds into your kingdom which you have prepared for her". (73) John Paul II. Encyclical Letter Redemptoris missio. 18: cf. Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia, 17: L'Osservatore Romano (November 7, 1999). The kingdom is so inseparable from Christ that. In a certain sense, it is identified with him (cf Origen. In Mt. Horn., 14, 7: PG 13, 1197; Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem, IV, 33,8: CCSL 1. 634. (74) John Paul IL Encyclical Letter Redemptoris missio. 18. (75) Ibid., 15. (76) ibid., 17.

Stepping out on the path of Faith LifeLink welfare appeal set Continued from Page 14 of education in RE, Fr Holohan said that in order Continued from Page 3 "The positive response to this gathering pro- for Religious Education to be considered 'good' "But they all know that in order to vides us as a group with greater opportunity for It must be seen as being educationally sound. have a harvest they must grow wheat; networking and sharing ideas, implementing "To be good education, RE must be informed the grain must fall into the ground strategies and introducing approaches to the by the best of educational practice and be con- and dies and then it produces a great challenges we face," she said. sistent with the students' learning and faith harvest. As the key presenter at the conference, Fr Ger- readiness," he added. "More grain must be put back into ard Holohan. the Director of Religious Education The final day of the conference saw presenter the soil otherwise there is no harvest. in Western Australia, explored the issues of evan- Carmel Snarl from the Perth Archdiocesan Cat"We must give up ourselves for othgelisation, religious education and catechesis. echist Service explore the issues and implica- ers as the only way we can be transIn the first session entitled Revelation and the tions for family catechesis. formed into life-giving agents." Signs of our Times, Fr Holohan introduced the The Church's welfare work for the Association President Sharyn Byrne (Diocese delegates to the meaning of revelation and the needy fitted into this idea of self-sacof Parramatta) then facilitated a group discusneed to establish an effective relationship with rifice. sion addressing ACCDAs objectives and major God in order to share His presence with young The Archbishop said, "If we simply goals for the future. people. live for ourselves, then nothing hapThe Australian CCD Association was formed in pens, no good is done; so it is with the During session two entitled Evangelisation, the 1992 and met for the first time in Sydney in Church in the world. delegates looked at the Word as a creating, December of that year. revealing and assembling power. "We look around and see our brothThe first meeting was attended by six delegates ers and sisters; there are many ways In the second part of the session, Fr Holohan explained what is -neant by Evangelisation and from the Brisbane, Canberra-Goulburn, Sydney, of caring for our neighbour, our brothParramatta, Perth and Adelaide Dioceses. the role it plays across all strata of society ers and sisters. Some people have More commonly referred to as the RE State prayer and contemplation," . .. "some The relationship between catechesis and religious education was explored in the last of the Schools' Network, ACCDA has a number of key priests do this." sessions, with Fr Holohan stating the two were aims including the provision of an AustraliaOthers will be called to the vocation complementary. Commenting on the importance wide support network for its members. of education, others to the vocation of The Record, October 19 2000 Page 14

service, especially to people M great need. Children, marriages in trouble are helped, people with mental or psychiatric illness are helped - people can find a welcome and practical assistance. "People can find the love of Christ, especially in their brothers and sisters in Christ," Archbishop Hickey said. "We still make up one body; St Paul said all the parts make up one body and are very different." Archbishop Hickey urged people in the parishes to inspire fellow parishioners to support the appeal. "I hope you will [focus] on the message of the Gospel and the special call to help one another, in the name of the Church," he said. Archbishop Hickey then commissioned and blessed the parish representatives for his 2000 Christmas Appeal for LifeLink.

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St Jude's parish, 20 Prendiville Way. Langford, will celebrate the annual Feast of its Patron, on Saturday, 28 Oct, with a Mass of healing and blessing of the sick at 6.30pm. All are invited to attend and enjoy a cuppa afterwards in the Parish Centre. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Next pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook, on Sunday, 29 Oct, at 2pm, with Rosary, homily, Benediction and blessing of the sick. Midday Mass is celebrated every Sunday with Reconciliation at 11.30am. New phone No. 9277 5378 for bus bookings from Perth, Highgate and Midland. Contact SACRI on 9447 3292. C ARLISLE 25TH ANNIVERSARY Holy Name Church, Carlisle, invites present and past parishioners and friends to attend this Jubilee celebration on Wednesday, 8 Nov, with concelebrated Mass at 9am followed by morning tea in the Parish Hall. Please bring a plate of finger food. BULLSBROOK CELEBRATIONS The 50th anniversary of the dogmatic definition

of the Assumption into Heaven of Our Lady will be celebrated on the Feast of All Saints, Wednesday. 1 Nov, at the Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation with Rosary and Reconciliation at 10.30am, Mass at 11am, concluding with the Angelus. See notice above. UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY An afternoon to know the Eastern wing of the Catholic Church at our own parish in Maylands. Sunday, 29th Oct at 3pm - see the beauty of our icons and sanctuary. hear an address on the icons and the Ukrainian Rite, participate in the centuries-old Akathist hymns of praise. St John the Baptist Ukrainian parish church, 20 Ferguson St, Maylands. Inquiries: 9202 1300 MASS FOR BABIES WHO DIED BEFORE BAPTISM Fri 27 Oct, 7.30pm at Our Lady of Grace Church, Kitchener St, North Beach, to grieve, pray, name and farewell those little ones who died before Baptism. Information: Nazarethcare 9447 4144 or Pastoral Office 9448 4888. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION AT ST LAWRENCE PARISH The Balcatta Parish will be holding a 40-hour Eucharistic Adoration to celebrate Jubilee Year 2000. It begins 6am, Fri 10 Nov and concludes 10pm Sat 11 Nov. All parish groups and parishioners are invited. Come and pray for your families. the parish family and the Church. ADDICTION SUPPORT GROUP Cross Roads Community is holding a weekly support group for the addicted and those recovering from addictions. These will be held each Thursday afternoon from 1.30-3pm at 26 East St. East Fremantle. All are welcome. For inquiries phone Glenda 9319 8344. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW A four-week course to be held on Thursdays, Nov 9 to 30, at the Catholic Education Office, Leederville, 10am to 12.30pm. Information: Jan O'Connor on 9212 9236. WELCOME BACK MASS AT RIVERVALE Sun 29 Oct, 9.30am, St Augustine's Church, Rivervale. Ex-parishioners, past pupils and "inactive" Catholics are invited to this Mass as part of our Jubilee 2000 celebrations. Refreshments to follow Mass.

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WORLD MISSION DAY 2000 par month will... Assist Parish oulleach to abandoned, sir* mothers in Aims in the PhilWines.

per month VAIL Assist the being of street kids by Parish volunteers in Sri Lanka.

per month will... Assist the training of caledests for ouweach to ranee villages in PNG.

per month will... Help to build a new Chink and community centre for a small coininurity in Africa.

Move: Fr Tony Martyn, National Director of Catholic Mission in Sri Lanka with some of the young children from the community in Baduila.

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