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he year of Jubilee is building to its climax. This will occur on 25th December, the 2000th anniversary of Christ's birth. All this year Christians have remembered the simple and humble coming of Christ on earth long ago in the stable of Bethlehem. an event that has had a profound and irreversible impact on the whole world. The Incarnation has changed everything. All this year we have marvelled at the extent of God's love in sending us his only Son to be our Saviour.

tices wherever we found them. We have gone on pilgrimages to remind ourselves that we are on a journey to the Father's house, Like the Prodigal Son. We have taken the tirne to pray, to reflect, to restore our spiritual energies - in other words, to take a 'Sabbatical*. Having passed through the Holy Door, we prayerfully followed the call of jubilee in our Parishes and in our communities. Now we are called to come together as a great Catholic family to praise Christ the King with one voice on Sunday 26th November.

The world cannot be the same I invite all Catholic people now that God has dwelt among us in the 1Perth Archdiocese and in the person of Jesus. their friends to come to SubiThis year we have also meditataco Oval by 3.45pm for a pubed upon the themes of Jubilee, lic demonstration of Faith. striving to restore everything in Many people have been workChrist, to be reconciled personally with God, to be reconciled with ing behind the scenes to help us one anOther and to redress injus- make this celebration a memo-

jubilee trumpets By Peter Rosengren It's going to be bigger than Ben Hur, and a blare of trumpets sounding at various locations thmughout Perth will signal the beginning of the spectacular celebration for the solemn Feast of Christ the King at Subiaco Oval on 26 November. Well-known Channel Ten newsreader Greg Pearce will be a presenter for the celebration together with Sarah McNeill, the scriptwriter for the evening's events. Mr Pearce will complete a `trifecta' of commercial television involvement in the celebrations: Channels Seven and Nine are also providing images and sub-text for the giant television screen at the oval. Organisers are also deploying a radio advertising campaign next week leading • the big event. tip to And, when the trumpets sound, the moment will fulfil the very word signifying the year called-by Pope John Paul II to celebrate 2,000 years since the birth of fesus Christ - jubilee. 'Jubilee,' the official term given to the Year 2000 by the Pope - and to other past holy years by John Paul II's predecessors in the See of Peter - comes from the Hebrew woni A jobel was the ram's horn used in lical times by the Jews as a trumpet to call ihe people to celebration. So when Perth Catholic secondary stu-

rable and spiritually uplifting experience of our common faith. A mighty combined schools' choir will lead the singing and the giant screen at the football oval will bring us together in praise. If we can fill the stadium for football. we can surely fill it for Christ the King. There are not many occasions when the whole Church comes together. For most of us. our Parish is where we worship God and find our friends in the Faith. Now, in this Jubilee year, we can bring all the parishes together, all the schools together, all the Religious Communities together in an act of solidarity with Christ our King. Perhaps, when we recognise how many spiritual brothers and sisters we have, of all ages, we will realise that we can have a profound effect on our society.

We can be witnesses to the supremacy of God in the way we live, we can remind the world of the duty to pray and to worship God, we can draw people away from society's dangerous attempts to live without God.

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Seeing so many gathered together will give us confidence that the anti-religious forces that are so vocal at present cannot and will not suppress the Christian beliefs nor the Christian voice.

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We are charged with carrying out the Mission of the Church to evangelise the world. Our common witness on the Feast of Christ the King wiLl fill us with enthusiasm for the task as we enter the Third Millennium. I look forward to seeing you at Subiaco on Sunday 26th November. Most Rev BIHickey Archbishop of Perth 14 November 2000

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dents pick up their modern-day horns - ey and Perth Noongar elder Ben Taylor trumpets - at 4pm next Sunday to sound will walk through a Holy Door erected the official beginning of the celebration, especially for the everting. Mr Taylor will they will be following a tradition thou- give a welcome to Aboriginal land. sands of years old. The Church is also using commercial Six trumpets will sound starting from radio to invite Catholics along to the celeprominent locations at St Mary's Cathe- bration. dral in Victoria Square, Council House, Archbishop Barry Hickey and Brian the Barracks Arch, King's Park, the Coyne, a member of the Archbishop's Catholic Education Office and at the Subi- Committee for the Great Jubilee, have aco Oval itself. written a radio advertisement to air from Each trumpeter will be sounding the Sunday 19 November in Perth. striking notes of Australian Fanfare to call Mr Coyne told The Record last Monday: his or her fellow Western Australians to "We went to the experts in radio commucelebrate the Jubilee. nication in Perth and told them the audiAfter the final notes of the initial volley ence we wanted to get to with a general have died away, another nine trumpets Jubilee message, and the specific message will sound out in response from Subiaco of the 26 November event Oval by playing Sound the Trumpet -They looked at all the information and By this time, planners believe the Oval advised us to have a concentrated onewill have thousands of people from all week campaign on the twp highest rating over Perth and farther afield gathered on Ii [I iiiluu [I the ground and in its stands awaiting the commercial stations - 94.5 and PM FM and to also run it on stations 6P11, 61X and celebrations. Sonshine FM. The six student trumpeters chosen to "The main audience we are trying to start the commemoration rolling are: reach are families with young children. Samantha Touchell from Seton Catholic College, Thomas Reid from Mazenod Col- and we will reach approximately 345,000 lege, Lisa Dastlik from Sacred Heart Col- on each of the two big stations and smalllege, Connie Cirillo from Ursula Frayne er audience pockets on the others." It can also be heard on the Internet by College, 'Ilistan Cockman from Mercy College and ninity College's Jarrad Mar- logging on to the website address: www.newmangrad.org.au/-jubilee.html shall. On centre stage Archbishop Barry HickEditorial - Page 7

Tristan Cockman of Mercy Collegepractices his trumpet `blawr outside the PerifiCity Council offices last week.

Pope urges banks to promote human factor By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II said banks must look beyond their own profits and make sure their financial services promote "the human factor" in local communities. Addressing some Z500 employees of the Banco di Roma at the Vatican on 11 November, the Pope said banking could not be divorced from ethical values that guide all areas of social life. "If a bank aims only to pursue the maximum profit for itself, ignoring these higher values, it no longer acts as an instrument of growth and development for the community, but instead as a burden and a hindrance," he said. 'The Church's doctrine affirms the priority of the human factor over the financial and credit-related goals of every banking institute," he said. The Pope said that in today's rapidly changing financial world.

Operation's implications thorn ng' The WA Coalition for the Defence of Human Life has condemned the operation at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester in the UK which separated Siamese twins. The CDHL. an alliance of 22 pro-life groups and crisis pregnancy counselling organisations, said the operation which killed one of the twins known as "Mary" had "horrifying implications." CDHL secretary, Dr Ted Watt, said: "There are many thousands of people whose lives might be extended if other "less valuable" people who are unconscious, brain-damaged etc - but who have healthy organs - could be killed and their organs 'donated': "They can't speak for themselves or defend themselves either, and we can no longer he sure that doctors or judges will speak for or defend them." Dr Watt said the case showed what happens when doctors and judges "act on their preposterous notions that some human lives are more valuable than others; we get a profound corruption of the law and medical practice." "What was done in Manchester was quite literally judicial murder," Dr Watt said. "Let's be clear about this," he said, "Jodie's life has been saved - if she survives - only by deliberately killing Mary" Although the twins had a fused spinal cord only Jodie had a heart and lungs. Dr Watt said a statement by the hospital's spokeswomen had been hypocritical. "She said 'Unfortunately, despite all the efforts of the medical team, Mary died.' "Of course she died - her blood supply had been cut off. The medical team had cut it off." He said that Lord Justice Ward of Britain's High Court, one of the judges who ruled in favour of the operation, had accurately described the case as involving murder. But having asked the right question - whether it was right to sacrifice Mary for Jodie's life - the judge had given the wrong answer. "He seems to imagine that the power of an English judge extends to declaring that murder, described as murder, is lawful," Dr Watt said.

Pope John Paul 11 leans on his crozier during Mass for the Jubilee for Farmers on 12 November in St Peter's Square. CNS/Recers

many people are unable to take advantage of the various forms of financial sery ices offered by banks. Sometimes it is even diffi-

cult for them to make informed choices that allow them to protect their life savings, he said. Banks should make sure that their professional services are accessible to all their clients, he added. The Pope also warned that whenever banks fall short in their role as creditors, the "perverse spiral" of usury, the practice of illegal lending at high interest rates, is encouraged. The Pope said this deviant form of credit was capable of doing great damage to small businesses and entire families. Usury, although in decline, remains a common practice in parts of southern Italy. Its popularity was blamed in part on the relatively high interest rates banks charged for loans until recent years. Meanwhile, the Pope thanked the Bank of Rome employees for their collaboration with the Central Jubilee Committee, and espe-

dally for their contribution during World Youth Day in August. Pointing out that the "scope of a credit institution such as yours is to administer in a prudent manner the resources entrusted to you in order to support the economic activity of families, businesses, institutions and organisations which ask for your mediation," the Pope stated that their work "assumes a relevant social value." He highlighted "the importance of the banking system and the responsibility of those who administer it. "A banking institution cannot fail to make reference to the ethical values which direct various aspects of human action," the Pope said. "If banks aim solely at pursuing maximum profits for themselves, . . . . they do not present themselves as instruments of growth and development for the community," he said, "but rather as an

element which weighs down or puts the brake [on activity]." The Holy Father stressed that "the Church's doctrine affirms the priority of the human factor in the financial and credit aims of every banking institution." "Unfortunately," he observed," one cannot hide the fact that even today there are deviant forms of credit." "I have already on many occasions underlined the difficulties and discomforts in which the victims of speculation linked to illicit forms of credit find themselves," he said. "A responsible banking institution." the Holy Father pointed out, "can certainly do a great deal in such an atmosphere." In concluding remarks, John Paul II urged the employees to "continue to offer solid support to all serious initiatives in favour of persons in difficulty, of young people and of volunteer work."

Manning plots its future St Pius X parish, Manning, held a standing-room-only parish planning workshop last Saturday afternoon in its parish centre. The afternoon was an opportunity to build community and to share understandings of collaborative ministry and leadership. The characteristics of a strong and healthy parish were identified to help parishioners to work towards such ministry and leadership. Those at the meeting put in place a structure, based on "best practice" for parish organisation, to support parish priest, Father rim Corcoran, in his role as parish priest. The parish hopes to encourage parishioners use their God-given gifts to help spread the Gospel message in their daily lives. Fr Corcoran told parishioners in an introductory letter earlier this year he would exercise a collaborative ministry, which he believes can only be achieved through a "vibrant, faith-filled parish community" and its various groups and committees. "We are all servants in God's Kingdom, not slaves," he wrote. "We are commissioned by God to build a community that has unity and diversity - not confor-

Manning parishioners meet to plan best practice as a parish for the future.

mity alone, which leads to no growth. "I like to see all church ceremonies as welcoming, friendly and sacred events. "We leave our hang-ups, cares and hassles outside the door. "....many of you have been part of a Catholic community at some time but may have become alienated for various reasons - marriage break-up and may have remarried out of the Church, too busy, lost contact or hurt by some

aspect of the Church's teaching." Fr Corcoran said. "Whatever the reasons, this year of the Jubilee 2000 is a time to wipe the slate clean; a Jubilee Year is meant to be a time to sit back and take stock of our lives." His "vision for the children within the parish is for them to grow and develop a strong spiritual base from which to work for the rest of their lives, and wherever they go . . . to have good memories of their time at St Pius X."

Organisers of the weekend believe the Collaborative Ministry program recognises that every person has different gifts; that no person has every gift; that we are called as Christians to use our gifts to spread the Gospel; and that parishioners are called on to develop and nurture the gifts of others. "Collaborative Ministry begins from a fundamental desire to work together because we are called by the Lord to be a company of disciples, not isolated Individuals," the weekend's organisers said. "It grows through a mutual process of conversion and formation. It also requires a willingness to face and work through conflict because of the attraction and value of a common good, supported by an awareness of participating in the work of the Spirit in the Church." To ensure that the whole parish Is informed, not just those in attendance on 11 November, Fr Corcoran spoke about the topics discussed last Saturday at all the parish's weekend Masses. The parish council will prepare a letter for all parishioners to be issued in December. - Glynnis Grainger

Employers, union optimistic on schools' negotiations By Peter Rosengren The possibility of industrial action by non-teaching staff in the State's Catholic education system receded late last Friday, 10 November, after talks between the Catholic Education Office of WA and unions. Non-teaching staff in Catholic schools had discussed going on strike the previous day and protested that day outside the Catholic Church offices in Victoria Square. The earlier talk of a strike had come despite the offer of a 15.5 per cent wage rise from Catholic Catholic schools non-teaching staff protest outside the Church offices. employers. However, both employer and ation. ISSOA secretary Theresa An averaging clause to the prounion sources told The Record Howe told The Record on Thurs- posed agreement would reduce this week that they were opti- day the protest came after eight entitlements for staff already mistic of progress being made months of negotiations between unpaid for up to eight weeks of after last Friday's meeting. the union and the CEO over an the year. Earlier, the ancillary staff said Enterprise Bargaining Agreement It said that some proposed they had been handed an "unac- (EBA) for non-teachers in Catholic reductions "are so extraordinary ceptable" wages and conditions schools. that a group of staff would not see ultimatum the previous week The association said that, under a salary increase in the next four from the CEO. the CEO's proposed provisions, and a half years." In a circular Approximately 60 demonstra- reductions for some staff would issued to non-teaching staff earlitors were led by the Independent be so severe they would not see a er this month, CEO director Schools Salaried Officers' Associ- rise in salary. Therese Temby said Catholic

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employers were prepared to offer non-teaching staff a 15.5 per cent wage increase in line with a recent increase of 13.5 per cent for teachers. The CEO-proposed increase would start with an immediate two per cent rise and a further six per cent payable as soon as an EBA was agreed. Mrs Temby said that while it appeared all the major issues on a new EBA had been agreed in principle with the unions, two issues were outstanding which affected only administrative and technical staff. Union proposals for the payment of leave provisions had been rejected by Catholic employers. The second issue revolved around the current over-payment "of a handful of Administrative and Technical officers," she said. Mrs Temby said the CEO wants to address the anomaly by paying all employees for the number of weeks they work, including all leave provisions. There are approximately 2,000 non-teaching staff working in the Catholic sector.

Homeless increase: Society By Glynnis Grainger Homeless people ate a free breakfast with Archbishop Barry Hickey, Perth's Lord Mayor Peter Nattrass, Governor John Sanderson, Olympians and Vincentians at the launch of the Society of St Vincent de Paul's Christmas Appeal in Russell Square, Northbridge, last Tuesday morning. SW State President Brian Bull said it was no secret that the number of homeless in Western Australia continued to grow. "If you get up early, you will find the homeless living under the bridges, in city laneways and in public reserves, such as Kings Park and of course, the Governor Left, Governor Sanderson launches the Appeal; above, students bring food collected at schools for the Appeal. and Archbishop Hickey are no stranger to people living on their doorsteps." Mr Bull said the Society's members and helpers worked because and homelessness." Archbishop "they have a sense of duty and Barry Hickey blessed the Appeal The report continues, "This has SVP State President Brian Bull By Glynnis Grainger because they get satisfaction from and said the world had moved said the report identified the men- the unintentional effect of creathelping those in need." into the New Millennium and Margaret is a single mother with tally ill and youth as the two ing greater dependency as people "Because of their efforts and the been celebrating the Great Year of a five-year-old son and they have fastest-growing groups seeking fall behind in their weekly comgenerosity of donors, we are able Jubilee but things had not help. mitments and rely on organisaa net income of $342. to spend more than 94.5 cents in changed for the poor, the lonely, The report also showed that sin- tions like St Vincent de Paul for a is $180 and food and other Rent every dollar in direct assistance." single parents and the unemgle parents represent a third of de facto form of social security." groceries $120. Mr Bull said the Society will ployed. the people assisted by the Society, "Other creative solutions. Involvessenthe are The next priority send out a minimum of 7500 hamsaid. he "This last week the media has ing all sections of the community, gas and electricity of services tial pers and 10,000 toys by this covered the Melbourne Cup and It also identified causes of the a current poverty crisis: "high rates especially the private sector need Christmas Eve. the American Presidential Elec- and the telephone, totalling $65 to be found in order to remove the of long-term unemployment; structural factors that trap people "If the people of Perth, who are tions and reported on the millions week. Margaret is already in the red inadequate social security paybetter off, support the St Vincent of dollars that have been spent on this does not take into ments; a lack of appropriate social In need. and our campaigns," do will election we the kind bets de Paul Society, Some families were experiencschool, transport, cloth- service support networks; a account best to help those not so well off," the Archbishop said. third or fourth generation ing "I can see it has a negative effect ing, medical needs or entertain- reduction in affordable housing unemployment, the report found. he said. "We can all enjoy the spirment. and decreases in public health it of Christmas knowing that we on those struggling to survive and "It will take time and resources Consequently, Margaret is in and education/training spendhave given something, no matter even more so now that Christmas rebuild these communities and to how small, to someone less fortu- Is fast approaching and messages arrears and cannot pay for essen- ing." Mr Bull said. recreate a sense of value and to services. tial of peace and joy are proclaimed. "These are the areas where connate than you." in the lives of the people meaning This story is just one of the sto- structive solutions rather than He called on "all West AusWA Governor John Sanderson there," it concludes. live who luck their on down people of ries punitive measures are needed. if told the gathering many sceptics tralians to show love to their years, the Commonrecent In St of Society the in told are that Samaritans good be to be to neighbour, is dependency welfare unembelieved that the long7term Housing agreement wealth/State ployed were "quite content not helping others on their journey Vincent de Paul's national report decreased." in funding, decreases suffered has Welfare" of Out "Working genresponding by life, were through factors structural These having a job and that they are comfortable living off welfare and erously to this year's Christmas released in WA last Tuesday at the more in evidence in rural and the report said. This had led to longer public Appeal." society's Christmas Appeal outer-suburban Australia, the happy to let life pass by." housing waiting lists and had also Two Olympic gold medallists launch. report said. "Studies show that this is far It is one case in which St Vincent It also said there was an increase contributed to the higher incifrom true." he said, "and if people Danielle Woodhouse (water polo In such circumstances are given goalie) and Clover Maitland de Paul has been helping out: in people being forced top live for dence of homelessness as people help and follow-up care they can (Hockeyroo goalie) also support- there are tens of thousands of sim- long periods without any social were unable to afford higher rents on the private market. security payment at all. ilar cases. break the cycle of unemployment ed the opening of the appeal.

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Holiness and professionalism linked ROME (CNS) — Scientists and researchers who

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Government's charities inquiry questioned By Peter Rosengren While a Federal Government Inquiry under the auspices of the Treasury Department says it is looking to enhance the existing legal definitions of charities, the leading Catholic health lobby has countered that the inquiry is far from benign. In fact, Catholic Health Australia's executive director said in the organisation's latest bulletin, the inquiry "has the potential to strip tax exempt benefits from some Church activities." Writing in the October edition of Health Matters, Francis Sullivan said the inquiry had emerged out of negotiations between the Government and the Australian Democrats during the GST and fringe benefits tax debates. He said as the financial effects of changes to the FBI' laws had hit

home to Church bodies, they most recent round of tax changes realised that politicians and had already weakened the taxsenior bureaucrats had almost exempt benefits for Churchuncritically adopted the principle owned health and aged-care of competition and applied it to services, he said. the non-profit sector. The current inquiry, therefore, Such decisions showed Church "Is yet another attempt to change non-profit health and aged care both the tax-exempt status of services were being regarded as existing charities and their future more like profit-making organisa- role in the economy." tions. The inquiry, headed by former Mr Sullivan said that the Trea- NSW Supreme Court and Federsury inquiry had been called by al Court judge Ian Sheppard QC, the Government to act as "a cir- is looking into the definitions of cuit breaker." charities and related organisaBut he also pointed out that the tions in Australia. real stimulus to examine, if not It released an issues paper this change, the tax-exempt status of week designed to assist individusome charitable organisations als and organisations prepare had emerged out of the previous submissions. Keating Labor Government. Among other issues, the comHe said the Government had mittee will examine existing defialready implied that the inquiry is nitions of charities in Australian another attempt to change the tax legislation and administrative status of existing charities and practice as well as options for their role in the economy. The enhancing those definitions. Mr

Sullivan said that given Prime Minister John Howard's keenness to build social coalitions between business and charities "it is clear that the Government has a particular view of what will constitute a charitable organisation in the 21st century." He questioned the inquiry's purpose: "An inquiry limited to [administrative issues] would be acceptable. However, why inquire further into comparative aspects of the business and charitable sectors if the agenda is not far beyond mere administrative details?" "Surely, if the social coalition is to become a reality the viability of established Church and charitable organisations is of the highest priority. Yet, the inquiry does not specifically address this point," he said, adding: "Furthermore, it even fails to examine the implications of the GSF/FI3T tax reforms

on the sector." In September Prime Minister John Howard said charitable, religious and community service not-for-profit organisations play a vital role in Australia and described them as "pivotal members of the social coalition." According to the issues paper, total expenditure on welfare services in 1997-98 was $10.8 billion, with 64 per cent coming from governments, 11 per cent from nongovernment organisations and 25 per cent from clients' fees and charges. Out of 7518 non-government organisations providing services in child care, nursing homes and other forms of care in 1996, 5403 of these were provided by not-forprofit organisations. The closing date for submissions is 31 December. The inquiry is expected to report to the Government by March next year.

Money to help fight addiction Prayers, singing and `barbie' A total of $2000 was raised by Mercy College, Koondoola, students in their annual Fun Run as part of their Mercy Day activities. This year they ran with the intention of helping to save the lives of the many young people in the community affected by addictions, by supporting the work of Fr Paul Baczynski at Cross Roads Community. At the school assembly on 20 October, a cheque was presented to Fr Baczynski by Year 9 student Frances Farrugia, who raised the most money. and Mayford Godfrey. the Fun Run Coordinator. Fr Baczynski said all people are created and loved by God to live a life of freedom as God intended, free from drugs and other addictions. He also said there was a need "to flex the physical, intellectual and spiritual biceps," which was especially true for those afflicted by addictions who can, only with God's grace, be true children of God. For Mercy College students the Fun Run was a chance to put into practice their motto 'Love In Action.' Students said they proud to support Fr Baczynski's work at Cross Roads CommuniFr Paul Baczynski with Mercy College Year 9 student Frances Farrugia and Mr Mayford Godfrey

The funds were raised with runners sponsored by parents, friends and anyone else the students could ask. - Glynnis Grainger

Lumen Christi launches Centre plans

picnic joins rural churches

Great day for a Jubilee picnic: members of the Catholic, Anglican and nondenominational churches of Jurien, Cervantes and Badgingarra gather around the Jubilee banner which was painted by a member of the Anglican community for the Catholic community.

The coastal Cervantes and Jurien Bay Catholic communities recently invited their local Anglican communities and the nondenominational churches in the area to join them for a barbecue and picnic. Members of the Moore parish held the barbecue and picnic at Coomallo Creek on the Brand Highway, 60 kilometres east of Julien Bay. One of the aspects of the jubilee year has been to bring together various churches under the common banner of Christianity. The bush setting was ideal and picnickers were blessed with perfect weather. The churches from

Badgingarra also joined in with about 60 adults and children gathered around the Jubilee banner for prayer and singing before the barbecue was lit up. It was an opportunity to share common ideals and get together with old and new friends. The usual farmer's chat of crops and weather and the hope for Divine intervention with locusts took place, and the festivities ended in the mid-afternoon to allow plenty of time for the trip home. Many commented that this picnic should be made an annual event. - Glynnis Grainger

Lumen Christi College in Gosnells recently launched plans for the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for the Performing Arts. Approximately 600 parents and friends of the College community were present for the event. The Centre will help 'build a dramatic future' for its students. It is tipped to include a large auditorium, functional performance area, state-of-the-art control room, music practice rooms, rehearsal and teaching areas. The Centre will house the College's Drama and Music departments within an environment aimed at enhancing learning across these areas. Due to the scarcity of such facilities in the local area. the Centre will also have a strong community focus, with plans for it to be made available to members of surrounding parishes, the College's Catholic 'feeder' primary schools and various music and drama groups. This community focus was also evident at the official function held at the College to mark the Tina Altieri of Channel 9 speaks about 'chasing the dream' at the launch. launch of the concept. speakers on the night, Channel 9 Mr Bull disci stressed the imporThe venue chosen - the College personality, Tina Allied, spoke tant role that the performing arts gymnasium - drew a stark con- about the importance of initially can play in the development of trast to the expected appearance Identifying and then pursuing the whole person and how music, of the new Centre. one's goals - of having the deter- dance and drama help to mould In order to help paint the pic- mination to 'chase the dream'. and develop young people. St Catherine's Chapel in the former Dominican Sisters' Convent at Santa Clara ture, a number of performances In his address, College Principal With enough support, it is hoped In Bentley was reopened recently as a place for quiet prayer and reflection. were staged by the College's con- Wayne Bull asked all present to that the construction of the new Danika Spadanuda, Olivia Sorb!, Jayden Pinta and Silvana Scarfe, front, joined cert, rock and swing bands, as consider the difference that "the Centre will commence in 2002. parish priest Fr Augustine Heron for the occasion as he blessed the chapel. well as the senior choir and com- power of many and the power of It is expected to become opera- Closed for a number of years, the chapel has recently been refurbished to be bined dance revue. community can make" in ensur- tional sometime in 2004. used by pray-ers. Fr Heron said that he was very pleased to see the chapel As one of a number of guest ing the dream becomes a reality. - Phil Bayne, CEO Media in use again.

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Cathedral singers conquer By Glynnis Grainger St Mary's Cathedral Choir returned on 9 October from a 19day trip which took them to three countries - England, Italy and Austria - and won them many accolades. The choir sang at the canonisation by Pope John Paul II on 1 October in Rome of 120 Chinese martyrs and a number of others. Speaking of the choir's appearance in Rome Archbishop Barry Hickey said: "This is the first time an Australian choir has sung in the Vatican and Perth was the first choir to provide this: this is a great accolade for the Archdiocese." Their choirmaster, Father Timo- Not only a choirmaster but an accomthy Deeter, told The Record that plished guide, Fr Deeter explains a to finance their trip they had a Marian shrine in the grounds of the loan for $170,000, and $60,000 is Vatican. still owing; donations will be Matthew McVeigh, 12, said it gratefully received, he said. worthwhile going on the trip was He said in England they attended a service sung by the West- "because we saw a lot for a cheap minister Catholic Cathedral Choir price." Westminister Abbey was by far and toured its choir school. They also visited King's College, the best of all the churches he saw Cambridge, and Christ Church because he likes the "Gothic time Cathedral, Oxford, and listened to of architecture." Jason Fonceca, 14, said this trip their very fine choirs, Fr Deeter made him realise that there are said. "I wanted to expose the boys to less fortunate people than him in other choirs so they could hear a the world. The trip helped him musically higher level of singing and aspire to better singing themselves," he as it helped him to understand his strengths and weaknesses. said. Dominic Rose, 13, said the trip "We also sang at noonday at him confidence in his gave Windsor Castle - very few choirs singing: "Being able to sing in had sung in the Royal Chapel. "We did the usual tourist things. front of 250,000 people does that." "In Italy, we sang at public Mass- he wrote. Fr Deeter said that after singing es in the Basilica of St Mary Major for the Pope in Rome the Choir In Rome, the Catacombs, and St Anne's Parish Church in Vatican went on to Assisi to sing on 4 Octocity, and we were very well ber on the Feast of St Francis in the Basilica of St Clare, newly received at these places." opened after an earthquake. At the mass canonisation in "We saw San Damiano Church, Rome "The conductor of the Sistine Chapel Choir told us we were St Francis re-built with his own the best-voiced choir to ever visit hand," he said. "We also visited Norcia, birththe Vatican and we were welcome to return any time," Fr Deeter said. place of St Benedict, so the boys Choir member Ross Pickersgill. would have a better appreciation 12, said he thought singing for the of Western Australia and New Pope was a once-in-a-lifetime Norcia." Fr Deeter said. "We visited the chance, and he was very happy he was there on the day and got shrine of St Rita in Cascia, a great pilgrimage destination, of one of such a great opportunity The Church that impressed him the most popular saints in Italy, the most was St Peter's Basilica, the patron saint of travellers. "We sang Mass at the Basilica Rome, because of its amazing size there in Cascia. and "that you could have so many "In Vienna, Austria, we sang Masses going on at one time" and Mass at the Cathedral of St he really liked the architecture. Stephan and many tourists something John Tavener. 11, said he will always remember about thought our choir was the Vienna the trip was singing for the Pope Choirboys, and we attended a concert given by one of the four In the Vatican. Choirboys. The trip helped him musically choirs of the Vienna were better thought we "And we as it made him "sing louder, he than them. learnt the notes more, and that "Then we went on to Salzburg singing is a lot of fun." and sang an impromptu concert Patrick Mullally, 11, said this trip there, which was helped him to understand more in the Cathedral the tourists." appreciated by about being a Catholic. time of their boys had the The He was impressed by St Peter's a salt mine in Salzburg, lives at because he "never knew it was so where they had various rides in big."

They came, they saw - and they conquered: Perth's very own St Mary's Cathedral Choir in the Vatican gardens.

pressuring him to join her church," Fr Deeter said. "He felt his faith was more important and he broke up with her. "He sings with the men in the choir. 'He said, 'To see all the beautiful church buildings built over the centuries and all the saints and martyrs - how can I leave the Catholic Church?'" The Mass was televised throughout Europe and the US. "The boys were like an Army when seen on TV, unlike the Sistine Chapel Choir, who exhibited much less discipline." A local 'centurion' welcomes Fr Deeter and choirboys outside the famous The Choir have just made a CD Colosseum in Rome as the choir takes some time off for sightseeing. called "Christmas Jubilee." which the tourist attraction that was trip helped the boys grow in their will be released at the beginning the highlight of the trip for them, faith as they realised for the first of December. in time for ChristFr Deeter said. "The kids were time they were part of the uni- mas gifts. It will be available from the beautifully behaved: their behav- versal Church. "It was worth keepiour was so outstanding," he said. ing one kid in the faith - an Cathedral Church Office (tele"I received many compliments 18-year-old who went out with a phone: 9223 1351) and various on the behaviour of the boys - born-again Christian. who was Catholic shops. they could tell they were well disciplined. "It did Australia proud to have well-behaved boys conducting themselves like gentlemen." MADE RIGHT HERE IN WA by Fr Deeter said, "I believe in these [gethaving funds like METRO UNIFORMS ting a loan] because it gives For all uniforms including knitted school jumpers. the boys something to aim own jumper in the school colours. You can have stripes on the your Design for and makes them work in the neckband or in the body of the jumper. sleeves, harder in their music performances." Garments made include: Day dresses and a full range of Skirts including Tartan Next year, the choir has Skirts. Blouses, Tracksuits in either Taslon, Fleecy or Microfibre. Taslon shorts. been invited to Sydney and Polo shirts, Corduroy Trousers, Rugby shorts and Rugby Jumpers, Rash Tops Melbourne to meet their for swimming and other garments. boys' choirs, during the You can plan now for next year's uniform and see what we can offer your school. school holidays, for a week. Please contact Tim Foster In 2002, Fr Deeter plans to Ph: 9242 7997 Fax: 9242 7860 take the boys to the US, cocorajagbigpond.com.au Email: The from. comes he where

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Doing good, waiting for God Peter Dwan continues with his meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass. This week the Thirty-Third Sunday, Year B

oday, as we approach the end of the liturgical year (it ends next Sunday with. the Solemnity of Christ the King) our thoughts are turned to the last judgment - a sobering event. We aren't meant to be speculating as to the timing of the end of the world, as some people do, but rather living in a way that we are prepared for judgment whenever it comes. The first reading (Daniel 12:1-13) is part of the Old Testament apocalyptic literature, and speaks of the end of the world. It tells us that the end of the world will "be a time of great distress, unparalleled since nations first came into existence." Yet paradoxically, it is in the context of persecutions, of distress, of the end of the world, that faith in the resurrection Is affirmed. The reading says: "Of those who lie sleeping in the dust of the earth many will awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting disgrace. "The learned will shine as brightly as the vault of heaven, and those who have Instructed many in virtue, as bright as stars for all eternity." This passage shows that even in Old Testament times, there was a belief in life after death, with rewards and punishments. There is also an emphasis in

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Meditation doing good, instructing many in virtue, rather than merely avoiding sin. Instructing the ignorant is a work of mercy, as much needed now as then. There are various ways this can be done, teaching Catechism, promoting Catholic education, and sponsoring students in mission lands. Young people could prayerfully reflect on whether God is calling them to join a teaching Order, or, if qualified teachers, whether they are being called to work as lay missionaries. In the second reading (Hebrews 10:1114, 18) the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews says: "By virtue of that one single offering, He has achieved the eternal perfection of all those whom He is sanctifying." We need to remember that we cannot consider ourselves automatically "saved", irrespective of our own effort. Christ by His Passion has made it possible for us to enter heaven, but we must apply the merits which He has won for us, by using the means of grace which He has made available for us, prayer. Mass and the sacraments, and keeping the commandments. The comment has been made that God, who has made us without our cooperation, will not save us without our co-operation. The Gospel (Mark 13:24-32) is St

Mark's account of the end of the world. The Gospel gives Christ's words to his disciples about the signs which will precede the Second Coming: "the sun will be darkened, the moon will lose its brightness, the stars will come falling from heaven . . . ." The reading also says: "And then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory; then too he will send the angels to gather his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the world to the ends of heaven." When Our Lord entered into human history, he began the last times, so often spoken of by the prophets, so longed for by Israel. While the first Christians mistakenly thought that the world would soon end, too many people today have gone to the other extreme, and live in a way which makes it appear that they never think of the end of the world or of their own death and judgment. May we not be like them. When Our Lord came to us the first time, at Bethlehem, He came to us through Mary. St Louis Grignon de Montfort taught that Our Lady will have an important role to play in preparing the world for his Second Coming. He taught that Marian devotion, while necessary for all, is more necessary for those called to greater perfection, and will be most necessary for the great saints of the last days. If we honour Our Lady, then we should have no fears about our death and judgment.

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

he fulfilment of prayers through the intercession of Mother Mary has prompted many Indonesian Catholics to frequent Java's most wellknown Marian shrine here at Sendangsono. "Thanks to the intercession of the Blessed Mother,I was able to face heavy problems," Robertus Josef Bambang Budiharcijo, a teacher from Yogyakarta, told the Union of Catholic Asian News on 20 October at Sendangsono Marian Shrine in Semarang archdiocese. Sugiarto said that he has visited the shrine in Promasan more than 10 times, especially when he faced big problems. Although there are many Marian shrines around Yogyakarta, he said, he preferred the Sendangsono shrine because as a Javanese he found its serene environment more suitable for prayer and meditation. According to Javanese tradition, to get a prayer heard, it should be accompanied by "laku," a spiritual act, such as self-mortification, he said. Going on foot to a sacred place, fasting and other forms of abstinence are part of "laku," Sugiarto explained. In Javanese belief, he added, a person who "empties himself' in prayer and meditates in serenity could acquire "wahyu" (divine revelation) or "wangsit" (divine inspiration), or even magical powers. Sugiarto said he never took any vehicle to go to Sendangsono, even though it could now be reached by car or bus. He said that he preferred to go on foot 14 kilometres to and from the shrine through steep, sometimes slippery trails. He also prays the way of the Cross before reaching the shrine. The 65-year-old pilgrim said he considered the journey on foot as an act of self-sacrifice and a participation in the suffering of Jesus Christ.

those who wanted to deepen their knowledge about secret mystical or magical practices. Even Buddhist monks who visited the Borobudur temple, north of Sendangsono, used to drink water from Sendangsono on the way back to their "vihara" (temple) in Boro, south of Sendangsono. local Church historical records say. Recently, however, Father Lorensius Tatapriana of Promasan told UCA News that people visited the area because it was a historic place for Catholics in Central Java, apart from being the oldest shrine in the region. He said that Sendangsono's history as a shrine dates back to 1904 when Dutch Jesuit Father Frans Van Lith. the pioneer missioner in Central Java, blessed the spring and took water from it to baptise the first 171 Javanese converts from Kalibawang. A Marian grotto was built on the site in 1920. In 1929, the spring was dedicated as a Marian shrine. Christina Sumiarti, 55, from Christophorus Church in Magelang, Central Java, told UCA News she visited the shrine to express her gratitude to the The statue of Our Lady at Sendangsono in Blessed Mother, who, she believes, Java. Photo. courtesy Joan Sunderland helped reunite her family. She disclosed that she had been sepa"That is why I feel that almost all my prayers are heard and I thank God for rated from her spouse for many years but they finally reunited after she went that," he added. Sendangsono's name is derived from on pilgrimage to Sendangsono. Since then, she said, each time she has the Javanese word "sendang," meaning a family problem, she goes to the shrine. spring, and "sono," a local plant. The place was previously named Sum- "The conflict never became worse." Fransiskus Xaverius Sunoto, 60, a forber Semagung, one of three springs in mer civil servant from Muntilan Parish, the area. But, in the eyes of the locals, Sendang- Central Java, told UCA News he visited sono is more special than the other two the shrine three times a year, especially after he found that his prayers were springs, he said. Before it became a Catholic shrine, Sen- answered due to the intercession of Our dangsono was already considered a Lady of Sendangsono. sacred place by Javanese mystics and by - Union of Catholic Asian News

Shark debate obscures a more important thing: a man's life

With Bronwen Clune

t's hard to believe that the recent attacks on Christianity that have been published in the Letters page of The West Australian all stem from the tragic death of Mosman Park man Ken Crew at North Cottesloe beach last Monday. What is just as difficult to understand is the apparent total disregard for Mr Crew's family, who are trying to come to terms with the loss of a loved one, by those that have joined the fray to push their own respective views. The plight of his family seems to have come poor second to these debates, and it is this very fact that takes most of the credibility away from anyone involved in them. On the same day that the shark attacked Mr Crew, a homeless man was murdered right next to our Supreme Court in broad daylight, yet the death of the this unknown person and the fact that a man has been charged with his vicious murder has gone practically unnoticed. We seem to be living in a society with a very shallow regard for life. The sentiments invoked over Mr Crew's death, at their best, appear insincere because they seem to be spurred on more by the fact that people have had their comfort zone about man's place in nature shattered rather than the realisation there has been a tragic loss of life. Either that or they vehemently dislike Christians and have taken this inappropriate opportunity to sink this awful tragedy into even murkier waters. But unfortunately there have been just as many Christians wrapped up in the arguments about whether or not the guilty shark should die. It can be hard to take the humble approach sometimes, but winning this argument is really not what being Christian or Catholic is about. The outcome of this debate is that the focus of the tragedy has been taken away from the Crew family and become a public brawl about the fate of the shark. It is time we stopped taking part in this charade and start acting like true followers of Christ. While God does have the perfect intellect, it Is not only that which has saved us - it was his love that allowed His only Son to be crucified for us. Instead of being distracted by what is an impassioned and, at times, selfish debate we should rather be doing something that we know will have results - going to Mass for Mr Crew's family or saying a prayer at least. These are selfless acts of love. And then there is the man whose death did not attract the headlines - the poor and forgotten - how many of us remembered him in our prayers? What a lonely scene that funeral would have made - how many of us even thought about attending? It is deeds such as these that would prove that Christianity is still a vibrant, powerful and relevant force in society today. We could all carry on arguing until we were blue in the face, but the only tiling that it shows Is that we so easily forget how to act as Christians. Actions always speak louder than words.

Possible Blessed Padre Pio miracle goes to Vatican Wilcannia bishop dies ROME (CNS) - Italian Capuchin priests Italian state television RAI and several and he and his wife, along with dozens have submitted documents to the Vati- Italian newspapers reported the priest of staff members, prayed for the boy's can detailing the healing of an 8-year-old could be canonised as early as 2001. healing throughout the 12 days he was boy which they hope will be the miracle The Capuchin spokesman said there in a coma in January accepted for the canonisation of Blessed was no way to know how long the VatiWhen the boy woke up, he is reported Padre Pio. can investigation would take. to have said that Padre Pio appeared to A spokesman for the Capuchins in FogMatteo Pio, the boy whose last name is him in a dream and told him, "Come gia, the province to which Padre Pio being withheld to protect his privacy, with me now, you are healed." belonged, said the documentation was lives in San Giovanni Rotondo, the town The Capuchin spokesman said the boy delivered to the Congregation for Saint- where Padre Pio built a huge hospital. has completely recovered, "thanks be to hood Causes in late October. His father is a urologist at the facility, God." Thellecord, November 16 2000 Page 6

Bishop Barry Collins of the Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes in New South Wales has died in his sleep just 5 days after celebrating his 62nd birthday. He was found in bed last Wednesday morning. Fr Brian Finnigan, secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, announced the news the same day. Bishop Collins was born in Hornsby, NSW, on 10 November, 1938 and ordained a priest for Sydney on 15 July, 1961. He was consecrated Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes, a massive outback diocese, on 2 June, 1994.

Celebration of Catholic culture evangelises

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hen fifteen Perth Catholic students blow their Jubilee trumpets from the City to Subiaco Oval next Sunday it will, hopefully, be more than a photo opportunity for local media starved of a good story. We hope and pray that the blare of the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho will also open the doors of the hearts of many Perth citizens to accept their Saviour, Jesus Christ, God and Man. For those citizens who track the trumpet blasts to Subiaco Oval, they will find a celebration of Catholic life culminating in the arrival of Jesus in His Real Presence, Body and Blood, in Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. As Archbishop Barry Hickey said in his August invitation to Perth Catholics to attend the Subiaco celebration, he hoped It would be an occasion for the "many people who have drifted away from the Church.. . . and people of other faiths" to "see how important the Christian faith is for our society and remember the profound effect it can have on our way of life." "The assembly of so many people at Subiaco Oval will be a great witness of our faith in Jesus Christ and, we hope, a massive communication to the wider community of the cultural and spiritual significance" of the 2000th anniversary of the

The Record Birth of Jesus Christ to be celebrated several weeks thereafter. The evangelical objective of bringing people home to Christ is, after all, the main reason for the year-long Great Jubilee of the birth of Jesus - the Jubilee 2000 is the culmination of the Church's Decade of Evangelisation and the launching pad for the New Evangelisation of the new millennium. Through Benediction at Subiaco and in the cultural events staged, Jesus personally calls all Perth to follow Him in His Catholic Church. Then they will find the answers to the questions about the meaning of life that plague them consciously and unconsciously, the anxiety that is reflected in increased mental illness and modern attacks on human life. Modern men and women desperately need the cultural witness of the Church to lead them to a full and happy life in Jesus Christ. As the Second Vatican H's teaching on the Church in the Modern World proclaims (No.58): "The Gospel of Christ con-

stantly renews the life and culture of fallen man, it combats and removes the errors and evils resulting from the permanent allurement of sin." It never eases to purify and elevate the morality of peoples. By riches coming from above, it makes fruitful, as it were from within, the spiritual qualities and traditions of every people and of every age. "It strengthens, perfects and restores them in Christ. "Thus the Church, in the very fulfilment of her own function, stimulates and advances human and civic culture; by her action, also by her liturgy, she leads them toward interior liberty." The Church, in fact, civilises through evangelisation. At Subiaco, the Catholic culture on display will remind the non-Catholics of Perth and Western Australia that Christ still beckons to them, no matter what they have done or suffered in life. God waits always as the Father in the parable of the Prodigal Son, even for those in one of the most out-of-the-way cities on

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earth. If only one person beyond the life of the Church responds to the Jubilee call to open the doors of their hearts to Jesus as a result of the Subiaco witness next Sunday, 26 November, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the celebration will have been worth while: the lost sheep will have been found, the prodigal son will have rehumed. • The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

40 hours adoration at Balcatta for Jubilee

More of More for Woman to woman / our MPs

hank you for your report in The Record of 2 November reporting the proclamation by the Holy Father of St Thomas More as Patron of statesmen and politicians, as he reminded them that politics and morality must not be separated. It was rewarding to read in the same issue of the reactions of three Catholic politicians to this declaration. I commend to your readers the thousand-word speech given by the Liberal Member of the WA Legislative Council Barbara Scott in the Upper House in recent times in praise of Thomas More. She concluded her speech with the following sentiments: ". . . . in throwing down the gauntlet to Henry, Thomas More became a showcase for the principles Australians hold most dear; the weak standing against the strong in the cause of right, or putting a more Australian tilt on it, he became a true `battler's prince'." "Icommend Saint Sir Thomas More to this house as a most suitable saint for our profession, God knows we certainly need one'." Might Isuggest that we could all bring this declaration of the Holy Father to the notice of our local politicians. Fr Don Hughes Oblates of Mary Immaculate Parish Priest Fremantle -

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would like to congratulate Mrs C.V. Phillips, Burswood, on her letter "A Woman on Feminism" in The Record of 19 October; those are my sentiments also. A lot of women and their arguments on so-called "feminism" do a lot of harm to womanhood - they are an affront to men. I too, when I see such phrases as "for us men" know it refers to mankind as a whole. Any woman who sees it differently should know better. Jenny Jansen Greenwood

Support for Archbishop

mong other things, Archbishop Barry Hickey has conveyed two profound ideas for me this year. First, he has spoken out against the Occult and the evil ways it has infiltrated into the TV via witchcraft shows. The Archbishop has supported greatly those parents warning their children of such external influences. Now the words our children hear from their parents can be backed up by the words from the head of the Church in Western Australia. Second, he offered Latin Mass on Saturday 11 November, at St Mary's Cathedral. It was a truly Divine and grace receiving event; serenity was written on people's faces. I think some people confuse the Latin Mass with a dangerous cult. Let us see more of this peace in our parishes. Hazel Cooper Woodlands

St Lawrence's Church, Balcatta, held a 40-hour Eucharistic Adoration and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, last Friday and Saturday. Pictured are Years 3-5 from St Lawrence's Primary School, Balcatta, attending the adoration on Friday afternoon, 10 November, in the Church. The parish's Salvatorian priests urged parishioners to see celebrations for the Great Jubilee as an occasion to remember that the "greatest gift of Jesus is the Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Jesus made present on the altar for all time." "Let us give to Jesus the greatest gift we have to bring - ourselves coming to adore Him in the great gift of His love for us," they said. The 40 hours of Adoration began after 6am Mass last Friday, until 10pm last Saturday. with breaks for the Masses that are normally celebrated.

Religion on Television, Radio It was suggested to The Record that it should occasionally publish details of regular radio and television religious programs available to Perth and WA listeners and viewers. Glynnis Grainger prepared this guide. 6.30pm Tuesdays "2000 Years of Chris-

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and the Fisherman" W/N 6am Sundays and 4.30am Wednesdays "Thrn 'Round Australia" 6.30am Sundays "World View"

Radio: 720 ABC 10pm-2am Sundays "David Busch"

RADIO NATIONAL 810AM 8.30am and 8.30pm Wednesdays "The Religion Report" 7am Sundays and 710pm Wednesdays "Encounter" 6pm Sundays and 7pm Thursdays "The Spirit of Things" 97.7 ABC-FM 6am Sundays "For the God Who Sings" TRIPLE j 99.3FM 9am-noon about once a fortnight "Religion or Ethics" 6SON (Sonshine) Adult contemporary/Christian theme

6PR 8pm to Midnight Monday to Friday "Graham Mabury"

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Guardian saint keeps watch over Perth man helping East Timor Come to the Ark and meet God in people with mental disability

By Peter Rosengren

Aderito Pina of Perth's Leeuwin Care Group, known to m one and all as 'Eddie,' the last 12 months have been remarkable. His adventures in East Timor over the last year have left him with the firm conviction that someone special is watching over him. In fact, Eddie told The Record last Tuesday week, that someone special in his life is Saint Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave girl who was canonised by Pope John Paul II in October. On one occasion in East Timor in the past year, he found himself in a bad situation with Indonesian troops where he could have been killed by soldiers or militias - perhaps 'should' have been killed - but nothing happened. Meanwhile, with no money and no resources at hand to help his friends In East Timor, things have seemingly materialised out of nowhere from complete strangers. For Eddie, it's no coincidence and today he credits Saint Josephine, who he looks on as his spiritual sister. "Ipray to her." he said simply during an interview with The Record while explaining how aid materialises. For the last year Eddie, 35, originally an East Timorese refugee who came to Australia in 1975, has been helping rebuild his shattered homeland. He and co-workers have been delivering much-needed supplies to people in desperate straits in outlying areas of the country Eddie and friends provide the transport, and the transport can be for an thing. Sometimes it's people, sometimes it's coffins, sometimes it's livestock. But mostly they transport orphans, a phenomenon that most sums up what East Timor has been through. When Leeuwin Barracks in Perth became the temporary home last year for East Timorese fleeing the militia violence after the independence vote, Eddie and his friends became shortnotice translators, helpers and aid workers. After the murderous violence was over and the Australian-led UN force moved into East Timor, Eddie and a small group of co-workers from Leeuwin Care were among the early volunteers to return to the country Since then he and his friends, with little resources and money have been running convoys through militia country from Dili into the outlying areas of East Timor and to the enclave of Oekusi in West Timor to deliver muchneeded rice, educational materials, medicines and clothes. But while Dili and surrounding areas may be benefiting from the international aid effort, the outlying areas in the mountains of the country are a different picture, Eddie told The Record. In fact, people in villages in many areas are barely surviving.

Villagers set about making wine.

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An Australian peacekeeper provides an escort during an aid delivery trek to f ;vine Word missionary Fr Richard Daschbach at the Sao Jose orphanage.

Taking a break during an aid delivery - Eddie snacks on a coconut

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In one case he knew of, desperate villagers had even eaten the seed corn donated to them for planting. In the enclave of Oekusi, population approximately 40-45,000, and also the place where three UN workers were killed by militias only months ago, "the situation is very bad," he said. People are still short of food, water, medicines and doctors and have been reduced to eating the local bitter beans. The beans are almost inedible and have to be boiled for 12 hours before they can be consumed, and even then only with difficulty. Lots of children in Oekusi are sick as a result, he said. Having been there twice, travelling by barge south-west along the coast from Dili, he has seen the desperation of people for medical attention. A nurse he met in Oekusi gave Eddie a list of diseases she has encountered in

her work, pointing out that there is only one Australian doctor working in the refugee settlement. The diseases are frightening: tuberculosis, malaria, polio and leprosy. Malnutrition, cataracts, infected untreated wounds and poor dental health are also rife. When Eddie encountered a small boy with a festering wound on his wrist in the village of Lela Ufa. he gave it a quick treatment with his personal First Aid package, only to find a line of more than 100 people forming almost instantly in front of him begging for medical treatment for their children. Eddie also called on Australians to help an American Divine Word missionary looking after orphans at Gutet. near Oekusi. Fr Richard Daschbach, who has worked in East Timor for decades and is currently running the Sao Jose Orphanage, gave Eddie a hastilyscrawled list of urgently-needed food and clothing to bring back to Australia. He has asked for blankets, pillowcases and clothes for children aged 612, both boys and girls. On the food front, Fr Richard has asked for rice, kerosene, cooking oil, sugar, salt, powdered milk, beans, soap powder, tea, noodles, wheat flour, yeast and butter or margarine. The call from Fr Richard for clothing and food matches Eddie's reports of serious, widespread hunger in the hinterland. Almost everywhere he travelled outside Dili, Eddie said, the people are dressed in rags that are falling apart. And with the rains due in the near future, Oekusi will be cut off, he said. When Eddie went to East Timor in December 1999 he carried an introduction from Archbishop Barry Hickey to Bishop Carlos Belo, the internationally-known Nobel Prize winner who is the apostolic administrator of Dili. As a labourer in Australia, Eddie had little in the way of formal qualifications, few resources and only his fad-

Electricity and food - Leeuwin Care volunteers distribute rice and generators.

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Eddie and friends have delivered all kinds of aid - including a Perth Glory soccer ball.

Remember Dili: Bishop

n the eve of Remembrance Day, Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome has urged Australians to remember the victims of the 1991 massacre in Dili, East Timor and continue helping to rebuild the shattered nation. Bishop Saunders said on Friday 10 November that while most Australians would be remembering fellow citizens who died in wars, they should also remember what happened on 12 November in 1991 in East Timor. That date saw approximately 270 East Timorese gunned down by Indonesian troops in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili. He also called for Kimberley people to consider giving some form of onA Carmelite nun and orphans of the East Timor violence, approximately 70 kilometres going support to the rebuilding of East west of Dili. Timor through the Caritas office in Broome. Bishop Saunders said the Santa Cruz

victims "became part of the probably 200,000 men, women and children who died violent deaths after the invasion of their country in 1975 through to the granting of independence last year." He urged Australians not to forget the cost paid by East Timorese for winning independence. "They need our continued support as they try to bring all their citizens safely back home and rebuild their country," he said. Kimberley people had been generous in the 1999 appeal for East Timor, he said, as he called on inhabitants of the far-northern diocese to think about continuing their support. Donations to Caritas can be arranged through the Diocesan office in Broome on (08) 9192 1060. - Peter Rosengren

On many other occasions, Eddie has travelled down deserted country roads at night through the middle of militia territory. Dangerous country to be in, but, he told The Record, he always felt protected. No breakdowns. No militias. No problems. Perhaps that's why Eddie feels so close to the Sudanese Saint. Introducing him to St Bakhita is one reason why Eddie wants to return the favour to the Sisters. And one easy way people can help the Sisters, he said, is to donate statues of Our Lady or St Anthony. The nuns have also asked for smallish crucifixes, approximately 15 to 20cm in length, from Aussies. The crucifixes are used by the Sisters as wedding presents for newly-married couples. Meanwhile, he said, Australians could help rebuild East Timor by donating food, medicines and clothing. Also, through Leeuwin Care, they might consider donating spare time to go up to East Timor and help in any way they can. Teachers, builders, nurses, doctors, labourers, office workers in short.

anyone with any skills is needed, he said. Eddie is due to return to East TIMM' shortly. Next month, on 7 December, Eddie and Co. will take orphans from Viqueque, Ainaro and one other village up in the mountains down to Dili for a festival they have organised. The Canossian Sisters have provided a building for the children, although it has no doors, no electricity and no running water. The children will receive clothing. schooling materials and medical treatment, and Bishop Carlos Belo has agreed to say Mass for the festival. When the festival takes place, it will not be hard to imagine that somewhere above it all a happy face is smiling down from heaven, the face of a brown-skinned girl. Like the orphans, she was stolen from her family when she was just a child but then went on to become a saint of the Church. And when she does look down on her little friends, one imagines, one of the people she will be particularly watching over will be Eddie. Vininha de Pina from Leeuwin Care can he contacted on (08) 9249 7365.

Caritas-supplied wood lies on the ground ready for rebuilding in a village.

ity in the native East Timorese language of Tetun as an advantage. That was when he first felt that Providence was lending a hand. After two months working in conjunction with a Dili Diocesan youth group delivering tarpaulins for basic shelter to outlying villages, Eddie and his friends were loaned a small truck by Thrifty Rent A Car in Dili. The loan was only supposed to be for one week, but since then Thrifty have inexplicably continued to loan the vehicle, to service it regularly and to refuel it when needed. Going to Tumil village in the mountains with a truckload of supplies and a statue of the Virgin Mary for a special shrine there, Eddie and his co-driver spotted Indonesian troops hiding behind a stone barrier lined by trees. ilimil had been the site of a massacre, mainly of young people, and so far 60 bodies have been discovered. The statue for the commemorative shrine was to be placed at the site of the mass grave holding the bodies of those who had been massacred by troops or militias. On the return trip Eddie stopped by the road to pick some fruit off a tamarind tree only to realise that the troops he had seen earlier were hiding behind some trees watching just a few metres away.

Anything could have happened but Eddie pretended not to notice them. picked his fruit and strolled back to the waiting truck. It was a dangerous moment. The troops, he said, could easily have contacted nearby militias who would have dispatched them without a second thought. But nothing happened. It was at that moment he felt a special protection from danger, he said. His closeness to Saint Bakhita comes by way of the Canossian Sisters in Dili. It was the Sisters who gave Eddie and his co-workers a building to use for their mission. St Bakhita, a Sudanese slave girl purchased and then freed by an Italian family early this century, later joined the Canossian Sisters. As soon as the nuns in Dili explained to Eddie who St Bakhita was, he said. "I was attached." During World War II. she cared for wounded Allied soldiers in Italy and on one occasion urged her patients not to be frightened by a forthcoming bombing raid. No harm would come to them, she said. As she promised, the building in which she and the troops were sheltering was not touched by the raid even though all the surrounding buildings were destroyed.

A shrine built by the Church and local people at Ermera, about 100 kilometres southwest of Dili, to the memory of those who died during East Timor's violence.

ohn Olson lives in community, and what he loves most about it is celebrating birthdays, playing games, aricing and playing drums. In fact, there's nothing the 42-year-old doesn't love about it. "Ilove you, too," he said to Chris Bruhn, who is house coordinator for the 27-member L'Arche community, where Olson lives in Clinton, Iowa, in the United States. Bruhn and Olson, who has Down syndrome, were attending a workshop at St John's Abbey in Collegeville, Mirmesotta. They were two of 10 members of IlArche communities in Clinton and Seattle - two of 14 in the United States - who were guests on the campus of St John's University along with L'Arche founder Jean Vanier. There are 117 IlArche communities for adults with mental disabilities in 30 countries worldwide. Core residents of those communities total about 2,000, and there are about 1,000 assistants such as Bruhn. L'Arche is French for "the Ark." which is a symbol of life, hope and covenant between God and humanity. In L'Arche communities, adults with mental disabilities and assistants live and work together to help each other grow emotionally, socially and spiritually as family and friends, not as clients and staff. For a full day at St John's - via workshops, lectures by Vanier and informal dialogues - LArche community members gave central Minnesotans an experience of LArche community life. Those who attended learned that - along with celebration - prayer and hospitality are also bedrocks of L'Arche communities. "Every evening, in each of our (three) group homes, we pray together simple prayers," Bruhn said. And a sign on their home's door announces, "Strangers are only friends we haven't met yet." When Olson meets those strangers, Bruhn said, "He says, 'We're going to keep you here.' To John, everybody is a friend." To Vanier, everybody is broken and needs healing. All have disabilities - some are just less obvious than others, he says, but whatever their disabilities, everyone is also beautiful in Jesus' eyes. "Faith is seeing the beauty in people as Jesus did - to see beyond people's problems, anger and violence," he said. "That requires a transformation of the heart. Weaker, more fragile persons transform us when we welcome them into community" He added, "Vatican II spoke about doing good for the poor, built didn't talk about the poor transforming us." Vanier's transformation began in the early 1960s. The son of a former Governor General of Canada, he had been educated in Canada, England and France and earned a doctorate in philosophy, a subject he then taught at the University of Toronto. He is a spiritual guide and the author of more than 20 books. But at the height of Vanier's teaching career, a friend and colleague, Dominican Father Thomas Philippe, invited him to visit an institution for persons with mental disabilities in Paris. Vanier saw that the people there were not treated with human dignity. He was inspired in 1964 to invite two men with mental handicaps to set up a

Jean Vanier speaks about L'Arche in Collegeville. Phc:. Towalsid/ St c

home with him and Father Philippe in Trosly-Breuil. France. They named the home IlArche. A key component of love, Vanier said, is understanding - in particular, understanding the pain of people with mental disabilities, their frustration in explaining what they mean. "Sometimes we don't understand their anger," he said. "They break things and scream, and that's not easy to live with. One woman in our community was angry, we finally discovered, because she wanted to be a mother but could not. "She wanted a little child to tell her, 'I love you, Momma.' When she finally felt understood, there was a peacefulness." Though LArche is rooted in the Roman Catholic tradition, it now has developed in various cultures and religious traditions worldwide. There was even an atheist who lived as an assistant at one community, Vanier said during an afternoon question and answer period. "He may not have believed in God," Vanier said, "but he believed in people with disabilities. And Ills through relationships with them that you do meet God." While at St John's, Vanier, who still lives in the L'Arche community he founded, received the third annual Dignitas Humana Award, sponsored by the St John's School of Theology/Seminary. He said he would use the money given with the award to assist I:Arche communities in Haiti and Honduras. The award honours those who recognise and strive to advance the human dignity of all persons; who exemplify the Judeo-Christian values of service, respect, kindness and compassion; who serve the disadvantaged in society, and whose work heightens public awareness of the needs of the marginalised in the world. Previous honourees have been author and social critic Jonathan Kozol and education reformer Marva Coffins. - Catholic News Service The Record. November 16 2000 Page 9

Book Review and Features

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

Excerpts from the WA Catholic Record 17 November. 1900.

Chains barbarity The Mt Malcolm correspondent raised sonic pertinent questions. "When is the barbarous system of chaining men to a mulga shrub to be abolished? "It is a standing disgrace to the police authorities. The poor policemen are treated almost as badly. At Mt Morgans for instance, the corporal, with a wife and child, is living in a room which reflects very little credit on the authorities." This correspondent was also unhappy with a recent land grant at Laverton. The blocks of land which were applied for for Catholic Church purposes in Laverton. and which were "open" at the time they were applied for, were sold by the Government to a local storekeeper. "Have the telegraph wires spoken?"

We've no society The Victoria Park reporter was unhappy. "At present there is no society connected with our little church. "I am sure I am voicing the opinion of many that the time has arrived when some effort Is needed to form several committees to forward our communityy, Firstly there is no Altar Society in existence. It would also be a step in the right direction if a committee was formed to wipe off the debt on the church."

Soil subjugation From a report on farming at

Jandakot. "All along the road smiling homesteads and vivid green patches of corn, potatoes, and other crops, mark the progress of settlement. It is evident that Jandakot is bound to become a highly important district. "Mr JA Hicks, who owns Bodalla, showed us the estate which is in many respects a model one. Ills subdivided into conveniently sized blocks of 10, 15, and 20 acres. The result being that several first class settlers have already started clearing and planting and each man is his own landlord. "Irrigation is carried out on some Jandakot properties on an extensive scale by means of windmills and reticulation, so there is no fear of drought interfering with gardening operations. "The people at Jandakot badly require a Post Office. They are too engrossed with the work of subjugating the soil to make much fuss, but their wants, if few, are very genuine. "We know the Premier is sympathetic to settlers. We hope that he will gladly meet the modest needs of Jandakot in the way of railway and postal requirements."

Travels with my mother Things You Get for Free by Michael McGirr SJ Picador. RRP $20.65 Reviewed by George Russo

ere is a travel book written by a Jesuit priest. Do Jesuits write travel books? They write just about everything else; and, whatever they write they write well. And this book is no exception. In one sense it follows the PG Wodehouse definition of the travel writer, going to some way-out place and imagining "that everybody 'd trash andInmy nonvir wort-bins nib midden will be interested in it." %sans of tordisnwire HELEN WINER Yet, in another, it is a serious memoir of his idrouras and family, and many other interesting characters. NA* IS Mg ontx gadends, T el id distPalk need Quite early in the book he writes about a pilones Informative. Frey iturnan' IKEA AS1LEY grimage around Australia with another Jesuit novice, and mentions New Norcia to where they had walked from Perth and enjoyed the Benedictines' hospitality. Elsewhere they "slept on beaches, in wheat fields, in parks, in sheds and garages, in derelict buildings." Running parallel to his travels is a brilliant short family history. If this has a theme, it mighty be said to be a backward look at the life of his father, and much about his maternal grandparents. But the real theme is a trip to Europe with his widowed mother twelve years later. be delighted to see her. But he died before she They landed first in Britain. There he chose met him. He left her a book of his poems, places of literary and religious interest. Inscribed with his initials, JHN. In Birmingham, he visited the Oratory, and Fr McGirr and his mother visited Wales and the room in which Cardinal Newman had the Jesuit House of St Beuno where the most lived for many years and actually died. famous resident was the poet Gerard Manley His literary method is straightforward. Hopkins: "We stood in the chapel in which he He arrives with his mother and tells us what they saw, who they encountered, what they was ordained," he writes proudly, as he recalls thought, and often where they slept and what some of his magnificent poetry. He also recalls what Hopkins was like as a they ate. But he could not let the religious significance student (he was a convert of Newman's), but he was a bit of a misfit. of a place pass without comment. One of his practice sermons was so ridicuHe noted that Newman had written an extralous it was laughed at, but it was also includordinary number of letters in his lifetime and reasoned that he must have written some to ed in his collected works. Next they visited Rome, and saw St Peter"s Australia since a sister settled there. He traced a grand-daughter of hers who lived basilica and the Sistine chapel. "There is one unforgettable image of Jesus in Melbourne, who had a suitcase with some in St Peter's. That is Michelangelo's Pieta. Jesus original letters written from the Cardinal. "This material didn't re-route the entire is all but naked in that particular representacourse of Newman scholarship. But what tion; his mother, in contrast, is buried alive in emerged from that small case were vibrant clothing. It's the only place in the whole disaster where stone looks like flesh, where you personalities. "It was like rubbing the lantern and conjur- might look to find this entire pile, complete with endless plastic chairs and men collecting ing up a real presence." It also included his last letter, written on 2 money, convulse back into life, where you August 1890, telling his niece that he would might notice a ripple of energy across a solid

surface. It is, of course an image of a dead man with his mother. His body does not appear physically damaged in any way. I watched it for some time, wondering if this stone will ever breathe." This he knew was the work of genius. He describes a visit to an "open air bistro in the countryside," outside Rome, where the colour of the night sky was "rich and subtle." I could understand his feelings for I, too, visited a similar place and savoured the experience. In Assisi he encountered St Francis and was struck by the simplicity of the place where the saint was born: a stable. A message over the door says "This oratory, once a cattle stall, was the birthplace of Francis, mirror of the world." Fresh from the magnificent Chesterton conference at New Norcia recently I warmed to what he had to say about St Francis, and GK Chesterton's little book. "It bristled with irony": and compared it with Newman"s Grammar of Assent. "Francis may well be said to have written a grammar of acceptance, a grammar of gratitude." He said, "I am unable to look at any creature without my whole soul praising the creator," and concludes, "This is what Chesterton is getting at when he talks about grammar of acceptance, a grammar of gratitude. Look at Francis and you see who you really are." In Paris the McGirrs were mesmerised by what they saw, Notre Dame, Montmartre and the famous bookshop of Sylvia Beech. But what it all reminded him of was the story of the origin of the Jesuits. They visited the Sorbonne and the college of St Barbe where the founder, Ignatius Loyola, met the first young Jesuits and "won them to the service of God by means of the exercises" The Spiritual Exercises! The first six Jesuits took their vows in the small chapel. Their names appear in the book (Sts Ignatius, Francis Xavier, Peter Favre. Lainez and Salmeron. Nicholas Bobadilla and Simon Rodrigues). It was 15 August 1534, and this modern-day Jesuit reminds us that he was there on the same spot on 15 August. 1984, 450 years later. So much for this great book: and I urge all Record readers to buy a copy. Ills a memorable memoir, funny and fiercely Catholic, and an engrossing read, and provides you with images of a glorious past where great events and the personalities who made them jump out of these pages at you.

John Vianney: priest who revitalised a parish

eAlist 2000

can-Baptiste-Marie Vianney years old, Jean was ordained a is perhaps better known as priest. He considered this the the Cure of Am. greatest privilege of his life. was born near Lyon, in eastHe was made curate to Fr BaiPerth hi orian Dr Jennifer Skerritt sheds some ern France. His childhood, dur- ley at Ecully. When Fr Bailey died light on Catholic history to mark 2000 years of ing the French Revolution and in 1817, jean was made the parish Christianity. This week: Napoleonic Wars, was a time of priest of a very small village Jean-Baptiste-Marie Saint Vianney of Ars. religious persecution. called Ars. 1786-1859 When he arrived, Ars had a Even Christian symbols, such as the crucifix, had to be hidden, population of about 230 people, Jean Vianney could read hearts, science and the pleas of his and Jean made his first commu- who were not especially reliwhich made him much in parish. He was persecuted by gious. nion in secret. less zealous priests, who said He transformed the parish into demand as a confessor. He was called up for military Confessions could occupy him that he was mad, and even by the service by Napoleon's army, but a model of holiness. This was became ill, and then was obliged achieved through his own exam- for up to 15 hours a day. In addi- Devil himself. Satan assaulted to hide from Napoleon's police. ple of fasting, penance and tion he is said to have healed the the saint physically in his room sick, foretold the future and per- every night, and on one occasion He had already decided that he prayer. set fire to his bed. formed other marvels. Rumours of his sanctity and wanted to become a priest. Jean died after serving his Jean Vianney had never imagUnfortunately, Jean was not very supernatural powers soon bright academically. He failed spread. By 1827 Ars became cel- ined becoming famous, and parish for over forty years. He Latin and Theology, and ebrated throughout Europe as a three limes tried to withdraw to was canonised in 1925, and although he was very pious, he pilgrimage site, visited by more a monastery, but always declared the patron saint of returned, compelled by his con- parish priests in 1929. was dismissed from the semi- than 100,000 people a year. Jean Vianney demonstrated nary at Lyons. that one does not have to be Fortunately, Fr Bailey, the parish clever or capable to become a priest of Ecully, recognised the great saint. Sanctity is open to young man's great faith. everyone. Despite coaching from Fr BaiIt should also be remembered, ley, Jean failed the exams for however, that just being stupid ordination. Finally, Fr Bailey does not make one holy; personarranged for the vicar-general to al effort is still required. examine jean in person. Although jean was still someJean Vianney is also a good what lacking in academic knowlexample for everyone sitting edge, the examiner considered exams over the next few weeks. his outstanding holiness suffiIf you have to redo them next cient and allowed him to pass year, ills not the end of the world. Finally, when he was thirty A photograph of the Cure of Ars on his deathbed Even great people fail exams.

The Recor.d,,NoyeR*90 2000 .?age 10

Jubilee for Farmers

Pope warns on economic abuse in agriculture out for the liturgy in St Peter's Square. Wearing yellow scarves and n a jubilee celebration with tens of thousands of farmers, caps, they brought simple offertoPope John Paul II warned that ry gifts to the papal altar baskets ecological and economic abuse in of bread, grains and grapes, and a agriculture was keeping millions small keg of wine. A few cows also made the pilof people in poverty and threatgrimage for a papal blessing. but ening the earth itself. Meeting with farm families on were kept on the edge of the 11 November and celebrating square during the two-hour liturMass with them the next day, the gY In his sermon, the Pope praised Pope issued one of his most traditional wisdom of the the detailed economic critiques of the farming life, and said it needs to jubilee year. At the root of modern agriculbe rediscovered in a world where tural problems, the Pope said, was agriculture has become a big an attitude of economic domina- business. While farmers have always tion that ignores the Church's teaching that the goods of the faced risks from weather, he said, earth belong to everyone. Global- today's uncertainties also come isation and progress in bio-tech- from urbanisation, atmospheric nology threaten to aggravate the pollution, ecological damage, toxic waste and deforestation, existing imbalances, he said. "Lf the world of advanced tech- consequences of the attitude that nology is not reconciled with the productivity and profit count simple language of nature in a more than respect for nature. -The earth was given by God to healthy equilibrium, human life will face ever-greater risks, of man so that he could cultivate and which we already see worrisome maintain it. When this principle is signs," he said at the jubilee Mass. forgotten. when tyranny instead An estimated 100,000 farmers of custody is practiced upon and their families, most of them nature, then sooner or later nature from Italian rural areas, turned rebels." he said. The evening By John Thavis

before, appearing at a Vatican celebration for the farmers, the Pope delivered a hard-hitting speech about the ethics of agriculture. He said a basic principle of Church teaching on farming is that the earth belongs to God and must be treated according to divine law. -If, driven by industrialisation, an irresponsible culture of domination has been brought against natural resources, with devastating ecological consequences. this certainly does not respond to the design of God," he said. He said the biblical injunction giving man a certain dominion over the created world meant the -use, not abuse" of natural resources. Man is not an absolute arbiter over the created world, but a collaborator with the Creator, he said. "This principle should be remembered when promoting agricultural production through applications, biotechnology which cannot be evaluated solely on the basis of immediate economic interests. They must be placed beforehand under rigorous scientific and ethical controls, to make sure they don't result in

Filipino activists shout anti-American slogans during a rally outside the US Embassy in Manila on 30 November last year. The protesters said World Trade Organisation talks in Seattle could lead to unneeded food imports by the Philippines, hurling local farmers.

disasters for human health and jubilee tradition, he said, this should also include efforts to the future of the earth," he said. The Pope explained that the redistribute wealth in a fairer Church's teaching about the uni- manner, so that the poor can have versal destiny of earthly goods a fresh start. The Pope said Christians in the does not preclude private property, but insists on the intrinsic developed world have a specific responsibility to look critically at social function of such property. That has more than academic the -irrational consumerism, a interest in today's world of eco- type of 'culture of waste' that has become a widespread lifestyle." nomic imbalance, he said. -This tendency should be "Every human being, every nation has a right to the fruits of opposed," he said. At the close of the Mass, the Pope the earth. It is an intolerable scandal that at the start of the new mil- thanked officials from the UN lennium, many people are still Food and Agriculture Organisareduced to hunger and live in con- tion and Italian farm groups for ditions unworthy of the human the efforts to develop farming potential and help feed the being," he said. The Christian response cannot world's hungry. The Pope said modern agriculbe limited to theoretical reflecture has enormous potential and tion, he said. -This shame of humanity must is capable of offering food securibe removed through appropriate ty to the whole world's populapolitical and economic choices on tion. - Catholic News Service a planetary level," he said. In the

US Catholics go marginally for Gore in Presidential vote By Mart Pattison

ithout a definitive result in this year's presidential election, it was too early to know whether Catholics extended to eight straight elections their streak of voting for the winner. But in the now-crucial Florida, exit polling showed Catholics voting there for Republican Governor George Bush of Texas over his Democratic rival Vice President Al Gore by a 52-44 per cent margin. Exit polling there showed Catholics make up 26 per cent of the Florida electorate, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Thro per cent of Florida Catholic voters voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader while 1 per cent voted for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan. Meanwhile, at the national level, exit polls conducted by Voter News Service, a cooperative venture of five broadcast news outlets and Associated Press, showed that Catholics nationally voted by a 50-47 margin Gore. Gore also held a narrow lead in the overall vote tally. Catholics have voted for the eventual presidential winner all the way back to 1972, when Richard Nixon won re-election. The last time Catholics did not choose the winner, 1968, they cast a majority of their votes - 55 per cent to 37 per cent - for Vice President Hubert Humphrey, that year's Democratic candidate. But Protestant voters that year went even more solidly for Richard Nixon, giving him a 60-26 edge over Humphrey, with most of the rest going to third-party can-

didate George Wallace. Because Catholics have proven such an accurate predictor in presidential politics, their value as a swing vote to be courted has risen. The various state polls on how Catholics voted this year had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 per centage points. The exceptions were Alaska, Kansas, Mississippi. Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming and the District of Columbia, all of which had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. The Voter News Service exit polling in every state and the District of Columbia, in addition to showing the 50-47 split in Gore's favour among Catholic voters, saw 2 per cent voting for Nader and 1 per cent voting for Buchanan. But when only white Catholics were tallied, the shift tilted to Bush's favour, 52-45, with Nader remaining at 2 per cent and Buchanan under 1 per cent. The exit polling data also showed that the more respondents of all faiths went to religious services, the more they voted for Bush. Those going more frequently than once a week gave Bush a 6330 edge, and those going weekly went 57-40 for Bush. But those who went to church only monthly were 51-46 for Gore. Those who said they seldom went to church were in Gore's camp by a 54-42 margin, and those who said they never went to church were 61-32 for Gore. Those who identified themselves with the -white religious right" went 80-18 for Bush, and those who did not went 54-42 for Gore, according to the exit polls.

Just m orethan a quart Ef - 26 percent— of vote's in the presidential decti on identified themsdves as Cathol ic. Here's hog thq voted.

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Protestants favoured Bush, while only 4 per cent of the electorate, Catholics, Jews, members of other were too small a percentage of religions and those with no reli- the 1,818 Floridians to be polled. Those belonging to other religious affiliation chose Gore. Voter News Service also gauged gions and those with no religion presidential preferences in light favoured Gore in Florida. Catholics voted with the rest of of the abortion issue. Those who said abortion should be always their state's citizens by favouring legal voted 70-25 for Gore, and Bush in Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, those who said it should be "most- Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Carly legal" preferred Gore 58-38. Those who think abortion olina, North Dakota, Ohio, South should always be illegal preferred Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia Bush by a 74-23 margin, while and Wyoming. They voted against the preferthose who thought it should be -mostly illegal" went for Bush 69- ence of the rest of the state in AriColorado, Arkansas, zona, 29. The Voter News Service exit Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New polling data is what the television Hampshire and West Virginia. Catholics voted with the majornetworks ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC used in first calling Flori- ity in 15 states and the District of Columbia. In Michigan, Minnesoda for Gore on 7 November. The networks later rescinded ta, New Jersey and Vermont, their call, then later called the Catholics overall supported Bush state for Bush, only to retract that while each state went for Gore. In Illinois, which Gore won, as well. Protestants there favoured Bush by a 55-43 margin. Jews, Voter News Service did not report

presidential preference by religion. In Oregon, where results were still being contested on 9 November, exit polling indicated that Catholics favoured Gore by a 49-48 margin. A Gallup Poll, based on an aggregate of six days of phone polling between 31 October-5 November. had predicted a nationwide 45-45 split in Catholic votes between Bush and Gore, with 5 per cent going to Nader. On measures to ban same-sex marriages decided on Election Day, Nebraska Catholics voted 7426 to ban them, and Nevada Catholics voted 70-30 to place an existing ban in the state constitution. Both bans passed. Nebraska's bishops had strongly favoured the ban. In Nevada. the bishops remained neutral on the constitutional question. Maine Catholics voted 55-45 against a measure to ban discrimination against homosexuals and lesbians, a measure the state's Catholic bishops supported but which ultimately failed. There was no information on how Catholics voted on a measure to allow physician-as4sisted suicide, which lost by a narrow 51-49 margin. South Dakota Catholics voted 56-44 against repealing video lottery gambling, a measure the Church had advocated. The measure for repeal lost. In Colorado, no exit polling information was available on a measure that would have required informed consent and a waiting period before an abortion, but Catholics voted 75-25 in favour of requiring background checks for gun sales at gun shows. The consent measure failed and the gun measure passed. - CNS

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International News

A delicate maze faces Mercies sue station Pope's Ukrainian visit In Brief

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) The Sisters of Mercy are taking legal action against an Irish television station after a program alleged members of the order assisted in ritual sexual assault on a child in their care during the 1960s. The nuns are suing TV3 in the High Court of Ireland under the 1988 Radio and Television Act on the grounds that the program's producers failed in their statutory duties to be fair and objective. The order's provincial. Sister Helena O'Donoghtie. said "The Sisters of Mercy totally and emphatically reject the allegations of sexual abuse made in this program:

Pardon sought TEMUCO, Chile (CNS) - The Catholic Church in Chile asked God's pardon for its and Christians' historic transgressions against Chile's native people. Bishop Sergio Contreras Navia of Temuco, about 690 kilometres south of Santiago and where the majority of Chile's 1 million Mapuche Indians are concentrated, said that in the case of the Mapuches, who have had their lands taken from them. "many of the injustices were the result of love of wealth and riches."

WWII labour pay

COLOGNE. Germany (CNS) - The German Catholic Church has begun paying compensation to people who were used as forced labourers in Church institutions during World War II. The chairman of the German bishops' conference, Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz, and Hellmut Puschmann, president of German Caritas, the Church's charitable agency, announced on 7 November in Mainz that within days, payments of US $2,500 each would be going to a man living in Poland and a woman living in Germany.

Artists and truth VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican's top cultural official urged Christian artists to search for truth, looking to the Holy Spirit for inspiration. Addressing the public session of all seven pontifical academies on 7 November, Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and head of the academies' co-ordinating council, said Christian artists are called to continue the work of God's creation, "transforming material, or, rather, transfiguring it with the strength and light of truth."

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In a meeting with a group of Dutch Catholics, Pope John Paul II underscored the importance of strengthening bonds of unity between the Bishop of Rome and the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The Pope also encouraged Dutch youth not to be stopped "by doubt or fear" if they felt the call to priesthood or religious life.

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - When Pope John Paul II visits Ukraine in June he will have an opportunity to celebrate the rebirth of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, but he also will face a delicate maze of ecumenical relations. After months of Vatican evaluation of a trip's potential impact on Catholic-Orthodox relations, Vatican spokesman Joaquin NavarroVaIls confirmed the Pope's intention to visit in a 6 November s tatement. The majority of Ukraine's 50 million people are Orthodox, although they are divided among three separate Orthodox communities. The largest is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow. The trip will be "a delicate visit because of the fact of the Orthodox themselves being so divided in Ukraine." Australian Cardinal

Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said on 9 November. The June trip to the former Soviet republic will be Pope John Paul's third visit to a country with an Orthodox majority, a series of trips he hopes will lead to Moscow, home of the world's largest Orthodox Church. But in August, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow said he would not meet the Pope until Eastern Catholics stopped persecuting his faithful in Ukraine and until Catholics stopped trying to steal Orthodox believers. After the Ukraine trip was announced, Cardinal Cassidy said. "I don't think there has ever been anything resembling persecution" in Catholic-Orthodox relations in Ukraine since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Disputed property claims in a few places should be addressed through a dialogue conducted In

the local Catholic and Orthodox communities, the Cardinal said. The Ukrainian Catholic Church, a Byzantine-rite Church in communion with Rome, was forcibly liquidated by the Soviet government in 1946. All Church property was confiscated and buildings not used by the government were given to the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Eastern Catholics were allowed to worship publicly again beginning in 1989, they began reclaiming their Churches, which led, in some cases, to violent confrontations between Catholic and Orthodox parishioners. As the Russian Orthodox Ukrainian Orthodox Church Patriarch Church struggles to rebuild after Filaret says he would gladly meet decades of Soviet repression, it with the Pope when he visits Ukraine. faces the loss of millions of mem- from Moscow. As of 13 Novembers in Western Ukraine: many ber the Russian Orthodox have returned to the Eastern Church, which is still the largest Catholic Church or have followed single Church in Ukraine, had not one of the two Orthodox commu- issued an official reaction to the nities which claim independence announcement of a papal visit.

Pregnancy service 'obscures Church' Ecumenism By Michael Lawton COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) The Vatican nuncio to Germany wrote a letter saying no Catholic should support "Donum Vitae" (-The Gift of Life"), a lay-run pregnancy counselling service. The service, which operates independently of the Catholic Church, was established by lay Catholics in the wake of a 1999 papal instruction to German bishops to withdraw from the Staterun pregnancy counselling system. In the letter to nine women members of lay Catholic organi-

sations who had asked for guid- certificate which permits them to ance, Archbishop Giovanni Lajo- have a legal abortion. lo said the Vatican Congregation The Church committed itself for the Doctrine of the Faith had then to continuing with pregnanauthorised him to discourage cy counselling, without the cerCatholic support of Donum Vitae. tificate. His letter was published on 7 But the founders of Donum Vitae November in the Frankfurter All- argued that Catholic counsellin,.: gemeine Zeitung newspaper. had to be within the State system Archbishop Lajolo wrote on If it was to reach women in a behalf of the congregation that moral conflict, so it offers women Donum Vitae "unavoidably the certificate, which allows a obscures the witness of the legal abortion. Catholic Church." Archbishop Lajolo wrote that Last year, Pope John Paul II prohibition against taking part in instructed the German bishops to the State system was a "statement withdraw from the State-spon- of doctrinal nature" that the Pope sored counselling system, under had made "in the fulfilment of his which women must be given a supreme pastoral office."

Encyclopedia issues volume on Pope

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The New Catholic Encyclopedia has issued a "Jubilee Volume: The Wojtyla Years" focusing on the 22year pontificate of Pope John Paul The 681-page text includes: • Threlve thematic essays on Pope John Paul's thought and his influence on Church thinking and the interaction of the Church with society, culture and other religions. • A chronicle of the Pope's life.

• Articles on each synod of bishops he convened and all the major Church documents issued by him or under his pontificate. • More than 200 pages of articles on the 1,200-plus people he has beatified or declared saints during his pontificate - almost seven times as many as his seven predecessors over the previous 75 years. • An appendix on patron saints.

The thematic essays, which take up more than 100 pages, give an

analytic portrait of what the Pope has done to advance the work of the Second Vatican Council in fields ranging from moral and spiritual teaching to human dignity and family life, from science to ecumenical and interreligious affairs, from reconciliation to spiritual renewal and conversion. The thematic section also includes separate essays on the personalist philosophy and the Trinitarian theology that pervade his moral and doctrinal teachings.

truth plea

WASHINGTON (CNS) -The Church cannot be true to itself unless it is ecumenical," the Pope's chief ecumenist told the US Catholic bishops on 12 November. "This is a truth too little appreciated by many Catholics," added Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Australian-born Vatican official spoke at a half-day workshop on the ecumenical role of the Bishop before the 13-16 November meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington. NCCB officials gave the text of the cardinal's talk to CNS. From Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical on Christian unity, "Ut Unum Sint," Cardinal Cassidy quoted the statement that Church unity "is not something added on, but stands at the very heart of Christ's mission It belongs to the very essence of the community of his disciples."

Jesuit criticises joint Catholic-Jewish inquiry into Vatican By John Thavis ROME (CNS) - A vocal defender of Pope Pius XII criticised a Catholic-Jewish commission's report about the Vatican's role during World War H, saying it posed "leading and loaded questions" while overlooking obvious answers. Jesuit Fr Peter Gumpel, the relator for Pope Pius XII's sainthood cause, said on 8 November the commission's request for wider access to Vatican archives was a pointless exercise stemming from "patent ignorance" of already published materials. The "preliminary report" prepared by three Catholic and three Jewish scholars was based on a study of 11 volumes of published Vatican documents. It said the Holy See had received detailed

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accounts of Nazi atrocities against Jews as early as 1942, but that it was unclear how this information was received. It asked for further documentation on 47 specific points related to the Holocaust so that its work could continue. The Vatican has not yet responded to the commission. Fr Gumpel said because of his knowledge of the period, the commission consulted with him and other Church experts in Rome shortly before issuing its report. Fr Gumpel said his encounter Photo: CNS/Reuters left him the impression that the Jesuit Fr Peter &impel Vatican's 11 volumes of edited material had not been adequate- in the report, but expressed disly studied by commission mem- appointment that he did not have the time to present them and disbers. He said some of the material cuss them in his three-hour meetwas misquoted, some neglected ing with the commission. The and some given undue weight. He Vatican-appointed Catholic memsaid he had prepared 47 dossiers bers and the Jewish members of to respond to the questions posed the commission agreed that addi-

tional Vatican material could help fill in many of the missing pieces from the wartime record, especially internal communications regarding decision-making by Pope Pius and his top aides. Elsewhere, the Vatican-appointed co-ordinator of the commission - Eugene Fisher, who is also director of Catholic-Jewish relations in the US bishops' Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs - said"! think Fr Gumpel misconstrued what the mandate to the group was. He defended the scholarship of the commission and said that at the end of the meeting the scholars asked Father Gumpel for the material in the rest of his dossiers, but "he said he didn't have it organised well enough to give it to them.... They would have been happy to have those run off and handed out."

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Ethics spring naturally from human science: Pope By John Norton -I VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Meeting with some of the world's most eminent scientists, Pope John Paul II said that the ethical guidelines governing science, far from being an "imposition," spring naturally from science itself as a human activity. Rather than reducing science's human aspects to ethical rules, a need for objectivity or interdisciplinary cooperation, scientists should see their work as an activity which not only makes them more human, but also puts them

at humanity's service, he said. The Pope made his remarks in a speech on 13 November to some 85 members and invited experts of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Among the members of the academy are more than a dozen Nobel Prize winners. The academy met in plenary session from 10-13 November on the theme, "Science and the Future of Mankind." In his speech, the Pope said that the personal study and research of scientists "perfects" their own humanity. "Each of you, in fact,

Plea for Middle East faiths to cooperate By John Norton VAIICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II appealed to religious leaders in the violence-torn Middle East to help bring peace by promoting mutual respect and trust among the region's peoples. In a message to Catholic bishops in the Middle East. the Pope said also that peace could only be achieved by respect for international law and the return of Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table as equals. The message, dated 6 November, was released at the Vatican on 8 November. The Pope said the violence, which as of 8 November had claimed nearly 180 lives since breaking out in late September, caused him great suffering, and he expressed his "lively solidarity" with the region's peoples. "I encourage you, Catholic bishops of the Holy Land, as well as all the leaders of the Christian communities, to renew your efforts so that mutual respect, in humility and trust, inspire relations between all," he said. The Pope also appealed to Jewish and Muslim leaders and faithful to "draw from their faith all the necessary energy in order that the

interior and exterior peace to which they aspire becomes reality." He asked the international community to persist in helping both parties "to construct the solutions which will assure them desired security and just tranquillity - prerogatives of all nations and conditions of life and progress for all societies." "Only a return to the negotiating table on equal footing, in respect for international law, is capable of opening a future of brotherhood and peace to those who live in that blessed land," he said. Israelis and Palestinians were "called by geography and history" to live together, he said, and each were owed "fundamental rights." "The Israeli people as well as the Palestinian people have the right to live in their homes, in dignity and security," he said. The recent violence "represents without any doubt a setback for peace. but people must not resign themselves to fatalism," he said. Recalling his recent pilgrimage to the region, the Pope said the holy sites there "speak of the history of God with man and are an appeal to work together in order that violence, hate or suspicion never again disfigure that part of the world."

Patriarch meets with Ararat conveys Christian solidarity JERUSALEM (CNS) - Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem met with Palestinian National Chairman Yasser Arafat In Gaza and expressed Christian solidarity with the Palestinian leadership. During the hour-long meeting on 6 November, Patriarch Sabbah told Arafat he supported efforts to end the current violence and reach a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Patriarch Sabbah was accompanied by a small delegation of priests. The Patriarch also extended greetings from Pope John Paul

II and noted the pontiff's concern about the ongoing situation. Following the meeting, Arafat invited Patriarch Sabbah to lunch. Father Raed Abusahlia, chancellor of the Latin Patriarchate, declined to give further comment about the content of the meeting, calling it a "private visit" and a "courtesy call," noting that it was "friendly." The Patriarch meets occasionally with the Palestinian leader, Father Abusahlia said. Some 5,000 Christians, mainly Greek Orthodox, live among Gaza's 1 million residents.

thinking about your own life and sibility and, I would say, with a experience as a scientist, could sort of 'reverence' proper to the say that research has built and, in human spirit in its nearness to some way, marked your person- truth." ality," the Pope said. "The ethical and moral respon"Scientific research is for you, as sibilities connected to scientific it is for many others, the path for research can be grasped, therepersonal encounter with truth fore, as a need internal to science and, perhaps, the privileged place insofar as it is a fully human activfor the same encounter with God, ity; not as a control or, worse, as creator of heaven and earth," he an imposition, which comes from said. outside," said the Pope. The Pope said that scientists perThe scientist's service of truth ceive that they must carry out leads naturally to service of their research not only with pro- humanity, the Pope said. fessional impartiality, "but also Scientists know that "the truth with intellectual honesty, respon- cannot be negotiated, obscured

or abandoned to loose conventions or agreements between groups of powers, societies or states," he said. therefore, The scientist, "because of his ideal of service to the truth, feels a special responsibility in the promotion of humanity; not understood generically or ideally, but as a promotion of the whole man and of all that is authentically human," he said. Guided by this understanding of science, the Pope said, scientists and the Church can engage in a "fruitful dialogue" aimed at true human progress.

Relic returned to Armenians By Cindy Wooden V ATICAN CITY (CNS) - Receiving a relic of his Church's patron saint from Pope John Paul II, the Patriarch of the Armenian Oriental Orthodox Church said the return of the relic is a symbol of ecumenical progress. "In restoring this relic to the Armenians, the Catholic Church bears witness to the brotherhood between our two ancient churches," said Catholicos Karekin II of Etduniadzin, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Pope John Paul told Catholicos Karekin during a 9 November evening meeting, "Let our prayer together be that the communion which we are experiencing today will open new ways to peace and reconciliation between us." The meeting with the Catholicos, 15 Armenian bishops and priests, religious and lay representatives of the Church from around the world preceded a 10 November prayer service in St Peter's Basilica marking the return of the relic of St Gregory the Illuminator. In a joint statement on 10 November. the Pope and Patriarch

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Pope John Paul ll and Armenian Orthodox Patriarch Catholicos Karekin II, rear, during an audience at the Vatican on 9 November.

said progress in Roman CatholicArmenian Orthodox relations "finds its expression. . . . particularly in the gift of a relic of St Gregory the Illuminator." According to the Vatican, the relic had been venerated for centuries at the Catholic Church of St Gregory the Armenian in Naples. "Some Greek or Armenian nuns, forced to abandon their country of origin, took the relic of the Saint with them," the Vatican said. "In their travels in search of a safe place, they settled in Naples

in an ancient monastery, which later was dedicated to St Gregory the Armenian and where the relic has been venerated for centuries." The nuns who now live in the Naples convent gave the relic to Pope John Paul to return to the Patriarch. The Archdiocese of Naples donated a reliquary - an angelflanked, gold-trimmed crystal vase holding the saint's femur which will be placed in the new Cathedral of St Gregory in Yerevan, the Armenian capital. The Church is scheduled to be dedicated in September 2001 as part of the celebration of the 1.700th anniversary of the conversion of Armenia. Catholicos Karekin told the Pope on 9 November. "With solemn gratitude we will escort these sacred remains to Holy Etchmiadzin, to be reunited with the relic of the Illuminator's right hand." He also asked Pope John Paul to come to Armenia for the celebration of the anniversary of the conversion, which was the result of St Gregory's evangelising activity. The Pope's presence would be an honour to the Armenian church at home and around the world, he said.

Vatican thanks Iran for consideration VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Meeting ernment Officials, met with the with a small delegation of Iranian Cardinal on 3 November. lawmakers, a top Vatican official "They said that (Rome) is a city expressed appreciation for Mus- that they consider to have a unilim Iran's respectful treatment of versal character because of what It represents," the Cardinal said its minority Christians. Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, pre- on 6 November. Cardinal Silvestrini said the Irafect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, told CNS he also nians focused mostly on the valunderscored to his visitors the ues shared by monotheistic pre-Christian historical ties believers: "the fatherhood of God; brotherhood among humans; between Iran and Rome. The delegation of six Iranian respect for each person; desire to lawmakers, who were attending promote understanding, encounthe Vatican's 4-5 November ters, peace." In Iran, Christians number more Jubilee for Politicians and Gov-

than 100,000 out of a population of 66 million people. Under the Iranian constitution. Christians are guaranteed three seats in the 290-seat parliament. Two other seats are earmarked for Jewish and Zoroastrian lawmakers. "I said we appreciate very much the respect and the consideration that the authorities have for these communities," the Cardinal said. During the meeting, the delegates invited the Vatican official to visit Iran. He said he has no immediate plans to accept.

UN acknowledges Christ and His birth UNITED NATIONS (CNS) - The of 2001. Archbishop Renato MarGeneral Assembly of the United tino, Vatican nuncio to the UN, Nations reaffirmed its support for played a background role in the Palestinian Bethlehem 2000 working out the language of the Project in a 7 November resolu- original resolution, and said at the tion that included an explicit ref- time that he knew of no previous occasion when a UN resolution erence to Christ. Acting by consensus, delegates spoke directly of Christ and the approved a resolution that began significance of His birth. This year's resolution also welby recalling that Bethlehem was "the birthplace of Jesus Christ and comed "the historic jubilee 2000 one of the most historic and sig- pilgrimage of His Holiness Pope nificant sites on earth." John Paul II to the Holy Land, his The resolution was patterned on landmark visit to the holy sites in earlier ones approved in 1998 and Bethlehem and the important 1999 in support of a project by the message delivered by the pontiff Palestinian National Authority to at Manger Square." enlist help for restoration and In the discussion prior to adopinfrastructure work planned in tion of the resolution, the delegate connection with the millennial from Afghanistan cited the papal observance. visit, and said Muslim leaders Officially launched at Christmas took part in the millennial celelast year, the Bethlehem 2000 Pro- brations because the Koran ject will continue through Easter referred to Jesus Christ as "a mes-

senger of God." As in 1998 and 1999, the resolution included language implicitly critical of Israel, calling for "immediate change" in the vicinity of Bethlehem to ensure "freedom of movement" and for "free and unhindered access to the holy places." The Israeli delegate said his goverrunent supported the basic concept of the Bethlehem project, and was therefore joining in the consensus despite some reservations about language in the resolution and in statements made by other speakers. Archbishop Martino made a statement expressing hope for "progress of the peace process in the Middle East" and for "freedom of movement and unhindered access to the holy places in Bethlehem and throughout the region."

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Asian Catholic News

Religious fights worry Wahid JAKARTA (UCAN) - Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid told a national gathering of Catholics he is seriously concerned over the spread of religious conflict in the country. Religion in the country has been "trivialised" and reduced to superficial rituals and sloganeering, especially among Muslims, he said at the closing of the fiveday Sidang Agung Gereja Katolik Indonesia 2000 (SAGKI 2000, Indonesian Catholic Church's grand synod 2000) in Jakarta. Wahid told delegates from Indonesia's 34 Catholic dioceses and guests, "In the past we have faced conflicts between the haves and the have-nots, but now we are apparently facing one between modernist and traditionalist Muslims." Conflict between Muhammadiyah and Nandlatul Ulama, the largest Muslim organisations in the country, must be managed,

he said, "because it has led to the less of creed or social backtense situation we are facing ground. today." Although Catholics form only a He admitted that the frequent small number among Indoneresort to violence surprises him sians, they strive to be with all amid Indonesia's democratic people in genuine brotherhood development in which use of and to be a moral force in prophysical force should give way to moting respect for human dignirational argument in continuous ty, truth and justice, the Cardinal dialogue. said. "The difference of opinion in a Cardinal Darmaatmadja called heterogeneous society must be on the Government and all accepted as normal as it is within Indonesians to guarantee peace the democratic realm," asserted for all people in the country, espethe president. cially at the grassroots. Prior to Wahid's speech, CardiThe prelate said that the kind of nal Julius Darmaatmadja of Jakar- peace being sought by Christians ta told the audience of 4,000, "We must involve "mutual forgiveCatholics try our best to strength- ness" and law enforcement. en fraternity and the quality of "We are tired of the continuous faith of Catholics within grass- intergroup conflicts and unrest." roots groups." Those who erred must be punThe Jesuit cardinal added that ished and the innocent must be the Catholic Church has also tried freed, he added. to get involved in programs that "We are restless because too enhance brotherhood, solidarity many cases have come up. but and service to neighbour, regard- nothing has been legally solved."

religion," and that struggles for social justice. SAGKI 2000 participants discussed and shared from 1-5 November on the theme of "empowering basic communities." Their deliberations highlighted that Catholics and people of other religions need to get involved in community-based dialogues of work, faith and life. In many places, they said, fear of • ' 4 to441 1 ' ?<Ye political reprisals has hindered v :i .. .„-o• ......"*" 144: s them from building good rela1 .Adoviht*-140..... ia, i fi . AL ,..0-.4 .,.:: tions with people from other reli„ i w fill--- ...: gions. f, tit, T.: / However, they vowed as 4' / . a • 10 ilF .• •'1"1111 , „.„ me OA Catholics to never stop trying to Mr' ••''' o* Ar' ' .414 relate with people of other religions to build a peaceful and har-14111111111i Zip "'"*. -:.." Cr'''' monious Indonesia. President Abdurrahman Wahid The SAGKI 2000 closing cerethe Cardinal said. He added that mony, held at the Senayan indoor the peace desired would be part tennis stadium, simultaneously of a sense of national solidarity marked the official opening of the that "cares for the needs of others, Indonesian Bishops' Conference including the need to practice a meeting.

Filipino bishops keep up pressure Hindus plan to imitate Christians PANAJI, India (UCAN) - A open dispensaries, hospitals. Hindu group has announced its hostels, night schools, adult eduplans to imitate Christian mis- cation centres and orphanages. sionary work to stop "poor" and The meeting opened with a "Illiterate" Hindus from being resolution to urge the governconverted to Christianity. ment to ban conversion, cow "We have planned a massive slaughter and the export of beef. literacy drive, health camps and Hindus revere the cow as religious programs in every cor- sacred. ner of India." said Ashok SingUrging the consolidation of the hal. president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, world "holy Hindu force." the resolution said India alone will have Hindu council). to fight the "fundamentalist The 75-year-old Hindu leader told UCA News on 19 October forces of Islam and Christianity" that a two-day VHP conference to save the world. At a rally during the meeting. in Goa has resolved to "do the same thing the missioners have Singhal blamed illiteracy for the exploitation of Hindus, whom been doing over the years." Singhal was among some 125 he cautioned against sending top Hindu leaders, who attend- their children to Christian ed the VHP's central working schools that adopt a "foreign committee meeting at Ponda, system of education." some 1,940 kilometres south of Father Antimo Gomes, princiNew Delhi. pal of Goa archdiocesan-run St Singhal said the 18-19 October Xavier's College, said "silence is meeting resolved to take up the best way to greet such seneducation because more than sational VHP slogans." 40 per cent of Indians are illit• Some Indians say they have erate and the government is become more tolerant toward unable to fulfil its responsibility. other religions after joining an He admitted that "a lot of interreligious movement that a funds" and "at least 10,000 work- Catholic priest started for stuers" are required for the educ.a- dents seven years ago. lion plan, which includes Father Varghese Alangadan opening 100,000 schools throughout the country, espe- said Communal Harmony and cially in tribal regions and vil- National Integration Movement's goal is to "prepare youths lages in the next three years. Another plan is to double the to become responsible citizens "village protection committees" through interreligious harmony, from the current 25,000 to stop global solidarity and moral what the organisation considers regeneration." He launched the movement in "cultural invasion of the West" and "conversion of ignorant, 1993 after Hindu-Muslim riots Innocent and poverty-stricken killed thousands in various Hindus." The VHP also plans to parts of India.

MANILA, Philippines (CNS) Following the impeachment of Philippine President Joseph Estrada, some bishops expressed apprehension over the impeachment process and said the president should resign instead. At last Monday's meeting of the bishops' conference permanent council, discussions showed that 98 per cent of the bishops favoured resignation, with the other two per cent "still confused," said Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi of Caceres, a council member, reported the Union of Catholic Asian News. an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Estrada. who is accused of bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of the public trust and violation of the Philippine Constitution, has said he will not resign and is ready to face trial. A prayer was read, a gavel banged and guests in the gallery

of the House of Representatives cheered as the speaker declared Estrada impeached last Monday. Estrada has been in office two years. Estrada's impeachment by the lower house of Congress came after weeks of mounting pressure for his resignation stirred by Church and other civic leaders. The constitution allows the impeachment complaint to be automatically sent to the Senate for trial if it is filed by 73 or more of the 220 House members. Seventy-seven members endorsed the Articles of Impeachment. Bishop Dinualdo Guiterrez of Marbel, chairman of the bishops' commission on social action, justice and peace, told UCA News the impeachment process "is open to manipulation more than any other process." Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato, president of the bishops' conference, warned that

Joseph Estrada attends a prayer rally with his supporters in Manila on 11 November. Photo CNSPeuters

people would continue to protest if they felt the impeachment process was being manipulated and said if there was manipulation -the only remaining option is resignation."

Artist monk's death saddens Pope COLOMBO (UCAN) - Pope john Paul II has acknowledged the contribution of Venerable Mapalagama Vipulasara Maha Them to interreligious dialogue, in a message read at the Sri Lankan monk's funeral. Venerable Vipulasara, renowned as an artist and a religious leader, died on 29 October. aged 76. The Pope's message expressed sadness and extended his condolences to the Buddhist community. The Pope also expressed hope that the monk's legacy in promoting understanding and cooperation between Buddhists and Christians will continue "so that all people of goodwill may together build a world based on the

virtues of peace, justice and brotherhood." Throngs of people including religious dignitaries, diplomats and State officials attended the funeral at Paramadamma Chethiya Pirivena, a Buddhist temple in Ratmalana, southern Colombo, on 2 November. The Pope's message was delivered to Venerable Madapatha Dhammasara Them, deputy high priest of the temple, by Archbishop Thomas Yeh Sheng-nan, apostolic nuncio to Sri Lanka. Archbishop Yeh attended the funeral with Bishop Oswald Gomis of Anuradhapura, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sri Lanka. Venerable Vipulasara designed the pavilions

used for the papal Mass during the visits of Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II to Sri Lanka in 1972 and 1996 respectively. He had also been an official guest at the Vatican to study the masterpieces of art and sculpture there. Co-founder of Sri Lanka's United Religions Organisation, Venerable Vipulasara sponsored the first exhibition of native Christian art at the National Art Gallery in Colombo together with his pupil Douglas Perera, a Catholic who pioneered the adaptation of local art forms to Christian themes. Statues sculpted by the late monk are enshrined in temples in China, England, Japan, Sri Lanka and the United States.

Vatican delegation ends visit to North Korea, hopes for closer ties By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A Vatican delegation visited North Korea as a sign of Pope John Paul Il's concern for the country's people and with the hope of forging closer diplomatic ties with the nation's Communist government, the Vatican said. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said Mgr Celestinc Migliore, undersecretary for relations with states, and Mgr Luis Mariano Montenayor, an official in the Vatican Secretariat of State, left North Korea last Thesday, 14 November.

Joining the Vatican officials for part of the trip were Duncan MacLaren, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organisation for Catholic charities around the world, and Kathi Zellweger, who co-ordinates Caritas aid to North Korea. In a 14 November statement, MacLaren said that during their weeklong visit, he and Zellweger visited projects funded with "the Holy Father's generous donation of $286,000."

The papal donation was part of an ongoing Caritas campaign to help the people of North Korea facing severe food short-

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ages because of repeated flooding and crop leader of the Association of Catholics of failure. North Korea. The November trip was the fifth annual In his statement, MacLaren said the situvisit made by a Vatican delegation "to reaf- ation in North Korea was still critical firm the constant and effective solidarity of because the country's estimated harvest of the Holy Father for the population of North grains falls short of the estimated need by Korea," Navarro-Valls said. more than 1.6 million tons. The delegation also sought "to continue In addition to providing emergency food the relations previously established with aid, Caritas is working with farmers to government authorities, particularly with increase food production and to diversify the ministry of foreign affairs," he said. crops to feed the population. Navarro-Valls said the Vatican delegation Catholic charities from around the world celebrated Mass on 12 November in the also are helping North Korea's hospitals Church of Chan Chung in Pyongyang, the which lack basic medical supplies and. North Korean capital, and met with the sometimes, even heating.

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THANKS THANKS to St Jude for favours granted. Make novena. Prayer to St Jude, 3 Hail Mary's, Our Father's and Glorias + St Jude. Pray for all who honour and invoke your aid.

Annual Mass of Thanksgiving for Committees of Archdiocesan Liturgy Office - Archbishop Hickey Blessing and opening of extensions at St Peter's Primary School Bishop Healy Reception at St Thomas More College in acknowledgement of The Society of Jesus - Archbishop Hickey

18/19 Confirmation, Girrawheen - Bishop Healy 19 Confirmation, Bassendean - Archbishop Hickey Confirmation. Kambalda - Fr G Carroll Candidacy Mass for Seminarians of St Charles Seminary. St Mary's Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey A nnual Presentation Night, Corpus Christi College - Bishop Healy 20 Day of Reflection for country parishes. York - Archbishop Hickey Inaugural Address of Dr Bernard Glasson as Professor of Electronic Commerce NDA - Bishop Healy 21 Blessing and opening of extensions at St Kieran's Primary School - Bishop Healy 22 Evening Prayer and Blessing of extensions and belltower at R edemptoris Mater Seminary - Archbishop Hickey 23 Governor's Breakfast - Archbishop Hickey Presentation to Committee for Family and for Life by delegates to Jubilee of Families - Archbishop Hickey Presentation of Certificates to Psalmists and Cantors A rchbishop Hickey

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HEALING I WILL pray with you for healing of the body. mind or spirit. Phone Michelle 9276 2637.

THANKS

Keynote address and Presentation for Mercedes College Speech Night. Perth Concert Hall - Archbishop Hickey

Mass of Thanksgiving in celebration of 125th Anniversary of founding of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. North Beach A rchbishop Hickey Jubilee Celebration for Feast of Christ the King. Subiaco Oval A rchbishop Hickey. Bishop Healy

Annual Maranatha Graduation Mass and farewell to Br Des Crowe, CEO Chapel - Archbishop Hickey

Pregnancy Assistance Annual Mass of Thanksgiving, Leederville A rchbishop Hickey

Farewell for delegates to Jubilee for Disability in Rome. Emmanuel Centre - Archbishop Hickey Launch of "Between Design and Devotion: The Architecture of John Cyril Hawes- by Mr John Taylor. Murdoch Art Gallery A rchbishop Hickey

THANK you St Jude for prayers answered Jem

Attendance at Central Zone meeting. Highgate - Archbishop Hickey Principal's Thanksgiving Mass. CEO Chapel - Archbishop Hickey. Bishop Healy

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FRANCISCANS' ANNUAL RETREAT Held at the Redemptorist Retreat House. North Perth during the weekend 8-10 Dec. It commences with Mass for the Immaculate Conception at 7.30pm. We welcome all lay people to join us for the Retreat, conducted by Fr Alban Mitchell OFM. Phone Pat Meek on 9349 1474 to make your booking or Email erimuseng@ozemail.com.au. PRAYER VIGIL A peaceful prayer vigil with Rosaries and hymns is made outside the abortion clinic at 2 Cleaver Tce, Rivervale every third Sat of each month. from 11am to 12 noon. The next vigil will be on Sat 18 Nov. Please join us. Inq: Colin 9409 4543. GROWING IN LOVE - IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY Given by Murray Graham (lnigo Centre Director). Multi-purpose Room, John XXIII College. Mount Claremont. Sat 25 Nov. 11am to 1pm. Donation for !nig() Centre. Details: 9383 0444. P B KIRBY PARISH CENTRE NORTHAM. OPENS The PB Kirby Parish Centre. at St Joseph's Parish, Northam, will be blessed and opened by His Grace. Archbishop Hickey immediately following 8am Mass on Sun 3 Dec. An invitation is extended to all friends and relatives of the late Patrick Kirby. past parishioners and students, former parish priests and religious. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE CANCELLED

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The November pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation. Bullsbrook has been cancelled. Midday Mass will be celebrated as usual on Sun 26 Nov. Info: SACRI 9447 3292. PERPETUAL NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF GOOD HEALTH - VAILANKANNI 25 Nov, 5pm at Holy Trinity Church, 8 Burnett St, Embleton. The Novena is followed by Vigil Mass. All are welcome. ANNUAL ROSARY PROCESSION BASSENDEAN On Sun 3 Dec, 3pm St Joseph's Parish, Hamilton St, Bassendean invites everyone to the Procession in honour of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, followed by Benediction. Light refreshments in the Parish Hall afterwards. Inq: Parish Priest 9279 1549 or Renato 9279 2163. BUSINESS PERSONS' MASS All Saints' Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Fri 24 Nov at 7am followed by a Breakfast Meeting at the Alpha Café, Wesley Arcade.Guest speaker:Fr Brian O'Loughlin, member of the Catholic Marriage Tribunal. Inquiries: 9384 0809.

HOLY FACE OF JESUS PRAYER GROUP Our next meeting will be held on Tues 21 Nov. 7.30pm at Holy Trinity Church, 8 Burnett St, Embleton. There will be Exposition prayers, hymns in praise of the Lord. Please bring a plate to share a 'cuppa'. DAY OF PRAYER FOR YOUNG MEN On Sat 25 Nov. 9am to 5.30pm, Fr Hugh Thomas will lead a day of prayer and reflection on vocation. Place: Redemptorist Monastery, 190 Vincent St, North Perth. Lunch provided. RSVP Thurs 23 Nov. Inquiries: 9328 6600. HOLY HOUR FOR VOCATIONS Sat 25 Nov, 10-11am at the Redemptorist Church, North Perth. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. DAY OF MEDITATION Sat 18 Nov, 10am to 4pm, Holy Rosary Parish Hall, cnr Elizabeth and Tyrell Sts, Nedlands. Director: Fr Hugh Thomas CSsR. BYO lunch. Tea, coffee provided. 'Come apart and rest awhile'. PRAYER NIGHT Conducted by Fr Paul Baczynski at St Dominic's Church, 19 Phillips Grove, Innaloo on 20 Nov f rom 7-9pm. This prayer evening is for healing and for those and their families affected by addictions. Mass at 7pm. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Benediction and healing prayers. VIRGIN OF THE REVELATION CHURCH CHITTERING ROAD, BULLSBROOK Holy Mass 9am every Sunday, followed by Exposition. Rosary and Benediction (except for last Sunday of the month). Mass, Exposition and Rosary on Tues and Sat at 11am. A Plenary Indulgence may be gained by visiting the shrine . FINAL COUNTRY DAY OF REFLECTION FOR THE JEAR OF JUBILEE Held at St Patrick's Church,York (designated shrine for Jubilee Year). Join in the pilgrimage Mon 20 Nov. commencing 10am, concluding with Holy Mass 2pm. Speakers for the day: Archbishop Hickey, Sisters of the Immaculate. BYOL, tea/coffee supplied. Inq: York 9641 4015, metro 9446 1935. MARANATHA INSTITUTE - MASS AND GRADUATION CEREMONY Students are invited to attend end-of-year Mass and Graduation Ceremony at the Chapel of St Michael the Archangel. Mon 27 Nov, 7pm, Catholic Education Centre. 50 Ruislip St. Leederville. Celebrant: Archbishop Hickey. The Maranatha Institute will also be wishing farewell to Br Des Crowe. Please bring a plate of food to share a light supper. RSVP: Tues 21 Nov, phone 9212 9311. =womb,

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TRAIN - closest stations are West Leederville & Subiaco. TRANSPERTH BUSES are running from many directions. Call Transperth on 13 62 13. CHARTER/PRIVATE BUSES - park at Kitchener Park (Roberts Rd, cnr Coghlan Rd) or North side of Roberts Rd. ENTER through Gates 19 (Hayden Bunton Drive) and 26 (Subiaco Rd). Gate 1 on Subiaco Road will be open for those in wheelchairs. All seating is unreserved. There are chairs on the grass and the usual seating in the stands. For those wishing to bring a blanket to sit on, there will be some grassed areas available to do so. Folding chairs are not permitted. Seating will be reserved for the deaf and hearing impaired at the front of the grassed area. There will be an Auslan signer and captioning will appear on the screen. You are welcome to bring food and drink into Subiaco Oval. It will also be available for sale until the Celebration begins. Attention Parishes and Catholic Organisations: Please bring your banner to the Great Jubilee Celebration. - CelebrateJubilee aol.com

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E THERE for this rare event when the whole Catholic community — parishes, schools and organisations, religious and lay — all assemble together in one place to celebrate in word, music, dance and image 2000 years of Christian history. The way of life we enjoy in Perth owes much to the great thinkers, writers, musicians, artists and Saints whose works were forged in the crucible of Christianity.

The music at the Great Jubilee Celebration will be spoken about for many years. The sixty-piece orchestra has been hard at work rehearsing for months, as has the 300-voice choir. The principal singers sound stunning as do the trumpeters' fanfares representing the Jubilee horn. The theatrical "Saints and Greats" segments will take us through two millennia of history. Impressive video footage (pre-recorded and live) is being displayed on the big screen. Nyoongar elder, Ben Taylor and representatives of the original inhabitants of this land will welcome us. The contribution of Catholic Education to what we enjoy in Australia today is being acknowledged as school students in uniform parade with their schools banners. Ethnic groups in national dress are representing the diversity of Australian culture today. Pilgrims to the World Youth 40' Day in Rome will share their life changing experiences. The ceremony will conclude with Benediction and a Blessing for all present celebrated by Archbishop Hickey and Bishop Healy.

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